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Sesska's Favorite TV Moment of the Week (10/8-10/14) (Patreon)

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2017-10-15 14:10:28
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2021-10

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Fear and Doctor Who were neck and neck this week when it came to big emotional moments for me. Doctor Who got the edge because of Matt’s performance but both made me feel all sorts of emotions. 

It was an interesting week for me when it came to Doctor Who. The podcast got released with an overwhelming positive response (Thank You Lovelies) but I also uploaded this episode. But I have also had people talk to me about Matt Smith’s speeches and whether this was better than the Pandorica speech. Well seeing as I wasn’t a fan of the Pandorica speech at all, this is no competition for me. 

For me, even if you take everything else away in this episode….I wasn’t viewing this speech as a grand way to try and stop or feed a “God”. I completely viewed this as The Doctor’s first chance to let out all sorts of frustrations he’s been having especially in regards to losing Amy and Rory. We see it time and time again where The Doctor loses someone and then has to move on with his life. 

I think most of the companions of this show have had a meaningful impact on The Doctor but at the end of the day, they all end up being stories. They all are become memories to him. Beautiful memories but memories nonetheless. In that moment when The Doctor says “I have lost things you will never understand”….I have no idea why but my mind just had a flash of 11, Amy and Rory standing there in their ponchos and Amy saying “if we’re going to die, we might as well die looking like a Peruvian folk band” and I absolutely lost it. 

In my opinion, The Doctor became numb after his loss as he has so many times in the past. And this speech was when he let it all out. Not just about his losses but about everything he’s seen, everything he’s done (good and bad).  Though the leaf bit was sweet and the most insight I’ve gotten into Clara, the speech blew that moment away for me. Matt Smith nailed it and embodies everything I’ve ever wanted The Doctor to be. 

The tragedy of it all is that he keeps living this remarkable life but everyone he has ever loved becomes just a story to him. 


“I’ll be a story in your head but that’s okay. We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one”

-The Doctor to Amy


Fitting how it works the other way around. 

Don’t mind me, I’ll be in the corner bawling my eyes out yet again. 


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Sesska's Favorite TV Moments of the Week (10/8-10/14)

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Comments

Vanessa J McNamara

Now that you’ve watched William Hartnell, I can give a voice to my opinion on one aspect of Matt’s performance in this story. I think there are a lot of moments when he actually channeling the 1st Doctor. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and not one of them have mentioned this, so it could be just me. It’s more than just him mentioning Susan. People who say Matt can’t be subtle like Capaldi, just aren’t watching. Especially during the marketplace scene, he is slightly hunched, his speech is threadier, and he might has well be doing the 1st Doctor chuckle as he rushes around gleefully. He’s pulling out everything in this speech. I like to think , given what I feel regarding Hartnell, that’s he’s pulling from all the way back to the beginning.

Firefly24601

I love this episode for this exact speech, and the Long Song that plays underneath it. Here are the lyrics to the Long Song so you don't have to google it and potentially run into spoilers: Rest now, My warrior Rest now, your hardship is over Liiiiiiive Wake up. Wake up And let the cloak of life cling to your bones Cling to your bones Wake up, wake up

Steven Cooper

This episode did get a ridiculous amount of negativity when it was first shown, and it's true that structurally it's a bit of a mess. It bumbles around aimlessly for almost ten minutes before the plot actually gets started. All the stuff with the vampire creature threatening to escape its cage becomes redundant when it turns out to just be an "alarm clock" for the real sleeping god. The first part of the climax falls flat when the creature manages to absorb the Doctor's memories with no apparent effect on him -- if he was actually in no danger, why was he so reluctant to face it? And the way the ending is in such a hurry to forget about Akhaten and get back to Earth (without so much as a brief goodbye scene) is irritating. But the unusual lyrical feel of the episode (it's not so much an adventure as a fable about the importance of memories and stories) still makes it very much worthwhile. And as you say, Matt's performance during the big speech (coupled with one of Murray Gold's best pieces of music ever composed for the show) is a wonderful moment. It's lovely to see how engaged you've gotten with his Doctor, and your analysis of this moment is beautiful. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you make of the rest of the season... :-)

JojoInSpace

Beautifully written, Jess. "I have no idea why but my mind just had a flash of 11, Amy and Rory standing there in their ponchos and Amy saying “if we’re going to die, we might as well die looking like a Peruvian folk band” and I absolutely lost it." - dammit, now you made me tear up again. I can definitely get behind this being his first actual moment of letting out all that sorrow after losing Amy and Rory. Yes, he's lost so much in his entire life, and been through so much, and there's definitely a hint of all of that in the speech. But most recently was Amy and Rory, and I don't think he's fully dealt with that pain until this moment. He sulked on a could for who knows how long, and then he immediately jumped on the Clara mystery and ignored everything else (something he even gets called out on by the end of this by Clara herself). It's like he distracted himself with that whole thing, just so that he could keep all this bottled up. But it has to come out in the end, because that's how we move on, that's how we heal. And it draws a nice parallell to Clara and her mother, and just moving forward from loss in general. There's no "getting over it", but there is healing and there is coping, and I think that this was the first step he took to doing that. Amy and Rory meant so much to him, and it's happened over and over again that he loses those who are most important to him. He definitely needed this, and it made for one hell of a speech, and one hell of a performance (I too prefer this one to the Pandorica speech). Rings is a sweet lyrical almost fable like story. We just get a brief glimpse of this culture, and then we're gone again. Sure, I get why people critizise it. It's a bit all over the place. But I love it. I love the idea of sentiment and nostalgia and the value we place on memories and things being treated as money - because those are the things that really matter.