The best 'cold open' in Doctor Who
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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Peter Capaldi’s Doctor is the most philosophical of the lot, in my opinion. His theories draw you in and keep you interested, he builds incredible tension, and he is able to deliver lines with a dry humour that still makes you question things.
It’s the accent lol
This cold opening gave me the biggest chill back when I first watched it, I don't think another doctor who opening has top it since.
Well, Before the Flood might trump it, maybe...
@@Likesouh I'd say they're on the same wavelength, both really great openings
This was a great setup for the concept of unknown horror
At this rate, they shall never top it.
The lighting and colour grading in the capaldi era was the best it's ever been, and so far it hasn't been that good again since
I know right, like I feel like they tried with Thirteens era and her TARDIS but it was always too dark.
@MSiSyt yeah but that era was far to yellow for me personally, and was almost entirely shot as mid closeups The whole thing had a weird yellow colour, although it got better in flux. And then the 60th episodes were also weirdly yellow again. Comparatively, the capaldi era tended towards more black and blue colours, which look more like English weather and also just are much easier on my eyes. But it's extremely subjective as far as colour grading is concerned.
But in terms of editing and shots... the capaldi/smith era clealry clears all others.
My favourite series was Eccleston's but the visual appearance was cheap at times, cozy at others, and actually pretty damn well shot at other times. A bit of a mixed bag. Capaldi era direction was fantastic even if not all of the episodes were brilliant.
Can imagine Sutekh shaking thinking he’d been clocked in Listen😂
And the perfect ending to this scene is…..
There isn’t one. His question never gets answered
But it does, they'd listen.
And that's how you create horror. But having the protagonist "face" something he does not remotely understand the nature of.
At the end of the episode he writes the same word, “listen”. It’s an exact match. He wrote the word himself, nobody is listening.
He just got scared by clara that one night, when she grabbed his ankles from under the bed.
@@ItsBuboBuboincorrect. Recall what happened to the child, there was in fact something there that could hide anywhere, and mimic anything (took the shape of the child and used the doctors hand writing)
The point was that what it does is listen, it's always there, and it's one thing the doctor decided not to mess with.
For once he has to be content with knowing he's being watched.(Which plays as a wink at the audience who's watching.)
@@almessasorrow4950 oh ye that’s true, forgot about that scene😄
Series 8 is vastly underrated.
It’s the finale that lets it down. Series 9 on the other hand had a perfect one!
@@malypavel25what's wrong with the finale?
@@malypavel25 I'd say it's the other way around. 8 is a pretty solid season, with a GREAT finale. Series 9 is a stronger season episode to episode, but Hell Bent is a controversial finale.
Fr kill the moon and forest of the night are the only bad episodes
Capaldi is rightfully loved for his role, Missy likewise. Nardull, bill, the assortment of annoying hangers on and terrible writing/scripts/excessive-”current day activism” and berating the past by the kinks b quirks of the now now so much, that has been rightfully lambasted.
This was the moment that Capaldi became The Doctor. Every Doctor has that moment. This was Capaldi's.
Except Jodie bless her
@@MIGHTYBOOSCH198 who?
@@MIGHTYBOOSCH198she did have a moment as the doctor in the episode with mary shelly. but it didn’t really stick.
well the answer is the Silence but the Doctor forgot about them
He also forgot about species that can camouflage too 😅
IMO, the perfect defense that should've been shown is the Angels. That would be the equivalent to this creature that's perfect at hiding. There are plenty of creatures with hiding skills comparable to a puffer fish's defense skills.
Also, best cold open imo is Before the Flood's in Series 9 where the Doctor is explaining the bootstrap paradox.
Oh, this episode is my favourite one across the whole series! I adore everything in it! The plot, the monster, the environment in it. And, of course, the Clara’s speech to the little Doctor
This all is so spectacular…
In retrospect, this scene is foreshadowing Twelve's eventual role as a professor. It's hard to say whether that was planned by Moffat all the while or whether it just dovetails nicely.
not just cold open. the whole episode is one of the best in new who easily.
Which episode?
Not exactly new who tho, is it
I a universe where there are perception filters and creatures that you forget exist when you not looking at them, this is probs why the doctor is asking it. Also the doctor (especially 12) is deadly afraid of being alone. Maybe creating an imaginary monster is like a coping mechanism. All people have their darkest thoughts manifest when they are alone, the doctor has seen a lot and done a lot.
Moffat's era is so underrated istg
I don’t think series 6, 7 or 8 are particularly good but 5, 9 and 10 are great, some of the best doctor who
@@patrickchoque77208 was decent. Not amazing, but it had great episodes
@@patrickchoque7720 6 and 7 were the low point (even if a couple episodes were good), but Capaldi's era is probably my favourite after Eccleston's (even if Tennant's is iconic)
Best doctor, best interior ever.
i like bootstrap paradox more but this is also good
I bet Sutek was going crazy in this scene, thinking he was going to be found xDD
0:45 I also love how you don't see the Doctor write "Hiding" but you see him write the question mark. Gives me this feeling that something is listening to him and wrote it themself, which also drives home the whole point of the episode, to "Listen". Idk if that was intentional but I like it
Nah I think you’ve slightly misinterpreted but you almost had it.
So the doctor wrote his 3 points (including “hiding” while the camera was panned away) but then he puts the chalk down and turns away. He turns back and the chalk is gone, his writing has been erased - replaced by the word “listen”.
So this hidden being took the chalk, and wrote “listen” as an answer to his question “what would you do?”
The silences are basically that. Masters at going unnoticed. Because who would try to hunt something they don't know exists, something they have no reason to suspect ? If you don't remember, you don't search for them.
Ah, but the Silence play into a different 'quirk' of human psychology. Remember that bit of footage the Doctor got inserted into the first Moon Landing? Of COURSE you don't, it featured a Silence, and you forgot it once you stopped seeing it. But the Silence could influence people through 'post-hypnotic suggestions,' by giving the person information or a command while in view, and the thought remains even though the Silence is forgotten. And what was the Silence caught saying in the Moon Landing footage?
"...you should kill us on sight."
Have you ever stumbled over nothing, tripped on clear, open floor? That might have been the body of a dead Silence that you forgot about once it left your field of view. It might even be a Silence that you killed and then forgot about. A sudden muscle or joint pain out of nowhere? you may have been fighting a Silence. Time seemed to pass faster than you expected? 'Missing' time? could have been an encounter with a Silence.
They hide outside our ... not our perception, we can see them just fine ... outside our sense of Object Permanence, but they are not Perfect Hiders.
The Silence work well because they 'hook' onto quirks of our own cognition. Much like the Weeping Angels (in their original episode; later appearances screwed with the rules too much), We all have had Real Live experiences that COULD fit the way the Silence and/or Angels are described, and that's what makes them creepy; they lean on the Fourth Wall. (Remember, in Blink, The Angels never moved when we saw them in an adjoining hallway, until the human character walked across the scene and the Angel was hidden from the camera, hidden from US. WE counted as an 'observer' that kept Angels quantum-locked, WE were part of the story, too.)
@@andrewdreasler428 That is one of the best comments I seen on a Doctor Who video. Congrats.
Murricans would
Good argument for Bigfoot.
This cold open always remjnds me of the silence form 11's era
Imagine if sutekh was here since the 4th doctor and was the one to write the message. That'd be funny
Hits a tad bit different after the newest episode! X.x
my favorite part of the silence is that their existence implies they have a predator
Some creatures are pretty great at hiding. Just take a look at stick insects and chameleons.
Where?!
And then we get introduced to orson pink, heavily implied to be a descendant of Clara and Danny, but Danny dies, and they never have a child. ???
Which episode is this btw? I haven't finished Capaldi's run yet, seems like an interesting one
It's Series 8 episode 4
@@MSiSyt thanks alot!
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The only other cold open that comes close to this is the Bootstrap Paradox lesson in Before the Flood. Spot the common denominator.
Yes great story writing
The fact that Capaldis Doctor comes off as slightly mad makes the ending to this scene quite ambiguous, Did this hidden alien take the chalk and write on the board, or did the Doctor write it and just forget.
Aren’t the Silence already Perfect hiders?
What can I say, I like shadows (and books), the latest incarnation of the TARDIS is too light and airy for my taste, but I guess it suits the new me.
This is my favourite episode ever and the ending was so shit 💀
what's that something moving, in the corner of your eye?
what's that footstep following, but never passing by?
There were some episodes of Capaldi's era that were near perfection. Unfortunately they were very much in the minority. Most were... not good. Which is what I found the most infuriating. Capaldi did his best with what he had to work with,
Oh hey I recognize you from unlimited lives videos :O
you also have the farscape peacekeeper logo woooo
@@spacey_432 Guilty as charged :D
@@ptonpc Always great to see the farscape representation :D And yeah capaldi really did have the peakest peaks
Easily one of the top Dr Who episodes. Back when it was actually Dr Who.
So glad the show ended with Capaldi, not a perfect ending but still had a lot of great moments
JUST TURN YOUR FUCKING PHONE SIDEWAYS WHEN YOU'RE FILMING FOR GOD'S SAKE
I planned for this to be a short but you can't post one longer than a min, the vud had been on tiktok before that
Stephen Moffat is the best show runner ever!
Nah that’s army of ghosts or stolen earth
video format is sideways.
and the beethoven one
I've always disliked this opening only because his examples of perfect hunting and perfect defense, aren't even perfect. Some big cats let their prey get away and it's not exactly hard to kill a pufferfish. If this is his criteria for perfect anything in nature, then a chameleon should meet his definition for perfect hiding.
Prisoner Zero did a damn good job of hiding for quite a while, I'd say.
Chameleons are actually live mood rings; they change color based on their mood. But the cuttlefish and octopus are excellent examples of a species that can hide.
That's a misunderstanding of Evolution though.
Why is there no perfect hiding? Because there is no perfect anything. Predators and prey evolve together. At the same time as a prey animal evolves better mimicry/defence/etc, predators evolve better capacity to locate/resist/etc. said mechanism.
The only point at which this isn't true is when prey has outpaced the predator and said predator has shifted to other prey. But at that point the prey animal has no more pressure to be better at hiding. It only needs to be "good enough". So again - there is no perfection.
Sure, the videography is cool for the typical "invisible enemy" trope.
I get this, but I feel the episode also acts as a metaphor of a general fear of the dark and by extension the unknown, the 'perfect' hiding only being a mechanism to explore this idea. The episode is an exploration of a sort of 'what if' scenario while also showing this fear that the doctor holds, completely understand your point though and it doesn't really make much sense if you think about it.
Well those creatures would be good enough to be perfectly hidden from humans... maybe you could still smell them with a dog's nose... But aince we can't talk to dogs, how would we know. Maybe all those times a dog's starts barking for no apparent reason... there was a reason after all, we just didn't *see* it.
@@Seamus.Harper No they wouldn't. There is no perfection. Evolution is a more gradual process. If the prey becomes harder and harder to spot, the predator might focus on other sources. But by definition at this point it's still not impossible to spot the prey. It's just hard enough to not be worth the effort.
And at that point the evolutionary pressure to hide even better decreses as well, meaning it will stay at the "hard to spot" level.
@@KityKatKiller perfectly hidden from humans is different from perfectly hidden in general. Bacteria are perfectly hidden from us. We couldn't see them without technological assistance. Also those creatures' predators might have gone extinct, while they survived, after they became perfect at hiding (from us)... They wouldn't evolve to be even better at hiding but that wouldn't matter for this context since we couldn't see them already.
i think dr who knows a little more about evolution than you
Peak Doctor Who. Much better than this current shite
This episode has some of the best individual moments and scenes of any horror episode of who but the overall episode is actually kinda terrible. Like, I love the stuff with the creature on the bed and the Doctors monologs about fear being a superpower but like... what was the point of anything?
I remember this episode is what started the downward spiral to make me quit the show. It was so good, created such a brilliant, weeping angel tier villain, and threw it all away with an awful twist for no reason.
The reddit doctor
Season? Episode?
Such an interesting start, what a disappointing episode. Also it sets up an expectation for Clara and Danny to be the ancestors of Orson Pink, which is totally undermined by the series finale.
The best... until The Devil's Chord.