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Doctor Whoovie
Registered: 04/26/06
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 Friday, June 29 2007 @ 07:41 PM EDT |
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I was watching the Christopher Eccleston series again the other day and noticed that my favorite Doctor Who scenes (moments) are actually in episodes that I generally don't like terribly much.
example one: I love the end of "Rose" where the Tardis rematerializes, the Doctor says "Did I mention, it also travels in Time", Rose thanks Mickey for nothing and runs onboard.
Example two: The cross episode scene (Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways) where the Doctor tells the Daleks he's coming to get Rose through where they Materialize over Rose. (I seem to be one of the few people who doesn't really like the rest of these two episodes).
Example 3; The cybermen gate crashing the party in Rise of the cybermen.
Other of my favorite scenes are in my favorite episode (Reinette calling to the Doctor at the begining of the Girl in the fire place). The Dalek verbal slapdown of the Cybermen in Doomsday. Sarah Jane finding the TARDIS and meeting the Doctor in School Reunion.
I was wondering what other Peoples favorite Vingettes (or scenes) are, and whether they occur in episodes do not rank amongst your top ten. You know what I mean those scenes and instances which get the adrenaline (or emotions) flowing.
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Justice
Registered: 02/14/07
Posts: 520
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| Friday, June 29 2007 @ 08:17 PM EDT |
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my favorite scene over all would have to be when the 9th doctor regenerates into the 10th doctor.
"rose before i go i just wanna say, rose you where fantastic.......and you know what?.........so was I!......so was I!" |
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"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
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DarthSkeptical
Registered: 03/11/06
Posts: 1129
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| Friday, June 29 2007 @ 11:28 PM EDT |
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Good Lord, that's a broad question. But a good one.  I don't think my favorite moments occur in stories I don't otherwise like. Course, I'm not sure there are stories that I really dislike. But there are some stories that havne't produced what I would call outsitanding moments.
In (almost) no particular order, here are some of my favorite scenes.
The Champs
• "Boom Town": The Hunt for Margaret.
• "Parting of the Ways": Rose convinces Jackie and Mickey over chips
• "Children in Need 2005": Regenera . . . what?
• "Smith and Jones": Martha discovers the TARDIS.
• "Gridlock": The Doctor sounds like Susan serenaded by a hymn.
The Rest
• "42": Silent separation.
• "The Doctor Dances": "Go to your room!" cliffhanger resolution
• "The Girl in the Fireplace": Post-snog realization
• "Evolution of the Daleks": Solomon's wisdom is rejected.
• "Runaway Bride": Everything from the wedding through to the end of the reception.
• "Tooth and Claw": the pre-titles.
• "Tooth and Claw": the library scene.
• "School Reunion": late-night chips.
• "School Reunion": Sarah discovers the TARDIS.
• "New Earth": the Doctor does Cassandra.
• "New Earth": Cassandra dies in her own arms.
• "Gridlock': Martha convinces her kidnappers to believe.
• "Fear Her": Rose abuses council property.
• "Love and Monsters": Not a happy-slappin' Jackie.
• "Love and Monsters": LINDA gets her name, then her groove.
• "End of the World": Jiggery-pokery makes the anger abate.
• "The Doctor Dances": the Doctor dances.
• "Utopia": The Jacobi Whisper School of Acting.
• "Lazarus Experiment": the Doctor meets Francine Jones
• "Lazarus Experiment": post-resurrection time in the cathedral
• "Impossible Planet": TARDIS lost. Mortgage found?
• "Satan Pit": Rose in the escape vessel.
• "Doomsday": Beach aloha . . . TARDIS wedding?
• "Army of Ghosts": The Doctor takes a seat in Torchwood.
• "World War III": The Doctor "narrows it down".
• "Aliens of London": Doctor's watch is off; Jackie's slap is on.
• "The Shakespeare Code": Awkward bed time.
• "The Sound of Drums": The last of the Time Lords chat on the phone.
• "The Christmas Invasion": The PM enters UNIT's lair.
• "The Christmas Invasion": Woken up by tea, amputated at the wrist.
• "Daleks in Manhattan": Tallulah joins the Doctor in the sewers.
• "Blink": Sally and Billy have their first (and last) date.
For me, the phenomenon of disappionting episode/great scene was much more common in the classic series. It happened all the time. I still get bored of most stories about halfway through episode 2, and find my feet again at the end of part 3. I can't fully explain the plot of "Four to Doomsday", but I know that's where the Fifth Doctor endeared himself to me by flatly calling Adric an idiot. I don't get in "Planet of the Daleks" what happened to the schemes the Master laid in "Frontier in Space", but I know you'll never see a better Roger Delgado than what we saw in the last two episodes of "Frontier". "The Massacre" is a bit of a wasteland if you were expecting to hear the Doctor, but you'll never, ever convince me that Hartnell gives a better speech than the doozy at the end of part 4.
And you could go on and on in the classic series. But, for me, I don't really have that many problems with the episodes made so far, so there's not that big of a disjunction between scene and story. The difficulty in the new series is in narrowing it down, not digging it up |
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The 11th Doctor
Registered: 03/21/06
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| Saturday, June 30 2007 @ 02:26 AM EDT |
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Like Darth I have quite a few but the one that jumps out at me at this late hour is:
Christmas Invasion: After initial defeat the Sycorax leader gets up and advances on the Doctor from behind and the Doctor throws the fruit at the button on the ship causing the Sycorax leader to tumble over the side. And the Doctor says, "No second chances". |
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lucas
Registered: 07/16/06
Posts: 198
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| Saturday, June 30 2007 @ 04:22 AM EDT |
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My quick Top 5 would be:
1. "No second chances, that's what kind of a man I am" - the Doctor's declaration towards the end of "The Christmas Invasion"
2. "Her name was Rose", the Doctor tells Donna at the end of "The Runaway Bride"
3. Rose talks about the enormity of being one of the only people on Earth who knows about the existence of aliens, only to be interrupted by the honking of a space ship which crashes into the middle of London - "Aliens of London"
4. The Doctor brings Rose back to modern day Earth to see life going on, moments after she's witnessed the Earth destroyed in "End Of The World" - and then they go for chips (chips seem to be a recurring reference in this thread...)
5. "Hello Sarah Jane..." - Sarah Jane discovers the TARDIS and John Smith's true identity in "School Reunion"
With honourable mentions to the "silent separation" of Martha and the Doctor in "42", and the Doctor meeting Sally Sparrow at the end of "Blink" (a scene which I accidentally started watching again today and I don't mind saying I teared up a bit).
Of those, "Christmas Invasion" and "Blink" are in my favourite episode list, "Runaway Bride" and "42" are among the few episodes I don't particularly like, and the rest are episodes which I consider good without being standouts. So I don't think I've taken your theory any further forward or backward, but I do love a good list... |
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Justice
Registered: 02/14/07
Posts: 520
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| Wednesday, July 04 2007 @ 01:49 AM EDT |
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[Quote by: The 11th Doctor] Like Darth I have quite a few but the one that jumps out at me at this late hour is:
Christmas Invasion: After initial defeat the Sycorax leader gets up and advances on the Doctor from behind and the Doctor throws the fruit at the button on the ship causing the Sycorax leader to tumble over the side. And the Doctor says, "No second chances". |
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yeah that was cool
and i just wanted to add, thats a brillant icon man! |
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"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
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Magpie
Registered: 06/29/06
Posts: 519
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| Wednesday, July 04 2007 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: The 11th Doctor]
Christmas Invasion: After initial defeat the Sycorax leader gets up and advances on the Doctor from behind and the Doctor throws the fruit at the button on the ship causing the Sycorax leader to tumble over the side. And the Doctor says, "No second chances". |
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...unless you're The Master, then all is forgiven apparently.
Looking back, my favorite bit is in The Satan Pit - just when you think all is lost - ta-da!!! there's the Tardis.
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If Worzel Gummidge and the Third Doctor had a fist fight - who would win?
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