An In Depth Look Into Who

Pt.1 "We're gonna fly planet Earth Back home" (Journey's End)

"We're gonna fly planet Earth back home"

Okay, so I want start of this series with a scene which I think we can all agree makes us feel happy inside. Regardless of thoughts on this particular episode ('Journey's End') this scene is something I will always remember with great fondness.

For the first time since series two, I feel that the Doctor feels as if he is part of a family again (something which I don't believe we see again until late series 5/series 6 with 11, Amy and Rory (and the occasional appearance of River)). This scene shows that he is not alone and, like Sarah-Jane says he's got 'the biggest family on Earth'. Here he is, surrounded by those who he loves and I think he let's himself forget about what they have just been through. He's soaking in the moment because he knows, very soon, it's going to be taken away from him yet again. This can't last, and he knows it, but he allows himself - just this once - to be happy and to live in the moment.

For the first time, I would argue since possibly pre-'Doomsday', the Doctor is happy again, with the weight on his shoulders forgotten. This scene is something that he, and we as an audience, cherish because it's joy and euphoria are short-lived. Soon we say goodbye to everyone the TARDIS is holding in this moment, one by one. By the end of the episode, when we witness the Doctor, wet from the rain, leaning on the console of the TARDIS, alone once more, we remember this scene and it only makes it hurt more. This is a man who had so much but could never keep any of it. He has to carry on with no one by his side. I feel it's because of remember what he had here, and then remembering that he could never have any of it for longer than a second, that the Doctor decides not to take on another companion (at least not in this regeneration). He has suffered enough and he can't bare the same thing to happen again. But he will always remember this moment and the happiness that he felt while watching his companions - his friends - help him fly their planet back to it's place in the universe.

This is the last moment of true happiness I feel this Doctor has and I feel the gap it leaves him with when it's all over breaks him beyond repair. This is the reason why he becomes the man he is at the end of this regeneration; broken; lost and arrogant. He's tired of gaining and losing, as the losses are always greater than the gains.

This was the last moment of happiness that his hearts could bare having taken away from him.

But it's a moment that he, as well as us, will always remember with great fondness.