@@sungpark3684 he's definitely accusing the doctor, perhaps it's just playing with the Doctor or Donna's head, or maybe he's trying to make the point that the doctor plays with people like they're toys and therefore is more like him
@@LoganDark4357I remember someone pointing out that the reason the Toymaker constantly changes his voice is to prevent the doctor from mimicking it, like the First Doctor did in their original confrontation. That attention to detail is something I really like, as it shows that the Toymaker is aware of what caused him to lose and is preventing that from ever happening again.
@@shivill2236 I think it's similar to how he constantly changes outfit and position as well, if you watched the BTS for The Giggle then they point it out there as well
@@davidbethke5463 he's exaggerating the pronunciations, like a non-native speaker might do, like he does with all his other accents; playing into their lore that all his accents and trappings are just stolen from earth cultures all willy-nilly, just a celestial creature playing at being human
I'm guessing he sees the Doctor protecting their companion(s) as a game, and since so many of them had died in circumstances where the doctor "lost"; when the doctor made excuses for why they lost or how they're not "really" dead, well the Toymaker hated that, like trying to cheat the rules
Honestly likes he's mocking the Doctor, who's trying to justify their deaths and say they're okay, rather than accepting the loss of his past companions
This along with the fact that the Doctor even tried to justify the last two are really interesting to me tbh Like with Clara, it was directly stated that since her death was a fixed point…she’s gotta go back *eventually* despite being able to go on a few adventures with Me beforehand And with Bill, he basically said “well she’s in heaven now” It’s almost like the Doctor is making excuses as a means to motivate himself and feel less guilty about bringing Donna into this situation….a sort of “even if something bad happens, I can fix things based on technicality, I’ve done it before, why wouldn’t I be able to now”
Agreed. The tragedy of Amy and Rory was centered around the Doctor losing his friends, not their deaths. They had a happy life together in a quaint countryside village. If anything they won, considering all the infinitely horrifying ways to die in the Whoniverse.
I love how hes preying on the Doctors guilt over the death of his companions. Whether hes guilty of letting them down or not, the Doctor likely blames himself for it. And the brutual 'well thats alright then' line makes all his defensives sound so very hollow. This guy knows how to mess with someones head.
this exactly. the toymaker doesnt care if the doctor is in the wrong or not, in reality he's threatening him and donna, and preying on their fears. he wants to make the doctor to fear having companions again
That's kinda like the way they regenerated him into Ncuti. Ncuti was split off frol Tennant, almost like a child being born asexually, like a jellyfish. So Ncuti's Doctor seems to be free from the same guilt and qualms as his "dad"
@@bessieburnet9816 I think there was a throwaway line explaining that the 14th doctor would live on and settle down as a form of therapy, and when he eventually regenerates he will become 15 on the UNIT tower. This would certainly explain why Ncuti's doctor acts a bit wiser and healed.
Yeah. 15 called it "rehab in reverse". We don't fully know how it works, but 14 taking time to recover allowed 15 to start fresh. It was the only way to get back to having a fun Doctor without all the trauma the previous writers caused. And of all the Doctors that need to learn how to forgive himself, Tennant's is number 1 on the list.
@@WiGgYof094 and 5 actually did something similar. We don't quite know why or how, but in the episode 4 died, 5's... ghost? Spectre? Was already walking around and stalking the Doctor. And when 4 died from falling off a tower, 5 merged into him. "The moment has been prepared for." Also 10 has cheated using regeneration energy before, with the Metacrisis Doctor Hand. Which is also what gave Donna's family Time Lord traits.
I know a lot of people (me included) see the different incarnations as different people or at least different stages of the doctors life with whole experiences and people that is limited to that incarnation
Especially when you consider that, when they shifted from the Davies era to the Moffat era, they tied a bow on every companion 9/10 had (except Moffat creations like River Song), and not only wrote them out of the show going forward, but barely mentioned them at all in the following seasons.
For real, Bill had it worse than any of the others in nuwho. And the fact the doctor says "I can't promise you that, you humans are so fragile" before it cuts to her with a hole in her chest...
Toymaker: Graham though you're such a trustworthy person and opened his heart to tell you that he is scared that his cancer might come back, but you didn't even try to confort or encourage him. The Doctor: I told him I was still quite social akward. - Well that's all right then. I would love to see Toymaker calling out all Doctors mistakes he did with his companions. :D
The Doctor, especially since the reboot, tends to go Scorched Earth on certain villians. Particularly the ones who try to call him out on his stuff. As he himself has said, Good men don't need rules, today is not the day to find out why I have so many
I’m still waiting for someone to call him out for kidnapping Ian and Barbara, almost bashing a caveman’s head, sabotaging his tardis to explore the daleks city and then not giving a fuck about the thals but manipulating them to die for him and threatening to throw Ian and Barbara out of a moving tardis.
"And Herr Kaptain Jack Harkness..." The Toymaker paused. As much as he had tried, no matter how hard he looked, across every wandering thread of time that comprised the history of the Time Lord sat below him, the Captain was there. Gunned down by Daleks, he was still there, sucked into The Time Vortex, he was still there, electrocuted, evaporated, eviscerated by rotating metal balls, every single time he saw the captain again. The toymaker quickly scowled, before dropping the doll over the small stage. "And ze Kaptain who so much vanted to die... You couldn't even give him vot he really vanted..." He cut the head from the doll, and it rolled onto the floor, and out of sight. "Jack learnt to live with his immortality. He has family, friends..." came The Doctor's reply, defensive, but defiant. But the Toymaker knew exactly what the Doctor was thinking, as it loomed deep in his subconscious. The curse, not a blessing, of immortality, as curse not dissimilar from The Doctor's very own. He theatrically threw on his mockingly unconvincing facial expression, and shouted. "Well, that's alright then!"
"Iz zat vat he told you, Herr Doktor?" The Toymaker tilted his head with a mocking grin. "Or did you zimply assume as much, because it scares you, to zink of what happens, in the moments you're not there to play ze hero, and zomebody else has to pay ze price." He wonders which doll he ought to use for that example. The two scientists, who he could not save? The lover, who died in his arms? The dear, innocent grandson, sacrificed for the greater good, and the daughter, who will never forgive him for pushing the button? It almost disgusted him how little the Doctor knew of the lives of the companions, who left his side alive. So much suffering, and that simply what lay in the Captain's immediate past. If the Doctor truly knew what the people, who loved him, kept from him to spare his feelings, both of his hearts might just break.
I had a moment where I felt like I was reading a Target novelisation and there's a scene that doesn't take place in the broadcast episode, but it works so well it's instantly canon. You know, like with Warrior's Gate or Ghost Light. Thank you for that. Uncle Terrence would be proud.
And then the Harkness doll’s head mysteriously reappears back on its body, which continues to repair itself again & again to the Toymaker’s annoyance until suddenly it slides off its little puppet trousers and just gets cast away in disgust.
The worst part is... he _had_ them. But The Doctor refused to help when he created the problem in the first place, and destroyed it all. Children of Earth? That's Ten's fault. Ten _specifically_ and no other Doctor. Because of overthrowing Harriet and saving Caecilius. Caecilius's final descendant was Frobisher. Remember how things went with the Time Lord Victorious? That was the same thing going on with Frobisher. If The Doctor hadn't overthrown Harriet Jones and hadn't saved Caecilius, Ianto would be alive. No "golden age" would have considered giving into the 456, especially not Harriet. And Frobisher was the Torchwood govt liaison. If Ten hadn't done those things, Torchwood wouldn't have been betrayed, they'd have taken point with full backing, and things would have gone so much differently.
I adore this scene. Everyone defaults to "they didnt really die" when talking about these three, as if to make it ok. It doesn't change the fact that the Doctor had consecutive companions die on their adventures. No matter how the Doctor tries to justify or fix it, their time with the Doctor led them to their deaths.
Not even that, but their lives,if you can call them that, we're irrevocably changed in dramatic ways BECAUSE of the doctor. If he had never met them, some of them may have lived long, normal lives in safety.
You still cannot really count Amy and Rory. At the end of the day, it sucks what happened to them, but they basically still got their happily ever after. Bill an Clara was Moffett wanting to have his cake and eat it to regarding companions.
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And only a few companions earlier was Rose ending up trapped in another universe, away from her friends and family. Jack killed bya Dalek and forced to be immortal (something the Doctor knows first hand sucks). Even Donna lost a year of her life.
Honestly, I'd kill to see a super-extended cut of this covering *all* of the Doctor's companions, even the ridiculous obscure ones. "And vvat about John and Gillian's, ze Doctor's other grandchildren?" "Well, they were actually sentient mathematical constructs created by the TARDIS to help me deal with the loneliness-" "WELL THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!"
Toy maker: “And ze Donna Noble had her memory wiped to prevent her head exploding” Donna: “I’m sitting right here, you Mellon!” Toy maker: “WELL THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!”
"He also had Rose. She was trapped in another dimension. Forever." "She lives happily ever after with a human clone of me." "Well that's alright then."
You can kinda see the toymaker's manipulative streak in this, because instead of talking about the companions after those 3, he goes straight to the flux, because all the companions after them have survived and gone home in the end, so he omitted them to almost make it feel like it's one screw up after another with the doctor
@@bdletoast09 you're right, but at the same time he was going over what happened after leaving Donna, Martha was before/during Donna's time in the tardis so it does make sense for her to not be included
I still would've liked if he mentioned the fact that the Thirteenth Doctor basically let a woman fell in love with her and then just dropped her back to earth just because. She certainly didn't get Yaz killed, but she striped away her heart.
@@AlexGonzalez-gf4oz It's not really fair to blame Thirteen for that, Yaz felt how she felt and Thirteen couldn't reciprocate, that happens. And having to deal with unrequited love isn't really comparable to getting killed honestly.
Yeah, I wish the specials were 3 parts of the same story surrounding the toymaker, but I did enjoy what we got! Let's hope Neil comes back as the Toymaker or even someone else at some point!
The fact that Bill's consciousness survives and that Clara gets to live almost forever in her last second of life and at least Amy got to die of old age it's all fine as reasons to at least be okay with what happened for the doctor or a way to fix his mistake once it's happened but it never condones what happened, and the doctor should learn to realise that
but everyone does die at some point. and it's okay to accept that. I think the doctor has learned to not hold himself fully accountable for never letting anyone die, but he also still feels guilty about the HOW which is what the toymaker is pushing.
@@pinkbunnypeepsyall8251 And the Doctor was only very indirectly responsible for any of those deaths; I can imagine him being held liable in a wrongful-death suit, maybe, but even a negligent homicide or manslaughter charge would never stick. Clara, in particular, was more directly responsible for her own death, which came about because she tried to game a situation the way she saw the Doctor do without asking whether she knew enough about the situation to game it.
@@mr.flibble3190 without the doctor these people would have lived long and happy lives. The Doctor makes mistakes we all do, but his have consequences that can't be fixed even if they did die of old age or live forever in 1 second. It's the Doctor's fault and he needs to accept that, just because he made the death less worse doesn't mean he shouldn't feel bad
@@Deltabolsterand how do you know they’d have lived long happy lives? Life and death can happen at any moment. And now they also are living long happy lives, just different ones. And in turn they got to see the universe in new and incredible ways.
This scene, I'm telling you, was so well performed. The mood was uncomfortable, the reality was heavy, Genuinely I wasn't sure sometimes if it was a laughing moment or a sorrow moment. So good, NPH sold this.
It's always been pretty funny to write off a dumbass justification for something that can't really be justified with an "oh well, that's alright then" I'm glad it's caught on, people just used to look at me weird
The Toymaker calls out the doctor's double standard. He travels with people because it amuses him to have their company, and gets them killed as part of the game, and has the audacity to throw shade at the Toymaker's games.
I would not characterize it that way. It's not like the Doctor gets them killed on purpose. Also their deaths were never part of any game at their expense like it is with the Toymaker. And not all companions die. Some companions died but that is because of the inherent risk of traveling with the Doctor. When you are fighting enemies like the Daleks, Cybermen, weeping Angels etc... there will be huge danger. Lastly, the Toymaker is presenting a very biased and misleading view. Amy Pond chose to be taken by the Weeping Angels because Rory had already been taken and she could not bear to live without him. The Doctor actually begged her not to do it but she did it anyway, and he was heart broken when the Weeping Angel took her. Clara died because of her own hubris. She thought she could "play Doctor" and cheat the system and when faced with the inevitable, she chose to go out and accept her fate. The Doctor hated it but could not stop it. So he did the next best thing to take her out a second before she died and give her a "life" in that last second. Bill died by a Cybermen but it was not the Doctor's fault. He did not know the Cybermen were there and did not know about the time dilation. The Toymaker is conveniently leaving out some details.
@@TheDiplomat27 he willingly brings along companions.. ordinary people. He then puts them in very real danger in almost every episode. He knows how dangerous his adventures are and yet he brings along these people to die. It might not be a game but I imagine it’s like a hog hunting dog. Ya you love them but at the end of the day they are expendable life forms.
@@WilliamTheBot I strongly disagree. The companions come with the Doctor of their own free will. And he does not bring them along to die. He brings them along for companionship because he likes them. They actually become his closest friends in the whole universe. He actually goes out of his way to protect them and keep them safe. It's just sometimes it does not work out because the Doctor is fallible. So no, they are not expendable lifeforms. And there have been times when the Doctor deliberately travelled alone so as not to endanger his companions. But what is the Doctor supposed to do, never make any friends and always travel alone for the rest of eternity? That would not be fair. At the end of the day, companions are also responsible for their actions. Sometimes the companions take risks AGAINST the advice of the Doctor. The Doctor tries to protect them and they disobey. That is on them, not on the Doctor.
People are forgetting that most companions choose to travel with the doctor and tell him they know the risks but want to be heroes. Clara saw the doctors past and knew what was at risk. Her arrogance is what got her in the end. Amy always went back to the doctor even after he left in season 6 to spare her and Rory. Amy made the choice to be touched by the angel to be with Rory. And Bill, she bugged a professor at a school until she discovered the truth and went out of her way not to let her memory be wiped. Sure, she warned him about going on a mission with Missy, but it’s not as if the companions have no agency. The audience ought to know that even if the Toymaker ignores it.
While this is true, it doesn't mean the Doctor is free of blame. He knows what he's doing, taking these regular people across time and space, knowing they'll always want to come along. He shows them the stars, then expects them to go back to their lives on Earth. At best, it's gross negligence to take untrained, regular people info great danger. At worst, he's actively using them, because the alternative is to develop a conscience of his own. I guess 13 should just be glad that none of her companions got murdered by aliens, or kidnapped by evil statues. They were the lucky ones.
if a child signs up to go to war is that alright? they might say they understand the risks but do they really? Compared to the Doctor they're all toddlers with no real grasp of the dangers involved with travelling with him.
I agree with Amy and Clara being ‘ it his fault’. But Bill was 100% the doctors fault. She explicitly warned him she thought it was a bad idea to take missy out already, she said quite clearly she was worried for her safety and made the doctor promise to not let missy get her killed. He did. He failed.
Like the Doctor said "They'd say it was their choice, but offer a child a suitcase full of sweets and they'll take it. Offer someone all of time and space, and they'll take that too. Which is why you shouldn't."
“Well first there was Susan, you itty bitty granddaughter. She wanted to keep going on adventures, but you said no. And left her in a apocalypse with her boyfriend. Never to return” “She needed to live her own life” WELL THATS ALRIGHT THEN 10 hours later “Then there was Adric, that one was actually alright”
@@VadersFist95 And by only mentioning dead companions, it paints the Doctor in the worst possible light. He jumped directly from Bill’s death to the flux, basically boiling down everything thing post Donna to “the Doctor tried to replace you, but all his companions died and he failed the save the universe.”
@@parallax3deven Rosa Parks, one of the most iconic American figures of all time, was played by a British actor in doctor who. So does it really matter?
@@parallax3d That would only be strange if the UK and the US were on equal footing in this context, which they're not. Pop culture internationally is overwhelmingly dominated by America, so it makes sense for people to want to hold on to the few things that are still defiantly non-American.
Love how you can hear suttle version of all the companions themes when the Toynaker plays with them. Like you can hear the fairytale chimes from Amys theme. Or the melody from Claras theme. Awesome detail. Murrey Gold is a king.
“And then, Doctor, there were your other companions, and people who would have become your companions, but your very presence put them jeopardy.” “I’ve never forced anyone to travel with me. I always make sure it’s what they want!” “WELL THAT’S ALRIGHT THEN!”
You could give me 100 years and I don’t think I could come up with a better way to show how companions died to another companion and make the doctors seem cold towards them
Toymaker: "Then they said the Doctor was killed over and over as a child by the Time Lords" Disney & BBC: "It's okay, we brought back Russel & David" Toymaker: "Oh Well That's Alright Then!"
That is something that needs discussing: the Doctor is an terribly lonely person who takes companions in just to feel less lonely, and when they die, he makes up excuses to deal with his own guilt. As he said: "Vell, zat's alright, zen!!"
14: "Hey, I could help but notice that you skipped over s-" Toymaker: "NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT GRAHAM, YAZ, RYAN AND DAN!!!!!!" 14: "I was gonna bring up Nardole, but hey, they left on good terms too."
For what it's worth, they actually address a bigger bit of carnage from the Jodie era (the Flux and half the universe being destroyed). This video just omits that segment.
"Then he had three friends; Ryan, Graham and Yaz. Nothing bad happened to them as they were essentially just cardboard cut outs" "I was in a brief romance arc with Yaz" "WELL THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!"
It's always interesting to me to see doctors remember companions from their previous faces. It links them together and reminds you they're all the same person.
IKR. Their faces might be different along with some different quirks but they’re all the same person who remembers their previous companions, adventures and enemies. I like when they acknowledge or remember them like 4th think Sarah was Victoria in pyramids from Mars, 12th thinking of Amy and Rory or here
@@Mojo1356 No Tennant is RTD era. Although River was created by Moffat and those 2 episodes that introduced her were written by him. So technically she falls that
Toymaker: And then there was the story of the Timeless Child. Doctor: Okay, I don’t have much of a defense because I’m still trying to wrap my head around that one. Toymaker: Well, that’s all right then!
I feel like it was a hard miss to not mention Rivers Songs death. Cause it happened during a Donna Adventure and fits a theme of the other companions he showcased. And during the time Donna was gone he did have his last date with her as Capaldi. Consciousness left in a bookshelf -WELL THATS ALRIGHT THEN
It probably should've been mentioned, but I think the whole point was to mention companions that die AFTER he left Donna to emphasize how much he keeps losing friends again and again.
River's was skipped specifically because she died durring a Donna adventure. The whole point of the scene was to get Donna caught up on what she missed since the last time she saw the Doctor. It is weird though that there's no mention of Rory's multiple deaths or 13's companions but I assume the fam was skipped because non of them died.
Worse death to a companion in New Who ever. Bill did not deserve what happened to her. Also, Clara the Dalek... Bill the Cyberman... what's the next companion gonna become? Sontaran? Weeping Angel? Maybe Ood? (Did the Doctor ever get around to figuring out how their society grew so quickly? Might be the lead up, I think?)
@@vedwalker3974 Didn't _the Doctor_ become a Weeping Angel that one time? Although apparently we can chalk that one up to "the Toymaker fucking with the Doctor's timeline" so it's as dubiously-canon as the Timeless Child fiasco (thank fuck we have an in-universe justification to ignore that now). Also that one guy became an Ood, and another guy was turned into a Zygon, but we've never seen anyone turned Sontaran, I don't think...
Bill went through Hell. She had a hole blown through her gut, then revived but basically becoming a prisoner in a medical complex waiting a decade for the Doctor to come and save her only to be transformed into a Cyberman moments before the Doctor got to her. Her only friend during this 10 year period turned out to be working against her to as well to get to the Doctor. As far as the Doctor knows, Bill is dead at this point and it's all his fault as he didn't believe the glass robot's story that she left with Heather. I would love to see her back for 1 episode at least.
Becoming a Cyberman would be one of my worst nightmares. And she retained her emotions and knowledge of what happened to her. I wonder if that was because she was a Mondasian cyber man. If only that dude hadn’t been so triggered happy. 😢
In my opinion this is THE most important scene in new who. It PERFECTLY summed up the concept that when tragedy strikes or when someone dies, the doctor never stops, never looks back, never mourns. He just moves on. And in a weird kind of twist, the toymaker was like the parent scolding their child because what they did was bad, with this the toymaker is scolding the doctor for simply giving up on all of them or failing to protect them or constantly putting them in harms way. That was the whole point of this 3 parter, to show the doctor that he NEEDS to stop, stop and enjoy life slow. Look back on life while remembering the good bits only. And finally getting the chance to mourn all of his losses
@@StagTwo I already love ncuti's doctor even though we only saw him for that short moment. Im VERY excited to see where they take his character. My only gripe on his era is how they designed his sonic screwdriver, or rather his sonic remote. I just don't get why they can't keep the same design they had legit JUST made, it was such a beautiful design.
@@Menagerie_OS I think they just made 14 a new sonic for merchandising reason unfortunately.. Also I'm not a fan of the new sonic not even resembling the shape of a screwdriver.. Hopefully we can get a nice design next time!
This authentically bothered me about the Moffat era. He wrote six companions, killed 5 of them (counting the library episode he wrote where River dies) but always gave a cop-out where they don't *actually* die so they don't have to dwell on it. I respected the classic show for letting Sara Kingdom and Adric's deaths stick. This reeked of wanting to have cake and eat cake, maximum drama with none of the consequences
I feel that. I wish atleast 1 character didn't have some fairytale twist in their ending. - RTD usually let supporting characters die (e.g Waters of Mars) whereas true companions would have a tragic ending that didn't involve death. I think this was a better way to go.
Personally I think Bill should have just died. The living oil twist was really unnecessary, and it reduces the emotional impact of her conversion to a cyberman. Also, unlike for Clara, the Doctor probably wouldn't go to extreme lengths to save Bill.
@@PianoHypnoshroom Agreed. It felt like Bill was originally planned to die but maybe the BBC stepped in? I'm not sure but it certainly didn't feel planned. Moffat also would've gotten rid of a lot of the criticism by having Bill turned into a cyberman and then straight up killed.
I can't find it anymore but I remember seeing this edit that went like "Und zhen zhere was Harriet Jones! She was shot by a Dalek!" "She escaped through a trap door in the ground and lived" "FUCKING WHAT"
Fans: you missed out Rory Toymaker: eh, he died every other week... Fans: well that's alright then! Also, technically it wasnt the Cybernen that killed Bill, the blue dude shot a hole right through her body, the cybernen actually kept her alive by converting her. Still a terrible fate though.
That's the thing about promises like that, they end up so hard to keep. And how many innocent people would suffer if the Doctor prioritized his companions above all else? Live is about making hard choices, especially when one is cast in the role of a hero. Or do borrow a line from a Terry Pratchett book about opera: "Those that MAKE the happy endings seldom get happy endings themselves."
Neil Patrick Harris should get an Emmy or BAFTA award for that performance. I could watch the puppet scene and the Spice Girls scene over and over again.
@StagTwo the best part is that the silly accents make sense when you remember how the Celestial Toymaker lost the first time they encountered the Doctor.
I know people are seeing the more serious aspects of the scene, but what I mainly see is a funny ass jab at Moffat’s repetitive dead/alive companion trope
moffat speciality - companions death and then sugarcoated it with a hollow "happy" ending. Rory , River Song and danny pink can be added to the casualty list with the same disdain 'Well, That's Alright Then !" remark.
But why not just move out of New York to hitch ride back their own time? This whole 'by observing the gravestones it becomes fixed' thinking is kind of lazy, we need that Timelord Victorious attitude back.
@@larsg.2492 Yeah, they should've had a better reason behind the fact that the doctor can't just go and get them - and even though he viewed the gravestone, surely that shouldn't stop him from visiting.. Strange plothole.
This somehow became my favorite Doctor Who moment and I now have to stop myself from saying well that's that's alright then. Is this happening to you also?
(Spoiler) Its interesting because either of the doctors could have chosen as their "Prize" for winning their game against the toymaker, that all companions who were left with fatal or horrible fates could be safely rescued and allowed to live their lives uninterrupted. With The Toymakers Reality warping he could have done that for even the classic who companions. But i guess an extra Tardis is great too to keep the 14th doc about. 😄 bring on the 65th and 70th anniversaries!
Something about seeing Tennant's face sad about Bill really hits me more than the others. I guess it's because Ten met Clara in the 50th so I associate them and Amy as part of the same era in a way whereas Bill was a pure twelfth doctor companion. Edit: also i love twelve and Bill and I wish they could have had more time in their respective roles ❤
mine too! imagine saying achieving a fairytale happy ending and living a long life with a spouse who worships you, happily ever after, is some sort of tragedy
Genius! Great way to recap but still see the Doctor's companions/adventures since Donna without it being to forced and exaggerated but you can still see the pain in the Doctor's reactions. Then there's the mentions of Sarah Jane and River Song. Great way to catch up with 10th and 14th doctor before starting anew. Loved it...
I've made a gif of "Well, that's alright then!" for use as a reply on social media. "I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black!" "WELL, THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!" "Yes, [political party currently in power] are bad, but it would be worse if [opposition party] got in" "WELL, THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!"
Even if the Toymaker's criticisms of the Doctor's reaction to (or rather, repression and excusing of) his past companions' fates has merit, it doesn't take away how extraordinarily petty throwing their deaths, and making a mockery of them, in his face is. For an almighty being above the mortal coil, it's juvenile and sick and shows how he doesn't need to destroy countless universes to be evil; just these immature displays of cruelty can affirm this. Kind of like with Pennywise.
Pennywise from IT? That one has a good reason: IT is an entity of true cosmic horror - to glance upon it brings madness. It is a destroyer of worlds, a primal force that spans galaxies and times beyond human comprehension. And that is a problem, for an entity that feeds on fear: It's too overwhelming for humans to actually be afraid of in the way it needs. So it has to come down to human-comprehensible scale, adopt petty guises like the killer clown in order to feed. Something that leaves the humans terrified, rather then burning their minds into babbling mush. That is IT's weakness - in diminishing itself into something able to interact with humans, it also makes itself vulnerable.
I like this, basically telling off the doctor as he gives answers that he thinks 'makes it alright ', when he knows it doesn't. I also like how he loses the accent when saying the line
