The Doctor Who Thread

[Demoncrat]

Well I got to see this Macra thingy. In black & white. I've never seen photos of Anneke with short hair during her tenure. Cue several to prove me wrong again
Enjoyed it. I will say that the villains were impressive enough. But then I am quite keen on the game Limbo so I am biased ahem.
Those songs though

[iank]

Polly gets her hair cut in the original version of Macra (though it had grown again by Faceless Ones!). That scene was cut out of the animated version for time/budget reasons.
That being said, I don't know why they didn't just have her with long hair. As it stands, watching the DVD she inexplicably goes from long in Moonbase to short in Macra to long again in Faceless for no apparent reason.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Well I got to see this Macra thingy. In black & white. I've never seen photos of Anneke with short hair during her tenure. Cue several to prove me wrong again
Enjoyed it. I will say that the villains were impressive enough. But then I am quite keen on the game Limbo so I am biased ahem.
Those songs though

As far as i'm aware, D, there are only telesnaps of Polly with short hair so you're safe. Until i became very familiar with them i didn't even know it was Polly.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Lie Of The Land

Bill: But it's all right, because I know he has a plan. One day soon, he's going to come back and save us all. One day
(A key rattles in her door lock. Bill grabs a wooden stool and holds it defensively in front of her. The door starts to open and she hides. The door closes. She confronts her intruder, and they both scream.)
Nardole: What are you doing? It's me, Nardie!
Bill: No. Wait, wait. Shut up. Tell me something. That first time, with the Heather creature chasing us, where did we run away to?
Nardole: Australia.
Bill: What noise should spaceship doors make?
Nardole: Shuck-shuck, obviously.
(Bill puts down the stool and hugs him.)
Bill: Oh God, it happened. I knew it. It all really happened.
(She punches him in the shoulder.)
Nardole: Ow!
Bill: Where have you been?
Nardole: That hurt me, that really hurt me!

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Nardole: Oh. Oh well, that's not that weird. I used to have an imaginary friend, 'til he left me for someone else. Huh. I know, charming.

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Nardole: However bad a situation is, if people think that's how it's always been, they'll put up with it. That's ninety percent of the job done.

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(Inside the vault)
(It is bigger on the inside, of course. Missy is inside an hexagonal containment field, playing Gnossienne No 1 by Satie. Some pieces of furniture are scattered around the rest of the Vault. There are even windows to let in light. The Doctor flops into a leather armchair as the doors close.)
Bill: But it's, it's just a woman. (Missy stops playing and looks around.) God, the way you and Nardole have been carrying on, I thought you had some kind of monster in here, or something!
The Doctor: I do. Missy, Bill. Bill, Missy, the other Last of the Time Lords.
Bill: Wait a sec. Why have you got a woman locked in a vault? Because even I think that's weird, and I've been attacked by a puddle.
The Doctor: She's going cold turkey from being bad.
Missy: Humph!

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Missy: I've got some requests. I want some new books, some toys, like a particle accelerator, a 3-D printer and a pony.
The Doctor: I don't think that you really grasp what's going on here. Nice people generally don't haggle over the fate of a planet.
Missy: I once built a gun out of leaves. Do you think I couldn't get through a door if I wanted to?

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Bill: So when you defeated the Monks, that's how you did it?
Missy: Well, at this point, all that was left of the bloodline was a wee girl, and I just pushed her into a volcano.
Bill: It's me. The lynchpin is me.
Missy: Awkward.
Bill: So you're saying I have to die.
Missy: No. If you were just to die, everyone's false memories would have to fade, and that could take ages. It's actually better if you keep breathing, if your brain just keeps transmitting, well, nothing. That would blot out the residue false memories.
Bill: What would be left of me?
Missy: You'd be a husk. Completely and irrevocably brain-dead. You couldn't even get on Celebrity Love Island.
(The Doctor pulls Bill back from the containment field and confronts Missy.)
The Doctor: Even if that was the truth, the fact that you're suggesting it shows there's been no change, no hope, no point. We don't sacrifice people. It's wrong, because it's easy.
Missy: You know, back in the day, I'd burn an entire city to the ground just to see the pretty shapes the smoke made. I'm sorry your plus one doesn't get a happy ending, but, like it or not, I just saved this world because I want to change. Your version of good is not absolute. It's vain, arrogant and sentimental. If you're waiting for me to become all that, I'm going to be here for a long time yet.

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The Doctor: Humanity's doomed to never learn from its mistakes.
Bill: Well, I guess that's part of our charm.
The Doctor: No, it's really quite annoying.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen) and the Doctor (Tom Baker) arrive in Antarctica in The Seeds of Doom (1976)

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Empress Of Mars

Knibbs: Don't let us down now, Valkyrie.
Coolidge: Fingers crossed, Alan.
Knibbs: I got everything crossed. Okay, people. Transmission arriving in ten, nine, eight, seven, six.
(The big screen is now counting down to Download Commences with them.)
The Doctor: Five, four, three, two, one! Sorry, I could never resist a countdown.
Coolidge: Who the hell are you?
Bill: Is this Neil Armstrong?
Knibbs: What?
(Bill is standing by the studio photograph of the Apollo 11 astronauts sitting in front of an image of a full moon on the wall, pointing at Neil.)
Bill: Neil Armstrong. First man on the Moon.
The Doctor: Not quite the first.
Bill: What, you mean he wasn't the first man on the Moon?
The Doctor: That is such a human-centric question.
Bill: I'm the human in this set-up.
Nardole: She is, actually. (Dunking a tea bag into a cup.) It's a bit embarrassing, really.
Knibbs: Who are you people?
The Doctor: Friendly aliens. Don't mind us. Just a day out for the kids.

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Bill: Maybe someone's been messing around with time. Like in The Terminator.
The Doctor: The Terminator?
Bill: It's a movie. You haven't seen it?
The Doctor: I'm a very busy man.
(He is scanning ahead with the sonic screwdriver.)
Bill: You'd like it. It's got killer robots.
The Doctor: Ooo, I'll put it on me list.

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Bill: Oh, it's like the underground tunnels in The Thing.
The Doctor: The what?
Bill: It's a movie. You'd like that one too. Everybody dies

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The Doctor: By the moons, I honour thee. I'm the Doctor. What is your name? (The Ice Warrior growls. He has one eye missing and a scrape across the helmet nose guard.) I know your people of old. I was once an Honorary Guardian of the Tythonian Hive.
(A rifle bolt is moved.)
Godsacre: Don't move. I'll sort this beggar out.
(A red-coat with white pith helmet is pointing a breech loading rifle at them.)
The Doctor: No, no, no, no! You don't understand. This creature is no threat. He may look like a monster to you
(A rifle shot at the Doctor's feet makes him jump back.)
Godsacre: I wasn't talking to you. Are you all right, Friday?
Friday: Sir.
Godsacre: Who are you and what the devil are you doing here?
The Doctor: Well, I could ask you the same question. And I will.

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Bill: You know what Friday is, then?
The Doctor: He's an Ice Warrior.
Bill: And they're the proper Martians, right? They belong here?
The Doctor: Yes. The indigenous species. An ancient reptilian race. They built themselves a sort of bio-mechanical armour for protection. The creature within is at one with its carapace. The Ice Warriors. They could build a city under the sand, yet drench the snows of Mars with innocent blood. They could slaughter whole civilisations, yet weep at the crushing of a flower.
Bill: Like The Vikings.
The Doctor: Yes. Yes, very much.
Bill: Yeah, Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis

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(Peach and Vincey are on guard duty. Jackdaw brings the Sergeant Major a cup of tea.)
Jackdaw: Here you go, Sarge.
Peach: Much obliged, I'm sure, Jackdaw.
Vincey: Don't I get none?
Peach: RHIP, son.
Vincey: Eh?
Peach: Rank has its privileges.

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The Doctor: Oh. There's no setting for wood. Why is there still no setting for wood?
Bill: But, you've got a plan?
The Doctor: Yes, of course I've got a plan. I'm all plans. I'm made of plans.
Godsacre: Who the deuce are you two, really? You speak of us as though we're a different species. You seem to know all about these, these Ice Warriors. You seem to know a lot about most things.

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The Doctor: There we are. I've sent out a sort of round-robin e-mail. All being well, the first intelligent, space-going system will be in touch fairly soon.
Iraxxa: Thank you, Doctor. Mars is dead, but the Ice Warriors will live on.
Bill: Will they make it? Oh, yes. In fact, this might be the beginning of the Martian Golden Age.
(A high-pitched voice comes through, familiar to anyone who knows the 3rd Doctor's adventures. And it really is the same person providing the voice.)
Voice [OC]: Are you receiving us? Mars, are you receiving?
Iraxxa: This is Iraxxa, Queen Empress of Mars.
Voice [OC]: Ah, excellent! We have received details of your situation. We would be happy to send a fleet to your aid at once. A physical marker of some sort would be appreciated to guide our ships.
Iraxxa: To whom am I speaking?
Voice: This is Alpha Centauri. Welcome to the universe!
(A being with one giant eye looks out from the screen on the console. Iraxxa turns to the Doctor, who nods.)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Master (John Simm) as seen in The End of Time part one (2009)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Judoon Invade London's Victoria Station.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Eaters Of Light

Nardole: Oh, where are we now?
Bill: Aberdeen, Scotland. 2nd century AD.
The Doctor: You weren't complaining when it was Mars, were you?
(Nardole is in a bright orange dressing gown and knitted woollen cap.)
Nardole: So why is Scotland suddenly more important than guarding the Vault and keeping your sacred oath?
The Doctor: She thinks she knows more about Romans than me.
Nardole: Oh, well that's explained everything, thank you

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The Doctor: There's so much that you don't understand about Roman Britain.
Bill: I got an A star.
Nardole: (sotto) Ooo, got an A star.
The Doctor: I've lived in Roman Britain. Governed, farmed, juggled. And speaking as a former Vestal virgin, second class, I can assure you
Bill: I bet you there is a Roman legion down there.
Nardole: Hang on. What, second class?
The Doctor: Fine. You go and check the river. I'll go and find their last battlefield.
Bill: Fine. I'll meet you back here with a Roman soldier.
(Bill leaves, heading downhill.)
Nardole: Yeah, but seriously. Second class?
The Doctor: Yeah, it's a long story.

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Bill: Oh, a Roman soldier. Oh, I wish I'd studied Latin so you could understand me.
(This soldier is from Rome's African lands.)
Simon: I understand you.
Bill: Sorry, what?
Simon: I understand you.
Bill: But you're, you're speaking English.
Simon: What's English?
Bill: Er, what you're speaking in.
Simon: You're speaking Latin.
Bill: I'm not.
Simon: That's Latin. You just said that in Latin.
Bill: Ah! It's the Doctor. Or the Tardis. Or both. Something, telepathic, link. Auto-translate. That's why everyone in space speaks English.
Simon: What on Earth are you talking about?

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The Doctor: It's as if his bones have disintegrated.
Nardole: Ooo. What could do that?
The Doctor: A complete and total absence of any kind of sunlight.
Nardole: Death by Scotland.

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The Doctor: What are you doing?
Nardole: I'm ingratiating myself.
The Doctor: Stop it. It's nauseating.
Nardole: It's called charm.
The Doctor: (taking the popcorn bag) I'm against it. I'm against charm.
Nardole: Yeah, we all know that.
Ban: I said, don't move!
Nardole: I'm rooted.
The Doctor: Shh! Did anybody hear that? Do you know what that sound was?
Ban: What?
The Doctor: That was the sound of my patience shattering into a billion little pieces.

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Bill: Ah. Lucius, er. Right, listen. There's er something I should explain.
Lucius: What?
Bill: This is probably just a really difficult idea. I don't like men, that way.
Lucius: What, not ever?
Bill: Nah. Not ever. Only women.
Lucius: Oh. All right. Yeah, I got it. You're like Vitus, then.
Bill: What?
Lucius: He only likes men.
Vitus: Some men. Better looking men than you, Lucius.
Lucius: I don't think it's narrow-minded. I think it's fine. You know what you like.
Bill: And you like both?
Lucius: I'm just ordinary. You know, I like men and women.
Bill: Ha! Well, isn't this all very modern.
Lucius: Hey, not everyone has to be modern. I think it's really sweet that you're so restricted.
Bill: Cheers.
Lucius: We can be friends, though. I did save your life. That means we're friends forever.
Bill: (laughs) Yeah. I can deal with that.

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Nardole: (untying the Doctor) I know you're inclined to bear a grudge, so just remember I know about ten percent of your secrets. The dark secrets. And I'm the only one in the Tardis who knows where the tea cakes are.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Daleks advance on the town of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore in the 2013 Christmas special Time of the Doctor.