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Tennant was absolutely magnificent in this episode. The whole cast was exceptional, but he was a cut above. Literally playing two characters at once and one who showed such vulnerability. Outstanding.
Not going to lie... I was super excited when I saw this today thinking Episode 10 would be up on Christmas as a present for me to watch... waiting 9 days for your reaction to it will be hard
i disagree the doctor was out of touch when he talked to her. he knew he wasn't john. he knew she couldn't come. but if he disappeared or behaved how he wanted she wouldn't be able to let go. he tried to anger her. tried to make hate him more so she knows the man she loves is gone. but he very nearly broke when she asked about the deaths. he was prepared for her talking about john. blaming him for killing him. but the deaths he can't prevent always haunt him and she dug at it and it hurt him to the point the mask almost fell.
Honestly, I think the Doctor was being kind to Joan too. Rather than disappear from her life completely and leave her wondering, he gave her closure. He let her see him fully as he truly is, and even offered to take her with him. He would have welcomed her, of course, but in offering, he was also offering her the choice to decline, which would allow her to take control, to fully close the door on that chapter of her life and move on.
Interesting interpretation. I see it as him failing to understand. The way he says 'everything that John Smith is and was, I'm capable of that, too' - that's not true. John Smith wanted to settle down and grow old with the love of his life, and the Doctor isn't capable of that. John Smith sacrificed himself to save the town, and this Doctor right now proved he wasn't willing to do that either. So after what Joan has been through, saying essentially "I'm everything he was and more" is just arrogant. And this Doctor IS arrogant, he is an alien and he does consider his life more important, and it's something that will be circled back to later in the series.
@@JakkFrost1 I think he was TRYING to be kind, but he came across as arrogant and oblivious. I don't think that was intentional. I think the offer to travel with him was genuine and he also genuinely didn't understand why it was so inappropriate.
@@jabberwock95 I think he was trying to say that he IS a good man, but he was much more than just a good human and still has a very important role to play in the universe. That to give up being the Doctor would be condemning so many more that he would save in his future. When he says that John Smith is in there, part of him, I think that's small the part of him that wishes he could just settle down and fall in love but he can't because the universe needs the Doctor. Or at least that's what he truly believes. I think he believes he is being selfless in choosing his lonely life of helping strangers. (But we also know there's a big part of him that loves being the Doctor and doing that, too)
"Latimer, you filthy coward" - "Oh, yes sir, every time!" is one of my favourite exchanges in this episode, because it parallels the 9th Doctor and the Emperor of the Daleks in "The Parting of the Ways": "What are you, coward or killer?" - "Coward, any day."
"Don't you think society could do with a few more cowards? Yes, cowards. Isn't that what the military call people who prefer _not_ to kill each other?" ~Max Headroom
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful
“If the Doctor had never visited us, would anyone here have died? . . . You can go.” In an ep full of amazing scenes and lines, this is the part that sticks with me the most. The Doctor IS wonderful - and he drags chaos in his wake. What a horrible burden for him. Also, a moment for Jessica Hynes’ acting here. I’m used to seeing her in comedy and she NAILS this dramatic role.
Reminds me of a line from a future episode (I'll quote it bc I don't think it spoils anything at all, but if you don't want to hear _anything_ about a later episode, you can stop reading): "There's no way we could have rescued your men. / I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families."
I mean, look - usually the Doctor is defeating threats that would have happened with or without him (a future episode better shows that, so no spoilers). He is preventing chaos more than creating it. But in this particular story, yes, without the Doctor there, there is no threat. He does have a habit of stirring things up.
With great power comes great responsibility. Having a good heart is one thing, but if you have power, then people with broken and crooked hearts will always look to you in their attempts to forcibly replace what they're missing.
Yup. And she's spot on about John Smith - the Doctor could have chosen to die rather than let the Family of Blood take him. He didn't, he chose to hide, and so a bunch of people including a little girl and her family died instead. Sure, maybe the Doctor is too important to sacrifice himself for a few humans. But the fact that he wasn't willing to do it, and John Smith was... that's a gut punch.
That little bit at the end always makes me sob like a wee baby. I mean that little act of kindness for Martha and the Doctor to show up at the ceremony to pay their respects to that little kid who went to war....
Fun Fact: These episodes were adaptions of a 7th Doctor Novel from 1995 called "Human Nature". The original author (Paul Cornell) even came back to write these episodes.
Oh that is super neat to know - I don't think I knew that. I can totally imagine McCoy ALSO killing the performance in this story - and Ace trying to fit into the time period would have been a riot
David Tennant's performance as the Doctor throughout his run is absolutely amazing. However, I truly believe that ironically, his performance as John Smith is by FAR his best during his time as the Doctor. I mean his acting in all of the scenes in this two parter is incredible, but the scenes in the Cartwrights house towards the end, wow, just wow.
Somehow, I feel like the Doctor actors are often the best when they play a different characterization for an episode or two. No spoilers, but Nightmare in Silver comes to mind...
I didn't realize how separate the characters were until he does the line about the "telepathic relays/Is that how he talks?" I'm like yeah, but how the hell didn't I NOTICE THAT you don't?
That ending never fails to get to me. Timothy living through the war and for a long time. The Doctor coming back to visit him. The words of the Vicar. Amazing writing.
Ooh, I mean, that's right up there. But there's another specific one I'm recalling (not saying for spoilers) from Matt Smith's run. There are a lot of great lines.
@@misterno-ice-guy8082 Yeah, every time my American GF complains about my maternal language not making sense, I just remind her how the word 'laugh' doesn't have a goddamn F in it, and that usually shuts her dafuq up! ;-] Correction for you: The lady's name was Jeanne Antoinette Poisson. The nickname, Reinette which means 'little queen' was no doubt started as a snarky remark about her being the king's mistress.
@9:22 “Oh yes, sir, every time!” That isn’t Tim speaking. _That’s the Doctor speaking_ *_through_* _Tim._ Remember what the 9th said when asked if he would choose cowardice? Slyest callback ever.
This was a fantastic example of the emotional range that David Tenet could do with his whole body. The face is the exclamation point, but the slight changes that he did to completely differentiate between John Smith and the Doctor was truly amazing. Already had tremendous respect for his acting chops, then this episode aired. Tom Baker will forever be my Doctor, but this episode puts him right up there (hard to replace a childhood idol).
"They're stuck here and they're going to die here." Oh, it's sooo much worse. "We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did." This is the last survivor of the greatest war in the history of the universe. Do not anger the Doctor.
Not survivor, The last s9ide standing in the time war is neither time lord nor Dalek, it's the doctor, he marked the passing of the time lords and the dalek empire.
JOAN: Could you change back? DOCTOR: Yes. JOAN: Will you? DOCTOR: No. Compare to when Ten was born from Nine, and Rose asked the same thing. He would have done it then, if he could. ROSE: Can you change back? DOCTOR: Do you want me to? ROSE: Yeah. DOCTOR: Oh. ROSE: Can you? DOCTOR: No.
You do realize they were talking about different things, right? 9➞10 was talking about reversing a regeneration which can’t be done. In this episode, the Doctor was talking about using the arch again to become human-which he could do but would not.
Jessica Hynes who is primarily a comedic actress was fantastic in this. She has worked with David several times since, most recently in There She Goes, for which she won a BAFTA for her terrific, wide ranging performance. She also was nominated for an International Emmy. David won a regional BAFTA for his performance.
As some other comments may have mentioned, this two-part story was actually based on a book of the same name ('Human Nature') by Paul Cornell, the same writer who adapted it for this TV story. The book itself is great, a little different in places but overall still very good, but there's one tiny element I always find incredibly heartwarming to think about. Tim Latimer is in the book, but there's another character who learns he'll go to war in the future, and is destined to die there. He's terrified, but in the end resolves to go ahead anyway, knowing that this is his destiny and he has no right to chicken out and let other people die in his place. So at the end of the story, he goes to war, gets injured, and is left lying in a muddy trench surrounded by his dead fellows, knowing this is where and how he dies. All alone, in the mud and rain, slowly and painfully... And then, next thing he knows, he's been found by someone. Someone who dresses his wounds and helps him get to safety. Someone working for the Red Cross (a charity that provides medical aid). It's none other than Tim Latimer who, over the course of the story, was inspired by the Doctor's selflessness and humanity to do some good in the world. So when the war broke out, Tim joined the Red Cross to provide medical aid to wounded soldiers. To put it in other words: Tim became a DOCTOR.
Tennat is the only doctor I think acts too human. I don’t know if it was the performance or the writing but it’s my least favorite part of his interpretation
@@Pearlem in the older series the dude with the cricket costume acted the most human of the lot. You know tennants father in law in real life..cant remember his name atm
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 I have not watched the old show. I know it’s available online but I watched all of new who on dvd and I don’t like watching stuff in my computer. Maybe I’ll get to it someday
The Doctor as a vulnerable human crushed by sadness and the fury of a timelord that will destroy you every moment in your eternity, in the same episode. David just smashes it! Amazing episode and on the list for "episodes that always makes me cry"
It's so heartbreaking that John Smith recognizes the Doctor as someone whose existence is burden. No hope for lasting love, always bringing pain and trauma and danger behind him... "what sort of man is that?" And then when the Doctor said John is still in him, somewhere... it means the Doctor, on some level, asks himself that same question.
"He's blowing up their ship, they are stuck here, and are going to die here..." Yea....about that.... rule number one when you are the bad guys, don't piss off the Doctor.
7:57 Remember, Joan lives in 1913. It's not racist for her to not think Martha could be a doctor. She knows 1913 England. She knows it'd never be allowed, whether she personally approves or not.
That last line from Joan "Want if the Doctor had never come here would anyone died?" is chilling but does sum the Doctor up Death does follow him around fact.
This really is one of Doctor Who's finest hours. There's a detail in it, which I don't know is deliberate or not, but when John and Joan have their final conversation in the cottage, it's planked wood behind them, much like a dug out in a WWI trench would have been. John's agony echoed that of thousands of soldiers facing the prospect of going 'over the top' to face almost certain death. And this story casts into an entirely different light, the Doctor's occasional use of John Smith as a pseudonym in the classic era. Now John Smith is a real person, who ended his own life to save the world.
I want to believe that the Doctor spoke to her the way he did to make it easier on her and her heartbreak. By being aloof, it helped her realize that man she loved is gone and it was time to move on. He was being kind.
I think he was genuinely being arrogant. The Doctor DOES have character flaws, and arrogance in particular is one of Tens that he eventually has to confront and overcome. So I think he was trying to be nice, but the fact he came across so badly wasn't on purpose.
@@jabberwock95this is the way I’ve always read that scene. I also think he clocks it at some point and his offer to take her with him was of an “oh shit she was in love this is bad I have to fix this” guilt moment. Still quite arrogant and rude but you could tell he was making an effort to make it better even if it backfired.
I think Tim agreeing that he was a coward "every time" may have been a reference to the 9th doctor. When asked by the Emperor of the Daleks if he was "coward or killer", Eccleston responded "Coward, any day." Tim was being marshalled with the other boys to kill, and was being called a coward for running off.
Family of Blood is a hard episode to watch, because it's so damn intense. Credit to the Doctor, the writers, The director, everyone involved in the making of this two parter.
You can tell having to give up John Smith really pissed off the Doctor. He's not normally that vindictive. Still one of my favorite scenes in the show 🤣
When Joan says "on a whim." It crushes me. That is the part that gets to her. She sees the Doctor for what he is, a deity who sees the rest of life as beneath him. He didn't even consider that people could have died. He does realize this though and you see his growth in the future.
Up there with my favourite episodes of Doctor Who, and possibly the best Tennant performance of his run. The writing of this two-parter was incredible.
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David puts on a master class performance in this two-parter. Harry too, can't be easy to hold that smirk, rarely if ever blink and play so unhinged a creeper
It's genuinely heartbreaking to see John Smith be horrified by the idea of the Doctor, the adventurer of his fiction, to be not just real, but to be him. And it's absolutely true, The Doctor is an amazing fictional character but living as him would be gruesome, terrifying and so incredibly lonely. This two-parter delves so deep in the cost of human lives who happen to just be in the path of the Doctor trying to do good. It's rare that that happens, to actually see the doctor so far removed from humanity.
The two scenes between David Tennant and Jessica Hynes, his last as John Smith then his only as the Doctor, are an absolute tour de force by both of them. Those vye for my top scenes in all of Doctor Who. Just extraordinary.
"Piertotem Locamotor!" Loved that part in the movie and I have to giggle also at the line of McGonagall's "I've always wanted to use that spell!!" You killed me with the "If I see a red baloon....I'm going to be pissed" The way your face just absolutely lit up with recognition when 'John Smith' has a Doctor moment in his speech patterns because you recognize that is the Doctor. I think David Tennant does the separation between the two distinct characters of John Smith and the Doctor meticulously! You are so right about the strong companion style whether they are permanent or just one off's - they are absolutely fabulous. They are so bright, intelligent, savvy, knowledgeable with varying shades of Extra-ness. I am so excited for the next episodes and the season finale, I am like so giddy and looking forwards to seeing YOUR reaction to those episodes. They are some of my absolute favorites in blowing my mind and the writers are so so good! This episode and the next episode are up there for me..like 1-10 this episode, for me, is a 12!
Harry Lloyd is a lovely guy, I met him earlier this year. He’s related to Charles Dickens, his great great etc grandson I think. (More greats than that but you get the point). Every now and then someone from his family gets invited to Oxford to read dickens stories
"We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did" that and the "he was being kind" are my favorite moments. A beautiful summation of the Doctor's kindness and cruelty. He isn't human, and that's both a horrifying AND wonderful thing. Its his companions who keep him human. And he knows. martha got her answer. This is one of the reasons Ten is one of the most beloved Doctors. also "I have a new tissue holder" made me cackle
The end of the episode is incredibly heartwarming and tear jerking - it’s the Doctor and Martha, two Doctors, stood at the memorial for people they couldn’t save due to history dictating that they died. They can’t change that, the two healers cannot heal, so, they honour…
And that is why David Tennant is my favourite Doctor. Others have played the character and they all have their good and bad parts but none have reached his level.
Tom Baker, in Genesis of the Daleks, reached that level. Maybe a handful of others a handful of times. There's a reason that Baker and Tennant are arguably the most beloved doctors.
Him and Capaldi remain the top actors to ever play the Doctor ( for me). Smith and Eccleston have both had great moments as well but without counting the classics ( because truthfully I haven’t seen any of those episodes), no actors have topped those two when it comes to truly embodying the characters and knowing their versions from the heart. Also two of the biggest fans of the show from the beginning so it’s really no surprise why they are the ones that gave it 113 percent.
One of the best Nu Who stories. And followed by an amazing episode. Probably THE episode to introduce people who have never watched Dr Who to, to get them hooked.
"You can go" is pretty brutal but absolutely deserved. Like he doesn't want to kill these aliens so he goes to these absurd lengths and then punishes them with a fate worse than death anyway. The end of the episode with the armistice ceremony always destroys me.
The Doctor is really fascinating. He’s beautiful, like a beacon of hope, but he’s so tragic. His love and compassion run so deep that he puts his life on the line again and again for the sake of people he cares about. His anger burns like fire, and there’s no force on Earth that can contain his rage. And when he makes mistakes, and others’ lives are cut short or ruined for it, he doesn’t forget, and he doesn’t let go of that pain.
19:26 there were moments from the series that we could see the doctor being dark, but this scene, showing the fates of the family, that's when i took a step back and said "oh wow...i forgot how dark the doctor could get...i LIKE IT"
I love that little bit of back story they tease for his parents in these two episodes that his father was a watchmaker and his mother was a nurse. A timelord watch maker must have been a big job.
Just seeing the end of the episode and how you emotionally finished it you’re in for an emotional rollercoaster going forward and excited to see your reaction to it
Such wonderful writing and so many good performances in this episode. David Tennant was entirely convincing and heartbreaking as John Smith and chilling at the end of episode when the Doctor takes his revenge.
Definitely amongst the absolute best episodes and two-parters of Doctor Who. The writer of the episode also wrote a couple short stories /audio stories that build and follow up on the episodes (reading them will have spoilers for people not caught up on Doctor Who): The Shadow Passes; Shadow of a Doubt; and The Shadow in the Mirror
One of the most powerful Dr Who stories I’ve ever seen. In all of Classic Who and NuWho combined, there are few stories I love more than this. David is unbelievable. “He was being kind” is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard. And the ending… 😢
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After seeing the Slitheen and the Dalek (a bug-eyed monster and a robot), Newman would have chucked it in the bin. Maybe Verity found it in a charity shop.
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Tennant was absolutely magnificent in this episode. The whole cast was exceptional, but he was a cut above. Literally playing two characters at once and one who showed such vulnerability. Outstanding.
Not going to lie... I was super excited when I saw this today thinking Episode 10 would be up on Christmas as a present for me to watch... waiting 9 days for your reaction to it will be hard
Let the poor woman get married, @@bludfyre
i disagree the doctor was out of touch when he talked to her. he knew he wasn't john. he knew she couldn't come. but if he disappeared or behaved how he wanted she wouldn't be able to let go. he tried to anger her. tried to make hate him more so she knows the man she loves is gone. but he very nearly broke when she asked about the deaths. he was prepared for her talking about john. blaming him for killing him. but the deaths he can't prevent always haunt him and she dug at it and it hurt him to the point the mask almost fell.
17:55 slowly pulling a knitted tardis into the frame while saying “i have a new tissue holder” in between sobs made laugh incredibly hard
😂
Yeah same! The delivery of that sentence was perfect XD
Peak comedic timing
"Isn't it cool guys? 😭"
And to think all I have is a Dalek Christmas tree ornament and a fez
Honestly, I think the Doctor was being kind to Joan too. Rather than disappear from her life completely and leave her wondering, he gave her closure. He let her see him fully as he truly is, and even offered to take her with him. He would have welcomed her, of course, but in offering, he was also offering her the choice to decline, which would allow her to take control, to fully close the door on that chapter of her life and move on.
I didn’t see that before, but it’s very obvious now that’s what he was doing. Absolutely brilliant writing!
Interesting interpretation. I see it as him failing to understand. The way he says 'everything that John Smith is and was, I'm capable of that, too' - that's not true. John Smith wanted to settle down and grow old with the love of his life, and the Doctor isn't capable of that. John Smith sacrificed himself to save the town, and this Doctor right now proved he wasn't willing to do that either.
So after what Joan has been through, saying essentially "I'm everything he was and more" is just arrogant. And this Doctor IS arrogant, he is an alien and he does consider his life more important, and it's something that will be circled back to later in the series.
@@jabberwock95 pretty sure I covered that with "He let her see him fully as he truly is".
@@JakkFrost1 I think he was TRYING to be kind, but he came across as arrogant and oblivious. I don't think that was intentional. I think the offer to travel with him was genuine and he also genuinely didn't understand why it was so inappropriate.
@@jabberwock95 I think he was trying to say that he IS a good man, but he was much more than just a good human and still has a very important role to play in the universe. That to give up being the Doctor would be condemning so many more that he would save in his future. When he says that John Smith is in there, part of him, I think that's small the part of him that wishes he could just settle down and fall in love but he can't because the universe needs the Doctor. Or at least that's what he truly believes. I think he believes he is being selfless in choosing his lonely life of helping strangers. (But we also know there's a big part of him that loves being the Doctor and doing that, too)
“We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did” hands down the hardest line spoken in the series!
I don't think so... but up there
Есть поговорка: "Бойся своих желаний, они могут исполнится". Вот пример этого.
@@Vladimmir2 Good sayings transcend cultures. The English version is very similar, _"Be careful what you wish for..."_ ;-]
@@robertcartier5088 👍
12 has some hard lines in his best episode. And we watch him do it too.
"Latimer, you filthy coward" - "Oh, yes sir, every time!" is one of my favourite exchanges in this episode, because it parallels the 9th Doctor and the Emperor of the Daleks in "The Parting of the Ways": "What are you, coward or killer?" - "Coward, any day."
"Oh, the ones that ran away, I never stopped."
Imagine taking in the memories of a Time Lord inside your head, how wonderful, but also how painful it must be...
He might've even seen that exchange - which would be awesome if that is what prompted him to respond with that
"Don't you think society could do with a few more cowards? Yes, cowards. Isn't that what the military call people who prefer _not_ to kill each other?"
~Max Headroom
9:04 THE GIRL IN THE MICROWAVE OMG
I cried like a baby watching this and I will forever cry like a baby at this episode
Do you also produce no tears when you cry?
I was trying to eat dinner while watching this and cried on my food.
“He was being kind.”
Chills
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful
Beautiful writing
The Face of Boe prophecy referred to him as the lonely god, and when you really stop to think about it, he kind of is a god.
The sunset, really. The stars themselves you might say.
"The Girl in the Microwave"... am I crazy or this the Doctor Who story we've all been waiting for??
Definitely need to see that episode. It feels like an Eleven sort of episode to me. 😂😂
Unfortunately one of the lost episodes presumed wiped, perhaps it will be found one day in someone's attic :-)
@jjlonsdale5971
A 7-Eleven episode.
Sounds like the kind of episode we'd get if the executives think the companion isn't hot enough...
Yeah, someone's cooking.
Sunday roast, definitely.
“If the Doctor had never visited us, would anyone here have died? . . . You can go.”
In an ep full of amazing scenes and lines, this is the part that sticks with me the most. The Doctor IS wonderful - and he drags chaos in his wake. What a horrible burden for him.
Also, a moment for Jessica Hynes’ acting here. I’m used to seeing her in comedy and she NAILS this dramatic role.
Reminds me of a line from a future episode (I'll quote it bc I don't think it spoils anything at all, but if you don't want to hear _anything_ about a later episode, you can stop reading): "There's no way we could have rescued your men. / I know that, sir. And when you've flown away in your little blue box, I'll explain that to their families."
I mean, look - usually the Doctor is defeating threats that would have happened with or without him (a future episode better shows that, so no spoilers). He is preventing chaos more than creating it. But in this particular story, yes, without the Doctor there, there is no threat. He does have a habit of stirring things up.
With great power comes great responsibility. Having a good heart is one thing, but if you have power, then people with broken and crooked hearts will always look to you in their attempts to forcibly replace what they're missing.
Yup. And she's spot on about John Smith - the Doctor could have chosen to die rather than let the Family of Blood take him. He didn't, he chose to hide, and so a bunch of people including a little girl and her family died instead.
Sure, maybe the Doctor is too important to sacrifice himself for a few humans. But the fact that he wasn't willing to do it, and John Smith was... that's a gut punch.
Doctor Who has a way of bringing great dramatic performances out of comedy actors - but I'm absolutely not saying who at this point.
You’ll find that it’s a very small universe when the Doctor is angry with you.
hey someone angry with you who can go through space and time. NOT good for you.
Love that line
stop with your stupidity
That little bit at the end always makes me sob like a wee baby. I mean that little act of kindness for Martha and the Doctor to show up at the ceremony to pay their respects to that little kid who went to war....
Fun Fact: These episodes were adaptions of a 7th Doctor Novel from 1995 called "Human Nature". The original author (Paul Cornell) even came back to write these episodes.
Oh that is super neat to know - I don't think I knew that. I can totally imagine McCoy ALSO killing the performance in this story - and Ace trying to fit into the time period would have been a riot
Interesting. I can certainly see Sylvester's Doctor in this story - especially in what he does to the family.
*The Girl in the Microwave* is my favorite Doctor Who episode! 😂
I preferred The Girl In The Airfryer
@@oregontiger eh...I think that the girl in the stove was better, and such a good callback to fairytales too!
David Tennant's performance as the Doctor throughout his run is absolutely amazing. However, I truly believe that ironically, his performance as John Smith is by FAR his best during his time as the Doctor. I mean his acting in all of the scenes in this two parter is incredible, but the scenes in the Cartwrights house towards the end, wow, just wow.
Somehow, I feel like the Doctor actors are often the best when they play a different characterization for an episode or two. No spoilers, but Nightmare in Silver comes to mind...
I didn't realize how separate the characters were until he does the line about the "telepathic relays/Is that how he talks?"
I'm like yeah, but how the hell didn't I NOTICE THAT you don't?
This episode shows why so many fans see David Tennant as their favorite doctor. His acting is top notch here
The other one is the worst Doctor, ever. Even worse than Whittaker, and that's saying something.
18:27 As heartbreaking as this episode is, no one can ever resist the urge to smile when they realise that the Doctor is back
"We wanted to live forever so the Doctor made sure that we did."
One of the coldest lines and one of my fav episode endings
That ending never fails to get to me. Timothy living through the war and for a long time. The Doctor coming back to visit him. The words of the Vicar. Amazing writing.
“He was being kind…” most badass Doctor Who line ever
Ooh, I mean, that's right up there. But there's another specific one I'm recalling (not saying for spoilers) from Matt Smith's run. There are a lot of great lines.
@ I also love “There’s one thing you should never put in a trap, me.”
You were thinking of Madame de Pompadour, or "Reinette" to her friends. A memorable character, indeed! ;-]
And henceforth I will never not refer to her as “the girl in the microwave”
Renette -croissant- proissant
I can't spell anything in French.
No one can, not even the French,
Check out all the letters they miss
@@misterno-ice-guy8082 Yeah, every time my American GF complains about my maternal language not making sense, I just remind her how the word 'laugh' doesn't have a goddamn F in it, and that usually shuts her dafuq up! ;-]
Correction for you:
The lady's name was Jeanne Antoinette Poisson. The nickname, Reinette which means 'little queen' was no doubt started as a snarky remark about her being the king's mistress.
Chemistry so good that the actors dated for a bit afterwards.
@DrLipkin Nicely done, David! If I ever knew that bit of trivia, I must have forgotten... Thanks! 😁
@9:22 “Oh yes, sir, every time!”
That isn’t Tim speaking. _That’s the Doctor speaking_ *_through_* _Tim._
Remember what the 9th said when asked if he would choose cowardice? Slyest callback ever.
This was a fantastic example of the emotional range that David Tenet could do with his whole body. The face is the exclamation point, but the slight changes that he did to completely differentiate between John Smith and the Doctor was truly amazing. Already had tremendous respect for his acting chops, then this episode aired. Tom Baker will forever be my Doctor, but this episode puts him right up there (hard to replace a childhood idol).
OMG I saw the title of the next episode. Now I have to wait till next year to see your reaction.
😂
@@funnylilgalreacts partly filmed in my husband’s vinyl record store. Met David and Freema !
@fayesouthall6604 ok now I have questions! But I won't ask till after she watches it. Spoilers!
@ fair enough
@@fayesouthall6604 awesome, damn it must be a strange feeling to watch an episode and see your store in so many scenes
Oh boy, we know what the next episode is! 😊
Don't Blink!
"They're stuck here and they're going to die here."
Oh, it's sooo much worse.
"We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did."
This is the last survivor of the greatest war in the history of the universe.
Do not anger the Doctor.
"No second chances. I'm that sort of man."
Not survivor, The last s9ide standing in the time war is neither time lord nor Dalek, it's the doctor, he marked the passing of the time lords and the dalek empire.
JOAN: Could you change back?
DOCTOR: Yes.
JOAN: Will you?
DOCTOR: No.
Compare to when Ten was born from Nine, and Rose asked the same thing. He would have done it then, if he could.
ROSE: Can you change back?
DOCTOR: Do you want me to?
ROSE: Yeah.
DOCTOR: Oh.
ROSE: Can you?
DOCTOR: No.
Oh the irony.
You do realize they were talking about different things, right? 9➞10 was talking about reversing a regeneration which can’t be done. In this episode, the Doctor was talking about using the arch again to become human-which he could do but would not.
@@joerosenman3480 well no strictly true based on the 60th
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 60th?
yep John Smith is only a small part of who he is. He's the doctor, he wouldn't choose to be Mr. Smith because that isn't him.
Jessica Hynes who is primarily a comedic actress was fantastic in this. She has worked with David several times since, most recently in There She Goes, for which she won a BAFTA for her terrific, wide ranging performance. She also was nominated for an International Emmy. David won a regional BAFTA for his performance.
This was one of many BAFTA snubs for David.
As some other comments may have mentioned, this two-part story was actually based on a book of the same name ('Human Nature') by Paul Cornell, the same writer who adapted it for this TV story. The book itself is great, a little different in places but overall still very good, but there's one tiny element I always find incredibly heartwarming to think about.
Tim Latimer is in the book, but there's another character who learns he'll go to war in the future, and is destined to die there. He's terrified, but in the end resolves to go ahead anyway, knowing that this is his destiny and he has no right to chicken out and let other people die in his place. So at the end of the story, he goes to war, gets injured, and is left lying in a muddy trench surrounded by his dead fellows, knowing this is where and how he dies. All alone, in the mud and rain, slowly and painfully...
And then, next thing he knows, he's been found by someone. Someone who dresses his wounds and helps him get to safety. Someone working for the Red Cross (a charity that provides medical aid). It's none other than Tim Latimer who, over the course of the story, was inspired by the Doctor's selflessness and humanity to do some good in the world. So when the war broke out, Tim joined the Red Cross to provide medical aid to wounded soldiers.
To put it in other words: Tim became a DOCTOR.
Thank you.⛑️
"Oh yes sir, every time"
"Then prove yourself Doctor. What are you, coward or killer?"
"Coward. Any day."
The doctor being so human like sometimes makes us forget he's an alien. Episodes like this can bring it crashing back and that's great.
Only Tennant. Never with others Doctors.
Tennat is the only doctor I think acts too human. I don’t know if it was the performance or the writing but it’s my least favorite part of his interpretation
@@Pearlem in the older series the dude with the cricket costume acted the most human of the lot. You know tennants father in law in real life..cant remember his name atm
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 I have not watched the old show. I know it’s available online but I watched all of new who on dvd and I don’t like watching stuff in my computer. Maybe I’ll get to it someday
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 Peter Davidson.
This two-parter is hands down my favourite Doctor Who story from David Tennant’s era
The Doctor as a vulnerable human crushed by sadness and the fury of a timelord that will destroy you every moment in your eternity, in the same episode. David just smashes it! Amazing episode and on the list for "episodes that always makes me cry"
It's so heartbreaking that John Smith recognizes the Doctor as someone whose existence is burden. No hope for lasting love, always bringing pain and trauma and danger behind him... "what sort of man is that?" And then when the Doctor said John is still in him, somewhere... it means the Doctor, on some level, asks himself that same question.
That Remembrance Day scene at the end always has me tearing up. Powerful stuff.
This is why you never make a Time Lord angry. Especially if this certain Time Lord is called the Doctor.
"He's blowing up their ship, they are stuck here, and are going to die here..." Yea....about that.... rule number one when you are the bad guys, don't piss off the Doctor.
In Flanders fields the poppies grow amongst the crosses row on row.... Remembrance day gets me emotional.
Blackadder goes Fourth.
7:57 Remember, Joan lives in 1913. It's not racist for her to not think Martha could be a doctor. She knows 1913 England. She knows it'd never be allowed, whether she personally approves or not.
Hell Joan would struggle to become a doctor
Well technically, it's still racist. It was just accepted at the time.
@@MuchWhittering no, its still racist
The way she worded it did sound a bit racist though...
That last line from Joan "Want if the Doctor had never come here would anyone died?" is chilling but does sum the Doctor up Death does follow him around fact.
Without spoiling anything . . . we know she's going to be BAWLING, just like she was here at *that* part in David's tenure.
Blink is brilliant. Enjoy and happy holidays to you Angela, your husband and your family! 🎄❄️🦌🎅
Filmed partly in my husbands vinyl record store. Lucky to meet David and Freema.
She reacts aversely to episodes that have been bigged up.
This really is one of Doctor Who's finest hours. There's a detail in it, which I don't know is deliberate or not, but when John and Joan have their final conversation in the cottage, it's planked wood behind them, much like a dug out in a WWI trench would have been. John's agony echoed that of thousands of soldiers facing the prospect of going 'over the top' to face almost certain death.
And this story casts into an entirely different light, the Doctor's occasional use of John Smith as a pseudonym in the classic era. Now John Smith is a real person, who ended his own life to save the world.
I want to believe that the Doctor spoke to her the way he did to make it easier on her and her heartbreak. By being aloof, it helped her realize that man she loved is gone and it was time to move on. He was being kind.
I think he was genuinely being arrogant. The Doctor DOES have character flaws, and arrogance in particular is one of Tens that he eventually has to confront and overcome. So I think he was trying to be nice, but the fact he came across so badly wasn't on purpose.
@@jabberwock95this is the way I’ve always read that scene. I also think he clocks it at some point and his offer to take her with him was of an “oh shit she was in love this is bad I have to fix this” guilt moment. Still quite arrogant and rude but you could tell he was making an effort to make it better even if it backfired.
I think Tim agreeing that he was a coward "every time" may have been a reference to the 9th doctor. When asked by the Emperor of the Daleks if he was "coward or killer", Eccleston responded "Coward, any day." Tim was being marshalled with the other boys to kill, and was being called a coward for running off.
"I don't want to go" ~David Tennant Doctor Who
It never occurred that he would fall in love because ...... ROSE
Family of Blood is a hard episode to watch, because it's so damn intense. Credit to the Doctor, the writers, The director, everyone involved in the making of this two parter.
I’m glad you’re enjoying our quirky, fun, light-hearted little kids’ show. Merry Christmas and have a wonderful wedding!
This is honestly one of my all-time favourite episodes of this show. Love the reactions, keep up the good work!
You can tell having to give up John Smith really pissed off the Doctor. He's not normally that vindictive. Still one of my favorite scenes in the show 🤣
"No second chances"
This particular incarnation of the Doctor can be rather vindictive; whether he is justified or not can be debated on a case-by-case basis.
It's been ... fifteen years or whatever since I first saw this, but "The fury of the Time Lord" still sends a chill down my spine.
When Joan says "on a whim." It crushes me. That is the part that gets to her. She sees the Doctor for what he is, a deity who sees the rest of life as beneath him. He didn't even consider that people could have died. He does realize this though and you see his growth in the future.
Up there with my favourite episodes of Doctor Who, and possibly the best Tennant performance of his run. The writing of this two-parter was incredible.
She's REALLY getting Doctor Who, this and many other stories is why this show is my very favorite of shows 😄!
Yeah... when the doctor steop being kind even for a moment he is truly terrifying.
GOSH this ep has so many good beats. "he's like Ice and Fire and Rage" and the whole bit at the end? The writing was top notch
As you are a bit ahead on Patreon I just want to let you know there is a minisode that takes place between the events of 3x13 the final episode of season three and the Christmas special voyage of the damned called ‘Time Crash’ which would be good to see your reaction to when you get a chance!
@5:48 you should really be asking "how is that balloon still filled with helium and floating?" My balloons never last that long as a kid
Tech talk: The chains were made of "dwarf star alloy" the denses metal out there. First used in The Warriors Gate.
Was 2nd time I watched this to realise how well written this was with Dave Tennant acting This was one of the Greatest episodes
The ending at the Remembrance Day ceremony always makes me tear up...😢
David puts on a master class performance in this two-parter. Harry too, can't be easy to hold that smirk, rarely if ever blink and play so unhinged a creeper
Emotional reactions from funnylilgalreacts, to this SUPERBLY written episode of New Who.
How I wish TV of today could be written so well.
It regularly is
It's genuinely heartbreaking to see John Smith be horrified by the idea of the Doctor, the adventurer of his fiction, to be not just real, but to be him. And it's absolutely true, The Doctor is an amazing fictional character but living as him would be gruesome, terrifying and so incredibly lonely.
This two-parter delves so deep in the cost of human lives who happen to just be in the path of the Doctor trying to do good. It's rare that that happens, to actually see the doctor so far removed from humanity.
"Immortality is a curse... not a blessing" - The Doctor
We're almost there! Don't blink or you'll miss the next one!
Have the Visine handy.
The two scenes between David Tennant and Jessica Hynes, his last as John Smith then his only as the Doctor, are an absolute tour de force by both of them. Those vye for my top scenes in all of Doctor Who. Just extraordinary.
"Piertotem Locamotor!" Loved that part in the movie and I have to giggle also at the line of McGonagall's "I've always wanted to use that spell!!"
You killed me with the "If I see a red baloon....I'm going to be pissed"
The way your face just absolutely lit up with recognition when 'John Smith' has a Doctor moment in his speech patterns because you recognize that is the Doctor. I think David Tennant does the separation between the two distinct characters of John Smith and the Doctor meticulously!
You are so right about the strong companion style whether they are permanent or just one off's - they are absolutely fabulous. They are so bright, intelligent, savvy, knowledgeable with varying shades of Extra-ness. I am so excited for the next episodes and the season finale, I am like so giddy and looking forwards to seeing YOUR reaction to those episodes. They are some of my absolute favorites in blowing my mind and the writers are so so good!
This episode and the next episode are up there for me..like 1-10 this episode, for me, is a 12!
that Ending, such a combo of punches right in the Feels Every Time.
...and such a tour de Force of Acting too :)
Harry Lloyd is a lovely guy, I met him earlier this year. He’s related to Charles Dickens, his great great etc grandson I think. (More greats than that but you get the point). Every now and then someone from his family gets invited to Oxford to read dickens stories
Jessica Hynde is probably the best actor they've ever had on the show. Her face as she says "you can go". She's amazing.
"We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did" that and the "he was being kind" are my favorite moments. A beautiful summation of the Doctor's kindness and cruelty. He isn't human, and that's both a horrifying AND wonderful thing. Its his companions who keep him human. And he knows. martha got her answer. This is one of the reasons Ten is one of the most beloved Doctors.
also "I have a new tissue holder" made me cackle
This is it, my favourite Tennant episode. Its simply superb, so well acted, and an incredible look at just who the Doctor is.
The end of the episode is incredibly heartwarming and tear jerking - it’s the Doctor and Martha, two Doctors, stood at the memorial for people they couldn’t save due to history dictating that they died. They can’t change that, the two healers cannot heal, so, they honour…
I love this pair of episodes so much, and now you are queued for the best of ALL episodes.
I think this is still my moms favorite Doctor Who story and watching this reaction I’m remembering why. It’s so good
And that is why David Tennant is my favourite Doctor. Others have played the character and they all have their good and bad parts but none have reached his level.
Tom Baker, in Genesis of the Daleks, reached that level.
Maybe a handful of others a handful of times.
There's a reason that Baker and Tennant are arguably the most beloved doctors.
Him and Capaldi remain the top actors to ever play the Doctor ( for me). Smith and Eccleston have both had great moments as well but without counting the classics ( because truthfully I haven’t seen any of those episodes), no actors have topped those two when it comes to truly embodying the characters and knowing their versions from the heart. Also two of the biggest fans of the show from the beginning so it’s really no surprise why they are the ones that gave it 113 percent.
@@dylancole1910 Agreed. My only reason for excluding Capaldi is because had a rough first season. His second and third seasons were excellent.
After watching this….. you see….. just how much pain….. The doctor really is in…. Even when…. He doesn’t even remember who he is..😢
These two episodes, and the one after this are some of the best episodes in television.
Some of the most fantastic writing.
I would take the back half of S4, personally, but this stretch is a REALLY close 2nd
One of the best Nu Who stories. And followed by an amazing episode. Probably THE episode to introduce people who have never watched Dr Who to, to get them hooked.
"You can go" is pretty brutal but absolutely deserved. Like he doesn't want to kill these aliens so he goes to these absurd lengths and then punishes them with a fate worse than death anyway.
The end of the episode with the armistice ceremony always destroys me.
The Doctor is really fascinating. He’s beautiful, like a beacon of hope, but he’s so tragic. His love and compassion run so deep that he puts his life on the line again and again for the sake of people he cares about. His anger burns like fire, and there’s no force on Earth that can contain his rage. And when he makes mistakes, and others’ lives are cut short or ruined for it, he doesn’t forget, and he doesn’t let go of that pain.
This two parter was initially a story for the 7th dr in the Virgin New Adventure Books, Human Nature.
Both written by Paul Cornell
The point where The Doctor outsmarts the villains and what he does to them at the end are the best parts of this episode.
"Yes sir, every time!" Is a callback to Nine's finale, when the Daleks ask if he's a killer or a coward, and he says: "Coward. Every time."
For a lot of people, these two episodes are the absolute best of DW.
17:13 We cry with you, Whovian. 19:21 "... He was being Kind..." Most terrifying line ever.
19:26 there were moments from the series that we could see the doctor being dark, but this scene, showing the fates of the family, that's when i took a step back and said "oh wow...i forgot how dark the doctor could get...i LIKE IT"
I love that little bit of back story they tease for his parents in these two episodes that his father was a watchmaker and his mother was a nurse. A timelord watch maker must have been a big job.
The fury of the Time Lord.........oooooohh such a great monologue!!!!!!!! One of the best of the entire Doctor Who show run
Just seeing the end of the episode and how you emotionally finished it you’re in for an emotional rollercoaster going forward and excited to see your reaction to it
Such wonderful writing and so many good performances in this episode. David Tennant was entirely convincing and heartbreaking as John Smith and chilling at the end of episode when the Doctor takes his revenge.
The end is one of my favorite scenes in Doctor Who and brings tears every time.
Definitely amongst the absolute best episodes and two-parters of Doctor Who. The writer of the episode also wrote a couple short stories /audio stories that build and follow up on the episodes (reading them will have spoilers for people not caught up on Doctor Who): The Shadow Passes; Shadow of a Doubt; and The Shadow in the Mirror
One of the things I think really makes this era of who work is how often regular people call the doctor out.
One of the most powerful Dr Who stories I’ve ever seen. In all of Classic Who and NuWho combined, there are few stories I love more than this. David is unbelievable. “He was being kind” is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard. And the ending… 😢
I love your reactions so much. They make an already great episode even greater. Thank you so much for giving us these videos, it feels like watching your favorite show together with someone who understands it in every aspect: intellectual, emotional and spiritual.
In my head canon, John Smith's journal ends up in the hands of Sydney Newman sometime in the early '60s, who thinks it would make a great TV show...
And Joan becomes a doctor herself
After seeing the Slitheen and the Dalek (a bug-eyed monster and a robot), Newman would have chucked it in the bin. Maybe Verity found it in a charity shop.
@ag4871 He left the Slitheen out. The Dakeks had potential, though.
I was today years old when I realised the guy playing Banes also played Viktor in Arcane.
Yeah this was one of those times that Doctor Who managed to absolutely smack you hard in the heart.