I think the reason the doctor was so upset is because even though people have died because of him this is the first time he could've prevented it, if he had listened to the humans. This is the first tie his (for lack of a better word) tolerance has failed him
@grkpektis I don't think so. I don't think he agreed that that thing should be ejected from the shuttle even after the Hostess did it. I think he was shaken because a) he was possessed b) he almost died and c) he was almost murdered by ordinary humans.
@AtarahDerek Agreed. He seems truly affected (almost traumatised) by the events in this episode. Kinda adds depth to him, showing that he is mentally as mortal as us
I wish Murray Gold would actually put the music from this on some track, I think I heard it used in Series 6, so hopefully it'll be in that one finally.
@Poomba1989b its weird how the people you are supposed to hate, are actually very awesome actors, not to say that the protagonists arn't good actors either
This episode was so scary. What if they had managed to throw him out? Of all the things The Doctor has survived, Daleks, the Time War, in the end it would be humans to do him in. Thrown out like garbage by the very creatures he tries to save.
This episode was brilliant, even though it was a filler (a cheaper episode, to save money for the Stolen Earth and Journey's End). I'm also searching for the wonderful piano music at 2:18(it was also played at 36:49 in A Good Man Goes To War), haven't found it yet...
Does anybody know the name of the music that starts about two minutes in? I re-watched series four recently and it's used a few times but I've never been able to find a name for it. It's so beautiful.
@Joshuah4498 yeah unfortunately its just a variation. i dont think they ever released this bit of music. the closest that ive come to it is the 2010 proms with that same track amys theme from around 1:50 to the end. if you ever find this one though please let me know
I honestly want the new series to deal with this monster again... I want it solved, damn it! That monster is scary as fuck and we don't even know what it is.
at first when she said moto biene after the doctor and he said don't do that, I thought he was just cutting her off like he does a lot, "No don't do that, really don't do that" Is an example, he says that to everyone. But the truth is much creepier.
@DestructiveGamer I'm trying to find out too! When the Doctor talks to Donna, the piano music in the background is the same music being played when Amy kisses Rory in "A good man goes to war"
I think this was David Tennant's best episode and a strong contender for best of the new series. De-powering the Doctor and having everyone turn against him is brilliant, especially since RTD had a habit of making him almost God-like, the entity not being fully explained is excellent too.
This was the only episode told in narrative form as well. This is the best episode ever in my opinion, and it shows how amazing Tennant is as an actor.
It's like a great old episode of The Twilight Zone where a handful of characters trapped in a scary situation quickly succumb to cabin fever and turn on one another out of suspicion and paranoia, becoming greater monsters than the perceived threat.
If I were to guess what the creature was or how it came to be there; I would imagine it was left there as a prisoner eons ago because it was so powerful.
The people that left it there, not imagining that anything else could survive mignight to discover the creature.
Pardon the language... but this episode was a total mind-fuck. The terror of your mind being trapped within another, being controlled, with fear and paranoia turning everyone against you, all the while at some level conscious of what is happening but being totally helpless. *mind explodes*
@XxKiokoxX also you are not different from the people who tried to kill the doctor.
becuz you said "doctor is protecting humans". it means if you don't know the someone who you never met or knew before, you kill the someone as first action.
same ant says other same ant is stu[id or never realize what was bad thing and what was the problem.
the problem is your way of thinking about someone who you don't know even if he is smart or good person. and you kill the someone without any thinking.
Which goes for everyone. Everyone is terrified of the unknown at this day and age.
I'm not saying that I am no different but the episode just shows how feeble humans are yet the Doctor sees such hope in us. I said 'the Doctor wanting to help humans" quote me correctly if you wish to insult me. He wishes to help because he is clever and wishes to help the known while the characters in the episode just wanted to get away from the known.
I don't know what you mean in your third paragraph so can't comment on it.
'My' way of thinking is the thoughts of the person watching a tv show lol. If 'you' were there, you wouldn't know the doctor- 'you' don't know if he is nice.
I have no idea what gave you the impression that I would kill the nice, clever person all I said was that it must have been very painful stuck, unable to move, can not ask for help, and be helpless.
One of my favourite parts of this episode is the end when Donna repeats him and he says "No don't do that... Don't.... Don't" because it's one of those phrases the Doctor repeats throughout the series but always in a funny way(like when he tells someone not to do a certain accent 'cause it's just bad and embarrassing) but this time he's actually saying it because he's terrified of what's being said. *frown*
"This working? Martha? Before I change, here's a list of instructions for when I'm human. One: Don't let me hurt anyone. We can't have that, but you know what humans are like." That was before he had even had this experience. I can't get over how corrupted human beings can be, and I don't get why he's still so intent on helping us after all he's seen. His morality is overwhelming. The Doctor's a genuine hero.
Finishing with my favourite quote from the episode:
man that line, the hostess, i just sat and thought about that before bed for 2 hours. The power and expression and feeling: at the beggening, you knew one was gonna go, but i never thought it would be the hostess. This episode just made me piss my pants. Moffat is a very good writer, but what would really impress me is if he could write something like this. No monster props, no aliens, just humans and their vast, intricate minds. Geez, the power of the mind. Who would have thought.
This gotta be the darkest story RTD ever wrote for the franchise. In fact, I am surprised it was RTD who wrote this. Well, it's the darkest story after Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Man... moments like this... they capture them so vividly it's almost frightening; no. It IS frightening.
Or, perhaps I simply feel them too much?
Bravo. Thanks for posting this. I only watch this for the hug, too. I mean, if a creature like the Doctor can be taken, what hope would we have? Hypothetically, of course.
@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo You wrote it right ^^ , and she spelled it in an almost perfect way! I'm Italian, and I'm a bit amazed from how well she spelled it (better then him btw)!
at least Dee didn't want him thrown out. at least there was someone who came to some sense eventually. and then there was, of course, the hostess. they could always have found her name out from the people who ran the crusaders ship tour.
That woman is such a liar! Her and her husband were screaming to get the Doctor out then she still pretends to be right! I hate people like that... The hostess came up with the whole idea but she sacrificed her life to save everyone which was a surprise but she must be a decent person.
The thing that disturbed me the most about this episode was the fact that the Doctor was helpless against the Midnight creature. With every other foe the Doctor faces, he finds a way to outwit it. Here, it took the courage of the hostess (whose name we'll never know) to save the passengers. And unlike most other encounters with new life-forms, the Doctor never found out what this inhabitant of Midnight was: how long it had been there, whether it was alone or a member of an entire species, etc.
@LiberorumDeus I think it's great that they showed that side of his life though. (and it appeals to my trekkie ness.) Because realisticly, with that many different types of life that one CAN communicate with you would have to assume there would be thousands of others that would be compleatly unknown, compleatly different. And very little like a human.
Such a brilliant episodes. It's probably my favourite one. It was the episode that introduced me to Doctor Who. It's so creepy how much fear can mess up people.
Uh.. ok. Reading through all the comments for all parts of this episode, I have to wonder how the hell people still think that the other people (apart from Doctor and Sky-entity) were JUST stressed out to the max.
Just as the Midnight entity was gaining more and more control and knowledge, it was able to also get into everyone else's heads. It used their darkest feelings and thoughts in order to prod them toward a final end of killing the Doctor. And man, it almost happened. Like 'Satan's Pit'.
@SwobyJ I think the point of the episode was basically to expose human nature. The entity isn't getting into their heads. They're terrified, and they want to feel safe and that they have power. They'll do anything, even murder, to try and make themselves safe again. I've read "The Writer's Tale" by Russell T Davies and Ben Cook. It's an email correspondance between the man himself and Ben Cook, a reporter. It also tracks the development of episodes like Midnight and the ideas behind them.
@ProudToBeNerdy I'd have to read that to be sure, but I want to be clear about something - I don't literally think it got into their heads (psychically). I do think that what it was doing created the effect (a supernatural effect) of bringing the darkness of everyone to the surface.
It is STILL exposing human nature, as everything they are saying are their own thoughts, but... ok, sometimes you'd see halfway sensible things being said by some of them, but shortly after they would act completely contradictory and with a sort of vengence. While only Sky and I suppose the Doctor were 'possessed', everyone else was still being influenced.
While the Doctor was clearly dismayed and saddened by the behaviour of the humans (even though some, like the teenager and assistant broke free at times, the teenager did nothing to stop things, and the assistant allowed herself to be shouted down, and then they returned to the strange anger), it was the Midnight entity that REALLY scared him. Think Satan's Pit.
That's just how I saw it. This wasn't just human nature, this was the darkness of human nature amplified.
@RaggedyDoctor Oh yeah I totally could. When I'm 'in the zone', I write my essays within a couple hours, no drafts, and while not flawless, they tend to impress people.
(well, it is true that when I'm not in the zone I'm lazy as hell and never do anything productive, so I guess it evens out...)
BUT, I was in the zone, about Doctor Who, last night. And today. Ok, I'm a bit obsessed lately.
This makes me so sad. It just proves that the Doctor was a better person than all of them. The thing got the weakest person first- that woman who panicked so much.
And then the husband and wife were just awful. But this episode was great for human nature. When people get scared they devolve to their basic instincts. Fear of the unknown. The Doctor was better than that though. And that's why the thing tried to get rid of him first.
Jethro was amazingly perceptive though- very observant guy.
@InsaneGenius3x17 I don't think its just that. And I don't think that Midnight copying people was just to inspire psychological distress in them. I think that it was doing something in this process (especially as it was matching or even very slightly ahead in sentences) that influenced what that people were going to say, think, and feel. It was a sort of possession on ALL of them, expect the Doctor... but even he loses it all at the end.
There's hints that we're seen this entity before...
The Doctor's a better person than I am because I would have just grabbed the bitch by her hair and tossed her out as well.
Makes sense that they didn't include Donna in this episode (except at the beginning and end): she would have stood up for the Doctor and cracked some heads. It was more harrowing watching the Doctor face this on his own.
@lisalynn47 While it's definitely one of the best Doctor Who episodes I've ever seen, I really can only stomach it every now and then because the other passengers just piss me off SO much, especially Jethro's parents and that professor! Makes me wanna shove the three of them out and watch them burn for being such assholes XD
@nemaru They can disappoint the Doctor the most, but its very clear that they also inspire him the most. He would never say this in the script/show, but its like humanity are 'mini-Time Lords'. Capable of the best and worst. Searching for the mysteries of the universe, but also dragging itself down with so many faults.
Gallifrey was a great land that degraded into dictatorship, humanity is a mess that builds itself into one of the most prominent empires ever (with Doc's help I guess lol)
Great episode, great series - Leslie Sharp was the star of this episode for me as SKY, freaky facial expressions. The last 6 episodes of this series are excellent (turn left) is the best episode on this series i think. Series 1,2,3,4 are all great throughout with only 1 or 2 fillers......i hope series 5 improves alot, otherwise the standard has dropped loads, still good though!!
The 'monster' is Evil, in its' pure base form.
An amazing episode beautifully done.
TechnicolourNoir1 1 day ago
That must of been an extremely awkward 20 minutes...
newthelen 1 week ago
Please, does anyone know the title of the music at 2:06 ? Thanks =)
MrsLudlow 1 week ago
@Letsplaysforn00bs your right he does!!! :)
kikisb101 2 weeks ago
I think the reason the doctor was so upset is because even though people have died because of him this is the first time he could've prevented it, if he had listened to the humans. This is the first tie his (for lack of a better word) tolerance has failed him
grkpektis 3 weeks ago
@grkpektis I don't think so. I don't think he agreed that that thing should be ejected from the shuttle even after the Hostess did it. I think he was shaken because a) he was possessed b) he almost died and c) he was almost murdered by ordinary humans.
rtozier2011 1 day ago
HE LOOKS LIKE TOBUSCUS
Letsplaysforn00bs 3 weeks ago
YEAH! Rose is back ! :D
TheBlueJonas 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
The Doctor is usually just annoyed at people trying to imitate him. From now on I think it'll really strike a nerve when people do it.
AtarahDerek 1 month ago 2
@AtarahDerek Agreed. He seems truly affected (almost traumatised) by the events in this episode. Kinda adds depth to him, showing that he is mentally as mortal as us
Methusar 3 weeks ago
The monster is Evil.
FakeandGay55 2 months ago
I wish Murray Gold would actually put the music from this on some track, I think I heard it used in Series 6, so hopefully it'll be in that one finally.
Myr4x 2 months ago 4
colin morgen (merlin) looks so ht as this character
ValkyrieRoseTwi 2 months ago
DAMMIT MERLIN,Y DIDN'T U SAVE HER!!
Slockry 2 months ago
The second time someone gives their life to save the doctor. :( This episode has been the most terrifying by far.
blissamiss35 3 months ago in playlist More videos from MultiBibby
Didn't you just want to sucker punch that woman with the red cardigan? I haven't been so annoyed by a character in a very long time, excellent acting
Poomba1989b 3 months ago 16
@Poomba1989b its weird how the people you are supposed to hate, are actually very awesome actors, not to say that the protagonists arn't good actors either
DarkheroNateX 2 months ago
@DarkheroNateX It's easier to be totally horrible than amazing :p
Poomba1989b 2 months ago
This episode was so scary. What if they had managed to throw him out? Of all the things The Doctor has survived, Daleks, the Time War, in the end it would be humans to do him in. Thrown out like garbage by the very creatures he tries to save.
Stellana 3 months ago 5
This is certainly not one of the more fun or playful episodes, but it definitely is perceptive and thought provoking.
MattintheHat4044 4 months ago
This episode was brilliant, even though it was a filler (a cheaper episode, to save money for the Stolen Earth and Journey's End). I'm also searching for the wonderful piano music at 2:18(it was also played at 36:49 in A Good Man Goes To War), haven't found it yet...
simone677 4 months ago 2
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Does anybody know the name of the music that starts about two minutes in? I re-watched series four recently and it's used a few times but I've never been able to find a name for it. It's so beautiful.
merridewforchief 4 months ago
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merridewforchief 4 months ago
Doctor Who meets The Thing. The whole episode is like a brilliant combination of the best in sci-fi and horror.
Porly62 4 months ago
say do you know what how her name was SKY well in the shearh jane adventures she adopts a kid named SKY is sothing going on?
barnabywilson183 4 months ago
@barnabywilson183 No.
ianxtra 2 months ago
the ending always gets me when donna copies the doctor. the doctor "no dont do that.... dont....... lokks her dead in the eye dont" o.o
brawlindude2 5 months ago
Human nature is terrible. This episode was amazing.
melinafrance 5 months ago
the face at 0:36, "Shut up Bitch"
OrganicUnderpants 5 months ago 2
Dont ya just wanna slap that woman, the blonde one who played Carol from Eastenders and say : "SHUT UP you fat bitch he's a frigging Timelord!!!"
ARghh!! This was a fustrating episode
WaterBottle1998 6 months ago
What was the song playing at 1:47 ??
Joshuah4498 6 months ago
Does anyone know the name of the song at 1:37 ?
Joshuah4498 6 months ago
@Joshuah4498 boom first appearance of what is now know as "amys theme" on series 5&6
princessyrandom1214 5 months ago
@princessyrandom1214 i looked up the mp3 for the song you told me and it was something different:[
Joshuah4498 5 months ago
@Joshuah4498 yeah unfortunately its just a variation. i dont think they ever released this bit of music. the closest that ive come to it is the 2010 proms with that same track amys theme from around 1:50 to the end. if you ever find this one though please let me know
princessyrandom1214 5 months ago
It so heartbreaking that we didn't know that woman's name. She sacrificed her life for the Doctor.
foccha 6 months ago
I honestly want the new series to deal with this monster again... I want it solved, damn it! That monster is scary as fuck and we don't even know what it is.
shahoney 7 months ago
@shahoney Nah, I think it's best it remain shrouded in mystery. This episode was amazing on its own and to explore it further would ruin its effect.
chocolateislove 6 months ago
Anyone know the name of the song at the end?
NationOfJames 7 months ago
the worst of humanity in this episode
fishswishroxz 7 months ago
at first when she said moto biene after the doctor and he said don't do that, I thought he was just cutting her off like he does a lot, "No don't do that, really don't do that" Is an example, he says that to everyone. But the truth is much creepier.
Icefire3700 7 months ago
donna and the doctor so cute
MusicIsMySoul1950 8 months ago
@DestructiveGamer I'm trying to find out too! When the Doctor talks to Donna, the piano music in the background is the same music being played when Amy kisses Rory in "A good man goes to war"
AchmedDona 8 months ago
Lady- "I said it was her"
Doctor- "STFU!"
stsars13 8 months ago 11
I can't watch part 2 and 3 it ssays its not aavailable in my region, I think its interesting but I dont know what the hell is going on.
holohulolo 9 months ago
The truth about this episode: Pause and press:
1 - Emotional
2 - Emotional
3 - Emotional
4 - Emotional
5 - Emotional
6 - Emotional
7 - Lil Smile
8 - Zomg Officer
9 - Forty.
actionreplayman07 10 months ago 2
I like how The Doctor says " No.. don´t do that" when his companions tries to speak with a different accent or impersonate him haha!
Micromusecut 10 months ago 4
@Micromusecut He only did that this time because it reminded him of the creature of Midnight, how it copied it's victims. And it terrified him...
msunami 9 months ago 2
@msunami yeah I watched that episode a second time a few days ago and I realized it myself
Micromusecut 9 months ago
It is amazing... in this episode the Doctor's main enemy was actually human nature.
actionreplayman07 10 months ago 5
They like doing that a lot. Having people who save others and no one remembers their name. Lots of parallels to the Doctor there.
Bottery 10 months ago 5
Did anyone else see Rose Tyler on the monitor shouting for the Doctor about 16 minutes into the episode?
iMaDeMoN2012 10 months ago 3
Weakest to Strongest: Mom + Dad, professer, son, dee dee, flight attendent
AwesomeMudkipKing 10 months ago 5
I think this was David Tennant's best episode and a strong contender for best of the new series. De-powering the Doctor and having everyone turn against him is brilliant, especially since RTD had a habit of making him almost God-like, the entity not being fully explained is excellent too.
eateroftheflame 10 months ago
This was the only episode told in narrative form as well. This is the best episode ever in my opinion, and it shows how amazing Tennant is as an actor.
pipkinsweetgrass 11 months ago
all the repetition is sooo annoying...this is seriously the freakiest ive seen!
Ariellion21 11 months ago
I'm sure they looked up her name in the register after they all got back..
explorer47422 11 months ago
the worst part of this episode is the fact that my eyes are jumping up and down after watching it here!
ncdork08 1 year ago
well the lady (The host desk) and she said in the beginning "its my job to protect my people" and she did as she and the women went out of the plane
foysalmahmud21 1 year ago 5
It's like a great old episode of The Twilight Zone where a handful of characters trapped in a scary situation quickly succumb to cabin fever and turn on one another out of suspicion and paranoia, becoming greater monsters than the perceived threat.
speeta 1 year ago 3
wow Colins character turns from rude to helpfull
therealRonWeasley11 1 year ago
this episode was the first time I saw the Doctor truly scared for himself.
mrsotter19 1 year ago 43
@mrsotter19 because he knew he was close to death :(
OrganicUnderpants 3 months ago
@OrganicUnderpants Yup. No clever way of getting out of it. He totally depended on someone else to save him.
mrsotter19 3 months ago
@mrsotter19 <3 Doctor who!
OrganicUnderpants 3 months ago
@mrsotter19 42?
ianxtra 2 months ago
@ianxtra 42...what 42?
mrsotter19 2 months ago
@mrsotter19 42- An episode where the Doctor was scared for his life. He even said: 'Oh, Martha- I'm so scared'
ianxtra 2 months ago 5
@ianxtra Now I get it. Ta.
mrsotter19 2 months ago
"What was her name?"
"I don't know." One of the saddest moments in this entire series
darkcloud1111 1 year ago 88
@darkcloud1111 Often the ones that sacrifice the most are the ones that are unknown, unnamed and unrecognized.
darkmoonchaxx 7 months ago
the doctor dies in the next episode
4zakkyify 1 year ago
If I were to guess what the creature was or how it came to be there; I would imagine it was left there as a prisoner eons ago because it was so powerful.
The people that left it there, not imagining that anything else could survive mignight to discover the creature.
tesgnol 1 year ago
@tesgnol
Timelords waged the timewar so they could become energy-things right?
What if that was a timelord attempting to take revenge on the doctor for destroying gallifrey?
OliveTheBreloom 11 months ago
we never found out what it was, mysterious... THAT MUSIC AT THE BEGINNING IS CREEPY AT 0:18 WHEN IT CHANGES. OHH ive got chills!
supersonicdrawer 1 year ago
I love something horror and mystery stuff like this without any gore.
gundrag000 1 year ago
Pardon the language... but this episode was a total mind-fuck. The terror of your mind being trapped within another, being controlled, with fear and paranoia turning everyone against you, all the while at some level conscious of what is happening but being totally helpless. *mind explodes*
SGTBizarro 1 year ago
The saddest thing in this episode is that the hostess sacrifed herself and
no one didn't knew her name. What a tragic heroine.
xParilynx 1 year ago 4
The only people I didn't want to die were the Doctor, the hostess and the assistant.
AnimalNitrates 1 year ago
It must have been so painful for the Doctor. Wanting to protect humans yet they are terrified of the unknown and do not rationalize anything.
How does he keep going *urge to hug Doctor to*
XxKiokoxX 1 year ago 2
@XxKiokoxX also you are not different from the people who tried to kill the doctor.
becuz you said "doctor is protecting humans". it means if you don't know the someone who you never met or knew before, you kill the someone as first action.
same ant says other same ant is stu[id or never realize what was bad thing and what was the problem.
the problem is your way of thinking about someone who you don't know even if he is smart or good person. and you kill the someone without any thinking.
gundrag000 1 year ago
@gundrag000
Which goes for everyone. Everyone is terrified of the unknown at this day and age.
I'm not saying that I am no different but the episode just shows how feeble humans are yet the Doctor sees such hope in us. I said 'the Doctor wanting to help humans" quote me correctly if you wish to insult me. He wishes to help because he is clever and wishes to help the known while the characters in the episode just wanted to get away from the known.
XxKiokoxX 1 year ago
@XxKiokoxX you r not understanding my talking. I said why that is wrong not other theme.
gundrag000 1 year ago
Respond to this video...
I don't know what you mean in your third paragraph so can't comment on it.
'My' way of thinking is the thoughts of the person watching a tv show lol. If 'you' were there, you wouldn't know the doctor- 'you' don't know if he is nice.
'you' and 'i' are the same.
XxKiokoxX 1 year ago
last bit
I have no idea what gave you the impression that I would kill the nice, clever person all I said was that it must have been very painful stuck, unable to move, can not ask for help, and be helpless.
XxKiokoxX 1 year ago
Colin is so hot as Jethro, <3 but hes ALWAYS HOT !!!!
NinzMiss 1 year ago 2
@NinzMiss ya! :)
nutshellful 1 year ago
i think that for the second time in his life the doctor is truely scared of something (first time, third regen, nasty spiders)
doctorwhom1 1 year ago
Haha I only watched this for Colin, but i'm glad I did now cuz I forgot what a good episode thise was :)
Bobster930 1 year ago 6
One of my favourite parts of this episode is the end when Donna repeats him and he says "No don't do that... Don't.... Don't" because it's one of those phrases the Doctor repeats throughout the series but always in a funny way(like when he tells someone not to do a certain accent 'cause it's just bad and embarrassing) but this time he's actually saying it because he's terrified of what's being said. *frown*
julesnoelle 1 year ago
The most chilling part is what they don't show. These folks had to wait another 10 minutes to be rescued then ride back to the base together.
mommydaddyyouandi1 1 year ago
yey this 'midnight' is my favourite episode
cragside15 1 year ago 6
@lozima2 if i was him, i would of slapped the F&^% out of her
Xejomul 1 year ago
"This working? Martha? Before I change, here's a list of instructions for when I'm human. One: Don't let me hurt anyone. We can't have that, but you know what humans are like." That was before he had even had this experience. I can't get over how corrupted human beings can be, and I don't get why he's still so intent on helping us after all he's seen. His morality is overwhelming. The Doctor's a genuine hero.
Finishing with my favourite quote from the episode:
"NO ONE'S KILLING ANYONE!"
TheyreAllAmazing 1 year ago 6
Being stuck for hours with David Tennant and Colin Morgan
who wouldnt enjoy that?
FranandShanMovies 1 year ago 8
i only watched this for colin morgan <3
imzie25 1 year ago 2
this was my first Doctor who episode I saw and I just loved itXD
Serpentsevampiro 1 year ago 3
man that line, the hostess, i just sat and thought about that before bed for 2 hours. The power and expression and feeling: at the beggening, you knew one was gonna go, but i never thought it would be the hostess. This episode just made me piss my pants. Moffat is a very good writer, but what would really impress me is if he could write something like this. No monster props, no aliens, just humans and their vast, intricate minds. Geez, the power of the mind. Who would have thought.
gundamnoober5 1 year ago
DONNNA! I miss you :'(
I was very tired when i last posted, only just realised it made absolutely no sense :)
omfgaufo 1 year ago
DONNNA! I miss you :'(
omfgaufo 1 year ago
The next episode is Turn Left
Wow I just noticed this but is Jethro seriously wearing black nail polish?
wodinli 1 year ago
I ran out of fingernails to bite before this episode was finished.
Tribute0427 1 year ago 8
whats the name of the next ep?? i forget :\
Maifireflies 1 year ago
I love Donna! :) She's like his sister; but oh! Now it's HER turn to shine in the next ep.
Another note; this is why I love Doctor Who; he makes the question of human integrity such a brain fuck.
abiimagine 1 year ago 2
see what fear and paranoia can do? one of the most powerful forces in the world, screw gravity whats it ever done for me?
kargo64 1 year ago
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omfgaufo 1 year ago 5
@omfgaufo Same here =( He needs her, she's his best friend.
LuluCarson 1 year ago 3
This gotta be the darkest story RTD ever wrote for the franchise. In fact, I am surprised it was RTD who wrote this. Well, it's the darkest story after Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Kanuskiz 1 year ago 3
Man... moments like this... they capture them so vividly it's almost frightening; no. It IS frightening.
Or, perhaps I simply feel them too much?
Bravo. Thanks for posting this. I only watch this for the hug, too. I mean, if a creature like the Doctor can be taken, what hope would we have? Hypothetically, of course.
AuglereDeRosenkinde 1 year ago 3
Mother: "I said it was her".
The Doctor: "Fuck off you did."
piperrox13 1 year ago 5
Jethro is so cute from 0:11- 0:17!! thumbs up if you agree! xD
AlyssaStar09 1 year ago 7
I watched only this clip because of the hug. Brings tears to my eye's remembering the doctor & Donna :'(
omfgaufo 1 year ago 2
When Donna says Molto Bene (spelling is probably horrible) it was awesome. :P
ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo 1 year ago
@ItCameFromTheSkyBeLo You wrote it right ^^ , and she spelled it in an almost perfect way! I'm Italian, and I'm a bit amazed from how well she spelled it (better then him btw)!
NewDana 11 months ago
Did anyone else want to kill the Women when she said, "I said it was her."?
firestormwarriorsrul 1 year ago 186
@firestormwarriorsrul you are same like her. nothing special and not smart than her. kill her and
gundrag000 1 year ago
@firestormwarriorsrul Yes. She is a two faced bitch :)
MEareCAT 1 year ago
@firestormwarriorsrul yeah very much
moonstar150 11 months ago
@firestormwarriorsrul
she's de one wanted the doctor dead....then she turned side
MsBLaCkDeViL121 9 months ago
at least Dee didn't want him thrown out. at least there was someone who came to some sense eventually. and then there was, of course, the hostess. they could always have found her name out from the people who ran the crusaders ship tour.
stad97 1 year ago
@stad97 But we'll never know, will we?
firestormwarriorsrul 1 year ago
Diddi's alright, and Jethro's young and quite cool, fairly level headed
other than the doctor, all the rest are absolute idiots!!!
FireflyFanatic3 1 year ago 3
That woman is such a liar! Her and her husband were screaming to get the Doctor out then she still pretends to be right! I hate people like that... The hostess came up with the whole idea but she sacrificed her life to save everyone which was a surprise but she must be a decent person.
BreakAwayAndSmile 1 year ago 4
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i said it was her.
she's the worst.
stad97 1 year ago
This is my first time watching doctor who and it's awsome
shadaze4ever 1 year ago 4
The thing that disturbed me the most about this episode was the fact that the Doctor was helpless against the Midnight creature. With every other foe the Doctor faces, he finds a way to outwit it. Here, it took the courage of the hostess (whose name we'll never know) to save the passengers. And unlike most other encounters with new life-forms, the Doctor never found out what this inhabitant of Midnight was: how long it had been there, whether it was alone or a member of an entire species, etc.
LiberorumDeus 1 year ago 84
@LiberorumDeus I think it's great that they showed that side of his life though. (and it appeals to my trekkie ness.) Because realisticly, with that many different types of life that one CAN communicate with you would have to assume there would be thousands of others that would be compleatly unknown, compleatly different. And very little like a human.
GirlVash 1 year ago
@LiberorumDeus Indeed. This seems to freak the Doctor out, too. I think this is the most disturbed we've seen him in a while…
mszegedy 11 months ago
@LiberorumDeus No, this isn't the only time. He was helpless against the LIVING SUN creature too.
whiteash002 10 months ago
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wevetra13 10 months ago
@LiberorumDeus
yea thankfully the doctor couldnt stop it but i was hoping they would throw him out and kill him but they didnt :(
benny6555 10 months ago
David Tennant's favorit episode of Doctor Who
JoeyHollywood1 1 year ago
Such a brilliant episodes. It's probably my favourite one. It was the episode that introduced me to Doctor Who. It's so creepy how much fear can mess up people.
9riinc3ss 1 year ago 5
How those two could have given birth to a boy as good looking as Jethro, I'll never know.
drumtap2792 1 year ago 9
"What was the hostess name?" What does that question say about us?
Abena20 1 year ago 6
@Abena20 "What does that question say about us?" you ask. Far too much than what we'd like to admit.
LiberorumDeus 1 year ago
@Abena20 That we don't ask for peoples names.
physcoticweirdo 1 year ago
Uh.. ok. Reading through all the comments for all parts of this episode, I have to wonder how the hell people still think that the other people (apart from Doctor and Sky-entity) were JUST stressed out to the max.
Just as the Midnight entity was gaining more and more control and knowledge, it was able to also get into everyone else's heads. It used their darkest feelings and thoughts in order to prod them toward a final end of killing the Doctor. And man, it almost happened. Like 'Satan's Pit'.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@SwobyJ I think the point of the episode was basically to expose human nature. The entity isn't getting into their heads. They're terrified, and they want to feel safe and that they have power. They'll do anything, even murder, to try and make themselves safe again. I've read "The Writer's Tale" by Russell T Davies and Ben Cook. It's an email correspondance between the man himself and Ben Cook, a reporter. It also tracks the development of episodes like Midnight and the ideas behind them.
ProudToBeNerdy 1 year ago
@ProudToBeNerdy I'd have to read that to be sure, but I want to be clear about something - I don't literally think it got into their heads (psychically). I do think that what it was doing created the effect (a supernatural effect) of bringing the darkness of everyone to the surface.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@ProudToBeNerdy PART 2:
It is STILL exposing human nature, as everything they are saying are their own thoughts, but... ok, sometimes you'd see halfway sensible things being said by some of them, but shortly after they would act completely contradictory and with a sort of vengence. While only Sky and I suppose the Doctor were 'possessed', everyone else was still being influenced.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@ProudToBeNerdy PART 3:
While the Doctor was clearly dismayed and saddened by the behaviour of the humans (even though some, like the teenager and assistant broke free at times, the teenager did nothing to stop things, and the assistant allowed herself to be shouted down, and then they returned to the strange anger), it was the Midnight entity that REALLY scared him. Think Satan's Pit.
That's just how I saw it. This wasn't just human nature, this was the darkness of human nature amplified.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@SwobyJ Lord man SwobyJ, Calm down?!!. Have a rest man. :D. You could right a book!
RaggedyDoctor 1 year ago
@RaggedyDoctor Oh yeah I totally could. When I'm 'in the zone', I write my essays within a couple hours, no drafts, and while not flawless, they tend to impress people.
(well, it is true that when I'm not in the zone I'm lazy as hell and never do anything productive, so I guess it evens out...)
BUT, I was in the zone, about Doctor Who, last night. And today. Ok, I'm a bit obsessed lately.
SwobyJ 1 year ago
@SwobyJ Haha :D, Well SwobyJ. I cannot complain, I get my moments. :D. Good luck on your obeessedness. :D,
RaggedyDoctor 1 year ago
This makes me so sad. It just proves that the Doctor was a better person than all of them. The thing got the weakest person first- that woman who panicked so much.
And then the husband and wife were just awful. But this episode was great for human nature. When people get scared they devolve to their basic instincts. Fear of the unknown. The Doctor was better than that though. And that's why the thing tried to get rid of him first.
Jethro was amazingly perceptive though- very observant guy.
InsaneGenius3x17 1 year ago
@InsaneGenius3x17 I don't think its just that. And I don't think that Midnight copying people was just to inspire psychological distress in them. I think that it was doing something in this process (especially as it was matching or even very slightly ahead in sentences) that influenced what that people were going to say, think, and feel. It was a sort of possession on ALL of them, expect the Doctor... but even he loses it all at the end.
There's hints that we're seen this entity before...
SwobyJ 1 year ago
I only watched this for Colin.
MsChatfield 1 year ago
It must be said that David is a brilliant actor, and he was wonderful as the Doctor. I think Matt Smith has very large shoes to fill.
Ginny97263 1 year ago 3
Oh, seeing this made me realise how much I've missed David on the show!
anneathletic11 1 year ago
" ... I said it was her."
The Doctor's a better person than I am because I would have just grabbed the bitch by her hair and tossed her out as well.
Makes sense that they didn't include Donna in this episode (except at the beginning and end): she would have stood up for the Doctor and cracked some heads. It was more harrowing watching the Doctor face this on his own.
EnigmaDrath 1 year ago 4
I could watch this EVERY DAY!!!!!!!
lisalynn47 1 year ago 3
@lisalynn47 While it's definitely one of the best Doctor Who episodes I've ever seen, I really can only stomach it every now and then because the other passengers just piss me off SO much, especially Jethro's parents and that professor! Makes me wanna shove the three of them out and watch them burn for being such assholes XD
EnigmaDrath 1 year ago
@EnigmaDrath You wouldn't fare any better in the ship then ;)
SwobyJ 1 year ago
Think first before doing. Lesson learned.
danboyproductions 1 year ago
@xsolocosmosx Turn Left
lolasatsuma 1 year ago
is it just me or does it seem like humans are always sort of disappointing The Doctor, you know we're always acting our worst.
nemaru 1 year ago
@nemaru They can disappoint the Doctor the most, but its very clear that they also inspire him the most. He would never say this in the script/show, but its like humanity are 'mini-Time Lords'. Capable of the best and worst. Searching for the mysteries of the universe, but also dragging itself down with so many faults.
Gallifrey was a great land that degraded into dictatorship, humanity is a mess that builds itself into one of the most prominent empires ever (with Doc's help I guess lol)
SwobyJ 1 year ago
okay this is kinda random but is it just me or are Colin Morgan's fingernails paited black at 1:27...
Sesshomaru092 1 year ago
this is one of my favourite doctor who episodes
booksluggg 1 year ago 5
does anyone know the title of the next episode?
xsolocosmosx 1 year ago
@xsolocosmosx Turn Left by the looks of it mate. I think that's what it's called
KurtisICT 1 year ago
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
...........the Doctor shall always prevail!!!
*arches eyebrows menacingly with eyes glinting while screen fades to black*
XD
AmbiguousPianoforte 1 year ago
"i said it was her"
*bitch slap*
that would have happened if i was there.
martha368 1 year ago 7
@martha368 I wish we both were there! Set the crazy idiots straight! >.<
animelove2021 1 year ago
Great episode, great series - Leslie Sharp was the star of this episode for me as SKY, freaky facial expressions. The last 6 episodes of this series are excellent (turn left) is the best episode on this series i think. Series 1,2,3,4 are all great throughout with only 1 or 2 fillers......i hope series 5 improves alot, otherwise the standard has dropped loads, still good though!!
mattyboyers 1 year ago
Rose is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
charris3474 1 year ago
"Molto Bene"
"No, don't do that!"....poor doctor!
pgjr00 1 year ago 7