'It Means Life' Speech | The Pilot | Doctor Who

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Taken from Doctor Who: Series 10, Episode 1 'The Pilot'

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[jasonknight]

"Now, before you all leave, I want your essays on why one should never eat pears, on my desk, this coming Friday."

[iceoriental]

I imagine that he was supposed to teach them about gravity or something that day, and just ranted about the TARDIS instead.

[soundgal_sine_qua_non]

My head cannon is that during their 24-year night, River told him all about her time as a professor. It sounded like something he would be really good at. After losing her, he figured it was a nice way to keep her in his hearts.

[Timeworks]

i would love to have him teach me random subjects every day, he does it so well

[ElectroTherapyFTSoul]

Series 8
Writers: Hey you know, this Capaldi guy is REALLY good with speeches!

Series 9 & 10
Writers: Give him ALL the speeches!

[OliLinklater]

Time, time doesn't pass. The passage of time is an illusion and life is the magician.

[lenley.]

I saw him lecturing for two minutes and yet I know he's 100 times better than any teacher at my school...

[TimeturnerJ]

He was so good as a University lecturer. Capaldi seemed so in his element, it was beautiful.

[Tulf]

Don't we all wish Peter Capaldi/ The Doctor was our actual University Lecturer! 😍

[decepticoncogger]

"Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so." -Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy

Fitting line to the whole scene, don't you think?

[vullord]

The Doctor setup as a Professor at a university doing lectures, is probably one of my favorite things in all of New Who. It’s a side of him we just haven’t seen in the revived series and brought such a fresh feeling to the show. That alone made series 10 an instant favorite for me. On top of that it also created a “teacher - student” relationship with the newest companion (Bill) which we haven’t seen since classic who. I loved it. I think the show could really benefit from similar unique setups in the future.

[mikepaz]

When I first watched that scene, I realised that series 10 was going to be one hell of a ride!!!!

[Silverwind]

I like this episode because it's mostly from the perspective of Bill. Viewing the Doctor as an outsider, which he is, is an interesting concept, something that's been done since the very first episode.

[Mattinator]

Ahh it's not doctor who without a great speech

[asaleh]

I would ace every class with the Doctor as my teacher.

[meditution]

"Letting it get to you. You know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts."
- The Doctor

[pierocubertino]

This reminded me one time at University when I was in a class (English class) and we were talking about how certain words of fiction become so popular and so used that they end up having their own place in a country's dictionary, which leads me to say "Dalek", this instantly started a short talk about Doctor Who (though only a few students actually knew Doctor Who, the majority didn't understand) and at some point, the teacher asks, "Do any of you know what TARDIS means?" and I instantly, without missing a beat replied "Time and Relative Dimension in Space" like really fast, and the whole class turned around to look at me (I was at the far back of the class) like in the movies. It was a good time and an interesting class when we started to talk more about Doctor Who.

[lordcreep]

I would love to have the doctor as my lecturer 😀

[TheCrippledEgg]

One of the benefits of being the Doctor is you can babble to a room full of people about meaningless, generic, inspirational-sounding stuff about time and pass it off as a university-level physics lecture.

[Stray_Mich]

I wish that The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) would be my profressor :')