The Eleventh Doctor’s Ten Best Moments

So long, raggedy man.

By David Wharton | Updated

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The TARDIS says goodbye (“The Doctor’s Wife”)
While we’re wading in the feels, this moment from Neil Gaiman’s Hugo-winning episode features one of Matt Smith’s best acting moments from the show, all the more impressive because it’s comparatively understated for a guy who often plays up the Doctor’s over-the-top elements. Here we have a brilliant concept from Gaiman — the Doctor finally meeting face-to-face with his one constant companion through all the years: the TARDIS itself. Leave it to Gaiman to come up with a love-story twist unlike any other, and when the TARDIS uses its fleeting moments in a humanoid body to tell the Doctor, simply, “Hello, it was so nice to meet you,” it’s far more gutting than if she’d said goodbye. And when you factor in Smith’s quiet “Please…I don’t want you to,” that’s it, I’m done for. It’s a rare episode that can make you look back at the entire series in a different way, but that’s just what this love story between the Doctor and his TARDIS does so very well.


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