"Why Are You Repeating?" | Midnight | Doctor Who

There really is nothing that crazy about this monster, it really just depends on having panicky superstitious people around to screw with. A room of level heads would've stopped this thing in its tracks.

Ok, seeing Merlin just pop in like that took me out of left field. xD

The husband and wife in this episode make my skin crawl. The scariest thing isn't the 'thing' in this episode it's the humans.

Since the second 60th anniversary special released, anyone else think that the Midnight Entity and the Not-things are eerily similar? Like it might've been a shadow return of the Midnight Entity? Or at the very least, another one of its' species? Or like a cousin or something? They just give off the same vibe. They all enjoy a spot of mimicry, they all seem to come from nothingness (Midnight Entity came from the vacuum of space, Not-things came from the edge of the universe), and they all seem to be non-existent in some respect, but they want to exist, so they take a body (Midnight Entity is in the very literal sense here). Idk, but they seem very similar.

I didn't know there was merlin in this scene!

One of my favorite episodes, the horror and tension are just done so well here.

Who is here after Wild Blue Yonder?

Genuinely the scariest creature in any episode. We never learn what it is, or how it’s connected to the thing outside the bus. One of the drivers says they see it, but we never do. The doctor never learns any useful information. We have no clue if it’s even dead, but presumably it isn’t. I genuinely believe this is the closest anything ever got to truly defeating the Doctor.

Kinda dumb

Does anyone see a similarity between the thing possessing Sky and the no-things in "Wild Blue Yonder" 2023?

So this alien is a not-thing I guess

I really dont get the love for this episode. The acting is cringe and the story is terrible. The concept is good an entity unknown to the Dr. However its execution is awful.
Plus how they get rid of it makes no sense at all. They send it out onto the planets surface where potentially its lived for billions of years quite happily. How does that hurt it? Also wouldnt it just come back aboard the same way it got on the first time? Silly silly episode.

This is kind of like technology, first it copied us (printers and stuff), then it went with us (autocorrect), and now it predicts us (chatGPT).

This episode was genuinely terrifying. Well done to Russel T. Davies, the Director, the Actors, and especially the musicians

I love how Jethro's having a laugh while everyone else is freaking out. Aspire to be as calm as this guy

My favorite episode for a reason.

ngl this creature was creepy, BUT, did we ever find out what its called

One of the best monsters/episodes ever, such a simple concept but down right terrifying

Honestly, thats just ai tech, or autism tech. Predictive text voice generation in real time

The Doctor immediately understands: This is an apex predator that thinks through how to obtain food. Because of this intelligence the entity is probably as hungry for intellectual stimulation as it is a meal. So it's going to play a bit first before going in...

Colin Morgan! ❤

So this is what Merlin was up to after he left camelot

It's nice to know that Merlin WASN'T in the tavern for once.

A monster that doesn’t kill it doesn’t maim it simply steals voices and uses others to do its bidding. What an excellent concept.

I didn't know Merlin was one of the Doctor's companions.

Midnight is the most disturbing episode of Doctor Who. It is an excellent horror movie material.

When she says why are you repeating? The way her voice says it is incredibly creepy.

To this day i still think this was the vashta nerada but a part of it that was trying to figure out how to control a host rather then just devouring it.

You know it's serious business when even the doctor is left clueless. Seriously, the fact we learn nothing about this creature or see what it looks like makes it truly terrifying. What is it? Why does it want to possess a human body? Where did it come from? How is it able to survive on a harsh planet? Are there more like it out there?

And we still don't know what this monster is...

LOL

Only episode I can't rewatch. The Doctor's helplessness and the increased anxiety of the situation is just too much for me. Stellar writing

This reminds me of the doctor who episode of when he was on the train and the girl was repeating everything he said

hm what if its learning by repeating

jethro is so real

Scared the absolute crap out of me as a kid

Can anyone tell me what type of radiation would be present on this planet to be so powerful?

"Who turned off the light?"
"My arms are too long"
"Allons-Y! Molto bene!"
David Tennant has the creepiest moments in the show

To this day, most spine-chilling episode in all of Dr. Who. I still have nightmares about things repeating now 😅

Brilliant

What is more of them spoke at once

Hmm..

Normal brits continuing to talk when an otherworld terror gains knowledge and power from every word

The thing that made this episode so terrifying is around 5 things

1. We as the audience have 0 clue as to what this thing is or what is is capable of

2. It is seemingly can’t be killed from the extonic rays outside the ship, so it’s some sort of shadow creature

3. The doctor himself has 0 clue as to what this thing could be and cannot properly make an assumption

4. The evolution of the creatures behaviour, first it repeats, then it syncs, then it chooses it target(the doctor), then it renders him helpless and unable to defend himself in any way

5. Other horror esque episodes like this do have terrifying creatures and monsters, but the reason i put this one at the top, even above Blink(Weeping Angels introduction episode) is that while Blink somewhat removed the doctor from the episode and left it up to normal people

Midnight doesn’t remove him but puts him right in the middle of a tornado with a blindfold on and both hands and legs tied to together

It’s terrifying not having the doctor there but it’s even more terrifying when he is there but has as good of an idea of what this thing is as the normal people he’s in there with

Bro I swear Jethro looks like Benedict Cumberbatch, but researching it is not Benedict Cumberbatch despite both actors being english.

What I love about this episode is how the Doctor's flaws are laid bare. His main personality traits actually get him in serious danger.

His elusiveness about who he is.
When things get scary, nobody trusts him because they realize he's not told them a thing about himself. Not even his name.

He resorts to his usual "John Smith" alias in desperation and nobody buys it for a second.

His delight and fascination with discovering something new.
They're all terrified of what's happening, and there he is smiling away and excited, like he's enjoying it. Something they point out.

His desire and ability to help.
When there are first issues with the engine, he heads to the cockpit and helps out the engineers. Something the others point out later after the cockpit is torn from the vehicle, and there are no engines.

His intelligence and knowledge.
Besides how much he seems to know making the others suspicious, the entity latches on to him and tries to get him killed, most likely because he's the smartest and most knowledgeable man there, and so the biggest threat to it.

No one caught it, not even Sky. Jethro says toward the climax of the scene: "1 million 7 hundred and 4 thou--"

One of the creepiest monster. And what does it? It just repeats what you say? That's incredible amazing.