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The 1-2 punch of Dot and Bubble and Rogue is especially weird in retrospect. The Doctor encounters racism for the first time and then we go back in time and pretend that Regency era England was a multicultural, cosmopolitan culture with no racism instead of a brutal, colonial slave state.
When watching it i kept telling my partner who i was watching with how fucking weird it was and how the characters were acting totally different and how the studio clearly mandated they do a bridgerton episode and they even referenced that in the episode several times and lo and behold it was written by totally different writers. I feel like i cant blame rtd for that one too bad, that seems like the studio caused rouge to be shit by insisting on a desperate appeal to a young audience with no overlap by copying another show, and to try and create a jack harkness 2.
@123Voynich you do realize RTD is the showrunner right? He’s the one that commissioned them to write Rogue. He was very much involved through the entire process of making the episode.
Yeah, it was a nightmare. I don’t really enjoy the weird trend of pretending none of this happened and POC characters just slot nicely into the setting, and everything’s happy, and nobody’s treated badly. That’s not what happened, though, and a black man at the ball would’ve been something of a scandal and few people would’ve attended a ball there again. A gay kiss would also have grounds for imprisonment. The tacky incorporation of Bridgerton tropes “This is so Bridgerton” only made it worse. Be Doctor Who. Doctor Who will have a lasting legacy and Bridgerton will be forgotten.
YEAH IM GONNA GET POPCORN FOR THIS!!! So sorry man about all the copyright stuff my god, I was following along on twitter, I'm super excited for this, thank you so much
The word that keeps coming to mind when I think about RTD2 is “needless.” Needless in the sense that pretty much everything wrong with this series is an unforced error. Every single creative decision Russell made can’t be blamed on a lack of talent or bureaucratic meddling, it’s all on him and we know he can do better. We all know that what made RTD1 so impactful to so many of us was the emotional, character driven heart of those stories so to see him abandon it and treat us instead to cardboard cutout copies of characters that are 15 and Ruby is just… depressing. And that’s before we get into how nearly every episode is riddled with plot holes, narrative contrivances or creative decisions that are just laughably terrible. It’s all so pointless, because I expect better from the man who gave us 9 and 10. I don’t know how this happened… but it did, and we are all the worse off for it.
I'd say its the exact opposite problem. I don't imagine series 1 (2005) would have been as good if it had only been 8 episodes & people would probably raving about this latest series if it had 13 full episodes. As well as people need to stop pretending the series became bad because of an underwhelming finale: Everyone was raving for the individual episodes. Devil's Chord, Dot & Bubble, 74 yards & Rogue are all hall-of-fame episodes of Doctor Who.
@@samrobotsin All of the episodes you cited are bad. 😂 No, it didn’t become bad because of an underwhelming finale, it became bad because every episode was bad, or at the very least severely flawed. S1 would have been diminished if it only had 8 episodes, absolutely, but it would still have been 8 great episodes like Fathers Day and Dalek. Nothing in S14 even comes close to S1 at its worst.
This is how I feel as well. Like, he did all that mystery box nonsense with Ruby for...what reason? It kind of feels like he wrote himself in a corner earlier by creating the mystery, then he decided to watch the last three Star Wars movies and thought ''Yo, that could work'' and decided to write in the last minute the whole ''Ruby was special because WE made her special''. And it's so weird how back in his first era, this guy managed to write around the main actor leaving the show after one season. He managed to work around BBC wanting to cancel the show and not believing he could make it work. And now with a bigger budget, the support of the BBC, Disney and the fandom, it feels like he is just tired. His writing feels...tired. His biggest comebacks after being gone for 15 years is...bigeneration and ''Ruby's mom is actually normal''.
Never seen Doctor Who before, but I watched the whole thing on Patreon already and it was fantastic! It got me interested and I started watching the show after I finished your video. I'm on series 2 now, and I'm loving it so far! Great job as always bro 🤘
Super sorry to hear about the copyright issues. The BBC's been really weird about this as of late - I know Council of Geeks has been having trouble with them lately as well. Here's hoping they knock it off sooner rather than later!
It would have been a good place to end Icl but DW can go on as long as it wants. Fresh blood is all that it requires. The best eps of the Chibnall aren't even his.
Oh, there is some stuff after Capaldi that I would even call very good, but I am ever more certain that it is not worth the associated pain of watching entire seasons for context (and that's the only way I'm capable of watching Who)
Ever since Matt Smith transitioned to Peter Capaldi the Doctor is now Gallifrey. That’s my theory on the split. But which doctor got Gallifrey’s energy? Perhaps half to both?
Dr who hasn't been good since series 11 imo. The rampant adhd that kept getting worse and worse, the overbearing preschy-ness, the sonic screwdriver that fixes every damn problem, and so many more issues. The writing quality has gone so far downhill since 2017 that I can count the number of enjoyable episodes since then on 1 hand. But that's just me. I went back and watched the classic show after re-watching the new series recently and while there are definitely some duds in there it feels so much more genuine and they act like regular people in that show (for the most part). Idk if it's just me but the adhd nature of the new series has really soured on me over time.
Series 11?? Even though Capaldi was a great doctor I wouldn't call any one of his seasons great.. The show hasn't been great since the 50th anniversary
@@mullaoslo That's just wrong. The Capaldi era gets a bit divisive but S9 and S10 are considered some of the best. S7 wasn't well received either or you could even say S6. Basically it doesn't matter.
@@Comicbroe405 i give season 6 and 7 leaway becuase Moffat was at least able to keep the overall storyarch of 11 and the mysteries around him interesting until the end.. Some answers where underwealming like the silence but at least I was interested until the reveal.. I'll agree s 9-10 where an improvement over the seasons 6-8 but I'll take the best episodes of the latter over the best of the former every time.
Thank you, even as someone who likes this series. Im glad theres a good faith video out there that isnt grr minorites or grr black or trans people. Its tiring how rampant bigotry is in the DW fandom. As messy it is, Boom, 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble were all very good imo. Also the reason Russels given for low episode count is the old count made his mental health really poor with how much work it was
I will say to be fair in regards to character development Ruby's story isn't over yet so I think whatever happens in Season 2/Series 15 could very well benefit this season and Russell has said there are more answers to come so that may help give better context for this season, I do think we're missing something there. I think this was a solid season with some fantastic episodes though of course it isn't perfect and there are some things that even puzzled me on broadcast that I still can't quite wrap my head around but we'll see what happens! Either way I love Doctor Who and I ain't going anywhere!
4 hours talking about Doctor Who? Yes please! I didn't expect to watch this in one go but here we are, too much time on my hands clearly. I've found talking about this new series to be quite exhausting since it aired, the faults being so blatant and bewildering from such an excellent writer. All I'll say is I was so disappointed by the return of RTD and the underutilisation of Ncuti who could be such an incredible Doctor. But I think having a conclusion that is hopeful, that does try to give RTD the benefit of the doubt because he had a herculean task and he shouldered it almost by himself, is interesting. He's made some massive mistakes and now the sheen of his return is slightly marred, maybe the focus can return to making excellent stories with deep interesting characters instead of trying to make Doctor Who as popular as it was before artificially. We can only hope.
Went and made dinner to watch this one! Always enjoy hearing your thoughts on things whether I agree or not but thanks for voicing some of my own thoughts!
Weirdly, the music is never what got copyright claimed, it was always the video of the episodes themselves. I just downloaded them from RU-vid and converted them to MP3 and used them, RU-vid’s copyright system didn’t seem to have any issues
BTW the plot of the episode about the Maestro reminds me of a movie that I've watched when I was little "Martians go Home". They were summoned by music and the way to deal with them was music again :D
I think my biggest problem with this season is the man himself, Russell. His behaviour in interviews while addressing some of the criticism feels like he is just tired of the show and wants to get away by acting like people are idiots for criticizing him. For example. Bigeneration he just laughs it off in an interview and says something like ''I imagine fans on the internet are gonna have a lot to say about this'' and proceeds to make the worst theory possible about every Doctor bigenerating just so he can explain Tales of the TARDIS (which he wrote) or Peter Davison looking older on that miniepisode in Series 3. Then, after the finale he proceeds to say stuff like ''Well, I did that because it was fun! This is Doctor Who, it's meant to be silly!''. And he even admits that he did all that mystery surrounding Ruby because it pushes the algorhitm for the show online, since fans make videos about it or discuss it on Twitter and Reddit. And he mentioned on SDCC how fun it would be to bring dead Doctors back to life through CGI. Proceeds to respond to the ''Ncuti cries a lot'' criticism with ''I don't care, I'm doing it anyway''.
This is me before finish the video. I’m about to go to work but when I get back I’ll edit this comment when I finish watching. Personally I felt it was an average season of Davies doctor who. Some absolutely amazing episodes, some ok episodes, some absolutely awful episodes that I will never rewatch, and a disappointing finale. Like 4 of Davies 5 previous seasons (I’m including the next doctor - end of time as it’s own season) we’re like this and I’m fine with it; I don’t personally feel it was a massive disappointment or a awful season, it was about what I expected from a RTD season and I’m hopeful he’ll bring in other writers and stick to what he’s good at with more serious episodes and not goofy silly episodes.
I found your channel about a year ago and although I've only checked out the videos of the games I like, I really like your styles. I'm also not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I grew up when it was mostly the Baker and McCoy stuff being played. Although I love Sci-fi the campiness never connected with me. Where my interest comes in is for some of the lore. I have seen some of the franchises I love, like Star Trek, be destroyed by poor writing and ideology. There are many content creators out there who dismantle what is being done to once-loved franchises., but it's actually nice to have that done with a bit of dignity. Sometimes things get unnecessarily personal towards the performers. But at the same time, they seem to play the race card or sexism card when poor writing is called out or simply for people choosing not to watch something. Again, great channel and the dignity is refreshing.
I think this is the first time I'm gonna be fully agreeing with a negative critique of yours. Loved the eps individually but as a series it's such a mess. Also would love to see a video on just Capaldi alone.
Russell definitely has "second album syndrome". He probably spent years thinking about his first few seasons. He put all his best stuff in it. But now the studio wants another album or they are pulling the plug on the band, so he has to shit out some stuff. He tries to replicate some of his old work, but he's changed and so has the audience. But it's not working
A very well made video and well done on getting all completed so quickly. I can imagine that this was HELL to get through the copyright system. I personally enjoyed the series, but agree with a lot of what you said in the broad strokes. That said, I feel like there's a lot of padding here, a lot of repeating yourself to try and stretch out the run time of the video. But then again, I have to put the blame for that on BBC and Disney for foolishly labelling S14 as Season One. It's just a baffling move and so its perfectly justifiable for you to, as you do in this video, spend large portions directly comparing it to the 2005 Series One. If you view it as a Series 14, the 'speedrun catch-up' makes a lot more sense from a writing perspective, although it is personally in my opinion the clunkiest segment in the whole series writing wise (rivalled only by the Ruby mum reveal in EoD.) The 8 Episode problem is so large and effects the whole series but I don't think it can be helped, I'm sure if they could use their magic wand to make more episodes they would. Doesn't mean we can't still point it out because like it or not it changes everything about how we view the series but it isn't as simple as a math equation (minus money from special effects = more episodes!) Personally I think most episodes in the series, as standalone episodes, are actually rather good. But put together into a series it comes out less than the sum of its parts. And I think that's because the 45 minute format fundamentally sucks. New Who in general is majorly flawed but in the past its covered its flaws with high episode counts. I think if they _did_ want to actually do a new reboot, they needed to change the whole format of the show so it couldn't be directly compared to what came before. Especially in this current climate where nostalgia is king, calling a new series Season One is just begging for it to be torn apart and directly compared to the beloved episodes of old, just as you did with 73 Yards and Turn Left or Space Babies and Rose/End of the World. I feel like 73 Yards is better compared to Heaven Sent than Turn Left but that's neither here nor there. Either way, great video, keep up the great stuff
I've seen a couple reviews for the show and all I can say is it had the worst written finale I have ever fucking seen. How do you kill death with death? If you brought the god of death back in time to his younger self, wouldn't you just be making death twice as powerful. In that time he wouldn't kill himself
I think the idea is meant to be in math where two negatives make a positive. Dragging Sutekh throughout the time vortex is killing him all the times he killed the universe essentially undoing what he did.
I’m sorry, but you really could have edited this video to half of its running time. I’m halfway through, and there’s just way too much rambling and repetition.
@@djfrozen4534 but that's not the conflict here. The conflict is between a 4hr decent video and a 2hr great one (which would certainly require OP to put even more time and dedication into editing)
I'm not going to lie. This is real. Last night I dreamt I met the Doctor, but not the current one. I think it was 10 or maybe 11. I was invited to join the Tardis crew. Hell. Yes. BUT, and I swear this is true. The Tardis was a literal shit emoji, and you had to crawl in through the eye window. Even on a subconscious level, I think the show is shit now.
Plot is important but the plot should always be in service of character, never the other way round (Its the reason why soap operas are so unanimously dogshit and poorly written)
Just sick of Doctor Woke, the show making it gay as possible when it’s just a si-fi show with a character who isn’t any sexuality and they wanna make it a story arch so much
Please go watch: The TV movie The Doctor Dances New Earth The Girl in the Fireplace Doomsday Smith and Jones Human Nature The Family of Blood Voyage of the Damned Silence in the Library Forest of the Dead Journey’s End Time of Angels Flesh and Stone The Impossible Astronaut Day of the Moon A Good Man Goes To War The Wedding of River Song The Snowmen The Name of the Doctor The Husbands of River Song The sexuality of the Doctor has been a big part of their character for a LONG time. Let’s also not forget that the Doctor’s first companion was his granddaughter (she clearly came from some where. She didn’t just pop out of the ground one day, or get delivered by a stork.)
