"Are you my Mummy?"

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"Does the Doctor fu-"
Credits: Rolling
Me: Dead from laughter.
Hotel: Trivago

"Rose... I'm resonating concrete" is my favourite line in the whole show

Richard Wilson is only on screen briefly but gets one of the most iconic scenes in the show's history. What a classic story.

Chris had a lot of fun with this story. He said he never really knew what Russell wanted from him performance-wise, stating he was "better at writing the companion." But Steven, he thought, knew what he wanted, so Chris knew what to give him.

"I was evacuated."
"Why did you come back?"
"There was a man..."
It flies over your head as a kid, but rewatching it as an adult, the implications of that exchange are really freaky

I love when the 10th Doctor randomly references these episodes in S4!

“Are you my mummy?”
Despite what you think of Steven Moffat, you cannot deny that this two parter is an absolute classic. I’ll be sad to seeing this Trip of a Lifetime series coming to an end next week. Oh well. To make it last longer for me, I’ll be rewatching the Dalekcember episode for Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways after I watch the review for Boom Town. Maybe a look at Series 2 in a similar style soon please?

It still must be the scariest Doctor Who ever televised. It has the mood, immediate threat inches away and genuine adrenaline all the way through. I'll take no challengers.

James Hawes is one of the greatest directors this show has ever had. This story is beautifully shot as are his series 2 stories. (He later directed two of the best Black Mirror episodes: Hated in the Nation and Smithereens.)
Series 1 of Doctor Who is my favourite series and a big part of that is down to the masterful direction of Euros Lyn, Joe Ahearne and James Hawes!

That’s got to be the best intro yes, I can’t stop laughing

Fun fact, this episode was aired the day I was born. It's also the only Doctor Who episode (A show infamous for making children hide behind the sofa) that actually make me hide behind a sofa.

"Give me some Spock."
Rose, the Doctor is more Spock than anyone else in this story. If anything, Jack is a more extreme Kirk.

3:36 , yes... Creature from the Pit is one of the most frightening things the show has had

14:05 Jack is the Doctor, but more approachable, with his "dating and dancing." A more conventional pairing. So when, two stories later, 9 regenerates into a man who dates and dances...He changes for her.

It's both sweet and cumbersome, given where it will lead for this Doctor by the time we reach The End of Time.

My absolute favourite 9th Doctor scene is him asking Nancy ‘who did you lose?’ He knows how loss, and feeling responsibility for it, affects people and sees it in Nancy instantly. It’s not a big moment where they connect over having lost people, he just lets her talk about it, tells her how much value he sees in her, and the whole human race, then they both go to save the world. An understated gem that might even eclipse ‘everybody lives’ for me

22:17 Where did Nancy find the chairs? Extended families could be huge in those days; my maternal grandparents each had five siblings, for example. Although they lived in a modest council-house, they had a stash of spare chairs which were wheeled out during family get-togethers, at Christmas and the like.

Say does everyone remember his original review of The Doctor Dances when he joked about Captain Jack's ship 'with the German bomb' blowing up with the Super Mario Bros death music? Man that was the good old days.

"Everybody lives"
A great line. But also a precursor to another, less endearing aspect of Moffat's writing.

The ultimate Doctor Who horror story. As good as Waters of Mars, The Curse of Fenric, or even Haunting of Villa Diodati are, they really don’t hold a candle to the sheer horror served up in The Empty Child, and I think it comes from Moffat’s use of sound. Both this and Girl in the Fireplace use this system of establishing where a sound may come from, but then revealing the actual source in a jump scare reveal, this is especially unsettling when the child takes control of mechanical devices like the typewriter and I’m surprised this idea isn’t used more often. It’s also a pretty good zombie story, with a still very optimistic ending.