Doctor Who 4x16 "The Waters of Mars" Reaction 

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Or a timelord that would make a good dalek.

I think part of it is that he's always had the Time Lords and the Master to remind himself of what he could become if corrupted by the power they wield.

I love watching the Doctor's modern incarnations from the standpoint of "each regeneration is a different phase of post-trauma behavior" Kind of why I wasn't keen on Chibnall's doc being a disjointed mashup of the previous ones instead of her own thing

Amy told him not to be alone also.

@@bonniestar4707 yes but that's happened at this point had it

Yes, but also I don't know, I feel like it is a bit nuanced ( and interesting but I can be very wrong with this ) when you think about The Fire of Pompeii. Really interesting episode where Donna herself asks the Doctor to risk altering a bit of reality to save at least someone. Save someone because that's what the Doctor is, the traveller who goes across time and universe and save as many people as he can. But it's very interesting to see in both situations, even if Donna and The Doctor had good intentions ( even if 10 went Time Lord Victorious, vengeful god etc. ) it went badly because apparently Time doesn't like changes. Given the Caecilius situation and " Me. " So in a sense Donna is right because of what she has seen in The Runaway Bride, he needs someone to stop him and to not be alone, but very interestingly it may be also nuanced since you know, The Doctor changes people but the reverse is also true. So with The Fire of Pompeii in mind it's interesting, but I may be talking nonsense x)

Just one small step shy of the Valeyard.

@@Ladco77 I just about to say that very thing.

I never caught on that. I love Doctor Who so much.

Damn that tough parallel.

Not the master, here he touches on his Valeyard incarnation. This was the first glimpse we had.

He will reign hell on you for the rest of time if you do

And he will bring the UNITS, the Zygons.. make sure to give him a minute because he will bring the daleks and cybermen.

The Time Lord Victorious isn't evil. Evil is simple to understand. Base. Passionate, cruel, held to anger and hatred and lust. We know evil, and as frightening as it can be, evil isn't that powerful. We all understand evil. Evil has limits. The Timelord Victorious isn't evil. It isn't the Doctor without morals. Its the Doctor without limits. Without restraint. Without checks. The Doctor unleashed isn't evil - he's still the Doctor. He's raw power. Life and death. Time and Space. All according to his will. The power of one thousand generations of nigh Godlike beings, confined to one person, one will. Graham Green said: "You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.” That I think applies here. The Time Lord Victorious is such unrestrained power, that even his act here is horrifying. Think about that for a moment. He doesn't do anything evil. He saves people's lives. Its objectively a good thing. Life over death. What he did here wasn't evil. But it was repulsive nevertheless. Because just for a moment, we get a glimpse of what it would be like, if someone, anyone, could control anything. Complete and total power over the whole of reality. Make it whatever you will. Usurp the wills and destinies of everything that ever lived or ever was. Every death, every sacrifice, every war, every calamity, ever birth and every invention, done or undone upon the will of a mortal, fallible, *broken* person. The entirety of reality in the palm, not of a God - with unlimited wisdom. Its like watching a toddler play with a hand grenade, with the yield to annihilate a solar system. Good and Evil doesn't come into it. Such power, barely conceivable, is astonishing because its mere existence insults any concept of self determination, of order, or rightness to the universe. For good or for evil, its terrifying.

@@benlowe1701 so the doctor becoming the monster? not "evil" but beyond our perception of morality.

@@Darth_Nycta_13 Sometimes evil is shocking. But it doesn't have to be evil to be terrifying. Case an point. Take the ultimate expression of good. The Abrahamic God. (Bare with me here. I'm not going on a sermon.) Western media - knowingly or not - takes a lot of beats from Christian art. Hell season 3 outright has Ten being Resurrected with a crucifix pose, and holding the Master's corpse like post-crucifixition imagery. So it seems a starting good point. 10 was called the lonely God for a reason. When he cut lose it was pretty biblical. The Old Testament God was terrifying. Good certainly. But ruthless, mind numbingly powerful. Beyond conception. There's a wondrous piece of Islamic scripture where a prophet asks to be shown Gods true form. Instead, God reveals his true form to a nearby mountain. And the mountain is vapourised. Biblical angels aren't cheerie babies with wings and halos. They were monstrous, eldritch lovecraftian horrors. Benevolent certainly. But still terrifying. Looking at one directly would be enough to make your mind cave in. There is a reasons Angels are always shown disguised, or else the first words out their mouths are 'don't be afraid.' And those the good guys. The ultimate good guys. Gods are terrifying. Just the idea of them is so appallingly shockingly beyond any thing we can comprehend. The Time Lord Victorious is a little like seeing an old Testament Doctor. We are used to the New. Full of mercy, grace and going out of his way to be human like. With Time Lord victorious, it's like when the veil parts and we see what he's capable of.

That old man is Donna's dad btw

@@DisillusionedMillennial No, that Mr. Copper. The survivor on the titanic ship. The one end up with a credit card full of money.

@@bilguunmunkhbaatar6841 Im talking about Wilfred the guy they spoke to on earth, the only one on the street.

@@DisillusionedMillennial But Mr. Copper told The Doctor "if you have the power of life and death, then you will be a monster". Then you replied Wilfred is that old man. Then i corrected your answer. Even if it was Wilfred, you said he's Donna's dad. He's Donna's grandpa.

He's good, but quite often the BALANCE of the music isn't particulary good during his run. Sometimes the music would literally drown out the dialogue.

I'm sure he wasn't the one doing the mixing.

Daffy yes the composer isn’t really responsible for sound design

I LOVE "I Am The Doctor"

Yesss! Will have to make a DW playlist!

Murray Gold's music has enhanced the experience from the start, you just don't realize it right away. But it's been there from the start, signaling something happy or scary or exciting is happening. It's just the so much a part of the DW.

@@cobaltblue2816 Absolutely 100%. When Season 11 got here (no spoilers) and all the talk was about Moffatt, Chibnall, Capaldi, and Whitaker, but by far the biggest loss was Murray Gold. It's just not the same show without him.

@@ABrecher Gold leaving is a tragedy. Even the bad episodes, that man always delivered.

Where is she in her reactions now?

jimmy jones I’m not sure, but if she isn’t there yet I think it’s vague enough that it doesn’t spoil anything

I went straight to the comment section when she said it.

@@Jimmy_Jones let's assume she uploads right after editing, and not say anything :P ]

@Just Jay shes way ahead I believe

Thank you! Yes, agreed Donna really was the one to highlight the Doctor truly needing someone.

"The Doctor is no longer here, you're stuck with me - and I will end you, and everything you love."

@@LabradorIndependent probably the best scene in that series

Damn good analysis!

And the end game is terrifying

Oh god no haha

Oh shit!

It is a damn never-ending roller coster.

End of The Runaway Bride, when he drowned the Racnoss and the fury of a time lord at the end of The Family of Blood come before this.

Thanks!

Ahhh okay!

Eh, Smith does it better IMO. Either way, they're both more capable at it than the others.

YES!

Have you seen Secret Smile? That was the last show some people had seen with DT in it before Doctor Who. Rough.

I have seen! DT is just amazing.

Crazy!

Interesting.

:)

Interesting!

I did not react to those two, I do not react to every episode due to time constraints. Those two were not on my final list sadly.

Send me some recommendations for season 6 if you would like, I do have a list that is ever growing.

JustSoShayla Okay here you go: 6x1, 6x2, 6x4, 6x7, 6x13 I guess for even later seasons I’ll wait and recommend some episodes when your post a reaction to the season beforehand. Hopefully it won’t be too late 😬

No I watched it though!

You have issues