So, all of time and space,
everything that ever happened
or ever will.
Where do you
want to start?
Man: Time Lord?
Do I have to explain
what that is?
You have really come
unprepared to this TV show.
[ "Doctor Who"
theme plays ]
Man: Um. Doctor Who.
This is probably
the coolest superhero
that you could ever
wanna meet.
Don't ask you the questions,
and don't wander off.
The Doctor is smart, sassy.
That's really someone
I would want on my side.
Has anyone ever told you,
that you are a bit weird?
They never really stop.
Man: He goes adventures,
fighting aliens and monsters.
Man: The Doctor
is possibility.
He's, "come with me
if you want to see everything."
Who are you?
I don't know yet.
I'm still cooking.
Man: If you're
a "Doctor Who" fan, as I am,
a Whovian, you get very
attached to doctors.
And so it's hard when
the Doctor regenerates,
because you're like,
"I don't know.
I've -- you know,
I gave my heart to
this last Doctor and it's
happened to me so many times."
Man: Soon as that new
face arrives, you think,
"Oh, who's this jerk?"
[ Crash ]
Woman: So we first meet
the eleventh Doctor
when he crashes into Amy's house
when she's just a child.
He instantly needs to eat,
'cause he's just regenerated
and he's starving.
Can I have an apple?
All I can think about,
apples.
I love apples.
Maybe I'm having
a craving!
That's new,
never had cravings before.
Hardwick: When
a Time Lord regenerates,
they have the guts of
being the same person
but they're not
the same person.
He has no idea what is
going to taste good
to his newly-born
Time Lord taste buds.
[ Crunch ]
[ Coughs ]
That's disgusting.
What is that?
An apple.
Apple's rubbish. I hate apples.
You said you loved them.
No, no, no,
I like yogurt.
Yogurt's my favorite.
Give me yogurt.
I hate yogurt.
It's just stuff
with bits in.
You said it was
your favorite.
New mouth,
new rules.
It's like eating after
cleaning your teeth.
Everything tastes --
[ yells ]
What is it?
What's wrong with you?
Wrong with me?
It's not my fault.
Why couldn't you give me
any decent food?
You're Scottish.
Fry something.
Ah.
Man: In trying to figure out
who he is, he starts with what
kinds of foods does he like,
and he keeps trying
various things
and spitting them out,
and I'll tell you something --
that scene could have gone on
for ten more minutes,
as far as I'm concerned.
It was really --
for some reason,
it was really enjoyable to me.
[Laughing] I kept wishing
that there would
be more food.
Almost disappointed
when he actually
found something
that he liked.
I need...I need...
fish fingers and custard.
Man: Is there a more
disgusting combination
of food than fish fingers
and custard?
It sounds fine.
Honestly, it doesn't --
it sounds fine.
Man: It's kind of like
a silly kid combo.
You know, it's like,
"I like fish fingers
and custard.
It's really delicious."
Mirman: Is fish fingers
a worse or better term
than fish sticks?
Fish fingers sounds
a little different.
Not creepy,
but different.
Fish fingers doesn't sound
not appetizing,
because we all know that fish
don't generally have fingers,
unless you count the small bones
in their fins,
which are, you know,
pre-evolutionary fingers.
But whatever the Doctor says
pertaining to food,
I'll generally think
is very appetizing.
Funny.
Am I?
Good.
Funny's good.
I'm saving the world.
I need a decent shirt.
To hell with the raggedy.
Time to put on a show.
Haislip: We really get to know
our eleventh Doctor when he's
confronting the Atraxi
for wanting to
destroy the Earth,
and it's when we get the fact
that he's confrontational
and he has more anger in him
than our previous Doctor.
The Doctor: Come on, then!
The Doctor will see you now!
Atraxi: Is this
world important?
Important? What's that mean,
"important"?
Six billion people live here.
Is that important?
Here's a better question.
Is this world a thr*at
to the Atraxi?
Woman: There's this
awesome stand-off
between the two of them,
and he kind of lets
them know, like,
"not going to mess with me.
This is it, like,
I'm not going anywhere.
Remember? Remember?
Remember? Remember?"
Is this world protected?
You're not the first lot
to have come here.
Oh, there have been so many.
Mirman: What
the Doctor asks is
to look through
the history of the Earth
and see how many times
the Doctor has defeated people.
And when you do that,
you get really nervous.
You're like, "Ooh,
he b*at all those people.
I'm just a big eye."
Haislip: There's this great
moment where you finally
get an homage to all
the previous doctors,
all the way from our first
to David Tennant,
our most recent.
Hardwick: To see the history
of the Doctor's incarnations
was really a genius way to say,
"This was the old Doctor,
this is the new Doctor."
And then he emerges through
David Tennant's face,
and that's when
he's solidified.
Hello.
I'm the Doctor.
Haislip: And you're like,
"Ah, there he is.
He's introduced himself.
We're here.
Let's go on this
adventure again.
Where is he going next?"
Watts: I think he's one of
the best Doctor Whos
that's ever been.
Choice for a bow tie
and suspenders
and crazy hair.
It just makes sense.
Well, I just saved
the whole planet
for about the millionth time,
no charge. Yeah, sh**t me.
I kept the clothes.
Including the bow tie.
Yeah, it's cool.
Bow ties are cool.
Hardwick: I always say to people
now, "bow ties are cool."
And a lot of times they don't
know what I'm talking about.
Are you from
another planet?
Yeah.
Okay.
So, what do you think?
What?
Other planets.
Want to check some out?
Mirman: I think the Doctor
does a pretty good job
confronting the Daleks,
considering how much
he fears them
and he k*lled his own
entire race to destroy them.
Tompkins: When we see
the Daleks in World w*r II
and they're buddy-buddy
with Winston Churchill,
we're thinking,
"What is going on here?
The Daleks are good.
Is Winston Churchill bad?"
We don't know
what's happening.
Watts: First we're not quite
sure of the time line.
Maybe human beings developed
and invented Daleks
in that reality.
Maybe they are just machines
that were, like,
picked up by an idea.
Haislip: At this point,
as a fan,
you've also grown
with the Daleks.
You want to have a moment
where you're like,
"Can't we all just
get along?"
Would you care
for some tea?
That would be very nice,
thank you.
Haislip: We get it,
we're both in this Universe.
Neither one of us
are going anywhere.
Even though we think
we're the last
of the one or
the last of the other,
we're not disappearing.
Would you care
for some tea?
The Doctor: Stop this!
What are you doing here?
What do you want?
We seek only
to help you.
To do what?
To win the w*r.
Really.
Which w*r?
I do not understand.
This w*r,
against the Nazis,
or your w*r, the w*r against
the rest of the Universe,
the w*r against all life forms
that are not Dalek?
I do not understand.
I am your soldier.
All right, okay, okay.
Okay, soldier --
defend yourself.
Hey -- what --
Scientist: What the devil!
You do not require tea?
Prime Minister, please!
Now, come on!
Fight back!
You want to, don't you?
You know you do!
Haislip: It's almost
kind of titillating
when you get angry, Doctor.
Our tenth Doctor
learned and grew so much
over the course of his lifetime
that we didn't get the rage,
and then all of a sudden
we get our brand-new Doctor
and the rage is back.
Watts: He's also
weirdly fearful
when he's doing it, too,
because you're like,
"What are you doing?
Why is the Doctor
not being the Doctor?"
But usually the Doctor
has a reason why
the Doctor is not
being the Doctor.
He hates them,
but he also knows that
he's not going to
really be able to do
much damage to them,
so he's mostly
just provoking it
to react.
He seems to be a very practical,
pragmatic being,
so anything that he's doing
is a calculated move.
I am the Doctor,
and you are the Daleks!
Tompkins: Here's what it is.
The Daleks are being
very passive-aggressive.
They know they're evil.
They just won't admit it.
Come on, we've all been in
arguments like that,
where the other person
just will not admit
that they're evil
squid-like creatures
inside a robot shell who are
bent on destroying the Earth!
Mirman: The British have a Dalek
that they think this guy built,
but actually Daleks
built the robot
to pretend he built the Daleks.
It's a little confusing,
but welcome to time travel.
Haislip: So our faithful Doctor
is once again
stuck in a situation where it's
destroy his worst enemy ever
or save Earth.
No, this is my
best chance I have
at the last of the Daleks.
I can rid the whole
Universe of you
once and for all.
Man: It's a classic
time-traveller joke.
If you can go back in time
to k*ll h*tler, you do it.
It's essentially what they're
talking about with the Daleks.
Man: It's the choice
he wishes he really has.
He never has that choice.
There is never a choice.
He's always protected
our little planet
before destroying the Daleks,
but he's always regretted it,
and I think the Doctor
carries the scars of not having
destroyed the Daleks.
Rogers: His personal code
precludes committing genocide.
Confronted with
these grand decisions,
you always see the Doctor
struggling with the greater good
and then trying to make
a humanist decision.
And the Daleks use
that against him.
The Daleks know that
he's going to do that.
The Doctor to Danny boy,
the Doctor to Danny boy,
withdraw.
Tompkins: But then again,
he's a smart guy,
so he's like, "I'll get
another sh*t at it.
I'll save the Earth this time.
I bet this won't be the last
time I'll be in this position.
I'm willing to roll
those dice."
Dalek: You will never
defeat us, Doctor!
We will return!
Dalek: We will return!
I did not
open the cr*ck.
Somebody did.
The cracks in the skin
of the Universe.
Don't you know
where they came from?
The Universe is cracked.
The Pandorica will open.
Silence will fall.
River: The Pandorica.
What is it?
A box,
a cage, a prison.
It was built to contain
the most feared thing
in all the Universe.
[ Mechanical parts moving ]
Haislip: The Doctor
and the Pandorica
is the Doctor's
worst nightmare.
It's every single one
of the monsters
who hates his guts
in the whole Universe
come together to face him.
When all those ancient enemies
and the Doctor get together,
it does give Matt Smith
the opportunity to give
one of the great
Saint Swithun's day speeches
where he is able to
bluff them into
not blowing up the Earth
basically just by saying,
"do you know
who you're dealing with?"
The Doctor: Hello, Stonehenge!
Come on, look at me!
No plan, no backup,
no weapons worth a damn.
Oh, and something else
I don't have --
anything to lose.
So, if you're sitting up there
in your silly little spaceship
with all your silly little g*ns
and you've got any plans
on taking the Pandorica tonight,
just remember who's
standing in your way.
Remember every black day
I ever stopped you,
and then --
and then...
do the smart thing.
Let somebody else try first.
Hardwick: With "Doctor Who,"
it's never quite as
black and white
as you think it is
as to who is evil
and who's not evil,
especially in "Pandorica,"
when you have
all the villains
coming together,
their goal is actually
strangely selfless,
where they feel like the Doctor
might destroy the Universe,
and the Doctor,
from a certain perspective,
is kind of a death machine.
Haislip: Even though
his intentions might be true,
he could be the reason
all the cracks
in the Universe
are appearing,
and it's an interesting moment
that makes you go,
"Wait a minute.
Maybe the good guys
are the bad guys
and the bad guys
are the good guys,
and we've just been
looking at the picture
from one way for too long."
Hardwick: All of the villainous
creatures that we've seen
throughout "Doctor Who,"
they all came together
to imprison the Doctor
because they were afraid that he
was going to destroy time.
Rogers: It's a great scene
to look at and go,
"Oh, that's the Justice League.
That's not
the league of evil.
They see themselves as
the heroes in this story."
And that's -- the best
bad guys always do.
The best bad guys always think
they're the hero of the story.
All reality
is threatened!
And you've come
to me for help?
No! We will save
the Universe from you!
From me?
Cyberman: All
projections correlate,
all evidence concurs
the Doctor will
destroy the Universe.
No, no.
No, you've got it wrong.
Seal the Pandorica.
No! Please, listen to me!
The TARDIS is exploding
right now and I'm
the only one who can stop it!
Listen to me!
Hardwick: He gets out,
spoiler alert.
'Cause it's the Doctor,
and what,
is he going to not get out?
Rory! Listen,
she's not dead.
Well, she is dead, but it's
not the end of the world.
Well, it is the end
of the world.
Actually, it's the end
of the Universe.
Oh, no, hang on.
Doctor?
Doctor!
You need to get me out
of the Pandorica.
But you're not in
the Pandorica.
Yes, I am. Well, I'm not now,
but I was back then.
Well, back now from
your point of view,
which is back then from
my point of view.
Time travelling.
You can't
keep it straight
in your head.
Hardwick: I really love
all the really great
time-bendy episodes where
you see cause and effect
and you see that some things
have to be a certain way
for it to work out
rather than just
going to a place
and having a linear
story arc.
The Doctor: Right.
Let's go.
Amy: What is that?
How are you doing that?
Vortex manipulator.
Cheap and nasty time travel.
Very bad for you.
Rogers: The vortex manipulator
is his quick
and dirty time machine,
and he's going
back and forth and giving
people information
they need having just
got it in the future.
So he gets information
in the future,
goes back in time and delivers
it, and they tell him,
"Wait, you had the fez
and were carrying a broom."
Douglas: Do I get confused
watching the show sometimes?
Yes.
That's why I love the DVR
feature on the television
so you can actually
go back and watch
and try to piece together
what's going on
so you can play it again
over in your mind.
Watts: I love the paradoxes
and the solves
that come from the complexities
of time being not linear
and lateral
and multi-dimensional.
Now I don't have the sonic.
I just gave it to Rory
, years ago.
And when you're done,
leave my screwdriver
in her top pocket.
Right, then.
Off we go.
Nope!
Hang on.
How did you know...
to come here?
Ah, my handwriting.
Okay.
Roger: It is another one of
those time-travel moments
where the only way
the Doctor knows to do it
is that he did it,
and the only reason he did it
is that he knows
he was supposed to.
In physics, information is
neither created nor destroyed.
In time travel,
happens all the time.
He doesn't do that stuff with
the TARDIS very much,
but when he had
the little wrist thing,
I guess the temptation
was too great.
He starts bouncing around up
and down the stairs
and comes down and dies
before he goes up and leaves.
If you're the sort
of person who likes to
diagram time travel stuff --
which, who isn't, really? --
there's plenty there
to diagram.
Mirman: Would I rather have
a vortex manipulator
or a TARDIS?
Tompkins: It's a tough call.
You know,
the TARDIS has a pool.
Vortex manipulator,
portable.
I guess I'd go with the pool
just because I'd be
worried about the tan line.
Do you mean hot tub pool
or just like, you know,
cool, relaxed pool?
Because if it's
the hot tub pool,
that changes
the game immensely.
I would rather have a TARDIS.
I would rather have
a much more powerful,
living being that is
a time machine.
What in the name of sanity
have you got on your head?
It's a fez.
I wear a fez now.
Fezzes are cool.
Mirman: I think
the fez actually
was a good choice,
'cause you're like,
"a bowler? No.
You couldn't do that."
The fez.
It's a very specific hat.
I sort of think there's a reason
we don't see it so much anymore.
Douglas: That hat was not
flattering at all.
Just keep the hat
off your head and just
go with what's been
working for you so far.
Rory: Oh!
The Doctor: Wakey-wakey!
Rise and shine.
Breakfast is served
in the courtyard.
[ Windows open ]
Whoa!
What a morning.
Woman: I think
you can't ever know
what motivates the Doctor.
He's like
the cosmic Santa Claus.
He's there to create
impossible situations
that can do
emotional work that's
otherwise impossible.
Hello, I'm the Doctor.
I knew it.
Sorry?
My brother's always
sending doctors.
But you won't be
able to help.
I'm not that
kind of doctor.
Watts: I really like the episode
with Vincent van Gogh.
They kind of went dark with it.
Douglas: He really was
in a lot of pain,
but he was able to express
the pain on canvas
like no other artist.
Watts: He sees the Universe
in a different way,
and that enables him
to see something
that most people
cannot see.
I thought I'd brighten
things up to
thank you for
saving me last night.
Van Gogh: Ah.
I thought you might like,
you know, possibly to
perhaps paint them
or something?
Might be a thought.
Man: There's this great
emotional moment when he brings
van Gogh to the museum
so van Gogh can hear
how important his art is,
what his art
actually means to people
in the future.
Rogers: It did seem to me
that that was not
the sort of thing
the Doctor would do.
It's a total violation of
every rule they talk about
when they're talking about
the rules for time travel.
Watts: I think it was just
a decision of just going,
"You know what? Screw this,
and let's just show him,
'cause this is amazing.
He's got to see this."
Palmer: The moment they walked
into that museum
and Vincent van Gogh saw his
artwork on the wall
and the whole thing,
I just...
tears.
So many times in history
you have these brilliant artists
who can never know
the reverberating effects
of their artwork
on humanity,
and that just, like --
k*lled me.
Watts: Your art is
kind of your child,
and so sometimes
you don't know
what your child does
and you don't know how
people are going to
respond to it,
so as an artist,
it's very emotional to see
it does something
good in the world.
To me, van Gogh is the finest
painter of them all.
Certainly the most popular
great painter of all time.
He transformed the pain
of his tormented life
into ecstatic beauty.
To my mind,
that strange, wild man
who roamed the fields
of Provence
was not only the world's
greatest artist,
but also one of the greatest men
who ever lived.
[ Van Gogh cries ]
Vincent?
Watts: You want Vincent to know
that his work is important
and he's embedded in
the psyche of human culture.
It's one of the most beautiful
moments in "Doctor Who."
Rogers: But it does bring up
an interesting question,
which is, you're Vincent.
You take him out of
his timeline,
bring him to the future.
He sees all the paintings.
He goes back and then
he paints more.
So the question is,
how creative is that?
Because he didn't
come up with them.
He saw them on the wall
and thought, "Oh, you know
what would be great,
if I painted the night sky
with swirly stars.
That looked really good.
I guess I'll paint that."
I suppose it's possible
that the Doctor was
putting the timeline right,
but screwing up
the actual authenticity
of the paintings --
although because it's
time travel,
he wasn't screwing up
the authenticity
of the paintings,
he was ensuring it,
because without him doing that,
those paintings
wouldn't have existed,
which means that nobody
actually has any authorship
of those paintings.
Vincent van Gogh saw
paintings on the wall,
copied them, and those paintings
ended up on that wall
so that Vincent van Gogh
could see them
and go back to his own time
and copy them.
Time travel is complicated.
You've turned out to be
the first doctor ever
actually to make
a difference in my life!
I'm delighted. I won't
ever forget you.
Mirman: When the Doctor brought
Vincent van Gogh to the future,
I think he did it to be like,
"look, you're
very appreciated,"
but also he did it
to show that you
can't change time,
that even Vincent van Gogh,
knowing that he becomes
maybe the most
celebrated artist,
he still kills himself
several months later.
So you were right.
No new paintings.
We didn't make
a difference at all.
I wouldn't say that.
The way I see it,
every life is
a pile of good things
and bad things.
Hey.
Good things don't always
soften the bad things,
but vice versa,
the bad things don't
necessarily spoil
the good things
or make them unimportant.
And we definitely added to
his pile of good things.
Palmer: What turns
a lot of people off
and away from Sci-Fi is that it
doesn't have enough heart
or enough emotional content
to really suck you in,
and "Doctor Who,"
in its most brilliant moments,
manages to have
this perfect balance
of the backdrop of Sci-Fi
but then to get,
like, right into
the core of
the human experience,
which is why
everybody loves it.
It's why it works.
I've been running,
faster than
I've ever run,
and I've been running
my whole life.
Now it's time
for me to stop.
Hardwick: Sometimes to
the audience it's unclear
why the Doctor can
go back
and change some things
and why he can't
change other things, and he
always just explains it like,
"there are some fixed points in
time that can never be changed,
and then there are other things
that can be manipulated."
Rogers: The rules
of a Time Lord,
you're never allowed
to cross your own line,
so, like, he can't
go back in time
and tell himself,
"be nicer to River,"
and that's his thing
all along anyway, right?
Is there's this notion that he
always knows what's coming,
and that's what's really
upsetting him all the time.
He's always going to
be bummed out.
Hardwick: No one saw
the astronaut coming
out of the lake
and then just laying him out
with a laser blast.
Amy: Doctor!
Amy! Stay back!
The Doctor said
stay back!
No! No!
You have to stay back!
Hardwick: As an audience member,
you're like,
"all right, Moffat.
I have been with you
a long time.
I know you can write
your way out of stuff,
but how the...
are you going to write
your way out of this?"
No! Doctor!
Doctor, please!
Tompkins: I was shocked.
I was appalled.
Is this
our tax money at work?
Is this what
the space program is for?
No wonder we stopped
those shuttle missions.
[ g*nshots ]
Adsit: I thought, "Well,
this is easy to fix.
There's going to be some reveal.
The astronaut's identity will
fix the whole situation."
But then they set him on fire
and b*rned the body.
And that's a dead end,
literally.
Sheppard: To start a season
by k*lling the Doctor
in a way that we know
he can't come back,
how do you solve that?
Mirman: When the Doctor
was first k*lled,
I was shocked that
they ended the season
so soon into
the first episode,
but then, luckily,
he reappeared in that diner.
And then you were like, "Oh,
I bet he'll figure this out.
He's really good
at this stuff."
Explain it again?
River: The Doctor we saw
on the beach is
a future version,
years older than
the one up there.
But all that's still
going to happen.
He's still
going to die.
We're all going to
do that, Amy.
Oh! You win again,
Steven Moffat!
You win again!
They masked what should have
been a huge red flag
to the audience as just
a kind of trite,
like, "Oh, okay,
well that's just, you know,
we know he travels
through space and time.
Of course he can be ,
years old now. Why not?"
Tompkins: And then you're left
at the end of the episode
still not really knowing how
they're going to get out of this
and where in the Doctor's
timeline does that happen?
Hardwick: "Who" is excellent
at paying off arcs
no matter how long it takes.
It's fun to watch the sort of
Rube Goldberg machine
that Moffat sets up
with the story lines,
and then you're like,
"how are you going to
make this pay off, Steven?"
We're in the middle of
the most powerful city
in the most powerful
country on Earth.
Let's take it slow.
[ Telephone ringing on tape ]
Nixon: Hello?
Who is this?
This is President Nixon.
Who's calling?
Hardwick: The TARDIS appears
in the Oval office.
Nixon keeps getting these calls
from this child
who Nixon thinks is
telling him his name.
Watts: It shows the power
that the Doctor has
where he can just
really appear anywhere
in history at any point.
Sheppard: It's a very
interesting time
in America, too.
If you think of ' ,
between the Cold w*r,
the arms race,
and the space race,
I mean, everything
is just moving so fast,
and to drop
the Doctor into that
is just amazing.
Rogers: The Doctor
doesn't get
any social rules,
including, like,
"It's the Oval office.
I want to talk to those guys."
Okay by him.
Mr. President,
that child just told you
everything you need to know,
but you weren't listening.
Never mind, though,
'cause the answer's yes,
I'll take the case.
Fellas, the g*ns, really?
I just walked into
the highest security office
in the United States
and parked a big blue box
on the rug.
Do you think you can
just sh**t me?
They're American!
Don't sh**t, definitely don't sh**t.
Rory: Nobody
sh**t us either.
Very much not in need
of getting sh*t.
Watts: The Doctor is
more dangerous
because he does so much
without a g*n,
which is scarier.
Like, well, how does
someone get through
all these dangerous situations
by essentially
figuring out things
in a scientific manner
or negotiating?
Hardwick: I love the idea that
Nixon never questions, like,
"Wait a minute.
You're -- how did you --"
he's just like, "all right.
Clearly you have this thing.
Why not?"
How'd you get it
in here?
I mean, you didn't
carry it in.
Clever, eh?
Love it.
Do not compliment
the intruder!
Five minutes?
Five.
Agent: Mr. President,
that man is a clear
and present danger.
Mr. President, that man
walked in here
with a big blue box
and three of his friends,
and that's the man
he walked past.
One of them's worth
listening to.
Five minutes.
I'm going to need a SWAT team
ready to mobilize,
street-level maps
covering all of Florida,
a pot of coffee,
jammie Dodgers, and a fez.
[ Drums fingers ]
Get him his maps.
Hardwick: The Doctor never
stops for a second
to let you question
what he's doing.
He just starts moving ahead,
and you can either
jump on the train
or get run over.
Watts: The Doctor essentially
influences Nixon
into recording everything.
It's -- it's --
it's beautiful.
Safe? No, of course
you're not safe.
There's about a billion
other things
out there just waiting to
burn your whole world.
But if you want to pretend
you're safe just so
you can sleep at night,
okay, you're safe.
But you're not, really.
Adsit: I like
that Nixon became
probably a worse President
than he would have been,
which is odd, because the Doctor
usually makes people better.
He made Nixon a little worse.
Dare I ask --
will I be remembered?
They're never
going to forget you.
Say hi to
David Frost for me.
David Frost?
[ Yelps ]
[ Breathing ]
Haislip: One of
the smartest things
the Doctor's ever done
is tricking the Silence.
Adsit: The Silence
can get you to do
anything they want you to do
while you're looking at them,
and it's kind of
a hypnotic thing they've
got going, so...
If they tell you to turn around,
as soon as you
look away from them,
you'll turn around.
The Doctor: You just
saw an image of
one of the creatures
we're fighting.
Describe it.
[ Snaps fingers ]
I can't.
No.
Neither can I.
Watts: How do you
remember something
you can't remember when
you're no longer seeing it?
It is just an amazing problem
for them to solve.
And it puts you
in the same place,
because, essentially,
you don't remember them
unless you see them,
but maybe you have seen them
but we don't know.
And then the fact that
the Silence say
that they've been
with humanity since
its evolution,
since the wheel and fire.
The Doctor: They don't make
anything themselves.
They don't have to.
They get other life forms
to do it for them.
So they're parasites,
then.
Super parasites, standing in
the shadows of human history
since the very beginning.
We know they can
influence human behavior
any way they want.
If they've been doing that
on a global scale
for thousands of years...
Then what?
Then why did the human race
suddenly decide
to go to the Moon?
Rogers: The Doctor is at his
best with intricate plans.
Those are the most fun,
to try to understand
what pieces he's
putting in place with
very little clue what
the resolution --
how are you going to
b*at these guys?
This man here,
code named "the Doctor,"
is doing some work
for me personally.
Could you cut him
a little slack?
Uh, Mr. President,
he did break into Apollo .
Well, I'm sure he had
a very good reason
for that.
Adsit: It is unclear what
the Moon landing
is going to have to do
with the silence
up until almost
the very end.
Oh! Hello, sorry,
are you in the middle
of something?
Just had to say,
have you seen what's
on the telly?
Oh, hello, Amy.
Now, do you know
how many people
are watching this
live on the telly?
Half a billion.
And that's nothing,
because the human race will
spread out among the stars.
You just watch them fly,
billions and billions
of them for billions
and billions of years,
and every single one of them
at some point in their lives
will look back at this man
taking that very first step,
and they will never,
ever forget it.
That's one small
step for man...
You should k*ll us
all on sight.
You should k*ll us all
on sight.
Hardwick: The Doctor
hates g*ns.
He can't k*ll people directly,
so he gets
the Silence to order their own
extinction subliminally,
and it's genius the way
it plays out,
because you just know
what will unfold
are people confronting
the Silence,
k*lling them,
and then forgetting about.
It is pretty strange when you
think about the Doctor
getting all of us
to become murderers.
I lie awake at night wondering
how many living,
breathing, thinking beings
I have m*rder*d
without knowing.
Watts: He's always
generally trying to find
a diplomatic solution to allow
the species to continue,
because, in a way,
he understands
'cause he's the last
of his kind.
He has this connection
to humanity,
and he knows that it's
an impossible
situation for them,
so he goes to extremes
to kind of
use a surrogate k*ller.
It kind of goes against
what the Doctor is like,
so it's creepy
on both levels.
Palmer: I feel like
the TARDIS is sort of
an extension
of the Doctor.
There's something magic
about how the Doctor
just psychically
knows this instrument.
And you have miraculous
things happening,
and yet still it's
slinkies and buttons
and super-old-school
instruments.
Sheppard: I think
"The Doctor's Wife"
was a fantastic way
of exploring what
the TARDIS really is.
Watts: The opportunity for
the TARDIS to become embodied
in a woman is really beautiful,
because the TARDIS never had
a voice until now.
Ian: This episode called
"The Doctor's Wife"
was written by Neil Gaiman,
who is most famous for writing
"The Sandman."
Rogers: Gaiman is really good
at personifying ideals,
so it's cool to see him
do that with the TARDIS,
to take at least
that notion and say,
"What's the TARDIS like?"
I go --
[ TARDIS engines ]
The TARDIS?
"Time and relative
dimension in space".
Yes, that's it.
Names are funny.
It's me.
I'm the TARDIS.
No, you're not.
You're a bitey madlady.
The TARDIS is
up-and-downy stuff
in a big, blue box.
Yes, that's me.
A type TARDIS.
I was already a museum piece
when you were young,
and the first time you touched
my console, you said --
I said you were the most
beautiful thing I'd ever known.
Then you stole me,
and I stole you.
I borrowed you.
"Borrowing" implies
the eventual intention
to return the thing
that was taken.
What makes you think I would
ever give you back?
Sheppard: Who picked who?
"I picked you, you picked me."
I love that, that --
"what is fate?"
Is the question.
Adsit: It really is a romance,
you realize, that they've had,
but a very comfortable,
lived-in
relationship together.
He's just never seen her.
Palmer: The idea of making
the TARDIS a woman
and then watching him
actually spend time with her
and get to fight with her,
you kind of always
want to do that
with every inanimate object.
You know, I think
I've earned the right
to open my front doors
any way I want.
Your front doors?
Have you any idea
how childish that sounds?
Oh, you are not
my mother.
And you are not
my child.
You know,
since we're talking,
with mouths --
not really an opportunity
that comes along very often --
I just want to say,
you know, you have never
been very reliable.
And you have?
You didn't always take me
where I wanted to go.
No, but I always
took you where
you needed to go.
You did.
Hardwick: It's almost
beautifully sad to know
that he is riding around
with this being
that can never
express itself to him
in any more of a way than
just taking him to places
that it thinks
he needs to be.
It can never tell him --
it's so sad!
It can never tell him
that it loves him
until Gaiman gave us that
episode and we got to see
that they actually do care
about each other.
They got to have
a moment together,
and then it's taken away,
so that's tragic,
too, at the end.
There's something I
didn't get to say to you.
Good bye.
No.
I just wanted to say...
hello.
Hello, Doctor.
It's so very,
very nice
to meet you.
[ Cries ]
[Crying]
Please...
I don't want you to...
leave.
Hardwick: It's such
a bittersweet story to know
that the Doctor's
real companion is the TARDIS.
That's the creature that's been
with him the longest.
Watts: I mean, it is love,
but it's also beyond love.
It's also a part of him.
I think that the people
that he finds along the way,
they come and go to
a certain extent,
but the Doctor is the TARDIS
and the TARDIS is the Doctor.
Are you there?
Can you hear me?
Palmer: I think it would be
terrible if the TARDIS could
actually talk all the time
and that became the,
you know --
that can't stay.
Rogers: Then it's
"Knight Rider,"
the TARDIS talking and giving
snarky comments about
hitting turbo boost
or something.
Adsit: I like the implied
and inferred relationship
going on there.
Okay, the Eye of Orion
or wherever we need to go.
Hardwick: Those are
the best episodes,
the ones that make you rethink
everything that you thought.
It makes it that much more
exciting to go back knowing
that the soul of this
creature is in there
and watching, you know,
his interactions
with the TARDIS up until that
episode and then beyond.
You think he's
raising an army?
You think he isn't?
If that man is finally
collecting on his debts,
God help you,
and God help his debtors.
We're wasting our time here.
Agreed.
The asteroid.
Where you've
made your base.
Do you know why they
call it Demon's Run?
Some old saying.
A very old saying.
The oldest.
Demons run when
a good man goes to w*r.
Hardwick: With
the eleventh Doctor,
you see a lot of that
real deep rage and sadness
bubbling underneath the surface
in a kind of a,
"oh, hello, what's all this,
then?" package.
It's like if you have a friend
and you're like,
"oh, he's a good guy
all the time!"
And then one time he just snaps
and you're like,
"that was the most insane
display I've ever seen."
Haislip: I think the angriest
we have ever seen the Doctor
is when he goes to w*r
at the end of the season.
It's almost terrifying.
Adsit: The people he loves
are in danger,
and the fact that people
are coming after him
by going through his loved ones
is the worst thing that could
possibly happen at this point,
so he gets really vicious.
Colonel Manton,
I want you
to tell your men
to run away.
You what?
Those words,
"run away."
I want you to be famous
for those exact words.
I want people
to call you
"Colonel Run Away."
I want children laughing
outside your door
because they've found
the House of Colonel Run Away
and when people
come to you and ask if
trying to get to me through
the people I love --
[ inhales sharply ]
Is in any way
a good idea...
I want you to tell them
your name.
Oh, look, I'm angry.
That's new.
I'm really not sure what's
going to happen now.
Hardwick: Near the end,
when you do see the rage
finally come to the surface,
you see, like,
"Oh, yeah, this is the guy that
exterminated his entire race
and the Daleks and has k*lled
countless people,
and this is the thing
that you never want to see."
I've seen the Doctor
get that angry,
but not that vicious.
Tompkins: It's
a little unsettling,
because maybe the Doctor
is getting a little...
darker.
Kovarian: The anger of
a good man is not a problem.
Good men have too many rules.
Good men don't need rules.
Today's not the day to find out
why I have so many.
Adsit: The fact that
the Doctor's enjoying
kind of belittling this general
is disturbing,
and I think it's meant to be.
I think we're
supposed to think,
"this is not who
we fell in love with.
He's turning into
a different guy now."
So thank God river shows up.
[ Lightning crashes ]
River: Well, then, soldier,
how goes the day?
You think I
wanted this?
I didn't do this.
This --
this wasn't me!
This was exactly you.
All this.
All of it.
You make them so afraid.
When you began
all those years ago
sailing off
to see the Universe,
did you ever think
you'd become this,
the man who can
turn an army around
at the mention
of his name?
Doctor.
The word for "healer"
and "wise man"
throughout the Universe.
We get that word
from you, you know?
But if you carry on
the way you are,
what might that word
come to mean?
Hardwick: Nothing is
black and white.
I mean, you think
you're doing this,
but to a lot of people,
it's perceived this way,
and so maybe you're not as
awesome as you think you are.
Adsit: The Doctor originally
stole the TARDIS.
He wanted to
explore the Universe
and enjoy the wonder
and majesty of creation,
and what he quite often
ends up doing
is leading armies
and fighting battles
and inspiring civilizations
to fend for themselves.
The result is that
a lot of civilizations
around the Universe
don't think of him as this
avuncular old man
kind of wandering
around the Universe.
He is, as River says,
a mighty warrior.
Not a great thing to be
for a man of peace,
which is what he says he is.
Hardwick: Death is sort of
a tool that he uses sometimes,
even though he never
seems to want to,
but I think that's something
that Moffat loves to play with,
is just the idea of screwing
around with your emotions, like,
"oh, maybe he is a dangerous
person to be around."
Kovarian: The child, then.
What do you think.
What is she?
Hope.
Hope, in this endless,
bitter w*r.
What w*r?
Against who?
Against you, Doctor.
Mirman: I don't think the Doctor
is the greatest thr*at
to the Universe,
though I could see why
aliens would think that,
and I can see some of
the arguments for him
being so dangerous.
But ultimately I think that
he's more helpful than not.
Adsit: I think River's right.
I don't think
the Doctor should be
"the oncoming storm,"
is what the Daleks call him.
I think he would
just like to be
the funny old man
with the blue box.
Palmer: The Doctor isn't human,
but is the most human.
He has deep,
profound emotions.
Otherwise he wouldn't be
motivated to do
anything he's doing.
Amy: Doctor!
Sheppard: As a viewer, there
seems to be a long game here,
there seems to be
a long story here,
which fascinates me,
especially in season six
and the things that
have been shown through
in season five that
has given us hints
as to what is to come,
is the sense
that the Doctor knows
more about our future
than we do
and that there's
something worth saving.
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