닥터 후 시리즈 8

닥터 후
시리즈 8
출연피터 카팔디
제나 콜먼
화수12
방송
국가영국
채널BBC One
기간2014년 8월 23일~11월 8일
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영국의 SF 드라마 《닥터 후》의 시리즈 8 (Series 8, 뉴 시즌 8)은 2014년 BBC One에서 방영된 여덟번째 시즌이다. 2014년 8월 23일 "Deep Breath"로 방영을 시작하여 2014년 11월 8일 "Death in Heaven"을 끝으로 마무리됐다. 2013년 5월에 제작이 공식 발표되었으며, 닥터 후의 수석작가이자 총괄 프로듀서인 스티븐 모펏이 브라이언 먼천과 함께 제작을 맡았다. 프로듀서로는 니키 윌슨, 피터 베넷, 폴 프리프트가 참여했다. 2005년 드라마 부활 이래 여덟번째로 방영된 시즌이며, 올드 시즌까지 합하면 34번째 시즌에 해당된다. 또한 2010년 방영된 시즌 5 이래 2부작으로 분할 방영되지 않고 처음으로 연달아 방영된 시즌이기도 하다.

타디스를 타고 시공간을 여행하는 타임 로드 종족인 12대 닥터 역으로 피터 카팔디가 처음 출연하는 시즌이며, 닥터의 동행자인 클라라 오스왈드 역의 제나 콜먼도 함께 출연한다. 여기에 시즌 내내 지속적으로 출연하는 클라라의 남자친구 대니 핑크 역의 새뮤얼 앤더슨도 출연한다. 이번 시즌의 핵심 이야기는 '미시' (미셸 고메즈 분)라는 정체불명의 여성이, 시즌 내내 죽은 사람들을 '약속의 땅'이라는 내세로 인도하는 것으로 소개된다. 마지막에 밝혀진 미시의 정체는 닥터의 적 마스터로, 사이버맨의 도움을 받아 닥터와 클라라의 관계를 조작하여 음모를 꾸미는 것이었다.

이번 시즌에서 스티븐 모펏이 각본에 참여한 에피소드는 총 7화에 달한다. 그 중 4화는 단독 집필한 것으로 크레딧에 이름을 올렸고, 나머지 3화는 공동 집필하였다. 스티븐 모펏 외에도 필 포드, 마크 게이티스, 개러스 로버츠, 스티븐 톰슨, 피터 하니스, 제이미 매티슨, 프랭크 코트렐보이스가 작가로 참여하였다. 감독의 경우, 이전 시즌에서 모펏과 함께 일했던 감독과 더불어 새로 참여하는 감독들도 이름을 올렸다. 촬영은 2014년 1월 6일에 시작하여 정확히 7개월 동안 이어진 뒤 8월 6일에 마무리되었다.

시즌 첫화 방영 당시 총 917만 명의 시청자를 끌어모았으며, 매 시즌 첫화 기준으로는 2010년 맷 스미스가 맡은 10대 닥터의 첫등장 에피소드 이후 최고 시청률로 기록됐다. 시즌 방영 도중의 시청률은 고르게 유지되었으며, 최저 시청자수는 "Flatline" 편으로 총 671만 명, 마지막화 시청자수는 총 760만 명으로, 이전 시즌 마지막화였던 "The Name of the Doctor"에서 15만 명이 늘었다. 미국 방영 당시 평균 시청자 수는 204만 명으로, 역대 가장 좋은 평가를 기록한 시즌이 되었다.[1] 평론가들의 반응 역시 매우 긍정적이었으며, 각본, 연출, 연기에 극찬하는가 하면 각각의 일부 에피소드에 대해서도 높이 평가받았다.

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시즌 8의 제1화인 "Deep Breath"는 러닝타임이 총 76분에 달한다. 2005년 뉴 시즌 방영 방영 이래 "The Day of the Doctor" (77분)에 이어 두번째로 긴 에피소드로 기록됐다. 한동안 이 두 기록은 깨지지 않다가 2022년 스페셜 시즌으로 방영된 "The Power of the Doctor"의 러닝타임이 88분을 기록하면서 갈아치우게 되었다.[2]

이전 시즌과 마찬가지로 시즌 8은 개별 에피소드로 구성되어 있으며, 2부작으로 편성된 것은 마지막화 뿐이다. 2부작 에피소드가 방영된 것은 2011년 시즌 6의 중반부에 편성된 "The Rebel Flesh" / "The Almost People" 이후 3년 만의 일이었다.

순번시리즈
번호		제목감독작가본 방송 날짜 시청자 수
(100만) [3]		AI [3]
2421"Deep Breath"벤 위틀리스티븐 모펏2014년 8월 23일 (2014-08-23)9.1782
In Victorian London, a dinosaur spits out the TARDIS onto the banks of the River Thames. The newly-regenerated Twelfth Doctor, and Clara, emerge from the TARDIS. The Doctor rests at the Paternoster Gang's residence to recover. After the spontaneous combustion of the dinosaur, the Doctor and Clara take on the case of the dinosaur's death and similar recent human combustions. The Doctor and Clara are called to a restaurant, where they find it is part of a spaceship that crashed in the past and is filled with humanoid robots. Upon Clara's prompting, the robots' cyborg control node, the Half-Face Man, reveals that he is trying to reach the "promised land" and killed the dinosaur to use her as parts for his computer. The Doctor confronts the Half-Face Man, claiming the Half-Face Man does not want to continue his existence because of how many times his body was replaced. The Half-Face Man falls to his death from a hot-air balloon, and the other robots go lifeless. Unsure about continuing to travel with the new Doctor, Clara is convinced by a phone call from the Eleventh Doctor. Meanwhile, the Half-Face Man awakes in the promised land, greeted by a woman called Missy.
2432"Into the Dalek"벤 위틀리필 포드 / 스티븐 모펏2014년 8월 30일 (2014-08-30)7.2984
Clara asks fellow Coal Hill School teacher and former soldier Danny Pink out for a drink. The Doctor brings Clara to the human rebel ship Aristotle to help the "good" Dalek Rusty, despite the Doctor's contention that Daleks cannot be turned good. The Doctor, Clara, and a team of rebels from the Aristotle are miniaturised and sent into Rusty. The Doctor repairs Rusty's power cell, but it reverts to its old way of thinking and forgets the memory of seeing the beauty of a star being born that had made it want to destroy the other Daleks. It sends a message to the Dalek mothership, giving the other Daleks the rebel ship's location. Clara awakens Rusty's memory of seeing the star being born. In an attempt to show Rusty the beauty of the universe, the Doctor connects his mind with Rusty's. Rusty, however, sees the Doctor's hatred for the Daleks, and decides to exterminate its own race. The Doctor turns down the surviving soldier Journey's offer to travel with him.
2443"Robot of Sherwood"폴 머피마크 게이티스2014년 9월 6일 (2014-09-06)7.2882
The Doctor and Clara meet the outlaw Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. The Doctor wins a duel against Robin by knocking him into a river. Robin takes part in an archery contest against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Doctor challenges Robin before blowing up the target. The Doctor allows the Sheriff's robot knights to capture him, Robin and Clara so he can learn more about the Sheriff's plans. The Doctor and Clara discover the Sheriff has been trying to repair a crashed spaceship and intends to repair its circuitry with the countryside's gold, so that he can take over the world. However, there is not enough gold to make orbit, and the damage to the engines would destroy half of England. Robin defeats the Sheriff in a duel by knocking him into a gold vat. Since Robin's arm is injured (and the Doctor cheated during the archery contest), the Doctor, Clara, and Robin work together to fire the golden arrow from the contest into the ship, which then climbs into orbit and detonates harmlessly. The Doctor admits that Robin will be remembered as a legend rather than as a man, and finds Maid Marian for him before departing.
2454"Listen"더글라스 매키넌스티븐 모펏2014년 9월 13일 (2014-09-13)7.0182
After a failed date with Danny, Clara returns to her home to find the Doctor awaiting her. He seeks a creature he believes has perfected its ability to hide and is related to a childhood fear everyone has of a hand grabbing someone's leg from under the bed. Clara tries to home in on her childhood using the TARDIS' telepathic circuits, but lands at the children's home where Danny, as a boy called Rupert, grew up. The Doctor comforts Rupert from his fear when something under his bedspread scares him. After failing to apologise to Danny on the date, Clara is beckoned back to the TARDIS by time traveller Orson Pink. Clara is taken to the end of the universe where Orson's ship was stranded and the Doctor attempts to observe the hiding creature. When something on the ship knocks the Doctor out, Clara triggers the TARDIS' departure to a barn, where she finds a crying child. Hiding beneath the bed, she realises that the child is the Doctor. When the boy gets up, Clara accidentally grabs his leg. She comforts him with the Doctor's previous advice to Rupert. Orson is returned home, and Clara and Danny reconcile.
2465"Time Heist"더글라스 매키넌스티븐 톰슨 / 스티븐 모펏2014년 9월 20일 (2014-09-20)6.9984
The TARDIS' phone rings in Clara's apartment, and the Doctor and Clara find themselves in a strange chamber suffering from memory loss along with Psi the augmented human and Saibra the mutant human. They have been recruited by the Architect to rob the Bank of Karabraxos. The quartet collect the tools required for their heist, before witnessing a mysterious alien named the Teller melt the brain of a criminal with its psychic abilities. Saibra is later caught by the Teller and activates an atomic shredder to dissolve herself, and Psi soon follows her in the same manner. Clara and the Doctor gain access to the vaults of the bank to gain the rewards of their heist, and proceed to the Private Vault, after finding Psi and Saibra; the shredders were really teleporters. The Doctor regains his lost memories back from the Teller, revealing himself as the Architect, set up to rejoin the Teller with the only other one of its species, after the bank's director, Madame Karabraxos, regretted leaving the Teller's mate in the vault to die in a solar storm and phoned the TARDIS. The Teller frees its mate. The Doctor takes the two aliens away to live out their lives.
2476"The Caretaker"폴 머피개러스 로버츠 / 스티븐 모펏2014년 9월 27일 (2014-09-27)6.8283
Clara is trying to maintain two separate lives: one as the Doctor's companion, and the other as a schoolteacher in a relationship with Danny. The Doctor goes into deep cover as the caretaker at Coal Hill. Tracking the Skovox Blitzer, one of the deadliest machines created, he plans to displace it a billion years into the future where nothing else can be harmed. Danny accidentally tampers with the Doctor's trap, and the Skovox Blitzer is only sent 74 hours into the future. The Doctor learns of Danny's relationship with Clara, and Danny about Clara's double life. The Doctor believes that Clara made an error in dating a soldier. When the Skovox Blitzer rematerialises earlier than expected, the three work together to trick it into deactivating. Danny warns Clara about the Doctor pushing her into dangerous actions. A disintegrated community support officer awakens in the promised land, also called the Nethersphere, being greeted Missy's assistant Seb.
2487"Kill the Moon"폴 윌름셔스트피터 하니스2014년 10월 4일 (2014-10-04)6.9182
The Doctor takes Clara and her student Courtney on a trip. They arrive in 2049 on a Space Shuttle to the Moon with one hundred nuclear bombs. Noting the Moon's higher gravity and meeting Captain Lundvik, the Doctor questions her, where he's told that her team are on a suicide mission to blow up the Moon. A sudden mass high tide had threatened humanity's existence. Miners are found entombed in spider webs. The Doctor notices from the miners' photographs that the Moon is starting to break apart. A spider-like being attacks the group. The Doctor determines that the Moon is an egg, with the creature inside ready to hatch. The Doctor abandons them, forcing Lundvik, Clara, and Courtney to decide the fate of the creature. They let Earth's population decide; people of Earth vote to destroy the creature. Clara intervenes and stops the bombs' countdown, and the Doctor rescues them from the Moon. From Earth, they watch the creature hatch and the shell disintegrate, with the creature laying a new egg as a new Moon. Clara confronts the Doctor, claiming that it was his decision to make too. She leaves the Doctor, to be comforted by Danny.
2498"Mummy on the Orient Express"폴 윌름셔스트제이미 매티슨2014년 10월 11일 (2014-10-11)7.1185
Clara rejoins the Doctor for one last outing before she leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor. They arrive on a train which travels through space, which is modelled after Orient Express. The Doctor then discovers that an elderly woman called Mrs. Pitt has recently been murdered by a mummy only she could see. When other occupants die in the same way, the Doctor realises that the mummy, identified as a legendary entity called the Foretold, is invisible to all but the one about to die. Once it is seen, it kills its victim in exactly sixty-six seconds. The train's computer program, Gus, reveals to the Doctor that he has tasked him to capture the Foretold. The Doctor discovers that it is a dead soldier powered by phase-shifting technology with unfinished business. The Doctor discharges the soldier by surrendering, and the train's occupants are saved. The Doctor uses the phase-shifting technology to teleport the train's occupants to safety. After a conversation with the Doctor about whether or not he is really cold-hearted, Clara decides she is not ready to leave him yet, and they set off on further adventures together.
2509"Flatline"더글라스 매키넌제이미 매티슨2014년 10월 18일 (2014-10-18)6.7185
Arriving in Bristol, the Doctor and Clara find the TARDIS has shrunk on the outside. Clara investigates the area, encountering a young graffiti artist named Rigsy, while the Doctor stays in the TARDIS until it has shrunk down to a handheld size, theorising that something was leaching its external dimensions. The Doctor tells Clara that the thing they are facing is an alien from a universe with two dimensions which is flattening people that went missing on Rigsy's estate. The creatures, known as the Boneless, can make 3D objects 2D. Clara, Rigsy, and community service people run from the Boneless into tunnels. The Doctor creates a device that can change the dimensions of objects similarly to the Boneless. The Doctor turns on Siege Mode to prevent the TARDIS from being damaged, but leaving him without enough power to deactivate Siege Mode. The Boneless have also learned to make themselves three-dimensional, and assume guises of the people they have flattened. Clara has Rigsy tricks the creatures into restoring the TARDIS by placing the TARDIS on the other side of a fake door Rigsy painted. The Doctor uses its power to send the Boneless back into their dimension.
25110"In the Forest of the Night"슈리 포크슨프랭크 코트렐보이스2014년 10월 25일 (2014-10-25)6.9283
Clara's student Maebh knocks on the TARDIS after hearing a thought from Clara to find the Doctor. The Doctor answers, and realises that a forest has grown over the world. Clara and Danny lead a group of students out into the new forest after a museum sleepover. They regroup in Trafalgar Square to recover Maebh. The Doctor realises Maebh is missing, and he and Clara set out to find her. They find Maebh. Some bug-like creatures talk through Maebh, telling them they had grown the forest and previous big forests. The Doctor believes a giant solar flare Maebh predicted in her notebook is heading towards Earth. Heading back to the TARDIS, the Doctor offers an escape route. Clara refuses to become the last of her kind, and Danny decides to stay with the students. The Doctor realises the trees have grown to protect Earth. Maebh reads off a message prepared by the other students to send a message to the world to not destroy the trees. Danny tells Clara he wants to know the truth about her travels with the Doctor and asks her to think about it first. The solar flare passes by harmlessly and the excess trees disappear.
252a11"Dark Water"레이첼 탈랄레이스티븐 모펏2014년 11월 1일 (2014-11-01)7.3485
While Clara attempts to gain the courage to tell Danny about her life with the Doctor, Danny is killed. Clara attempts to blackmail the Doctor into saving Danny. The Doctor removes her from the dream state he placed on her and uses the TARDIS' telepathic interface to find Danny. The Doctor and Clara are brought to the 3W Institute, in which skeletons are contained in a blue liquid called "dark water" that hides the exoskeletons that support the skeletons. In an apparent afterlife called the Nethersphere, Danny is being consoled by Seb for his death. Missy greets the Doctor and Clara. The scientist Doctor Chang explains that the dead are conscious. Meanwhile, Missy awakens the skeletons and the tanks begin to drain. Clara talks with Danny, but Danny refuses to let her be with him in death. The skeletons are revealed to be Cybermen. Missy tells the Doctor that dying minds are uploaded to the Nethersphere—a Time Lord "hard drive"—where emotions are deleted and the mind is downloaded into Cyberman bodies. The Doctor and Missy exit and find themselves on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Missy reveals that she is the Master.
252b12"Death in Heaven"레이첼 탈랄레이스티븐 모펏2014년 11월 8일 (2014-11-08)7.6083
Cybermen detonate themselves around the British Isles, to reincarnate and transform the dead into Cybermen with clouds that rain "Cyberpollen". Similar events occur all over the world. Danny is one of these Cybermen, and he rescues Clara. UNIT bring the Doctor and Missy aboard a plane, where the Doctor is inducted "President of Earth". Missy overpowers UNIT, kills Osgood, and blows up the plane. She reveals she gave Clara the phone number to the TARDIS. The Doctor reunites with Clara and Danny in a graveyard. Danny reveals that a forthcoming rainfall will convert all living people into Cybermen. Missy arrives and gifts the Doctor with control of the Cybermen to prove he and Missy are the same. The Doctor refuses and gives control to Danny, who leads other Cybermen into exploding and stopping the rainfall. Missy claims the planet Gallifrey is in its original location. The Doctor threatens to kill Missy to prevent Clara from doing so herself. Missy is seemingly disintegrated by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, reanimated as a Cyberman. Clara and the Doctor bid farewell with lies to each other: Clara tells the Doctor that Danny was brought back from the Nethersphere, and the Doctor tells Clara he found Gallifrey.

각주

  1. ↑ “'Doctor Who' Clocks Highest-Rated Season Yet On BBC America”. 《Deadline Hollywood》. 2015년 1월 5일. 2018년 12월 9일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2018년 12월 8일에 확인함. 
  2. ↑ “Deep Breath”. 《Doctor Who》. BBC One. 2014년 8월 23일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2014년 8월 24일에 확인함. 
  3. ↑ 가 나 “Ratings Guide”. 《Doctor Who News》. 2015년 10월 18일에 원본 문서에서 보존된 문서. 2014년 12월 27일에 확인함. 

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