Doctor Who - Day of the Doctor: The Last Day of the Time War

[@hyrinshratu]

You know you're a badass when a billion billion genocidal maniacs put invading a planet on hold because they think you might be nearby.

[@thetowerofbabble6307]

hyrinshratu because you were called the destroyer of worlds by their creator, plus, you have done worse.

[@Leet-iz2fz]

You know you’re a badass when three of you would be enough to make a billion billion xenocidal maniacs call for backup.

[@CountryMusicMann]

You know you're a badass when the entire universe will drop what they're doing and come back you up just because you ask.

[@jedrhodes4833]

You know you’re a badass when those genocidal maniacs literally put their genociding on hold as they’re preparing to genocide, just because they notice you!

[@GoldenGamingWolf]

You know your a badass when you can break a government with only 6 words

[@dmaxwell910901]

"The Dark and Endless Dalek Night" was a perfect choice of music for this..

[@jamiebowler4693]

As much as I prefer their series one theme, damn is it a good dalek battle theme

[@typhoon109]

@Jamie Bowler I think the series 1 theme works better in expressing the immense power of a single dalek whereas The Dark and Endless Dalek Night is better for a full scale dalek fleet

[@daemonic7560]

It is the only choice for a dalek invasion

[@owenthomas2914]

I would love to see more of the time war, how a civilization that considered The TARDIS obsolete came to be reduced to solders running around of foot shooting lazerbeams at invincible trashcans.

[@thewerewolff7248]

i in particular want to see the battle TARDISes being used in a time war battle

[@fastertrackcreative]

I'd say the Daleks are more like mini tanks with greater firepower.

[@vin7529]

They never thought the TARDIS was obsolete. They put away that one particular TARDIS that the doctor has because it was defective. Because it was stuck as one object the phone box. Based on the info from the show the TARDIS is supposed to be able to change into any object.

[@trollzynisaacjohan1793]

The doctor has an ancient archaic tardis.

[@jamesyap8364]

They used up everything they had in the war. In the end, warfare always goes back to conventional warfare because of the lack of resources. Just like the people of Skaro were reduced to World War One level of technology before the invention of the Daleks due to a thousand year war.

[@nicktroisi6347]

0:34 I’m so happy they brought back that theme. It makes The Daleks seem so horrifying and triumphant

[@irix5093]

What's the name of the theme

[@victorvelasquez9844]

@@irix5093 Into the Dark and Dalek Night

[@Beerbottles123]

Kinda ironic the song is in Hebrew.

[@Deinobi]

​@@irix5093The Dark And Endless Dalek Night

[@porpus99]

Going by what the Christopher Eccleston version of the Doctor stated there were Ten Million Dalek ships at this battle. Also stated Dalek ships have about Two Thousand Daleks aboard each ship. That means the Daleks had an invasion force of Twenty Billion Dalek against the people of Gallifry. No matter how advanced the Time Lords were, the Daleks could just drown them in numbers alone.

[@badwolf66]

The war Doctor states that their are a billion billion Daleks so that's a fighting force of a trillion.

[@raymondhowsham8432]

The doctor says there’s a billion billion Daleks but if they knew there was three doctors they’d send for reinforcements, super arrogant but so super cool too.

[@jamesneese7663]

@@raymondhowsham8432 the trillion daleks WERE the reinforcements to the first billion. This is The Doctor we,re talking about.

[@internetduck1114]

They are toast, "Gallifried" you might say.

[@Boxanadu]

20 thousand million you mean. 1 billion is 12 zeros, not nine.

[@CuppaTeaExe]

Hearing the music for the first time since The Stolen Earth was one of the coolest things in Doctor Who

[@jamiebowler4693]

Chills every time I watch

[@Dale_Blackburn]

The name of the ost also called, ''Words Win Wars'' They planned it!

[@ObsidianAngiris]

Imagine if they made a series all about the events of the time war

[@tallyhogaming4905]

that would be amazing and also why do the soldiers look like cadian shock troopers from warhammer 40k

[@chocolatebat21]

I mean, they basically did with Big Finish and Audio Books. P.s All the audio books are indeed canon, and the acting is fantastic, people just don't like them because they can't see it only hear it. There is only so much they can do onscreen for the Time War since is costs too much visually, however in the audio books they have free roam.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Unfortunately, the Actor who played the War Doctor passed away, so that's incredibly unlikely to happen

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@GiantGoblin True, but it's unlikely they'll do the same with War considering the Actor was a pretty famous one as well as his passing being very recent.

[@MrElmo54321]

It would be awesome but I don’t think it would stand to how horrible we would imagine it to really be, I imagine it being a war so brutal that both sides and whatever other races were involved created weapons that were so horrid or impossible that merely thinking about them would give a dalek ptsd, I think it’s better left to the imagination

[@arthurchallat8530]

"A war to end all wars [...] And in that battle there was a man with more blood on his hands than any other. A man who would commit a crime that would silenced the universe. And that man was me." Chilling !

[@internetduck1114]

"Of course I know him, he's me"

[@SamuelBlack84]

He could almost be describing me

[@nightstar11801]

But the doctor never said what his crime was. I am morbidly curious to discover what crime could silence the universe.

[@spectra5407]

@@nightstar11801 wiping out The Daleks and his own people

[@nightstar11801]

@@spectra5407 agreed 👍

[@ajrickman9520]

I wanted so much more of the time war..

[@Mr-yj4qz]

Batmanmarch did an 8th doctor action figure series that has most of what was mentioned in the time war such as the gates of Elysium, the nightmare child, and the fall of Arcadia if I recall correctly though the series involves the 8th doctor rather than the war doctor as he wrote the story before the war doctor was introduced. He had the time war occur in his third season while his first season gave a resolution to the dalek civil then during the second season the daleks are preparing for the time war while hiding.

[@andrewcruzsmith2343]

We all do.

[@Cybermat47]

Read _Engines of War_ and listen to the Big Finish series _The War Doctor_ , _The War Master_ , _The Eighth Doctor: The Time War_ , and _Gallifrey_ . They all deal with the Time War in detail.

[@Reprodestruxion]

Big Finish although much of the defeats were also down to the 8th Doctor’s mistakes/interference

[@TheShadowless]

I wanted so much more... SO MUCH *MORE!*

[@thecocomonk2657]

The Dalek is confused by the words because in the middle of a battle that will end a war that has last over 400 years, between the oldest and mightiest race in the universe, by their own modest opinion, and the most aggressive xenophobic species that ever existed, the personification of hate itself, the Doctor has chosen to write his final judgement of the two alien species in the Human language of English.

[@tiekogalaxylatte8839]

It has been explained in the show that the TARDIS has universal translation circuits that can show us nearly any language translated, that's why we as viewers are watching the show as though the circuits are affecting us.

[@danker7680]

But then why in the ending scene of when a good man goes to war the gallifreyan symbols written on the cot are not translated? (assuming the War Doctor is writing in gallifreyan)

[@danker7680]

@@nathanschroeder4871 ok

[@darthmetallus1977]

The Cocomonk The average Dalek is a genius. It would be child's play to learn the language.

[@danker7680]

@@darthmetallus1977 400+ years is more than enough time to learn gallifreyan

[@porpus99]

The Daleks at the height of their power. Ten million Dalek ships involved in the siege of Gallifrey, enough to blot out the sun with not only ships but ground and air forces. Brought the Time Lords to their knees.

[@jonarbuckle778]

Then realise that despite all the Dalek might, the moment there is a possibility that the Doctor is in their vicinity, groups of Daleks instantly stop what they are doing and prioritise him because of how dangerous he is. If that ain't power over the Daleks I don't know what is.

[@dmaxwell910901]

@@jonarbuckle778 It's not really power over the Daleks as such, he's their number one enemy. As far as they're concerned, eliminating him removes the one thing that stands in their way.

[@SimplisticPirate]

@@dmaxwell910901 idk how to tell you this but if you're the only thing standing in the way of a genocidal race of invincible beings, you most certainly have power over them

[@spectra5407]

2000 Daleks per ship that's 20,000,000,000 Daleks

[@TheKersey475]

The Daleks sent EVERY Dalek they had to Gallifrey for this desperate gamble to end the Time War once and for all

[@frankytheimmortal8527]

I always wondered if, because it is said that the Time Lords had used up all of their massive weapons, and the war was reduced to what we see here, if that also means the Time Lords brought the other Tardis out of storage. Was there at some point, hundreds of Tardis of different models and such flying around knocking down enemies and Suiciding into ships?

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Well.... They did loose all their Battle TARDISes by this point in the war.

[@CommanderM117]

this happend not long before the first doctor /tom baker he mention that they came to his homeworld and nearly destroyed them and he held the key to killing them but didn't and they ended up coming to his planet because of him that why later hes called a renegade timelord. i thing this war was mostly just timelords fighting across time but ever time they lose a loop of loss and this is before the dalek have time machines of there own so there simply dying but still wining only slightly if i recall they steal it in this war.

[@grantwalter2243]

i thought they did have hundreds of TARDISes

[@internetduck1114]

kamikaze tardis

[@tompearce5418]

​@@grantwalter2243most were just research vessels like the Doctor's, designed to carry teams to observe other cultures stealthily. Later models like the one piloted by the Master during the events of Logopolis did have offensive capabilities as well (the Master stunned a group of security guards using an electrical discharge from his ship).

[@Jacobson5837]

0:28 That Music just Gave me Goosebumps. Dramatical scene and Music makes perfect apocalypse Shots

[@Hopper89]

And the CGI god dayum it looks like it's from a big budget hollywood film.

[@blu_laza]

Whats that song called?

[@Zneelsen]

Blu Laza the endless Dalek night

[@aztecolatino]

it is the dalek's theme song, used primarily during davies' era.

[@swag-a-dellaman6555]

listening to the song makes my spine shiver.

[@rnadomj]

I love how this is the last day, there’s just something so interesting about that. All the weapons on both sides have been used up and so much has happened. The nightmare child and the hell creatures are all gone. The master has abandoned ship by this point and so has the cult of skaro. It’s really just the Doctor now.

[@thebluetardisoftime1992]

“This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see.” - The Doctor, Season 7, Episode 4

[@kane3754]

3:11 After your teammates significantly reduce the team member's health, and your the one who just comes in takes the kill and get's all the glory and points.

[@owenthomas2914]

and The Docktor like any genuinely good player just gets on with kicking more ass instead of bitching about 'kill stealing'

[@devan6935]

@@owenthomas2914 True

[@williamnorton9547]

Damn. The Doctor ran down those Daleks with the TARDIS, just like the time Optimus Prime ran down some Decepticons.

[@etazeta674]

Having the dalek mutants come flying out of their casings during that bit was a nice touch

[@Iainfortune]

Or maybe the TARDIS ran the Daleks down with the Doctor on board considering just how much she detests them too...

[@murakumo8194]

Right next to Ace’s baseball bat; being one of the few items that can either injure, cripple, or destroy Daleks.

[@jedigamer9935]

Wonder why the 13th Doctor didn't do that to the Daleks.

[@jeckjeck3119]

I have a theory on how Daleks got past Time Lord's defenses..... It was Rassilon who let them in to manipulate high council into 'final sanction'.

[@cdrcastig252]

That is such a good theory

[@jeckjeck3119]

Yeah. I mean, Transduction barrier, Sky trenches (a 'lot' of them), quantum Force Field, fake gallifreys and who knows what other defenses time lords have created... especially in time war... it just seems a bit (a lot) far fetched that Daleks (even if they 'were' powerful enough to fight time lords to stalemate, at the time) would be able to get pass that amount of defenses to actually attack them...unless, someone who is powerful enough, and has access to system from the inside. Someone who was mad enough to do such a thing, someone who... is the lord president of Gallifrey.

[@leejohnstone9337]

jeck jeck interesting theory

[@williamnorton9547]

jeck jeck If that be true, then Rassilon was the worst traitor, as well as the greatest leader, in Gallifrey's history.

[@jeckjeck3119]

William Norton yes! which would make his character even more interesting. That act is a war crime against time lords 'at least'. It would make a wonderful episode(s) in if they were to make one... Rassilon charged as a war criminal on time lord trial (like the doctor was once) and the Doctor is one of the witnesses... it would also give opportunities to bring back Romana as the prosecutor. A politics behind time war, the heinous acts committed by Rassilon, charges would take 'years' to list. It's just so plausible.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

I saw Day of the Doctor in the cinema. This scene and the rest of it was sheer epic joy.

[@thatkidjan05]

3:08 when your mom says dinners ready but she says set up the table

[@bargainbin6162]

When all the Astartes are dead and the only ones left alive are the Imperial Guards.

[@andrewdowns9047]

Yeah, i always found this part of Dr Who to be wierd. The single greatest empire in the universe is ruled by cosplayers and was brought down by salt shakers with a whisk and plunger each, and their soldiers have loose fitting plastic looking armor with inaccurate lasers. I'm fairly certain the guard at least goes prepared into a battle, even the penal legions

[@netbotcl586]

@@andrewdowns9047 the Time Lords aren't really an empire tho, there is no need to conquer other worlds if you have bigger-in-the-inside machines, infinite power and resource replication. But yes, I expected unimaginable weird cosmic weapons, not budget Star Wars in Day of the Doctor lol.

[@devan6935]

@@netbotcl586 You have to imagine that this war has been going on for 400 years in a linear sense, and who knows how many centuries outside of time. the Daleks and Time Lords have already thrown every single one of their superweapons etc against eachother, and they're now reduced to throwing rocks at one another and seeing who bleeds out first.

[@James.B.Russell]

The Time Lords didn't exactly have an empire but they meddled deeply in the development of other worlds that they predicted would be a near-peer adversary. They wanted to remain the sole temporal superpower in the universe and even tasked the Doctor with handling the Daleks, but the Doctor let them be, and eventually the Daleks developed into a near-peer adversary, but with a bloodlust. This was all before the Time Lords decided to not interfere, which is odd because they didn't want to interfere during the 2nd Doctor's tenure, but asked the 4th Doctor to interfere. Who knows which order is which? Let's not forget the death games in early Gallifrey's history, too.

[@velikynovgorod4358]

@@devan6935 Ever since I've seen these complaints I've thought the same thing. Why can't people just enjoy the scene? It's honestly an amazing opening scene with the music.

[@blablador4584]

I don't know what but there is something satisfying hearing the daleks screaming SEEK LOCATE DESTROY

[@IRONLORDMINK]

Really wish we got more Stuff like this. For me the Time war was the most Fascinating part of Doctor who Lore.

[@Kafiunchahi]

The shot of the Dalek at 1.24 is one of my favourite shots in all of Doctor WHO. For all those 50 years we had the Daleks referred to as this great threat, this all conquering force, but bless the Special FX at the BBC, what we saw on screen was never up to it. Until that shot. When they look terrifying.

[@dylilahpiglet4943]

"the war to end all wars!" How many times have we heard that?

[@imperial5477]

One of if not the best soundtack of doctor who by far

[@DoctorWhoKage]

If you've read "The Engines of War" like I have, you and I *both* understand the meaning of the "No More" message The Doctor sent to both the Time Lords and the Daleks better than either the Time Lords *or* the Daleks. It was his last promise to Cinder, his last companion before he met his future selves in this episode, and regenerated after the events of this episode. That's the cutest thing about this war. 😍😭 After The Doctor met Cinder, he finally got the urge to be The Doctor again. He was ready to *regain* the right to be The Doctor again. And I was absolutely devastated when he lost Cinder due to the ridiculousness of Karlax. I love this so much! 😍😍😍

[@Rilbur]

There are doctor who _BOOKS_ as well as audio books?! *zooms*

[@Airdash5678]

Doctor who show should show more of this kind of content.

[@paladinboyd1228]

Kithro Games, Well given we pay their budget by law, they should give more of the tv license to doctor who.

[@aradicalkiwi806]

Anybody else think Christopher Eclestiens performance was one of the best, he showed true hatred, and it allowed for amazing character progression, and whenever he saw the Daleks. Best scenes of the show in my opinion.

[@rtaylor7384]

Agree. Really all the actors have done amazing showing The Doctor hate for them. I really loved Matt Smith showing the Doctor hate for them in Victory of the Daleks as well.

[@mw2mw3rhett]

Why'd the Daleks even bother to land on the planet if they just wanted to exterminate all life on there? Couldn't they of bombarded it from orbit?

[@Suntizo]

i remember that it was mentioned that Gallifrey had sky trenches so they couldn't destroy it from orbit

[@Stack4Freedom]

The gallirey has at most 4000 sky trenches so they could not bombard it but your probably saying “then how did these lot get through” that’s because someone switched of one of the sky trenches and it was believed to be a rogue who had seen what the time lords have done to the “lesser civilisations” during the first years of the time war

[@jeeshadow1]

It was also probably shielded somewhat. If the Papal Mainframe could shield a planet from Daleks, I am sure the Time Lords had something similar.

[@thelasttimelord7550]

@@Stack4Freedom blimey how right you were . Please reply to the comment

[@starballer.j1997]

Tin Watchman rassilon turned it off- Theory

[@malphasblackwing420]

Daleks collectively panicking is such a fun sound 2:23

[@captain_meerkat1901]

My main issue (and I don’t really mean issue, I loved this episode) is that it seems a massive tactical error for every single Dalek ship to be involved in the attack, especially if it seems clear that they would win by this point. Surely they must have been aware that the Time Lords might have had a powerful last resort weapon? Even if they did not specifically know what it was

[@thesparduck117]

Considering how insane the war was prior to this battle they likely weren’t willing to take any chances, they wanted to overwhelm the time lords before they could do anything

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

The Dalek’s invasion of Earth had them sadistically shoot civilians instead of the guys shooting them first. They can simply be evil and wanting to kill for the sake of it.

[@tompearce5418]

The Dalek Emperor had already sent the Cult of Skaro between universes in a Void Ship by this point, along with a Gallifreyan Genesis Ark (a prison ship containing millions of captured Daleks). So, yes, the Daleks had made contingency plans.

[@Neglections]

A guy: "I killed a few timelords fear me!" The Doctor: "I killed them all and Daleks as well. Fear me."

[@lmordro]

John Hurt was so amazing! I'll miss him, his work.

[@James.B.Russell]

The VFX crew DELIVERED HARD on this. 10 years old and it looks great as ever, especially for TV. Saw this in the theater. This, being the 50th, wasn't just a "special," it was a full blown movie.

[@victorpeterson3502]

This scene is so much better if you’ve read the novelization. It gives much more emotion to the Doctor’s PTSD and I highly recommend it.

[@bobosstopshelf4217]

When the moment told him his punishment was to live with burning his world.... Soul breaking

[@tompearce5418]

Ironically that's how he survived in the original timeline - as punishment from the Moment. He was forced to witness the devastation and then allowed to leave in the TARDIS.

[@CompelledUsername]

I love that The Doctor has his back turned here. Almost as if he’s surveying the damage and making his mind up regarding use of The Moment.

[@numberoneintrovert]

The War Doctor is a savage.

[@rickburmen3673]

YOU SWEET SWEET HUMAN BEING! THANKS FOR UPLOADING!!!!!!

[@tompearce5418]

Notice how the War Council is meeting in a chamber shaking from the planetary bombardment, while in the End of Time, Rassilon, the High Council and the assembly of Time Lords were all meeting in a heavily protected underground bunker? I can't think why the Gallifreyans lost faith in their government during and after the Time War.

[@jacobd5387]

1:45 The panning towards the TARDIS with that music in the background... Chills

[@zombiedalekweck2243]

You got to think how hopeless this is... Either way, it would've resulted in the destruction of the universe... The Time Lords were as crazed as the Daleks by this point. So it was extermination or "ascension." As such, the Doctor didn't have a choice. Plus, both sides were basically on the edge of collapse, although not EVERY single Dalek was on Gallifrey (some survived, Dalek Runaways, and more) it was pretty much it for both races. They also were basically leadershipless. The Daleks were run by an insane Emperor who basically had lost it at this point (search up Rassilon addresses the Dalek Emperor. He's always been nuts). Rassilon had also lost pretty much lost it, leaving their governance in the control of local forces or second-in-commands (e.g. War Table of Gallifrey and Dalek Time Strategist, if it was even still alive) who couldn't even do anything as the other two basically had full power to continue this fruitless war.

[@johnmurray4133]

The music at 1:10 is very funny to me, I know it’s probably a phrase in Latin or something, but it sounds so close to “CALL THE DOCTOR”

[@ZapAndTroy44]

It never made sense how the Daleks became so powerful. Look how easy it was for one Tardis to destroy 6 daleks.

[@ZapAndTroy44]

So you are saying that the weight of the Tardis is measured by its mass on the inside.

[@morerobotwarscontent1476]

You ever heard of a concept called a 'massive army.'

[@ZapAndTroy44]

No.

[@jeckjeck3119]

ZapAndTroy44 Explained in books and audios.

[@ZapAndTroy44]

Are they canon?

[@soulvey]

The Day of the Doctor remains one of my favourite ever episodes and here's half the reason

[@tomnorton4277]

John Hurt alone makes this episode a must watch. He's one of those very rare people who actually deserved his legendary reputation.

[@lemonferret]

1:19 LEGO Yoda death noise

[@theilluminati6748]

Daleks: (Are destroying the whole planet in the biggest war of all time) Gallifreyan man: "Please just... don't"

[@Mental_Warlock]

*SEEK! LOCATE! DESTROY!* 2:24

[@mediakira6621]

One thing I’d change is instead of that five second pause, have the daleks kill the father and then that’s when their attention is distracted by the Doctor being located. Would have added more tension in my eyes.

[@CrunchyNorbert]

Masters of Space and Time... brought low by sentient bumper cars

[@Robbstark2024]

Where is the Nightmare child and all of the other things 10 mentioned in End of time

[@danielopolot4198]

This is the last day of the war, not the height of it. The time lords say all weaponry has been exhausted, we can assume the same of the Daleks.

[@jeckjeck3119]

Robb Stark This is not a heart of the war.

[@HighSlayerRalton]

The Nightmare Child was defeated in the first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysium. The Skaro Degradations were possibly wiped out a few days before this scene by the Doctor, or at least dealt a heavy blow. They were never the Daleks best, anyway. The Horde of Travesties, and the Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres remain a mystery.

[@isabelh5561]

HighSlayer Ralton Some people speculate the Could Have Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Neverwheres was a veiled reference to Omega and his anti-matter minions. The idea being that he was freed by the Timelords to fight in the war only to turn against both factions.

[@HighSlayerRalton]

@Dankenstein Davros lured it to the Gates of Elysium in the hopes of destroying it, then the Gates closed on it. tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Nightmare_Child

[@markprice7547]

I always loved the warhammer 40k vibe I got from this scene.

[@samuellennon1984]

I know this is an old comment but the Last Great Time War would make the War in Heaven look like a mild slapping contest between two challenged people. It is the single most destructive War in the history of fiction. Considering that the Daleks and Time Lord's had weapons that would make the Chaos gods beg for mercy and the Old Ones to turn tail and GTFO of reality...yeah. for once 40k is UNDERPOWERED.

[@severalcakes3267]

“There was a war. A time war. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost.”

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

I want whoever was involved in this to work on a Warhammer 40,000 show.

[@Paximus13]

its like the fall of Cadia

[@locomotivefaox]

I wish they had been slightly more creative with this, from what we had hard previously the time war was full of unspeakable horrors set on to the universe by both sides and the final act of the time war had basically set most of the universe back to square one with no war after it to even hold a match to it. Understandable that mind shattering lovecraften horrors might be a bit over the budget or hard to display on screen BUT I would’ve hoped for a little more than generic sci-fi war zone.

[@LukimusPrime]

So far this is my favourite Dalek moment in the revived series. It's just pure epicness.

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

the moment at 1:43 when the camera pans over to the TARDIS, most epic moment in Doctor Who history

[@cambo338]

We need a series, a short one, a quality one, about the time war. Start to end. Maybe not quite for younger viewers and see exactly what happens

[@NoOne-hs6qk]

Marvlotte short? Lol it couldn’t possibly be (short). It would probably run 50 years like the actual series lol.

[@dawgtheundying5303]

The War as it was at it's height would be impossible to show even with an unlimited budget. Those are the words of RTD

[@AFCDaniel_]

This is arguably my favourite scene of all time. It’s so good. I love any look into the doctors past.

[@antonydandrea]

I was there at the fall of Arcadia. One day I might even come to terms with it.

[@deadlystanger944]

I don't know why, but I keep coming back here everyday.

[@woozy9112]

Time lords live in a giant globe

[@alexoriginal2932]

Yes is a dyson sphere!

[@TheAkator]

No the poor live outside

[@MrYazzie86]

This Special came out on my Birthday! BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!! 😁😁😁😁😁

[@brenthennessy7903]

This is the end of a conflict that I believe started before the fourth doctors mission to skaro to avert there creation. He was sent by a member of the celestial intervention agency, who had intel on a possible future war. How did they get that intel? When the second doctor was eventually caught and put on trial for interference and stealing a TARDIS, the second doctor justified his actions by showing the high council a visual account of all the evils he'd fought. The high council didn't seem impressed by the quarks, ice warriors or even the Cybermen. But when he described the daleks, this seemed to instil a fear in the high council. The doctors punishment should have been death, but the high council passed this information to the agency, who suggested that instead, park the doctor on earth in exile whilst they figure out what this dalek threat could be, then use the doctor as and when they need to. They did this and looked into the possibility engine and where horrified by what they saw coming. The CIA would manipulate the doctor here and there whilst in exile on earth to see to some of there other interests whilst they decided how they would deal with the future dalek threat.the omega affair put a halt to the situation, but it also showed that the doctor could do what's necessary without the timelords getting there hands dirty. They gave him his freedom back, but at a price. They decided that the daleks had to be destroyed at there creation and the doctor would be willing to do it. It never occurred to them that the doctor would hesitate and that the daleks would notice. They did and that's when the time war became inevitable.

[@tompearce5418]

The Doctor later blamed himself for not completing his mission in Genesis of the Daleks. In a very real sense he was responsible for the Time War.

[@villageidiot9012]

Anyone else just love the music in this scene?

[@analothor]

6/10 not enough daleks in the sky

[@AurelianRoma]

The sky trenches were holding them

[@analothor]

@@AurelianRoma then how comes they show the odd one

[@darkknight8643]

When the doctor says he needs something from you you give it

[@theimperiumofman102]

It would have been a cool littleEaster egg if they had put the Dalek Emperors ship in that opening scene for the time war.

[@phamduy1906]

I just wanna remind ppl that this lazer shooting thing might look advanced, but this is like two group of adult throwing pebble at each others compared to the rest of the Time war

[@alistairrae9807]

The way I see it is the Daleks wore the Time Lords down with superior numbers as the Time War went on

[@Beerbottles123]

2:47 Grand Theft Tardis

[@mazerunner1054]

First time I saw this, I heard the Dalek say "The Doctor is detected, we are surrounded".

[@kristopherbarker3282]

I have been looking for this for years. Thanks. Also, is it weird I hoped the daleks would win this battle.

[@crazydude1814]

Cant imagine what doctor who woulda been like if it had the VFX and pyrotecnics budget of this scene in every scene

[@PerovNigma]

Imagine if you could show this to someone in 1963 who'd just watched _The Daleks._

[@passionateerrors]

My thoughts exactly. Their minds would've exploded. Same in my mind goes for those who stuck with Doctor Who in the 80s. Their show is **BACK**

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

While it looks cool i dont find it really shows the chaos a time war would be, the way its described as timelines being made and destroyed in the blink of an eye. It just makes me feel like youd be stuck in a neverending fever dream while tripping on acid, everytime you blink everything is different, your brother you were with all your life is gone, the next blink a commander in different armor than yours is screaming at you to push to a location you never even heard of, everything goes black and an exploding star in the distance blinds you, in the next youre kill what you assume to be an enemy then it turns into someone with your face. Just mind melting chaos and destruction for what feels like an eternity. A time war more devestating and more incomprehensable than any war we can even imagine. Thats what i like to imagine it was like.

[@dan79600]

This scene could have been much better. The doctor scribbling no more on the wall in comic sans isn't what I had in mind for the last great time war.

[@mattcurtis982]

Daniel try using a laser gun and writing in cursive lol

[@Hopper89]

Fuck me from 0:29 the visual effects look like they've come from a movie!

[@IlovetheEmpire564]

0:29 is an underrated scene because it doesn’t show all the might and potential of the Daleks. Only one Dalek could annihilate an entire country’s population on earth. So imagining a billion billion Daleks invading a planet at once like this is hard to imagine. Mainly because what we see in the day of the Doctor is only a small proportion of the planetary invasion of gallifrey.

[@endergeek236]

Moffat: We budgeted for all the pyrotechnics, we're gonna use all the pyrotechnics.

[@EmTom44]

The biggest missed opportunity for a spin-off EVER!

[@Godzillakingofkaiju1]

The scenes that got me the most was when the Daleks surrounded a family of Gallifreyans and all the father of them could do was beg for them not to kill them even though, he probably knew trying to reason or bargain with the Daleks was futile. The next was how the Daleks ultimately abandoned them in favor of getting the chance to kill the Doctor. That just shows how much HATRED they had toward him.

[@hiccuphufflepuff176]

Why would a Time Lord even bother asking mercy from a Dalek? This guy must be from out in the country or something... (edit: noticed I've been misspelling "Time Lord")

[@safebox36]

Hiccup Hufflepuff instinct to beg for your life. From the enemy pointing a gun at you, from the animal eyeing you for its next meal, from God for any help.

[@TheBratbag]

Most Gallifreyans are not Timelords. They are all strong, smart and can regenerate but the majority just live on Gallifrey and don't interact with the outside universe.

[@awsmmediaguy]

Not all Timelords watch Doctor Who so they don't know about how scary Daleks actually are.

[@hiccuphufflepuff176]

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. This guy isn't one of the Time Lords; they would have known better.

[@majorcviklje2631]

Tin Watchman Yeah, what a stupid question. What else can you do when an enemy surrounds you and your family. You beg for mercy.

[@TheMadmanAndre]

The scariest moment in all of the universe's history was the moment when The Doctor picked up a gun.

[@Lightscribe225]

Huh I expected the Time War to involve more time based weaponry instead of death lasers...ah well.

[@IOmoon6221]

Well this was the LAST day, even in the episode they say they used up all their massive weapons.

[@thewerewolff7248]

the time war is refereed to as such because all of time was burning during it. time itself would be destroyed and the universe along with it unless the doctor stopped it

[@creeperboom8635]

This wasn't the entire war

[@DanthebobGaming]

Very late to this comment but this is the final day of the time war. Besides "The moment" both sides have used all their reality shattering weapons, it's like if the world had a war so long we ran out of tanks, aircraft, ships and guns. We'd go back and back until we were hitting eachother with rocks. This is the time war equivalent

[@smally7725]

A Dalek never shows mercy. Never. So it just shows how much of a threat The Doctor is to the Daleks, that they would prioritise locating and destroying him, instead of exterminating some people they literally have surrounded, who they could exterminate within 2 seconds

[@notjohn5988]

Was I the only one thinking “If these are all a bunch of time lords, wouldn’t we see them regenerating right after dying?” Am I missing something?

[@thegreatboi8357]

johnathan brand I think they have to die naturally or time stuff

[@majorcviklje2631]

They either 1. Didn't have any regenerations left 2. They got killed in the middle of the regeneration cycle, which is probably what happened because Daleks were shooting everywhere.

[@chocolatebat21]

Only Time Lords could regenerate, not every gallifreyan could regenerate. That or it's just something that needed to happen for plot and shouldn't be too overlooked. EDIT: Should have specified that the Time Lords were not the only race on gallifrey, it's a whole complex thing just look deep into the wiki's for more info

[@notablegoat]

Yeah, you gotta become a Timelord, it's not a general Gallifreyan thing.

[@chaosspy2]

johnathan brand they could of all already died 12 time or the get shot after dieing

[@murakumo8194]

Watching this has made me think of The Dark Knight Rises-of Bane saying, “Victory has made you weak”, or something in relevance to the whole Time war and the _glories_ of the Gallifreyan Empire.

[@grantwalter2243]

what the shit. Where is all this damn lore?

[@Lunarhermit4637]

To this day I don't understand why the time lords didn't have automatic turrets. Maybe to prevent them from being hacked?

[@localgremlim5688]

The Daleks probably are superior in hacking technology, and that's why they don't have any automated tech.

[@dylancotton2061]

I think they quite litterally just had them all destroyed by this point

[@EditedAF987]

Indecisive Hermit they had fecking sky trenches and the Daleks has managed to get through those.

[@khanjames-k4m]

Pause it at 0:28 And you can see the 10th doctors left side and arm in the position he was standing in later on in the movie the play button is pretty much pointing at his position

[@Piriatehat]

I would have love to see a movie of how the "Time war" started and ended I think it would have been interesting

[@EditedAF987]

Piriatehat I don’t think they should explore the time war on a visual medium. A war that’s filled with temporal weirdness and lovecraftian horrors wouldn’t translate well on screen with a BBC budget. That’s why the expanded media Time war stories are so good, because they don’t have such restraints

[@Demonbaby69-476]

John hurts performance made his doctor truly immortal seen as a frail old man but as unstoppable as a black hole without a single weapon

[@forlorndream1400]

The Doctor destroyed a God by simply giving that God his memories. That's badass.

[@crazyvillainfan4877]

1:36 this is the same guy from the Last Day prequal they made. Nice!

[@ImperialistFan]

I’d like to see a Doctor Who arch where the doctor and company dentally sent to an alternate universe where are the Daleks are actually good and they are like protectors of the universe and have families and are the exact opposite of our universe Daleks.

[@jessehubczak5193]

I just happened to have found out how to make it work multi space arc reactors x mega energy wave lengths x all feed back loops x palaidum cyclotrons x all Chrono feed back loops x all anti Chrono feed back loops

[@grahamlanfear3900]

Why couldn't we had something like this for longer than having three doctors stuck in a prison cell stable

[@chocolatebat21]

Two words: Budget Costs

[@thewerewolff7248]

also doctor who isn't about big action scenes

[@Vaeltis]

A funny thought that just occurred to me, he wrote that out in english instead of gallifreyan, though it could be presumed that it shows up in English on screen due to the TARDIS Translation matrix.

[@numberoneintrovert]

And very badass. No fear.

[@malphasblackwing420]

I find it kind of funny that, even though daleks don’t technically have faces, it’s very easy to imagine what their facial expressions are when they speak