What is The Midnight Entity? (Doctor Who's Biggest Unsolved Mystery) 

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i think that what makes the midnight entity so terrifying is that we know NOTHING. even if we learn a single bit of information we lose its scare factor i hope it never comes back for its own sake

The idea that the entity makes people more aggressive really ruins the metaphor of the episode.

Wild Blue Yonder may a be a bit Midnight-y, although I also feel like the toymaker may be the thing the TARDIS is running away from, and the space station (or whatever it is) is built to contain him (a la Half Life Alyx).

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1:42 is this real??

Spoilers: It was The Great Intelligence. Drunk.

I trust rtd doesn’t really care lol

I saw a slight shadow move as the shutter closed, but it's incredibly quick and easy to miss, i only noticed because my eyes are trained to notice even the slightest details due to the fact a play so many video games

One of the greatest episodes. Spooky and terrifying without a hint of knowing what’s even happening or what the doctor is up against. All normal doctor who stuff weaponised against the doctor. Absolutely splendid episode

The fact that it was revealed the Midnight entity eats into the brain of the victim.... Skye was long dead by the time she was pushed out of the airlock. That's crushing. I've seen this episode so many times and I always assumed Skye was just possessed and could have been saved. 😢

I've known for years that the shadow is actually visible on screen, but I have literally never been able to see it.

It seems like there is something... actively stalking the Doctor and toying with him throughout the later series. I always felt like it was a slow burn to a big bad reveal.

legit when people say they show friends blink as a first episode I always question why when this episode exists. it's so much scarier to me and includes the doctor without a companion and see why he might need one like Donna with him.

We all fear the unknown, and that's why it should never be revealed what the Midnight entity is

Midnight is incredible. It is, without doubt, my favourite episode of Dr Who, classic series or new. I know that, back in the day, the show was getting super high viewing figures week by week - seven, eight, nine million - but even so I've always thought that Midnight was wasted as just another episode. It should have been that year's Christmas special so even more casual viewers could have seen what they were missing.

I genuinely think learning more about this beastie would take away my enjoyment of the episode. It uses the framing of perspective and negative space so well! I didn’t even realize the script was made out of restrictions, cool!

Duude I was so excited when I first saw this episode cos I was obsessed with Merlin at the time haha This is still one of my favourite episodes. I just love the concept of the Midnight Entity and the horror aspect it's so cool aguaughghgh

After Wild Blue Yonder my headcanon is that the Midnight Entity is a Not-thing that took a different approach to learning and copying people.

Schezro (my all time favourite doctor who story) has similar elements of psychology horror. An awesome Paul Mcgann audio story and an absolutely terrifying atmosphere. Literally lost years of my life after those audio jumpscares.

I like how all the information you use is just the things from the show itself. I feel like the affecting there mood is only really evident on the Doctor but I like it better if you take it as an analyse on how humans can quickly turn against each other under stress. The video essay by Harbo Wholmes made me really appreciate this episode that as a kid I kinda didn't fully understand its themes.

Rewatching Capaldis era, the episode Listen made me think the midnight entity could have easily been the that same creature

Fun to think about if this entity is connected to the Doctor or not. It could be a prototype of the Valeyard or the Dream Lord, or it could have nothing to do with the Doctor. Either way, it's beyond his comprehension, at least at that point in his timeline.

Literally SO READY FOR THIS HOLY SHIT

Just want to say I appreciate your continued use of the smiley capaldi image.

great timing lol, I just rewatched it last night. What a fantastic episode

The answer here is obvious. The Midnight Entity is the Doctor.

This was actually my first Doctor Who episode and my favorite!

What fucks me up about finally seeing that shadow...? Comparing it mentally to The Spot in the Spiderman animated movies that came out recently. It gives off that appearance.

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I think it's a tardis and I will explain. You see the interior of a tardis is invulnerable compared the outside which is not, so due to the suns rays it had to take the form of the midnight entity to ensure it's existence as the light does not touch it or interact with it. But when it sensed the doctor it came out as I believe there was no other attacks before then in order to capture him. Therefore it destroyed the front of the ship to take as it's new exterior form, attacked the most vulnerable member of the ship to bait the doctor in order to possess him and compelled the crew to thrown him out therefore completely it's goal. The midnight entity solely wanted the doctor to become a complete tardis as only a time lord can use a tardis.

Never knew there was an actual shadow you can see. That's so cool!

Doctor Who cosmic horror makes for my favourite episodes, they just get extra creative. Bad Wolf complaints make sense though, I feel this entity got more explanation in comparison, and Bad Wolf is more important.

And still 15 years later people think WBY was related to midnight entity soon ...the irony is that side by side RTD has lost his touch because midnight was incredible ....I genuinely get claustrophobic whenever I see it ...very effective whilst I'm not a huge RTD fan this one was such a highlight ....we will never get that quality again

It’s just wild to think with how they stopped the creature it’s still alive and out there, if it was on the planet to begin with then why would the sun affect it now right?

So is this thing an ghost or something kind of alien when i think of entity i think of ghost even though ive never watched dr.who but damn some of these monsters are creepy

FROM THE STATES i grew up on tom baker dr who love to see that pic and that master also im one that likes 5th doctor alot hate him or used to

Honestly, I had blocked out this episode for a long long time, and only remembered it in this video, and I have to say… one of the best episodes ever. I couldn’t grow up with the original doctor who so this series was my absolute favorite, and I kept watching all the way until Peter capaldi finished playing the doctor. I had watched some episodes of the more recent series but, I just didn’t feel the same sense of wonder in it that I did when I watched this episode. This episode is what I think it means to be the doctor, and what I mean by that is in the episode, as dwfan explained, the world is gorgeous and is fully diamond, but nothing can live on the surface because of the sun. The doctor comes here for a vacation, when everything goes awry. Not wanting to skip a beat he goes to talk with the drivers and we are “introduced” to the midnight entity. Now, there are plenty of theories as to what the entity actually is, but I have to say, that the one I believe is the most believable, is some version of a weeping angel. One of the drivers sees it but it isn’t noticeable at all because its physical body has stopped from being seen. It is also able to withstand the radiation from the sun because it is a weeping angel, an inter dimensional assassin that can survive almost any climate or situation. When the window blast door closes, the angel makes its way to the bus, wanting to learn more about the inhabitants of the bus. I believe that this version of a weeping angel is one that kills the host and other people by taking their mind, and what I can use as proof for this is the scene where the doctor finds out the drivers are dead. The angel took the mind of one of the drivers and had them open the blast door that blocks the sun, and has them break the window while either fighting the other driver, or the driver that was taken over had already knocked them out. After the two were taken care of, the angel makes its way to the door to the bus and knocks. And then the events of the episode take place. The reason why I say this episode is what it means to be the doctor is because there is mystery, both as to why they were the ones to be targeted (it could be because of the doctor, but we don’t know), and what that entity actually is, and this episode also has grief when the drivers died, not because they were dead, but because they couldn’t get back home. Another theory for this episode I have is kinda hinted in this episode, but I believe the entity, or the angel, has the ability to affect other’s minds, if they are close enough, which brings in the biggest twist of the episode. The doctor’s mind being “taken”. This episode has everything, both the show and the titular character of the doctor, puts up front and center. It is a mystery as to what the doctor may find, and it is also a mystery if anyone survives. But one thing we know, is that the doctor will figure something out. (I know this makes no sense. I tried very hard to make it as understandable as I could, but my brain isn’t the best at explaining things. I hope I got my point across at least)

What still fucks me up is how it survived on Midnight, how great are its defenses? Would you even be able to destroy it if you physically had it trapped outside of a host? How did it get there? How long was it there? So many questions about this one episode

How can something live on midnight, simple take 12’s speech about evolution at the beginning of listen but change hiding to living on death the planet

Anyone else see two moving shadows?

Holy! You caught the tiny movement! I thought there was no movement in the clips at all!

I was with you up until you state that you know the "intention" of something in the show and that everyone else's opinion is just wrong. I completely 100% disagree with your assessment of that scene and all I can think is that you're GenZ or close Millennial and cannot fathom that people can be that bad or they can't ramp up their emotions that quickly in a tense situation. They can. It's happened. The intention of that scene is exactly as it appeared. No pretense or preconceived intention is needed to understand exactly what that scene was trying to convey. Don't believe me? Go watch the DW Confidential on the episode and actually listed to RTD talk about the intention of that scene. Or do you know more about intention than the actual writer of the episode?

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Nice I just rewatched this episode

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This was one of my fav episodes cus its so unexplained

Sometimes the best horror is not knowing what the horror is.

HI! Great Video btw, i just wanna ask for the Song you used in the Beginning?

Its a demon

the best new dr who was the stuck in traffic one

ok when the driver said he thought he saw a shadow, I always thought he meant the shadow at the top right on the ledge at 5:53 I didnt know there was another one, holy shit!

I was watching this and got jumpscared by a Amazon add at 6:02 😔

It was Evil Dan no doubt

You explained the episode not the entity. Thumbs down

I hope actually that it's all set up for the 60th so that there can be an undefined amount of time between the first and the last special, so that we can get 14 and Donna Big Finish or something. I mean, whether 14 is distinct enough or not it's more Doctor Who content. Are we really against that?

Bloody love that episode

the shadow you circled is just the twinkle of the diamond, it shifts across the corner so you can see the same shadow more clearly when they first open the window, the same is happening on the corner of the right side of the screen in your slow mo version, which I think is a more obvious shadow, but is clearly the corner again... I always imagined the creature to look like little goblins like the nursery rhyme Dee Dee sings, it kind of fits too with the whole diamond planet, and other depictions of goblins being obsessed with money and wealth, the pokemon Sableye literally has diamonds for eyes, and were inspired by the "real" encounter with the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins

"wHaT mAkEs ThE mIdNiGhT eNtItY sO sCaRy Is ThAt wE nEvEr sEE iT"🤓

I'm imagining the creature looks something like SCP 096, but that's just my take.

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Could the Midnight Entity retroactively be something that 14 gave acces to the universe

Less of a theory and more of a possible connection, but this episode reminded me way too much to “The Wild Blue Yonder” to not draw any connections. Think about it, the entity has no known form, can in a way read human thoughts, mimics us, comes from a place no life can possibly exist, and is the one entity with no real explanation as to how it exists, not even what it is, but how, much like the Not Things. I’m not saying the two are the same being, but potentially have a similar origin. Food for thought you know.

Midnight is my favourite episode (and turn left is also a grat episode) finding out it was a low budget, filler episode makes it even better

I had always seen the entity as appearing just between the support beam(?) of the window and the ridge, not where you highlighted it. You can even see it there if you rewatch this video at around 5:53.

I hope we never get any more information, after what happened to the Weeping Angels.

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That rose video on the tv but, reminds me of the idiots lantern and the wire.

I instantly liked that video when I hear some fnaf OST in the background Keep the good work man that video was great

Always imagined it to look like a dalek without its shell

to me i've been calling it the mimic for years lol

I refer to this episode (the other passengers ) what people have turned into these days

After about 12years of seing this episode i have never EVER seen that

It is a tiger that could not get a meal

5:52 theres another shadow just to the right of of the window frame

What is the song in the first part of video

Why isn't it releasing on the actual anniversary? Edit: I get it. But still. I'd rather have it be on a Thursday and celebrate the 60th to the day.

1:40 Lmao I never noticed that.

Im sure its just the doctor

Midnight is in my top 5 doctor who episodes

I'm starting to think it was an LLM

i think it's a ghost

I don't know if I like the idea of the monster being responsible for the aggression through manipulation, I think that kinda hollows out the point of the episode as a cautionary tale about what people will do when they're scared.

This ep was kinda scary

Great video ❤❤❤ i love this episode

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i dont like this episode, feels like the plot relies on the characters being really really dumb way too much and that the threat is really weak 6:00 that is a rock

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the true horror of the unknowing

Ok 2 things doesnt make sense: 1) It survived outsdie before the bus showed up right? Then it came inside and posessed Sky. But disappeared, like it was killed, when the hostess threw Sky outside the bus. We know it can survive on the planet outside... sooo why did it go away? Was it killed? Did it just give up? I feel like if it was still alive it couldve easily had gotten back in the bus. 2) why did it need to throw the doctor over board once it stole his voice. It couldve kept quiet before anyone reakized what haopened and snuck back with the rest of the group.

so this is doctor whos biggest unsolved mystery eh? so was Room 11… and Season 6B… and The Valeyard… and The Watcher…