18. The TARDIS In Torchwood
http://youtu.be/0SHgGo20FZw?t=3m31s From Torchwood, End Of Days: 1 January 2007 I'm going to be really cheeky here and not even because I cannot find enough examples of 'satisfying' in regular Who, because I most certainly can. Sorry, but the name of the game is "most satisfying moments" in Doctor Who and just because one takes place outside the actual show does not mean I should rule it out. For me at any rate, one of the most satisfying moments in Doctor Who actually came up in the Torchwood spin-off series. Blink and you'll miss it. It's the final ten seconds before the credits roll and the TARDIS is heard in the Torchwood 'dungeon'. Gwen Jones is standing about thoroughly confused, while the look on Captain Jack's face says it all. Whovians know where this incident leads to. It also presages the eleventh episode of the 2007 series, Utopia. In the opening scene we find The Doctor 'refuelling' over the Time Rift in Cardiff at Torchwood's base. Captain Jack, having heard the unexpected sound of the TARDIS at the entrance runs after it as it materialises. He hangs on outside the time machine as it bores its way through the time vortex while a bemused Doctor looks on through the scanner, wondering just how far the good captain will go to be alongside him. To the end of the universe, as it turned out. The sound of the TARDIS and all those papers flying about was an unexpected and spine-tingling moment in Torchwood. It was the perfect crossover scene set on 'ambush mode' and designed to hit you right between the eyes.
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Hello, I'm Paul Hammans, terminal 'Who' obsessive, F1 fan, reader of arcane literature about ideas and generalist scribbler. To paraphrase someone much better at aphorisms than I: I strive to write something worth reading and when I cannot do that I try to do something worth writing. I have my own Dr Who oriented blog at http://www.exanima.co.uk
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