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THAT'S WHO THAT IS! Without the mustache I couldn't figure out who that was

I had the same reaction when I saw him in Wing Commander. Totally threw me. And I never knew that he played the villain in Iron Eagle, either.

HBHaga HBHaga

It's just a pity that someone of his caliber is used only in one episode....

I thought the acting a bit .... Wooden

I quite agree, it's so important because it shows that he never changed from the little boy refusing to let his mother go. Like Eliza, really. Both are stuck as who they are, and that is their tragedy, in the end.

Ummm...Bill and her friends try room-sharing, their landlord offers them a real gift horse of a house. The lice kinda feed on the tenants, and we've discovered here that the landlord uses that to keep his mother alive. He convinced everyone, however, that Eliza was his daughter - that's what this clip is on about. Yeah I dunno.

Doctor: I don't want to either...

I dont wanna go 😣

Well of course. He shouldn't want to kill himself.

Well if you put it that way...

Pretty much yeah

With out context

That’s messed up..

And take her son with her

One of the few times when to say an actress gave a wooden performance is actually a compliment

Christopher Luxford Very true lol

And it proves once and for all that Vin Deisel could have worn makeup as Groot, at least for the first Guardians film.

I guess you can say their feet stood rooted to the ground 😂

martijn van weele I thought this was CGI!!!

Yeah, it just sucks nowadays that a lot of the villains put fourth on the show are shallow characters with no complexity to them.

@@ShuTheIdiot dr who is dying get woke go broke

@@nero3837 I hate when people say that because it's always had strong social commentary, it's just devolved under chibnall to talking into the camera

New Dr who is a embarrassment to its legacy

@@swagatmaharana3131 New who's best is a lot better than classic who's worst.

And the Doctor has lost everything - everyone, including the one who gave him life. It's hard for him to say he wouldn't have done the same thing to save them, either.

Jimmysticks also because the doctor considers it his own fault that everything he loved is dead

@@hud5307 But The doctor is less human than Bill

the companion's outfit kinda ruined the mood to me

it was

Congrats im ur 700th like

No just creepy.

Silver Screen Here’s to changing your likes to 1k I just did that well I obviously agree with you!!

David Suchet's brilliant and heartfelt performance reminds us how specifically insane villains, as inexcusably heinous as their crimes can still be, may easily earn sympathy. I think that keeps such fictional villains on the map and certainly for sci-fi like Doctor Who.

Agreed

@@galacticmoonwolf8462 to be honest that sounds like a mature approach. Most people seem to come to that conclusion, some not until they are near death themselves. Perhaps you're just a step ahead, nothing wrong with that x

doesn't that mean you were born while your mother was 42?

It’s not impossible, my youngest sister was born when my mom was 41

May God bless her with a long life ahead🙂

Only time i saw parents do it is to be abusive and controlling really. Only because the sentence works in fiction doesn't mean it should be applied irl.

@@skeletoninyourbody9896 Fully agree with that one. Any parent that need to excerpt control like that seem to often do it as an excuse for abuse. Not always, of course, and not in all contexts, but an unquestioned power structure that takes away agency from a child is not great. A parent need to teach, and guide, and absolutely set healthy boundaries, but also empower and foster independence, not just say they are in charge and leave it at that. In fact, children tend to be more likely to act out if you restrict them too harshly.

​@@pmsavengerThank you for taking the time to expand on this. It provides clarification for those viewing it that may have faced mistreatment to not simply double-down on past resentments, but simply take on a different approach moving forward if they are considering parenthood or are in a position that grants them authority over others. Mutual understanding of one's own place in the world and the boundaries we establish, coupled with an effective approach, would in my mind at least make for better guides and leaders that this world truly needs as opposed to the network of perfidious individuals that always seems to ascertain power for their mutual interest. There are too many 'truth' keepers that act under the pretence of morality and justice that simply are trying to advance themselves/their group over another whilst playing the victim when justifying opportunism/violence against their competitors. Identifying patterns of behaviour really should be taught at an elementary level so any individual can safeguard themselves from parasitic individuals that feed of the fear and morality plea bargaining they offer their victims as an ultimatum, as though they themselves are judge jury and executioner. There is often no reasoning with beings that will use even your apology if you've been gaslighted enough as a means to simply justify smiting you after you are made to appear guilty of socially perceived slights they have concocted in the minds of others. That is essentially the basis for a lot of past witch trials and even modern forms of social castigation that are designed to ruin the lives of rivalling individuals that are deemed a nuisance to compete with on a level playing field, so often have to stack the deck in their favour with more perfidious means. Anyone who has ever engaged in the outlined manner of behaviour when dealing with their opposition should know that this form of social engagement is unsustainable as if it were applied by everyone uniformly they too would likely be increasingly on the receiving end of it the more this social behaviour is encouraged/propagated. In such case they should truthfully do all to uphold the rights and freedoms of even their competitor and play the game on even terms if they are to be granted an honourable victory if their values and sense of morality are greater. Even if an individual is correct in their assertions this still wouldn't grant someone the authority to deem themselves a superior and thus empowered to assert authority of the inherent worth of the individual based on this as that is a self-assumed role people try to claim to dominate the wills of others with their own. Primal animals act with indifference when asserting themselves over others, so the truly moral individual deserving of authority doesn't seek power to assert oneself over others, they assume authority for the wellbeing of others and not to bring about the complete ruin of others, even their rivals. The world unfortunately plays by the more primitive hierarchical approach that doesn't account for the good of the whole, but the part in which they pertain to and its expansion/domination over other individuals/groups.

@@skeletoninyourbody9896 doesn’t mean kids should be running things it depends on the context

@@skeletoninyourbody9896 of course,it should be taken with nuances.no doupt of that.

One should NEVER kill the David variety!

David Suchet has always been an exceptional actor. He was the best Poirot ever!

You just described a bully.

@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right wow that is so true lol

@Pirdee Rongpi I wood

I would

TheZenarck 550 Hmmm It’s sad for someone to _bark_ something so depressing.

I probably Wood...

I sea what you did there

He aged in body but not in mind, he was still the young boy who didnt want his mom to die, just learning to be savvy enough to lure people in.

Who wouldn’t man

@@Gutssssss666 I wouldn’t. You are scary if you would murder to keep a zombie mom.

@@davidthedeaf I never said anything like that I meant wouldn’t you also be a mommas boy? Do you not love your mom

@@Gutssssss666 exactly - as someone who’s come close to losing their mother multiple times throughout my life, I can deeply sympathize with the antagonist - he isn’t a villain, he just wants his mother to live..

Lol

@LARY GIBBIONS LMMFAOOO

😂😂😂

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

😂😂😂😂

I’m not the biggest fan of the past two series but I really liked Demons of the Punjab and It Takes You Away.

Yeah. At first she said for him to go and see the world but he couldn’t live with it, so she knew she had to end both of their suffering.

coming back a year later, still not over it :(

nah still not over it 😭

@ what about angels take Manhattan when any and Rory die that was sad too

13th doctor might replace him at subscription scene at any moment ;D

alex peters that must never happen.

Maybe at series 11

This actually got a good laugh out of me!

Exactly

Did you copy that comment

👏👏

@@lagawregenecemagahusagay7492 nah it's a joke I told my friends when I was like 6, so technically stolen lol

Same 😭

@@keren.b_9642 Honestly still does! 😂

@@GlitzyIsBored nearly 4 years later and its still a good joke

@scftlcve yes!!

😂😂😂 and she talks.!!

lol yup

😂🏆

Yes, you did!!!Good one

I am the thousandth like.

Definitely one of the best performances of series 10.

Who would've thought poirot's mother was wooden?

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH TRIPLE KILL 360 NO SCOPE BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike Basil David Suchet? Oh, the one who played Hercules Poirot? Didn't recognise him.

Hmm, I'd argue he was better in Peter Pan goes wrong. 😉

Well he was just a little kid really. He wanted to have his mommy

@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 "Wheres my mommy" Haha

@@eliza7972 finally aomeone got it

@@toryquinton2677 im guessing your quoting a famous philosopher. I can't really say. Responsibility is important to growth in life yet no one wants it even if we have no choice. So i would say. No your not your brothers keeper but you are your own responsibility an what you cherrish in your heart is your responsibility to care for.

Stephen Bachman It's a quote from the Bible from Cain and Abel, the one who said that was asked where his brother, who was often more complaint with tasks, who was then killed by his brother who said "am I my brothers keeper" out of jealousy

Fantastic!

Raghu Seetharaman Leave what? Or where?

That joke was going around when I was at school, 40 years ago. lol

Raghu Seetharaman Leave where exactly. And, It wasn't even a joke. The only joke here is you.

Oliver Linklater Somebody’s angry...

Ir0n Gamer Maybe because they had just been consumed while everyone were eaten entirely

@@Howyaduing makes sense. Why would the bugs eat someone super fast if they could eat them slowly, which would help to not get attention from the cops

Maybe they had been gone too long

Its caus they were recent, didnt get completly consumed, unlike others

Eliza didn't have time to spend the life force she got from them and permanently erase them, so as she died she gave back the energy she got from them to restore them. The other victims were long long gone.

She's definietly a bit deep into the uncanny valley

I think it's meant to be both

Hello fellow brony!!

She won't be once you're over fifteen, I expect.

@@mattsmithdoctorrules2256 isnt my little pony a kids show

Mike Paz Can someone explain whats happening, I'm not a fan of doctor who, I've never seen an episode either. But I am a fan of Greek mythology and this women looks like a victim of Medusa, or a wood nymph. I'm not able to find anything on the internet either. Who is this lady??~

FlowerPower123 That old man crying is the wooden lady's son.When he was young,his mother was dying,her 12 year old found some bugs he liked and brought them to her bed,the bugs where magical,and saved her,by turning her into wood.Her son had to feed the bugs to keep his mother alive,feeding them..humans...As the mother got older,she forgot about almost everything..and she was convinced that her son is actually her father..and this happened after Doctor Who came Hope you understand something 😂

Thankyou. Nice narrative, i hope they upload more information on the wikia's. Those seem damn evil, what i dont understand is ... the bugs seem really powerful cant they just kill people on their own.. but oh well they need to make a story i guess.

Mike Paz 9

@@starsfalldown1234567late but, the bugs can kill people, but bugs aren't that adept at luring people on their own. John was luring people to the house with the bait of cheap housing. The bugs learned that obeying him and letting him live meant they'd be consistently fed and allowed to spread.

Caillou with rocket folding chair guns incoming XD

What about jodies

Be careful! There might be woodlice inside them.

TheSkully343 Not if they're made of plastic

Well then you'd better watch out for the Nestene Consciousness.

A Doctor Who episode where the Nestene takes over Doctor Who action figures, causing little Doctors and Dalek toys to came alive and attack children within their bedrooms. Best idea ever.

Bill and Nardole action figure first. And a proper Clara. :-)

My condolences...

Q8Bart dont ruin this

Q8Bart please ruin it. in starting to get in touch with my feelings and I find it rather upsetting.

I am groot

Doctor who doesn't always need to be scary

It's been seven weeks - nearer two months :/

I keep checking back for that. :/