Doctor Who S9 Ep11

Doctor Who, S9 Ep11

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, here's the review for the eleventh episode in the ninth series of Doctor Who ! Without any further ado, let's get started, shall we ?

Heaven Sent

So, here are the three words I've picked for this episode :

- One-man show : In this episode, the Doctor seems to be trapped in a place where a creature named The Veil seems to be after him all the time. The Doctor is trying to solve this mystery on his own, while going into his "mind palace" where Clara still exists. But there's a little difference now : in the previous episodes, the Doctor could trust Clara, she was the one who asked him the right questions, who pointed the right things, when he was just panicking and freaking out. But now, he's alone, and he's scared because there's no one to talk to. There's just him, and no one else to help him, no one to be the Doctor for him.

- Grief : Also in this episode, the Doctor is grieving the loss of Clara, his Clara, the person who kept him in the right direction, on the right track. And now, he's just trying to seek revenge (even if he has been told not to do so, but we all know the Doctor, he listens more to his feelings than his logic). Obviously, he's angry, he's revengeful, and he wants to know who did this to her. When he sees Clara's portrait in the bedroom, he's just a little mess for a while. He lost his anchor and he doesn't know what to do on his own now.

- The confession dial : In the end of the episode, the Doctor realises that he hasn't traveled in time, and yet, he can feel he's in the future (the first time we see him, he's already seven thousand years into the future). What he doesn't know, is that he's in his own confession dial, and he's trying to mine into a very hard type of diamond to get out, and every time, he's caught by the Veil, and he has to do everything again, right from the beginning, with no memories of what happened before, and he ends up spending two billion years trying to escape from the confession dial, which is what he ends up doing, thanks to the world bird he had written (when was the first time he did this ? Bootstrap paradox once again ? I mean, it's the Doctor's confession dial, maybe it wanted to give the Doctor a little bit of help at the beginning). And in the end, the Veil was just a ghost asking for confessions (confession dial, get it ?).

Overall impression : Amazing episode, my favourite in the ninth series (we'll see the sequel soon, but it's really great). And now, the Doctor is back on Gallifrey... what is he going to do ??? We'll see that next week !

Okay, that's it for today, I really hope you enjoyed this post and I'll see you very soon with another one !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !