"The Rings of Akhaten"
Series: Seven
The Doctor: Matt Smith
Companion: Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman)
Writer: Neil Cross
As "The Rings of Akhaten" is from the second half of the seventh season, this is the newest episode on my list. I think this episode is fantastical in the setting even though it was filmed entirely in a studio. It has many things that make it silly: many different alien life forms, a vampiric demi-god, old religions, terrible green screen shots, but it's the heart behind it that makes this episode wonderful even if the writers are trying to shove it down your throat. Clara's origin story and the Doctor's speech to Akhaten are moments that in any other TV show you would groan from the smell of the cheese, but it's these kind of moments that make the Doctor and his friends so wonderful.
As I've noted in a previous post, I love the music in this episode. It's so very important, and it gives the perfect backdrop to the Doctor's speech, "...I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment until nothing remained. No time, no space, just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man. I watched universes freeze and creations burn, I have seen things you wouldn't believe, I have lost things you will never understand..." The Doctor realizes that even all his history and experiences do not amount to the potential of the days not yet lived or the time taken from someone by death.
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