Doctor Who episodes, R. T. Davies period (2005-2010) survivor - Phase I Round 16

[shua]

The End of the World

[Californian Tony]

Anyone to break the tie ? Patrick ? Afleitch ? Deadman ?

[dead0man]

The Lazarus Experiment

[Californian Tony]

The Lazarus Experiment : 3
The End of the World : 2
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday : 1
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End : 1
Boom Town : 1

Eliminated :
Series 3 - Episode 6



Aired 5 May 2007

   

   

The Doctor: Lovely to meet you, Mrs Jones. Heard a lot about you.
Mrs. Jones: Have you? What have you heard, then?
The Doctor: Oh, you know, that you’re Martha’s mother and…um… No, actually, that’s…that’s about it. We haven’t had much time to chat, you know, been busy.
Mrs. Jones: Busy? Doing what, exactly?
The Doctor: Oh…you know…stuff.

Lazarus: “Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act--”
The Doctor: “Falls the shadow”.
Lazarus: So the mysterious Doctor knows his Eliot. I’m impressed.
[...]
The Doctor: I wouldn’t have thought you had time for poetry, Lazarus, what with you being busy defying the laws of nature and all.
Lazarus: You’re right, Doctor. One lifetime’s been too short for me to do everything I’d like. How much more would I get done in two or three or four?
The Doctor: Doesn’t work like that. Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that mattes; it’s the person.
Lazarus: But if it’s the right person, what a gift that would be.
The Doctor: Or what a curse. Look at what you’ve done to yourself.
Lazarus: Who are you to judge me?

The Doctor: What’s the point if you can’t control it? The mutation’s too strong. Killing those people won’t help you. You’re a fool, a vain old man who thought he could defy Nature. Only Nature got her own back, didn’t she? You’re a joke, Lazarus! A footnote in the history of failure!

Lazarus: I came here before. A lifetime ago. I thought I was going to die then. In fact, I was sure of it. I sat there, just a child…the sound of planes and bombs outside.
The Doctor: The Blitz.
Lazarus: You’ve read about it.
The Doctor: I was there.
Lazarus: You’re too young.
The Doctor: So are you.
Lazarus: In the morning, the fires had died, and I was still alive. I swore I’d never face death like that again. So defenceless. I would arm myself, fight back, defeat it.
The Doctor: That’s what you were trying to do today.
Lazarus: That’s what I did today.
The Doctor: What about the other people who died?
Lazarus: They were nothing. I changed the course of history.
The Doctor: Any of them might have done, too. You think history’s only made with equations? Facing death is part of being human. You can’t change that.
Lazarus: No, Doctor. Avoiding death. That’s being human. It’s our strongest impulse, to cling to life with every fibre of being. I’m doing what everyone before me has tried to do. I’ve simply been more…successful.
The Doctor: Look at yourself! You’re mutating! You’ve no control over it! You call that a success?
Lazarus: I call it progress. I’m more now that I was. More than just an ordinary human.
The Doctor: There’s no such thing as an ordinary human.
[...]
Lazarus: You’re so sentimental, Doctor. Maybe you are older than you look.
The Doctor: I’m old enough to know that a longer life isn’t always a better one. In the end, you just get tired. Tired of the struggle. Tired of losing everyone that matters to you. Tried of watching everything turn to dust. If you live long enough, Lazarus, the only certainty left is that you end up alone.
Lazarus: That’s a price worth paying.
The Doctor: Is it?

The Doctor: So, what d’you say, one more trip?
Martha: No. Sorry.
The Doctor: What do you mean? I thought you liked it.
Martha: I do, but I can’t go on like this. “One more trip.” It’s not fair.
The Doctor: What’re you talking about?
Martha: I don’t want to be just a passenger anymore. Someone you take along for a treat. If that’s how you still see me, well, I’d rather stay here.
[...]
The Doctor: Okay.
Martha: Oh, thank you! Thank you!
The Doctor: Well, you were never really just a passenger, were you?

Round 10 begins.

[patrick1]

The End of the World

[dead0man]

Voyage of the Damned

[Californian Tony]

The End of the World


Patrick, why the hell didn't you chime in a couple hours earlier ?

[London Man]

I liked "The End of the World".

I'll go for Boom Town - again. Waste of 45 minutes that was.

[Californian Tony]

I'll go for Boom Town - again. Waste of 45 minutes that was.

It wasn't a great episode, but the first part (the Doctor and his little team utterly curb-stomping poor Margaret) was absolutely hilarious all along. The ending was dull, though.

[Speaker Dereich]

The End of the World. Cassandra was a weird villain.

[Californian Tony]

The End of the World. Cassandra was a weird villain.

Yeah, I guess "weird" is the correct term...

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

     I'll go with Boom Town.

[Californian Tony]

Guess I'm going to close this round with only 6 votes... What has happened, did people get bored already ?

[Californian Tony]

The End of the World : 3
Boom Town : 2
Voyage of the Damned : 1

Eliminated :
Series 1 - Episode 2



Aired 2 April 2005

   

   

The Doctor: You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying. Like you're going to get killed by eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Maybe you survive. This is the year 5.5/apple/26. Five billion years in your future. This is the day... hold on... This is the day the sun expands. Welcome to the end of the world.

Rose: They're just, so alien. The aliens. Are so alien. You look at 'em... and they're alien.
The Doctor: Good thing I didn't take you to the Deep South.

Rose: Who are you then, Doctor? What are you called? What sort of alien are you?
The Doctor: I'm just The Doctor.
Rose: From what planet?
The Doctor: Well, it's not as if you'll know where it is!
Rose: Where are you from?!
The Doctor: What does it matter?
Rose: Tell me who you are!
The Doctor: This is who I am, right here, right now, alright? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!
Rose: Yeah, and I'm here too because you brought me here, so just tell me!

The Doctor: Tell you what... With a little bit of jiggery pokery...
Rose: Is that a technical term, 'jiggery pokery'?
The Doctor: Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you?
Rose: Nah, failed hullabaloo.

The Doctor: Unsinkable?
Jabe: If you like. The nautical metaphor is appropriate.
The Doctor: You're telling me. I was on board another ship once. They said that was unsinkable... I ended up clinging to an iceberg, it wasn't half cold. So, what you're saying is, if we get in trouble there's no one to help us out?
Jabe: I'm afraid not.
The Doctor: Fantastic.

Rose: I was born on that planet. And so was my mum, and so was my dad and that makes me officially the last human being in this room, 'cause you're not human. You've had it all nipped and tucked and flattened till there's nothing left. Anything human got chucked in the bin. You're just skin, Cassandra. Lipstick and skin. Nice talking.

Jabe: And what about your ancestry, Doctor? Perhaps you could tell a story or two... perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left... I scanned you earlier. The metal machine had trouble identifying your species - refused to admit your existence. And even when it named you, I wouldn't believe it. But it was right. I know where you're from. Forgive me for intruding, but it's remarkable that you even exist. I just want to say... how sorry I am.

The Doctor: You think it'll last forever. People, and cars and concrete. But it won't. One day, it's all gone. Even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust. Before it's time.
Rose: What happened?
The Doctor: There was a war. And we lost.
Rose: A war with who? What about your people?
The Doctor: I'm a Time Lord. I'm the last of the Time Lords. They're all gone. I'm the only survivor. I'm left travelling on my own because there's no one else.

Round 11 begins.

[Platypus]

Planet of the Ood

[patrick1]

Partners in Crime.

[Californian Tony]

Since it seems the focus has shifted to season 4, I'll go with The Unicorn and the Wasp. The idea of an episode with Agatha Christie was awesome, but it was wasted by a pretty dull plot.

[Fmr. Emperor PiT]

     There were some season four episodes that I want to boot, but those aren't them. I'll say The Unicorn and the Wasp.

[shua]

Partners in Crime

[dead0man]

The Unicorn and the Wasp

[London Man]

I'll go for Planet of the Ood.

[bore]

Partners in crime

[Speaker Dereich]

Even if the idea of little blobs of fat being the villian is odd, Partners in Crime should survive just because of the 5 minutes around when Donna and the Doctor meet up again. If I have to let a Donna episode die, it should be The Unicorn and the Wasp.

[Californian Tony]

The Unicorn and the Wasp : 4
Partners in Crime : 3
Planet of the Ood : 2

Eliminated :
Series 4 - Episode 7



Aired 17 May 2008

   

   

The Doctor: Agatha Christie! I was just talking about you the other day. I said, “I bet she’s brilliant”. I’m the Doctor and this is Donna. Oh, I love your stuff! What a mind! You fool me every time. Well…almost every time. Well…once or twice. Well…once. But it was a good once.

Donna: There’s a murder, a mystery and Agatha Christie.
The Doctor: So? Happens to me all the time.
Donna: No, but isn’t that a bit weird? Agatha Christie didn’t walk around surrounded by murders. Not really. That’s like meeting Charles Dickens and he’s surrounded by ghosts. At Christmas.
The Doctor: Well...
Donna: Oh come on. It’s not like we could drive across country and find Enid Blyton having tea with Noddy. Could we? Noddy’s not real, is he? Tell me there’s no Noddy.
The Doctor: There’s no Noddy.

Donna: Come on, Agatha. What would Miss Marple do? She’d’ve overheard something vital by now because the murderer thinks she’s just a harmless old lady.
Agatha Christie: Clever idea. Miss Marple—who writes those?
Donna: Um, copyright: Donna Noble. Add it to the list.
The Doctor: Donna.
Donna: OK, we could split the copyright.

Agatha Chrisie: Bitter almonds—it’s cyanide. Sparkling cyanide!
The Doctor: Ginger beer.
Davenport: I beg your pardon?
The Doctor: I need ginger beer.
Mrs. Hart: The gentleman’s gone mad!
Agatha Chrisie: I’m an expert in poisons, Doctor. It’s fatal! There’s no cure!
The Doctor: Not for me! I can stimulate the inhibited enzymes into reversal. Protein! I need protein!
Donna: Walnuts!
The Doctor: Brilliant! [he swallows it, then tries to ask for something else while unable to talk]
Donna: I can’'t understand you! How many words? One. One word. Shake? Milk? Shake? Milk? Milk! No, not milk. U, shake, shake, shake—cocktail shaker! What do you want, a Harvey Wallbanger?
The Doctor: Harvey Wallbanger?!
Donna: Well, I don’t know!
The Doctor: How is Harvey Wallbanger one word?
Agatha Christie: What do you need, Doctor?
The Doctor: SALT! I was miming salt! Salt! I need something salty!
Donna: What about this?
The Doctor: What is it?
Donna: It’s salt.
The Doctor: That’s too salty!
Donna: Oh, that’s too salty.
Agatha Christie: What about this?
The Doctor: Hmm. [starts swallowing]
Donna: What’s that?
Agatha Christie: Anchovies.
[the Doctor gestures again]
Donna: What is it? What else? It’s a song. “Mammy”. I don’t know, “Camptown Races”?
The Doctor: “Camptown Races”?!
Donna: Well, all right then. “Towering Inferno”.
The Doctor: It’s a shock! Look! Shock! I need a shock!
Donna: All right, then, big shock coming up. [she kisses him]
The Doctor: Ah! Detox. I must do that more often. I mean the-the detox.

The Doctor: Oh, no, no, no, no, ‘cause plenty of people write detective stories, but yours are the best. And why? Why are you so good, Agatha Christie? Because you understand. You’ve lived…you’ve fought…you’ve had your heart broken. You know about people—their passions, their hope and despair and anger, all of those. Tiny huge things can turn the most ordinary person into a killer. Just think, Agatha. If anyone can solve this, it’s you.

Round 12 begins. This is an immunity round : you must vote for an episode you want to protect from elimination during the rest of phase I.

[Speaker Dereich]

Journey's End