Honestly, you could fill half of this list or more with Twelve's speeches. Peter Capaldi could say more in a glance than most actors can in a monologue, so when he had a chance to give a full speech, it always sets the hair on the back of your neck on end.
Or the "man who never would speech" from The Doctor's Daughter. I'm honestly shocked that none of Tennant's speeches made it on this list. I loved Ecclestone's "who I am" speech, but I don't think it comes close to Tennant's speeches, ("man who never would", "I believe in her", "last of the time lords")
Thank you so much for putting the 12th Doctor's speech from The Doctor Falls at number 1. It's beautiful, elegant, heartfelt, and heartbreaking all at the same time. Peter was such an immense presence as the Doctor, and I still miss his interpretation of the role today.
I love that episode, but it's so heart-wrenching that I hardly ever watch it again when it come on. Between Bill's fate and that speech by the Doctor, that episode is burned into my mind.
Peter Capaldi’s interpretation of The Doctor took the amazing work of his most beloved predecessors to an entirely new level. His passion in his role is unparalleled.
I've always been 100% convinced that Matt was speaking, not only as the Doctor, but for himself as well, when saying, "I'll always remember when the doctor was me." There was a part of him that didn't want to leave at that point, but knew it was the right time, and being able to say as an actor, in character, how much they appreciated playing the role must have been a gift from some acting God.
I agree and I've always felt the same about David Tennant's Doctor when he said "I don't want to go..." I think that was David Tennant speaking as much as the Doctor.
Capaldi's speeches invariably reduced me to tears. Not saying the others were "worse" in any way - others could and did do the same. But he managed to do it to some degree with nearly every speech he made. What a guy!
I absolutely adore Matt's regeneration speech and have used the "we're all different people throughout our lives," bit to calm two different friends nerves at certain points in their lives. Also, Capaldi's War speech always gives me goosebumps!
"I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m nine hundred and three years old. And I’m the man that’s going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"- The Tenth Doctor 😊😊
There are so many amazing speeches! One of my favourites is when the 11th doctor monologues in the Long Song episode The Rings of Akhaten. So powerful!
The Ninth Doctor did some of my favorite things, the best being that time his recording in his finale turned and looked Rose dead in the eyes and tells her his last well wishes. How does he always do it??? And it was during a speech, so there you go. P.S. Don't discount how well you delivered those speeches. Whether it means someting or nothing at all, I was convinced. Practice, practice, practice.
How does he do it? Well, we know know with Jodie's Leaving special that the Holographic System in the Tardis is reactive to it's viewers and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a bit of the Tardis' sentience was also in play as well....
Each Dr has a defining speech, for Matt it wasnt Stonehenge but on the roof of a hospital, by the man who stops the monster speech, gave Capaldi full range on his Dr but also the very meaning of the Dr and their purpose
Nah, I think Matt's best speech is Pandorica. People dismiss it, becuase it was a trap set by his enemies, but they fail to see, that the whole reason for the trap was the FEAR of the Doctor. They even feared to kill him, so instead devised a plan to trap him. That makes his speech so powerful. Yes, the Akhaten speech is nice too, but Pandorica is on another level.
Actually one of Matt's speeches that I like the most is when he first becomes the doctor in the girl who waited episode, and he's talking to the prisoner guards and prisoners 001
@@VonOutlaw That's The Eleventh hour episode, not The girl who waited, that was with older Amy in the different time stream. But yea, "Basically run" is also a good speech. I still think Pandorica is hard to top from the Matt Smith era and the Zygon Anti-war speech one of the best overall.
@@Croftice1 you're so right about the episode name I don't know why I thought it was the girl who waited and not the other ones our but you are so right thank you for pointing it out to me
David Tennant's speech in waters of Mars is beautiful especially THE LAWS OF TIME OF MINE MINE AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!!! I get chills every time I hear it
Tom Baker's speech in Genesis of the Daleks is a defining moment for the character, even if we didn't know it at the time. It was a defining moment in the Time War and his decision has ramifications for the future and he may have even ironically committed the spark that started the Time War.
I'm glad this list covered the great ones in classic who. Most lists I see seem to posit there aren't many great speeches in classic compared to modern, but I think they are just understated but still brilliant.
Honestly, I feel that Smith’s “Life is a Pile of Good Things and Bad Things” speech from Vincent and the Doctor should have been up there. It’s such a truly heartfelt speech that spoke to me and my especially my partner. We’ve known people who committed suicide, and the speech can help those who are dealing with guilt of not being able to help enough or thinking about what you could have done to stop it. “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
One of my favorite speeches was at the end of the Rings of Akahten when fighting the giant planet thing definitely one of my favorite Mat Smith performances.
This is by far my favorite WhoCulture video and a great reminder of why I love the Doctor so much, and Ellie you did a great job of delivering those speeches!
Who I am, is where I stand Where I stand, is where I fall It doesn't get deeper than this. This is the strongest statement on character I've ever heard in my 56 years.
My favourite speech of all time is the diamond mountain speech from heaven sent: There's a his emperor, and he asks the shepherd's boy how many seconds in eternity. And the shepherd's boy says, 'There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed! You may think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird!’
The "Not on my watch" speech, gave me the chills even when Ellie is requoting it, by remembering Capaldi's speech and the scene, so good... xD And amazing requoting by Ellie, maybe she should be The Doctor in the future.
I'm very partial to the one at the end of Battlefield myself, and honestly I think it's just never really cited as a strong speech because of how short it is. However, it is about a powerful subject (nuclear annihilation), and it ends with, in my opinion, one of the most powerful lines in the entire franchise: "This isn't an war between armies, or a war between nations - Just death, death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders -- no more tears, only ashes!! Is this honor?! Is this war?! Are these the weapons we would use?!"
That 7th Doc vs Morgaine speech was chopped down for the final edit, hence it's slightly shorter than average. It's a nice speech, but it only works because of Morgaine's sense of honor, so it might seem a bit flat to people who have no idea of what her character is like.
I think David Tennant's speech, in the Doctors daughter episode. Where he says he's the man that never would, and to build this society of human, and Hath on the foundation of a man who never would. Definitely deserved a mention, as one of the greatest Doctor who speeches by the Doctor. But I guess there was only so much time, in the video, you couldn't possibly mention every fantastic speech, by our time traveling hero. Greatest video anyway, well done Ellie. I look forward to the next video, until then Allons-y!!!! 💙
My two favourites: "You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alters their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - 4th Doctor "The Face of Evil" (1977) "Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they've crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts, and now here they are amongst the stars, waiting to begin a new life, ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable!" -4th Doctor "The Ark in Space" (1975) Both a bit short to be called a speech, I know, but both had an indelible affect on me, as a child, and delivered with such passion and conviction by my Doctor and my childhood hero.
It's sad you can't show the speaches in the video, you did a wonderful job conveying them. Also videos like these keep making me go back and watching it all again. Is there a limit to how many times I can do it? Never
Excellent list! One note though, the episode containing Colin Baker's speech was written by Pip and Jane Baker as Robert Holmes had passed away before the series writing could be completed. Only the first story in the season is written by him.
Peter Capaldi and Tom Baker are my favorite Doctors simply from their mannerisms and care for others. And so far, when it comes to Big Finish, Colin Baker is my absolute favorite
This is a Scale Model of War should certainly have been #1. An angry Scot shouting at people for 12 minutes & making perfect sense. For me is one of the best parts of NuWho.
100% agree with the number 1 pick. I desperately wish we had more seasons of Capaldi’s Doctor. Not with Chibnall, and perhaps not with Moffat, but more of Capaldi’s Doctor… and then Moffat could have come back to write this speech. 😜
I was preparing myself to say how much I agreed with this list - except that I'd have put "The Doctor Falls" speech as Number One... and then it actually WAS! Can't fault that in any way.
A bit of trivia about the Seventh Doctor's sugar speech: the man who served him the tea is the same actor who played Geoffrey the butler in _The Fresh Prince of Bel Air._
A couple of favourites: I know. I know. I said it would take the force of a total solar system to attract the power away from my ship. We're at the very beginning, the new start of a solar system. Outside, the atoms are rushing towards each other. Fusing, coagulating, until minute little collections of matter are created. And so the process goes on, and on until dust is formed. Dust then becomes solid entity. A new birth, of a sun and its planets. - First Doctor, Edge of Destruction The 'Daisiest Daisy' speech - Third Doctor, Time Monster The 'Take My Life' speech - Seventh Doctor, Happiness Patrol Also, the Sixth Doctor’s big speech from Jubilee on Big Finish. A series with so many great speeches.
My absolute favorite will always be 11’s regeneration speech. It always gets me especially since he was my first. But the doctor falls speech deserves its spot
When you mentioned "the web of time" when you were talking about the McCoy one, I couldn't help thinking that time, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, is more like a big ball of timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly... stuff.
You didn't do the run speech, yes I can't remember it so much but it made so much of a impact that when I look at a new Doctor I have to say can they run.
I would have switched #1and #3 but they were powerful in different ways as you point out. Honorable mentions: Ninth's encounter with the 'last' dalek First doctor's encounter with the cyber men River's "you can't expect a sunset to love you back"
Ok here are some I wished got an honorable Mention: Ninth: -speech about being a coward rather than a killer - speech about doesn't that scare you to death Tenth: -The man who never would -Satan Pit - I am the doctor - the last of the time lords/Gallifrey -So much more Eleventh: -Pandorica speech -Rings to akhaten -The clock ticks twelfe -Eleventh hour Twelve: -the man who stops the monsters - be kind in twice upon a time
There’s a couple of great ones from the tenth doctor. The obvious one being from blink, and the other being that said to the vashta nerada in the library
I really liked the speech capaldi gave in when he went to the last great frost fair and he was trying to convince the capitalist dude to not feed everyone to a real big fish
That Remembrance speech was good, but it just didn’t have the impact or hope of the shows final words on broadcast television for seven years, “There are worlds out there where the sky is burning. And the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger. Somewhere there’s injustice. And somewhere else, the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace - we’ve got work to do!”
This is a great list I think it’s just missing 1 speech in my humble opinion. Matt Smith speech at the end of his first episode when he steeped through David Tennents face and says Ello, I’m the doctor
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - from The Face of Evil. "Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Remember: Hate is always foolish… and love is always wise." - from Twice Upon a Time. "Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species! It's only been a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable... indomitable." - from The Ark in Space. "Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life." - from The Parting of Ways. "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who is going to save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?" - from Voyage of the Dammed. "I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. But if I believe in one thing… just one thing… I believe in her!" - from The Satan Pit. "I think you just don't care! I don't know if you are here to invade, infiltrate, or just replace us-I don't suppose it really matters now. You are monsters! That is the role it seems you are determined to play, so it seems I must play mine! The man that stops the monsters! I'm sending you back to your own dimension. Who knows? Some of you may even survive the trip." - from Flatline. "You're not the first to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them? Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically… run." - from The Eleventh Hour.
Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone... 'Cos guess who?! Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? Because I am talking! The question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer... I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me, no plan, no back up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else, I don't have, anything... to... lose! So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you. And then, AND THEN, do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.
It always confounds me how similarly the 10th and 11th Doctors move. I know that they are literally one regeneration apart, but it still confuses me, they act quite differently, but they move like twins. Might just be a benefit to having a different actor for every Doctor.
Pertwee had a Buddhist producer? Ah that explains Planet of the Spiders, not only a Buddhist priest (well a time lord who came to Earth and had spent several regenerations in a Buddhist Monastery in Tibet), but Buddhist concepts & ideas were sprinkled through out Jon Pertwee's final story.
I think everyone has their favorite speech from the Doctor, I am surprised and disappointed at the same time because you had my favorite speech on the list, but had it at number 10. The Trial of the Time Lord is so relevant even today.
okay but can we applaud ellie for the amazing requoting of some of the most heart wretching scenes and make it sound great??
simp much? You're not wrong though
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You can tell how amazing Peter Capaldi is because there’s no music during each one of them. Truly the best actor to play The Doctor (in my opinion).
And in mine. The man lived a dream he'd been wanting to live since he was a small boy. How many of us can say we've had that chance?
I fully agree
He knocked my previous favorite out of the top spot all at once in his first episode.
Capaldi was the best Doctor ever and i have seen a lot of Doctors
Capaldi could read the phone book and it would be epic
Matt Smith's speech in "The Rings of Akhaten' (where he yells at a sun) deserved an honourable mention.
It deserved to be in the list.
It lost points for not working...
@@samuelharmssambamsjm269 True. 😂
Deserves to be number 1!
Honestly, you could fill half of this list or more with Twelve's speeches. Peter Capaldi could say more in a glance than most actors can in a monologue, so when he had a chance to give a full speech, it always sets the hair on the back of your neck on end.
David Tennant’s 10th Doctor delivering his speech against the Devil is truly incredible acting
Or the "man who never would speech" from The Doctor's Daughter. I'm honestly shocked that none of Tennant's speeches made it on this list. I loved Ecclestone's "who I am" speech, but I don't think it comes close to Tennant's speeches, ("man who never would", "I believe in her", "last of the time lords")
Thank you so much for putting the 12th Doctor's speech from The Doctor Falls at number 1. It's beautiful, elegant, heartfelt, and heartbreaking all at the same time. Peter was such an immense presence as the Doctor, and I still miss his interpretation of the role today.
I love that episode, but it's so heart-wrenching that I hardly ever watch it again when it come on. Between Bill's fate and that speech by the Doctor, that episode is burned into my mind.
Peter Capaldi’s interpretation of The Doctor took the amazing work of his most beloved predecessors to an entirely new level. His passion in his role is unparalleled.
I've always been 100% convinced that Matt was speaking, not only as the Doctor, but for himself as well, when saying, "I'll always remember when the doctor was me." There was a part of him that didn't want to leave at that point, but knew it was the right time, and being able to say as an actor, in character, how much they appreciated playing the role must have been a gift from some acting God.
I agree and I've always felt the same about David Tennant's Doctor when he said "I don't want to go..." I think that was David Tennant speaking as much as the Doctor.
@@burf90 Yes but, as we've been told, he always says that. :D
@@gestaltdude Have you watched the script-reading for that scene? Look it up if you haven't. Matt breaks down in tears and Moffat gives him a hug.
Capaldi's speeches invariably reduced me to tears. Not saying the others were "worse" in any way - others could and did do the same. But he managed to do it to some degree with nearly every speech he made. What a guy!
I absolutely adore Matt's regeneration speech and have used the "we're all different people throughout our lives," bit to calm two different friends nerves at certain points in their lives. Also, Capaldi's War speech always gives me goosebumps!
"I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m nine hundred and three years old. And I’m the man that’s going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"- The Tenth Doctor 😊😊
There are so many amazing speeches! One of my favourites is when the 11th doctor monologues in the Long Song episode The Rings of Akhaten. So powerful!
Capaldi's Doctor Falls speech are words I try to live by. Especially the "and above all it's kind". It's more of a moto than a speech, honestly 😂
There absolutely needs to be a sequel to this list, too many good speeches that didnt make it!
For sure. It was tough to whittle down just ten. We’ll definitely make part two if enough people watch the first one!
The Ninth Doctor did some of my favorite things, the best being that time his recording in his finale turned and looked Rose dead in the eyes and tells her his last well wishes. How does he always do it??? And it was during a speech, so there you go.
P.S. Don't discount how well you delivered those speeches. Whether it means someting or nothing at all, I was convinced. Practice, practice, practice.
How does he do it?
Well, we know know with Jodie's Leaving special that the Holographic System in the Tardis is reactive to it's viewers and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a bit of the Tardis' sentience was also in play as well....
@@darrenrichardson6146 wow, that really takes all the fun out of it.
"The man that stops the monsters" speech in Flatline is also one of the greatest of all time. Sad to see that didn't make the list.
Each Dr has a defining speech, for Matt it wasnt Stonehenge but on the roof of a hospital, by the man who stops the monster speech, gave Capaldi full range on his Dr but also the very meaning of the Dr and their purpose
You could easily make this a list of just the 12th Doctor's speeches. Probably my favorite run.
Absolutely my favorite. Peter could handle every emotion you could ask for in one amazing speech.
Matt Smith gave the best speech in the rings after he lose Amy and Rory makes me cry every single time it should be number one
Nah, I think Matt's best speech is Pandorica. People dismiss it, becuase it was a trap set by his enemies, but they fail to see, that the whole reason for the trap was the FEAR of the Doctor. They even feared to kill him, so instead devised a plan to trap him. That makes his speech so powerful. Yes, the Akhaten speech is nice too, but Pandorica is on another level.
Actually one of Matt's speeches that I like the most is when he first becomes the doctor in the girl who waited episode, and he's talking to the prisoner guards and prisoners 001
@@VonOutlaw That's The Eleventh hour episode, not The girl who waited, that was with older Amy in the different time stream. But yea, "Basically run" is also a good speech. I still think Pandorica is hard to top from the Matt Smith era and the Zygon Anti-war speech one of the best overall.
@@Croftice1 you're so right about the episode name I don't know why I thought it was the girl who waited and not the other ones our but you are so right thank you for pointing it out to me
11 was my first doctor. Hearing you read his regeneration speech, that I've already heard a hundred times, still makes me feel giddy and teary.
David Tennant's speech in waters of Mars is beautiful especially THE LAWS OF TIME OF MINE MINE AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!!! I get chills every time I hear it
Tom Baker's speech in Genesis of the Daleks is a defining moment for the character, even if we didn't know it at the time. It was a defining moment in the Time War and his decision has ramifications for the future and he may have even ironically committed the spark that started the Time War.
I'm glad this list covered the great ones in classic who. Most lists I see seem to posit there aren't many great speeches in classic compared to modern, but I think they are just understated but still brilliant.
Honestly, I feel that Smith’s “Life is a Pile of Good Things and Bad Things” speech from Vincent and the Doctor should have been up there. It’s such a truly heartfelt speech that spoke to me and my especially my partner. We’ve known people who committed suicide, and the speech can help those who are dealing with guilt of not being able to help enough or thinking about what you could have done to stop it.
“The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.”
One of my favorite speeches was at the end of the Rings of Akahten when fighting the giant planet thing definitely one of my favorite Mat Smith performances.
I miss Peter Capaldi's Doctor!
I never tire of hearing Tom Baker's Dalek speech or Peter Capaldi's war speech. Powerful stuff.
Three speeches should be on this list "I am talking", "basically run" and "Tell them to run away".
This is by far my favorite WhoCulture video and a great reminder of why I love the Doctor so much, and Ellie you did a great job of delivering those speeches!
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you for some wonderfully dramatic readings, Ellie. Touched my heart just like so many of the originals did when I experienced them.
I think your line reading got better the further you got into the video. Good job.
Who I am, is where I stand
Where I stand, is where I fall
It doesn't get deeper than this. This is the strongest statement on character I've ever heard in my 56 years.
My favourite speech of all time is the diamond mountain speech from heaven sent: There's a his emperor, and he asks the shepherd's boy how many seconds in eternity.
And the shepherd's boy says, 'There's this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed! You may think that's a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird!’
I bet you loved making those speeches live again. What fun!
Oh yes, it was very exciting putting this video together!
The "Not on my watch" speech, gave me the chills even when Ellie is requoting it, by remembering Capaldi's speech and the scene, so good... xD And amazing requoting by Ellie, maybe she should be The Doctor in the future.
I'm very partial to the one at the end of Battlefield myself, and honestly I think it's just never really cited as a strong speech because of how short it is. However, it is about a powerful subject (nuclear annihilation), and it ends with, in my opinion, one of the most powerful lines in the entire franchise: "This isn't an war between armies, or a war between nations - Just death, death gone mad! A child looks up into the sky, his eyes turn to cinders -- no more tears, only ashes!! Is this honor?! Is this war?! Are these the weapons we would use?!"
That 7th Doc vs Morgaine speech was chopped down for the final edit, hence it's slightly shorter than average. It's a nice speech, but it only works because of Morgaine's sense of honor, so it might seem a bit flat to people who have no idea of what her character is like.
I think David Tennant's speech, in the Doctors daughter episode. Where he says he's the man that never would, and to build this society of human, and Hath on the foundation of a man who never would. Definitely deserved a mention, as one of the greatest Doctor who speeches by the Doctor. But I guess there was only so much time, in the video, you couldn't possibly mention every fantastic speech, by our time traveling hero. Greatest video anyway, well done Ellie. I look forward to the next video, until then Allons-y!!!! 💙
That moment when the 9th Doctor faced the chained Dalek in "Dalek" that was the moment I knew that The Doctor was back!!
I also thought of that one. Any speech that can make a Dalek give up is masterful.
Honestly capaldis last speech along with his final episode was pretty much perfect imo. It was just brilliant.
My two favourites:
"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alters their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."
- 4th Doctor "The Face of Evil" (1977)
"Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It's only a few million years since they've crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts, and now here they are amongst the stars, waiting to begin a new life, ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. Indomitable!"
-4th Doctor "The Ark in Space" (1975)
Both a bit short to be called a speech, I know, but both had an indelible affect on me, as a child, and delivered with such passion and conviction by my Doctor and my childhood hero.
It's sad you can't show the speaches in the video, you did a wonderful job conveying them. Also videos like these keep making me go back and watching it all again. Is there a limit to how many times I can do it? Never
Capaldi’s ‘eye brow’ speech! Still gets me
Excellent list!
One note though, the episode containing Colin Baker's speech was written by Pip and Jane Baker as Robert Holmes had passed away before the series writing could be completed. Only the first story in the season is written by him.
Ellie delivers these speeches really well IMHO
I am so glad my favourite speech got #1. Just an absolute acting masterclass from the greatest actor to play the Doctor.
12 is the definitive portrayal of the doctor, to me anyways, especially in nuwho he’s just brilliant
" You may be a doctor, but I'm THE Doctor. The definite article, you might say." - 4th Doctor (Tom Baker)
I feel like Heaven Sent deserves an honourable mention. 54 minute monologue.
I loved Peter capaldi as the doctor. He's up there with eccleston and Tennant.
Peter Capaldi and Tom Baker are my favorite Doctors simply from their mannerisms and care for others. And so far, when it comes to Big
Finish, Colin Baker is my absolute favorite
Cool choices and it was appreciated that you showed wroten in screen the selected speeches 👍😎🎬
Heaven sent " how many seconds in enternity " is my favourite even if it's not really a speach
This is a Scale Model of War should certainly have been #1. An angry Scot shouting at people for 12 minutes & making perfect sense. For me is one of the best parts of NuWho.
100% agree with the number 1 pick. I desperately wish we had more seasons of Capaldi’s Doctor. Not with Chibnall, and perhaps not with Moffat, but more of Capaldi’s Doctor… and then Moffat could have come back to write this speech. 😜
I had Matt Smith's voice in my head, when Ellie read his speech :D
Thanks, thanks, thanks and a million times thanks, Ellie! 6th. finally gets the recognition he deserves.
I was preparing myself to say how much I agreed with this list - except that I'd have put "The Doctor Falls" speech as Number One... and then it actually WAS! Can't fault that in any way.
It was great, having Ellie read the speeches so dramatically. Please have her do a sequel video of "10 More Of The Greatest Speeches In Doctor Who".
We’d love to do a second part if this first one gets enough support, so please like and share if you want to see it!
Ellie killed her retelling of all the speeches!!!
A bit of trivia about the Seventh Doctor's sugar speech: the man who served him the tea is the same actor who played Geoffrey the butler in _The Fresh Prince of Bel Air._
I thought I recognised him
Wow, I was expecting the rings of ahkaten speech for number 1 but I totally forgot about the where I fall speech! Definitely a surprising list!
Great video guys. Maybe another mention is Matt Smith in the time of angels "there is one thing that you never ever put in a trap... Me "
I had to watch the war speech after watching this. What a banger
Great list, and an amazing job by Ellie conveying the depth and emotion of those speeches! That's why I love this channel!!
A couple of favourites:
I know. I know. I said it would take the force of a total solar system to attract the power away from my ship. We're at the very beginning, the new start of a solar system. Outside, the atoms are rushing towards each other. Fusing, coagulating, until minute little collections of matter are created. And so the process goes on, and on until dust is formed. Dust then becomes solid entity. A new birth, of a sun and its planets. - First Doctor, Edge of Destruction
The 'Daisiest Daisy' speech - Third Doctor, Time Monster
The 'Take My Life' speech - Seventh Doctor, Happiness Patrol
Also, the Sixth Doctor’s big speech from Jubilee on Big Finish.
A series with so many great speeches.
In the end, no matter how many speeches he gives there is always another war to fight.
My absolute favorite will always be 11’s regeneration speech. It always gets me especially since he was my first. But the doctor falls speech deserves its spot
When you mentioned "the web of time" when you were talking about the McCoy one, I couldn't help thinking that time, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, is more like a big ball of timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly... stuff.
You didn't do the run speech, yes I can't remember it so much but it made so much of a impact that when I look at a new Doctor I have to say can they run.
I quite liked the 11 speech when he was talking to Bob the angel about traps.
I would have switched #1and #3 but they were powerful in different ways as you point out. Honorable mentions:
Ninth's encounter with the 'last' dalek
First doctor's encounter with the cyber men
River's "you can't expect a sunset to love you back"
Wonderful video but you missed out perhaps the best speech, his farewell to Susan in Dalek invasion of Earth
Ok here are some I wished got an honorable Mention:
Ninth:
-speech about being a coward rather than a killer
- speech about doesn't that scare you to death
Tenth:
-The man who never would
-Satan Pit
- I am the doctor
- the last of the time lords/Gallifrey
-So much more
Eleventh:
-Pandorica speech
-Rings to akhaten
-The clock ticks twelfe
-Eleventh hour
Twelve:
-the man who stops the monsters
- be kind in twice upon a time
Wow this earliest I been to WhoCulture video here when the likes where 42,
Watching this channel had resparked my love for Doctor Who
"... Oh, did I mention, it also travels through time...". THAT, got Rose's subconscious attention. Her dead father...
This one was a really good one. Thank you Who Culture...
Wonderful ❤️
There’s a couple of great ones from the tenth doctor. The obvious one being from blink, and the other being that said to the vashta nerada in the library
the Doctor then after wavering ... saves Davros ...
Let us state this categorically: The Massacre had NO TELESNAPS. A few production stills and advertising photos, but not telesnaps.
I really liked the speech capaldi gave in when he went to the last great frost fair and he was trying to convince the capitalist dude to not feed everyone to a real big fish
That Remembrance speech was good, but it just didn’t have the impact or hope of the shows final words on broadcast television for seven years, “There are worlds out there where the sky is burning. And the sea’s asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger. Somewhere there’s injustice. And somewhere else, the tea’s getting cold. Come on, Ace - we’ve got work to do!”
The massacre is one of the missing stories i want recovered the most!! Especially episode 4
I don't like list episodes. So why do I keep clicking on these? Because I love Who/Trek Culture and Ellie and "Doctor Who!" THANKS for this!!!!
Doctor Who, fantastic absolutely fantastic, and do you know what?...so were we!
This is a great list I think it’s just missing 1 speech in my humble opinion. Matt Smith speech at the end of his first episode when he steeped through David Tennents face and says Ello, I’m the doctor
Something tells me, Ellie really enjoyed making those speeches.
I liked the speech at the end of Survival.
"The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." - from The Face of Evil.
"Never be cruel, never be cowardly. And never ever eat pears! Remember: Hate is always foolish… and love is always wise." - from Twice Upon a Time.
"Homo sapiens! What an inventive, invincible species! It's only been a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenseless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable... indomitable." - from The Ark in Space.
"Have a good life. Do that for me, Rose. Have a fantastic life." - from The Parting of Ways.
"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who is going to save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?" - from Voyage of the Dammed.
"I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. But if I believe in one thing… just one thing… I believe in her!" - from The Satan Pit.
"I think you just don't care! I don't know if you are here to invade, infiltrate, or just replace us-I don't suppose it really matters now. You are monsters! That is the role it seems you are determined to play, so it seems I must play mine! The man that stops the monsters! I'm sending you back to your own dimension. Who knows? Some of you may even survive the trip." - from Flatline.
"You're not the first to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them? Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically… run." - from The Eleventh Hour.
The way you read the speeches Ellie for the next Doctor. 😂
Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe. But bad news, everyone... 'Cos guess who?! Ha! Listen, you lot, you're all whizzing about, it's really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute? Because I am talking! The question of the hour is, who's got the Pandorica? Answer... I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me, no plan, no back up, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else, I don't have, anything... to... lose! So if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship, with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you. And then, AND THEN, do the smart thing. Let somebody else try first.
Absolutely the best speech ever!!!
When Capaldi’s Doctor talks I just stop and listen.
Ooo, how about a multi-Doctor speech in Day of the Doctor: "Never be cruel, never be cowardly"
Great list. I am surprised that Tennent didn't make it on here but I have no complaints on the choices.
What about Tom Bakers ' Homosapiens ' speech in "The Ark in Space". ?
Love your delivery Ellie, you rock
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It always confounds me how similarly the 10th and 11th Doctors move. I know that they are literally one regeneration apart, but it still confuses me, they act quite differently, but they move like twins.
Might just be a benefit to having a different actor for every Doctor.
Pertwee had a Buddhist producer? Ah that explains Planet of the Spiders, not only a Buddhist priest (well a time lord who came to Earth and had spent several regenerations in a Buddhist Monastery in Tibet), but Buddhist concepts & ideas were sprinkled through out Jon Pertwee's final story.
I'm sure I'm not the first, i haven't seen much of classic Who, but number 3 has the actor who was Geoffrey from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
I think everyone has their favorite speech from the Doctor, I am surprised and disappointed at the same time because you had my favorite speech on the list, but had it at number 10. The Trial of the Time Lord is so relevant even today.
On my list the zygon one would be the best and there’s like 5 stelar speeches that I think deserve to be on the list, but hey it’s your opinion