Doctor Who moments and quotes...

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Difficult to decide, but would have to include:

Anything with the Master - the only disappointment about his return in the third season was only one episode with Derek Jacobi.

Anything on Gallifrey.

Most of Tom Baker's stories.

Travels to past eras of Earth's history.

That quote from The Pyramids of Mars where the Doctor tells Sarah Jane, "Earth is not my home, Sarah. I don't know if you realise what that means. I am a Time Lord. I am not a human being. I walk in Eternity." Sutekh was good as well (well, evil, but then our Evil is his Good).

The Brain of Morbius

Talons of Weng Ch'iang

The Rani

Late Sylvester McCoy (Silver Nemesis, Ghostlight, the Curse of Fenric)

Girl in the Fireplace

Sarah Jane Smith, Romana, Adric, Nyssa of Traken, Martha Jones. And the Master's Companions Chantho Last of the Malmooth and Lucy Saxon.

The Unquiet Dead, Tooth and Claw, The Shakespeare Code

David Tennant when in serious mode; great quotes like, "I'm so old - and I used to have so much mercy," "I am so sorry," "Because it hurts," (when explaining to Rose about why the Cybermen have had emotion removed).

Human Nature/the Family of Blood

The part in The Fires of Pompeii where Lucius and Evelina Caecilia compete with prophecies.

The three episodes featuring the Ood. (though Planet of the Ood

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

The flashbacks to Gallifrey, with the eight-year old Master and the Untempered Schism.

The Cult of Skaro. I know this may have led Daleks Sek and Caan in particular to indulge in singularly unDaleklike behaviour, but there is precedent at least as far back as The Evil of the Daleks for the idea of an unorthodox faction departing from the rigid "purity" of more conventional Daleks. Maybe they're the Dalek equivalent of Aspies, LOL, only instead of being more logical and detached, they are more emotional and imaginative (I know that unlike some forms of autism we Aspergians do not have an imagiantive deficit). Contrary to an otherwise well-written opinion article some time back in the Age, which asked whether humans at heart were any better than Daleks, this aggressive supremacist species is not hcarcterised by self interest; other than elites such as the Dalek Supreme and the Dalek Emperor
"You taught us to imagine and we imagined your irrelevance!" Even my older brother, who is not a fan, especially of the new series, loved that line!

With regard to The Stolen Earth and Journey's End, the gathering of the companions may have been directed at children, (Doctor Who has long included them among it's fans, though of course we know its not a children's show) but I hardly think that some of Davros' conversation or the ultimate fate of Donna Nobel. It was also good to see and hear Sarah Jane Smith (how does Elizabeth Sladen still look so unchanged from the seventies?) confront Davros, whom she had last seen in Genesis of the Daleks.

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Yes sir...that was perhaps the most mature statement made by Tom Baker's Doctor in his early seasons.

My personal favorite quote from Doctor 4 though, would be from the end of "Robot" - 'What's the point of being grown-up if you can't be a little childish sometimes?' THAT, to me, is like the whole philosophy of what being Asperger's is all about; being in touch with your inner child!

Just my thoughts

"It's called the TARDIS this thing...T-A-R-D-I-S, that's Time And Relative Dimension In Space!"

*thinks for a moment* IDBI!

Excellent... someone revived this thread from hibernation...

Most of my favorite Doctor Who moments come from the classic series, since that's what I "grew up with." Another one of my favorite cliffhangers was the one in "Genesis of the Daleks" with Davros screaming "You! Will! Tell! Me! YOU! WILL! TELL! ME!"

Come to think of it, there are plenty of good Davros moments... the "hypothetical virus" scene, the Doctor offering Davros a jelly-baby, Davros's reaction to hearing about the Daleks losing the Movellan War, his explanation of his activities as the Great Healer, "SHUT THE FOOL UP!"... just to name a few.

Poor Davros got a bit overused towards the end and I don't think anything (even his most recent appearance) ever quite managed to approach the levels of Genesis. Actually, I think it wasn't just Davros... it was Davros AND Nyder that made it so chilling.

So... Cyberman, why did you quote the pepperpot creator as a big moment... wasn't there a cyber-moment to be proud of?

I loved the cyber-revival in Earthshock
and the loony cyberman in the Invasion
and the cyber-controller in Tomb.

The sad thing about the cybermen is that I loved their actions but in those early episodes... I really didn't like the voices.

The cancer-kazoo voices of The Moonbase and Tomb of the Cybermen were great, and the Cybermen of The Tenth Planet, as ridiculous as they sound today, do sound like a voice synthesiser.

As for the most eminently quotable Cyberman line ever, well, the Cybercontroller from the end of the second episode of Tomb says it all...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2Ix-7jnEc[/youtube]

YOU BEELONG TO UZZ. YOU SHALL BEEE LIIIKE UZZ.

I agree, a very chilling pair. If Davros had been Hitler, then Nyder would've been Heinrich Himmler.


But of course! Why do you think I was converted? I already mentioned the Cybermen invading the TARDIS with the Cyberleader ordering Peri's destruction, though that is just one. There are also the scenes you mentioned, plus them marching down the streets of London in The Invasion and the battle with the Neo-Nazis in Silver Nemesis.


I know what you mean. The Invasion voices were practically unintelligible (though they were somewhat imitated in the new series) and the Wheel in Space Cybermen sounded like pot-smoking Daleks or something... "You-know-our-wayzzz, you-must-be-de-stroyyyed."

Indeed, classic stuff. ^_^

Speaking of the Troughton era, and I don't know if this has been quoted yet, but there was a gem of a line he said in "The Moonbase" (episode 2) that REALLY stands out:

"There are some corners of the universe that have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought!" Pure gold.

*puts hands on hips and speaks in a South African accent* There will be NO gold! Voga is to be UTTERLY destroyed!

That Cyberman was like a rotten Karkus. *Ba-dum tish!*

Does this sound any better?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJ1wxzzI8Y[/youtube]

Now they sound too much like Cybusmen... but that is an improvement, yes. And it would make sense, considering their design is very similar to the Invasion Cybermen (save for details like the vacuum cleaner tubes and head-mounted minigun.)


And one of the Vogans was like a Davros with emphysema (among others.)

And if you thought South African Cybermen were bad, check out the Jamaican Cyber, mon!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41r9ZUE3uw[/youtube]

I've seen that! I've got the Earthshock DVD.

Never mind Sarth Effrikan and Jamaican' me crazy Cybermen, you haven't lived until you heard a Japanese Cyberman!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY2n7KHCF5c[/youtube]

Oh, and the most quoteworthy line in Revenge of the Cybermen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4f1hwruME4[/youtube]

HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!! !