30 Days of Nu-Who: Day 11

[annissamazing]

Day 11 - Scene/Moment that makes you cry



One is so obvious, but the second less so.

Every hero should be allowed a moment where he gets to scream about the unfairness of what he must do. Ten gets his in "The End of Time: Part 2."

After the Master banishes the Time Lords back into the time lock, I actually had a moment where I thought the Doctor would make it out alive. But then Wilf knocks four times and I was shattered. When Ten shouts, "It's not fair!" I was sobbing openly. This is notable because I don't cry at TV. Ever. When I was a kid and saw Bambi's mom get shot, I wasn't even all that bothered. Then, the Doctor accepts his fate and takes Wilf's place in the chamber. And says it's his honor. At that point, I didn't even feel like a sap for crying so hard.


Damn, that man can act.

Secondly, and less obviously, is the scene from "Turn Left," in which the British government begins shipping off non-British citizens to work camps. "Britain for the British," and whatnot. It's horrifying not only because Britain is doing what the Nazis did in WWII, but also because Wilf seems to be the only person who remembers.


This picture would be more illustrative if Bernard Cribbins didn't look like this in every picture.

"But, Annissa! I thought you were a Doctor/Rose shipper," you might be thinking. "What about 'Doomsday?'" you might ask. But I will refer you back to my Bambi paragraph above. I was sad when Rose left, but it didn't break me. Not like these two scenes did.

The first one is just plain heartbreaking in that manipulative way some TV shows have about them. Like they know they're twisting the knife in your heart and they're doing it for fun. I can deal with that; sometimes, I even like that. It's cathartic, so long as the story is good. The second one makes me cry because I can see something like this actually happening. People, especially the talking heads, like to trot out the Nazis every time they see something in government they don't like. I wonder if it makes us blind when something actually analogous happens.

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: Ten rages against the dying of the light.
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

[bunny-chan85.livejournal.com]

Love your picks for this.

And Wilf may always look like someone kicked his puppy, but it's the moments where Bernard is pouring everything into a scene without it seeming like he's overdoing it that really get me bawling.

The scene at the end of series four when the Doctor is leaving the Noble residence and Wilf says, "I'll look up in the sky at the stars and I'll think of you." is the first one I think that made me cry.

I also cried at the scene where 11 and Amy take Van Gogh to the museum and he's looking at everything and Bill Nighy gives his 'vangoghisthegreatsevaromg!' speech. As an aspiring artist, that really spoke to me.

[flydye8.livejournal.com]

Those two moments were very sad to say the least but the last one with Wilf I think speaks the most to me. You know it took me a long time to figuire out what that scene was all about and when I finally did it saddened me terribly

[gement.livejournal.com]

Turn Left really messed me up, for all the reasons you say.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that I do tend to be a serial blubber - but I think that DW has caused more outright sobbing from me than anything else on telly ever.

I think these are great choices. I'd add Donna's mind-wipe, the cafe scene from part 1 of EoT and most of the last half of part 2!