What is your saddest episode of Doctor who?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Ok so what is your saddest episode of Doctor who and why do you rate it as a sad episode?

For me the episode The Girl In The Fireplace.

It's definitely one of the saddest episodes I have seen of the reboot series. It is also one of my favorite episodes.

Second place was the one where the Doctor takes away Donna's memories.

 

[Annie McCoy]

For saddest I don’t have a specific one but the ones that I cry at every time are Vincent and the Doctor, Face the Raven through to The Husbands of River Song (if it’s not obvious i love 12), The Doctor Falls, The Waters of Mars, The God Complex and on rewatch Forest of the Dead duo.

Vincent and the Doctor is sad to me for the obvious reasons of Vincent’s life.

Face the Raven through to Hell Bent, is because I adore 12 and Clara, their end arc I just can’t deal with even though I know he remembers her again.

The Husbands of River Song, while one of my favourite comedic episodes/specials the night on Darillium part makes my heart break because of how sweet/final it was. Similar thing with Forest of the Dead be hase of River.

Waters of Mars - suicide.

The God Complex - Rita’s end and the fact the Doctors instructions was just making it worse makes it stand out to me idk.

 

[26138]

Episode 10 of The War Games because of what they do to Jamie and Zoe.

 

[Timewalker]

Earthshock - I realize I might be the only person on the planet who liked Adric, but I found his death very sad. And I commend the show for not having the sparkly, spangly theme music over the credits in that episode. The silence, and the image of Adric's broken Badge for Mathematical Excellence (that the Doctor used to kill the Cyberman) was appropriate.

Adric's death isn't something the characters got over by the next episode. There were references to him in subsequent episodes, and he was the only companion the Doctor called to when he was regenerating.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Earthshock - I realize I might be the only person on the planet who liked Adric, but I found his death very sad. And I commend the show for not having the sparkly, spangly theme music over the credits in that episode. The silence, and the image of Adric's broken Badge for Mathematical Excellence (that the Doctor used to kill the Cyberman) was appropriate.

Adric's death isn't something the characters got over by the next episode. There were references to him in subsequent episodes, and he was the only companion the Doctor called to when he was regenerating.

No you're not.

I liked Adric too and could never get all the hate the character gets.

 

[diankra]

While I laughed at a dub that ran happy days are here again over the end titles. But it upset me as B7 had a while earlier.

 

[Qonundrum]

As in emotional response? The final two episodes of "The War Games" as everything comes to a head and the fates of Zoe and Jamie (and the Doctor!), the final episode of "The Chase" as Ian and Barbara's farewell is much deserved, the final episode of "The Daleks' Masterplan" (which is chilling and depressing), and the last episode of "Earthshock".

As in the most pathetic? Let me think about that one...

 

[Timewalker]

I also teared up during the regeneration scene in Logopolis.

There's not much of nuWho that affected me like that, though I'll admit that it was interesting that "Dalek" had me sympathizing with a damn Dalek, on the issue of genocide.

Now, for the episode that was the straw that crossed the line (to mix metaphors)... Clara. Couldn't stand her. Disliked her more and more and more, so when the episode came when she was supposed to die, I watched because I wanted to see her die and gtf off my TV screen. So help me, I actually teared up a bit with that "Let me be brave" speech."

Then, GOTCHA! Tee-hee, she's not dead! In fact, she's effin' IMMORTAL, with her own TARDIS and an immortal companion of her own. Take THAT, you anti-Saint Clara fans!

I liked Capaldi as the Doctor. But that "Gotcha!" to the fans was the last straw, after shoving Clara at us on and on and on, including in iconic scenes in Classic Who episodes (in the 50th anniversary show). The only reason I watched the Christmas special was because it included the First Doctor. But I've never seen a regular episode since then. I didn't even watch the 60th anniversary stuff.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I really don't know how to feel about Clara. She's just one of those characters in a TV show I just don't know what to make of after multiple rewatches.

 

[diankra]

At 57 the idea of Clara not being current seems odd.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Modern Who, especially RTD Who and Moffat Who, delivers emotional moments, but they're so often cynically manipulative in their emotion.

In terms of genuine emotional moments, The Girl in the Fireplace and the final episode of Children of Earth. I had to shut off Children of Earth because, Jesus fuck, RTD went there. It's been almost fifteen years, and I'm still staggered that he went there.

Now, for the episode that was the straw that crossed the line (to mix metaphors)... Clara. Couldn't stand her. Disliked her more and more and more, so when the episode came when she was supposed to die, I watched because I wanted to see her die and gtf off my TV screen. So help me, I actually teared up a bit with that "Let me be brave" speech."

Then, GOTCHA! Tee-hee, she's not dead! In fact, she's effin' IMMORTAL, with her own TARDIS and an immortal companion of her own. Take THAT, you anti-Saint Clara fans!

But Clara's not immortal. She still dies in "Face the Raven." She's just been taken out of a moment in time before her death and infinitely stretched or something. I feel dumber for having typed that.

FWIW, I hate it, too.

At 57 the idea of Clara not being current seems odd.

Sometimes I struggle with the realization that Amy was announced fifteen years ago, and Clara's era was a decade ago. Time doesn't make sense anymore.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I am rewatching the reboot series and it just struck me that season 1 and 2 were some 19 years ago and now I feel so incredibly old and that makes me sad for other reasons. I just watched Girl In The Fireplace over the weekend and it still makes me almost cry. If only the TARDIS camera had seen what was on the wall where she parked. That painting and then they reveal the name of the ship it all makes sense but such a sad story.

Reinette would have been a great traveling companion.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Reinette would have been a great traveling companion.

I read a fanfic along those lines back in 2007, I guess, and thinking back on it, it prefigured the River Song story in a lot of ways--timeline hopping, a baby, a tragic end. I couldn't tell you who wrote it, what it was called, or anything else.

I have given a lot of thought to a Big Finish box set with Sophia Myles reprising the role, but what I would want to do (pure historical based on her actual life) and what Big Finish would actually commission (Daleks in Versailles, River Song, whatever Nick Briggs is fixated on this week) are completely different things.

 

[Commander Troi]

I cried at the end of Logopolis. It was like losing a friend.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I cried at the end of Logopolis. It was like losing a friend.

4th Doctor was "my doctor" but 12 comes in good at 2nd place I loved the whole Tom Baker era, that's the one I grew up in.

 

[kirk55555]

Not so much a sad episode as a scene, but the 11th Doctor's final scene and speech, about how "i'll always remember when the doctor was me", and then him seeing Amy come to him really gets me emotional.

 

[Timewalker]

But Clara's not immortal. She still dies in "Face the Raven." She's just been taken out of a moment in time before her death and infinitely stretched or something. I feel dumber for having typed that.

FWIW, I hate it, too.

As Spock stated once, "A difference that makes no difference is no difference." She still has infinity, so how is that any different from immortality?

I felt more sorry for Ashildr.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

As Spock stated once, "A difference that makes no difference is no difference." She still has infinity, so how is that any different from immortality?

I don't disagree. Moffat was being too cute by half, or having the cake and eating it too. Just a really bad creative decision.

 

[marillion]

This is probably just me being a nerdy kid, but I was devastated when Sarah Jane left. At that point, all I really knew of Dr. Who was the 4th Doctor, from episodes being run on PBS. It didn't occur to me at the time, that by the time I was watching the show in the early 80s, she was long gone from the series.

 

[Redfern]

This is probably just me being a nerdy kid, but I was devastated when Sarah Jane left. At that point, all I really knew of Dr. Who was the 4th Doctor, from episodes being run on PBS. It didn't occur to me at the time, that by the time I was watching the show in the early 80s, she was long gone from the series.

Having a similar viewing experience (first catching the Tom Baker stories on PBS in the 80s), I can relate...to an extent. I'd have to dig out the issue to be sure, but StarLog # 23 presented a significant article about DW and even provided an episode guide of Tom's first 4 series. This volume was published around 1979. When WFSU started playing promos for n "upcoming" acquisition in mid summer 1982, I retrieved that StarLog copy to prepare myself, get a bit of groundwork knowledge so I wouldn't be totally in the dark when it premiered. The article explained how companions came and went, new ones arriving when after the previous left. So I had a bit of forewarning. I knew Sarah wouldn't stay forever. I can't remember if the (ever so brief) synopses stated Sarah left at the end of "The Hand of Fear" (as StarLog tried to avoid spoilers), but it did note that Leela debuted in "The face of Evil. So I may have put 2 and 2 together and realized Sarah would leave right before that point. Still, I did whimper "Bye, Sarah..." when they freeze framed her.