This speech is perfect for every doctor. It’s written in a way that’s not necessarily unique to a certain actor, but the Doctor as a whole and it’s perfect. The Jelly baby but at the end was perfect too
I like to imagine he says it after a long pause, like he waits to see the parasite god invert on itself and die, and then when it's dark and silent, he pulls the jelly baby out and asks that.
@@Cabb4ge. Oh, you know the first thing 4 would do when walking out to meet Akhaten would be to reach for the Jelly Baby bag before quickly shaking his head and putting it back just this once. 😂
I can practically see his expression going from an amused smile to that wide-eyed mad look of his during that pause between "Universes freeze... and creations burn." and then him pattering around biting on his knuckle like the things he's telling the parasite god and the things he's dredging up are alarming even to him, like he's scaring himself just by remembering the things which must never be spoken. Tom Baker was so good at that, switchint between happy and meloncholy and uneasy in a single delivery.
11 - A speech of Sadness, begging for both reprieve, even when standing against a Parasite God. 10 - Defiance born of Anger. Outburn the Parasite God with your Rage and your Memory. 4 - A speech of Disgust. How could such a thing feed off of these people, and so, sacrifice is born.
Me too I think it would be far more powerful, the offering of the fourth doctor I have a jelly baby... I don't have words right now to express how that leaves me.
It is so interesting to see the different takes from different doctors.. showing just how varied the doctors are, different doctors showing different strengths in emotions. 11th being louder and more sorrowful, 10th being more arrogant and cocky, but having that underlying darkness and regret under it all And here, with him being steadfast and strong, while also expressing a hint of sorrow. This is a beautiful show. The only show that i think can execute many actors still somehow managing to display the same character. Kudos to the writers and actors playing him.
Nice edit! That speech works surprisingly well with the Fourth Doctor (bar the Time War reference). The ‘lost things you couldn’t understand’ could refer to him leaving Sarah behind at the end of The Hand of Fear. I could picture this taking place straight after The Deadly Assassin If the Fourth Doctor was in The Rings if Akhaten.
Time War reference: The Curator. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that that is the Doctor, 'retired' just as he said, after God knows how many regenerations and returning to an old favorite, possibly with the help of the Sisterhood of Karn, who practically worship him and have the power to control the process (then again, Romana did, too). With the Curator, Tom Baker's voice can overlap everything, and always be accurate.
Anybody else having visions of the "Mr. Creosote" sketch from Monty Python's Meaning of Life with the jelly baby serving as the fatal "thin wafer"? *POP!!!*
It's a good reading in Tom Baker's voice, but I didn't hear the pain in his voice that you can in Matt's voice. The Doctor was crying in pain because of all he'd seen and done, the suffering, and the loss. It was emotional, not just a speech.
I think that’s why these different Doctor readings of the speech work, because you can imagine any of the Doctors giving this speech but always with their own flavour and twist to what makes their incarnations unique. 4 has a greater emphasis on his disgust at Akhaten for the suffering he’s inflicted on generations of innocent people, 10 has a greater emphasis on manifesting his fury and rage while 11 pours his heart and suffering out. And so on. All very different but all very the Doctor.
David is really good at this speech but I don’t think matches Matt’s delivery. Tom on the other hand, right on par with Matt’s. Gotta go find Capaldi doing it if he has
Just clicked, after all this time, the universe where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman was the Celestial Toymaker, I'm honestly on par with a three toed sloth with my speed of catch up . I miss Tom Bakers doctor, the guy always looked like he was on the verge of a stroke and carried just the right amount of eye bugging insanity.
