@@kanekeylewer5704 Maybe he is not a english speaker from born like all of you, just like me, to me, that sounds like tha quote as is know in my language, sorry, it just lost in the translations.
Do the silence rot? Because If you can't remeber killing them, there's no way you're going to dispose of the bodies. Come to think of it, the living room's been smelling a bit funny lately...
*Captain Jack:* "Who has a sonic screwdriver?" *Nine:* "I DO!" *Captain Jack:* "Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'Hoo, hoo, this could be a little more sonic'?" *Nine:* "What? Never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" ruclips.net/video/L9y8lM4EiGM/видео.html
I really love how River doesn't remember the Silence but it because she saw the fear in her father's eyes, she shot one. this is why River is my favorite character. she is one hell of a woman!!!!
Eh, didn't feel that way about it personally. I mean generally I don't love the whole "shoot without looking" bit. It's meant to convey that the character is just *that awesome* that they know what's coming.. But if the fight is that one-sided that they can do that, then it's not an enemy that will pose any real threat to that character, which is kind of boring. And then in this case, I don't think the gag was really executed very well. It just feels clumsy, like she's trying too hard *not* to turn around and look, and twisting her arm around backward for the shot instead. It's OK, River, just take a sec, turn around and shoot the guy. I won't think less of you for it!
@@tetsujin_144 She didn't know why she shot behind her though. She shot behind her because something behind her made her dad scared. She doesn't remember the firefight she just finished because of the Silence's abilities, the behind the shot scene here is actually a well done part of Moffat to show River's Character
Actually, I feel like over the course of the two episodes it's implicit that with enough exposure to the Silence, and I mean like...a *lot*, people start to remember them. That's why, for example, at the beginning of the episode they could have the wherewithal to use the tally system...because they still partially forgot but knew they had "seen" them, a little further on and it makes sense that they could remember at least some aspects, even if not everything. Plus, for the backwards shot, the silence did growl at her. Maybe it should've lived up to it's namesake... Of course, maybe you're thinking about the Eye-Drives that human allies of the Silence use so they won't forget them. But I think that might be justified as just a convenience factor; having a mostly intact but somewhat blurry memory of your own allies would be super inconvenient. "Wait, they told me about...ah shit, what was it again?"
@@jinga9862 What about sound? I haven't seen DW for ages now but the forget powers might only apply to when they are seen. Plus River's instinct would be she's in hostile territory with her allies, I guess family, in front of her so she's free to shoot without friendly fire.
does anyone else think that at 0:06 , when he says "I'm not really gonna let you go, nice thought but it's not christmas" this is an easter egg for the time of the doctor, when he essentially forgives the silence and moves on when he's in christmas?
One of the creepiest things about 11 was that his cunning plans never seemed cunning until the very end. With 9 and 10, after a while it generally became obvious, because of their personalities, whether they were aiming for a rescue mission/peaceful ending or he had a cunning plan. Because of 11's bouncier personality, especially with the Ponds, it was harder to discern this. Whilst he didn't lie to people about random things, he was a lot happier to play the long game. For example, take 10's episode 'The Doctor's Daughter' where 10, Martha and Donna find themselves in the middle of a seemingly pointless battle between machine-built humans and a species called the Hath. One of his quotes from that is "look up genocide in a dictionary. When you do you'll see a picture of me next to it with a caption underneath that'll read 'over my dead body!'" After Martha accidentally gets taken by a Hath, he could easily have turned the entire planet upside-down with explosions to get her back, but he doesn't. It is blatantly a rescue mission episode. Compare this to 11's episode 'The Lodger' where he becomes housemates with a guy named Craig in order to investigate the creepy guy upstairs. We don't know what his end game is. He acts like normal bonkers 11 - having a full conversation with a cat, making a machine out of seemingly random objects - but we don't know whether his end game is to tell the creepy guy upstairs to go home, to destroy him, or anything. EDIT: I've just thought of a better example than 'The Lodger'. 'The Girl Who Waited' in which Amy accidentally gets stuck in a containment facility that runs at a faster timestream than the one the Doctor and Rory are in. The Doctor uses science and Rory and they end up with two Amys in one timestream - normal Who Amy and Amy almost forty years older - which the Doctor says the TARDIS (to get them home) will be okay with if he gets rid of the karaoke bar. But he's lying and locks them in the TARDIS and him and Rory - young Amy now unconscious - have to listen as Old Amy is knocked out and killed. He tries to be cruel and cold, saying that if they save Amy now then the Amy outside won't exist so she'll never get trapped - it will have never happen. However, he puts Rory's hand on the TARDIS lock saying "let her in if you want" - but if he does Amy has to wait almost forty years for them to rescue her. This almost makes Rory cry who is already traumatised listening to Old Amy outside, but he says to the Doctor "this isn't fair. You're turning me into you."
In fairness, it is fair. It's just not pleasant. The Doctor use like a Discworld witch, s/he does what needs doing and makes the hard choices others don't want to make. Rory wanted to live in a world where her didn't have to choose, but a choice had to be made (even if passively). That's why the War Doctor was, in the original memory of what happened, the most Doctor of all: there was no right choice that day, no easy solution. But he did what he had to do to save the universe.
@@bobbyfeet2240 tbf the alternative would have been fighting Jabberwocks, or whatever those critters are called that show up at time paradoxes to sort them out by killing everyone in the vicinity
There are exceptions, though For example, in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, Ten and Martha are on the run from The Family and go to extremes to try and hide from them, going so far as to replace their own identity with that of ordinary humans and the Doctor even going so far as to erase his own memory, so that even he doesn't know who he really is. The entire two episodes, we're lead to believe that he did this because he was fearful of facing them, but at the end, we find out that it was the other way around. He ran from them, not because he feared them, but because he was trying to spare them. He knew that if he faced them, he'd have no choice but to kill or imprison them and so he went to absolute extremes to try and prevent that from happening. The Family continued their chase and in so doing, unwittingly bring about their own eternal imprisonments. That was pretty damn cunning and a very nice twist. The entire time you're lead to believe one thing, only for the Doctor to flip it upside down at the very end and you realized what he was actually trying to do.
+Mitchell Chew Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver? Doctor: I do! Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'Ooh, this could be a little more sonic'? Doctor: What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
P.H. Completely wrong. First, he says, "Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols!" And then a bit later, when they're surrounded by soldiers, he says "Ah, the pointing again! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?" And that was 2013, not 2014.
Not just dispersing, if you pay close attention, he was also redirecting/deflecting a decent amount of the electricity right back at The Silence, giving them quite a *_shocking_* death.
@Joshua Minshull well if I'm not mistaken, that was the result of 3 sonic screwdrivers being used so the dalek got knocked back due to essentially a lot of vibrations. But if the sonic device can work on electric equipment then it must have some influence on electricity. I think what the doctor did was cause the bit of electricity of the silence to essentially blow up in its face
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was under the impression that he was firing sonic pulses at them, similar to how he, 10 and War pushed the Dalek through the painting in day of the Doctor, on a much smaller scale.
Remember Journey's End? Quoth Davros: "But here's the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion THEM into weapons. [...] Behold your beloved children of time, turned into murderers." Now it took The Doctor one day to fashion BILLIONS of ordinary people into weapons. Good job!
Ribozyme but it was necessary. Sure it may have been cruel to brainwash humans into genocide but the Silence were brainwashing humans and were going to take over if they weren’t stopped.
@@BayHarborButcher2 They only did it to get closer to the Doctor and prevent him from reaching Trenzalore, which they did to prevent a second Time war (well technically THE time war that we all know was the sixth according to the TARDIS wiki but close enough).
This scene had me gaping till the end. It shows how ruthless and cunning the Doctor is. Of course, it's only topped by River shooting a Silence behind her when she shouldn't even know it exists unless she sees it.
In the event of a sudden meteor shower where d'you supposed the safest place to be is? Right here I should guess. D'you know what that isn't? What? A coincidence.
The fun subversive bit which nobody seems to notice happens carefully buried at 3:02. The scene's made a big point of establishing that River's gun shoots red energy bolts. The Silence produce blue lightning, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver produces flashes of green light which either- as River appears to think- are doing nothing at all while she's doing all the work, or, as some have suggested, are harmlessly disrupting the Silence's energy weapons. The Doctor doesn't seem overly bothered that River thinks this, of course. At this point, River, Rory, and Amy are all in mortal danger, and their survival pretty much depends on no Silence shooting River in the back. At 3:02 a Silent goes down with a scream... hit by a green energy bolt. The Doctor hates violence and does not like weapons. This does not mean "will not use".
River: What are you doing. The Doctor: helping River: you've got a screwdriver go build a cabinet. The Doctor: That's really rude God I love river and the 11th or just river in general she's so great hope to see more of her.
2:59 I like how you can see the Doctor using the Sonic to defend himself in this scene, I believe that he's doing a mixture of blocking the incoming electricity by dispersing the charge, somehow redirecting the electricity back at the Silence and possibly fire sonic pulses at them like he did to a Darlek with the other doctors in Day of the Doctor
Its the deflecting and dispersing, you can see he successfully kills a few of the slendermen by deflecting the lightning, and dispersing the charges when they drift too close to River or the ponds, though I dont think he stuns any of them
@@kritikill7779 he does 3:02.We can previously see flashes of green light coming of the sonic screwdriver.In 3:02,a silent goes down from an green energy bolt.No one else there was producing green energy.
oh my gosh I never realized that about that line until watching it right now and oh my gosh my jaw dropped to the floor! It's crazy how they tell us spoilers all along but we rarely seem to notice
Just scrolled through looking for that comment cos I noticed it this time through as well. Love the foreshadowing the writers put in for who River was.
The thing about the Matt Smith Doctor that struck me as time went on - At times he could be energetic and flight as befitting his seeming youth, but in instances like this he could be more ruthless than the 7th Doctor at his coldest.
@Winter Wren Is it genocide or self-defense by the human race? The Silents were literally alien invaders who had already used the power of hypnotic suggestion to tear apart reality. If they had been allowed to continue to push their agenda, they would have done it again. Its the same reason that the Tenth Doctor threw Rassilon back into the Time War: when someone has shown themselves to be so corrupt and so powerful that they can wipe out reality itself, it is simply self-defense to destroy them. Besides, its not like the Silents on Earth were the last ones in existence. And he gave them ample opportubity to GTFO.
The reason why Matt Smith is the greatest Doctor is that he had EVERYTHING. He could switch from a playful child to the Oncoming Storm in the blink of an eye and make it seem like the most natural transition in the world. He could be a flirty boyfriend and a seasoned war veteran sometimes within the very same scene. He could be both the most alien Doctor and the most human Doctor at the same time. And those eyes are MUCH older than Smith's actual age, possibly because he's an atheist in real life and has felt the very existential dread of fearing that there might be nothing after death which, very fittingly, makes him perfect for the Doctor's supposed final incarnation. Peter Capaldi could only do a dark Doctor in Season 8. By the time he lightened up in Season 9, he had already cemented himself as one of my least favourite incarnations because he doesn't have the range that Smith had, not to mention he seemed to think that sociopathy is the same as socially awkwardness. Despite being 25 years younger than his successor Smith is, to quote Tom Baker "The Doctor. The definite article, you might say." Speaking of Tom Baker, Matt Smith is the only Doctor whom I would have loved to see matching or even surpassing his 7 year record. Unfortunately, that didn't happen but thank God Smith stayed for the 50th Anniversary because there's no way that would have been anywhere near as good if Peter Capaldi was doing it.
+Nick Piers The flirting is phenomenal. Doctor: "Oh, and this is my friend, River. Nice hair, clever, has her own gun. And, unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people -- shouldn't like that. Kind of do. A bit." River: "Thank you, Sweetie." D: "I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you." R: "Well, the first seven, easily." D: "Seven? Really?" R: "Oh, eight for you, honey." D: "Stop it." R: "Make me." D: "Yeah, well, maybe I will." Amy: "Is this really important? Flirting? 'Cause I feel like I should be higher on the list right now."
The Silence: Let's build an unstoppable assassin and send her to kill the Doctor The Silence to Amy Pond: We do you honour, you will bring the Silence. River shows up and murders every single one of the Silence. Well, I guess they live up to their name now. Not the best plan, guys. Not the best.
I often think romance is over done or too cheesy in tv shows, Dr who included. But I will admit every time I see the "stupid-face" line and Rory's reaction, i can't help but smile
I would have agreed with you but season 7 was, in my opinion, the bag of bricks that dragged Matt's era down, I honestly hate most of season 7 and it was the first time I actually found myself begin to lower my opinion of a Doctor, usually you love a Doctor more and more as the seasons go on but with Matt's doctor (mostly due to the writing) I found myself actually laughing by the time it came for his regeneration because I was already over him. Btw, Tennant fan for life! Fight me!
@@emilyhadley9089 Season 7 was a failed experiment borne of Moffat’s frustration I think. He was basically told that the BBC weren’t going to give Doctor Who more episodes in its 50th Anniversary year (save the special itself) so he decided to use Series 7 as a tribute series for old stories and villains. So Asylum celebrates the Daleks, Nightmare celebrates the Cybermen, Power of Three is a tribute to the RTD era, Bells of St John is very Pertwee/Unit-esque etc Sadly not all of it lands. I think Moffat should have just been brave enough to continue the Silence arc into the 50th anniversary.
+findingbuglantis The who? What are you talking about? Kinda confused why they didn't have a video before telling us to subscribe... (Yes, I did this specifically because you mentioned it)
+findingbuglantis All I saw was the Doctor Amy Rory and River watching the moon landing in what looked like an alien ship. Nothing strange or suspicious here. Move along please. No questions? good! thank you.
"I think quite possibly the word you're looking for right now is ... 'OOPS - run!' Guys, I mean US! RUN!" - I was having a small chuckle to myself at the "Guys, I mean US! RUN!" part. Anyone else?
Poetic justice - they kidnapped a girl to create a murderer to kill Doctor. This girl regenerated, came with Doctor to rescue herself and killed all Silence what were here to kidnap her. Talk about poetic justice.
@@wowisntitanamazinglyamazin9550 yeah, they're all pretty fantastic and have differing great qualities. So I just boil it down to me liking how 11 is fun, and avoids the romance stuff unlike 10. And 12 is fun, but his companions were only good, not as great as Amy and Rory
A great episode, part history, part fiction, and part humor. The writing was simply excellent, the acting just great. An episode that ranks in the best of doctor who. It's episodes like this one that show why the series has been on so long.
2:50 "You've got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!" Later, in the 50'th anniversary special: "Again with the screwdrivers! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?" possible reference? I think so! Also: "What kind of doctor are you?" "Archaeology." Gotta love the references.
It's funny how the episode's plot was driving this to be the big climactic battle to defeat the Silence, but the Doctor's already set his plan into motion, the battle was over as soon as Delaware goaded that Silent into giving him the kill order. Besides rescuing Amy, Doc's just there to gloat.
This is one of those moments where I really started to realize how much I loved the Eleventh Doctor. It's scenes like this where I realized how noticeably more cunning he was than his previous two incarnations. Make no mistake, the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were well armed in the intelligence department, but I'm not sure I can see them coming up with the idea to use the Silents' own abilities against them in quite the way their successor did.
And yet, Eleven made humankind wage genocide against an entire species, whereas Nine and Ten would never even consider letting that happen. Oh, only Dalek Caan left? Ten attempts to offer help since both are the last of their species, even though Daleks were on the opposing side in the Time War. And Nine, in Parting of Ways, had the option of killing all Daleks at the cost of the humans on the planet below. Dalek Emperor: "Coward, or killer?" Nine: "Coward. Any day." Ten, in Partners in Crime, attempted to save their enemy, despite the fact that she came close to killing a million people before the Doctor stopped her.
0:42 “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” Chills
This is what makes Doctor Who on of the few TV shows nearest to perfection, awesome dialogue and extremely fitting music. And some comedy. And awesome characters like River Song. All incarnations of the Master. And so many others I can't come close to an adequate list in 5 minutes.
The day the Doctor defeated the Silence epitomizes what the Doctor is. It shows his true power, his ability to give people the tools they need to achieve greatness. This right here, this scene, this moment, it is without doubt the very best of the entire Doctor Who series. I would go even further and say this is one the best enemy defeat moments from any series or film. To this day, whenever I think about this I still get shivers down my back. And even knowing that it is entirely fictional, it still makes me feel proud.
I especially like how the doctor was just waving his screwdriver around during that shootout. I mean imagine, a regular dude in the middle of a gangster firefight threatening the mobsters with a regular screwdriver.
+MrMinecraftJedi The Husbands of River Song, Moffat's last episode. His official retirement from the series is being forced by the BBC but won't be announced until next year as they are still looking for a showrunner.
MrMinecraftJedi Even though we had some time to know about his departure many see it as a good thing, for me I am excited to see what new direction the show can go but afraid, I don't want someone to make it dumb :(
When I think of all time great Doctor Who moments, and there are TONS of them, this is the one for me that’s #1 on my list. This moment is just so blatantly BADASS and hopeful and celebrates being human and alive, instead of a lot of science fiction at the moment where we paint ourselves as a cancer on the planet. This moment right here is when I fell in love with Doctor Who for the first time.
I'm not really letting you go that easy. It's a nice thought but it's not christmas. Considering that he teamed up with them when he was in the town called "christmas". That was a weird line don't you think?
I'm not the biggest Dr Who fan - I enjoy it but I'm not super committed. That being said, the writers have pulled off some of the best twists I've ever seen in the history of sci fi. This is still one of my favourites
For those of you wandering what the doctor is doing with his sonic he is actually doing 3 things, 1. Firing sonic beams and pulses killing silents, 2. creating sonic shields (forcefields) to protect river and amy. 3. absorbing and repelling the electricity the silents are generating. You can see all of this really clearly if you just spam Pause as soon as the fighting begins, we can see almost immediately at around 2:13 if you pause it soon after a green beam kill a silent, two seconds later we see a very clear green sonic beam kill another silent. Then as amy and Rory are fleeing to the tardis if you have a keen eye you can see the doctor using his screwdriver to create sonic shields around them and protecting them from the energy we can even hear amy shout doctor briefly as lightning strikes right at them only to be blocked by the doctor‘s sonic. Around 2:33 ish and at 2:38 is when we see him save amy and Rory from the Lightning but then we see a few seconds later a silent die to his own lightning so we can see the doctor repelled their own attacks back at them. We also see the doctor shoot a beam at another silent but it looks like he missed but he might not of it’s just the angle is a bit weird. At about 2:49 we see another green beam fire from his sonic presumably killing another silent he has killed roughly 5 now. Then after he says that’s really rude, he kills another silent and then a final one as he leaves for the tardis.
We get clearer shots of how dangerous the Sonic Screwdriver is when the Doctor is fending off the Vigil in The Rings of Akhaten and, perhaps most iconically, when the 9th, 11th and 12th Doctors blast a Dalek straight through a painting in Day of the Doctor. And yes, John Hurt is the true 9th Doctor because he bloody well earned it.
That line doesn't mean Rory, it meant the Doctor. So nothing in there gives it a whole new level, because they already knew, that she's with the Doctor. I mean if she meant Rory, why would she say it loud in the first place? When you look at the scene, she was perfectly aware, that someone is at the door, she knew, who that is, so why give out such a spoiler? No, "my old fella" meant her future husband, the Doctor, they were even flirting in this episode some moments earlier. It's quite obvious and yet people still do the mistake and think that she's talking about Rory. "My old fella" isn't really the most used term to describe your parent, it's more about your spouse, than anything.
@@Croftice1 I'm certain she's talking about Rory. It's an inside joke to herself because she knows that Rory doesn't yet know he's her father. She would totally do that in front of Rory. It fits with her sense of humor. I've never heard anyone use that term to refer to a husband. It's always used to refer to father.
I just realised,the Doctor had that whole speech planned.When he was looking at the tv,he should have forgotten that the Silence were there or that he was talking to them or at least what he said while looking at them.He just started his speech and didn't stop,ignoring the Silence at all XD
So the live broadcast also showed people around the world and in the control room just as Neil Armstrong was making that step? Also, bit unfair for the non-kovarian silence who will now be shot down if they visit Earth.
To be fair the doctor didn't know this was a renegade sect till much later. And given we see humans interacting with the silence I am willing to bet he (off-screen) went back and editing the archive files to remove the kill command.
@@TheLastSane1 The Silents were genetically engineered by the Mamal Mainframe in the future to be the perfect priests, you confess your sins and as soon you look away your sins are forgotten. The Kovarian chapter broke apart and traveled back in time to chase the Doctor down. So I guess from some point in time someone removed the order to shoot them (possibly at the order of Tasha Lem), it wouldn't be nice to kill your priest during your confession, would it?
I'm waiting for someone in one of these scenes to point out "It's a sonic screwdriver and you're the Doctor, it's not a magic wand and you are NOT Harry Potter" because honestly the thing seems to function pretty much like one at times.
You know the doctor is actually helping, if you look closely at 2:45 you'll see that his sonic screwdriver is absorbing the electricity in the room before the silence can!☝️☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝
Future Predator You're going to have to be more specific than "nightmare-fuel induced episode". Other examples include: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and Blink. There are others, but I can't think of them right now
Because he had always at all times at least one Silent in his vision field. They were all over the room, so when he looked away from one, he saw another one. You don't have to see the same Silent to remember stuff, any of them will do. Amy also remembered that one on the rock at Lake Silencio, when she saw the one in the White House bathroom. The Doctor kept track of every single Silent in the room, that's why he could go on with his plan. Even when he looked at the tv, he still got the closest Silent in his line of sight. It's not needed to look directly at them, like with the perception filter, stuff in the corner of your eye is enough to notice. This is actually quite clever writing. It makes perfect sense, when you think about it.
"One giant step for mankind."
"And one great whacking kick up the backside for The Silence."
How do you get *that* quote wrong. Everybody knows that quote. "One giant *leap* for mankind".
@@kanekeylewer5704 bruh moment
"one giant whacking kick up the backside for mankind"
One giant leap for mankind
And one whacking great kick up the backside for the silence!
@@kanekeylewer5704 Maybe he is not a english speaker from born like all of you, just like me, to me, that sounds like tha quote as is know in my language, sorry, it just lost in the translations.
It's just strange to think that Doctor Who was invented before that happened.
Oh, not at all, he was invented after that happened. And before. That's how paradoxes happen.
It was also first broadcasted, literally the day after the great assassination of November 22nd.
Wait what 😂
@@colossaltitan3546 you know, that happened after that, but before.
@@brianoconnell6459 Well the Doctor rickrolled everyone 2 years before rickroll was a thing
When River says 'my old man didn't see that did he? He gets ever so cross.' And the Rory is standing there. Brain overloads.
*my old fella meaning the doctor not her father
+tom logan yeah, she didn't grow up with rory.
+Peter Senior River and Rory went to the same school....
+tom logan Excellent bit of foreshadowing.
The thing is she was most likely referring to the doctor - he was right next to her doing almost the same thing
"So... What kind of doctor are you?" he asks,
"Archaeology" she responds - before turning one of the Silence into History.
Very Indiana Jones like.
River: Love a tomb.
Me: Yeah you just made one.
@@Shadowjedi-kf7pe Later:
"I'm an archaeologist from the future, I dug you up."
I'm still vaguely upset that she's why we'll never see a live-action Bennie Summerfield, but Alec Kingston is amazing.
Do the silence rot? Because If you can't remeber killing them, there's no way you're going to dispose of the bodies. Come to think of it, the living room's been smelling a bit funny lately...
Laurence Winch-Furness lol funniest comment ever
Laurence Winch-Furness The best comment ever !
there's an odd smell in the area where I live, my dad says it comes from factories....but i don't remember seeing any nearby....
I'd be worried more about the thousands of children, elderly and disabled that have been hypnotized into attacking aliens that can shoot lightning.
XD
"You have a screwdriver, go build a cabinet"
"That's really rude"
Lol Matt Smith is my favorite.
Yassss
*Captain Jack:* "Who has a sonic screwdriver?"
*Nine:* "I DO!"
*Captain Jack:* "Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'Hoo, hoo, this could be a little more sonic'?"
*Nine:* "What? Never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?"
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Best part is that he can't because the sonic screwdriver doesn't do wood.
I really love how River doesn't remember the Silence but it because she saw the fear in her father's eyes, she shot one. this is why River is my favorite character. she is one hell of a woman!!!!
Eh, didn't feel that way about it personally.
I mean generally I don't love the whole "shoot without looking" bit. It's meant to convey that the character is just *that awesome* that they know what's coming.. But if the fight is that one-sided that they can do that, then it's not an enemy that will pose any real threat to that character, which is kind of boring.
And then in this case, I don't think the gag was really executed very well. It just feels clumsy, like she's trying too hard *not* to turn around and look, and twisting her arm around backward for the shot instead.
It's OK, River, just take a sec, turn around and shoot the guy. I won't think less of you for it!
@@tetsujin_144 She didn't know why she shot behind her though. She shot behind her because something behind her made her dad scared. She doesn't remember the firefight she just finished because of the Silence's abilities, the behind the shot scene here is actually a well done part of Moffat to show River's Character
Actually, I feel like over the course of the two episodes it's implicit that with enough exposure to the Silence, and I mean like...a *lot*, people start to remember them. That's why, for example, at the beginning of the episode they could have the wherewithal to use the tally system...because they still partially forgot but knew they had "seen" them, a little further on and it makes sense that they could remember at least some aspects, even if not everything.
Plus, for the backwards shot, the silence did growl at her. Maybe it should've lived up to it's namesake...
Of course, maybe you're thinking about the Eye-Drives that human allies of the Silence use so they won't forget them. But I think that might be justified as just a convenience factor; having a mostly intact but somewhat blurry memory of your own allies would be super inconvenient. "Wait, they told me about...ah shit, what was it again?"
@@dreamcanvas5321 You are Correct. The Doctor in the Time Of The Doctor Don't forget them Anymore, but Clara does.
@@jinga9862 What about sound? I haven't seen DW for ages now but the forget powers might only apply to when they are seen. Plus River's instinct would be she's in hostile territory with her allies, I guess family, in front of her so she's free to shoot without friendly fire.
does anyone else think that at 0:06 , when he says "I'm not really gonna let you go, nice thought but it's not christmas" this is an easter egg for the time of the doctor, when he essentially forgives the silence and moves on when he's in christmas?
You should have got replies for what you've noticed! Here!
Wow good thinking
Thats pretty clever.
No cause that all happens in the future at the end of his time in the tardis
No cause that all happens in the future at the end of his time in the tarsus
"You've given the order for your own execution. And the whole planet just heard you"
This line is so badass
It really is! 😮
Davros: “You take ordinary people and you fashion them into weapons.”
Definitely a Moffat line. Davies couldn't write stuff like this.
But why did the silence even say that in the first place? Why mention killing them on sight
I bet the Silence on the transmission regret saying those words: "You should kill us all on sight."
One of the creepiest things about 11 was that his cunning plans never seemed cunning until the very end. With 9 and 10, after a while it generally became obvious, because of their personalities, whether they were aiming for a rescue mission/peaceful ending or he had a cunning plan. Because of 11's bouncier personality, especially with the Ponds, it was harder to discern this. Whilst he didn't lie to people about random things, he was a lot happier to play the long game.
For example, take 10's episode 'The Doctor's Daughter' where 10, Martha and Donna find themselves in the middle of a seemingly pointless battle between machine-built humans and a species called the Hath. One of his quotes from that is "look up genocide in a dictionary. When you do you'll see a picture of me next to it with a caption underneath that'll read 'over my dead body!'" After Martha accidentally gets taken by a Hath, he could easily have turned the entire planet upside-down with explosions to get her back, but he doesn't. It is blatantly a rescue mission episode.
Compare this to 11's episode 'The Lodger' where he becomes housemates with a guy named Craig in order to investigate the creepy guy upstairs. We don't know what his end game is. He acts like normal bonkers 11 - having a full conversation with a cat, making a machine out of seemingly random objects - but we don't know whether his end game is to tell the creepy guy upstairs to go home, to destroy him, or anything.
EDIT: I've just thought of a better example than 'The Lodger'. 'The Girl Who Waited' in which Amy accidentally gets stuck in a containment facility that runs at a faster timestream than the one the Doctor and Rory are in. The Doctor uses science and Rory and they end up with two Amys in one timestream - normal Who Amy and Amy almost forty years older - which the Doctor says the TARDIS (to get them home) will be okay with if he gets rid of the karaoke bar. But he's lying and locks them in the TARDIS and him and Rory - young Amy now unconscious - have to listen as Old Amy is knocked out and killed. He tries to be cruel and cold, saying that if they save Amy now then the Amy outside won't exist so she'll never get trapped - it will have never happen. However, he puts Rory's hand on the TARDIS lock saying "let her in if you want" - but if he does Amy has to wait almost forty years for them to rescue her.
This almost makes Rory cry who is already traumatised listening to Old Amy outside, but he says to the Doctor "this isn't fair. You're turning me into you."
Great point actually! Both are amazing Doctors in their own ways, just a shame that Eccleston didn't even have a Christmas special...
Crash Bandicoot thank you! I agree, they're both amazing,
In fairness, it is fair. It's just not pleasant. The Doctor use like a Discworld witch, s/he does what needs doing and makes the hard choices others don't want to make. Rory wanted to live in a world where her didn't have to choose, but a choice had to be made (even if passively).
That's why the War Doctor was, in the original memory of what happened, the most Doctor of all: there was no right choice that day, no easy solution. But he did what he had to do to save the universe.
@@bobbyfeet2240 tbf the alternative would have been fighting Jabberwocks, or whatever those critters are called that show up at time paradoxes to sort them out by killing everyone in the vicinity
There are exceptions, though
For example, in Human Nature and The Family of Blood, Ten and Martha are on the run from The Family and go to extremes to try and hide from them, going so far as to replace their own identity with that of ordinary humans and the Doctor even going so far as to erase his own memory, so that even he doesn't know who he really is. The entire two episodes, we're lead to believe that he did this because he was fearful of facing them, but at the end, we find out that it was the other way around. He ran from them, not because he feared them, but because he was trying to spare them. He knew that if he faced them, he'd have no choice but to kill or imprison them and so he went to absolute extremes to try and prevent that from happening. The Family continued their chase and in so doing, unwittingly bring about their own eternal imprisonments.
That was pretty damn cunning and a very nice twist. The entire time you're lead to believe one thing, only for the Doctor to flip it upside down at the very end and you realized what he was actually trying to do.
You have a screwdriver, go build a cabinet!
+Mitchell Chew
Jack: Who has a sonic screwdriver?
Doctor: I do!
Jack: Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks, 'Ooh, this could be a little more sonic'?
Doctor: What, you've never been bored? Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?
+P.H. "They're scientific instruments not water pistols."
P.H. Completely wrong. First, he says, "Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols!" And then a bit later, when they're surrounded by soldiers, he says "Ah, the pointing again! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?" And that was 2013, not 2014.
Sorry, I'm just kind of a stickler for details. I'm a professional proofreader. And yes, this Saturday! Two days!
+Reuben Sinclair
LEARN HOW TO DRIVE!
Just realized what the doctor was doing with the screwdriver, he was dispersing the electric charge
Not just dispersing, if you pay close attention, he was also redirecting/deflecting a decent amount of the electricity right back at The Silence, giving them quite a *_shocking_* death.
@Joshua Minshull Basically yeah
@Joshua Minshull well if I'm not mistaken, that was the result of 3 sonic screwdrivers being used so the dalek got knocked back due to essentially a lot of vibrations. But if the sonic device can work on electric equipment then it must have some influence on electricity. I think what the doctor did was cause the bit of electricity of the silence to essentially blow up in its face
I wanna see more of the laser screwdriver
That actually makes a lot of sense, I was under the impression that he was firing sonic pulses at them, similar to how he, 10 and War pushed the Dalek through the painting in day of the Doctor, on a much smaller scale.
watching this made me want to cry. I really really miss Matt Smith. And the Ponds.
+Aramis OfTheMusketeers She will come back for the christmas special!!
+Aramis OfTheMusketeers They were the best in new who
I miss Matt Smith!!!! D:
I'm with you also would you care for some jelly babies? With your sadness
I miss Noble
Remember Journey's End? Quoth Davros: "But here's the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion THEM into weapons. [...] Behold your beloved children of time, turned into murderers."
Now it took The Doctor one day to fashion BILLIONS of ordinary people into weapons. Good job!
Ribozyme but it was necessary. Sure it may have been cruel to brainwash humans into genocide but the Silence were brainwashing humans and were going to take over if they weren’t stopped.
@@BayHarborButcher2 They only did it to get closer to the Doctor and prevent him from reaching Trenzalore, which they did to prevent a second Time war (well technically THE time war that we all know was the sixth according to the TARDIS wiki but close enough).
@Tin Watchman
It also doesn't take much of a push to get us there. More of a light breeze, really.
Technically, he is helping humans defend themselves.
I never thought of it that way before... Huh
This scene had me gaping till the end. It shows how ruthless and cunning the Doctor is.
Of course, it's only topped by River shooting a Silence behind her when she shouldn't even know it exists unless she sees it.
She heard a noise, a she knew they were fighting something.
That and she saw Rory's shocked expression when the Silent appeared.
Mahi Red it's reflection in his eyes DUH, he was looking right at it, and since everyone is programmed to kill them on sight
She saw the scared expression in her fathers face and knew something terrible was behind her
It does show how ruthless and cunning he is!!! Especially since he had Crowley helping him!!!
Mess with an archaeologist, and you're history.
*I'm an archaeologist from the future. I DUG YOU UP. Se you in 400 years!* ;)
I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archaeologists.
In the event of a sudden meteor shower where d'you supposed the safest place to be is?
Right here I should guess.
D'you know what that isn't?
What?
A coincidence.
See, now THAT'S what River should have said.
@@youtubingjaguar5082 What????
The fun subversive bit which nobody seems to notice happens carefully buried at 3:02. The scene's made a big point of establishing that River's gun shoots red energy bolts. The Silence produce blue lightning, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver produces flashes of green light which either- as River appears to think- are doing nothing at all while she's doing all the work, or, as some have suggested, are harmlessly disrupting the Silence's energy weapons. The Doctor doesn't seem overly bothered that River thinks this, of course. At this point, River, Rory, and Amy are all in mortal danger, and their survival pretty much depends on no Silence shooting River in the back. At 3:02 a Silent goes down with a scream... hit by a green energy bolt.
The Doctor hates violence and does not like weapons. This does not mean "will not use".
Ask the 12th Cyber Legion what happens when the Doctor gets violent.
@@damien4197 "Would you like me to repeat the question?"
and 2:58
Just look at the classic series, he used guns a fair bit
@@Boom__6678 The doctor's message should've been: Answer the man's bloody question.
River: What are you doing.
The Doctor: helping
River: you've got a screwdriver go build a cabinet.
The Doctor: That's really rude
God I love river and the 11th or just river in general she's so great hope to see more of her.
River: Shut up and drive!
Followed by a quick bum shove for emphasis :D
2:59 I like how you can see the Doctor using the Sonic to defend himself in this scene, I believe that he's doing a mixture of blocking the incoming electricity by dispersing the charge, somehow redirecting the electricity back at the Silence and possibly fire sonic pulses at them like he did to a Darlek with the other doctors in Day of the Doctor
Its the deflecting and dispersing, you can see he successfully kills a few of the slendermen by deflecting the lightning, and dispersing the charges when they drift too close to River or the ponds, though I dont think he stuns any of them
@@kritikill7779 he does 3:02.We can previously see flashes of green light coming of the sonic screwdriver.In 3:02,a silent goes down from an green energy bolt.No one else there was producing green energy.
"My old fella didn't see that, did he?"
I see what you did there ;)
You DON'T see what they did there ;)
oh my gosh I never realized that about that line until watching it right now and oh my gosh my jaw dropped to the floor! It's crazy how they tell us spoilers all along but we rarely seem to notice
Wait, wait, wait!?!? What?! I never realise that!
It shows that even a tiny detail can have a big spoiler...
Dinosaur Chicken nuggets it means the dr
Just scrolled through looking for that comment cos I noticed it this time through as well. Love the foreshadowing the writers put in for who River was.
The thing about the Matt Smith Doctor that struck me as time went on - At times he could be energetic and flight as befitting his seeming youth, but in instances like this he could be more ruthless than the 7th Doctor at his coldest.
At moments he seemed the most unhinged.
In an exciting way....
In a dark way.
He was the one who forgets so it made him unpredictable
@Winter Wren Is it genocide or self-defense by the human race? The Silents were literally alien invaders who had already used the power of hypnotic suggestion to tear apart reality. If they had been allowed to continue to push their agenda, they would have done it again. Its the same reason that the Tenth Doctor threw Rassilon back into the Time War: when someone has shown themselves to be so corrupt and so powerful that they can wipe out reality itself, it is simply self-defense to destroy them.
Besides, its not like the Silents on Earth were the last ones in existence. And he gave them ample opportubity to GTFO.
The reason why Matt Smith is the greatest Doctor is that he had EVERYTHING. He could switch from a playful child to the Oncoming Storm in the blink of an eye and make it seem like the most natural transition in the world. He could be a flirty boyfriend and a seasoned war veteran sometimes within the very same scene. He could be both the most alien Doctor and the most human Doctor at the same time. And those eyes are MUCH older than Smith's actual age, possibly because he's an atheist in real life and has felt the very existential dread of fearing that there might be nothing after death which, very fittingly, makes him perfect for the Doctor's supposed final incarnation.
Peter Capaldi could only do a dark Doctor in Season 8. By the time he lightened up in Season 9, he had already cemented himself as one of my least favourite incarnations because he doesn't have the range that Smith had, not to mention he seemed to think that sociopathy is the same as socially awkwardness. Despite being 25 years younger than his successor Smith is, to quote Tom Baker "The Doctor. The definite article, you might say."
Speaking of Tom Baker, Matt Smith is the only Doctor whom I would have loved to see matching or even surpassing his 7 year record. Unfortunately, that didn't happen but thank God Smith stayed for the 50th Anniversary because there's no way that would have been anywhere near as good if Peter Capaldi was doing it.
Aw, it didn't include the bit with The Doctor and River flirting at first. That was always my favourite part of this scene.
"Is this flirting really important?"
My favorite part of the whole season tbh ;)
+Nick Piers
The flirting is phenomenal.
Doctor: "Oh, and this is my friend, River. Nice hair, clever, has her own gun. And, unlike me, she really doesn't mind shooting people -- shouldn't like that. Kind of do. A bit."
River: "Thank you, Sweetie."
D: "I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you."
R: "Well, the first seven, easily."
D: "Seven? Really?"
R: "Oh, eight for you, honey."
D: "Stop it."
R: "Make me."
D: "Yeah, well, maybe I will."
Amy: "Is this really important? Flirting? 'Cause I feel like I should be higher on the list right now."
You can find that in easily 15 other videos
Sergeant Blayez Not really my point, but I know.
The Silence: Let's build an unstoppable assassin and send her to kill the Doctor
The Silence to Amy Pond: We do you honour, you will bring the Silence.
River shows up and murders every single one of the Silence.
Well, I guess they live up to their name now. Not the best plan, guys. Not the best.
I often think romance is over done or too cheesy in tv shows, Dr who included. But I will admit every time I see the "stupid-face" line and Rory's reaction, i can't help but smile
there is only one word to describe the whole matt smith era: Legendary!
I agree but watch out for rtd and 10 fanboys and fangirls
I would have agreed with you but season 7 was, in my opinion, the bag of bricks that dragged Matt's era down, I honestly hate most of season 7 and it was the first time I actually found myself begin to lower my opinion of a Doctor, usually you love a Doctor more and more as the seasons go on but with Matt's doctor (mostly due to the writing) I found myself actually laughing by the time it came for his regeneration because I was already over him.
Btw, Tennant fan for life! Fight me!
From Ecclesson’s era to Capaldi’s, Doctor Who was one of the best things on British telly
@@emilyhadley9089 Season 7 was a failed experiment borne of Moffat’s frustration I think.
He was basically told that the BBC weren’t going to give Doctor Who more episodes in its 50th Anniversary year (save the special itself) so he decided to use Series 7 as a tribute series for old stories and villains.
So Asylum celebrates the Daleks, Nightmare celebrates the Cybermen, Power of Three is a tribute to the RTD era, Bells of St John is very Pertwee/Unit-esque etc
Sadly not all of it lands. I think Moffat should have just been brave enough to continue the Silence arc into the 50th anniversary.
One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind (on a massive egg).
+Diego Mattos love that episode!
+Diego Mattos Lol
Hush! That episode doesn't exist!
Hush! That episode doesn't exist!
oh come on, it wasn't _that_ bad.
And Harness redeems himself with the Zygon two-parter.
Aaaaaand cue all the people in the comments pretending to forget seeing the Silence.
+findingbuglantis The who? What are you talking about? Kinda confused why they didn't have a video before telling us to subscribe...
(Yes, I did this specifically because you mentioned it)
+Arris3 " Kinda confused why they didn't have a video before telling us to subscribe..."
Ruined everything.
the what
***** I actually didn't remember 50% of this scene
+findingbuglantis All I saw was the Doctor Amy Rory and River watching the moon landing in what looked like an alien ship. Nothing strange or suspicious here. Move along please. No questions? good! thank you.
Canton Delaware : "There's no way out Dr Song"
River Song : "There's always a way out!" =))
Heyy, I saw you on the Monty Python WatchMojo video xD
+Dutchem hey I saw you on the Doctor who silence video! Oh wait...
Crowley then teleports to the Doctor and tells him where to go and teleports back quickly.
The III
"So, what kind of doctor are you?
"Archaeology. Love a tomb."
Damn, River!! Stop sassing your Dad!
"I think quite possibly the word you're looking for right now is ... 'OOPS - run!' Guys, I mean US! RUN!" - I was having a small chuckle to myself at the "Guys, I mean US! RUN!" part. Anyone else?
Mr_Earwig me
Mr_Earwig I don't know it's weird. Just like my gun is all empty and the smell of gun powder is on the air almost like I just fired it. Mmmm
It always makes me satisfied
Remember when the Doctor brainwashed humanity into committing genocide?
+anAngryHamster
Trust me, the Seventh Doctor did much worse things than that.
But they weren't painted as heroic or triumphant.
*****
Well, the Eleventh Doctor will suffer the consequences when Amy loses her baby.
No
You mean when the Silence brainwashed humanity to repel an invasion of the human's homeworld? No, no I don't.
Poetic justice - they kidnapped a girl to create a murderer to kill Doctor. This girl regenerated, came with Doctor to rescue herself and killed all Silence what were here to kidnap her. Talk about poetic justice.
+Pēteris Krišjānis a haiku:
the doctor kills things,
river song obliterates things,
and the ponds just watch.
+Peter Senior Sometimes they hide
mind blown
River literally gets revenge on her abusers, even if she doesn't realize that's what's happening. Very poetic.
I was beginning to get on the mood for Matt Smith then suddenly Peter Capaldi's face shows up telling me to subscribe...
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Capaldi was great too
Matt Smith was better, but I might be biased because he was the first one for me who got me hooked on the show
@@zachh6868 honestly I grew up with 11 but got hooked with 10. Watching 12 now and honestly he might be my favorite
@@wowisntitanamazinglyamazin9550 yeah, they're all pretty fantastic and have differing great qualities. So I just boil it down to me liking how 11 is fun, and avoids the romance stuff unlike 10. And 12 is fun, but his companions were only good, not as great as Amy and Rory
@@zachh6868 I got hooked with 9, personally. 😁 The others are great, but I guess there's nothing like your first Doctor lol
"Oh, I've killed people, sure, but then I got worse, I got clever; started tricking people into killing for me." ~Tenth Doctor, "End of Time"
why do i feel like the doctor did something awesome i can't really remember
Idk but I feel it too...
Same dude...
your telling me, I can only remember half of this episode.
it gets really annoying when you can't remember an episode.
So the Doctor, River Song, Amy, Rory and Crowley teamed up to save the world. AWSOME!!! Probably because Crowley wanted to rule the world for himself.
I keep feeling like I’m missing something. Wait what’s that sound? OH GOD ITS THE SI- what was I saying?
Matts face in the thumbnail tho
I didn't recognise him the first time !
+fesh fesh Isn't that just intriguing though? at that small of a frame he looks so unlike himself.
Ha i know right.
Will form the Inbetweeners.
A great episode, part history, part fiction, and part humor. The writing was simply excellent, the acting just great. An episode that ranks in the best of doctor who. It's episodes like this one that show why the series has been on so long.
2:50 "You've got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!"
Later, in the 50'th anniversary special: "Again with the screwdrivers! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"
possible reference? I think so!
Also: "What kind of doctor are you?"
"Archaeology."
Gotta love the references.
Came here to comment that River and War Doc made a screwdriver -> cabinet nod.
Maybe she was admiring his chest (and drawers)
1:15 That one Silent who wasn't inviting to the Christmas party.
lol so true
***** You called? XD
he want to destroy world rarw XD
The Host couldn't remember inviting him.
It's funny how the episode's plot was driving this to be the big climactic battle to defeat the Silence, but the Doctor's already set his plan into motion, the battle was over as soon as Delaware goaded that Silent into giving him the kill order. Besides rescuing Amy, Doc's just there to gloat.
This is one of those moments where I really started to realize how much I loved the Eleventh Doctor. It's scenes like this where I realized how noticeably more cunning he was than his previous two incarnations. Make no mistake, the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were well armed in the intelligence department, but I'm not sure I can see them coming up with the idea to use the Silents' own abilities against them in quite the way their successor did.
And yet, Eleven made humankind wage genocide against an entire species, whereas Nine and Ten would never even consider letting that happen. Oh, only Dalek Caan left? Ten attempts to offer help since both are the last of their species, even though Daleks were on the opposing side in the Time War. And Nine, in Parting of Ways, had the option of killing all Daleks at the cost of the humans on the planet below. Dalek Emperor: "Coward, or killer?" Nine: "Coward. Any day." Ten, in Partners in Crime, attempted to save their enemy, despite the fact that she came close to killing a million people before the Doctor stopped her.
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"You've got a screwdriver go build a cabinet!"
"That's really rude!"
0:42 “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”
Chills
This is what makes Doctor Who on of the few TV shows nearest to perfection, awesome dialogue and extremely fitting music. And some comedy. And awesome characters like River Song. All incarnations of the Master. And so many others I can't come close to an adequate list in 5 minutes.
It has its *moments.*
"I'm not really going to let you go that easily. It's not Christmas"
THAT SICK REFERENCE!!
I love how River was able to tell there was one of the Silence behind her based on Rory's reaction
River: "why do you think I am shooting at them?"
Doctor: *continues waving sonicscrewdriver around*
This is easily the most genius way to beat the silence. Everyone will always kill the silence but never remember no mass fear or anything
The day the Doctor defeated the Silence epitomizes what the Doctor is. It shows his true power, his ability to give people the tools they need to achieve greatness. This right here, this scene, this moment, it is without doubt the very best of the entire Doctor Who series. I would go even further and say this is one the best enemy defeat moments from any series or film. To this day, whenever I think about this I still get shivers down my back. And even knowing that it is entirely fictional, it still makes me feel proud.
I especially like how the doctor was just waving his screwdriver around during that shootout. I mean imagine, a regular dude in the middle of a gangster firefight threatening the mobsters with a regular screwdriver.
It was producing green bolts.lool closely
River is always so... fantastic! I'm glad she's returning this Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Sucker!!!!
Wait what?
River...? This Christmas? What... How?
+MrMinecraftJedi The Husbands of River Song, Moffat's last episode. His official retirement from the series is being forced by the BBC but won't be announced until next year as they are still looking for a showrunner.
***** Ah right
MrMinecraftJedi Even though we had some time to know about his departure many see it as a good thing, for me I am excited to see what new direction the show can go but afraid, I don't want someone to make it dumb :(
Rory must be so proud of his daughter.
"SHUT UP AND DRIVE!" then butt-chucks him toward the TARDIS.
2:05 i don’t think the chibnall era has even come close to this level of hype, the balance of humour and badassery is so good
This, the Doctor's speech at Stonehenge, and the scene where the Dalek screeches for mercy seem to be my favourite scenes to watch over and over.
River song the greatest Master of the 360° no scope
The silent actually had _three_ quizzical reaction shots. Or to rephrase:
"What?"
"WHAT?!"
"what."
kinda wondering why this entire video contained a little bit of the doctor, and a bit of the moon landing. any ideas?
I'm not sure, but I have tick marks on my arm like I've been keeping count of something.
"You've got a screwdriver - go build a cabinet!" that was just amazing
When I think of all time great Doctor Who moments, and there are TONS of them, this is the one for me that’s #1 on my list.
This moment is just so blatantly BADASS and hopeful and celebrates being human and alive, instead of a lot of science fiction at the moment where we paint ourselves as a cancer on the planet.
This moment right here is when I fell in love with Doctor Who for the first time.
I'm not really letting you go that easy. It's a nice thought but it's not christmas.
Considering that he teamed up with them when he was in the town called "christmas". That was a weird line don't you think?
This is my favourite Matt Smith scene. I've been waiting 4 years for you to upload this! :D
It's overdue yes
What did you see besides the Doctor talking to himself?
I'm not the biggest Dr Who fan - I enjoy it but I'm not super committed.
That being said, the writers have pulled off some of the best twists I've ever seen in the history of sci fi.
This is still one of my favourites
3:34
River: "Archeology" *Casually shoots silence behind her*
"You've got a screwdriver, go build a cabinet!" Savage
I love how awesome the doctor is in the scen....
Wait what was i saying
I dont remember
I really miss Matt Smith as the doctor...this is one of my favorite scenes!!! Thank you so much!!💙
“You’ve got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!”
“AND ANOTHER KICK IN THE BACKSIDE FOR THE SILENCE!”
YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!
And one whacking great kick up that backside of the silence
Matt, my dear Matt. I miss you. You were and always will be my first Doctor. :D:D
YOU SKIPPED NINE AND TEN!?
He was my first too
For those of you wandering what the doctor is doing with his sonic he is actually doing 3 things,
1. Firing sonic beams and pulses killing silents,
2. creating sonic shields (forcefields) to protect river and amy.
3. absorbing and repelling the electricity the silents are generating.
You can see all of this really clearly if you just spam Pause as soon as the fighting begins, we can see almost immediately at around 2:13 if you pause it soon after a green beam kill a silent, two seconds later we see a very clear green sonic beam kill another silent. Then as amy and Rory are fleeing to the tardis if you have a keen eye you can see the doctor using his screwdriver to create sonic shields around them and protecting them from the energy we can even hear amy shout doctor briefly as lightning strikes right at them only to be blocked by the doctor‘s sonic. Around 2:33 ish and at 2:38 is when we see him save amy and Rory from the Lightning but then we see a few seconds later a silent die to his own lightning so we can see the doctor repelled their own attacks back at them.
We also see the doctor shoot a beam at another silent but it looks like he missed but he might not of it’s just the angle is a bit weird. At about 2:49 we see another green beam fire from his sonic presumably killing another silent he has killed roughly 5 now. Then after he says that’s really rude, he kills another silent and then a final one as he leaves for the tardis.
We get clearer shots of how dangerous the Sonic Screwdriver is when the Doctor is fending off the Vigil in The Rings of Akhaten and, perhaps most iconically, when the 9th, 11th and 12th Doctors blast a Dalek straight through a painting in Day of the Doctor. And yes, John Hurt is the true 9th Doctor because he bloody well earned it.
@@tomnorton4277 I don’t recall what he did in the rings of Akhaten care to elaborate?
@@dingbat19 "Stay back. I'm armed... with a screwdriver!"
He uses it as a weapon to fend off the Vigil whilst he and Clara are trying to save Merry.
Coolest use of the sonic screwdriver ever
“My old fella didn’t see that did he?”
That line takes on a whole new level and is funnier when you know enough of River’s history 😂
RApollos I just realized that!😂😂
That line doesn't mean Rory, it meant the Doctor. So nothing in there gives it a whole new level, because they already knew, that she's with the Doctor.
I mean if she meant Rory, why would she say it loud in the first place? When you look at the scene, she was perfectly aware, that someone is at the door, she knew, who that is, so why give out such a spoiler? No, "my old fella" meant her future husband, the Doctor, they were even flirting in this episode some moments earlier. It's quite obvious and yet people still do the mistake and think that she's talking about Rory.
"My old fella" isn't really the most used term to describe your parent, it's more about your spouse, than anything.
@@Croftice1 I'm certain she's talking about Rory. It's an inside joke to herself because she knows that Rory doesn't yet know he's her father. She would totally do that in front of Rory. It fits with her sense of humor. I've never heard anyone use that term to refer to a husband. It's always used to refer to father.
I just realised,the Doctor had that whole speech planned.When he was looking at the tv,he should have forgotten that the Silence were there or that he was talking to them or at least what he said while looking at them.He just started his speech and didn't stop,ignoring the Silence at all XD
So the live broadcast also showed people around the world and in the control room just as Neil Armstrong was making that step? Also, bit unfair for the non-kovarian silence who will now be shot down if they visit Earth.
To be fair the doctor didn't know this was a renegade sect till much later. And given we see humans interacting with the silence I am willing to bet he (off-screen) went back and editing the archive files to remove the kill command.
@@TheLastSane1 The Silents were genetically engineered by the Mamal Mainframe in the future to be the perfect priests, you confess your sins and as soon you look away your sins are forgotten. The Kovarian chapter broke apart and traveled back in time to chase the Doctor down. So I guess from some point in time someone removed the order to shoot them (possibly at the order of Tasha Lem), it wouldn't be nice to kill your priest during your confession, would it?
Gotta love it when she says "Hope my old fella didn't see this" and Rory's standing right behind her in the Tardis xD
How did river know to shoot the silence behind her if you can't remember them the minute you turn away
The scene would have lost a lot of suspense if the characters forgot every time they turned around. It would be pretty funny though.
She heard it growl😋
i heard it was because she saw rory get scared
There were dead bodies of the Silents in front of her and then she heard it growl and so shot it.
+Mental Matt There were Silents behind the TARDIS. They were all around.
"You've got a screwdriver, go build a cabinet" 2:55 LOL, adding this to the list of reasons to love River Song
“One giant leap for mankind… And one whacking great kick up the backside to the Silence! You just raised an army against yourselves!”
I'm waiting for someone in one of these scenes to point out "It's a sonic screwdriver and you're the Doctor, it's not a magic wand and you are NOT Harry Potter" because honestly the thing seems to function pretty much like one at times.
1:49 Why is there a random Silent just chilling in a bar like he's waiting for a pint?
You know the doctor is actually helping, if you look closely at 2:45 you'll see that his sonic screwdriver is absorbing the electricity in the room before the silence can!☝️☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝
at 2:59 he shoots something with the screwdriver
The best part of it is, this is how you teach your species about this kind of concept.
We would never truly know we were doing it.
I thought this was one of the cleverest resolutions in the whole series. Just brilliant.
These were the golden days of Doctor Who
3:43 Don't tell me what to do Capaldi
"I'm not gonna really let you go that easily. Nice thought, but it's not Christmas."
For some reason, that was so funny to me.
At 2:55 after river says shut up and drive, the shoots a green laser out of the screwdriver and knocks down one of the silence so he was helping lol
The Doctor: "Run!"
Meanwhile, River can hear the Doom soundtrack
"Nice thought, but it's not Christmas."
...love it.
2:24 - the only time that Rory way really mad at Amy. the audacity of her to ask him to leave her behind.
Matt had the amazing music
I genuently could not understand the "you should kill us all on sight" line, so I'm glad the official RUclips upload had captions
When River said "Archaeology" I felt that.
3:34
Amy: "What's he got?"
Rory: "*Something*, I hope."
All these people going "omg it's Crowley" and I'm just thinking "No, it's Benedict Fonda, doing a task for Warehouse 2"
*Valda
*Badger ;)
Romo Lampkin.
Day of the moon.
You mean the day of the nightmare fuel induced episode.
Future Predator You're going to have to be more specific than "nightmare-fuel induced episode". Other examples include: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and Blink. There are others, but I can't think of them right now
My personal head-canon is that if you translate the silence at 1:17 it would be saying something like ‘dammit Phil, I told you not to say that”
DARN YOU PHIL
"Shut up and build a cabinet!"
"What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"
Did anyone else notice the Doctor can look away from the Silence and continue talking to them without forgetting?
Because he had always at all times at least one Silent in his vision field. They were all over the room, so when he looked away from one, he saw another one. You don't have to see the same Silent to remember stuff, any of them will do. Amy also remembered that one on the rock at Lake Silencio, when she saw the one in the White House bathroom. The Doctor kept track of every single Silent in the room, that's why he could go on with his plan. Even when he looked at the tv, he still got the closest Silent in his line of sight. It's not needed to look directly at them, like with the perception filter, stuff in the corner of your eye is enough to notice. This is actually quite clever writing. It makes perfect sense, when you think about it.