"I don't want to go" (second time. Poor Dave actually looked embarrassed saying it)
"Gallifrey falls no more... what do you suppose it means?" "That... that *cough* *splutter* Gallifrey didn't fall!" No. ****ing. Shit.
On that note:
90% of Rory's exposition. The poor guy, as the inessential second companion, got most of the exposition aimed at the dim-witted. My favourite example: "That's an Apollo astronaut... coming out of the lake!" No. ****ing. Shit.
The exchange between Nine, Rose and Jack in Boom Town: "And off we go! Into time! AND SPACE!" Saved only by Mickey's highly appropriate reaction. Shame it's a family show, he could have told the smug gits to "shut the **** up".
Both of these came straight to mind for me.
I'd also add Wilfred's line from Turn Left: "Oh my god...the stars are going out!" Not the line itself, but it's delivered unusually badly by Cribbins...sounds so wooden and unconvincing.
The exchange between Nine, Rose and Jack in Boom Town: "And off we go! Into time! AND SPACE!" Saved only by Mickey's highly appropriate reaction. Shame it's a family show, he could have told the smug gits to "shut the **** up".
Oh yes, I always hated that bit. A terrible scene from a poor episode.
Disagree with people who don't like the 'underhenge' speech. I love the part before he get's all dramatic when you here an off camera bit of feedback from the microphone and the Doctor saying "Whoops. Sorry. Dropped it." Pure Eleven.
You're not alone, I love it too! One of those moments that I'll watch, then immediately rewind to watch again.
You're not alone, I love it too! One of those moments that I'll watch, then immediately rewind to watch again.
Me to. Utterly brilliant. Visually as well its a real classic moment. And Eleven played it brilliantly. Rather than the Timelord God posturing of Ten there was a real vulnerability to Elevens speech. He meant it sure. But wasn't too confident. The feedback on the mic. The little aside to Rory at the end. Rather than pure triumph it was all a bit 'wow! That seems to have sort of worked!'. Lovely stuff.
Most of Victory of the Daleks for me. Especially: "You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I've defeated you — time and time again, I've defeated you. I sent you back into the void. I've saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!"
Most of Victory of the Daleks for me. Especially: "You are everything I despise. The worst thing in all creation. I've defeated you — time and time again, I've defeated you. I sent you back into the void. I've saved the whole of reality from you. I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!"
The Daleks had it worse, I think.
"You will never defeat us, Doctor! We will return!"
Yep. It's just such a bland, simplistic line on paper. The actor could potentially make it work, depending on his delivery, but I don't think McGann knew what to do with it, and kind of went with sincerity... which kept it bland and simplistic.
Someone brought up Victory of the Daleks, which reminds me of more Gattiss goodness: "These are old eyes..." Just trying way too hard to be dramatic.
The second time it just sounded forced and weird and very cringey
And for the THIRD time when it was a ****ing PASSWORD it sounded awful! As if anyone would have "Run you clever boy and remember" as a password.
Slightly off topic, in terms of classic series Colin Baker's speech before he strangled Peri was atrociously cringe worthy: "And we all know the fate of ALIENS!"
"...Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres..."
with the "Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres" being particularly bad. What goofy names for what are supposed to be these terrifying threats.
Anytime River says "Hello, Sweetie" and "Spoilers". Her delivery is just so annoying.
The "Doctor Who...Doctor Who...Doctor Who" in "The Time of the Doctor". So hokey and jarring too as it breaks the 4th wall in order to remind the audience that the show is called "Doctor Who". In fact, I hope the show now gives the whole storyline of the Doctor's name a rest because the whole thing is getting wearisome.
The "Doctor Who...Doctor Who...Doctor Who" in "The Time of the Doctor". So hokey and jarring too as it breaks the 4th wall in order to remind the audience that the show is called "Doctor Who". In fact, I hope the show now gives the whole storyline of the Doctor's name a rest because the whole thing is getting wearisome.
I'm surprised it took 50 years to be a major storyline. Still, it's over now.
I'm surprised it took 50 years to be a major storyline. Still, it's over now.
I hope so but in a show where Rose keeps coming back and people keep dying and coming back and time keeps getting re-written, I don't assume anything is ever really over.
Horrid bit of Doctor sulking, that speech, and so early on in 11's run it came off as a half hearted 10 impression with none of the panache or conviction of Tennant.
A rare misfire early in Matt's run but I guess you could put it down to being one of his first days in the role and not quite fully warmed up yet.
"I am the Doctor and YOU are the DALEKS!"
While not quite as bad as this forum was panicing about before it aired, that whole plan to get the Doctor to get angry at the Daleks so the machine would recognise the Daleks was stupid, but you kind of hope the progenitor would have requested a few more goes at that line before it fully recognised it.
"A new Dalek Paradigm is born"
......no it isn't. A new Dalek Paradigm will be ignored because they ended up looking stupid. Activate the back peddling device!
Anything James Corden said in his two dire episodes.
Particularly not being converted because he loved his baby.
Yeah, I'm sure that's the first time that's ever happened to the Cybermen when they're converting people, not like they'd ever come up with anything against that.
And for the THIRD time when it was a ****ing PASSWORD it sounded awful! As if anyone would have "Run you clever boy and remember" as a password.
To be fair, wasn't it meant to be a sort of "Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain" thing? As in, that's a sentence you can memorise as a way of remembering the colours of the rainbow and what order they come in. I might be misremembering as I haven't seen the episode for a while, but wasn't it that she was given RYCBAR as a password, and just came up with that sentence so it would stick in her mind?
Already been mentioned, but "Doctor who?" over and over again was annoying, and of course "I don't wanna go" from the End Of Time. Speaking of which, I agree all "President Obama's going to end the recession" stuff was daft. I'm no economist, but even I know it doesn't work that way.
Perhaps it was. It's been even longer since I've seen that episode. I think the Obama scenes in general were quite bad though, it stood out that they couldn't show much of him because whoever it was that played him wouldn't look enough like him. It was kind of pointless anyway, other than for The Master to become him (and everyone else), and it turned out that didn't even have much point to it either. Yeah, I'll just say that The End Of Time isn't one of my favourite episodes.
Rose's "Not an android... an... ANNE... DROID!" line in "Bad Wolf." Yeah, because we would never have gotten that pun otherwise, right?
Also, any of the lengthy speeches Eleven and Clara gave in "The Rings of Akhaten." They just went on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on...
all of them. every line is bad. but as i keep saying these are cgi sequence links and not "scripts" ......
the rtd "45 minutes" line supposedly referencing tony blair's iraq weapons claim was particularly bad. also the iplayer plug in time of the doctor. and the really irritating but oft repeated "hey that's techy stuff" from dr who as if he doesnt understand how anything he uses works .......
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"I don't want to go" (second time. Poor Dave actually looked embarrassed saying it)
"Gallifrey falls no more... what do you suppose it means?" "That... that *cough* *splutter* Gallifrey didn't fall!" No. ****ing. Shit.
On that note:
90% of Rory's exposition. The poor guy, as the inessential second companion, got most of the exposition aimed at the dim-witted. My favourite example: "That's an Apollo astronaut... coming out of the lake!" No. ****ing. Shit.
Both of these came straight to mind for me.
I'd also add Wilfred's line from Turn Left: "Oh my god...the stars are going out!" Not the line itself, but it's delivered unusually badly by Cribbins...sounds so wooden and unconvincing.
Oh yes, I always hated that bit. A terrible scene from a poor episode.
You're not alone, I love it too! One of those moments that I'll watch, then immediately rewind to watch again.
Me to. Utterly brilliant. Visually as well its a real classic moment. And Eleven played it brilliantly. Rather than the Timelord God posturing of Ten there was a real vulnerability to Elevens speech. He meant it sure. But wasn't too confident. The feedback on the mic. The little aside to Rory at the end. Rather than pure triumph it was all a bit 'wow! That seems to have sort of worked!'. Lovely stuff.
Is that from the webisode?
The Daleks had it worse, I think.
"You will never defeat us, Doctor! We will return!"
Yep. It's just such a bland, simplistic line on paper. The actor could potentially make it work, depending on his delivery, but I don't think McGann knew what to do with it, and kind of went with sincerity... which kept it bland and simplistic.
Someone brought up Victory of the Daleks, which reminds me of more Gattiss goodness: "These are old eyes..." Just trying way too hard to be dramatic.
Anything Cassandra O'Brien said
Anytime Billy Piper used a non chav accent (most of her performance in DOTD)
Most of what human-caan-dalek said
Can the OP start a most touching quote in Nu Who thread pls. I like this thread but don't want to be accused of plagiarism.
The first time it sounded fine, if a bit cringey
The second time it just sounded forced and weird and very cringey
And for the THIRD time when it was a ****ing PASSWORD it sounded awful! As if anyone would have "Run you clever boy and remember" as a password.
Slightly off topic, in terms of classic series Colin Baker's speech before he strangled Peri was atrociously cringe worthy: "And we all know the fate of ALIENS!"
"...Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres..."
with the "Could-have-been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres" being particularly bad. What goofy names for what are supposed to be these terrifying threats.
Anytime River says "Hello, Sweetie" and "Spoilers". Her delivery is just so annoying.
The "Doctor Who...Doctor Who...Doctor Who" in "The Time of the Doctor". So hokey and jarring too as it breaks the 4th wall in order to remind the audience that the show is called "Doctor Who". In fact, I hope the show now gives the whole storyline of the Doctor's name a rest because the whole thing is getting wearisome.
I'm surprised it took 50 years to be a major storyline. Still, it's over now.
I agree with this. And then the Rose Moment also says "You clever boy" in "The Day of the Doctor". It makes the Doctor seem as if he's 12 years old.
I hope so but in a show where Rose keeps coming back and people keep dying and coming back and time keeps getting re-written, I don't assume anything is ever really over.
Horrid bit of Doctor sulking, that speech, and so early on in 11's run it came off as a half hearted 10 impression with none of the panache or conviction of Tennant.
A rare misfire early in Matt's run but I guess you could put it down to being one of his first days in the role and not quite fully warmed up yet.
"I am the Doctor and YOU are the DALEKS!"
While not quite as bad as this forum was panicing about before it aired, that whole plan to get the Doctor to get angry at the Daleks so the machine would recognise the Daleks was stupid, but you kind of hope the progenitor would have requested a few more goes at that line before it fully recognised it.
"A new Dalek Paradigm is born"
......no it isn't. A new Dalek Paradigm will be ignored because they ended up looking stupid. Activate the back peddling device!
Anything James Corden said in his two dire episodes.
Particularly not being converted because he loved his baby.
Yeah, I'm sure that's the first time that's ever happened to the Cybermen when they're converting people, not like they'd ever come up with anything against that.
However, "It was a warm Gallifreyan night" is probably the WORST.
To be fair, wasn't it meant to be a sort of "Richard Of York Gained Battles In Vain" thing? As in, that's a sentence you can memorise as a way of remembering the colours of the rainbow and what order they come in. I might be misremembering as I haven't seen the episode for a while, but wasn't it that she was given RYCBAR as a password, and just came up with that sentence so it would stick in her mind?
Already been mentioned, but "Doctor who?" over and over again was annoying, and of course "I don't wanna go" from the End Of Time. Speaking of which, I agree all "President Obama's going to end the recession" stuff was daft. I'm no economist, but even I know it doesn't work that way.
"I don't want to go..."
"Spoilers"
"Hello, sweetie..."
"Run you clever boy... and remember"
"Still not ginger!"
"Oh my God... I'm a chav!"
Also, any of the lengthy speeches Eleven and Clara gave in "The Rings of Akhaten." They just went on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on...
the rtd "45 minutes" line supposedly referencing tony blair's iraq weapons claim was particularly bad. also the iplayer plug in time of the doctor. and the really irritating but oft repeated "hey that's techy stuff" from dr who as if he doesnt understand how anything he uses works .......