Doctor Who 4x10 REACTION!! "Midnight" 

IMO the Midnight creature is one of the most terrifying aliens on the show. Not because of a monstrous appearance or plans for world domination but because of its capacity for psychological warfare. It nearly succeeded in killing the Doctor by weaponizing the worst in people.

The really clever part of this episode is showing exactly why the Doctor needs a companion. Someone to act as a go between, an interpreter so this exact situation doesn't happen.

At the end, the Doctor was more afraid of the humans than the Midnight Entity.

Out of all the episodes this one is the scariest thing to me. There is just something terrifying about mob mentality and how fickle it can be.

Some trivia, the actor playing The Professor is David Troughton, the son of Patrick Troughton aka The Second Doctor

They weren't influenced by the entity. This episode is a study of the human nature.

"Frightened people. Give me a Dalek any day."

This is all about the dangers of mob mentality... One of my favorite quotes "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!"

RTD'S best story in my opinion, still freaks me out today

This episode made me utterly terrified and so stressed. I was on the edge of my seat, covered in sweat - it was like I was on that bus too. I only realised how stressed it had made me after it ended when I realised I had been gripping the edge of the chair the entire time and my hand hurt. Literally the only other episode that scared me and gave me such a physical reaction was The Waters of Mars. To see the Doctor so helpless and scared, not able to use his intelligence or charm to calm everyone down, literally losing his voice and his own free will, it really ramped up the tension and the threat to the Doctor. He was so vulnerable and afraid, it's not something you see often from the Doctor. And David Tennant's acting is amazing! It's an incredible episode with incredible writing that explores the psychology of mob mentality and the different reactions we are capable of during times of extreme stress. Everyone likes to claim that they'd be the level-headed one, protecting the innocent, but the truth is none of us know how we'd react until we're in an extreme situation. An unfortunately some people turn into monsters and self-preserving arseholes!

This is a great episode on showing how different people react when they're scared. You got Anger, Denial, Logic, Curiousity, Humour, Blame etc.. It's great writing and story for an episode in one room. =D Also, next week is going to be amazing!!!

"I can't look at her with those eyes" Shane: "Those are her real eyes...In real life" My sides are hurting😂

The monsters that come closest to killing the Doctor are plain old people. There’s a lesson there.

I think condemning and hating the other passengers as just being stupid assholes is missing the fundamental point of the episode. These people WEREN'T assholes, not really. We know they were all perfectly nice, regular people based on the conversations the Doctor had with them before that thing attacked. And the monster didn't do anything to make them fight, it just said that to make them more paranoid. The point isn't to show their flaws as individuals, but to show the flaws that arise in any individual, and especially in any crowd, when it's confused and afraid. It's not just an immigration thing or a terrorism thing or whatever, it's a very general way to comment on the fact that humans, like any other animals, ultimately tend to resort to violence and self-preservation when they're backed into a corner and they don't know what to do. The Doctor has always believed in the best of mankind, has always fought for and trusted in the ultimate worthwhile goodness of the human spirit, that's why he's so fond of Earth specifically. But in this episode, he's brought face to face with the fact that humans, as a species, regardless of individual traits, AREN'T always kind, or clever, or generous. Sure, this is juxtaposed with the hostess sacrificing herself to save the Doctor and everyone on-board, but the fact that nobody had even found out her name during the entire journey belies yet another inherent flaw that people often exhibit. Basically, the Doctor has to deal not just with a freak voice-stealer, but he also has to face the worst of mankind's natural urges, and it's pretty telling that, out of all the situations he's been in, THIS one probably got him more angry and frustrated and scared than so many of the others. It's also the only time the Doctor basically LOST in the end. He was completely, utterly helpless, and would have been thrown out into the planet and burned to ash if not for the hostess's self-sacrifice.

I saw this performed as a single set stage play. It worked so effectively. The woman who played Skye had her work cut out for her, she was magnificent.

The start of some of the (in my opinion) most disturbing, depressing and amazing episodes of Who.

"Is it her ex?" That one killed me :D :D

You think they were incredibly stupid, sad thing is my family acts exactly like Jethro's parents. This episode was pretty much "Nature of petty people in a nutshell", it grinds all my gears but it's still freaking great.

4:20 "Probably Mickey looking for Rose" I just love how they basically made a reccurent meme of Mickey until the end of season 4 xD

I can't believe this has only just hit me, but David Troughton's character Professor Hobbes appears to be a deliberate reference to Thomas Hobbes, the philosopher. Hobbes argued that in a state of nature man is fundamentally violent and that life would be 'nasty, brutish and short' - hence why government and society was necessary, to prevent humans simply devouring each other...

Definitely the scariest episode of Doctor Who especially since we never see the creature that takes control of Skye.

i don't watch doctor who or the reactions, but i decided to check this one out. Now i want to watch it as well from the beginning. This was a good episode.

can't wait for next week, it's one of my favourite episodes (and that ending cliffhanger gets me every time)

For real i think this episode is scarier then blink

My opinion that this episode was one of the best because the monster/villain of this episode wasn't exactly the copy-cat creature. It was human fear and paranoid and what human beings are capable of when they faced with that fear. It's like that line from the Joker in The Dark Knight. "their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be... When the chips are down, these civilized people, they'll eat each other."

Why did there have to be knocking?

This episode reminds of the twilight zone episode where a whole neighborhood except for like one house lose power and they all get paranoid and start blaming and attacking each other.

I looooove this episode, so fucking intense!! Oh and the Merlin dude is called *Colin Morgan* by the way, he's amazing! And not just in Merlin, even tho that's really a fun show worth checking out! :D

YES!!! My favourite stand alone episode of the show!!!!

I mean, it's pretty easy to think rationally as an outside observer. But the whole point is that all these people, that have never known fear this bad before, are panicking and beyond the point of thinking rationally.

"Is it her ex?" Eric always has the best instinctive jokes

Am I the only one that saw the people's behaviour as cabin fever?

I think if the Blindwave crew was in a similar situation, Aaron would be Jethro, Calvin would be the hostess, Eric would be like the assistant chick and Shane would be any of the other people that immediately jumped to the "killing" option.

One of my favourite episodes 1) The End of Time 2) The Family of blood part 1 & 2 3) Blink 4) Midnight 5) The Girl in the fire place 6) The library one 7) The school with Sarah Jane

4:36 "Everybody quite!!!" ©Kilgrave

This is an excellent episode! It has the right amount of tension and claustrophobia with a bit of a creepy factor too. I think the way the passengers reacted all hysterically by jumping to conclusions and constantly arguing with fear, anger and the drive to save their own skin was very realistic. It also had The Doctor being helpless which added that necessary scare factor and made the tension of the scenario so freaking good. The hostess was a true hero! Can’t wait for Turn Left! One of the best episodes and my personal favourites! It was companion lite this week but next week is the next Doctor lite story! I’m so excited because we’re getting so close to the finale! These remaining episodes are gonna be great! :D

The Professor in the episode was David Troughton who's father was 2nd Doctor Patrick Troughton.

One of the best episodes and one of my favorite episodes from Doctor Who. All in one location, brilliant use of a low budget episode. It shows that sometimes humans can be more dangerous, with them all thinking irrationally and eventually even turning on the Doctor, the Doctor was not in control of the situation and it makes for some brilliant television.

Professor Hobbes in this episode is actually played by David Troughton, son of Patrick Troughton a.k.a the Second Doctor

I like that eric starts going on about people in the future just watching multiple stuff at once. Exactly like now with Tiktok and watching a video with subway surfer below

"Here's to Poosh!" This is one thing about the RTD era that always amazes me- little throwaway references and lines that reward you when you pay attention.

One of my favourite episodes.. especially since we don't find out what the entity was. Reminds me of that movie "the mist". The real monsters are what humans are capable of doing when scared. Also 8 more episodes of the RTD era! (I think)

Can't wait for your next reactions, the next few episodes are so vital

OMG I love how Aaron always just says "what?" whenever Eric reacts to Rose.

This, by far, is one of the most creepiest Doctor Who episodes ever. It shows just how horrible humans can be when they are reacting out of fear and how easily people succumb to the 'mob mentality'.

Didn't expect them to recognise Colin (Jethro) from Merlin. Unfortunately that means they've already seen it, so we won't see it here.

This is one of my favourites. It shows how most people would act if they thought they were in a life or death situation quite well

We’ve broken down :D *IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Ͽ□Ͽ*

As far as I remember, the actress playing the mysterious lifeform learn every line that she had to repeat/synchronise so when they are talking at the beginning she was genuinely speaking *every single* line of dialogue at the same time (at least in the beginning)

I love how annoyed Eric is with Aron about the rose thing

YES I LOVE THIS ONE. It’s so mysterious, what is the monster? Why is it targeting these people? What are those structures? We probably will never get any answer, so it leaves us to theorise.

The Midnight Entity. One of the most terrifying Doctor Who monsters ever. And somehow the most unsettling part of this episode is how quickly the passengers turned on each other.

The next two episodes are Doctor Who at its peak

I watched this episode so long ago I forgot Colin Morgan is in it. I just yelled in my head "Merlin!!" 😂

Bad Wolf The BEES ARE DISAPPEARING

E1 - Foster "I was employed by the Adipose family to foster a new generation after their breeding planet was lost" Doctor "How do you lose a planet?" E2- Lucius "The heaven of Pyroville is gone" Doctor "What do you mean gone? Where's it gone?" Lucius "It was taken. Pyroville is lost" Ep10- Doctor "Did they ever find it?" "Find what?" "The Lost Moon of Poosh?" "Oh, no"

That lady was increduous. One minute she's telling people they'll be thrown out next, then she's all like "I said it was her". LOL

"You shut You shut" Eric is so done with Aaron ignoring Rose :'D

The show has sometimes made the point that the worst and most dangerous species in the universe is the human race, and it's never seemed convincing until this episode. A hundred thousand Daleks: no problem for the Doctor. A group of stroppy humans who are freaking out, and the Doctor is completely screwed.

This episode is fucking nuts. It made me angry, sad, disturbed and frustrated. It was great, in other words.

May I just say that this is one of my favorite episodes of Doctor Who

Ahh, Midnight on midnight, nice way to end the day.

this is a great episode it's one of my all-time faves of the series

Something told me that they would completely miss the point of the episode.

I just replay that first second, again and again. What wrong with me? XD

Can't wait for you guys (who aren't caught up with the series) to watch the next episode, Turn Left. It's a real trip.

Fun fact, the bottle episode thing actually made it really easy for a group of students to re-create the episode for a play. It's on RU-vid somewhere, I think they cut the son out and redistributed his lines out to other characters, it works really well. Now here's the thing. It's something the show doesn't deal with often, but the facts are that the Doctor is this really clever person, who can make speeches at the drop of a hat, who takes glee in the unknown and the horrific and will usually (This incarnation at least) move on and continue to joke and joke despite all the deaths and horrible stuff going on. Now, that's all fine and dandy for, say, a forty five minute episode where we get to see little snippets of their adventure. But if you were really stuck in a situation like that and SO many coincidences pile up? Yeah. The people were ABSOLUTELY in the wrong, but I cut them the tiniest bit of slack because we have access to information that they don't. Also, the old man? Related to the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton.

One of my favourite this one and it is for a lot of people I'd guess. The atmosphere, the acting, the editing, the storybeats, the huis-clos aspect, the subtext... everything is on point there !

2:06 OMG they watched Merlin.

Something funny for me is that I've watched this so many times since the original broadcast and I only noticed Rose in the background recently 😂

That episode showed the human nature maybe that's why it's so scary because it's not some monster,zombie or ghost but just some people

This is one of the best episodes of the series as a whole.

Omg I love the next one so much Im so excited for your reactions to the season 4 finale!

Shoutout to @MailDude in the comment section, keeping the midnight spirit alive.

What’s scary about this episode? The Doctor lost, he was beaten. Saved by the woman whose name we didn’t bother to learn, amazing episode

Fun fact as the shutters close if you zoom in when he says he sees a shadow there is in fact a moving shadow.

I was waiting for the reaction to this episode all along. _And this is what I get. My reward. Well, it's not fair!_ Jokes aside though, they basically became like the characters in the episode they were judging so much.

everytime i watch this ep my heart pounds so hard... one of the best in the series

Next episode is something heart crushing.

This is a simple episode, but there was soo much things they had to do so all repeating would actually be done properly. It is a nice example of sound editing, synchronisation and acting.

next episode... sheet will start gettin real can't wait

I love Midnight one of my favorites of the whole series. I think that this kind of episodes are amazing.

2:06 - DAVID TROUGHTON British actor, and son of Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor.

Well, the monster was tweaking their reactions a bit, but for the most part, that was just the nature of many humans in groups to turn into a panicked mob.

I think these are the most realistic background characters out of any episode of Doctor Who. Most episodes of Doctor Who have characters who just go along with it. If something like this happened in real life then people would start to act like they did here. I'm sure what some things you guys were saying was for comedic effect, but for people who enjoy shows like Game of Thrones you really had a black and white viewpoint of this episode.

My absolute favorite episode! Also one of my worst fears, being trapped in a confined area with a bunch of humans while some dire shit goes down.

Before the Crossover... There was an alternate universe, a beetle, Rose Tyler and the whole world gone to hell... TURN LEFT and everything changes for the better. TURN RIGHT and things are about to get worse.

We’re getting close...

Season 4 episode 8 through 13 is some of the best, highest quality consecutive episodes in Doctor Who.

“So is he just going to visit that and jack into the computer whenever he wants to see her?” How oblivious you are

"I think inside de box because it's bigger on the inside" I HAVE THIS TSHIRT!!

Still my favourite episode! Gives me chills every time.

Episodes like this are what makes Doctor Who great

The doctors face at the end before you stop watching is just so riled from not knowing, u can just see his questioning everything in his head, this scared him.

This episode is one of the scariest in my opinion. A monster you can see is less scary than one you can't.

for me the most terrifying antagonist next to the vasta nevana and they are in episodes right next to each other.

when i was younger i had 2 TVs in my bedroom, one for TV and one for video games.

Just found this channel. Can't wait to wait these episodes over with yall!!

That beginning clip with the foldable frisbee was glorious...

And my third favorite episode has been checked off of the list! Not because of the infuriating passengers but because of the creature, it was never revealed the true identity of what it was.