Quote Meme

[selenak]

When you see this, quote from Doctor Who.

I've done this meme already last year, using my very favourite Old School quote (from Survival, naturally), so this year's reply is New Who. Three guesses as to what it will be about.

From The Sontaran Strategem:

DONNA
I've been thinking. I'm sorry, I'm going home.

DOCTOR (disappointed)
Well, if that's what you want. I mean it's a bit soon... I had so many places I had wanted to take you. The Fifteenth Broken Moon of the Medusa Cascade, the Lightning Skies of Cotter Palluni's World, Diamond Coral Reefs of Kataa Flo Ko... Thank you. Thank you, Donna Noble, it's been brilliant. You've... you've saved my life in so many ways. You're... (comprehension dawning on his face) You're just popping home for a visit, that's what you mean.

DONNA
You dumbo!

DOCTOR
And then you're coming back.

DONNA
Know what you are? A great big outer-space dunce.

DOCTOR
Yeah.

ROSS
Ready when you are, sir.

DONNA
What's more you can give me a lift. Come on!

They climb in to the Jeep.

DONNA
Broken moon of what?

DOCTOR
I know, I know.

Comments

[elisi]

I love this show SO MUCH!

(I did the meme last year too. My quote was 'I win'. I can think of at least 3 times that was used. *g*)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

*g* As quotes go, that one had the advantage of being short and instantly recognizable. Mine were the last lines from the last episode of Old Who, which are still my favourite summary of what this show is about: "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there’s injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold! Come on, Ace — we’ve got work to do!" But having used that already, I just had to pay homage to the glory that is the Donna-Doctor partnership.

[elisi]

That is gorgeous, and yes - sums up the show beautifully. But paying homage to DoctorDonna is definitely the way to go! :)

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Aww. They are so adorable. *squishes them* (Also, Medusa Cascade, again? Retroactively I'm noticing it has to be this season's codeword. Bit low key, compared to the others.)

And I was tempted to take something with Donna, but Ace won out. :)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the key words. There are several this time, I think (lost planets, the Doctor's name, bees. Oh, and Returning Rose), but "Medusa Cascade" definitely is the one carrying on the tradition of having been mentioned in the previous season/special. (By the Master, in "Last of the Time Lords", just like "Saxon" was first mentioned in "The Runaway Bride" and then in Torchwood before s3 started, and "Torchwood" was first mentioned in "The Christmas Invasion".)

Having already quoted from the Seven era the last time, I just had to give in to the adorableness of the DoctorDonna. Why oh why did Catherine Tate have to do an Eccleston?!?

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Bwah! Oh, love that bit, as always. *g* (I've been having great fun going through bits of the series to find the clips I want for my new vid--Donna stuff especially, since I've only seen S4 once...although it is rather odd to see Nine again, too. I can really see the differences now.)

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Heee, I love that quote so much. It's like the Doctor and Donna's relationship in a rambly nutshell. :D

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I recently rewatched "End of the World" and found it odd as well, both because of Nine and Rose. Though the Nine oddness was an old oddness that hadn't changed - whenever I watch a Nine episode, I'm watching Christopher Eccleston giving a fantastic performance as an excentric and deeply traumatized man. But not an alien, and I never get the sense that I'm watching the Doctor, if you know what I mean. Whereas with David Tennant, I never had that problem - I immediately accepted emotionally he was the same character I had watched in Old Who, in yet another incarnation. (This isn't a slight on Eccleston's acting, which is superb, like I said, just a reflection on my emotional reaction, which might or might not be because DT manages to occasionally build in flickers of past Doctors into his performance - that's where the being a fanboy thing really pays off - while being his own Doctor - and he does have that feyness.) Anyway, the new oddness was that I don't recall Rose striking me as so very young the last time I watched. I suppose this is because of the contrast with Martha and Donna now, and current day Rose.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just? :) That's why I picked it. I love them so much....

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

...hey, yeah, you're right! Especially now that I've seen most of the other Doctors--there's just something different about Nine, maybe because after destroying Gallifrey, he didn't want to think of himself as a Time Lord any more, so he suppressed all that, which had the side effect of taking away that otherliness from him. (And, of course, Nine never spoke of Gallifrey at all, or of being a Time Lord, if he could avoid it.) Whereas Ten eventually could talk about that, and besides, if your theory of regeneration as "filling in what was missing" is correct, a fresh new body gave him something of a fresh new outlook as well.

(...I think I've just discovered my theory of regeneration. Sort of. Think of the Doctor as--a smoothie. Made out of lots of kinds of berries, all blended together. Now, maybe this particular smoothie has too many strawberries in it. So you want to balance it out and add some blueberries. But there's only so much room in the glass, so you have to take some out before you can add the blueberries in--and because it's all blended together, you can't take out just the strawberries. So in the end, you have something that does taste more like blueberries than strawberries, but it also tastes more like blueberries than, say, raspberries, which were unfortunately part of the stuff you took out. Applying this to the transition between Two and Three, you take out the inability to ultimately protect oneself, and you add a harder, more practical look on life, but you also take out that happy-go-lucky, let's-go-exploring attitude that Two was so known for. Yay, I can do good with the thinkings!)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can, and that makes perfect sense. Good examples, too, and it's true, the let's go-exploring attitude didn't come back until he was Four. Other examples would be the way Six and Seven come out of Five's increasing helplessness confronted with an increasingly horrible universe, with first the bite and then the ability to outscheme and out manipulate if necessary in a dark fashion - but that also meant it needed Eight to bring the spontanous joy at the universe back. And then poor Eight had to be the one to end up in the Time War, which only Two and Five would have been less suited for.

maybe because after destroying Gallifrey, he didn't want to think of himself as a Time Lord any more, so he suppressed all that, which had the side effect of taking away that otherliness from him.

You can even say that's expressed in his wardrobe and short hair.*g* No, really. All the Doctors are a bit excentric in their clothing, all in different ways, of course, but you can tell someone loved playing dress-up as a child. And of course Gallifrey is the planet of silly hats and costume extravaganza. Going for cropped hair, dark jeans and a leather jacket instead reeks of suppression.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Going for cropped hair, dark jeans and a leather jacket instead reeks of suppression.

I'd been thinking of that, actually! Which undoubtedly contributes; if he doesn't look like the Doctor, he doesn't feel like the Doctor. And then we get Ten with his bird's-nest hair and bright red Converse, and all is right with the universe. (In a manner of speaking.)

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Shadow Proclamation?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Was used by the Doctor as early as Rose and then a couple of times through the seasons (and once by Rose in The Christmas Invasion), so doesn't count as a s4 specific word!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it feels like there was a rush of them this time round.