Doctor Who - Father's Day - The Reapers attack

[@MrValeska]

These things need to come back into the series, they're personally one of my favourites.

[@eli_r_q]

ikr

[@S113Productions]

It had been a long time. They're creepy as hell, but they do need to come back. They only made a cameo during the Matt Smith's place, but that was the latest they were seen. They should come back, but not sent to kill.

[@skullzans]

uhh... about that. They live in the time vortex.

[@skullzans]

When did they cameo?!

[@tomlangford1999]

skullzans In the 11th hour the Atraxi's records show them

[@dinoc101]

I've had a toy version of those for my entire life and only today have I found out what the hell it was.

[@dinoc101]

SkelbulbuntBluntCunt4 YT Well I always used to like strange creatures, and when my mum saw it she bought it for me. And I just thought it was a weird monster toy.

[@MrSlendyMannn]

3:17 Not sure why but I love how this phone call keeps repeating throughout the beginning of the episode.

[@TheDiablowolf]

I always loved this episode, but it's odd that they make such a big deal about changing time here. I know it's a fixed point but considering how much they've changed both in the past and the future, you'd think these guys would be popping up more often

[@ArcDragoon]

Actually the explanation for this is really easy. It isn't just a fixed point, it is a part of causality. Due to the fact that Rose and the Doctor went ONCE to see Rose's father before he died, and then circled back a second time to interfere with the first instance is what broke time. The Doctor may have traveled and changed time a lot, but he has never actually done anything where he wasn't always a part of events already. He has never gone back to interfere with his own timeline. Every time it seems like he travels back in time to interfere with his own timeline, it is actually a bootstrap paradox. Unlike this event, because Rose interfered with the second time around, she thereby broke time. It isn't a bootstrap paradox; it is a grandfather's paradox. She went back in time, changing events that would lead her coming there in the first place to see her father before he died. Doing something that can't be explained by causality. Meaning one event leading to the next.

[@custardbaby4]

ArcDragoon I was going to say something about Before the Flood, but that makes more sense

[@Gamelover254]

The Doctor explains it in “Fires of Pompeii”. Some points are fixed and others are not. That’s how the Doctor sees the world, so he’s able to see what events are fixed and which are not. Honestly it was an explanation that basically said your watching a fun time travel show, stop with the over analyzing 😆

[@RedMatterProductions]

ArcDragoon With regards to the Reapers not showing up again. The Doctor actually explains that the Timelords are usually the ones who would stop this sort of thing from happening. But during the RTD era, they weren’t exactly around to stop it. I’ve always judged it that the timelords were dead throughout the RTD era until the Doctor rebooted the universe in Series 5, hence making the Moffat timeline more prominent and the timelords just tucked away, hence why the Reapers never truly returned again. But according to the Tardis wiki, if a paradox is strong enough, one that not even the timelords could hold it back, the Reapers would return.

[@kayganjimmy7676]

i watched this with my father when i was 6 or 7. frightened af. i remember myself telling my father "dad, can i watch things like this when im over 7!?"

[@martynbolam9932]

I don't know if anyone knew that these creatures were based of the Grim Reaper, hence why they are called Reapers and if you look at their tails, the tips are in the shape of the Grim Reaper's scythe. I think the Reapers are interesting. I like how they have a dragon-like designed to them instead of a skeleton in a cloak carrying a scythe.

[@lochness5524]

Funnily enough, Death does exist in the Whoniverse, as in the living incarnate of death. It was encountered by Martha Jones and Jack Harkness’s Torchwood team in Cardiff

[@martynbolam9932]

@@lochness5524 I know, I have seen that episode. I also remember the scene with Owen fighting Death in the hospital.

[@reptile1687]

I used to call them “space time continum bats”

[@androo6473]

Rose has learned her lesson, Surely?

[@AzraelAngel945]

These things used to absolutely terrify me when I was younger

[@LadyViscera]

It's a shame I was too young to see most of the 9th Doctor. A lot of the episodes look dope.

[@TheHufflepuffSaint]

As a Mass Effect fan, I do wonder how these Reapers would stand up to those Reapers.

[@thesmithersy]

These would eat those ones

[@evarosemcnally1221]

creepy with the red blood light

[@benwormald2951]

GET IN THE CHURCH!!!1

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

I wonder how the Timelords would’ve dealt with this, or hell how would the Time Agency?

[@rachelfoster7026]

Love the creepy music! All these good episodes started to end when Steven Moffat became head writer at series 5

[@filbencs5098]

The Ranger I 100% disagree with you.

[@Ranger1812]

numpteez Moffat fucked up angels and daleks. How the fuck did the Statue of Liberty cross the entire river? Bollocks. And if something that takes the form of an becomes an angel, why aren't all the pictures of the Statue of Liberty angels? Absolute shite. Continuity is nonexistent.

[@claitondron8736]

And now we have an even worse writer called Chris chibnall

[@Custardpoint948]

@@NumpteezRubbish this episode was brilliant

[@peterjoyfilms]

Underrated scene and episode

[@hazelsbagels]

Who you gonna call ghost busters

[@deadstareffect]

The park scene gives me the creeps

[@pogigwapo5093]

What’s scary is that Mickey ran into the church and is never seen again this episode

[@deadstareffect]

@@pogigwapo5093 eh i didn't think much about that but to each their own i guess

[@thealiencommunicator]

'aight, someone needs to call Commander shepard.

[@brigadier-tc8565]

What's Shep gonna do? Shine a multi-coloured torch at them? We all know how he "beat" the reapers

[@estelasayeed5608]

brigadier-tc yea and? Nothing wrong with how he defeated them

[@azizbanaga2844]

The only time I go to church

[@bobSCOTT99]

I just found that bit funny bit funny when the Reaper was gonna eat Sarah (the bride) then all of a sudden it goes for the priest instead 😂😂

[@thisguyrocks6131]

Just to mess with god

[@SGK1206]

@Will brazil fc till i die They go for the oldest humans first

[@OscarOSullivan]

Except the Minister doesn’t look that old

[@Gooner184]

@@OscarOSullivan Still older than the woman.

[@samimousa2004]

chicken connisuer when younger

[@danielalls]

i should have done that ages ago lol

[@maxlancaster579]

Killing those kids... So sad...

[@eli_r_q]

Exactly what I Thought

[@looe9195]

maxlancaster579 but when they were dealt with, that never happened, so the kids are fine!

[@MondySpartan]

Killing those characters... So sad. That's Moffat.

[@thebutterontop1332]

But Didn’t Peter Die and this whole episode didn’t happen. So those kids survived.

[@RedMatterProductions]

TehMondasianSpartan - Moffat didn’t write this episode and he wasn’t showrunner yet. This episode was written by Paul Cornell and the series was being run by Russell T. Davies.

[@murdersans4267]

the Monsters something in Godzilla wood fight

[@murdersans4267]

a demon bird

[@callum9679]

The amount of times these should have been used because of paradoxes....

[@llewelynshingler2173]

It was explained that the Time Lords would deal with them, pre-Time War, so Classic Who is accounted for

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Would those monsters also appear if Rose stopped James Garfield or JFK's assassinations, made sure Tom Dula didn't turn criminal, made sure Hitler stayed in art school? To make amends, the companion tells McKinley... "Damn it... Mr. President.. Just go in front of Czolgosz's handkerchief gun...." Then... McKinley decides to accept his fate. When McKinley goes to shake Czolgosz's hand before the Reaper monster gets him, Czolgosz fires point blank at the president. Ouch. Can't fight fate.

[@reckuiemchild6046]

How is petes death a fixed point in time?

[@Ranger1812]

RUKULUKU tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Fixed_point_in_time

[@FurryWulfz]

It's not. Rose saving her father is a paradox.

[@joaosilvestre8915]

o pequeno mickie que fofo

[@thespidercrafter8547]

boys mother 2005-2005 :( i pity that boy

[@rangopistacho6928]

scary as fuck

[@elliottknifton8902]

I heard the reapers were originally going to look like the grim reaper but they looked too much like the robots from End of the World and to be honest I would have preferred it if they kept that. My suggestion would be to give them white cloaks to make them stand out more and maybe give them masks.

[@fudouakio4759]

Lazy and uninspired

[@evarosemcnally1221]

ur wedding girl got eating I feel sick ur ur

[@MrRickster83]

Incredible isn’t it. The kids could bring back their father - and KEEP him alive (Doctor Widow and the Wardrobe xmas ep). Nothing in the world changed when he came back either. Father’s Day: massive time rift, monsters eating everything, Pete has to die again. Biggest tut in Dr Who history 🙄

[@EternalPayne]

Are you dumb? The difference in Father's Day is it's the "SECOND" time the doctor and rose are there you can interfere the first time but not the second that's when everything goes to shit. So stfu complaining about a plothole that doesn't exist.

[@MrRickster83]

@@EternalPayne Incredible! Your response is so vile, so aggressive, that people are literally laughing at you when reading it - instead of taking it seriously. In addition, WHO THE HELL do you think you are speaking to a stranger like that? Human garbage.

[@Clarity_Control]

You’re rather thick

[@DannyTR]

That didnt cause a time paradox

[@KarlSturmgewher]

Like Edith Keeler, to save history.... Peter Tyler must die.