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doctor who season 9 episode 12 [full length] (Patreon)

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2025-11-25 14:00:17
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hi everyone!

here is my timed reaction to doctor who season 9 episode 12 "hell bent"

another doctor who season finale behind us :') this was devastating, but really beautiful too!

excited to see what's next for us! thanks for watching!

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Rach

People critisise this finale but I think it's the perfect counterpart to Heaven Sent

Jade Ellis

It was Rigsy that painted the Tardis. He is seen doing it in an end credit scene in Face the Raven.

LiamVersionOne

Btw the next two episodes are both Christmas specials before you start series 10

Martin

When the Lord president said how many regenerations did we grant you, it was referencing Matt Smiths final episode, the doctor had no regenerations left and they gave him more when that crack appeared in the sky and gave Matt that power to regenerate. Also referenced in an earlier episode where Capaldi says this regeneration is a clerical error lol Love this finale, you don't see any of it coming, the twist with the doctor at the end is amazing but the scenes between him and Clara are so good in this episode, she's been such a great companion and her and Capaldi are so good together, that goodbye scene was so sad :( Also in that scene he did tell you to note down to never eat pears I hope you got that written down somewhere like he said :p lol Run you clever boy, and be a Doctor. *cries*

D Scott Howard

I never eat pears! Clara is still out there, being impossible!

emmereacts

OHHH okay, so that was the end credit scene i missed, shoot!

DSJ.

ON HEAVEN SENT: If the last, billions-year old Doctor is 'just' a copy, then so is the first Doctor who was there. Being teleported once or a billion times over is the same thing - it's the same person. So if it ain't the Doctor, then nobody who ever teleports is ever the same person. I think Moffat put it best - when the First Doctor teleported somewhere, as he did, does he then become a different person? Maybe, but not really. A question for the philosophers, I guess! (And if the First Doctor teleported, then technically the Doctor has never been the same Doctor ever since...) Speaking of Moffat, here's a quote from an interview he did about this ep (no spoilers, it's just a fascinating writers' perspective): -beginning of quote- "Usually, big dramatic things happen in Doctor Who, then the next week everyone’s absolutely fine. I never found a way to have Amy and Rory grieve over their lost baby, and I still don’t know how I would do that. I could never work out how to write that. I’d think, ‘Well, hang on, they don’t lose the baby. The baby turned out to be two other people they already know and love – that’s not the same as losing a child.' You can’t say 'They’ve lost their baby,' because people watching who’ve actually lost babies would, understandably, think 'No, your baby’s fine. Your baby’s safe. That’s not the same.' You can’t portray that fantastical, whimsical sci-fi bereavement as the real thing, when the real thing has been endured by people in the audience. You’d be trivialising real-life tragedy. So I just cut forward several months, and rather ducked the issue – they processed that not-quite-loss off screen, which I wasn’t crazy about. In The Snowmen I tried to do the aftermath of the loss of Amy and Rory, but that's rather a romantic one, isn't it? It's the Doctor on a cloud with a spiral staircase. It 's a movie mourning. It's not like real despair. It's the greetings card version. So getting that kind of aftermath - loss and grief - right in Doctor Who was on my To Do List. Or on my Failure List, at any rate. They're both very long lists — I get them muddled. The problem is, Doctor Who is always about the new adventure, not the aftermath of the last one. Structurally, that's incredibly important to how the show works. So you have to make grief the centre of the story, not a hangover from last week getting in the way of a new adventure. Grief has to be the new adventure. I thought, 'If the Doctor loses Clara in the most horrific circumstance, a circumstance where events pass out of his control, but which is partly his own fault because he’s made somebody think that they can act like him, and they can't...' Essentially, l was thinking, ’What is grief? How do I make grief the monster of the week in Doctor Who?’ I thought, 'People always talk about grief as being alone,’ so I made the Doctor absolutely alone. Grief comes and finds you every time you stop or rest, so I gave him the Veil. And grief is waking up to the same pain every day, and trying to smash through it, so I gave him a diamond wall to punch for the rest of time. Basically, he wore away a mountain with his tears. So that was an attempt to do aftermath: an insane, sci-fl, operatic version of the Doctor's grief at losing Clara and trying to move on. I can see why people would think it was a gimmicky episode, God knows, I love a gimmick - but I was aiming for poetry. Tried for poetry, ended up with a gimmick. I’ve defined myself. That said, a guy I know wrote to me and said that his wife had died very recently. And then he had to sit through the Doctor punching the diamond wall in Heaven Sent and ‘It’s all the days they stay dead', but he wrote this long email to me about how important that was for him to hear. ‘The day you lose someone isn’t the worst. It's all the days they stay dead.' What he said was, ‘It’s nice that somebody gets that it’s shit. lt‘s just shit. That’s what losing someone is like.’ So I think we did something worthwhile there. There were probably enough people watching Heaven Sent saying, ‘What is this show? ls Doctor Who back on next week?’ Most people would probably have preferred the 'cut to several months later‘ option, so they could get on with the next adventure. But as an attempt to do aftermath and grief in Doctor Who, I felt that it was pretty good. That episode was a brave thing to do.” - end of quote - This episode can be appreciated as a stunning piece of television - the acting, the lighting, the dialogue, the shooting, the direction, the music, all of that and more comes together in a damn near perfect way. It's epic. But seeing it as what it really is - a meditation on grief, and, perhaps, mental illness - is what really sets it apart for this viewer, at least. Stuck in one's own mind, ruminating on the loss of the loved one, trapped by the torments that only one's own mind can provide... Astonishingly beautiful, and sad. One of the most astonishing episodes of television in history, quite simply. This was everyone at their very best - the writer, the director, the composer, the actor, and everyone else. Just brilliant. As Moffat knew (see the long quote above), it might not be to everyone's taste on first viewing. It's a weird one, very different from anything else in Doctor Who. But even if you don't get it on the first go, it's one of those ones that just creeps up on you over time and becomes unforgettably great. ON HELL BENT: Fun fact about Rassilon's regeneration - there's a short story in a collection about the Master in which it's said that after The End of Time, when the Master was back on Gallifrey, he shoved a load of white point stars down Rassilon's throat which made him (Rassilon) regenerate lol. Also, considering Capaldi as a musician, funnily enough he was/is a singer (in his youth he was in a band with Craig Ferguson) - he's recently released some new songs/albums. I'm going to see him sing at a gig in Edinburgh next month. He also appeared on stage at Glastonbury this year, aura farming, as the kids say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KNCAgkpko. I could watch Capaldi and Coleman act together forever - they have such rare chemistry together. I always preferred Clara with Twelve rather than Eleven - she becomes more real and flawed rather than just a mystery. I like how the Hybrid is left ambiguous. It echoes the fact that this episode was billed as a big epic like The End of Time - a conflict between Time Lords/Rassilon and the Doctor. You get a bit of that - a very epic bit! - but then it becomes much quieter. It's really about the Doctor and Clara, it's a meditation on their friendship. Likewise, the Hybrid is built up as a big thing but then becomes entangled with this more character-driven arc. Together, they are the Hybrid - they're the story. And I love that. As the prophecy said, to (roughly quote) - the Hybrid will conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins, unravelling the Web of Time, breaking a billion billion hearts to heal its own. Well, the Doctor conquers Gallifrey and risks all of time and space to save Clara - and stands in the ruins of Gallifrey (with Me) at the end of time. So, in an interesting way, I think the idea of Moffat desiring the grand and the significant is kind of refuted by this episode - it becomes about two friends, not an epic, cosmic struggle. It's ultimately just a meditation on Clara and the Doctor's relationship more than anything else. A lot of people were upset about this not being such a grand, epic battle (b/c a lot of people disliked Clara - an absurd proposition in my view!) and I was a bit disappointed at first when I watched it air back in 2015. But it's grown on me to become one of my fave finales. I get why people have problems with Clara (though the hate some people evinced at the time was just OTT) but personally I love her character and her relationship with the Doctor. It's very different, and also very human still. As for the reason he leaves Gallifrey - there's Me's theory, and it's left ambiguous, up to the viewer. It could be fear of the Hybrid/himself, or it could just be that he was actually bored and ran away (after all, Clara says pretty much exactly that as they're leaving lol). The little hint about the Doctor being part human is a reference to McGann and the TV Movie when that's mentioned (and was promptly - and rightly - forgotten). Here it's just a little in joke, not to be taken too seriously. Other parts of the lore and this episode itself handily refute it, so we know it's just a joke, don't worry ;) (Oh, and yeah, that whistly-Gallifrey-theme variant is so good. And the Doctor playing Clara's theme on the guitar!) Peter Capaldi as Twelve is a very, very, very sexy man.

Joe Cleveland

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