The glory of oratory
Dr. WhoSeason 8, Episode 4, 2014Tthe Dr. (Peter Capaldi)
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The nearly memorable moments in Doctor Who e'er come downwardly to the speeches. Fiery, inspirational, heartbreaking — two hearts ways twice the potential to intermission ours. In honor of season 12'southward intense finale, nosotros're taking a look back on all of New Who's best rhetorical mic-drop moments.
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24. "Look at my daughter. Look at her become." (From "The Doctor's Married woman")
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"Fear me, I've killed hundreds of Time Lords."
"Fright me, I've killed all of them."
The Neil Gaiman-penned episode in which we get to see the TARDIS come into herself is a gem, and even though this scene — where the Dr. defeats Dwelling and says goodbye to Idris — isn't much of a speech per se, we get the music and enough memorable turns of phrase to proceed it on the Great Spoken communication roster. —Dana Schwartz
23. "I'm the Physician." (From "The Voyage of the Damned")
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"I'm the Medico. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'1000 the man who is going to save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"
Loves giving us his resume, our boy does. The total introduction is always a magical moment. Maybe not the most lyrical, but damn if it isn't satisfying. —Dana Schwartz
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22. "Take a fantastic life." (From "The Departing of the Ways")
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"Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Take a fantastic life."
Goodbyes are always meaningful. After the Doctor sends the TARDIS out with Rose to go on her safe, he communicates via hologram to say farewell, to let the TARDIS dice. And, of course, to be fantastic. —Dana Schwartz
21. "I think that'southward a hell of a bird." (From "Heaven Sent")
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"In that location's this emperor, and he asks the shepherd'south boy how many seconds in eternity. And the shepherd's boy says, 'There'southward this mountain of pure diamond. Information technology takes an hour to climb it and an hour to get effectually it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its pecker on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will accept passed.' You may recall that'due south a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird."
In a brilliant, mind-bending episode for which Peter Capaldi is nearly entirely solitary, his final speech (or really, monologue) as he punches through the diamond wall brings a new type of empowerment for the Physician. He is non rallying the troops or scaring off an enemy; he is speaking directly to himself and being dauntless without an audience. —Dana Schwartz
20. "I believe in her!" (From "The Satan Pit")
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"I've seen faux gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. Simply if I believe in one matter… just one thing… I believe in her!"
Sure the CGI is giddy, but the Dr. going upwards confronting basically THE DEVIL is pure Doctor Who magic. —Dana Schwartz
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nineteen. Twelve's regeneration (From "Twice Upon a Fourth dimension")
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"Never be vicious, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Call up: Hate is always foolish… and dear is always wise."
Capaldi goes back through some of his greatest-hit sentiments in his swan song. This is the Doc beingness quirky, but still poignant. A.k.a., being the Physician. —Dana Schwartz
18. "I do non know who I am." (From "The Christmas Invasion")
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"Look at these people, these human beings. Consider their potential! From the day they get in on the planet, blinking, stride into the sunday, there is more to see than tin ever exist seen, more to do than — no, hold on. Pitiful, that's The Lion King…"
This was the moment, in his very first episode, that made it obvious David Tennant was built-in to play the Doctor. He's funny, confident, sexy, flirtatious, bumbling, bombastic —everything yous desire in an alien philosopher-king. —Dana Schwartz
17. "Fear makes companions of all of united states of america." (From "Listen")
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"Because didn't anybody e'er tell you lot? Fear is a superpower. Fright can make you faster and cleverer and stronger."
Paradox be damned, Clara comes back to a kid Md and teaches him that he can exist afraid without existence cruel or cowardly. (The Md'southward before oral communication on this sentiment is equally great.) —Dana Schwartz
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xvi. "No weapons! No defense! No plan!" (From "Bad Wolf")
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"I'1000 going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek armada, and then I'm going to relieve the Earth, then, just to end off, I'thou going to wipe every concludingstinking Dalek out of the heaven!"
Christopher Eccleston's cursory stint might be lacking when information technology comes to bombastic Doc moments, but standing up to a fleet of Daleks is a pretty good ane. —Dana Schwartz
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15. "Be a Doctor." (From "Face up the Raven")
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"You're going to be alone at present, and you're very bad at that. You're going to be furious and y'all're going to exist distressing, only listen to me: Don't let this alter you. No, listen. Whatever happens next, wherever she is sending you, I know what you're capable of. You don't be a warrior. Promise me. Exist a Doctor."
Capaldi's Medico really brought out the best in Clara. While she came off a scrap ane-note when paired with Matt Smith, Capaldi'south run showed her every bit brave and impulsive, someone who could become head to head with the Doctor and tell him what he needed to hear. —Dana Schwartz
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xiv. "It was patronizing." (From "Kill the Moon")
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"Don't you ever tell me to take the stabilizers off my bike. And don't you dare lump me in with the rest of all the little humans that y'all think are so tiny and light-headed and predictable. You walk our Earth, Doctor, you breathe our air. You brand us your friend, and that is your moon too. And y'all tin damn well assistance us when we need it."
Some other swell Clara-Capaldi moment, in which, possibly for the first time, the Doctor gets called out on the B.Southward. of his world-saving bombast. —Dana Schwartz
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xiii. "You recollect you've broken me? Y'all'll take to try harder than that." (From "The Timeless Children")
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"You've given me a gift of myself. Y'all recall that could destroy me? You think that makes me lesser? Information technology makes me more than. I contain multitudes, more than I ever idea or knew. You desire me to be scared of it because you're scared of everything, but I am so much more than you."
1 of Jodie Whittaker's almost empowering moments, as the Doc learns about a past she never knew she had. Instead of breaking her, the revelation makes her stronger — and frightens the hell out of the Master. — Devan Coggan
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12. "I volition tell you a story." (From "The Rings of Akhaten")
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"Oh, you similar to call back you're a god. Y'all're not a god, you lot're but a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and green-eyed and longing for the lives of others. Y'all feed on them, on the memory of dear and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow! Then… so… come up on, then. Have mine."
Although this moment is a fan favorite, I think almost of the work here is washed by the music. It's a largely confusing, muddled episode, but nothing can't be saved by a children's vocalization and a choir. —Dana Schwartz
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11. "I am TALKING." (From "The Pandoirca Opens")
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"Remember every black day I ever stopped y'all, and then, and so, practise the smart matter.… Let somebody else try first."
Has in that location ever been a better mic-drop? —Dana Schwartz
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ten. "We're all stories in the end." (From "The Big Bang")
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"I'll be a story in your head. Simply that's OK: We're all stories, in the end. Just make information technology a adept 1, eh? Because it was, you lot know, it was the all-time: A daft sometime man, who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you I stole it? Well, I borrowed it; I was always going to take it back. Oh, that box, Amy, you'll dream about that box. It'll never leave you. Big and little at the same time, brand-new and ancient, and the bluest bluish ever. And the times we had, eh? Would've had. Never had. In your dreams, they'll nonetheless be there. The Md and Amy Pond… and the days that never came."
Less of a speech and more of a bedtime story, the Doctor's goodnight to the immature Amelia Pond is the perfect culmination of a beautifully plotted season. —Dana Schwartz
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9. "The man that stops the monsters." (From "Flatline")
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"I think yous just don't care! I don't know if you are hither to invade, infiltrate, or merely supplant us — I don't suppose information technology actually matters now. You are monsters! That is the role it seems you lot are adamant to play, so it seems I must play mine! The human being that stops the monsters! I'm sending you back to your own dimension. Who knows? Some of you may even survive the trip."
The Doctor sums upwards his ethos and plays the hero. —Dana Schwartz
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8. Necktie: "Like fire and ice and rage," and "The fury of the Fourth dimension Lord." (From "Family of Claret")
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"He's like burn and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's aboriginal and forever. He burns at the center of fourth dimension, and he can see the plow of the universe. And… he's wonderful."
"He never raised his vocalization. That was the worst matter… the fury of the Time Lord… and and so we discovered why. Why this Medico, who had fought with gods and demons, why he had run away from us and hidden. He was being kind."
This episode gets two bright speeches, neither from the Doctor. The first is from the immature Tim Latimer, trying to convince poor John Smith to give up his human life to go the Doctor again. And then we get a voice-over from Brother Mine, describing their punishments. Each equally spooky, each well-set in 1 of the best Doc Who two-parters to appointment. —Dana Schwartz
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vii. "The concluding of the Time Lords." (From "The Waters of Mars")
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"At that place are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you lot know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realize that the laws of time are mine and they will obey me!"
A rare flare-upward of genuine anger and hubris, a speech in which the Doctor isn't the hero, merely a boy who volition soon learn his lesson. —Dana Schwartz
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6. "I am an idiot!" (From "Death in Sky")
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"I amnot a skillful man! I am not a bad human being. I am not a hero. And I'yard definitely not a president. And no, I'chiliad not an officer. Exercise you lot know what I am? I am an idiot, with a box and a screwdriver. Just passing through, helping out, learning. I don't demand an ground forces. I never have, because I've got them. Always them. Because dear, it'southward not an emotion. Honey is a promise."
For all of the strength of Capaldi'southward attack eyebrows, he evolved into the kindest, most sensitive Doc. How ironic that quirky Tennant would be the well-nigh ruthless? This is a beautiful moment for Capaldi'south Doctor, and a perfect plot moment. —Dana Schwartz
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five. "Just be kind." (From "The Doctor Falls")
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"I exercise what I practice because it'due south correct! Because it'south decent! And above all, it'south kind! Information technology's just that. But kind. If I run away today, skilful people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might alive. Perhaps non many, possibly non for long. Hey, you lot know, maybe there's no bespeak to whatever of this at all. Simply information technology's the best I can do. So I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it until it kills me. And you're going to die too! Anytime. And how will that be? Take you lot thought about information technology? What would yous die for? Who I am is where I stand up. Where I stand up is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Perhaps we can help a little. Why not, just at the end, but exist kind?"
Here is Twelve at his best, against his best friends and worst enemies, and preaching what he's come to acquire is more than of import than annihilation else. —Dana Schwartz
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four. Van Gogh at the museum (From "Vincent and the Doctor")
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"Pain is like shooting fish in a barrel to portray, only to utilise your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had e'er done it earlier. Perhaps no one e'er volition again. To my mind, that foreign, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not merely the world's greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who always lived."
If you lot lookout this and don't tear up, I don't trust you lot. —Dana Schwartz
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3. "Basically, run." (From "The Eleventh Hour")
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"You're not the first to have come up here. Oh, there have been and then many. And what yous've got to ask is, what happened to them? Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically… run."
What an entrance! This prune shows, if cypher else, how unfairly good all Matt Smith's music was. I mean, how can you lot non become chills when he steps through all the other Doctors? —Dana Schwartz
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2. 11's farewell (From "The Time of the Doctor")
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"We are all different people all through our lives, and that's okay, that's good. Y'all've got to keep moving so long as yous remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not ane day, I swear. I will ever think when the Doc was me."
Meta and heartbreaking — as before long as Amy shows upward, I'm in a puddle. —Dana Schwartz
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1. The Medico'due south war speech (From "The Zygon Inversion")
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"When you've killed all the bad guys, and it'due south all perfect and just and fair, when you accept finally got it exactly the manner y'all desire it, what are you going to do with the people similar you? The troublemakers. How are y'all going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?"
At that place has never been a better representation of who the Doctor is or what this show is supposed to exist. No big music cues, no exciting "I am the Dr.!" moments, no — just a beautifully written, expertly executed speech that shows Capaldi's sublime ability as an thespian, and the Doctor's fundamental importance as a character. —Dana Schwartz
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