The doctor deduces that the entity from outside may be trying to communicate to them through sky as it. Midnight chapter 1, a doctor who fanfic fanfiction. One thing i recently realized when rewatching this episode is that she never blinks. Indeed, the doctor is more or less convinced that his apparent successor is an impostor about 15 minutes in, and he reveals the truth to the. But theres something out therewaiting like the episode midnight just with the eleventh doctor instead, extra dialouge and different scenes. This episode s action was intercut with flashbacks to a long time ago and the execution of a timelord.
The night of the doctor is a mini episode of the british science fiction television programme doctor who. My headcannon explanation for the midnight entity s04ep11. Feb 03, 2016 this is for entertainment purposes only. Newly empowered, she piloted the tardis back to the ninth doctor. The trouble is that the mystery of the next doctor is, by itself, a relatively smallscale story, one that could perhaps sustain a regularlength doctor who episode but cant stretch to a full hour. Doctor who midnight the doctor tries to calm down the passengers 1 duration. Taking a big space truck with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called midnight. While donna opts to spend a bit of time in the spa, the doctor goes off on an allday bus tour to the sapphire waterfall. It was first broadcast on bbc one on 14 june 2008 the episode is principally set on board a small touring vehicle, which stops in the middle of a tour on the hostile surface of the planet midnight and has its cockpit destroyed with its driver and mechanic. As a top physician cross is capable of all maner of various surgeries, including doing it in the dark. The entity resembles the species in the doctor who unbound audio drama a storm of angels, right down to the gemstone planet it inhabited.
Midnight was set to be episode 8 of season 4 with doctor who. While visiting the planet midnight, a beautiful luxury planet, full of lavish and hightech cities, a terrifying problem arises that leaves. The doctor is trapped on the planet midnight, and the knocking on the wall begins. Its just one of the horrific random things you find in a universe that big, any attempt to create the midnight entity expanded universe would diminish the fact that it came from nowhere and that the doctor never worked out what it is, midnight is a doctor who episode that goes wrong and the usual thing where the doctor goes ah ha, its an. Aug 22, 2011 the home of doctor who on youtube with clips dating back from 1963, all the way through dozens of regenerations, to the latest clips of the peter capaldi era and the announcement of jodie. A nimbus of light surrounded her and shone through her. As such, it explored a rarely touched on topic where, without his companion, the doctor struggles to gain the trust of strangers. The home of doctor who on youtube with clips dating back from 1963, all the way through dozens of regenerations, to the latest clips of the peter capaldi era and the announcement of jodie. In 2015 the episode was nominated for a bram stoker award, becoming the first doctor who episode. Repeat after me part one midnight doctor who youtube. In the same vein as blink, midnight was a single episode that was very horrorfocused and featured a new alien threat that viewers had never encountered before.
Watch all 53 doctor who 1963 episodes from season 1,view pictures, get episode information and more. After looking into the heart of the tardis, the time vortex itself filled rose tyler, who then temporarily became the bad wolf entity. In an even bigger bombshell than usual, the thirteenth doctor is jodie whittaker. It was portrayed by lesley sharp while possessing sky silvestry. And though they were already in its territory, it did not attack the transport until the doctor convinced the pilot and copilot to open the cockpit bay window. The man who can identify every species and rattle off bullet points about them and make everything okay for everybody was at a loss. The focus is on how humans react in situations like that. Mar 12, 2020 midnight may be one of the most underrated episodes of doctor who. Jethro was on holiday with his parents to see the planet midnight but it all went wrong as an entity attacked the shuttle bus and the knocking on the walls began.
The mystery behind it is why the episode works so well, because the focus isnt really on the monsterentity. Certain episodes can make fans want to hide beneath their covers and never. But do you recall the most underrated doctor who villains of all. Almost every other episode ive seen is full of cg and funny alien costumes and loads of visual effects. Oct 28, 2019 though doctor who is a fun show about time travel, it can also be scary. It was made available on bbc iplayer and youtube on 14 november 20, as part of the bbc one leadup to the shows 50th anniversary special. If he had just said raxacoricofallapatorius the midnight entity would probably just give up. Midnight may be one of the most underrated episodes of doctor who. Eric shane calvin and aaron react to and discuss season 4 episode 10 of doctor who midnight vote in our polls and see certain blind wave videos early. Im new to doctor who, and midnight was one of the first episodes i ever watched.
It was one of the few beings that the doctor had no knowledge of at all. For almost sixty years, doctor who has given audiences some of the best and, frankly, some of the worst villains of all time. Last and not least among the strange inhabitants is a mentally unstable woman that goes by the name of idris who may or may not be the doctor s wife. As the midnight entity, superseded the link of the doctors tardis, we. You know daleks and davros and missy the master, angels, and silence hellbent on disaster. Midnight seems to try take a childrens game the repeating game and make it the framework for a terrifying alien entity. Midnight was the fiftieth episode of the revived doctor who to enter production. May 02, 2018 eric shane calvin and aaron react to and discuss season 4 episode 10 of doctor who midnight vote in our polls and see certain blind wave videos early. Episode 5s mac and dennis move to the suburbs is a legitimately brilliant homage to. Donna noble is relaxing at a spa on the planet midnight when the doctor calls and tries to convince her to go on a tour of the diamond planet.
The doctor and peri are poisoned and the doctor being forced to go alone in order to get the cure to save them. What do you think was the midnight entity in the midnight episode. Shuttle the doctor has taken his seat in the passenger compartment of the bus cum aeroplane. The episode also showed the extent of the doctors ruthlessness when pushed to extremes. Directed by alice troughton, previously responsible for the mostly okay the doctors daughter, midnight is a marvel doing a lot with a little. While midnight isnt exactly hated in the doctor who community, i believe it doesnt get the credit it.
He said it was a mind created by the energy from the star moving through conductive impurities in the crystal planets body, and that it wasnt ever malicious, just very powerful and trying to communicate by mimicking. Find out when doctor who is on tv, including series 4 episode 10. Watch the full episode online right here via tv fanatic to get up to speed. She scattered the two words throughout time as a sign to herself that she was linked to the doctor, creating a looped ontological paradox. Doctor who midnight the midnight entity possesses the. Doctor midnite is dc earths most prominent superhero doctor.
Though doctor who is a fun show about time travel, it can also be scary. It was one of the few beings that the doctor had no knowledge of at all, which, given his expansive, encyclopaedic knowledge of the universe and everything in it across time, was a testament, possibly due to its obscurity, or its innovation to adapt. May 20, 2017 doctor saved missy from death penalty. Did the entity in the episode midnight choose the doctor for a reason. The family of blood was the ninth episode of series 3 of doctor who it featured the doctors return from his human persona, john smith, to his original time lord identity. Set on the planet midnight, the doctor takes an excursion to view a waterfall made of sapphires along with a band of other tourists. An invisible entity possesses passenger sky silvestry, who repeats all the doctors words, then speaks them.
Psychological thrills abound when a tour vehicle breaks down on planet midnight. Midnight is the tenth episode of the fourth series of the british science fiction television series doctor who. Doctor who midnight the midnight entity posesses the doctor. The figure has been represented in the comics by three different individuals, charles mcnider, beth chapel, and pieter anton cross. Part way through the four hour journey to get there, the vehicle stops for no apparent reason.
Complimentary juice pack and complimentary peanuts. The creature was never given a name, nor did it display any form other than a. While there is a bit of mythology in the script the name torchwood is mentioned once again, tooth and claw works perfectly as a selfcontained story with hints of john landis, most explicitly in a wonderful scene where the doctor and rose, while hiding from the wolf, giddily express their excitement about the situation. The midnight entity is the main antagonist of the doctor who episode midnight.
Sep 02, 2016 midnight seems to try take a childrens game the repeating game and make it the framework for a terrifying alien entity. I think what made midnight such an amazing episode is that no one, not even the doctor, could decipher what the entity was. Certain episodes can make fans want to hide beneath their covers and never come out. Doctor who remains one of the longestrunning series on television, and still holds the title of longest running science fiction series period. May 14, 2011 but what everyone finds is a dark junkyard planet populated by the bizarre auntie, uncle and nephew. A sentient, wicked smart shadow, which the doctor nearly spotted before it came chasing after the crusader 50. You might say that this was the one that got me hooked. The daleks, weeping angels, the silence, the beast, the midnight entity and every bad guy from the master to davros to lumic to sutekh just simultaneously shat themselves in fear. Its a tense drama about human nature under pressure and it was written, aptly enough, by russell t davies, a human under pressure to come up with a replacement script to help flesh out his final full season at the helm of doctor who. A reference to this milestone was seen in the bus name crusader 50.
The doctor and river find themsleves stuck on the crusader, on a planet called midnight. But what everyone finds is a dark junkyard planet populated by the bizarre auntie, uncle and nephew. The entity lived on an allegedly uninhabited planet named midnight and possessed people abroad an exploratory tourist craft, including the doctor. The midnight entity was a lifeform living on the planet midnight. When the entity latched on to the doctor, is it meant to be because he became. On midnight, texas season 2 episode 6, an unknown entity attacked the midnighters. Doctor midnite also doctor midnight is a fictional superhero physician in dc comics. The midnight entity had a fascination not with its victims physical forms, but with their consciousnesses. Midnight is one of those special doctor who stories that stand apart from the main narrative of the mad man, his blue box and his best friend. Doctor who midnight the doctor talks to the passengers. Agreed, i think they shouldnt touch the midnight entity again, it worked very well in the episode, but bringing it back would just kill all of the mystery, much like what happened with the weeping angel storys that proceeded blink. Midnight was the tenth episode of series 4 of doctor who it was the first companionlite televised doctor who story. It was an unknown life form with an unknown origin that resided on the surface of the planet midnight.
The thing was able to inhabit both inanimate and animate. The name of the creature is not revealed in the episode, and midnight entity is just an unofficial name. News, photos, videos and full episode guide 12 issues delivered to your home. For an episode that isnt really about the doctor himself, this episode showcases all the doctors characteristics perfectly. The scariest doctor who episodes just in time for halloween. The doctor and donna are taking a bit of a break from their adventures and spending a bit of time on the planet midnight. This is the first time on doctor who where the true nature of an enemy has never been revealed. On the planet midnight, the shuttle bus the doctor is riding on is attacked. In midnight, the entity chose sky silvestry to possess to begin with, and jethro suggested it was because she was the most scared so it chose her. It had been intended to air as the fiftieth episode of the new series, but plotting similarities between forest of the dead and turn left forced davies to.
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