Doctor Who: Hell Bent (2015)
Season 9, Episode 12
9/10
A good ending to a Fantastic season
5 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This episode picks up where the last one ended. The doctor is now on his home planet Gallifrey. There he is asked an important question, where only he knows the answer to: Who is the hybrid? This question makes him 'save' Clara and go to the end of time to really know the answer for sure and also make Clara live.

The episode was shot nicely some good cgi effects were edited in to make Gallifrey look more realistic. With "Doctor Who" you know that the effects aren't going to be that great, nut Gallifrey looked okay. The writing of this episode was very good, thanks to you Steven Moffat. But the previous episode was way better. It had some good character development; and made you care more about the Doctor. But I only have one question: how come the Doctor can tell the whole story to Clara when he has forgotten who she is? The part where The Doctor forgets about Clara is hart wrenching. It was sadder than the death of Clara. The set design of this episode was very good. I loved that they brought back the old TARDIS design. Also the Matrix, as they call it, had a scary feeling to it. A nice touch was the Wheeping Angles and the Cyberman.

The acting was top notch, at least from Capaldi. He is so good as the Doctor, i think he is even my second favorite Doctor. In the previous episode he was already very good, but now he just kept the trend. The rest of the cast was very good too, but just not so good as Capaldi. In the emotional scenes it looked like he was really emotional. in the end of the episode when he finishes his story and Clara walks away was handled well. And when he started to play Clara's theme on his guitar, it just made it sadder. But this was handled very beautifully. Maisy Williams came back as Me for this episode. The doctor finds her at the end of time, where he talks with her about who could be the hybrid. She was good too, you could really see the regret in her eyes.

Overall this was a good episode to end the season with, there was a good goodbye to Clara, and some good acting. The new screwdriver looks nice, as what I have seen from it. The previous part was obviously a lot better, but this one was still good, by the way did you notice the little easter egg, if it is one, when they say that The Doctor has to drop his weapons, and the camera zooms in on The Doctor dropping the spoon. This is, I think, to an episode in the previous season called "Robot of Sherwood". in this episode The Doctor takes on Robin Hood with a spoon and wins.
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