30 Days of Nu-Who: Day 10

[annissamazing]

Day 10 - Favorite Scene/Moment



You know what my absolute favorite part is? It’s that part at the end of “Midnight” when Donna copies the Doctor’s “Molto bene,” and he looks horrified and tells her not to do that (I even included a picture in my post about that episode). I kind of want to go into why I like it so much, but I keep talking about “Midnight” and I’m really trying to stop.

Instead, let’s talk about other fabulous parts that I just adore.

There’s this scene in “Rose,” that is the reason I kept watching Doctor Who when I first stumbled across it one evening back in 2006.

I love it because he’s so intense and finishes off with “Now forget me,” ensuring that there is no possible way she ever will.

There’s also this part in “Blink,” in which Sally Sparrow has a conversation with a recording of the Doctor that was filmed 40 years earlier.

I’m a fan of timey-wimey. Or, I am when I can comprehend it.

I also like a good hero shot:

Edit:
I am unhappy with how I ended this, so I'm adding on.

The thing is, there are so many great scenes and moments in this show that it's nearly impossible to choose just one.

I think what makes the end of "Midnight" stand out so much to me is that it's the culmination of a running gag that gets twisted into something horrifying. Both Rose and Martha attempted to mimic speech patterns and they were each told the exact same thing, "No. Don't do that." And it was funny! Poor Donna's timing is just so bad when she tries to copy the Doctor's speech patterns that when she gets the same "don't" it's not funny at all. Each time the gag comes out, you can see why the Doctor is telling them not to do it. When Rose and Martha try to copy accents and speech patterns, they sound ridiculous. When Donna does it, she is inadvertently replaying a terrifying experience. I love the changeup. It was unexpected and chilling.

Apparently I just really needed to talk about "Midnight" some more, because now I feel much better about this entry.

Day 1 - Favorite Incarnation of the Doctor: Nine
Day 2 - Favorite Companion: Donna Noble
Day 3 - Favorite Villain/Monster/Alien/Baddie of the Week: The Entity from "Midnight"
Day 4 - Favorite Character: Wilfred Mott
Day 5 - Favorite Guest Star: Anthony Stewart Head
Day 6 - Least Favorite Character: Lady Christina de Souza
Day 7 - Favorite Episode: "Midnight"
Day 8 - Favorite Series: Series Four
Day 9 - Least Favorite Episode: "Planet of the Dead"
Day 10 - Favorite Scene/Moment: "Don't... just don't."
Day 11 - Scene/Moment that makes you cry
Day 12 - Scene/Moment that makes you giggle
Day 13 - Favorite Era visited by The Doctor & Co.
Day 14 - Fave Doctor Moment
Day 15 - Fave Rose Moment
Day 16 - Fave Martha Moment
Day 17 - Fave Donna Moment
Day 18 - Fave Amy Moment
Day 19 - Favorite Ship
Day 20 - Prettiest Scene
Day 21 - Favorite Location
Day 22 - Something Silly
Day 23 - Something Epic
Day 24 - Favorite Accessory of the Doctor's
Day 25 - Favorite TARDIS Team
Day 26 - Scene/Moment that made you go 'awww'
Day 27 - Scene/Moment that made you go 'argh'
Day 28 - Favorite Series Arc
Day 29 - Favorite Music/Song
Day 30 - Why Do YOU Love Doctor Who

Comments

[redknightalex.livejournal.com]

To clips: yes, yes, and OH YES!

The second and third are probably my favorite (and not because of my Nine issues, I like Nine in "Rose" as a matter of fact, and agree with your ideas on it), mostly because of the timey wimey awesome in the former (and it was rather funny if you think of the tape alone) and the third has the most epic speech in Ten's history (imho).

...And don't you mean god hero shot for the last one? Just so epic I can't even deal. I played it and was mouthing the words to myself. Love it.

[annissamazing]

My inlaws were visiting when we got to "Voyage of the Damned" over at dwrewatch. I was slightly embarrassed because VotD is not one of the better episodes, and I was sort of apologizing to them because it wasn't the episode I would have wanted them to see first. But we got to that part and I turned to them and said, "I actually quite like that part."

*grin*

Have you seen this?



[Edit: sonofagun... why can't we embed a Youtube video in comments??? Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4deW5Okmr4
End Edit]

"And don't you mean god hero shot..."

Well, you know the Doctor always says he'd make a very bad god. It is truly epic, though. :)

[redknightalex.livejournal.com]

Some youtube vids have embed disabled. I think there's been a huge crack down on vids and I've seen a lot of BBC property vids like that or just removed. I got pissed about that when I tried to do my first day of that TV Meme I need to get back to (I just want to talk too much!). I'll take a look at the video when I get home so I don't start squeeing at work.

VotD isn't bad, really, it just requires a bit more background knowledge to appreciate it (as Ten comes across as rather callous. Not that I blame him). And I wish I had been more involved in dwrewatch all those months ago. Getting into a fandom is so much work!

"Well, you know the Doctor always says he'd make a very bad god."

He might say that but, truly, I think by the end of Series 4/The Specials (perhaps even Series 3 with his coming back from the brink of death scene) he's gotten to be at a very fine line. At least demi-god status I'd argue. Of course, I'm such a huge fan of WoM and his total freak out/power-hungry actions that I'm of the opinion that, somewhere before that, he became his own god. I never said he'd be a good one, just a god by himself.

ETA: Oh yes, completely epic. It's one of my favorites quotes of the whole series. So the Doctor (in any form).

[annissamazing]

There must be some trick to getting them to show up in comments. I've seen people do it, but it doesn't seem to work for me. The embedding wasn't disabled, the video just doesn't show up. The code for the video is still in my comment above. It's just not visible for some reason.

Edited because of my lousy new keyboard. It really is terrible.

[redknightalex.livejournal.com]

GOT IT!



And so sorry for all those edits emails. :(

[annissamazing]

LOL! I just checked my email and I was like, "Woah! What happened!" So, what did you do differently?

[redknightalex.livejournal.com]

When I went to embed it, I saw that it used the iframe tag which was something I couldn't remember if LJ supported (perhaps they do in entries, not sure, as they are very different creatures than comments). If you look at the selections under the embed option, you see "use old embed code". It then gives you an older object tag to use. I put that in there and then I had video!

[annissamazing]

Cool! Thanks! Were you able to watch the video or are you waiting 'til you're no longer at work?

[redknightalex.livejournal.com]

I was able to play the video in the comments but I haven't watched it. As it is right now, I've done so little work in the past hour that I really need to do some now. UGH.

[flydye8.livejournal.com]

Oh each of these are great I like the last one best. Love the hero shots and the music just completes the whole scene.

[annissamazing]

It still gives me chills! :D

[caz963.livejournal.com]

You can talk about Midnight as much as you like - I never get tired of it.

I also seem to be one of those rare VotD fans. I don't care that it's cheesy - it hangs together brilliantly and it has David Tennant running around in a tuxedo for an hour. What more oould any girl have wanted for Christmas?!