View Poll Results: What's the SADDEST episode ever?
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The Daleks' Master Plan
0 0% -
Earthshock
6 46.15% -
Last of the Time Lords
0 0% -
Torchwood: Exit Wounds
3 23.08% -
Logopolis
3 23.08% -
The Hand of Fear Part Four
1 7.69%
Thread: What's the SADDEST episode ever?
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3rd Jun 2008, 11:29 AM #26
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3rd Jun 2008, 1:11 PM #27
Out of the episodes listed I would say Earthshock for Doctor Who because of the death of Adric, for Torchwood I would say Exit Wounds only for the death of Tosh, won't say Owen because he was already dead.
Of the new series of Doctor Who I would say the episode that gets me every time I watch it is Doomsday, the very end where Rose is talking to the Doctor's image on the beach and the Doctor not quite getting out that he loves Rose.
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3rd Jun 2008, 1:53 PM #28
The end of School Reunion - 'My Sarah-Jane' gets me every time!
One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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3rd Jun 2008, 4:54 PM #29
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3rd Jun 2008, 5:12 PM #30
I think it went on a bit too long to be a "moment". More like a "sad ten minutes".
Si.
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3rd Jun 2008, 8:27 PM #31
well this is about sad episodes in general, but even then Silence in the Library is a pretty sad episode anyway.
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3rd Jun 2008, 8:31 PM #32
Well by all accounts it would have been a sad 'moment' had the episode not been under-running. But they had to stretch it out a bit.
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3rd Jun 2008, 11:01 PM #33
Of those listed, I'd say Logopolis for sure. Not so much the regeneration itself, as all the brooding stuff with the Doctor and the Watcher, mainly in episode 2. And also that sense of "things will never be the same again" that I felt in 1981, and which still kinda lingers when I watch it.
But, agreed, Father's Day is a very emotional and moving episode. Mind you, I find the scene where Faroon discovers Sarn's skeleton in Time and the Rani very moving too, so what do I know?
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3rd Jun 2008, 11:13 PM #34
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4th Jun 2008, 9:10 PM #35
not quite sure you'd call it sad but the way/circumstances in which Tegan, left at the end of Reserection of the Daleks, was quite a powerful and emotional moment.
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4th Jun 2008, 10:47 PM #36
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Yeah... considering that I can generally take or leave Tegan as a character, I do find that scene disproportionally emotional. Also, having thought about it, I reckon Adric's appearance in the regeneration sequence in Caves of Androzani is more moving than his actual death. It's because the doctor has had to explain that he can't go back and save people, then gradually lost all his long-term companions, and then you get this regeneration. It's quite sad when you look at the Fifth Doctor's relationship with his friends as a whole. It's no Dodo being happy to stay wherever she's gone to, is it?
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4th Jun 2008, 10:50 PM #37
I think part of the reason that Tegan's departure is so powerful, is that as well as the music, and Tegan being sad, we also see the Doctor quite bitter, and very critical of himself. When she goes he looks winded, and Davison is superb when he says, "It appears I must... mend my ways" before storming into the TARDIS. Heartbreaking, and a really rare bit of 'character development' for the Doctor.
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4th Jun 2008, 10:57 PM #38Pip Madeley Guest
Poor Dodo - according to the books, she lost her virginity, contracted a sexually transmitted disease* and then had a nervous breakdown and spent the rest of her life in various psychiatric institutions.
*or so some people say
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4th Jun 2008, 11:03 PM #39
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Yes, in this case a rare and mostly unwanted bit of 'character development'...
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4th Jun 2008, 11:04 PM #40Captain Tancredi Guest
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4th Jun 2008, 11:10 PM #41Pip Madeley Guest
Thank God they're not canon, eh!
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4th Jun 2008, 11:10 PM #42Pip Madeley Guest
Thank God they're not canon, eh!
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5th Jun 2008, 11:04 AM #43
And why not?
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5th Jun 2008, 12:07 PM #44
Some might say her STD was not completely in the spirit of the Hartnell years.
Si.
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5th Jun 2008, 12:17 PM #45
Being shot in the head with a single bullet was pretty Non-Whoish too!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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5th Jun 2008, 1:34 PM #46
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5th Jun 2008, 2:11 PM #47
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