Can you imagine whoever pitched this idea: *”yeah let’s just have like n hour of Peter talking to himself and doing the same thing over and over. I think it will become a classic.”*
Just because he didn't say anything doesn't mean he didn't recognize it. It's entirely possible someone or something could be messing with him. It's until later the he realizes what's been going on... and then does it for a few billion years.
Heaven Sent presented a clever idea brilliantly realized on screen; the pieces of the puzzle slowly fall into place as the Doctor explores his own personal Hell. Rather than being played as slightly odd or silly the Doctor is portrayed is as he is at the core of his identity - the scientist, the one who applies his towering intellect to solving problems. A truly great performance from Peter Capaldi.
More like warrior. Scientist is inherent in the definition of warrior. Its more The Doctor's willpower here that is towering. He spends billions of years in a time loop only to, at the very end of the time loop, come to the conclusion that he has to bash through the 20 foot thick rock x4 harder than diamond with his bare fist
MrRobertdeCraon They’d probably break and don’t think he could go back because the (forgot what it’s called) monster thingy was behind him. Also, he just found room 12 and didn’t want to lose it I guess
@@grahamyodude He didn't need to used his bare fist. He has his glasses that could easily produce a high pitch sound that , in theory, shatter the wall.
@@Headloser I think u need to go back and rewatch this episode the doctor specifically points out its a certain type of rock harder than diamond. his glasses cant shatter diamond so why would they shatter an even denser harder rock?... U know what will work though? billions of years of gradual erosion by a fist
Chibnall makes Moffat look good like Trump made Bush look good. It takes a new, extraordinarily bad replacement to make you appreciate what you had, however mediocre it was. Everything is relative.
@@robinlillian9471 moffat was far from mediocre. The writing phenomenal and the subtext in the dialogue is great. Many people don’t realize how good he did with Matt and capaldi
@@harroldinab Ex-fcking-actly. :D Moffat is a borderline God when it comes to making plot twisty/overdesigned crap. :D And I love him for it. S5-7 are by far the best in the series. The whole pandorica line, the rift in space... Doctor thematically becoming the enemy of the world... Best companions 1&2... it's all there :D ^^' And before that, each top episode is written by him... -And really, people whine about Clara so damn much. :D is it so bad to have an _actually_ inspirational & intelligent female character for a change? :P Everyone was crushing on her at the time. We needed the "ultimatum". How far can you push the companion, one upping the one before? :d
This is why I love this episode. Capaldi's greatest strength as the doctor has always hands down been his monologues. He is a pair of eyebrows that monologues, and this episode is literally just him monologing.
Maybe critically but not among the general public Most people prefer stories where something actually happens not 40 minutes of The Doctor rambling to himself.
I think it's so sad that after Clara's "death" , the doctor still spoke out load as if he was talking to her because that's what he is used to and won't accept her death , he even re-lived death over a period of like 4 and a half BILLION YEARS to get to Gallifrey to have a chance at saving her . If that isn't dedication and true friendship I don't know what it is
It's a creepy obsession, that's what it is. The show has been great at giving life lessons in the past and accepting death as an inevitability is one of them.
Always thought capaldi was great. Probably my favorite of all the doctors in the reboot. But I think eccleston could have pulled this episode off too. His run was cheap and cheesey, but his acting was great, especially if you rewatch his episodes after the war doctor story.
Dmitry Snesar the docter spent 4 billion years in the confession dial constatly figuring out the puzzels, punching the crystal wall and sacrificing himself to create another docter just so he can do it again and again and again to break though the wall and excape the dial
@@RenegadeNico yet it weren't 2000 years of A SINGLE LIFE. Imagine the same doctor punching that wall for 4 BILLION YEARS. He'd go insane in a few hundred years of loneliness, jeez. And he wasn't figuring out "puzzles", he literally left them, because obv there wasn't anyone else to do that and to guide the doctor. So, he spent a little while in that place, then he died and the doctor that came out alive's spent only a few months/years tops there. Not even close to 4 billion years. The only thing he knows for sure, is that he's been dying a lot, yet he has no memories of these deaths or any left effects. You're trying to be funny or just don't understand anything.
Face The Raven and especially Heaven Sent are thought by many to be among the best ever DW episodes. It's Hell Bent that people either love or hate to bits.
BlueBattleHawk well written? It was nearly an hour of just The Doctor talking to himself walking through corridors which they repeated for 10 minutes at the end just to make up time it was the worst episode I seen
You again? Look you like action and big scenery? Fine, but understand that the reason people watch anything is because its interests them, and to most people including myself, watching the Doctor all by himself dealing with this situation and the character development is really enthralling, so most people like it, as simple as that.
This episode was a masterpiece, with Peter Capaldi's best portrayal of the Doctor to date. It's truly impressive, and a testament to his acting skill, that he was able to carry this entire episode practically on his own, with no companion and no supporting cast, just one monster hot on his heels the whole way through.
One of the greatest episodes in television history. Capaldi should have been nominated for Emmy’s and Bafta’s for this absolutely tremendous performance.
Not sure if that count but on the episode "Last Christmas", Clara waited all her life to be saved by the doctor (being a dream, I have no idea how the time would work there).
Nope, I say again without reservation, finest since Caves, though one has to acknowledge that they function differently, and are good for very different reasons, so to actually find a story that is good for the same reasons would be difficult.
Moffat's run as producer was occasionally baffling and convoluted, but it was also very high concept and brilliantly acted by the two actors he chose to be the Doctor. Smith and Capaldi, as with Eccleston and Tennant, each had very distinct and rounded personalities. Capaldi was sheer brilliance with his portrayal and I wish he'd been the Doctor for many more years.
Definitely my favorite episode by far. I have to admit I was a bit skeptic at first about Peter Capaldi being the doctor at first but once I found out that he's been watching Doctor who since he was a kid, since the beginning, I knew that he would be one of the best doctors ever because he's seen all the doctors. Peter knows all their personalities and what they're like and how to be them. I don't think they could've picked a better suited doctor
David Tennant was also a Doctor Who fan. Capaldi's biggest problem was that the writing quality had already started to decline. Jodie Whittaker never even bothered to watch episodes of the show even after she was chosen for the part. When you don't care about something, or even actively hate it, you tend to do a bad job.
I like the little detail of the Doctor keeping tempo. I mean, a timelord keeping track of time is such a small but brilliant idea, especially since he kept going after the music
I think that's a detail I've missed on this episode. What was behind it, what was he keeping track of the tempo for? The length of time per 'loop'? Moffat said the loops were getting tighter on each iteration.
@@matta728 he was counting seconds so he knows how long he has before the Creature is near. i.e. he counted 82 minutes to go from one end of the castle to the other end. This he can figure out how much time he has left.
Miemels Silence at the Library was one of the creepiest episodes. It also contained *_the_* *most* dangerous enemy in the entirety of the Whoniverse: The Vashta Nerada.
The thing that I really like about this episode, is that if the doctor had only confessed in front of the azbantium, he would have been able to save Clara. But because he stubbornly spent billions of years punching through it, her death became fixed and there was nothing he could do. He basically had a choice between his companion or his secret, and he chose his secret.
He did save her in the end, though. She's practically immortal and has her own Tardis. She'll have to return to her moment of death eventually, but if she can live billions of years while time traveling until then, it doesn't really matter.
Easily in my top 5 favourite episodes. Everything from the writing to the directing to the music to the acting... everything is spot on - incredible atmosphere to it. This is why I hope Moffat continues to write standalone episodes in the Chibnall-era.
I think Moffat is great at writing stories, but bad at making arcs, except for Series 5. If he came back once in a while after he leaves, I have no doubt he will write brilliant episodes.
TheMrJay8 this is an episode I will never watch again! What's so special about 50 minutes of The Doctor walking through corridors talking to himself with terrible acting and they didn't know what to do with the final 15 minutes so they just repeated the whole episode at the end.!
Akhaten His arcs while Smith was the Doctor were excellent imo, the only problem I had was waiting until Time of the Doctor to conclude the Series 5 arc. The reveal that Kovarian blew up the TARDIS should have been in Wedding of River Song, and the Silence and the cracks should have been left alone. The gap between when 'the question' was revealed (in Series 6) and when the prophecy was fulfilled in Time of the Doctor was too long. The end of Series 6 seemed like the Doctor was really under threat from Trenzalore and the question, and then he ignored it for a whole series.
Why did he need to prove supremacy? Supremacy to whom? Other actors who played the Doctor? Different is not necessarily better or worse. Although it could be worse--like Jodie Whittaker. People who hate a show's fans tend not to do a good job.
iain rickwood It doesn't matter who disagrees. The fact that we all have different opinions & preferences is what makes the world great. Imagine if we all liked exactly the same things - life would be pretty boring & lacking in variety then.
Mother Chaos need to be careful with the ends of that scale tho, literally every war in the history of man has been because of those differences, and most brutal totalitarian regimes have been because of a few individuals wanted their way over said differences
I don't actually get why people don't like it. the whole point of the episode was that the doctor broke all his own rules, he went too far and that was the whole point.
Hell bent was a missed opportunity. It was the perfect moment to re- introduce Omega. I would have written it as the time lords are preparing to flee to the anti matter universe and appeal to Omega for Sanctuary. Omega instead is still bent on revenge, and after learning of what they did to the Doctor, asks twelve to help him destroy gallifrey. So the doctor is forced to save Gallifrey from the man who basically built all their defense systems, as well as stop the other time lords from fleeing into the anti matter universe before all of time expires.
Heaven sent is by far in my top 3 favorite episodes possibly #1, Capaldi knocks his performance out of the park the twists and turns are perfectly timed the staging is beautiful and terrifying and it can stand alone without needing almost any context of the seasons story line. Damn near perfect IMO.
It's not the first time it's been a year. The Day of the Doctor + The Time of the Doctor Soundtrack was released in late 2014. The series 8 soundtrack was only as early as it was (May 2015) because it was released to tie into a music event they were running.
My jaw dropped when I realized that the doctor was going to recycle himself billions of times until he could punch through a solid wall. Such determination. The time lords were not nearly scared enough
I love how he spills the whole hybrid speech and confesses he’s afraid at the end to trigger the movement and thereby making Rassilon think he was telling the truth, when it was all lies apart from him being scared
This episode was something else entirely. Truly marvelous. While I fell off the Doctor Who train, this episode, this one Capaldi episode, has stuck with me hard through all these years since. What a wonderful performance, story, everything. Incredible.
This episode is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy batter than any other DW episode, actually, comparing Heaven Sent to any DW episode would be an insult to Heaven Sent. It's so good, it deserves an oscar.
I think he was saying a confession. Remember the Time lords did this all to get him to confess what the Hybrid was. He knew that he needed to confess what the hybrid was. If he said out loud this is a confession the creature can't kill him since he needs to confess, so he just "confessed" to what the legend said. I think it was a trick and he never knew what the hybrid was until later on with him and Clara.
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 it was more that him caring about Clara was the hybrid. A time lord going to extreme lengths for a human was deemed the "Hybrid"
Terrific and rewatchable episode. The acting, monster, atmosphere, music, cinematography, editing and writing is so good that an underwhelming cliffhanger, a plot hole, a stupid retcon of the doctor's backstory and the following episode can't stop how great it is.
God I keep coming back to this scene, even after so many years. One thing you might want to know is that it's 100% based/inspired by "Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92: II. Allegretto" by Beethoven. One of my favourite classical pieces so I recognised what Murray Gold was pulling from immediately.
Series 2: The best episode is at best decent. Series 3: Blink, Family Of Blood, Utopia... Series 7: Didn't have the same amout of bad episodes as Series 2, but had epic moments like Rings of Akaten, not whole episodes, sadly. Day Of The Doctor doesn't count. Series 8: Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline... But welp, none of these compare to Heaven Sent tho
MaddoxProductions1 Four/Sarah had different writers, so obviously. The suckitude had nothing to do with the characters. In the classic era, it would've been a classy four-parter without dodgy CGI.
If you think about the titles of the episodes it's very thought out. Heaven sent him to save the universe and set things right, but during his adventures he went through hell, which bent his core beliefs and broke his own rules. Heaven sent him and hell bent him. Hell bent can also refer to him being hellbent on going to gallifrey
And people say moffat was a bad writer. This was nearing the end of his run. He still had some great ideas up until his very last episode. I wish people would realize that writing a TV show and not having any bad episodes is impossible. Moffat was great and a worthy successor to Davies. I hope chibnall writes some more interesting stuff in his next season. I'd love to be proven wrong about him and jodie.
Can you imagine whoever pitched this idea:
*”yeah let’s just have like n hour of Peter talking to himself and doing the same thing over and over. I think it will become a classic.”*
XAndroid1 no same it was amazing but the idea tho
When you put it like that, yeah, it sounds genius! Shame the episode was only about a billion times better than it sounds though.
Steven Moffat obviously
It was obvi the brilliant Moff
I mean he didn't really have to pitch it seeing as he was the showrunner and writer of this episode though lol
For someone who knows the color of his own kidneys, I'm surprised the Doctor didn't recognize his own skull.
Aaron Vitug maybe he did... he just didn't want to believe it was his
Funny I thought it was obvious after S8 that "I don't like the color" referred to the green TARDIS.
thor1160 What green TARDIS?
I know right
Just because he didn't say anything doesn't mean he didn't recognize it. It's entirely possible someone or something could be messing with him. It's until later the he realizes what's been going on... and then does it for a few billion years.
Heaven Sent presented a clever idea brilliantly realized on screen; the pieces of the puzzle slowly fall into place as the Doctor explores his own personal Hell. Rather than being played as slightly odd or silly the Doctor is portrayed is as he is at the core of his identity - the scientist, the one who applies his towering intellect to solving problems. A truly great performance from Peter Capaldi.
More like warrior. Scientist is inherent in the definition of warrior. Its more The Doctor's willpower here that is towering. He spends billions of years in a time loop only to, at the very end of the time loop, come to the conclusion that he has to bash through the 20 foot thick rock x4 harder than diamond with his bare fist
Yes. But why only with his bare fist? Why does he never take the shovel or a rock with him? That would come in handy under such circumstances... ;)
MrRobertdeCraon They’d probably break and don’t think he could go back because the (forgot what it’s called) monster thingy was behind him. Also, he just found room 12 and didn’t want to lose it I guess
@@grahamyodude He didn't need to used his bare fist. He has his glasses that could easily produce a high pitch sound that , in theory, shatter the wall.
@@Headloser I think u need to go back and rewatch this episode the doctor specifically points out its a certain type of rock harder than diamond. his glasses cant shatter diamond so why would they shatter an even denser harder rock?... U know what will work though? billions of years of gradual erosion by a fist
Capaldi’s doctor run was essentially a massive character study and I adore it. Moffat was a genius in what he did and we never saw it.
Chibnall makes Moffat look good like Trump made Bush look good. It takes a new, extraordinarily bad replacement to make you appreciate what you had, however mediocre it was. Everything is relative.
@@robinlillian9471 moffat was far from mediocre. The writing phenomenal and the subtext in the dialogue is great. Many people don’t realize how good he did with Matt and capaldi
It was hard to see past all that Clara
Clara, Clara, Clara
@@brycehanson6518 Ikr. People tend to forget that Moffat's episodes in the RTD era were always the best ones.
@@harroldinab Ex-fcking-actly. :D Moffat is a borderline God when it comes to making plot twisty/overdesigned crap. :D And I love him for it. S5-7 are by far the best in the series. The whole pandorica line, the rift in space... Doctor thematically becoming the enemy of the world... Best companions 1&2... it's all there :D ^^' And before that, each top episode is written by him...
-And really, people whine about Clara so damn much. :D is it so bad to have an _actually_ inspirational & intelligent female character for a change? :P Everyone was crushing on her at the time. We needed the "ultimatum". How far can you push the companion, one upping the one before? :d
So that's how long it takes to break a bedrock block.
@@LongingString And unbreaking III so he could get extra hits in lol
@@pokediggameshd723 he just needed the strip miner mod
And must turn it to peaceful
He could've just went into creative mode
Will na he wanted to go the long way around
This is why I love this episode. Capaldi's greatest strength as the doctor has always hands down been his monologues. He is a pair of eyebrows that monologues, and this episode is literally just him monologing.
the best attack eyebrows that we don't deserve
Those eyebrows aren't just for opening bottles.
Same for Smith tbh. They did their best work in the monologues it was the best writings of their poorly written moments
That is the best description of 12 ever😂😂 a pair of eyebrows that monologues😂
I'm monologging right now on the toilet, if you catch me.
I love how the doctor assumes "Home" is reffering to the tardis when it is actually referring to his home planet.
Gallifrey you mean
Ayşenur Muti what else is his home planet Jupiter ??
@@hououinkyouma6929 Well we don't know anymore
@@prof-eon It's still Gallifrey, he/she grew up there and lived there for a long time so its his/her home
@@aysenurmuti9903 No, when he first saw the wall he said, "The TARDIS. One confession away."
This episode will last forever as one of the greatest
heeeyyy crispy, hola amigo
It truly was a masterpiece. But Hell Bent was a... well.. a letdown, let's just say.
Crispy Pro yes this episode was class and poetry in motion ...pete capaldi is awesome
agreed
Maybe critically but not among the general public Most people prefer stories where something actually happens not 40 minutes of The Doctor rambling to himself.
I think it's so sad that after Clara's "death" , the doctor still spoke out load as if he was talking to her because that's what he is used to and won't accept her death , he even re-lived death over a period of like 4 and a half BILLION YEARS to get to Gallifrey to have a chance at saving her . If that isn't dedication and true friendship I don't know what it is
It's a creepy obsession, that's what it is. The show has been great at giving life lessons in the past and accepting death as an inevitability is one of them.
But the most important lesson is that loneliness can kill a person.
Tanya Ellaboarde Then find other people out there. Move on.
It's Me Tamara or get a K9 , "master"
Who's Tamara? Do you mean Clara? Or Romana?
Best episode ever. Nothing comes close. Maybe midnight. Capaldi's acting in this was magnificent no other doctor could have done it.
Banterlope midnight and heaven sent are my faves too:)
David Tenant: "hold my beer"
Always thought capaldi was great. Probably my favorite of all the doctors in the reboot. But I think eccleston could have pulled this episode off too. His run was cheap and cheesey, but his acting was great, especially if you rewatch his episodes after the war doctor story.
@Fred H You're right, best episode of all and only Capaldi could play this.
all been except Capaldi has won an Oscar so he's chugging that beer now.
love how all of this episodes lines are just the doctor monologuing to himself.
zact lee Peter Capaldi‘s greatest strenght IS the monolog.
Yeah. Not many people could pull that off.
and you don't even notice there's no one else because - Peter Capaldi.
@@mckenzie4778 what about the kid at the end
Rory: I waited 2000 years for Amy!
The Doctor: Hold my beer...
nah, Rory waited 2k years while the doctor 1-3 months tops and repeat. That's not that long
Dmitry Snesar the docter spent 4 billion years in the confession dial constatly figuring out the puzzels, punching the crystal wall and sacrificing himself to create another docter just so he can do it again and again and again to break though the wall and excape the dial
Nikey_Boy yep, doesn’t sound like a couple months
@@RenegadeNico yet it weren't 2000 years of A SINGLE LIFE. Imagine the same doctor punching that wall for 4 BILLION YEARS. He'd go insane in a few hundred years of loneliness, jeez. And he wasn't figuring out "puzzles", he literally left them, because obv there wasn't anyone else to do that and to guide the doctor. So, he spent a little while in that place, then he died and the doctor that came out alive's spent only a few months/years tops there. Not even close to 4 billion years. The only thing he knows for sure, is that he's been dying a lot, yet he has no memories of these deaths or any left effects.
You're trying to be funny or just don't understand anything.
@@majzerofive I don't get how the others don't understand this very simple point. I really don't.
The Death of Clara story arc (The last three episodes of Series 9) are probably some of the most underrated episodes of Doctor Who ever made.
Face The Raven and especially Heaven Sent are thought by many to be among the best ever DW episodes. It's Hell Bent that people either love or hate to bits.
This episode was so well written.
BlueBattleHawk well written? It was nearly an hour of just The Doctor talking to himself walking through corridors which they repeated for 10 minutes at the end just to make up time it was the worst episode I seen
JustSomeRandomGuy Online ok
+JustSomeRandomGuy Online If you want explosions and action then you can go watch A Good Man Goes To War or Day Of The Doctor.
You again? Look you like action and big scenery? Fine, but understand that the reason people watch anything is because its interests them, and to most people including myself, watching the Doctor all by himself dealing with this situation and the character development is really enthralling, so most people like it, as simple as that.
@@baishihua Personally I liked it because of the distinct lack of clara
This episode was a masterpiece, with Peter Capaldi's best portrayal of the Doctor to date. It's truly impressive, and a testament to his acting skill, that he was able to carry this entire episode practically on his own, with no companion and no supporting cast, just one monster hot on his heels the whole way through.
One of the greatest episodes in television history. Capaldi should have been nominated for Emmy’s and Bafta’s for this absolutely tremendous performance.
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Amy: “I waited 14 years.”
Old Amy: “I waited 36 Years!”
Rory: “I waited 2,000 Years!!”
The Doctor: “Hold my screwdriver…”
Not sure if that count but on the episode "Last Christmas", Clara waited all her life to be saved by the doctor (being a dream, I have no idea how the time would work there).
@@Zekium yeah thats like 14 years and she thought that the doctor was a dream years ago
The finest episode of Doctor Who since The Caves of Androzani, and even then, it's on a par, magnificent.
Nope, I say again without reservation, finest since Caves, though one has to acknowledge that they function differently, and are good for very different reasons, so to actually find a story that is good for the same reasons would be difficult.
@Cryer24597 why?
Dude this is next level asmr
Peters voice is actual heaven.
Loved this episode, one of the best ever!
Peter Capaldi is such a talented legend!
Moffat's run as producer was occasionally baffling and convoluted, but it was also very high concept and brilliantly acted by the two actors he chose to be the Doctor. Smith and Capaldi, as with Eccleston and Tennant, each had very distinct and rounded personalities. Capaldi was sheer brilliance with his portrayal and I wish he'd been the Doctor for many more years.
Definitely my favorite episode by far. I have to admit I was a bit skeptic at first about Peter Capaldi being the doctor at first but once I found out that he's been watching Doctor who since he was a kid, since the beginning, I knew that he would be one of the best doctors ever because he's seen all the doctors. Peter knows all their personalities and what they're like and how to be them. I don't think they could've picked a better suited doctor
David Tennant was also a Doctor Who fan. Capaldi's biggest problem was that the writing quality had already started to decline. Jodie Whittaker never even bothered to watch episodes of the show even after she was chosen for the part. When you don't care about something, or even actively hate it, you tend to do a bad job.
@@robinlillian9471 I mean Jodie was asked not to watch the show Don't know how late I am
@@plantainsame2049 why?
Best Doctor Who episode ever
one of the best new who stories ever
Agreed. Its my favourite episode of Doctor Who
I'm a sucker for Zygons, UNIT/U.N.I.T and Osgood, in equal measure. I think that says it all.
Are you serious it was one of the worst
Son of Everything DC & Marvel it was boring and had no plot apart from The Doctor walking through corridors for 50 minutes
I like the little detail of the Doctor keeping tempo. I mean, a timelord keeping track of time is such a small but brilliant idea, especially since he kept going after the music
I think that's a detail I've missed on this episode. What was behind it, what was he keeping track of the tempo for? The length of time per 'loop'? Moffat said the loops were getting tighter on each iteration.
@@matta728 he was counting seconds so he knows how long he has before the Creature is near.
i.e. he counted 82 minutes to go from one end of the castle to the other end. This he can figure out how much time he has left.
This episode, along with Blink are my favourite episodes of all time.
What about Time of the Doctor?
Blink was actually my first episode. :)
Ewan Suttie what about the library
Miemels Yeah and those two.
Miemels Silence at the Library was one of the creepiest episodes. It also contained *_the_* *most* dangerous enemy in the entirety of the Whoniverse: The Vashta Nerada.
my favortie Twelfth Doctor episode of all!!! great acting. Great story. Great monster. Great motivation...
Great sub story told by Capaldi while punching away the wall "life" after "life".
NO SIR ALL THIRTEEN
TAC Productions
(We don't count John Hurt...)
The thing that I really like about this episode, is that if the doctor had only confessed in front of the azbantium, he would have been able to save Clara. But because he stubbornly spent billions of years punching through it, her death became fixed and there was nothing he could do. He basically had a choice between his companion or his secret, and he chose his secret.
He did save her in the end, though. She's practically immortal and has her own Tardis. She'll have to return to her moment of death eventually, but if she can live billions of years while time traveling until then, it doesn't really matter.
@@DissectingThoughts it matters to 12 since she’s not traveling with him.
@@inaminayo5327 right, of course. I meant it doesn't matter much for her lifespan. If anything it's an improvement.
I’d say he chose wisely! 🤣 But I am no fan of Clara… I agree this is an excellent episode.
But I thought he actually didn't know anything...like he wasn't holding onto a secret, he was just making them believe he had one to use as leverage.
Love Peter as the doctor he's a brilliant actor
Easily in my top 5 favourite episodes. Everything from the writing to the directing to the music to the acting... everything is spot on - incredible atmosphere to it. This is why I hope Moffat continues to write standalone episodes in the Chibnall-era.
I think Moffat is great at writing stories, but bad at making arcs, except for Series 5. If he came back once in a while after he leaves, I have no doubt he will write brilliant episodes.
TheMrJay8 this is an episode I will never watch again! What's so special about 50 minutes of The Doctor walking through corridors talking to himself with terrible acting and they didn't know what to do with the final 15 minutes so they just repeated the whole episode at the end.!
Akhaten
His arcs while Smith was the Doctor were excellent imo, the only problem I had was waiting until Time of the Doctor to conclude the Series 5 arc. The reveal that Kovarian blew up the TARDIS should have been in Wedding of River Song, and the Silence and the cracks should have been left alone. The gap between when 'the question' was revealed (in Series 6) and when the prophecy was fulfilled in Time of the Doctor was too long. The end of Series 6 seemed like the Doctor was really under threat from Trenzalore and the question, and then he ignored it for a whole series.
Capaldi proved his supremacy in this very episode
Why did he need to prove supremacy? Supremacy to whom? Other actors who played the Doctor? Different is not necessarily better or worse. Although it could be worse--like Jodie Whittaker. People who hate a show's fans tend not to do a good job.
These 4 minutes blow the entire last 2 seasons out of the water. Anyone here after the latest finale to remember what Dr Who can and should be?
whatever20030 yes
Heaven Sent was hands down one of the best episodes of Doctor Who ever.
Mother Chaos are you serious? It's the worst
+JustSomeRandomGuy Online I think the entire Doctor Who fandom vehemently disagrees with you
iain rickwood It doesn't matter who disagrees. The fact that we all have different opinions & preferences is what makes the world great. Imagine if we all liked exactly the same things - life would be pretty boring & lacking in variety then.
Mother Chaos need to be careful with the ends of that scale tho, literally every war in the history of man has been because of those differences, and most brutal totalitarian regimes have been because of a few individuals wanted their way over said differences
iain rickwood I don't think there is going to be a war any time soon over episodes of Doctor Who.
3:00 i gotta admit, i do kinda like the sonic glasses
The episode was just so good that I forgave them this time
Anyone else actually like Hell Bent? This episode was awesome though
pjgs I loved it. Cries my eyes out when he forgot Clara.
I don't actually get why people don't like it. the whole point of the episode was that the doctor broke all his own rules, he went too far and that was the whole point.
Only the ending was really any good, the entire thing otherwise felt like a massive letdown.
Hell Bent was pretty good, the scenes on Gallifrey were AMAZING, but all the Ashilder/me stuff was a bit meh.
Hell bent was a missed opportunity. It was the perfect moment to re- introduce Omega. I would have written it as the time lords are preparing to flee to the anti matter universe and appeal to Omega for Sanctuary. Omega instead is still bent on revenge, and after learning of what they did to the Doctor, asks twelve to help him destroy gallifrey. So the doctor is forced to save Gallifrey from the man who basically built all their defense systems, as well as stop the other time lords from fleeing into the anti matter universe before all of time expires.
One of the best, maybe even the best episode of the new doctor who.
Midnight and Blink are both some of the greatest too
Blink and Heaven Sent are just fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
Best episode ever
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I liked season 9 episode 1 the best. So good :)
Adrian S.H It was truly amazing, though I thought Heaven Sent was not just a TV Episode but a work of art.
Skull Gamer OK
Are you serious? It was terrible I won't watch it ever again
Heaven sent is by far in my top 3 favorite episodes possibly #1, Capaldi knocks his performance out of the park the twists and turns are perfectly timed the staging is beautiful and terrifying and it can stand alone without needing almost any context of the seasons story line. Damn near perfect IMO.
I JUST CANT HANDLE THE EPICNESS
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xxx Lafayettexxx ITS OVER 9000!
This was the best episode of doctor who I have ever seen
WHERE'S THE SERIES 9 SOUNDTRACK
LegoDWFanInc Ikr, at least give us a release date or something. we've been waiting for a year now!
It'll probably be out after the Christmas Special
LegoDWFanInc I really need it now
It's not the first time it's been a year. The Day of the Doctor + The Time of the Doctor Soundtrack was released in late 2014. The series 8 soundtrack was only as early as it was (May 2015) because it was released to tie into a music event they were running.
LegoDWFanInc they're taking far longer than the norm this time. with little to no information as to why
Best Doctor Who episode. 12/10
FallenColours watch more episodes then! This episode is an insult to the show itself
270 people disagree with you.
FallenColours 270 isn't a lot out of the 5 million that watched it
well most of the five million people disagree with you
You realize this is my personal opinion? No need to be so rude. Plus, I have watched every episode.
Such an incredible episode. Season 9 was amazing but this episode was 10 times above the best of the rest.
One of the show's greatest ever episodes
MrSpeaker this episode doesn't exist in my mind it's that bad
One of Doctor Who's best episodes, awesome
One of? Undoubtedly his best!
I'm honest here it one best scenes for acting you can ever get. The way he takes each moment shows how he though the doctor would reminis on his past
My jaw dropped when I realized that the doctor was going to recycle himself billions of times until he could punch through a solid wall. Such determination.
The time lords were not nearly scared enough
Bro why I’d this episode just gushing with pure brilliance.
Easily the best episode from the Twelfth Doctor's era! The music was sensational and the breaking the wall scene which followed in incredible!
a scandal in belgravia, the winds of winter and heaven sent remain some of the best episodes the world has ever seen
My favorite episode of this Doctor
I actually cried after I realized the philosophical weight of this episode
Omg the music... Capaldi + that music is a masterpiece.
3:00 - 3:25 this lives rent free in my brain. The most beautiful moment for me. Murray Gold outdid himself.
the episode that confirmed that capaldi is one of the greatest doctors and that season 9 is one of the best of the series
We went from this to "AY UP FAM"
best doctor who episode ever by far. moffat has outdone himself
I love how he spills the whole hybrid speech and confesses he’s afraid at the end to trigger the movement and thereby making Rassilon think he was telling the truth, when it was all lies apart from him being scared
please bring the wall braking scene it was one of the best
hanoli yakovson It's obvious they will! Just like The Doctor's speech was obvious to upload, and they did :)
This episode was something else entirely. Truly marvelous. While I fell off the Doctor Who train, this episode, this one Capaldi episode, has stuck with me hard through all these years since. What a wonderful performance, story, everything. Incredible.
When I first saw this episode, I got bored halfway through, I didn't switch off though. Since watching it again, it's become one of my favorites!!
This episode was so creepy... this monster with flies...
This episode is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy batter than any other DW episode, actually, comparing Heaven Sent to any DW episode would be an insult to Heaven Sent. It's so good, it deserves an oscar.
“I confess I know the hybrid is real. I know what it is.”
Next episode
“So what’s the hybrid? Did we land somewhere on that?”
I think he was saying a confession. Remember the Time lords did this all to get him to confess what the Hybrid was. He knew that he needed to confess what the hybrid was. If he said out loud this is a confession the creature can't kill him since he needs to confess, so he just "confessed" to what the legend said. I think it was a trick and he never knew what the hybrid was until later on with him and Clara.
@@uhejnjd wasn't the resolution eventually that he was the hybrid or something
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 it was more that him caring about Clara was the hybrid. A time lord going to extreme lengths for a human was deemed the "Hybrid"
@@uhejnjd don't kill the people he cares about got it *adds kill the people he cares about to a to do list*
Rule 1: The Doctor Lies
Hardness is resistance to scratching, however this substance might be extremely more brittle than diamond.
Terrific and rewatchable episode. The acting, monster, atmosphere, music, cinematography, editing and writing is so good that an underwhelming cliffhanger, a plot hole, a stupid retcon of the doctor's backstory and the following episode can't stop how great it is.
Literally the best episode ever made. Capaldi is my favourite doctor
Easily Capaldi’s best Doctor Who episode. They let the man shine and express himself.
When you watch this episode you will weep and laugh and become a different person
One of the absolute best Doctors we've ever had, and one of the best actors in Peter Capaldi, in one of the best episodes ever!
I desperately need the soundtrack at 2:13
Not Spiderman Absolutely agree with you. I just hope it's released before 2017!
Finally out, it is "The Final Room", 3rd disc! :3
God I keep coming back to this scene, even after so many years.
One thing you might want to know is that it's 100% based/inspired by "Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92: II. Allegretto" by Beethoven. One of my favourite classical pieces so I recognised what Murray Gold was pulling from immediately.
I suffered such existential nightmares when I learned about how the teleport was being used.
How is it being used?
I miss Steven Moffat's writing :(
The best episode this shows produced in a good 4 or 5 years
One of the darkest episodes from a particularly dark season.
He would have been a lot quicker if he had kicked the diamond wall.
By far the best episode of new who
Capaldi was the peak of Doctor who and for me it ended with him.
They need to air this episode again on TV!
TheJackFroster they need to erase this episode from canon
two more clips from heaven sent
-the part when he talk to Clara in his mental TARDIS
-what a hell of a bird
please make it real , please!!!!
This episode is amazing. I almost gave up on Doctor Who during season 8, but this episode brought me back to the show.
This is my favourite DW episode. Absolutely. Also the music seems to recall tunes of Beethoven and Mozart maybe? I love it
I feel like every doctor/series of doctor who had at least 1 amazing episode
I can't think of one in Series 7. Or Series 2 or 3. Or Series 8.
DarthRushy
Series 3:Blink
Series 2:i don't know if i would say it was amazing,but my favourite was doomsday
Series 8:Mummy on The Orient Express
id go with school reunion for 2
Series 2: The best episode is at best decent.
Series 3: Blink, Family Of Blood, Utopia...
Series 7: Didn't have the same amout of bad episodes as Series 2, but had epic moments like Rings of Akaten, not whole episodes, sadly. Day Of The Doctor doesn't count.
Series 8: Mummy on the Orient Express, Flatline...
But welp, none of these compare to Heaven Sent tho
MaddoxProductions1 Four/Sarah had different writers, so obviously. The suckitude had nothing to do with the characters.
In the classic era, it would've been a classy four-parter without dodgy CGI.
The best episode of all doctor who history.
Hurry up and release the Heaven sent soundtrack 🔊😒
his hand claps... theyre seconds...
Absolutely love the music from 2:13 to 3:26
The cinematography and the music in this episode is just so different from anything that Doctor Who has ever done. It’s astounding
If you think about the titles of the episodes it's very thought out. Heaven sent him to save the universe and set things right, but during his adventures he went through hell, which bent his core beliefs and broke his own rules. Heaven sent him and hell bent him. Hell bent can also refer to him being hellbent on going to gallifrey
This was a one of those deep thinking scenes and you could make what you wanted out of it. In other words, great creative writing
And people say moffat was a bad writer. This was nearing the end of his run. He still had some great ideas up until his very last episode. I wish people would realize that writing a TV show and not having any bad episodes is impossible. Moffat was great and a worthy successor to Davies. I hope chibnall writes some more interesting stuff in his next season. I'd love to be proven wrong about him and jodie.
This is with out a doubt the best episode ever made
Capaldi took a bit of time to grow on me (Tennant is my favorite), but I loved this episode.
Speak for yourself kid, David is surely not my number one
Who is?
Matt, followed by Chris, unfortunately i hadn't the chance to watch the classic episodes
One of the best scenes from one of the best episodes of one of the best shows
12 will save the universe a billion times before Moffat gets season 4 of Sherlock out
I was so engrossed by this clip I expected to see the rest of the whole episode! This was one of the best!
Bring back the classic clips aswell!:3
One of the greatest episode ever.
Give the man a Oscar already
he has one....
Spectacular moment. I really miss him
The best episode in Doctor Who, followed by the worst.
Zoey Moon both are bad Heaven Sent 0/10
Hell Bent 4/10
All of Chibnall's episodes were a lot worse
Arguably one of the best Doctor Who episodes whether is classic Who or New-Who... Capaldi nailed it... !!!