DOCTOR WHO Reaction - Series 9 - "Heaven Sent"

[@jasond1500]

At least the Doctor didn't interpret 'bird' sharpening its beak as having to smash his face into the wall.

[@joeuphonium]

Jason Disbrow well he didn’t have Matt Smith’s chin anymore

[@humanitysreject5233]

@@joeuphonium but he has attack eyebrows.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

He should have brought the skull...

[@voldy3565]

@@chrissonofpear1384 Or the shovel...

[@chanceneck8072]

The score in this was just absolutely phenomenal!

[@thelivingbarfpoo2363]

Agreed the shepherd's boy is amazing

[@smithbaran2908]

It always strikes me as tragic when I see the new Gallifrey, you know. You look at Gallifrey now compared to all the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's tales of how majestic it was - fields of silver grass and trees, frosty mountain ranges and many other beauties... and now, following the Last Day of the Time War, after having been ravaged by orbital bombardment from ten billion Dalek ships, all that's left is what looks like a near-barren desert planet that was being ruled by literal relics like the now-insane Rassilon who couldn't accept the loss of what they once were by their own actions. It's people, once a pinnacle species, has fallen to the point that it's countryside people live in poverty, isolated from the ability to harvest new resources due to being at the end of the universe, and the ground itself probably no longer offers much after the Daleks burned so much of it. It really does show how far the planet and the Time Lords themselves fell.

[@andiroidYT]

I blame the Daleks.

[@Concreteowl]

It's a very big planet more than three times the size of the Earth with no oceans populated by a species capable of sticking a infinite castle into a handheld disc. We only see the sand. We know there are birds and trees and the daisiest daisys. It's just making a comparison between the Daleks on Skaro and the Time Lords in the Capitol.

[@smithbaran2908]

But whole planet was seen burning from orbit; the Daleks (ten billion ships' worth) pretty much glassed the entire surface of it. Even if those things *used* to exist, it honestly doesn't look like they still do anymore. Additionally, things like the Confession Dial seem more like they come from the age before Gallifrey was left isolated in a distant time period in empty space at the ends of the universe, with no resources left to use.

[@iceoriental123]

Other sources actually say the Gallifreyans regressed to a more primitive lifestyle as a choice before the Time War. The Time Lords mostly ignored them, but it proved a major issue to switch to war footing when the Daleks started the War.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Was more of some minority tribes wasn't it? (see "The Invasion of Time"...)

[@simonbeaird7436]

Possibly the most mysterious and suspense-filled episode of Doctor Who I've ever seen...and I've been watching since 1963. Your reaction is much like my own when viewing this.

[@Forbidaxe]

This episode was just amazing writing... The whole episode just kept you guessing what the hell was going on right until the very end, even thought the episode gave you hints as to what was going on from the beginning. The end gave you all the emotion a TV episode should give, all with the simplest plot, one guy, one building, AMAZING.

[@chiffmonkey]

"You will notice a second shadow next to yours" Anyone else think of The Library?

[@ADmiralPRESENTS]

+chiffmonkey Not until you mentionedt it.But i don't think that's a direct reference. :)

[@chiffmonkey]

+Alex Halstead I am well aware of that, but did anyone survive the second shadow of Vashta Nerada?

[@OriginalKevin97]

I still get chills at the end.

[@Hanmacx]

the best part: open the door, but it's a wall behind xD

[@anthonym9977]

Big day for a fan of walls

[@RogueAndroid]

Best episode of Series 9 hands down. And as someone who actually really liked Clara... i teared up when the Doctor entered the room with her painting. Still do.

[@apartment906]

"How many seconds in eternity...?"

[@nicheantiquity499]

Most powerful moment of Peter capaldi

[@MrUndersolo]

A very existential episode, I think... And I think it is one that we needed after losing Clara. You really cannot see where they are heading yet. But that season finale is going to burn our collective minds...

[@aureliaansah1462]

I loved your reaction. Stunned silence at the end. :)

[@Yaymas]

I think by "The hybrid is me" he might have meant "Me", so probably Ashildr is the hybrid :o She was in the trailer, so it could be...

[@ADmiralPRESENTS]

+Yaymas That's clever! You could be right with that assumption. :)

[@jerryhuang7765]

+Yaymas Maybe, but he's never once referred to Ashilder as "Me" so it would be kind of weird for him to all of a sudden start calling her that.

[@Yaymas]

+Jerry Huang thought about that too, but it's Moffat, and i assume that one would change this manner just because it makes a good Cliffhanger :P

[@jerryhuang7765]

+Yaymas haha true, but (and this is just my own weird opinion) I feel like the Doctor feeling the need to put on his sunglasses right before he said "is me" indicates that he's the hybrid

[@Yaymas]

+Jerry Huang Yeah, might be... Well, we'll See next week, i guess i would like both options ^^

[@Payne2view]

I'll always think he should have kept that garden shovel with him to use, rather than his fists or even to throw at the Veil.

[@aureliaansah1462]

That's exactly what I thought the first time I saw it, & continue to think on repeat viewing. But, I guess he wouldn't have a bloodied hand then, & that makes the pulling-the-lever & disintegrating-hand scene more dramatic. Brilliant episode.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Or the skull?

[@magnusprime962]

Maybe, but the Doctor never remembers the wall until he reaches it, and once he finally ends up needing the spade there’s no way past the Veil to get it. The only tool he has access to is his fist.

[@MrSinxist]

Why wouldn't he be doing the same thing every time? Remember, he keeps no memory of the last time.

[@iceoriental123]

Moffat confirms he didn't do the same thing every time, and confirms he remembers all 4.5 billion years once he reaches the azbantium wall.

[@timothystrickland7278]

MrSinxist similar stimuli

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Or at least, inferred what occurred...

[@atharvadeshpande6907]

@@iceoriental123 yes! What I've been trying to tell everyone!

[@chiffon788]

@@iceoriental123 Exactly, it’s part of his suite of abilities due to being a Time Lord. He’s a 4th dimensional being. Same reason he’s able to remember the aborted timeline from “Journey to the Center of the TARDIS”.

[@markeoin]

There were 3 big cliffhangers in the matter of 2 or 3 mins at the end of the episode

[@LostDisciple24]

I have seen numerous people do reaction videos. However, I do like yours the best. Your explanations at the end of your videos tend to be spot on. You dont talk excessively for no reason...you watch the episodes how I do. Lastly, you are German and I love the German accent. Even though I was born in the US, I have had a fascination with Germany and its history, culture and its people. 😊

[@ADmiralPRESENTS]

+TheDoctah Thanks, it's always nice to get a written response from people who watch my videos. Especially if the response is that positiv. :D

[@TheMonyarm]

He's the same person, with the same thought process, so of course he would do the same thing every time

[@iceoriental123]

Moffat confirms he didn't do the same thing every time, and confirms he remembers all 4.5 billion years once he reaches the azbantium wall.

[@spacepenguins8939]

Omega of Gallifrey the first one would have done differently as he is the one who thought up the whole “bird” as it was the only thing he could think of but it doesn’t make sense for him to remember any of the previous doctors times in the castle considering they died and he is simply the copy of 100 other copies, and since all of them only remember arriving then dying it wouldn’t make sense for him to remember anything else

[@iceoriental123]

He remembers because he's a Time Lord. Time Lords remember things from alternate timelines and universes because their brains are linked into the Web of Time that spans the multiverse. Moffat outright confirmed that he remembered everything, and he says to Clara that he always recalls at the azbantium wall. The entire story hinges on him being a Time Lord. He would have died the instant the Veil touched him if he weren't a Time Lord. He would have been hunted down by the Veil before he survived a day in the castle if he weren't a Time Lord. Memories don't work the same way for Time Lords. So he remembers.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Could be this was all simulated though? So there may not be a 'real' teleporter? In some ways, I almost want it more ambiguous...

[@murilocoelhopa]

Well you sir, have won another subscriber.

[@Invctus]

So... did the doctor on the very first time there create all the little extras and program the Dial to leave them there, or is it another Beethoven's 5th? Such as the message on the coffin, and the extra set of clothes, and the painting of clara. Really, did the Time-Lords set up a much gentler prison in the Confession Dial and the Doctor tweaked it to be lethal? To drive himself to continually solve the puzzle.

[@schrama007]

1 week per cycle, 52 weeks in a year x 2 billion years = he died 104 billion times. wow

[@raresmacovei8382]

+schrama007 He actually died 4.5 billions years. Do the math again :D

[@Jordacar]

+Steven Nicke You'd think after the first million or so, the Time Lords would be like, "Guys? I don't think he's gonna break. Maybe we should try something else." Also, he punched the diamond wall 6 times in the run that we saw. If that's constant, then he had to punch the wall 1.4 trillion times (or 1,404,000,000,000) to break through and escape.

[@MuhammadIlhamuodd254512]

it's too much pressing respawn for a 2 years

[@markmckeown87]

Awesome reaction!!

[@spyralspyder]

Favorite episode. Even if you are not a fan. So much in common with someone struggling.

[@monicaxireland]

"The Daleks would never permit a hybrid", He said, "Nothings half Dalek" OK.. so we just need to forget about Oswin Oswald (half human / half Dalek) The Cult of Scaro episode again (Half Dalek and half new Yorker!) , actually quite a few half human half Daleks infested with nanites in the "asylum of the Daleks) . Then of course you have an entire race of half human . half Daleks created by the emperor himself at the end of the Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston finale Daleks encounter. It sounds like the writing team collectively suffered from the same amnesia they gave the Dr who in "Hell Bent". Eternal memories of a spotless mind time? (Any others I might have forgotten?)

[@deltahalo241]

+monicaxireland the Ninth Doctor directly says that the Emporers Daleks were an Army that hated themselves. The Asylum Daleks were insane and most of the people were turned into Dalek Puppets, rather then actual Daleks. The Cult were a Spec Ops group essentially and after Sec turned half human the rest of the cult decided he was a lost cause and exterminated him, before exterminating the others once they realised Time Lord DNA had gotten mixed in.

[@monicaxireland]

That's a good point. It must be an interesting challenge for the "Who" writing teams over the years to try and keep the past lore and cannon when trying to write new interesting story's without being totally fettered or accused of "science fiction blasphemy" but it reflects the challenges that must have faced other writers of religions down through the years. People now regarding as facts but really it was from the twisted minds of some very bad writing and some revisionist thinkers taking its authority because it was written way back in the past! Of course there have been interesting Apocryphal story's in Dr Who And some that just defy sense i.e the origins of the word T.A.R.D.I.S. Interesting how the high council refer to it as such when we know from the first episode that the Dr's Granddaughter made it up! (Also we have a few holes in the Dr's background, If he had a Granddaughter what happened to his real son/daughter and Who was his wife? Perhaps a story yet to be told.. by Chris Chibnall and his new team!

[@deltahalo241]

monicaxireland They've mentioned that the Doctor had many wives and children, and that he lost them all in the Time War. I'm not sure where it was mentioned though.

[@timothystrickland7278]

monicaxireland unintentional, created due to emergency but later exterminated, different, and not human (cells being of a human have nothing to do with what the cell itself is. A cell is a cell no matter what in).

[@timothystrickland7278]

monicaxireland think of the episode “Victory of the Daleks.” Not many people liked it but it shows how a Dalek will do things (exist while impure) to better its race and bring about pure ones- and then freely accept extermination. In the New York scenario that was desperation but not even that was enough. They even went to the point to disobey their leader to exterminate half Daleks! In the emperor arc they were in no way human. Cells are cells. No matter where a cell come from it is a cell. In fact, cells are life forms of their own so that’s what the Daleks should have been upset about, now where the matter came from. I kind of forget the Oswin Dalek but I don’t think it was intentional. Those human-Dalek probes were just a trap if I remember correctly and were not seen as Daleks.

[@markeoin]

I wonder who it is (; I think definitely this season has been better than last season because this season's stories we can properly understand like for example "Before the flood brilliant episode and I really understand it because from the last episode we saw a underwater base and that they found a spaceship (space hearse)

[@tristanojung]

You are so german and I love it xD

[@silverscreen842]

May I ask you were you watch these episodes?

[@markeoin]

Great reaction, have u seen the hell bent tv trailer if not go and Watch it because omg it's tense.Out of 10 what would you give heaven sent, I personally would give it 9 1/2 out of 10

[@ADmiralPRESENTS]

+Gerald Sully I would say 9 out of 10. And yes, i saw the TV Trailer. It Looks epic, and i recognised another "Game of Thrones" Actor in it. :D

[@raresmacovei8382]

+ADmiralPRESENTS Heaven Sent only a 9? Reconsider man !

[@fleurinoue4928]

would give it a 10!

[@ZR117]

WUY does Dr who continue and Star trek does not unacceptable

[@zvimur]

In hindsight it was probably a red herring, but I really thought that "I am in 12" was a hint that like in "The Impossible Astronaut" and "Time Heist" the 12'th Doctor was the Architect/Engineer of his own torture, at least partially, for this could not be the chain of events at the very first cycle.

[@angelapetty9344]

Caption please I am deaf thank you