The Women of Doctor Who Page #2

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'cause while he was around,

she never looked

at anyone else.

And I told her,

I always said to her,

time and time again,

i said,

"get out."

So this is me,

getting out.

Keep that.

Because I'm not

having you disappear.

If that rings --

when that rings,

you'd better come

running, you got it?

Got it.

She gives up

traveling the Universe

because she wants

to save her heart,

which is incredible!

I think Martha did

the right thing, leaving,

because she was never going to

get what she wanted from him.

And so, being the strong

woman she was,

she said, "I can find

better than you"

and she found Mickey.

Yvonne Hartman

don't give a crap.

Exactly as the

legends would have it.

River Song is basically

the female Indiana Jones.

I'm your daughter.

It's very emotional.

Hello, Doctor.

Hello, Doctor.

I think all the women that

are involved with the Doctor

have very strong

personalities, I think.

None of them

are pushovers.

I think they all represent

quite modern aspects

of being a woman

and I think he likes

a challenge.

One of the characters that

absolutely stands out for me

in "Doctor Who," was

in Russell's very brilliant

"Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday,"

was Yvonne Hartman,

who, at that point,

runs Torchwood.

Yvonne Hartman was

a great character to play

because she was neither

a victim nor a villain.

One isn't quite sure

how to place her.

She's kind of

that businessminded lady

of the 1980s,

where it's all about

just, you know,

becoming

the most powerful.

I always remember

Russell T. Davies,

who wrote those episodes,

calling me up and saying,

"When you're

approaching Yvonne,

"I want you to think

of a woman

"that has amazing

interactive skills,

"she has charm,

"but she has absolute,

steely determination

to get what she wants."

Welcome...

to Torchwood.

That's

a Jathar Sunglider.

Came down to Earth

off the Shetland Islands

10 years ago.

What, did it crash?

No, we shot it down.

It violated our airspace.

Then we stripped it bare.

Yvonne had charm oozing

out of every pore, but she

wouldn't hesitate to shoot

you in the back of the neck

to get what she wanted

in a heartbeat.

The Torchwood Institute

has a motto --

"If it's alien,

it's ours."

Anything that comes

from the sky,

we strip it down

and we use it

for the good of

the British Empire.

For the good

of the what?

The British Empire.

There isn't

a British Empire.

Not yet.

She's so focused on being

the most powerful nation

that she forgets that

it's actually going to

mess things up

for all of humanity.

Yvonne Heartman don't

give a crap, you know?

She just knows

what she wants,

she knows what she

thinks is right,

she's going to

freaking do it.

Cancel it.

I don't think so.

I'm warning you,

cancel it.

Oh, exactly as the

legends would have it.

The Doctor,

lording it over us,

assuming alien authority

over the rights of man.

She seems to think

that she knows more

than the Doctor

and this eventually leads

to a void opening

and the Earth

being attacked simultaneously

by Cybermen and Daleks.

You just kind of want to shake

her around the shoulders

and be like

"listen to the Doctor!

He makes everything okay.

Just listen to him."

And she refuses.

And then she becomes

a Cyberman.

Just one.

We will retreat

through the breach,

regain the homeworld.

You will not pass.

What is the meaning

of this?

She becomes

a Cyberman

and then realizes

what she's done

and starts taking out

all the other Cybermen

while crying

those black tears,

like she's

a goth girl.

I did my duty for

Queen and country.

She acts autonomously

and independently

and manages to save

the entire world

and has one oily tear

that runs down her face.

I think

it's very funny,

but sad

and beautiful.

And she's just crying

oily tears of, like,

"I did this

for my country."

That is how much

she loves planet Earth.

Somehow, her best self

comes out

when her soul's been

taken away.

That says a lot

about her.

I still get young children

on the street, actually,

asking me how I managed

to overturn my cybertraining.

Idris is one

of my favorite ladies

that crosses

the Doctor's path

because she's never been

a person before.

She's always just been

the soul of the TARDIS.

Now, you'd think

the TARDIS,

which is 700 years old,

if it was to become flesh,

it would actually be

a bloke, a man,

in a boiler suit,

covered in tar,

covered in kind of

the muck of machinery,

but, no.

Basically, the personality

of the TARDIS got transferred

into a kind of hot,

scruffy,

Helena-Bonham-Carter-

type woman.

I'm alive.

I was very happy when the

TARDIS turned out to have

such an elegant, demure

voice and personality,

you know, how the TARDIS,

you know,

sounded like a London

taxi driver --

"I'm not going to

metebelis, no,

and I'm not going there

at that time."

He really realized

how alive the TARDIS is.

Because he always goes

like "she's alive,"

but when you see

a person be alive,

it's easier to understand,

than, like,

a telephone booth

with infinite rooms.

You never read

the instructions.

I always read

the instructions!

There's a sign on my front

door. You have been walking

past it for 700 years --

what does it say?

That's not

instructions!

The relationship

between the Doctor

and Idris,

who was the TARDIS,

is kind of

interesting

because it is

a love story,

but it goes past

anything

sort of physical,

it's a love story

that is like just

they're bonded

throughout time.

You are not

my mother.

And you are not

my child.

You know, since we're

talking, with mouths --

not really an opportunity that

comes along very often --

I just want to say,

you know, you

have never been

very reliable.

And you have?

You didn't always take me

where I wanted to go.

No, but I always

took you

where you needed

to go.

You did.

Look at us, talking!

Wouldn't it be amazing,

if we could always talk,

even when you're stuck

inside the box?

You know I'm not

constructed that way.

I exist across all

space and time

and you talk

and run around

and bring home

strays.

I do really feel like

they're soulmates.

They're best friends,

they're siblings,

they're family.

They can't live without

each other.

You can't have one

without the other.

In the top 3 saddest

moments of "Doctor Who"

was when the TARDIS had to go

back to being a TARDIS.

She just wanted to say

"Hello."

I'm alive.

"Alive" isn't sad.

It's sad

when it's over.

I'll always be here,

but this is

when we talked

and, now, even that

has come to an end.

There's something

I didn't get

to say to you.

Goodbye.

No.

I just wanted to say

hello.

Hello, Doctor.

Doctor.

It's so very,

very nice

to meet you.

Please,

I don't

want you to.

Please.

It's very emotional

when she says

"There's something I --"

Oh, God,

I can't even say it.

"There's something I've

always wanted to say to you."

And he assumes

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