The Doctor Meets Bill For The First Time | The Pilot | Doctor Who

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Taken from Doctor Who: Series 10, Episode 1
THE PILOT:
Two worlds collide when the Doctor meets Bill, and a chance encounter with a girl with a star in her eye leads to a terrifying chase across time and space. Bill's mind is opened to a universe that is bigger and more exciting than she could possibly have imagined.

Welcome to the Doctor Who Channel! Travel in the TARDIS with clips dating back to the Doctor's first incarnation in 1963, all the way through dozens of regenerations.

[matthousley]

12 was my doctor. He portrayed the characteristics of the doctor perfectly. An emotionally delicate man who is tired of losing everything he loves. Yet also he still retains the “mad man in a box” characteristic. I will never let you go

[Girintina]

I really liked the professor-student relationship Twelve and Bill had. I prefer a relationship like that then the romantic ones the Doctor has been getting since the revival.

[weatherboy]

When Bill says she never applied and that it's something the Doctor would have had to handle earlier instead of later and he says he'll figure it out... I just realized he means he will apply her by going back in time before the deadline. Genius

[hiccuphufflepuff]

This scene summarized:
Doctor: Why do you sneak into my lectures?
Bill: I'm sexually attracted to women.
Doctor: ... Why do you sneak into my lectures?
Bill: What's that box over there?
Doctor: A box. Why do you sneak into my lectures?
Bill: You're really hard to distract.
Doctor: Yes. Why do you sneak into my lectures?
Bill: I'm smart and I like learning from you.
Doctor: You can stay.

[Bee-kqsj]

They fit though, the way she goes on about some girl she liked when she was supposed to being answering a question. He talks about poetry when he should be teaching physics. Same difference.

[tylervincent]

1. Bill and the doctor naturally make a nice pair
2. The doctor has an awesome office at the university (what the betting most of those manuscripts are originals and not just re-publications)
3. Clearly he hasn't forgotten about those closest to him (the photo frames on his desk)
And so much more besides that, all in one scene. Absolutely incredible

[fifthdoctor]

I really like the way there’s a short focus on Susan’s portrait in this scene. To me it tells us about what Bill and the Doctor’s relationship is and that is something akin to a grandfather/granddaughter, professor/student relationship. Something really sweet and different after all the Doctor’s ‘romantic interest’ companions.

[DaBezzzz]

"I don't care who's dying, never, ever be late."
I think I'm gonna use this line

[artypyrec]

I actually really enjoyed her character. She wasnt given a title likd impossible girl, the girl who waited, she was just the likeable girl.

[lundylow]

Bill deserved more time on the TARDIS. And the 12th Doctor being a mysterious professor at a university deserved more time than a blink of setting up context. I want an entire season of intermittent Professor Doctor Capaldi, and I want an one more season of the Doctor and Bill.

This scene, in a nutshell, is all the potential we could've gotten but didn't.

[Doctor_-ukoc]

HE KEPT HIS SONIC SCREWDRIVERS, I did not know that

[mikepaz]

Bill brought this fresh aura to the show that made series 10 look like a season 1 of a brand new show!

[StillJustDreaming]

Love the fact that the Doctor looked at Susan's picture in the middle of his conversation with Bill. It was like he enjoyed having someone new to teach and fuss over in a paternal sort of way.

[senhowler]

"We'll sort that out later."
"Needed to sort it out earlier"
So he'll sort it out earlier, but do it later. No biggie.

[vncebuthesjesus]

I love how he keeps a picture of his granddaughter and River.
If he told her to call him Doctor Foreman that’d be even better

[Artisan]

4:01 that momentary glance at Susan‘s picture suggests two possibilities. First, the doctor suspected that this was Susan and her latest regeneration given that she is also a Time Lord. Second, Bill reminds him of her and her eagerness to learn. I do like the dose of nostalgia on his desk, having both his granddaughters picture and his wife rivers picture displayed.

[unluckie]

"Poetry, physic same thing because it's rhyme"
Lucas I see you

[charlieinthefog]

Don't ever get rid of the Capaldi Jumpscare

[patriciaroane]

I loved that Bill is the only companion that asked where the toilet was. Also, damn! The Tardis has a macaroon dispenser!

[xxMrBaldyxx]

"I'm very particular about _time_ " even the writer must've had a smirk on his face while he wrote that line haha