How the Doctor perceives the world

[MyCylon]

I'm just wondering if you guys could help me out. I'm trying to remember a quote by Tennant's Doctor where he describes how the Doctor perceives the world. I did an internet search but just couldn't find what I was looking for.

I remember vaguely something about the Doctor feeling the rotation of the Earth, its movement through space and more. It was a speech I found intriguing at the time because it made me think about how the Doctor was different rather than in what ways he resembled humans.

Does anyone know which quote I'm referring to? Which episode was it in? And do you know if somebody's turned this into a Youtube video or the likes?

I'm sorry I don't have more details. It's strange because the speech and what it was about really stuck in my mind. But I can't remember the details. I'm also not sure who the companion was, to be honest.

 

[Stevil2001]

You can't find it because Eccleston says it, in "Rose," to Rose.

 

[MyCylon]

Wow, that was quick . Thanks!

It's weird. I could have sworn that it was Tennant.

Anyway, I grabbed the quote off of IMDB. I still think it's really cool:

Rose Tyler: Really though, Doctor. Tell me. Who are you?

The Doctor: Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it...

[he takes her hand]

The Doctor: - the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go...

[He releases her hand]

The Doctor: That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.

 

[Stevil2001]

That was the scene where I was forever sold on Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.

 

[Orcus]

That was the scene where I was forever sold on Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor.

Me too. At that moment he became, and still remains, my favourite...

 

[Bones2]

I thought it was shit.

 

[Kibbin]

^

I liked it, though I was expecting this to turn into some sort of deabte on the doctor percieving things in 5d or maybe more, hence why he can pull scraps out of thin air like the time he told Rose (maybe) what she got for crimbo.

 

[David cgc]

We saw a little bit of that in "The Waters of Mars." Apparently, the Time Lords' sixth sense takes the form of BBC News Online. Who won't change their layout for at least a half-century.

 

[jbny67]

I thought it was shit.

So did I. I remember rolling my eyes at that bit of dialogue.
He delivered it well but it was still bad. Well delivered shit is still shit.

 

[Bones2]

I thought it was shit.

So did I. I remember rolling my eyes at that bit of dialogue.
He delivered it well but it was still bad. Well delivered shit is still shit.

It was the beginning of the fetishising of the Doctor, where we're told how deep and wonderful and godly he is rather than shown. One of those things I think the show has got wrong since it came back, and still continues to do.

 

[Kibbin]

I think we've cut down on that a bit, we haven't got rid of it yet by no means but the doctor seems a little less perfect this time around. Granted now Amy is perfect but still one problem at a time

 

[DEWLine]

That scene...was TV gold to me.

 

[PorthosShadow]

When I re-read the part about letting go I imedately though of the 11th Doctor holding onto Amy as she floats outside The TARDIS in "The Beast Below"

 

[Sci]

We saw a little bit of that in "The Waters of Mars." Apparently, the Time Lords' sixth sense takes the form of BBC News Online. Who won't change their layout for at least a half-century.

I didn't so much take that as the Doctor seeing the BBC News website as being a representation of the way in which he senses changes in time, adapted for our perception.

The Doctor also talks a bit about his perceptions of time and its flow in "The Fires of Pompeii."

 

[Stevil2001]

I always figured that was the Doctor remembering a news page he had seen-- and then that memory changing, all Back to the Future style.

 

[MyCylon]

I thought it was shit.

So did I. I remember rolling my eyes at that bit of dialogue.
He delivered it well but it was still bad. Well delivered shit is still shit.

It was the beginning of the fetishising of the Doctor, where we're told how deep and wonderful and godly he is rather than shown. One of those things I think the show has got wrong since it came back, and still continues to do.

I'm not quite sure where you see the worshipping in that line. What I took from it was that the Doctor is different. Contrary to his appearance, he is not human and sees and feels things we do not.

I found it beautifully encapsulated the sense of wonder the Doctor feels as he beholds the universe and all of creation. It's the same sense of wonder, on some level, his companions (and by extension) viewers can feel during their travels with him in the Tardis.

 

[The Lensman]

So did I. I remember rolling my eyes at that bit of dialogue.
He delivered it well but it was still bad. Well delivered shit is still shit.

It was the beginning of the fetishising of the Doctor, where we're told how deep and wonderful and godly he is rather than shown. One of those things I think the show has got wrong since it came back, and still continues to do.

I'm not quite sure where you see the worshipping in that line. What I took from it was that the Doctor is different. Contrary to his appearance, he is not human and sees and feels things we do not.

I found it beautifully encapsulated the sense of wonder the Doctor feels as he beholds the universe and all of creation. It's the same sense of wonder, on some level, his companions (and by extension) viewers can feel during their travels with him in the Tardis.

Agreed. For all the talk about how advanced the Gallifreyans were on the old show, they were generally portrayed as not much different than us.....they could travel in time, regenerate and maybe some mind powers here and there....

They even had news shows and reporters!

That bit in "Rose" made the Doctor feel like more than just some guy in a time machine. It made him seem more like what a Time Lord ought to be. Something on a whole different level than us mere humans.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah I liked that line, I don't think it makes him Godly, it makes him alien.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I have to agree with Bones on this, one aspect of the new Who series that I have been less than fond of is making him a Superman-alien, his talents are more in line with comic book superheroes than the Doctor of the old series. I especially felt that watching Tom Baker in 'Monarch of the Glen', where in one episode he talks a character's pet panther into submission and off handedly mentions that it was something he learned from an old Swahili Lion Whisperer, it was very much a line one might have gotten from the fourth Doctor in fact. I prefered that sense that the Doctor had learned and was still learning rather than the all powerful, all knowing Timelord-Superman he comes across these days.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't like the fetishizing of the Doctor but I had (and have) no problem with the line from Rose. I think it works because it's a bit off-kilter and when The Doctor starts going a little too far with it he abruptly cuts it off with a "enough of that, let's get moviing".