S2E8
The Impossible Planet (1)
Doctor Who · 2006-06-03 · 48 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 26 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
Rose finds herself further away from home than ever before, on a desolate world in the orbit of a Black Hole. Trapped with an Earth expedition and the mysterious Ood, the time-travellers face an even greater danger as something ancient beneath the planet's surface begins to awake.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
56
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 26 comments — 7 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“the show entered a fugue state in the last 20 minutes, where it became so confusing, incongruous, and slapdash that I started to detach”
HotTakes4HotCakes▲ 868about 80–100% inread it ↗
“Possibly the most hilariously weird conclusion in all of New Who. I still don't understand what the point of it was, but I honestly had a lot of fun with that scene.”
SnooHamsters6067▲ 700about 75–100% inread it ↗
“this finale feels like it should be a the end to a season, not to a whole Doctor ' run”
Tasty-Ad6529▲ 683about 85–100% inread it ↗
“his defeat felt very anticlimactic”
GhostRaptor4482▲ 675about 90–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- James Strong
- written
- Matt Jones
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Danny Webb as Mr. Jefferson
Will Thorp as Toby Zed
Claire Rushbrook as Ida Scott
Ronny Jhutti as Danny Bartock
Shaun Parkes as Zachary Cross Flane
MyAnna Buring as Scooti Manista