The Face Of The Beast | The Satan Pit | Doctor Who 

"That's impossible. no life could have existed back then" "Is that your religion?" Love it when we're reminded there's things in the universe even the mighty Time Lords don't know, from Weeping Angels to the thing on Midnight

"Which devil are you then?" "ALL OF THEM." In my personal opinion, one of the scariest lines in Doctor Who. This has to be one of my favourite stories of the RTD era.

"Is that your religion?" That has got to be the only time I've seen the Doctor hesitate

Jesus Christ. Ten years later and this still freaks me out. The dialogue is just perfect.

"The Killer of his own kind". I love the Doctor's face when he hears that.

"and the virgin" you may be the devil but that was uncalled for haha

Highlights: - The exasperation in the Beast's voice as he repeats "Before time." Like, you can sense that, to him, it's simple and obvious and the fact that the Doctor isn't getting it aggravates him. - "Is that YOUR religion?" - "You will die... and I will LIVE." Just... you get the sense almost that the mere fact that they're alive is anathema to the Beast. - The way the cable snaps just as the Doctor is hitting the climax of his feel-good rally speech. You can feel the malice of the Beast in that moment, trying to cut off the group from this dangerous source of hope.

1:35-1:41 I love how the Doctor's face goes from confidence to caution, just like that. It's like he's truly realizing the potential magnitude of what he's dealing with, how small he is compared to his enemy.

The Beast has to be my favorite "one-off" Doctor Who villain of all time just the way he gets into everyone's head and seems to instantly know your darkest secrets and use them against you and the way he seems to know more about the universe than The Doctor himself makes him an all the more terrifying villain.

I sometimes feel like people don't appreciate how special these two episodes are to the Doctor Who universe. I found it very intriguing because the Doctor had come upon something that was not even in his realm of understanding. And even in the end, to this day we're not fully sure what that "Satan" creature was. I understand that even though the Doctor doesn't know everything and has demonstrated this on multiple occasions I still find it very interesting that this creature stumped him when he said "Is that your religion?" because up until that point, the Doctor was the most knowledgeable person in these episodes, and with those four words his knowledge was put into question by even himself.

I love how the Beast uses a slightly different voice for each character it's like it knows them each intimately enough to use the exact tone of voice to frighten them all the more

"When was this?" "Before time" "Now what does that mean?" "Before time" "WHAT DOES BEFORE TIME MEAN?" "Before time, and light, and space, and matter. Before the cataclysm. Before this universe was created" "That's impossible. no life could have existed back then" "Is that YOUR religion?" In my personal opinion, that is the most menacing moment of Doctor Who I've ever seen.

The thing about The Doctor is he always talks to his foes and figures out what they're doing and how to stop it and they always just try and kill him or hold him prisoner. The Beast was the first villain I can remember that spoke down to The Doctor, to make him feel as if he wasn't this great ancient time lord but a small insect.

"Before time, and light, and space, and matter, before the cataclysm, before this universe was created" this was one of my favourite storylines in Doctor Who to this day, I love how they managed to create an antagonist that even the Doctor couldn't comprehend fully and fell outside his understand of space and time itself.

I love the Beast's voice. Genuinely scary.

To think that this episode was written by a bloke called Matt Jones who no-one has ever heard of since. This story is in my opinion almost perfect

"The killer of his own kind." That was the very moment I fell hopelessly in love with the series. It made me so unbelievable curious.

"You little things that live in the light, clinging to your feeble suns, which die in the end. Only the darkness remains." I know what people mean when they compare this to Lovecraft's stuff - scary on a philosophical level!

"This one knows me... as I know him. The killer of his own kind..." Still sends me chills.

The Doctor's face when he says, "Is that *your* religion?" The feeling of being suddenly reduced.

watching tenant's face slowly evolve into realization is so entertaining and shows just how sinister this villain really is. hands down one of the best villain speeches from who ever

"This one knows me, as I know him. The killer of his own kind." was actually a single sentence. He wasn't calling the Doctor the killer of his own kind, he was calling both of them that. They both know each other by the same name, as they both killed their own kind. DAMN.

This is such an underrated scene just the way the beast speaks through them in sync taunting them is quite chilling

When the Beast says "Clinging to your suns" it really puts into perspective just how old the Beast is. It creates a gravitas makes you realize that any life in this universe originates from a solar system, and the Beast predates all of that; he came before the concept suns, or a system, reason, logic, or time itself, the Beast came before the the very concept of conception. So the Doctor is besides himself, he's encountered a being that defies all comprehension and for the first time he doesn't quite know what to make of it.

The Beast. The only being in the universe that can tell the Doctor, "You know nothing."

10th Doctor: "Which devil are you?" The Beast: "All of them." Scary stuff.

This episode was by far my favorite in the whole of the series. It had a very DOOM feel about it. I was half expecting The Doctor to grab a BFG9000 and start blasting the Ood with green exploding plasma.

Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing...there were monsters

Not gonna lie, THIS devil needs to come back to WHO. Out of all the enemies the doctor has, this one was able to do something that most others can't. Outsmart the Doctor.

Oh the reveal in last episode and watching back this, Sutekh and the Beast here are the same I have no doubts... or RTD just re-cycled the dialogues lol

Honestly, one of the scariest villains in all of Doctor Who.

I love how Dr. Who sets up possibly amazing storylines with just random throwaway lines. The Disciples of Light, the Gates of Elysium, the Jaws of the Nightmare Child, the army of meanwhiles and neverweres lead by the could've been king

One of the best ever doctor who stories.

The Beast, who is billions of years old really said to that guy "no bitches?"

Doctor:”Our one advantage the beast is alone” The beast: *laughs in army of possessed ood*

“Before time…” I love how he doesn’t sound mad here, more like patiently annoyed.

“Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing, and before there was nothing... there were monsters.”

*Is that your religion?* "Head moving a little bit on the side" That line, so much power in this with the little movement. You can just feel that "Devil" know so much more.

Anyone here after the Legend of Ruby Sunday!?

This two parter is, in my personal opinion, the most well written episode of all the seasons since 2005 (I can't speak for pre renewal due to the fact that I haven't seen them). I wish that the Beast was brought back at some point (although seeing how the series has gone recently I should probably hope that such a fantastic villain is not tainted). The Beast is brilliant written, being more threatening than the Master and the Daleks combined. His speech, combined with the reactions of the all the characters, shows his incredible power and enigmatic persona. A creature that the Doctor feels genuinely ignorant of and is completely terrified of just because of what it says is something to praise.

I find it surprising that no one has commented on the absolutely beautiful background music playing throughout this clip. It adds brilliantly to the ominous nature of the Beast.

I think speaking through the Ood makes the Beast's voice so creepy - it sounds childlike and pure evil all at once...

Clinging to your feeble suns, that die, in the end. I love that quote really tells you how powerful this creature is

Are we going to ignore the fact that The Beast's voice was also Sutekh's voice in Pyramids of Mars?

You know what makes this better? The Beast is voiced by Gabriel Woolf. The Beast is voiced by *_Sutekh the Destroyer._*

I utterly LOVE this scene. I just love to see the Doctor start out all confident and irreverent, mocking the beast and sure that he knows everything about it, because he is a Time Master, the most knowledgeable being in this universe... and then realize that the Beast is something utterly alien even to him. Something he cannot rationally comprehend. Something that shakes the foundation of all of his knowledge.

I love the "is that your religion" line. The doctor supposedly "knows" or can figure out anything and everything, the thought that maybe someone or something thinks of the doctor the same way he thinks of the average human, or the same way someone thinks of a child. To be one of the smartest people in the room knowing there may be a new "truth" you cant comprehend is terrifying

"The disciples of the light" most amazingly awesome name ever... °_°

When the Beast says “before time and light and space and matter” he sounds so exasperated lol. Understandably too. He probably views the Doctor in the same way that many people view flat-earthers. Also, who else thinks that the Cataclysm is a far better name for the Big Bang?

Suetkh has been busy

2:06 Wow, I didn't expect the Beast to say that.

3:13 I love it when the Doctor doesn't talk down to humans for their "petty squabbling" and their flaws or whatever- rather when he compliments them for their ingenuity and passion.

I was always sorry that we never got to see the Beast with his mind in his body. I'd have loved to see the Doctor talk with the Beast in it's own body.

Will Wheatley Yes but the entire point of this episode is to show that sometimes moving past something with a "I honestly don't know either way" is the best thing to do, and to not go "SCIENCE FTW" or "LOL RELIGION ANSWERS ALL". But to rationally go "Yeah, we just don't know. Was there a rational explanation or not? I can't say, either way". Because just blindly being on either side of the fence without any breathing room for a shrug here and there will just cloud your mind. The Doctor ends up just shrugging and not trying to answer either way if what he witnessed really WAS Satan. He doesn't try and go "NO IT CAN'T BE. SATAN DOESN'T EXIST", while at the same time they don't straight out say "YEAH IT WAS SATAN". I like that. It's a good message in all honesty, to not just blindly think one way or another and sometimes accept that you just don't know and might never know.

"Is that your religion?" Damn the devil is sharp xD

Love the organ music that accompanies the Beast.

1:42 "You know nothing, Jon Smith"

There isn't a single part of this clip I don't love. Definitely the best two-parter in New!Who.

The most unrealistic thing here is that nobody comments on the "Killer of his own kind" thing at 0.57

They need to bring back The Beast and have him face off against Capaldi.

Love how he picks rose over any and everything

"...church of the tin vagabond." What

2022 and this episode is still a masterpiece in television 🐐

Makes me think that before the universe, at least in the Doctor Who canon, what we now know to be the universe could have been several entangled singularities, all existing independently, and then the cataclysm came, and the merged to make one universe. The Beast may have come from a place of thought, joining with a place of matter to give it form, but then those singularities collided with a place of light, who then gave those that lived in darkness the ability to see, and they fought against the Beast, for whilst it once had predominant thought and form, light was where it lacked, and it was defeated. This is how life could have existed before the universe, multiple singularities coexisting until an event, the Big Bang, brought them into alignment and they became one.

It’s funny, I’ve starting reading some H.P. Lovecraft who often wrote about forbidden knowledge, the unknown and men of science discovering there were far greater things at work in the universe than they thought. Doctor Who moments like this sprung to mind because it gives off some Lovecraftian vibes for me, it’s amazing to see how far his influence has stretched! Episodes like Midnight also seem to fit the bill.

"Before time and light and space and matter. Before the cataclysm. Before this universe was created." "That's impossible. No life could have existed back then." "Is that your religion?" One of my favourite interactions between a Doctor and an antagonist.

This two-parter was written perfectly!

One of my favorite speeches from Doctor Who, it is so frightening and intimidating. I place this second only to the speech made about the fury of the timelord.

so the doctor killed satan......god i love this bloody show

" the girl who will die in battle very soon " then there's rose questioning with no answer about what it means man... I felt like hugging her D:

I don't think I've seen anyone else comment this, but the quiet organ playing in the background really adds to the drama of this scene. It's so synonymous with religious themes, and it really adds character to the Beast. I think it really adds to the overall theme of the true Lovecraftian theme and threat the Beast truly represents

Pls, i would love to see this episode get a continuation in the series...The Doctor Vs Satan Part 2 for the win

I love how the beast sounds like a slightly annoyed adult trying to talk to children

"But that's how the devil works!" "OR a good pyschcologist"

1:48 insane how similar this is to the scene at the end of Legend of Ruby Sunday. Even the music is the same

Back when the story and plot where amazing in doctor who 😁

It’s scary to think that after all he’s been through. Time and everywhere and knowledge of various cultures... there’s some stuff that’s still a mystery to the doctor

He's BAAACCCKKK

I just had an epiphany. 1:24 "Before time and light and space and matter. Before the cataclysm." There was one other episode where a major "Cataclysm" was mentioned. Season 4, episode 13: Journey's End, spoken by the Supreme Dalek Commander. "The fleet will gather at The Crucible! All Daleks will return to shelter from the Cataclysm!" The Cataclysm that The Beast spoke of was the parallel reality where the Daleks successfully detonated The Reality Bomb, turning all realities to dust. Which raises even more questions. Just what was The Beast and who were The Disciples of The Light?

I think these two episodes were waaay ahead of their time. This scene in particular encapsulates the dark and strange world of fake news and alternative facts we’re in.

The feeling of dread I have while watching this episode is hard to describe. Being so far from home, no Tardis while in the jaws of a black hole all the while people are being picked off one by one by possessed ood. It's just so damn creepy

Does anyone notice how the doctor can't quite dismiss the fact that the Beast knows each and every single one of them by heart, despite the fact that you keep saying that he's a really good psychologist? This is probably a good example of the doctor lying to people to keep them tough and brave.

I wouldn’t mind if they revisited The Beast as a villain. Keep as mysterious, powerful and dangerous. When The Doctor realises it’s The Beast, you see actual honest fear on his face. Last time he beat the beast using the trap the disciples made, this time he has no trap.

“You will identify yourself!” “You know my name.” Scary.

Surprised the doctor didn't try to find out what life existed before time itself.

There are so many great lines in this small scene. Complete shift in the normal power dynamics of the Doctor being the smartest in the room. He starts in almost condescending questioning with the "What beast are you?" and flaunting his knowledge of religions and cultures, but gradually he loses that. You can tell from the moment The Beast calls the Doctor "Killer of his own kind" that the Doctor realises he is speaking to an equal who knows of the timelords and even his involvement in their destruction. He switches to "how did you end up on this rock", acknowledging that a being of that capacity wouldn't be on somewhere as insignificant (in their scales) as some "rock" by choice. Then slowly the Doctor asks for more information, curiously, about the timing of The Beast's imprisonment and (as people have pointed out) is actually stumped by the questioning of the Doctor's "religion". The Doctor is not the smartest in the room anymore, he no longer deals in certainty but instead in beliefs like everyone else. Absolutely a masterful episode that puts the Doctor as a piece in someone else's game.

You know I’m late to this, but this is by far the most interesting and Intimidating enemy the doctor has ever faced. The way he talks and the way he makes the doctor reconsider his own beliefs. I really wish they would bring either this character or somthing akin to it in future episodes. They probably won’t, but we can wish

i honestly feel that the beast was the doctor's most intimidating dangerous and powerful foe oh how i wish he would come back. I like how the episode shows that the idea of the devil are all the same such a great episode.

I'd like to see this guy manipulate other Doctor Who villains, like the Daleks, the Cybermen, or even the Great Intelligence.

0:56 this scene fr gave me goosebumps when I rewatched it

Remember hearing 2:14 in the trailer for ‘Doomsday’ episode on TV. Was really chilling knowing the beast was predicting the future

Impossible Planet/Satan Pit are easily the best episodes of series 2

This is better than so many horror films. Honestly so tightly written and so stressful. Very tense and slow build that works so well. This is the best Doctor Who episode IMO

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the amazing voice of The Beast, provided by Gabriel Woolf, who first appeard as Sutekh, in the 1975 Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars.

In oldest texts, The Darkness has no form. But can take every one of them. In the shape of whatever fear you have, and make them real.

Gabriel wolf voiced sutekh in the pyramids of mars and his voice acting was so brilliant that they brought him back many decades later to voice the beast.

This was a fantastic couple of episodes. I loved it

2:05 bro thought he could sneak "the virgin" in there

1:05 I like the small moment of the Doc mentally going "OK, I guess the Badgering is over. Time to be a bit more serious here."

I haven't seen many people mention it, but it really stuck with me when the captain demands that the voice identify itself, and it responds with a simple "You know my name." And he doesn't press the point or demand that it specify, he just moves on to the next question, and I think that's a sign that when he heard that he presumed that it was right and he *does* know its name, but he doesn't want verification because he's scared that he would be right and it would confirm that it is *exactly* who he's thinking of.