I knew it would be Donna’s mind wipe at number 1. It’s so tragic. One thing that hits me about it that you didn’t mention was the juxtaposition with Wilfred’s joy as he skips through the house to answer the door because Donna’s come home, only to be met with the Doctor collapsed on the floor clutching Donna in his arms saying “Help me”. The doctor’s vulnerability is not something we often see.
John Smith desperately wanting to stay with Joan Redfern and not go back to being the Doctor in "Family Of Blood" should be on here. The sense of loneliness and wishing that it didn't have to be is clearly a real part of the Doctor--a part he keeps buried, but in that situation it couldn't stay buried. The Doctor's life comes with a price, and that scene showed part of that very well.
The line with him asking "What sort of a man" wouldn't have factored falling in love as a potential factor into his plan...I dunno, something about the way Tennant delivers that line, the face, the body language, all of it just breaks my heart and is the absolute high point of series 3.
Dalek - when the Dalek can't accept it's new life and asks Rose if she's afraid. Father's Day - Pete's goodbye and death. Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways - the Doctor sends Rose home and Rose talking to Jackie about Pete. The Girl in the Fireplace - the letter. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday - the Doctor loses Rose and that scene on the wall. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - River's death (again, more powerful knowing her full story and watching after THoRS). Turn Left - the whole episode is depressing and it's wonderfully done. Not sad, per se. Stolen Earth/Journey's End - Donna's memory wiped. The Waters of Mars - Brooke's backstory and her children's future, and when Steffi dies watching videos of her children. Vincent and the Doctor - "one of the greatest men who ever lived". The Girl Who Waited - when Rory can't choose. The Angels Take Manhattan - Rory and Amy jumping off the building. The Husbands of River Song - its bittersweet ending. World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls - the whole Bill scenario and the Doctor "hoping there would have been stars". All in all, Doctor Who can be very depressing at times. Bonus: P.S. - just the whole thing, really.
#1) Amy & Rory's death #2) 11th Doctor's regeneration #3) The girl who waited (All of it) #4) End of Vincent and the Doctor #5) Donna leaving #6) The End of The Doctor Falls #7) Oswin is a dalek #8) End of The girl in the fireplace #9) Turn left (most of it) #10) John Smith not wanting to leave.
When Doctor locks out of the TARDIS the older version of Amy in The girl who waits is just a killing. Especially when Rory is talking with her and she is asking him not to open if he loves her cause if he was opening she would go in and Rory tells the Doctor "you are making me like you why are you making me like you". Personally I find that moment into the Top 5 but still great choices
One of my saddest Dr Who moments is when the doctor finds out the Brigadier had died. The Doctor had forgot that humans have a short life span, and tomorrow might be to late. Just the slight shock on the doctors face made the scene.
what episode was that in again? i only started watching the classic series recently so that scene where he finds out didn't mean anything to me at the time
He found found out in "The wedding of River Song". The Brigadier was the UNIT commander in the classic series. They butted heads but respected each other and understood each other. .
I think the one that hits me the hardest is Vincent and the Doctor, partly because I myself struggle with mental health, and because I have friends that struggle with it, I have lost a friend who struggled with it. And coming out of a time where mental health is still very much a taboo, and not very well understood, they handled it with such grace and truth, they show the good part and they show the bad parts of the life of a man who is unwell. On top of that is something that is so common; not believing in yourself, this is an artist who is revered as one of the greatest artists of all time and he hated himself and his own works, that is so true and so common. I will forever appreciate how they handled this episode.
I am with you there, I suffer mental illness to and it was a very moving episode, we need more like this to show the world it is legit and maybe even drop some research from IRL to tell people that physical, sexual and verbal abuse does actually damage the brain physically as well which can lead to mental health issues, when people say they are damaged it is actually true. It is just invisible to anyone without access to high grade medical scanners.
That's probably the episode that has gone up the most in my estimation from initial viewing to rewatches. As I mentioned, I kind of didn't really get it the first time I saw it (thank goodness I wasn't doing episode by episode reviews at that point.) But I feel in many ways it shows an understanding of depression, it's impact on those who suffer those who love people with it, that is hard to find anywhere else. It's insightful without ever being exploitative.
Council of Geeks I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and severe clinical depression. That episode gave a gave to the struggle in the sense we don't just lay there wallowing in self pity. We have moments of happiness. Of love. Functionality. Even with him falling in love with Amy and wanting a bunch or ginger babies, he was still hurting. The thoughts never left him. Seeing how much he was loved and adored and the impact it would leave on the world, it couldn't save him. That really is what it's like everyday. As much as I wake up looking forward to seeing my guy, I still have that moment where I feel, damn....I woke up today. I appreciate more than I can articulate it gave a face to mental illness without it looking like a monster. Most people hear mental illness and are instantly on guard like we are going to snap at any moment and cause them harm. There are a few unfortunately at that point. But most are harmless people you already know and love who just silently drag the boulder with them because they know most likely they will be misunderstood. Thank you for seeing the significance of this episode. Thank you for seeing the bigger picture. Thank you for your growth, understanding, and compassion.
1. Vincent still dies 2. River's death 3. The Ponds 'Death 4. Donna's memory wipe 5. Ten saving Wilf 5. Eleven's regeneration 6. Rose/Ten separation 7. Failing to save Bill 8. Simm Master's Death (End of Time) 9. Ten's regeneration 10. Ten talking about losing companions (School reunion) All of these hit me for different reasons but Vincent's hits me the most. Just that topic of Suicide affects me because as someone who goes through depression I know it's hard. But most of all I lost a good friend to it back in 2011. So yeah.
The "who I am is where I stand, where I stand is where I fall" speech and the scene where Twelve gets gunned down by the cybermen in the Doctor Falls got to me. It's not only seeing a character that I've grown with over three series and become invested in going through all that, it's that he's chosen to do this to himself. He goes up against impossible odds, knowing that there is no way he will survive this for children that may not all escape or live for very long even if he does this. And he does this because he knows it's the right thing even if it doesn't work.
I’ve got a scene, mostly because of Rory, who I relate very much as a character. It’s the scene on the roof in The Angels Take Manhattan. The entire thing where he decides to jump and Amy doesn’t let him, and then they both jump.
The saddest moment for me had to be the speech 11 gives in the rings of Akhaten. We truly see an old man trapped in a young man's body and as the viewer we know how much he has been through since series 1 of the soft reboot and the song in the background could be interpreted as being about him.
10. Lady Cassandra's death (New Earth) - Say what you want about this episode, but it honestly choked me up to see Cassandra dying in her younger self's arms while the latter cries for help. It just does something to me. 9. The Master's death (Last of the Time Lords) - Just seeing the Doctor holding the Master as he died and telling him to regenerate. 8. Clara's death (Face the Raven) - It always gets to me when she says goodbye to the Doctor and goes into the street to face her death. And the fact that the Doctor is mourning her death for a long time while in the confession dial just gets to me. 7. Vincent's death (Vincent and the Doctor) - same reasons as in the video. And the song by Athlete really doesn't help. 6. The Ood song (Planet of the Ood) - It just killed me to see the Ood sitting in that cage and essentially waiting to be lobotomized. 5. The hymn on the motorway (Gridlock) - I always blubber like an idiot when I see everyone holding hands and singing with tears streaming down their faces. 4. Idris' Death (The Doctor's Wife) - It gets to me seeing Idris and the Doctor cry like that. 3. Bill's cyber conversion (The Doctor Falls) - Same reasons as the video. 2. The 8th Doctor's regeneration (The Night of the Doctor) - I found myself empathizing with the Eighth Doctor's feelings of despair when he chose to regenerate. He wanted to avoid the time war, but ended up being dragged into it anyway. Just seeing one of the nicest incarnations of the Doctor get utterly broken like that just killed me. 1. Bill being tested (Lie of the Land) - I know she was just being tested, but just seeing Bill get betrayed by the Doctor was utterly heart-wrenching for me to watch. He was her last glimmer of hope and the look on her face just sold it for me. To be honest, I thought she was going to shoot HERSELF with that gun.
Counting out Classic Who really leaves out some really sad moments that get to me. For example, at the end of the First Doctor's episode "The Massacre" the Doctor is left alone in the TARDIS for the first time, and there is this heartbreaking moment where he just sits there feeling abandoned and useless, and also isolated from his people as he wonders if he should just turn around and go home, but then realizes he can't even do that. I had never felt so terrible for the Doctor. The end of Earthshock is tragic as well, Susan's goodbye in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"... so many moments that have more effect on me than much of NuWho. I will say that in NuWho, Donna's goodbye really hit me. The idea that the best days of her life were now gone, and hearing Wilfred cry that she was better with the Doctor was tragic.
Donna is my favourite character and such a sad character, in spite of having so much fun and humour and wonder, she was also quite vulnerable, for all her shouting at the world and sarcasm she doesn't believe she is as important as everyone believes she is and then is ultimately denied a choice and has all that joy taken away, once again the world knows how great she is or the wonderful things she did, but she never will
I felt that his regeneration was selfish, and was offensive to the next doctor. He made it out to be like he was going to die and that the next doctor wasn't really him, even though he has regenerated many many times before and this one would be no different.
1) Vincent and the Doctor. The scene in Le Musee d'Orsay chokes me up EVERY TIME! For me, it is the realization that someone who has seen himself as such a madman in life, in this one particular moment, is given solace that he did so many beautiful things that live on after his time. Just beautiful and it chokes me up every time. 2) 11th Doctor's regeneration: "We all change. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's ok. That's good. You gotta keep moving. So long as you remember all the people that you used to be." This is how not just the Doctor changes, but how we change in life too. People and things come and go and regardless, you change because of every single event that happens in your life. When this first aired, I choked up immediately because I was going from one important point in time to another. Plus, well, Matt is regenerating. 3) The Doctor Falls: "I do it because it's right! Because it's decent. And above all, it's kind!" The humanity of 12 shows here. Despite his old school Doctor vibe and Scottish crossness, 12 made me choke up here. He's helpless because he can't save Bill, but despite this, isn't trying to solve things out of anger or revenge. He stays true to he is. Going to be gut wrenching to see 12 regenerate. 4) Doomsday: The scene you explained gets at me but the beach scene is more personal for me. At a too late moment, to finally reveal you love someone, but can't make it work at all. That's what Rose was doing. The one you can never have just hits very close to home. 5) The Wedding of River Song: River has a meltdown at the end about the Doctor not loving her. Honestly, 11 showed at times a bit of neglect in showing how he truly felt about River because he knew what her fate would be. 12 matures especially after he's present in hearing the Doctor never goes around falling in love. He doesn't get mad or show emotion in all of this, but proves her wrong by just saying "Hello Sweetie." 6) Journey's End: You did a really good job summing up exactly how I feel about Donna getting her mind erased. An addition to this, sad 10 in the rain about ready to leave chokes me up. 7) Logopolis: 4's death always is a macabre way to go for me. Tom Baker's big grin flashing in this scene is the saddest big grin I've ever seen. He knew his death was already impending, but just that subtle grin followed by "It's the end, but the moment has already been prepared for." makes me lose it. 8) The Girl in the Fireplace: One of the more classic cases of "Too late to save" in my opinion. Madame de Pompadour was waiting for the Doctor again, but the timelines didn't sync up when he returned.
I always thought of the Logopolis scene as a triumphant one. It's terrifying when all the villains' ghosts are berating the Doctor, bit then it completely reverses the tone with all the companions urging him to keep living.
The Vincent when he went to the gallery was a hard hitting moment, but drs talk with Wilfred about saying how proud he would be if he was his father was so pure
One of the saddest moments for me personally is Master's death in The Last of the Time Lords, just because of how much I pity the Doctor at this moment. He clearly felt all alone in the universe, even with his companions. When he met the Master he, beyond all reason, hoped not to be anymore, and when this hope is wrenched away, ypu can feel all of his pain and loss and sense of hopelessness, that I can't help but tear up.
I totally respect your list, but I would also like to mention...Rose orders to Dalek to self-destruct in "Dalek." Upon finding out the Dalek absorbed her DNA and saw it "evolve" into new thoughts of compassion, beauty, hope...Rose had to feel a bond that her simple touch had expanded it's views to transcend the evil it was. Then the Dalek rejects it and says that "evolution" is why Rose must order the Dalek to kill itself. Her expanding of the Dalek's consciousness in so many positive ways has been ruled an abomination. Further more...the Dalek can't unilaterally self-destruct, he must be ordered to by the one who had those positive effects on the Dalek. Imagine giving someone good advice and they follow it and becomes happy, only to decide they can't be happy. Now add a DNA genetic bond to that.
It's not the saddest moment, but when that sticks with me is from 'The Girl Who Waited', where the Doctor leaves older Amy and Rory's reaction towards the Doctor's decision.
[Spoiler Alert] Human Nature / The Family of Blood These moments (at least, the ones I've seen; I haven't seen anything after Capaldi's first series) are great picks, and I would put most of them on a top 10, too. I would also include the scene from the aforementioned episode where, at the end of the second half, John Smith is struggling with the idea of opening the fob watch and essentially erasing his identity in favor of The Doctor's. Something about Tennant's performance just struck a deep nerve in me, and I definitely choked up. I think I liked it for similar reasons to the Donna moments you included: realizing that you're gonna die but that you have no choice and that you have to die for the greater good. Even though Smith remains as a part of the Doctor's personality, his identity as an encapsulated individual is gone as a result. The nurse's reaction to the Doctor afterward was also powerful (including stating how much braver Smith was), but not like the struggle Smith had to go through. That's also the scene that cemented David Tennant in my mind as a great actor. (Still haven't seen his Hamlet!)
Man, I wept so hard! Personally, I found the ending of Hell Bent sadder because the Doctor ‘couldn’t see’ Clara, just the way she couldn’t see him in Deep Breath 😭
18:20 Wow! Thanks for making the show's most heartbreaking moment about a million times sadder! But seriously, I'm with you on number one. I honestly can't rewatch that episode because it's so painful.
Most emotional for me is "Before I go, I just want to tell you you were fantastic. And d'you know what? So was I!" The music there sells it as the climax of the Ninth Doctor's life, just as he dies. And he takes it with a smile. That being said, "I don't want to go gets me hard as well".
I know it isn't necessarily 'Doctor Who' but I cried during the torchwood episode where the three people from the past where brought into modern day Cardiff (I don't remeber the title.) You know it's a good episode when it brings you to tears when a characteronly just introduced in that episode dies.
Out of Time is one of the best Torchwood episodes. The saddest moment for me in that episode is when that guy visits his son who's really old and suffering from Alzheimer's and they're talking about childhood memories.
Yeah, that's what I was referencing. Fragments also has an Alzheimer's story for Owen which is really depressing as well. And then of course Exit Wounds killing Owen and Tosh and Children of Earth killing off Ianto are also sad moments, too.
Was that the one where that teenager fell through the rift and then cane back as an old man with a ton of mental health problems? Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve watched Torchwood.
I was expecting Amy (and Rory's) death to be somewhere on the list. How Matt Smith reacts just breaks my heart. And seeing how Amy would undoubtedly rather die than never see Rory again. And on that same note, in Amy's Choice where Amy decides that she would rather die than live in a world without Rory. Heartbreaking.
Your take on the Vincent van Gogh episode struck a chord in my heart. As someone who struggles with depression, thank you for saying that any time is not invalid.
Some of my saddest Moments The Death of Clara The Death of Bill Turn Left ( Just the episode in general.) Matt Smiths Regeneration Peter Capaldi's Speech to the Zygon Matt Smiths Speech on akatan
Oh, I can’t believe Amy choosing to turn away from the angel, to tell the Doctor goodbye, isn’t on this list. The choice she made is heartbreaking enough, but the fact that she used her last second just to see his face one more time...ugh. That whole conversation, “I will never be able to see you again,” her sobbing, the way he just....shatters, completely, when her name appears on the gravestone....dude didn’t even WANT another companion after....
Given how much I enjoyed Tennant at the time and was skeptical about Smith, I'm surprised that "I don't want to go" didn't hit me harder at the time. I mean, it was still rough, but honestly I think his moment with Joan's grand-daughter at the book signing struck me as sadder. Not entirely sure why that is.
Laura Kay the whole End of Time was one of the saddest episodes for me. We knew The Doctor is going to die because of the prophecy but we just didn’t know how
The moment with Wilfred and the gun hits my dad really hard even without seeing more of Wilf and 10 than that single episode, it is such a powerful moment and episode. I know a moment that really hits me that you didn't mention is the scene with Danny Pink as a cyberman in the cemetery because of what is going on inside of and between all three of those characters (Clara, Doctor, Danny). It's just so well done and heart wrenching. It's not my own #1 saddest moment, but I thought I'd toss it into the comment section regardless. As to my own #1 saddest moment, that's actually the scene where 10 comes to realize just how he's going to die, right after his own moment of hope that he might live, and goes through his own series of emotions about it before, to make it even sadder, Wilfred (my favorite character in the series period, btw) has to watch what happens, gains a bit of hope that he's wrong and then loses that hope and once again finds himself unable to help 10 when he knows 10 is suffering deeply. It tears me up. Think about it, after all. Wilf's motivation through that entire episode (after the talk in the cafe) is to help then save the Doctor, so to ultimately be the reason the doctor dies then _still_ be unable to help him... Brutal.
Donna was even more brutal due to the fact the Doctor has a choice, let his friend die or let her live but never be able to be her friend anymore and lose everything they had, it was 2 knives in the heart for me, one for Donna and one for the Doctor.
I really like this channel i mean it covers a wide range from doctor who to stranger things to marvel. If im honest im here for doctor who but every episode makes me smile (apart from this one for reasons :P). I cried when the empty child finally found his mummy
who dares to not like river song, she's wonderfully amazing! That said, for me Clara's death is one of the most sad moments, it broke my heart and i cried like a little baby because she's one of my favourite companions
Surprised Angels Take Manhattan didn’t make the cut anywhere. That whole episode had me between anxiety and sadness. Vincent and The Doctor is another one of my favorite episodes, and that final scene is definitely in my top 10 saddest/most emotional.
Yeah, for as much as I loved Amy and Rory, Angels Take Manhattan didn't hit me in the feels as much as I would have thought. It's still got some really good moments though, and I wouldn't take that away from anybody who got that lump in the throat from it.
I have just started watching doctor who ( started with season 5 sice that is whats on netflix, no 1 - 4 ) I love and adore the 11 doctor even though i have not seen any others :) The Amy/Rory scene killed me since it was so sad, not that they grew old together and died ( everyone dos that) But the fact that the Doctor was left behind unable to save them or help them. I loved the chemistry Amy and Rory had with the doctor, it was so real, like watching old friends :) I will watch all of doctor who, but the 11 doctor will always be special for me :) I think my fav episode is the first where he met amy :) “900 years of time and space and I've never met someone who wasn't important.” ― The 11th Doctor
All of these get to me, but Hell Bent, when The Doctor tell Clara he would absolutely know her if he saw her just hits me hard. Idk why, but the whole seen just reminds me of my exes and the love I had for them.
Classic Era must be the Doctor all alone after Steven leaving. Just listening to the Audio runs chills down my spine, the doctor sounds so defeated and hollowed out. And to top it off he even considers going home, just to realize the next second that he never ever can, and they would regenerate him on the SPOT (ie. kill him).
Here's my list 10: River Song's death (Forest Of The Dead) 9: The Twelfth Doctor says goodbye to Bill and Nardole (Twice Upon A Time) 8: Clara's phone call (Deep Breath) 7: The Master's death (Last Of The Time lords) 6: The Doctor and Rose say goodbye (Doomsday) 5: The singing towers of darrillium (The Husbands Of River Song) 4: Amy and Rory get zapped back in time (The Angels Take Manhattan) 3: The Eleventh Doctor's regeneration (The Time Of The Doctor) 2: The Doctor Wipes Donna's memory (Journeys End) 1: The Tenth Doctors Regeneration (The End Of Time Part 2)
I think that the saddest moment is the one in wich Ashildr remember her past and Capaldi reading the diaries; Imagining the pain of a mother seeing her childred die is incredibly painful.
I think a really underrated moment comes from New Earth when Lady Cassandra realizes she’s going to die, as well as the fact that it’s her fault, having to look at the beauty she lost. She was truly the last person to ever tell herself she was beautiful. Yes I know the episode wasn’t that good but it’s still a good moment.
The coolest/saddest part of Wilf giving the Doctor a gun is the fact that Bernard Cribbins was in (I forget which war)- but he never killed a n y b o d y. And he was proud of that. (He was also in talks to play the fourth doctor way back when they were considering people for the role)
These are some of my personal favorites Amy and Rory get taken by the angels (Angels Take Manhattan) River's goodbye (The Name of the Doctor) Jenny's death (The Doctor's Daughter) The "I gave you up" scene (Asylum of the Daleks) Take my memories (Rings of Akhaten) Amy forgets Rory and Rory's death (Cold Blood) Donna begs the Doctor to save someone (Fires of Pompeii) Just the moments that really hit me
The one that got me the most would be when the doctor brings Vincent to the present and he just breaks down when he sees his impact and hearing just how much he touched the curator.
Love the list, but the only thing I would really have to change for me would be adding would be Matt Smith's last moments, the speech and seeing little Amy again. It has been how many years and I have just gotten to the point that I can watch it and I still cry. Watching it the first time is one of the handful of time I can remember just ugly crying over a tv or movie. The Heidi move when I was younger, and Ianto Jone's death in Torchwood are a few. No I will go watch the funny list!
Love this list as well as the suggestions in the comments but I'm genuinely surprised about no mention of the the end of the family of blood when the doctor and Martha visit Tim at the war memorial
What should have been on your list was on your list because it was your list. However, my list would have included when Idris TARDIS said "Hello Doctor" when she said goodbye. It just made me feel how the TARDIS had just wanted to take part in his life the way she had seen so many other's do and struck a note of her unable to be requited love for him.
My saddest moment is the "I don't want to go!" by ten... that tearing, that deep pain he has and that need to stay like he is... it always get's me... every single time... and i have Vale Decem as my ringtone xD so every time i get a call i get reminded of it...
The moment that gets me comes from End of Time part 2, @ Donna's wedding when 10 gives Wilf and Sylvia the lottery ticket that he bought from money he went back in time to borrow from Geoff Noble. The look on Donna's mother face breaks my heart every time I see it. Honorable mention: The look and scream from Ten when Rose is pulled towards the void in Doomsday. Eleven getting choked up when Clara mentions Trenzalore from The Name of the Doctor, 'are you sure it was Trenzalore?' Ten coming back for Madame de Pompadour in Girl in the Fireplace to find out she has died. The King asking Ten what she wrote to him, and Ten just silently putting her letter in his pocket. Enjoy your channel.
I agree with number 2. I would've also mentioned ten's speech later on in the same episode when he goes 'i could do so much more' that makes me tear up
My saddests were Donna Noble losing her memories then Wilf tells the Doctor in the rain how whenever he will look up at the stars he'll think of him. Amy Pond and Rory's death scene. The Doctor finding out the Brigadier had died. The Doctors final time with River Song. My final one and the saddest was Donna's fake life and how she thought everything that was stored in her library was fake including her husband. Only turns out her husband was real and he goes to shout Donna but his stutter plays up and he goes 'D...D...DONN!!' and hes zapped away never seeing Donna again as she goes away thinking he never existed. To me having a stutter when nervous that one makes me cry even if I think about it.
Vincent and the Doctor made me cry tears of sadness and joy. Sadness because he will die and joy because he'll be remembered forever even if he was hated when he was alive considering he had extreme depression and couldn't help it as he did nothing wrong and eventually people will realize what a good man and painter he was.
Yeah, the bit with the guy Donna was married to in the fake reality just missing her because of his stutter is like, second-saddest moment in all of NuWho after Donna's memory wipe.
3 of my saddest moments in doctor who is 'the girl in the fireplace' when the doctor finds out that she has died. And 'the angels take Manhattan' where Amy gets sent back in time by the Weeping Angels. 'The End of time' with the 10th doctor saying I don't wanna go
Fun fact, the actor of Wilfred (sorry completely forgot his name) actually served in the army and when he was talking about the blizzard of bullets etc was based on his actual experience
1. The moment the Doctor tells Wilf he's 'not remotely important' 2. Donna's mind wipe 3. The moment Donna realizes she has to jump in front of the truck in 'Turn Left' 4. The Doctor burning the Master on the funeral pyre (even more poignant if you've listened to the audio "Master") 5. Wilf trying to give Ten the gun - that entire scene. 6. Martha's family being tortured 7. "Anything I do, just makes it happen", and the subsequent walk away from Bowie Base One listening to them die 8. The Doctor telling Jackson Lake the truth. The empathy and pain is so well acted by both of them. 9. Vincent telling the Doctor before they leave, "we've fought monsters together - on my own I fear I will not fare so well" 10. The Doctor going to the coordinates Missy gave him for Gallifrey
For me that was more touching than sad, but different moments hit different people in different ways and now I've used the word different so many times in the same sentence that it's starting to sound weird to me.
1) Donna's Mind Wipe 2) Amy & Rory's Departure 3) Parting Of The Ways - When Rose tells her Mum that it was her there when Pete died. 4) The End Of Time Part 2- Wilf saying goodbye to the Doctor at Donna's wedding 5) Rivers Death 6) Silence In the Library - Donna's husband from the simulation gets teleported before he can call to Donna 7) Amy's Choice - Rory Dies - The way Amy says with such bitterness and anger "So what is the point of you?" 8) Girl Who Waited - Leaving old Amy behind 9) Turn Left - Donna realising she'll die 10) The Doctor Falls - Bill last line "I Waited For You" 11) Vincent & Doctor
My top 10 most emotional moments is this 1. Donnas mind wipe 2. The ponds getting zapped back in time 3. 10s regeneration 4. 11s regeneration 5. Rose and the Doctor get separated 6. Rory’s father finding out about Amy and Rory getting zapped back in the letter in the mini episode 7. Vincent sees his paintings and people admiring them and (such a beautiful scene) 8.The masters death in the S3 finale 9. The Doctor saves Wilfred and takes all the radiation 10. Clara’s Death
I have to admit to have cried in the BadWolf final scene of Doomsday, and I cried again in the Time of the Doctor. However, when I think of an episode that struck me so powerfully, not only from sadness but horror - the whole package... and I know I'm a weirdo for this choice but: Journey to the Centre of the Tardis. I cannot stress enough how that episode stuck with me. More than Midnight, more than Vincent and the Doctor, as weird as that sounds, considering it's not as strongly executed... And it's not particularly sad, as a story. It's the implications. I always feel like, if you think about it a little too hard, you are going to be in that place forever. Not sure the order, though. Donna's mindwipe and Heaven Sent realization moment are right there with this one. Besides, there were so many powerful moments in the series... However, if I could add the specials and not just the core series, the number one spot would be taken by the 11th Doctor meeting Clara as a kid, talking about how he couldn't save Rory and Amy.
1. End of doomsday/Bad Wolf Bay (partially because of the music as well, unbelievable) 2. Donna forgetting 3. Ten's "so much more" speech 4. Amy and Rory's death 5. The Master dies in Last of the Time Lords 6. Rory's choice in The Girl who Waited 7. Turn Left (pretty much the whole episode but also when Donna realises she'll die) 8. When The Doctor can't save Astrid (Voyage of the Damned) 9. Amy loses Melody (A Good Man Goes to War) 10. The Doctor's death (The Impossible Astronaut)
Its the fact the Villian of the Week from vincent is invisible to all except vincent, but still has its effect on everyone else - perfect metaphor for mental illness. I underappreciated this episode when it first aired, and I still dont think the main substance is stellar, but the subtext and hard hitting ending are what makes that episode one of the shows best.
For me it's when the Doctor finally gets to have a conversation with his TARDIS and it's to say goodbye; she's his longest serving and closest companion, and he's so desperate to find a way that they can keep talking to each other, and he's begging her to stay and sobbing, then she finally disappears and whispers that she loves him, and that she'll always be there
"Now I'll never know if I was right." "I don't want to go." Can't think of the quote but seeing Amy let herself be stuck in New York devastated me when I first saw it.
I found the ending WWI scenes in Twice Upon A Time (before the Doctor regenerates) VERY sad, the fact that for one day only, two opposing sides just dropping their conflicts for one day only, only to engage in conflict the next day saddens me.
10: Reinette's Death 9: End Of Vincent And The Doctor 8: River's Death 7: Rose's Exit 6: Ponds Death 5: Turn Left 4: Rivers exit in husband's of river song 3: Oswin the dalek 2: Donna's wipe 1: Bills A Cyberman Oh my gosh I cried so hard. I loved bill.
some more sad moments for me would be: the ninth doctor sending rose home in the parting of the ways the tenth doctor saying goodbye to everyone before regeneration amy and rory's death the tenth doctor's "so much more" speech in the end of time donna wanting the doctor to save someone from pompeii
Ima list my top 10 saddest doctor who moments 10:when babakatalata dies. 9:the 9th doctor regenerates 8:when donnas memory is whiped 7:I forgot her name but its when she falls into the core thing in the flying titanic. 6:in the waters of mars when the doctor and captain Adelaide Brooke are talking her back story and the sad music is just really sad. 5:when Wilfred tries to give the doctor the gun 4:when the doctor loses rose in doomsday 3:when deputy Edward gold dies 2:the doctor sacrifices himself to save Wilfred that is one of the saddest moments I've seen in Dr who. 1:the 10th doctor regenerates cause this is one of the best doctors leaving doctor who and the music.
This was a good list and i agree with most but personally Girl in the fireplace for me will never fail to make me weep. I'm not sure what it is about the episode but it will always be the saddest for me.
Great list. I might have put Wilfred and the gun at #1 and made #2 the scene in Family of Blood where John Smith must be convinced to become the Doctor again. As Martha is my fav' companion I'd also find room for her goodbye - probably in place of Donna being pulled out of the simulation. I just feel both very sad for and proud of Martha at the same time.
Interesting choices. This list was pretty solid, but I would've put Father's Day, The Girl Who Waited and Clara's Death/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent on here as well.
It was well said, where you pointed out how much the saddest moment list will be subjective. Possibly far more than most lists.Like you, the river dying in the library wasn't as sad originally, as it was in a rewatch. Your number 1 with Donna was my number 1 from the moment I first watched it, until I watched this youtube video, and was reminded of another. When Amy lost her baby in a good man goes to war, I found horribly sad, but I wasn't a father yet when I first saw this episode. I have since lost my infant son. When Amy is holding the baby, and it literally bursts into goo in her hands. Her scream of pain and horror. I couldn't even get though your video on the first attempt when you brought this up.
There's nothing I can possibly say to express sympathy in a way that doesn't feel trite... but I still feel the need to say I am so sorry for your loss. It hits me hard as it is, and I can't imagine what it would do to me under your circumstances.
I appreciate your kind words, and I do not consider it trite at all. It is something that I have been working through over the past couple of months. Trying to get into a regular routine, which includes watching you tube on lunch. I try to keep my comments light hearted, but for this video it seemed appropriate to add context to my opinion.
My top 3 are: 3: Vincent and the Doctor 2: Rivers death in the library 1: The taking of Donnas memories. My #1 pick is largely because I have had memory loss issues and lesions in the brain. The... whole scene... removing the growth she had... it just killed me. Donna is both my least favorite and my favorite companion (with Bill a close second for favorite.). She is my favorite because of the growth she experienced as a character. By the time she was forced to leave, it ripped my heart out.
You know, there are plenty of sad moments in the original series as well (15 because I just can't narrow it down): 15. Adric's death 14. Tegan's exit 13. Polly and Ben's exit 12. the ending of Survival 11. 4th Doctor's regeneration 10. Peri's death 9. Jo's exit 8. the ending of The Massacre 7. 3rd Doctor's regeneration 6. Sarah Jane's exit 5. Romana being recalled to Gallifrey (the opening of Full Circle) 4. the ending of The Daleks' Master Plan 3. Ian and Barbara's exit 2. Victoria's exit 1. Jamie and Zoe's exit/2nd Doctor's regeneration (the last 5 minutes or so of The War Games)
7:35 And it becomes so much worse en when you realise that it might be Amy and the Doctor who caused his suiside The Doctor and Amy meant so much to him, and the he sees what he believed to be their deaths in the beginning of the Pandorica Opens, that it could have easily been what drove him over the edge
i would have put the doctors wife on here where at the end the tardis says "i just wanted to say" the doctor says "goodby" and the tardis say "no hello, i just wanted to say hello doctor" and earlier in the show the tardis says "and you bring home strays" may be my favorite line in the new series
Sally from Rise Of The Cybermen, the universal shutdown of the emotional inhibitor (tbh anything to do with the cybermen), Solomon in Evolution of the daleks, the stewardess in Midnight, the dalek's existential crisis in Dalek, Ghosting in Silence In The Library, the doctor grieving over the master in Last Of The Timelords and others could have also been there, but overall a very good list. Agreed with every entry
I knew it would be Donna’s mind wipe at number 1. It’s so tragic. One thing that hits me about it that you didn’t mention was the juxtaposition with Wilfred’s joy as he skips through the house to answer the door because Donna’s come home, only to be met with the Doctor collapsed on the floor clutching Donna in his arms saying “Help me”. The doctor’s vulnerability is not something we often see.
Landlighter Firestar Quite late, but so were you, so... This WHOLE video is spoilers, what did you expect?
@@landlighterfirestar5550 well don't read comments in a top 10 video until the end.
Ya good point.
John Smith desperately wanting to stay with Joan Redfern and not go back to being the Doctor in "Family Of Blood" should be on here. The sense of loneliness and wishing that it didn't have to be is clearly a real part of the Doctor--a part he keeps buried, but in that situation it couldn't stay buried. The Doctor's life comes with a price, and that scene showed part of that very well.
The line with him asking "What sort of a man" wouldn't have factored falling in love as a potential factor into his plan...I dunno, something about the way Tennant delivers that line, the face, the body language, all of it just breaks my heart and is the absolute high point of series 3.
My personal favorite episode if I'm going to be honest. It hurts, that scene just hurts. Tennant was such a good doctor.
Dalek - when the Dalek can't accept it's new life and asks Rose if she's afraid.
Father's Day - Pete's goodbye and death.
Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways - the Doctor sends Rose home and Rose talking to Jackie about Pete.
The Girl in the Fireplace - the letter.
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday - the Doctor loses Rose and that scene on the wall.
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead - River's death (again, more powerful knowing her full story and watching after THoRS).
Turn Left - the whole episode is depressing and it's wonderfully done. Not sad, per se.
Stolen Earth/Journey's End - Donna's memory wiped.
The Waters of Mars - Brooke's backstory and her children's future, and when Steffi dies watching videos of her children.
Vincent and the Doctor - "one of the greatest men who ever lived".
The Girl Who Waited - when Rory can't choose.
The Angels Take Manhattan - Rory and Amy jumping off the building.
The Husbands of River Song - its bittersweet ending.
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls - the whole Bill scenario and the Doctor "hoping there would have been stars".
All in all, Doctor Who can be very depressing at times.
Bonus: P.S. - just the whole thing, really.
#1) Amy & Rory's death
#2) 11th Doctor's regeneration
#3) The girl who waited (All of it)
#4) End of Vincent and the Doctor
#5) Donna leaving
#6) The End of The Doctor Falls
#7) Oswin is a dalek
#8) End of The girl in the fireplace
#9) Turn left (most of it)
#10) John Smith not wanting to leave.
Amy and Rory didn't actually die, they just got sent back to a different time period where they could spend their lives happily together
None of new who makes me sad it's more classic and big finish e.g. For classic jamie and zoes exit and big finish the eda to the death
The end of The Girl in the Fireplace always gets me choked up
The Girl Who Waited. That was a sad throughout the whole episode.
When Doctor locks out of the TARDIS the older version of Amy in The girl who waits is just a killing. Especially when Rory is talking with her and she is asking him not to open if he loves her cause if he was opening she would go in and Rory tells the Doctor "you are making me like you why are you making me like you". Personally I find that moment into the Top 5 but still great choices
That was a great moment, though for me personally it didn't hit the "sad" receptors, more of a great conflicted moment I suppose.
One of my saddest Dr Who moments is when the doctor finds out the Brigadier had died. The Doctor had forgot that humans have a short life span, and tomorrow might be to late. Just the slight shock on the doctors face made the scene.
Roger Morris and it's time to face certain death
what episode was that in again? i only started watching the classic series recently so that scene where he finds out didn't mean anything to me at the time
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He found found out in "The wedding of River Song". The Brigadier was the UNIT commander in the classic series. They butted heads but respected each other and understood each other. .
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I think the one that hits me the hardest is Vincent and the Doctor, partly because I myself struggle with mental health, and because I have friends that struggle with it, I have lost a friend who struggled with it. And coming out of a time where mental health is still very much a taboo, and not very well understood, they handled it with such grace and truth, they show the good part and they show the bad parts of the life of a man who is unwell. On top of that is something that is so common; not believing in yourself, this is an artist who is revered as one of the greatest artists of all time and he hated himself and his own works, that is so true and so common. I will forever appreciate how they handled this episode.
A Lone Boat I love this episode and I agree with you. I struggle myself and agree... it was so beautifully done
You're a beautiful human
I am with you there, I suffer mental illness to and it was a very moving episode, we need more like this to show the world it is legit and maybe even drop some research from IRL to tell people that physical, sexual and verbal abuse does actually damage the brain physically as well which can lead to mental health issues, when people say they are damaged it is actually true. It is just invisible to anyone without access to high grade medical scanners.
That's probably the episode that has gone up the most in my estimation from initial viewing to rewatches. As I mentioned, I kind of didn't really get it the first time I saw it (thank goodness I wasn't doing episode by episode reviews at that point.) But I feel in many ways it shows an understanding of depression, it's impact on those who suffer those who love people with it, that is hard to find anywhere else. It's insightful without ever being exploitative.
Council of Geeks I suffer from generalized anxiety disorder and severe clinical depression. That episode gave a gave to the struggle in the sense we don't just lay there wallowing in self pity. We have moments of happiness. Of love. Functionality. Even with him falling in love with Amy and wanting a bunch or ginger babies, he was still hurting. The thoughts never left him. Seeing how much he was loved and adored and the impact it would leave on the world, it couldn't save him. That really is what it's like everyday. As much as I wake up looking forward to seeing my guy, I still have that moment where I feel, damn....I woke up today.
I appreciate more than I can articulate it gave a face to mental illness without it looking like a monster. Most people hear mental illness and are instantly on guard like we are going to snap at any moment and cause them harm. There are a few unfortunately at that point. But most are harmless people you already know and love who just silently drag the boulder with them because they know most likely they will be misunderstood.
Thank you for seeing the significance of this episode. Thank you for seeing the bigger picture. Thank you for your growth, understanding, and compassion.
1. Vincent still dies
2. River's death
3. The Ponds 'Death
4. Donna's memory wipe
5. Ten saving Wilf
5. Eleven's regeneration
6. Rose/Ten separation
7. Failing to save Bill
8. Simm Master's Death (End of Time)
9. Ten's regeneration
10. Ten talking about losing companions (School reunion)
All of these hit me for different reasons but Vincent's hits me the most. Just that topic of Suicide affects me because as someone who goes through depression I know it's hard. But most of all I lost a good friend to it back in 2011. So yeah.
The ponds didn't "die" they just got sent back in time and live their lives happily together
Christian Darnings That's true, but for me it still has the same effect.
The masters death is so great, the acting is fucking on point with the "REGENERATE!!!" and "I win" and so underappreciated.
The "who I am is where I stand, where I stand is where I fall" speech and the scene where Twelve gets gunned down by the cybermen in the Doctor Falls got to me. It's not only seeing a character that I've grown with over three series and become invested in going through all that, it's that he's chosen to do this to himself. He goes up against impossible odds, knowing that there is no way he will survive this for children that may not all escape or live for very long even if he does this. And he does this because he knows it's the right thing even if it doesn't work.
Ben Warburton he was always my doctor, and this was such an incredible culmination of his character. He is truly a good man.
I’ve got a scene, mostly because of Rory, who I relate very much as a character. It’s the scene on the roof in The Angels Take Manhattan. The entire thing where he decides to jump and Amy doesn’t let him, and then they both jump.
Nice choice.
The saddest moment for me had to be the speech 11 gives in the rings of Akhaten. We truly see an old man trapped in a young man's body and as the viewer we know how much he has been through since series 1 of the soft reboot and the song in the background could be interpreted as being about him.
10. Lady Cassandra's death (New Earth) - Say what you want about this episode, but it honestly choked me up to see Cassandra dying in her younger self's arms while the latter cries for help. It just does something to me.
9. The Master's death (Last of the Time Lords) - Just seeing the Doctor holding the Master as he died and telling him to regenerate.
8. Clara's death (Face the Raven) - It always gets to me when she says goodbye to the Doctor and goes into the street to face her death. And the fact that the Doctor is mourning her death for a long time while in the confession dial just gets to me.
7. Vincent's death (Vincent and the Doctor) - same reasons as in the video. And the song by Athlete really doesn't help.
6. The Ood song (Planet of the Ood) - It just killed me to see the Ood sitting in that cage and essentially waiting to be lobotomized.
5. The hymn on the motorway (Gridlock) - I always blubber like an idiot when I see everyone holding hands and singing with tears streaming down their faces.
4. Idris' Death (The Doctor's Wife) - It gets to me seeing Idris and the Doctor cry like that.
3. Bill's cyber conversion (The Doctor Falls) - Same reasons as the video.
2. The 8th Doctor's regeneration (The Night of the Doctor) - I found myself empathizing with the Eighth Doctor's feelings of despair when he chose to regenerate. He wanted to avoid the time war, but ended up being dragged into it anyway. Just seeing one of the nicest incarnations of the Doctor get utterly broken like that just killed me.
1. Bill being tested (Lie of the Land) - I know she was just being tested, but just seeing Bill get betrayed by the Doctor was utterly heart-wrenching for me to watch. He was her last glimmer of hope and the look on her face just sold it for me. To be honest, I thought she was going to shoot HERSELF with that gun.
Counting out Classic Who really leaves out some really sad moments that get to me. For example, at the end of the First Doctor's episode "The Massacre" the Doctor is left alone in the TARDIS for the first time, and there is this heartbreaking moment where he just sits there feeling abandoned and useless, and also isolated from his people as he wonders if he should just turn around and go home, but then realizes he can't even do that. I had never felt so terrible for the Doctor. The end of Earthshock is tragic as well, Susan's goodbye in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"... so many moments that have more effect on me than much of NuWho.
I will say that in NuWho, Donna's goodbye really hit me. The idea that the best days of her life were now gone, and hearing Wilfred cry that she was better with the Doctor was tragic.
Donna is my favourite character and such a sad character, in spite of having so much fun and humour and wonder, she was also quite vulnerable, for all her shouting at the world and sarcasm she doesn't believe she is as important as everyone believes she is and then is ultimately denied a choice and has all that joy taken away, once again the world knows how great she is or the wonderful things she did, but she never will
Dunno why I like this guy so much. He's so likable
Awwwww, shucks.
Tennant's "I dont wanna go" scene anyone?
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The Apocalypse ikr?
TOTALLY
I felt that his regeneration was selfish, and was offensive to the next doctor. He made it out to be like he was going to die and that the next doctor wasn't really him, even though he has regenerated many many times before and this one would be no different.
1) Vincent and the Doctor. The scene in Le Musee d'Orsay chokes me up EVERY TIME! For me, it is the realization that someone who has seen himself as such a madman in life, in this one particular moment, is given solace that he did so many beautiful things that live on after his time. Just beautiful and it chokes me up every time.
2) 11th Doctor's regeneration: "We all change. We're all different people all through our lives. And that's ok. That's good. You gotta keep moving. So long as you remember all the people that you used to be." This is how not just the Doctor changes, but how we change in life too. People and things come and go and regardless, you change because of every single event that happens in your life. When this first aired, I choked up immediately because I was going from one important point in time to another. Plus, well, Matt is regenerating.
3) The Doctor Falls: "I do it because it's right! Because it's decent. And above all, it's kind!" The humanity of 12 shows here. Despite his old school Doctor vibe and Scottish crossness, 12 made me choke up here. He's helpless because he can't save Bill, but despite this, isn't trying to solve things out of anger or revenge. He stays true to he is. Going to be gut wrenching to see 12 regenerate.
4) Doomsday: The scene you explained gets at me but the beach scene is more personal for me. At a too late moment, to finally reveal you love someone, but can't make it work at all. That's what Rose was doing. The one you can never have just hits very close to home.
5) The Wedding of River Song: River has a meltdown at the end about the Doctor not loving her. Honestly, 11 showed at times a bit of neglect in showing how he truly felt about River because he knew what her fate would be. 12 matures especially after he's present in hearing the Doctor never goes around falling in love. He doesn't get mad or show emotion in all of this, but proves her wrong by just saying "Hello Sweetie."
6) Journey's End: You did a really good job summing up exactly how I feel about Donna getting her mind erased. An addition to this, sad 10 in the rain about ready to leave chokes me up.
7) Logopolis: 4's death always is a macabre way to go for me. Tom Baker's big grin flashing in this scene is the saddest big grin I've ever seen. He knew his death was already impending, but just that subtle grin followed by "It's the end, but the moment has already been prepared for." makes me lose it.
8) The Girl in the Fireplace: One of the more classic cases of "Too late to save" in my opinion. Madame de Pompadour was waiting for the Doctor again, but the timelines didn't sync up when he returned.
I always thought of the Logopolis scene as a triumphant one. It's terrifying when all the villains' ghosts are berating the Doctor, bit then it completely reverses the tone with all the companions urging him to keep living.
For me, with Bill, it was the line ending the previous. "I waited - I waited for you". It was expected the doctor could not fix this.
The Vincent when he went to the gallery was a hard hitting moment, but drs talk with Wilfred about saying how proud he would be if he was his father was so pure
The speech about kindness form the 12th Doctor gives.
We need a top 10, "oh shit this is gonna be cool/we are totally screwed moments"
That's not that far off from my Top 10 Cliffhangers list.
Council of Geeks there would be a few mid episode reveals
I don't know if it's on the list, but Rory's first death in Amy's choice. And Amy's reaction, and her anger at the doctor for failing to save him
That is a solid moment, no doubt.
Or when she forgets him at the end of Cold Blood. That shit just hurt.
Distracted Globe Productions god that was heartbreaking
One of the saddest moments for me personally is Master's death in The Last of the Time Lords, just because of how much I pity the Doctor at this moment.
He clearly felt all alone in the universe, even with his companions. When he met the Master he, beyond all reason, hoped not to be anymore, and when this hope is wrenched away, ypu can feel all of his pain and loss and sense of hopelessness, that I can't help but tear up.
Nice choice.
River song? The end of the husbands of River song, it's such a mood jolt.
I totally respect your list, but I would also like to mention...Rose orders to Dalek to self-destruct in "Dalek." Upon finding out the Dalek absorbed her DNA and saw it "evolve" into new thoughts of compassion, beauty, hope...Rose had to feel a bond that her simple touch had expanded it's views to transcend the evil it was.
Then the Dalek rejects it and says that "evolution" is why Rose must order the Dalek to kill itself. Her expanding of the Dalek's consciousness in so many positive ways has been ruled an abomination. Further more...the Dalek can't unilaterally self-destruct, he must be ordered to by the one who had those positive effects on the Dalek. Imagine giving someone good advice and they follow it and becomes happy, only to decide they can't be happy. Now add a DNA genetic bond to that.
It's not the saddest moment, but when that sticks with me is from 'The Girl Who Waited', where the Doctor leaves older Amy and Rory's reaction towards the Doctor's decision.
One of the more ruthless choices made by the modern era Doctor.
[Spoiler Alert] Human Nature / The Family of Blood
These moments (at least, the ones I've seen; I haven't seen anything after Capaldi's first series) are great picks, and I would put most of them on a top 10, too.
I would also include the scene from the aforementioned episode where, at the end of the second half, John Smith is struggling with the idea of opening the fob watch and essentially erasing his identity in favor of The Doctor's. Something about Tennant's performance just struck a deep nerve in me, and I definitely choked up. I think I liked it for similar reasons to the Donna moments you included: realizing that you're gonna die but that you have no choice and that you have to die for the greater good. Even though Smith remains as a part of the Doctor's personality, his identity as an encapsulated individual is gone as a result. The nurse's reaction to the Doctor afterward was also powerful (including stating how much braver Smith was), but not like the struggle Smith had to go through.
That's also the scene that cemented David Tennant in my mind as a great actor. (Still haven't seen his Hamlet!)
11th Doctor regeneration - The Bow tie drop.
The saddest moments for me was Face the Raven's final scene.
that scene was wack
Man, I wept so hard! Personally, I found the ending of Hell Bent sadder because the Doctor ‘couldn’t see’ Clara, just the way she couldn’t see him in Deep Breath 😭
Ryan Spees I was gleeful at the end of Face the Raven. I hated Clara with a passion.
I think it would have been sadder if Clara had stayed dead, but it still works.
18:20 Wow! Thanks for making the show's most heartbreaking moment about a million times sadder! But seriously, I'm with you on number one. I honestly can't rewatch that episode because it's so painful.
“ I will always remember when the doctor was me “ “I don’t want to go “
Most emotional for me is "Before I go, I just want to tell you you were fantastic. And d'you know what?
So was I!"
The music there sells it as the climax of the Ninth Doctor's life, just as he dies. And he takes it with a smile.
That being said, "I don't want to go gets me hard as well".
I know it isn't necessarily 'Doctor Who' but I cried during the torchwood episode where the three people from the past where brought into modern day Cardiff (I don't remeber the title.) You know it's a good episode when it brings you to tears when a characteronly just introduced in that episode dies.
Out of Time is one of the best Torchwood episodes. The saddest moment for me in that episode is when that guy visits his son who's really old and suffering from Alzheimer's and they're talking about childhood memories.
lucas dolding that's the same one!
Yeah, that's what I was referencing. Fragments also has an Alzheimer's story for Owen which is really depressing as well. And then of course Exit Wounds killing Owen and Tosh and Children of Earth killing off Ianto are also sad moments, too.
Was that the one where that teenager fell through the rift and then cane back as an old man with a ton of mental health problems? Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve watched Torchwood.
No, that was Adrift. That was another sad and disturbing one that I remember watching back when it aired for the first time... when I was 7.
I was expecting Amy (and Rory's) death to be somewhere on the list. How Matt Smith reacts just breaks my heart. And seeing how Amy would undoubtedly rather die than never see Rory again. And on that same note, in Amy's Choice where Amy decides that she would rather die than live in a world without Rory. Heartbreaking.
Nice list, and I think the departure of Amy, Rory and Clara was also incredibly sad
Your take on the Vincent van Gogh episode struck a chord in my heart. As someone who struggles with depression, thank you for saying that any time is not invalid.
Some of my saddest Moments
The Death of Clara
The Death of Bill
Turn Left ( Just the episode in general.)
Matt Smiths Regeneration
Peter Capaldi's Speech to the Zygon
Matt Smiths Speech on akatan
Oh, I can’t believe Amy choosing to turn away from the angel, to tell the Doctor goodbye, isn’t on this list. The choice she made is heartbreaking enough, but the fact that she used her last second just to see his face one more time...ugh. That whole conversation, “I will never be able to see you again,” her sobbing, the way he just....shatters, completely, when her name appears on the gravestone....dude didn’t even WANT another companion after....
“I don’t want to go” has to be #1. The Tenth Doctors regeneration has to be one of the saddest moments in the history of fiction.
Given how much I enjoyed Tennant at the time and was skeptical about Smith, I'm surprised that "I don't want to go" didn't hit me harder at the time. I mean, it was still rough, but honestly I think his moment with Joan's grand-daughter at the book signing struck me as sadder. Not entirely sure why that is.
I cried for the last 20 minutes or so of that episode and I cried for a good twenty minutes after the episode ended.
But I also cried just about every time Wilf was talking to the Doctor in that episode.
Laura Kay likewise, it was definitely one of the saddest things I have seen in fiction
Laura Kay the whole End of Time was one of the saddest episodes for me. We knew The Doctor is going to die because of the prophecy but we just didn’t know how
The moment with Wilfred and the gun hits my dad really hard even without seeing more of Wilf and 10 than that single episode, it is such a powerful moment and episode.
I know a moment that really hits me that you didn't mention is the scene with Danny Pink as a cyberman in the cemetery because of what is going on inside of and between all three of those characters (Clara, Doctor, Danny). It's just so well done and heart wrenching. It's not my own #1 saddest moment, but I thought I'd toss it into the comment section regardless.
As to my own #1 saddest moment, that's actually the scene where 10 comes to realize just how he's going to die, right after his own moment of hope that he might live, and goes through his own series of emotions about it before, to make it even sadder, Wilfred (my favorite character in the series period, btw) has to watch what happens, gains a bit of hope that he's wrong and then loses that hope and once again finds himself unable to help 10 when he knows 10 is suffering deeply. It tears me up. Think about it, after all. Wilf's motivation through that entire episode (after the talk in the cafe) is to help then save the Doctor, so to ultimately be the reason the doctor dies then _still_ be unable to help him... Brutal.
Donna was even more brutal due to the fact the Doctor has a choice, let his friend die or let her live but never be able to be her friend anymore and lose everything they had, it was 2 knives in the heart for me, one for Donna and one for the Doctor.
Nice point.
I really like this channel i mean it covers a wide range from doctor who to stranger things to marvel. If im honest im here for doctor who but every episode makes me smile (apart from this one for reasons :P). I cried when the empty child finally found his mummy
Well thanks for being around. Yeah, I know my Doctor Who content is the real draw, but I like to keep things varied as much as I can.
who dares to not like river song, she's wonderfully amazing! That said, for me Clara's death is one of the most sad moments, it broke my heart and i cried like a little baby because she's one of my favourite companions
Surprised Angels Take Manhattan didn’t make the cut anywhere. That whole episode had me between anxiety and sadness.
Vincent and The Doctor is another one of my favorite episodes, and that final scene is definitely in my top 10 saddest/most emotional.
Yeah, for as much as I loved Amy and Rory, Angels Take Manhattan didn't hit me in the feels as much as I would have thought. It's still got some really good moments though, and I wouldn't take that away from anybody who got that lump in the throat from it.
I have just started watching doctor who ( started with season 5 sice that is whats on netflix, no 1 - 4 ) I love and adore the 11 doctor even though i have not seen any others :) The Amy/Rory scene killed me since it was so sad, not that they grew old together and died ( everyone dos that) But the fact that the Doctor was left behind unable to save them or help them. I loved the chemistry Amy and Rory had with the doctor, it was so real, like watching old friends :) I will watch all of doctor who, but the 11 doctor will always be special for me :) I think my fav episode is the first where he met amy :) “900 years of time and space and I've never met someone who wasn't important.”
― The 11th Doctor
All of these get to me, but Hell Bent, when The Doctor tell Clara he would absolutely know her if he saw her just hits me hard. Idk why, but the whole seen just reminds me of my exes and the love I had for them.
Classic Era must be the Doctor all alone after Steven leaving. Just listening to the Audio runs chills down my spine, the doctor sounds so defeated and hollowed out. And to top it off he even considers going home, just to realize the next second that he never ever can, and they would regenerate him on the SPOT (ie. kill him).
Here's my list
10: River Song's death (Forest Of The Dead)
9: The Twelfth Doctor says goodbye to Bill and Nardole (Twice Upon A Time)
8: Clara's phone call (Deep Breath)
7: The Master's death (Last Of The Time lords)
6: The Doctor and Rose say goodbye (Doomsday)
5: The singing towers of darrillium (The Husbands Of River Song)
4: Amy and Rory get zapped back in time (The Angels Take Manhattan)
3: The Eleventh Doctor's regeneration (The Time Of The Doctor)
2: The Doctor Wipes Donna's memory (Journeys End)
1: The Tenth Doctors Regeneration (The End Of Time Part 2)
I wish you'd include some classic moments too..(Yes I know you haven't watched all of it but still). But still awesome video man! Love the content. :D
I know, I know. I wish I could prioritize getting caught up on classic era stuff, but I just don't have that kind of time.
Council of Geeks Totally understand mate. Keep up the awesome content!
The thing that made my cry. Missys death. I'm basic but Donnas mind wipe is sad too. I just try not to think about it cause it's that sad.
UGH I BAWLED like a BABY when Missy died. I was watching it in a bar, too, and I couldn't help myself.
Missy's death wasn't even sad, what are you talking about?
Missy the murderous incarnation of the equally murderous Master is not a character I shed a tear for
I think that the saddest moment is the one in wich Ashildr remember her past and Capaldi reading the diaries; Imagining the pain of a mother seeing her childred die is incredibly painful.
I think a really underrated moment comes from New Earth when Lady Cassandra realizes she’s going to die, as well as the fact that it’s her fault, having to look at the beauty she lost. She was truly the last person to ever tell herself she was beautiful. Yes I know the episode wasn’t that good but it’s still a good moment.
The coolest/saddest part of Wilf giving the Doctor a gun is the fact that Bernard Cribbins was in (I forget which war)- but he never killed a n y b o d y. And he was proud of that. (He was also in talks to play the fourth doctor way back when they were considering people for the role)
Have a good life. Have a fantastic life.
Donna’s mind wipe murders my souls every time I see it. Her knowing how much she grew as person to lose it all.
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, and A Christmas Carol always make me cry.
These are some of my personal favorites
Amy and Rory get taken by the angels (Angels Take Manhattan)
River's goodbye (The Name of the Doctor)
Jenny's death (The Doctor's Daughter)
The "I gave you up" scene (Asylum of the Daleks)
Take my memories (Rings of Akhaten)
Amy forgets Rory and Rory's death (Cold Blood)
Donna begs the Doctor to save someone (Fires of Pompeii)
Just the moments that really hit me
The one that got me the most would be when the doctor brings Vincent to the present and he just breaks down when he sees his impact and hearing just how much he touched the curator.
Love the list, but the only thing I would really have to change for me would be adding would be Matt Smith's last moments, the speech and seeing little Amy again. It has been how many years and I have just gotten to the point that I can watch it and I still cry. Watching it the first time is one of the handful of time I can remember just ugly crying over a tv or movie. The Heidi move when I was younger, and Ianto Jone's death in Torchwood are a few. No I will go watch the funny list!
I would like to give an honourable mention to the end of "The Girl in the Fireplace". This one always chokes me up a bit.
Love this list as well as the suggestions in the comments but I'm genuinely surprised about no mention of the the end of the family of blood when the doctor and Martha visit Tim at the war memorial
What should have been on your list was on your list because it was your list.
However, my list would have included when Idris TARDIS said "Hello Doctor" when she said goodbye. It just made me feel how the TARDIS had just wanted to take part in his life the way she had seen so many other's do and struck a note of her unable to be requited love for him.
Hey it’d be cool if you edited your videos so you had #10, #9 etc on the screen. Would make it easier to remember which one you’re on.
You're an awesome dad dude
Phoenix Intergrale I agree
I'm not even a parent but Catherine's performance when she loses her children in the dream world DEVASTATED me. It's just so heartbreaking.
My saddest moment is the "I don't want to go!" by ten... that tearing, that deep pain he has and that need to stay like he is... it always get's me... every single time... and i have Vale Decem as my ringtone xD so every time i get a call i get reminded of it...
The moment that gets me comes from End of Time part 2, @ Donna's wedding when 10 gives Wilf and Sylvia the lottery ticket that he bought from money he went back in time to borrow from Geoff Noble. The look on Donna's mother face breaks my heart every time I see it. Honorable mention: The look and scream from Ten when Rose is pulled towards the void in Doomsday. Eleven getting choked up when Clara mentions Trenzalore from The Name of the Doctor, 'are you sure it was Trenzalore?' Ten coming back for Madame de Pompadour in Girl in the Fireplace to find out she has died. The King asking Ten what she wrote to him, and Ten just silently putting her letter in his pocket. Enjoy your channel.
I agree with number 2. I would've also mentioned ten's speech later on in the same episode when he goes 'i could do so much more' that makes me tear up
Me when I clicked: I know I'm gonna cry during this.
Me at the end: DAMIT! *Tears streaming down my face* MUM! WHERE ARE THE TISSUES?!
My saddests were Donna Noble losing her memories then Wilf tells the Doctor in the rain how whenever he will look up at the stars he'll think of him.
Amy Pond and Rory's death scene.
The Doctor finding out the Brigadier had died.
The Doctors final time with River Song.
My final one and the saddest was Donna's fake life and how she thought everything that was stored in her library was fake including her husband. Only turns out her husband was real and he goes to shout Donna but his stutter plays up and he goes 'D...D...DONN!!' and hes zapped away never seeing Donna again as she goes away thinking he never existed.
To me having a stutter when nervous that one makes me cry even if I think about it.
Vincent and the Doctor made me cry tears of sadness and joy.
Sadness because he will die and joy because he'll be remembered forever even if he was hated when he was alive considering he had extreme depression and couldn't help it as he did nothing wrong and eventually people will realize what a good man and painter he was.
Yeah, the bit with the guy Donna was married to in the fake reality just missing her because of his stutter is like, second-saddest moment in all of NuWho after Donna's memory wipe.
3 of my saddest moments in doctor who is 'the girl in the fireplace' when the doctor finds out that she has died. And 'the angels take Manhattan' where Amy gets sent back in time by the Weeping Angels. 'The End of time' with the 10th doctor saying I don't wanna go
Fun fact, the actor of Wilfred (sorry completely forgot his name) actually served in the army and when he was talking about the blizzard of bullets etc was based on his actual experience
I think the moment when the Doctor talks to Donna after the mind wipe is really sad, how she looks at him blankly
1. The moment the Doctor tells Wilf he's 'not remotely important'
2. Donna's mind wipe
3. The moment Donna realizes she has to jump in front of the truck in 'Turn Left'
4. The Doctor burning the Master on the funeral pyre (even more poignant if you've listened to the audio "Master")
5. Wilf trying to give Ten the gun - that entire scene.
6. Martha's family being tortured
7. "Anything I do, just makes it happen", and the subsequent walk away from Bowie Base One listening to them die
8. The Doctor telling Jackson Lake the truth. The empathy and pain is so well acted by both of them.
9. Vincent telling the Doctor before they leave, "we've fought monsters together - on my own I fear I will not fare so well"
10. The Doctor going to the coordinates Missy gave him for Gallifrey
Currently watching this episode, The Doctor's wife. Saddest moment when the T.A.R.D.I.S says she's alive and says hello to the Doctor.
For me that was more touching than sad, but different moments hit different people in different ways and now I've used the word different so many times in the same sentence that it's starting to sound weird to me.
1) Donna's Mind Wipe
2) Amy & Rory's Departure
3) Parting Of The Ways - When Rose tells her Mum that it was her there when Pete died.
4) The End Of Time Part 2- Wilf saying goodbye to the Doctor at Donna's wedding
5) Rivers Death
6) Silence In the Library - Donna's husband from the simulation gets teleported before he can call to Donna
7) Amy's Choice - Rory Dies - The way Amy says with such bitterness and anger "So what is the point of you?"
8) Girl Who Waited - Leaving old Amy behind
9) Turn Left - Donna realising she'll die
10) The Doctor Falls - Bill last line "I Waited For You"
11) Vincent & Doctor
My top 10 most emotional moments is this
1. Donnas mind wipe
2. The ponds getting zapped back in time
3. 10s regeneration
4. 11s regeneration
5. Rose and the Doctor get separated
6. Rory’s father finding out about Amy and Rory getting zapped back in the letter in the mini episode
7. Vincent sees his paintings and people admiring them and (such a beautiful scene)
8.The masters death in the S3 finale
9. The Doctor saves Wilfred and takes all the radiation
10. Clara’s Death
Gotta say your list is on point.
Ugh, i knew number one before clicking the video, without it is the saddest moment in nuWho, catherine tate destroyed me in that scene
Great list! Although I'd of probably put Amy and Rory's death in Angels Take Manhattan on mine, lol
You and quite a few others from the look of it.
I have to admit to have cried in the BadWolf final scene of Doomsday, and I cried again in the Time of the Doctor. However, when I think of an episode that struck me so powerfully, not only from sadness but horror - the whole package... and I know I'm a weirdo for this choice but: Journey to the Centre of the Tardis.
I cannot stress enough how that episode stuck with me. More than Midnight, more than Vincent and the Doctor, as weird as that sounds, considering it's not as strongly executed... And it's not particularly sad, as a story. It's the implications. I always feel like, if you think about it a little too hard, you are going to be in that place forever.
Not sure the order, though. Donna's mindwipe and Heaven Sent realization moment are right there with this one. Besides, there were so many powerful moments in the series...
However, if I could add the specials and not just the core series, the number one spot would be taken by the 11th Doctor meeting Clara as a kid, talking about how he couldn't save Rory and Amy.
1. End of doomsday/Bad Wolf Bay (partially because of the music as well, unbelievable)
2. Donna forgetting
3. Ten's "so much more" speech
4. Amy and Rory's death
5. The Master dies in Last of the Time Lords
6. Rory's choice in The Girl who Waited
7. Turn Left (pretty much the whole episode but also when Donna realises she'll die)
8. When The Doctor can't save Astrid (Voyage of the Damned)
9. Amy loses Melody (A Good Man Goes to War)
10. The Doctor's death (The Impossible Astronaut)
I agree with many of those moments, but the saddest for me will always be the “I don’t wanna go” line.
Its the fact the Villian of the Week from vincent is invisible to all except vincent, but still has its effect on everyone else - perfect metaphor for mental illness. I underappreciated this episode when it first aired, and I still dont think the main substance is stellar, but the subtext and hard hitting ending are what makes that episode one of the shows best.
For me it's when the Doctor finally gets to have a conversation with his TARDIS and it's to say goodbye; she's his longest serving and closest companion, and he's so desperate to find a way that they can keep talking to each other, and he's begging her to stay and sobbing, then she finally disappears and whispers that she loves him, and that she'll always be there
"Now I'll never know if I was right."
"I don't want to go."
Can't think of the quote but seeing Amy let herself be stuck in New York devastated me when I first saw it.
I found the ending WWI scenes in Twice Upon A Time (before the Doctor regenerates) VERY sad, the fact that for one day only, two opposing sides just dropping their conflicts for one day only, only to engage in conflict the next day saddens me.
10: Reinette's Death
9: End Of Vincent And The Doctor
8: River's Death
7: Rose's Exit
6: Ponds Death
5: Turn Left
4: Rivers exit in husband's of river song
3: Oswin the dalek
2: Donna's wipe
1: Bills A Cyberman
Oh my gosh I cried so hard. I loved bill.
some more sad moments for me would be:
the ninth doctor sending rose home in the parting of the ways
the tenth doctor saying goodbye to everyone before regeneration
amy and rory's death
the tenth doctor's "so much more" speech in the end of time
donna wanting the doctor to save someone from pompeii
Ima list my top 10 saddest doctor who moments
10:when babakatalata dies.
9:the 9th doctor regenerates
8:when donnas memory is whiped
7:I forgot her name but its when she falls into the core thing in the flying titanic.
6:in the waters of mars when the doctor and captain Adelaide Brooke are talking her back story and the sad music is just really sad.
5:when Wilfred tries to give the doctor the gun
4:when the doctor loses rose in doomsday
3:when deputy Edward gold dies
2:the doctor sacrifices himself to save Wilfred that is one of the saddest moments I've seen in Dr who.
1:the 10th doctor regenerates cause this is one of the best doctors leaving doctor who and the music.
This was a good list and i agree with most but personally Girl in the fireplace for me will never fail to make me weep. I'm not sure what it is about the episode but it will always be the saddest for me.
the one that always gets me is the return of amy during the regeneration
Great list. I might have put Wilfred and the gun at #1 and made #2 the scene in Family of Blood where John Smith must be convinced to become the Doctor again. As Martha is my fav' companion I'd also find room for her goodbye - probably in place of Donna being pulled out of the simulation. I just feel both very sad for and proud of Martha at the same time.
Interesting choices. This list was pretty solid, but I would've put Father's Day, The Girl Who Waited and Clara's Death/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent on here as well.
Nope, because out of Heaven Sent and Hell bent only part 1 was GOOD. Hell bent was utter SHIT
Christian Darnings lol. It wasn't perfect, for sure. But I still enjoyed it. (Namely because I'm a Whouffaldi shipper.) :)
please never use that word again
Forced Memes lol XD
Father's day.. 😭😭❤
It was well said, where you pointed out how much the saddest moment list will be subjective. Possibly far more than most lists.Like you, the river dying in the library wasn't as sad originally, as it was in a rewatch. Your number 1 with Donna was my number 1 from the moment I first watched it, until I watched this youtube video, and was reminded of another. When Amy lost her baby in a good man goes to war, I found horribly sad, but I wasn't a father yet when I first saw this episode. I have since lost my infant son. When Amy is holding the baby, and it literally bursts into goo in her hands. Her scream of pain and horror. I couldn't even get though your video on the first attempt when you brought this up.
There's nothing I can possibly say to express sympathy in a way that doesn't feel trite... but I still feel the need to say I am so sorry for your loss. It hits me hard as it is, and I can't imagine what it would do to me under your circumstances.
I appreciate your kind words, and I do not consider it trite at all. It is something that I have been working through over the past couple of months. Trying to get into a regular routine, which includes watching you tube on lunch. I try to keep my comments light hearted, but for this video it seemed appropriate to add context to my opinion.
My top 3 are:
3: Vincent and the Doctor
2: Rivers death in the library
1: The taking of Donnas memories.
My #1 pick is largely because I have had memory loss issues and lesions in the brain. The... whole scene... removing the growth she had... it just killed me. Donna is both my least favorite and my favorite companion (with Bill a close second for favorite.). She is my favorite because of the growth she experienced as a character. By the time she was forced to leave, it ripped my heart out.
You know, there are plenty of sad moments in the original series as well (15 because I just can't narrow it down):
15. Adric's death
14. Tegan's exit
13. Polly and Ben's exit
12. the ending of Survival
11. 4th Doctor's regeneration
10. Peri's death
9. Jo's exit
8. the ending of The Massacre
7. 3rd Doctor's regeneration
6. Sarah Jane's exit
5. Romana being recalled to Gallifrey (the opening of Full Circle)
4. the ending of The Daleks' Master Plan
3. Ian and Barbara's exit
2. Victoria's exit
1. Jamie and Zoe's exit/2nd Doctor's regeneration (the last 5 minutes or so of The War Games)
I'm aware, but I'm still filling in gaps in my classic era viewing and until I'm mostly all caught up I'm not going to rank much classic stuff.
That's cool. I'm not angry, just observant.
I agree with all of them especially the Doctor's monologue in The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Eve.
For big finish, Lucie's death and the scene after crizz death
Only one there that tops moments of this list is Adric's death, but damn, that will forever be the saddest moment of Doctor Who ever.
The guys in the household, when Rose made her "exit," were hopeful she would never return. I had to keep my mouth shut on that one.
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And it becomes so much worse en when you realise that it might be Amy and the Doctor who caused his suiside
The Doctor and Amy meant so much to him, and the he sees what he believed to be their deaths in the beginning of the Pandorica Opens, that it could have easily been what drove him over the edge
i would have put the doctors wife on here where at the end the tardis says "i just wanted to say" the doctor says "goodby" and the tardis say "no hello, i just wanted to say hello doctor"
and earlier in the show the tardis says "and you bring home strays" may be my favorite line in the new series
Sally from Rise Of The Cybermen, the universal shutdown of the emotional inhibitor (tbh anything to do with the cybermen), Solomon in Evolution of the daleks, the stewardess in Midnight, the dalek's existential crisis in Dalek, Ghosting in Silence In The Library, the doctor grieving over the master in Last Of The Timelords and others could have also been there, but overall a very good list. Agreed with every entry
Plus every death in Impossible Planet/Satan Pit