Stories Television Doctor Who Series 11 Doctor Who S11 Episode: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The Ghost Monument 2 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 5 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 1 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Sunday, October 14, 2018 Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Mark Tonderai Runtime 49 minutes Story Type New TARDIS interior Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+, Lost the TARDIS Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!) The Timeless Child Location (Potential Spoilers!) Desolation UK Viewers 9 million Appreciation Index 82 Synopsis Stranded on an alien planet infamously called Desolation, can the Doctor find her way to the TARDIS as she promised her new friends? Will her newest company be of any help when they're also racing against each other? And what exactly is "the Ghost Monument"? Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker Graham O'Brien Bradley Walsh Yasmin Khan Mandip Gill Ryan Sinclair Tosin Cole Remnants Show All Characters (5) How to watch The Ghost Monument: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Complete Eleventh Series [Steelbook] Blu-Ray The Complete Eleventh Series DVD The Complete Eleventh Series Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 5 reviews 6 April 2025 · 62 words Review by Dullish Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Ghost Monument Great episode. The doctor and "the fam" accidentally come across a space race, not the space race a race that's in space. Graham tries to bond with Ryan to no avail, this will happen a lot. A talking rag sets up the series 12 Finale for some reason, The Doctor forgets their gender and finds the TARDIS is the ghost monument Dullish View profile Like Liked 2 3 March 2025 · 109 words Review by MarkOfGilead19 2 I remember really liking this one on my first watch, and yeah, it is just a comfortable watch for me. It's packed with action from the start and the mystery of the planet kept me intrigued. The TARDIS being the "Ghost Monument" is actually such a cool idea and the race is pretty compelling. I'm liking Jodie's Doctor much more than the first time too, she is actually pretty badass when it comes to calling out people for what she believes is wrong (except for the no guns speech, that was a bit ham-fisted imo). The writing is nothing crazy but the vibes more than make up for it. MarkOfGilead19 View profile Like Liked 2 6 February 2025 · 238 words Review by DarthGallifrey Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! The Ghost Monument: A Rambling Review I do remember liking this one when I first watched it on broadcast. Watching it now, It's interesting seeing that Ryan feels like the focus character for the season. Both in this episode where he's our focus when we first wake up and he's the opening and closing focus (via Youtube) in the previous episode. All the companions feel like they're developed by their relationship to Ryan (Graham is his granddad, Yaz is a friend from school, etc). I love the ships and the scenes therein. It makes the universe feel lived in. I love the ideae of the race, I'm a little surprised it's never been used in the series before. (Yes, I know that Enlightenment exists. But that's a yacht race through space, this is space Dakar. There is a difference.) I like the ruins with the sniperbots, it feels very Halo. The reveal that the Stenza are behind Desolation is really cool. It really is a shame that apart from a return of Tim Shaw in the season finale, we never hear anything of the Stenza again. I really feel that they're ripe for a return. I liked how the race ended, and those mountain vistas when the TARDIS appears are gorgeous. I do like Thirteen's TARDIS interior with the contrasting blues and orange/golds, I just wish that those gold finger things didn't block camera angles so much. DarthGallifrey View profile Like Liked 3 27 December 2024 · 90 words Review by whitestar1993 Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! This was a very fun episode, I am enjoying the new TARDIS team. Loved the scavenger hunt story, and thought the cinematography was great. There were a few things that I think could've been clarified, such as the robots appearing out of nowhere (how in the world could they sneak up on them..?) and the EMP. (I'm guessing the EMP came from the damaged robot, but It could've been better portrayed.) Anyways, enjoying these episodes so far, much more than I thought I would based off its reputation and reviews. whitestar1993 View profile Like Liked 3 29 July 2024 · 443 words Review by Seer Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! The sophomore outing for the Thirteenth Doctor is an interesting litmus test for the era as a whole. Its cinematic style of camera movement and the sheer size of its environments definitely wowed me the first time that I watched it, and the beat-by-beat of the story is competent for the most part. I do feel that we begin to see some problems emerge here, though, mostly related to characterization. For one thing, The Ghost Monument seems like it doesn't quite understand why the Doctor does and believes the things she does. Case in point, the "No guns, never use 'em" maxim which she lays down on her companions. Of course, even a casual viewer will remember previous instances of the Doctor shunning firearms. What Ghost Monument seems to lose track of is that this long-held policy is ultimately one of harm reduction, of refusing to be the first person to escalate a given conflict, and valuing words over weapons. Considering that we're dealing with non-sentient sniper bots who are already shooting at the gang in this instance, however, none of these points really apply. The Doctor's scolding of Ryan after he doesn't quite manage to take them all down makes my eyes roll, because it feels like the episode has remembered the form of the Doctor's principles without actually recalling their function. I was also surprised, on the first watch, to find that relatively little happens in the way of characterization for the companions in this episode. Their reactions to their first arrival on an alien planet are curiously muted in comparison with previous companions, which feels like a bit of a missed opportunity. Yaz and Graham don't get a lot of discrete character beats aside from showing mild concern at Angstrom's trauma or Epzo's dog-eat-dog ethics. Ryan gets a little more, but the one major moment, his rushing out to fight the sniper-bots, feels very much at odds with his more cautious and deferential characterization in the previous episode. By this stage in most other seasons of NuWho, one already has a clear idea of who the companions are as people, and how they'll react to new situations. At this stage, I could not say the same about this TARDIS team, and that really perplexed me. To round off this stream of consciousness with a more positive note, my favorite moment from this episode is the second scene, where Yaz wakes up on Epzo's spaceship to find the Doctor already in full crisis mode. It's very nice stuff. Altogether, a decent story on a structural level, but it has enough dragging it down that I can't say I outright like it. Seer View profile Like Liked 2 Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating692 members 2.82 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating1,746 votes 3.71 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1427 Favourited 45 Reviewed 5 Saved 2 Skipped 0 Related Stories Yaz’s Case Files (Minisode) Case File Two: The Remnants Rating: 2.22 Story Skipped Webcast Reviews(1) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Yaz’s Case Files Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: Come on, please. Give us this. It's all right, it's me! Stabilise. Come to Daddy. I mean Mummy. — Thirteenth Doctor, The Ghost Monument Transcript + Script Needs checking (The Doctor and her new companions have just appeared in the vacuum of space where - according to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - they'll have less than thirty seconds to survive, unless they get picked up by a passing spaceship at a probability of 2 to the power of 267,701 to 1 against. Possibly much higher. So it is no surprise to anyone when a spaceship promptly drops out of hyperspace and grabs them.) [Angstrom's spaceship] (A dilapidated old thing, and small.) GRAHAM: Breathe slowly, son. Well done. That's it. Well done.RYAN: I'm alive. We are alive, right?GRAHAM: As far as I can tell, yeah. (Ryan tumbles out of a horizontal medipod.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)