Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN | Listen | A Poem by Steven Moffat
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- What’s that in the mirror?
And the corner of my eye?
What’s that foot step following?
And never passing by?
A poem written by Steven Moffat, read by Jacob Dudman.
This video was specially created for #FearIsASuperpower, the worldwide tweetalong of the Doctor Who episode 'Listen' on Wednesday 20 May 2020.
This video was home-produced remotely during the 'lockdown' period of the COVID-19 outbreak in May 2020.
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LISTEN
Written by STEVEN MOFFAT
Read by JACOB DUDMAN
Edited by JAMES BARNETT
Artwork by CECILIA G.F.
Music by JAMES JARVIS
Produced by EMILY COOK
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I'm sure that in the episode the last verse of the poem is:
"Perhaps when we're all sleeping,
perhaps when we're all dead,
out they'll come a-slithering
from underneath the bed."
He changes history and i gotta respect that
Omg “the madman with a box” is SO nostalgic
And with that little bit of 11's pond era theme. So good
@@zacchambers2418 The name of that song is the madman with a box
Should have had P-Caps read his own lines, but still good!
True. Except when I heard the Doctor voice for a second I thought it *was* CapDoc!
He's probably busy filming the suicide squad
His open eyes creeped the SH*T out of me
Me too
Don't blink :)
Proper freaked me out that did! I thought Peter Capaldi was just a picture on the Listen poster above, but when he opened his eyes the first time, I wasnt expecting it lol!! Well done Steven Moffat, Emily Cook and whoever creeated it so Peter opened his eyes unexpectedly. Really good
They should do this with the demons run and beast below poems
Definitely
oh yes! that would be amazing! Demons run might be my favorite of the doctor who poems
Yes
Also with the wispermen's poems?
"I'm a madman with a box." And cue Murray Gold's magical motif.
Thanks Steven, shades of Edgar Allen Poe perhaps? I'm old, Pertwee was my Doctor, Tom was my Favourite but Capaldi is the Doctor i identify with most of all....
@Spam Bam i agree with you, i think Capaldi incorporated aspects of the classic Doctors into his performance. The hair thing reminds me most of Pertwee. The script editor at that time (Terrance Dicks) used to say you could tell which series of Pertwee's era you were watching by the largeness of his hairstyle! Capaldi's grew larger in a similar way.
As for which Poe story, i guess i was thinking of the poem 'The Raven'.
Always adored Listen. Watched it again in 2019 during the Lockdown. And just cried & cried. I miss these stories & I miss this Doctor in particular. I like his age & attitude.
Transcript of the poem:
What´s that in the mirror?
And the corner of my eye?
What´s that footstep following?
And never passing by?
At night I hear such breathing
The dark is never still
The shadows all are seething
The air is damp and chill
Even as I write this
The shadows all have moved
How do I learn to fight this?
This enemy unproved
And now a voice is muttering
A voice that´s not my own
The candle now is guttering
The wind is now a moan
And wait, The door is knocking
And no, This can´t be right
The door I´m always locking
Is opening tonight
And standing there with blazing eyes
A man I´d never seen
His face was pale, And strange and wise
And lined, And very lean
"This poem that you´re writing
You now must throw away
The shadows that you´re fighting
I fight them every day
One night I´ll have to read it
And fear will grip my soul
This fear I do not need it
This fear will take a toll"
I listened as he ranted
And then I told him, no
For words, like seeds, once planted
Towards the light must grow
He stood there now in silence
He did not turn to go
His eyes were full of violence
But his voice was soft and low
"These seeds, You must not sow them
Please cast them , on the rocks
I´m the reader of this poem
I´m a madmad with a box"
It would have been epic to have Capaldi do this, but I still love this.
Jacob Dudman can impersonate Capaldi as well? Crazy.
It's crazy good. He captures a specific thing Capaldi does with his sinuses that is INCREDIBLY hard.
Hes also good at 4, 9, 10 and 11, he's made some videos including impressions of them
Thank you so much for this Mr. Moffat.
Absolutely perfect accompaniment to the episode.
Masterful!! Truly masterful! Stellar job Steven!! Awesome narration from Jacob and LOVE the artwork too :D Nice one! :)
I love this to bits, and he's done it again. I only wish, despite how great this was, that the context had been a smidgeon less specific, so I could imagine that this really was the remainder of the poem that we never got to hear in the episode. Still. I almost can anyway. Imagine the Doctor getting scared by a description of his own face...
This is what I called a brilliant poem!!!!
Moving shadows eh? Could he be nodding to the vashta nerada?
Moffat, you've done it again. Bravo.
I'm so happy to hear the madman with a box !!!
This is beautiful writing, so simple yet conveying so much emotion
I’m scared and immersed 🙃
I always found this episode very chilling and this poem adds to it! Excellent stuff!
I love the doctor’s poetic speeches
This is brilliant! Reader was great too with the impression. Thank you!
oh crimney! That was so Poe-like and yek! He opened his eyes --"the madman with a box!" Well done---reading was excellent!
OH THIS IS MARVELOUS !!! Creepy and Sad and Wonderful
Very nice poem....
I have to admit I was waiting for this to be read:
"Maybe they're just waiting.
Waiting for us to be dead.
Then out they'll come, slithering in.
From underneath the BED."
Still, I won't be listening to this at midnight (good ole classic Steven Moffat).
Great Poem! Steven Moffat at his best!
I actually just watched Listen for the first time the other night. It reminded me of a lot of the old X-Files episodes I used to watch when I was a child.
If he's sitting on top of his Tardis, where's the spinning light-thing gone? Is that how he stays anchored to his vessel?
hes sitting on the spinny light thing and the tardis extends its forcefield so that he remains anchored and can breathe.
Read by Jacob Dudman!!!!! I’m so proud I love his matt Smith impression and I was literally just watching his new video yesterday
Freaking incredible loved it
This was actually scary, amazing 😁
No poem about Doctor Who is complete without the sound of the TARDIS, just saying... VWORP VWORP
This is brilliant!!
Goosebumps.
need to hear this by mr.capaldi's voice
Chills to the bones.
I knew it was Jacob Dudman, from the first word he said...
I WAS JUST WATCHING JACOB :0
This is so chilling to the core.
That's some good voice acting!
Cool. I miss Doctor Who. What's it been now? Three or four years?
This is SO GOOD!!
Is the Doctor trying to silence the author from drawing attention to Sister of Mine in the mirror?
Oh. My. God. Just died.
My condolences.
Amazing poem! Can anyone tell me what what type of meter does it have? I've recently started learning more about poetry
Epic !!! 👏🏻👏🏻😊😊
That was fun
The Raven feels.
makes more sense in the “Listen” episode
Brilliant reading..
Only Steven Moffat could creep the hell out of us in 3 minutes! 😄😄
Fantastic!!!
Dayum!!
Christina Rossetti meets Ted Hughes meets...Dr. Who.
Awesome.
The the longer you live...the more you don't want to know.😧
*ranted
better than season 11 and 12 lol jk don't hate but seriously
🌈🕊
Would it have killed to get Capaldi to record?
The fear of Covid....
Very Poe.
So... Why, exactly, can't the show be like this anymore???
Damn you Chibby!!!
The doctor must bow on the altar of identity politics that first appeared as a weapon in Russia and resulted in a bloody revolution.
Would have been better with Capaldi doing his own voice. :-/
We need the Fourth Doctor, he would fix the current situation.
Uh... I don't get it...
It seems as though this is the full poem from the episode ‘Listen,’ and the Doctor traveled back in time to when it was written in an attempt to stop it, because the poem caused his spiral into paranoia.
But since the poem is finished, it could mean that the author ignored the Doctor and finished it anyway, meaning that the Doctor actually went back to try and stop it in order to fulfil a causal loop. He read that he interrupted the poem, and therefore went to interrupt the poem etc.
Quoth the Raven, Clara no more!
No offense but I'm gonna pause this and just read the poem so I can imagine it in Capaldi's voice, whoever they got to narrate just ain't cutting it.
did you actually watch it all the way through? because hes not meant to be impersonating capaldi for most of it. its only in the speech mark bits later on he impersonates capalidi.
We really liked this sci-fi show
Each week was must-see-viewing
Yet after Series Chibbs went out,
The whole world started booing.
Clever plots and high stakes tension
Thrown on the heap
And now they peddle PC crap
For all the U.K. sheep.
Pregnant men and racist whites
And feminists galore
And Karen is the Doctor now,
insufferable bore.
How long before they burn the past,
And cancel all that came before?
Because when the Cybermen returned,
They chucked away the lore.
Hartnell and Pertwee slammed as sexists!
Burn all the classic DVDs!
Because Jodeh is the _bestest eva!_
Chibbs, you cut the cheese...
Wish moffat would come back to doctor who and fix it
Remember during Peter Capaldi's era when people wished Russell T Davies would come back and fix it? Good times.
@@CharlesSkaggs yeah but now doctor who is properly broken and it's not just the tennant fan girls complaining anymore
@@Faulty720 Too bad for you that it isn't "properly broken". It may not be what YOU want it to be, but there are many of us who still enjoy the show.
@@CharlesSkaggs I think the ratings disagree. I watch it for sci-fi not for t total lecture. Doctor who is meant to have subtle links to social politics etc not just having it rammed down the viewers throat
@@Faulty720 You mean those ratings that aren't bad enough to prevent Series 13 from being made? Those ratings?