Doctor Speaks of Gallifrey

I clipped this and edited the opening and end from the episode "Sound of Drums" in season 3, the doctor talks about The Master and what made him so insane. Courtesy of BBC and sexy david tennant :D...
ENJOY

[@davi0121]

"I thought he was your secret brother or something" *_Laughs in Big Finish_*

[@Acesymmetrical]

Wait what?

[@davi0121]

@@Acesymmetrical in the Expanded Universe, especially in the Big Finish audio dramas, the Doctor's supposed brother Irving Braxiatel is a regular character.

[@jeanmichellelaurent]

David Kirwan except Irving isn’t the master

[@davi0121]

@@jeanmichellelaurent I know, but he is his "secret brother".

[@santinogerez8150]

@@jeanmichellelaurent Fun Fact: In the Paul McGann audiction tape he was given a script when they revealed that the Master was in fact the Doctor's brother

[@Fukushima_Akira]

A Scottish guy pretending to have an English accent, and a Scottish guy pretending to have an American accent. I love this! Hahah

[@lulu805]

Kenji Fukushima he is american

[@---wr5ls]

Emu John Barrowman is from Glasgow

[@adama9300]

Akira Fukushima he does have an American accent

[@Suedehead05]

Yeah come on scotland! Btw I'm scottish

[@flimpeenflarmpoon1353]

How is he pretending? He literally has an American accent already.

[@dreambug8831]

I kind of miss the days when the Doctor was all dark and terrifying as the guy who blew up Gallifrey.

[@mikeykean3805]

He still is a dark and terrifying person seeing as he saved Gallifrey he has somwhat even more of a God complex than he did before because he know thinks that he can do the impossible and that no one and nothing can stop him season 9 was proof of this.

[@Mercure250]

Searching into my memory Season 9, season 9, season...oh...yeah...indeed, yeah...

[@mikeykean3805]

Mercure250 "I can do whatever the Hell I like" The doctor Season 9

[@Howyaduing]

Although he didn’t blow up Gallifrey he still fought in the time war and that leaves him permanently scarred for life

[@uw0t314]

mikey kean yeah he literally died for 4.5 billion years just to save Clara

[@kamen42]

You left out the best part: "What about you?" Doctor: "Me? I've never stopped running."

[@wanderinwolf3804]

"Me? I was one of the ones who ran. I've never stopped"

[@demianzarnoski6636]

"Some get inspired. Others run away...and still others go mad". This sums up every possible reaction when you watch Doctor who for the first time.

[@adama9300]

Omg😂😂😂😂

[@danielbailey8001]

Definitely a mixture of the latter two!! The Abzorbaloff terrified me when I was three - the first episode I watched (and the last for a long, long time after that!!).

[@ricardoalbuquerque7665]

As far as I'm concerned, I must say I was inspired.

[@ldmt1995]

I went completely mad.

[@wolfbaron59]

I think i would be inspired

[@DarkLordoftheMeme]

Time Lords: 'We pioneered irresponsibly dangerous education policies before Hogwarts made it cool'

[@davile_1428]

This is nothing like HP so piss off

[@luca_uy6529]

@@davile_1428 This is a joke, piss off

[@eletricalplugandoutlet1540]

@@luca_uy6529 This is Sparta, piss off

[@gabbeskillz6262]

@Cian McCabe source?

[@Kmn2]

GabbeЯ Skillz no source needed it explains why timelords are so much more smarter than the average race

[@yongadog]

"Some would be inspired (The Rani), Some would run away (The Doctor), And some would go mad (The Master)."

[@GetRekt-bw6pu]

What's that make Romana then?!

[@banzaibunny9725]

The Doctor was all three.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

"Some get inspired. Others run away. And still others go mad." There is something so haunting about that line.

[@Jacobson5837]

janeyrevanescence12 Yes It Haunted Exact words

[@ryansullivan7349]

If you run it backwards though, i think it sounds even worse. "Some went insane, some ran away... Others were inspired." Like they're talking about looking upon Cthulhu

[@draculon5]

"what about you?" "oh! the ones that ran away! i never stopped!"

[@ldmt1995]

A lesser show would have said he got inspired.

[@somerandompokemon593]

It's funny. The "secret brother thing" is a reeeeaaally underground joke. According to the script that Paul McGann used for his audition as the 8th Doctor, the Doctor and the Master actually ARE brothers. heh.

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

Half brothers actually

[@lauchiebeans]

@Steve Ross Car crash i believe.

[@airwolf276]

SomeRandomPokemon wouldn't that be incest then?

[@elfascisto6549]

@@airwolf276 Blame Steven Moffat

[@artemisfowl8594]

@@lauchiebeans, that seems correct, he was apparently filming a car advertisement in Turkey at the time.

[@adelapassini8917]

"This is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" is absolutely one of my top five soundtrack pieces of all time and likely the top television score piece. It's moving, haunting...filled with beauty and an amount of nostalgia that just tugs at one's heart. Murray also manages to add a more dramatic, slightly darker bit hinting at its fate (the ending featuring mainly strings and a faster tempo). The piece itself is very story-like in its structure...

[@LewisJackSpongeLJS]

The way David Tennant says Time Lord(s) is amazing he is one of if not THE best Doctor

[@airwolf276]

LewisJackSponge yes he is!

[@elliot20201]

I like how cool and mysterious Gallifrey is supposed to be in new Who; meanwhile in classic Who, we get to go to Gallifrey multiple times, and Four has a Time Lady companion for two of her regenerations and we meet a good handful of other Gallifreyans early on (the Monk, with the First Doc, even). Five even gives them a big middle finger and runs away again when he returns there lmao.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Six went on trial there, and multiple Doctors became Lord President.

[@ismayb754]

Yes but in New Who the Doctor thought Gallifrey was destroyed and when something isn't around anymore it becomes historic and legendary and mysterious and all those things. The mundane aspects are forgotten.

[@Artisan1979]

To think the Master was created by a "timey wimey" invoked from the Time Lords of the future as a means out of the Time War. When you think about it, it makes the whole of his evil tragic.

[@Domihork]

But it makes sense only for the modern Master. This Mater and later Missy, they are both obsessed with chaos. They're not evil for the sake of being evil. They want chaos. Which makes sense if the time vortex made him mad. (And I guess Missy doesn't hear the drums because either the link was broken when Ten shot it, or Timelords removed it when Master got to Gallifrey) But the previous incarnations are just evil. And I don't think this explanation works. Also 8 years old? I thought Doctor and Master were friends for a long time, they even went to the Academy together...

[@bohenmerchant1]

Domihork The Master might have been resurrected and as soon as he was the Time Lords put the link in his head

[@mordirit8727]

They could still be friends and study together after the Sound of Drums was implanted, it took a really long while for the Master's crazyness to start showing. I mean, the Doctor says he ran away after seeing the Schism but it still took him almost a hundred years to *actually* flee.

[@SoundsSarcastic234]

Domihork I don’t necessarily think that they both want chaos. Maybe Missy, because Moffat doesn’t really get the Master. But Both are just a bit more zany than their other incarnations. Let’s not forget that John Simm’s plan in series 3 is take control of planet earth and use it as basically a Death Star, with him being master of all. And The End of Time involves him, once again, taking control of earth via a more ego-driven plan. Personally, I think the drumming noise adds way more depth to the character than the Master being evil for the sake of it, while not being too bogged down in dr who lore and it being too dark like the Bigfinish origin story ( not to say that one’s bad, though. Just not suitable for family viewing). That’s why I’m not a big fan of Missy. All that really good character building and nuance is just gone with her incarnation. To be replaced with pseudo-depth about her and the Doctor’s friendship that never goes anywhere.

[@archiefraser8927]

To be honest I prefer the backstory from the audios in which the Master killed a boy who bullied him and the Doctor when they were younger and the guilt ate away at him overtime. And the revelation that the Doctor was actually the one who killed the bully and had made a deal with death to have both their memories altered of the event makes it even more sad as the Doctor now feels responsible for the Master's creation

[@markharris5794]

The Doctor's description of Gallifrey and the images shown in this remind me a lot of Asgard in the Thor films :)

[@thedoctor101fez]

both majestic and god/heaven-like places

[@Swilliams365]

They remind me of krypton from man of steel

[@thedoctor101fez]

all majestic and wonderful places that are next explored must because they are cut off and/or too awesome

[@archiefraser8927]

But beneath the external beauty of Gallifrey lies a treacherous society filled with political backstabbing, espionage and secret cults dedicated to the founding fathers of the Timelords.

[@mattf5032]

@@archiefraser8927 I do not doubt your comment but where do you find out this stuff, finding the lore of the doctor who universe is really hard.

[@JFHardman]

This is still one of my favorite doctor who scenes to date.

[@jaysinha0]

Very moving sequence.

[@Castrated__]

I've always loved the way he tells a story. This is what i miss! The emotion that went into Doctor Who, and when it gives you goosebumps it's just perfect. Unlike the shit we get today.

[@Izlemder]

Well... 2023 looks like a great year for DW. At least, we hope.

[@vizpop18]

i think to this day, 10 years later, David tennant is the best doctor of modern times, and that is not a downside on the actors who have come after him, but there is just something about his doctor that connects with me more. than the others

[@prongs0611]

Yeah it's called nostalgia.

[@JoaoVictor-fk8no]

@@prongs0611 no it's not, i'm watching doctor who now for the first time and David Tennant is briliant

[@1337penguinman]

Capaldi was great as well. He just had crap to work with.

[@Fakan]

You never forget your first Doctor.

[@dreamer2260]

Very much agree.

[@TerrorSnailplus]

Definitely the best Doctor. So many good memories will last for ever. :')

[@augustusiii9772]

8? By time lord age, DAMN THAT'S YOUNG!

[@princeofhope7436]

Hey 1 little thing: TimeLords are Briliant/Genius/Flipping Smart so i think when they are 8 years old that they have the brain from someone With the age of 18/19 but thats my clue.....

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

Or they spend most of their first life learning as they usually have 13 lives

[@colinmiller8824]

That's young even in normal age

[@rekaadang]

@@colinmiller8824 90 years old is still considered a kid in Time Lord's age.

[@joshjlmgproductions3313]

For us, that would be 9 and a half months. But if you're counting all their lives, that'd be 24 days old. So it's pretty much a baptism.

[@sophitia42]

"On the continent of Wild Endeavor, in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude"- I love that line! So poetic!

[@themeh3411]

I love the music that plays in the background. I think this scene was foreshadowing the End of Time.

[@victorpeterson3502]

I love it when he talks about Gallifrey

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

"Used to call it The Shining World of the Seventh System. On the Continent of Wild Endeavor, and the mountains of Solace and Solitude" I can't tell if The Doctor is actually talking about Gallifrey, or his Dwarf Fortress save. Maybe his real name is Urist?

[@lunestiacrescent827]

This made me laugh way too hard. You need more likes!

[@LordTyph]

Urist McDoctor?

[@Wintermute01001]

"Some will be inspired, some will run away, and some will go mad." And some will do all three, eh Doctor?

[@ToudaHell]

In 2 minutes this show created emotions and imagery most other shows can't in their entire run time. this is one of the reason why i love this show soooooo much. and why i miss David soooo much.

[@barryhardin9962]

I am in my 40's and have been watching Dr. Who since the "olden days." Two Dr.s, Tom Baker and David Tennant stand out amongst them all. Of the two, most definitely David Tennant!

[@TrafficJamByCam]

"Which one were you" "Oh I never stopped running!" Sooooooo epic!!!!!!!!!!

[@erinkennedy6476]

The music in this makes me cry in nostalgia

[@skyletta0626]

Being the doctor came naturally to David Tennant, i wish he had stayed on as the doctor...not that matt smith isnt "brilliant" but i feel as if it were more natural to david .....just saying

[@princeofhope7436]

by David i got that feeling like AAAAAAAAAAAAH ( Mostly when he is angry But Nevermind that) and with Matt i am like Oke ............

[@s-094cam5]

Well it helps that he grew up watching Doctor Who. Man got to live his childhood dream.

[@rodimusrider8798]

Matt's one of my favourites but I will admit it did take a while for him to really embrace the role

[@Jayden3649]

'' Weeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllll'' David Tennant

[@bushidotestu1997]

Theirs a reason this guy is the dr. Who measuring stick

[@caleb7551]

So.....the first 9 can fuck off then?

[@bozotheclown_1993]

Martha: "I thought you were going to say he was your secret brother." The Doctor: *Shit, she knows, better think of an excuse quickly.* The Doctor: "You've been watching too much TV." The Doctor *Yeah, that should do it.*

[@maximesaindon3552]

Right?! He looked so called out

[@DarthHLT]

No, not a secret Brother or something (like that), but indeed a "relative of somekind", a far distant... "descandant". Since the Doctor is actually the Timeless Child, and the Timelord Biology is based upon, engineered after the Timeless Child, the are somehow related after all...

[@Ben6164]

@@DarthHLT don't bring the absolutely awful Timeless Child into RTD's era, please

[@DarthHLT]

​@@Ben6164 it may be awful, BUT... RTD is coming Back to Doctor Who as a new / old Show runner after 2021, after Jodie Whitaker and the current Show runner Chris Chibnall will leave. And he will have ultimately build upon was has come before. Well unless... he (Davies) will come up with something that reverse the Storyline of the Timeless Child. But if he is not reverting that... well this would mean the Timeless Child Story is canon. This would mean it really happened. If RTD doesn't invent a Storyline that make all that "untrue" it would mean thet the Timless Child Story is still valid. Sorry... that is how it work. Unless you stop watching Doctor Who. But how can you, now that RDT is coming back? "Unfortunately" or "Not unfortunately" (it depends...) anyway... "Unfortunately" RTD has to continue the Storyline from the previous Shows, so... either you stop watching Doctor Who even with RTD as helm, or you watch it, but again, unless he is reverting it, the Timless Child Stuff happened. So... tricky for you!

[@Ben6164]

@@DarthHLT anything RTD does will undoubtedly be brilliant, but I can't see how even a man as great as him can continue with something that literally destroys everything that Doctor Who is supposed to be.

[@superfighter064]

That secret brother line.. Heh if you know you know but that is some brilliant referencing

[@victorpeterson3502]

This track is one of the greatest tracks in the history of TV and movies in my opinion

[@TheeGameTable]

'Always my favourite description of Gallifrey and like others below have said back in the days when the doctor had a dark sense to him as the lonely god who single handedly stopped the time war' - Jack, Complete Third Productions

[@TheJboy88]

Knowing what they became and what they did, I'm surprised the Doctor can still think and speak so fondly of his home and people.

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

You can still love your family when they do wrong.

[@benhughes3394]

R.I.P William Hughes

[@chiefnut48]

One of my favorite clips. Thanks for posting. He was my Doctor

[@physicsimpossible73]

How come the Time Lords are so advanced and smart yet they still use flames on torches?! lol I don't get it.

[@physicsimpossible73]

***** Oh yeah, didn't think of that..

[@physicsimpossible73]

JediMaster Yorhacken Yeah..

[@thedoctor101fez]

yeah, and maybe they just like fire, i mean they seem to ware red pst of them XD and fire just looks more epic XD But good point, its little things like this where u can get a little laugh out of a serious moment of dr who :P

[@Julia-cb8wm]

shhh it's aesthetic. It makes is seem more imposing. Wouldn't be so cool if they took the Time Lord children to the elementary school gym to see all of time and space, but a creepy feild in the dead of night with torches and people dressed in robes? That's bad ass.

[@rodimusrider8798]

ceremony

[@selwynburghardt5895]

deaddude, Timelords became genetically modified due to their exposure to Time itself. river mentions it somewhere around a good man goes to war

[@JamesJohnson-nm5pu]

Yep they can regenerate because of their prolonged exposure to the Time Vortex itself.

[@selwynburghardt5895]

A bit of both prolly

[@MultiFirelover]

@@JamesJohnson-nm5pu I hate that explanation its so shit and changed the Canon, which is still equally shit. Is much rather it was just in their dna from. Birth

[@etaidade3983]

I never realised until now that "secret brother" line was in reference to the 8th doctor tv series we never got, where the plot of it would be the doctor teaming up with the master, who was indeed his secret brother. He even acted out the reveal scene for this as his audition tape!

[@lewisdavies2647]

Shivers everytime he explains it even without the video you can picture it

[@Kevin-go5we]

11 years ago holy shit

[@mael2839]

This was the gallifrey that I admired. As a kid I was alone, all I had was doctor who, so I sympathized with the doctor (David Tennants doctor). Gallifrey was where I went to as a kid, the sun would rise of a hot summers day, so of to sleep I'd go, underneath a cherry blossom tree I'd sleep, reality would become blurry and id drift off to sleep, and there it was,gallifrey, beautiful and magnificent, but out always out of reach

[@Catrionao]

i think we take for granted the genousness it takes to write this i cant imagine life now without the doctor david AND matt i love him so much god bless youtube for letting us watch doctor who clips whenever we want.

[@Monaqute]

0:10 "...secret brother or something." the Doctor's face: O__o

[@davecunningham71]

That part at 0:45 and the music that goes with it, always gives me chills.

[@Jashin325]

I nearly cried when it started playing This is Gallifrey: Out childhood, our home. Just from so many Doctor and Master feels...

[@rickdeckard1075]

eccleston....period...forever...

[@Jayden3649]

Baker...Period...Forever...

[@Cristtinee]

this part is so beautiful

[@robertwlester]

love that clip

[@icon9472]

Love the song playing at the background.

[@benlowe1701]

Brother? No... Half Brother? With a Shared Mother, Who interfered in "The End Of Time" for the sake of Both her sons? Different Father's. One Poor, living in the outskirts of Galifrey, outside of the Citadel. There was no way the Doctor would have made it into the Academy... (As Seen In Listen) Unless her Second Husband... The Master's Father was wealthy and powerful... With enough influence to ensure both his trueborn and stepson were enrolled in the Academy. Halfbrothers.

[@benlowe1701]

***** It was one of two plot twists. The urge being that the Master was somehow the distillation of the Doctors dark side. This idea was of course brought back and incorporated into the Valeyard. Who is to say that they won't reuse the original idea at some point?

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

That's my new headcanon

[@DarthHLT]

No, not a secret Brother or something (like that), but indeed a "relative of somekind", a far distant... "descandant". Since the Doctor is actually the Timeless Child, and the Timelord Biology is based upon, engineered after the Timeless Child, the are somehow related after all...

[@NicoDiAngelo603]

I could listen to the doctor describe gallifrey for an eternity

[@Lucarius1]

I absolutaly love that song in the background.

[@monachowdhury3434]

David wanted to be Doctor Who since he was a child...he was a Doctor Who junkie....He even wrote an essay about this when he was thirteen...He said in an interview that wanting to play the Doctor is what inspired him to become an actor....So obviously,a person who has always loved and wanted to play the Doctor will be the best Doctor around....

[@Izlandzadi14]

I just recently watched this part at a friends house for the first time, and I just felt so happy.

[@apotey4710]

One of my favourite moments :)

[@omegabigfella]

One more year of Tennant, it's been great! Best Doctor yet!

[@lightyagmi2010]

well, I suppose another year 2023 wouldn't kill anyone

[@CaptainFrankBlack]

The leaves on the trees were silver, when they caught the light, every morning, it looked like a forest on fire.

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Galifrey Stands!!!

[@eeromero08]

Agreed👍🏻🇬🇧

[@dancingcarapace]

Gallifrey falls no more

[@hermitsunite953]

But then it falls

[@SP-ny1fk]

"When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you" - Friedrich Nietzsche

[@Alexano101]

The strongest planet, a planet that can never see the light of this universe. The planet that never fell, nor rose, but stood and made its stand. Now it stands, stronger, and taller than ever. But if this planet were ever to come back, war and hell would break, eternal and forever. The planet in question? It will be known, forever, as Gallifrey.

[@MiniatureRanni]

Gallifrey is just a planet. Home of the Time Lords. Just this place you know... not this big epic lost planet that is the glory of the universe. The Time Lords were looked down on by many of the cosmos. Back in the Doctor's previous incarnations he often visited only to be greeted by the corrupt Time Lords, authors of their own destruction.

[@Alexano101]

Just a stab at poetry Gordon. ;)

[@nicopetel5835]

Gordon Cole I think The Doctor was looking back at his childhood on Gallifrey.

[@MiniatureRanni]

Nico Petel Cool...

[@ngikjegjangbiuea]

But they DID bring it back. www.digitaljournal.com/article/331857 Now we need a Time War to break out.

[@THESWEATYBURNTMAMBA]

ending gives me the chills....beautiful buildup

[@KasaiWolf07]

Geez this really does take me back to when some of the episodes were based on Gallifrey. Talk about how far things have changed.

[@christopherfreire5351]

Thumbs up if you got that brother line.

[@rajaishthrone]

this is a epic scene.

[@CaptainWatson234]

I actually whimpered "Oh God." aloud at this scene. Its beautiful.

[@Dartanius100]

David Tennant is such a fantastic actor. It's the way he says "And it was, it was beautiful" at 0:22 is just so raw of forlorn longing and emotion.

[@Smashurfacehere]

me too. :C he makes it sound so AWESOME!

[@richardreed7416]

David Tennant is My Favourite Doctor in Doctor Who

[@danielmiles9821]

Martha "I thought he was your secret brother or something" Doctor "You've been watching too much TV" ahahahaha damnit chibnall (sort of)

[@colinmclean6584]

I do miss Murray Gold wonderful music, especially that particular score that was being played in the clip.

[@Xevose]

Rose are red Violets are Blue The Doctor Spoke of Galifrey Darlek Pew Pew

[@matthewhackett487]

I miss this doctor,so glad I got to watch it as a kid 👦

[@eysofstarclan96]

that music gives me goosebumps every time... =)

[@godofevil9468]

I f*cking love this show.

[@fluentsimlish1362]

If the Master went Mad and the Doctor ran away, I like to think Susan was inspired :)

[@brandonhoward3805]

The Doctor said it before thanos. It was *his* home, and it was beautiful.

[@auberginemanproductions1608]

They called him a madman..... with a box

[@SimonB198207]

"...never stopped!" I like that, the mighty Doctor being so 'normal', i suppose the phrase we'd use is 'so human'. Seeing something unusual, frightening and the survival instinct kicks in. Makes me smile. : )

[@stevenc.6502]

Am I the only one that thinks that exposing eight-year old children (I assume the Doctor converted to human equivalents, both for number of years and maturity) to this is actual child abuse?

[@sheridan5175]

You think?

[@gameover9390]

I think it’s apparent that Russel T David’s took inspiration from Our many ancient cultures and their initiation process, that turned Boys into Men. Sparta is one that comes to mind, their initiation was brutal and certainly Cruel. But it was no different from the rest of society and it made the men need to run their society, so to them it was necessary.

[@redheadrogue]

I'm still wading through season three, and once David goes, I will have nothing to live for.

[@MirrorsEdge00]

omg they played murray gold in the background this is giving me chiiiiiills

[@BrotherTree1]

"some would be inspired, some would run away, and some would go mad" -- the doctor became all three of these. but thank god and the entire universe that he believed in doing good and not evil.

[@PJOZeus]

Some Get Inspired Some Run Away Some Go Mad Pretty Much Sums Up The World

[@blueseabee]

makes you feel like a kid at story time, hanging on to every word :)

[@highlander723]

There is a place in Mt. Baldy Ca that I think of when i watch this. A stream reflecting the colors at sun rise over the peak always reminds me of Gallifrey. It is a place I like.

[@Sian.e284]

my favourite clip of all time from Doctor Who. I wish you could get this version of the backing track on the soundtrack album though. It's missing the drumbeat, and I quite like it like that.

[@bosetsu]

Gooood, I sound so nerdy.

[@ZeusOwnsYou]

i cry evry tyme

[@CryptidValentine]

The only one we've FOUND yet. There may be thousands that we haven't discovered yet.

[@runebladez999]

good point

[@MadeOfCATS]

SO. I'm still in high school, and I've only ever really seen the rebooted series. After listening to all the Doctors talk about gallifrey as a far-gone paradise, it was just freaky going back a bit and seeing other time lords

[@IRISHREM1234]

That line, "just a child..." Damn.

[@blackdigr]

wow he makes it sound so real

[@gotja]

he's been running

[@TwistedSynn]

and I love when next they ask him which did he do and he tells them, he ran and never stopped running.

[@Blazer7878]

The Artist

[@petersoakell]

watch with captions LOL

[@harryantino]

Christ they ruined the Gallifrey story line so bad, it used to add so much depth and meaning to the Doctors character