"Doctor Who"
The Satan Pit (2006)

Director:

James Strong

Writer:

Matt Jones (written by)

TV Series:

"Doctor Who" (2005)

Original Air Date:

10 June 2006 (Season 2, Episode 9)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

As Rose battles the murderous Ood, the Doctor finds his every belief being challenged to the core, as the Pit beckons. With the planet threatening to fall into the black hole, the Doctor must make the ultimate sacrifice. |

Plot Keywords:

Tardis | Fantasy | Eccentricity | Man With No Name | Girl Heroine

Cast

David Tennant	...	The Doctor
Billie Piper	...	Rose Tyler
Danny Webb	...	Mr. Jefferson
Shaun Parkes	...	Zachary Cross Flane
Claire Rushbrook	...	Ida Scott
Will Thorp	...	Toby Zed
Ronny Jhutti	...	Danny Bartock
Paul Kasey	...	The Ood
Gabriel Woolf	...	The Beast (voice)
Silas Carson	...	The Ood (voice)

Runtime:

45 min | 45 min (50 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG

Company:

BBC Wales

Goofs:

Factual errors: Despite the comments of the Doctor and others, it is quite possible to establish a stable orbit around a black hole (or any other large mass in space), given appropriate velocity and distance. (Our own Sun is, in fact, in orbit around a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.)

Quotes:

The Beast: [lights are all turned off] This is the darkness. This is my domain. You little things that live in the light, clinging to your feeble suns, which die in the end...
Zachary Cross Flane: That's not the ood. Somehing's talking through them.
The Beast: ...only the darkness remains.
Zachary Cross Flane: This is Zachary Cross Flane of Sanctuary Base 6 representing the Torchwood Archive. You will identify yourself.
The Beast: You know my name.
Zachary Cross Flane: What do you want?
The Beast: You will die here, all of you. This planet is your grave.
The Doctor: If you are the Beast, then answer me this: Which one, hmm. Because the universe has been busy since you've been gone. These's more religions than there are planets in the sky. There's the Arkaphets, Christianity, Pash-Pash, New Judaism, San Claar, Church of the Tin Vagabond, which devil are you?
The Beast: All of them!
The Doctor: Then you're... what? The truth behind the myth?
[...]

leap of faith

I thoroughly enjoyed the first part of this two parter, The Impossible Planet, and was slightly worried that the second part wouldn't hold up quite so well as has been true in the past of the two parters of the past 2 Who series. But thankfully my fears were unfounded as I found myself enjoying this episode as much as the previous one. Anyway we start off with the surviving crew members on the run from the Ood, whom have become the Devil's pawn. There is also a bit of philosophizing on the Doctor's part in the episode that I quite enjoyed. Needless to say it was a good solid Doctor Who story. Might be a tad too intense for the younger viewers though.

My Grade: B+