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How many of you were completely taken out of the story by the endings of The Rings of Akhaten and Hell Bent?

Don't get me wrong, there is some incredible writing in these episodes, but the final resolutions always felt incredibly frustrating to me:

• The Rings of Akhaten: The Doctor delivers one of the greatest, most emotionally devastating speeches of his entire life. He pours out a millennium of heartbreak, war, and lost universes to feed a parasite god... only for it to not be enough. Then Clara walks up with a single leaf full of "infinite possibilities" and defeats the planet devourer, essentially making the Doctor's massive, tragic past irrelevant.
• Heaven Sent / Hell Bent: Heaven Sent is a masterpiece. But then Hell Bent derails the momentum by giving us the Clara Diner framing device and ending with her essentially becoming an immortal Time Lord flying around the universe in her own Diner TARDIS.

My question to the community: Do definitive fan-edits of these episodes already exist?

I am specifically looking for:

1. The "No Leaf" Cut of Akhaten: An edit where the episode ends on the emotional high of the Doctor's speech defeating the parasite, cutting out the leaf entirely so his sacrifice actually matters.
2. The "Anti-Diner" Master Cut of Season 9: A feature-length, seamless movie stitching Heaven Sent directly into Hell Bent. Chopping out the entire Diner storyline, deleting the opening credits of Hell Bent, and using a smooth visual and audio crossfade to transition from the Doctor escaping the confession dial straight into the dusty Gallifreyan desert. It would end right after the Doctor dethrones Rassilon ("Get off my planet"), creating a perfect, uninterrupted story of grief and triumph.

If these edits already exist somewhere, please drop a link or point me in the right direction!

If they don't exist: How many of you would actually want to watch these? If this post gets enough interest and people genuinely want to see these versions, I am willing to sit down in DaVinci Resolve, make these seamless cinematic cuts myself, and share the cloud links here when I have the time.

Alternatively, if there is a generous and skilled editor out there who loves this concept and wants to beat me to it—please, I am begging you, steal this idea and make it a reality!

Let me know what you guys think. Would these edits fix those episodes for you?

How many of you were completely taken out of the story by the endings of The Rings of Akhaten and Hell Bent?

Don't get me wrong, there is some incredible writing in these episodes, but the final resolutions always felt incredibly frustrating to me:

• The Rings of Akhaten: The Doctor delivers one of the greatest, most emotionally devastating speeches of his entire life. He pours out a millennium of heartbreak, war, and lost universes to feed a parasite god... only for it to not be enough. Then Clara walks up with a single leaf full of "infinite possibilities" and defeats the planet devourer, essentially making the Doctor's massive, tragic past irrelevant.
• Heaven Sent / Hell Bent: Heaven Sent is a masterpiece. But then Hell Bent derails the momentum by giving us the Clara Diner framing device and ending with her essentially becoming an immortal Time Lord flying around the universe in her own Diner TARDIS.

My question to the community: Do definitive fan-edits of these episodes already exist?

I am specifically looking for:

1. The "No Leaf" Cut of Akhaten: An edit where the episode ends on the emotional high of the Doctor's speech defeating the parasite, cutting out the leaf entirely so his sacrifice actually matters.
2. The "Anti-Diner" Master Cut of Season 9: A feature-length, seamless movie stitching Heaven Sent directly into Hell Bent. Chopping out the entire Diner storyline, deleting the opening credits of Hell Bent, and using a smooth visual and audio crossfade to transition from the Doctor escaping the confession dial straight into the dusty Gallifreyan desert. It would end right after the Doctor dethrones Rassilon ("Get off my planet"), creating a perfect, uninterrupted story of grief and triumph.

If these edits already exist somewhere, please drop a link or point me in the right direction!

If they don't exist: How many of you would actually want to watch these? If this post gets enough interest and people genuinely want to see these versions, I am willing to sit down in DaVinci Resolve, make these seamless cinematic cuts myself, and share the cloud links here when I have the time.

Alternatively, if there is a generous and skilled editor out there who loves this concept and wants to beat me to it—please, I am begging you, steal this idea and make it a reality!

Let me know what you guys think. Would these edits fix those episodes for you?

How many of you were completely taken out of the story by the endings of The Rings of Akhaten and Hell Bent?

Don't get me wrong, there is some incredible writing in these episodes, but the final resolutions always felt incredibly frustrating to me:

• The Rings of Akhaten: The Doctor delivers one of the greatest, most emotionally devastating speeches of his entire life. He pours out a millennium of heartbreak, war, and lost universes to feed a parasite god... only for it to not be enough. Then Clara walks up with a single leaf full of "infinite possibilities" and defeats the planet devourer, essentially making the Doctor's massive, tragic past irrelevant.
• Heaven Sent / Hell Bent: Heaven Sent is a masterpiece. But then Hell Bent derails the momentum by giving us the Clara Diner framing device and ending with her essentially becoming an immortal Time Lord flying around the universe in her own Diner TARDIS.

My question to the community: Do definitive fan-edits of these episodes already exist?

I am specifically looking for:

1. The "No Leaf" Cut of Akhaten: An edit where the episode ends on the emotional high of the Doctor's speech defeating the parasite, cutting out the leaf entirely so his sacrifice actually matters.
2. The "Anti-Diner" Master Cut of Season 9: A feature-length, seamless movie stitching Heaven Sent directly into Hell Bent. Chopping out the entire Diner storyline, deleting the opening credits of Hell Bent, and using a smooth visual and audio crossfade to transition from the Doctor escaping the confession dial straight into the dusty Gallifreyan desert. It would end right after the Doctor dethrones Rassilon ("Get off my planet"), creating a perfect, uninterrupted story of grief and triumph.

If these edits already exist somewhere, please drop a link or point me in the right direction!

If they don't exist: How many of you would actually want to watch these? If this post gets enough interest and people genuinely want to see these versions, I am willing to sit down in DaVinci Resolve, make these seamless cinematic cuts myself, and share the cloud links here when I have the time.

Alternatively, if there is a generous and skilled editor out there who loves this concept and wants to beat me to it—please, I am begging you, steal this idea and make it a reality!

Let me know what you guys think. Would these edits fix those episodes for you?