The mum kept saying "throw him out!", then when the stewardess sacrificed herself, the mum said "I told you it was her!". I hated that mum.

@kmcconnell-k6850

6 жыл бұрын

I wish it was her and her husband thrown out as the hostess, Jethro and the professor's assistant were the only likeable people out of the group (excluding the Doctor and Sky).

@Hi-uv7nn

5 жыл бұрын

Nic McConnell and that dee girl

@weirdTedE91

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Russel T Davis has something against mothers? Because they tend to be pretty unsympathetic characters o.O

@hkazu63

5 жыл бұрын

weirdTedE91 except Jackie. And Martha's mother was just underdeveloped. He never cared about Mrs Jones, but the rest were straight up dislikable.

@ultimatepro

5 жыл бұрын

Ryan , to be correct, she actually says "I told it was her" with the look of a person clearly trying to convince themselves of the lie while at the same time being very much conscious of how much of a shitty person she is. The Doctor looks back at her with clear disgust and disdain while her guilt dawns on her. If you are wishing to see others dead instead of the hostess, you are missing one of the key moral lesson of the episode.

this episode is a very fascinating study of the stupidity of humans

@sunday1409

8 жыл бұрын

meet more people coz this is normality

@JoshSweetvale

7 жыл бұрын

ElzearYoung And their heroism.

@JGnLAU8OAWF6

7 жыл бұрын

You should watch The Mist movie.

@whatchcole1869

7 жыл бұрын

Антон Южаков I've watched that😂😂😂

@ohnobees8033

7 жыл бұрын

I think this is more about how fear can make people irrational.

I don't think the Doctor is afraid of the midnight entity at this point, he's scared of the people. He's fully conscious, completely paralyzed and just listening as they convince each other that they should throw him out of the cabin. I think it purposefully waited for him to get up close to Sky like that, it didn't want anyone else to see the terror in his eyes once she stole his voice. This episode sends all kinds of chills.

@solitarywanderersw7394

8 жыл бұрын

I am still hoping for this being thing to return to Doctor Who one day, was a very creepy episode and I want to know what happens after it takes someones voice. Would it end up turning completely into you or something?

@loveyallyangu

8 жыл бұрын

I understand wanting to see it again .. I'd have to respectfully disagree though. The mystery and open ended feeling of this episode is partly what keeps it scary. You don't know -- that's the creepy part about it.

@bmsvg7356

6 жыл бұрын

Yanguchitzure I know as a time lord he is smart enough to remain conscious and know what is happening so he can hear everything that is said so he must be terrified to know that 900 years of time travel is gonna get cut short because of us dumb humans

@petraleopold2713

3 жыл бұрын

I think Doctor is fully scared equally the Monster and the people too, bcuz he is helpless, he can't do anything about it and he was completely terrified.

@cainabel6356

3 жыл бұрын

@@petraleopold2713 - Somewhat. The Doctor, curious and helpful to all, ends up being paralyzed by the creature he tries to help and understand, while almost being killed by the humans he has defended and help for centuries. That situation would terrify anyone. He still is not terrified of humans in the end, seeing how he still has Donna by his side. He does stop her from repeating him. I am betting he is more terrified of that creature, since he still does not know what it was, but understands what it is capable of.

This is the first time that I and probably so many others have seen the Doctor so terrified and powerless

That was, by far, one of the greatest episodes in Doctor Who's history.

@nonurbeeswax6123

5 жыл бұрын

Michael McGrath charming....

@johnarriaga8131

3 жыл бұрын

The darkest one

@Unworshipediety

3 жыл бұрын

I agree!

@cainabel6356

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and anyone that says differently, by calling someone a dumbass, is not worth listening to.

@purplelemon9710

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely.

The midnight entity was so clever. It waited until the rest of the passengers turned on someone and then targeted them. And it started to only copy the doctor when he shouted "You need me!" brilliant

One thing I find so cruel about this, besides the stupidity of the humans, is that the Doctor seems to be fully aware of what's going on around him. Look at his face at 2:27, he's terrified - he can't move, he has no control over his own body, but his mind still works. Trapped in his own body, for me that's one of the most brutal of tortures.

@riverelsie997

10 жыл бұрын

that was exactly what me and my friend kept talking abt after watching Midnight.. it's just so painful n frustrating to see the Doctor so terrified yet helpless

@jaxwaters7585

9 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but when he repeats "Molto Bene" his eyes flash up in a panic. You almost feel like he's trying to regain himself and he's begging for somebody to just save him.

@ayayla7846

9 жыл бұрын

TheSneezingAnouki yeah, that was what scared me in that episode. It was so obvious that he wasn't possessed. Half the time, I wanted to shake some sense into those stupid humans; awesome acting on Tennant's part though. The terror and helplessness the doctor must have felt- it was clear as day on his face

@KingOfTheInterWebs

9 жыл бұрын

Ay Ayla This is what gets me about this episode. You say the people were stupid for not noticing that The Doctor wasn't possessed and that he was totally helpless and to any normal person, they are but after being trapped in there and frightened, doing anything for their survival and creating a mob mentality they created this idea that repeating = bad and that since he had been defending Sky, clearly he was a danger. They didn't care about the fact that Sky was the one saying all the things he was repeating or that they were about to commit murder, as far as they were concerned by that point, they saw anything that repeated as bad and wanted to survive at all costs. The scary thing is, as I said, we see them as stupid but in situations like that, we'd probably react like that because we become so frightened for our survival and hysteric that we make decisions without thinking and it made humans the monsters as much as the Midnight Entity. Plus the Midnight Entity started out looking like Sky was catatonic from fear and it's easy to imagine in a situation, the idea of human beings no different from anyone in the end, being scared by someone with catatonia to the point of murder. I mean even before Sky started doing the synchronising, they were scared and The Doctor jumped straight to learn about a new species mode. Professor Hobbes was the only one with reason enough to simply assume it was a catatonic state. (He was wrong but in a real situation, he'd most likely be right yet there'd still probably be a mob of people frightened for their life over someone copying them)

@ayayla7846

9 жыл бұрын

KingOfTheInterWebs Exactly. And you're absolutely right. They acted like most (the Professor's assisstant didn't and the stewardess realized it too, in the end) people would. Very few would have been able to work out what was happening.

look at his expression... in all his lifetimes and all his wisdom; he had no idea wha this particular entity was and he was horrified. One of the scariest creations on the show.

@anthonyduran6387

7 жыл бұрын

Brian W. Hastings He wasn't scared of thr entity, he was scared of thr people

@rochey1010

6 жыл бұрын

Damn right, humans were at their ugliest here. When the chips are down our true nature comes out. Are we the hero or the villain ?

@petraleopold2713

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyduran6387 he was scared of both, and of situation he's in, he was totally helpless

@cainabel6356

3 жыл бұрын

@@petraleopold2713 - Disagree. He was scared of the entity and the prospect of the humans trying throw him out. He still does deal with humans, seeing how he deals with Donna still. He is very scared of that entity. Remember at the end, he tells Donna to not repeat him for a reason. It is because of that unknown monster was able to defeat him easily. The Doctor was truly scared of that creature only.

The human survival instinct is a hell of a thing. it completely overrides everything. Reason and Compassion included. It kinda reminds me of something Quark from Deep Space 9 said. "You put those same nice,intelligent,compassionate humans you like so much in a life threatening situation for too long and they become as deadly as the most blood thirsty Klingon"

@robpegler6545

8 жыл бұрын

"See, their morals, their code... it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these, uh... these "civilized" people? They'll eat each other." ~ The Joker

@bearabraxasreed3623

4 жыл бұрын

Russell T. Davies said that Midnight was based on a the episode 'Darmok' from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He read a synopsis for the episode (Captain Picard gets trapped on a planet with an alien that speaks only in metaphor), but didn't watch it, letting the mystery and imagination of it inspire this story!

The Midnight Entity is by far the scariest Doctor Who villain. Even above the Weeping Angels. When you see that the Doctor, who knows every creature in existence, can defeat anyone who crosses his path, and has the most brilliant mind in the universe in a hopeless state like this, you know he's facing an impossible villain. The moment when you see the Doctor confused by an improbable creature who shouldn't exist, it scares you. As humans, we fear the unknown. It lets our minds do the imagining which leads us to think horrible things. Which is part of the reason for why I don't like Moffat showing the time war in the 50th anniversary episode. They made it seem like a living Hell in the past and once we got a glimpse, it just looked like another normal battle. But, back to the point. In this episode everyone played a different role. The Doctor was the curious wanderer who curiously toyed with the new life form in front of him while also leading the group for a time. The husband was the one who played the "tough guy" role, making aggressive decisions and always standing up for his Wife who allowed the Entity's chaos to spread. She would often make brash comments and was always backed up by her husband to start to cause an uproar against the Doctor. The professor was the stunned man who didn't really speak much during the climax. His whole life (as we can infer), he has devoted a big portion of his life to the planet Midnight and created a rule on life existing on the planet. When he sees that rule broken, he is in awe and greatly disturbed by the events. He is most taken aback from the scenario and he takes his frustrations out on his assistant. His assistant, Dede (doubt I spelled that correctly), is one of the few people spitting out logical statements during the chaos. However, because she has a less aggressive and motivating setup to her pitches, she is always overruled. It also doesn't help that the professor questions her intelligence as the group sees him as one of the more reliable sources, and him insulting Dede makes her seem unreliable. Jefro may be the most trustworthy character during the course of the action. Unlike everyone else who is blinded by their fear, Jefro is in a calm state and is able to see things clearly. He even jokes about the Enitity several times. He is more of a listener than a speaker and therefore has obtained more relevant thoughts on the situation but is disregarded because of his age. The hostess is kind of two faced. She goes from making brash plots on throwing the Doctor out to finally seeing things clearly and doing what needed to be done. Before the utter chaos really started to happen, she only fueled the other's fire by agreeing with them most of the time. The Doctor's inability to answer questions and perceived arrogance make him look like a liar and an unreliable source even having once been the ring leader. This led to the chaos really starting as they started to argue with the Doctor, leading to no progress and an eventually possessed Doctor. Without the Doctor, there was no leading voice or peace keeper so everyone had to argue among themselves and two groups were created. One being the group that wanted to throw the Doctor out led by the husband (other members are the professor, the wife, and the Enitity (Sky) I suppose). The other being the group that didn't believe the Doctor was the real entity (Dede and the hostess). Jefro wasn't really in a group at this point. With the husband's group greater in numbers, and the Enitity able to spread more confusion and insanity through Sky, the Doctor was almost thrown out if it weren't for the hostess making the necessary and brave move. In the end, the Wife shows to be the worst of all as she lies about saying she knew the Doctor wasn't the actual Entity. By first spreading tension, extreme paranoia followed and blinded almost everyone closing their judgment. This led to the Doctor having no control. Without a reliable source in control, the group began to fall to the Entity. In the end, when you trap the Doctor in a place where he is confused and seen as just another human, or not an authority figure along with having immense tension around him, the Doctor is worthless. When the Doctor doesn't have control, things don't go well. Having a companion alongside helps create credibility and extra numbers to his campaign. Without Donna, he had no one to back him up. Overall a historic episode that had us on the edge of our seats the whole time with the great writing, tension, and superb acting.

@jacobmenzies8164

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, the first group is led by the Wife, not the Husband.

@burtyjr

8 жыл бұрын

+GADGET 12347 yup

@seangrand3885

8 жыл бұрын

I can't even read it fully. It's not opening further.

@jacobmenzies8164

8 жыл бұрын

Also worth noting: The characters potray the seven different reactions that one can have during a traumatic/scary event: -Fear (Wife) -Anger (Husband) -Intrigue (Doctor) -Shock (Professor) -Enjoyment (Jethro) -Confusion (Hostess) -Problem solving/reason (Dee Dee)

@cptosharp1302

7 жыл бұрын

Lol I read to like line 5 and gave up

The acting by David here is perfect! Oh my god! He starts crying at the end.... Look into his eyes! You can see the pain! You can see the sorrow this is amazing! He is shaking so subtly is fantastic! His lips are quivering too! Arrrggg! Too good!

@Chubs.

8 жыл бұрын

such a shame that doctor who isn't like this anymore

@RomanRodri23

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin "Shakes fist" Moffat!!!

@materialmanners

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin have you seen series 9 episode 11? great acting

@RomanRodri23

8 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Saavedra Capaldi was fantastic, true

@carolineturing4240

8 жыл бұрын

+Sonicbolt Or he just needed to blink.

One of my favorite episodes, so dark

@killeraddictioncraft3373

9 жыл бұрын

That is season 4 in a nutshell.

it's a shame the show isn't like this anymore

@raneynoirhart2663

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin Soooooo I'm gonna guess you haven't seen "Heaven Sent" then

@materialmanners

8 жыл бұрын

+Raney Noirhart exactly

@Chubs.

8 жыл бұрын

Raney Noirhart I havn't but now that you mentioned I might watch it

@raneynoirhart2663

8 жыл бұрын

The only speaking character is the Doctor and it's fantastic.

@maryhoffman9674

8 жыл бұрын

+Hennessys' Page Capaldi is an awesome Doctor. It's Moffat's scripts that are terrible.

This was such a good episode. The darkness of humans revealed.

@andrecherry2347

9 жыл бұрын

amen.

@Shadowkey392

9 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I loved that about the episode!

@jerobriggs6861

9 жыл бұрын

More like the stupidity of humans revealed.

@JoshSweetvale

9 жыл бұрын

Jero Briggs Stupidity is our darkness, obviously. We do far more terrible things out of panicked not-knowing-any-better-but-still-pressing-on than any real malice. Human herd instinct wasn't built for the comforts of the modern day. One of our few foibles as a species, and certainly a saddening one. "As compared to what" Fiction, and animals. Which is all we've got. And nobody can deny the truth in the above, if they've ever been in an agitated crowd.

@badwolf66

9 жыл бұрын

Antony D'Andrea They were sheeple not people :P

Some people say that the show should bring a return of this possessing monster, but beg to differ- in Blink the Weeping Angels were extremely scary because we knew very little about them, but the more we got to know them the less scary they became. This episode was marvellous, let's keep it that way.

@psvita2335

9 жыл бұрын

I honestly don't see why people are scared of the episode blink

@DragonFlower167

9 жыл бұрын

PS VITA Because when most people saw it, they were under 12!

@nessi4933

9 жыл бұрын

PS VITA Time Of Angels and Flesh and Stone was creepier, apart from when we see the angels move

@tomimpala

7 жыл бұрын

They can work, the team just forgot that tension was the thing that made the angels scary, not the scary face. It's all climax with no build up nowadays.

@lorddiaceliumchauffeurdeta211

7 жыл бұрын

I think Blink and Angels in Manhattan were the only kinda scary episodes of the weeping angels, the two-part episode in season 5 really wasn't though.

The flight attendant gave her life without thought of herself..a hero does the right thing without question for the better of others :C

Merlin use your magic!

I hate how stupid the group of people were in this scene, but I guess it was necessary.

@hesseldv57

8 жыл бұрын

its just the fact that they dont understand it. they are scared about something they dont understand

@idunbeezasmart1

8 жыл бұрын

I can suspend a great deal of belief for the sake of plot, but this is just bad writing. Perhaps if this was in a movie, where it had a longer run time to develop the characters, it might have helped. As it is, I just cannot bring myself to buy into the hysteria these people are suppose to be suffering from. Any viewer who couldn't put two and two together should be ashamed of themselves. Given the close proximity of the characters, they too would've been privy to much of the same information the audience received. One character being duped, I could buy. All, but one character, I don't. Not when they were all present and in the situation as it unfolded.

@lorrainedove1152

8 жыл бұрын

+idunbeezasmart1 It was a necessary part of the plot to show the characters as being unrealistically scared angry and confused all at the same time it seems that throughout the plot it was trying to give of the feeling that the monster wasn't the villain in this episode but the people were if you think about it all sky was doing was learning how do we know that from the start the monster wanted to kill everyone my theory is all sky can do is learn so throughout the episode she was learning from scared confused and angry people so that's what she grew to be because all she can do is learn and the only reason she targeted the doctor near the end was because the people no longer trusted him and wanted to throw him out and that feeling went into her the only reason that she wanted them all dead by the end of the episode was because the people thought her intention was to kill them all eventually I apologise for the long comment to answer such a simple thing but the real villains of this episode are the people or at least that's what I think.

@JoshSweetvale

7 жыл бұрын

puddles pug Eh. Not!Sky was quite the sadist, though, taunting and provoking...

@lorrainedove1152

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Sweetvale Um what did you mean by err not!? Surely that's bad grammer it should be err no!

The way he has to gasp for air and tell himself over and over that it's gone still hits so well. While not usually at this level, there's quite a lot of times the Doctor faces the unknown, there's few times he's entirely helpless and scared, and fewer that he has to console himself about it.

Seriously did no one notice his terrified face. Also he was repeating her words like how could anyone miss that. He repeated her word for word and no one noticed the expression on her face. Stupidity like maybe if they paid attention and were being rational, yes I'm sure they were scared but still how could they not notice?

@darknessmohag6181

8 жыл бұрын

+Julie Cha the problem is thats how we humans are, when we're scared out of or minds.. thats the most terrifying thing of all in this episode, it shows the human race true face... it gives me chill down my spine just knowing it... that we humans are like that. :(

@cainabel6356

3 жыл бұрын

This is just how some human beings are. They are afraid of what they do not know or what is different from them. They do not rationalize things very well when they are in absolute fear. There might be a couple of people that will, like the hostess or DeeDee, but not all of them. The Hostess is the one that proved to be the most rational of all the humans there.

Only David can pull that off

@XX-lw4dt

4 жыл бұрын

I'd say Capaldi could as well but David obviously the best

Two things: One: This episode is a shining display of true human nature: there's a life-threatening problem, we try to destroy it no matter the cost (unless the cost is us, of course!), even killing another human being. Two: Tennant's acting here is incredible! The first time I saw this I was stunned with the terror, pain, pleading, realization, and how real it looked and felt! I had to rewind the episode after it finished and look SUPER DUPER hard for something that even whispered "it's just an act, just an act" but I didn't find one. I grabbed some actor friends, and we all looked so hard for two hours, and we gave up. Tennant is the best actor I've ever seen (not that I've seen many).

"Allons-y!" Doctor: "Allons-y?! (You stole my catch phrase?!)"

@bonniestar4707

5 жыл бұрын

Allons-y saved him

@CapralHarrison

2 жыл бұрын

Well, yeah midnight entity indeed stole his catchphrase, and, ironically, that saved the Doctor

The Doctor must be terrified. Knowing that the group was going to kill him while he could do absolutely nothing about it. Just imagine being completely immobile and unable to do anything yourself, while a group of people are trying to kill you, I am soo thankful for the Hostess, for finding out that it was Sky who was the Entity, and not the Doctor. Poor doctor!

Makes me want to get the Doctor & hold him tightly.

What’s horrible is how accurate the reactions of the passengers are based on how people would react.

Bloody hell this is an acting masterclass from David Tennant. In the subtlest shifts in expressions you can see The Doctor just trying to fight back, and showing utter despair when they turn against him and all he can do is repeat Skye. Such brilliant writing the likes of which have never graced the show since.

there is only three human that i like in this episode: Donna ( but she is not in the plane so....), Dee dee who try to defend the doctor and the hostess who in the end is the hero. about hero, this time the doctor is not the hero he is the victim, it's really strange and quiet frightening.

@krimson8317

6 жыл бұрын

What about Jeffro?

@christiangarizio7587

6 жыл бұрын

That's Jethro

this was the only time i thought the doctor wouldn't be victorious

@Jacobson5837

8 жыл бұрын

me too

@AndrewJamison79

8 жыл бұрын

so what if they had thrown him outside he would have just regenerated

@KempoYoutubeChannel

8 жыл бұрын

***** Probably not. He wouldve actually ceased to exist

@viseberg8527

7 жыл бұрын

+Andrew Jamison You're quite wrong.

@OfficialDuckox

7 жыл бұрын

Even if he did regenerate, vaporisation takes seconds. He'd go through his remaining bodies in less than a minute

The midnight entity and the Vashta nerada. Two of the scariest creatures in the doctor who universe

For the average Whovian, this was a great episode about the darker psyche of the human mind. For players in Among Us, it was a Tuesday.

This is a brilliant episode. Not only does it showcase that the best of us, the heroes among us, can be vulnerable, it also illustrates David Tennant's spectacular acting. We're so used to the Doctor swooping in and saving the planet, we're not used to him being vulnerable and falling victim to the Monster. Even the best of us can be vulnerable and at the end of the day, we all need to be saved.

This is one of my favorite episodes ever. EVER.

Omg OMG THIS IS SCARY. look into the doctors eyes... Full of terror.

@nickt3608

8 жыл бұрын

you can tell he is trying to fight it

This might be the best episode of Dr. Who ever, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that.

@crashfan9997

6 жыл бұрын

Same here. This is my favourite Doctor Who story, my second most favourite story is a 2-parter and it is The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit.

@crashfan9997

5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelM28 idc

@killgriffinnow

5 жыл бұрын

Nah this is better than GoD or Coty of death. Obviously those were good but they’re nowhere near as scary as this episode.

Somebody give this man a hug (and an oscar)

I freaking miss 10!! was truly the best, his acting is so on point, I even feel like crying because it's like he is actually suffering in the video... love you David

"It's gone. It's gone. Itsgoneitsgoneitsgoneitsgone..." My heart is breaking

2016 and I still miss david so much. :((

@bassinblue

7 жыл бұрын

David misses you too xD

@casswinchester2423

2 жыл бұрын

2022 still missing.

@themenace6861

10 ай бұрын

hey good news

I love it that the whole episode only takes place in that plane, such episodes/films are always the best in my opinion :D

@TheBunnybounce88

9 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I'm not the only one!!!

@jerobriggs6861

9 жыл бұрын

Most episodes like that in any series are usually my least favorite because they don't have good dialog to sustain it. But Doctor Who is different. The writers usual know how to make a thrilling episode with just that. This episode is a great example of that. So is The Edge of Destruction.

@Red_wine

9 жыл бұрын

letsHugElefanten It actually travels across land

@letsHugElefanten

9 жыл бұрын

T_bus yeah but they don't go outside they're only in the plane. It's the same as if somebody says "I stayed at home the whole day" and you say "no you didn't you travelled through the universe because the earth revolves around the sun"...

@Red_wine

9 жыл бұрын

letsHugElefanten No, the point is that when you go on a plane to another country, you aren't on wheels, it isn't a plane, it's a bus

This will always be the best episode, in my opinion. Something about human cruelty being revealed makes it very unique and meaingful. Very, very different. Well done.

This scene left such a huge mark of me. It made me think "I would never do such a thing," which makes me think that maybe in some crisis situation I might have to deal with someday, I will be the voice of reason and sanity. Gotta love Doctor Who.

"The Doctor was not the Imposter."

I loved how after the hostess sacrificed herself, the people on board still only care about whonwas right and who was wrong So true

I just love how you see the doctor (at 0:50 ) , even in this state, so genuinely relieved and kind of happy to see that, there are still humans who can see what's happening instead of what they want to see

First episode I ever watched... And man did it get me hooked. :')

In terms of very chilling scenes this is a very underrated episode. To see the Doctor's voice stole and the fear in his eyes is very scary. Fantastic Episode

@heliotropezzz333

6 жыл бұрын

* stolen

at 1:04 was that merlin?

@josephfrank3948

8 жыл бұрын

yes

@frchrisheffernan

8 жыл бұрын

He must have travelled in time from King Arthur's time - maybe using some of his magic.

@nottrustworthy6361

5 жыл бұрын

Couple thousand years later, still waiting for Arthur IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

You can see the Doctor's fear in his eyes, he is fully conscious while this is going on which is terrifying! It also shows how far people can go when they are scared or dealing with the unknown

The Doctor freaking out is basically me when I get my report cards.

I will say this was one of the most intense episodes.

Imagine listening to someone say "get him out" in different ways for almost 2 minutes, nonstop. WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME.

I felt so bad for the hostess she saved everyone at the cost of her own life even though no one like her

I'm not going to place any fault in this episode because it's a masterpiece but if I was Deedee or the hostess (especially Deedee, since she's a scientist), I'd make these two points: 1. The creature moving from Sky to the Doctor is of no benefit to the creature, so why would it do it? 2. If the creature has moved into the Doctor and is not possessing Sky anymore, why is it only copying her? The creature copies everyone. It is clear that the creature is still in Sky. I do have one problem with this episode though: What does the creature want? Does it want to eventually drain everyone? Or just the Doctor? If the latter, what was it going to do next? I understand that the mystery of the creature is part of what makes it so terrifying, but I find I have a nigh-insatiable desire for knowledge.

@KingOfTheSoulSociety

9 жыл бұрын

+Karkat Vantas This is my all-time favourite episode so I looked into a lot of theories, the best thing I can come up with is the following. I believe the monster is a disembodied consciousness, hence why it was able to get in in the first place. Until that point it had possessed the crystals like a kind of rock monster, and moved around psychically. This explains how it had the strength to rip the cabin off etc. and was able to live on the planet. It eventually sense Sky as the weakest person due to her much more intense fear than the others. It then transferred it's consciousness to her. A human body/mind was such a new concept that it didn't understand anything, so it started copying the others to try and learn. It learnt a lot, and it formed psychic links with them that allowed it to know what they were going to say. However this terrified the passengers even more, and it learnt this too (hence why Sky looks so scared for so long). If you pay close attention, the monster/sky doesn't start behaving maliciously until the passengers do first. Their fear was turning into aggression and anger/hatred and it couldn't help but learn that too. As it learnt more and more it became more self-aware, and taking on the passengers bloodlust, it set up the Doctor to take the fall so it could survive. All of this would fit with what I said at the start about it being a consciousness. Of course we'll never know, but I think this theory is the best explanation so far.

@karkatvantas9557

9 жыл бұрын

KingOfTheSoulSociety That's a really well thought out and interesting theory, thanks for sharing it with me.

@MrJakeasaur98

8 жыл бұрын

+Karkat Vantas I suppose the purpose of it was that it wanted to escape the surface. Can't imagine its that exciting for the thing.

@megan8476

3 жыл бұрын

@@KingOfTheSoulSociety great theory

It's sad that they can't find a real explanation for what's happening and they're so scared and stupid and gullible to believe any possible reason for any of it. That woman in beige and the flight attendant were the only people that were able to figure any of it out. Poor, poor Doctor.

@bonniestar4707

5 жыл бұрын

Jethro, Donna, Sky (before she was possessed) Dede and the Hostess were the only likeable people in this episode

@olivialim7541

3 жыл бұрын

the thing is, in a scary situation, even ordinary people can become like this if they are under enough pressure that their minds lose the ability for rational thought

The fact that Russell had no cofidence in this episode and ended up almost shelving it makes me wish he jus listen to his instinct and we could have gotten more episodes like it and not crap like love and monsters.

Brilliant. What I love most about Doctor Who are the ingenious and creative villains. This is such a great example of that. Just brilliant

Imagine Donna in this episode, she'd yell at the mum so hard, she'd yell shut up so hard but I think because she is so clever- she might be the one dying

I love how you can see how freaked out the doctor is by his eyes alone. That makes it 3 times scarier.

The Doctor was not the imposter.

That made me spine tingle. Blood hell, that was brilliant.

I hate this episode because I hate seeing the Doctor being treated as the enemy by the people he's trying to help! And I know this is only a programme but still. 😠

@OrangeKyle91

10 жыл бұрын

A lot of the Third Doctor's stories went that way too, only with less possession and more plain and simple human stupidity. :P

@willdagreat1826

10 жыл бұрын

SP Murphy You have to admit its an amazing episode though

@redcowcat8705

6 жыл бұрын

Stephen Murphy that's just shows how the humanity is. Everywhere not only there

@decgar07

6 жыл бұрын

In my opinion this is why Midnight is so great. Because it takes you right out of your comfort zone.

@Asw_2004

4 жыл бұрын

I think this episode is good because it shows us the absolute worst of humanity under pressure, and the doctors ability to wow the people he is around and knowing pretty much everything are turned on their heads. The doctor knows nothing and everyone hates him because they think he is the enemy

Fun fact: The actor who plays the proffesor is actually patrick troughton (2nd doctor) son

2:41 I never really noticed before, even in that state he's still fighting the little bit that he can

i remember we watched this in school and god it must have been a good one because literally no one talked all the way through it. this one is by far my favourite doctor who.

This episode honestly reminds me of the state of the world right now. The Doctor is the rest of the world. And i would think its fairly obvious who the people arguing are.

@oliverclamp2671

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Ramirez You're obviously spending too much time thinking about politics then.

@SuitedCloud

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Ramirez You're being extraordinarily vague... I could fill in your vagueness with ants fighting and it'd make sense.

The longer the delay the further gone the Doctor is.

Now that is what I call acting through the eyes!

A scary episode. Thank you for posting it.

I think another really interesting aspect to this is that because the entity is genuinely only mimicking and learns quickly, she picks up voices first but movement takes longer. When she lifts her hands and starts to make facial expressions, this is her mimicking what she’s seen in the room, but she asks the professor to help her get up and get away from him and doesn’t move her feet after that point. They’re in a small space, the passengers haven’t had enough room to move around and have spent a lot of the time she’s been observing them transfixed to the spot, staring at her. They’ve gestured a lot but they haven’t walked. At that point, she hasn’t picked up how to walk, only how to move her hands, arms and face. So sadly, the hostess probably didn’t even need to hold her in place when she dragged her to the door, “Sky” probably wouldn’t have been able to get away herself. It’s an absolute masterstroke of acting and writing, beautifully subtle on the part of so many! Also when the entity uses the Doctor’s voice, Leslie Sharp really is doing her best impression of how Tennant’s Doctor speech patterns sound, she’s got the slight shouts and the singsong element completely down as she’s encouraging them to throw him out, and the almost poetic monosyllabic beats of when he’s trying to explain something deadly or important to people, “in the dark, and the cold, and the diamonds” etc. Sounds just like his speeches. It’s genuinely incredible.

This part is the scariest thing I've ever seen. Nice work!

this episode ceased my breathing

That mother, goddamn. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's an exact copy of my mother's personality. An exact, copy. Seeing someone else subjected to that, how it nearly killed the Doctor. I know it's just a TV show but... I really wish I could have been there to help him.

This is definitely one of the most underrated episodes. In all new seasons, this is the only occasion when doctor was actually on the line between death. What creeps me more out is that those people are really many of them in real life.

The expression on the Doctor's face while the passengers are talking about throwing him out is just bone-chilling. We're used to seeing him in control, taking command of almost every situation with nothing but his intelligence and authoritative presence. But those things fail him completely in this episode and he's left powerless. Terrifying.

Never been soo terrified watching doc who..!

I was partly expecting the boy to use magic to solve it, even though I've seen this episode before...

It's brilliant how the entity has the spotlight and the other ones are darkened.

One of the best episodes yet its so simple

The first black person who was a side character was an amazing hacker. The second one died saving the earth. Good to see that the black hero thing is the same for background characters.

@Chubs.

8 жыл бұрын

+Hannah Icing she might of not of died

@HannahIcingpegasisforevr

8 жыл бұрын

i was talking about danny...

@HannahIcingpegasisforevr

8 жыл бұрын

MinecraftPro15 That was Mickey...

@juliedunn3144

8 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the doctor is some sort of racist because he was so had on Danny and Mickey in the same way.

@mordirit8727

8 жыл бұрын

Julie Dunn how was he hard on Mickey? 9th and 10th seemed to love the dude, he was always so happy when he met him; Mickey was always a little angry at him at first for stealing Rose away but later they got more chill. As for Danny, it was because Danny's job remembered him of both his work at the War and of his immediate past incarnation; I'd say it's more racist of you to think he was acting for racial hatred whilst ignoring the very obvious motivations the show gives for their interactions. I mean, you *do* know Dan had more character to him than "some black bloke", right?

This episode really shows how stupid people can be... She was so scared when the attack happened and then she suddenly acts so gung ho and has an attitude and nobody except the woman realizes that something is wrong, like seriously

Rip to the attendant, what a selfless sacrifice :(

It’s scary what hysteria and panic can do. Reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials.

Very good acting 10 out of 10

This was terrifying when I first watched it many years ago and it still very well is. Humans were the scariest part.

I didn’t understand any of this episode - yet it still manages to creep me out.

Merlin should use some magic right now

My absolute favourite episode!

This is by far the best episode.

@zombieworldrecordattemtps2064

6 жыл бұрын

K Russell I love this episode

She was called the Hostess. But yes, you're right. I was so sad when know one knew her name.

Did the hostess really have to kill herself? She could have opened the door, shoved Sky out, and be done with it. It's obvious the thing inside Sky wasn't putting up a fight when the hostess held her by the door, so what's to say that she couldn't have just shoved her out?

@Kuralai95

7 жыл бұрын

Joseph Levy I wonder that too.

@codeman1998

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Levy There would've been less of an impact.

@mariahkitsune3625

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Levy this may be a stretch, but she could have not known what to do. She just learned how to speak, and walk, but she had not seen the humans before her physically fight.

@lyricbot8513

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Levy they explicitly explained that the airlock had 6 seconds before it would flush them out. This is also evident by the fact that the air hostess counted down 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Skye could have struggled and jumped out of the way in that time.

@jamesiyer4937

6 жыл бұрын

She had to be sure that the entity would leave the ship, so she made sure of it by taking it with her.

the pain and suffering in davids face is unbearable and depressing....poor doctor

3:01 always makes me crack up

I have met David Tennant and he is amazing, when we spoke he spoke with the same passion he uses when on set. So you can tell that he loves his job, and he loved playing doctor who and might be joining christphor, matt and peter in a surprise episode, but it is unknown as to when this will be taking place.

The hostess wasn't a saint. She was the one who first suggested "we should throw her out!" and gave the others that idea in the first place, she also responds with "I CAN!" when the doctor asks if any of them could murder another person. This final act was her moment of redemption, but she's not perfect.

@NoName-hg6cc

3 жыл бұрын

Those are normal human reactions

Dee dees terrified scream as biff grabs the doctor is chilling

it repeats what you say, then synchronizes with you, then takes over your voice.

It's crazy how stupid humanity can be when you're fighting to survive..... this episode was soooo dark. DT looked......... completely terrified. He's just amazing. Best Doctor Who episode yet.

one of the greatest Doctor Who episode and definitely the scariest. I was intrigued to know who or what the entity was? I think how it made the Doctor so helpless with ease it must rank as the Doctor's deadliest ever enemy. could the Entity possibly of been Omega????

United Airlines loves this episode