Doctor Who: Matt Smith’s 11 Best Understated Moments

By Rebecca Kulik /

6. €œPlease. I don€™t want you to€€

I don€™t know about anyone else, but for me, this was the biggest tearjerker of Series 6. The Tardis€™s corporeal form is dying, and she doesn€™t want to say goodbye. She wants to say hello, while she still can. And the way Smith acts it, it€™s just astonishingly touching. The Doctor€™s really, totally heartbroken by the Tardis€™s departure, by her return to the box. Gaiman said in an interview once that he hadn€™t written the crying in this scene: Matt Smith did it on his own. The Doctor begs the Tardis not to leave. The Eleventh Doctor doesn€™t really beg helplessly very often: only when someone he cares about is going to leave him, and he knows there€™s nothing he can do. The Tardis, Amy, and Clara, he all begged not to go. And they all did anyway. Fun fact: when I started writing this article, I did not realize how bloody depressing it was going to get. Geez, Smith€