From this point onward, through the museum trip,
to the final goodbye,
to the final trip to the museum,
it is just a neverending stream of tears!
I hope that everyone has their tissues ready! What scenes/moments from Doctor Who make you cry?
Tomorrow: What scenes / moments make you giggle?
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NB2000 115p · 734 weeks ago
And E.L.S.O.S. has pretty much said everything I was going to say. So, great big THIS! to your post. The end of that episode is just one great big tearjerker
Because you can never have enough gifs of this gorgeous moment:
Close second: Donna's mind being wiped in Journey's End. As soon as she starts saying binary over and over and over I just lose it, I'm a blubbing mess for the last few minutes of the episode. Poor Donna :'(
flamingpie 89p · 734 weeks ago
So I'm going to go with:
this was the first scene in Who to make me REALLY sob (I teared up at Father's Day but that was about it). Just... screw Billie Piper and her contagious tears. She breaks down and it's just TEARS FOREVER. WHY IS SHE SO GOOD AT THAT.
swimmingtrunks 92p · 734 weeks ago
John Smith's final few scenes in Family of Blood always do it to me too, but that's on the other, absolutely devastating end of the spectrum. Tennant is really, really excellent at portraying despair and breaking your heart doing it. I'm not enamored of the immaturity of Ten, but when Tennant's characters crumble into an infantile, sobbing mess, there's something raw about that and it sets off my waterworks.
Albion19 84p · 734 weeks ago
echinodermata 118p · 734 weeks ago
So I'll try to talk about a different aspect than I did before. This is obviously a wonderful scene, and it has some spectacular acting and directing. Is the monologue from the curator too much? I honestly don't think so, but even if it were, I think the episode is allowed to go there because this scene is about Vincent and how big of a deal it would be to have him hear that sort of stuff about his art.
And it's a scene that makes me cry because it's happy, it really is. Vincent finally gets the recognition in his lifetime that had so desperately been missing, and he gets to see people appreciating his art in his own goddamn exhibit.
But of course it's sad, because for one we know Vincent was still driven mad, and his life story was depressing as hell. And in the context of this episode, he isn't "fixed" or "bettered" or any of that nonsense. He was a man suffering from depression, and yes, he still committed suicide.
So I start crying once we get to the museum, and it doesn't stop til the episode ends. And my tears are of happiness and of sadness, and this scene just moves me and pulls me in so many directions that I love it so much.
Kaybee42 91p · 734 weeks ago
Kaybee42 91p · 734 weeks ago
Ten's regeneration also had me in ugly crying mode for about ten minutes before and a LONG time afterwards, but still not as bad as poor Donna.
Hypatia_ 99p · 734 weeks ago
1. The entire last 15 or so minutes of "Doomsday". From the bit where Rose and the Doctor are trapped on opposite sides of that wall in different universes, to the farewell scene on the beach, I get weepy. I was never even particularly into the Doctor/Rose ship, but that scene still hurts.
2. From the time Donna starts glitching (or overloading or whatever, I'm borrowing "glitching" from Dollhouse) to when the Doctor leaves her with Wilf and her mom also gets me. The mindwiping is just awful, what with her begging him not to. Also, when Wilf opens the door, the Doctor looks up and him and says "Help me." The Doctor never asks for help like that. It makes an already heartbreaking situation somehow worse.
So those two win. Other runners-up are:
1. The whole bit near the end of "Family of Blood". You know what I mean. Particularly the sequence where he sees the life he could have with Joan if he stays human.
2. The part at the end of "Last of the Time Lords" with the Doctor begging the Master to regenerate, then holding his body and sobbing.
3. The regeneration sequence from "The End of Time".
And I just realized every one of these involves Ten. Damn David Tennant and his amazing capacity for conveying grief and tragedy.
Openattheclose 99p · 734 weeks ago
2. Sarah Jane in the End of Time Part 2. You can just tell that she knows EXACTLY why he is there, and she is both grateful and saddened by it. I am fine for the actual regeneration, but that is the part that always gets me.
3. Turn Left. Like all of it.
PeterRabid 81p · 734 weeks ago
And this video:
Dragon Elexus 124p · 734 weeks ago
Definitely the scenes with John Smith contemplating the watch in Family of Blood. David Tennant's acting is top notch, and he's outright bawling, desperate that he can live. At the same time, imagine being told that your entire existence is a lie, that your entire past was fabricated for an alien being? And that same alien being was getting your home bombed. Everything about that scene is distressing, and it still makes me feel sad.
Also, the Doctor's goodbye to little Amelia in the Big Bang. The setting is really beautiful and unusual; this ancient time-traveller, sitting next to a sleeping girl that he'll one day- no, never get to know, now. This is really a solo performance, but Smith completely sells it. "I'll be a story in your head. But that's okay; we're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Finally; the mind-wipe and goodbye to Donna Noble.
Okay, seriously, where to begin? Besides the obvious mood whiplash between "moons that sway!" to Donna gasping and dying, its the pure fear on her face when she realises her face. The stone cold resolve, but pain, in the Doctor's as she begs him not to do it, that she wanted to travel with him forever. Good lord, its painful to watch.
And then we see the Doctor appear at the Noble's door, Donna unconcious, and he explains what happened. As if the Doctor being upset isn't enough, you have to get Wilf in on the act, too. "She was better than you!" Way to go and remind us of all the characterisation she's lost. And the fact that the development is gone is proven in the next scene- Donna chattering away at her phone, self-absorbed and close minded. The Doctor says that he's leaving, and she just brushes him away.
Sadder than either of the Bad Wolf Bay scenes, for sure.
hassibah 113p · 734 weeks ago
Also, like everyone said, the last scene in Vincent and the Doctor, right when they go back to the museum and see that there's no new paintings.
There's plenty of other stuff on the show that was incredibly sad and moving but it didn't quite get me crying for one reason or another.
Medli 141p · 734 weeks ago
5) Forest of the Dead - River's death. It only rests down here at the bottom because I know it's not the last time I get to see her. But it's terribly sad to watch anyway, all because of Alex's Kingston's amazing acting. I always lose it when she tells him "Not those times! Not one word!" and then starts in on how it's not over for him and he'll see her again. She is a treasure, I'm so glad she was cast as River. I really really want to see that last night of theirs together that she described, with Eleven. I know it'll hurt, but I need to see it anyway, so it all comes full circle.
4) Journey's End. First Donna, oh Donna. :'( And then I have to see Wilf tearing up and I lose it again. Any time he cries I well up, so we'll kinda make this an all-encompassing "Wilf cries" entry on this top five.
3) The sad man with a box (to steal Murray Gold's song title) in Big Bang. Matt Smith looks so old and so sad as he tells the sleeping Amelia the bedtime story, hoping it will cause her to remember him later and he'll be able to exist again... but knowing it's a desperate plan, and going off with quiet dignity to face being erased from ever existing. Wrecks me. I don't understand how anyone can say Moffat doesn't do emotional scenes, or that Smith isn't as good an actor as his predecessors.
2) Vincent and the Doctor. Just... Vincent and the Doctor. The beauty of the Starry Night scene. His getting to hear what Dr. Black said about his work. And then that last scene. Basically, E.L.S.O.S. summed it up perfectly.
1) "Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once... EVERYBODY LIVES!" And for a complete change of pace, this lovely example of happy tears from The Doctor Dances. Seeing Nine so happy at something for once ending well, the first time in his run nobody died (and I've heard it didn't happen often in the classic series either), always gets me. It really is beautiful.
__Jen__ 99p · 734 weeks ago
fantasylover12001 · 734 weeks ago
1) Vincent and the Doctor when he sees all the paintings in the museum.
2)Donna's fate at the end of Season 4;goes off to sob in a corner bitterly;
3)When Ten regenerates.
4)When Rose gets stuck in the parallel world.
and then I'm going to add one: When Rory gets shot in the Ep of In Cold Blood and then Amy forgets him but the Doctor remembers. Oh this ep killed me because in the short time he was there I had grown to love Rory and then to lose him like that and then have Amy not remember him...heartbreak city.
Selthia 68p · 734 weeks ago
mkjcaylor 87p · 734 weeks ago
2) Rose talking to Ten through the rift
But even then, I'm not a crier, so it's usually one or two tears.
I don't think I cried at Donna, but I was so incredibly sad. And I didn't cry at Vincent, though I was very sad there as well.
darth_eowyn 71p · 734 weeks ago
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ShayzGirl 67p · 731 weeks ago
I've said it in the past, but the scene in Vincent & the Doctor where the Doctor and Amy take Vincent to the museum always makes me cry and not because it's sad. It's the most beautiful things I've ever seen on TV. The entire episode was really well done and I love how they handled Vincent's depression and showed that despite what the Doctor and Amy did, it didn't change anything, but they did give him one more good day. And I love that when they go back and even though nothing big changed, the sunflowers did says "For Amy". She made a difference, even if only a little bit. But that's enough.