12 Moments That Defined Peter Capaldi’s Run onDoctor Who

Yesterday bring the shocking news that time is up for the Twelfth Doctor . Peter Capaldi will leave Doctor Who this Christmas , making the way for a new regeneration in 2018 . But instead of looking forward and wonder who ’s next , we decided to take a look back at the moments that made Peter Capaldi such a remarkable Doctor .

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12) Glaring to Go in “The Day of the Doctor”

It takes a certain kind of actor to roll up into one of the bighearted , fist - pumping moments of Doctor Who ’s 50th day of remembrance solemnization and confidently slip the spotlight from the combined talent of Matt Smith , David Tennant , John Hurt , and edited facsimile of every embodiment of the Doctor before them . But it take Peter Capaldi to do all that with a individual , tightly - focussed glower .

11) Making His Entrance in “The Magician’s Apprentice”

The Doctor may be many thing , but he ’s rarely subtle . Capaldi ’s Twelfth took this to its legitimate last by enter a 12th - hundred affaire d’honneur by toy electric guitar on a tank . Somehow , the fact he also decided he needed to wear sunglasses to make it extra - cool is our favorite part of this .

10) Every Time He Told Someone to Shut Up

The bad thing going into Capaldi ’s land tenure was that he would be a “ dark ” Doctor , but that slimly more sinister take on the Time Lord did n’t mean he could n’t just be manifestly grouchy when utter himself , like constantly telling everyone around him to shut it . This supercutonly comprehend his first season and it ’s still pretty comprehensive .

9) Bringing a Spoon to a Sword Fight in “Robots of Sherwood”

Although by this full point he had softened significantly , the more brusque , distant , and emotionally appropriate position Capaldi ’s Doctor read in his early episodes did n’t instantly mean he could n’t be funny , and he frequently was . casing in point , subtly collapse Robin Hood the middle fingerand then duel — and flap him — with a spoon .

8) On Trusting Hugs in “Death in Heaven”

Part of the brusque nature of Capaldi ’s Doctor meant a recapitulate chorus that , unlike his past selves , he does n’t do hugs . But when he seemingly bids farewell to Clara at the end of time of year eight and reveals why , it ’s a subtle , quiet , but completely heartbreaking revelation that ’s surrender pitching - perfectly .

7) Forgiving Clara in “Dark Water”

This scene covers all the gamey point of Capaldi ’s medico — a portrayal that could , at the drop of a hat , bout between fierceness , still sorrow , foreign fatuousness , stir cacoethes , and calm , intimidate anger . He ’s somehow both mighty dreadful and emotionally vulnerable in his muted here and now .

6) Remembering his Face in “The Girl Who Died”

Doctor Who has long debated the rules the Doctor adjust himself in his adventures , but the mode Capaldi reflects on it in this setting — expressing his frustration at what he can and ca n’t do to bring through people — and then withstand those rules , is brightly done . It ’s fitly dramatic and badass , but it ’s the world - weariness in its chess opening mo that really trade it , with every foresighted yr of the Doctor ’s life much heaving from Capaldi ’s shoulder .

5) One More Night with River in “The Husbands of River Song”

The Twelfth Doctor did n’t spend all that much time with River Song , but Capaldi was still anticipate to carry the worked up weight of a relationship fleshed out by his two predecessors as if he ’d had scene with Alex Kingston for old age . The fact that he does so is remarkable enough , but his exhibit in the closing moments of “ The Husbands of River Song ” is a masterclass in understated emotion .

Kingston bear the load of the negotiation in the scene , but the grief and love and delight Capaldi expresses in a coup d’oeil , in a tear - sleek eye , is what makes thisthe perfect end point for the Doctor and River ’s news report together .

4) Confronting the Half-Face Man in “Deep Breath”

It ’s condemnable that it ’s inconceivable to find this scene from Capaldi ’s debut episode in picture form on-line becausethis is the momentCapaldi cements himself as the Doctor after an sequence of post - regeneration doubt . Once again , it ’s the understated ire and darkness that comes through — only Capaldi could get away as a Doctor who calmly provide the villain a deglutition while contemplating whether he ’s going to shoot down him or not , and yet still derive off as the poor boy we ’ve known and loved for 50 years .

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3) Becoming the Man Who Stops the Monsters in “Flatline”

That ’s not to say Capaldi ’s more traditionally larger-than-life second are n’t any less swell , though . This is one of the first times in his first season that he gets to do the “ I ’m the hero ” speech his herald sleep with , and yet it ’s still a thoroughly Capaldian take on it , combine the compassion and the fury he excels at while still being a totally badass moment of triumph .

2) The Entirety of “Heaven’s Sent”

It ’s almost unjust to nominate a whole episode , but it ’s not every day Doctor Who turn into a jolly much solo affair , with the achiever of Steven Moffat ’s twisting , clever , refreshingly tight script fall almost solely on Capaldi ’s performance , as he had no other actor to bounce off of .

And yet , he makes it take care easy — the clip above might be the rejoicing coming of the episode , but the whole matter is a complete and utterly virtuoso show of just how Capaldi gets this character . It ’s one of the most spine - tingling episodes of Doctor Who in late memory , and it ’s only down to Capaldi .

1) The War Speech in “The Zygon Inversion”

Give Peter Capaldi a speech , and he ’ll give you the performance of a life . This moment , in which the Doctor mediates a confluence between Zygon Johnny and UNIT as they stand on the brink of reciprocally assured wipeout , is a tour de force as the rest of the cast ask steps back and give Capaldi the spot .

It ’s stirring material , the cries of passion , the present moment where his voice break as the brokenheartedness of everything the Doctor has been through arrive through , the persistent conviction he sells it all with — resound into the silence . It ’s Capaldi at the very peak of his Doctor Who prowess .

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