Aaron is so underrated as a guide for the others. He knows when to give extra information like when he pointed out how the consciousness is the same as with the mannequins... and when to keep stuff to himself.
Man this finale really comes at you outta nowhere huh. Like, last episode was just "Oh jeepers, what's going on in James Corden's attic" and in this one suddenly there's a confederation of every evil spacefaring species putting together a psychic, time-spanning plot while disrupting the entirety of time and space. 0 to 100 real quick on this one.
Idk, with how they've been teasing us with the cracks the entire freaking season... It still is like it went from 0 to 100 but it feels like the show has been revving it's engine the entire time, to the point that I'm like "fucking finally we're going there!"
Ehh, the Shadow Proclamation are the space police. The Judoon are the mercenaries employed by the space police, basically just hired muscle. Their treatment of people in Martha's hospital on the moon shows they're a bit "shoot first, ask questions later".
A sad takeaway is that the Doctor's visit and friendship with Vincent is arguably what drives him to commit suicide. When he had the vision that drove him to paint the TARDIS exploding, he genuinely believes his closest friends have died and likely takes his own life as a result.
David Nobre The Doctor says a New reality is created by every decision we make. So I personally think this Anti-Monitor based weapon would only destroy the 'Nearest' universes, as in closest to them. That's my headcanon, the out of universe reason is they didn't think it through
@@darkassassinkantafly that is exactly why everything would be destroyed cause in infinite universes the bomb failed but also worked in infinite many. Like our theory of multiverse, there are infinite where one thing is done and infinete where it isnt. What the doctor said souds a lot like the interpretation of multiverse on quantum mechanics. The Dale are a very very ancient and intelligent species how can they make a device and not know is range? I still like the episode and and like many others I just turn of logic but it never made sense still entertaining tho. I think the same as you I think they didn't think it throw when they said multiverse and destroy all universes
There's a suggestion in the story that Vincent seeing the TARDIS explode is the final catalyst for his suicide. The fact that his two friends who showed him all the wonderful things he would do died being the thing that pushed him over the edge is quite tragic, but I've preferred to just sort of....let the morals of Vincent and the Doctor stand, for my money. Yeah, this episode is...phew.
This just makes the ending scene of Vincent and the Doctor even more sad! when the doctor tells Amy that they added to Vincents 'pile of good things' and they were part of the reason why he killed himself.
Before this episode came out, someone gave me a bunch of spoilers on it, and I didn't believe them because it sounded so insane. Turned out they were 100 percent correct.
@@alyx1a Its destruction was undone. Time does not work like that in Doctor Who when it is the entire universe or more in trouble, because the time vortex and the Web Of Time are all still holding the history of that universe, to ensure the other universes continue. That kind of time travel issue only happens with individual's and their timelines in Doctor Who. The time vortex does not care about those problems. The Web Of Time, however, does care about them, because it maps all of history.
I always love thinking back to when River talked about how the Doctor made entire armies turn away when he makes that speech haha. And Eric really nails it, River is radical. She's really a true partner for him and I adore it. Their chemistry is so great, the relationship always feel leagues deeper than the show ever lets you see. It always bubbles up to the surface and grabs your attention whenever they're together.
The Doctor is kinda a fairy tale character, right? 6:13 "Look at me! I'm a target!" Smooth, Doctor. Very smooth. XD 8:30 When it comes to Doctor Who, speeches are the one of its key. There are many speeches on this show, that I don't want to pick favourites. and the quotes as well :D
One of my favorite, if not my out right favorite, is still yet to come up (7.7) and I HOPE they don't skip it like a fair few reactors others have done
The Autons (plastic people) have appeared in: _Spearhead from Space_ (1970) _Terror of the Autons_ (1971) _Rose_ (2005) _The Pandorica Opens_ / _The Big Bang_ (2010)
Wow - you can literally see Eric's headache forming at the end of that discussion on time paradox. He's gonna have fun in coming episodes. One of Moff's favourite tricks are ontological paradoxes (Google it) - like who first wrote the transcript in Blink, or who first had the idea to store River in the screwdriver in the Library. No, it doesn't make sense - it's Doctor Who - accept it.
So. Many. CALVINS! AHHHHHH! Also, was that the upside down? Because that's awesome. Fantastic reaction. Fantastic editing. Everything I love about this episode was included. One of my favorite episodes of all time. Great job.
I FINALLY CAUGHT UP!!! I started watching Doctor Who about a month ago and am up to season 7 now. I've been watching these reactions because I love the show so much and now I'm finally caught up and am awaiting next weeks' reaction!!!
I actually really enjoyed S7. My best friend didn't rate it - but it's one of my favourites. It's definitely a season that splits the fan base I think.
Cyber Dalek I completely disagree. The episode before, ‘Heaven Sent’, was incredible but the actual finale ‘Hell Bent’ was the biggest waste of potential modern who has brought us. It even ruined Clara’s ending by bringing her back for no reason. Everyone’s allowed to have an opinion though.
g3o.graphy_2526_ I think that's the beautiful thing about Doctor Who, is that it speaks to so many people in different ways, and that what one person wants or gets out of the show will not be the same thing another gets. For me, I love the standalone episodes, but I usually loathe the finales. In fact, ironically, "Hell Bent" is the only NuWho finale I've liked. At all. Out of 10 series so far, I liked one finale. The one I really love is the one that almost everyone else seems to hate. And that's kind of awesome. I like the episodes that are grounded in character. These finales are usually grounded in some big event, like a Dalek or Cybermen invasion (maybe both at the same time!); or the Master's returned, with Cybermen or Daleks!; or we have to save the Doctor (the show's called Doctor Who: he's not going anywhere -- this threat is inherently non-threatening). "Hell Bent" was a more grounded, simple story about character, about a man faced with a choice, and what he does with that choice. And I loved that about it. The episodes I tend to like are episodes like "Midnight," where the Doctor is put in an impossible situation; or "Girl in the Fireplace," that reveal something emotional about the man; or "Human Nature"/"Family of Blood," which put him a deeply emotional place with no good resolution. The finales are pretty much never like those episodes. Most people I know love the finales, and I'm usually there, sighing into my IPA, asking, "Why can't we just have 'Girl in the Fireplace' for a finale? Why does it have to be... this...?"
Eric, time locking something doesn't erase it from history or time. It does literally what it says, it closes off a portion of time to time traveling. If you're in a time lock, it's impossible to leave or enter that space in the locked time. We still run into races that have knowledge of the Time Lords because their history is still real, the only thing that's different is that you can't just plug in the space and time coordination in a tardis and get there. Apparently Dalek Kan managed to do it, but you saw the toll that took on him xD
I feel the timelock basically just locks the history so it all becomes a fixed point and nothing can be changed So everything building up to the time war happens like its meant to and then at the moment it gets timelocked it gets frozen
I don't think so, because we've seen them being broken from the inside. Besides, we've seen the Doctor traveling to fixed points before, and even trying to change them (not that it ends up working, with a fixed point is like you said, even if you change something the same thing will just happen in a slightly different manner). But with a time lock, he can't even *go* there, so they seem to be different things. Besides, it doesn't sound like fixed points are/can be artificial. Fixed points are usually moments that have such huge implications on the rest of the Universe that they can't be shifted. They seem to be natural, in a manner that changing what happens would be *so* momentous that it's simply easier for time to *not let it change* than for it to accept the consequences of the change. But time locks don't occur naturally, since we know it was the timelords who locked Gallifrey.
Supernovae don't really come near the speed of light, at least if you're talking about the exploding mass part of it. But that doesn't really help you on Earth if the Sun somehow went supernova (which it can't), since the ridiculous amount of radiation from the explosion *does* travel at speeds nearing light. In actuality, if the Sun went supernova, everything on Earth would die from radiation poisoning before the shockwave of the explosion even broke out of the surface of the Sun... Which is absolute bullshit if you ask me. If we're all gonna die because our star exploded, the least the Universe could give us is some cool fucking visuals of the entire sky burning, but nope, since it takes the shockwave around a day to reach the star's surface but it'd only take about 8 minutes for the radiation to kill us, it'd be like "normal day, everything is fine, the Sun is so pretty today oh look, everything is dead".
Ok im not an expert but i am a nerd so i apologize if anything i say is wrong, but the radiation you speak of would be gamma rays and xrays which are both electromagnetic waves and both move at the speed of light. But it is crazy that if our star could explode, which it cant due to it needing at least 7 or 8 times the mass, we wouldnt know anything is wrong for 8 minutes until the first light from the explosion reaches us. Then, our day would get very very.... very bad, if that did happen. Radiation stripping our atmosphere etc etc. Thankfully we need not worry about that, just our sun getting hotter which will make our planet uninhabitable for us in a billion years if memory serves me right, maybe less.
+Shroomie Not really ^^ The radiation that would hit us first would be the neutrinos. Gamma rays and Xrays are simply too heavy to hit us first. Inside the core of the Sun gravity is so intense and time so dilated as a side effect of that. In *our* relative time, it takes thousands of years for a single photon created by fusion in the Sun's nucleus to make it to the surface of the Sun, even if it's travelling at the speed of light. I don't know much about supernovae but I did read up before typing this out, and found out that the more "conventional" radiation created by a supernova can take upwards of 24 hours to reach the star's surface, simply because it's relative time is much, *much* slower than what we perceive. Neutrinos however are expected to be the lightest thing in existence; since photons can decay into neutrinos, they are expected to be even lighter than them. The lighter you are, the less you'll feel the effect of gravity. From what we observe of supernovae, one of the earliest signs of it is a huge shower of neutrinos coming from the star, simply because, even if they are created at the same time all the other radiation is at the nucleus, they make it out of the star literal thousands of times faster. Now, neutrinos aren't usually that bad, they can transfer energy to matter but they have so little it's usually ignored, but when you're talking about the quantity that such an event would produce, it's well enough to guarantee that everything on Earth would be dead the second they got here. It's like saying a droplet of water can't kill anyone because it's so harmless, then throwing a tsunami at a person. You *are* correct in that the light of the explosion would hit the Earth between 7 and 8 minutes after it started; the problem is, by the time some visible light got here, there wouldn't be a single living thing left on the planet.
You see, this is why the Doctor doesn't need a weapon. He doesn't carry them because he doesn't like to kill but he doesn't need one because he's the only man who can turn an entire multi-army of the universe's greatest threats around simply by mentioning his name.
“Sorry, sorry, dropped it…HELLO STONEHENGE!! Who takes The Pandorica takes the universe! But, bad news, everyone - cuz guess who!! Ha! Except, you lot, you’re all…whizzing about…it’s really VERY distracting, could you all just stay still for a minute, because I!!! AM!!! TALKING!!!!! Now: The question of the hour is, who’s got The Pandorica. Answer: I do. Next question! Who’s coming to take it from me? C’MMMONN, *look* at me! *No* plan, *no* backup, *no* weapons worth a damn, OH, and - something else - I. Don’t. Have. Anything TO LOSE. So, if you’re sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all…your…silly…little guns…and you’ve got any plans on taking The Pandorica TONIGHT, just REMEMBER who’s standing in your way. REMEMBER every black day I ever stopped you, and then, AND. THEN. ANNND THEN. - DO the SMART THING…let somebody else try first.”
That intro was dope! That's why I love you guys... you didn't need to do that. But you went that extra mile anyways. That sums the channel up right there.
In the 8th Doctor Who story Battlefield..it is more than implied (spoilers....)..... That the Doctor IS Merlin (at least In an alternate timeline) so yes he has literally been a wizard
i don't usually comment on youtube, i usually comment on your vid on twitter, but hey ho, love this reaction can't wait for wed to see the big bang ep :) and aaros those cybermen were the ones from the parallel world ones the modasian cybermen were the ones you and mel saw in your series 10 eps , anyway guys keep up the good work, and hope to see SJA take torchwood spot on thursdays soon, and aaron one more thing cause u and mel are caught up with dr who, yous could watch class their is only one season, and yous could watch adventure in time and space it's a documentary of the life of the first doctor, i think you and mel would love that :) cause every whovian i have spoken to they loved it,
Calvin in the upside down is brilliant as a xover. Love the lads supporting Mickey, Shane mentioning my girl Martha and Aarons lead into the episodes. Everyone of them adds to the enjoyment of the reaction. Thanks lads!
because the tardis caused it everything exploded at every point in time so it happens instantly and it happens 10,000 yaers ago thats why we could see it
I love this episode simply because it's one of only two times you really see the doctor scared. This, being dragged kicking and screaming to the Pandorica and when 9 saw the "last" dalek
I think the way the Time Lock was supposed to work was you could not access any part of the Time War, and everything leading up the it became a fixed point in time. You couldn't go back and meet a Timelord before he/she joined the war, and you absolutely couldn't try to stop him/her from joining.
You're exactly right. The Time War is time locked, not Gallifrey itself. And due to the time lock, the Time War cannot be prevented. Aaron got his explanation of it all wrong.
I’ve been binge watching the show on Netflix then coming here to watch you guys react but I just caught up to you 😭 I feel like I just lost another doctor
I love this finale...some say it’s too complicated especially the next part but I don’t think so personally . 11th is my favorite Doctor and he’s speeches is one of the reasons why , this speech is great but it’s not even his best one imo .
Yes they are genuinely at stone henge, i think thats a huge way of explaining how culturally significant dr who is in the UK that Dr who is one of the only shows ever to be granted permission to actually film on location and the actors touch the stones.
The voice in the TARDIS that says "Silence will fall" is unfortunately some character planned for seasons 6 and 7 that was dropped. That voice is the only thread that never gets resolved. Otherwise this episode is one of my favourites and always makes me cry when Amy remembers Rory.
I thought i was the War Doctor at the time he was announced cause it even sounded like John Hurt. Man i really wish the silence story had been done better cause it was built up so well!
yeah enjoy the simplicity while it lasts cause season six is a fucking hellish nightmare. i LOVE it.. it’s so dark and weird and effed up but.. yup. it’s insane.
the mic is actually a proper hd mic - they kind of look like pincers or a tasor but search an asmr mic and you get those - (minus the 3dio and mic like those which are ear shaped)
It's been a while since I've seen this episode so I've forgotten, how exactly did the Tardis to explode in the first place? I know the silence were cause but I'm unclear how they did it.
It's not that time travelers can't meet themselves; they can't go back and change the course of events that they were already a part of. If you met your future self the *_first_* time, everything is a-okay.
So are the Cyberman here the parallel ones or the original Mondas ones? If parallel how are they still around? If Mondasion why do they have the same design?
The explanation for the lights going out immedietly is that they are going out thru out time. Not just at that time, cause then you wouldnt notice anything xD