1 00:00:01,064 --> 00:00:03,966 I just want a mate. 2 00:00:04,168 --> 00:00:06,135 You just want to mate?! 3 00:00:06,137 --> 00:00:07,803 I just want a mate. 4 00:00:07,805 --> 00:00:09,572 The women of The Who universe 5 00:00:09,574 --> 00:00:12,408 are all strong, opinionated, 6 00:00:12,410 --> 00:00:13,776 and independent. 7 00:00:13,778 --> 00:00:15,611 They're all different kinds of people. 8 00:00:15,613 --> 00:00:16,645 Sometimes they're good guys, 9 00:00:16,647 --> 00:00:18,447 sometimes they're bad guys, 10 00:00:18,449 --> 00:00:19,815 sometimes they're companions. 11 00:00:19,817 --> 00:00:22,084 They've been a friend, they've been an admirer -- 12 00:00:22,086 --> 00:00:23,919 You'd better come running, you got it? Got it. 13 00:00:23,921 --> 00:00:26,088 They've been a lover -- Shut up. 14 00:00:26,090 --> 00:00:28,924 They're well-rounded and they're loving and loyal. 15 00:00:28,926 --> 00:00:30,960 There's always something 16 00:00:30,962 --> 00:00:32,361 unique and special about each one of them. 17 00:00:32,363 --> 00:00:34,563 They tend to be proper characters. 18 00:00:34,565 --> 00:00:36,565 Pretty adventurous, pretty bold, pretty brave. 19 00:00:36,567 --> 00:00:38,100 They're never drips. 20 00:00:38,102 --> 00:00:39,568 That was two years ago! 21 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:41,937 Every woman who encounters the Doctor is 22 00:00:41,939 --> 00:00:43,572 in love with him in a different way. 23 00:00:43,574 --> 00:00:45,040 It's like there are as many 24 00:00:45,042 --> 00:00:47,710 different types of love as there are 25 00:00:47,712 --> 00:00:49,044 women who encounter the Doctor. 26 00:00:49,046 --> 00:00:50,546 That is the one thing that the Doctor 27 00:00:50,548 --> 00:00:51,814 never has control over, right? The ladies in his life. 28 00:00:51,816 --> 00:00:53,215 I'll soon fix that. 29 00:00:58,155 --> 00:01:01,255 ♪ Dr. Who 7xSpecial ♪ The Women of Doctor Who Original Air Date on August 11, 2012 30 00:01:01,256 --> 00:01:04,356 == sync, corrected by elderman == 31 00:01:04,461 --> 00:01:06,896 Back in the day, the "Doctor Who" 32 00:01:06,898 --> 00:01:10,499 female person who was with him was called an "assistant." 33 00:01:10,501 --> 00:01:12,034 These days, they're called a "companion." 34 00:01:12,036 --> 00:01:13,869 I think they are different, I think they're much more 35 00:01:13,871 --> 00:01:16,972 involved in the action. 36 00:01:16,974 --> 00:01:18,908 All the companions get a sniff of what the Doctor's up to 37 00:01:18,910 --> 00:01:20,676 and they're like "I'm in. Take me. Let's do this." 38 00:01:20,678 --> 00:01:22,211 I think you've got to have some real gumption 39 00:01:22,213 --> 00:01:25,381 to be a companion of the Doctor. 40 00:01:27,250 --> 00:01:28,784 When the Doctor 41 00:01:28,786 --> 00:01:31,987 was reinvented and rebranded for a new generation, 44 00:01:36,827 --> 00:01:37,927 kind of the perfect casting choice. 45 00:01:37,929 --> 00:01:41,030 She was gorgeous, smart, 46 00:01:41,032 --> 00:01:42,364 funny, feisty. 47 00:01:42,366 --> 00:01:43,866 She's, like, a working-class shopgirl. 48 00:01:43,868 --> 00:01:47,002 She has a very average life 49 00:01:47,004 --> 00:01:48,604 and then she meets the Doctor 50 00:01:48,606 --> 00:01:51,006 and he sees something in her. 51 00:01:51,008 --> 00:01:53,275 Rose is smarter than she gives herself credit for. 52 00:01:53,277 --> 00:01:57,079 Wiser than, like, the neighborhood she comes from. 53 00:01:57,081 --> 00:01:59,114 I thought it was a warning. 54 00:01:59,116 --> 00:02:00,716 Maybe it's the opposite. 55 00:02:00,718 --> 00:02:02,585 Maybe it's a message! 56 00:02:02,587 --> 00:02:04,053 The same words written down now, 57 00:02:04,055 --> 00:02:06,655 and 200,000 years in the future. 58 00:02:06,657 --> 00:02:08,057 It's a link between me and the Doctor -- 59 00:02:08,059 --> 00:02:10,192 "Bad Wolf" here, "Bad Wolf" there. 60 00:02:10,194 --> 00:02:11,727 Yeah, but if it's a message, what's it saying? 61 00:02:11,729 --> 00:02:13,229 It's telling me I can get back! 62 00:02:13,231 --> 00:02:15,631 I really thought she was just kind of this ditzy shopgirl, 63 00:02:15,633 --> 00:02:17,433 you know, blonde, you know, 64 00:02:17,435 --> 00:02:19,068 was hot in high school, then really didn't go on 65 00:02:19,070 --> 00:02:20,536 to do anything much, after that 66 00:02:20,538 --> 00:02:23,205 and then turns out to be one of the most badassed 67 00:02:23,207 --> 00:02:24,707 "Who" girls of all time. 68 00:02:24,709 --> 00:02:26,375 I'm not into blondes, either. 69 00:02:26,377 --> 00:02:29,411 She's a wonderfully refreshing heroine 70 00:02:29,413 --> 00:02:33,315 that sets the standard for heroines in other Sci-Fi series. 71 00:02:33,317 --> 00:02:35,551 I think what she said and what she did 72 00:02:35,553 --> 00:02:37,486 almost came second to the fact that 73 00:02:37,488 --> 00:02:38,954 she was incredibly hot. 74 00:02:38,956 --> 00:02:41,890 I dunno, 75 00:02:41,892 --> 00:02:43,559 find a planet, 76 00:02:43,561 --> 00:02:45,094 get a job, live a life -- 77 00:02:45,096 --> 00:02:47,229 same as the rest of the Universe. 78 00:02:47,231 --> 00:02:49,098 Pfft, I'd have to settle down. 79 00:02:50,368 --> 00:02:51,867 Get a house or something, a proper house -- 80 00:02:51,869 --> 00:02:54,703 She was an extraordinary, 81 00:02:54,705 --> 00:02:57,139 open, receptive character. 82 00:02:57,141 --> 00:02:59,308 I think she was in love with the Doctor 83 00:02:59,310 --> 00:03:00,809 long before she ever realized 84 00:03:00,811 --> 00:03:02,478 she had that affection for him. 85 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:03,912 No. Oh, yes. 86 00:03:03,914 --> 00:03:05,247 I'm dying, that's it. 87 00:03:05,249 --> 00:03:06,682 I am dying. It is all over. 88 00:03:06,684 --> 00:03:08,150 What about me? I'd have to get one, too. 89 00:03:08,152 --> 00:03:10,185 I don't know, it could... 90 00:03:10,187 --> 00:03:12,888 Could be the same one, we could both -- 91 00:03:12,890 --> 00:03:14,490 I dunno... 92 00:03:14,492 --> 00:03:18,093 share. Or not, you know, whatever. 93 00:03:18,095 --> 00:03:19,728 I dunno, we'll sort something out. Anyway. 94 00:03:19,730 --> 00:03:22,731 We'll see. 95 00:03:22,733 --> 00:03:24,533 It was about the Doctor and Rose. 96 00:03:24,535 --> 00:03:27,102 It wasn't ""Doctor Who," it was "the Doctor & Rose," 97 00:03:27,104 --> 00:03:28,737 like "Lois & Clark." 98 00:03:28,739 --> 00:03:31,106 As a fan of the old show, I didn't like the idea 99 00:03:31,108 --> 00:03:34,743 of him having a romance because 100 00:03:34,745 --> 00:03:37,246 he doesn't see us in that way. 101 00:03:37,248 --> 00:03:39,415 He's a different species. 102 00:03:39,417 --> 00:03:40,983 But I guess we found out a little bit about him 103 00:03:40,985 --> 00:03:42,751 when he started falling for Rose. 104 00:03:42,753 --> 00:03:44,153 I think in spite of himself, too. 105 00:03:44,155 --> 00:03:45,587 I don't think he wanted to. 106 00:03:45,589 --> 00:03:49,658 Am I ever going to see you again? 107 00:03:53,164 --> 00:03:55,030 You can't. 108 00:03:55,032 --> 00:03:58,000 What are you going to do? 109 00:03:58,002 --> 00:04:00,969 Oh, I've got the TARDIS. 110 00:04:00,971 --> 00:04:02,471 Because I've watched "Doctor Who" 111 00:04:02,473 --> 00:04:05,407 for almost 50 years, 112 00:04:05,409 --> 00:04:06,975 I'm not used to 113 00:04:06,977 --> 00:04:10,446 this raw, 114 00:04:10,448 --> 00:04:12,314 human emotion that's coming out 115 00:04:12,316 --> 00:04:14,483 in the modern versions of the drama. 116 00:04:20,523 --> 00:04:22,958 I love you. 117 00:04:24,894 --> 00:04:27,463 Quite right, too. 118 00:04:30,167 --> 00:04:32,735 And I suppose... 119 00:04:34,838 --> 00:04:37,072 If it's my last chance to say it... 120 00:04:42,612 --> 00:04:45,080 Rose Tyler... 121 00:04:47,417 --> 00:04:49,885 Come on! 122 00:04:49,887 --> 00:04:52,287 Dog the Bounty Hunter would've sobbed. 123 00:04:52,289 --> 00:04:55,257 He was going to say it. He was going to say it! 124 00:04:55,259 --> 00:04:56,825 And then he lost the connection. 125 00:04:56,827 --> 00:05:00,496 Like, that's the worst kind of dropped call, ever. 126 00:05:00,498 --> 00:05:02,865 Poor Rose. I mean, he couldn't say it. 127 00:05:02,867 --> 00:05:04,366 If he said it, it would've been too much. 128 00:05:04,368 --> 00:05:06,268 I think that's the perfect way to end that episode. 129 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:09,037 The whole debate is was he going to say "I love you" 130 00:05:09,039 --> 00:05:11,573 or was he going to say something clever? 131 00:05:11,575 --> 00:05:15,878 He might've said "Rose Tyler...I love you." 132 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,149 He might've said, "Rose Tyler... 133 00:05:20,151 --> 00:05:23,485 "you are essentially an ant to me 134 00:05:23,487 --> 00:05:26,188 "and I can't -- 135 00:05:26,190 --> 00:05:27,923 there's nothing that's going to happen here." 136 00:05:27,925 --> 00:05:29,425 He didn't say it. 137 00:05:29,427 --> 00:05:30,859 He had plenty of time to say it, if you remember, 138 00:05:30,861 --> 00:05:32,261 but he didn't quite say it. 139 00:05:35,632 --> 00:05:37,933 The next companion, after Rose, was Martha Jones 140 00:05:37,935 --> 00:05:39,568 and Martha Jones 141 00:05:39,570 --> 00:05:41,837 was confident and badass 142 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,039 and was studying to be a doctor. 143 00:05:44,041 --> 00:05:46,542 She fancied the Doctor and was always trying 144 00:05:46,544 --> 00:05:49,211 to turn him into some kind of boyfriend. 145 00:05:49,213 --> 00:05:50,679 All on your own? 146 00:05:50,681 --> 00:05:53,315 Well! Sometimes I have...guests. 147 00:05:53,317 --> 00:05:55,417 I mean, some friends, traveling alongside. 148 00:05:55,419 --> 00:05:57,019 I had -- it was recently -- 149 00:05:57,021 --> 00:05:58,854 a friend of mine. 150 00:05:58,856 --> 00:06:00,589 Rose, her name was, Rose. 151 00:06:00,591 --> 00:06:02,758 And... 152 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,126 we were together. 153 00:06:04,128 --> 00:06:05,627 Anyway. 154 00:06:05,629 --> 00:06:06,962 Where is she now? 155 00:06:06,964 --> 00:06:08,797 With her family. Happy. She's fine. 156 00:06:08,799 --> 00:06:10,933 She's -- not that you're replacing her. 157 00:06:10,935 --> 00:06:12,868 It's pretty clear, like "I've just come 158 00:06:12,870 --> 00:06:15,170 "out of a relationship and I'm really 159 00:06:15,172 --> 00:06:17,072 not ready to see anyone right now." 160 00:06:17,074 --> 00:06:18,440 That's not what he says, but that's 161 00:06:18,442 --> 00:06:20,008 kind of what he's saying, which is smart. 162 00:06:20,010 --> 00:06:22,778 I think, as fans, we would've been bummed 163 00:06:22,780 --> 00:06:24,746 if it would've been that easy to be like 164 00:06:24,748 --> 00:06:28,016 "Oh! Oh, who's the lady du jour today?" 165 00:06:28,018 --> 00:06:29,518 And if you will wear a tight suit. 166 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:30,786 Now...don't. 167 00:06:30,788 --> 00:06:32,588 And then travel all the way 168 00:06:32,590 --> 00:06:34,423 across the universe just to ask me on a date. 169 00:06:34,425 --> 00:06:36,692 Stop it. 170 00:06:36,694 --> 00:06:38,360 For the record, 171 00:06:38,362 --> 00:06:40,395 I'm not remotely interested. 172 00:06:40,397 --> 00:06:41,697 I only go for humans. 173 00:06:44,033 --> 00:06:45,200 Good. 174 00:06:45,202 --> 00:06:47,503 Martha is the rebound companion 175 00:06:47,505 --> 00:06:48,904 and I feel bad for Martha. 176 00:06:48,906 --> 00:06:52,040 "The rebound companion," I love that. 177 00:06:52,042 --> 00:06:54,109 Martha never really had a chance. 178 00:06:54,111 --> 00:06:55,677 He was still all Rosed up. 179 00:06:55,679 --> 00:06:58,313 Am I ever going to see you again? 180 00:06:58,315 --> 00:06:59,381 Martha was cool. 181 00:06:59,383 --> 00:07:02,818 Martha knew what she was getting into. 182 00:07:02,820 --> 00:07:04,386 At first, 183 00:07:04,388 --> 00:07:06,955 she's just kind of a big admirer of his 184 00:07:06,957 --> 00:07:09,958 but, as time goes on and as she lives 185 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:11,760 the tough life of the TARDIS, 186 00:07:11,762 --> 00:07:13,595 she gets stronger 187 00:07:13,597 --> 00:07:14,796 and she gets more powerful 188 00:07:14,798 --> 00:07:16,732 and she gets more and more of a badass. 189 00:07:16,734 --> 00:07:19,635 I love the moment when Martha Jones 190 00:07:19,637 --> 00:07:22,437 just turns to the Doctor and said, 191 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:24,406 "I'm not staying. 192 00:07:24,408 --> 00:07:27,075 I'm not going to waste my time, waiting for a man." 193 00:07:27,077 --> 00:07:30,012 So good on her! Girl power! 194 00:07:30,014 --> 00:07:31,647 The thing is, it's like my friend Vicky, 195 00:07:31,649 --> 00:07:33,115 she lived with this bloke -- student housing, 196 00:07:33,117 --> 00:07:34,550 there were five of them, all packed in, 197 00:07:34,552 --> 00:07:35,951 and this bloke was called Shaun -- 198 00:07:35,953 --> 00:07:37,419 and she loved him. 199 00:07:37,421 --> 00:07:40,422 She did, she completely adored him, 200 00:07:40,424 --> 00:07:42,491 spent all day long talking about him. 201 00:07:42,493 --> 00:07:43,692 Is this going anywhere? 202 00:07:43,694 --> 00:07:45,561 Yes! 203 00:07:45,563 --> 00:07:47,162 Because he never looked at her twice. 204 00:07:49,165 --> 00:07:50,632 I mean, he liked her, 205 00:07:50,634 --> 00:07:52,668 but that was it. 206 00:07:54,704 --> 00:07:56,238 And she wasted years pining after him, 207 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,639 years of her life, 'cause while he was around, 208 00:07:57,641 --> 00:07:59,808 she never looked at anyone else. 209 00:07:59,810 --> 00:08:02,411 And I told her, I always said to her, 210 00:08:02,413 --> 00:08:05,013 time and time again, i said, 211 00:08:05,015 --> 00:08:07,816 "get out." 212 00:08:09,319 --> 00:08:13,322 So this is me, getting out. 213 00:08:19,596 --> 00:08:21,563 Keep that. 214 00:08:21,565 --> 00:08:23,932 Because I'm not having you disappear. 215 00:08:23,934 --> 00:08:25,767 If that rings -- when that rings, 216 00:08:25,769 --> 00:08:27,302 you'd better come running, you got it? 217 00:08:27,304 --> 00:08:29,071 Got it. 218 00:08:29,073 --> 00:08:31,073 She gives up 219 00:08:31,075 --> 00:08:33,475 traveling the Universe because she wants 220 00:08:33,477 --> 00:08:36,612 to save her heart, which is incredible! 221 00:08:36,614 --> 00:08:38,814 I think Martha did the right thing, leaving, 222 00:08:38,816 --> 00:08:40,882 because she was never going to get what she wanted from him. 223 00:08:40,884 --> 00:08:43,118 And so, being the strong woman she was, 224 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,887 she said, "I can find better than you" 225 00:08:45,889 --> 00:08:47,589 and she found Mickey. 226 00:08:47,591 --> 00:08:49,257 Yvonne Hartman don't give a crap. 227 00:08:49,259 --> 00:08:50,792 Exactly as the legends would have it. 228 00:08:50,794 --> 00:08:52,628 River Song is basically the female Indiana Jones. 229 00:08:52,630 --> 00:08:53,962 I'm your daughter. 230 00:08:53,964 --> 00:08:55,831 It's very emotional. 231 00:08:55,833 --> 00:08:57,466 Hello, Doctor. 232 00:09:00,870 --> 00:09:02,265 Hello, Doctor. 233 00:09:04,336 --> 00:09:06,569 I think all the women that are involved with the Doctor 234 00:09:06,571 --> 00:09:08,705 have very strong personalities, I think. 235 00:09:08,707 --> 00:09:10,773 None of them are pushovers. 236 00:09:10,775 --> 00:09:12,575 I think they all represent quite modern aspects 237 00:09:12,577 --> 00:09:14,644 of being a woman 238 00:09:14,646 --> 00:09:16,646 and I think he likes a challenge. 239 00:09:19,450 --> 00:09:21,251 One of the characters that absolutely stands out for me 240 00:09:21,253 --> 00:09:23,486 in "Doctor Who," was in Russell's very brilliant 241 00:09:23,488 --> 00:09:26,256 "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday," was Yvonne Hartman, 242 00:09:26,258 --> 00:09:28,258 who, at that point, runs Torchwood. 243 00:09:28,260 --> 00:09:30,827 Yvonne Hartman was a great character to play 244 00:09:30,829 --> 00:09:33,463 because she was neither a victim nor a villain. 245 00:09:33,465 --> 00:09:35,932 One isn't quite sure how to place her. 246 00:09:35,934 --> 00:09:37,534 She's kind of 247 00:09:37,536 --> 00:09:40,336 that businessminded lady of the 1980s, 248 00:09:40,338 --> 00:09:42,438 where it's all about just, you know, 249 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:43,940 becoming the most powerful. 250 00:09:43,942 --> 00:09:45,775 I always remember Russell T. Davies, 251 00:09:45,777 --> 00:09:48,211 who wrote those episodes, calling me up and saying, 252 00:09:48,213 --> 00:09:49,879 "When you're approaching Yvonne, 253 00:09:49,881 --> 00:09:51,147 "I want you to think of a woman 254 00:09:51,149 --> 00:09:52,682 "that has amazing interactive skills, 255 00:09:52,684 --> 00:09:53,883 "she has charm, 256 00:09:53,885 --> 00:09:55,885 "but she has absolute, steely determination 257 00:09:55,887 --> 00:09:57,420 to get what she wants." 258 00:09:57,422 --> 00:09:58,755 Welcome... 259 00:09:58,757 --> 00:09:59,923 to Torchwood. 260 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:07,864 That's a Jathar Sunglider. 261 00:10:07,866 --> 00:10:10,300 Came down to Earth 262 00:10:10,302 --> 00:10:12,035 off the Shetland Islands 10 years ago. 263 00:10:12,037 --> 00:10:14,103 What, did it crash? No, we shot it down. 264 00:10:14,105 --> 00:10:16,806 It violated our airspace. Then we stripped it bare. 265 00:10:16,808 --> 00:10:20,109 Yvonne had charm oozing out of every pore, but she 266 00:10:20,111 --> 00:10:22,211 wouldn't hesitate to shoot you in the back of the neck 267 00:10:22,213 --> 00:10:23,746 to get what she wanted in a heartbeat. 268 00:10:23,748 --> 00:10:25,448 The Torchwood Institute has a motto -- 269 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:27,684 "If it's alien, it's ours." 270 00:10:27,686 --> 00:10:29,352 Anything that comes from the sky, 271 00:10:29,354 --> 00:10:31,287 we strip it down and we use it 272 00:10:31,289 --> 00:10:33,056 for the good of the British Empire. 273 00:10:33,058 --> 00:10:34,390 For the good of the what? 274 00:10:34,392 --> 00:10:35,658 The British Empire. 275 00:10:35,660 --> 00:10:37,193 There isn't a British Empire. 276 00:10:37,195 --> 00:10:38,528 Not yet. 277 00:10:38,530 --> 00:10:40,463 She's so focused on being the most powerful nation 278 00:10:40,465 --> 00:10:42,899 that she forgets that it's actually going to 279 00:10:42,901 --> 00:10:45,068 mess things up for all of humanity. 280 00:10:45,070 --> 00:10:47,570 Yvonne Heartman don't give a crap, you know? 281 00:10:47,572 --> 00:10:48,938 She just knows what she wants, 282 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,373 she knows what she thinks is right, 283 00:10:50,375 --> 00:10:51,674 she's going to freaking do it. 284 00:10:51,676 --> 00:10:53,343 Cancel it. 285 00:10:53,345 --> 00:10:55,144 I don't think so. 286 00:10:55,146 --> 00:10:56,913 I'm warning you, cancel it. 287 00:10:56,915 --> 00:10:58,448 Oh, exactly as the legends would have it. 288 00:10:58,450 --> 00:11:00,216 The Doctor, lording it over us, 289 00:11:00,218 --> 00:11:02,385 assuming alien authority over the rights of man. 290 00:11:02,387 --> 00:11:03,820 She seems to think that she knows more 291 00:11:03,822 --> 00:11:05,989 than the Doctor and this eventually leads 292 00:11:05,991 --> 00:11:07,924 to a void opening and the Earth 293 00:11:07,926 --> 00:11:11,394 being attacked simultaneously by Cybermen and Daleks. 294 00:11:11,396 --> 00:11:13,229 You just kind of want to shake her around the shoulders 295 00:11:13,231 --> 00:11:14,964 and be like "listen to the Doctor! 296 00:11:14,966 --> 00:11:16,966 He makes everything okay. Just listen to him." 297 00:11:16,968 --> 00:11:18,868 And she refuses. 298 00:11:18,870 --> 00:11:20,603 And then she becomes a Cyberman. 299 00:11:20,605 --> 00:11:23,473 Just one. 300 00:11:23,475 --> 00:11:26,142 We will retreat through the breach, 301 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:27,744 regain the homeworld. 302 00:11:30,748 --> 00:11:32,982 You will not pass. 303 00:11:32,984 --> 00:11:36,052 What is the meaning of this? 304 00:11:36,054 --> 00:11:37,553 She becomes a Cyberman 305 00:11:37,555 --> 00:11:39,856 and then realizes what she's done 306 00:11:39,858 --> 00:11:42,158 and starts taking out all the other Cybermen 307 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,627 while crying those black tears, 308 00:11:44,629 --> 00:11:46,195 like she's a goth girl. 309 00:11:46,197 --> 00:11:49,365 I did my duty for Queen and country. 310 00:11:49,367 --> 00:11:51,968 She acts autonomously and independently 311 00:11:51,970 --> 00:11:54,404 and manages to save the entire world 312 00:11:54,406 --> 00:11:57,273 and has one oily tear that runs down her face. 313 00:11:57,275 --> 00:11:59,876 I think it's very funny, 314 00:11:59,878 --> 00:12:02,245 but sad and beautiful. 315 00:12:02,247 --> 00:12:03,980 And she's just crying oily tears of, like, 316 00:12:03,982 --> 00:12:06,082 "I did this for my country." 317 00:12:06,084 --> 00:12:08,651 That is how much she loves planet Earth. 318 00:12:08,653 --> 00:12:12,021 Somehow, her best self comes out 319 00:12:12,023 --> 00:12:15,358 when her soul's been taken away. 320 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,126 That says a lot about her. 321 00:12:17,128 --> 00:12:19,028 I still get young children on the street, actually, 322 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:21,531 asking me how I managed to overturn my cybertraining. 323 00:12:24,902 --> 00:12:28,337 Idris is one of my favorite ladies 324 00:12:28,339 --> 00:12:29,772 that crosses the Doctor's path 325 00:12:29,774 --> 00:12:33,576 because she's never been a person before. 326 00:12:33,578 --> 00:12:36,312 She's always just been the soul of the TARDIS. 327 00:12:36,314 --> 00:12:37,780 Now, you'd think the TARDIS, 328 00:12:37,782 --> 00:12:40,316 which is 700 years old, 329 00:12:40,318 --> 00:12:42,752 if it was to become flesh, it would actually be 330 00:12:42,754 --> 00:12:46,456 a bloke, a man, in a boiler suit, 331 00:12:46,458 --> 00:12:50,359 covered in tar, covered in kind of 332 00:12:50,361 --> 00:12:52,795 the muck of machinery, but, no. 333 00:12:52,797 --> 00:12:55,498 Basically, the personality of the TARDIS got transferred 334 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:58,067 into a kind of hot, scruffy, 335 00:12:58,069 --> 00:12:59,502 Helena-Bonham-Carter- type woman. 336 00:12:59,504 --> 00:13:02,638 I'm alive. 337 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,540 I was very happy when the TARDIS turned out to have 338 00:13:04,542 --> 00:13:07,110 such an elegant, demure voice and personality, 339 00:13:07,112 --> 00:13:08,644 you know, how the TARDIS, you know, 340 00:13:08,646 --> 00:13:10,313 sounded like a London taxi driver -- 341 00:13:10,315 --> 00:13:12,115 "I'm not going to metebelis, no, 342 00:13:12,117 --> 00:13:13,616 and I'm not going there at that time." 343 00:13:13,618 --> 00:13:15,551 He really realized how alive the TARDIS is. 344 00:13:15,553 --> 00:13:17,887 Because he always goes like "she's alive," 345 00:13:17,889 --> 00:13:19,422 but when you see a person be alive, 346 00:13:19,424 --> 00:13:21,557 it's easier to understand, than, like, 347 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,093 a telephone booth with infinite rooms. 348 00:13:24,095 --> 00:13:25,762 You never read the instructions. 349 00:13:25,764 --> 00:13:27,163 I always read the instructions! 350 00:13:27,165 --> 00:13:29,132 There's a sign on my front door. You have been walking 351 00:13:29,134 --> 00:13:30,800 past it for 700 years -- what does it say? 352 00:13:30,802 --> 00:13:32,702 That's not instructions! 353 00:13:32,704 --> 00:13:34,470 The relationship between the Doctor 354 00:13:34,472 --> 00:13:36,239 and Idris, who was the TARDIS, 355 00:13:36,241 --> 00:13:39,242 is kind of interesting 356 00:13:39,244 --> 00:13:40,777 because it is a love story, 357 00:13:40,779 --> 00:13:42,812 but it goes past anything 358 00:13:42,814 --> 00:13:44,914 sort of physical, it's a love story 359 00:13:44,916 --> 00:13:46,482 that is like just 360 00:13:46,484 --> 00:13:47,984 they're bonded throughout time. 361 00:13:47,986 --> 00:13:49,886 You are not my mother. 362 00:13:49,888 --> 00:13:51,821 And you are not my child. 363 00:13:51,823 --> 00:13:54,157 You know, since we're talking, with mouths -- 364 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:56,125 not really an opportunity that comes along very often -- 365 00:13:56,127 --> 00:13:57,794 I just want to say, you know, you 366 00:13:57,796 --> 00:13:59,562 have never been very reliable. 367 00:13:59,564 --> 00:14:00,963 And you have? 368 00:14:00,965 --> 00:14:02,498 You didn't always take me where I wanted to go. 369 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:04,000 No, but I always took you 370 00:14:04,002 --> 00:14:06,869 where you needed to go. 371 00:14:06,871 --> 00:14:09,105 You did. Look at us, talking! 372 00:14:09,107 --> 00:14:10,540 Wouldn't it be amazing, if we could always talk, 373 00:14:10,542 --> 00:14:12,041 even when you're stuck inside the box? 374 00:14:12,043 --> 00:14:14,143 You know I'm not constructed that way. 375 00:14:14,145 --> 00:14:15,945 I exist across all space and time 376 00:14:15,947 --> 00:14:17,747 and you talk and run around 377 00:14:17,749 --> 00:14:19,248 and bring home strays. 378 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:24,487 I do really feel like they're soulmates. 379 00:14:24,489 --> 00:14:28,591 They're best friends, they're siblings, 380 00:14:28,593 --> 00:14:29,859 they're family. 381 00:14:29,861 --> 00:14:31,427 They can't live without each other. 382 00:14:31,429 --> 00:14:33,196 You can't have one without the other. 383 00:14:33,198 --> 00:14:36,132 In the top 3 saddest moments of "Doctor Who" 384 00:14:36,134 --> 00:14:39,468 was when the TARDIS had to go back to being a TARDIS. 385 00:14:39,470 --> 00:14:41,537 She just wanted to say 386 00:14:41,539 --> 00:14:42,872 "Hello." 387 00:14:42,874 --> 00:14:45,374 I'm alive. 388 00:14:45,376 --> 00:14:47,777 "Alive" isn't sad. 389 00:14:47,779 --> 00:14:50,446 It's sad when it's over. 390 00:14:50,448 --> 00:14:53,549 I'll always be here, 391 00:14:53,551 --> 00:14:56,118 but this is when we talked 392 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,456 and, now, even that has come to an end. 393 00:15:00,458 --> 00:15:02,592 There's something 394 00:15:02,594 --> 00:15:04,794 I didn't get to say to you. 395 00:15:07,531 --> 00:15:08,698 Goodbye. 396 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,600 No. 397 00:15:10,602 --> 00:15:14,270 I just wanted to say 398 00:15:14,272 --> 00:15:17,740 hello. 399 00:15:17,742 --> 00:15:19,041 Hello, Doctor. 400 00:15:19,043 --> 00:15:21,410 Doctor. 401 00:15:21,412 --> 00:15:22,912 It's so very, very nice 402 00:15:22,914 --> 00:15:24,447 to meet you. 403 00:15:27,886 --> 00:15:31,621 Please, 404 00:15:31,623 --> 00:15:33,856 I don't want you to. 405 00:15:33,858 --> 00:15:35,925 Please. 406 00:15:40,798 --> 00:15:43,733 It's very emotional when she says 407 00:15:43,735 --> 00:15:45,201 "There's something I --" 408 00:15:45,203 --> 00:15:47,036 Oh, God, I can't even say it. 409 00:15:47,038 --> 00:15:49,205 "There's something I've always wanted to say to you." 410 00:15:49,207 --> 00:15:53,676 And he assumes it's goodbye 411 00:15:53,678 --> 00:15:55,311 and it's the opposite. 412 00:15:55,313 --> 00:15:56,779 They've spent so many years together. 413 00:15:56,781 --> 00:15:58,648 She never just got to say hello. 414 00:15:58,650 --> 00:16:00,082 But, you know, 415 00:16:00,084 --> 00:16:03,052 they're still going to be together throughout time. 416 00:16:03,054 --> 00:16:04,553 I was worried, when I heard 417 00:16:04,555 --> 00:16:06,956 about what the episode was going to be, 418 00:16:06,958 --> 00:16:09,825 that it would get it wrong and that would annoy me 419 00:16:09,827 --> 00:16:12,361 because that's not the way I would envision such a thing. 420 00:16:12,363 --> 00:16:14,897 And it's not what I would envision, it's better. 421 00:16:14,899 --> 00:16:16,732 It was like a buddy-cop movie across the Universe. 422 00:16:16,734 --> 00:16:19,835 You're just a long streak of nothing. 423 00:16:19,837 --> 00:16:21,604 Amy Pond is a groupie. 424 00:16:21,606 --> 00:16:23,873 But you're human! 425 00:16:30,675 --> 00:16:32,141 The Doctor has very firm views 426 00:16:32,143 --> 00:16:34,009 on who can go onboard the TARDIS 427 00:16:34,011 --> 00:16:36,145 and it's pretty clear, what they have to be. 428 00:16:36,147 --> 00:16:38,848 They have to be -- obviously, brave 429 00:16:38,850 --> 00:16:40,516 and they have to be clever -- he's bored by stupid people 430 00:16:40,518 --> 00:16:43,018 and a coward would last two minutes in there. 431 00:16:46,423 --> 00:16:47,923 I hated Donna Noble when I first met her. 432 00:16:47,925 --> 00:16:49,992 This obnoxious redheaded woman, 433 00:16:49,994 --> 00:16:53,229 and Donna turned out to be one of the best companions, 434 00:16:53,231 --> 00:16:55,731 if not the best companion of the reboot. 435 00:16:55,733 --> 00:16:57,800 She won't take any of his usual schtick 436 00:16:57,802 --> 00:17:01,003 and she can give as good as he can get, 437 00:17:01,005 --> 00:17:02,938 so the relationship's more fun to watch. 438 00:17:02,940 --> 00:17:04,406 It was like a buddy-cop movie like 439 00:17:04,408 --> 00:17:05,674 where they're going across, you know, the Universe. 440 00:17:05,676 --> 00:17:08,010 It was different from the other companions. 441 00:17:14,719 --> 00:17:16,185 And you get this scene 442 00:17:16,187 --> 00:17:17,586 where they're both kind of stuck. 443 00:17:17,588 --> 00:17:19,288 She's great at vaudeville 444 00:17:19,290 --> 00:17:20,956 and that's what this moment is, 445 00:17:20,958 --> 00:17:22,424 it's classic comedy. 446 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,369 They both have such strong 447 00:17:33,371 --> 00:17:35,871 comedy backgrounds. 448 00:17:35,873 --> 00:17:38,807 I think the chemistry between those two 449 00:17:38,809 --> 00:17:41,343 was probably my favorite. 450 00:17:51,388 --> 00:17:52,554 Are we interrupting you? 451 00:17:56,227 --> 00:17:58,193 I love the way that, you know, Donna 452 00:17:58,195 --> 00:18:00,229 would always go like that and shake her fist. 453 00:18:00,231 --> 00:18:02,197 She was more challenging, I think, 454 00:18:02,199 --> 00:18:04,833 for the Doctor and that was a great opportunity 455 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:06,602 to write some very sparkling 456 00:18:06,604 --> 00:18:07,903 and very, very funny stuff. 457 00:18:07,905 --> 00:18:09,405 The scene where they have the confusion about, 458 00:18:09,407 --> 00:18:14,777 you know, "I want to mate"/ "I want a mate" is fantastic. 459 00:18:14,779 --> 00:18:16,545 I just want a mate. 460 00:18:18,715 --> 00:18:20,616 You just want to mate?! 461 00:18:20,618 --> 00:18:22,351 I just want a mate. 462 00:18:22,353 --> 00:18:24,620 You're not mating with me, sunshine! 463 00:18:24,622 --> 00:18:26,889 A mate, I want a mate. 464 00:18:26,891 --> 00:18:29,258 Well, just as well, 465 00:18:29,260 --> 00:18:30,726 because I'm not having any of that nonsense. 466 00:18:30,728 --> 00:18:33,128 I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing, 467 00:18:33,130 --> 00:18:35,164 you know, alien nothing. 468 00:18:35,166 --> 00:18:37,833 There we are, then. Okay. 469 00:18:37,835 --> 00:18:39,368 I think the pair of them together 470 00:18:39,370 --> 00:18:40,970 were pretty amazing. 471 00:18:40,972 --> 00:18:42,371 It proves that you don't need to have 472 00:18:42,373 --> 00:18:44,073 romantic tension to have 473 00:18:44,075 --> 00:18:46,342 a male and a female character 474 00:18:46,344 --> 00:18:48,277 with a dynamic 475 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:49,611 relationship. 476 00:18:49,613 --> 00:18:51,880 Oh, ha ha! That's just -- 477 00:18:51,882 --> 00:18:53,415 car keys. What? 478 00:18:53,417 --> 00:18:55,484 I've still got my mum's car keys. 479 00:18:55,486 --> 00:18:57,753 I won't be a minute. 480 00:18:57,755 --> 00:19:02,491 Donna's end, as a companion, broke my house. 481 00:19:02,493 --> 00:19:06,895 My wife and I were just inconsolable. 482 00:19:06,897 --> 00:19:11,433 She basically becomes a Time Lord herself, 483 00:19:11,435 --> 00:19:14,303 but, because she's physically human, 484 00:19:14,305 --> 00:19:16,905 she can't handle it and her brain's going to burn 485 00:19:16,907 --> 00:19:19,141 and the Doctor has to wipe her memory 486 00:19:19,143 --> 00:19:22,077 of everything they've done together. 487 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:25,280 Don't make me go back. 488 00:19:25,282 --> 00:19:27,649 Doctor, please, 489 00:19:27,651 --> 00:19:29,184 please, don't make me go back! 490 00:19:29,186 --> 00:19:32,888 Donna. 491 00:19:32,890 --> 00:19:35,124 Oh, Donna Noble, I am so sorry. 492 00:19:37,827 --> 00:19:41,063 But we had the best of times. 493 00:19:41,065 --> 00:19:43,866 The best. 494 00:19:48,805 --> 00:19:50,339 Goodbye. 495 00:19:50,341 --> 00:19:51,907 No, no, no, please. 496 00:19:51,909 --> 00:19:54,009 Please, no, no. No! 497 00:20:01,084 --> 00:20:02,651 No! 498 00:20:02,653 --> 00:20:04,319 She was a receptionist. 499 00:20:04,321 --> 00:20:05,954 All she ever wanted was to have adventures 500 00:20:05,956 --> 00:20:07,489 and have an interesting life 501 00:20:07,491 --> 00:20:10,159 and she got that and she'll never know. 502 00:20:10,161 --> 00:20:11,827 On many occasions, he says, you know, 503 00:20:11,829 --> 00:20:13,495 "I've ruined people's lives." He does. 504 00:20:13,497 --> 00:20:15,264 He takes them on these amazing journeys, but 505 00:20:15,266 --> 00:20:17,199 they always suffer, they always pay the price, at the end. 506 00:20:17,201 --> 00:20:19,334 She does get a lottery ticket, in the end, 507 00:20:19,336 --> 00:20:21,336 which I guess is cool, but can it buy, 508 00:20:21,338 --> 00:20:24,039 you know, a trip to, you know, 509 00:20:24,041 --> 00:20:26,241 some distant world? No. 510 00:20:29,679 --> 00:20:31,980 The episode where Sarah Jane came back into "Doctor Who" 511 00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:34,416 was a very emotional moment for me 512 00:20:34,418 --> 00:20:36,618 because I remember Sarah so well. 513 00:20:36,620 --> 00:20:38,987 She was part of "Doctor Who" legend. 514 00:20:38,989 --> 00:20:41,590 I think it was around about her time 515 00:20:41,592 --> 00:20:44,960 when you heard less of the term "assistant" 516 00:20:44,962 --> 00:20:46,695 and it went more to "companion." 517 00:20:46,697 --> 00:20:48,263 She was really a different kind of companion. 518 00:20:48,265 --> 00:20:50,466 She was a reporter, she was hardnosed, 519 00:20:50,468 --> 00:20:53,168 she actually, you know, she could do stuff. 520 00:20:53,170 --> 00:20:56,672 She and the Doctor had a chemistry in the '70s 521 00:20:56,674 --> 00:20:59,141 that the show had not seen before, or since. 522 00:20:59,143 --> 00:21:00,876 I mean, she's generally though of 523 00:21:00,878 --> 00:21:02,044 as the best companion, ever. 524 00:21:02,046 --> 00:21:04,379 When Sarah Jane Smith came back, 525 00:21:04,381 --> 00:21:08,283 I think, for me, that was probably the most emotional 526 00:21:08,285 --> 00:21:11,386 "Doctor Who" moment that I have ever seen. 527 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,627 Hello, Sarah Jane. 528 00:21:18,629 --> 00:21:21,263 It's you. 529 00:21:21,265 --> 00:21:23,065 Oh. Doctor. 530 00:21:23,067 --> 00:21:25,100 Oh, my God, it's you, it's -- it's -- 531 00:21:27,670 --> 00:21:29,004 you've regenerated. 532 00:21:29,006 --> 00:21:31,406 Yeah, half a dozen times, since we last met. 533 00:21:31,408 --> 00:21:36,111 You look... 534 00:21:36,113 --> 00:21:37,379 Incredible. 535 00:21:37,381 --> 00:21:39,281 So do you. 536 00:21:39,283 --> 00:21:42,017 Hmm. I got old. 537 00:21:44,420 --> 00:21:45,921 That moment when she sees 538 00:21:45,923 --> 00:21:47,289 David's door 539 00:21:47,291 --> 00:21:48,824 and recognizes him and knows him 540 00:21:48,826 --> 00:21:51,059 for who he is, with all those years 541 00:21:51,061 --> 00:21:52,895 of history between them 542 00:21:52,897 --> 00:21:55,430 was a pretty amazing bit of television history. 543 00:21:55,432 --> 00:21:58,734 I thought you'd died -- I waited for you, 544 00:21:58,736 --> 00:22:00,869 you didn't come back, and I thought you must've died. 545 00:22:00,871 --> 00:22:02,237 I lived. 546 00:22:02,239 --> 00:22:03,772 Everyone else died. 547 00:22:03,774 --> 00:22:05,807 What do you mean? 548 00:22:05,809 --> 00:22:07,543 Everyone died, Sarah. 549 00:22:09,712 --> 00:22:11,914 I can't believe it's you. 550 00:22:11,916 --> 00:22:14,049 I thought it was brilliantly done, 551 00:22:14,051 --> 00:22:15,717 brilliantly made, brilliantly written. 552 00:22:15,719 --> 00:22:18,187 I was like "how incredible is this!" 553 00:22:18,189 --> 00:22:20,589 Because she has a completely different regeneration 554 00:22:20,591 --> 00:22:23,225 of the Doctor, first off, but she still knew it was him. 555 00:22:23,227 --> 00:22:25,460 And what is lovely about that bond -- 556 00:22:25,462 --> 00:22:27,663 it's not a kind of sexual magnetism, 557 00:22:27,665 --> 00:22:29,665 it's a genuine, 558 00:22:29,667 --> 00:22:32,234 eternal, loving bond. 559 00:22:32,236 --> 00:22:35,204 Sarah Jane and Rose come face-to-face 560 00:22:35,206 --> 00:22:37,306 and Rose realizes that Sarah Jane 561 00:22:37,308 --> 00:22:39,708 was kind of one of his first companions 562 00:22:39,710 --> 00:22:41,777 and Rose is just one in a long line. 563 00:22:41,779 --> 00:22:44,580 I always sort of wanted, you know, 564 00:22:44,582 --> 00:22:46,915 Sarah Jane and Rose to sort of be friends instantly, you know, 565 00:22:46,917 --> 00:22:48,684 but of course not. 566 00:22:48,686 --> 00:22:50,485 Rose, can I give you a bit of advice? 567 00:22:50,487 --> 00:22:52,287 I've got a feeling you're about to. 568 00:22:52,289 --> 00:22:53,689 I know how intense 569 00:22:53,691 --> 00:22:55,224 a relationship with the Doctor can be, 570 00:22:55,226 --> 00:22:56,725 and I don't want you to feel I'm intruding -- 571 00:22:56,727 --> 00:22:58,660 I don't feel threatened by you, if that's what you mean. 572 00:22:58,662 --> 00:22:59,828 Right, good, 573 00:22:59,830 --> 00:23:00,996 because I'm not interested 574 00:23:00,998 --> 00:23:02,397 in picking up where we left off. 575 00:23:02,399 --> 00:23:03,699 No? 576 00:23:03,701 --> 00:23:05,033 With the big sad eyes and the robot dog -- 577 00:23:05,035 --> 00:23:06,368 what else were you doing last night? 578 00:23:06,370 --> 00:23:07,869 I was just saying how hard it was -- 579 00:23:07,871 --> 00:23:10,772 We got the older, smart woman 580 00:23:10,774 --> 00:23:13,375 and we got the younger, like, superhot 581 00:23:13,377 --> 00:23:14,876 kind of -- also smart woman 582 00:23:14,878 --> 00:23:16,044 facing off against each other. 583 00:23:16,046 --> 00:23:17,379 There was definitely some tension. 584 00:23:17,381 --> 00:23:19,014 I had no problem with space stuff. 585 00:23:19,016 --> 00:23:20,482 I saw things you wouldn't believe. 586 00:23:20,484 --> 00:23:21,683 Try me. 587 00:23:21,685 --> 00:23:23,185 Mummies. I've met ghosts. 588 00:23:23,187 --> 00:23:25,287 Robots. Lots of robots. 589 00:23:25,289 --> 00:23:26,955 Slitheen. In Downing Street. 590 00:23:26,957 --> 00:23:28,357 Daleks! Met the emperor. 591 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:29,925 Antimatter monsters. Gasmasked zombies. 592 00:23:29,927 --> 00:23:32,194 Real living dinosaurs! Real living werewolf! 593 00:23:32,196 --> 00:23:34,096 The Loch Ness monster! 594 00:23:34,098 --> 00:23:35,364 Seriously? 595 00:23:35,366 --> 00:23:36,498 Oh! 596 00:23:41,237 --> 00:23:43,305 Listen to us. 597 00:23:43,307 --> 00:23:44,973 It's like me and my mate Shareen. 598 00:23:44,975 --> 00:23:46,508 The only time we fell out 599 00:23:46,510 --> 00:23:48,310 was over a man, and -- 600 00:23:48,312 --> 00:23:50,512 we're arguing over the Doctor. 601 00:23:53,349 --> 00:23:54,916 It was great because you would imagine that would happen, 602 00:23:54,918 --> 00:23:57,052 of who's seen the most, who's done the most, 603 00:23:57,054 --> 00:23:59,154 who's been there the most, and i.e. who was 604 00:23:59,156 --> 00:24:00,922 more important to the Doctor. 605 00:24:00,924 --> 00:24:03,558 There's this moment where they realize 606 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,228 they're united in how special they are, 607 00:24:06,230 --> 00:24:08,397 for having had those experiences 608 00:24:08,399 --> 00:24:11,967 and they start laughing quite madly. 609 00:24:11,969 --> 00:24:14,736 Once they're past that territorial stage, 610 00:24:14,738 --> 00:24:18,307 they do then become great friends 611 00:24:18,309 --> 00:24:19,441 and I thought "all right, that's good. 612 00:24:19,443 --> 00:24:20,776 "That's how I wanted it to be! 613 00:24:20,778 --> 00:24:23,745 Good! Glad we got there." 614 00:24:23,747 --> 00:24:25,280 River Song is better 615 00:24:25,282 --> 00:24:27,416 at operating the TARDIS than the Doctor is. 616 00:24:27,418 --> 00:24:29,751 I just landed her. She's unpredictable. 617 00:24:29,753 --> 00:24:31,320 Moisturize me. 618 00:24:37,819 --> 00:24:40,120 I think that "Doctor Who's" one of the very few programs 619 00:24:40,122 --> 00:24:42,789 that writes brilliantly, gives excellent parts 620 00:24:42,791 --> 00:24:44,591 for female characters. 621 00:24:44,593 --> 00:24:47,427 They're not just screaming women, 622 00:24:47,429 --> 00:24:49,262 they're not just like they used to be, 623 00:24:49,264 --> 00:24:52,666 it's not a cliché, it's not sexist anymore, at all. 624 00:24:52,668 --> 00:24:54,834 In fact, the parts for women 625 00:24:54,836 --> 00:24:56,403 are better than the parts for men, a lot of the time. 626 00:24:59,774 --> 00:25:02,976 River Song is 627 00:25:02,978 --> 00:25:05,011 beautiful, glamorous. 628 00:25:05,013 --> 00:25:06,479 I think she's unpredictable 629 00:25:06,481 --> 00:25:07,981 and you don't know what she's going to do next 630 00:25:07,983 --> 00:25:09,516 and the fact she's a murderer 631 00:25:09,518 --> 00:25:11,718 and the fact she's good, but bad. 632 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,387 You always -- I like a character like that. 633 00:25:14,389 --> 00:25:17,324 River Song is basically the female Indiana Jones. 634 00:25:17,326 --> 00:25:20,260 She is so awesome and badass. 635 00:25:20,262 --> 00:25:23,797 She's smart; She's human, 636 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:25,498 but not quite. 637 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:26,866 And she doesn't let him get away with anything. 638 00:25:26,868 --> 00:25:32,105 She was his wife when he met her. 639 00:25:32,107 --> 00:25:33,606 They're the blue stabilizers. 640 00:25:33,608 --> 00:25:36,509 Ugh! 641 00:25:39,147 --> 00:25:41,047 See? 642 00:25:41,049 --> 00:25:45,318 Yeah, well, it's just boring now, isn't it? 643 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,222 They're boringers. They're blue...Boringers. 644 00:25:49,224 --> 00:25:51,992 Doctor, how come she can fly the TARDIS? 645 00:25:51,994 --> 00:25:53,626 You call that flying the TARDIS? Ha! 646 00:25:53,628 --> 00:25:55,729 River Song is better at operating the TARDIS 647 00:25:55,731 --> 00:25:57,430 than the Doctor is 648 00:25:57,432 --> 00:25:59,165 and, for the first time, 649 00:25:59,167 --> 00:26:00,633 you see the Doctor actually being 650 00:26:00,635 --> 00:26:02,035 quite put out by that. 651 00:26:02,037 --> 00:26:04,604 Charted the ship to its destination 652 00:26:04,606 --> 00:26:05,772 and... 653 00:26:07,042 --> 00:26:08,408 Parked us right alongside. 654 00:26:08,410 --> 00:26:10,877 "Parked" us? You haven't landed. 655 00:26:10,879 --> 00:26:15,482 Of course we've landed. I just landed her. 656 00:26:15,484 --> 00:26:17,684 But...It didn't make the noise. 657 00:26:17,686 --> 00:26:18,918 What noise? 658 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,587 You know, the -- 659 00:26:24,693 --> 00:26:26,659 It's not supposed to make that noise -- 660 00:26:26,661 --> 00:26:28,695 you leave the brakes on. 661 00:26:28,697 --> 00:26:30,597 Yeah, well, it's a brilliant noise. 662 00:26:30,599 --> 00:26:32,465 I love that noise. 663 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:35,402 I like that the classic noise that we all associate 664 00:26:35,404 --> 00:26:38,538 with the TARDIS, the fact that my ringtone is that noise, 665 00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:40,440 turns out that it's a mistake. 666 00:26:40,442 --> 00:26:44,677 I imagine that that was just a nice little Steven Moffat gem 667 00:26:44,679 --> 00:26:47,080 for people who have watched the show for so long. 668 00:26:50,185 --> 00:26:51,418 [ Wheeze 669 00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:53,386 What's great about river is 670 00:26:53,388 --> 00:26:56,022 that she's this mysterious character and, generally, 671 00:26:56,024 --> 00:26:58,925 when the mystery is taken away from a character, 672 00:26:58,927 --> 00:27:00,460 they become less interesting. 673 00:27:00,462 --> 00:27:01,928 River becomes more interesting. 674 00:27:01,930 --> 00:27:05,265 A lovely twist is when River Song 675 00:27:05,267 --> 00:27:08,234 is about to be shot by Amy Pond 676 00:27:08,236 --> 00:27:10,503 and, suddenly, River Song says, 677 00:27:10,505 --> 00:27:12,605 "I'm doing this because 678 00:27:12,607 --> 00:27:14,040 I am your daughter" 679 00:27:14,042 --> 00:27:17,377 and there's this wonderful moment of recognition. 680 00:27:17,379 --> 00:27:19,746 No, I still can't read it. 681 00:27:19,748 --> 00:27:21,848 It's because it's Gallifreyan 682 00:27:21,850 --> 00:27:24,584 and doesn't translate. 683 00:27:26,754 --> 00:27:28,455 But this will. 684 00:27:31,859 --> 00:27:33,393 It's your daughter's name, 685 00:27:33,395 --> 00:27:34,894 in the language of the forest. 686 00:27:34,896 --> 00:27:36,996 I know my daughter's name. 687 00:27:36,998 --> 00:27:39,799 Except, they don't have a word for "Pond," 688 00:27:39,801 --> 00:27:43,470 because the only water in the forest is the river. 689 00:27:43,472 --> 00:27:46,873 The Doctor will find your daughter 690 00:27:46,875 --> 00:27:49,008 and he will care for her, whatever it takes, 691 00:27:49,010 --> 00:27:50,410 and I know that. 692 00:28:01,155 --> 00:28:04,657 It's me. 693 00:28:04,659 --> 00:28:07,961 I'm Melody. 694 00:28:07,963 --> 00:28:10,630 I'm your daughter. 695 00:28:10,632 --> 00:28:13,066 That reveal 696 00:28:13,068 --> 00:28:17,437 was another Moffat moment 697 00:28:17,439 --> 00:28:20,306 that I got at the exact instant he wanted. 698 00:28:20,308 --> 00:28:22,041 Holy crap. This whole time, really? 699 00:28:22,043 --> 00:28:23,576 The whole time. 700 00:28:23,578 --> 00:28:25,612 Once you see it, you're like "of course! 701 00:28:25,614 --> 00:28:28,047 Like Melody, Song; Pond, River" 702 00:28:28,049 --> 00:28:29,215 and you feel like such an idiot. 703 00:28:29,217 --> 00:28:31,417 It was a good little surprise, there, 704 00:28:31,419 --> 00:28:33,052 Steven Moffat. 705 00:28:33,054 --> 00:28:34,487 It makes perfect sense now. 706 00:28:34,489 --> 00:28:35,855 Makes perfect sense. 707 00:28:39,226 --> 00:28:42,262 The Lady Cassandra is the last human, self-described. 708 00:28:42,264 --> 00:28:43,796 At this point, she doesn't look 709 00:28:43,798 --> 00:28:45,265 anything like a human. 710 00:28:45,267 --> 00:28:46,799 She's had so many plastic surgeries 711 00:28:46,801 --> 00:28:51,070 that she's literally just a sheet of skin, 712 00:28:51,072 --> 00:28:53,873 with eyes and a mouth and nose holes. 713 00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:55,708 Because she had her chin removed 714 00:28:55,710 --> 00:28:57,277 because she said it made her look fat. 715 00:28:57,279 --> 00:28:59,879 She's not unlike women I've met. 716 00:28:59,881 --> 00:29:01,414 I lived in Hollywood for eight years. 717 00:29:01,416 --> 00:29:04,384 There's this wonderful scene where all these dignitaries 718 00:29:04,386 --> 00:29:07,120 from around the Universe are coming together, 719 00:29:07,122 --> 00:29:10,190 they're converging to see the death of planet Earth. 720 00:29:10,192 --> 00:29:12,792 And then, they wheel out a tarp of skin 721 00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:16,062 named Lady Cassandra, the last human to ever be alive. 722 00:29:16,064 --> 00:29:20,934 The Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Delta17. 723 00:29:20,936 --> 00:29:23,169 Oh, now, don't stare. 724 00:29:23,171 --> 00:29:25,004 I know, I know, it's shocking, isn't it? 725 00:29:25,006 --> 00:29:28,541 I've had my chin completely taken away, 726 00:29:28,543 --> 00:29:30,610 and look at the difference. 727 00:29:30,612 --> 00:29:32,645 Look how thin I am. 728 00:29:32,647 --> 00:29:34,948 Thin and dainty. 729 00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:37,183 I don't look a day over 2000. 730 00:29:37,185 --> 00:29:39,018 Moisturize me, moisturize me. 731 00:29:41,523 --> 00:29:43,356 Truly, 732 00:29:43,358 --> 00:29:45,391 I am the last human. 733 00:29:45,393 --> 00:29:48,161 My father was a Texan. My mother was from -- 734 00:29:48,163 --> 00:29:51,598 She has been stretched so far 735 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,601 that she is literally like a pinned 736 00:29:54,603 --> 00:29:57,103 piece of leather, drying out. 737 00:29:57,105 --> 00:29:59,172 You know what? They sometimes bring up 738 00:29:59,174 --> 00:30:01,674 the concept "if you were the last woman on Earth." 739 00:30:01,676 --> 00:30:03,943 Even if she was the last human on Earth, 740 00:30:03,945 --> 00:30:05,445 I don't know what I would be able to do with her. 741 00:30:05,447 --> 00:30:06,646 No tears. 742 00:30:06,648 --> 00:30:09,682 I'm sorry. 743 00:30:09,684 --> 00:30:12,418 And she arrives with all these medical staff 744 00:30:12,420 --> 00:30:14,988 who have to spray her and keep her moist. 745 00:30:14,990 --> 00:30:16,956 If someone's not there to spray water on her, 746 00:30:16,958 --> 00:30:20,260 she dries up and cracks and explodes into, like, 747 00:30:20,262 --> 00:30:22,895 dust particles, which is disgusting. 748 00:30:22,897 --> 00:30:25,265 Moisturize me. 749 00:30:25,267 --> 00:30:27,567 She's really, really proud of being the last human 750 00:30:27,569 --> 00:30:29,035 and sort of raises all these issues 751 00:30:29,037 --> 00:30:31,204 about what it actually means, to be human. 752 00:30:31,206 --> 00:30:34,707 There is something, a good science fiction quirk 753 00:30:34,709 --> 00:30:38,711 of like, you know, the last human in the Universe 754 00:30:38,713 --> 00:30:40,780 and she's just not human anymore, right? 755 00:30:40,782 --> 00:30:42,782 And she's rendered inhuman 756 00:30:42,784 --> 00:30:44,317 physically, but also because 757 00:30:44,319 --> 00:30:47,320 she's a villain, she's a horrible thing. 758 00:30:47,322 --> 00:30:49,455 Lady Cassandra tries to basically 759 00:30:49,457 --> 00:30:52,892 destroy the platform and all the inhabitants in it 760 00:30:52,894 --> 00:30:55,495 and, because of her bad move, 761 00:30:55,497 --> 00:30:57,330 the Doctor just lets her dry out -- 762 00:30:57,332 --> 00:30:58,798 no Dove moisturizer for her -- 763 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,366 and then she starts drying out so much 764 00:31:00,368 --> 00:31:02,335 that she just explodes. 765 00:31:02,337 --> 00:31:03,770 Pretty gruesomely, too. 766 00:31:03,772 --> 00:31:05,638 People have died, Cassandra. You murdered them. 767 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,206 It depends on your definition of "people," 768 00:31:07,208 --> 00:31:09,609 and that's enough of a technicality 769 00:31:09,611 --> 00:31:11,077 to keep your lawyers dizzy for centuries. 770 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:15,648 Take me to court, then, Doctor, 771 00:31:15,650 --> 00:31:18,451 and watch me smile and cry and flutter. 772 00:31:18,453 --> 00:31:20,486 And creak? 773 00:31:20,488 --> 00:31:22,588 And what? 774 00:31:22,590 --> 00:31:24,057 "Creak." You're creaking. 775 00:31:24,059 --> 00:31:26,225 What? 776 00:31:26,227 --> 00:31:28,528 Ah! I-I'm drying out. 777 00:31:28,530 --> 00:31:31,164 Oh, sweet heavens. Moisturize me! 778 00:31:31,166 --> 00:31:33,466 Moisturize me! Where are my surgeons? 779 00:31:33,468 --> 00:31:36,002 My lovely boys! It's too hot! 780 00:31:36,004 --> 00:31:38,171 You raised the temperature. 781 00:31:38,173 --> 00:31:39,739 Have pity. 782 00:31:39,741 --> 00:31:42,275 Moisturize me! 783 00:31:42,277 --> 00:31:43,376 Oh, oh, Doctor! 784 00:31:43,378 --> 00:31:45,678 Help her. 785 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,048 Everything has its time and everything dies. 786 00:31:49,050 --> 00:31:51,884 I'm...too... 787 00:31:51,886 --> 00:31:53,619 young. 788 00:31:53,621 --> 00:31:56,823 And I love 789 00:31:56,825 --> 00:31:58,358 how the Doctor's so callous with her. 790 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,126 Like when Rose is like "Aren't you going to save her?" 791 00:32:00,128 --> 00:32:02,995 And he's just like "Everything has an end." 792 00:32:02,997 --> 00:32:05,998 Poof! "Aah!" Bits of liver flying out. 793 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,667 Eccleston, as the Doctor, 794 00:32:07,669 --> 00:32:09,135 just kills her, you know? 795 00:32:09,137 --> 00:32:12,105 Like, he doesn't have any problem 796 00:32:12,107 --> 00:32:14,307 with saying this is justice -- 797 00:32:14,309 --> 00:32:15,975 she has to die for being bad guy. 798 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:18,811 The way that he deals with her, versus the way that 799 00:32:18,813 --> 00:32:21,114 the tenth Doctor will later deal with her 800 00:32:21,116 --> 00:32:22,615 really kind of speaks volumes 801 00:32:22,617 --> 00:32:24,884 about the difference between the two of them. 802 00:32:24,886 --> 00:32:26,719 They just create fully grown human beings 803 00:32:26,721 --> 00:32:28,454 out of tissue samples. 804 00:32:28,456 --> 00:32:30,256 Hello, Dad. 805 00:32:30,258 --> 00:32:32,291 You just get the sense that you shouldn't mess with her. 806 00:32:32,293 --> 00:32:34,327 That was two years ago! 807 00:32:40,863 --> 00:32:42,529 The thing that I think is great about "Doctor Who" is 808 00:32:42,531 --> 00:32:44,531 that, over the years, the women 809 00:32:44,533 --> 00:32:46,233 have always been really smart, you know? 810 00:32:46,235 --> 00:32:47,701 They've never been 811 00:32:47,703 --> 00:32:49,636 horrible depictions 812 00:32:49,638 --> 00:32:51,371 of femininity, 813 00:32:51,373 --> 00:32:52,673 they've always been really strong. 814 00:32:56,144 --> 00:32:57,678 In this 2-part episode, 815 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,680 "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood," 816 00:32:59,682 --> 00:33:03,383 the Doctor has to take on human form 817 00:33:03,385 --> 00:33:05,085 and not realize that he's the Doctor 818 00:33:05,087 --> 00:33:07,054 and, of course, he falls in love with this incredible woman 819 00:33:07,056 --> 00:33:08,655 called Joan Redfern. 820 00:33:08,657 --> 00:33:10,157 Joan, lovely Joan. 821 00:33:10,159 --> 00:33:11,858 What I like about her -- she's just a very normal lady 822 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:13,193 and someone who's quite sensitive. 823 00:33:13,195 --> 00:33:14,394 "Joan." Joan? 824 00:33:14,396 --> 00:33:15,729 That's my name. Well, obviously. 825 00:33:15,731 --> 00:33:17,764 Everything has to be done in the right way. 826 00:33:17,766 --> 00:33:19,733 She doesn't want to be seen to be being unseemly. 827 00:33:19,735 --> 00:33:22,502 I thinks he's so sympathetic and she's so beautiful, 828 00:33:22,504 --> 00:33:24,671 like, there's so much humanity to that portrayal. 829 00:33:24,673 --> 00:33:28,542 Joan is a perfect woman for him, 830 00:33:28,544 --> 00:33:30,043 if he's not a Time Lord. 831 00:33:30,045 --> 00:33:32,179 Unfortunately, he is. 832 00:33:32,181 --> 00:33:34,147 Truth be told, when it's just you and me, 833 00:33:34,149 --> 00:33:36,984 I'd much rather you called me "Nurse Redfern." 834 00:33:36,986 --> 00:33:39,119 "Matron" sounds rather, well, matronly. 835 00:33:39,121 --> 00:33:41,488 Ah -- ah, "Nurse Redfern" it is, then. 836 00:33:41,490 --> 00:33:43,190 Though, we've known each other all of two months, 837 00:33:43,192 --> 00:33:44,624 you could even say "Joan." 838 00:33:44,626 --> 00:33:45,726 Joan? 839 00:33:45,728 --> 00:33:47,928 That's my name. Well, obviously. 840 00:33:47,930 --> 00:33:49,896 The cool thing about when the Doctor was with Joan is 841 00:33:49,898 --> 00:33:51,398 that he was just completely human 842 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,600 and we finally get to see 843 00:33:53,602 --> 00:33:55,802 what the Doctor would be like, 844 00:33:55,804 --> 00:33:58,739 if he wasn't a charming, 845 00:33:58,741 --> 00:34:00,540 all-knowing, 846 00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:02,275 all-adventure-all- the-time kind of guy. 847 00:34:02,277 --> 00:34:04,411 And, it turns out, he's just a bumbling nerd. 848 00:34:04,413 --> 00:34:07,280 Well, 849 00:34:07,282 --> 00:34:08,648 I should imagine that you'd be, um -- 850 00:34:08,650 --> 00:34:10,417 I mean, I never thought you'd be one for -- 851 00:34:10,419 --> 00:34:12,052 I mean, there's no reason why you shouldn't. 852 00:34:12,054 --> 00:34:13,787 If you do -- you may not -- 853 00:34:13,789 --> 00:34:15,789 I -- I probably won't. 854 00:34:15,791 --> 00:34:17,324 But even if I did, then I couldn't -- 855 00:34:17,326 --> 00:34:19,292 um, I mean, I wouldn't want to -- The stairs. 856 00:34:19,294 --> 00:34:21,128 What about the stairs? They're right behind you. 857 00:34:21,130 --> 00:34:22,496 Ooh! 858 00:34:24,165 --> 00:34:26,600 Without the Time Lord knowledge, 859 00:34:26,602 --> 00:34:30,771 our Doctor is very insecure 860 00:34:30,773 --> 00:34:33,640 and Joan Redfern 861 00:34:33,642 --> 00:34:35,609 kind of coaxes it out of him. 862 00:34:35,611 --> 00:34:38,111 And you can see that, for the first time, 863 00:34:38,113 --> 00:34:39,679 the Doctor is falling in love 864 00:34:39,681 --> 00:34:41,615 as a human being 865 00:34:41,617 --> 00:34:43,450 and he falls in love with her. 866 00:34:43,452 --> 00:34:46,253 But when the Doctor became the Doctor again, 867 00:34:46,255 --> 00:34:48,188 Joan was like "I don't want any of that" 868 00:34:48,190 --> 00:34:49,823 because it wasn't the same person. 869 00:34:49,825 --> 00:34:51,525 I can't. 870 00:34:51,527 --> 00:34:52,859 Please come with me. I can't. 871 00:34:52,861 --> 00:34:56,830 Why not? 872 00:34:56,832 --> 00:35:01,635 John Smith is dead, and you look like him. 873 00:35:01,637 --> 00:35:05,839 But he's here, 874 00:35:05,841 --> 00:35:08,308 inside, 875 00:35:08,310 --> 00:35:10,010 if you look in my eyes. 876 00:35:12,413 --> 00:35:13,814 Answer me this -- 877 00:35:13,816 --> 00:35:15,248 just one question, 878 00:35:15,250 --> 00:35:17,651 that's all -- 879 00:35:17,653 --> 00:35:20,554 if the Doctor had never visited us, if he'd 880 00:35:20,556 --> 00:35:26,359 never chosen this place, on a whim... 881 00:35:26,361 --> 00:35:28,228 would anyone here have died? 882 00:35:30,731 --> 00:35:32,699 Why can't she come with him? 883 00:35:32,701 --> 00:35:34,234 Well, because she doesn't want 884 00:35:34,236 --> 00:35:37,304 to marry an alien being, she wants this nice teacher guy. 885 00:35:37,306 --> 00:35:39,673 All right. Yeah, he can't have everything. 886 00:35:39,675 --> 00:35:41,441 Sorry, Mr. Magic. 887 00:35:41,443 --> 00:35:42,943 She decides not to go with him 888 00:35:42,945 --> 00:35:46,446 because she liked the man who he was before. 889 00:35:46,448 --> 00:35:48,181 She says no. She's like "because you're not 890 00:35:48,183 --> 00:35:49,683 "the guy I fell in love with. 891 00:35:49,685 --> 00:35:52,919 "You are someone who selfishly landed here 892 00:35:52,921 --> 00:35:54,721 "and got people killed 893 00:35:54,723 --> 00:35:57,290 and that is not the man I fell in love with." 894 00:35:57,292 --> 00:35:59,326 So, once again, we have 895 00:35:59,328 --> 00:36:02,095 a woman refusing the Doctor, which is very rare. 896 00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,534 "The Doctor's Daughter" is Jenny 897 00:36:07,536 --> 00:36:10,170 and she pops up almost literally out of nowhere. 898 00:36:10,172 --> 00:36:12,205 The Doctor shows up on this planet 899 00:36:12,207 --> 00:36:13,974 and they take a tissue sample 900 00:36:13,976 --> 00:36:16,009 and, suddenly, there she is, full-grown. 901 00:36:16,011 --> 00:36:19,880 - What's going on? - Leave him alone! 902 00:36:19,882 --> 00:36:22,649 They stick his hand in this weird -- 903 00:36:22,651 --> 00:36:24,851 I don't know, contraption 904 00:36:24,853 --> 00:36:27,454 and, while he's going through it, 905 00:36:27,456 --> 00:36:28,455 he's explaining to us that, like, 906 00:36:28,457 --> 00:36:29,990 "oh! It's taking a tissue sample." 907 00:36:29,992 --> 00:36:32,292 Ow! And extrapolated it. 908 00:36:32,294 --> 00:36:33,894 Some kind of accelerator? 909 00:36:33,896 --> 00:36:34,995 Agh! 910 00:36:36,898 --> 00:36:38,365 Are you all right? 911 00:36:38,367 --> 00:36:40,634 I don't know. 912 00:36:40,636 --> 00:36:42,235 That's just -- 913 00:36:42,237 --> 00:36:43,370 and then, all of a sudden, 914 00:36:43,372 --> 00:36:47,407 this, like, gorgeous 16-year-old girl 915 00:36:47,409 --> 00:36:49,075 walks out of this 916 00:36:49,077 --> 00:36:51,211 unit and he's like 917 00:36:51,213 --> 00:36:52,512 "Oh! That's my daughter." 918 00:36:54,749 --> 00:36:57,050 Arm yourself. 919 00:36:57,052 --> 00:36:59,452 Where did she come from? 920 00:36:59,454 --> 00:37:01,488 From me. 921 00:37:01,490 --> 00:37:03,657 From you? 922 00:37:03,659 --> 00:37:04,824 How? 923 00:37:04,826 --> 00:37:06,326 Who is she? 924 00:37:06,328 --> 00:37:08,094 Well, she's -- 925 00:37:08,096 --> 00:37:11,231 well... 926 00:37:11,233 --> 00:37:13,033 She's my daughter. 927 00:37:13,035 --> 00:37:16,036 Hello, Dad. 928 00:37:16,038 --> 00:37:18,638 They just create fully grown human beings 929 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,542 out of tissue samples from other people, 930 00:37:22,544 --> 00:37:24,010 which is weird. 931 00:37:24,012 --> 00:37:26,179 Now he's a father, which is a great way 932 00:37:26,181 --> 00:37:27,681 to have a kid. 933 00:37:27,683 --> 00:37:30,050 All those years, he didn't have to not sleep 934 00:37:30,052 --> 00:37:31,518 because the kid was up, crying, 935 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,019 or having to go to school because of chickenpox. 936 00:37:33,021 --> 00:37:34,888 Hello, Dad. 937 00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:36,690 In the same way that Jenny came out of nowhere, 938 00:37:36,692 --> 00:37:38,191 at the end of the episode, 939 00:37:38,193 --> 00:37:39,726 she kind of awesomely goes into nowhere. 940 00:37:39,728 --> 00:37:42,362 It's very sad. The Doctor gets a clone 941 00:37:42,364 --> 00:37:44,064 and so then there's another Time Lord 942 00:37:44,066 --> 00:37:46,233 and you think about the potential for adventures 943 00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:48,668 and everything that he could've taught her and shown her 944 00:37:48,670 --> 00:37:50,403 and then it's snatched away so quickly. 945 00:37:50,405 --> 00:37:52,606 Jenny, be strong, now. 946 00:37:52,608 --> 00:37:54,541 You need to hold on. Do you hear me? 947 00:37:54,543 --> 00:37:58,111 We've got things to do, you and me, eh? 948 00:37:58,113 --> 00:38:00,814 Eh? 949 00:38:00,816 --> 00:38:04,184 We can go anywhere. 950 00:38:04,186 --> 00:38:07,988 Everywhere. You choose. 951 00:38:07,990 --> 00:38:10,090 That sounds good. 952 00:38:10,092 --> 00:38:13,627 In kind of a real-life "Doctor Who" episode, 953 00:38:13,629 --> 00:38:16,229 Georgia Moffett, who plays Jenny, 954 00:38:16,231 --> 00:38:18,164 is the daughter of Peter Davison, 955 00:38:18,166 --> 00:38:19,699 who's the fifth Doctor; 956 00:38:19,701 --> 00:38:21,134 and she's the wife of David Tennant, 957 00:38:21,136 --> 00:38:23,103 who is the tenth Doctor. 958 00:38:23,105 --> 00:38:26,473 So it's this kind of amazing meeting of real life 959 00:38:26,475 --> 00:38:28,008 and the fiction of "Doctor Who." 960 00:38:28,010 --> 00:38:31,344 There's so much weird sort of "Doctor Who" looping 961 00:38:31,346 --> 00:38:34,281 going on with that that it's -- 962 00:38:34,283 --> 00:38:37,384 he married his own daughter... 963 00:38:37,386 --> 00:38:39,019 He married his own daughter. 964 00:38:39,021 --> 00:38:40,553 But I'm fine with it. 965 00:38:40,555 --> 00:38:44,557 It is all wrapped up in timey-wimey in real life. 966 00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:46,059 Yeah, I -- 967 00:38:46,061 --> 00:38:48,194 it's a conundrum. 968 00:38:48,196 --> 00:38:49,663 Amy Pond was 969 00:38:49,665 --> 00:38:50,864 supersexy 970 00:38:50,866 --> 00:38:52,332 and feisty. 971 00:38:52,334 --> 00:38:54,567 She states what she wants and goes for it. 972 00:38:54,569 --> 00:38:56,469 I really wasn't suggesting anything 973 00:38:56,471 --> 00:38:57,904 quite so... long-term. 974 00:39:04,679 --> 00:39:06,579 I think what the show does a really great job of is 975 00:39:06,581 --> 00:39:11,384 not having the women just sort of be 976 00:39:11,386 --> 00:39:14,087 these passive accessories 977 00:39:14,089 --> 00:39:15,855 to the male lead of the show. 978 00:39:15,857 --> 00:39:19,058 They're always very strong women, in their own way. 979 00:39:22,396 --> 00:39:26,099 Amy Pond was the first companion since Rose 980 00:39:26,101 --> 00:39:27,667 to just be like supersexy 981 00:39:27,669 --> 00:39:29,536 and hot 982 00:39:29,538 --> 00:39:31,271 and feisty and crazy. 983 00:39:31,273 --> 00:39:33,640 I love the fact that she's got this edge to her 984 00:39:33,642 --> 00:39:36,609 that's really, like, kickarse, like, she's really -- 985 00:39:36,611 --> 00:39:38,111 like, you just get the sense 986 00:39:38,113 --> 00:39:39,646 that you shouldn't mess with her. 987 00:39:39,648 --> 00:39:41,548 Amy's interesting because she's the first companion 988 00:39:41,550 --> 00:39:43,316 we meet as a child. 989 00:39:43,318 --> 00:39:45,885 He showed up when she was a kid, 990 00:39:45,887 --> 00:39:47,554 said, "Oh, come with me," 991 00:39:47,556 --> 00:39:50,590 she said okay, and then he ditched her for 12 years 992 00:39:50,592 --> 00:39:52,425 And then ditched her again for 2 years. 993 00:39:52,427 --> 00:39:54,260 All that stuff that happened -- 994 00:39:54,262 --> 00:39:56,029 the hospital, the spaceships, 995 00:39:56,031 --> 00:39:57,530 Prisoner Zero -- Oh, don't worry, 996 00:39:57,532 --> 00:39:59,532 that's just the beginning, there's loads more. 997 00:39:59,534 --> 00:40:01,000 Yeah, but those things, those amazing things, 998 00:40:01,002 --> 00:40:03,736 all that stuff. 999 00:40:06,106 --> 00:40:08,975 That was two years ago! 1000 00:40:08,977 --> 00:40:10,410 Ohh...Oops. Yeah. 1001 00:40:10,412 --> 00:40:12,412 So that's -- 14 years! 1002 00:40:12,414 --> 00:40:13,880 14 years since fish custard. 1003 00:40:13,882 --> 00:40:15,415 Amy Pond, the girl who waited, 1004 00:40:15,417 --> 00:40:17,717 you've waited long enough. 1005 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,153 When I was a kid, 1006 00:40:20,155 --> 00:40:21,588 you said there was a swimming pool. 1007 00:40:21,590 --> 00:40:23,289 She's been waiting all her life for him 1008 00:40:23,291 --> 00:40:25,291 and so, when, 1009 00:40:25,293 --> 00:40:27,260 finally, the opportunity 1010 00:40:27,262 --> 00:40:28,928 comes up, she jumps at it. 1011 00:40:28,930 --> 00:40:30,730 And then waits another two years 1012 00:40:30,732 --> 00:40:31,898 and jumps at it again. 1013 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:34,434 There's something weird about her, 1014 00:40:34,436 --> 00:40:36,102 that she wants to stick with that guy. 1015 00:40:54,388 --> 00:40:56,356 The previous companions for the Doctor 1016 00:40:56,358 --> 00:40:58,658 have been a lover, they've been a friend, 1017 00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:00,660 they've been an admirer, and Amy Pond is 1018 00:41:00,662 --> 00:41:02,362 a groupie, 1019 00:41:02,364 --> 00:41:04,364 she's a fan. 1020 00:41:04,366 --> 00:41:07,066 She's been a fan of the Doctor since she was a kid. 1021 00:41:07,068 --> 00:41:09,936 And people thought she was crazy for her whole adult life 1022 00:41:09,938 --> 00:41:11,437 because she keeps talking about this guy 1023 00:41:11,439 --> 00:41:13,106 who's clearly a made-up, imaginary, friend. 1024 00:41:13,108 --> 00:41:15,608 That's the most interesting setup for a companion 1025 00:41:15,610 --> 00:41:17,410 that they've ever had, I think, 1026 00:41:17,412 --> 00:41:20,780 having her have an imaginary friend all her life 1027 00:41:20,782 --> 00:41:25,685 who then comes to life, essentially. 1028 00:41:25,687 --> 00:41:27,453 That's the magic of that show. 1029 00:41:27,455 --> 00:41:29,489 Amy's one of those great, great characters 1030 00:41:29,491 --> 00:41:32,525 whereby she doesn't need to be rescued 1031 00:41:32,527 --> 00:41:34,060 by the Doctor all the time. 1032 00:41:34,062 --> 00:41:36,396 Amy Pond is nothing, if not strong-willed 1033 00:41:36,398 --> 00:41:38,531 and willing to make her own choices, 1034 00:41:38,533 --> 00:41:40,633 regardless of what anyone else says. 1035 00:41:40,635 --> 00:41:44,037 She just states what she wants and goes for it. 1036 00:41:44,039 --> 00:41:48,007 So when she wants to be with the Doctor, 1037 00:41:48,009 --> 00:41:50,076 she hits on him. 1038 00:41:50,078 --> 00:41:51,577 She tries to get the Doctor. 1039 00:41:51,579 --> 00:41:53,846 And not even in, like, an "I love you, Doctor, 1040 00:41:53,848 --> 00:41:55,581 let's get married," just in a "come on, 1041 00:41:55,583 --> 00:41:57,383 I got one night left, let's do it." 1042 00:41:57,385 --> 00:42:00,320 About who... I want. 1043 00:42:00,322 --> 00:42:03,089 Oh, right, yeah. 1044 00:42:04,892 --> 00:42:06,392 No, still not getting it. 1045 00:42:06,394 --> 00:42:09,829 Doctor, in a word, in one, very simple word 1046 00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:11,531 even you can understand -- 1047 00:42:11,533 --> 00:42:12,699 No! 1048 00:42:12,701 --> 00:42:14,100 You're getting married in the morning! 1049 00:42:14,102 --> 00:42:15,568 Well, the morning's a long time away. 1050 00:42:15,570 --> 00:42:16,936 What are we going to do about that? 1051 00:42:16,938 --> 00:42:19,272 Amy, listen to me -- i am 907 years old. 1052 00:42:19,274 --> 00:42:20,773 Do you understand what that means? 1053 00:42:20,775 --> 00:42:22,241 It's been a while? 1054 00:42:22,243 --> 00:42:23,810 Yeah. No, no, no! I'm 907, and look at me! 1055 00:42:23,812 --> 00:42:25,244 I don't get older, I just change. 1056 00:42:25,246 --> 00:42:27,046 You get older, I don't, 1057 00:42:27,048 --> 00:42:28,681 and this can't ever work. 1058 00:42:28,683 --> 00:42:30,616 Oh! Aw, you are sweet, Doctor, 1059 00:42:30,618 --> 00:42:32,385 but I really wasn't suggesting anything 1060 00:42:32,387 --> 00:42:34,220 quite so... long-term. 1061 00:42:37,925 --> 00:42:39,992 But you're human! You're Amy! 1062 00:42:39,994 --> 00:42:41,527 You're getting married in the morning! 1063 00:42:41,529 --> 00:42:44,063 In the morning. Doctor? 1064 00:42:44,065 --> 00:42:46,966 She is getting married to one of the sweetest, nicest guys 1065 00:42:46,968 --> 00:42:50,703 in the world the next day and she's coming on to an alien. 1066 00:42:50,705 --> 00:42:53,039 That's not cool. That's not cool at all. 1067 00:42:53,041 --> 00:42:55,641 I was very excited about that scene, 1068 00:42:55,643 --> 00:42:57,310 just because why not get a jump on the Doctor, 1069 00:42:57,312 --> 00:42:59,078 see what that's like, before you get married? 1070 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:02,181 Although the Doctor is always very sexy, 1071 00:43:02,183 --> 00:43:04,584 you kind of never really think of him that way, 1072 00:43:04,586 --> 00:43:06,085 so when Amy actually jumped him, 1073 00:43:06,087 --> 00:43:08,721 I was like "this is inappropriate, Amy. 1074 00:43:08,723 --> 00:43:10,223 "What are you doing? 1075 00:43:10,225 --> 00:43:11,691 It's the Doctor," you know? 1076 00:43:11,693 --> 00:43:13,292 Of course, the other half of my brain was 1077 00:43:13,294 --> 00:43:15,161 extremely jealous. 1078 00:43:15,163 --> 00:43:17,630 In the modern era, "Doctor Who" has been 1079 00:43:17,632 --> 00:43:19,966 an interesting show for female characters. 1080 00:43:19,968 --> 00:43:22,635 I'm your daughter. 1081 00:43:22,637 --> 00:43:24,871 These people end up solving things 1082 00:43:24,873 --> 00:43:26,205 and outsmarting the Doctor 1083 00:43:26,207 --> 00:43:27,974 and helping the Doctor. 1084 00:43:27,976 --> 00:43:29,809 But I always took you where you needed to go. 1085 00:43:29,811 --> 00:43:31,210 They have their vulnerabilities. 1086 00:43:31,212 --> 00:43:33,846 I love you. 1087 00:43:33,848 --> 00:43:35,982 And, perhaps, it's because of those vulnerabilities 1088 00:43:35,984 --> 00:43:37,917 that Doctor Who 1089 00:43:37,919 --> 00:43:39,419 can experience 1090 00:43:39,421 --> 00:43:40,887 human emotions a bit more. 1091 00:43:40,889 --> 00:43:43,623 Oh, Donna Noble, I am so sorry. 1092 00:43:43,625 --> 00:43:46,459 I think it's a really good thing 1093 00:43:46,461 --> 00:43:48,895 this show has done throughout time, 1094 00:43:48,897 --> 00:43:50,763 for female characters on TV. 1095 00:43:50,765 --> 00:43:54,765 == sync, corrected by elderman ==