Doctor Who - Heaven Sent - NO!

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[s]

This is the most heartbreaking scene ever. It illustrates depression and grief so well. The doctor isn't strong and inspiring because he's invulnerable. He chooses to stick to his belief and fight for what he loves despite the pain. I know he is fictional and all but that will and that hard won hope sustain me too when I'm going through tough times.

[thebrantley]

It breaks my heart thinking about how many times he had to relive this.

[chriscant]

it's at this moment the doctor points out a simple truth; winning ain't always easy and losing is.

[clarinetangel]

This scene will always hold a special place in my heart because it helped me get through losing both of my grandparents over the course of eight months. "Get up off your arse and win!" gave me the strength to keep going.

[AM-uokf]

This last 15 minutes of the episode honestly breaks my heart time and time again. Yet so powerful at conveying the Doctor as a character. When he is dying and he realizes he has travelled in time and he says "I've just been here a very long time" I get chills

[bombird]

For anyone who says the doctor only remembers being there for a week I show them this scene

[josseh]

This scene is pure determination. Will power. Strenght. But more importantly. It is where these words come from. There is no strenght without weakness. No power with out lack off. And determination without passion. We have all been there. Whatever it maybe. But the writing defines it as trauma, lack of condifence, a missstep. Anyone who wants to change themselves in a little way or a big way, can have empathy wth this scene. Because it speaks to the humnan heart of trying to change. No matter how hard it is. It feels like punching a wall forever but you must keep going.

[JenkoRun]

"But I can remember, Clara. You don't understand. I can remember it all. Every time."


That line proves that he remembers a lot more than just *Bird* each time he does this.

[meris]

On a rewatch you pick up on how when he remembers BIRD he realises what he has to do to escape; billions of years spent running for his like, spent punching the wall, spent crawling through the castle, spent being burned alive again and again. And he can remember it all. Yet no matter how hard he tries Clara will still be gone, she still won't be there on the other side. That makes it all the more cathartic when he gets back up and punches the wall, it's triumphant.

[mrscribbles]

Truly is a horrific fate for the Doctor, realising that you have died millions of times and you will die trillions of more in a seemingly endless loop would drive anybody mad and when he burns again and wakes up to start over she will still be gone.

[alexclem]

To me, this is why the 12th is the greatest showing of who the Doctor really is.

[Schelby.Lo]

Only Capaldi could play this. ❤️
It's such a great episode. Wouw!

[OverInfrared]

Now looking back at this, knowing that he remembers everything. I understand why he would be so "hell bent" in the next episode. All the things he does makes perfect sense.

[rift_]

Hurts even more when you know that, by the time he remembers what he's been doing and what he has to do, it's always too late to find another path.

[chromaticdreams]

IMO the best episode in the history of Doctor Who <3<3
Peter Capaldi was a magnificent Doctor

[EAMCFC]

This was the best doctor who episode in a long time it's just a masterpiece

[SaneTheBro]

I never realized that him remebering meant he remembered every other time he went through the loop.

[mazerunner]

This probably summarized the Doctor more than anything:
Never cruel, never cowardly. Never give up, never give in.
Hell, even managed to maintain the Doctor lies bit with the darts team thing. (Although I do have my doubts, the Brothers Grimm might've been on his darts team.)

[whoseverpanic]

So let me get this straight, the doctor realizes what must be done and also retains the memories of his past selves for 4.5 million years?

[ignisdeus]

people keep arguing that doctor only remembers his iteration not billions of years, billions of death
1. the writers confirmed it he does remember it the moment he reaches that room
2. he says he remembers it
3. the confession dial was designed/twisted to be a hell for the doctor in order to get a confession out of him
all the time lords know the doctor, you really think being stuck somewhere for a few days with a thing chasing after you is enough to get a confession out of the doctor!! they know they have to give unimaginable agony to the doctor to get a confession and living a few days being chased is normal for the doctor thats why the doctor remembers everything in the room 12, every iteration, every death thats what the dial was supposed to do, all that struggle running only to realize he has been doing this, dying feeling all that death all those thousands, billions of deaths thats something that would make a man quit, thats what was supposed to happen, just the doctor was soo stubborn that even by remembering billions of lifetimes he didnt confess

once the next iteration starts he forgets then reaching room 12 he remembers
it kinda like how you give hope/salvation to someone and take it away at the last moment making them realize what hell they are in, dont forget this is the confession dial for the most feared being in the universe