Of course, you’ll undoubtedly have your own moments that aren’t featured. Don’t sit there like a pudding-brain, let us know what they are!
Moon over easy (‘Kill the Moon’)
Perhaps it’s the attempt to subdue the sense of scientific excitement in his voice, but there is something about the way Capaldi says the line ‘The Moon’s an egg…!’ that makes me want to have it as a ringtone forever.
Thing (‘Flatline’)
Its outer-dimensions leeched by the Boneless, the tiny TARDIS is about to be turned to Gallifreyan matchwood under the wheels of a train. The systems are drained. Power can’t be rerouted. There’s no escape. ‘Dum-Dum-Duuuum!’
The Doctor could really use a hand. So that’s exactly what he uses, Thing-ing his way out of the path of destruction. Cheeky, clever, and resulting in a rare bit of dancing from The Doctor, it’s perhaps the best moment of all in Season 8, if not all of TV in 2014.
Kissy with Missy (‘Dark Water’)
It’s really more Missy’s moment than his, but given that he’s not one for public displays of affection, the Twelfth Doctor’s reaction to The Master’s big smackeroo on the lips (and three smoochettes on the nose) is priceless.
Of course he does kiss her later in ‘Death in Heaven’, so maybe he didn’t hate it that much…
Gal-lie-frey (‘Death in Heaven’)
It’s Rule #1: The Doctor lies (though I prefer Rule #27 from ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’). The Doctor tells Clara he’s found Gallifrey, and that he’s off back home. For a second we believe him, only then to be privy to the sad truth: we’ve all been tricked by Missy.
The Doctor stares out on the void of space and then, incensed at being tricked again by The Master, he sets his eyebrows to ‘furious’, and smashes up the TARDIS console with his bare fists.
Poor Doctor. And poor TARDIS console.
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