The Eleventh Doctor’s Ten Best Moments
So long, raggedy man.
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“You’re always here to me, and I always listen.” (“The Name of the Doctor”)
Man, I didn’t go into this expecting to highlight all the most heartbreaking moments, but damned if those aren’t the ones that have really stuck with me. This touching sequence from “Name of the Doctor” puts a beautiful capper on the time-twisted romance between the Doctor and River Song. In the episode, River’s consciousness is summoned from the Library computer where the Doctor left her, but throughout the episode only Clara had been able to see her. As the Doctor prepares to enter his own timeline to save Clara, he reveals to River that he has seen her all along, but acknowledging her was too painful. Finally, the two are granted a moment of closure, a respite from the inverse unfolding of their relationship, and a chance to say goodbye. And, in typical Who fashion, that bittersweet moment is immediately undercut with comedy as the Doctor realizes just how peculiar his moment with River must have looked for everybody else who can’t see her…
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