TOP TEN MISTAKES RUSSELL T DAVIES AND THE BBC MADE TO CRASH DOCTOR WHO IN THE TV RATINGS 

There's only 1 mistake, it's ever letting RTD anywhere near Doctor Who again.

They need to firmly decide whether they're done with the old show or not (well to me they are, whether they wanna be or not, anything past Timeless Children is incompatible with the old show). You can't just say "the show has always had very loose canon", and then crowbar in gallons of references to nostalgia bait. One thing that really let me know RTD2 has no idea what he's doing and just schlinging crap against the wall to see what sticks was when he "canonized" the Shalka Doctor (Richard E Grant) in "Rogue". No, just no. He was left behind for a reason.

Don't think they have retcond 217 episodes. I will just ignore this this season for not being Dr Who. Doesn't tarnish the classic series.

Davros and the Daleks are owned by Terry Nation's family are they not? It's not up to RTD to decide.

If you bring back one of the most iconic villains as Sutekh is, you better damn well bring your A game. Unfortunately and unsurprisingly, RTD turned him into a joke.

I just can't wait till they decide that the chameleon circuit should be fixed and then the TARDIS will start adapting to the background and once the police box is gone, we can just draw a line under Dr Who and leave them to whatever this new show is. We can just continue being Who fans, watching the old episodes.

Great show. Many thanks, Brendan, Hugh and Sean. If the right people at Bad Wolf and the BBC see this video, surely common sense will prevail. I feel sorry for the writers commissioned to write original novels featuring the 15th Doctor. Either they write him consistent with the character of the Doctor that we know from decades of great adventures in space and time, seeing him helping people and fighting injustice, or they write him consistent with the character of the 15th Doctor that we've seen on screen, and he does what he does - runs away from danger, cries at the slightest provocation, abandons Ruby to her fate in order to score with a hot young man... The two pull in opposite directions. The very presence of the 15th Doctor makes any story he's in not Doctor Who.

You're right, fantasy (with proper world-building) isn't the same as fan-fic, which is what we got.

Great stream, really interesting! Thanks. Much enjoyed your views on all the points and fully agreed. (1:32:22 "Mint julep tea"...! Must be a crossover episode where the doctors from the TARDIS and USS Enterprise get swapped due to a freak accident...)

1:09.28 Salt to distract a demon is pinched from the children's adventure 'The Phantom Tollbooth' (a jolly good read BTW), which had probably imported it from witch lore. RTD borrowing stuff and repeating himself might be a post Covid19 Chronic fatigue legacy. It would explain why his ideas are now disjointed and don't hang together even on their own terms. (Had this myself; only resting helps.) Also Gatwa's weepy Doctor (wasn't he introduced as the carefree post therapy one?) looks like it was originally written for the Tenant PTSD Doctor (14's sexuality switch fits) and he was just too lazy/knackered to do a proper rewrite.

RTD put his agenda over the Whoniverse and has become the real villain of the show.

1:19:25 Representation. Are you sure you didn't see North Eastern characters on the BBC growing up? I fear you protest too much or were you out in the pub at prime time? 'The Likely Lads' and 'Whatever Happened to the Likely lads' 1964-66 & 73-74 (the latter much repeated), the epic 'When the Boats Comes in' 1976, '77 and '81, 'Boys from the Blackstuff' 1982, 'Spender 1991-93 and finally (?) and well after my time and probably yours, 'Byker Grove' 1989-2006. I'm a Londoner and I noticed (also I was a student in Sunderland 1983-6 and a lay-a-bout there 1987). Plus, if the BBC wasn't for you, on ITV there was 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet' 1983-4, 1986, 2002 and 2004.

I am 67 and female and have watched Who all my life. Also liked stuff like Space Patrol when I was v young.Talking about accents just where does Ncutis settle.just want sci-fi back but for some strange reason the whole genre has been under attack across the board as Gary says SJW. David and Matt have been rather daft recently as well.

Trying to think about what i was watching in my pre 30 years, it was the Movie with McGann, which i hated the romance part and as it had been mentioned he was half human. Aside from that I enjoyed Buffy and Angel, Star Trek the Next Generation etc oh and Babylon 5. All are far better than this new season, no way would a pre 30 year old would enjoy this unless its the first bit of televison aside from a soap opera anyone has seen.

1st mistake getting RTD back as showrunner. 2nd Mistake getting Ncuti to play the Doctor. I was told he was a good actor but he only has 2 emotions, the solitary tear and mouth agape, the only 2 he seems to have developed. 3rd, Every episode was junk, and it led to a finale that made no sense, badly written full of plot holes. Remember the days of Tennant when he could tear at your emotions, Family of Blood, Journeys end. Give me classic Who any day. RTD has given about 100 youtube channels so much ammunition, you couldn't pay for this exposure. If this had been a good series it would never have been this popular on youtube. As for your no.4 The best part is, he has already said the next series will be as bad, and you'll all still watch it and next year there'll be 200 youtube reviewers. RTD may be a bad writer but he's still got you watching. Representation means nothing if these people are only there for window dressing. I think RTD was lured back by Disney money. I think he thought he'd have the budget to do as he liked and it went to his head. He has no imagination.

Will releasing the episodes first on streaming and then on television be that?

The Pre transmission attacks launched on the fans by Gatwa were a colossal error. The lack of quality in the “specials” characterised by the poor writing, the ill conceived “Bigeneration”, the nonsense of “I’m more”(You can say that again!), the duplicated TARDIS, the change of sexuality of the character following the change of sex, the Historical blackface, the McGuffin of Ruby which had no resolution, “Space Babies” sheer awfulness, the imposition of pronouns, the reduction of the character of the Doctor to an entitled crybaby, the desecration of Pyramids of Mars…. Someone please make it stop.

One big mistake made, I think it was Steven Moffet who started this, is thinking and saying that Doctor Who doesn't have/never had any canon (although I suspect the beginning of this idea that Doctor Who has no canon sort of began when JNT when he said to fans it's up to the fans whether or not 'Dimensions in Time' was canon or not), and now the idea or that everything is canon both ways being very stupid on so many levels, and that's just an accusation for bad writing/storytelling, bad fan-fiction & bad retcons, etc. Doctor Who has a canon that is flexible and quite mailable to a degree, and yes, it is quite messy in places, but it does have a canon that should be respected and that it (and it actually is) should be tiered. (ie. Prime or main cannon: TV Doctor Who series classic & new & the TV Movie and (for better or worse, including the official charity minisodes). Sub-canon, which are the audio stories (unless they contradict prime canon or by contradicted prime canon). Honorary canon: the two Peter Cushing films (due to popularity, this was historically the case within the older fandom until recent years; not sure what changed with that, but they're not really canon unless they're somehow incorporated into the series which is currently unlikely). High-level non-canon: the comics, & novels (though elements of non-canon can and often do influence prime-canon, and (very) low-level (truly non-canon or zero-canon stuff: fan-fiction, & parody spoofs, etc. (stuff that usually shouldn't be cannon at all unless it's very good & it's up to date with everything else, no or very few plot holes and does not at all retcon and especially disrespect everything that came before in any of the above).

Was that guy being sarcastic when he called the Renegade Doctor a fan favorite? I sure hope so.

Did Brendan say there’s a show on tonight ?

It doesn't matter anymore no one is watching it no one at all. The viewing figures such as they are, are the people who've left their TV on whilst they nipped into the kitchen to cook their dinner.

Retconning the Timeless Child doesn't necessarily mean retconning out the Ruth Doctor. She could simply be a Doctor from an alt-timeline or something really, and more logically, the Shalka Doctor should have been the War Doctor. Still, the Shalka Doctor we seen in 'Rouge' might not actually be the Shalka Doctor at all. Still, rather he's the Valeyard Doctor or something to do with the Great Intelligence... maybe even both... maybe the Shalka Doctor is actually the Valeyard Doctor, who knows...

If you have any doubt this is NOT Dr. Who ask yourself how the Doctor who in his various incarnations has HATED guns, even in the hands of soldiers, was okay with a 13 year old boy with an automatic weapong built into his transport?!!!!!! As to Davros, I have been watching Dr. Who since the 60s and until RTD painted the picture it had NEVER occured to me to connect him to people in wheelchairs.... Davros was simply half Dalek 🤷

Maybe hiring a woke priest instead of a writer has something to do with the terrible ratings.

Hey so I just want to ask why are you guys so focused on ratings? Just a casual question from someone who wants to understand your viewpoint

I have no problem with fantasy elements, remember The Daemons or Curse of Fenric? Even this season it reminds me of the Eighth Doctor books. Doctor Who is a show about everything, not just sci-fi.

Frankly the 15th Doctor seems more Doctorish to me than Jodie Whittaker doing a bad Tennant impression. Ncuti has his own style, as does Eccleston who was so anti-Doctor.