Doctor Who: Matt Smith’s 11 Best Understated Moments

6. €œPlease. I don€™t want you to€€

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€
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Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.