DID IT SUCK? | Doctor Who Flux #5 [SURVIVORS OF THE FLUX REVIEW] 

No I don't think I will

You can go to 1:50 to skip the Harry Sellout Minute

Pretty irresponsible encouraging people to use a VPN to access Netflix in different countries - Netflix terminates your account if you do that.

​@@tiotom9217I'm more annoyed than RU-vid doesn't monetise channels properly. I pay Premium to avoid ads, but I get ads constantly within vids.

I never really bought the whole "x is tricking audiences into thinking something's good" type mentality, if people like it they like it, doesn't mean it's exempt from criticism of course but no one's own experiences are invalid

*Try to* trick audiences into thinking that this series is competently written. Pity he's not a competent writer.

​@@WiloPolis03I think that was irony...Chibnall is just incapable of being showrunner and chief writer, at least at the same time. No shame in that, I've never understood why the person in charge has to be a writer - it's two separate jobs. If being a good writer was a prerequisite, Neil Gaiman would have been given the job. Keep the admin and executive jobs for those who can handle them. Luckily for us, RTD can do both, but he's unique. Probably found as a child and is from a (yada, yada, yada......)

@@Neil070 ok?

Hi, im you if you hadn't seen the rtd announcement 😅🤣

I stopped watching ages ago but keep in touch with these reviews and TinDog reviews. Roll on RTD and that big red reset button.

@@catbhoy That one big retcon button that happens to be all just a dream after the 12th Doctor Regenerated.

Feel most people are at this point dude.

Thats what I HAVE been doing..

I suppose we were supposed to cry "noooooooo!" as she died because it's the doctors "mummy" even though she was actually the doctors kidnapper, torturer and serial murderer. Oh Chibbers.

Peggy in episode 4 said that the Angels always leave a few survivors whenever they do that quantum displacement thing. So that they can "live to tell the tale" (and subsequently not be believed, which the Angels find hilarious)

@@khfanboy666 Ah that makes sense, I think? 😅 All these small details are getting so hard to follow when it flicks about so much!

​@@DeanAshfordIt actually doesn't explain anything. A pride of lions won't attack a herd of gazelles and agree to leave a few, to spread the legend of the lions.....and to whom would they spread the word, if everyone is dead? And why would a predator wang to do this, for giggles and lols? Tbh, I can't remember the episode, thats how riveted I was

the Chibnall Blender™️ can we make that a thing 🤪

And Davros' plan was more impressive than this Flux. But I guess it does make sense to capture 'The Destroyer of Worlds'.

1) It might be the void, but they never said and you can see the other Universes from there. The void was meant to be utter nothingness, from recollection. 2) I don't think it was Pete's world, as that was another reality, not another Universe. Multiple realities could exist inside one Universe, I'd assume. Personally, if we get to see the other Universe, I'd like it to be completely different from anything we have seen before. Like, the laws of physics are different, so sound moves faster than light and air is a liquid, or something. 3) That is pretty neat.

@@peytonmac1131 2) In Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel, the Doctor referred to it as a Parallel Universe.

@@peytonmac1131 when Jack mentions Rose Tyler to be dead 10 corrects him and says parallel world

@@burningghidorah7294 comforting info, rose isn't adrift or lost in the wild universe. She is on familiar ground, just a parallel world *in* a parallel universe.

@@Jedi_Spartan_38 is correct. In that two parter the TARDIS somehow (due to Mickey's 20 minute button press?) breaks into the Void, exiting the "Whoinverse", travels "through" it and lands in Pete's World, a parallel universe. Traversing the Void almost completely kills the TARDIS as it's not designed for that.

I'm not that upset about the fob watch, since we don't know of any reason it couldn't just store memories, rather than the entire Time Lord essence. Or it could be that it was set to turn the Doctor into a Time Lord rather than whatever species she was originally.

@@peytonmac1131 no reason they couldn’t create a new mcguffin to store memories then

I noticed the ood as well he does look goofy what happened to the RTD ood

Probably re-used the costume so many times

yeah i remembered that too

I haven't watched much of classic but didn't the time lords also take people from different races and put them on some kind of battleground world (Five Doctors)

@@Geznoo they did and then they decided that maybe doing that wasn't exactly nice. (Bit more complicated as it was more about their beliefs that in order to not be corrupted they shouldn't use thier power.

Have you forgotten that time they literally moved the entire earth millions of lightyears across space, killing most of the humans on it in the process, just to avoid making themselves look bad? Or how about all the missions they sent the 3rd doctor on? Where was there non-interference policy then?

There were also plenty of bigger bigger "cosmic fish" swimming about they liked to stay clear of if not protect less developed races from.

Yep. The Second Doctor was literally put on trial by the Time Lords for stealing a TARDIS and breaking their "non-interference" rule. As you say, the Time Lords were presented as being a bit like the British Aristocracy: they freely broke their own non-interference rule when they decided it was justified but didn't tolerate unauthorised meddling by renegade Time Lords. iirc, the First Doctor took a dim view of "time-meddling" by other renegade Time Lords, so I guess you could say he wasn't all that different to the Time Lords himself, i.e. judging his own meddling to be 100% justified and for the greater good, but taking it upon himself to thwart and punish other renegade Time Lords who he caught time-meddling for more selfish reasons.

Chib defenders when s11 came out "the ratings are brilliant, highest in years, this is proof that chibs and whittaker are doing a great job" Chib defenders for literally every season after that "Ratings don't matter, people prefer to stream now" *then when its pointed out that the streaming ratings are now the lowest they have ever been* "well uhhhh a lot of people prefer to wait for the box set to come out and binge it" Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaah, sounds legit.

even mr tarrdis is starting to break lol.

@@THIZZAVELI No way, he's the biggest shill who ever shilled...the show could get 100 viewers and he'd be claiming thats amazing and he only reason more didn't tune in was there was a meteor shower or it was his nans birthday or some bs

@@dredd1981 LOL I actually started checking his content again after orphan 55. Just to laugh at how he was gonna actually make that episode seem anything near good. Boy he cracked, that episode broke him. Ever since then the old mr tardis started slipping out every episode. After the timeless children he gained a split personality. One minute he's pointing out the lore breaks. The next he's talking about how great jodi's acting is and how bold chibs is. It's hilarious and weird, he's all over the place now. He usually has the latest toys and stuff from the current sessions. He Barely has anything from chibs era lol. He actually pointed out how chibs is just remaking RTD and maffets greatest hits. I couldn't believe he said the obvious. All of the super positive fans are cracking(aka being real). Dude from whatculture quit and started doing real reviews on his own channel.

@@THIZZAVELI Bahahahahahahahahahaha...I loved his "ratings explained" videos where he'd go full tinfoil hat to come up with a reason why the ratings dropped yet again....it wasn't him but one of his fans who commented that "a lot" of people don't watch the series so they can buy the box set and binge watch it......yeah.....no, no one does that. But I did love how one week he'd blame bonfire night for low ratings then the next week he'd have to straight up make something up...guy deserves some kinda medal for shilling so hard.

and we still have the 3 specials next year, I have a feeling the Timeless Child arc won't end in S13

Yeah I don't get it either. It's almost like Chibnall didn't have the courage of his convictions to make Tec-tay-oon the big baddy so had to make a bigger baddier baddy instead. Except the motivations of the bigger baddier baddy are completely unknown. It's kinda like how he randomly wrote the Lone Cyberman out of its own story because he decided he wanted to make it a Master / Time Lords story half way through.

@@TPH250290 Exactly! The Lone Cyberman shouldn’t have been killed off immediately. Neither should Tecteun.

Bootleg killmonger and asian diversity check box are obviously the doctors parents. Chibs is terrible, he's gonna attempt to go big like maffet and go full sci-fi. But will fail worst than the timeless child.

@@TPH250290 The lone cyberman isn't chibs idea. The villa of dilly dolly episode was ripped off from a story in big finish. That's where it came from. Setting him up as a big bad only for the master to pop up and defeat him easily. That's chibs idea smh lol. What's worse than this was the master destroying all the time lords with no explanation. The doctor didn't even ask how lol chibs.

idk, I enjoy this series definitely more than the two previous ones, which doesn't say more but there is definitely improvement

Yeah funnily enough this and the last seasons finales have just been copy and paste from past seasons and episodes

You just now noticing this? All last season was bad remakes of maffet's greatest hits and a few RTD's as well. Spyfall = blink(the aliens were chibs version of the weeping angels smh), fugitive on the judune = family of blood/poison skys, tesla episode = Vincent and the doctor/Vampires in Venice/the episode with the crazy looking spider queen etc etc. Forget the other episodes of that series but they were copies too.

@@THIZZAVELI haven’t just now noticed this but this season has been probably the worst offender

@@moonwisp4387 lol yup, it's literally the pandorica opens and the silence plot. The doctor on that ship is chibs version of pandora's box smh. Season 2's plot was literally the end of time plot. Chibs original direction was season one and that was straight up dog doo doo. Then he started stealing plots and mixing in his dog doo doo. Resolution was taken from a novel that came out 10 years ago. Remember how the master popped up and told the doctor he found gallifrey? But he was secretly programmed by the time lords to do this. In order for the doctor to bring the time lords back. Then we found out why the master was so crazy. Well doesn't this sound familiar? Chibs has the master pop up and tell the doctor to check out home. Doctor goes there and see's what's wrong. Master pops up with time lord cyber men. He went crazy because takashi 69 stole regeneration from a portal baby. Man, one thing that got to me more than the timeless child crap. Was how out off character chibs writes the doctor. After the master destroys gallifrey and kills their whole race. The doctor didn't even ask how or even investigate it lol. Got the doctor acting goofy, dumb, confused, and clueless all the time smh. You would think that would have been the biggest danger right there. That cyberman goo was not needed if he could take out the time lords.

All I could think was that the actor played a character with much more nuance on line of duty.

Nothing will ever be as bad as Orphan 55. Nothing.

If only he would realize his other colossal mistake and retcon the Timeless Child. He really could have his cake and eat it, too, by saying the Doctor unknowingly found herself in an alternate universe where many things are the same (Time Lords, Weeping Angels, UNIT, Daleks all existing), but this universe's version of the Doctor has quite a different history and our Doctor is being mistaken for this universe's version, wherever that Doctor may be, whether currently Ruth or another regeneration. So Chibs could keep the Timeless Child stuff canon while making the fans happy because he didn't really reveal our Doctor's secret backstory after all and William Hartnell is still the First Doctor. Or this era is all a simulation to punish the Doctor or get info out of her by some mysterious enemy, which would also work to make sense out of the one-dimensional, NPC-like companions and explain why the Master's arc went out the window, while all these crazy revelations could be to confuse and manipulate the Doctor with lies. Too bad that neither twist will probably happen. Will RTD be able to fix the show?

@@alfredvickers4054 The Doctor's backstory isn't a secret; it's just not important. The Doctor grew up on Gallifrey, got tired of the restrictions, went out into the Universe to see what it was all about and ended up helping people. That's all that mattered. The Doctor was special because of their choices, not because they were born the golden child on whom the entire Time Lord regeneration was based.

@@peytonmac1131 Yes. I know. That was my point. Instead of creating a ridiculous backstory, the Doctor should have remained the Time Lord we are familiar with. But if Chibnall really wanted to backtrack to appease the fans while keeping his precious idea canon, he could simply reveal it is the wrong universe and this Timeless Child stuff is true, just for a different Doctor. But I highly doubt that will be revealed in Episode 6 or the specials. So it'll be up to RTD to try to fix this mess.

hes like voldermort

He also went to Sandhurst where they don't start out in the ranks.

@@Reactordrone That's more likely but still involves him earning five promotions, as well as completing the initial officer training itself, in that same amount of time. There's no reason why the script couldn't just have said Colonel instead, unless is was a misprint or a misread.

Well. Did not think even Chibnall would actually do that. But he did. 🙄😂

What is ADR?

@@MeredithDomzalski ADR is Automated (or more correctly Additional) Dialogue Replacement. It’s when the actors come back after filming to re-record their lines for many reasons. Windy on set, or other background noise, microphones couldn’t get close or else would be in shot etc. Sometimes though it’s because the director wants a different performance than what was originally delivered or, they realise some important information needs to be said, but they never filmed it during production. Now you know you’ll see it everywhere! 😂 If you hear a character say something, but don’t actually see them deliver the line, it’s a good chance it’s ADR.

I'm still hoping for some retcon or other, like, "Oh, you really believed that, Doctor? The Master strikes again, with my patented hallucinogens!" or whatever. Anything other than that convoluted, needless retcon of a serviceable backstory.

to be fair this would be a decent theory considering when she says "is what the master told me true?" she just kinda says yes even though we have never seen them in the same room

That Vinder and Bell + tamogogchi substory was so annoying, with Bell the most annoying character in the whole series. The tamagogchi was more interesting than her.

Luckily they didn’t

@@fromthethirdplanet so far…

Yes, "I'm going to tell a murderous alien than I'm on to him and I will take him down, then I will toddle off home expecting to simply curl up in front of the TV".

Nah, Completely different actor.

probably working on more of a series review considering the longer time spent on the finale