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The Doctor finds Angie and Artie but is partially upgraded into a Cyberman! Sharing it's consciousness, a split personality of the Doctor, the "Cyber-Planner", and "Mr Clever" compete for control.Subscribe: bit.ly/SubscribeToDoctorWho
Taken from Doctor Who: Series 7 Episode 12 "Nightmare in Silver"
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[@CammojoDragon97]

honestly, the Doctor playing chess against himself is quite possibly the most Doctor Who thing I have ever seen on Doctor Who

[@mushroomhead3619]

Doctor: Please, I defeated Fenric at chess.

[@India.H]

Cameron Tyson There's also "You named your daughter after your daughter." with Melody Pond.

[@redjirachi1]

If all the Doctors were in a chess match, who'd get second place? Because we all know 7 would win

[@rikosaikawa9024]

Cameron Tyson checkmate

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

I have the power to make your comment 1k likes. I wont though.

[@XexalEnvy]

For everyone saying that they messed up when Eleven said he can regenerate. Remember, Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

[@redjirachi1]

Of course, he lies to himself a lot. 11's childishness is him ignoring despite looking like a young man, he's an old man even by Time Lord standards. Saying he can regenerate is just 11 denying to himself that he's old

[@nellie204]

Well, now that Jodie's doctor found out she had unlimited regenerations in The Timeless Child because she has is The Timeless Child

[@jeremyschnitzel92]

@@redjirachi1 I was thinking about this so much

[@timwoods8297]

@@nellie204 the timeless child is bullshit. When you thought they couldnt mess doctor who more, when you had hopes that after Jodie's doctor well get a fresh likeable new one, they mess up the whole series by breaking the basic lore.

[@selkie1765]

@@timwoods8297 but it doesn't really break the lore. The Doctor grew up on Gallifrey,, and still made the hoice to leave. All of the stuff before that she doesn't remember, ya know? And what are we except a composite of our memories? I'm still thinking that Jo Martin's Doctor is 6B.

[@JamesPlaysGames95]

the child actors must have been like "Awesome! we get to go on an adventure with the doctor on tv" then the directors are like "just stand in the corner and dont talk"

[@willdagreat1826]

Um idk about you but when there's a giant metal robot ready to destroy the planet I would be terrified, and many many people freeze when they are terrified.

[@lordlossize]

the whole shows gone very kiddy, i mean come on! 'mr clever'? why not call him the telletubby man and make him sit in the corner eating tubby toast? if you wanted to go for an intellectual word for clever why not go for"cerebral"?

[@bunkerdown8494]

its called a joke, lordlossize -.-

[@lordlossize]

***** when was the last time they did an episode as serious as the episodes from tennant and before? they havent. ever since clara came on the show its turned stupid and kiddish

[@lordlossize]

***** well thats your opinion, and im allowed to have mine

[@hamimseam2591]

"NOBODY DIES!" So, "EVERYBODY LIVES?!"

[@marioluigi33a.k.a.theturtl48]

Fantastic!!!

[@Patrick-ow7rk]

Steven Moffats' favorite sentence.

[@gramps3351]

"just this once rose...just this once...EVERYBODY LIVES"

[@cheeseff2106]

Tactic Prozone maybe he's trying not to repeat the 9th doctor's line.

[@mondo1682]

Ha ha they are the same!

[@lennardchurch8483]

It's interesting that in hindsight we can see that the Doctor was bluffing against an enemy able to read his thoughts. That takes talent. He's really good at that Rule #1.

[@DiomedesIsHit]

Glad someone else sees this as a moment of brilliance, rather than another plot hole to complain about.

[@starghezer3602]

So, how's life as an AI?

[@lennardchurch8483]

Sam Kirby AI? I'm a ghost!

[@starghezer3602]

Yeah, er, about that...

[@connorveenstra]

Lennard Church Or it’s just a plot hole they didn’t catch.

[@chwemical]

Matt makes a hell of a scary villain. I want to see more of him being evil

[@Star_Spider27]

Same!!! Just the way he can move his head and make his voice so sinister is fantastic

[@markd2973]

You should see him in Terminator Genisys

[@distion]

Mark Dorsi For 20 seconds, and never again after that

[@user-bp4tu9tg8t]

Mark Dorsi Matt Smith was the only good thing about that movie

[@ArbiterBrick]

Mark Dorsi I saw that and it was amazing!

[@buddyltd]

I really love the backgrounds of the Doctor's brain. The artistic devices used really just work for me. The harsh, cold, flashing maps and typed numerals of the Cyber Controller's brain clash with the sort-of hand-drawn equations and Gallifreyan discs of the Doctor's. It really goes well, I think.

[@philiptucker6119]

buddyltd 482 likes and 0 comments. So, here's your first comment ^_^

[@jimhalpert9816]

I think this episode is better then people give it credit for

[@Timeward76]

A visualization of man vs machine, organic vs computer

[@lianalyods2529]

@@Timeward76 Yes.

[@PlasticFeast]

The already hammy 11th Doctor gets upgraded into an emotionless robot and somehow becomes even more hammy? I would complain if Matt Smith throwing himself around like that wasn't *_glorious_*

[@DarthRushy]

***** Don't forget my favourite! *clenches fists* "Our forces must GROW in strength!"

[@MrOmegatronic]

He has enough emotions to share. ;3

[@SorchaSublime]

the cyberplanner isnt designed to interface with a time lord brain. it became an emotional conscious being as a consequence.

[@alexrivers8163]

I like to think that being converted fully would just have been making the doctor operate more like the master simply because like he said the interface wasn't a strong enough match to truly take away emotion

[@0Fa_R0E]

You really do have to give Matt Smith tons of credit for acting skill during this episode. Brilliant work.

[@raveninfinity5450]

I totally agree because it's hard enough acting as someone else but acting as two different people sharing the same head? That takes quite a lot skill and Matt Smith aced it.

[@sjn7688]

I think this is one of his best bits of acting on Doctor Who. Because you can clearly define the two different characters The Doctor and the Cyber Planner, and he does it so quickly.

[@TrueImmortality]

And he performed most of this in front of a green screen...0.o Give the man credit where credit's due. Also, some people are saying the Cybermen aren't 'scary' in this episode...Can you just imagine the potential of a CyberTimeLord? And then add to that thought: *The Doctor* as the leader of the Cybermen? Yes, that thought in itself is terrifying enough.

[@Avatarbee]

TrueImmortality I don't know what would be so terrifying about that. The Doctor-Cyberplaner still lost to the regular Doctor. The Cybermen to me weren't really scary in this epispde nor in any episode to be honest. Intimidating, yes , but not scary their methods are way to straightforward for that.

[@TrueImmortality]

Avatarbee haha I forgot all about this comment. Xd I find the idea of a CyberDoctor very scary. The real Doctor barely won. It wasn't like it was an easy victory. Cybermen are scary to me because they wipe out who you are as a person. A Dalek will just kill you instantly--a Cyberman will take away your identity, your independence, your thoughts as an individual. Yep. That's pretty much the scariest thing I can think of.

[@Avatarbee]

TrueImmortality Daleks sometimes transform you into a drone which is almost the same in my opinion.

[@TrueImmortality]

Avatarbee That's true. And also terrifying haha. But Daleks are far more likely to kill you outright unless you can serve some other purpose.

[@mordirit8727]

TrueImmortality plus it's been proved that the Dalek process is imperfect and people are capable of overrunning it so it's not like you ended permanently

[@DalekTheSupreme]

I've heard complaints about the Cyber-Planner in this episode being a bit too emotional from many people, myself included, but if you think about it, the Doctor wasn't fully converted, and elements of the Doctor's personality are evident in Mr. Clever's dialogue and movements. Not to mention Matt Smith comes across as genuinely threatening as Mr. Clever.

[@Alovon]

Yeah, in all likelihood it was the Cyber Network having the ultimate equvialent of a LSD Trip upon coming into contact with the Doctor's Mind. Too much data and in order to process that data it needed to go through a effective personality change to actually understand it.

[@DoctorWhoKage]

@@Alovon that would make trying to convert The Doctor into a Cyberman or the *leader* of the Cybermen more of a liability than an asset. A mistake rather than something that was intended for. And I think that's why they've traditionally only converted Humans because aliens probably have more incompatible parts than any single Cyberman can contend with. What the Cyberiad did, here was likely akin to what would happen if you tried to implant a Time Lord's final incarnation's brain into an old computer to make said Time Lord more immortal than they previously were. The brain would contain too much data for the computer to process and work properly with.

[@alexrivers8163]

I think a lot of it was the doctor fucking with the cyber planners thoughts the same way he was able to block certain parts of the brain off

[@DeijiSora]

This shows just how great of an actor Matt really is. A very good scene this is!

[@DeclanTheCrow]

Wait, how were you able to watch it? O.o

[@LoriCiani]

Yes, the ability to switch from one to the other while keeping the flow going takes good acting skill. : )

[@longnoseboi]

DeclanTheCrow With skill.

[@Toolsquatch]

It's an awful performance from a mediocre actor.

[@sillygoose635]

@@Toolsquatch Haha, you're funny.

[@spyrofan9681]

The Master, The Valeyard, The Dreamlord, Mr Clever. All the best Doctor Who villains (-The Daleks) are essentially evil versions of the Doctor

[@India.H]

They are all excellent enemies. I think it's all because (as they are different versions of the Doctor) he knows that he can't trick them or trap them because they will sense it a mile off as they have his intelligence as well. The only way is to outsmart them.

[@dempsey4545]

Spyro Fan kind of but the daleks can't die at all but the doctor can that is all

[@jakemccarty2425]

The master is probably my favorite doctor who villain because he's got this awesome Sherlock/Moriarty thing going.

[@chewyuanqiang]

Don't forget Davros. Even if he's a complete hypocrite, he does have his truths about the Doctor. What I like in any villain is that they can be a complete jerk and still have genuinely correct points to make that the hero fails to look at.

[@JamesCPotter13]

Even better, in the Original Series, The Master was meant to be an EVIL Doctor...legitimately his dark side given form. But the actor passed before they could film the reveal, so they had him regenerate and he became his own character.

[@Boop__Doop]

2:32 i like the fact that the doctor left out the war doctor to trick the cybermen into thinking he still had one more regeneration. The attention to detail put into the show is outstanding

[@xaviersavard6343]

Its either stupidity or genius, and in the words of a captain, those traits coincide surprisingly often

[@phoenyx.21]

i mean even with war included they still wouldnt have known about Tentoo

[@chase1146]

love how the doctor says he could regenerate right then, even though hes out of regenerations edit: the comment was made well before the time lords granted him more regenerations. and well before the whole timeless child thing happened

[@nekomaster1000]

I imagine he had forgotten about the War Doctor at this point and possibly even his Meta-Crisis State... Well, that, or he was just suppressing the memory to keep it away from the Cybermights and bluffing.

[@Slashwing27]

***** don't you remember River Song giving him her regenerations

[@pachisoyyo]

Rule number 1: The Doctor lies.

[@KaiObelisk]

Viatori Bufo Correct. The Doctor always remembered the War Doctor but he didn't want to remember him. He was like a piece of inconvenient mental furniture shuffled off into the corner. The Doctor in this instance was bluffing, and probably using subtle mental blocks to disguise the fact he was bluffing. Besides, technically, the doctor COULD regenerate at this point. I believe in a previous adventure from the 1980s a Time Lord who had run out of regenerations but who was possessed triggered the regeneration process. Without any more regenerations, the process killed him. So the Doctor may have been keeping it as a final line of defense. The truth is though we are all rationalising an explanation. At this point the WD hadn't been conceived of and everyone thought there was one more to go, including the writers. We are just trying to make sense of what went before in light of new information.

[@animo358]

Gavin Lafferty .238% of the brain that no one controlled is where i imagine Hurt and Handy were hidden.

[@JonathanToolonie]

"Mister Clever!" Never gets old.

[@davidyoung5114]

The Doctor was bluffing when he threatened to trigger a regeneration. In The Time of The Doctor, he told Clara that he didn't have any more regenerations, because of the one with vanity issues who used one to repair himself. That's why he had grown so old. Forget chess, he should've challenged him to poker.

[@haavard9227]

he still had regeneration energy though!

[@ProtoKun7]

Titanic Faield Not for a new body though.

[@haavard9227]

Yeah you're right, but maybe enough to get rid of the cyberwidgets

[@einezcrespo]

Titanic Faield He didn't have any left he was bluffing here. The Time Lords gave him a new cycle in Time of The Doctor.

[@sabitadensu1827]

Einez Crespo actually i believe it's an unlimited cycle for the doctor said it himself In the moon egg episode

[@carlyrick1909]

1:31 It seems The Doctor has suddenly lost his mind. Let's fix that, with a controlled shock.

[@lianalyods2529]

Yeah.

[@EmeraldWings90]

Matt was absolutely brilliant in this - I love the Gollum/Sméagol-like conversations that he did (without even cutting, a lot of times), and I think it's great that the Doctor's foce of personality is so great that the Cyberplanner resembled him a lot - the difference is relatively subtle but still so easily visible, it's fantastic.

[@chrisg24601]

Thing that everyone forgot was that while he could not regenerate into a new body he still had plenty of regeneration energy still available as shown in angels take Manhattan and he healed Rivers wrist. Also when he was shot in the impossible astronaut you could see regeneration energy healing him

[@notarobot5815]

I always took the energy in Impossoble Astronaut as a fake-out to make it seem he is the actual doctor and not a costume. In case you might say "but the first time it was the real doctor" I think it always was the robot disguise

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@notarobot5815 It always was the robot disguise, Tesselecta-Doctor being "killed" was _always_ the Fixed Point. Faking regeneration energy with holograms is probably trivial for them.

[@paulo9991]

So this is how Skynet came to be.

[@tsyganko]

+paulo9991 haha i was gonna comment but you beat me to it! :D

[@gilbertruffo4080]

TERMINATOR

[@energyhammer2342]

@@gilbertruffo4080 does he have an Uzi 9mm?

[@develynseether4426]

@@energyhammer2342 no but probably has a phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range.

[@develynseether4426]

Skynet is already here, it's called the internet. Between social media, Siri, Alexa, Bixby, smart TVs it already has a brain structure, a form of neural net and is self-learning. AI is indirectly and inextricably linked to the elimination of unnecessary labor by nurturing systems that get smarter with each incident and transaction.

[@CorellianSmuggler]

He was an incredibly physical actor. You wouldn't get Eccleston throwing himself about like that.

[@WhatYouDoingKid]

Corellian Smuggler you Should see eccleston playing other parts, he is a very versatile actor

[@Pygargue134]

Try him ^^

[@nightowl8477]

You think Smith is better than Eccleston? By your immaturity, I assume that 11 was your Doctor. Once you've grown out of him, go back to 9, 12 and 5 for some real performances.

[@seandabest6353]

nightowl who said “11 is better than 9?” No one, that’s who. He just said one was more physical than the other. It’s like saying “you’d never see Colin Baker on a recorder.”

[@margaretdaly7302]

nightowl I’ve seen them all and I personally prefer Matt.

[@DolusVulpes]

Neat thing I noticed about the camera work: when the Doctor is talking, he's facing right, showing the normal side of his face. When Mr Clever is talking, he's facing left, showing the cyberized part of his face. This is also the direction they face inside the Doctor's head.

[@ace5762]

"Oh, and I've just found a lovely little piece of information tucked away here- you've used up your entire regeneration cycle, which means..."

[@XArchangelX86]

mental block so they can't call his bluff. lmao

[@user-bp4tu9tg8t]

Plus he probably had enough to get rid of mr clever, just not a full regeneration

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

+X They just bug him again right than and there.

[@cylasbreakdown6140]

I read that in his voice.

[@deadman3824]

time lords who are out of regenerations can still force the process. It just kills them. We see it happen with another time lord (I forgot where)

[@Awesomez225]

I would love for Mr Clever to be reintroduced. Maybe the cybermen could've created a backup of the doctors mind to upload onto another cyberman-human thing. Wishful thinking.

[@Will91289]

i doubt even a modified human beain could handle more than 1% of mr clevers mind

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

@@Will91289 Rather irrelavant. The cybermen already won by gaining that information. It became immortal in the network, and likely advanced them by millenia, maybe even got them closer to building a tardis.

[@MrOmegatronic]

Now, _that_ is a horrifying thought, @@ineednochannelyoutube5384 Why settle for human, when they can have a Cyber-TARDIS?

[@NordRheinWestfale]

@@MrOmegatronic May I remind you of a significant little Detail about TARDISes: "They were grown not built" i don't think Cybermen have any gardening skills ^^

[@jacktbc3947]

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 nah doctor brain too advanced apparently and needed full control to fully incorporate it into the cyber network

[@abominablesound2769]

Matt Smith is so good at playing villians, it’s no wonder they cast him in *checks notes* Morbius… oh

[@CindyHelms]

Yeah, to be fair, (I haven't seen it, not really want to) I'm sure he was more a highlight for that… _interesting_ motion picture…

[@julzbananz]

hey now, he’s played the villain before that one. he was in *checks notes* Terminator Genisys… oh

[@smorgi]

Some seriously good acting from Matt in this episode

[@MegaChris456]

I agree.

[@ThePrinceofElPaso]

possibly his best.

[@Pokesquirtle7]

That small piece that the Cyberman nor the Doctor control? That 0.238 percent? What if it's the Doctor's real name?

[@Avatarbee]

Pokesquirtle7 What if that were? Would that change anything?

[@Pokesquirtle7]

Avatarbee Oh, nothing, just something that popped into my head.

[@samz9425]

Pokesquirtle7 Or possibly the war doctor's memories...

[@Accidental238]

_X ToyScientist X_ He remembers being War he just denies that it's him

[@samz9425]

Accidental238 Yes but he's tried to forget and surpress it for so long that it might be uncrontrollable by the cyberiad but he doesn't want to remember it.

[@benwasserman8223]

Might not have been the Best 11th Doctor episode but this is definitely one of Matt Smith's best performances in the show

[@DarthRushy]

+Ben Wasserman I disagree. I mean, the script's a bit odd, but he's just hamming it up unnecessarily.

[@benwasserman8223]

DarthRushy There is a certain degree of malice to the performance as well. I mean the Jekyll/Hyde act is a tough thing to pull off and he did it quite nicely

[@DarthRushy]

Ben Wasserman There is a bit of malice, true, but most villains are malicious. That's not really what I was criticising. He's over-the-top as a villain, rather buffoonish actually. You could say he's parodying the Doctor's personality, but it's impossible to take him seriously as a villain. They should've done it more Dream Lord style(in terms of acting), just with Matt Smith in the role. Make it subtle and truly malevolent, like the classic Cybermen.

[@benwasserman8223]

DarthRushy Look I'm not gonna deny I was surprised by a Cyber-creature showing some signs of emotion, but the fact of the matter is this is the part of the episode we remember the most

[@DarthRushy]

Ben Wasserman It is, but that doesn't make it automatically good. It just makes it memorable. I like the concept in literally every way(doppelgangers AND chess), I like the visuals and even some of the dialogue, but Smith's performance is ridiculous. He could've easily portrayed the Cyber Planner as cold and pragmatic, which would directly oppose the Doctor's personality.

[@Hyper_Fixation]

2:33 - 2:40 Cameos of the other Doctors always blow my mind with joy XD

[@blackham7]

Finally someone with ninth Doctor pic instead of tennant

[@Hyper_Fixation]

***** I know, right? I think Christopher Eccleston is highly underrated!

[@MarsMann6754]

+A. “Doctor” Edwards christopher had a short run, but was still a fantastic re-entry to doctor who, all i wonder now is what if he was partnered with donna? sass and sarcasm.

[@India.H]

That One Cosmic Autobot I did think that was good. Rather than just showing him generating from 10 to 11, he showed all of them, proving how old he was and letting the Cyberplanner (or whatever you want to call him) see for himself how old he is.

[@uscman]

That One Cosmic Autobot Everytime they do that and show 10, I always cry inside...

[@Tumbleflop]

Imagine if the doctor was fully taken over by the cyberplanner...

[@thegeekyskunkgamer]

Then the show wouldn't be called "Doctor Who" anymore. It'd be called "Mr. Clever and the Cybermen"

[@SimpleWolfStudios]

Planner Who

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Doctor Mysterio

[@SkylarGem]

I actually did have a dream of about that. It's double the sinisterness from what I saw in the dream.

[@SkylarGem]

Anyone want to know what I saw in that dream? It's double the sinisterness.

[@danielsanderson4926]

This is the greatest metaphor for the doctor's greatest enemy is himself.

[@superbrony3556]

"Who's Clara? Why are you thinking about her so much?" Me: *wide grin* Doctor.... "Enough!" Me: Nice way to stop the conversation about Clara doctor! :)

[@sharlyx769]

Mmmm Doctor..

[@beverleyburrows-pym6500]

I know what you mean, I thought the same

[@Jordan-dr3wo]

+Super Brony I think he's trying to figure out how the hell she died 2 times.

[@victorguerra9778]

Super Brony I dont get it

[@kaizoisevil]

2:44 nice bluff. We know he can't do a full regeneration.

[@kaizoisevil]

***** I said he can't do a FULL regeneration. Healing a hand is different. All the more reason River said it was a waste of regeneration energy, cause he didn't have much left.

[@kaizoisevil]

***** She probably knew about them.

[@pileofhazelnuts]

He could do a full regeneration due to the brain being badly damaged. But he wouldn't regenerate properly due to that form being to be his final. Well it was me t to be until he got more regenerations.

[@clarkconner]

+cora newton actually he can't, he is the last of the regeneration cycle unless he earns a 2nd cycle and regenerates into peter capaldi

[@pileofhazelnuts]

+Conner Hanks he still has regeneration energy in his body although he cannot regenerate. All time lords have regeneration energy in their blood but he didn't have enough. He could release the energy but that could result in killing him.

[@doctorwhofan2563]

Does anyone else really love the set? It's so cold and Cyberman-ish!

[@pileofhazelnuts]

Very very cyberman lol

[@Boop__Doop]

The fact the doctor singlehandedly stalemated the entirety of the cybermen with access to half of his brain

[@mumblerumblelol1116]

This is what would happen if they made Bo Burnham's 'Left Brain, Right Brain' song into a horror movie and I love it.

[@TheSchemer1]

Love the direction because whenever it's the Doctor the camera shows the right-side of his face, but when it's "Mr. Clever" it shows the cybernetic side!

[@TheLordRYO]

Definitely one of my favourites in Series 7, if mostly because of these scenes with the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner battling it out with differing personalities, while throwing himself all over the place. It's just excellent fun to watch. Praise to Gaiman for making a really good episode. :D

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

Cyber-planner??? Oh you mean Mr clever

[@Raccy.]

Matt must’ve had so much fun acting in this scene

[@Wikia3033]

I'll just say - Matt Smith playing Mr Clever is awesome!

[@mattia4165]

The Doctor played a massive bluff here, he had used up his 12 regeneration so by this point, so couldn't regenerate and so didn't really have a bargaining chip to use against the cyber-planner

[@ChristopherCraven]

Peter Capaldi

[@mattia4165]

***** DID YOU WATCH THE 11TH REGEN EPISODE WHERE HE STATED BLATANTLY THAT HE HAD USED UP ALL 12 REGENERATIONS BY THAT POINT, AND THE TIME LORDS HAD TO GIVE HIM A WHOLE NEW CYCLE

[@ChristopherCraven]

...So who's Peter Capaldi?

[@MrBeanSimpson]

***** Just watch the episode...

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

***** hes the 13th doctor well actually hes the first doctor of the new regen cycle but yes he is the 13th

[@alyssatague1317]

Oh Matt.... He's such an amazing actor!!! The greatest Doctor Who that ever was and every will be!!!!

[@clementgoh9270]

Anyone realize that how by just entering the doctor's brain he made a cyberman sentient with emotions and a personality

[@mshatefulgirl]

This episode is my favorite. Nothing shows an actors capability like being the and the hero at the same time. You have to be able to make us hate you and root for you at the same time. Math Smith is amazing in this episode.

[@SorchaSublime]

"cyberdoc realises he was chris eccl" *FANTASTIC*

[@BeyondElite]

The Doctor and Mr Clever in the Doctor's mind palace ;)

[@MaddoxProductions1]

That is one camp Cyberplanner. Though the way Matt talks at 3:24 reminds me of Pertwee in a weird way.

[@jamess9855]

MaddoxProductions1 he reminds me of another incarnation at 1:07 - I think Colin Baker? Interesting how when we are inside the Doctor's mind, different incarnations appear.

[@reckstealthzz9058]

MaddoxProductions1

[@Metrion77]

I like how a cyberman timelord is talked up all good, then we have the timeless child.

[@griffinthomas1056]

Thank god Chibnall's gone. Never have I seen such a dedicated effort to drive a series into the ground so hard by its creators than with Chibnall's tenure as the lead writer on Doctor Who

[@androo6473]

I love when the Cyberplaner skips in and out of the Doctor and the mental Mini argument in his head, and the the argument on the outside. “Stalemate!” *ZIP*

[@Boop__Doop]

Can we just appreciate how he manages to switch from the doctor to the cyber mites on a dime

[@InsanityVirus]

Honestly, I thought it was really cute that he was thinking about Clara so much. Just that little extra flavor on top to all the hints that the Doctor was in love with Clara. Plus, that probably saved his ass XD If he was thinking about anything else - especially anything important - "Mr. Clever" would've known about ALL of it before the mental block

[@magicman1921]

Funny that there wasn't a hint of the War Doctor when The Doctor let the Cyberplanner have knowledge of the Doctor's past Regeneration's. Although it could be another mental block like Clara's info.

[@Barely_Edited]

I believe he forgot about it after War Doctor regenerated into Eccleston. I remember a line where he says 'I won't remember this, will I'.

[@DalekPro101]

No he says "I won't remember this, will I" when he talks about not remembering the 50th anniversary special. I think its a mental block, something he doesn't want to ever come back to.

[@Lamadredetuamigo]

magicman1921 War Doctor didn't exist on writter's head, so there was no way of alluding him. :/

[@turbonerdo6838]

Though this can obviously be explained by the war Doctor not existing, another clever way to explain why he's not present is that if smith showed his entire regeneration cycle the cyberman would know that he couldn't regenerate, as he had already used twelve cycles. Plus, the Doctor tries so hard to forget the war Doctor that the memory is probably somewhere else in the brain, seperate from the rest of his memories.

[@einezcrespo]

This episode was written before The War Doctor reveal and in Day of The Doctor succeeding incarnations 9th, 10th, and 11th just wanted to bury the memory of The War Doctor because of what had supposedly done which was destroying Gallifrey.

[@xtinalee1466]

I like to see them whipping back yelling at each other

[@harryguidotti3815]

Can we take a moment to be impressed by Matt's ability to act like two different versions of the same person talking to each other in the same mind? So cool.

[@gracewilcox4724]

You can literally hear the fear in his voice

[@Drp_br_]

I love this scene. Hands down, one of my favourites with Matt as the 11th Doctor. Heck! The episode is one of my favourites when he was the 11th Doctor. So energetic as he flips in and out of a personality and such as he uses his body language to show one half he has no control over

[@noluckst2]

This Star Trek crossover episode was awesome. Interesting use of the Borg.

[@noluckst2]

Perhaps. Let it be a more visual, more developed rip-off at that.

[@Angelo_Basco]

noluckst2 No. Let it be an American rip-off. That's what makes the Cybermen Cybermen. They're British.

[@TheLampl1ghter]

Angelo Basco The borg is basically the american cousin of the cybermen.

[@noluckst2]

Randomness Compressed and Incarated Except the Star Trek writers knew how to properly write the Borg. Marc Platt is the only person who I can think of who knows what he's doing.

[@JPKloess]

noluckst2 Actually...no joke there is a comic crossover with Star Trek with the Borg and Cybermen.

[@freddyfazbear1401]

I feel so bad, look at it like this... at 0:37 it sounds like he's saying. " no! Stop it! I don't want to be...." He knew what he was becoming and was terrified... just listen Best acting ever

[@tangroro]

2:29 notice how he said he "allows" him to learn about regeneration, so of course he can also hide the fact he can only regenerate 12 times

[@Powerman293]

He also hid 2 of his Regenerations. One being the War Doctor and the other being the 10 Clone.

[@magicoA]

They should totally bring back Mr.clever as a Cyberman Villian somehow and have Matt Smith voice him for that episode

[@bbattemuulen]

I would love to see Sacha's master vs Cyber Planner

[@Artisan1979]

2:49 He's lying of course. He knows that he has reached the end of his regeneration cycle and is just trying to bluff the cyber planner to abandon his body.

[@littleboring]

"I could call myself: MR CLEVER"

[@IGotMoneyXD]

What if the Doctor knew someone named Nobody? What would Mr. Clever do then, I wonder? O_o

[@mushroomhead3619]

Damn you Faction Paradox!

[@uny4781]

Well! tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Nobody_No-One

[@lianalyods2529]

That would be gold to watch.

[@AlanOmahney]

2:13 "Are you from the mr men?"

[@the51project]

Stunning. Best Dr. Who clip I have ever seen. Groundbreaking...

[@TheTurdle]

It's cool how in some way the Doctor outsmarted Mr. Clever from the beginning by letting him have just enough data on regeneration to threaten him but hid the fact he was on his last life without Mr. Clever actually suspecting anything

[@kittykatja5143]

Amazing acting!! I am astounded by how well played out this was! Matt Smith, you are gifted by God above!

[@lordbuss]

I really like this scene. The acting is great, evil Doctor is great, the conflict is great, but most of all, the situation itself is great. The most interesting thing about the doctor (despite his various adventures and achievements) is his personality. And here it is controlled by the Cyberiad. But! It's complete replacement, it's integration. Mr Clever is as much the doctor as he can be while still acting for the goals of the Cyberiad. He still has a very similar personality. Which means that in the beginning of the scene, we see Mr Clever familiarizing himself with...himself. The thing he became. It's exquisitely paradoxical/dual for reasons i can't explain. And it is always great to see cool interesting characters who retain an interesting personality under mind control, rather than becoming either just puppets, or generic emotionless villains. (Also, the enthusiasm i feel about the Doctor having a cool evil version is surprisingly similar to the enthusiasm i feel when female characters have a cool and sexy evil version, which may say new things about my heterosexuality)

[@Flipper2704]

The thing with this was he would never let the cyberiad win because of his memories and love for his companions.

[@airwaters]

Oh if only people can see this, he's gonna slay as Daemon Targaryen!!

[@rahmatmanurung8133]

Yesss he slayed.

[@pablomenendez2319]

What with everything that's been going on as of late regarding the gigaleak, I imagine people reacting like at 2:19 whenever something particularly big is found.

[@notascam7808]

Fun fact this isn't the only time Matt Smith played the leader of iconic villains

[@lucasparadox6823]

1:07 Me when even i don't believe the lies Anxiety is tells me

[@MuffinTM]

i love this episode. i like learning about time lord science and how they work and function. in this you learn about the kinds of control they have over their own brain and a little bit about how regeneration works.

[@joraco2559]

Best episode besides the finale in series 7.

[@paulpemberton6852]

“Use this me up then.. ehh who knows what we’ll get next.” That would of actually been kinda funny to get Capaldi in this one 😂

[@Silverwind87]

I feel like every Doctor "didn't want to go," so to speak, not just Ten. We learn in the novel Scratchman that the Fourth Doctor was scared of regenerating. The Eight Doctor was obviously scared of becoming a warrior. Here we see Eleven say he would prefer not having to regenerate (this was before he was retconned into the Doctor's 13th life). And of course, 12 yells a big NOOOO when he's about to regenerate. The Doctor is always reluctant to change, but change he must.

[@icemachine79]

1:14 Good question. Ask Steven Moffat because I still haven't figured out why the show focused on Clara so much.

[@xavierreichel8254]

It's like the writer and director just wanted to see how well Matt Smith could act.

[@Rikeilan]

Bit of a spoiler alert for season 9 episode 12 1:58 "Not even slightly human" Well that delets the Doctor-hybrid theory...

[@pryoth8922]

+Rikeilan Wasn't the hybrid supposed to be the Doctor and Clara (maybe any companion) where they kept pushing each other further and further until the Doctor did something so stupid it would destroy the universe? Might be wrong on that but that's how I understood it

[@Rikeilan]

Pryoth Hm, could be. It was a confusing episode :/

[@pryoth8922]

Rikeilan Very true :p

[@credendovides20]

+Rikeilan XD Yeah, speaking about that, has somebody seen the Classic series? Cause I've heard that the productors wanted the doctor to be half-human. But at the end of the seconds season, they gave up the idea. I can't remeber it clearly now, did they say it explicitly during the first season or it was just subtitled?

[@Rikeilan]

+Selene I do not know, I am sorry, I haven't watched the "old" episodes yet. In my opinion though, I believe it is better to have the Doctor be 100% pure Timelord. I think if he was half-human that would be so egoistic of us.

[@liamgradwell2998]

The regeneration threat was just a bluff so that the cyberplanner would get out of his head. He didn't say that he would actually do it.

[@cherryblossom2009]

Mr Clever is definitely a great villain name. Matt does great at portraying a villain, this whole scene is pretty good he played a villain in Morbius but it wasn’t quite the same as Mr Clever. Mr clever reminds me of the joker in a way. Beautiful acting by Matt though 👏

[@geofaxx47]

2:40 FALSE, HE'S BLUFFING

[@JackalformerlyKnownasDjjjav]

Rule 1: the Doctor lies

[@cattyditty]

Matt is SUCH an amazing actor -- with Mr. Clever, his entire body language and voice changes!!

[@cookey6729]

Matt’s acting here is just great, it’s like he actually has two completely different personalities.

[@darealturtle1686]

mr clever arguing the doctor: getoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyhead

[@guyhenry8680]

1:57 See TV film, the Doctor isn't even 'slightly human'.

[@CrystalblueMage]

It's been stated that this was a lie. Maybe to put someone at ease, can't recall the scene.

[@DarthRushy]

CrystalblueMage The Doctor at some point wanted to hide from the Master via a fob-watch. The device was broken, turning him into a half-human. I guess he eventually reversed the process.

[@kungfudynamite]

It's great how when he's The Doctor, you see the side of his face without the cybernetics but when he's Mr Clever, you see the other side.

[@Apollomasque]

The title of "Time Lord" has gotta be one of the most intimidating labels in the galaxy. This episode really missed points when the newly converted Doctor didn't call himself The Cyber Lord.

[@RainbowDevourer]

I love how emotional the leader of the emotionless Cybermen is. - Relax, you will find it perfectly pleasant to be upgraded so that you won't have a concept of "pleasant" anymore :P

[@lianalyods2529]

Yeah. Maybe. Who cares anyway?

[@ApollonDriver]

One thing I don't understand, cybermen would remove all emotions, but mr clever is full of emotions.

[@lordbuss]

1) The control wasn't full 2) Those were very advanced cybermen and the integration with the mind of the victims (especially the cyberplanner) was maximal.

[@TomJeffries1]

2:49 Rule 1: The Doctor lies

[@TheStaticable]

Not working perfect internet connection

[@tabithadarkrider8552]

Personally I think this is some of the most brilliant acting in the entire show, or from Matt at least. He clearly creates with his facial expression alone two personalities, you can tell which is supposed to be which just by looking at them, not to mention the movements! The eleventh doctor’s signature flourishes of the hand are even more dramatic for emphasis when Matt smith is acting as mr. Clever, even the tilt of his head is different.

[@S.U.T.D]

Wow! (I know I'm a bit late..) Matt's screams in pure physical agony and exhausted groans gives me 'chills' every time. It just shows his quality and I adore him for it; 0:39 / 0:46-0:51 And boy, that evil smile. 1:41 He should play A LOT more villains.

[@gameover9390]

Check his short but meaningful role in terminator Genesis.

[@RandomShinigami7]

Considering the reveal in the very next episode, imagine if they hinted at it here by having a blank screen before Eccleston appeared. Like The Doctor is so determined not to acknowledge Hurt’s Doctor that even someone invading his mind can’t find him. It would also help with his “I can regenerate” lie here.

[@Moodyslime400]

2:07 Uh, Matt, you should probably get down before you trip and die

[@lianalyods2529]

Yup.