Doctor Who’s Most Terrifying Episode
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- Remember when Doctor Who was spooky? yeah me too now let's go insano style on this episode (actually it's 2 episodes but if I called the vid Doctor Who's Most Terrifying 2 episodes it sounds weird ya know?) but yeah I don't think anyone really reads the description but if you do here's the coordinates to my lost treasure. 20 good luck!
Oh and thanks for watching :)
0:00 What Makes Doctor Who Great?
1:00 Let's Go Space
1:55 Sanctuary Base
3:23 The Crew
4:20 Where We At?
5:14 The Black Hole Reveal
6:43 Doctor's Rattled
7:19 TARDIS Gone
9:05 Fear Of The Unkown
11:13 H.P Lovecraft
13:23 Welcome To Heck
15:42 The Ood
21:33 Beast Takeover
25:00 Toby The Silly Billy
28:50 Convo With A Devil
35:44 Let's Go Exploring
39:07 That Doc Gonna Dip Down The Pit
42:02 Some Answers But A Lot Of Question's
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its so based that Rose immediately starts trying to unionize the ood once she knows they aren’t trying to kill her
It also fits right in with the other stuff as well in this video because she recognises that the ood can be exploited so worked to protect them from that. And what protects you from exploitation from within your job? A union. It's not only based but works with the themes too. (Granted I don't think a union would have done much with the Beast, but at the very least, it's the thought that counts)
The scene that really sold me on the Beast's boasts not being empty was seeing the possessed Toby outside, completely exposed to the vacuum of space no worse for ware despite having a fragile human body. It's like the Beast is flexing his ability to defy the rules of the setting
It is no beast of the fields and its powers are great even to defying the vacuum of space.
You know, I remember from my childhood an episode called "the waters of mars", and it frightened me to no end as a single drop could seal your fate.
I watched this episode a few days ago it’s so great, I still remember the ad for it when it first came out with the doctor saying “just one drop”
@@waterwaveybaby Ok I know this sounds utterly unbelievable but it is true, I swear. For some reason, I don't really remember most of my dreams, if I even have them most nights - I assume I do, but I can still count on my fingers the number of dreams I remembered when I woke up. Another weird thing about my dreams is that all of them seem to be fairly fleshed out stories; they might have strange things happening, but it would all make sense within the world of the dream. Starting with Nine, I began watching Doctor Who I think during the first or second season of Eleven. About 1-2 years before I watched the show, one of my dreams was EXTREMELY similar to "The Waters of Mars":
1. A group of people trapped on a space station
2. An outsider who doesn't belong with and doesn't really like the crew but is there anyway
3. A scientific expedition to try and find signs of past life on the planet
4. The discovery of not only past, but also present, life on the planet
5. That life being some kind of sentient water monster
6. Chases through the space station to try and get away from/ neutralize the entity
7. The crew being picked off one by one dying in horrible ways.
Again, this was at least 2-3 years before I actually saw that episode and when it I started texting with my friend who was caught up on the show in all caps freaking out about it more and more as the episode went on.
@@waterwaveybaby honestly i was more scared of the Doctor in that episode, bro absolutely lost it 💀💀
That fucking terrified me as a kid. Their mouths man...
Ah yes, The Waters Of Mars, shat me up as a 10 year old.
Its a real testament to the incredible art and physical effects team that they managed to make the Ood look so alien and sinister yet also look so kind
my favorite episode has got to be the ones with the silence in it, that or the library one. both amazingly terrifying concepts.
I rewatched the Library one the other day and forgot how great it is, made me spooked of my own shadow for a little
@@waterwaveybaby hey who turned out the lights?
Shut up Dr. Moon
Omg I wish they did something more with the silence one of my favorite characters throughout the show
@@themangledwither Are you my mommy?
For me, the darkest would be Donna choosing to die in 'Turn Left', and the voices of the dead begging not to be dissected in 'Dark Waters/Death in Heaven'. Chilling and deeply unsettling.
You mean cremated? Or am I forgetting something
I fully agree. Just the fact that we don't get any answers leaves this episode stuck in the back of my mind.
The horror of never fully understanding what it was, why the language didn't translate, how everything possible pointed towards it being Earth's idea of the devil so far away from Earth? It's mind boggling. Plus introducing the Ood is great.
I never really minded the ending with him finding the tardis cause the episode is based around faith and the impossible so it felt fitting for his lifeline to coincidentally show up exactly when he needed it. So yeah, great video!
Thanks so much! Yeah I think it was the right choice too, no answers they would of came up with would have been as interesting as just wondering about it, I think finding the tardis just happens so quick that I was caught a little off guard but it’s a big story and fitting it all in the time they hard was probably difficult, still my favourite two parter
the Ood are one of my favorite aliens. not only do they look amazing and realistic. i feel they have the advantage of looking really cute and then really terrifying when they become possessed.
Good ol pasta-beards
They've got that pug energy
How?! They look like a naked mole rat and cthulu had a kid. (I’m not complaining I love them but like still these things are terrifying)
@@wild_pumpkin Their innocence and cluelessness makes them adorable for some reason plus we feel bad for them seeing the way humans treat them so they’re sort of an ugly-cute type 😭
As an eldritch horror myself, this was easily the most enjoyable episode of Who.
The real spooky thing though: My ex wife is a dead ringer for Billie Piper, she did some costume work for the show, I used to be a tiler, and my surname is Rose...
There's definitely some spooky wibbly wobbly time stuff going on there
it’s all connected then
36:00 That exact spacesuit actually becomes _the Doctor's spacesuit._ One of his outfits, to the point that 11 and 12 use it!
20:00 Freeing the Ood was Donna's finest hour. Her _fury_ at the idiot executives who propagated the enslavement, even the Doctor was impressed.
"Just save _someone..."_ had a longer reach. But the Ood shall forever be good guys thanks to the DoctorDonna.
48:00 I always thought that the Beast wasn't the only one at work. The cable snapping was _not_ in the Beast's interests, and the TARDIS crashing down right at the Beast's prison...
Miracles of light.
I always had a headcanon since it aired that the Beast was able to increase its telepathic reach from the Tardis landing there alone. From the Tardis falling down to the pit on the Beast really starts taking control to break free, yet it never even attempted to do anything prior to the Tardis landing, so I've always thought that the Beast used the Tardis to increase its own powers to escape. Plus the cable snapping off as the Doctor started telling everyone they could beat the beast if they worked together as well as not to listen to it because it's just praying on their fears with its speech about being the Devil seemed more like the Beast was cutting the Doctor off to me, but I love the idea of there being another force at work that's way more interesting!
I feel like people forget just how many aspects of cosmic horror the Whoniverse has used over the years. In fact, I wish the show did more with these concepts.
The closest we've gotten in NuWho is with this two-parter in the video, and also some of the work that Torchwood has done in s1 and s2, and eventually in Doctor Who s11 and s12 (even though the main cosmic horror in 'It Takes You Away' was cut from the episode at the last second.)
Also, when it comes to the Doctor Who EU, there's loads oc cosmic horror stuff that really fits with the lore.
In the VNAs, the Doctor literally dances with Death herself on the surface of the moon. And the only reason the Doctor doesn't get hit with the vacuum of space is because Death simply chooses not to take him. Also in some of the later VNAs, they meet biblically accurate angels, and many of the main villains are the Great Old Ones themselves from Lovecraftian lore.
In the EDAs (Eighth Doctor Adventures), the Timelords are shown to be incredibly eldritch themselves. One Timelord, I.M. Foreman, literally blinded himself to heighten his psychic abilities. Eventually, they regenerated into an elderly grandmother type of figure. This Granny literally created an entire universe on her own with her powers, and put it in a bottle. Dozens upon dozens of time-faring species surrounded her planet but knew not to attack or do anything because she could wipe them all out by snapping her fingers.
Doctor Who has so much deep, eldritch lore and I wish NuWho did more with it because it's really cool and unique for a science fiction franchise.
Are you telling me I could have had Cthulhu in Doctor Who? I am so miffed, I need this to happen…maybe the Innsmouth stuff or Dunwich Horror
Also what about Zagreus? The representation of the resentment of every single being that never existed, and who wanted every single universe to all exist at the same time?
Classic Who had some great Cosmic Horror, such as the Great Intelligence, the Gods of Ragnarok, Fenric, the Celestials...
Which story from the VNA had Biblically accurate angels? I'd love to read it.
@not-OJ-Simpson The book is "Lucifer Rising", by Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore. Just a head's up though, the book takes place in the middle of a larger story arc.
It's also one of the few VNAs that has illustrations inside (another I can think of is "All-Consuming Fire", which is also by Andy Lane).
david tennant is a master at facial expressions hes iconic as hell. just as iconic as capaldi’s eyebrows
And people often forget the Midnight planet creature
That's one of my all time favourite episodes
As a doctor who fan i can confirm that bon a cafa latta is the best part about the show
Kind of reminds me of Dead Space with the Marker controlling people and an unknown threat just twisting the minds of people
Oh Damn I hadn’t thought about that, Playing the remake and there are a bunch of similarities
Honesty, maybe it’s the autism in me but the ood always looked to me as just funny little guys. Like they obviously have scary moments throughout all their appearances but to me they are just goofy guys
Dude same
A bunch of goobers
Out of all things here that could've made a real impact on me... The one that made me stop the video and just laugh hysterically for a solid minute and then reflect upon my own mortality is that moment when Winnie The Pooh's spirit leaves his body and you say 'what comes after'.
I'll see myself out.
Beautiful video, marvelous exploration.
Your vids are so entertaining, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rewatched all of them so I’m so excited to get to watch this one now 😮💨
Thank you so much! Had so much fun making this one, it means a lot
This was my favourite episode(s) of all Doctor Who
Not so much cosmic horror but the scariest episode for me was "The Empty Child", specifically part 1. The only time I've ever had a nightmare because of Doctor Who.
I think it's less fear of the 'unknown' and more fear of the 'unknowable'
this was the one doctor who episode my mother refused to let me watch as a little kid haha. when i watched it for the first time aged 12, i was surprised at how scary she found it, because to me it didnt seem bad at all. i think its a difference in how we were raised -- she was raised catholic but really let me do my own thing in terms of religion. so to her the devil is more real in her head, even if she doesnt necessarily believe he exists anymore. and for me hes more of an interesting metaphor/mental shorthand for evil. its interesting to me how different people's backgrounds will cause them to understand stories in completely different ways
That one shot that you said reminded you of soldiers waiting for action? I can see it, but my first thought was how people were crammed into trans-atlantic slave ships, actually.
That's a really good comparison, and fits more with them being intended to be a slave race rather than a soldier race
One of my favourite episodes has to be "Midnight" I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Midnight is probably my favourite it was so close on which I was gonna do a video on so chances are I’ll end up doing a vid on it at some point, because the acting is sooo good and one of the best monsters
It's a shame this Lovecraftian aspect to the extensive Doctor Who mythos never seen more light in the scope of the whole series. I mean, this is literally an exploration of the Christian hell that's done so well and in such a short span of time. Episodes like this were the benchmark for Doctor Who and I just feel as though it was matched so infrequently that there really was a lot of potential lost here
I absolutely love this episode, although in some ways I wouldn't call it terrifying for the same reason I wasn't terrified with Blink: Honestly, I was too intrigued to be scared.
I also thought that the conversation between The Doctor & Ida Scott worked so well because the whole episode was about pure, intensified hopelessness, and how it transitions to the two of them being left behind by the others in the rocket, and then The Doctor meeting The Beast...... absolutely brilliant way of juggling emotional tones!
Personally, I think this episode is not really scary. What it is, is very bleak and lonely. Very few episodes of DR. Who really manage to project this inconciveble vastness and lonlyness of space and thime. And how otherworldy the fringes of this romp through space and time are. This sinking feeling. It´s a great comic horror, but nor really all that scary. In my books one of the scariest episodes is still Silence in the Library. Blink takes a second place, with the scariest monster. But the Vashta Nerada are really terrifing. And the implication of these things being everywhere. Makes you think on what happened to a good few people who wen´t hiking on the Dr. Who earth and never came back.
Wow, how does this video not have more views??? Great video; you did a good job of weaving the narrative of the episode with your analysis of the cosmic horror theme.
Having the light and shade in the helmets making their faces look like skulls is a nice touch.
This two-parter, The Empty Child, and Blink are my go-tos for introducing people to Doctor Who. Amazing episodes.
Great work! Script, structure, narration and stuff is top notch and you inspired me, to watch good 'ol Dr. Who again! ;) Thanks and cheers!
As a Christian, God is terrifyingly forgiving and powerful. Throughout the old testament he threatens to destroy the Israelites and bring them ruin, but relents. This not only brings comfort but also so much fear. It's not ruling by fear, but ruling by forgiveness. This episode brings terror to every race, culture, religion, as the devil is the main villain.
Love of the fearful deity.
Another fun detail is that the Beast was voiced by Gabriel Woolf, who voiced Sutekh in 'Pyramids of Mars'. With its vast spans of time, lost civilisations, and a villain casually identifying himself with Satan, it's another great story for cosmic horror in Who.
One of my favorite episodes. I think I like it so much because it's so similar to Event Horizon which is one of my absolute favorite sci-fi horror movies. Any time science fiction is blended with religious themes, it's always super cool. I do think it's referencing God and Satan in the Christian sense, not necessarily as an abstract concept of good and evil like you suggested. But that's what makes it such an interesting concept, especially for the Doctor himself. Confronted by the fact that their could be that all knowing being that created the universe, and that his assumptions of how things came to be aren't necessarily true. Plus we just never even find out what or who the Beast really is, so there's never any real resolution to those difficult questions.
Having the Doctor face a does-not-compute what-the-fuck outside-context-problem is a clever idea, very scary when the tourist trickster scientist doesn't know anything.
I really do think that the beast in this episode is actually Satan and God does exist in the doctor who universe
this is fantastic. id love to see more episodes exploring doctor who in this fashion!!!
This is my favorite two-parter in the series! The music and athmosphere is soo singular and unique and moody, and... heavy?
Awesome video, would love to see more Doctor Who on your channel
It baffles me that this 2 parter is rarely seen on the best episodes of Doctor who lists
I loved this show when I was a kid. This was a great episode. Fantastic video essay
One of the most memorable doctor who episodes to me, is the one where they visit the human in space who lives all alone, which I personally believe is based of the shortest horror story ever “the last man on earth sat alone in a room… there was a knock on the door”
I think the TARDIS being there at the last minute is sort of a "putting your faith in god even for a moment"...moment?
Like who would've guessed it would be there the whole time, it just happens to be there when The Doctor needs it.
41:50 think on this one you are a timelord with unlimited (let’s forget that it’s only meant to be 11) regenerations and you die from suffocation only to regenerate and find you are out of oxygen so you die only to regenerate you get my point as hells go he is in one of the more sucky ones I can think of.
great episodes - fallen out of love with the show past few years but regularly gone back and watched this over
I love the time stamp of talking about Toby it says Toby the silly billy
I can very much recommend watching the second capaldi season. It is much better than the ones before and after it and ends at a point that I for myself considered the end of the show until RTD came back
Yeah I’ve heard really great things about the Capaldi era (like some great monologues and more serious moments) I’m rewatching the show at the moment and nearly there so pretty excited to get to it
Black holes don't suck things in. Gravity has infinite range (just gets weaker as distance increases but never zero). Black holes behave the same way as any other massive object.
If you get too close, and cross the event horizon, then you can never re-enter the rest of the universe but there's no sucking involved - just don't cross the event horizon
This is such an unnecessarily pedantic correction 🤓
So it sucks things in.
You did not need to be so long-winded about it just saying the same thing twice.
@@hysterical5408No, being sucked into something requires the thing that is doing the “sucking” needs to have lower pressure density than the area around it, black holes like all massive objects curve space time into its centre of gravity and thus you fall or accelerate into it; no sucking involved
"No sucking involved"
That's what she said
This and Midnight are my favorite Dr Who episodes. Absolute classics, and I think Dr Who is at its best when it plays with horror.
very interesting, haven't personallywatched this episode (religiously watched the Matt Smith era instead and could never get over the tennis shoes and trench coat) but cosmic horror in the doctor who universe would be infinitely better than whatever they're coming up with now. Straying away from space and into human history kinda flattened Whittaker's run which is very disappointing
Yeah now that I’m rewatching it it makes me wonder how I never questioned any of their outfits 😂 I usually prefer the space episodes to the history ones because they tend to go back to the same time periods and places a lot
@@waterwaveybaby the space episodes have got to be top tier but the self contained earth ones (Matt Smith's 1st and 2nd episode set solely in a small town) present current day earth as a battle ground for various groups, which is basically brining the space to earth, making them so great
Ready for your tier list though! The Doctor should be included on it because he is the villain in so many of others' stories lmao
Such an underrated two parter. It’s absolutely amazing
Ages ago this episode was on tv i guess and after the only thing i could think about (at like 8pm) was the possessed guy on the rocket and also the scene where he shushes the ood in the vents. Really really spooky
I remember watching this show with my grandma when I was a kid and this show scared me but I was so invested in the show to see what happens next
See the Tardis returning as a reward for the Doctor's faith in Rose. Makes the story have a nice bookend.
I'd be really interested in your thoughts on the second Tennant special from last year. Very similar vibes to this one.
Honestly mate, brilliant vid. X
Im glad someone mentioned this episode it was my favourite
This and 42 are 2 of my favourite Dr Whos. Only talked to my son about this episode the other night. Scared the shit out of him
This will probably be my favorite Dr Who two parter. Its equal parts Event Horizon, Alien, The Doom and Dead Space games and a bit of Evil Dead. Granted not quite as violent as those mentioned franchises (as Who is a family show) but the Eldritch Horror mixed with Biblical Demons is really well done with both of those episodes.
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That entity reaches Earth in Torchwood and is impossibly huge.
Imagine if even one pod somehow escaped In a small ship immediately after being possessed so that the beast could had a contingency in case his other plans failed
Working in eating the red berry. Bravo for that one
Tbh I find Midnight way more terrifying than Impossible Planet and Satan Pit, and I find it way more fitting into the cosmic horror genre as it never is explained or rationalized, it’s something that shouldn’t exist, but does, and that terrifies everyone, even The Doctor.
haha i remember when they were airing the old dr who episodes on fucking disney XD of all places, they censored the word hell in the welcome to hell scene
My personal most terrifying episode is Waters of Mars, not even because of the monster but because of the Doctor. He had such terrifying potential in that episode and almost became Time Lord Victorious. Just reminded me so hard lf the Family of Blood episodes where they talked about the Doctor having the potential to be the scariest being in the universe.
I still think the mondasian cybermen in the end of season 10 are the most terrifying monsters. It's quite horrific knowing they're real people who are constantly in agonising pain.
Crazy to think but the Cthulhu mythos is actually canon in doctor who. The virgin new adventures (7th Doctor books of the 90s) canonise many powerful beings in doctor who as actual lovecraftian beings it’s wild.
great video :)
Thank you ! :)
Most terrifying Dr Who was Pyramids Of Mars, and maybe The Seeds Of Doom
i'm not gunna sit here and let you tell me that the Slaveen count as being good prostetics.
One thing I find interesting from the Beast's monologue is the statement that "Light and its disciples rose against [it]," because while that _is_ fairly adjacent to how the story of Lucifer's fall goes, that is _not_ how Lucifer would describe it.
I'm not going to say that it's a "mythologically inaccurate" take, because like 90% of Lucifer's lore comes from post-renaissance writers doing a big bit of Bible Fanfiction, and his appearances in the Bible aren't exactly _consistent._ After all, the first half of it was a much older book written by very different people who had a completely different understanding of what "Satan," or rather, Ha-Shaytan, actually meant. To the Israelites, it basically just meant "Prosecutor," while his New Testament characterisation started as a more insidious version of the same, and eventually spiralled into "Satan is the main antagonist of the whole universe and he's also a dragon and a snake, yes _that_ snake", pretty much entirely within the incredibly _weird_ Revelation.
But if you were to take the _Paradise Lost_ version (which is how a lot of people view Lucifer's fall), well, light doesn't rise up against Lucifer, because Lucifer _is_ the rising light. His name translates to "Light Bearer" and his fall begins with him rising against God and being slapped down.
If the Beast is being accurate in the statement that light rose against it, then it isn't Lucifer. It's God.
Or both. The Demiurge is a thing, though I feel there's probably a better analog for Yaldabaoth somewhere else in the lore
Dang this is a good analysis
The "before time" thing also makes sense in Christianity. All the angels were created in at once, before God started making the universe. And the War in Heaven happened before the world was created; therefore before time. So yeah, Satan being chained up in hell before time _is_ what happened.
As for how much of an actual threat he is... Not at all, really. He is only a threat is you let him be. He only has as much power as you'll give him. Like most bullies, if you actually test him you will see he falls like a house of cards. He talks a big game, but in the end he is just toothless dog barking his lungs out at God, and he only has as many teeth as you give to him.
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That's Morris from Alien 3.... Doctor Who is an amazing series
Incredible video!!!!
Doctor Who is absolutely wild!
This is my favorite Doctor Who episode
This episode is 15 years old? It is one of the best.
Technically, it is actually possible to orbit a black hole, they're gravitational bodies same as any planet or star, so orbiting one isn't that different. There's nothing special about a black hole that would make it more dangerous to orbit, other than the event horizon but, it you're at/past that point, you're definitionally not orbiting, you're falling in.
For a man who uses a collapsing star to keep the lights on in his Time Machine I find the doctor’s apparent fear of the black hole to be the tiniest bit disingenuous
I used to watch DW with my friend in primary school and I can't watch it without thinking about them. Lol we were two boys crushing hard on Jack Harkness
Captain Jack needs to come back and steal more hearts
I wonder if the pre universe stuff hinted at by the beast could ultimately tie into the Doctors existence pre timelord?
0:25 which is odd because who fans treat the guys that played these villains as garbage when at conventions, if your not a Dr or a companion you may as well be something they just stepped in to most who fans.
Ah, purpose. That thing you’re supposed to find at GCU 😂 (I’m an alumnus; it’s cool)
*TIGHT, TIGHT TIGHT, YEAAAH!*
...Just like Rose Tyler.
The WEEPING ANGELS (original story from blink)
Fiou Time is flying when you watch this video.. it was a great one and an equally great episode!
Garden of Eden: it had legs and no evidence it was Lucifer or anyone else speaking through it. The PUNISHEMENT WAS THE REMOVAL OF THE ANIMAL'S LEGS.
How much of an incredible bait and switch would it be if the one who waits is actually the beast and not susan. Rember, theres always a twist in the end 😊
i don't know the ep where the robots repair the ship by using human body parts was also mess up .
Even if the doctor dies he will just regenerate anyway
I never really found this episode particularly scary, though I really dig how their black hole looks ridiculously coincidentally realistic. I would love to see more Doctor Who based videos though.
Doctor Who was my gateway horror
I'm not a Doctor Who fan and I'm never going to be. But hearing "In the end, only Darkness will remain" is very much something I'm familiar with, in loving my Fromsoft Games. I'm going to enjoy this.
i hate to be "that guy'' but i just wanted to point out that in the biblical story of Adam and Eve, we are never explicitly told what the fruit is, but many times it IS said to be an apple, for the purpose of making it easier for children to understand. Still a good point though. but I thought i would just bring up that 😅
Probably my favorite episode is Midnight. That episode is peak cosmic horror.
I am SO exited for the 10th doctor to be back again. It just has to be good
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I mean ..stuff can escape black holes ..hawking radiation
As a Christian, this episode terrified me as a kid. It’s a fantastic story!
Yay new WW vid
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