Excerpt from the episode “Vincent and the Doctor” (S05E10) – Doctor Who.
The Doctor: In a hundred words, where do you think van Gogh rates in the history of art?
Dr. Black: Big question, but… to me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time; the most beloved; his command of colour the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world… no one had ever done it before… Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.
the first episode I ever saw. one of my favorite episodes ever.
THIS. This is the kind of thing that makes me really want to get into this show. Taking historical figures like Vincent van Gogh and putting them in different time periods. I can dig that. I love the concept of time travel and I love stories about traveling through time, but I seriously cannot get into Doctor Who. It’s the aliens. I can’t deal with the aliens and special effects…but I so desperately WANT to be a part of the Doctor Who fandom.
This was a beautiful clip and if the majority of the show was like this I would be really into it.
Except the pronunciation of van Gogh was weird?
