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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The [[Dalek]]s' invasion of [[the Matrix]] occurred in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'' which lead [[Narvin]] to start the [[Last Great Time War]]. | * The [[Dalek]]s' invasion of [[the Matrix]] occurred in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'' which lead [[Narvin]] to start the [[Last Great Time War]]. | ||
* Before the Doctor shoots the General, he asks "Regeneration?". He replies "Tenth" , similar to the First Doctor when meeting his fifth incarnation ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors|The Five Doctors]]'') | * Before the Doctor shoots [[the General]], he asks "Regeneration?". He replies "Tenth" , similar to the [[First Doctor]] when meeting his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') | ||
* [[Charlotte Pollard]] had previously wiped the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s memory so that he forgot travelling with him and went on other adventures afterwards with in her case the [[Viyran]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'') | * [[Charlotte Pollard]] had previously wiped the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s memory so that he forgot travelling with him and went on other adventures afterwards with in her case the [[Viyran]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)|Blue Forgotten Planet]]'') | ||
* The Doctor's TARDIS provides him with a new sonic screwdriver. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') | * The Doctor's TARDIS provides him with a new sonic screwdriver. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') | ||
* Clara and Ashildr have not been able to get their TARDIS' [[chameleon circuit]] working, leaving its outer shell stuck in one shape just like [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', et al) It stays in the form of an American diner that the Doctor recalls visiting with [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') | * Clara and Ashildr have not been able to get their TARDIS' [[chameleon circuit]] working, leaving its outer shell stuck in one shape just like [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the Doctor's]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', et al) It stays in the form of an American diner that the Doctor recalls visiting with [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)|The Impossible Astronaut]]'') | ||
* The Doctor's TARDIS still has [[Rigsy]]'s Clara memorial graffiti on it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') | * The Doctor's TARDIS still has [[Rigsy]]'s Clara memorial graffiti on it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'') | ||
* When the Doctor first walks into the diner, [[Don't Stop Me Now]] as performed by [[Foxes]] can be heard in the background. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | * When the Doctor first walks into the diner, [[Don't Stop Me Now]] as performed by [[Foxes]] can be heard in the background. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | ||
* The Doctor yet again plays his guitar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | * The Doctor yet again plays his guitar. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | ||
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* When threatening to kill the Doctor, Rassilon inquires into the number of [[regeneration]]s granted to the Doctor as part of his new cycle, but no answer is given. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Indeed, it is uncertain if even the Doctor knows the answer to this question, as he has previously speculated that he may be able to regenerate indefinitely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') | * When threatening to kill the Doctor, Rassilon inquires into the number of [[regeneration]]s granted to the Doctor as part of his new cycle, but no answer is given. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Indeed, it is uncertain if even the Doctor knows the answer to this question, as he has previously speculated that he may be able to regenerate indefinitely. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') | ||
* The Doctor refers to the [[Cloister Wars]] and the night he apparently stole the moon and the President's wife, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') although he credits the latter as being a rumour spread by the [[Shobogan]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') | * The Doctor refers to the [[Cloister Wars]] and the night he apparently stole the moon and the President's wife, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') although he credits the latter as being a rumour spread by the [[Shobogan]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') | ||
* A Time Lord soldier refers to the [[War Doctor|"Doctor of War"]], while | * A Time Lord soldier refers to the [[War Doctor|"Doctor of War"]], while the General refers to the Doctor as the man who won the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') | ||
* A Time Lord changes gender. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'', ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | * A Time Lord changes gender. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'', ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[Harvest of Time (novel)|Harvest of Time]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | ||
* A Time Lord changes skin tone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | * A Time Lord changes skin tone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'') | ||
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* The Doctor is able to close the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') | * The Doctor is able to close the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''. ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'', ''[[The Caretaker (TV story)|The Caretaker]]'') | ||
* Clara's continuing affinity for TARDIS controls ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'' et all) culminates here in her being able to fly a foreign TARDIS without guidance from the Doctor or a manual like [[Ashildr]] is using. | * Clara's continuing affinity for TARDIS controls ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Lived (TV story)|The Woman Who Lived]]'' et all) culminates here in her being able to fly a foreign TARDIS without guidance from the Doctor or a manual like [[Ashildr]] is using. | ||
* Clara states that she is going to return to Gallifrey "the long way around | * Clara states that she is going to return to Gallifrey "the long way around," the same way the Doctor described his own journey home. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') | ||
* Its revealed that the Doctor meant [[Ashildr]] when he stated that the Hybrid is "Me" and he wasn't referring to himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') | * Its revealed that the Doctor meant [[Ashildr]] when he stated that the Hybrid is "Me" and he wasn't referring to himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') | ||
* Its revealed that the Hybrid is in fact the Doctor and Clara together as they are willing to fracture time itself to save each other. | * Its revealed that the Hybrid is in fact the Doctor and Clara together as they are willing to fracture time itself to save each other. | ||
* The Doctor once more displays his ability to defeat enemies by standing his ground and not resorting to force. [[River Song]] once mentioned how [[Eleventh Doctor|her Doctor]] could do things like this when talking about him. | * The Doctor once more displays his ability to defeat enemies by standing his ground and not resorting to force. [[River Song]] once mentioned how [[Eleventh Doctor|her Doctor]] could do things like this when talking about him. | ||
* Clara and Ashildr's TARDIS has a similar desktop theme to the First Doctor's TARDIS | * Clara and Ashildr's TARDIS has a similar desktop theme to the First Doctor's TARDIS, and original exterior is also the same as the exterior of the Doctor's TARDIS when he first stole it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') | ||
== Home video releases == | == Home video releases == | ||
Revision as of 08:07, 6 December 2015
Hell Bent was the twelfth episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.
It was the final regular appearance of Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. Although Clara met her demise in Face the Raven, the Doctor arranged for time to be frozen around her, yet Clara would remain conscious of everything happening around her, which left her alive but no longer affected by physical qualities such as breathing, heartbeat or even ageing.
It featured the return of the Time Lords for the first time since The Time of the Doctor. Among them was Rassilon, now in a new incarnation after his previous one was last seen being attacked by the Saxon Master in The End of Time, who was banished from Gallifrey along with the High Council after losing the allegiance of his race for his cruelty to the Doctor and his role as one of the driving forces of the Last Great Time War and deposed as Lord President, with the Doctor briefly assuming it in his place. Also returning was the General, who regenerated and was revealed to be a naturally female Time Lady who had assumed a male incarnation, marking the first instance of an on-screen regeneration where a Time Lord changed genders, as well as being a rare instance of a Time Lord also changing skin colour.
Ohila and the Sisterhood of Karn also reappeared, wherein Ohila was hinted to have a greater personal history with the Doctor that may have gone back to his earlier days. Ashildr made another appearance as well, this time having persisted to the final moments of time. She eventually ended up in possession of a TARDIS which the Doctor stole, and began travelling with Clara, who was not ready to return to Gallifrey and face her end.
Hell Bent ended up being full circle for both the Doctor and Clara. For the Doctor, he was once again running away in a TARDIS which had the original control room layout of the one which the First Doctor stole, For Clara, she was now time-travelling again, but with Ashildr, another long-lived being. Moreover, the chameleon circuit on this TARDIS, though not broken, was not working properly and left it stuck in the form of an American diner which the Doctor had visited in The Impossible Astronaut.
This story witnessed the Doctor reach his limit, seeing him break his own moral codes, step away from being the Doctor and unleash his fury on the Time Lords in an attempt to save his companion's life, which came with the price of losing his memories of Clara as atonement for what he had done. Additionally, several facts about his past before fleeing Gallifrey and prophecies of the Hybrid were revealed, though who or what the Hybrid was remained uncertain.
The story also saw the return of the sonic screwdriver, with the Doctor's TARDIS once again gifting him with a brand new model.
Synopsis
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Plot
The Doctor walks into a diner, where Clara is waitress and having no money, plays her a song and begins his story.
The Doctor walks on Gallifrey, to the hut he once called his own. A woman walks in on him and states that they will kill him.
Cast
- The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
- Clara - Jenna Coleman
- Ashildr - Maisie Williams
- The President - Donald Sumpter
- The General - Ken Bones
- Female General - T'Nia Miller
- Gastron - Malachi Kirby
- Ohila - Clare Higgins
- The Woman - Linda Broughton
- Man - Martin T. Sherman
- Wraiths - Jami Reid-Quarrell, Nick Ash, Ross Mullan
- Voice of the Dalek - Nicholas Briggs
Crew
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References
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Story notes
- Notably the first Doctor Who television story to feature a regeneration from a male body to a female, there have been references to this happening with the Corsair in TV: The Doctor's Wife and the Master in TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven and it was one of the options the Eighth Doctor recieved in The Night of the Doctor but it has never been televised, in this case the General from his tenth to her eleventh incarnation.
- The Doctor plays the first note of the theme song on his guitar, leading into the title sequence.
Ratings
- BBC One Overnight: to be added
- BBC America Overnight: to be added
Filming location
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Production errors
If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.
Continuity
- The Daleks' invasion of the Matrix occurred in AUDIO: Ascension which lead Narvin to start the Last Great Time War.
- Before the Doctor shoots the General, he asks "Regeneration?". He replies "Tenth" , similar to the First Doctor when meeting his fifth incarnation. (TV: The Five Doctors)
- Charlotte Pollard had previously wiped the Sixth Doctor's memory so that he forgot travelling with him and went on other adventures afterwards with in her case the Viyrans. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet)
- The Doctor's TARDIS provides him with a new sonic screwdriver. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
- Clara and Ashildr have not been able to get their TARDIS' chameleon circuit working, leaving its outer shell stuck in one shape just like the Doctor's. (TV: An Unearthly Child, et al) It stays in the form of an American diner that the Doctor recalls visiting with Amy Pond and Rory Williams. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)
- The Doctor's TARDIS still has Rigsy's Clara memorial graffiti on it. (TV: Face the Raven)
- When the Doctor first walks into the diner, Don't Stop Me Now as performed by Foxes can be heard in the background. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
- The Doctor yet again plays his guitar. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
- The Doctor returns to the barn where he nearly detonated the Moment, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) and briefly lies on the bed where Clara spoke to his first incarnation in a "dream" during his childhood. (TV: Listen)
- The Doctor still has his confession dial. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
- The Doctor once again states that he came to Gallifrey "the long way around." (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Heaven Sent) He also finds himself once more at the end of the universe. (TV: Utopia, Forest of the Dead, Listen)
- When threatening to kill the Doctor, Rassilon inquires into the number of regenerations granted to the Doctor as part of his new cycle, but no answer is given. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) Indeed, it is uncertain if even the Doctor knows the answer to this question, as he has previously speculated that he may be able to regenerate indefinitely. (TV: Kill the Moon)
- The Doctor refers to the Cloister Wars and the night he apparently stole the moon and the President's wife, (TV: The Magician's Apprentice) although he credits the latter as being a rumour spread by the Shobogans. (TV: The Deadly Assassin)
- A Time Lord soldier refers to the "Doctor of War", while the General refers to the Doctor as the man who won the Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- A Time Lord changes gender. (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Interference - Book Two, Harvest of Time, TV: Deep Breath)
- A Time Lord changes skin tone. (TV: Planet of the Spiders, Let's Kill Hitler)
- The Doctor assumes the title of Lord President of Gallifrey once more. (TV: The Invasion of Time, The Five Doctors) As with his fifth incarnation, he vacates the position by running away from Gallifrey. (TV: The Five Doctors)
- The Doctor is able to close the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers once more. (TV: Forest of the Dead, The Eleventh Hour. Day of the Moon, The Caretaker)
- Clara's continuing affinity for TARDIS controls (TV: Listen, The Woman Who Lived et all) culminates here in her being able to fly a foreign TARDIS without guidance from the Doctor or a manual like Ashildr is using.
- Clara states that she is going to return to Gallifrey "the long way around," the same way the Doctor described his own journey home. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, Heaven Sent)
- Its revealed that the Doctor meant Ashildr when he stated that the Hybrid is "Me" and he wasn't referring to himself. (TV: Heaven Sent)
- Its revealed that the Hybrid is in fact the Doctor and Clara together as they are willing to fracture time itself to save each other.
- The Doctor once more displays his ability to defeat enemies by standing his ground and not resorting to force. River Song once mentioned how her Doctor could do things like this when talking about him.
- Clara and Ashildr's TARDIS has a similar desktop theme to the First Doctor's TARDIS, and original exterior is also the same as the exterior of the Doctor's TARDIS when he first stole it. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
Home video releases
DVD releases
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External links
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Footnotes
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