Doctor Who - 60th Anniversary Special: "The Star Beast" REACTION! 

*The Time Has Come!* What do you think of this first special for the 60th?

"Glad you're back Donna. Because it killed me, it killed me, it killed me." That is some sad shit there. This was awesome! Thanks for the reaction!

My favourite part was Donna fully ready to drop kick that furry wee rat for calling Rose weird😭😂

Tennant effortlessly slipped back into this role it’s crazy

Glad to be back with FailWhale watching Doctor Who! So excited for a new era.

There's a reason they all look classic; it's because this story was originally from 1980, it was a comic strip story in Doctor Who Weekly! The Meep and the Wrath Warriors all look pretty close to how they were originally drawn. A good touch in this episode and all the behind the scenes stuff is that they got the original writer and artist, Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, to give their permissions, full credits, and they got to visit the set, seeming pretty happy at how it all turned out. When Marvel comics seem pretty reluctant to properly acknowledge the comic source material a lot of the time, it means a lot for the staff on Doctor Who to do this.

Tennant back where he belongs. I cried through most of this episode. If they brought back eccleston and billie I would not survive it.

this episode was everything good and bad about rtd, from slice of life domestic stuff to crazy convoluted resolutions, we are so back

11:41 I love how you can just _tell_ the BBC is just going "WE'RE PLAYING WITH DISNEY MONEY NOW" and going all-out on the effects

I had the pleasure to meet Jacqueline King who played Sylvia Noble 2 weeks prior to this episode airing, absolutely lovely woman and I had to ask if she really hit David Tennant that day on set, to which she replied to me saying “oh yes, I proper smacked him”

donna definitely spilled that coffee on purpose knowing it would take them on a trip

People have been asking why they couldn't have "just let go of the energy" instead of having to wipe Donna's memory. If I had to make an educated guess, it would be analogous to a pipeline (gas, water, whatever) being so close to rupturing that the safety mechanisms involved to prevent it no longer functioned, ie there was too much energy for one mind to release. Just think early Simpsons when seriously heavy Homer couldn't vent the gas from the tank his fellow employees were exercising next to. With that same amount of energy being shared across two minds, it was possibly to release the safety valves to harmlessly vent the energy, as opposed to destroying everything in one big burst. Just a theory, or course, would be interested in the opinions of others.

The reason the aliens this ep have a very classic who feel is because this story is an adaptation of a Doctor Who comic from 1980.

donna was THE best doctor who companion. so glad to see she and he together again! 😁

"Rose, you're like so casual about this" I think Donna kind of addressed that saying she can't act lol. The actress can of course (from what I heard?), but it explains why has like 2 expressions throughout the entire episode, in-episode. RTD honestly thought of a lot of things that people noticed, it's so great to have him back!

David running around the Tardis brings me so much joy. Next episode is going to be WILD!

One last hurrah for Tennant, one for the road. Cups in the air for his legendary era of Who.

Don't worry, Wilf will be seen. Just patience. He was there at the read through for the three specials and filmed his scenes literally days before he took ill and then passed away. RTD said his memory will be cherished in these specials

"Welcome back, Russ, we missed ya" ... truer words were never spoken,

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Can we just agree that the special and practical effects were so good this episode? Like comparing the Meep to the Pting it's staggering. Jodie's era effects looked fantastical but unrealistic. That it didn't look real or present with the characters. But here it looks real. It looks present. I believe it can exist in reality. That i can touch it. And that is simply fantastic and shows how far we've come over 60th years. A flipping TV show looks better than whatever the heck the MCU and DCU are making.

More than anything I want to see Wilf one last time

Nice to see you reacting to Doctor who again

All hail Murray Gold for I Am The Doctor playing with Doctor Donna's return 🙌🏽

As a wheelchair user. myself.. those built in weapons... give em to me NOW! LOL Legal means of self defense built into a wheelchair would be so wicked! Shirley is badass - played by Ruth Madeley

This is going to be such a great era, Russ is back, we have two more episodes with Tennant and Tate, and failwhale reactions. Let’s goooo

I loved this so much. It was literally like a return to Russell T Davies’ first era. It was funny, moving, uplifting…definitely one of the best ever episodes. Gotta love the new TARDIS interior too.😀👏🥲

brooo!! glad you're gonna do the specials!! i watched your capaldi reactions recently, was hoping you still followed the show

Binged your whole videos on DW to lead up to this and just watched it myself before watching your review now. It's so fascinating to see you go from wondering what everyone saw in Donna (before you experienced her for yourself) to watching you see her return and almost get killed off and how much she means to you now.

HE'S BACK LET'S GO

Damn it! Third time seeing this episode this time not even the full one and each time I’ve balled my eyes out when Donna gets her memories back!!!

I love after thousands of years doc doesn’t hesitate to call Donna his best friend. They really just vibe with each other.

Oh I was just searching things about the episode and your video was randomly just there. Happy to see you back with Doctor Who again!

YEEES DOCTOR WHO FAILWHALE IS BACK!!! ALL TIME FAVOURITE DW REACTOR

She spilled that coffee on purpose.

BIG DUB, been waiting for this one 😁

So glad to be back bro

12:54 I'm still shooketh.... and want a Meep plushie even more 😂😅

THE NEW TARDIS IS EASILY THE BEST ONE YES

Random fact for you. Out of the 8 incarnations of the Doctor from 2005 onwards (including 15/Ncuti Gatwa), only 3 haven't regenerated from or to David Tennant. 9/Christopher Eccleston regenerated to David Tennant. 10/David Tennant regenerated to David Tennant (Journey's End). 11/Matt Smith regenerated from David Tennant. 13/Jodie Whittaker regenerated to David Tennant. 15/Ncuti Gatwa will presumably regenerate from David Tennant. Only War/John Hurt, 12/Peter Capaldi and 14/David Tennant didn't regenerate to/from David Tennant.

I have to admit that the one thing that got me the most about this episode was just how much of an amazing Mother Donna is. I love her character so much, she is just amazing, lovely sweet and fierce and way more intelligent than she realizes. Coming from me on a personal level having parents that were not like this when I came out, I wish I had someone like Donna. It's something that most people wouldn't appreciate or even understand but it was nice to get some positive representation.

This was fun. BTW looking sharp dude

Failwhale is back with Doctor Who, Russ is back, Tennant is back, Noble family is back, RIP Wilf, TARDIS looks sooooo sexy and I am excited!!! Solid 7/10 episode and a good kickoff for rest of Tennants new run! Crazy that David has taken 3 regenerations but other doctors are still siting on one XD

funnily enough, this IS someone old AND new. beep the meep is an old doctor who comics villain, finally brought to the screen. they had the author come by to approve all the changes and adaption.. and he was thrilled to see it in real physical puppet form. And david was over the moon too, as one of the biggest doctor who geeks in existence, he'd collected ALL of the writer's comics back in the day, told him all his favorite arcs and even got his own issue autographed.

YESSS i have been waiting for this! Im so happy your back and enjoyed this episode

I’ve been waiting for your reaction!

Absolutely joyous!

"You can wear a suit that tight up until you're 35 and no further" David Tennant was 35 during his first season of Doctor Who

Yes yes yes the one reaction I've been waiting for 🙌

Oh my gosh love it. Doctor Who is back. FailWhale DW reactions are back! I’m just so excited for this new era

Hail to the Meep! Hail to the Most High!

1:53 that little bit of the Bad Wolf theme...

Wow! You got it the week it came out that’s amazing

Just binged your ENITRE playlist of Doctor who. To see the doctors change and see you grow up in the last 5 years and watch your little kitty grow was kinda mental😢😂, here we go again

I have missed you. Love the content as always

Been waiting for your reaction, dude! So excited for you.

I absolutely love your reviews ❤️❤️❤️

yesss i couldnt wait for this! ive been watching your doctor who reactions for so long. so excited for more episodes to come!

I found out that this story is from an old Doctor Who comic story with the Tom Baker Doctor. Pretty cool. I LOVED this episode! Great reaction!

Hey thanks for doing this! Ive been so excited and personally loved the episode, also seeing Beep was a huge treat!

12:02 - The Wrarth Warriors first appeared in Doctor Who and the Star Beast, a comic story published in 1980.

Nawww not only did Star beast make me Nostalgic for 2008. But your reaction of it made me Nostalgic for 2019 early failwhale34 Tennant Donna Dr Who reactions!

I enjoyed it a lot! It has flaws of course, and mostly they are typical RTD flaws (slightly over-egging the emotional beats, somewhat heavy-handed messaging, putting the needs of each moment above consistency of plot or worldbuilding). However, at no point were they troublesome enough to pull me out of the story, so that's a win in my book. Fun fact: Ruth Madeley (Shirley) plays a wheelchair-using companion of the sixth Doctor in the audio adventures, so when I saw her I thought "have they imported Hebe as well as Beep the Meep?"

Oh, you know, I'm just so happy. Such a fun happy episode. Thanks for the great reaction!!

I agree a couple of moments could have done with a bit more time to them but it didn't particularly ruin it for me or anything. But yeah the weight of Donna "dying" was kinda lost in a way you couldn't help but think it wasn't real hahah

I have just watched the ep today and you know what it was fantastic.

I really liked the episode and the new Tardis interior. Good job the Doctor has some sonic sunglasses. All those lights would drive me insane, imagine having to change all those light bulbs every time the Tardis breaks down.

"The glass doors are giving me a bit of a traumatic memory" RIGHT?! So mean

God I’ve missed your reactions buddy! I don’t watch many anymore but I love yours!!!

Just started watching your DW reactions a few days ago, I'm on s3 now but had to skip forward and watch your reaction to this. Personally I loved the episode, it was so emotional getting the 10th Doctor and Donna back together. Can't wait for more!

Bro came dripped out to the 60th Anniversary episode😂🔥🔥

the ONLY problem I had with this episode was the ground fixing itself when they turned the "engine" off.... that seemed cheesy

i loved this first special so much too!! there's just some kind of unique spice of magic touch in the way RTD era episodes feel like and i've always found myself gravitating towards his story telling style for DW the most. whenever i think of this show, the feeling i get is the feeling of this era. this is how i like DW, with lots of shenanigans, actually fun banter, a lots of emotional highs and lows and moments that resonate with me at both expected and unexpected turns, and a dash of made up sci-fi handwavery. some people say his sci-fi writing style has cringe turns but i honestly cannot see reason in that. i just love it! this is kids/family show and i honestly love how the sci-fi plots get resolved and the keen focus is mostly on the cast's emotional journey and development through it. i LOVE that and it's so good to see that RTD who balances this the best is back in the driving seat. and to have this all with david tennant and catherine tate AND the rest of returning cast and very lovable new charas? some say they'd rather have something else for the anniversary but i could not care or agree less. this has brought back my inner childhood memories in waves and made me so happy, and that's what doctor who is primarily supposed to be about.

I don't know if you caught it but as the doctor was walking through London their was a Club In the background flanked by to cybermen looking statues. Also their was something diffrent with the first cars we saw. I'm wondering what that's about.

FINALLY, IT'S BEEN A WHILE THAT YOU HAVE A DOCTOR WHO VIDEO. LET'S GOOOOOOO

You've just dropped this as im going to bed. Will watch it tomorrow tho miss your reactions to who.

Tardis with a lot of round things in different colors

Missed ya FailWhale! Haven’t seen ya in awhile 😭

this episode was based on a comics made where the 4th doctor was the protagonist. Because of the 60th anniversary, they decided to bring back that story and based a episode with it.

Been so excited for this reaction

"where is gwen" .... you are so real

In his sci-fi novel "Perelandra," C.S. Lewis chronicles the adventures of Dr. Elwin Ranson on the planet Venus (whose natives call it by the name in the title of the book). Ransom finds a world in an Eden-like state, with only one man and one woman making up the "human" population. The two have become separated, and Ransom has become acquainted with the Queen. An evil spirit inhabiting the body of Ransom's colleague Professor Weston tries to inflate the sinless Queen's ego and tempt her to sin. He tells her stores about heroic women and paints her a word picture which Lewis describes as follows: "Each one of these women had stood forth alone and braved a terrible risk for her child, her lover, or her people. Each had been misunderstood, reviled, and persecuted: but each also magnificently vindicated by the event. The precise details were often not very easy to follow. Ransom had more than a suspicion that many of these noble pioneers had been what in ordinary terrestrial speech we would call witches or perverts. But that was all in the background. What emerged from these stories was rather an image than an idea-- the picture of the tall, slender form, unbowed though the world's weight rested upon its shoulders, stepping forth fearless and friendless into the dark to do for others what those others forbade it to do yet needed to have done." Now, pay close attention to this next part: "And all the time, as a sort of background to these goddess shapes, the speaker was building up a picture of the other sex. No word was directly spoken on the subject: but one felt them there as a huge, dim multitude of creatures pitifully childish and complacently arrogant; timid, meticulous, unoriginating; sluggish and ox-like, rooted to the earth almost in their indolence, prepared to try nothing, to risk nothing, to make no exertion, and capable of being raised into full life only by the unthanked and rebellious virtue of their females." Lewis was indeed a prophet!

This is the 4th channel I’m subscribed to that has watched this

I just watched the star beast all the way through yesterday night

"Hail to The Meep!"

I watched with cc on. I suggest everyone watch the last scene with cc on. 🙃😘

Oh my god you’re back! I’ve missed your reactions to who 😁

"Rose can't act, she's terrible, I don't know how to tell her" - that certainly didn't help, as Rose was flat and wooden, but how much of that was down to the charater bio. New Who (under RTD / Phil Collinson etc) is usually pretty good at casting. I loved John Barrowman's portratal as Cpt Jack, his sex was obvious but never felt forced - it all worked, brillianty. RTD created and wrote Cpt Jack and in 2005 era also created the wheelchair bound John Lumic (Age of Steel) and I am sure there is other villians with disabilities he created, yet now in 2023 wants to preach to us about trans and feels uncomfortable about evil Davros whilst a great new UNIT Scientific Advisors has rockets in her wheelchair! First half of the show was great, including some touching trans scenes with Donna's mum talking to Donna about Rose and the deadnaming of Rose in steet, but trashing men (including trans men which RTD is totally oblivious to) in the storys conclusion was as a result shite, cheap and condescending. Has RTD changed, choosing to now focus on inclusivity and bigging all up, well apart from those like him (full mobility who identify as males) - or is that the only safe identity he can now poke fun of in these modern times... Lets see how this pans out, I'm trying to keep an open mind, but for me this episode without the 'new who' features (title sequence, seeing Catherine and David plus of course Sylvia and new Tardis Console) was not one I would ever watch in full again.

I'm looking forward to the next episode of Doctor Who.

Very good Star Beauty episode with little or no commentary just like I wanted

The meep was in retro dr who comics.

Kinda nuts that I miss the buffering from the old reactions. Great reaction!

Did you see "Mr Bean" (Rowan Atkinson)'s attempt at "Dr Who"?

They could’ve called this Doctor Who: The Search for Donna

Well then, Here We Go Again 💙

Great to see you reacting to Who again and especially seeing Tennat and Tate again. Of course myself besides classic who Tennat was my Doctor growing up so it makes me happy seeing him again

😍🌌💙💙 The new Tardis opening sequence is so delicious!

YES! GERONIMO, FAILWHALE!

My first Dr was Tom Baker and i love him more than any other Dr, but i love the Tate/Tennant combo more than i love Tom Baker.

Miriam morgoyles was the voice of the meep if you don't know who she is she was very polite to the late Matthew Perry when they appeared on the Graham Norton Show and she shocked Matthew Perry with a rude story