CREEPY! | Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 4 "The Girl in the Fireplace" Reaction!

[@shaunmale6566]

MICKEY: What's a horse doing on a spaceship? DOCTOR: Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective. DOCTOR: It's back on the ship. Rose, take Mickey and Arthur. Get after it. Follow it. Don't approach it, just watch what it does. ROSE: Arthur? DOCTOR: Good name for a horse. ROSE: No, you're not keeping the horse. DOCTOR: I let you keep Mickey. Now go! Go! Go! These lines never fail to make me laugh. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

No it goes like... Doctor says Martha Rose says Martha? Doctor says The name for the horse! Rose says No your not keeping the horse! Doctor says I'll let you keep Micky now go go go! 😂😂😂 Don't know how u got that wrong

[@AmazingChi]

@@Legendary3Dgamer Because it is Arthur, not Martha?

[@davida.j.berner776]

One of the absolute classic episodes from the Tennant era. Once seen, never forgotten!

[@jonasfermefors]

The point with name of the ship was that the robots were stupid: they thought the person with the same name could fix the ship when she was the same age as the ship. I love this episode. Sophia Myles is fantastic as Madame De Pompadour.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

It would only be stupid if it were humans thinking that way. But, since they were robots, it makes sense. They see thngs much more literally.

[@jonasfermefors]

@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT Terribly programmed - same difference.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

@@jonasfermefors Exactly. When the crew programmed them to repair the ship, they must have used the term ‘parts’ in an extremely general way. They clearly weren’t specific enough. Considering that the robots used a human eye as a lens and a heart as a machine pump (since their functions are relatively the same in a way) we can see what kind of coding was programmed into them if they make no distinction between machine parts and organs.

[@rossmcconchie1316]

@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT But the program worked as specified... Correctly programmed, Incorrectly SPECIFIED.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

@@rossmcconchie1316 Yes that’s what I just said but in a shorter way.

[@SarahH-ns6ly]

One of the best episodes containing two of Steven Moffat's signatures - playing with timelines and making ordinary things, like clocks, extremely creepy. The robots were very literal minded and stupid. They thought that because the ship was named Madame de Pompadour they specifically needed her brain at the same age as the ship.

[@IslesYankeeLady]

Which is exactly the issue I have with it. People pretend it’s celebrating Reinette when in fact the plot ultimately undermines everything she accomplished. She isn’t really needed for what she can contribute, she’s reduced to just a name on a ship. It’s sad. It’s like walking by a random statue and having no clue what the person did. None of her accomplishments are remembered by the robots. It’s such a waste of an opportunity. One would have hoped if Moffat bothers to write such a strong character, she would get to really help them. Not be in a random romance that makes no sense when Rose is right there. It’s just not believable that 10 would leave Rose like that.

[@tangrunhua]

And another signature: Young girl developing a childhood crush for the doctor and wait for years for him to come back, eventaully leading to actual romance when she grows up. A little creepy tbh, but Moffat's problematic portrayal of women during his early days in DH is not a secret. He's much better during his later run.

[@ftde1]

Lovely reaction! The fact that the ship was named after her was the reason the robots thought they were "the same". The robot that said "The brain is compatible" was not talking about Rose but about Madame de Pompadour, in response to the Doctors comments.

[@pdegan2814]

The one remains one of my favorite episodes of the show. "What's a horse doing on a spaceship?" "Mickey, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship, get a little perspective!" cracks me up every time. And those clockwork men were TERRIFYING!

[@InspectorWhoReacts]

One of my favorite things about the 10th Doctor or in general is whenever sees something weird, creepy or unusual, he goes "Oh it's beautiful, gorgeous!"

[@Concreteowl]

They punch a hole through time to get the head of Madame de Pompadour because that was the name of the ship. They are very literally minded robots.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

I loved your closing thoughts. You're really understanding the Doctor now! Short-term watchers will often only see the manic adventurer, but those of us who stick around eventually come to learn that an incomprehensible amount of suppressed loneliness and grief are at the core of who he is.

[@mpg272727]

"What if it's the Doctor and he's got another lady" 10th Doctor in a nutshell

[@IsiahBradley]

LOLOLOLOLOL

[@ShrimpInACoffin]

Technically it's not at the same time though so it doesn't count.

[@Corlwow]

Steven Moffat in a nutshell

[@HuntingViolets]

@@ShrimpInACoffin It is to him.

[@siegeperilous]

Actually, there was a standing joke about Tennant. They were always betting if he’d show up with a blonde, a brunette or a redhead

[@osanneart9318]

we are almost twenty years later, and I am still waiting for the doctor to take a companion on his travels from the past. someone intelligent from the medieval ages or the renaissance or the victorian age, I don't care. but someone who could give a unique perspective and rationalization of the adventures in modern day and age. Reinette was such a unique experience, she took everything thrown at her in stride and immediately understood it, without even having read the first sci-fi book ever published. She placed everything in a context that made sense to her, and it worked. I want more of that.

[@stephenhumphreys9149]

Victoria Waterfield, companion to the 2nd Doctor, was Victorian, and Jamie McCrimmon (the other companion at the time) was a highlander from the 18th century :-) But yeah, seeing it happen in the modern series would be good, their bigger focus on companions would flesh out the whole 'fish out of water' thing more.

[@LucasSantana-ws8po]

Like Leela?

[@davidwebb4451]

​@@LucasSantana-ws8poAlthough a "savage" Leela was from the far future being one of the descendents of a survey team from a spaceship which crashed on a remote planet. Her tribe the sevateem (a corruption of survey team) are fighting the hidden Tesh (a corruption of techs) at the behest of a mad computer with a split personality when the Doctor first meets her.

[@osanneart9318]

@@LucasSantana-ws8po maybe? I've only been able to get into new who. I've tried classic who, but the slower style of story telling, shorter episodes and stage-play like acting didn't really work for me. there's only a few episodes of fourth doctor I have seen, none of them with leela.

[@osanneart9318]

@@stephenhumphreys9149 I have only seen a few episodes of classic who, it didn't really gel with me. I might look into these! I haven't seen the second doctor yet!

[@StarkRG]

It wasn't the robot's that named the ship, the robots thought that the name of the ship meant that they needed the brain of the real Madame de Pompadour. The robots' AIs were about as sophisticated as present-day AI, just making connections between concepts without actually understanding the concepts or how they might be related (the name of the ship is unrelated to the compatibility of "parts").

[@archwayportraits]

"I'm always alright" Rule #1 the Doctor lies

[@WolfHreda]

Not the most obnoxious thing Moffat added to the universe, but it's up there.

[@HuntingViolets]

​@@WolfHreda Yeah. Does he really lie that much?

[@WolfHreda]

@@HuntingViolets Not enough for it to be Rule #1.

[@oliverturner7365]

My favourite episode. So gorgeous. How does a 45 minute episode feel like a 150-minute movie? People rave about Empty Child/Doctor Dances and Series 3, Ep 10 but this is Moffat at his best, in my opinion. Euros Lyn's direction is spectacular, Murray's score is heartbreaking, and the cast are on fire.

[@klemminguk]

Apparently when Steven Moffat wrote the idea of the Doctor jumping into the ballroom on a horse, the effects people looked at it and told him it simply couldn't be done. According to him, he cried so much that they went and found a way to do it anyway to get him to stop.

[@dylancole1910]

And we are so glad he did, because it turned out fantastic.

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

If you were wondering why the robots needed Reinette's brain (or at least, their reason for it) was that the ship was named after her. SS Madame de Pompadour, being the name of the ship, was a title/name that Reinette had whislt at Versailles. The ship was also 37 years old (as said in the episode). Basically, the robots thought that they needed the brain of the woman who inspired the ships name for their main computer.

[@asterix7842]

One of my favorite David Tennent episodes. Reinette’s lines were all so well written.

[@hoarsebard]

I love how Mickey recognizes the Doctor needs a moment alone and pulls Rose away. It speaks a lot to his character.

[@MikeWood]

There are a handful, maybe a dozen episodes, that are top tier for the Tennant era. This was one of them. So heartbreaking and clever.

[@ACtheLegend]

"They even named it that". I facepalmed *so* hard...

[@idea2go]

Rose: The Tardis gets inside your head and translates for you Mickey: Even French????

[@JimAW63]

The name of the ship was the reason the robots thought they needed her brain. That's why they told her they were the same.

[@lamaglama6231]

This episode makes me so incredibly sad and I love it. One of my favourite Doctor Who episodes. Madame Pompadour is so interesting how she understands everything with her own interpretations.

[@arthurcamargo8416]

Can you imagine almost a thousand years of heart break? The lonely Doctor....

[@davidjrandall1979]

This episode is amazing and heartbreaking in equal measure

[@IsiahBradley]

It was in my top 3 for a loooong time and now still is in my top 10!

[@TheAppeyes]

I find it interesting that we've had two episodes in a row with the theme of "The Doctor outliving his companions".

[@thedoctor4327]

Say what you will about Moffat as a showrunner but his individual stories in the 9th and 10th Doctor era are fantastic. And in general he’s created some of the creepiest threats in the franchise including the droids here

[@chrisleebowers]

That's what's so maddening about his tenure as showrunner, it felt like he was just weakly rehashing all his greatest hits from when he was a rank-and-file footsoldier, with more production value and better VFX but less heart.

[@arch1017]

I think he's been the best showrunner so far, too.

[@Harry_SS]

@@arch1017 Moffat as showrunner seems to be like Marmite among people. I think it was the acting of the cast that carried it.

[@arch1017]

@Harry_SS Yeah, that does seem to be the case, and that's cool. Different opinions and all that.

[@J29117]

Moffat is a brilliant writer with an awful habit of not being able to say no to himself. He just keeps going bigger and wackier when he's the man in charge, even when it degrades the end product. When he was just a writer under Davies, he had somebody to curb the wilder ideas and say no. He's an excellent second man but a bad lead.

[@Groffili]

The reveal was classic. The question that was never addressed, during the whole episode: why the heck are the robots after Madame de Pompadour? And then, in the last seconds, we finally get the answer: they were the same. The were the SS Madame de Pompadour!

[@ianpark1805]

Moffat scaring the living daylights out of everybody. Again. And again, and…..

[@SFNmooby]

"The Tardis, come on Mickey, even I know that by now." -Best line.

[@nickgjenkins]

This is my favorite season of Who. Really holds a special place in my heart. A good time in my life mixed with Tenant and Piper eating up these roles.

[@garrettwhite5943]

the line 'Have you met the French?!' will always be my favorite David Tennant line in anything. I don't even really know why.

[@dylanburton4955]

One of my fave episodes of this series and of all time

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

It's hard to explain stuff without getting into spoilers. 😂 The best way to explain it is like this: once you know the outcome of a specific event, they cannot be changed. What can or cannot be changed is never really clear. For example, The Doctor found out that he never got to visit Madame de Pompadour after his last visit. If he tried to go visit her with the TARDIS, he'd change that outcome and potentially create a paradox.

[@toddkes5890]

Unless he told her to write the letter and fake the death?

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@@toddkes5890 We do see a hurse leaving at the end. I _suppose_ it's possible, but it would have to be _after_ this episode.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

21:00 " 'S.S. Madame de Pompadour.' They even named it that." You're missing something important. The question remained: why were they going to all that trouble to procure that one woman's 37-year-old brain. Why wouldn't anyone else's do??? Now you see why these flawed creatures thought that _particular_ brain was needed... 🙂

[@sean437]

One of my favorites. Creepy robots trying to fix the ship and they have a teeny, tiny, minor programming error causing them to use the passengers as repair supplies. Brilliant.

[@ronfehr7899]

In the days before digital watches and clocks, time pieces had little springs in them to keep the parts moving. However, this meant that they had to be wound up frequently. With nobody to do that, they would eventually just stop. I guess the same can be said of these guys.

[@mattp6089]

The Moffat episodes from before he was showrunner are all top tier Doctor Who. Once he had to push out weekly episodes instead of just stepping in to do something different once a year a little less so, but even then he was still great at writing Who.

[@HuntingViolets]

I think the ambiguous nature of Rose and the Doctor's relationship (not just to viewers but to the characters) is rough on Rose.

[@adamsingleton7771]

Every time I rewatch this episode I notice new things that are signatures of the episode’s writer, Steven Moffat.

[@connorblack99]

He does love the written goodbye doesn’t he.

[@canadianicedragon2412]

This is one of my favourite episodes. It is a trip, emotionally, intellectually, physically, and temporally. When the connection (of the fireplace) was active. i.e. turning or talking through it, it was stable but as soon as it was not active it would slip. The idea that a time traveller gould visit a single person "many" times in a persons life, while "not aging a day" is... reasonable, but the impact it might have on the person... this is perhaps the best case. She saw him as her angel, not as the "monster under her bed" but she could have.

[@mareiramv]

One of my favorite episodes of the whole show! The soundtrack is amazing too! Great reaction, I'm kinda surprised you didn't cry with this one, haha.

[@alexja4985]

She: Oh no! How sad. But she also had a smile on her face all the time as if she was watching a comedy.

[@purrceys7959]

You may find it interesting that for a while David Tennant and Sophia Myles (who played Reinette - , Madame de Pompadour) were a couple after filming this episode so their chemistry translated to real life. Later in an subsequent season, David met his now wife Georgia who was his costar in an episode.

[@sighberspook2021]

So the robots are really stupid, they are only built to repair the ship, they don't know anything else, when they ran out of parts they started using the crew because it's all they know, they didn't want Rose's brain, they were planning on just using rose and mickey for general arts like organs and things The ship was called the madame de pompadour so the robots (being stupid) believed that only her brain when she reached the same age as the ship would be compatable as its computer And they shut down when the portal to the ship was destroyed because they lost their function, without a ship to repair they had no reason to continue and just shut down, they were never really villains, just poorly programmed machines doing their job the only way they knew how which is also kinda sad in its own way because they don't know that they are doing anything wrong

[@thejayofalltrades]

‘I’m always alright’ is my favourite Doctor Who line 🥺

[@Hessy-ob5ws]

One of my favourite episodes of all time and for me the best of season two. I wept buckets at the end - as l had done for "Father's Day" in season one. I prefer intelligent stories with great characters and performances to ones with lots of action scenes (though obviously they're not mutually exclusive) but also stories that hit me emotionally - and this one certainly did that. Love the reactions!

[@idea2go]

@hessy said it perfectly, I have nothing left except “Great Reaction, thanks Emme”.

[@RightTurnClyde]

I've seen several reactions to this one, and everyone always misses the significance of the reveal at the end. It drives me crazy!

[@HuntingViolets]

The Doctor spends less than an hour of time with her (no time thinking of her for years in between as Reinette has of him) and is not unhappy to leave Rose and Mickey as he takes the slow path (and perhaps catches up with them later, if, hey, their deaths don't become a fixed point in time) one episode after telling Rose he'd never abandon her, not her. It feels like Moffat doesn't know what they were going for this season. Tennant and Sophia (pronounced with the I as a long I, not an E, interestingly) Myles dated for a while after this.

[@briangilliver2197]

Hi from England, this is one of those brilliant episodes, must have seen 20 plus times. Thanks for your editing

[@csmadisun]

The universally accepted term for people who travel with the Doctor is 'Companions', much like how women who get with James Bond, regardless of age, are known as 'Bond Girls'... just with less kissing. Usually.

[@ftumschk]

Well, now it is. Having grown up in the Classic Who era, I don't recall them being officially called "Companions" (with a big C) until some time later. We sometimes referred to them as "assistants" or "companions" (with a small c), though. Whatever, _the_ Companions played an important part as the Doctor's full-time sidekicks for a series or more, rather than merely friends who happened to get a few trips in the TARDIS.

[@csmadisun]

Fair enough. I've always known of them as Companions, but I was born in the 80s, so pretty much missed the classic era.

[@therealpbristow]

In the early days there was no established term; "friends", "travelling companions" were both used at various times by the Doctor to refer to the folks he hung out with, and the press and the BBC used all sorts of phrases. On a a couple of occasions the Doctor called Jamie or Zoe "my assistant", but that would be as part lf their cover. But when the 3rd Doctor is stuck on Earth and accepts the job as UNIT's scientific advisor, he officially has a colleague who he often treats as an assistant (Liz Shaw), followed by an actual appointed assistant (Jo Grant - "someone to pass you your test tubes and tell you how clever you are"). After Jo leaves, he then co-opts Sarah Jane Smith to be his assistant, thus getting her a UNIT pass despite the fact that she's already illegally gatecrashed a secure UNIT facility! So SJS uses the term "assistant" in School Reunion, even though once the Doctor broke ties with UNIT he'd taken to calling her his "best friend"; Meanwhile in our world the press and public had used to the term "assistant " over five continuous years, and kept using it through Leela's time. Romana is specifically appointed as an assistant.... And then we enter the JN-T era, in which a deliberate effort was made to shed the "A" word and replace it with "companion" as a more generally applicable term for everyone who'd ever traveled with the Doctor... Even though that still leaves awkward fringe cases such as Liz, who we never saw even step into the TARDIS let alone go anywhere, and Mike Yates (same), and even the Brig and Benton who only get one short trip in the TARDIS, not even getting home by the same means!

[@csmadisun]

Interesting read! I'd treat companion as a term for anyone who's travelled or spent a significant amount of time with the Doctor. Which means Kate Lethbridge-Stewart would count alongside Liz Shaw et al.

[@ftumschk]

@@csmadisun I try to keep it simple. For me, Companions are those who were specifically auditioned and selected for the coveted role of being the Doctor's "official" sidekick. If they weren't specifically auditioned, then they can become a Companion by being asked to stay on as a member of the TARDIS team for consecutive stories for a season or more. So, despite not travelling in the TARDIS, Liz Shaw was definitely a Companion because Carrie John was auditioned in that capacity. Jamie wasn't auditioned as a Companion, but he was asked to stay on, and was a key member of the TARIDS crew for the rest of the Troughton era. And so on for the other "big C" Companions. All the others - the Brig and Kate included - don't fall into those criteria, even though they're well-liked recurring characters.

[@alexthorpe6583]

Seems something of a metaphor for how the 900 year old Doctor's relationships go with all sorts of people. They disappear, he continues. Sophia Myles... she was a cute vampire in the first Underworld movie.

[@Tardisius]

Sophia Myles...aka Madame de Pompadour...would have made a VG Companion...=)

[@jackson857]

One of my favourite episodes of Doctor Who. It's so well done.

[@salvessen6100]

One of my favorite episodes. Great reaction, thank you :)

[@HuntingViolets]

Someone commented that Reinette misunderstands Rose; she doesn't tolerate the monsters for the sake of the Doctor. The monsters are part of the point for Rose, which may be why she makes a better companion than Reinette would have done. It would have been kind of hilarious if Sarah Jane had come with, and then Reinette had come with -- what a crowd on the TARDIS.

[@quintuscrinis]

18:51 everybody knows that everybody dies, and noone knows it better than the doctor.

[@TheFireMonkey]

About Sarah Jane Smith - she was one of the longest running companions she was in 80 episodes ... the only one I can think of that was longer would be Jamie who was in 113 episodes.

[@plothole181]

This is one of the stand out episodes of the show. I still refer to Sophia Myles as the Girl in the Fireplace to this day.

[@QuayNemSorr]

The theme from this episode is enough to make me teary eyed.

[@lucasmilano8792]

This one was a killer tbh, got me right in the feels with that ending. The acting of the woman who died was crazy good i think she would have been a great addition to the team

[@EPICRAGE1000]

Tennants doctor is actually the rizz lord

[@Cobinja]

This is one my absolute favorite episodes!

[@newlight444]

I love this episode despite how sad it is.. I always felt that the Doctor could go back in the Tardis anyway and take her with him before she dies. But I feel that the conversation he had with the King convinced him not to. And then the letter kind of sealed the deal.

[@Riverwolf1489]

Oh, the memories. Omg. This was the Very 1st episode I watched ever.

[@danieldunlavey6901]

One of the best episodes of this era, Madame de Pompadour is definitely my #1 should have been a companion, they just had immediate natural chemistry

[@ronfehr7899]

Sorry, Renette, the Doctor already knows how to dance. At least, to some kinds of music (remember The Doctor Dances).

[@michaelrobinson2687]

12:04 - Thick is British slang for idiotic. So The Doctor was basically insulting the clockwork robot by repeatedly calling it stupid. 13:38 - "Days of my life pressed together like the chapters of a book": Like how we can watch series which are the character's lives condensed so we can see their adventures. For example, take the episode The Girl in the Fireplace. In universe hours pass from beginning to end yet we, the audience, can watch the entire episode in just one hour.

[@AmazingChi]

Welcome to what was part two of our annual "Steven Moffat provides us with a new phobia" series.

[@chanceneck8072]

I think the music is what makes this episode. Was this already Murray Gold?

[@therealpbristow]

Yep. Right from the first ep of the revival through to when Chibnall took over.

[@BooneBluemel]

Moffat's first instance, of many, of adapting The Time Traveler's Wife

[@bobclarke1815]

Reinette is played by Sophia Myles who used to date David Tennent.

[@awall1701]

I really love the music in this episode.

[@apatternedhorizon]

Sad episode but one of my favorites.

[@jasonmarbach]

This will always be a top 5 doctor who ep for me. Absolutely transcendent

[@madmoody100]

Any time the doctor gets 'stuck' in time I just think - all he has to do is remember when he was going to be there previously. In this particular case all he would have to do would be wait 30 years (nothing for a timelord), he wouldn't even have to leave the country, borrow the first doctors tardis during the reign of terror, get back to the spaceship and send the tardis back. Or if worried about sending the tardis back - just hide out in it until it reached earth in close to the present day and then hitch a ride in his own tardis until the time was right to reappear.

[@Mikesupr1]

20:40 Exactly my thought...you are first reactor, who asks (like me) why Doctor doesn't visit her just with Tardis and time traveling?

[@laigron7884]

Because he cant. The moment he landed at that ship he become part of history because there are open time windows. He is part of the events therefore he would be crossing his own time stream.

[@Llanchlo]

Amazing episode. You are one of the few who seems to have realised the time synching is not really consistent (this wil happen again in a much later, very different episode). However we need to forgive that for dramatic licence, and your explanation is as good as any.

[@tenmark7055]

The Doctor becomes part of whatever time he lands in so if he didnt visit her earlier, he cant. Remember what happened when the Doctor (Chris Eccleston) took Rose earlier in her time stream and she changed events to save her dad... screwed up the universe, monsters in the sky eating people?

[@therealpbristow]

Except there are times/circumstances when he can and others when he can't (fixed points). And only he can tell which is which. A clever workaround for being able to tell tragic stories like this one in between playful paradox-flaunting japes like "the bit with the tie" (kn a future ep).

[@jameshawkins6201]

Oh, I love this episode! It is one of my top 5.

[@peterlewis2178]

"I'm always alright" That's doctor (and stoic masculinity) for "I'm never alright"

[@bemasaberwyn55]

Yes, it's timelord

[@hunrahel]

first time noticing, is Rule One "don't wander off" or "the Doctor Lies"?

[@chrisleebowers]

BEST EPISODE EVER Fight me. Blink, Midnight, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead are all up there, but this is THE best one hands down.

[@IsiahBradley]

Nope, I won't fight you :) I don't know where I'd place it now but it would definitely be in my top 10!

[@Venemofthe888]

I just wish they got her age right when she died cause she was 42 not 43. For me it's something small that just bothers me

[@DoughnutJelly55]

This is my favorite episode, but I think Blink is a much better written episode.

[@denmaroca2584]

​@@Venemofthe888They calculated ages differently then. They considered your age by what year of life you were in rather than by the number of whole years you'd completed. They would say you were one from birth. So she'd have been in her 43rd year at death whereas we'd say she was 42 having completed 42 whole years at her death.

[@dudley3403]

Its a good ep with great costumes, sets and music but i find it to be super out of character for the dr to leave rose like that, and expect to still be around in 3000 years to get back to her

[@QuayNemSorr]

"Why can't we go a day back until before she dies" Because that's not what happened. He didn't see her again and she died. If he was to go back to before she died that would create a time paradox in his own timeline. Once something has happened to him it's fixed in his timeline.

[@baz0348]

One of my favourite episodes

[@maxvickrey4357]

This was definitely one of my favorite episodes when it cam out still might be top ten on the list but honestly there so many good episodes its hard to say

[@smashstuff86]

7:15 Emme, what's pre-Revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective.

[@velinion1]

I really love this episode. It's in my Top 10 for sure. If I actually wrote out a list of my top 10, it might have more than 10 on it though. Lot of ties up in the top. What's interesting is there's some episodes I immediately liked, and others that only grew on me with repeated viewing (Zygon Invasion/Inversion from the 12th Doctor's era I initially disliked but now absolutely love for example).

[@HuntingViolets]

Interesting observations at the end.

[@MusikCassette]

0:10 so i am a returner who r u in this case?

[@ellehcimbelle]

everyone always praises this ep but i hated it. i feel like the doctor and Rose were both written OOC.

[@ryanakers1372]

Madame de Pompadour is one of the great companions that never was.

[@ClintBandito]

Feels weird calling the real historical characters companions that never were. Like they're also kinda companions that never really could be anyway.

[@ryanakers1372]

@@ClintBandito I mean the Doctor could always return her to when she left (assuming the Tardis cooperates), but I get your point.

[@garysmith8118]

Love this episode 🙌 another amazing reacting ❤

[@Riverwolf1489]

It was when they did reruns on the scifi channel

[@jaywatson7218]

'I'm always fine' rule 1: the doctor lies

[@olivefernando7879]

There's clothes in the tardis, she didn't need to pack

[@ronfehr7899]

Even though tha Doctor, Rose and Mickey could skip to various parts of Renette's life, I wonder if they were only able to do it in chronological order. Each time that we saw her, it was at a later point in her life. I suppose it makes sense though. It might have been too confusing to see the Doctor react because of something that hasn't happened yet.

[@rrstows3522]

Excellent classic. Beat's the new offerings

[@Harry_SS]

And it's not even close imo. Fair enough to the people who are enjoying the new ones but this era of Doctor Who will always have me coming back.

[@neilfreedman2537]

I love this episode Emme. So interesting. In my top 3. Great reaction

[@neezduts69420]

cant go back with the tardis... remember fathers day :(