By The results of a 60th anniversary reasers survey of the “Doctor Who” fandom, conducted by the official Doctor Who Magazine, are in.
They reveal that Peter Capaldi’s 2015 time loop episode “Heaven Sent” has been voted the best episode of the long-running sci-fi series to date.
The episode sees Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor imprisoned inside an eerie abandoned ocean castle by the Time Lords where he is slowly being followed by mysterious cloaked figure with a touch of death.
When he dies however, the day starts over again and he’s forgotten everything from the previous loop. He must figure out a way to escape, even if it takes him eons to do so.
Speaking on the Where There’s A Will, There’s A Wake podcast, the actor was asked about the winning episode to which he says:
“That was lovely, it was an episode that was written by the wonderful Steven Moffat who looked after the show when I was in it. It was very unusual. It was beautifully directed by Rachel Talalay, who’s a lovely American lady.
[With] Doctor Who, you’ve got to talk about monsters and it’s a sort of circus – kids love it and everybody’s got to be entertained but actually underneath it all, there’s a sense of melancholy and death.
That particular episode’s just all about death and I think that’s fascinating that that episode became the all-time favourite. [Kids are] smart in the sense they understand instinctively that there’s darkness and there are things around and the monsters are manifestations of that.
But also the fact that the central character in Doctor Who will die – even though they come back as somebody else, the one that you love has gone, and that’s a very compelling and powerful thing to have at the centre of a show.”
Capaldi can shortly be seen re-teaming with his “Torchwood” co-star Cush Jumbo on the new Apple TV+ crime drama “Criminal Record” about two clashing detectives are drawn into a confrontation over an old murder case.
Source: Radio Times
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