Your Greatest Doctor Who Moments...?
A lot of you reading this probably saw this story in last week's news, in which readers of SFX magazine voted the tenth Doctor's farewell to Rose in Doomsday the greatest moment in all of SF, horror and fantasy.
No, really. They did.
Well, whether you agree with that vote or not (and as you may gather, especially if you read my own LJ, I might have taken issue with it a bit), it got me thinking. Just restricting it to Doctor Who rather than the whole of SF, horror and fantasy, what would your favourite "moments" be? These are the first few I came up with, in no particular order, and just thinking of emotional/tear-jerking bits to begin with:
1. Seven and Ace at the end of Survival.
2. Seven and Ace at the end of The Curse of Fenric (you may see a theme developing here).
3. Three driving off alone at the end of The Green Death.
4. His death at the end of Planet of the Spiders.
5. Two talking to Victoria about his family in Tomb of the Cybermen.
6. Hologram-Nine's appearance to Rose at the end of The Parting of the Ways.
7. Eleven's speech at young Amelia's bedside at the end of The Big Bang.
8. Shortly thereafter, "...something borrowed, something blue..."
And that's just a quick list with not a lot of thought put into it and missing out some of my own favourites. So, the question I put to you, who_at_50 frequenters, in the interests of killing some time until August 23, is this: what are your greatest moments in Doctor Who? They can be old series, new series, Doctor-related or not. They don't have to be emotional scenes, either; they could be funny bits, scary bits, silly bits, scripted or completely unintentional (you know how that kind of thing used to happen in the classic series). They might not even be moments from televised stories; I'm sure plenty of us have Doctor Who audios, novels, comics etc that we love as much as anything in the actual series.
Please feel free to share in the comments to this post, or, if you would like to elaborate in some detail, why not write a post to the comm on the subject of your favourite moment and why it means to much to you? I'd be very interested to read some of those, and I'm sure a lot of the rest of you would be too.
I look forward to anything any of you come up with. :)
No, really. They did.
Well, whether you agree with that vote or not (and as you may gather, especially if you read my own LJ, I might have taken issue with it a bit), it got me thinking. Just restricting it to Doctor Who rather than the whole of SF, horror and fantasy, what would your favourite "moments" be? These are the first few I came up with, in no particular order, and just thinking of emotional/tear-jerking bits to begin with:
1. Seven and Ace at the end of Survival.
2. Seven and Ace at the end of The Curse of Fenric (you may see a theme developing here).
3. Three driving off alone at the end of The Green Death.
4. His death at the end of Planet of the Spiders.
5. Two talking to Victoria about his family in Tomb of the Cybermen.
6. Hologram-Nine's appearance to Rose at the end of The Parting of the Ways.
7. Eleven's speech at young Amelia's bedside at the end of The Big Bang.
8. Shortly thereafter, "...something borrowed, something blue..."
And that's just a quick list with not a lot of thought put into it and missing out some of my own favourites. So, the question I put to you, who_at_50 frequenters, in the interests of killing some time until August 23, is this: what are your greatest moments in Doctor Who? They can be old series, new series, Doctor-related or not. They don't have to be emotional scenes, either; they could be funny bits, scary bits, silly bits, scripted or completely unintentional (you know how that kind of thing used to happen in the classic series). They might not even be moments from televised stories; I'm sure plenty of us have Doctor Who audios, novels, comics etc that we love as much as anything in the actual series.
Please feel free to share in the comments to this post, or, if you would like to elaborate in some detail, why not write a post to the comm on the subject of your favourite moment and why it means to much to you? I'd be very interested to read some of those, and I'm sure a lot of the rest of you would be too.
I look forward to anything any of you come up with. :)