Stories Television Doctor Who (2005-2022) Doctor Who S8 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Death in Heaven 1 image Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 3 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 4 Transcript Overview First aired Saturday, November 8, 2014 Written by Steven Moffat Directed by Rachel Talalay Runtime 56 minutes Story Type Series Finale, Two-Parter Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Virtual Afterlife, Earth Invasion Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) Am I a Good Man? Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, London UK Viewers 7.60 million Appreciation Index 83 Synopsis With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. Can the mighty UNIT contain Missy? As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made before the day is won. Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi Clara Oswald Jenna Coleman Cyber-pollen First Appearance Cybermen Missy Michelle Gomez Kate Stewart Jemma Redgrave UNIT Petronella Osgood The Brigadier Show All Characters (9) How to watch Death in Heaven: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Eighth Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray The Complete Eighth Series DVD The Complete Eighth Series Blu-Ray Dark Water / Death in Heaven 3D Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 3 reviews 23 September 2024 · 112 words Review by AndyUK I don't know about that one really, need to watch it again. Absolutely loved last week but didn't feel it was a fully satisfying conclusion to that story. There were some fantastic character moments for The Doctor especially in there, Moffat is great at that sort of stuff but the actual plot itself didn't quite make ends meet for me. I get what they were going for with The Master creating a Cybermen army for The Doctor's birthday, she's obsessed with him and it's a nice change to to the usual ''take over Earth'' story but it was all a bit underwhelming and didn't seem to make that much sense to me. Like Liked 0 17 August 2024 · 7 words Review by captainjackenoch Danny Pink I'm so f**king sorry Like Liked 0 18 May 2024 · 398 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! While I haven't reviewed Dark Water yet, the first part of this story, if I reviewed the whole series in order I think I would really struggle to keep at it. So, I'm going to just focus on Death in Heaven for now. Yay me, I guess, but it leaves me to talk about the more fun part later. Yes, I follow the generally trend of ratings here, where I think Death in Heaven is a weaker conclusion to the strong set-up of Dark Water. Still, though, there is a lot to like here. I love Michelle Gomez as Missy and she is still extremely fresh and fun here. Twelve and Clara have a lot of great moments - my favourite being the two of them outright lying to each other at the end of the episode. It's pretty haunting and a thing rarely done with companions in Doctor Who. I won't be the first to say this and this won't even be the last time I will say this about a Doctor Who episode, but this would have been a very memorable ending to Clara. Oh well. The episode does have its problems. Some of the acting around Danny or the writing of the "Brigadier's cameo" felt a little ham-fisted and overblown. It is understandably dramatic, but it falls flat after so much nonsense around Danny's character up until this point. He felt more like a nuisance than a person. That being said, that ending with Clara saving the boy instead of Pink was well done, and feeds into the episode's very memorable ending. It's not even the only memorable aspect of how the story resolves - that Missy was doing all this in some ill-conceived attempt to connect with her old friend. It is touching even knowing how horribly Missy abused people's lives and well-being, including Osgood's death (or at least one of them) which I also found really well done. All told it is an episode with more strengths than weaknesses, but it isn't completely strong either. Like many Moffat scripts, it feels a little overwritten in some parts and underdeveloped in others. But, just like all of those scripts, it's hard to forget this writing, either, or write it off as pointless. There's a lot of creativity and energy to Death in Heaven that really helps carry the episode and make it something worthwhile. Like Liked 2 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating587 members 3.75 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. 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Thank you! I am not a good man! I am not a bad man. I am not a hero. And I'm definitely not a president. And no, I'm not an officer. Do you know what I am? I am an idiot, with a box and a screwdriver. Just passing through, helping out, learning. I don't need an army. I never have, because I've got them. Always them. Because love, it's not an emotion. Love is a promise. — Twelfth Doctor, Death in Heaven Show All Quotes (4) Open in new window Transcript Needs checking (Previously) CLARA: Danny Pink is dead.DOCTOR: We're here to get your boyfriend back from the dead. Those are tombs. Water tombs. Why would anyone go to so much trouble?SEB: You're dead and, and this is what's next.DOCTOR: A Gallifreyan hard drive. Time Lord technology.MISSY: Do you know the key strategic weakness of the human race? The dead outnumber the living.DOCTOR: Who are you?MISSY: Oh, you know who I am. I'm Missy. I couldn't very well keep calling myself The Master, now could I? [Chang's office] (Cyber Dr Skarosa stomps out of his cubicle, stops by his desk and turns, pointing his weapon at Clara, who was hiding behind it.) CLARA: Stop! You can't kill me.CYBER-SKAROSA: Incorrect.CLARA: I'm a target of strategic value. Alive, I'm a tactical advantage. Dead, I'm your biggest mistake.You don't know who I am. Show Full Transcript Open in new window