March 18th, 2016
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Coolicle
March 31st, 2016 - 3:17pmThey finally had this on my local whsmith today ☺
Timelord63
March 24th, 2016 - 5:05pmStill not seen this issue anywhere. Get a little fed up of these specials not coming out on release date!
mick
March 24th, 2016 - 5:36pmI got mine from whoone.co.uk as I don’t have a wh smiths in my town anymore
The super whovian
March 21st, 2016 - 6:28pmI wonder what happened to Rassilion after Hell Bent
Doctor RevWho
March 21st, 2016 - 8:32pmHe became the Maester of Winterfell.
The super whovian
March 21st, 2016 - 9:10pmI heard he travelled to a dangerous dimension called “ITV” and lived on a planet called “Jekyl and Hyde” but I’ve also heard the planet got destroyed after one season
Doctor RevWho
March 21st, 2016 - 9:32pmAnother destroyed planet, you say? He’s really terrible at this presidency thing, isn’t he?
333
March 21st, 2016 - 4:48pmMy heart literally slowed down in the final scenes of Face The Raven. No one wanted Clara Oswald (the only person that could control the doctor and that knew everyone of his other selves and everything about him) to die, but when she did, “it was beautiful” and the music and the pace along with her instant classic killer lines that moffat wrote made it even more so. If you read the synopsis for episodes 10,11 and 12 before the season even started then you will have figured that clara was the one that wouldnt leave the streer alive as she wasn mentioned in the last two synopsis’. I loved how you saw every second of her death scene including her last breath and pupil fixation, it was pretty grown up for doctor who…all of season 9 was and after that I knew moffat would ruin it somehow. But he did better that i thought. The way he bought her back, he made it clear that she wasnt saved from death and that she would still have to die (despite The Sun’s stupid headline the next day…’doctor who saves companion from death’…no it didn that was clear. I was sad that he left us to make our own ending yet again eg. Does she find away around her death being a fixed point, how long do her and Me travel for, do they redecorate their tardis, does she meet danni again and get her great grandson ‘colnal orson pink’ since she can time travel back to his death which wasnt fixed. Why couldnt he ever do a rock solid ending. Although i do like the fact she has her own tardis and companion as its only fitting as she had become the doctor her self…and she doesent age….just think of it this way peeps, that beautiful scene still happened and according to clara will happen…just after a bit of travelling, we just saw it back to front basically.
whorules
March 20th, 2016 - 3:15pmgot my copy of this today. on the subject of hell bent, did i enjoy it? yes, effects, music acting all to the usual standard. can i understand why some people don’t like it? in a way yes, there was no big season finale villain/monster as there usually is. Instead we got the doctor as villain and wasn’t he brilliant! he’d soon show the master/missy how to rule the universe if he put his mind to it!
As to the male/female time lord changes (master to missy ect) i love the way moffat has handled this. There is no fuss, no shocked “but you’re a woman now!” it’s done in a matter-of-fact that is just the biology of the time lords sort of a way, which i feel is the right way to do it. it doesn’t matter that the master is now a woman, because she is still the master regardless of gender. i’m rather hoping for a male version of the Rani soon!
I understand everyone has different opinions but sometimes people need to think before they type!
Missy
March 20th, 2016 - 10:54pmWe’re looking at you:
2doctors2000
Doctor RevWho
The super whovian
WFK DVD Collector 16
Think before you type
333
March 21st, 2016 - 4:25pmThe big season finale villians were the timelords and gallifrey (specifically te high council). The doctor said himself that the timelords were more deadly than any of his other enemies so basically they were the villians and the planet was the suprise return. Also rassilon was a villan in the classics, the timelords sealed him in a the death zone because he was evil and only ressurected him for the time war because he is immortal. He was also a classic villan to return
whorules
March 21st, 2016 - 11:45pmoh i agree, the Time Lords and rassilon are enough to make it special for me, but a lot of people expect daleks and cybermen ect.
Missy
March 19th, 2016 - 8:09pm2doctors2000
Doctor RevWho
The super whovian
WFK DVD Collector 16
…Go home, leave, right now
Missy
March 19th, 2016 - 8:05pmVisuals and sound effects? Oh please! Do you think they had visuals and sound effects in 1963 whereby Doctor Who reached the height as it is now? No. Does that make a show, especially Doctor Who, amazing? No. Obviously you think those two concepts make a show – how misguided. Can you please stop passing negativity such as that across platforms. If you have a problem go re-watch Hell Bent because it was a very, very good story! Hardly a “misuse” of Gallifrey or a fall in the Doctor’s own “moral code. Drawing on that remark on Clara’s outing from the show – I’m not going to waste my time, go home. Honestly where do critics come up with this travesty?
Doctor RevWho
March 20th, 2016 - 9:16amYeah…I went quite over-the-top there. But, I think you’ve misinterpreted what I was getting at. I know full well that visuals and sound effects don’t make a show. In fact, all I was getting at was that the visuals and sound effects (as well as the acting) are of such a high standard nowadays (and that extends to Hell Bent) that it makes a poor script stick out to me more. I don’t think for one second that these factors make a story, and it drives me mad, as a big Classic Who fan, when people act like they do. One of my favourite stories is Pyramids of Mars, and, when I tried to show it to some relatives, they just laughed it off because the effects weren’t good. But I know that it is important to look beyond that and recognise a well-written story. I saw a well-written story in Pyramids of Mars, but not in Hell Bent. If you liked it, great, I’m glad for you. Please just understand that I dislike it for my own reasons, and I’ll try not to come across as so negative next time.
Doctor RevWho
March 19th, 2016 - 3:18pmIgnore the last paragraph in the last comment, btw, I accidentally repeated myself. 😛
Phil
March 19th, 2016 - 2:30amWhat is the release date?
whorules
March 19th, 2016 - 1:16pmsupposed to be the 17th march (according to this months who mag)
Missy
March 19th, 2016 - 8:12pmI love you phil AND Whorules – no POINTLESS negativity what so ever! Be like phil and Whorules. (Life advice)
Phil
March 20th, 2016 - 4:56pmMissy, I have baked myself a cake in celebration of your affections…and im going to eat the whole thing by myself;)
Missy
March 20th, 2016 - 10:52pmPhil I completely approve, no really -.-
whorules
March 18th, 2016 - 4:23pmcalm down!
Doctor RevWho
March 20th, 2016 - 9:09amI don’t know how to!
2doctors2000
March 18th, 2016 - 2:47pmGod, something from Hell Bent is on the front, noooooooo!
Why not get the more well known General from The Day of the Doctor (and the start of Hell Bent), considering that’s the god damn 50th!
Doctor RevWho
March 18th, 2016 - 3:50pmYeah…Hell Bent was…pretty awful, wasn’t it?
WFK DVD Collector 16
March 18th, 2016 - 4:20pmHell Bent is the worst episode of Doctor Who EVER.
They should have put Goth or Borusa there instead.
Missy
March 18th, 2016 - 5:57pmHell Bent wasn’t the worst Doctor Who episode ever, tho…
The super whovian
March 18th, 2016 - 8:35pmIn my opinion forest of the night is properly the worst episode. At least Hell bent had a lot more enjoyable story.
The Shadow that lives!
March 19th, 2016 - 10:07amHell Bent is hardly the worst episode ever. It may not bethe best, and there may be some errors with the story, but the soundtrack, special effects, visuals, costumes, and acting can’t be faulted!
Even the story isn’t that bad, at least it’s not boring to the viewer, which I consider to be the biggest sin of bad Doctor Who (or any TV show for that matter)
2doctors2000
March 19th, 2016 - 2:19pmEither way, Hell Bent was not a good story. It ruined Clara’s departure and well, let’s be honest, was a complete misuse of Gallifrey. It could have been so much more. At the end of series 8 seeing the Doctor so emotionally scarred from not finding Gallifrey was excellent, then the time lords decide they want some info from him. Why didn’t they literally just ask him, to be fair I mean, he wanted to find them, it was only because they accidentally killed Clara that he hated them in hell bent, so if they’d have just asked, he could have fought the ‘hybrid’ with them.
At least In the forest of the night wasn’t set up to be a big piece of Who mythology, this was the first proper story set on Gallifrey (without flashbacks or visiting the Doctors own past) back, and it didn’t live up to its name
Doctor RevWho
March 19th, 2016 - 3:03pmI agree with you on the point that the acting, visuals, and soundtrack in Hell Bent were very good, but, at this point, that’s really to be expected of Doctor Who. Nowadays, the acting, visuals and soundtrack are of such a high standard that, to me, it means that when a poorly-written story comes along, it sticks out like a sore thumb, and I’ve always found that if the story of an episode is terrible, it will kill the episode faster than bad acting, bad visuals or a bad soundtrack ever could. However, I could easily forgive that if I had found the story entertaining. Sadly, unlike yourself, I didn’t. It wasn’t boring to me, but it was far from interesting.
I also must say that, to me, boring the audience is the second biggest sin a TV show can commit. For me, the biggest is insulting the audience, and I found Hell Bent to be one of the most audience-insulting episodes I’ve ever seen; insulting for talking down to its audience by shoe-horning in as much fan-service as it can for no good reason than to please the Tumblr-crowd, insulting for building-up as much as it possibly good (i.e. the hybrid, the fall of Gallifrey, the Wraiths) and then providing no good pay-off, insulting for making the brilliant message of the fantastic previous episode (Heaven Sent is my favourite Season 9 episode, btw) AND the superb ending of the episode before that completely redundant, and, above all else, insulting for making the Doctor betray his loyal follower (who openly defied RASSILON for him and followed him to the end) and, as a direct result, his OWN moral code for no good reason whatsoever.
That’s not to say that you can’t like this episode. If it was appealing to you, I’m glad for you. I just wish the feeling was mutual and hope that you can see why I feel that Hell Bent is the worst episode of Season 9 and, possibly, the worst modern Doctor Who episode.
Doctor RevWho
March 19th, 2016 - 3:17pmNot only that, but in Hell Bent, death becomes officially redundant in the Doctor Who universe. If Clara can wander around time and space completely agelessly and with ZERO consequences around her (except for some contrivance which means the Doctor has to lose his memory of Clara, for reasons which don’t make a lick of sense to me), then there is no incentive for the Doctor to NOT save every person special to him. The Doctor, and any future companions he will have, can roam around time and space doing whatever they want, because death has no meaning to them, and, if a companion dies in the future, it’s a-okay because the Doctor can just go to Gallifrey and save them on their last heartbeat, as long as they go back and die AT SOME POINT. No specific point given, just whenever, since Clara doesn’t age and nothing around her changes because of her presence. She could live beyond her natural lifespan because of this, and so can anyone else the Doctor chooses to save. What happened to ‘You can’t control life and death’? Because, thanks to this development, the Doctor literally can control life and death, meaning that now, if you think about it, there are no stakes for the Doctor or his companion.
Also, while I agree that the acting is great, the visuals are great, and the soundtrack is great, for me, a terrible story can kill an episode faster than bad acting, bad visuals, or a bad soundtrack ever could. I’m not trying to change your opinion – each to his own, after all. I’m just hoping that you’ll see why I consider Hell Bent to be the worst episode of Series 9 and, possibly, the worst modern Doctor Who episode.