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Doctor Who 9x9 FULL LENGTH Reaction | Sleep No More: https://youtu.be/xzGCL-8ScRk

I watched this on Prime. You do need your own copy with watch along with. It is also available for streaming on AMC+.

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Doctor Who 9x9 FULL LENGTH Reaction | Sleep No More

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MaxValPlatt

Yay, Rigsy! Don't forget to watch post-credit scene in the next episode. It is a couple seconds long but kinda cute.

Lycanlux

An experimental episode, alot of people don't like this one and consider it the big dud of S9 I kinda agree but I think it's entertaining, There actually was a title sequence right at the beginning with all the names you saw there was highlighted longways "Doctor Who", Welp Ep 10, 11 and 12 coming hope you are prepared!

Frank (MetronV) Izzy

From what I read it was supposed to be a two-parter, but due to "reasons" it was abandoned so the fate of the signal and the dustmen were never resolved. I enjoy found footage. Watched the original Blair Witch Project in theaters when it came out and it was highly disturbing but my appreciation for them started then.

Jason

This one gets a lot of stick as being a bad episode, I don't think its great but I do think its a solid entry in the Who canon. And I think part of the problem comes from it being in a series of cracking episodes. It does a surprisingly good job of world building in a short time, we learn quite a lot about humanity of this time through inference, capitalism is rife, soldiers are cloned and kept deliberately low IQ, we've colonised our solar system, Japan and India have joined both physically and politically. It's a lot for just the background and gives a nice solidity to events. And for found footage style its not horrendously shaky or nauseating. In part because its not in fact a found footage film at all, that's part of the twist, its just meant to look like one. As to the story I think it benefits from a second watch, its easy to be confused (deliberately by the narrative) so I' ll break it down as I see it - everything we watched from episode beginning (that's why no opening credits) to its end has been edited together by the bad guy, who is an unreliable narrator. The whole thing with patient zero in the pod, spores spreading, the Morpheus machines being what's behind it, is all just a ruse, a made up tale. The actual Morpheus signal that turns folk into sleep dust monsters is embedded in the edited video he is making out of the footage. The one we are all watching. Every time the screen glitches and flickers- that's not shaky found footage cam, that’s the Morpheus signal going into your head and changing you. This is one of those very rare episodes where the Doctor loses. The signal goes out, as we are watching it. The Doctor leaves knowing something is wrong, he has crashed the ship to destroy everything but what he has missed, though got close to getting, is that it's all just a story, staged events, false narrative, all being edited together into an exciting tale in order to keep people watching to the end. By which time it's too late, you're infected. As we all are now! Good Halloween episode this and a bit smarter than folk give it credit for I say.

Merlin’s Cat

Hi Angela I’m so glad you are enjoying this season. I have to say that I’m not a fan of this episode, mainly because of the rushed ending. It’s written by Mark Gatiss. Reece Shearsmith who plays Rassmussen, is his fellow league of gentlemen cohort. I find Marks episodes a little underwhelming, not that he’s a bad writer. In fact he has a really great show on now tv called Bookish, which you might like to check out. The found footage idea was bold but it just didn’t quite pull it off.

Alkaris

I would say this is an alright episode, but not the best, I don't necessarily find this episode memorable other than the end scene before that guy turns to dust, because thats all I ever remembered from this episode.

MaxValPlatt

I'd say that his episodes are good. They aren't great. The best/worst part is that his episodes are usually truly standalone - they rarely move Doctor's or his companions characterisation, almost never have overseasonal arc's hints. So, they are strongly dependant on their placement in the season. His Dickens episode (Unquiet Dead), in my opinion, works great as an example - it is a third one in the new run, it makes this show a truly time travelling piece, being placed right after episode about Earth's destruction in the future, and telling us that adventures in the future are also cool and will be relevant in this show.

Mark Ten

We forget sometimes that the Doctor isnt infallible. I think I enjoyed it more on this rewatch then I did originally. Props for the show trying something a little different. I may be wrong, but didnt Amy once ask 11 what he did at night while she & Rory were asleep and the impression was that the Doctor went out and had other adventures?

Sorcerer Rumburak

Well, for me it's a "I don't know"-Episode, too. Doctor Who can better: Look at the Creature of Planet Midnight.

Jack Mingle

Popular theory is that this is all taking place within one of The Doctor's dreams, which is why things just don't fully make sense. Logic of a Nightmare

Rach

Such a low-tier episode honestly. For one thing, if you're gonna do POV footage at least get the characters heights right. The whole episode Clara is taller than the Doctor in her POV. Also they cast a trans woman and then artificially lowered her voice in sound editing without her knowledge, which is probably not intentionally cruel but pretty thoughtless nonetheless. Just not great overall. Still, it is the only dud episode in the whole season so it's hard to complain too much!

Nicholas Sulikowski

While I applaud this episode's attempt to do something different with the whole found footage approach, ultimately I don't think the execution is all there. And the writing isn't the best. Not surprised. This is another Mark Gatiss episode, someone who whenever I see his name pop up, I think "Ah, filler." And to be fair, he's written good episodes before. On the subject of doing something different, he also wrote "The Crimson Horror", which was mostly from the companions' POV, and that worked pretty well. But by and large, his episodes are never outright terrible, but also never amazing. And they often don't advance the overall plot much. Great actor, though. He was excellent in the BBC show Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. (Which he also co-created and co-wrote with Steven Moffat.) Another thing I noticed, when the one character says "Consider yourself", the Doctor retorts, "part of the furniture!" This is a reference to the song "Consider Yourself" from Oliver!, a musical adaptation of Oliver Twist. I was part of the sound crew in a performance of it when I was in high school. I remember the song well lol.

Carl Wilson

Agreed! I liked the found-footage idea and was pretty intrigued up until the ending, when I don't even understand what happens. Clara was infected with the Morpheus dust, wasn't she? But they all get on the Tardis? Wouldn't that keep spreading it? And even if not, the Doctor doesn't stop the infection that would end humanity? I don't get any of that. I guess the alternate explanation is it's all made up for the sake of the viral video, but then where did it come from and what actually happened? I thought there was going to be a second part, but there isn't. Some kind of weird production story behind that, I suspect. Thankfully though the rest of the season still proves why it's probably my favourite single series.

Carl Wilson

The "we're all infected now" part is the only redeeming element of the ending (shades of "The Ring" or whatever) but I don't think it rescues it.

Carl Wilson

LOL so much fan energy going into that one!

Merkavar

Havent watched this in a while. about to watch the reaction. But from what i recall it felt like they were trying to recreate the "dont blink" episode.

Jason

Its an odd one in that I don't think its bad in the way some other notorious bad episodes are - I don't think its written badly, I don't think the setting or premise are bad, I don't think the performances are bad and the twist isn’t terrible (maybe not original but Who rarely is, cant remember which classic Who show-runner it was but when asked if Who ever stole its ideas off the back off a lorry replied, 'we don’t just steal what falls out the back, we steal the whole lorry') and I don’t think its badly made, for found footage style its a lot less annoying than many. I just don’t think it deserves all the hate it seems to get, its OK, just OK. Its unfortunate for it its in a great series- if this was a story from series 2 or 3 I doubt anyone would have thought it any worse than OK season filler.

Cei Stockport

Very mid-tier episode but I liked in because it's incredibly rare to hear my own accent on screen. There was Shona in 'Last Christmas' but she was a Smoggy from Middlesbrough not a proper Geordie like Nagata.

Peter Powis

i agree, 10, 11 and 12 are epic!!

Jef Hughes

Utterly superb episode. It had to end like it did as it was Who’s Hallowe’en episode, hence the casting of Reece Shearsmith and the use of a twist, his own trademark.

Tommy

There was a planned part 2 to this story set for Series 10 however due to the hatred this episode received after airing, it got canned & replaced. I was willing to wait for the whole story to finish because judging it. But I guess it just will go down as an episode that experimented with no true ending.

Tommy

There was a planned part 2 to this story set for Series 10 however due to the hatred this episode received after airing, it got canned & replaced.

David Hammer

Yeah, no resolution is coming for this one. Hope it's okay to say that - I just don't want you wasting time looking for one in the future. Anyway, this was Mark Gatiss who actually wrote it, so not his best compared to much of his work. In fact, this is my least favorite episode of the season/series. With most of it being made of multi-episode arcs, this outlier is as close to a "Filler" episode as you can get with a 12-episode season. There was quite the stir when it aired without the opening titles, too. Many fans were not okay with it. Speaking of Mark Gatiss, I just had a thought: Have you ever watched "Sherlock"? The BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman? If not, I very highly recommend it. It's a short series, with only fourteen episodes (more like TV movies) split into four seasons. It was also created and written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, so you would find the writing style very familiar.