Throughout this week, Hypable is celebrating the sharp dialogue of Doctor Who by compiling a series of Top 10 favourite quotes lists. In our fourth list, we celebrate the best of The Doctor from the revival era!
After being around for nearly 50 years, Doctor Who obviously has a very rich heritage of characters, creatures and costumes; but perhaps the unsung hero of the show’s impact on popular culture is the rich and witty dialogue that has graced our screens since 1963. The variety of settings and broad range of characters enable the show to deliver everything from stirring battle speeches to hilarious one-liners. Boasting some of the world’s best catchphrases, heartbreaking farewells, and uniquely-named planets, Doctor Who has had a surprisingly strong impact on modern literature for something that is primaily seen on “The Idiots’ Lantern.” In fact, the show has even seen the words “TARDIS” and “Dalek” enter the Oxford Dictionary!
With all that in mind, there was far too large a wealth of material for us to whittle down the best quotes of Who to just 10. So instead, Hypable’s Doctor Who writers Laura Byrne Cristiano and Harri Sargeant will be celebrating the quirky, moving, and hilarious words of the Doctor and company in a series of four lists. Over the coming days, we’ll select our 10 favourite quotes from the classic-era companions, classic-era Doctor, revival-era companions and revival-era Doctor – and then round the week off with YOUR favourites!
If you have any suggestions, drop them in the comments below or tweet us @WhoHype – you can even send an email to whohype@hypable.com if you have a lot to say! Your submissions can be from any character in the series (although not any spin-offs, they will get their own list in the future!) and can be of any length. Make sure you have your submissions in by the end of the day, and check back tomorrow to see if your suggestions made the cut!
After sharing our favorite quotes from companions and the The Doctor of the classic era as well as companions of the revival era, we conclude our lists with the Top 10 quotes from The Doctor in the revival era!
The Ninth Doctor
“Bad Wolf”
“No! I said no! ‘Cause this is what I’m gonna do: I’m gonna rescue
her! I’m gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And
then I’m gonna save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I’m gonna
wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!”
The Tenth Doctor
“Blink”
“Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the
universe to kill you nicely. No mess, no fuss. They just zap you into
the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life is used up
and blown away in the blink of an eye.”
The Eleventh Doctor
“Amy’s Choice”
“Something here doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.”
The Tenth Doctor
“Forest of The Dead”
“Don’t play games with me. You just killed someone I liked and
that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the
biggest library in the universe. Look me up.”
The Tenth Doctor
“Doomsday”
“Quite right, too. And I suppose, if it’s my last chance to say it: Rose Tyler…”
The Eleventh Doctor
“The Pandorica Opens”
“Sorry, dropped it. Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica takes the Universe! But, bad news everyone, ’cause guess who! Ha! Except, you lot, you’re all whizzing about, it’s really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I. AM. TALKING! Now, the question for the hour is, ‘Who’s got the Pandorica?’ Answer: I do. Next question: ‘Who’s coming to take it from me?’ Come on! Look at me! No plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn, oh, and something else: I don’t have anything to lose! So, if you’re sitting up there in your silly little space ships with all your silly little guns, and you’ve got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who’s standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, AND THEN – do the smart thing! Let somebody else try first.”
The Tenth Doctor
“Journey’s End”
“I just want you to know, there are worlds out there, safe in the
sky because of her. That there are people living in the light, and
singing songs of Donna Noble. A thousand, million light years away.
They will never forget her, while she can never remember. But for one
moment…one shining moment…she was the most important woman in the
whole wide universe.”
The Eleventh Doctor
“A Christmas Carol”
“Nobody important? Blimey, that’s amazing. You know, nine hundred years of time and space and I’ve never met anybody who wasn’t important before.”
The Eleventh Doctor
“The Eleventh Hour”
“So… all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will – where do you want to start?”
The Eleventh Doctor
“The Eleventh hour”
“You know when grown-ups tell you everything’s going to be fine, but you really think they’re lying to make you feel better? …Everything’s going to be fine.”
What do you make of our list? Are there any quotes we missed out? Share your favorite in the comments below, and you could appear in Friday’s fan list!