and the Doctor did. But I personally think it was the phone call to Clara that triggered him again between the time he left Clara in Glasgow and returned 3 weeks later with coffee.
If you think about it though, Handles had been sitting on that reminder for 300 years at the Doctor's request, and when he knew he was about to shut down he made sure to fulfil the request, hence why it was an emergency message. Handles deserved better.
Well the doctor said "just pick a random number and when that time passes remind me to patch the phone in the console unit" so the random number turned out to be 300 years.
@@Karlossus_ exactly. Thus the "Urgent. Action required." He was executing an emergency completion of his last order because he knew he was about to deactivate. Homie till the end.
“Thank you, Handles, and well done. Well done, mate.” RIP you beautiful Cyberman head. My favorite bit was “COMFORT IS IRRELEVANT” **The Doctor slightly adjusts him** “How’s that? Is that better?” “AFFIRMATIVE”
If you wanna get technical about it Clara was his companion for over 4 Billion years, since he retains all his memories from inside the confession dial, Clara was in his mind for all that time. She was also his companion from when he was about 1200 in Matt Smith's era and 2000+ in Capaldi's era. Clara is probably the companion closest to the Doctor, but i love Handles so much more.
@@tTaseric (Sorry for the mediocre translator, my English is very bad) Clara's case is special. While she would be the partner with whom The Doctor aged the most (adding Trenzalore and the confession dial), for her time did not pass as it did with The Doctor. Those 900 years at Trenzalore felt like minutes to Clara, just like on the dial. The case of his duplicates in the entire history of the Doctor were also just seconds for all their lives before the Eleventh. Although she was the current companion, they did not feel the time in the same way. Something similar happens with Rory, who spent 2000 years as his current partner but who the Doctor felt like minutes. In the case of Handles, both he and the Doctor spent those 300 years with the same passage of time, the same aging and sense of the passage of time. He was the companion who spent the most time at his side, in equal space-time conditions. A true companion to the end.
is it just me or should this scene be the saddest of all Doctor Who: Handle dying our view: a robot dying the doctor's view: The Doctor is an old man that watched his only and oldest companion/ friend (handles)... A friend that has been with him for 300 years... He just died
@@vullord666 I can imagine it handles: Attention, you must patch the telephone through the console unit. 13th doctor: OHH YE forgot to so that, thanks mate.
I really wish That they had done the original idea where the events of time of the doctor was a full season. This was already powerful, but imagine how BRUTAL it'd be if Handles was a secondary character through a whole season.
I think that would've hurt even more. Knowing Handles, getting used to him as a character, watching him live with the Doctor for three thousand years, and having him die would just... hurt.
@@thethirdsicily4802I'm just wondering did you notice that the 11th doctor pade tribute to the 3rd doctor, as the 11th doctor pout a Gallifrey cile on handles head and the 11th said he stole it from the master in the time games, and that episode was the five doctors and the 3rd doctor was the one who took the Gallifrey cile of the master.
The real problem is if Handles was in more episodess is it would be too easy to summon the tardis at will. Do you know how many episodes could be cut short if they could do that?
So sad. He didn't manage to make one last dawn. I just... when the Doctor whispers "come back", I just feel so sad. I hoped that he would be like a new K9.
He never fixed it. The Twelfth Doctor also would answer the phone in the police box door, and I’ve got no idea what the telephone circuit is connected to in 13’s console room.
There are two possibilities. Either Handles' programming activated the alert because it knew it was malfunctioning and on the verge of death... or Handles happened to pick a random number that just so happened to _exactly_ match the amount of time he would then go on to live for, just by sheer coincidence. And frankly, I'm not sure which is more tragic.
Might of been a ram issue that's why when he tried tried to fulfil the task that part of his ram couldn't be written to and caused a series of malfunctions in the rest of his storage and that was the critical fault
Even though it was a machine, it genuinely felt like 11 had found long-term companionship in handles which is true since he spent hundreds of years with him. Nah though, when he said that final message “you must patch the telephone device back through the console unit”, that made me ball my eyes out. He felt too sentient, like “before I go, before I go, I’ve got to remind him, I promised”. 11s eyes and expression is so god damn sad. He’s realising he’s lost another friend, and when he silently says “come back”. Genuinely think this is one of the saddest scenes in Dr Who.
Alejandro Molina Given how long he was on Trenzalore, they could easily do several series of audios set there, the Doctor and Handles battling for after foe, thinking that neither will make it off that planet alive.
@@isabelh5561 I believe there’s a comic that explains how the Doctor actually got Handles they could do some stories before Time of the Doctor aswell I just need more handles in general
"Remind me to patch the telephone though the console unit" "When?" "I don't know later" "When?" "I don't know pick a time" "When?" "Just any OLD time when you think I've forgotten." Handles held off until the last second to remind him. I want to believe that's Handles way of showing how much he respected him.
I loved this 60-70 year old version of 11. The way he acts kinda matches his body at this point, it's kinda cool seeing the old man in a young man's body just actually eventually become an old man. This kinda opens it up if they want to have him guest star again in the future and he gets old enough he can't believably be "young" 11 anymore, they can just say he was picked from the part of his timeline where he was on Trenzalore and it'd be completely believable.
let's be honest only doctor who can make you sad at the death of the enemies head i have seen a reaction vid where the one reacting was like "okay now i am having feelings for a cyberman head" and i couldn't help but laugh at that maybe that makes me a bad man but it just the irony that the writing is good enough to evoke that response :)
This is the saddest I have been with doctor who. Handles finally reminded him at the end of his life. It destroyed me. I cried for half an hour straight
This just showed how lonely the doctor is. In the episode "The Wedding of RIver Songs" it is revealed that he didn't think anyone outside of his small group of friends cared if he lived of died and River had to show him that he was wrong.
The greatest Cyberman that ever lived. In his honor, in two years time, when I take delivery of my Cybertruck, a truck with no handles, I will name it Handles so he is never forgotten.
Perhaps that's not the point _you're_ making. I'm simply making the point that making us have teh feels over a detached cyberhead was pretty good work! :)
They often talk about what it must be like for the Doctor, going on and on while everyone else falls away. Usually, though, the companions get written out - he doesn't usually get to actually see them die. And then there's this - a quiet, unobtrusive companion of three centuries, finally lost. How many 'one last dawns' did he get? And after all of it, his last act was to deliver the Doctor's 'urgent' message.
For those wondering, the approximate random number if seconds Handles chose to remind the Doctor to patch the telephone back to the console unit was about 9460800000 seconds
This show really kills humans in every other episode, does fucked up things to characters we like, but at the end of the day, it's a fucking Cyberman head that was a joke at first, that made me cry.
I think this actually explains why the enemies of the Cybermen destroy their heads in order to kill them. A Cyberman can live without its body for 300 years.
Handles' character is deeper than you think. The handles on a cyberman are what remove emotion, and yet the eleventh doctor decided to use that name for Handles, because it's funny. This really is a representation of 11s arc - he has to make light out of the dark things because if he accepts the truth, then he is doomed. He has to be childish, and he has to look young, because it's the only thing keeping him going.
'You must patch the telephone device back through the console unit...'
At least he reminded him about 300 years later.
and the Doctor did. But I personally think it was the phone call to Clara that triggered him again between the time he left Clara in Glasgow and returned 3 weeks later with coffee.
If you think about it though, Handles had been sitting on that reminder for 300 years at the Doctor's request, and when he knew he was about to shut down he made sure to fulfil the request, hence why it was an emergency message. Handles deserved better.
Just like my Gmail calendar!
Well the doctor said "just pick a random number and when that time passes remind me to patch the phone in the console unit" so the random number turned out to be 300 years.
@@Karlossus_ exactly. Thus the "Urgent. Action required." He was executing an emergency completion of his last order because he knew he was about to deactivate. Homie till the end.
“Thank you, Handles, and well done. Well done, mate.”
RIP you beautiful Cyberman head.
My favorite bit was
“COMFORT IS IRRELEVANT”
**The Doctor slightly adjusts him**
“How’s that? Is that better?”
“AFFIRMATIVE”
Goodest boy.
The look on his face: "I've lost another one..."
The best and longest running chronological companion!
Welll... we don't exactly know how long the Doctor traveled with Romana, so...
And you didnt count Clara's broken timeline where she actually saw all regenerations of the doctoe
If you wanna get technical about it Clara was his companion for over 4 Billion years, since he retains all his memories from inside the confession dial, Clara was in his mind for all that time.
She was also his companion from when he was about 1200 in Matt Smith's era and 2000+ in Capaldi's era.
Clara is probably the companion closest to the Doctor, but i love Handles so much more.
@@tTaseric (Sorry for the mediocre translator, my English is very bad)
Clara's case is special. While she would be the partner with whom The Doctor aged the most (adding Trenzalore and the confession dial), for her time did not pass as it did with The Doctor. Those 900 years at Trenzalore felt like minutes to Clara, just like on the dial. The case of his duplicates in the entire history of the Doctor were also just seconds for all their lives before the Eleventh. Although she was the current companion, they did not feel the time in the same way.
Something similar happens with Rory, who spent 2000 years as his current partner but who the Doctor felt like minutes.
In the case of Handles, both he and the Doctor spent those 300 years with the same passage of time, the same aging and sense of the passage of time. He was the companion who spent the most time at his side, in equal space-time conditions. A true companion to the end.
In one episode though
is it just me or should this scene be the saddest of all Doctor Who: Handle dying
our view: a robot dying
the doctor's view: The Doctor is an old man that watched his only and oldest companion/ friend (handles)... A friend that has been with him for 300 years... He just died
handle wasnt just a robot
he was a human being that has all organic material inside removed
can we have a f in chat for handles
nomyrealname i feel like handles would be perfect with 13
@@vullord666 I can imagine it
handles: Attention, you must patch the telephone through the console unit.
13th doctor: OHH YE forgot to so that, thanks mate.
@@quacky1065 F
I really wish That they had done the original idea where the events of time of the doctor was a full season.
This was already powerful, but imagine how BRUTAL it'd be if Handles was a secondary character through a whole season.
I don't think I'd be able to cope with such pain.
I think that would've hurt even more. Knowing Handles, getting used to him as a character, watching him live with the Doctor for three thousand years, and having him die would just... hurt.
@@thethirdsicily4802I'm just wondering did you notice that the 11th doctor pade tribute to the 3rd doctor, as the 11th doctor pout a Gallifrey cile on handles head and the 11th said he stole it from the master in the time games, and that episode was the five doctors and the 3rd doctor was the one who took the Gallifrey cile of the master.
The real problem is if Handles was in more episodess is it would be too easy to summon the tardis at will. Do you know how many episodes could be cut short if they could do that?
@@matthewallen2273he sent the TARDIS away on purpose
dang he lasted 300 years, almost certain that makes him the doctor's longest lasting companion
He's in that great big computer in the sky.
Kanan
Technically that award goes to The tardis
She ain't Doctor's companion, the Doctor is hers!
As some people already said, we don't know how much time the doctor traveled with Romana exactly, but I really doubt it was that much.
Do we know how long Susan was with him?
So sad. He didn't manage to make one last dawn. I just... when the Doctor whispers "come back", I just feel so sad. I hoped that he would be like a new K9.
Requiem For the Dead ones yeah I want K-9 to return
13 might have a cat
@@burningthefields She didn’t after all....
oh well. at least now whenever the Doctor picks up the phone IN THE CONSOLE ROOM, we know that Handles was the one who reminded him.
He never fixed it. The Twelfth Doctor also would answer the phone in the police box door, and I’ve got no idea what the telephone circuit is connected to in 13’s console room.
@@piercelindenberg6842 He answered it from the console in Face the raven if I'm not mistaken
@@rennythespaceguy7285 yeah, now that I think about it, he called Clara from the console in Before the Flood as well.
Such a emotional scene for a character who had like five minutes of total screen time
I cried more at this than Ryan or grayham leaving doctor who
There are two possibilities. Either Handles' programming activated the alert because it knew it was malfunctioning and on the verge of death... or Handles happened to pick a random number that just so happened to _exactly_ match the amount of time he would then go on to live for, just by sheer coincidence. And frankly, I'm not sure which is more tragic.
I've always thought of it as Handles stuck around as long as he did so he could give the alert on schedule.
Might of been a ram issue that's why when he tried tried to fulfil the task that part of his ram couldn't be written to and caused a series of malfunctions in the rest of his storage and that was the critical fault
Even though it was a machine, it genuinely felt like 11 had found long-term companionship in handles which is true since he spent hundreds of years with him. Nah though, when he said that final message “you must patch the telephone device back through the console unit”, that made me ball my eyes out. He felt too sentient, like “before I go, before I go, I’ve got to remind him, I promised”.
11s eyes and expression is so god damn sad. He’s realising he’s lost another friend, and when he silently says “come back”. Genuinely think this is one of the saddest scenes in Dr Who.
I completely agree, it gets me every time
Hey he already had K9 and Kamelion
‘Thank you Handles.....and well done, well done mate’
Damn you just hear the heartbreak in his voice
I like how the best companion of mat Smith was a damn cyber man head
The shortest lived companion yet the best one RIP Handles 2013-2013
Zapptrap The Great shortest? He’s been with the doctor for over 300 years at this point
Taylor Wachacha I meant as in episodes
Oh now I get what you meant but he was in only one episode
So Handles is his longest lived companion ?
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Handles dying made me more sad than any of the Doctor’s regenerations
How is it that Handles was only in a few scenes but I remember him as one of the best characters 😭
Dear Big Finish, whenever you start doing 11th Doctor's adventure, please have an episode of the Doctor and Handles.
Alejandro Molina Given how long he was on Trenzalore, they could easily do several series of audios set there, the Doctor and Handles battling for after foe, thinking that neither will make it off that planet alive.
@@isabelh5561 there’s a book called Tales of Trenzalore. Handles doesn’t play a big role in those stories, but he’s there.
@@isabelh5561 I believe there’s a comic that explains how the Doctor actually got Handles they could do some stories before Time of the Doctor aswell I just need more handles in general
It’s funny that he’s the doctors longest companion
"Remind me to patch the telephone though the console unit"
"When?"
"I don't know later"
"When?"
"I don't know pick a time"
"When?"
"Just any OLD time when you think I've forgotten."
Handles held off until the last second to remind him. I want to believe that's Handles way of showing how much he respected him.
Handles could’ve been like K9...
He also could have been like Nick Carlyle from lollipop chainsaw.
Would have been great…
It's getting dark and his battery is low.
I loved this 60-70 year old version of 11. The way he acts kinda matches his body at this point, it's kinda cool seeing the old man in a young man's body just actually eventually become an old man. This kinda opens it up if they want to have him guest star again in the future and he gets old enough he can't believably be "young" 11 anymore, they can just say he was picked from the part of his timeline where he was on Trenzalore and it'd be completely believable.
where real men cried
When I watched this episode, I didn't expect to get all teary over a cyberman's death. Good job, Moffat.
I’m just gonna say it, Handles was the best companion ever.
Handles IS a companion... No matter what you say...
let's be honest only doctor who can make you sad at the death of the enemies head i have seen a reaction vid where the one reacting was like "okay now i am having feelings for a cyberman head" and i couldn't help but laugh at that maybe that makes me a bad man but it just the irony that the writing is good enough to evoke that response :)
Joe Silver Doctor Who is also the only show with an inter-species lesbian relationship with a pet potato
Karl Yount
Yep.
Handles was my favorite companion of the Doctor. When he died it felt like I got punched in the chest with a sack of BRICKS. Damnit......😭😭😭
I think in the Dr.who Timeline, he was the doctors longest companion as well. So sad when he "died".
That music made it worse but at least he came through with his reminder on the console unit
Handle's the cyberman
2013-2013
Handles
All over time - The doctors death on Trendaloee
more like handles the cyberhead
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This is the saddest I have been with doctor who. Handles finally reminded him at the end of his life. It destroyed me. I cried for half an hour straight
Handles persevered for 300 years just so he can pass that massage to the doctor.
this is the only one scene in doctor who so far that has made me cry
What I'm not crying you're crying
max corrice And you're half right, because I am crying
This just showed how lonely the doctor is. In the episode "The Wedding of RIver Songs" it is revealed that he didn't think anyone outside of his small group of friends cared if he lived of died and River had to show him that he was wrong.
Everybody was so sad that nobody disliked this video
Many have tried and been upgraded.
Some basscrap disliked this video. Just one. Probably after reading this comment.
This was honestly sadder than most companion exits. Moffat, how you do this.
The best companion.
The greatest Cyberman that ever lived. In his honor, in two years time, when I take delivery of my Cybertruck, a truck with no handles, I will name it Handles so he is never forgotten.
This scene always puts a tear in my eye.
you know youve fucked up when a head's death is more sad than clara's entire run.
didnt help shr had so many fakeout deaths and goodbyes
To be fair, making us care so much about about a head takes some writing skill.
Perhaps that's not the point _you're_ making. I'm simply making the point that making us have teh feels over a detached cyberhead was pretty good work! :)
It’s true handles was a lovable character in just the short amount of screen time he has enough to make you sad when he dies
RIP, The Doctor’s longest running companion.
Handles had more character development than Ryan did.
I will always cry from watching this video.
I cried out handles after that
They often talk about what it must be like for the Doctor, going on and on while everyone else falls away. Usually, though, the companions get written out - he doesn't usually get to actually see them die. And then there's this - a quiet, unobtrusive companion of three centuries, finally lost. How many 'one last dawns' did he get? And after all of it, his last act was to deliver the Doctor's 'urgent' message.
This moment is one of the ones that made me actually love the Matt Smith doctor
More emotional than Ryan and graham leaving
For those wondering, the approximate random number if seconds Handles chose to remind the Doctor to patch the telephone back to the console unit was about 9460800000 seconds
If I recall correctly, the Doctor asked him to pick a random number and express it in minutes, not seconds.
But I may be wrong.
I just realized his last words what the doctor wanted him to be reminded of. Now that was touching and very heart breaking to watch.
Something about “Come on, Handles, one more dawn, you can do it,” is so very Ten
Well, ten *is* eleven
RIP to our buddy Handles 😢
For some reason, whenever i watch this scene i always get something in my eyes.
i cant believe its nandor the relentless
That shake breaks my heart
Damn...that hurts seeing this again
'well done mate...well done'
why am I crying :(
Oh, the feeeeeeeeels
Only Steven Moffat can make a Cyberman head dying a tearjerker.
i really wanted a few seasons with handles
Well, we already know from K9 that the Doc genuinely values Robot companions as much as fleshy ones.
Plot twist, with him getting out of that planet he could actually fox handles with propper spare parts and ressucitate it.
This show really kills humans in every other episode, does fucked up things to characters we like, but at the end of the day, it's a fucking Cyberman head that was a joke at first, that made me cry.
Greatest friendship since Chuck & Wilson
Why is Handles never mentioned in the DW Character Encyclopaedias ?
Really thats shameful
The only cyber man we liked.
RIP Handles, we will miss you
So sad to be reminded of when the show had a heart or hearts.
"WIIILLLLLLSOOOOOON!"
Well done, mate... rest well.
this is an incredibly sad death
If they could repair him, we can have Handles back. 😭
NOOOOOOO HANDLES
rest in peace handles rest in peace
Why am I sad??????? ill tell you why!! LEGENDARY DOCTOR. We knew this "character" what? 30 minutes? A testament to a great actor.
Rip handles 2014-2314
I just realised that The Doctor did patch the telephone unit to the console after he regenerated...maybe to honour poor old handles...
I'm crying
Dad: "Why you crying so damn loud?!"
Me:
He feels like my old computers :/
I think this actually explains why the enemies of the Cybermen destroy their heads in order to kill them. A Cyberman can live without its body for 300 years.
This one does lack biological insides
AAAAAAND ANOTHER ONE GONE AND ANOTHER ONE GONE
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Handles' character is deeper than you think.
The handles on a cyberman are what remove emotion, and yet the eleventh doctor decided to use that name for Handles, because it's funny. This really is a representation of 11s arc - he has to make light out of the dark things because if he accepts the truth, then he is doomed. He has to be childish, and he has to look young, because it's the only thing keeping him going.
This one hurt more than Donna.
sad thing is that the doctor acted sort've...acted like a child, shaking handles and expecting a broken toy to come back.
Love you Handles!!! You are so amazing!!
R.I.P handles y
When Doctor Who made everyone feel sad for a Cyberman head
It's sad the only Cyberman he could actually be friends with Was a defective head
Saddest end of a companion
How I feel when my pc brakes
HANDLES 😢😢😩😩😩😩 COME BACK I NEED YOU CYBER MAN LOVE
7 Daleks hated this.
I just wish the doctor could of been able to make a handles 2.0
It wouldn't be the same Handles. It would be only clone, replica, but not the same Handles in the slightest.
This scene's hitting really hard after my dog just died
I seriously cried
Voiced by the same guy who did the Facejacker series back in the day
Information: Rest in peace, Handles.
HANDLES!!!
Good bye handles well done mate