The Doctor Defeats the Silence | Day of the Moon | Doctor Who 

"One giant step for mankind." "And one great whacking kick up the backside for The Silence."

"So... What kind of doctor are you?" he asks, "Archaeology" she responds - before turning one of the Silence into History.

"You have a screwdriver, go build a cabinet" "That's really rude" Lol Matt Smith is my favorite.

"You've given the order for your own execution. And the whole planet just heard you" This line is so badass

It's just strange to think that Doctor Who was invented before that happened.

When River says 'my old man didn't see that did he? He gets ever so cross.' And the Rory is standing there. Brain overloads.

One of the creepiest things about 11 was that his cunning plans never seemed cunning until the very end. With 9 and 10, after a while it generally became obvious, because of their personalities, whether they were aiming for a rescue mission/peaceful ending or he had a cunning plan. Because of 11's bouncier personality, especially with the Ponds, it was harder to discern this. Whilst he didn't lie to people about random things, he was a lot happier to play the long game. For example, take 10's episode 'The Doctor's Daughter' where 10, Martha and Donna find themselves in the middle of a seemingly pointless battle between machine-built humans and a species called the Hath. One of his quotes from that is "look up genocide in a dictionary. When you do you'll see a picture of me next to it with a caption underneath that'll read 'over my dead body!'" After Martha accidentally gets taken by a Hath, he could easily have turned the entire planet upside-down with explosions to get her back, but he doesn't. It is blatantly a rescue mission episode. Compare this to 11's episode 'The Lodger' where he becomes housemates with a guy named Craig in order to investigate the creepy guy upstairs. We don't know what his end game is. He acts like normal bonkers 11 - having a full conversation with a cat, making a machine out of seemingly random objects - but we don't know whether his end game is to tell the creepy guy upstairs to go home, to destroy him, or anything. EDIT: I've just thought of a better example than 'The Lodger'. 'The Girl Who Waited' in which Amy accidentally gets stuck in a containment facility that runs at a faster timestream than the one the Doctor and Rory are in. The Doctor uses science and Rory and they end up with two Amys in one timestream - normal Who Amy and Amy almost forty years older - which the Doctor says the TARDIS (to get them home) will be okay with if he gets rid of the karaoke bar. But he's lying and locks them in the TARDIS and him and Rory - young Amy now unconscious - have to listen as Old Amy is knocked out and killed. He tries to be cruel and cold, saying that if they save Amy now then the Amy outside won't exist so she'll never get trapped - it will have never happen. However, he puts Rory's hand on the TARDIS lock saying "let her in if you want" - but if he does Amy has to wait almost forty years for them to rescue her. This almost makes Rory cry who is already traumatised listening to Old Amy outside, but he says to the Doctor "this isn't fair. You're turning me into you."

does anyone else think that at 0:06 , when he says "I'm not really gonna let you go, nice thought but it's not christmas" this is an easter egg for the time of the doctor, when he essentially forgives the silence and moves on when he's in christmas?

I really love how River doesn't remember the Silence but it because she saw the fear in her father's eyes, she shot one. this is why River is my favorite character. she is one hell of a woman!!!!

Just realized what the doctor was doing with the screwdriver, he was dispersing the electric charge

You have a screwdriver, go build a cabinet!

watching this made me want to cry. I really really miss Matt Smith. And the Ponds.

Do the silence rot? Because If you can't remeber killing them, there's no way you're going to dispose of the bodies. Come to think of it, the living room's been smelling a bit funny lately...

Mess with an archaeologist, and you're history.

Remember Journey's End? Quoth Davros: "But here's the truth, Doctor: you take ordinary people and you fashion THEM into weapons. [...] Behold your beloved children of time, turned into murderers." Now it took The Doctor one day to fashion BILLIONS of ordinary people into weapons. Good job!

This scene had me gaping till the end. It shows how ruthless and cunning the Doctor is. Of course, it's only topped by River shooting a Silence behind her when she shouldn't even know it exists unless she sees it.

The fun subversive bit which nobody seems to notice happens carefully buried at 3:02. The scene's made a big point of establishing that River's gun shoots red energy bolts. The Silence produce blue lightning, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver produces flashes of green light which either- as River appears to think- are doing nothing at all while she's doing all the work, or, as some have suggested, are harmlessly disrupting the Silence's energy weapons. The Doctor doesn't seem overly bothered that River thinks this, of course. At this point, River, Rory, and Amy are all in mortal danger, and their survival pretty much depends on no Silence shooting River in the back. At 3:02 a Silent goes down with a scream... hit by a green energy bolt. The Doctor hates violence and does not like weapons. This does not mean "will not use".

"My old fella didn't see that, did he?" I see what you did there ;)

2:59 I like how you can see the Doctor using the Sonic to defend himself in this scene, I believe that he's doing a mixture of blocking the incoming electricity by dispersing the charge, somehow redirecting the electricity back at the Silence and possibly fire sonic pulses at them like he did to a Darlek with the other doctors in Day of the Doctor

River: What are you doing. The Doctor: helping River: you've got a screwdriver go build a cabinet. The Doctor: That's really rude God I love river and the 11th or just river in general she's so great hope to see more of her.

The thing about the Matt Smith Doctor that struck me as time went on - At times he could be energetic and flight as befitting his seeming youth, but in instances like this he could be more ruthless than the 7th Doctor at his coldest.

Aw, it didn't include the bit with The Doctor and River flirting at first. That was always my favourite part of this scene.

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind (on a massive egg).

The Silence: Let's build an unstoppable assassin and send her to kill the Doctor The Silence to Amy Pond: We do you honour, you will bring the Silence. River shows up and murders every single one of the Silence. Well, I guess they live up to their name now. Not the best plan, guys. Not the best.

"So, what kind of doctor are you? "Archaeology. Love a tomb." Damn, River!! Stop sassing your Dad!

Canton Delaware : "There's no way out Dr Song" River Song : "There's always a way out!" =))

I was beginning to get on the mood for Matt Smith then suddenly Peter Capaldi's face shows up telling me to subscribe...

there is only one word to describe the whole matt smith era: Legendary!

I often think romance is over done or too cheesy in tv shows, Dr who included. But I will admit every time I see the "stupid-face" line and Rory's reaction, i can't help but smile

"Oh, I've killed people, sure, but then I got worse, I got clever; started tricking people into killing for me." ~Tenth Doctor, "End of Time"

Matts face in the thumbnail tho

Aaaaaand cue all the people in the comments pretending to forget seeing the Silence.

Poetic justice - they kidnapped a girl to create a murderer to kill Doctor. This girl regenerated, came with Doctor to rescue herself and killed all Silence what were here to kidnap her. Talk about poetic justice.

"I think quite possibly the word you're looking for right now is ... 'OOPS - run!' Guys, I mean US! RUN!" - I was having a small chuckle to myself at the "Guys, I mean US! RUN!" part. Anyone else?

why do i feel like the doctor did something awesome i can't really remember

Remember when the Doctor brainwashed humanity into committing genocide?

A great episode, part history, part fiction, and part humor. The writing was simply excellent, the acting just great. An episode that ranks in the best of doctor who. It's episodes like this one that show why the series has been on so long.

"You've got a screwdriver go build a cabinet!" "That's really rude!"

1:15 That one Silent who wasn't inviting to the Christmas party.

This is one of those moments where I really started to realize how much I loved the Eleventh Doctor. It's scenes like this where I realized how noticeably more cunning he was than his previous two incarnations. Make no mistake, the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were well armed in the intelligence department, but I'm not sure I can see them coming up with the idea to use the Silents' own abilities against them in quite the way their successor did.

2:50 "You've got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!" Later, in the 50'th anniversary special: "Again with the screwdrivers! What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?" possible reference? I think so! Also: "What kind of doctor are you?" "Archaeology." Gotta love the references.

3:43 Don't tell me what to do Capaldi

It's funny how the episode's plot was driving this to be the big climactic battle to defeat the Silence, but the Doctor's already set his plan into motion, the battle was over as soon as Delaware goaded that Silent into giving him the kill order. Besides rescuing Amy, Doc's just there to gloat.

I especially like how the doctor was just waving his screwdriver around during that shootout. I mean imagine, a regular dude in the middle of a gangster firefight threatening the mobsters with a regular screwdriver.

When I think of all time great Doctor Who moments, and there are TONS of them, this is the one for me that’s #1 on my list. This moment is just so blatantly BADASS and hopeful and celebrates being human and alive, instead of a lot of science fiction at the moment where we paint ourselves as a cancer on the planet. This moment right here is when I fell in love with Doctor Who for the first time.

I love how River was able to tell there was one of the Silence behind her based on Rory's reaction

River is always so... fantastic! I'm glad she's returning this Christmas!

"I'm not really going to let you go that easily. It's not Christmas" THAT SICK REFERENCE!!

River: "why do you think I am shooting at them?" Doctor: *continues waving sonicscrewdriver around*

0:42 “And every single one of them, at some point in their lives, will look back at this man taking that very first step and they will never, ever forget it” Chills

This is easily the most genius way to beat the silence. Everyone will always kill the silence but never remember no mass fear or anything

The day the Doctor defeated the Silence epitomizes what the Doctor is. It shows his true power, his ability to give people the tools they need to achieve greatness. This right here, this scene, this moment, it is without doubt the very best of the entire Doctor Who series. I would go even further and say this is one the best enemy defeat moments from any series or film. To this day, whenever I think about this I still get shivers down my back. And even knowing that it is entirely fictional, it still makes me feel proud.

This is what makes Doctor Who on of the few TV shows nearest to perfection, awesome dialogue and extremely fitting music. And some comedy. And awesome characters like River Song. All incarnations of the Master. And so many others I can't come close to an adequate list in 5 minutes.

“AND ANOTHER KICK IN THE BACKSIDE FOR THE SILENCE!” YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!

3:34 River: "Archeology" *Casually shoots silence behind her*

Rory must be so proud of his daughter.

"SHUT UP AND DRIVE!" then butt-chucks him toward the TARDIS.

"You've got a screwdriver, go build a cabinet!" Savage

"You've got a screwdriver, go build a cabinet" 2:55 LOL, adding this to the list of reasons to love River Song

"You've got a screwdriver - go build a cabinet!" that was just amazing

2:05 i don’t think the chibnall era has even come close to this level of hype, the balance of humour and badassery is so good

“My old fella didn’t see that did he?” That line takes on a whole new level and is funnier when you know enough of River’s history 😂

This, the Doctor's speech at Stonehenge, and the scene where the Dalek screeches for mercy seem to be my favourite scenes to watch over and over.

River song the greatest Master of the 360° no scope

“One giant leap for mankind… And one whacking great kick up the backside to the Silence! You just raised an army against yourselves!”

Matt, my dear Matt. I miss you. You were and always will be my first Doctor. :D:D

2:24 - the only time that Rory way really mad at Amy. the audacity of her to ask him to leave her behind.

“You’ve got a screwdriver! Go build a cabinet!”

Coolest use of the sonic screwdriver ever

This is my favourite Matt Smith scene. I've been waiting 4 years for you to upload this! :D

How did river know to shoot the silence behind her if you can't remember them the minute you turn away

You know the doctor is actually helping, if you look closely at 2:45 you'll see that his sonic screwdriver is absorbing the electricity in the room before the silence can!☝️☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝☝

1:49 Why is there a random Silent just chilling in a bar like he's waiting for a pint?

All these people going "omg it's Crowley" and I'm just thinking "No, it's Benedict Fonda, doing a task for Warehouse 2"

I really miss Matt Smith as the doctor...this is one of my favorite scenes!!! Thank you so much!!💙

I'm not really letting you go that easy. It's a nice thought but it's not christmas. Considering that he teamed up with them when he was in the town called "christmas". That was a weird line don't you think?

I'm not the biggest Dr Who fan - I enjoy it but I'm not super committed. That being said, the writers have pulled off some of the best twists I've ever seen in the history of sci fi. This is still one of my favourites

I just realised,the Doctor had that whole speech planned.When he was looking at the tv,he should have forgotten that the Silence were there or that he was talking to them or at least what he said while looking at them.He just started his speech and didn't stop,ignoring the Silence at all XD

Day of the moon. You mean the day of the nightmare fuel induced episode.

kinda wondering why this entire video contained a little bit of the doctor, and a bit of the moon landing. any ideas?

I love how awesome the doctor is in the scen.... Wait what was i saying I dont remember

"I'm not gonna really let you go that easily. Nice thought, but it's not Christmas." For some reason, that was so funny to me.

I thought this was one of the cleverest resolutions in the whole series. Just brilliant.

The silent actually had _three_ quizzical reaction shots. Or to rephrase: "What?" "WHAT?!" "what."

"Nice thought, but it's not Christmas." ...love it.

Did anyone else notice the Doctor can look away from the Silence and continue talking to them without forgetting?

1:55 Oh, hello there, Mr. High Evolutionary!

My personal head-canon is that if you translate the silence at 1:17 it would be saying something like ‘dammit Phil, I told you not to say that”

The sound people made when their eyes blink reminded me of the ark engram sound

Amy: "What's he got?" Rory: "*Something*, I hope."

One of my favorite scenes with 11!

The best part of it is, this is how you teach your species about this kind of concept. We would never truly know we were doing it.

How come David never had music in the background for his speeches like this that would made his more n more exiting and chilling

For those of you wandering what the doctor is doing with his sonic he is actually doing 3 things, 1. Firing sonic beams and pulses killing silents, 2. creating sonic shields (forcefields) to protect river and amy. 3. absorbing and repelling the electricity the silents are generating. You can see all of this really clearly if you just spam Pause as soon as the fighting begins, we can see almost immediately at around 2:13 if you pause it soon after a green beam kill a silent, two seconds later we see a very clear green sonic beam kill another silent. Then as amy and Rory are fleeing to the tardis if you have a keen eye you can see the doctor using his screwdriver to create sonic shields around them and protecting them from the energy we can even hear amy shout doctor briefly as lightning strikes right at them only to be blocked by the doctor‘s sonic. Around 2:33 ish and at 2:38 is when we see him save amy and Rory from the Lightning but then we see a few seconds later a silent die to his own lightning so we can see the doctor repelled their own attacks back at them. We also see the doctor shoot a beam at another silent but it looks like he missed but he might not of it’s just the angle is a bit weird. At about 2:49 we see another green beam fire from his sonic presumably killing another silent he has killed roughly 5 now. Then after he says that’s really rude, he kills another silent and then a final one as he leaves for the tardis.

Gotta love it when she says "Hope my old fella didn't see this" and Rory's standing right behind her in the Tardis xD

These were the golden days of Doctor Who

"Shut up and build a cabinet!" "What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"

And yet it’s 2021 and we accidentally recorded over that oh so important first step.

So the live broadcast also showed people around the world and in the control room just as Neil Armstrong was making that step? Also, bit unfair for the non-kovarian silence who will now be shot down if they visit Earth.

I love how River was willing to point out how ridiculous the Doctor looked