Doctor Who It Takes You Away (2005– ) watch online HD

It starts out with a mystery. There's a twist, then another twist. Then the bigger picture is revealed, which is...out of this world. For Sci-Fi to work it has to be believable and grand in its outlook, even if it's almost certainly nonsense, and this episode did that for me. I've really gotten into Sci-Fi books in recent years and this reminded me of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris in its concept, but with a far more satisfactory conclusion! It had just the right amounts of strangeness, humanity, and wonder to make this my favourite of the series so far.

Dont how poeple are saying this is the worst episode, did you not watch last weeks? Significant improvement from last week although I still feel that they're still getting into their stride.

It Takes You Away may not have been the scary episode some were hoping for, but some touching character moments and one of the craziest antagonists yet allows this episode to transcend above most of the season.

"It Takes You Away" is a genuine surprise and one of the high points of this season.

The direction the episode travels down is unexpected and there's genuine danger for The Doctor and companions.

The musical score is excellent as always, there's a wonderful sense of "alienness" in the netherworld beyond the mirror, and the acting is solid.

8 out of 10. This season may be splitting opinion and I'm torn in my feelings for the current direction of the show but it's not surprising it's drawing in strong viewing figures. For a cold winter Sunday evening, this ain't half bad.

I feel like this episode could compete against other episodes from different series in new who it's mix of sci-fi concept and emotional tension is what I seemingly love about a lot of doctor who episodes you really feel for Graham who lost a loved one only to assume that she's alive but not the same she was.

Having just watched the episode start to finish it is one of the weakest of the season it lacks and creativity and doesn't give us anything new other than a talking frog at the end of the episode which was beyond ridiculously stupid.

The season cannot end fast enough. I have not liked her she Rambles constantly there are too many companions too many backstories not enough actual science fiction outer space stories no monsters few aliens and the aliens that do appear are about as interesting as a bag of unpopped popcorn!

they need to get back to making it about science fiction time and space travel heading companions that you want to like not ones that you want to leave behind!

and the female-centric writing was at least in this episode almost non-existent except for the blind girl.

Who looked nothing like her father and her mother's doppelganger from another dimension.

and the whole idea of using a mirror as a portal was completely stupid and having to explain the word portal to a companion but then the companion tells you to reverse the polarity excuse me but is the companion smart or extremely stupid because the combination of both just doesn't work.

This episode wasn't awful compared to the season. I mean there was some nice scenery, a cool cabin in the woods well I guess that's about it because the story starts to unravel pretty quickly. The suspense of the threat in the woods is snuffed out rather quickly and you find out the real threat is actually in the house. But sadly that only turns out to be Killer Moths and a lonely Universe who just wants a friend hah! Of course, because no one is actually bad just misunderstood. pfft. The Doctor is still the same scattered poor imitation and Ryan was kind of a jerk in this episode most of the season he pretty much stands around with a blank look on his face so having him be mean to a kid made him even more unlikable. I wish they would dump two of the companions 'cough ..Yaz..'cough Ryan.., reverse the polarity...really. The worst is how this miserable season could impact the future of Doctor Who. 7 grandmothers?!?! Really that is so dumb, how would that work exactly? At the beginning of the season it bothered me when the Doctor was basically begging to be asked to Tea. He has always shirked invites like this, very hard to pin down to tea or dinner. I hope these writers don't do anything to drastically alter the Whoverse. Whitaker has zero depth as the Doctor and they write her not nearly intelligent as she should be. I really do not think Chibnall knows Doctor Who at all. It is such a poor imitation you can see he pulls a few things from the Doctor and jams them in there randomly to try connect this Doctor to past regeneration's but misses the mark on so many other important factors they just ring hollow. It just feels like he hates everything about the old Doctor Who and is using the name only with a cookie cutter format. Doctor time traveler check. Tardis check. Companions Check. Heart and soul, all the work and build up of the Doctor through all the past regeneration's, history and memories of past relationships, travels, wars won...non-existent. Now I am actually glad they are making these all stand alone episodes and not bringing any old enemies into the season these can just be stricken from memory and forgotten when this nightmare is over.

I mean how do you even explain this episode.

At first I thought this episode had potential with the monster in the woods and the barricaded house with the little blind girl alone. I was actually beginning to get into it.

Then it all went wrong

First of all the monster isn't actually real because of course these writers wouldn't give us a simple monster would they.

Then the anti zone place full of the killer moths. What is up with these pathetic little creatures they're giving us. we've had moths, spiders, mud, cloth, bubble wrap and some weird others. Just give us a good villain for once writers please. I know they want to make up new aliens for this season but come one there must be some better ideas they can come up with than this crap surely.

Then we come onto the real villain of the episode the 'I can't even remember its stupid name' Universe. The most complicated thrown in villain I think i've ever seen in doctor who. Oh no wait sorry did I say villain. Sorry folks you'll have to wait another weak because of course the only thing it wants is friends. Oh and by the way it takes the form of a frog. Literally no joke. It makes me wonder what drugs were they taking while making this episode.

One other little thing I have to mention is that moment when The Doctor is trying to reopen the portal but can't figure out how to do it, and out of nowhere Yaz just comes up and says how about reversing the polarity. This just had me screaming at my television.

Honestly there may have been more moments but this is all I have the energy for. I still live in hope for Doctor Who and how much fun it once was but in no way am I enjoying it at the moment

This show is now as officially dead as Grace O'Brien and Hanne's mother. It fails on the absolute basics; setup, red herring and real monster were all boring and predictable in equal measure. Deciding to personify the enemy as Kermit was just desperation on the part of the writers. The current Doctor has the charisma and screen presence of a loaf of bread, the humour is as flat as a naan bread, the tension non-existent and the pathos laughable. Time to regenerate; the George Lazenby of Dr Who has run her course.

This is such a poor writing. Writing has been the weakest link in this otherwise well produced season. Must say this is the worst episode of the new doctor who era. They even used "reverse the polarity" out of nowhere obviously because the writer couldn't think of anything better. Definitely need better stories to tell for the new doctor. The companions are too sad, boring and stupid at a human level. Alas, I'll continue to watch doctor who for the sake of old times knowing that I've actually wasted the hours watching the current season. The Russell T Davies era will be missed.

At last. Everything worked. You cared about the Tardis gang. The guest characters were relatable. There was a sustained sense of fear and threat. Even the Zygons had a (brief) mention. Everything wrapped up satisfactorily. Maybe still too much sonic / wand sub-HarryPotter mumbo jumbo but with this level of quality drama prepared to forgive. More please.

Again I watched it before giving it 1* or reviewing it.

For those who think negative reviews are a product of male chauvinists who really can't accept the Doctor is a woman.

I for one think having a woman Doctor is a great idea and should have been done after Tennant left. Some wonderful actresses were put forward as candidates. Helen Mirren. Emma Thompson. Olivia Coleman. But instead we got Whittaker and that has pretty much destroyed the concept.

I thought it was brilliant when Michelle Gomez became the Master/Mistress. I looked forward to the time when Lady Doctor and Mistress would have faced off together. It could have been sublime if written well. Who has always had excellent female characters so it followed that the Doctor could be female. Unfortunately synchronicity conspired to introduce the worst set of companions in Who History, to the worst set of writers and a female lead who is awful.

True her cause wasn't helped when the writers decided to dress her up like a clown instead of giving her a bit of dignity as most of the men (not all) before her were given fashion wise. Everyone else in this has more than one set of clothes for crying out loud. But I see little in the way of acting ability when I look at her performance. Waving that sonic magic stick about like a demented Hermione shows she has not got a clue what she is supposed to be. Her babblings between waves are tiresome and add nothing to the episodes. She sounds mentally challenged instead of being the smartest person in the room.

The storylines are pathetic and would make any actor look bad. But she is a rubbish Doctor NOT because she is a woman but because she is rubbish at portraying The Doctor.

The latest pile of nonsense starts with The Doctor eating some dirt and proclaiming it is Norway then scanning a sheep with her magic stick. You could not make this stuff up! Oh wait a minute they just did. Cheese & Pickle sarnies and one of the idiots having a Minnie Mouse look. And that was the first 5 minutes.

Lots of magic stick work today and the usual awful acting from the crew. They are truly terrible and the worst ever sidekicks in the History of Dr Who. Whittaker is utterly abysmal as The Doctor. She comes off like a gibbering idiot. Terrible alien and terrible story. Awful acting apart from the girl in the house, Ellie Wallwork, who actually did really well. (hence a well earned #1 for tonight's episode) But none of her efforts make up for this disaster of a Series 11.

It's not a matter of whether the Doctor is a man or a woman it's whether the actor playing the role is any good and brings out the many nuances of The Doctor whilst adding new ones to it. Pretty much all previous candidates did that. Some brilliantly. Troughton, Baker, Tennant, Smith. But now after 9 episodes she does not, in the way she sounds or acts, have any dimension of what The Doctor is to the Universe and is instead simply a bland random female without a clue, in a role, doing something rather poorly. An empty space could put in a better effort.

Loved the storytelling and villains in this episode had a good horror vibe for the first half and then quickly into an emotional terrain !! MUCH BETTER .

This was a very emotion episode- acting was brilliant from both the main and guest cast. Without too many spoilers, if you're a fan of Graham and Ryan Sinclair's characters you'll love this episode. Jodie Whittaker's performance was fantastic as always, with the some real highlights when talking about the universe. Another great and memorable episode!

Have the writers watched any previous seasons of Doctor Who? Started off well but the frog was just ridiculous.

Don't know how others have written reviews prior to it being shown ! Just watched. Felt it had a fair amount of fear and sentiment in the plot. Not bad at all, not brilliant but certainly not as poor as some of these reviews. I would like to see our female doctor mature and develop, and her travelling companions become closer to her. It's still a little superficial.

Brilliant. Loved it. Love how it makes you feel things- despite the story line being a bit... convoluted.

I've tried to like this season. I really have. I've watched Who since I was a little kid. And I can overlook a LOT. But I'm finally out. The writing this year is just dreadful. I flat out laughed at some of the uninentionally funny parts of this idiotic episode. I don't want to give any spoilers for anyone unfortunate enough to sit through this mess - but the big 'reveal'..... Ugh. Nothing about this works.

So often it's the case that the penultimate episode is the best of the series, sadly that's not the case. I felt after Kerblam, and certainly after The Witchfinders that we were onto something, but this was a step back. It felt there wasn't enough script to go round, the story was thin enough, but the companions were literally decorations for the most part.

Ribbons looked impressive, but I wasn't ultimately sold on the performance. The production values, which have been superb throughout were a little poor in this one, the sets could have come from a McCoy episode. I did like the moths, they were creepy, but the only shining light was Ellie Wallwork, she was terrific.

For me this the worst episode of new Who, I even preferred The Tsarunga Conundrum. I didn't like the script, I didn't really like anything about it if I'm honest. Main thing to blame here was the writing, the term out of their depth fits well.

Jodie was off form here too, she wasn't overly bright or commanding. She didn't feel like The Doctor, which is sad, as last week she did.

Wasted opportunities here, but I thought this was shocking. The frog, really!!! 3/10

(And before you dismiss it I've given great reviews to many episode in S11.)

I watched the entire thing and wish I hadn't. It was so bad. I've never watched a episode and wished I'd have being doing anything else.

The Doctor and chums find themselves in a boarded-up house in Norway with a terrified blind girl (Ellie Wallwork) and then discover that the mirror houses a door into an alternate dimension, from which old friends beckon. The basic premise is interesting but the episode is full of irrelevant filler at the expense of really developing the underlying story. The revelation about the nature of the creatures threatening the blind girl is silly and the whole 'Antizone' sequence seems contrived solely to include some monsters (for the kids?). These pointless diversions wasted so much of the running time that the Doctor's final epiphany seems forced and rushed. Whittaker still fails to project any kind of authority or power as the renegade Timelord, and again this seems to be the fault of the writing, for example: rather than knowing know about Solitract, which apparently was central to the formation of the Universe, because she is a Timelord, she instead tells us some insipid tale about learning about it from her grandmother as part of a bedtime story. Unfortunately, while refreshingly non-preachy, "It Takes You Away" showcases the weak storytelling that is (IMO) sinking this season.

This episode is nothing short of a TV masterpiece. It unites the spirit and tension of a black mirror with the classic strength vigour and smarts of the doctor with an earie setting, down to the bone chilling atmosphere and great acting. Definitely an episode that shouldn't be missed ever. I assume upon a rewatch it'll make it into my top 3 doctor who episodes if not an all time favourite.

Another episode that tries to set up a story then falls completely flat.The Hollyoaks school of dramatic acting continues with most of the cast managing to be superfluous to the story.The final scene with Kermit The Alien Frog had me in stitches. Not the intention of the makers I think.People are getting paid a lot of money ,more than your average punter who watches the show earns,to turn out utter guff.People who enjoy this rubbish probably really liked Class that complete pile of horse droppings that was quickly canned by the Beeb before anyone actually died of shame.

As I've come to expect from this season just another filler episode with no great monsters (just silly moths) in a story that every sci fi show has done at some point. Since the show came back in 2005 there's been a concerted effort to bring a bit of depth to the doctor but there's that's just not there with Jodie at all (and is still acting like she's in a kids show) and graham is the only good performance as usual. The scenery's nice though but that's it.

I had such high hopes for this new series but each episode has been a reverse snowball. A dwindling mess. This episode was very poorly written. It reminded me of a later Colin Baker episode. Also, The Doctor is not The Doctor anymore. Complete lack of confidence, no intelligence beyond that of a normal person. I am very disappointed in this episode. This is why the executive producer SHOULD NOT be a writer and if he/she is, be a good one. Broadchurch was not that good of a show; let's be honest. Nor is this so-called "Doctor Who". Change, or the show will be cancelled again.