DOCTOR WHO: HELL BENT SCENE: 'How Long?' 

It was only a couple weeks for each iteration.

That's like what 100years to him tho as an imortal

@@randomlyable2015 He wasn't conscious for all of it - or rather, he only experienced a couple weeks of it, as he essentially died and created a new version of himself using a teleporter every couple of weeks.

@@syweb2 He remembers all of them after though

@@syweb2Time Lords are telepathic, he has the memories of his other selves, he says in Heaven Sent he remembers every time.

__davidmb Yup.

One more thing about his reply: there's a note of, he can't comprehend why anyone would even think letting her stay dead was an option. That's how much she means to him: he cannot even imagine a universe without her.

How far he's come from "She's my carer - she cares so I don't have to."

I was a massive 11 and Amy fan... But these two are just breathtaking together.

This is too true 👍

As amazing as that part is, look at her expression when she hears "4 and half billion years." Her face hardly changes at all, but you can see in her eyes she didn't hear anything said after that - she was so stunned. So subtle, and then how she turns away and hesitates half-way before turning to face the Doctor.

Yes one of the saddest line delivery and acting

Miamelya for reeeeeall thoo

Thank you, he can’t come out and say it

Clara: *Understandable, have a great day*

😂 😂 😂

@Kaagh178 the star difference in the universe let him know

@Kaagh178 He always knew at the end. Again and again. And since a TimeLord can extrapolate that is some build up tension. Great episode(s).

Absolutely beautifully said. Love your spot on commentary.

figsickle I

Another part I love about Capaldi in this scene is his ramblings under the breath to Clara.

Incredibly well stated.

This comment is actually incredible... it makes sense of why this scene is so absolutely magnetic and devastating. It’s honestly the best 3 minutes of Hell Bent aside from ‘tomorrow is promised to no one but I insist upon my past’ and also the diner scenes...

kasegi Yabu He Loved Her so much that is so moved

THAT'S WHAT HE SAID! All this damned time I thought he said "i didn't think you'd care"

The reason why I love Clara and the 12 so much... their bond together made them the ultimate creature... the Hybrid....

Rory didn't reset every month.

Do you think there is some romantic love between them?

ryanLikesRainyDays it wouldn’t say it’s romantic love, it’s more comrade love, like with a close friend or a pet.

"See that old couple? You're the puppy."

It didn't feel like billions to him, only 3 days. Every time the version of him that had just lost Clara was spawned by the teleporter.

xdruidmaster at least Rory experienced the whole 2000 years

kaizoisevil Nope, he felt the cumulative passage of time after each cycle, and when he escaped.

He determined the passage of time by looking at the stars. He himself said "but I don't feel like I have time traveled, because I would be able to feel it"

The reason he said that was because he can tell when he's traveled through the time vortex and cheated his way out of waiting like normal people for time to pass. It was his way of saying that there was no outside source of time travel, he'd been manually moved, second by second, through time as normal. There are moments where it becomes obvious that there were cycles, like when he saw copies of his clothes and left his own clothes in the exact same positions. Moffat also clarified after the episode aired that he remembers every cycle that happened to him inside the dial, his memories of each cycle being added into his brain as he escaped. He already knew he'd been in a cycle well before then, however. When he wrote the word 'bird' at the beginning of the maze, it was a message to himself, letting himself know that he was in a cycle.

You Let Me Down makes me feel like I'm being told off when I watch it. My family are Scottish, and the way he delivers that line gives me goosebumps.

Jason it’s great! People just got ratty because it wasn’t all about Gallifrey

​@@FacePimpd It also threw the Doctor's fantastic journey in Heaven Sent out of the window, and disrespected Clara's final words for the Doctor. "Heal yourself, You have to. You cannot let this turn you into a monster. So, i'm not asking you for a promise, i'm giving you an order. You will not insult my memory, i will die and no one else here or anywhere will suffer" The main antagonist of Heaven Sent was grief itself, it was the Doctor trying to overcome the guilt and depression that came from her death. The seemingly endless cycle of doing the same routine over and over, nothing changing and the person you love never coming back. It teaches everyone that you can break free from this cycle, and you will move on eventually. It's always possible. It seems like eternity, but you will find happiness again, you will find home. That's one of the many, many reasons as to why Heaven Sent is perfect. But the next episode throws this out of the window by allowing the Doctor to kill someone (Yes, Timelord Regenerations do count. A lot of Time Lords, including the Doctor, would rather die than regenerate. Heaven Sent goes into a lot of detail about how Time Lords die properly.) and just getting Clara back. I see people justifying the decision to make The Doctor forget Clara as that he would never be able to move on, but as i said, Heaven Sent was all about moving on from grief. Yes Hell Bent has some very, very good scenes like this one and Yes i loved Jenna Coleman's performance as Clara. Hell Bent is a very good episode by itself, probably in my top 20 Doctor Who episodes. Heaven Sent and Hell Bent cannot exist together. Either one would have been the perfect finale to follow after Face the Raven, but not both of them.

@@tTaseric bit arrogant of you to assume you know the themes of the episode better than the writer himself.

@@tTaseric I understand your points and disagree, but also heaven sent is a beautiful episode but alone would be an awful ending

@@sambernaldross8504 absolutely, i think heaven sent is the best episode of dw but it is best for me because it was great when its combined with hell bent

She was AMAZING, but just overdone. It became as if she was more important and powerful than The Doctor. He almost didn't need her and that's what people were frustrated by. She wasn't the companion, she was the lead

@@sibby84 I agree that it was frustrating that it turned into the Clara Show for a while, but in a way, I think that was part of the point of the Hybrid Prophecy. The writers have suggested they always considered the pairing of Clara and The Doctor as the Hybrid, and Clara was by far the most competent companion that The Doctor ever had. I feel like they really needed to cement her ability to stand up as an equal to The Doctor for them to bother with such a grandiose prophecy about the Hybrid, so looking back on it, it makes sense that she'd be around for so long and play such a huge role in the show. Even now, I feel like she's the single most important companion The Doctor has had.

Perfection - and Peter - the look of utter incredulity and lack of comprehension why she even needs to ask ...

marsajib and in the words of 11 " i hate waiting"

Do you think the Doctor loves Clara? More than friends? But he can't because he think's he's too old for her?

+RabidBadger i believe that as the eleventh doctor, he loved her but when he turned into the twelfth doctor he thought that Clara would still love him but she ended up liking danny pink. I was trying to imagine how the doctor would be feeling in that situation, i reckon he loved her the whole way and at that moment at 1:44 she realised how much he loved her

TBH, Twelve x Clara was far deeper than Eleven x Clara as evidenced in Eleven's regeneration scene. They weren't IN love, they simply loved eachother to an incomprehensible extent. Just watch how their outrage is channeled at the possibility of the other's death rather than any concern for themselves and it's easy to pick up just how much they treasure the other.

I think Twelve did love her like how 10 loved Rose. But he knew it could never work, and this point Clara realizes this. There is some romantic bond here.

Kevin Carroll That moment, the moment Clara know he cares he loves her too much And realized that she, herself cares, loves him too much also

I'd say it was a demi romantic asexual relationship. They were in love romantically but there was no sexual desire on either end.

I agree partly I think 11& Clara had love for each other but I just wish this was further explored. But I think when 12 came back the dynamic changed and it became more of a love for a friend rather than romantic I feel, something platonic & greatly caring.

@@donanthebarbarian5177 There's no evidence to suggest any of that. Demi isn't a sexuality, it's just being selective; and they barely talk about their love for one another so it's almost impossible to tell if they have any sort of sexual feelings for each other.

​​@@MANJYOMETHUNDER111 Demi IS a sexuality, do not invalid it because you don't understand or feel. How would you feel if someone said your sexuality didn't exist? You'd not be happy, would you? So don't fucking do it to other sexualities unless it's genuinely fucked up like when the pedos tried validating themselves. Not only is Demi a Sexuality, it has romantic counterpart just like every other sexuality. So yes, it very well could have been Demi or even a platonic crush on both sides(Yes, those exist look it up).

Clara was obsessed in seeing the universe 12th was obsessed of having a companion again

Even the lines before this, you can see something is off. Like when she asks “how long has it been since you’ve seen me” or something around those lines you can see the look in his eyes.

Your comment put me in a mind of this quote: "and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure." - Stephen King

I think this is kind of a cheat, Clara doesnt know that he only remembers a couple of days of it because he was reset every time in the teleport machine.

@@Kupor23 No, he said he remembers the previous loops when he reaches the diamond wall, which makes sense as the confession dial preserves the time lord's mind.

@@baishihua Correct. I don't get how so many people don't understand that.

I would argue they aren't IN love. I do think Clara used to be... but they're love goes beyond that at this point in the show. It's not something as simple as romance its true companionship. But i definitely agree that this was one of the most moving scenes in the entire series for me. And these two have had their fair share of beautiful scenes.

Some types of love can be stronger than in love.

They’re not IN love But they love each other.

It’s not a romantic love. It’s the love you have for someone that’s so important to you

Being "in love" is three-quarters hormones, and maybe only one-quarter genuine emotion. That's why relationships get old and fall apart, because that remaining one quarter isn't enough after the hormones die down. #12 and Clara ... that's genuine love, as in, the thing that matters the most to either of them is the other one's well-being.

Hadley Souther probably longer lol

Nicholas Brent I know I'm a year late, but I also adore the soundtrack, it's like the music in Heaven sent but slightly changed and I love it

Now just imagine how little of an impact that would've had without theose two and a hlaf seasons

@@confusedlemur12 Good point tbh

@@FrogSpatula42 see

He was the best, he got a lot of hate over the years that he definitely didn’t deserve. He gave us some of the best episodes of DW, the show just isn’t the same without him.

No…translation: I Love you. Subtle difference.

Matt Smith

Its the eyes. How DO you do that with your eyes? 😏

@@TheWPhilosopher She had four and a half billion years to practice.

@@rjmcallister1888 not what I meant. Plus she didn't in reality but good joke🤣. It was a call back to another 12th Who episode 😏

nah the tenth doctor not wanting to go beats this by a mile

Me too!!

But how do you establish your DW street cred? I kid of course.

huh? I'm clever, but I don't understand pudding brains. joke lol

I love fans like you. People willing to embrace the wonder that is Doctor Who in general. Now granted there are some stories that are better than others, some i could rewatch countless times and others i can skip over. But they are all amazing in their own right. I never understood peoples hatred for Clara, i thought she was a wonderful character. Although that could be because i also do like Moffat as a writer, and from what ive gathered, most of the people that dont like Clara, dont like Moffat.

Just disliking Clara doesn't make me a hater. Hell I liked her at first. But by this point almost every companion has become some sort of concept, something to carry the series instead of the Doctor himself. Danny Pink didn't help the situation nor did bringing Clara back in an episode that should have been about the Doctor finding Galifrey

sarah jane is dead irl

i know i miss this tardis team SO MUCH

EllyseVeronica we never did and I don’t think we will, but we know what the gists of what was said

Run you clever boy, and be a Doctor

like 2 different shows.

As someone who didn't like the episode there are a few good reasons. First, I think he went to far. I understand that they wanted for him to be vulnerable but he really went to far. I would have preferred if he just jumped in the Tardis instead of involving the time lords. Second, They killed a character off and then brought her back instantly. Thus cheapening a pretty good death. And the way they brought her back didn't really settle with me. Third, how they showed Galifrey too much. Its not one of my quiffs but they made it look like little house on the prairie. I was fond of how they handled Rasillon. Again this really wasn't my problem.

People Hate Hell Bent because, 1) It brings back Clara *again* after a brilliant exit in Face to raven 2) in this scene it says that the only reason the doctor was punching the Azbantium wall in the confession diel was to simply save Clara, not keep a great secret from the Universe 3) in The War games (1969) the Doctor said he left Galifrey because he was fed up of the time Lords rules of preserving the universe, not exploring it. But in Hell bent he said it was because of the Hybrid (which the doctor has never mentioned before) 4) the Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping angels are brought back only the serve as a little jumpscare instead of being threatening 5) Clara becomes overpowered as f**k and gets her own Tardis 6) the Hybrid mystery is never resolved 7) this episode goes on for 1 whole hour and doesn't change much. 8)clara becomes invincible at the end, making her even more overpowered 9)After The day of the Doctor, the hype for the return of Gallifrey was burning through everyone like a bomb, so it returning for 20 minutes for no reason was a massive let down 10)The Doctor managed to ban Rassilon (who was ounce feared as a god who could kill on sight) after 3 minutes of arguing 11)Ashilder suggests that the Doctor might be half Time lord half human, which is the main thing people hate about the Doctor who TV movie (1996).

Henry Peters Why are you fond of how they treated Rassilon? When he was first introduced he could manipulate the fabric of space and time with a thought but in Hell Bent he was reduced to a screamy man in the desert

@@The12thDimension. 1) Not a problem as this exit was better. 2) Not a problem as it's much truer to the character of The Doctor. 3) Not a problem as there's been loads of explanations for why he left. Doctor Who constantly changes it's canon to the point it doesn't even really have one. Doesn't matter either way. 4) So? We've had a million episodes with them already. This episode wasn't about them. Pretty irrelevant. 5) Clara doesn't become overpowered. Certainly no more than The Doctor is. She still returns to die eventually. 6) Yes it was. The hybrid was The Doctor and Clara. 7) Now this point is just odd. I don't see why length means a lot of things have to change. A lot changes anyway.The relationship between the characters is beautifully concluded. Nobody blows up or anything but that doesn't matter. Clara comes back from the dead (not much apparently) but the Doctor has to forget her almost for the rest of his time as 12. Plus he overthrows the president of Gallifrey. 8) See point 5. 9) It wasn't a let down. The Doctor and Gallifrey rarely see eye to eye. The idea that he'd be more concerned with his friend than Gallifrey is so wonderful and true to the character. Even still he overthrows the Lord President and then becomes Lord President himself. I don't know what people expected (neither did they). 10) This is just poor from you. He managed to overthrow him because he was a hero in the time war and the people respected him more. Everything he did is coming back. He says a couple of sentences so I'm not sure where you get 3 minutes of arguing from. 11) She does SUGGEST that but literally right after that she says she has a better theory so I don't see what your point is. It's also here where the Clara + Doctor is the Hybrid comes from (as well as Moffat confirming that) so judging by point 6 you must've not been paying attention much.

@@dutchman8887 I'm only going to reply to a few because I'll be here for hours if I reply to them all. I personally think this exit for Clara is not as good as Face the Ravens because that episode shows that death is inevitable. No matter how far or fast you run, death will strike and you can't do anything to stop it, which is very true to real life so it shows a connection to the real world. But in Hell bent, you can just get a time machine and live forever until you feel like dying. Yes the show can be as silly as it likes, which makes it so fun, but with the death of a loved one Face the raven for me. Just because the Daleks and Cybermen have appeared for no reason before doesn't mean its OK for Moffat to do it again. Clara for a companion gets too much power, her own Tardis, companion and she's immortal. Even the Doctor can die!!! The problem with Clara constantly leaving and returning is that her actual departure doesn't feel genuine or real, that's true here because she returns *AGAIN* in twice apon a time!!!! The Doctor banishing Rassilon should've been the whole episode, showing how an army and all the power doesn't make you a true leader. The episode could have Rassilon manipulating people by claiming it was the Doctors fault of the war ever starting. But slowly the Doctor takes control of the Citidel. Or maybe have Rassilon come back from banishment half way through the episode and the Doctor isattacked by Rassilon's new army. Its a series finale, it can be as big and bombastic as it wants. This episode spent a good amount of its run time dealing with the Doctor letting go of Clara, even though the previous two episodes (or 4.5 billion years) were the same thing

That's only half of the narrative, I think. Because every subsequent time he reached the Wall, he realized where he was, his already past, current and potential future situation, suddenly becoming burdened with the enormous psychological and emotional strain of an ever-increasing process that amounted to up to 4.5 billion years, never even "knowing" how long it would actually take to get through the Wall.

kaizoisevil I need to rewatch but I’m pretty sure he has a line where he’s says he remembers it all only after the first realization had been made.

He littlerly says " I remember it clara u dont understand i remeber it all" that the point of the dial when u come to the last room u get all the memories that u lived in it

@@maxthommesen9315 thanks for clarifying

Don’t you mean four and half billion pieces?

.................why