Best of Human Nature/Family of Blood

[@oddball613]

"Falling in love, that didn't even occur to him?" "...no..." "Then what sort of man is that?" SO MANY TEARS.

[@mavisavery4855]

I’ll bet you he never imagined he’d ever possibly love anyone other than Rose.

[@trande6136]

But eating pears did.

[@ElvenRaptor]

I don't even WANT to imagine what it'd be like to think that you were just another normal bloke and then find out one day you never actually existed. That you're just an invention and a deep cover disguise waiting for the original personality to take over after you're of no more use. At least The Doctor had the decency to give John Smith a choice. I can't say the same for poor Professor Yana.

[@specialunit0428]

he was given a choice, and curiosity killed the cat. he chose to open it to see what would happen, and it just so happens that the master came back.

[@rexthompson5909]

That's actually kind of the plot of the TimeRiders series of books.

[@snorten7455]

One of the best ever episodes of Dr Who......amazing script and beautiful music

[@swiftplus7398]

S Norten not to mention the acting...

[@disneyjunkie19]

These are some of my favorite episodes primarily because of David's acting. He played John Smith so beautifully, and when John was conflicted about choosing to become the Doctor, you could see it. Amazing acting.

[@refsmithy]

This is so true! And that moment where he reveals himself to the family of blood, his whole expression and demeanour changes on a dime! Brilliant acting!

[@akodaah13-e32]

yeah, i can't imagine the eleventh doctor in this situation because the acting... OH GOD, DT IS JUST A M A Z I N G

[@josegeovannirubiorincon9587]

"I've seen him, he's like fire and ice and rage, he's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun, he's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe, and... He's wonderful".

[@beatekursch1169]

Martha is such an underrated companion! She protected the doctor in this episode (she lived for months a servant with migration backround in the 1920 or something!), she was really clever and she saved the whole world by telling them about the doctor in the episode with the master. Rose was the Bad Wolf and forced to go because the Doctor couldn't get to ger anymore, Donna became Droctor Donna and her memorie was erased but Martha CHOSE to go. Even though she was in love with the Doctor she never forgot where she came from, never forgot her family and that she was HUMAN. I love Donna and Rose as well (of course lol) but I think Martha needs more appriciation and love because she is great❤

[@CharismaticMegafauna]

She was always my favorite!

[@joeduffy4547]

Even sooner in 1913 as it's set a year before the First World War.

[@loganmorton1543]

I personally would say that Martha and Bill are the two most underrated NewWHo Companions and Rose may be the single most overrated Companion

[@lenoretheshredder]

Martha was the best.

[@ahamilton3435]

@@loganmorton1543 bill was horrible barely remember. Martha and her dont even compare.

[@masteraj57]

I had a real soft spot for John Smith. He seemed so happy, I think he liked himself better sad and in love than lonley and not i love. SO SAD WHEN HE CRIES *hugs *

[@caitlyn6303]

“He’s like fire and ice and rage, he’s like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun, he’s ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And, he’s wonderful”. Best description of the Doctor.

[@refsmithy]

You can take all your other speeches: Zygon Inversion, Pandorica Opens, Christmas Invasion, whatever. The single greatest Doctor Who speech is Latimer's description of the Doctor. Would love to see Thomas Sangster as the Doctor one day in the future, I reckon he would nail it!

[@HilmyA.S.]

I'd rather have jackson lake

[@nathandts3401]

4 years later so you'll likely never read this, but Zygon Inversion was an immense speech.

[@JamesOhGoodie]

"Family of Blood" has to perhaps be the darkest Doctor Who episode I've seen, but the ending with the military funeral has to be one of the most touching.

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

If you like Human Nature/Family Of Blood, you'd adore Caves Of Androzani

[@witchBoi_Connor]

Human Nature/Family of Blood and Waters of Mars. Some of the best dark Tennant moments.

[@Super_Mario128]

if you can, read the original Seventh Doctor Human Nature book on which this is based, a very good read.

[@anxiety_disaster]

The reason I love 10 is that he actually shows emotion and you can see his vulnerability. This episode is basically that on crack and it hits so deep

[@HoshiHikari]

The flashforwards of John's life with his first baby and then walking them in the woods made my day. So cute!

[@franl155]

"John Smith, that's all I want to be" - totally heart-wrenching - a whole person created just to be eventually destroyed. how many of us are programmed by society or culture to be other than what we really are, or really could be?

[@sillygoose635]

um what type of bullshit is that last statement?

[@rexthompson5909]

All of us are programmed in various ways, whether it's by our biology or evolutionary psychology, group psychology, cultural priming of the mind, it exists on many many levels.

[@DarkBandicoot]

"I hate pears." Same.

[@chaoticblackbow7357]

This is the most tearful David Tennant acting I’ve ever seen I cry every time.

[@gpgara]

John Smith in love is absolutely adorable. :) David Tennant is a BRILLIANT actor.

[@b.rosebulmahn4600]

4:26 that face breaks my heart every time... He was so scared about how he could know the things he just said meant, yet not know what they mean. It hurts how sad and scared he is in these episodes. Props to David Tennant‘s acting, because *dang* he’s good

[@rebeccaxia350]

Even Tennant’s voice sounds different as John Smith. Such a good actor

[@swiftplus7398]

Just remember how good Doctor Who really used to be...

[@TheRuddster95]

The best

[@sillygoose635]

still is.

[@-tom-8720]

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[@alexandralugo1743]

When John was crying it hurt me to my very core and then some. That poor man. He was a wonderful man and a real person. He was a piece of the Doctor. His more human side. He still lives within the Doctor.

[@milesyeoman1658]

Timothy Latimer is a blessing I love him

[@Thundernerd2aBird]

Best blooper ever :) love that ending scene

[@marinalynn1000]

That's not a blooper . He says he's got to talk for about a minute without stopping or deviation. That's so when Martha fast forwards the tape in the actual show, so it looks like he's giving her orders about what to do when he's human. But he's really talking about the concert and talking gibberish. It is funny.

[@Southern_Crusader]

I love how he says run.

[@Emily_M.]

Killer Joy me too

[@Bremen25]

The Doctor is so adorable and heartbreaking in these episodes.

[@slightlyinsaneFTW]

the stairs! what about the stairs? they're right behind you. *falls down the stairs* Lol!

[@MavenCree]

10: Loves bananas. Hates pears. Check. 11: Loves fishsticks dipped in custard. Hates apples, beans, toast, bacon, yoghurt and wine. Check. Seems to be getting more finicky the younger his body gets... :D

[@witchBoi_Connor]

MavenCree They all hate pears

[@akodaah13-e32]

maybe is the universal fruit that all time lord hates :P idk

[@oldchildhood8646]

4:52 quality acting

[@robtennant98]

One of the best episodes

[@TheRuddster95]

May be THE best

[@Phantom6.6.6]

Sad how the doctor finally has a chance to rest and live a normal life and then he just gets dragged back

[@Storm_Bird456]

Yeah, but the Doctor was going to become a Time Lord again either way. After 3 months of living as a human, Martha was to open the Fog Watch and let the Doctor become the Doctor again. Things just happen that, like Martha said, the Doctor didn’t think of happening.

[@amss5592]

The last moments of this family of blood episod was so beautiful and sad when Tennant tried to persuade Jessica Hynes to join him and she was hurt after finding out the true idenitty of John Smith, plus commenting after watching this episode on Remembrance Sunday. Fitting the Doctor paying his respects and as a Navy guy myself its heart warming when the Doctor was putting a poppy on

[@maxeyre2024]

Omg this video is almost ten years old

[@doncelladehierro3988]

I cried a lot with that chapter of Dr Who.

[@victorpeterson3502]

These episodes was David Tennant at his best

[@CancerousPiesRTasty]

i cry almost every week on doctor who but i cant stop watching it!

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

He never raised his voice; that was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why - why this Doctor, who'd fought with gods and demons, why he'd run away from us and hidden. He was being kind. He wrapped my father in unbreakable chains forged in the heart of a dwarf star. He tripped my mother into the event horizon of a collapsing galaxy, to be imprisoned there forever. He still visits my sister once a year, every year. I wonder if one day he might forgive her, but- there she is, do you see? He trapped her in a mirror; every mirror. If ever you look at your reflection and think you see something move behind you, just for a second, that's her. That's always her. As for me, I was suspended in time and The Doctor put me to work standing over the fields of England as their protector. We wanted to live forever, so The Doctor made sure that we did.

[@scissorhandslove9]

"Good, this IS 1913.." Brilliant. Thanks for posting.

[@sab1229]

oh my god seeing him again

[@slimshady4life689]

“Would anyone here have died?” Bro you can see the sadness in his eyes after hearing that 😭😭

[@XxCrazygal2007xX]

the bit where he sees his possible future always brings a tear to my eye :'(

[@owaissaaltheadickey9341]

One of the strongest things of this amazing two part story is that John Smith never questioned or even wondered why he was able/ wanting to confide/interact with Martha during a time when race and class discrimination runs rampant. It's awesome that John Smith didn't adopt the attitudes toward races/classes back in those times too.💕💕💕💕💕💕👍👍👍👍

[@MeganHinkle07]

Who else wants Thomas Brodie Sangster to be one of the next Doctors

[@miodd]

LOL!!!!!!! I just about fell out of my chair at the last bit!(at 7:00) "Don't let me eat pears, I hate pears!" "And six; I have to talk for around a minute without hesitation..." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JamesOhGoodie]

@MavenCree Well every Doctor is a reaction to the previous Doctor. Fourth Doctor for example? Loves Jelly Babies. Fifth Doctor? Shows how much he values healthy eating by wearing celery on his lapel!

[@cryptid_syd]

The "why would you post something like that?!" tumblr image

[@scottishcuteness3994]

The doctor rambling who would have thought

[@slightlyinsaneFTW]

The clip at 4:00 is my fave out of that series!

[@samalvey8168]

I have a little ritual where every year, on Armistice Day, I watch these two episodes. They remain my favourites, and that's up against some pretty stiff competition.

[@jzweig1897]

yea thats why i had such a tough time editing this episode...its all so good!

[@shahanibraga7498]

Martha was so patient in this series. I woulda smacked Ten's whiny Rose-pining face.

[@casuallectures2655]

How did he fake having 1 heart? You'd imagine he'd eventually take a physical to notice something was up with his biology.

[@jimmy2k4o]

The Camelionarch re-wrote his DNA, changed him from a time-Lord to human, therefore it chagned his vascular system from two hearts to one. Doctor said it himself, it re-writes every single cell.

[@witchBoi_Connor]

His second heart was disintegrated in the transformation process. It was regrown when he was changed back.

[@ProjectPowerPoint]

Then how did the family think he was "still human" when he changed to Time lord again?

[@akodaah13-e32]

@@ProjectPowerPoint because some kind of nose and i don't know what else that trick the mayfly family nose to belive that he was still being human

[@SPECTRE_Madman]

Maybe this is where 11 got his bow tie idea from

[@CancerousPiesRTasty]

little story about this episode i thought i'd share. the friday human nature was on, i had a friend over and i remembered at 9-the time dr who had been on last week-that i should be watching it. so i turned it on and it was right at the end with the whole 'maid or matron?' bit and then bam they start rolling credits so i forced my friend to stay up until 2 in the morning to watch this episode. fortunately,she ended up enjoying it so...yes,thought i'd share that.

[@ethanmacdonald4133]

I solute you for that. Doctor Who is awesome.

[@Asw_2004]

blooming brilliant actor

[@chilltimelord7016]

This episode made me cry.

[@thedrinkinggamemaker9749]

Rule number 5: NO PEARS!

[@XxCrazygal2007xX]

yeah but one of the best episodes theyve ever done i take my hat off to all the actors and the crew

[@bananas1and2]

Same here. It's such a sad scene in context but if it's on its own it is a little bit funny. :P

[@kenruneck]

its not depressing. its in those moments that we truely see the octor for who and what he is, and we catch a gimpse of the whole story behind the show. he is the last time lord, with all of time and space in his hands and no one to share it with. he might pick up a companion for while but they willl all become dust hile he lives on forever in time. he has the powers of a god. but he will always be lonely

[@xavierpibb7414]

6:16 every doctor who episode in a nutshell.

[@TheRuddster95]

Dang

[@anthonyscarfe4853]

The life of the doctor and everywhere the tardis takes him were preordained because the tardis sees through all of time and timelord children are shown their lives in the time vortex. Imagine a child finding out that he would do everything the doctor has done. That’s why he ran away. Simply to try to escape his fate.

[@somethingswicked]

Almost cried? HA! I cried my heart out during both episodes. If anything, I felt horrible for Martha. And I adore Bates! :) Among my personal fave episodes.

[@juhee589]

i love doctor who (david tennant) and i live in the states!

[@LacerationGravity]

this episode gave me delusions but i still love it

[@SherbertLomon]

Imagine if john smith had fallen for Martha, that would’ve been interesting

[@anxiety_disaster]

4:21 😭 fav part tho

[@Emily_M.]

His name is John. Johnlock confirmed😂😂😂

[@JRG1993s]

@TheGanstaben Ok, THX. Sorry bout the obvius answer to the last question I asked. When watching the bits for the first time, I thought it might have been one of those episodes where The Doctor is on his own, and there is merely an extra that looks like Martha (Has happened in several episodes)

[@EcHeLoN5242]

I burst into tears tooo!!! Gz man he does that too well!

[@keren.b_9642]

Why is no one talking about the best part when Martha slaps the doctor or John Smith or whatever 🤣🤣😂

[@arushigupta9510]

Ohmygod that's Marv from Jack and Dean

[@jimmy2k4o]

Russell T Davies ladies and gentlemen He needs to come back!

[@kenruneck]

oh and i do realise it is a show. but that doesn't mean it can't have meaning

[@oscarwatson8195]

Love the ending.

[@jhorst24]

God I laugh every time when Emo John Smith comes up.

[@FabulousMe95]

Where did u get that clip at the end? That was SOOOOOOOOOOOO funny...I can't stop laughing, lol :)

[@teabiscuit6352]

You shouldn't have let me press all them buttons #relatable 😂

[@SuperflyGaming]

Lippy tappy too tar.

[@scottishcuteness3994]

SCOTLAND!!!!!!!!!!!

[@joan969696]

I have a question, in the episode "human nature" Martha is hit with Tim and this one has a premonition, does anyone know to which chapter belongs such a premonition?

[@abstractnonsense3253]

I thought it was a premonition too but it isn't. When they bump, Tim recognizes intuitively that she's not a maid, so he perceives her as the real Martha Jones and the surrounding environment as Martha's 21st century surroundings.

[@JRG1993s]

I have a thousand questions swirling through my mind... His memory, what happened to it? What was the purpose of being human? What was with the family wanting to live forever The fob watch? What part does it play? Why is Martha there?

[@jaygee9095]

He retained it after, the purpose was to diverge the family as they'd chase them through space and time, evil beings want to live forever eternally lol, fob watch keeps his time lord dna, Martha is there to make sure nothing bad happens to him. Questions over half a decade old answered!

[@lukess.s]

Did you even watch the episode?

[@bloomingfox547]

why did he change in the first place????

[@stumpDD978]

RUN

[@jameswazhere3537]

Should be around 1 hour and 28 minutes long

[@piacorn1800]

4:28 what ha say

[@No1ShalkaFan]

Does any one remember Timothy's last name I can't remember it?

[@milesyeoman1658]

Night Hound Who Latimer

[@thisissupposedtobeanonymous]

So basically RTD envisisons that not falling in love makes you not a real man/woman? Lmao. Yeah, ur gonna say this isn't him, but he was written by RTD lol.

[@mrdr0161]

This story was a book written in the 90s for the 7th Doctor. So, no, that had nothing to do with RTD

[@Lithobraker]

sniff

[@yig_501]

oh you its 1913 yes good its 1913 XD

[@JRG1993s]

@Tribute0427 ha ha! curse you! ha ha