Doctor Who: Every Doctor's BEST Episode

Matt Smith's first run is possibly the most consistent season of modern Doctor Who, and the finale is the era's best story. Epic in scope but intimate in execution, The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang is so confident in its tying up of many of the season's dangling loose ends that you don't notice the very loose knots.

Key to that confidence is Matt Smith, who sells complex timey wimey nonsense as if it's the most normal thing in the world. Smith had hit the ground running as the Doctor, but he takes the character to another level in The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang. His big Stonehenge speech is obviously the headline moment, but Smith's even stronger when he's desperately pleading with the alliance not to lock him inside the Pandorica.

And then The Big Bang gives us one of the most glorious resolutions of all time with Amy's "something old, something borrowed, something blue" speech.

Sublime.