Simon Wood
“she said….her grandfather didn't like strangers.”
“He's a doctor, isn't he? That's a bit of a lame excuse.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“It's John Smith and the Common Men.”
“John Smith is the stage name of the Honourable Aubrey Waites. He started his career as Chris Waites and the Carollers.”
Ian is so hip.
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“I like walking through the dark. It’s mysterious.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“It’s as if we’re about to interfere in something that is best left alone.”
62 years later - and it definitely wasn’t best left alone. #DoctorWhoDay #AnUnearthlyChild #DoctorWho
Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“Frankly I don’t understand your attitude” Ian just the first of many many people who wouldn’t understand the Doctor’s attitude over the subsequent six and a bit decades… #DoctorWhoDay #AnUnearthlyChild #DoctorWho
Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“Well it was just a telephone box”
“Perhaps”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“You wouldn’t understand”
“But I want to understand”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

“I love your school. I loved England in the 20th century. The last five months have been the happiest of my life.”
“But you are one of us. You look like us, you sound like us.”
“I was born in another time, another world.”

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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“I know that free movement time and space is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard.”
“Your arrogance is nearly as great as your ignorance.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

It’s still got it. #AnUnearthlyChild is just electrifying. What a start to #DoctorWho.

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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

“When. Oh, yes. Yes, of course. On the 23rd day of November in the Year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Eight.”
I find it much harder to accept #SilverNemesis is a whole 37 years ago then #DoctorWho being 62.

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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“This is my favourite kind of jazz: straight blowing.” 🧐
I should listen to more Courtney Pine though.
“I could listen to them all afternoon.”
“And so we shall.”
Love this Doctor/Companion vibe. Ace is unsurpassed.
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“Who’d want to kill us?”
“I suppose there are an infinite number of possibilities.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“You mean the world's going to end and you've forgotten about it?”
“I've been busy.”
“How long have you known?”
“Well, in strictly linear terms, as the chronometer flies, I've known since November the twenty third, 1638.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
Ace wears a fez now. Fezzes are cool. (The Doctor obviously internalises this for ~5 regenerations.) #DoctorWhoDay #SilverNemesis #DoctorWho
Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

“This may qualify as the worst miscalculation since life crawled out of the seas on this sad planet.”
“Nobody's perfect.”

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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

“Are we having fun?”
“Yeah”

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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“I don't suppose you've completely ignored my instructions and secretly prepared any Nitro Nine, have you?”
“What if I had?”
“Naturally you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as to carry it around with you, would you?”
“Of course not. I'm a good girl. I do what I'm told.”
“Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.”
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
(There’s a reflection here of the Doctor’s relationship with Leela - preaching pacifism, but relying on her for violent enforcement at arms length) #DoctorWhoDay #SilverNemesis #DoctorWho
Show threadSimon WoodNov 23
“I don't know if you're familiar with Wagner's Ring das Nibelungen?”
Wagner for the Nazis and the Cybermen. Courtney Pine for the Doctor and Ace.
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Show threadSimon WoodNov 23

“I'm really, really scared, Doctor.”
“Oh, Ace. I'm sorry. Forgive me. Why don't you go back to the Tardis? You'll be safe there, whatever happens.”
“No chance, Doctor. No chance.”
The Doctor doesn’t think he needs Ace, that she won’t change anything.
But she’s not telling him she’s scared because she wants to leave, and she won’t let him face this on his own.

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Show threadStephen WardNov 23
@simonwood I love this exchange. Similar to the one in Remembrance earlier in the season:
Ace, give me some of that Nitro Nine that you're not carrying! Quickly! And another.
It's my last can!
I should hope so, too!