Win Passes to an Advance Screening of Fright Night
Fright Night, the upcoming reboot of one of my favorite 80s vampire films is finally hitting screens Friday, August 19th. The film is directed by Craig Gillespie which is an interesting choice considering his last film was the 2007 dark comedy Lars and the Real Girl. I’m more than a little curious about how this update is going to turnout.
The film also stars Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin (Chekov from Star Trek) and the Tenth Doctor himself David Tennant in his first big screen role since leaving Doctor Who. For those not familiar with this great slice of 80s genre the plot goes something like this
A remake of the 1985 original, teenager Charley Brewster (Yelchin) guesses that his new neighbor Jerry Dandrige (Farrell) is a vampire responsible for a string of recent deaths. When no one he knows believes him, he enlists Peter Vincent (Tennant), a self proclaimed vampire killer and Las Vegas magician, to help him take down Jerry.
Want a chance to check out this film early? We’ve got tickets to see it at the Rave on Thursday, August 11th. Simply leave a comment about your favorite Doctor Who episode featuring the Tenth Doctor by midnight on Tuesday, August 10th and the top 10 will get a pass for 2 to see the film before it comes out in theaters!
In the mean time check out the trailer below!
I loved the Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead when he met River for the first time.
The End of Time, The new Master is the best villian for the Doctor
The Journey’s End, Where the Doctor left Rose and the Meta Doctor on the other earth.
Starship titanic
I love mostly all of the Tennant Doctor Who episodes but my two all time favorites are “The Christmas Invasion” it has some great lines and is a wonderful introduction to the 10th Doctor. My other favorite is “School Reunion” I love the reunion between Sarah Jane and the Doctor.
The best is ‘the am I ginger’ excahnge from Series 2-The Christmas Invasion when The Doctor has newly regenerated and is disappointed to not be a redhead (also I loved loved loved David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!!!):
The Doctor: Oi, you could have someone’s eye out with that! [The Doctor takes away and deactivates the Leader's energy whip, then grabs the Leader's staff and snaps it in two.]
The Doctor: You just can’t get the staff. [points at him] Now you! Just wait. I’m busy! [Aside] Mickey, hello! And Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North! Blimey, it’s like This Is Your Life! [to Rose] Tea! That’s all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannins, just the thing for healing the synapses. Now, first things first. Be honest. How do I look?
Rose: Umm… different.
The Doctor: Good different or bad different?
Rose: Just… different.
The Doctor: Am I… ginger?
Rose: No, you’re just sort of… brown.
The Doctor: [disappointed] Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I’ve never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! [Rose looks annoyed] Ooh, that’s rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.
Love & Monsters: best use of ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky ever!
Ooh, favorite tenth doctor episode… pretty sure I have to go with Impossible Planet/Satan Pit two-parter.
The Tenth Doctor wasn’t just my favorite Doctor, but some of my favorite television. The best episodes, though, were the ones where he was peripheral and everything played out amongst the supporting characters–Blink where he’s fallen out of time, Turn Left where we see the world if Donna had never helped him, and, of course, Journey’s End with Doctor Donna. I tell people they have to watch the whole thing just to appreciate the gut-punch of that episode’s conclusion.
Even though the Dr. was barely in this episode, Blink, with the Weeping Angels, was probably one of my favorites. It ties to so many other episodes and has nice lil easter eggs in it.
While my favorite Tenant episode was”Blink”, I thought he was brilliant in the Family of Blood episodes.
Love Silence in the Library
I really liked Waters of Mars and Fires of Pompeii. I feel like one of the weaknesses of the revived series is that the doctor is almost too powerful sometimes. He’s very rarely shown to make a mistake, and a lot of times, the solutions to problems come a little too easy.
I felt like these two added some interesting depth to his character by showcasing his arrogant side. Both handle the idea that he’s come to think of himself as being the final authority on time (waters has him monologue about it even)and his overall policy of “I’m the doctor, I’m smarter than you, you do what I say.”
Pompeii is the episode that defines Donna as a companion to me. I feel she does more than most companions towards humanizing the doctor, especially here, forcing him to save the family when he considers time as he sees it to be more important than the lives of people around him. Unfortunately, placing that idea in his head ultimately leads to his final act of hubris in Mars. He’s grown to think that if he could save one family from pompeii, he can save people from history’s disasters without any ramifications.
Despite it’s almost universal hatred, I absolutely adore “Love & Monsters”. I think it’s a fascinating look at how much the Doctor can mess people up by simply passing through their lives. Elton and Ursula are two of the most fully realized guest characters in the Doctor Who canon, Davies did a fantastic job. I don’t care what anyone says.
Also, the Absorbaloff is a wonderfully old-school villain.
That’s an easy one. “Partners in Crime” Season 4, Ep 1. Doctor/Donna combo was my favorite.
My favorite tenth doctor scene is in Forest of the Dead when River Song is about to sacrifice herself so that The Doctor will survive…it’s so touching and poignant and it raises so many questions about who is River Song and what is her relationship with Doctor Who!:
River Song [speaking to the handcuffed Doctor, as she realizes she must sacrifice her own life to keep the Doctor from sacrificing his]: Funny thing is, this means you’ve always known how I was going to die. All the time we’ve been together, you knew I was coming here. The last time I saw you, the real you — the future you, I mean — you turned up on my doorstep, with a new haircut and a suit. You took me to Darillium to see the singing towers. Oh, what a night that was! The towers sang, and you cried. You wouldn’t tell me why, but I suppose you knew it was time. My time. Time to come to the Library. You even gave me your screwdriver; that should’ve been a clue. [The Doctor tries unsuccesfully to reach their sonic screwdrivers] There’s nothing you can do.
The Doctor: You can let me do this!
River: If you die here, it’ll mean I’ve never met you!
The Doctor: Time can be rewritten!
River: Not those times. Not one line! Don’t you dare! It’s OK. It’s OK, it’s not over for you. You’ll see me again. You’ve got all of that to come. You and me, time and space. You watch us run! [River starts to weep]
The Doctor: River, you know my name. You whispered my name in my ear! There’s only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There’s only one time I could…
River [River smiles sweetly at the Doctor as the countdown reaches zero]: Hush, now — spoilers!
Hands down the end of Season 2 of Dr. Who. When they’re standing on the beach of Bad Wolf Bay, and Rose tells the Doctor that she loves him, and he says “Rose Tyler, —” THEN DISAPPEARS! NOOO! HE LOVED HER! HE DID! HE DID I TELL YOU!
But yeah I cry like a baby whenever I see that, and whenever I’m showing someone that episode for the first time I hand them the box of tissues and say “Wait for it”
P.S. I really want to see David Tennant shirtless with eyeliner and tattoos. I really really really do.
So many I like but family of mine was the first one to pop in my head. We get to see what the doctor could be like as a human and falling in love, along with Tennant playing the dual roles of The Doctor and John Smith. He then has to decide to give up the new life and the woman he loves or return as the Doctor to save the day.
I also liked how this one was darker than usual and you got to see some of the power and rage The Doctor has inside of him.
(Girl in the Fireplace is up there too)
The End of time is my favorite
I would have to say journey’s ends 10th doctor best episode
Has to be Blink.
After that I’d go with: Planet of the Dead, Silence in the Library, or Smith and Jones.
My favorite episode(s) of Doctor Who featuring David Tennant (and this was a hard one) has to be the “Human Nature” and “Family of Blood” two-parter. Where do I even begin? I guess at its surface, it features the lovely Jessica Hynes (Daisy from Spaced) as the main guest star. But deeper than that, it exhibits some of the most emotionally rich and deep story telling I’ve ever seen in the series revamp.
The viewer gets to see a side of the Doctor that they haven’t before. A human side of him. We are all used to seeing the Doctor as a vibrant, all knowing, never stopping force, but in this story arch we see the Doctor living as a regular man. The Doctor has often had the choice to continue living his crazy lifestyle or settle down (as witnessed in “Girl In The Fireplace”) but not after spending a significant amount of time living a completely different life, unaware of who he truly is. It’s incredible acting on Tennant’s part when “John Smith” realizes he’s the Doctor and the question is posed as to whether “John Smith” was living a lie, or if despite being the Doctor, the life of “John Smith” was an honest one. It guts me every single time.
Also, I’m always a sucker for when the Doctor goes into the past and then subtly reunites with people much later in their lives. It’s always a nice touch.
My favorite? I honestly can’t decide. How’s that for an answer?
I love “Blink” both for the story and the fact that it got my daughter to be an avid Doctor Who fan, so now we watch it together. I also love how he brought Captain Jack and Alonso together in “The End of Time!”
“Don’t drink the water. Don’t even touch it. Not one drop.”
I’m going to be the voice of dissent on this thread (once again), and declare my favorite episode of those seasons to be The Waters Of Mars.
For 4+ years, showrunner Russell T. Davies had a very specific story to tell. He showed us a particular science-fiction hero, a legendary pop-culture icon, from a very grim angle. We saw The Doctor as always, through the lives and experiences of those who traveled with him. We watched his companions aid his post-war catharsis, his rediscovery of joy, his dedication to preserving life, and his failure to save everyone, every time.
After 3 seasons of successes and failures on both a cosmic AND a personal scale, we finally settle in to see The Doctor on his own, without looking through the eyes of a companion. In the post-series-4 specials, we watch him internalize the cold truth of his nature – to go on living, while being a catalyst of destruction in the lives of everyone he touches.
In his penultimate story, David Tennant portrays our protagonist at his wits’ end, fed up with wielding the power of a demigod, yet never quite being able to make a better world for it. The Waters Of Mars tells what SEEMS to be a classic space-horror tale… until the story violently derails before its otherwise-predictable conclusion when The Doctor decides to stop holding himself back, and to truly let Do As Thou Wilt be the whole of his law.
“The laws of Time are mine, and they will obey me!”, he cries, and unilaterally decides that he can change the course of history based on nothing but his own will. In his effort to escape the pain of losing those who were close to him, The Doctor has shaken loose of the moral framework that bound him to his companions and extended family. Understanding himself to hold a greater place of importance in the universe, he violates his own precepts and interferes with time itself… with less than “stellar” results.
Feeling the weight of his actions crashing down on him, The Doctor despairs. We finally get a glimpse of the tortured soul hiding behind the “lonely traveler” whom we grew to love over the years and the series. The Time Lord Victorious could, in the end, claim no victory over his own inescapable nature. We share with a seasoned crew, actor, and director the countdown toward the inevitable conclusion, looking over our shoulders, jumping at every shadow, lest someone knock four times.
Davies won a Hugo Award for writing The Waters Of Mars, and the special speaks to me on a deep level. As much as I loved the sci-fi romp that was Blink, or the exploration of love and trust that was The Girl In The Fireplace… The Waters Of Mars made me look at my OWN life and wonder what the hell I was doing.
Easily my favorite episode of all of Doctor Who is ‘The Girl in the Fireplace’. Coming off a pitch perfect portrayal by Christopher Eccelston, Tennant had his work cut out for him. I didn’t feel as though he hit his stride as the Doctor until he encountered this little perplexing time travel riddle. One side of the fireplace is 18th Century France, the other is an abandoned spaceship in the distant future. Through each passing from one time period to the other, the mystery unravels a little bit more as we get to know the woman who will become the Madame de Pompadour as well as the newly crowned Doctor himself. The story that unfolds is one of tenderness, humor, love and unfortunately sadness but ultimately shows how even the smallest actions of one man, especially one as awesome as the Tenth Doctor, can have profound effects on a human life.
My fav was the The Shakespeare Code where the Doctor takes Martha on her first trip in the TARDIS. I love when they Arrive in Elizabethan England in 1599, and meet William Shakespeare.
I loved The Planet of the Ood!
would luv to scoree advance screening tix to “Fright Night” – Colin Farrell is at his creepest best
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I loved Time Crash because we had come Cross Doctor Action with the 5th Doctor and Tennant.
My favorite Doctor Who episode with the Tenth Doctor was the End of Time. It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time, because I really though that somehow the Master and the Doctor would live as the only two Time Lords ever. I also enjoyed getting to see Gallifrey and the other Gallifreyans. It was just a brilliant episode, especially the regeneration of the Tenth Doctor, to the Eleventh (Matt Smith).
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wow i like to see this movie please seme passes thank u..
As a fan of the older series, I’ll go with “School Reunion” for bring Ten and Sarah Jane together.
“BLINK” Why? Two words: Carrie Mulligan. ’nuff said.
My favorite Doctor Who moment was when the Doctor and Rose met Queen Victoria and ran away from a werewolf through a Scottish castle, I love time travel
My fav was the Xmas special where Dr. Who thinks he’s met a future incarnation of himself in Victorian London.
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Unquestionably, my favorite episode featuring David Tennant as The Doctor would have to be “Blink” – although he had much less screen time than many of his other episodes (even possibly the least during his tenure as The Doctor), the incredible detail and intracity of the script builds up to an intense amount of curiosity and suspense throughout. This episode definitely deserves to be put into the category of “best episodes ever.”