This episode is a perfect representation of “cosmic horror” when the less you know about the creature makes it even more frightening. The tight and claustrophobic scene also creates a great amount of fear and tension because there’s literally no escape from the threat. They are backed into a corner and what’s scarier? The unknown entity they face or each other going mad with fear? 5 out of 5! Fabulous premise and executed brilliantly!
I think that what really escalated the tension was how the story went against type a little bit. Usually the Doctor is the leader, and is able to inspire and convince people to be their better selves. But in this case it didn't work. What can you do when you reason with people, and they just refuse to be reasonable? What do you do then?
I never realised that what made the hostess kill Sky was the fact that Sky said “allons-y”, proving she was copying the doctor’s maneurism and not the other way around
This is one of my all time favourite episodes, and I am so pleased you both rated it 5/5. I know a lot of people who dislike this episode because of its simplicity and the fact you dont find out what the alien was... but I think that's what makes this episode one of the best. It is also genuinely one of the scariest episodes ever! I found your discussion about the behaviours and attitudes of the other passengers interesting... I had always thought that it was the alien who exerted some kind of influence over the passengers to make them believe it and trust it (hence the aggression and bullying that we see). I had never thought that they were all just nasty people deep down haha! Fantastic reactions as always and Iove seeing you two having a laugh and joke with each other. Hope you both feel better soon x
I took at as a bit of both. It showed us their inner darkness, but much more quickly and strongly than they would have displayed it even in another life-threatening situation.
I'd completely forgotten Colin Morgan was in this episode. I was half expecting his eyes to go golden and a dragon to appear upon seeing him...until I remembered this is a Doctor Who reaction and not a Merlin reaction 😅
The fact that the doctor himself said “I don’t know what it was” is genuinely terrifying because it actually beat him in a way and just imagine this 9000+ year old time lord who seen pretty much everything and every creature and never figured out what it was
Honestly? My favorite episode of Doctor Who. Ever. Reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone. So simple, but so good. No matter how many times I watch it, it's still brilliant
*_"Do we have a deal?"_* 😱 OMG what a fricken episode!! The script, music, cinematography and THAT acting by everyone, especially Lesley Sharp (Sky) is absolute genius!! Also, Deepa guessed right: emotional episode with death!;)
One of my favourite episodes. Back in 2008 I thought this was the filler non-entity before the epic finale but it ended up being one of my all time favourites.
I've literally watched this episodes so many times from when it was first aired to now and it has ONLY JUST clicked that Donna repeating Monte bene is what freaked him about because of what happened😂😭 This whole time I was like "ooh it's his phrase he doesn't like other people saying it" jaysus I am disappointed in myself 😂😂😂
It’s been performed on stage before, usually at Doctor Who conventions. Here’s an example from Console Room, in Minneapolis th-cam.com/video/xdELl2OQf4Q/w-d-xo.html
Oh, those first 90 seconds were wonderful. A big smile came to my face. You two are fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. :) 2:40 You are so lovely. This episode is very good with writing, but it is also very uncomfortable episode. To that level that I don't really want to watch it. 2:55 'Its nice to see them having fun' And I was like 'oh no...' and then there was the edit to Luke's face. :)
This is an episode that usually gets a big reaction out of everyone who watches it. Obviously you guys did not disappoint (You never do!) Lovely, super fun reaction!
I watched this before I watched merlin so when I was rewatching after I noticed the actor who plays merlin in this episode and idk why it just made me rly happy lol
This always reminds me of *The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street* from the classic *_Twilight Zone_* (Season 1, Episode 22). The mob mentality and the impact of paranoia on a group. Memorable quotes: _"Did you see how far it went up?"_ & _"Everytime I cough, it bounces."_ Finally, you know you have real charisma when you get your viewers to laugh just by watching you laugh, without any context whatsoever. 😱 *POSSIBLE SPOILERY GOO BELOW* 😯 😲 😳 *EDIT:* What you said about bringing the creature from *Midnight* back, I agree with 100%. I always felt that way about the [ spoiler ] as well. Well this isn't a very popular opinion, I thought every time we saw them after [ spoiler ], the [ spoiler ] were less effective.
I actually really really *love* Crash of the Bizantium. The second part of the story completely ruined them, though. And every appearance after that, cameo or otherwise, I just hated. Not scary anymore, not even interesting anymore. It's too bad. Sometimes you need to just leave great things alone instead of trying to recreate masterpieces.
@@sinopia101 Thankfully, unlike me, you didn't reference exactly *what* we were talking about.👍 I realized a few hours later that what I said could be somewhat of a spoiler. So, I had to edit my edit. But since they are in the UK and I am in the SW United States, I can only hope that I didn't ruin anything for anyone. 😳
@@CaesiusX Haha, I'm sure it's fine. It wasn't a big spoiler, but I heavily avoid specifics anyway. Most of the people who watch reactions are Whovians already, so vagueness is usually translated just fine between us commenters! :)
It’s been performed on stage before, usually at Doctor Who conventions. Here’s an example from Console Room, in Minneapolis th-cam.com/video/xdELl2OQf4Q/w-d-xo.html
I've always thought that the monster in this one was affecting the passengers telepathically as well. Otherwise, it's hard to believe they didn't catch on to what happened when the Doctor explicitly said earlier that she might become them and she was acting so obviously abnormal, unworried, and even smiling and excited at the end.
I never even thought about what would of happened if Donna had been on the crusader before, but I think she would of initially freaked out a little, but not as much as the others. She would of trusted the Doctor and not let anyone throw Sky out. And then, when Sky started talking ahead of him, Donna would of panicked quite a bit. The moment anyone even suggested throwing the Doctor out though, she would of started swinging.
You guys are the first reactors that heard them suggest just throwing Sky out and killing her and actually being horrified, every other reactor I've seen watch this episode just go "yeah, kill her!" Which is kinda ironic considering this episode is about mob mentality.
People have theorized that the Midnight Entity is actually the soul of a crashed TARDIS that got trapped on Midnight, and that it was seeking out a Time Lord pilot to fly it away from there.
@ 3:01 ‘Oh she says that now...’ Bless Deepa’s naive, hopeful attitude 😂 I wish my best female friend would sit and watch the show with me, but apparently it’s geeky rubbish 😮- this is coming from my friend who loves Stranger Things 👀
This episode is always hard for me to watch because when people get scared or stressed, they turn on each other easily. It terrifies me and it hurts my heart that people would be that way. You can't trust anyone basically. Also, that mom was a total b*tch and I wished that she had been the one that died instead of the hostess, hell her and the Professor could both jump out. Screw them.
I always scroll and read the comments during the opening (because the visual of them being silly makes me uncomfortable due to my own weird brain), and this is absolutely true.
@@tomski120 Oh no knocking it. ASD and ADHD make for weird as in 'not neurotypical'. I'm still awesome af. But you totally made my day for taking the time to reassure a stranger. :)
I often skip this one but I think it is a great locked room episode. It's just a brilliantly bleak watch which is too often a little too much depending on my mood. Deepa's looking rather fetching this evening.
In a way, the Doctor didn't help the situation; when the group wanted to get rid of Sky he denounced it as murder but when the hostess unilaterally took exactly the same decision, she was a hero. Does the value of an action really hinge solely on whether the Doctor is personally at risk?
The parameters of the situation had changed in more ways than just the Doctor being in danger. When they were originally discussing killing her she was seemingly harmless and hadn't taken any action against them besides the creepy repeating so it was reasonable to just wait to get back to civilisation and possibly help her rather than just hastily kill her because she was possessed and creepy. By the time the Hostess decides to kill Sky she's figured out that she's still possessed and is manipulating the others into killing the Doctor and knows that if she doesn't take action and kill her immediately an innocent man will die. It is possible of course that a way to free Sky from possession could've been found out if she'd made it back from the bus but there was no guarantee, so the Hostess made the choice to save The Doctor's life rather than take a chance on Sky being recoverable, not to mention she may have been thinking about the danger the entity could pose if it made it back to civilisation with only her word against all the passengers that Sky was still possessed by it.
The funny thing is I love your reaction to this and it makes me like it. But the actual episode I find incredibly boring tbh (I know I'm in the unpopular camp)
I'm in the minority here, but I don't like this episode. It starts by verbally establishing rules, for the express purpose of breaking them later. And we literally learn nothing about the entity, except that they make-up the rules for what it can and can't do as they go along.
No its rules are pretty well established. Repeat, synchronise, isolate the strongest mind, absorb. It's a pretty logical progression. Learning about the creature is not the point of the episode. The point is to examine human behaviour.
Everyone loves this episode but I honestly find it so overrated. It’s easily my least favorite of Season 4, I just find it so boring. The creature doesn’t scare me at all and it’s not like humans sucking is a surprise.
If Donna had been with them, they never would've gotten their hands on the Doctor.
I can imagine her yelling "DON'T. TOUCH. THAT. MAN."
She would slap the monster right out of that woman.
So true. Not a chance
That's funny to think about😂😂😂Thank you!!!
Imagine if the Master had been there. He'd have fucking wiped them from time itself.
This episode is a perfect representation of “cosmic horror” when the less you know about the creature makes it even more frightening. The tight and claustrophobic scene also creates a great amount of fear and tension because there’s literally no escape from the threat. They are backed into a corner and what’s scarier? The unknown entity they face or each other going mad with fear?
5 out of 5! Fabulous premise and executed brilliantly!
I think that what really escalated the tension was how the story went against type a little bit. Usually the Doctor is the leader, and is able to inspire and convince people to be their better selves. But in this case it didn't work. What can you do when you reason with people, and they just refuse to be reasonable? What do you do then?
In tonight's episode we explore just how much humans suck.
meanwhile at torchwood: this season we explore just how much humans suck.... again
numberonecatdetective what Torchwood episode are we referring too?
@@drd2121 episode? Try season. Or seasons. Children of the earth, miracle day. Take your pick
I never realised that what made the hostess kill Sky was the fact that Sky said “allons-y”, proving she was copying the doctor’s maneurism and not the other way around
Not just copying. She was leeching his existence/consciousness.
This is one of my all time favourite episodes, and I am so pleased you both rated it 5/5. I know a lot of people who dislike this episode because of its simplicity and the fact you dont find out what the alien was... but I think that's what makes this episode one of the best. It is also genuinely one of the scariest episodes ever!
I found your discussion about the behaviours and attitudes of the other passengers interesting... I had always thought that it was the alien who exerted some kind of influence over the passengers to make them believe it and trust it (hence the aggression and bullying that we see). I had never thought that they were all just nasty people deep down haha!
Fantastic reactions as always and Iove seeing you two having a laugh and joke with each other. Hope you both feel better soon x
I took at as a bit of both. It showed us their inner darkness, but much more quickly and strongly than they would have displayed it even in another life-threatening situation.
I'm genuinely excited for Deepa to watch Turn Left, possibly my favourite in Nu Who.
that episode has so many layers to the point that if you think about it its one off if not the darkest episodes in Nu who.
it an outstanding episode.
I love your friendship; it’s so genuine. I want to call up my oldest friends after watching you 😄
"It's annoying because you know what it is" LOL
Omg I just realised he mentions the Medusa cascade, how ironic that’s where they end up at the end of the season
"It won't be as stressful as that, right?"
That comment made me laugh and leak tears simultaneously.
I'd completely forgotten Colin Morgan was in this episode. I was half expecting his eyes to go golden and a dragon to appear upon seeing him...until I remembered this is a Doctor Who reaction and not a Merlin reaction 😅
Great episode and reaction. I love the knowing side glances from Luke to the camera ...
Luke & Deepa, that reaction was molto bene... ;)
No... don`t ... do that... don`t ... (with 10th voice)
@@cargo71 No... don't ... do that... don't ... (with 10th voice)
The fact that the doctor himself said “I don’t know what it was” is genuinely terrifying because it actually beat him in a way and just imagine this 9000+ year old time lord who seen pretty much everything and every creature and never figured out what it was
Honestly? My favorite episode of Doctor Who. Ever. Reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone. So simple, but so good. No matter how many times I watch it, it's still brilliant
*_"Do we have a deal?"_* 😱
OMG what a fricken episode!! The script, music, cinematography and THAT acting by everyone, especially Lesley Sharp (Sky) is absolute genius!!
Also, Deepa guessed right: emotional episode with death!;)
This episode is brilliant! And next week's is my favourite modern Doctor Who episode! Can't wait ❤️ loving your reactions
One of my favourite episodes. Back in 2008 I thought this was the filler non-entity before the epic finale but it ended up being one of my all time favourites.
I love this episode so much. It's harrowing to see The Doctor of all people so damn scared & terrified, and not knowing anything
#EmoMerlin 😉
My favourite episode of the RTD era 😍 so excited to see this
Edit - It did NOT disappoint
The midnight entity is legendary
Not sure if you know but the older bald man in the glasses is david troughton. He is the son of the second doctor patrick troughton
I've literally watched this episodes so many times from when it was first aired to now and it has ONLY JUST clicked that Donna repeating Monte bene is what freaked him about because of what happened😂😭 This whole time I was like "ooh it's his phrase he doesn't like other people saying it" jaysus I am disappointed in myself 😂😂😂
The scariest episode/creature in DW. The mystery of it all. I wish Merlin and his parents would shut the hell up though.
Mark Bechtold 😂😂😂
Completely forgot that Colin Morgan played in this episode and I love him but I hated his parents the most
"you could almost do it on stage"
the repeating would be almost impossible to pull off. no room for error.
It’s been performed on stage before, usually at Doctor Who conventions. Here’s an example from Console Room, in Minneapolis th-cam.com/video/xdELl2OQf4Q/w-d-xo.html
This is the earliest i have ever been to anything in my life love you two ❤️
Oh, those first 90 seconds were wonderful. A big smile came to my face. You two are fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. :)
2:40 You are so lovely.
This episode is very good with writing, but it is also very uncomfortable episode. To that level that I don't really want to watch it.
2:55 'Its nice to see them having fun' And I was like 'oh no...' and then there was the edit to Luke's face. :)
This is an episode that usually gets a big reaction out of everyone who watches it. Obviously you guys did not disappoint (You never do!) Lovely, super fun reaction!
Deepa looks stunning in that top! Oh, also great reaction both 👍🏻
I'm half expecting rose to appear on the monitor on the desk in the background, she sure gets around those monitors.
I watched this before I watched merlin so when I was rewatching after I noticed the actor who plays merlin in this episode and idk why it just made me rly happy lol
So good. You guys are the highlight of my week.
love your dynamic keep going!
This is my favourite episode ever of who!!!
This always reminds me of *The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street* from the classic *_Twilight Zone_* (Season 1, Episode 22). The mob mentality and the impact of paranoia on a group.
Memorable quotes: _"Did you see how far it went up?"_ & _"Everytime I cough, it bounces."_
Finally, you know you have real charisma when you get your viewers to laugh just by watching you laugh, without any context whatsoever.
😱
*POSSIBLE SPOILERY GOO BELOW*
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*EDIT:* What you said about bringing the creature from *Midnight* back, I agree with 100%. I always felt that way about the [ spoiler ] as well. Well this isn't a very popular opinion, I thought every time we saw them after [ spoiler ], the [ spoiler ] were less effective.
I actually really really *love* Crash of the Bizantium. The second part of the story completely ruined them, though. And every appearance after that, cameo or otherwise, I just hated. Not scary anymore, not even interesting anymore. It's too bad. Sometimes you need to just leave great things alone instead of trying to recreate masterpieces.
@@sinopia101 Thankfully, unlike me, you didn't reference exactly *what* we were talking about.👍
I realized a few hours later that what I said could be somewhat of a spoiler. So, I had to edit my edit. But since they are in the UK and I am in the SW United States, I can only hope that I didn't ruin anything for anyone. 😳
@@CaesiusX Haha, I'm sure it's fine. It wasn't a big spoiler, but I heavily avoid specifics anyway. Most of the people who watch reactions are Whovians already, so vagueness is usually translated just fine between us commenters! :)
This episode terrified me when I first saw it.
Your Shane merch just ties it all together lol.
Oh god, after saying it could be done on a stage show now makes me want to see it on stage lol
It’s been performed on stage before, usually at Doctor Who conventions. Here’s an example from Console Room, in Minneapolis th-cam.com/video/xdELl2OQf4Q/w-d-xo.html
YES!!! My favourite episode of all time :D
This is dark and brooding and possibly the best work that Russell T Davies has written.
Not knowing is what makes it so much scarier.
I've always thought that the monster in this one was affecting the passengers telepathically as well. Otherwise, it's hard to believe they didn't catch on to what happened when the Doctor explicitly said earlier that she might become them and she was acting so obviously abnormal, unworried, and even smiling and excited at the end.
This is my favorite Nu who cause it shows how easily humans would turn on friends or innocents to save themselves.
15:36 you should watch Death Parade, which explores that hypothesis. I'll link the opening, you'll love it.
th-cam.com/video/UjjTMNDZi-A/w-d-xo.html
I never even thought about what would of happened if Donna had been on the crusader before, but I think she would of initially freaked out a little, but not as much as the others. She would of trusted the Doctor and not let anyone throw Sky out. And then, when Sky started talking ahead of him, Donna would of panicked quite a bit. The moment anyone even suggested throwing the Doctor out though, she would of started swinging.
Luke's reaction at 4:33 kills me everytime
Probably the closest the Doctor came to death in all the new Who episodes. Maybe when he had the sun thing in him in “42.”
But the difference between them is this episode is phenomenal and 42 sucked
That’s 42ist.
You guys are the first reactors that heard them suggest just throwing Sky out and killing her and actually being horrified, every other reactor I've seen watch this episode just go "yeah, kill her!" Which is kinda ironic considering this episode is about mob mentality.
People have theorized that the Midnight Entity is actually the soul of a crashed TARDIS that got trapped on Midnight, and that it was seeking out a Time Lord pilot to fly it away from there.
Cosmic Giraffe I love that idea!
Yeah I agree - love that thought.
Nice, but I don`t buy it. If it was the case, the entity should focus only on the Doctor, but it searched everyone`s minds and then it chose...
I adore this! And yes some mysteries are best left unsolved. Like Listen...
this part gives me the shivers
Episode 11 definitely won't be as stressful as this one 😉
My most precious humans, always, you two :D
Yes! One of my fav episodes. Can't wait to see Deepa react to the next episode though.
hes gonna wind up, tied up.
Great episode, great reaction, great shirt :p
Cant wait for Next weeks. One of my favourite episodes of modern who! and Catherine Tate does a great performance!!!
@ 3:01 ‘Oh she says that now...’ Bless Deepa’s naive, hopeful attitude 😂 I wish my best female friend would sit and watch the show with me, but apparently it’s geeky rubbish 😮- this is coming from my friend who loves Stranger Things 👀
@gary jones I hope you're the same age as her lol
This episode is always hard for me to watch because when people get scared or stressed, they turn on each other easily. It terrifies me and it hurts my heart that people would be that way. You can't trust anyone basically. Also, that mom was a total b*tch and I wished that she had been the one that died instead of the hostess, hell her and the Professor could both jump out. Screw them.
Such a fantastic episode
@11:00 "This isn't what I predicted..." 'Eck, no, it's not... It's WAY better. And, in my opinion, so is the next one. ;)
I'm with Deepa. 5/5 but I hate watching it.
Best reaction! Love you both. 😂🤣
"Be quiet" should be the title of this one
Tennant rehersing for Killgrave?
Really cool short behind-the-scenes video showing how Sky's lines were filmed:
th-cam.com/video/1mV3BBnl32Y/w-d-xo.html
i cant wait for the end of time
The best Monsters have no Face Or real Voice
Cabin fever! Son of the second Doctor was the teacher.
That Shane merch though
Loving the SHANE DAWSON shirt!!!!!
Fuck yes you two! Love this channel! Coming up next: Turn Left!!!!! Heck yes!!! Lets go!!!
Apologies for the overuse of exclamation marks.
we needed some donna sass on that bus
I wanted to punch both Val and the professor so hard by the end of this episode
Thought I had a hair on my screen but it was your lights/wire dangling near your door...
Deepa: it's annoying cos you know what it is
Everyone: lol no
3:55 Merliiinnn
Shane Dawson merch I’m loving it already 💖💖😍
Merlin was hereeeee
Is one going to say that in this doctor who episode that Colin Morgan is in this one and better yet you guys know him better as Merlin 😂😂😂
spam the 0 key oion your keyboard and it sounds like 2 whales🤣🤣🤣
We watch two people lose their minds...and then watch Doctor who
And we enter the golden era. Exciting!!!
I thought we already had with Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead :)
first: im late
second: ahhhhhhh 3 more episodes of s4 ahhhhhhhhh
thrid; ... SHANE DAWSON TOP
The first few minutes sound like a porn film ha he.
I always scroll and read the comments during the opening (because the visual of them being silly makes me uncomfortable due to my own weird brain), and this is absolutely true.
@@blueashke dont knock your "weird brain" it makes you unique
@@tomski120 Oh no knocking it. ASD and ADHD make for weird as in 'not neurotypical'. I'm still awesome af. But you totally made my day for taking the time to reassure a stranger. :)
@@blueashke the more people talk about it the less stigma there will be. I for one feel great for coming in to contact with your awesome af Ness
No scores?
It's called a Karen lmao
Is the next one Turn Left?
Yes
Escape the night.
Luke, stop laughing! 😂
would you react to greys anatomy??x
Doctor vs mob mentality
I often skip this one but I think it is a great locked room episode. It's just a brilliantly bleak watch which is too often a little too much depending on my mood.
Deepa's looking rather fetching this evening.
In a way, the Doctor didn't help the situation; when the group wanted to get rid of Sky he denounced it as murder but when the hostess unilaterally took exactly the same decision, she was a hero. Does the value of an action really hinge solely on whether the Doctor is personally at risk?
There didn’t just throw her out though, the hostess actually jumped out with her sacrificing herself
The parameters of the situation had changed in more ways than just the Doctor being in danger. When they were originally discussing killing her she was seemingly harmless and hadn't taken any action against them besides the creepy repeating so it was reasonable to just wait to get back to civilisation and possibly help her rather than just hastily kill her because she was possessed and creepy. By the time the Hostess decides to kill Sky she's figured out that she's still possessed and is manipulating the others into killing the Doctor and knows that if she doesn't take action and kill her immediately an innocent man will die. It is possible of course that a way to free Sky from possession could've been found out if she'd made it back from the bus but there was no guarantee, so the Hostess made the choice to save The Doctor's life rather than take a chance on Sky being recoverable, not to mention she may have been thinking about the danger the entity could pose if it made it back to civilisation with only her word against all the passengers that Sky was still possessed by it.
The funny thing is I love your reaction to this and it makes me like it. But the actual episode I find incredibly boring tbh (I know I'm in the unpopular camp)
I'm in the minority here, but I don't like this episode. It starts by verbally establishing rules, for the express purpose of breaking them later. And we literally learn nothing about the entity, except that they make-up the rules for what it can and can't do as they go along.
No its rules are pretty well established. Repeat, synchronise, isolate the strongest mind, absorb. It's a pretty logical progression.
Learning about the creature is not the point of the episode. The point is to examine human behaviour.
Everyone loves this episode but I honestly find it so overrated. It’s easily my least favorite of Season 4, I just find it so boring. The creature doesn’t scare me at all and it’s not like humans sucking is a surprise.