Doctor Who 9x12: "Hell Bent" | FINALE REACTION!! 

Soldier: "You will lay down any weapons on your person" The Doctor: Puts down his spoon

This series finale(the trio) I think was focused on the Doctor and him dealing with the loss of Clara, who arguably is one of the most important people in his many lives. In many ways, she made him who he is. And having to let go of her in such a tragic and sudden way - I can imagine that is difficult. And his losing all memory of her is very poignant and fitting.

“Run like hell because you always need to. Laugh at everything because it's always funny. Never be cruel and never be cowardly. And if you ever are, always make amends.” I just freaking love Capaldi.

The first episode of the series, Magician's Apprentice: CLARA: Since when do you care about the Doctor? MISSY: Since always. Since the Cloister Wars. Since the night he stole the moon and the President's wife. Since he was a little girl. One of those was a lie. Can you guess which one?

This episode showed how much Jenna Coleman as an actress, with multiple seasons behind her had really developed as an actress. That scene when she breaks down after realising how long the doctor had waited to get to Gallifrey, such a great moment capturing how the Doctor needed Clara in the last episode to "get off his arse" but also needed her again to slap him out of grief and move on, to stop clinging onto moments from the past. Contrast this to the episode where Rose tried to save her dad by meddling with time, in this episode we finally finally finally see the Doctor go through that same unwillingness to deal with loss and unwilling to let Clara go, because of a so called duty of care. He broke the rules of time, he allowed himself to go through one hell of a time loop, just to get Clara back. he didn't give a damn about gallifrey and timelords or the hybrid. For me this was a great conclusion to the complexities of grief, everything else is just a distraction, that you would give up just to have that person back, so much you can forget what you are actually doing because you are so consumed by that grief. The only real escape for the Doctor would be better to have lived without ever knowing that person in the first place. The last interaction with Clara and the Doctor was touching too. Alex, you were right, no violation here, this was personal and about the relationship between Clara and the Doctor. For anyone who took offense at Clara for no reason, this episode meant nothing and they were probably just looking for some sci fi.

Rachel Talalay did ask Timothy Dalton but sadly this episode clashed with him filming Penny Dreadful.

"There's one thing I know about her. Just one thing. If I met her again, I would absolutely know."

This episode gets a lot of hate however there are some really nice and beautifully acted moments. The scene where Clara finds out how long the Doctor had been in the confession dial was such a great performance between Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. It ends on a high note but Clara will still face her death its just that she has some extra time. In a way she now must face her death all over again. Its not what I would have done but its o.k. Great reaction.

I love this episode. Ik this is long but please read I think it might change one or two people's views, hopefully 😂😂😬 The entire season built up to it. We see just how their relationship is so toxic that the doctor would break every rule he could think of even if it gave her just one more heartbeat. People keep saying it should've ended in face the raven and whilst I like her death (not that she's dead coz I love her I just like the episode ok😂😂) but anyone who truly believed that was not thinking about it enough. The entire season we saw things gradually get worse and worse and Clara was becoming the doctor. Clara becoming the doctor was, because of this episode, not just her dying (and she obviously did go back idc about the theories that she didn't, it's heavily implied she did) but we got to see her becoming the doctor also hurt the doctor and made him more like the time lord victorious we see in Tennant, as well as the doctor losing his memory of her. Hell bent concludes their relationship perfectly and also completes the arc. People complain about how small a part Gallifrey was, but that's the point. The doctor was so far gone and so angry that even something as big as Gallifrey didn't concern him anymore, his one and only thought was Clara, aka the conclusion we had been building. Also worth noting that like half the people who complain are literally just haters who wanted Clara dead even tho she still died and this end was imo more tragic but they ain't ready for that convo🙄😂

He never said it was him. He said it was Me.

P.s. Alex, you didn't recognise the diner? The last time we see it, there were a lot of blue envelopes .......EDIT, maybe you did in your full reaction, also, the barn and I believe that actress is the same one from Listen .... Consoling young doctor in the barn

I love this episode, and I loved your reaction. I can't wait for your reaction to the next Christmas special. The one after that, meh. People hate Clara, people love Clara. People hate this episode, people love this episode. It's all fine.

I never really liked how Me survived to the end of the universe with 1 single chip however Jack with literally the universe keeping him alive wasn't able to.

I love Hell Bent, its so good! I'm a big Clara fan, so I loved it. I can understand the Clara haters disliking it though, but hey, their loss.

Finale Villains: Series 1 - Daleks Series 2 - Daleks/Cybermen Series 3- The Master Series 4 - Davros & The Daleks Series 5 - Unknowingly, The Silence Series 6 - The Silence Series 7 - Great Intelligence Series 8 - The Master/Cybermen Series 9 - The Doctor

great reaction, this is a top 5 episode for me, everything about it is perfect to me, i really love the Doctor playing Clara's theme on the guitar (which to me is the best piece of music this show has ever produced), and when Clara asks the Doctor why he would suffer through 4.5 billion years and he says I have a Duty of Care, just brilliantly performed, and then Clara with the reversing the polarity and her arguing with him and then him giving his goodbye speech was perfection

The Time Lords are the monsters.

The villain of series 5 was the Silence. They blew up the Tardis causing the crack.

Believe it or not a lot of people don't like this episode, but I do. I think it's really good. I prefer to say I like what people don't and I don't like what people like. That's what makes the world go round I guess. Lol

I suspect the reason that some people dislike this episode is that it sort of undoes Face the Raven. You never really bought that Clara was dead on first viewing, which I did, so when I saw this when it was first broadcast I was kind of annoyed. Once I got over that I appreciated the episode for its emotional punch, and those scenes with Clara and the Doctor where she realises how far he went to save her are beautiful. You're absolutely right that some people just hate Clara though, and so that clouds their judgement.

This is such a divisive episode, but I'm firmly in the love it camp. The entire episode is an emotional arc, and it works wonderfully as that. Admittedly it has some issues - I can understand not liking Clara getting away at the end, or the fact that Gallifrey is kind of shafted, or the Doctor shooting the General. But in my opinion the good far outweighs the bad, because the episode isn't about any of that - it's about ending the Doctor and Clara's relationship. Clara has had a million endings, but I'm of the opinion that this is the best one. Her exit in Face the Raven kind of doesn't count because this episode was always planned as a part of that arc, but even counting that ending, I prefer this one because of the emotion in their scenes together.

She flies like a cafe but she handles like a bistro

So excited for the Christmas specials... love both, but especially the one that's next up.

Donna wasn't the first companion to have their memory wiped, so technically it's a repeat of ___ not Donna B-)

The 13th Doctor’s sonic Screwdriver actually looks like A vibrater I’m not joking

tough to decide between this and heaven sent but the more i see this the more i think hell bent is my favourite episode of doctor who. it has the most great scenes of any episode. its amazingly well written, acted, directed and the score is also amazing. it completes claras arc perfectly. its a deep episode, its sad its epic. amazing stuff. again 10/10 is not generous enough for this. i dont want to be cringe and say masterpiece but when an episode is so well done then it must be. edit: about the hybrid whilst it is sort of unimportant it is also important and the doctor and clara do fulfil the requirements. heaven sent the doctor destroys a billion hearts to heal his own, in hell bent they stand in the ruins of gallifrey, and theres multiple things you could say are unravelling the web of time. also claras arc is not just becoming like the doctor its basically becoming as much like the doctor as she could be. in this episode she gets as close as she can to regeneration and then gets her own tardis.

The Cloister Wars were referenced in The Magicians Appreciate and that’s it, we had no idea what happened

Remember when we told you that Clara-haters would get their pitchforks out if Moffat tried to bring back Ms Oswald after her death in Face the Raven? While there wasn't any rioting in Cardiff off the back of this episode, this episode was a gift to the toxic fandom channels on RU-vid, seeing increased subscribers as a result. That was a mistake - toxic fandom has been blighting Doctor Who for quite a while now.

I don't know if anyone said it but I'm gonna say it anyway: a Doctor Who spin-off series called 'Class' was released between the next two Christmas Specials that you are going to watch. It is composed of 8 episodes and the story focuses on some Coal Hill Academy students. It could be interesting if you could react to this series as you reacted to Torchwood and SJA Adventures.

Is that his mother at 3:52? Same music we heard when Tennant sees Claire Bloom in The End of Time,

The screwdriver in my cup has a little more vitamin C and vodka than yours, but nonetheless I approve!

"Series 5 didn't have a villain". Um - only the Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, Judoon, Silurians and lots of others I can't even remember! lol. But I know what you mean.

When I stated that Hell Bent was,for me,better than Heaven Sent,what I really meant was that the former is underestimated,while the latter is somewhat overrated. If last weeks had a cyclical yet simple concept,this one is twisty; infuriating;intriguing,and always interesting. The flash forward and flashbacks;the ingenious scheme to extricate Clara from her timeline; the mystery of the hybrid; the machinations on Gallifrey;the Classic TARDIS;the Matrix; the memory loss - none of this is predictable. Fans have belittled this Finale,and it puzzles me as to why. I assume they were expecting some slam-bang action Finale (Heaven Sent is a heck of a build-up!) which never happened. Were they disappointed that Gallifrey was almost incidental to the resolution of the plot? Yet, Gallifrey is presented exactly as it always was in the Classic series - a technologically bland place,filled with back-stabbing political figures. It makes complete sense for the Doctor to use them only for his own ends and then steal a TARDIS and run away. Just as he did all those many years ago. What else would he do? And,in the end,he knows nothing of Clara. He begins again. For me it's a fascinating,twisting Finale. No climactic battles. No OTT heroism. Just the Doctor saving his friend,and then forgetting all about it. It needs to be re-evaluated.

Before I even watch, I going to predict you will say "I godam knew it!"

This is the Last Jedi of Doctor Who episodes when you consider how split it was with the fan base and the way it subverted expectations

The warship came. The Doctor: *Closes the door* The general with his personal guards came. The Doctor: *Closes the door* The entire high council of time lords came. The Doctor: *Closes the door* The Lord president Rassilon (one of the 3 prime time lords) came. The Doctor: *Closes the door* ''...'' ''...'' Rassilon: ''He is fucking with us, isn't he?''

"The first thing you notice about the Doctor of War is that he's unarmed." Yes, the Doctor went about in the Time War against Daleks, monsters, and who knows what else UNARMED. And he's the man that won. Somehow, him being totally unarmed in the middle of all that and still being that dangerous, that makes the legend a bit scarier.

The villains in the Season Six finale were the Silence. You just forgot about them, which is okay cuz that's kind of their thing. This is a polarizing episode that a lot of people really love and a lot of people really hate. I have to admit that I'm in the hate camp. I won't go into my reasons why, cuz I don't want to detract from your enjoyment of it. Suffice it to say that I found it a letdown after the excellent Heaven Sent. I'm glad it worked for you though. Be aware, there are actually two Christmas specials before season ten begins, because the show took a yearlong hiatus. While I don't particularly care for this episode, I love the next one and can't wait to see your reaction to it

I was going to go on a massive rant after the video, but I really can't be bothered to even watch this one.

The General is actually in “The 8th Doctor: Time War V4” out today

Well, The Doctor and Clara aren't Ronald Colman and Greer Garson - there's a bit more of an age difference. I propose that a small debt should be paid, in part, to James Hilton here, at least for inspiration. To quote. "There was A GIRL!"

7:52

They're Gallifreyan their name probably IS just "The General" lmao

I'm cool with the end of Clara here but I think it would've been cool also to have the Clara that 12 is talking to have been an echo. It would've been a nice call back to when we first saw Oswin. It might even be comforting to be reminded that Clara has a stamp on the Doctor Who Universe even though she's gone now. (If you were a fan of her that is.) It might of upset less people if it had been an echo instead of the real Clara too. Might have Made those who prefered her FTR exit less annoyed.

Even though this is the season finale, don't forget 9x13! :)

6:23 when the episode came crashing down. Starting good but from here it's the Clara lovefest

I would argue the Doctor was his own villain..

The doctor used the glasses so that Fans who can't buy the Toys can be the doctor It felt somehow salty when they contradict themselves there

Clara and Me should have made a spin off with the Tavern at the end of the Multiverse xD

I honestly feel like this episode really should have been about letting her go. Accepting that he couldn't protect her, he can't save her and she's ready to go.

From The Rings of Akhaten: I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out moment by moment, until nothing remained - no time, no space, just Me

I think rassilon was regenerating when the master was zapping him back to Gallifrey in the end of time. That's why there's new actor behind the scenes I don't know. This was an ok finale not the greatest just ok. I would had preferred Clara's exit in face the raven was really disappointed they undone her death cause that was a proper farewell for me. The TARDIS diner was alittle weird. But that's Doctor Who it's spose to be weird. It was an ok episode.

Clara will return one day. Everyone faces their raven.

I understand that Moffat was trying to go for a thematic element with the Hybrid rather than a literal sense. Sadly, I just don't think it was very effective. Still a great season and an enjoyable finale.

Enjoy. This is a controversial one. Some enjoy it. Many people like myself, hate hell bent.

I don't actually mind this episode, sure the Clara thing is confusing and stupid but over all I don't mind the episode.

Ah the classic ‘clara’s gone....oh no she isn’t!’ Which by this point was beyond a joke lol undid all the great acting and writing of the face the raven ending (sigh)🙄🙄🙄

No reaction to the Amy and Rory part?

In my brutal honest opinion this episode is 1 I would junk to save any other missing episode. Its an abomination of an episode

This isn’t even The worst episode of Series 9 when people say it’s the worst ever they clearly haven’t seen episodes from Series 11 and 12 and early McCoy episodes. I think the people that hate it just hate Clara and if it had the exact same plot but with a different companion nobody would give a shit. Imagine if in Series 2 Rose was killed off and The Tenth Doctor returns to Gallifrey and decides to save Rose The Majority of people will be saying how wonderful it was and how RTD is the best thing since slice bread

I remember being really angry at this episode when it first came out. I hated it for quite a while but I've come to like it a bit. Not my favourite finale and I certainly prefer the previous episode. I think the fact the hybrid seems to be a damp squib after it was hyped up over the series and the return of the timelords after so long for them to do nothing too important makes it fall flat for me. Saying that all the Gallifrey stuff is good and the emotion of the story works well. I think when I watched it originally I was expecting something very different to what we got. Just a few wasted opportunities in my opinion.

So you’re telling me Me(Ashildr) being the last person in existence is perfectly sane ok

What does the first 20 minutes of this episode tell us ?

So what was the point of Heaven Sent ?

I also hate Clara getting her own Tardis. It completely undermines her ending in ‘Face the Raven’ because she can now travel around the universe in her own TARDIS just like the Doctor. No one else can be the Doctor though. That was the whole point of her arc and then they made a complete U-turn. It removes any consequences for her actions and she gets off scot free. Instead of paying for her actions, she’s rewarded for them! Before someone says, no the Doctor losing his memory isn’t a consequence. Well, I suppose it IS a consequence, but not a satisfying one. The Doctor losing his memory is just a cheap rip off of Donna’s fate in ‘Journey’s End’, but the reason why that worked is because it was a life or death situation. The Doctor had to wipe Donna’s memory to save her from dying. Those kinds of stakes aren’t present here. Instead what we have is a selfish attempt by the Doctor to wipe Clara’s memory in order to prevent the Time Lords from finding her, which would justify his actions. Switching it up and having the Doctor’s memories of Clara being wiped instead is an attempt at subversion by Moffat. I think it’s also meant to be a kind of ‘poetic justice’ too, but it doesn’t work because the Doctor’s our main character. By removing his memory of the last two and a half series, Moffat also removed any potential for character growth. He made everything the Doctor did in this story meaningless. He won’t learn from his mistakes and change. The reason why it worked for Donna is because she was leaving the show as our main companion anyway. We weren’t going to continue to follow her story along like we now have to do with the Doctor.This episode is irredeemably terrible (my least favourite of all time) and I hope my long, long rant has made it clear why. Phew, that feels good! I had a lot to get off my chest, when it came to this episode. I am now very much looking forward to series 10, which is the first good Moffat series, from start to finish, since SERIES 5 imo. Series 5 was broadcast seven years before series 10 btw…

Yea this my most disliked episodes. Especially after series 12

You won't find a more divisive episode than ‘Hell Bent’. Some people love it, some people hate it. There never seems to be a middle ground. Unfortunately, I'm one of the many people that hate it. In fact, I DESPISE this episode. First of all, the constant cuts back and forth between the scenes in the café and Gallifrey are annoying and add nothing to the story. It’s just jarring and disrupts the flow (whatever flow this episode actually has) of the episode. It’s another example of Moffat trying too hard to be clever and adding in something to his episodes that would’ve been better off being cut. I’ve also never seen an episode singlehandedly undermine everything that had come before it the way this episode did. All of Clara's development into becoming too much like the Doctor had been leading up to what happened in ‘Face the Raven’. It made sense for it to end the way that it did. Clara was increasingly fancying herself to be as untouchable as the Doctor, she thought she could continue to put her life in danger and take stupid risks because that's what the Doctor would do. It showed how dangerous an influence the Doctor can be on somebody, people feel like they have to live up to him. They couldn't possibly do so though because they're just more breakable. Face the Raven's ending was perfect because Clara died trying to do what the Doctor would. That's what made it so tragic. ‘Hell Bent’ made all of that redundant. Then we come onto how ‘Hell Bent’ affected ‘Heaven Sent’, which is an amazing episode all about the Doctor overcoming the grief that was threatening to consume him at the end of ‘Face the Raven’. He was able to get past what had happened, which is why his actions in this story are so maddening. Moffat made an episode he wrote that was broadcast just ONE week ago, almost completely meaningless. Heaven Sent is too well written though, so I still consider it a classic. Anyway, after the Doctor manages to break through the Azbantium wall (a brilliant metaphor for overcoming his grief), he FINALLY makes it back to Gallifrey. Something that had been building up since the show returned in 2005. Steven Moffat brilliantly set this up himself in ‘The Day of the Doctor’, when all of the Doctor's saved Gallifrey. By saving Gallifrey, the Doctor's new mission was to find it. This episode was the conclusion to all of that! Are you kidding me! BTW, wasn’t Gallifrey supposed to have been “frozen like a painting” back in ‘The Day of the Doctor’? All of a sudden it's ‘unfrozen’ without any explanation in this episode. Yet another example of Moffat being unable to stay consistent within the continuity he established for himself, but I digress. Anyway, we barely spend 20 minutes on Gallifrey at the start and then the whole episode becomes about Clara AGAIN! Even bloody RASSILON, only the most powerful Time Lord that has ever lived, is made to look like a fool and cast aside unceremoniously so that Moffat could get to his BS with Clara. How many times has Clara left by this point anyway? At some point we just stop caring. It's the law of diminishing returns. We just wanted rid of her at this point and ‘Face the Raven’ finally seemed to give us that, but NOPE! She's back again. Death never seemed to be permanent in the Moffat era, there never seemed to be any lasting consequences. No character epitomises this more than Clara, except Rory of course. The creation of the “extraction chamber” only makes this worse. By creating something like that, Moffat has ensured death is never necessarily permanent. Anyone can use that machine and rescue whomever they like! The most frustrating thing about it is that Moffat had to create a machine like that to make his plot work, but he didn’t think through the consequences of such a machine existing in the Doctor Who universe.

This is one of my least favorite finales, especially after the brilliant episode that "Heaven Sent" was. To me, by making Clara basically immortal, Moffat cheapened her sacrifice in "Face The Raven." Yeah, she has to go back to her death eventually, but she could conceivably travel with Ashildr/Me for a billion years before that happens.

Having Romana being the President would have had more emotion stakes as well be more interested. Speaking of President Romana when 8 saved Charley Pollard from Death the whole universe FRACTURED

Holy hell..this edit is terrible!! Why would you cut every single scene with all the emotional and important moments??

For me this was the weakest finale they've had. I'm glad people like it, but for me it was all crap.

“Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help and they didn’t give him a superpower or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. And that’s extraordinary. There will never come a time when we don’t need a hero like the doctor.” HAHAHA fuck that with 12 and his Tank in s9 and killing the general just because

Now we come onto the most pointless arc in the shows history, the Hybrid. Where do I even begin? Did we ever find out what it was, where the theory originated from? The fact that Moffat retconned the Doctor running away from Gallifrey because of that is a slap in the face to everybody that had worked on the show before him. It's just ridiculous. The reason why the Doctor’s character and backstory worked is that he was simply an ordinary old man that got bored one day and ran away to seek adventure. He was an anarchist and he could no longer tolerate playing it safe and adhere to all of the Time Lords’ rules, who were always very rigid and officious. The exact opposite of the Doctor, which is why there’s always been a natural conflict between them. Changing all of this to the Doctor being scared of some vague prophecy about a hybrid and running away to save his own skin feels forced and unnecessary. It fundamentally alters his character and his backstory in a way that is almost unforgivable. If there was a satisfying payoff to the Hybrid story it might not be so bad, but we got NOTHING. It all came down to stupid, theoretical bullshit! One other thing that bothers me about this episode is the random appearance of the Daleks and Cybermen. It’s just a bit of pointless fan service that Moffat uses to artificially inject this episode with a bit of tension and drama because it was obvious he didn’t actually know what to do once he brought Clara back into the story. It’s padding of the worst kind because, like the aforementioned cuts between the Café and Gallifrey, it exposes the fact that this episode is devoid of a fully developed plot. The 12th Doctor was also completely out of character in this episode. Since when was the Doctor so selfish? Why was he willing to kill the general in cold blood? The excuse that death is Time Lord for man flu won’t cut. Especially because it directly contradicts what the 10th Doctor said in ‘The End of Time’. I mean, the general stood by his side against Rassilon and was doing everything to try and help the Doctor, but he just kills him without any justifiable reason to achieve his goals? Why was the Doctor willing to put all of time and reality in danger, break all his own rules, which he had lived by for 2000 thousand years for the sake of one person? Because Clara's so SPECIAL!! So were Adric, Donna, Amy and Rory! Clara’s importance to the Doctor and the shows narrative has been overblown from the start. First she spread herself across his entire time stream in ‘The Name of the Doctor’ and somehow, without any explanation, turned every single one of his defeats into victories. Then she comforted the Doctor as a child and taught him his life’s philosophy and now she becomes the reason why he breaks all the rules he had ever lived by. The problem with all of this is that none of it ever had any sufficient build up and so, never felt earned. It felt forced and came across as Moffat forcing us to accept Clara as the Doctor’s ultimate companion.

It wasn’t 4.5 billion years know it was a time loop also what was the whole point ??? Clara surviving invalided the episode

Why are the Sisterhood of Karn allowed on Gallifrey??? Rasslion is an basically a GOD who would nuke Gallifrey out of existence if the Sisterhood even spat in the general direction of Gallifrey. Why did rasslion allow his mortal enemies on the planet.

After waiting for so long for the Doctor to return to Galifrey this episode was a shocking disappointment to me and still is. All the potential political drama cupped with the Doctors newly found vengeful wrath could have really been something special, but it was pushed aside to bring back to life a companion that died episodes earlier (who is incidentally my least liked companion) and undermine the prior episode. To me this episode is the most disappointing episode of Doctor Who ever. And that includes the classics. And I’ve seen them all

So there's a lot positive feelings for this finale in the comments. Sadly this episode still falls flat for me. I get what it was trying to do but it still feels like Steven Moffat was just jerking us around with the whole "Hybrid" storyline. Overall I've found season 9 the weakest season of modern-Who, I know people complain about seasons 11 and 12 but there's still plenty of good there mixed in with the not-so-good and the just bad. In season 9 the Ashieldr two-parter and Heaven Sent are the only high-points, the Dalek two-part and Face the Raven are average and everything else ranges from boring to frustrating.

This episode made me want to quit being a Doctor Who fan

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The orange Witch! With two (or is it three?) perfectly good exits for Clara undone for zero story reason (just Coleman constantly changing her mind about leaving) we now get her effectively immortal and running around in her own TARDIS, with her companion Me. She's become the Doctor, negating all of the foreshadowing that was built up over the past two seasons. No real closure and no pathos. For me it's the weakest companion exit of New Who by far. Did Moffat bottle it? I don't understand what he was trying to achieve. Perhaps extract her like that but give us a heartfelt goodbye as she chooses to face the raven again, rejecting the Doctor's childish attempts to save her. Perhaps a bit redundant as after the episode before last but better than a hollow happier ever after ending. I was not impressed, sadly.