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Rose… before I go, I just wanna tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I!
God I miss Eccleston so much, and I literally just rewatched his season.
Through no fault of anyone, Eccleston being followed by Tennant and then by Smith really overshadowed his wonderful performance and all the credit he deserves for being the Doctor that brought the series back. I’ll always love him for that season. He really was fantastic.
i invented the quadricycle!
Maybe not favourite but one of them anyways,
Tom Baker S17E14 Nightmare of Eden, part 2 according to IMDb.
Guard: …who do you work for?
Doctor: Work for? I don’t work for anybody.I’m just having fun.
I never hear this one mentioned but I think it sums up the Doctor perfectly.
Good line. I found the video of part 2 on dailymotion. The quote is about 2:23 into the episode.
"Winning?! Is that what you think it’s about? I’m not trying to win! I’m not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It’s not because it’s fun and God knows it’s not because it’s easy. It’s not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it’s right! Because it’s decent! And above all, it’s kind. It’s just that. Just kind."
Words to live by.
Jelly baby?
I would “scarf” them down!
Run
The moment I knew I was going to enjoy NuWho just at much as classic:
“Pleased to meet you Rose! Now run for your life!!”
Madge: Lily and Cyril’s father—my husband—is dead and they don’t know yet because if I tell them now then Christmas will always be what took their father away from them, and no one should have to live like that. Of course when the Christmas period is over I shall… I don’t know why I keep shouting at them.
The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they’re going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because what’s the point in them being happy now if they’re going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.
It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. That’s who I am.
—The Doctor, “Rose”, Doctor Who (S01E01) (2005-03-26)
Better quote from that episode: “Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life.”
I legitimately think of this bit regularly. It was such a perfect (re)introduction to The Doctor.
I preferred the “I can feel it” quote because it lined up with simplex/complex/multiplex from Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star
I think you mistake your personal favourite for “better”. No need to poo-poo others’ preferences.
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, they help me keep track of how many tonedeaf DW redditors joined Lemmy 👍
I think when using words like better you are voicing your opinion and not providing any objective assessment on other peoples opinion. In this context I would interpret better as a subjective personal opinion. While a phrase like "a quote I like more from that episode: " would have also worked. In a forum using less words leading to a snappier comment is better for legibility.
But I can certainly see how the phrase could be considered negative.
I see your point that “snappy=legible”, but it can also come at the cost of losing nuance, dialogue becoming an argument, and ultimately “snappy=burn” instead.
The reply above didn’t signal "Nice one, though I prefer ___,” it reads like “Wrong! ___ is objectively better.” I only reacted to this because OP explicitly called for personal favourites, and nobody should get to trump what others like.
I’m sorry your parents raised you to be unable to have a casual human conversation. It must be very hard for you to function.
Really? In a thread overflowing with votes for “Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind,” I think you’re the one with a poor grasp of conversational cues.
Anyhoo, blocked. Bye.
“Doctor, who?” “Yes” “???”
“Every great decision creates ripples, like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequence.”
Or basically anything 7th said
Try to be nice; always be kind.
I love this speech
“Never be cruel. Never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish. Love is always wise. Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.”
The Twelfth Doctor, TWICE UPON A TIME
Thanks for bringing the real quote 😊
“Never eat pears. They’re too squishy and they always make your chin wet. That one’s quite important. Write it down.”
I never exactly warmed up to Twelve, but he had a good number of moments that I loved, and this quote was one of them.
I can’t pick just one! The first one is probably my favorite if I must choose though.
The way I see it every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The 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.
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don’t alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views.
Courage isn’t just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It’s being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
“I never would.”
“Nobody important! Now that’s new! I’ve been all across time and space, and that’s one thing o haven’t met, yet - someone unimportant!”
“You said memories become stories when we forget them. Maybe some of them become songs.”
Clara from S09E12 “Hell Bent”
That was a good line. Kind of a sad episode also.
