Brenda Pyke I’m pretty sure it was one of the angels the ones that freeze when you see them the color of the skin when it takes off the blanket is the same
The reason why it's scary is that you don't know what is under the blanket, basically it's not a ghost, because doctor who universe is not magical, so what is under the blanket, this is the scary thing, in doctor who universe there is an infinity of creatures
People say "Oh, it was just a kid. The whole point of this episode was that it was just the Doctor being scared of something that didn't exist." But obviously, this thing wasn't a child. A child wouldn't just stand there creepily and then walk out of the room without making a single noise. I totally believe there was something in there, regardless of the point of this episode being that it's about the Doctor's childhood fear of the dark.
“Positive version”?? It’s the truth. Why do you think humans a evolved to feel fear when in the presence of danger. A million years ago to homo-erectus’ we’re hanging by the river engaging in gossip. Erectus 1 sees an animal he’s never seen before getting closer. 1 points this out to erectus 2, as he’s a little shaken. 2 says “It doesn’t look like any dangerous animal I’ve seen before. I’m not worried. Erectus 1 runs anyway. 1 gathers the tribe and goes back to the river, they find no animal and no Erectus 2 apart from his blood and one arm. The twist at the end is that Erectus 1 was your great great great x100 grandfather. A story I’m calling “When the Lion met the idiot”
@@jimmy2k4o There’s a positive and negative spin to everything, and both are objectively ‘true.’ The rub is in how either is used socially, in conversation with peers. If one tends to be frightened unnecessarily by everyday occurrence, to the point of avoidance, they might be considered cowardly, _or_ vigilant. If one insists upon their own “lack” of fear in response to clear and present danger, they might be considered foolhardy and reckless, _or_ brave. It depends on context, always.
"Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard. I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain. It's like rocket fuel. Right now you can run faster and you can fight harder. You can jump higher than ever in your life and you are so alert it's like you can slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a SUPERPOWER! It's your superpower. There is danger in this room. And guess what, it's YOU! Do you feel it? Do you think he feels it? You think he's scared? Naaah. Loser." This is one of my favorite Doctor Who quotes now.
"The Angels want you to know something sir. I died alone and feared. I was frightened. You said, that fear will give me strenght. But it didn't. I'm sorry sir. The Angels really wanted you to know this."
Truly a creepy scene. I don't care how old you are or how big you think you are. If something was on your bed like that. You would never sleep in your room again. lol
I'd be intrigued personally... that's just me though, possibly I might be insane, I am Irish so my analogy of the situation is credible: "Ah, Jaysus, are you de Ghost? Would'ye ever have a whiskey with me? Ah, sure ye will!"
Nine: Coward, any day. Ten: Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they’re wrong, _cuz it’s not irrational._ Eleven: Good, scared keeps you fast. Twelve: Fear is a superpower. Thirteen: Little bit of scared isn't a bad thing.
The worst part is when something you are afraid of just sits still. We understand movement. When something moves it goes somewhere, but when something sits still it waits. It waits for the right moment and in most cases when something waits for the right moment, it is for the right moment to jump at you.
@@dubberducky5659 It 100% is not. Just because both episodes refuse to explain their monster doesn't automatically make them the same monster. The Midnight monster was unexplained because it was supposed to be impossible. A creature that lived on a planet where no life could possibly exist, and if it did it would have definitely been found (but nothing was found because that would be impossible), , somehow gets on board and possesses someone and quickly learns how to communicate and manipulate to elicit paranoia (all with the added benefit of being in a claustrophobic space you can't leave). That's what made it scary; that it was turning people against each other and made the Doctor helpless, as his greatest weapon, his words, become more and more useless in the face of basic fear. This monster? What makes it scary... is that we don't even know it exists. Was it ever actually there? Absence of evidence would usually suggest evidence of absence, but that's sort of the whole point because what if it's real? Sure, some kid could be under that blanket - dick move on the kid's part - but what if it's something else? And we don't even know why, or how, or literally anything. We just don't know.
@@theguywithsomething8634 I'm more-so talking about this episode as a whole and not the creature shown in this segment... I'll edit that comment I think. Perhaps I should've made that a bit clearer for the people out there looking to prove a point to themselves. I actually have a separate theory on what this entity is, and so does the fandom. The later activity in this episode is what links it to Midnight and has a lot of similarities and coincidences (and debatably even some nods towards the episode). I don't need very simplistic paragraphs put towards me to explain the surface level of Midnight, half of what you said is literally just stating what happened in the episode like a narrator, or the description below on BBC iPlayer. We've all seen Midnight a million times I'm sure, and thus know the intricacies. There is one thing you said that does make sense to ponder on though, the fact that we don't know... That's true we don't, which makes the episode just that tad bit more terrifying to dwell on.
One of the best things about Doctor Who is its ability-- although admittedly occasional-- to use such simple things to pull off the most sublime scenes of horror. There's no gruesome beasts, no dripping fangs or blood stained claws. Just something under the bedspread, the notion that the monster isn't under the bed when you went to check because it snuck out from under and decided to wait for you on top, and a test... Don't look. Promise the thing that scares you because you can't see it, that you'll never look. Let it sneak up behind you. Let it breathe down your neck. Feel it there, even now, just beyond your field of vision, that maddening sensation that strokes itself across your skin, of almost being touched. Feel it there; know it's always lurking right behind you, the thing that scares you because you can't see it... but don't ever-- EVER-- look.
I think the initial dialogue is underrated. It seems like the Doctor's typical "being weird/funny to defuse the situation," but it's deeper than that. "I can't find [Wally]...he's nowhere in this book." "It's not a Where's Wally one." "Well how would you know? Maybe you haven't found him yet." "He's not in every book." "Really? Well that's a few years of my life I'll be needing back." It's a distillation of the entire episode. The Doctor is looking for a "hidden character" in a book that doesn't necessarily have it, to the point that it wastes his time. Just as he's looking for a "hidden creature" in the universe that doesn't necessarily exist, to the point that it haunts his imagination and endangers others.
It is unbelievably amazing. This show is so much better than anything you can theoretically find on TV. It feels like television in general is not good enough for the Doctor. Like the Doctor's standards are far beyond any other. Thank you for these brief reminders of how great the Doctor is.
Bogdan Transcendentov I agree with you, my good fellow! Many people often complain a lot about the show on the internet, but the show offers a great variety of topics, scripts, ideas and makes the stories a lot more interesting than many other shows I've seen. It can go anywhere in time and space, from drama to romance to action in a few seconds, it's surprising, funny and quirky and a great piece of entertainment in my opinion. And "may the stories never end"
I wasn't sure I would like Peter as The Doctor on the episodes before this, but this episode and especially this scene sold me on him being a great Doctor, his relation to Danny in this scene and children throughout his time is so good!
I think about all the really hoaky monsters that are in doctor who that they make by trying to use as much budget as possible and how dumb they usually are but then you have monsters like these and the Vashta Nerada or the monster from Midnight, how much fear they can give from basically invisible monsters, it’s legit incredible
EPISODE EXPLAINED: This was a character piece, a character piece for The Doctor. It's main focus in on fear. The psychology of fear, and what it can do to a person. The Doctor creates a theory that there is something living in the dark because he is scared of the dark and wants to justify it. So, what could be the evidence for his theory: * A monster in the sheets or a kid playing a prank? * An invisible spectre writing on a chalkboard or The Doctor doing so, then forgetting * A door being opening my some kind of monster or an airlock opening after being unlocked? * Orson's monster or just an irrational fear of being the last person in the universe? At the end, it's revealed that his theory began with Clara comforting The Doctor as a child, where he believed it was a dream. the fear of the unknown is a common human characteristic. As is trying to find out patterns where there are none. He was trying to rationalise his own fears by finding a explanation for them. This episode was genius because it was so unique. It has allowed us to have a better glimpse as The Doctor's character.
Am i the only one who got the wally thing, it refers to at the beginning "How would you know, maybe you just haven't found him yet" Which is the premise of the episode (The creature so good at hiding, noone knows it exists)
Aaron R it actually started because Clara hides under the bed in the barn and when the young doctor climbs out she reaches out grabbing his leg that’s what scares him and he’s trying to find out! Everyone of us (and I don’t care what anyone says because if you say “you didn’t” you’re lying!) at some point in our childhood have when it’s time to go to bed ran and jumped on your bed in case there was something underneath it and it got you by grabbing your leg and pulling you underneath. As is shown right at the start of this episode! It was Clara who made the doctor scared of the dark and she knows it by the end that’s why she speaks to the young doctor first to try and fix what she did instead of just leaving and then telling the older doctor back in the Tardis to just go and never check where they was!?!
I didn't really get it! The "silent passenger" concept sounded kind of like The Silence again. It was sort of like Moffat reusing one of his old ideas! The problem I have with Steven Moffat is that he doesn't always deliver the kind of stories the fans want to see. No offence but he just writes stories that he wants to do. But not all of them were bad (including the 50th anniversary/The Day of the Doctor) but some of these ideas I really don't get e.g River Song being Rory and Amy's daughter? That was the worst idea ever!! And the Doctors "dying" in Utah? What's that about?! 😕 Sooner or later when we get tired of Moffat they'll have a new head writer (Mark Gatiss is my choice!). But nevertheless, congrats on his OBE...
What a great scene. Every time I think this show has run out of ways to be awesome, they come out of left field with something like this. Scared is a superpower.
DarthRushy thats exactly what i was thinking. I paused the video to look at it and ive never seen a child who has big, black intended parts of their face going around the sides of their head
Dana Lin not explaining it was the whole point. The scariest monsters are not the ones with hideous scars and gruesome appearance. they are the ones that you never see because then your mind fills in what they look like and your mind knows exactly what terrifies you most. and by not ever explaining what was under that blanket, it makes the episode highly rewatchable.
Kyle A It just makes it annoying. It would've been fine had they made it look like it might not have been real, but just having it bizarrely be under the covers and then have the Doctor suddenly go OOC and not immediately poke it with a stick or something is just strange.
Gotta be honest, I lost track of Doctor Who right after Capaldi took the reigns (financial issues, TV was out of the budget), but the line, "The deep, lovely dark. You'd never be able to see the stars without it." showed me just what wonders I've been missing.
So. Absolutely. Creepy! I was SO relieved when the Doctor appeared. But then it got off the bed n came up behind them... This scene is full of both scary and exhilarating moments like this one. And that masterful description of fear as a super power is awesome.
And the voice actor had already played an even better, and scarier monster. "I am sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good..."
TheSonicBoom I wouldn't really call the episode terrifying. It has a creepy atmosphere and it's decently written, but nothing near terrifying, by Moffat's standards. The Empty Child and Blink far outrank this episode in terms of creepiness overall imo.
iHuzza To be honest, I don't find anything scary. Blink was creepy, I guess, but the idea behind this was just far too real - the idea of a perfect hiding creature is so good. And it could actually exist and we'd have no idea.
TheSonicBoom Yeah, I guess the fact that I was 7 when I saw the Empty Child and was 9 when I saw Blink play into this a bit. Still, I can't find a reason as to why people would really find this episode scary, there's the part with the kid under the cover and maybe the part at the end of the universe if you were easily scared. Like in terms of concept, this episode is scary, but it's pretty much entirely theory and speculation for an entire episode. It's sorta like if in Blink, there were people travelling back in time while in the presence of the angels and the entire episode was based around the theory of angels being able to kill people by use of time travel and not the angles themselves. Imagine that episode with no angels moving or anything, just people disappearing and the doctor saying "Well, it might be the angels."- It'd just massively reduce the episode's quality imo and make it sort of alike to Listen in that regard. Not that I don't like Listen, it's just that it has no re-watchability imo, I can still watch Blink to this day and still get slightly creeped out, whereas I haven't seen Listen since it's broadcast yet I can remember every single little occurrence in the episode.
I think this was the first time the 12th doctor interacted with children. Up to this point, he had seemed like the most cold and calculating doctor ever, and at first it seems like he's going out of his way to scare the kid more, but assures him that being afraid can be a power. Regardless of whatever was under that blanket, Twelve wanted to teach that boy a valuable lesson, that there's always something to be afraid of, and that's okay if as long as you stay strong through it.
It's my favourite episode ever I've watched it a bunch of times and honestly I really don't care what's under that blanket. We're not supposed to know. I don't think anyone knows what's under that blanket and that's the whole point of the episode. We'll never know if there's a thing in the dark or not but it's okay to be afraid either way. And to be honest the thing we get to see is so blurry that it easily could have been a child wearing a mask or something.
And theres another point in this ambiguity... is generalized all things pointed by doctor could prove like a path, its like the the wimey wibble bubble and to the point that the episode portrays the time that also marries well Like you never know what the next step, making a full million of theories... but who wrote the "listen" in cardboard?
I think you should put up the opening sequence to this episode. It's really impressive, even if I think it makes a few shaky points. It's such a great clip that shows how the doctor thinks when he's alone.
I saw an interesting theory that the creature here and the origin of Twelve's writing on the chalkboard was an orphan baby silent hiding on the TARDIS after the extinction of its race, alone and miserable and trying to get some semblance of companionship, but terrified of what will happen if it's caught.
To be honest, I wanted to love this episode. I wanted to call it the best one in the season, because it left an imprint on me that I couldn't shake, and this was the scariest scene I had ever seen in my life. I had literally the worst panic attack while watching this scene, but I still loved the episode for some reason. But then, I couldn't. Doctor Who is usually my fave show. They take your worst nightmares, and they defeat them. They stomp them into the ground, and they become the victor of them. This is literally my worst nightmare though. Things unknown, in the dark while you sleep, touching you. I can't put my feet on the floor at night because of this fear. And starting this episode, I was ready to watch the doctor stomp my fears into the ground, and become their victor. And then, in the end, not even he could stop this enemy, and now I'm afraid my nightmares might get worse. There is no way to stomp this foe by just being brave, or nice. The unbeatable enemy that will survive to the end of time, and come at all others like a parasite that just found prey. I wanted to love this episode, but it paralyzed me. And now I believe I may be more afraid than ever.
@@tangerinetech5300 if you are in usa just sleep with a gun, two things then will haplen, one, you will blow yourself brains, and world will be a more sane place, two, you will kill some other sentient being that didnt do you anything bad that is ifthey exist, and newsflash, they do not....
Thats because this episode leads YOU ITSELF to beat it, the monster is clearly literally the same from all others created by doctor who producers(a sontaran, a silence, the angels, could be anyone) so if you think like that, that is just a retcon monster doing his reappearing in a episode that is not about him (and for sake... thats so good, finally a rest for theses folks) being crushed by the doctor so... theyre already beated Also not only him but inside doctor he fights with clara the most scary of theses, his internals fears and clara beated it
@@danw3420He has resurrection but his actual durability is only street level since the entire crux of his character arc is dying to regular human execution, the feats are pretty clear and the only other thing the author really gives him are statements that could definitely have been added for narrative emphasis or even added by one of the thousands of editors the books had
Great episode. It was, by far, the best of the "Gallifrey is impossible to reach unless you try really, really hard. And by 'hard' I mean just 'turn off the safeties' and then it's a snap".
"I died in fear. ... You told me my fear would keep me alive but I died afraid, in pain and alone. You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down." - Angel Bob to the Eleventh Doctor, "The Time of Angels," Series 5 Did anyone else think of this line while watching the above scene in "Listen"?
"There is danger in this room. And guess what, it's YOU!" I feel like the doctor is saying the they are not in danger, but rather they are a danger to the thing hidden under the blanket. wonder what would happen if they did look?
The deepest, most terrifying horrors we will ever face are our own fears. Fear of the dark. Rear of the unknown. Fear of failure. But the worst of all, Fear of being alone.
The episodes with Capaldi were generally much darker, scary, and creepy than the others. They really never had the silliness of some of the episodes of the previous Doctors.
It supposedly is a "Floof" Steven Moffat mentioned it in one of the Doctor Who books (with the 10th Doctor). "Floofs resembled short humanoids with bald heads. Over time, they evolved to become experts in hiding. This allowed them to find the one spot that no-one was looking at in a room full of people, which would keep them out of sight from people. They generally stalked humans or other humanoids, causing mischief in the person's life. However, sometimes the Floof became possessive and began to cause more serious problems. They probably had superhuman speed, as they could travel to places where no-one could see them extremely quickly. (PROSE: Corner of the Eye)"
Oh this is from the episode where Doctor theorises what if there is a creature that is so proficient in hiding that nobody in the whole universe will ever see it so nobody will even know it exists. Even the Doctor didn't want to have anything to do with it as you can see.
Notice how, as soon as the Doctor gets their minds off whatever's on the bed, he gets right in between it and Danny? Whatever that is, if it does turn out to be malevolent, it's got to go through him first. Want to talk about being scared? That thing on the bed's probably petrified at the thought of having to go through those attack eyebrows to get to anyone else.
At 3.17 - It looks like a Sontaran, doesn't anyone agree? Later on in the episode the Doctor did yell 'Sontarans, peverting the course of human history' ... Just a thought.
This was the first time a Who episode truly scared me since The Waters of Mars. (and prior to that Midnight). This show is at its best when it goes all 'psychological horror' on you.
I love that I’m this scene you can easily rationalize it by the monster being a child, even if it isn’t. It weaponizes a humans need to find a logical answer to something that is unknown.
Or maybe it is a child. From what little we see of it, it looks like a young Grey, or perhaps a young silence. The characters never actually turn around to see it, so all they remember is a moving blanket and something under it.
@@bennusmagnus5277 a Child or a sontaran... because of height haha Or a little silence Or the animal with super hinding evolution capabilities doctor theorized All can be and thats why this is one of the most incridible episodes, because none of them is really the point This is what most series doest make, things thats not pretend to be the principal plot
3:11 they are talking about SCP 096 because He doesn't want to be Seen and the doctor clearly says If You Look at it that You will regret it. As the thing pulls the blanket away You can See it's White skin with No body Hair that is to 100% SCP 096.
I loved the neat little time loop in this one. The Doctor started out investigating his fear of the dark and actually found a monster - even though we know that his original fear was just a friend.
i love this eposode the idea that there is something in the shadows that dose not harm but just keeps watch. the idea that there is something in the corner of our eyes playing on that very real fear of being watched. doctor who always gets my mind thinking about things like that
This episode confuses me. If clara instilled an irrational fear in the doctor of monsters under the bed, then what was the thing in the room? Was the irrational fear actually a rational one, or was it actually just a practical joke? Still confused a year later... Maybe a rational fear caused the travel to the past, which caused the fear to become irrational? Wibbly wobbly...
The episode is supposed to be open ended about whether the Doctor is right about the creatures existing or not. There is evidence that they might exist (the Doctor being right about everyone at some point having that nightmare, what we the audience can see when the bed sheet comes off) but there is evidence that they might not (pressure on the lock mechanisms, the possibility that it was another kid at the home) Probably best way to keep it too, a perfect hider should never be seen.
RYCloud92 That which is unobservable does not physically exist. Unobservables are ideas, secondary effects, not physical objects. That is why this confuses me so much. If by 'unobservable', it means, not observable by the basic senses, then this makes more sense, but it would also mean the doctor could make a gadget to detect them. I understand why the doctor would be fascinated by such a thing, because if it does physically exist, and it is truly unobservable, then it would defy physics and be a supernatural life form.
Think about this. Lets say a particle flies through the universe. It never interacts with anything in the universe for the entire trip, never influences anything, so therefore, it was never observed. Did that particle exist? No, it existed within its _own_ reality which was separate from our own. Our 'reality' is defined by all the things which interact, in a giant node web of interconnected interactions. That particle influenced nothing, interacted with nothing, and therefore, never connected to the node tree of our reality, so it was never a part of it, even though its existence was real to the particle, its existence was in an alternate reality from our own, and from the perspective of our reality, it never existed.
Richard Smith The creature under that blanket is not what the doctor was looking for. The creature is a listener! Same thing as in midnight. They feed off voices. That's why they wanted to get in at the end of the universe. They were starving (or at least, that's what I choose to believe).
There was a kid with a monster mask under the bed trying to play a trick on Rupert. That's the point of this episode, there's no actual monster, just an imaginary one created by the Doctor trying to rationalize his fear of the dark. The caretaker's experience was actually the Doctor taking the mug, Rupert's experience was the kid, Orson's experience was the door malfunctioning, and the Doctor's experience was Clara. The point is the worst monsters are the ones we create in our heads.
"Don't look 'round" *Hears lound sound, looks back in an instant. Reminds me of all the " Don't wander off" - " Wanders of instantly, gets into trouble"
0:57 -> : That thing on the bed. Whatever it is. Look at it, does it scare you? (-Yes.) Well that's good. You want to know why that's good? (-Why?) Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it in your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like a rrrocket fuel! Right now, you could run faster, and you could FIGHT HARDER, you could jump higher than ever before in your life, And you are so alert, it's like you could sloow doown tiiiimme... What's wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower! Your superpower! There is danger in this room, and guess what, it's YOU! Do you feel it? Still The best Twelfth Doctor episode.
Okay but if you saw the creature, what could it actually do? If it's evolved throughout its whole existence for hiding and never being seen, then it wouldn't be good at fighting at all.
I suspect what the doctor and crew may have faced was a “cosmic” boogeyman type entity whoms presence has been notice from the beginning of the episode were the doctor is alone but there were sounds outside the room similar to scratching and even *soft knocks* this episode comes in mind to remind the viewer that the universe where the doctor exist has many more mistéries the doesn’t know about or would rather leave them to their own devices such as” the listene entity” from this clip
every time i look in the comments of a Doctor who video its always this is the best episode ever can we all just agree Doctor who is the best show EVER!!!
Old-fashioned bedsheet ghost... actually made scary. I didn't think that was possible.
Yggi11 the leadup during the beginning of the episode was very good
Same
Brenda Pyke I’m pretty sure it was one of the angels the ones that freeze when you see them the color of the skin when it takes off the blanket is the same
@@Clutch_Shadow maybe baby weaping angel
The reason why it's scary is that you don't know what is under the blanket, basically it's not a ghost, because doctor who universe is not magical, so what is under the blanket, this is the scary thing, in doctor who universe there is an infinity of creatures
The thing on the bed...was actually Peter Capaldi saying "Don't forget to click below..."
Qweekskowped 😂
I had to re-watch it. OMG🤣🤣🤣
Actually even that is a possibility because they didn't explain what it is(sadly).
"Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister."
Oh my god just imagine
*picks up the blanket a little*
Peter: *pokes head out* don’t forget to click below-
People say "Oh, it was just a kid. The whole point of this episode was that it was just the Doctor being scared of something that didn't exist." But obviously, this thing wasn't a child. A child wouldn't just stand there creepily and then walk out of the room without making a single noise. I totally believe there was something in there, regardless of the point of this episode being that it's about the Doctor's childhood fear of the dark.
I mean, you can see a blurry bit of it when it takes off the blankets, and it is...decidedly not child like. Lol
@@Astrithor It is child like, but not perfectly. Might have some sort of deformation.
Ya maybe a good child wouldn't do that but a bully who liked to bully other kids would do that
@@yaboi9183 A child would make some creepy noises to scare them more, not just silently stand there and then leave without ever jumpscaring them.
@@iamasalad9080 really good point. Of course, nothing is ever non-alien in the whoniverse
I absolutely love The Doctor’s positive version of being scared, him being silly with the kid, it’s so wholesome
“Positive version”??
It’s the truth.
Why do you think humans a evolved to feel fear when in the presence of danger.
A million years ago to homo-erectus’ we’re hanging by the river engaging in gossip.
Erectus 1 sees an animal he’s never seen before getting closer.
1 points this out to erectus 2, as he’s a little shaken. 2 says “It doesn’t look like any dangerous animal I’ve seen before. I’m not worried.
Erectus 1 runs anyway.
1 gathers the tribe and goes back to the river, they find no animal and no Erectus 2 apart from his blood and one arm.
The twist at the end is that Erectus 1 was your great great great x100 grandfather.
A story I’m calling “When the Lion met the idiot”
I also think it was to calm the kid down, throw him off with a random topic that undermines the seriousness of the situation
@@jimmy2k4o There’s a positive and negative spin to everything, and both are objectively ‘true.’ The rub is in how either is used socially, in conversation with peers.
If one tends to be frightened unnecessarily by everyday occurrence, to the point of avoidance, they might be considered cowardly, _or_ vigilant. If one insists upon their own “lack” of fear in response to clear and present danger, they might be considered foolhardy and reckless, _or_ brave.
It depends on context, always.
the angels: Don't turn your back and don't blink
the Listen monster: do the exact opposite
My God, if they were to team up they'd be unstoppable.
@@ninjadarthjuju117 like Gork and Mork, one hits you while you're looking and the other when you're not
Or SCP-173 and SCP-094.
@@Jadefox32 also like black fairies. One distracts you while the other one kills you.
Steven loves playing with our perceptions, quite literally.
"Let me tell you about scared.
Your heart is beating so hard. I can feel it through your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain. It's like rocket fuel. Right now you can run faster and you can fight harder. You can jump higher than ever in your life and you are so alert it's like you can slow down time. What's wrong with scared? Scared is a SUPERPOWER! It's your superpower. There is danger in this room. And guess what, it's YOU! Do you feel it? Do you think he feels it? You think he's scared? Naaah. Loser."
This is one of my favorite Doctor Who quotes now.
Capaldi has had some great lines and monologues thus far:
*Fear is a Superpower
*The Man Who Stops the Monsters
*I am An Idiot!
And his speech on the nature of war in Inversion of the Zygons.
Raymond S. same here :)
"The Angels want you to know something sir. I died alone and feared. I was frightened. You said, that fear will give me strenght. But it didn't. I'm sorry sir. The Angels really wanted you to know this."
I've done this speech in Year 9 drama. It was electrifying, for me, inside the character of the Doctor. It was the best thing I have ever presented.
0:20 Presence of lens flare indicates JJ Abrams is underneath blanket.
noluckst2 You mean 3:48?
King of the lens flares
😂🤣
Read it in the Dalek voice....lol
Le Filthy Finch lol
Truly a creepy scene. I don't care how old you are or how big you think you are. If something was on your bed like that. You would never sleep in your room again. lol
+Joonatan Lehtonen ooooh sorry bigman
I would just use the opportunity to see if I’m good at punching things. Until I figure out that it’s little Timmy that sleeps next door. Sorry buddy
I wouldn't even stay in that house LMAO
I'd be intrigued personally... that's just me though, possibly I might be insane, I am Irish so my analogy of the situation is credible:
"Ah, Jaysus, are you de Ghost? Would'ye ever have a whiskey with me? Ah, sure ye will!"
If I saw that I would throw something at it and if the sheet fell off and no ones there and I would leave the room and barricade it from the outside
What if the guy under the sheet was Wally?
severely underrated.
Ditto
I finally get it now. Thank you.
Oh my goodness. Mind blown.
🤭🤭🤭🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂 I would totally understand
Nine: Coward, any day.
Ten: Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they’re wrong, _cuz it’s not irrational._
Eleven: Good, scared keeps you fast.
Twelve: Fear is a superpower.
Thirteen: Little bit of scared isn't a bad thing.
Did 14 have any line that had to do with fear?
I assume 15 would have such a line at some point of the next season.
I count at least 3 of those that were from episodes written by Steven Moffat. Coincidence? Not really
This episode really made me wonder if it's possible we're always being followed by creatures that are so good at hiding we don't notice them.
Ellio t Thank you for that. Just what I need to think in dark at 3 in the morning.... :O
xD
Have you ever heard of the weeping angels?
Maybe, bu they don't need to be bad or dangerous
Yes, they are called spiders.
The worst part is when something you are afraid of just sits still.
We understand movement. When something moves it goes somewhere, but when something sits still it waits. It waits for the right moment and in most cases when something waits for the right moment, it is for the right moment to jump at you.
This episode reminded me quite a lot of the 10th Doctor's episode "Midnight" same concept of an unknown terrifying creature that is never explained.
TheUnknownAK Yeah same, I love this kind of episode
@scftlcve The Episode 100 percent is...
@@dubberducky5659 It 100% is not. Just because both episodes refuse to explain their monster doesn't automatically make them the same monster.
The Midnight monster was unexplained because it was supposed to be impossible. A creature that lived on a planet where no life could possibly exist, and if it did it would have definitely been found (but nothing was found because that would be impossible), , somehow gets on board and possesses someone and quickly learns how to communicate and manipulate to elicit paranoia (all with the added benefit of being in a claustrophobic space you can't leave). That's what made it scary; that it was turning people against each other and made the Doctor helpless, as his greatest weapon, his words, become more and more useless in the face of basic fear.
This monster? What makes it scary... is that we don't even know it exists. Was it ever actually there? Absence of evidence would usually suggest evidence of absence, but that's sort of the whole point because what if it's real? Sure, some kid could be under that blanket - dick move on the kid's part - but what if it's something else? And we don't even know why, or how, or literally anything. We just don't know.
@@theguywithsomething8634 I'm more-so talking about this episode as a whole and not the creature shown in this segment... I'll edit that comment I think. Perhaps I should've made that a bit clearer for the people out there looking to prove a point to themselves.
I actually have a separate theory on what this entity is, and so does the fandom. The later activity in this episode is what links it to Midnight and has a lot of similarities and coincidences (and debatably even some nods towards the episode). I don't need very simplistic paragraphs put towards me to explain the surface level of Midnight, half of what you said is literally just stating what happened in the episode like a narrator, or the description below on BBC iPlayer. We've all seen Midnight a million times I'm sure, and thus know the intricacies.
There is one thing you said that does make sense to ponder on though, the fact that we don't know... That's true we don't, which makes the episode just that tad bit more terrifying to dwell on.
This episode doesn’t scare me the way Midnight did.
One of the best things about Doctor Who is its ability-- although admittedly occasional-- to use such simple things to pull off the most sublime scenes of horror.
There's no gruesome beasts, no dripping fangs or blood stained claws.
Just something under the bedspread, the notion that the monster isn't under the bed when you went to check because it snuck out from under and decided to wait for you on top, and a test...
Don't look. Promise the thing that scares you because you can't see it, that you'll never look. Let it sneak up behind you. Let it breathe down your neck. Feel it there, even now, just beyond your field of vision, that maddening sensation that strokes itself across your skin, of almost being touched.
Feel it there; know it's always lurking right behind you, the thing that scares you because you can't see it... but don't ever-- EVER-- look.
Wow I really hate you, thanks
Cosmic / Lovecraftian Horror
Feels like blink but in reverse, shows that when Doctor Who hits home it really hits home
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I think the initial dialogue is underrated. It seems like the Doctor's typical "being weird/funny to defuse the situation," but it's deeper than that.
"I can't find [Wally]...he's nowhere in this book."
"It's not a Where's Wally one."
"Well how would you know? Maybe you haven't found him yet."
"He's not in every book."
"Really? Well that's a few years of my life I'll be needing back."
It's a distillation of the entire episode. The Doctor is looking for a "hidden character" in a book that doesn't necessarily have it, to the point that it wastes his time. Just as he's looking for a "hidden creature" in the universe that doesn't necessarily exist, to the point that it haunts his imagination and endangers others.
That's clever, I never noticed that.
The sheet monster can go away. I just love how the doctor spent years looking through every book for wally
Now someone just needs to travel through space and time to draw a little Wally in every book he hasn’t read at that point as he’s stopped looking.
It is unbelievably amazing. This show is so much better than anything you can theoretically find on TV. It feels like television in general is not good enough for the Doctor. Like the Doctor's standards are far beyond any other.
Thank you for these brief reminders of how great the Doctor is.
Bogdan Transcendentov I agree with you, my good fellow! Many people often complain a lot about the show on the internet, but the show offers a great variety of topics, scripts, ideas and makes the stories a lot more interesting than many other shows I've seen. It can go anywhere in time and space, from drama to romance to action in a few seconds, it's surprising, funny and quirky and a great piece of entertainment in my opinion. And "may the stories never end"
+Bogdan Transcendentov terrible and Boring.
Even 5 years ago, Fargo was better. As was Breaking Bad.
and then Chris Chibnall happened
I wasn't sure I would like Peter as The Doctor on the episodes before this, but this episode and especially this scene sold me on him being a great Doctor, his relation to Danny in this scene and children throughout his time is so good!
The Doctor is so good with kids.
Clockwork Arceus he’s like a father figure, teaching you important lessons in the simplest terms,
Well he was a father on multiple occasions
I think about all the really hoaky monsters that are in doctor who that they make by trying to use as much budget as possible and how dumb they usually are but then you have monsters like these and the Vashta Nerada or the monster from Midnight, how much fear they can give from basically invisible monsters, it’s legit incredible
The most terrifying things, are those left to your imagination. This episode messed me up haha
EPISODE EXPLAINED: This was a character piece, a character piece for The Doctor. It's main focus in on fear. The psychology of fear, and what it can do to a person.
The Doctor creates a theory that there is something living in the dark because he is scared of the dark and wants to justify it. So, what could be the evidence for his theory:
* A monster in the sheets or a kid playing a prank?
* An invisible spectre writing on a chalkboard or The Doctor doing so, then forgetting
* A door being opening my some kind of monster or an airlock opening after being unlocked?
* Orson's monster or just an irrational fear of being the last person in the universe?
At the end, it's revealed that his theory began with Clara comforting The Doctor as a child, where he believed it was a dream. the fear of the unknown is a common human characteristic. As is trying to find out patterns where there are none. He was trying to rationalise his own fears by finding a explanation for them.
This episode was genius because it was so unique. It has allowed us to have a better glimpse as The Doctor's character.
Am i the only one who got the wally thing, it refers to at the beginning "How would you know, maybe you just haven't found him yet" Which is the premise of the episode (The creature so good at hiding, noone knows it exists)
It definitely is a a monster though, you can the top of its head in 3:17
Kinda like Midnight, but that monster represented the natural evil in humans. This episode is 100% fear.
Aaron R it actually started because Clara hides under the bed in the barn and when the young doctor climbs out she reaches out grabbing his leg that’s what scares him and he’s trying to find out! Everyone of us (and I don’t care what anyone says because if you say “you didn’t” you’re lying!) at some point in our childhood have when it’s time to go to bed ran and jumped on your bed in case there was something underneath it and it got you by grabbing your leg and pulling you underneath. As is shown right at the start of this episode! It was Clara who made the doctor scared of the dark and she knows it by the end that’s why she speaks to the young doctor first to try and fix what she did instead of just leaving and then telling the older doctor back in the Tardis to just go and never check where they was!?!
I thought people were scared of the dark because of the vashta narada
This was definitely the best episode of the season.
Robert Lythgoe You and me both
I can kinda see why that's the case, but in my opinion, I feel 'Flatline' was superior.
Cryer24597 Mummy was great, not the best though. Flatline is good, but overrated.
TheMCDuck 2016 He was funny in most episodes...
I didn't really get it! The "silent passenger" concept sounded kind of like The Silence again. It was sort of like Moffat reusing one of his old ideas! The problem I have with Steven Moffat is that he doesn't always deliver the kind of stories the fans want to see. No offence but he just writes stories that he wants to do. But not all of them were bad (including the 50th anniversary/The Day of the Doctor) but some of these ideas I really don't get e.g River Song being Rory and Amy's daughter? That was the worst idea ever!! And the Doctors "dying" in Utah? What's that about?! 😕 Sooner or later when we get tired of Moffat they'll have a new head writer (Mark Gatiss is my choice!). But nevertheless, congrats on his OBE...
Peter should have rugby tackled it. That would have been funny.
😂
Nah it would have undermined the vibes.
What a great scene. Every time I think this show has run out of ways to be awesome, they come out of left field with something like this. Scared is a superpower.
So, what WAS under that blanket. Definitely not a kid.
DarthRushy thats exactly what i was thinking. I paused the video to look at it and ive never seen a child who has big, black intended parts of their face going around the sides of their head
Lord Woffingshire Also, no kid would act like this.
It could have been a kid wearing a mask, and the kid could have been autistic or social phobia kinda thing. Wish they had explained it though...
Dana Lin not explaining it was the whole point. The scariest monsters are not the ones with hideous scars and gruesome appearance. they are the ones that you never see because then your mind fills in what they look like and your mind knows exactly what terrifies you most. and by not ever explaining what was under that blanket, it makes the episode highly rewatchable.
Kyle A It just makes it annoying. It would've been fine had they made it look like it might not have been real, but just having it bizarrely be under the covers and then have the Doctor suddenly go OOC and not immediately poke it with a stick or something is just strange.
Peter Capaldi is slowly becoming a great doctor. It's the way that he does things. Serious, but funny at the same time.
I think he was the Doctor from the very beginning
Gotta be honest, I lost track of Doctor Who right after Capaldi took the reigns (financial issues, TV was out of the budget), but the line, "The deep, lovely dark. You'd never be able to see the stars without it." showed me just what wonders I've been missing.
So. Absolutely. Creepy! I was SO relieved when the Doctor appeared. But then it got off the bed n came up behind them...
This scene is full of both scary and exhilarating moments like this one. And that masterful description of fear as a super power is awesome.
But not an entirely new one; Matt Smith's doctor used a similar explanation in the Time of the Angels to Bob.
@@mysteriouslyseeing Well, it is quite true after all.
Reminds me to the devil from the new series season 2.
"Dont turn around, toby"
And the voice actor had already played an even better, and scarier monster.
"I am sutekh the destroyer. Where I tread, I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good..."
ArcaneLucentRay tha villain is just creepy has heel, highly underated episode and hidden gem during ten's run
One of the best episode ever!
yeah.
One of NuWho's best episodes.
10/10 - IGN
'Would be terrified beyond belief again.'
TheSonicBoom I wouldn't really call the episode terrifying. It has a creepy atmosphere and it's decently written, but nothing near terrifying, by Moffat's standards. The Empty Child and Blink far outrank this episode in terms of creepiness overall imo.
iHuzza To be honest, I don't find anything scary. Blink was creepy, I guess, but the idea behind this was just far too real - the idea of a perfect hiding creature is so good. And it could actually exist and we'd have no idea.
TheSonicBoom Yeah, I guess the fact that I was 7 when I saw the Empty Child and was 9 when I saw Blink play into this a bit. Still, I can't find a reason as to why people would really find this episode scary, there's the part with the kid under the cover and maybe the part at the end of the universe if you were easily scared. Like in terms of concept, this episode is scary, but it's pretty much entirely theory and speculation for an entire episode.
It's sorta like if in Blink, there were people travelling back in time while in the presence of the angels and the entire episode was based around the theory of angels being able to kill people by use of time travel and not the angles themselves. Imagine that episode with no angels moving or anything, just people disappearing and the doctor saying "Well, it might be the angels."- It'd just massively reduce the episode's quality imo and make it sort of alike to Listen in that regard. Not that I don't like Listen, it's just that it has no re-watchability imo, I can still watch Blink to this day and still get slightly creeped out, whereas I haven't seen Listen since it's broadcast yet I can remember every single little occurrence in the episode.
iHuzza Fair enough. But I do really like the concept and the execution, so each to their own. LET'S GO SERIES NINE
TheSonicBoom oh my god yes let's kick it hermano :D
I think this was the first time the 12th doctor interacted with children. Up to this point, he had seemed like the most cold and calculating doctor ever, and at first it seems like he's going out of his way to scare the kid more, but assures him that being afraid can be a power.
Regardless of whatever was under that blanket, Twelve wanted to teach that boy a valuable lesson, that there's always something to be afraid of, and that's okay if as long as you stay strong through it.
It's my favourite episode ever I've watched it a bunch of times and honestly I really don't care what's under that blanket. We're not supposed to know. I don't think anyone knows what's under that blanket and that's the whole point of the episode. We'll never know if there's a thing in the dark or not but it's okay to be afraid either way. And to be honest the thing we get to see is so blurry that it easily could have been a child wearing a mask or something.
Yes! Exactly
It's my favourite episode too
And theres another point in this ambiguity... is generalized all things pointed by doctor could prove like a path, its like the the wimey wibble bubble and to the point that the episode portrays the time that also marries well
Like you never know what the next step, making a full million of theories... but who wrote the "listen" in cardboard?
I think you should put up the opening sequence to this episode. It's really impressive, even if I think it makes a few shaky points. It's such a great clip that shows how the doctor thinks when he's alone.
I saw an interesting theory that the creature here and the origin of Twelve's writing on the chalkboard was an orphan baby silent hiding on the TARDIS after the extinction of its race, alone and miserable and trying to get some semblance of companionship, but terrified of what will happen if it's caught.
That's so stupid for so many reasons. Not the least of which is that the Silence are humans.
Not the ones that disappear from your memory when you're not looking at them.
To be honest, I wanted to love this episode. I wanted to call it the best one in the season, because it left an imprint on me that I couldn't shake, and this was the scariest scene I had ever seen in my life. I had literally the worst panic attack while watching this scene, but I still loved the episode for some reason.
But then, I couldn't.
Doctor Who is usually my fave show. They take your worst nightmares, and they defeat them. They stomp them into the ground, and they become the victor of them.
This is literally my worst nightmare though. Things unknown, in the dark while you sleep, touching you. I can't put my feet on the floor at night because of this fear. And starting this episode, I was ready to watch the doctor stomp my fears into the ground, and become their victor.
And then, in the end, not even he could stop this enemy, and now I'm afraid my nightmares might get worse. There is no way to stomp this foe by just being brave, or nice. The unbeatable enemy that will survive to the end of time, and come at all others like a parasite that just found prey.
I wanted to love this episode, but it paralyzed me. And now I believe I may be more afraid than ever.
Ashley White I know this is a two year old comment and everything but have you tried sleeping with the lights on
@@tangerinetech5300 if you are in usa just sleep with a gun, two things then will haplen, one, you will blow yourself brains, and world will be a more sane place, two, you will kill some other sentient being that didnt do you anything bad that is ifthey exist, and newsflash, they do not....
If you still need help - Jesus can stomp anything in the universe. The bible talks all about it.
Thats because this episode leads YOU ITSELF to beat it, the monster is clearly literally the same from all others created by doctor who producers(a sontaran, a silence, the angels, could be anyone) so if you think like that, that is just a retcon monster doing his reappearing in a episode that is not about him (and for sake... thats so good, finally a rest for theses folks) being crushed by the doctor so... theyre already beated
Also not only him but inside doctor he fights with clara the most scary of theses, his internals fears and clara beated it
@@danw3420He has resurrection but his actual durability is only street level since the entire crux of his character arc is dying to regular human execution, the feats are pretty clear and the only other thing the author really gives him are statements that could definitely have been added for narrative emphasis or even added by one of the thousands of editors the books had
It looks a bit too alien to just be left at that, I hope they return to this as a concept
This is my favorite Doctor Who scene because sometimes we all need a reminder that it is ok to be afraid or scared. Thank you Doctor.
Great episode. It was, by far, the best of the "Gallifrey is impossible to reach unless you try really, really hard. And by 'hard' I mean just 'turn off the safeties' and then it's a snap".
what TRULY made this scene terrifying was that even the Doctor was scared and didnt know what it would do
Doctor Who You might want to change the thumbnail......
lol you dirty minded 👃🏻
***** especially with that tittle
What's wrong with boner? Boner is a superpower! Your superpower! Do you feel it? Do you think that thing feels it too?
EWWW!!! DUDE... REALLY?!
You just made my day
"I died in fear. ... You told me my fear would keep me alive but I died afraid, in pain and alone. You made me trust you, and when it mattered, you let me down." - Angel Bob to the Eleventh Doctor, "The Time of Angels," Series 5
Did anyone else think of this line while watching the above scene in "Listen"?
"There is danger in this room. And guess what, it's YOU!"
I feel like the doctor is saying the they are not in danger, but rather they are a danger to the thing hidden under the blanket. wonder what would happen if they did look?
Okay, I'll look square instead
I feel bad for laughing at this.
Why not triangle?
😂😂😂
I’ll look oblong :)
Such perfect dialogue, beautifully performed. Great direction as well. Superb episode.
best episode in the whole season
Mummy on the orient express
Kim Marinelli wrong, flatline was, this sucked
Nick Latham this and flatline was the best
DADDYLORDSHUA nope worst was Robin Hood
Best: flatline
2nd best: mummy on the Orient express
Worst: In the forest of the night
2nd worst: everything else except time heist, that was decent
The deepest, most terrifying horrors we will ever face are our own fears.
Fear of the dark.
Rear of the unknown.
Fear of failure.
But the worst of all,
Fear of being alone.
The episodes with Capaldi were generally much darker, scary, and creepy than the others. They really never had the silliness of some of the episodes of the previous Doctors.
It kinda looks like an eyeless Sontaran during that one moment you can kinda see it
Absolutely Brilliant.
The suspense & terror in this episode is amazing.
The Where's Wally joke is one I'll always remember. 😂
"Hey who turned out the lights?"
I hope this alien or whatever it is, Comes into play again.
I want to know what it was
that is easy it's fear, fear makes you see what you afraid off so you saw it
It was Moffat trying to make people think that neat-o stuff is the same thing as plot and character.
@@sabrina2368 So, it's a Boggart?
It supposedly is a "Floof"
Steven Moffat mentioned it in one of the Doctor Who books (with the 10th Doctor).
"Floofs resembled short humanoids with bald heads. Over time, they evolved to become experts in hiding. This allowed them to find the one spot that no-one was looking at in a room full of people, which would keep them out of sight from people. They generally stalked humans or other humanoids, causing mischief in the person's life. However, sometimes the Floof became possessive and began to cause more serious problems. They probably had superhuman speed, as they could travel to places where no-one could see them extremely quickly. (PROSE: Corner of the Eye)"
Oh this is from the episode where Doctor theorises what if there is a creature that is so proficient in hiding that nobody in the whole universe will ever see it so nobody will even know it exists. Even the Doctor didn't want to have anything to do with it as you can see.
Notice how, as soon as the Doctor gets their minds off whatever's on the bed, he gets right in between it and Danny? Whatever that is, if it does turn out to be malevolent, it's got to go through him first. Want to talk about being scared? That thing on the bed's probably petrified at the thought of having to go through those attack eyebrows to get to anyone else.
At 3.17 - It looks like a Sontaran, doesn't anyone agree? Later on in the episode the Doctor did yell 'Sontarans, peverting the course of human history' ... Just a thought.
Brandon Hudson
Perhaps we'll never know and perhaps it's best left that way. Or, it's part of an elaborate Moffat multiple-series arc.
James McDonald I think that the Doctor saying that was just a reference to the Fourth Doctor's first words.
Probably just a reference to the time warrior and the sontaran experiment (More so the time warrior).
Brandon Hudson
Presumably Episode 10 was your least favourite? And yes, I shan't even speak its name.
Into the for... *James McDonald** starts strangling me* est... *cough* of the *cough* night... *dies*.
This was the first time a Who episode truly scared me since The Waters of Mars. (and prior to that Midnight). This show is at its best when it goes all 'psychological horror' on you.
I love that I’m this scene you can easily rationalize it by the monster being a child, even if it isn’t. It weaponizes a humans need to find a logical answer to something that is unknown.
Or maybe it is a child. From what little we see of it, it looks like a young Grey, or perhaps a young silence. The characters never actually turn around to see it, so all they remember is a moving blanket and something under it.
@@bennusmagnus5277 a Child or a sontaran... because of height haha
Or a little silence
Or the animal with super hinding evolution capabilities doctor theorized
All can be and thats why this is one of the most incridible episodes, because none of them is really the point
This is what most series doest make, things thats not pretend to be the principal plot
Jesus that bit at the end is scary! I'll subscribe, just don't hurt me!
3:11 they are talking about SCP 096 because He doesn't want to be Seen and the doctor clearly says If You Look at it that You will regret it. As the thing pulls the blanket away You can See it's White skin with No body Hair that is to 100% SCP 096.
This is just like "don't blink" all over again. Ohgod my heart almost gave out.
I love it when it's getting scary then the Doctor approach finding "Wally" LOL
I loved the neat little time loop in this one. The Doctor started out investigating his fear of the dark and actually found a monster - even though we know that his original fear was just a friend.
i love this eposode the idea that there is something in the shadows that dose not harm but just keeps watch. the idea that there is something in the corner of our eyes playing on that very real fear of being watched. doctor who always gets my mind thinking about things like that
One of the greatest speeches of all time. “Fear is a super power!”
Interesting fact: the thing under the bed sheet was the knocking entity from 'Midnight' (series 4)
Yes it is... I read it from a Doctor Who website a few years back 😊
Ameliola 02 I really dont think it is. It is undetermined, it is either a monster or another child scaring them, thats what makes it so scary
***** Yeah, so it doesn't work
Ameliola 02 But it doesn't copy them, nor does it possess anyone. Chances are it was either another alien or a child (my money's on alien)
Joel Mole or it was The Doctor's imagination coming to life
if its in a word or in a look you can't get rid of the Barbadook!
TheCyberloki *Babadook
lol u can if u forget it completely. I almost forgot there was a movie until u told me
Proper Doctor Who, where watching from behind the sofa is sometimes the best choice.
This episode confuses me. If clara instilled an irrational fear in the doctor of monsters under the bed, then what was the thing in the room? Was the irrational fear actually a rational one, or was it actually just a practical joke? Still confused a year later...
Maybe a rational fear caused the travel to the past, which caused the fear to become irrational? Wibbly wobbly...
It's a timey-wimey thing
The episode is supposed to be open ended about whether the Doctor is right about the creatures existing or not. There is evidence that they might exist (the Doctor being right about everyone at some point having that nightmare, what we the audience can see when the bed sheet comes off) but there is evidence that they might not (pressure on the lock mechanisms, the possibility that it was another kid at the home)
Probably best way to keep it too, a perfect hider should never be seen.
RYCloud92 That which is unobservable does not physically exist. Unobservables are ideas, secondary effects, not physical objects. That is why this confuses me so much.
If by 'unobservable', it means, not observable by the basic senses, then this makes more sense, but it would also mean the doctor could make a gadget to detect them.
I understand why the doctor would be fascinated by such a thing, because if it does physically exist, and it is truly unobservable, then it would defy physics and be a supernatural life form.
Think about this. Lets say a particle flies through the universe. It never interacts with anything in the universe for the entire trip, never influences anything, so therefore, it was never observed. Did that particle exist?
No, it existed within its _own_ reality which was separate from our own. Our 'reality' is defined by all the things which interact, in a giant node web of interconnected interactions. That particle influenced nothing, interacted with nothing, and therefore, never connected to the node tree of our reality, so it was never a part of it, even though its existence was real to the particle, its existence was in an alternate reality from our own, and from the perspective of our reality, it never existed.
Richard Smith The creature under that blanket is not what the doctor was looking for. The creature is a listener! Same thing as in midnight. They feed off voices. That's why they wanted to get in at the end of the universe. They were starving (or at least, that's what I choose to believe).
So the doctor has spent years looking for Waldo in every single book, not surprised.
You can see it at 3:18.
It's a gray-headed stereotypical alien?
What if the thing in the bed was actually The Veil?
“He took my bedspread”
“Ugh, the human race. You’re never happy, are you?”
Arguably the scariest monster in doctor who so scary even the doctor himself was afraid that’s when u know it’s scary
When the doctor says well I’ll need a couple years back I’m like XDDDDDDDDDDDDD
There was a kid with a monster mask under the bed trying to play a trick on Rupert. That's the point of this episode, there's no actual monster, just an imaginary one created by the Doctor trying to rationalize his fear of the dark.
The caretaker's experience was actually the Doctor taking the mug, Rupert's experience was the kid, Orson's experience was the door malfunctioning, and the Doctor's experience was Clara. The point is the worst monsters are the ones we create in our heads.
"Don't look 'round"
*Hears lound sound, looks back in an instant.
Reminds me of all the " Don't wander off" - " Wanders of instantly, gets into trouble"
If you look closely the thing kind of looka like a tiny little silence creature
Didn't know the Doctor had a run-in with SCP-096.
Could be a weeping angel that lost the ability to turn to stone?
This is one of my favorite episodes alongside the diamond wall one, just amazing in so many ways
“It’s ya boi, wally”
That is utterly effective horror. Talk about quality, jesus.
I slowed it down and the creature appears to look like either a silence or a skull
This scene is about a million times better than the whole rest of the episode
When the blanket fell it kinds like the doctor when the master aged him with the laser screwdriver
1:40; Jenna's face, she's pulled into Capaldi's performance too.
I'm glad they never revealed what/who this was. Adds a sense of mystery to it, which makes it more creepier for me.
0:57 -> :
That thing on the bed. Whatever it is. Look at it, does it scare you?
(-Yes.)
Well that's good. You want to know why that's good?
(-Why?)
Let me tell you about scared.
Your heart is beating so hard, I can feel it in your hands. There's so much blood and oxygen pumping through your brain, it's like a rrrocket fuel!
Right now, you could run faster, and you could FIGHT HARDER, you could jump higher than ever before in your life,
And you are so alert, it's like you could sloow doown tiiiimme...
What's wrong with scared?
Scared is a superpower!
Your superpower!
There is danger in this room, and guess what, it's YOU!
Do you feel it?
Still The best Twelfth Doctor episode.
+Valpas Kankaristo Well, acutely he's the thirteenth doctor.. Or maybe the fourteenth... Who knows!
jimmy zoron yeah... Who... Nose
Valpas Kankaristo : 2
Can I look square instead?
It looks like after it took the blanket off, it just sat in the chair and told us to subscribe.
I still have more questions then answers
Okay but if you saw the creature, what could it actually do? If it's evolved throughout its whole existence for hiding and never being seen, then it wouldn't be good at fighting at all.
'Cause you're gonna see my heart breaking.
I suspect what the doctor and crew may have faced was a “cosmic” boogeyman type entity whoms presence has been notice from the beginning of the episode were the doctor is alone but there were sounds outside the room similar to scratching and even *soft knocks*
this episode comes in mind to remind the viewer that the universe where the doctor exist has many more mistéries the doesn’t know about or would rather leave them to their own devices such as” the listene entity” from this clip
Don't look round.
*BANG*
*EVERYONE TURNS AROUND*
every time i look in the comments of a Doctor who video its always this is the best episode ever can we all just agree Doctor who is the best show EVER!!!
Since people seem to refer to many episodes as 'the best episode ever', I'd say that's an indication that Doctor Who is the best show EVER!!!
Plot Twist: Wally is a Time Lord, that's why we never find him.
Or perhaps the thing under the sheet was the Doctor. Trying to teach the kid about being scared.