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Early Access - Doctor Who | 9x11 "Heaven Sent" - Reaction & Review (Patreon)

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2023-09-25 06:56:13
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Anonymous

I'm sure i speak for all Doctor Who fans and enjoyers of your reactions when i say: I've been SOOOO excited to see you react to this episode.

Jess

My favourite episodes of the show are yet to come (series 10!!), but Heaven Sent is so uniquely incredible, its kinda just in a league of its own. I've been waiting for you to get here for years, and man, it was worth the wait

Anonymous

man I'm excited to watch this one (once I catch up), never watched this era of Doctor Who but I've heard so much praise for this episode over the years

Cas_nc12

out of everything good and amazing about this episode there are 2 lines that I always think about for different reasons but the first is when he talks about how the day they die is not the worst it's all the days after that they keep being dead that you got to cope with and the second is about how long timelords take to die when they can't regenerate they takes days because their body keeps trying idk I think that is such a cool and sad thing about timelord

Anonymous

"doctor you're not the first person to lose someone..it's the story of everybody" so good!! in all my yrs of grief and loss issues watching 12 punch through that wall with the specter of death creeping up on him is more cathartic than any therapy session!! moffat talalay gold and capaldi here is beyond compare! thank you <3

Thomas Midena

I don't see any issues watching the 60th Anniversary Specials and beyond without seeing all of the Jodie Whittaker era. It looks like it's going to be quite a reset; it's a direct sequel to the RTD era. The only reason to watch the Whittaker era is that it's interesting to see what it's like. And as you indicated, yes, Whittaker herself is good -- it's the writing and production elements that fall short.

Anonymous

I'd never say to skip over any Who, even as someone who didn't love Chibnall's era it wasn't devoid of goodness or good episodes. and It's fun enough most the time just a bit of a culture shock coming so soon after Capaldi's era which was pretty much the opposite to what Chibnall wanted to do with the show.

A Toilet Duck

I'll be honest, I fell out of love with Dr Who in the fairly early days of the post RTD era (no slight intended on the actors, much the opposite, the quality of the performances has always been a key strength of the show throughout), having been a big fan up to that point, and found myself only ever dipping in to the show in odd episodes here or there, to see whether I'd see anything that could reignite my interest. By and large, I never felt much inspiration to get back in to Dr Who (although, doubtlessly I'm sure I will have missed out on some good episodes or story arcs that I simply didn't watch by chance). For all my criticisms of Dr Who during this era, I can't deny; Heaven Sent is absolute kino. I've loved Capaldi since I first saw him in "The Thick of It", he's an actor I have a great deal of respect for, and his performance here is in my opinion really quite special. Absolutely captivating stuff. The cinematography, the use of visual space, the whole tone of the episode is utterly flawless. This one right here, I'd say, goes down as one of the great experiences in television.

tom

■ "I will never ever stop". I like the tie-in of the Doctor to death, or [the veil?]. Which is doubly effective because the thing in the beginning that we're led to believe is death, aka the veil, is actually the doctor in a literal sense. ■ The costume! The red coat and the silver hair work great together. ■ Was Sleep No More actually genius foreshadowing of this episode's antagonist, due to the POV filming?! ■ So much great imagery here. The "diamond" wall, the skulls in the water, and the flies frozen in mid-air. Also, that last one ties into the season premiere, with the use of a time stop (the planes Missy freezes) being Timelord technology ■ The Doctor's nightmares, tying into "Listen"? ■ "I'm not scared of heaven, it's just hell for bad people" is probably the first time a "Doctor oversimplifies thing to show how clever he is" line hasn't worked at all for me, it's so dumb lol. But this episode is nearly perfect so I'll take it. Also there's more mentions of hell this season -- there are in the last one too, with the whole afterlife thing, but seeing as the next episode is Hell Bent it's an interesting observation I've had throughout the season ■ This episode makes Capaldi coughing and spluttering into an iconic sound. I can hear it in my mind from the montage ■ Capaldi is so effortlessly charming when he talks to the camera -- "I'm nothing without an audience"; "Am I ruining the magic? I work at this stuff, you know". And the talking to the camera in "Listen" "Before the Flood" foreshadows this well, though I would also take those episodes as a fun one-off for pure rule-of-cool style points for Capaldi's Doctor because it absolutely works. ■ This episode shows to me that while Capaldi cracks more goofy than witty jokes this season, he still has that wrathful demeanor ■ My experience: Though I consider the timeline of me watching this to be before I developed taste in media, I still recognized this as special immediately. There's many factors that tip this off beyond the masterful and cathartic writing, such as it being a Doctor-pure episode, a direct continuation that takes place in one location, and the use of classical yet diverse-sounding music. ■ In terms of your discussion on this episode as a setup to the finale, while this achieves a lot arc-wise and I indeed consider S9 to have a three-part finale, I do think Heaven Sent delivers on the promise of the previous cliffhanger, much like next episode must deliver on the promise of this episode's (The Gallifrey one. Since you've already watched it, I'll say I don't think Hell Bent does, but I love it for a lot of other reasons which I'll get to after rewatching it) ■ I think the director improved immensely from S8. It could be because there's more to work with set-wise compared to the more grounded S8, but I think those reasons are a cop-out as there's undeniably interesting framing and timing in this episode that sets it apart. And you've watched Evangelion where the most memorable shots are of extremely mundane items and realistic things, so I don't think a director needs specific visuals to make something memorable. But the whole look of this compared to S8 does exacerbate my point that S9 is really a step-up in terms of its aesthetic and cinematic feeling. ■ I like the Doctor's aversion to regeneration in this episode. Many Doctors did have that, such as Tennant, but this one feels more grounded in the despair of what he's going through ■ I like the double "bird" use. Reminds me of "pond" in "The Snowmen" ■ The fly on the Clara portrait representing her death looming over the Doctor ■ I honestly felt the exact same twinge of sadness about knowing I'll never watch this for the first time again. The only other time I've felt this was "Warrior" from Attack on Titan. In both cases, the next days they were the only things I could think about and I genuinely felt like my life was changed a bit because of the experience. And I kept rewatching the respective scenes (we know the ones) to get some more of that feeling, like I was chasing a high. But while it never lives up to the original experience, the good thing about stories is they're so multilayered, folding on top of itself, changing with time, maturing, becoming different, more complicated but not necessarily better or worse. So becoming more familiar with this episode then less familiar with time and rewatching and becoming more familiar again, like revisiting an old friend is an amazing experience. That's what makes it different to chasing a high, so no drug analogies haha.