ALSO??? Even though I'm a massive whovian, it took me forever to realize that was Matt Smith and not Emet's real voice actor. Matt Smith makes a perfect Emet too
The true age of the Doctor is… difficult to ascertain at the best of times, partially because the Doctor tends to be a rather unreliable narrator when it comes to himself. It is often hinted that he long since started roughly guessing at his age at some point. Around the beginning of his new iteration as the 11th, it is roughly estimated that his age amounts to 900 to 1000 years. As 10th so handily points out, the time since his days as the Doctor of War and the burning of Gallifrey is about 400 years. Enough for this bleeding heart of a man to turn his back and run from the shadows of his past. To become an aberration in the eyes of his younger selves.
Emet-Selch was certainly overexaggerating his point a tad bit when he boldly claimed to have lived the duration of a million lives but it doesn’t change the fact that this man, this spectre of a dead world has cast his shadow upon the shattered remnants of Etherys ever since the sundering, an event we can safely refer from source material (thank you Growingway for the exposition) was 12 to 13 THOUSAND years ago. This man, who has remained ever lucid of his own self in the face of the tempering by the most primordial of primals. This man, who has been starring down the abyss of oblivion for millennia and never so much as blinked. THE FACT THAT THIS MAN HASN’T TURNED STARK RAVING MAD…
The Doctor and Emet-Selch are just about as opposing characters as can be. The doctor presents himself as a jovial trickster to arrive as aid precisely when and where he’s needed. Yet there is a dark side to him that brings about a storm of devastation that devours just about everything in his path. Emet-Selch instead very much wears his devil for all to see, moving the world like a game of chess, yet beneath those eons of bitterness and hatred, that ember of loyalty never quite extinguished. While the Doctor endlessly surrounds himself with companions to steer his moral compass lest he loses sight of himself, Emet-Selch has never had anything for true company, safe the reminder of a broken world and the eldritch ravings of cosmic zealots. Nothing other than the memories of long, LONG time past to keep him going. Something that even failed someone like Elidbus in the end.
It sometimes reminds me of a character from one of the animated Ben 10 shows, Dr. Paradox, I believe his name was. A scientist, whose experiments caused him to break open the temporal equivalent of a black hole, where he spends eternity first going mad beyond comprehension and finally, after becoming bored of insanity , simply went sane again. Perhaps Emet-Selch did weather the millennia with nothing but the stout conviction of one who shoulders the fate of his race. Or perhaps what we face in the end is simply the moving body of a once great man that broke in a very different way centuries ago.
My friend got me into Doctor Who only recently… but he triggered a fixation, I'm a good way through the series while knowing a lot of tiny fun facts he never heard of… and now combine that with my favorite FFXIV character… dude, my heart o.o
Damn this fits way too well.
Making me cry at 7 in the morning… bye!😂😭
my heart T^T
Love this!
Why does this actually sound like Emet-Selch, though???
OH NO.😢😢😢😢
Oh my gosh! This is the most incrediblething ever. Day of the Doctor is my most favorite Who Special.
Dr. Who + Emet-Selch = perfection. 💙
owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
girl, stop breaking my heart 😭😭💔
Now I’m crying. Thank you ❤
😭 the feels!
Naaaaugh, my heart
David Tennant is such a good voice for Emmet 😔 If there's a live-action FFXIV movie, I can see him playing him
ALSO??? Even though I'm a massive whovian, it took me forever to realize that was Matt Smith and not Emet's real voice actor. Matt Smith makes a perfect Emet too
Incredible… my poor heart… 😢
This is perfect I love David Tennant❤
You're not allowed to do this to me
Wasnt expecting my two hyperfixations to cross today.
Here's an argument in favor of Emet Selch:
The true age of the Doctor is… difficult to ascertain at the best of times, partially because the Doctor tends to be a rather unreliable narrator when it comes to himself. It is often hinted that he long since started roughly guessing at his age at some point. Around the beginning of his new iteration as the 11th, it is roughly estimated that his age amounts to 900 to 1000 years. As 10th so handily points out, the time since his days as the Doctor of War and the burning of Gallifrey is about 400 years. Enough for this bleeding heart of a man to turn his back and run from the shadows of his past. To become an aberration in the eyes of his younger selves.
Emet-Selch was certainly overexaggerating his point a tad bit when he boldly claimed to have lived the duration of a million lives but it doesn’t change the fact that this man, this spectre of a dead world has cast his shadow upon the shattered remnants of Etherys ever since the sundering, an event we can safely refer from source material (thank you Growingway for the exposition) was 12 to 13 THOUSAND years ago. This man, who has remained ever lucid of his own self in the face of the tempering by the most primordial of primals. This man, who has been starring down the abyss of oblivion for millennia and never so much as blinked. THE FACT THAT THIS MAN HASN’T TURNED STARK RAVING MAD…
The Doctor and Emet-Selch are just about as opposing characters as can be. The doctor presents himself as a jovial trickster to arrive as aid precisely when and where he’s needed. Yet there is a dark side to him that brings about a storm of devastation that devours just about everything in his path. Emet-Selch instead very much wears his devil for all to see, moving the world like a game of chess, yet beneath those eons of bitterness and hatred, that ember of loyalty never quite extinguished. While the Doctor endlessly surrounds himself with companions to steer his moral compass lest he loses sight of himself, Emet-Selch has never had anything for true company, safe the reminder of a broken world and the eldritch ravings of cosmic zealots. Nothing other than the memories of long, LONG time past to keep him going. Something that even failed someone like Elidbus in the end.
It sometimes reminds me of a character from one of the animated Ben 10 shows, Dr. Paradox, I believe his name was. A scientist, whose experiments caused him to break open the temporal equivalent of a black hole, where he spends eternity first going mad beyond comprehension and finally, after becoming bored of insanity , simply went sane again. Perhaps Emet-Selch did weather the millennia with nothing but the stout conviction of one who shoulders the fate of his race. Or perhaps what we face in the end is simply the moving body of a once great man that broke in a very different way centuries ago.
OKAY YOU NEED TO STOP BREAKING MY HEART WITH YOUR VIDEOS.
also damn girl what are you using for Emet's EYES. They're amazing!
That one got me tearing up! I loved that episode of Doctor Who and it fit so well with this skit. Good job!
My friend got me into Doctor Who only recently… but he triggered a fixation, I'm a good way through the series while knowing a lot of tiny fun facts he never heard of… and now combine that with my favorite FFXIV character… dude, my heart o.o
Nnnoooooooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭
Damn girl
Brought the feels with this one
As if we needed more reminders our boy Hades was this game’s MVP.
Good times they were
The coolest part about this is that the voice actor for Emet-Selch was in an episode of Doctor Who with either 9 or 10.
I was honestly thinking recently that Matt Smith would make an excellent live action Emet-Selch, and here comes this video proving me right.
This crossover is the amalgamation of perfection (i shed a tear)!!! 👏
Emet never really forgot. And that’s exactly what drove him mad.