The Eleventh Hour

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Location: Leadworth near Gloucester, UK, Earth Date: June 1996 and 2010 Enemies: Prisoner Zero, the Atraxi The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can even recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the whole world - and only Amy Pond to help him.moreless
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  • New Doctor, new assistant, new Tardis, new, new, new... anything that was not nailed down was replaced. But was it for the better?

    5.0
    "Mediocre"
    By wolfman1111, Oct 21, 2011
    I have been a big Doctor Who fan for years, been there, done it and bought the t-shirt.

    The reason I am writing this review is because I am flabbergasted by some of the sycophantic reviews that I have seen appearing. Reviewer's giving 9.5 or 10 to a distinctly average episode... why? Did none of those episodes have any room for improvement at all, or were they all perfect and flawless.

    I take a more realistic view, being that just because you are a fan does not mean that you have to slavishly accept any old rubbish and pretent that it is gold.

    That being said this was Matt Smith's first full episode as the Doctor, and when I sat down to watch it I was prepared to give the guy a break and see if he could take on the role of the Doctor and make it his own.

    We were introduced to the new assistant Amy Pond (Karen Gillian), who spent most of the episode in a kiss-o-gram outfit.

    The villain of the piece was a shape changing alien being chased by a giant eye-ball.

    Matt Smith was not bad as the Doctor, but neither was he 10 out of 10 brilliant. It was his first outing and it was a rather bog standard introduce the new Doctor and new assistant episode.

    I did feel the writers have not adapted to the new Doctor, whose character has not been allowed to develop because they are still writing the lines for the previous Doctor David Tennent, and at times it did feel like Smith was doing a bad Tennent impersonation.

    No previous Doctor has been lumbered with doing a premanent impersonation of the previous Doctor. Patrick Troughton did not pretent to be William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee did not act like Troughton, and Tom Baker was definitely unique and nothing like Pertwee. In more recent times Tennent was completely different from Eccleston.

    So why oh why do they make Matt Smith pretent to be Tennent?

    I laughed out loud why at the end of the episode Matt Smith had to straight faced say "I am the Doctor... run". Tennent could have made that line work, but poor Matt Smith just in the door of the Tardis couldn't.

    The writers could have given him an easier intro as the new Doctor, but they chose to throw him in at the deep end with the hardest line to deliver in the Doctor Who Universe i.e. "I am the Doctor... fear me!", and I laughed. As much as I like the program it was too much to ask too early for this Doctor.

    An average episode with an average score of 5.0moreless

  • "Beans are evil! Bad, bad beans..."

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By Methus_2, May 26, 2011
    I was so worried about what Matt Smith would do to Doctor Who, but at the end of this episode all of my fears are over. I had spent the past year and a half hating Matt Smith becuase he replaced David Tennant, I now take all of that back!

    I couldn't stop laughing, the food scene just cracked me up and is now the source of some of my favourite Doctor Who quotes. I can't wait to see the next episode to learn more about Amy Pond and her charcter.

    Overall I can't wait for the next episode and season of Doctor Who! (so exceited!)moreless

  • Pleasantly Suprised

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By womanizerjk08, May 26, 2011
    I must say that this season looks to be as good as the previous 4. Matt Smith is a brilliant Doctor I am very excited to see where this goes. I loved David Tenant's Doctor so I figured I was probably done with Doctor Who but I will definitely be sticking around. Also Amelia/Amy Pond is great she could possibly beat Rose as my favorite Companion. We will see. Great story and the visuals are getting a lot better. Keep up the good work we can't get enough of Doctor Who. P.S. also like the new opening credits very stylish.moreless

  • Hummmm?

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By frostbite200, May 26, 2011
    Shoot, where do I start!
    Well, Matt Smith is a good start I guess; Wow, just, wow.I was one of the few who had an open mind when watching this, unlike my sister who greatly expressed her dislike of the bowtie. But, I like it! and that's just the start, Matt Smith does a nice job of keeping some of David Tenttent's energy, oddball nuttiness and the with random words that seem to pop out of his mouth when he make a break through and replaces it with a little more serfistercation and modernism.
    The colours seem to have been toned down from Russell T Davis's crazy production design and have inserted more over all prime colours that make the episode look that little more slick...great episode that makes me wanna see more!moreless

  • Amy Pond, the girl who waited. You have waited long enough.

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By retrogeek, May 26, 2011
    After the events of "The End of Time" The Doctor crashes his tardis in the sleepy village of Leadworth. Into the back garden of the fairy taled named Amelia Pond, who is frightened by the crack in her bedroom wall.

    The eleventh doctors first adventure gives him plenty to do. The opening scenes with little Amelia Pond are among my favourite of the episode. The food tasting sequence in hilarious with many great throw away lines and some great moments visually for Matts performance. The atmosphere is easily and effectively changed to creepy when the doctor and Amelia confront the crack in her bedroom wall. Matt Smith owns the role of doctor from his opening moments. Matt feels like an older man and carries the wisdom and age of the doctor perfectly. His bumbling professor is a brilliant take on the doctor and Smith makes me forget all about Tenant in just a few seconds. Karen Gillan also makes a lasting impression as a no nonsense companion. From the moment she takes the doctor by the tie and forces him to answer her questions you know Amy is going to be a different sort if companion. The story is a fast pasted confident thrill ride. But with so much to set up and introduce the story and villain get a little lost. Still it all builds to a brilliant climax with a lot of hints and clues to this years story arch. (Time is cracked and silence will fall seem particularly relevant).

    Over all The Eleventh Hour is a great story that Introduces the new doctor and companion perfectly.moreless
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  • TRIVIA (7)

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    • In the DVD extra scene, Amy continues to insult the Doctor about his appearance and is told he's an alien. She makes fun of his hair, chin, and bow tie; she wodners if his bow tie is a cry for help. When she's told by the Doctor that he's an alien, she wonders if he's a 'space squid zip inside a human suit' or a 'space slug' becuase of how he walks, but is told he is physicaly humanoid as he appears.

    • When the Doctor is showing Amy the TARDIS, the close-ups of his hands on the dials have a different shirt than the wide shots.

    • Although the Doctor claims to have "protected" Earth from various aliens shown on the Atraxi hologram projector, the Ood, the Hath, and the Vashta Nerada have never attacked Earth.

    • Note the license plate on Rory's car: It plays at saying "NICE GUY".

    • When the Doctor makes his fire engine aided entrance into the Hospital, the two young girls who make up Prisoner Zero switch sides from left to right and then return to their original positions by the time the Doctor arrives.

    • The Doctor opens the TARDIS by snapping his fingers. He last did this (and discovered he could) in Forest of the Dead. This episode was also written by Steven Moffat.

    • The Doctor uses the phrase "Wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey", which his previous incarnation first used in Blink and again in Time Crash. Both episodes were also written by Steven Moffat.

  • QUOTES (24)

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    • Prisoner Zero: The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall.

    • The Doctor: Listen to me. In 10 minutes, you're going to be a legend. In 10 minutes, everyone on that screen is going to be offering you any job you want. But first, you have to be magnificent. You have to make them trust you and get them working. This is it, Jeff. This is when you fly. Today's the day you save the world. Jeff: ...Why me? The Doctor: It's your bedroom.

    • The Doctor: Look at that. Amelia: Are you okay? The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Hell of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

    • The Doctor: Ah, you see. Beans. (eats them) Beans are evil. Bad, bad beans.

    • Amy: Will that door hold it? The Doctor: Oh, yeah, yeah. Of course. It's an interdimensional multi-form from outer space. They're all terrified of wood.

    • Amy: Where are you going? The Doctor: The roof. No, hang on. Amy: What's in here? The Doctor: I'm saving the world. I need a decent shirt. To hell with the raggedy. Time to put on a show.

    • Amy: You came back. The Doctor: Of course I came back. I always come back. There's nothing wrong with that. Amy: But you kept the clothes. The Doctor: Well, I just saved the world. The whole planet, for about the millionth time. No charge. Yeah, shoot me. I kept the clothes. Amy: Including the bow tie. The Doctor: Yeah, it's cool. Bow ties are cool.

    • The Doctor: Amy Pond. The girl who waited. You waited long enough. Amy: When I was a kid, you said there was a swimming pool. And a library, and the swimming pool was in the library. The Doctor: Yeah, not sure where it's got to now. It'll turn up. So, coming? Amy: No. The Doctor: You wanted to come 14 years ago. Amy: I grew up. The Doctor: Don't worry. I'll soon fix that.

    • The Doctor: Do you know what this phone is full of? Pictures of you. Every form you've learned to take, right here. Oh, and being uploaded about... now. And the final score is: No TARDIS, No screwdriver, two minutes to spare... WHO DA MAN?! (silence) I'm never saying that again. Fine.

    • The Doctor: The Doctor will see you now! Alien Guard: You are not of this world. The Doctor: No but I've put a lot work into it. (...) Alien Guard: Is this world important? The Doctor: Important? What that's mean, important? Six billion people live here, is that important? Here's a better question: is this world a threat to the Atraxi? Oh come on, you're monitoring the whole planet! Is this world a threat? Alien Guard: No. The Doctor: Are the peoples of this world guilty of any crime by the laws of the Atraxi? Alien Guard: No. The Doctor: Okay. One more, just one: is this world protected? 'Cause you're not the first one to attack it. Oh they've been so many. And what you've got to ask is, what happened to them? (a montage of the past 10 Doctors is looked at by the Atraxi) The Doctor: Hello! I'm the Doctor. Basically, run.

    • The Doctor: I'm not 6 months late, I'm 12 years late! Amy: He's coming! The Doctor: You said 6 months. Why did you say 6 months?! Amy: We've got to go! The Doctor: This matters! This is important. Why did you say 6 months? Amy: WELL WHY DID YOU SAY 5 MINUTES?! The Doctor: What? Amy: Come on! The Doctor: What? Amy: Come on! The Doctor: What?!

    • The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. Do everything I tell you. Don't ask stupid questions. And don't wander off.

    • The Doctor: You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better? Amelia: Yes. (pause) The Doctor: Everything's going to be fine.

    • (The Doctor runs into a room in which Jeff is on a bed with a laptop) The Doctor: Hello. Laptop. Gimme. Jeff: No, no, no, no, no... Hang on!!! The Doctor: Give it here. (takes the laptop from Jeff, and notices the contents of the screen) The Doctor: Blimey, get a girlfriend, Jeff...

    • The Doctor: You're Amelia! Amy: You're late. The Doctor: ...Amelia Pond, you're the little girl! Amy: I'm Amelia, and you're late. The Doctor: What happened? Amy: Twelve years. The Doctor: You hit me with a cricket bat. Amy: Twelve years! The Doctor: A cricket bat! Amy: Twelve years and four psychiatrists. The Doctor: Four? Amy: I kept biting them. The Doctor: Why? Amy: They said you weren't real.

    • (The Doctor speaking to Amy) The Doctor: Your friend! What was his name? (The Doctor points to Rory) The Doctor: Not him, the good looking one. Rory: (sarcastically) Thanks. Amy: Jeff. Rory: (more sarcastically) OH thanks.

    • The Doctor: So, you okay, then? 'Cause this place, sometimes it can make people feel a bit, you know. Amy: I'm fine. Fine. It's just... there's a whole world in here, just like you said. It's all true. I thought, well, I was starting to think that maybe you were just, like, a madman with a box. The Doctor: Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and, one day, your life may depend on it: I am definitely a madman with a box.

    • The Doctor: And what sort of job's a kiss-o-gram? Amy: I go to parties and I kiss people. (clears throat) With outfits. It's a laugh! The Doctor: You were a little girl five minutes ago. Amy: You're worse than my aunt! The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I'm worse than everybody's aunt!

    • The Doctor: (regarding the new TARDIS interior) Look at you... Oh, you sexy thing! Look at you!

    • The Doctor: I'll be right back. Amelia: People always say that. The Doctor: Am I people? Do I even look like people? Trust me. I'm the Doctor.

    • (Prisoner Zero takes on the Doctor's form) The Doctor: Well, that's a bit rubbish. Who's he supposed to be? Rory: That's you. The Doctor: It's me? That's what I look like? Rory: You mean you don't know? The Doctor: (shrugs) Busy day.

    • The Doctor: What's your name? Amelia: Amelia Pond. The Doctor: Oh, that's a brilliant name. Amelia Pond. Like a name in a fairy tale. Are we in Scotland, Amelia? Amelia: No. I had to move to England. It's rubbish.

    • The Doctor: Why does no-one ever listen to me? Do I just have a face that nobody listens to... again?

    • Amelia: Who are you? The Doctor: I don't know yet. I'm still cooking.

  • NOTES (6)

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    • In the DVD extra, the Doctor explains how a functioning Chameleon Circuit is supposed to work. "It scans the 100 mile radus within the first nano second of landing to determine which outer shell would best fit in with there surroundings and then it disguises itself as a police box from 1963." The Doctor also lies about how long the malfunction with the Circuit has been happening.

    • International Air Dates: 17 April, 2010 on BBC America

    • The Doctor's line, "No, but I've put a lot of work into it," is Stephen Moffat referencing his own writing. The non-canon "Ninth Doctor" used a similar line in "Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death, Part 4", although he refers to the universe, not just Earth.

    • After the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver blows up when he uses it to try to alert the Atraxi, the rebuilt TARDIS provides him with a new version. The new Sonic Screwdriver has a brass-plated handle, and has a green diode instead of a blue one.

    • After recovering from the crash landing, the Doctor's TARDIS gains an entirely new interior, with a multi-level console room, redesigned time rotor, and a new console with various paraphenalia (from a gramophone to hot and cold taps), attached. The exterior is also redesigned, with new frames around the windows, and a St. John Ambulance logo on the door.

    • A new version of the opening title sequence, featuring a new musical arrangement, and a new depiction of the Time Vortex, debuts. The new logo, with a "DW" in the shape of a TARDIS inserted between "Doctor" and "Who," is featured.

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    • The Doctor stealing clothes from a hospital. During the 1963-1989 series of Doctor Who, the Doctor stole clothes from a hospital after a regeneration. The first time he stole clothes was after regenerating into the Third Doctor. He stole them from Ashbridge Cottage Hospital. The second time before this was after he regenerated into his Eighth incarnation. The Doctor toke a Wild Bill Hickcock costume from a San Francisco hospital.

    • Prisoner One:The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. This quote foreshadows two major events and one huge revelation. The universe is cracked (hence the crack in Amy's wall) and the cracks will appear in several of the fifth series episodes. The Pandorica opens in the penultimate episode, "The Pandorica Opens" and the Silence is to be a series six monster. This quote shows just how far in the future Stephen Moffat is planning.

    • The Doctor: ...You're not the first one to attack it. Oh they've been so many. The montage the Atraxi project is made up of scenes from previous Doctor Who episodes, all featuring various aliens and races that have, as the Doctor mentions, attacked humanity in some way. Among the featured are (in order of appearance): Cybermen (Rise of the Cybermen) Daleks (Doomsday) Pyrovile (The Fires of Pompeii) Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride) Ood (Planet of the Ood) Sycorax Leader (The Christmas Invasion) Sontaran (The Time Warrior) Sea Devils (The Sea Devils) Reaper (Father's Day) Hath (The Doctor's Daughter) Vashta Nerada victim (Silence in the Library)

    • Prisoner Zero: Appearance The appearance of Prisoner Zero in it's natural form resembles the monster in the SyFy original movie Razortooth.

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