View Poll Results: What's the SADDEST episode ever?
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The Daleks' Master Plan
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Earthshock
6 46.15% -
Last of the Time Lords
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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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1st Jun 2008, 3:33 PM #1
What's the SADDEST episode ever?
I was just thinking...what's the SADDEST episode ever?
Vote from the above, or discuss other tear-jerking episodes below.
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1st Jun 2008, 3:39 PM #2Wayne Guest
Torchwood: Exit Wounds - In the true sense of the word.
Last of the Time Lords - In the 'modern' sense of the word.
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1st Jun 2008, 3:54 PM #3
I think the saddest moment is when Sandy the sandbeast gets killed by Barbara in The Rescue.
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1st Jun 2008, 4:07 PM #4
think you really need to expand on that list because for me the saddest episode is Fathers Day..
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1st Jun 2008, 4:14 PM #5Pip Madeley Guest
You missed out The Girl In The Fireplace too - the closing scenes of that are heartbreaking!
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1st Jun 2008, 4:30 PM #6
not to me. Those are the six saddest episodes I could think of.
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1st Jun 2008, 5:25 PM #7Pip Madeley Guest
Earthshock's not in the same league as Father's Day and The Girl In The Fireplace when it comes to sadness, but that's my opinion.
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1st Jun 2008, 5:30 PM #8
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1st Jun 2008, 5:32 PM #9
I don't think that negates it at all. I think the episode stands on it own terms with Rose coming to terms with her Dad's death and the bit where she says "My daddy." makes me cry each time.
However the episode I get most choked up about is School Reunion. Poor K9. Gets me every time.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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1st Jun 2008, 5:42 PM #10
Once again, the sadness-causing situation is resolved a few minutes later.
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1st Jun 2008, 5:48 PM #11
Yes, but just because it's resolved, it doesn't actually make any less sad at the actual moment. It's still a sad moment for me, even though it's resolved a little later in the story.
You could, by that token argue that 30 years later the sadness of the end of The Hand of Fear is resolved.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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1st Jun 2008, 6:01 PM #12
Well the non-fan sitting to my right said that to her, off the top of her head, the saddest Doctor Who stories would be Fathers Day & Fires of Pompeii.
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1st Jun 2008, 6:07 PM #13
The saddest episode for me is "A Race Against Death". The Second Elder has, up to that point, been portrayed as a timid and sensitive individual. Mention of his "family unit" gives him the image of a father figure and a protector. But as viewers, we know that the future is not rosy for this wholesome individual - the City Administrator is on the loose, a bent and corrupt individual, and he's just realised that by stealing the Second Elders sash, he can impersonate him because the Sensorites can't tell each other apart except from these appendages (it must be very easy for devious lothario Sensorites to trick their way into lady Sensorites - Sensorita's - beds by similar unscrupulous sash-swapping, thus heightening the tragedy of the Second Elder). The Second Elder is literally dragged aside, and his sash removed by the evil, rotten City Administrator. This act - identity rape, if you will - leaves the poor Second Elder without a purpose or means of asserting who he is to anyone. The consequences of this run deep - what if the sash was burnt? Or hurled from the top of a viaduct and lost within a river? The Second Elder would have literally no means of proving who he was. His wife would never again make love to him, fearing him to be her dustman or bank manager or any other sash-less no hoper. His bank manager would refuse him custom, without means of proving who he was, and laugh at him because he was secretely knocking off his wife. And even his own family unit would cast him out, unable to trust him when he wept that he was indeed their own Second Elder, and leaving him abandoned and lonely in the gutters of the Sense-Sphere.
It's surely the most tragic and sad scene in the whole of Doctor Who.
Si.
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1st Jun 2008, 6:16 PM #14
What absolute nonsense. I've never read such drivel on a Doctor Who message board.
It's "family group" not "family unit". You've undermined an extremely good point with your bibbling lapse.Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
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1st Jun 2008, 6:40 PM #15Pip Madeley Guestit must be very easy for devious lothario Sensorites to trick their way into lady Sensorites - Sensorita's - beds
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1st Jun 2008, 7:06 PM #16
Maybe in Doctor Who: Uncut & Uncensored.
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2nd Jun 2008, 8:04 AM #17
None of the above.
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2nd Jun 2008, 9:16 AM #18
Out of the ones chosen, Hand of Fear is the saddest.
Out of all of the show, I'd say the end of Family of Blood where they visit Tim at the War Memorial. I found that scene quite moving.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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2nd Jun 2008, 12:44 PM #19
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2nd Jun 2008, 1:17 PM #20Wayne Guest
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2nd Jun 2008, 6:01 PM #21
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Earthshock, of the ones listed. Overall, I'd go for Susan leaving, and the Doctor subsequently realising that he's on his own at the end of The Massacre.
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2nd Jun 2008, 6:27 PM #22
From the ones listed I've gone for Logopolis. For purely personal reasons, I saw 'my' Doctor die & get replaced by some bloke who used to be a vet it some other show.
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2nd Jun 2008, 9:48 PM #23
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I agree, that scene was very emotional. Much like the memorial scene at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, it's very quietly powerful.
Of this selection I think Exit Wounds is probably the most tear-jerking, though it doesn't quite have the same gravitas as some other sad moments mentioned here.
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2nd Jun 2008, 9:49 PM #24Pip Madeley Guest
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2nd Jun 2008, 10:18 PM #25
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Actually Earthshock was the first story with Adric in that I saw, so I think I kind of assumed he was like Guy in Galaxy Quest. Which in many ways, he is.
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