@@zemoxian I believe I saw in an interview he did a while back that he was given some bullet points basically and then he was just allowed to go however he wanted.
I’m on my 10th bonus year. When Vincent is having that breakdown that’s what the bad days looked like. Seeing him having such happy joyful moments, but then still being so horribly depressed and in so much paid that you still want it all to end, always makes me so emotional. That’s what it’s like. And it’s horrible. I’m so grateful that I got help,because now I’m about to be a father and I know how much I would have missed. Please do yourself a favour if you’re struggling. See someone, call a crisis line, when you feel like you’re going to decide to end it, go to the hospital. You don’t know how good you life can still turn out. Help is out there for you. ♥️♥️
One of the best episodes of new Who. Utterly beautiful and the gallery scenes at the end are heartbreaking. A shame that Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and many more films and TV shows) has only written this one episode of Who. You never know, though, if he comes up with a good idea I'm sure they'd have him back.
For as long as I can remember, Van Gogh fascinated me. Not only his art, but his personal story. I always said that if I had a time machine, I would go sit by his bed side, in his final days in the hospital. Not to save him, cuz timey wimey, but to be with him, tell him that he is remembered and loved, and that his art means so much to so many. When the trailer for this series was released, I was *nervous*! It could have gone reeeeallly bad easily. It's easy to portay Van Gogh as a "mad man", it is way trickier to tackle the complexity of depression, or any other mental health issue. And they nailed it. The real "invisible monster" is not an alien, and Van Gogh is not magically cured after meeting the Doctor. We cannot magically fix our loved ones who's dealing with mental health issues. But we can be there for them and try to add to their pile of good things. And this is why this episode is so damn good. I absolutely love how they chose to tackle such a complex subject, and they managed to do it without cheapening it.
I had a mutual friend who works in children's television here in Chile. When he saw this episode he said that "THIS is what TV can do!" And that he "wished he had the resources to make a show like that"... Of course it helped that he was a huge Van Gogh fan... D
Dr Who at its pure best. When Bill Nighy talks about Vincent as being the greatest artist, and Vincent hears this,,, oh god,,, tears galore. If only the artist of years gone by can actually see how much they are loved. A wonderful episode.
A story about depression that an eight-year-old can understand. This is something special, and important. Truly magnificent television, that encapsulates the very best of Doctor Who.
The fact that his end didn't change is especially realistic considering there wasn't mental health care or medication at that time. He didn't stand a chance.
The acting in this one, as well as the cinematography was superb. The was they set the various scenes to look like Van Gogh paintings was amazing. One of my top episodes ever.
I always loved sunflowers. What Vincent says about them being somewhere between life and death. Now I see them so much more deeply as beauty inexorably on a path to death. May we all bring joy to someone on our inexorable path. Be a sunflower.
It's about depression. he is fighting a monster no-one else can see. People just see him acting crazy. sometimes all you can do is be there and add to the pile of good things.
This has been my favorite episode of Doctor Who since the first time I saw it and for every single second of every day since then. As an artist (music) who hung it up without ever getting much in the way of acknowledgement or praise (I also was never anywhere close to Van Gogh’s level in my medium) there’s something so beautiful and rich in the end, when Vincent gets to see what his work eventually means to the world and in the message about depression as well. This episode hurts so wonderfully.
The Van Gogh expert is played by Bill Nigh. You've seen him before, I betcha. Pirates of The Caribbean? He's Davy Jones. Also in Shawn of The Dead, the stepdad. Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. And much, MUCH more! 💙
As far as I'm aware, the leading theory about Vincent's mental illness is that he had bipolar disorder, which this show represents fairly well. In this show's version of history, he was likely also mildly psychic, which paired very poorly with mental illness and superstitious neighbours.
The writer of this ep is one of my favourites, NZ author Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blackadder, Bridget Jones, About Time, Yesterday etc)
The end of this episode just destroys me every single time. Bill Nighy's description of Van Gogh, and Van Gogh hearing it, thanks to the Doctor - it's everything you want from a time travel story, isn't it? A major historical figure, who gets to hear part of his legacy so to speak and how important they wind up being to so many people. And to top it off, it's a very important episode about depression and mental health and the show handled it perfectly most would say. Showing the truth while also trying to explain it so a child could understand it and not be pushed away by fear. Just, terrific stuff. Moffat (and whoever wrote it if it wasn't Moffat himself)) should be very proud of this one.
'Van Go' is a very american way of saying it. 'Van Goff' is very british, but I believe neither of them is particularly accurate, and is supposed to be closer to 'Fan Hohh'
The problem is that that consonant (voiceless velar fricative) doesn't exist in most English accents (though it does in Irish, Scouse, and, what most people know it from, Scottish, as in "loch"). The British "goff" pronunciation is closer to the actual pronunciation than the American "gou."
@@StarkRG what i don't understand is how that came to be a problem. Just take your speaking parts and rearrange them in the required way. We all do that learning the languages that use the sounds, which are absent from our own languages. And they are supposed to be actors!
if you're familiar with the scottish pronunciation of Loch (as in Loch Ness), van Gogh is supposed to rhyme with that, with both G's sounding like the CH. Source: I am dutch, I speak dutch, and I even have living family members who have the same last name.
I've never been depressed, so don't know what it's like. I can empathize with people like Vincent, as my wife had bouts of depression. we could takl about it without evaluation or invalidation. this is my second favorite Doctor Who because of the scene of Vincent sharing with his vision of 'The Starry Night'. which demonstrates his ability to to see beyond the mundane into a beautiful spectrum of the world.
I can see that. It certainly makes more sense to me than using Blink to introduce someone. I see that mentioned quite and bit and, while it's an incredible episode, I don't think it's a good introduction one because it's so different from a typical episode (aka ... barely any Doctor or companion screentime).
1:47 the doctor's pronunciation is the British version but the gallery man is pronouncing it the more authentic Dutch way that Van Gogh would probably have said it himself.
This is in my top 5 episodes and makes me sob every time. Van Gogh was already my favorite artist anyway. That message about piles of good and piles of bad has stuck with me. I want to add as much good to the lives around me as possible. A beautiful, but honest look at depression. The cheese made it more palatable and not too upsetting.
Such a brilliant episode, and one of the highest ranked in every survey. I watch that scene in the museum at the end over and over again. It's so beautiful! Thank you for a great reaction. I've subscribed.
This is one of my favourite episodes, the metaphor of the enemy is really the unseen monster of depression, a monster that attacks the lives of so many people. I also wonder if from the line at 4:22 "I can hear the colours" means that Vincent suffered from synaesthesia which was undiagnosed at that time & could have led to the madness of depression. I saw a documentary on synaesthesia which is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. As for instance, as Vincent says hearing sounds when seeing colours. 15:22 This is the scene that steals the show, such a moving speech set to really emotional score.
Van Gough is one of those names that pronounced completely differently depending on where you’re from. We pronounce it “Van Go.” In some parts of the UK, they pronounce it “Van Goff.” In Holland, it’s pronounced more like “Van Gogh,” with a very very soft, throaty G sound
It's episodes like this that were part of Doctor Who from It's creation. The show was to be a mixture of science fiction and historical figures, to attract both grown-ups and children.
I must admit it’s amazing how small the Rory erased period is. We have this immediate aftermath, then an episode basically without Amy and then BOOM finale. Like you get it, let’s set things right to end the season, but it’s still relatively quick. Like they knew their sustainability limits
It’s the song at the end that gets the copyright claim. But those speeches are so important. Love love love this episode and just what we needed after Rory.
I wish it were just the song at the end. :/ The entire first five minutes of my original edit were flagged and then about 6 other spots throughout the video as well with some being multiple-minute sections of the video. YT was NOT happy with this one.
1 of my favorite episodes. And THE episode that convinced me to go to another VanGogh exibition. In 1999 some friends took me to a museum to see an exibition of portraits of VanGogh and the only one that i liked was by Monet. After watching the Starry Night explanation scene of this episode i decided to go to another museum some years ago and, since then, i saw 8 exibitions of Vincent and i can't stop. Cheers from Italy. Dan 🧡 P.S.: also i can't stop to go to SPN conventions and take photo-ops w/ Jensen ...
haha the conversation abt sleeping with Van Gogh (at least this version) is spot on! Also if we assume the TARDIS/Doctor must help people not get diseases with they visit the Medieval times or 'Dark Ages', I'm sure it's similar w STDs and stuff lol
This is my personal top favorite "directly relates to my life" episode of DW ❤ it so beautifully captures the tragedy and brilliance of Van Gogh, and how his mental illnesses affected his life and art. He was such a fascinating man!
I think this episode handles the invisible villain thing better than Midnight but different then Silence in the Library it goes a good job with the characters in it. A good historical episode. The not appreciated in the moment but is years later is very magical. The TARDIS/Amy inclusions are great. Amy could have made more changes if she did but yeah not the marrying type and yes the Rory mention hmm. The Doctor hasn't forgotten even if Amy has. She can't tell but it's still there for sure. Rory and how he comes back is so good.
This is probably my favorite episode of modern Who. I have dealt with depression and I thought that aspect of the episode was very well written and very well performed. I wouldn’t call it “fun” lol but is some of the best Who you will find.
I think the main reason Amy isn’t into Vincent is that she’s in mourning even though she doesn’t know it. She just learned how much she loves Rory and then he’s been erased from her memories leaving a large unfilled hole. She says she’s not the marrying kind even though she was on the verge of marrying Rory. It’s a weird sort of situation.
I believe Richard Curtis's sister had depression, and may have killed herself (apologies if I've got that wrong). Perhaps that's why he only wrote for DW once, he had a story to tell from the heart, and he told it. As someone who's struggled with depression for decades, I'm not completely sure what I think of how this episode tackles the issue. But even with that uncertainty, and a couple of unrelated quibbles, I still think it's a very good episode, and can see why for some people it's in the top tier. The "Provence" locations were mostly shot in Croatia! (Same as the "Venice" locations a few episodes back.)
this is hands down my favorite Matty episode. The ending with coldplay and Vincent crying _ its so hotting close to home and I weep every time. two dozen times rewatches - still cry... Same as Donna's goodbye.
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. I can't even imagine going through that kind of loss. I hope you're able to find peace with it sooner rather than later.
Let's remember that this episode was shown as part of the BBC's Mental Health Awareness week, so I think it's a pretty important one.
This is actually one of the most beloved episodes of Matt Smith's tenure as The Doctor.
i ALWAYS tear up when the guy is describing Van Gogh.... it hits me right in the feels
I can’t recall if those were Bill Nighy’s own words at the end but he apparently wanted to do this role because he’s such a big fan of Van Goth.
@@zemoxian I believe I saw in an interview he did a while back that he was given some bullet points basically and then he was just allowed to go however he wanted.
The Doctor's good things/bad things speech at the end of this episode is lodged permanently in my brain. It's so short and yet so important.
Why isn't depression an invisible blind space chicken that I can beat to death with a chair?
Based.
To be fair it was an easel
😂yes!
The point was not to kill the blind space chicken. It wasn't its fault. He was just as lost as Vincent was.
For what it's worth, I've never heard a single person irl utter a negative thought about this episode.
Depression, the greatest monster of them all.
And invisible to the eye, much like the alien creature in this episode
Sometimes, depression isn't as it's imagined. Sometimes it's just too personal to describe 🤕❤️🩹
This episode constantly ranks at the top of any list of viewers’ favorites. That scene of Vincent in the museum still makes my tear up.
As the song Vincent by Don McClean goes " Ragged men in ragged clothes" And here is the raggedy man he met.
I’m on my 10th bonus year. When Vincent is having that breakdown that’s what the bad days looked like. Seeing him having such happy joyful moments, but then still being so horribly depressed and in so much paid that you still want it all to end, always makes me so emotional. That’s what it’s like. And it’s horrible.
I’m so grateful that I got help,because now I’m about to be a father and I know how much I would have missed. Please do yourself a favour if you’re struggling. See someone, call a crisis line, when you feel like you’re going to decide to end it, go to the hospital. You don’t know how good you life can still turn out. Help is out there for you. ♥️♥️
One of the best episodes of new Who. Utterly beautiful and the gallery scenes at the end are heartbreaking. A shame that Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and many more films and TV shows) has only written this one episode of Who. You never know, though, if he comes up with a good idea I'm sure they'd have him back.
Yeah, those last gallery scenes really take the episode to a whole other level. Beautifully scripted, shot, and acted.
Oh, that's where they got Bill Nighy
@@BritanyBinges 100%, that scene is truly what made this episode so beautiful.
Everyone cries along with Vincent
For as long as I can remember, Van Gogh fascinated me. Not only his art, but his personal story. I always said that if I had a time machine, I would go sit by his bed side, in his final days in the hospital. Not to save him, cuz timey wimey, but to be with him, tell him that he is remembered and loved, and that his art means so much to so many.
When the trailer for this series was released, I was *nervous*! It could have gone reeeeallly bad easily. It's easy to portay Van Gogh as a "mad man", it is way trickier to tackle the complexity of depression, or any other mental health issue. And they nailed it.
The real "invisible monster" is not an alien, and Van Gogh is not magically cured after meeting the Doctor.
We cannot magically fix our loved ones who's dealing with mental health issues. But we can be there for them and try to add to their pile of good things. And this is why this episode is so damn good.
I absolutely love how they chose to tackle such a complex subject, and they managed to do it without cheapening it.
The concept of Doctor Who was originally pitched to the BBC as an educational series exploring history.
I had a mutual friend who works in children's television here in Chile.
When he saw this episode he said that "THIS is what TV can do!" And that he "wished he had the resources to make a show like that"...
Of course it helped that he was a huge Van Gogh fan...
D
Dr Who at its pure best. When Bill Nighy talks about Vincent as being the greatest artist, and Vincent hears this,,, oh god,,, tears galore. If only the artist of years gone by can actually see how much they are loved. A wonderful episode.
A story about depression that an eight-year-old can understand. This is something special, and important. Truly magnificent television, that encapsulates the very best of Doctor Who.
That museum scene at the end had me crying like a newborn baby and I am not ashamed!
The fact that his end didn't change is especially realistic considering there wasn't mental health care or medication at that time. He didn't stand a chance.
“Every life is a pile of good things and bad things…” my all time favorite speech from DW.
Knocks you sideways this one. One of the best. And by Richard Curtis no less.
Yeah, it definitely caught me off-guard at the end.
The last ten minutes gets me every single time.
I can see why. They got me again while I was editing this. 😭
Vincent conquers the invisible monster but he can’t defeat depression.
The acting in this one, as well as the cinematography was superb. The was they set the various scenes to look like Van Gogh paintings was amazing. One of my top episodes ever.
I always loved sunflowers. What Vincent says about them being somewhere between life and death. Now I see them so much more deeply as beauty inexorably on a path to death. May we all bring joy to someone on our inexorable path. Be a sunflower.
It's about depression. he is fighting a monster no-one else can see. People just see him acting crazy. sometimes all you can do is be there and add to the pile of good things.
This episode should be in the top 5 of all new Dr. Who series .The doctor couldn't see the monster because it was Vincent's own psychological demons .
This has been my favorite episode of Doctor Who since the first time I saw it and for every single second of every day since then. As an artist (music) who hung it up without ever getting much in the way of acknowledgement or praise (I also was never anywhere close to Van Gogh’s level in my medium) there’s something so beautiful and rich in the end, when Vincent gets to see what his work eventually means to the world and in the message about depression as well. This episode hurts so wonderfully.
The Van Gogh expert is played by Bill Nigh. You've seen him before, I betcha. Pirates of The Caribbean? He's Davy Jones. Also in Shawn of The Dead, the stepdad. Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. And much, MUCH more! 💙
This is one of the most beloved episodes, for that 2nd scene in the museum.
As far as I'm aware, the leading theory about Vincent's mental illness is that he had bipolar disorder, which this show represents fairly well. In this show's version of history, he was likely also mildly psychic, which paired very poorly with mental illness and superstitious neighbours.
The writer of this ep is one of my favourites, NZ author Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blackadder, Bridget Jones, About Time, Yesterday etc)
The end of this episode just destroys me every single time. Bill Nighy's description of Van Gogh, and Van Gogh hearing it, thanks to the Doctor - it's everything you want from a time travel story, isn't it? A major historical figure, who gets to hear part of his legacy so to speak and how important they wind up being to so many people. And to top it off, it's a very important episode about depression and mental health and the show handled it perfectly most would say. Showing the truth while also trying to explain it so a child could understand it and not be pushed away by fear. Just, terrific stuff. Moffat (and whoever wrote it if it wasn't Moffat himself)) should be very proud of this one.
Vincent at museum gives me all the feels. And when they lay down to look at the starry sky it is just ecstatic joy.
This is such a brilliant episode
'Van Go' is a very american way of saying it. 'Van Goff' is very british, but I believe neither of them is particularly accurate, and is supposed to be closer to 'Fan Hohh'
It’s like Americans went for “Hugh” while the British went for “Rough” and “Tough”
Most of the Brits in this ep say Goth, including the actor for the man himself. Kinda ridiculous tbh
The problem is that that consonant (voiceless velar fricative) doesn't exist in most English accents (though it does in Irish, Scouse, and, what most people know it from, Scottish, as in "loch"). The British "goff" pronunciation is closer to the actual pronunciation than the American "gou."
@@StarkRG what i don't understand is how that came to be a problem. Just take your speaking parts and rearrange them in the required way. We all do that learning the languages that use the sounds, which are absent from our own languages. And they are supposed to be actors!
if you're familiar with the scottish pronunciation of Loch (as in Loch Ness), van Gogh is supposed to rhyme with that, with both G's sounding like the CH.
Source: I am dutch, I speak dutch, and I even have living family members who have the same last name.
I just recently went to an interactive exhibition of Van Gogh on top of watching some documentaries and the man breaks my heart. Such a tortured soul.
I have seen this episode many many times and I cry every time. It's so good.
I've never been depressed, so don't know what it's like. I can empathize with people like Vincent, as my wife had bouts of depression. we could takl about it without evaluation or invalidation.
this is my second favorite Doctor Who because of the scene of Vincent sharing with his vision of 'The Starry Night'. which demonstrates his ability to to see beyond the mundane into a beautiful spectrum of the world.
Very much a fan favorite from this era. When polls are taken about introducing non fans to the Doctor, this often tops the polls.
I can see that. It certainly makes more sense to me than using Blink to introduce someone. I see that mentioned quite and bit and, while it's an incredible episode, I don't think it's a good introduction one because it's so different from a typical episode (aka ... barely any Doctor or companion screentime).
To be honest, this one of the highest rated Doctor Who episodes. It is pretty well loved.
1:47 the doctor's pronunciation is the British version but the gallery man is pronouncing it the more authentic Dutch way that Van Gogh would probably have said it himself.
18:03 Honestly, if you can find someone who will admit to that you should probably buy a lottery ticket and start spending the winnings the same day
This is in my top 5 episodes and makes me sob every time. Van Gogh was already my favorite artist anyway. That message about piles of good and piles of bad has stuck with me. I want to add as much good to the lives around me as possible. A beautiful, but honest look at depression. The cheese made it more palatable and not too upsetting.
"Chicken'" monster or not this is my favourite Amy era episode.
One of my favourite episodes of all Who. Very emotional and love seeing the world through his eyes. And not cheesy at all, imo.
The scenes set in the gallery was filmed in the National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff.
Such a brilliant episode, and one of the highest ranked in every survey. I watch that scene in the museum at the end over and over again. It's so beautiful! Thank you for a great reaction. I've subscribed.
One of the true classics of the show, imo
This is one of my favourite episodes, the metaphor of the enemy is really the unseen monster of depression, a monster that attacks the lives of so many people. I also wonder if from the line at 4:22 "I can hear the colours" means that Vincent suffered from synaesthesia which was undiagnosed at that time & could have led to the madness of depression. I saw a documentary on synaesthesia which is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. As for instance, as Vincent says hearing sounds when seeing colours. 15:22 This is the scene that steals the show, such a moving speech set to really emotional score.
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you Vincent 💗
The rest of the lyrics is in the song "Vincent", by Don McLean. Worth a listen after this episode.
@@djankowski I did find it & listen afterwards.
Van Gough is one of those names that pronounced completely differently depending on where you’re from. We pronounce it “Van Go.” In some parts of the UK, they pronounce it “Van Goff.” In Holland, it’s pronounced more like “Van Gogh,” with a very very soft, throaty G sound
It's episodes like this that were part of Doctor Who from It's creation. The show was to be a mixture of science fiction and historical figures, to attract both grown-ups and children.
The historical elements were meant to be a central part of the original conception of Doctor Who.
I must admit it’s amazing how small the Rory erased period is. We have this immediate aftermath, then an episode basically without Amy and then BOOM finale. Like you get it, let’s set things right to end the season, but it’s still relatively quick. Like they knew their sustainability limits
It's so quick I honestly didn't even remember it happened until I got to the end of the previous episode while I was editing it. Lol
Without question, this is one of my Top 5 favorite episodes of the entire series 🤍
It’s the song at the end that gets the copyright claim. But those speeches are so important. Love love love this episode and just what we needed after Rory.
I wish it were just the song at the end. :/ The entire first five minutes of my original edit were flagged and then about 6 other spots throughout the video as well with some being multiple-minute sections of the video. YT was NOT happy with this one.
Oh I’m so sorry. This is an all time favorite among Who fans. I like this much better than the previous two parter.
this is one of the most well reviewed and remembered episodes of new who. and its absolutely beautiful
1 of my favorite episodes.
And THE episode that convinced me to go to another VanGogh exibition.
In 1999 some friends took me to a museum to see an exibition of portraits of VanGogh and the only one that i liked was by Monet.
After watching the Starry Night explanation scene of this episode i decided to go to another museum some years ago and, since then, i saw 8 exibitions of Vincent and i can't stop.
Cheers from Italy.
Dan 🧡
P.S.: also i can't stop to go to SPN conventions and take photo-ops w/ Jensen ...
I loved this episode. No matter how many times I watch it, it never fails to bring up the emotions. The actor who plays Van Gogh just sells the part.
haha the conversation abt sleeping with Van Gogh (at least this version) is spot on! Also if we assume the TARDIS/Doctor must help people not get diseases with they visit the Medieval times or 'Dark Ages', I'm sure it's similar w STDs and stuff lol
Haha, fair point. In that case, he could definitely get it! 😂
One of my favorite Dr Who episodes of all time. I still cry, so don't feel bad for letting it out. In the words of Ren "We are human." IYKYK
This is my personal top favorite "directly relates to my life" episode of DW ❤ it so beautifully captures the tragedy and brilliance of Van Gogh, and how his mental illnesses affected his life and art. He was such a fascinating man!
"I would imagine there are some people who dont like this episode" if they exist, i haven't found them
Thanks, Britany! ⏳ This is one of my all-time favorites.
I can see why. I don't know that it would be my in top episodes of the entire show, but it's certainly a top one for me this series.
@@BritanyBinges 😊
One of the best episodes from the best Doctor of them all.
Bill Nighy (Museum Guide) has been offered the job as The Doctor in the past...but turned it down.
This is a spectacular episode. In these Doctor Who shines.
One of my favorite doctor who episodes ever
I think this episode handles the invisible villain thing better than Midnight but different then Silence in the Library it goes a good job with the characters in it. A good historical episode. The not appreciated in the moment but is years later is very magical. The TARDIS/Amy inclusions are great. Amy could have made more changes if she did but yeah not the marrying type and yes the Rory mention hmm. The Doctor hasn't forgotten even if Amy has. She can't tell but it's still there for sure. Rory and how he comes back is so good.
This is probably my favorite episode of modern Who. I have dealt with depression and I thought that aspect of the episode was very well written and very well performed. I wouldn’t call it “fun” lol but is some of the best Who you will find.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone really not say they liked this episode. Its beloved
This was one of my absolute favorite Doctor Who episodes and it never fails to make me cry at the end!
This is my absolute favorite 11th Doctor episode. Makes me cry at the end every time!
Anyone who doesn't love this episode is a monster at heart.
Probably one of my favourite episodes of doctor who
one of my favourite episodes of all time
Yep cried like a baby watching this episode more than once 😢
This is the episode that I feel best encapsulates DW as a whole.
Yeah, I can see why some people use this episode as an introduction for people who've never seen DW.
I think the main reason Amy isn’t into Vincent is that she’s in mourning even though she doesn’t know it. She just learned how much she loves Rory and then he’s been erased from her memories leaving a large unfilled hole. She says she’s not the marrying kind even though she was on the verge of marrying Rory.
It’s a weird sort of situation.
I believe Richard Curtis's sister had depression, and may have killed herself (apologies if I've got that wrong). Perhaps that's why he only wrote for DW once, he had a story to tell from the heart, and he told it.
As someone who's struggled with depression for decades, I'm not completely sure what I think of how this episode tackles the issue. But even with that uncertainty, and a couple of unrelated quibbles, I still think it's a very good episode, and can see why for some people it's in the top tier.
The "Provence" locations were mostly shot in Croatia! (Same as the "Venice" locations a few episodes back.)
This episode make me cry every single time 😢
One of the best episodes ever the ending still makes me cry even now just thinking bout it😢
I have been to the actual exhibit at the Musee' Dorsey in 2013.
Oh Britany when you said you were getting emotional over the chicken thing I was like oh you have no idea what's coming 😂
😂 That's often the case with this show. It has a tendency to punch me right in the feels when I least expect it. lol
@@BritanyBinges I wish I could tell you that you won't cry ever again watching this amazing show 🤣🤣🤣
@@bradleythebodycount29 It would be a lie if I said this was the last time I cried. lol
I love this episode.
It's really amazing that you are watching classic ❤
Me scrolling through UA-cam:
Oh, Britany's got a knew DW reaction. This episode?? Even better.
New?
this is hands down my favorite Matty episode. The ending with coldplay and Vincent crying _ its so hotting close to home and I weep every time. two dozen times rewatches - still cry... Same as Donna's goodbye.
37... well at least i made it to almost 39 yet... more to come!
This is the best Dr Who episode.
This is one the most popular standalone episodes in Doctor Who, it was scripted, directed and acted very well.
This ep always breaks me. ❤
the actual scifi aspect of this story, and the alien, are pretty weak - but the van Gogh story really elevates this to the sublime
What a tearjerker😢
People don't like this episode? this is like one of the universally beloved episodes in all of Who
The One With The Space Chicken.
oh man... my best friend died last month... i suddenly started crying when he said "you've lost someone... why are you crying" ...
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. I can't even imagine going through that kind of loss. I hope you're able to find peace with it sooner rather than later.
@@BritanyBinges Thank you. feelings tend to sneak up on me. *sigh*
@@artiepavlov6022 That's understandable. And, I imagine it will be that way for a long time.
This is one of the most beloved episodes of Dr Who.
"Van Gogh could get it" so real of you!
I cried, too, when they showed Vicent what he would become.
I bawl my eyes out every time with this episode. It’s such a beautiful episode.
This is one of my favorite episodes❤❤❤
I was really excited to revisit it for the first time when it came time to edit this video. It made me cry all over again. 💙
I use the life is a pile of good thing and bad things quote in my counseling work