The Doctor's greatest triumphs

[mr friendly guy]

Because I am on leave and have been playing around with windows movie maker, I have tried my hand and sort of making music videos by mixing songs with scenes from shows you like. I am sure anyone who has played around on youtube has seen those ones. So far I have created a DW theme video mixing it with the Corr's instrumental song Rebel Heart. Next I am thinking of mixing various scenes from DW with the song the Touch, made famous from Transformers the movie and song by Stan Bush.

So what do you consider the Doctor's greatest triumphs / or just generally kick ass moments which would go well in the music video.

My thoughts are
1. Defeating the Time Lords in End of Time

2. Logopolis (ending the clip with his regeneration scene)

3. Defeating the Daleks in Doomsday

4. Outsmarting the Black Guardian in the Armageddon Factor, the look on the Guardian's face would be good.

5. Combining the sonic devices in the adipose episode - not the most epic story, but ingenious and screams I am so resourceful.


Any other thoughts

[Shroom Man 777]

I really, really think End of Time shouldn't be there at all since it was just so bad its good, and the only thing great there is the Master eating hamburgers and doing his MASTER RACE shtick and billions of asshole Masters laughing their heads off, and Timothy Dalton hamming it up like a total dick, and that old guy. That episode was hilarious. A fitting end for Tennant's run.

[mr friendly guy]

I really, really think End of Time shouldn't be there at all since it was just so bad its good, and the only thing great there is the Master eating hamburgers and doing his MASTER RACE shtick and billions of asshole Masters laughing their heads off, and Timothy Dalton hamming it up like a total dick, and that old guy. That episode was hilarious. A fitting end for Tennant's run.

But I can edit out the crap bits.

[Stark]

Do you mean greatest as in 'massive stakes' or greatest as in 'hugely wanked' or greatest as in 'most powerful or significant'?

[mr friendly guy]

Well I am looking at greatest and kick ass moments.

The latter doesn't have to have much in the way of massive stakes, it just has to showcase the Doctor's ingenuity or just beating the bad guys, and it has to be obvious visually (since you won't be hearing his words, just the music).

Now with regards to greatest triumphs, I am mainly looking at ones with a) massive stakes like the fate of the universe is in the balance b) pulling victory with the odds stacked against him c) defeating powerful foes.

I supposed "hugely wanked" counts as well, but I am damn well not going to use things from the Stolen Earth / Journey's ends because that was just WTF.

[Parallax]

The Doctor pretty much crapped on everyone during the second half of his 7th Incarnation. Every foe was no more than a pawn on a chessboard for him, being manipulated rather cunningly.
Wiping out the last Cyberfleet, Incinerating Skaro's solar system with the Hand of Omega, humbling Fenric and tricking Lady Penifore (a rather powerful sorceress) into destroying herself. Plus other notable moments such as defeating Light and the Gods of Ragnarok.

Ghostlight is actually a good example of just how scary an opponent The Doctor can be; you have a primeval alien godlike entity and the Doctor was at least three steps ahead of every single character, good and evil, for the entire thing.
Even when caught unaware of events, the Doctor soon demonstrated that he was ahead of everyone still in Battlefield. The only time he got in trouble was when facing defences he himself (or a future/alternative version) had set. Oh, and when the Brigadier punched him out ... but let's face it, the Brigadier is awesome.

[Thanas]

Well I am looking at greatest and kick ass moments.

Ninth Doctor: No.

Enough said.

[Setzer]

I think that block of episodes set in WW2 where nobody died was a significant triumph. Might make a nice ending note.

[Shroom Man 777]

Well I am looking at greatest and kick ass moments.

Ninth Doctor: No.

Enough said.

Seriously, Doctor Destro was the best. The sheer characterization, how just pained he was, all dark and brooding and sad and lonely and cold, but over time getting his shit together and learning to live again and learning to appreciate life. Man. It started when he saved everyone in that WW2, he regained his spark, and by the time he faced the Dalek armada he basically confronted not just his greatest enemies, but the darkest things inside himself too - all his guilt and all his sadness and loneliness - he confronted them, accepted them, and man. He was fantastic.

Man. Doctor.

EDIT:

I mean, pussying out and surrendering isn't really a great thing. But the sheer characterization, how Christopher Eccleston acted him, man. It was beautiful. God. That was beautiful.

[Kythnos]

Seriously, Doctor Destro was the best. The sheer characterization, how just pained he was, all dark and brooding and sad and lonely and cold, but over time getting his shit together and learning to live again and learning to appreciate life. Man. It started when he saved everyone in that WW2, he regained his spark, and by the time he faced the Dalek armada he basically confronted not just his greatest enemies, but the darkest things inside himself too - all his guilt and all his sadness and loneliness - he confronted them, accepted them, and man. He was fantastic.

I agree one of my favorite moments is when he is told "You would make a good Dalek" to me that has to be one of the best gut punch moments I have ever seen.

[TOSDOC]

If its triumphant visuals and facial expressions you're looking for, I can name a few.

"Girl in the Fireplace"--Taunting the robots while wearing shades and tie on his head, and then at the end when he rides in on the white horse and flashes Madam a goofy smile.

"Ark in Space"--looking up at the rows of sleeping humans while he praises humanity as his favorite species (I like his look of delight as he suggests tying in his own brain to the computers to scan the Wirrn's mind, too).

"The Poison Sky"--extremely cheesy way to save Earth at the climax, but visually triumphant anyway.

"The Doctor Dances"--Dancing with Rose while Captain Jack Harkness watches.

"Doomsday"--I can SEE!"

"Smith and Jones"--shaking his trainers into the trash.

"The End of the World"--Eccleston didn't smile often, but I got a kick out of his face when he starts to groove when Lady Cassandra turns on her "ipod".

"Gridlock"--one of the best action visuals at the end with the sonic screwdriver--even the way he holds it denotes the tension in the scene.

[Themightytom]

I thought his bust-in scene in "Waters of mars" was pretty good. Pretty much the only part of the episode that was actually. Also the scene in the season 11 opener with Matt Smith walking through the faces.

[Serafina]

Forest of the dead: "I am the Doctor. You are in the biggest library in the Universe. LOOK ME UP!"

[Crazedwraith]

Does it have to be the doctor himself?

River: It's a message from the doctor... It's says...

SCREEN: GERONIMO!

Coupled with visuals of him shooting up in the Pandorica.

[Rossum]

A few awesome moments I can think of:

In the episode where The Family was hunting down the Doctor to steal his long life then he fumbles with the switches and blows up their ships, then there's a few decent scenes of him disposing of the Family.

In Pandorica Opens and Big Bang there are scenes of the Cyberman attacking Amy and the Doctor while its still in pieces, the Alliance locking the Doctor away, and then later the scenes of the Doctor showing up with a fez and a broom to give Rory his sonic screwdriver to rescue himself in his past. Plus, add scenes of Rory shooting the Dalek with his arm gun and River finishing it off with her pistol... and heck the death of the Fez might be good for a shot if only to see the Dalek rising up under the ashes.

Then in the episode where the daleks capture the Earth for their big reality machine there is a shot of Rose blowing a Dalek in half with her gun.

In the first episode of Tennants being the Doctor (where the aliens with skull heads make everyone with a certain blood type stand on the top of a roof) then Doctor gets his hand chopped off and the Prime Minister has Torchwood blow the aliens out of the sky with a laser.

Poision Sky (or one of those two episodes) has UNIT use that flying ship to blow the poision out of an area. Pretty nice.

Doomsday and Army of Ghosts has Mickey wielding a huge gun, an army of cybermen, the Daleks arriving in their sphere and in the Genesis Ark. I suppose having Roses alternate universe dad rescue her from the void might count as a nice scene.

There are a few scenes in Turn Left that might make good shots, like the scene where the Doctors lifeless body is being carried away. I'm thinking that in a music video featuring the Doctors biggest triumphs, it might be worth it to have a littel section where you see the Doctor being dead... and then show a bunch of scenes where his companions and the other humans are kicking ass before going back to scenses of the Doctor.

Plus, some shots of Leela and Ace (I think she's the one who hit a Dalek with a baseball bat) K9 might have some decent moments as well.

And the scene where the Weeping Angels fall into the crack in time should go in there as well.

[mr friendly guy]

I couldn't put everything in it, since the total length of the visuals must match the length of the song.

Here is the attempt. Naturally I had to show him defeat god like beings eg Black Guardian, Sutekh, and universe destroying wank, from Logopolis etc. And of course we had to show the Master and Daleks.