Everyone calls it Big Ben. Technically the bell in the tower is called Big Ben, the tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower, the tower being part of the massive Parliament building.
26:42 - Albion Hospital is indeed an easter egg! It's the same hospital they brought the pig to in Aliens of London (pt. 1 of the Slitheen story). Also, _technically_ speaking, the tower is these days called the Elizabeth Tower, and _technically_ speaking Big Ben is only the bell, but pretty much everyone in Britain calls the whole tower Big Ben as well.
@@Deathbird_Mitch I think it's technically called the "Great Clock of Westminster" but I never hear anyone call it that. The bell, the clock and the tower are all usually Big Ben in common parlance.
Fun fact that always amuses me: Albion Hospital's Dr. Constantine is played by Richard Wilson, a well-known British sitcom actor. He went on to star in the BBC series Merlin as the medieval equivalent of a doctor, where the whole aim of the show was to "unite the lands of Albion" (an older name for Great Britain/UK). A number of other Merlin actors show up on Doctor Who, either before or after their time on Merlin, but Wilson was I think the first, so that always amuses me.
Here’s a thing: I rewatched Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes not too long ago, and noticed Wilson in that. He was in The Adventures of the Red-Headed League, as was another actor who appears in a future episode (in relation to this one) of Who. Small world, this. :)
Thanks to Moffat, I can't even look at gas masks anymore. Without thinking it's going to say, "Are you my Mummy?" A brilliant episode though, can't wait for you to react to the next one.
Moffat once said in an interview that the best Doctor Who adversaries are ones that have a thing that kids can repeat at one another in the playground ("are you my mummy?", "EXTERMINATE" etc)
Fun Fact: John Barrowman is a Scottish, Gay man who learned to speak with an American accent because he was bullied at a young age when he moved to the U.S.. He's very flamboyant in real life and in the series and beloved by many.
Moffat wrote some memorable Episodes. He is also well known for his quest to make you so scared of anything that you want to hide under your bed.... and then make you afraid of your bed.
Thankfully his script about teddy bears actually being a savage alien life form who psychically feed off of the nightmares of sleeping children was never produced and remains locked in the same cellar as the script with the hand-eating postboxes.
This episode scared my niece so much she has never watched Doctor Who ever again. John is an accomplished musical theater guy on both sides of the”the pond”. He goes on write a series of books with his sister. I loved him ever since this episode!
"Scanning for tech is the first thing I would do." Yeah but then you would have gone straight to the Chula ship and missed the opportunity to stumble on all sorts of useful information. It would be like going down stairs in a dungeon before fully exploring the level you're on.
Even worse - scanning for tech takes them straight to the ship, which is empty, and due to be destroyed any minute. Without wandering around first, they don't find the empty child, the time agent, or the little nano-robots. So they just hop back in the box...
This is one of my favorites from the RTD era. "Are you my mummy?" is so creepy. Didn't know Moffat did this episode. Makes sense all my favorite episodes from the RTD era ended up being Moffat episodes.
The theories are DELIGHTFUL, whether wrong or right, don't feel bad about throwing them out! It's engaging and funny, and sure beats you sitting there in silence instead. :)
Yes I love some of your thoughts before and after the episode even though this show is very much all over the place sometimes and not the easiest to predict
There's an old story about John Barrowman (Cap'n Jack) that he was turned down for the role of Will in Will and Grace because he was "too gay" O.o *correction* I had this backward! He played the character "too straight" or not stereotypically gay enough, shout out to Peter and Bristow for correcting me! Joke's on them though, he became a beloved gay icon the world over anyway!
You got it wrong, it was that he was "too straight". As in, he wasn't stereotypical gay enough, despite being an actual gay man. So instead they cast a straight actor who could act "more gay".
22:23 People call it Big Ben, but that's the name of the bell itself. The tower is Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster, which contains the houses of Parliament.
It was only named the Elizabeth Tower in 2012, seven years after this episode was filmed. Before that it was commonly known as Big Ben after the bell inside. Certainly no one was calling it "The Clock Tower" or "The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster".
People telling Americans to not call the Clock on the Elizabeth Tower Big Ben are just being pedantic for the sake of it. Everyone in the UK calls it Big Ben even though we know that's actually the name of the Bell. I remember these episodes airing- they were proper scary! All the kids at school were wandering around for a week or so chanting "Are you my mummy?" We had to wait a week between episodes to find out what on Earth was going on..... The wait between episodes was always a week. The two weeks Matt referred to was the amount of time they spent shooting each episode - so for the cast and crew, it was a new adventure every two weeks.
It's not just Americans who call it Big Ben and don't know it's not the actual name of the tower. I'm from Switzerland and everyone here calls it Big Ben too. I only very recently learned it's just the name of the bell.
@@AmarthwenNarmacil My point is that we in the UK call it Big Ben too - even though we know it's the bell really. So people correcting foreigners from anywhere are just being petty.
@@carolineskipper6976 I'd even posit that a lot of British people have no idea that it's not technically Big Ben. Everyone calls it Big Ben regardless!
There's such a thing as a metanym, where a word or phrase stands in for something else by common usage. For example, "Wall Street is nervous". The street itself has no emotions, but we all know that this means, specifically, the US stock market, more generally, the business world in the USA.
Steven Moffat: Making ordinary things terrifying and creating creepy catchphrases since 2005. His episodes are some of the best, but do tend towards horror at times. DW was broadcast weekly, but I think the episodes took longer to film. They were also filmed somewhat out of order, probably due to availability of people, locations etc.
Fun fact: (apologies if this is elsewhere in the comments, I have done a quick spot check) Chula was the name of the Indian restaurant in London where all the guest writers (Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman and Paul Cornell) went together to celebrate their commissions. They had a bet on for one of them to include the name in their episode(s).
Also, on the Matt Smith point, Doctor Who airs weekly when the series is on, but each episode would take roughly two weeks to film (four weeks for a two-parter), at this point in time. Hope that makes sense!
The reason why her father's death is the fixed point is that Rose would probably not have dropped out of school if her father were still alive. SHe wouldn't be working in that shop. As a result of this whole situation, she would never meet the doctor and save his father. So there is a huge paradox.
@Djorgal I disagree with “always”, but not by much. As a general rule, yep; paradoxen abound. There is the odd exception, tho. I can think of a few. I’d argue one of the Harry Potter stories has one of the more famous in recent memory. Side note: the ones where they don’t create paradoxes are some of my faves. :) The giant caveat to all the is is that : it may depend on one’s definition of “paradox”. FWIW I generally go with “if the complete chronological version of the story being told doesn’t change as a result of time travel, there’s no paradox”.
@@noahrobin1941 I agree that those are the best time travel stories, but it isn't paradox free. Specifically, it's known as the ontological paradox and it allows circular causation. Imagine a time traveler who's a fan of Shakespeare. He goes back in time to meet the bard himself, but to his dismay he finds that the man is just a schmuck with no inspiration whatsoever. Our time traveler realizes that at this rate, Shakespeare's never gonna write anything and the world will be deprived of his work. He decides to do something about it, and since he's such a great fan, he knows all of Shakespeare's work by heart (or maybe it's stored in his phone) and gives it to Shakespeare to publish as his own. Shakespeare is a charlatan, but no one's the wiser, so history is unchanged. No paradox, right? Except. Who wrote Macbeth? Shakespeare didn't, it was just handed to him by the time traveler, and the time traveler didn't write it either. There's the ontological paradox. Terminator 1, Harry Potter, Fry being his own grandpa in Futurama. I love those time travel stories, but they aren't paradox free. It's just a bit less blatant than others. P.S : You say you disagree with me saying "always". I didn't. I said "any". That's sensibly the same thing, true, but I didn't use that word :)
Which is why I've always found it odd that Fable is set in Albion. It's become a bit of a fantasy thing, maybe because people link it to older times and stories like King Arthur?
About the last episode, I think it's less that Rose's dad dying is a fixed point in time, and more that by saving him, Rose had changed her own personal timeline. Her life would have been very different had she grown up with her dad around - maybe she'd never have met the Doctor at all, or even if she had, she may not have agreed to travel with him (implication in the episode being that she said yes when he mentioned time travel so that she could see her dad) and even if things did play out similarly, they would have had no reason to be there on that date, since her dad didn't die. So she wouldn't have then come back in time to see his death, meaning she didn't save him, and round and round it goes. Paradox. Love this two-part episode, though. It's probably my favourite story of S1.
The Last Dalek and the Empty Child define Eccleston's Doctor for me. His portrayal of the trauma of surviving the Time War to the hopeful redemption of saving everyone in this tiny village was perfect.
I don't disagree with your point. Eccleston said in an interview once that he's often known for being good at playing emotionally tortured moments, but here he demonstrates complete mastery over the whole spectrum of emotion from deepest rage to utmost joy. EVERYBODY LIVES! HOWEVER... Tiny Village?! They're in the middle of London! I suppose you could just mean the neighbourhood, such as how the boroughs of London are sometimes called villages, but that choice of words still stuck out to me; and after all, the Nanogenes were a threat to the whole world, not just this little area.
@@gazzamanazza4pm Oh, I think "EVERYBODY LIVES" is a direct extension of the tortured moments. He's jubilant of course, but there's something just a little extra manic in his performance that gives you the sense that he really, really needed a win.
Angela:”What am I doing with my life?!” Me:Making us cackle at things like “Shake your meat” and all of the other funny things you say! Thank you. I really needed that laugh! 😂🤣
The general rule in Doctor Who is that you're ok affecting events you're not already intimately tied to, but bad stuff happens if you change anything you're a big part of. There are also certain "fixed" points that will cause bad stuff if *anyone* interferes with them - the Doctor can usually recognise these. The number of edge cases is enormous, however.
My opinion of Stephen Moffat is that he writes *amazing* one or two episode stories, but falls apart if he has to write longer arcs. The longer the arc, the more he falls apart. So whenever there's a one-off Moffat story, you know you're in for a wonderful treat!
@@salyx Sherlock could have been so good, but the more it went on, the more I was like, "WTF is happening with this plot?" 😂 I stopped watching when it changed from being a detective show to being a government conspiracy show.
Theorizing isn't annoying. It's the best part of reactions. If you were to theorize that Thor, Batman, and Yoda are going to fly in on the SS enterprise to save the day, then I'd question what show you were watching but generally speaking I enjoy the theorizing.
idk... even that sort of story isn't terribly far outside Doctor Who's wheelhouse, _especially_ in the comics, and the Land of Fiction is also a thing. Doctor Who is basically the dream setting to write for!
I was watching a classic movie or something with my grandmother years ago. This was also when swing music was back and I was playing it for her all the time in the car. She and her family had had a really, really rough Great Depression. They lived just outside Atlantic City where all the big bands came to play and it was an R&R stop for the soldiers. During the movie, she leans over to me and said, "I know there was a war on, but it was a really good time."
Oooohhhhh gosh, I'm so excited to see your reaction to the second part!! Also, it's hard not to immediately fall in love with Jack dancing on top of a cloaked spaceship next to (I'm saying it) Big Ben 😜 - Kat
First things first: Love the t-shirt! Go Tigers!!! Second: Welcome back. I hope you had a great vacation, but glad you're back to Doctor Who. Yes, Steven Moffat wrote some of the best Dr. Who episodes. Some say his time as showrunner was ... uneven, but personally I don't find anything worth complaining about. Somehow it doesn't seem fair that you get to watch this double episode in one go, but we have to wait a week to see your reaction! 😛
John Barrowman is fantastic, and the character of Captain Jack is one of the best characters from Doctor Who. He has a spin-off series called Torchwood, but I only saw a few episodes of it. I was fortunate to meet him at a convention and apologized to him for not watching all of Torchwood yet. He said, "You're forgiven for your lack of wood" 😂 Truly one of the best
Dr. Constantine is played by Richard Wilson known to the younger generations as Gaius the Court Physician from the BBC fantasy drama Merlin, (several other actors who played key roles in that adaptation of Arthurian Legend turn up in the RTD era, 3 of the ‘several’ have larger speaking roles in single episodes, and the 4th is a minor character who appears in one scene as far as I’m aware.)
That is indeed John Barrowman, who is probably one of the most popular characters introduced in the revival series. I even named my cat after Jack Harkness because he's the most affectionate cat I've ever had. Even vets have told me "your cat is so lovey!"
Been waiting for you to watch this two-parter. More than anything else in that first season, *this* two-parter is what told me what The Doctor epitomizes.
I obviously saw John Barrowman in this way before he was in Arrow. I was shocked seeing him turn up there considering what his character is like in that show. Jack is a time agent rather than a time lord. Time agent is a job while time lord is a species (kind of). We tend to call it Big Ben too. Technically Big Ben is just the name of the bell while the tower is the Elizabeth Tower. That must be so tough for your friend going through post partum psychosis. It must be so terrifying. They did an episode about it on Call the Midwife (which is an excellent show by the way) and it was heartbreaking for all involved.
Love CtM, but I did love the earlier seasons a bit more. Simply because i'm a history buff, so seeing things from that far back was more interesting to me...
Brit here, I know that technically it's only the bell that's called Big Ben but i can reassure you that most Brits called the clock Big Ben too so don't feel bad.
Love the little touch in this - when asking the kids why the came back to London after being evacuated to the countryside, one just quitely says 'there was a man...'
Loved your embarrassed look when you realized what you said about shaking your meat. I guess sometimes words come out before we realize that people might see it as meaning something else.
I love your editor. Thought I was done, then the snapping at the end took the hot and cold comments earlier over the top. It's just so enjoyable, thanks.
This is one of my favorite two parters in Doctor Who. It has a very satisfying ending and it introduces Captain Jack Harkness who is such an interesting character. Can’t wait to see your reaction to the second part and the rest of the season!
I found out recently that “Albion” is simply a name often given to mythologized versions of old England, so when it appears in the show (it does several times over the course of modern Who) it gets used like “555” gets used as an area code in Hollywood productions. It’s kind of a nod to the ancient mythology of the British isles, but it keeps them from having to use real names, like in this case having to use a real hospital name from the time of the London Blitz. I think that’s very neat, personally. But not, strictly speaking, an Easter egg, so much. Starting with this episode through the end of the first season was what cemented this show for me. Forever my number one show, the very top of my personal pantheon. ❤️
There's also a less pleasant modern(ish) use of 'Albion', the phrase 'Perfidious Albion' - which refers to an alleged culture of political treachery... but typically it's used to specifically mean England, and is only a couple of hundred years old as an expression. Also, in the 1980s British TV take on Robin Hood, 'Robin of Sherwood', Robin's mystical sword was named Albion...
Houses of Parliament has a tower called the Elizabeth Tower that has a clock on it. That Tower holds the Bell called "Big Ben" that rings out the time. Calling it any of the above, if not absolutely correct, is perfectly acceptable.
I am so glad that you are on this Doctor Who journey; that you are clearly enjoying it; and that you are immersed into Ecclestons run! ❤ Others will say, oh just wait until you get to this Doctor, or that one, or that you should be delving into the classic Doctors more... Simply savour the here and now (ironically). Ecclestons is a fantastic Doctor that is too often overlooked or even underappreciated. And he is a wonderful intro to this universe which I am pleased to note that you will probably miss when he bows out. Have fun with these stories and be reassured that there are 60 years of other adventures waiting for you at your leisure. 😁❤️
I for one love you throwing out theories every couple minutes. Doctor Who at its core is a science based mystery adventure show, at least usually. Trying to puzzle out the mystery before Doc and the companion is part oof the fun!! (just wait until you get to the end of 10 and all of 11 lol) still one of the best early NuWho eps, man. For some reason this just brought me back to watching this for the first time and how genuinely horrofying that mask transformation was. (and also just. Jack. love him)
I have just watched all of your reactions to Doctor Who and I'm subscribing. I love how understanding you are and I see that you really enjoy the show. Also I found out that you're reacting to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as well. I think I'm going to watch those reactions while I'm waiting for the next one of Doctor Who.
To be honest, my issue wasn’t even with Jack looking at roses rear end. It was more so that a man wrote the episode and thought that that was a good idea.
@@funnylilgalreacts in this case, it's establishing character for Jack, as is the very next moment with the other officer. If it was just "fanservice", the audience would have been given a much better view of what Jack was looking at.
Missed these so much, hope you’re feeling better and your team enjoyed their vacation 😊. These are pretty much the only videos I watch the intro and outro
One reason that makes it easy to romanticize the WWII era, in the US at least, is that the music industry resisted the call from the government to broadcast military marches, and instead wrote an endless stream of sentimental love songs. Underneath these love songs was a hint of what they were fighting for, but it wasn't quite as overtly militaristic.
FINALLY! Been waiting for this to come back. I still wish we had more than one episode a week from you 🥲 maybe two parters could be within the same week?
When he said, "Before this war I was a Father and A Grandfather. Now I am neither but I'm still a Doctor." Doctor said, "I know the Felling"❤
This hits harder for those of us who've seen the classic series.
Are you kidding?! Theorizing is what Doctor Who fans DO!
There are NO wrong questions except those unasked.
There are NO wrong answers in Doctor Who, Just unwritten scripts.
Especially Moffat stories.
But that's just a theory - A WHO THEORY.
Doctor Who?
@@ActuallyMori You said the thing! You said the thing!
Fun fact, John Barrowman has been with his husband since 1993. They entered a civil union in 2006, and officially married in 2013.
Jack literally has both a belt and suspenders because he can’t keep his pants on.
"How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders, a man who can't even trust his pants?"
Easy there, Fonda.
that's possibly my second favourite fact about Jack :D
Well that certainly was the case behind the scenes
"The Ballad of Russell and Julie" even had a line about it! (sung by Catherine Tate and David Tennant, it is available on YT,)
Everyone calls it Big Ben.
Technically the bell in the tower is called Big Ben, the tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower, the tower being part of the massive Parliament building.
Since we're being pedantic, the building is called the Palace of Westminster.
And if you want to be even pedanticker, it's the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster.
Before 2012 it wasn't called Elizabeth Tower, just the Clock Tower.
Big Ben is inside Elizabeth?
@@TheBS1000 Alright, now - steady on. 🤣
Imagine watching that gas-mask grow out of his face as a small child. There are few images burned into my memory in such clarity as that one.
The sudden 180° the moment she saw how handsome Jack was... 😂
"Are you my daddy?" 😍
"i was just saying hello!"
🚩🚩
@@CyberBeep_kenshi For you, that's flirting
26:42 - Albion Hospital is indeed an easter egg! It's the same hospital they brought the pig to in Aliens of London (pt. 1 of the Slitheen story).
Also, _technically_ speaking, the tower is these days called the Elizabeth Tower, and _technically_ speaking Big Ben is only the bell, but pretty much everyone in Britain calls the whole tower Big Ben as well.
Does the clock have a name? I always think of the clock when I refer to Big Ben, and Big Ben's tower.
@@Deathbird_Mitch I think it's technically called the "Great Clock of Westminster" but I never hear anyone call it that. The bell, the clock and the tower are all usually Big Ben in common parlance.
Fun fact that always amuses me: Albion Hospital's Dr. Constantine is played by Richard Wilson, a well-known British sitcom actor. He went on to star in the BBC series Merlin as the medieval equivalent of a doctor, where the whole aim of the show was to "unite the lands of Albion" (an older name for Great Britain/UK). A number of other Merlin actors show up on Doctor Who, either before or after their time on Merlin, but Wilson was I think the first, so that always amuses me.
Here’s a thing: I rewatched Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes not too long ago, and noticed Wilson in that. He was in The Adventures of the Red-Headed League, as was another actor who appears in a future episode (in relation to this one) of Who. Small world, this. :)
Thanks to Moffat, I can't even look at gas masks anymore. Without thinking it's going to say, "Are you my Mummy?"
A brilliant episode though, can't wait for you to react to the next one.
I was in the military when this aired, we all said this every time we had to do a gas mask drill.
That line and "Hey! Who turned out the lights?" have to be some of the creepiest ways to ID a Whovian
Moffat once said in an interview that the best Doctor Who adversaries are ones that have a thing that kids can repeat at one another in the playground ("are you my mummy?", "EXTERMINATE" etc)
Or where someone just keeps repeating what you're saying over and over!
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Or where someone just keeps repeating what you're saying over and over
Or where some...(hang on, I was about say that. Which means...oh crap)
Which he also goes against then because he wrote the weeping angels, soooo...
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If you say any more, it will be a spoiler
Fun Fact: John Barrowman is a Scottish, Gay man who learned to speak with an American accent because he was bullied at a young age when he moved to the U.S.. He's very flamboyant in real life and in the series and beloved by many.
He seems very bi
@@Dularr He's a good actor.
Well, Canada.
Torchwood, man that series was dark. John is a really good actor imho
@@Dularr he's just that good an actor. But he is gay. Said himself he's a "Gold Star Gay".
Moffat wrote some memorable Episodes. He is also well known for his quest to make you so scared of anything that you want to hide under your bed.... and then make you afraid of your bed.
Thankfully his script about teddy bears actually being a savage alien life form who psychically feed off of the nightmares of sleeping children was never produced and remains locked in the same cellar as the script with the hand-eating postboxes.
@petersvillage7447 ACK! New nightmare unlocked! Thanks for that 😱 lol
@@petersvillage7447imagine the Night Terrors episode
"If you want feel free to shake your meat" perfect accidentally intro for the the episode that brings us Captain Jack Harkness
Welcome to Stephan Moffet freaking you out. This will not be the last time.
This episode scared my niece so much she has never watched Doctor Who ever again. John is an accomplished musical theater guy on both sides of the”the pond”. He goes on write a series of books with his sister. I loved him ever since this episode!
I can't judge her i was all grown up when i watched and needed a time after it too, but say to her that is worth it and a lot of fun too
Everyone calls it Big Ben. You’re okay.
The Clock tower is called The Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben is one of the bells.
"Scanning for tech is the first thing I would do."
Yeah but then you would have gone straight to the Chula ship and missed the opportunity to stumble on all sorts of useful information. It would be like going down stairs in a dungeon before fully exploring the level you're on.
Even worse - scanning for tech takes them straight to the ship, which is empty, and due to be destroyed any minute.
Without wandering around first, they don't find the empty child, the time agent, or the little nano-robots. So they just hop back in the box...
It's like going down a level before going up a level...
This one is a deep cut, it's understandable if you haven't heard of it.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 Order of the Stick?
Alright Himmel, calm down.
The Doctor relies on intuition and investigation, not tech. It's why he's ultimately so effective - he doesn't NEED anything but himself.
I was directing Nick Briggs (voice of the Dalek) last week and told him you'd had no idea what a Dalek was - he loved that 😂
@@ACtheLegend This is awesome
Thirsty Angela is best Angela
Theorizing Angela is best Angela
Sad Angela makes us sad.
We love our Angela
You forgot blushing embarrassed Angela after the meat/shake line got reversed.…
All of this is correct.
"Are you our Angela?"
all are True
You said "how do I know him" and I immediately said out loud "Probably Arrow". XD
*Sees Jack Harkness*
"Oh he's very attractive."
Correct.
This is one of my favorites from the RTD era. "Are you my mummy?" is so creepy. Didn't know Moffat did this episode. Makes sense all my favorite episodes from the RTD era ended up being Moffat episodes.
The theories are DELIGHTFUL, whether wrong or right, don't feel bad about throwing them out! It's engaging and funny, and sure beats you sitting there in silence instead. :)
Yes I love some of your thoughts before and after the episode even though this show is very much all over the place sometimes and not the easiest to predict
There's an old story about John Barrowman (Cap'n Jack) that he was turned down for the role of Will in Will and Grace because he was "too gay" O.o *correction* I had this backward! He played the character "too straight" or not stereotypically gay enough, shout out to Peter and Bristow for correcting me!
Joke's on them though, he became a beloved gay icon the world over anyway!
I thought it was he wasn't gay enough? (i.e. he just played Will as a real person who happens to be gay, rather than making it obvious he was gay.)
You got it wrong, it was that he was "too straight". As in, he wasn't stereotypical gay enough, despite being an actual gay man. So instead they cast a straight actor who could act "more gay".
@@peterlewis2178 @therealpbristow thanks for the correction guys, had my wires crossed
Yes, indeed. John Barrowman was in Arrow. He was Malcolm Merlin - the Black Arrow.
He's perfectly cast as Jack Harkness
That’s Merlin with a Y.
BAHAHAAHAH Who ever your Editor is deserves a raise for not cutting that meat part XD 10/10 Top Tier Content and Why i love this channel XD
22:23 People call it Big Ben, but that's the name of the bell itself. The tower is Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster, which contains the houses of Parliament.
It was only named the Elizabeth Tower in 2012, seven years after this episode was filmed. Before that it was commonly known as Big Ben after the bell inside. Certainly no one was calling it "The Clock Tower" or "The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster".
People telling Americans to not call the Clock on the Elizabeth Tower Big Ben are just being pedantic for the sake of it. Everyone in the UK calls it Big Ben even though we know that's actually the name of the Bell.
I remember these episodes airing- they were proper scary! All the kids at school were wandering around for a week or so chanting "Are you my mummy?" We had to wait a week between episodes to find out what on Earth was going on.....
The wait between episodes was always a week. The two weeks Matt referred to was the amount of time they spent shooting each episode - so for the cast and crew, it was a new adventure every two weeks.
pedantic much, I get It your good.
It's not just Americans who call it Big Ben and don't know it's not the actual name of the tower. I'm from Switzerland and everyone here calls it Big Ben too. I only very recently learned it's just the name of the bell.
@@AmarthwenNarmacil My point is that we in the UK call it Big Ben too - even though we know it's the bell really. So people correcting foreigners from anywhere are just being petty.
@@carolineskipper6976 I'd even posit that a lot of British people have no idea that it's not technically Big Ben. Everyone calls it Big Ben regardless!
There's such a thing as a metanym, where a word or phrase stands in for something else by common usage.
For example, "Wall Street is nervous". The street itself has no emotions, but we all know that this means, specifically, the US stock market, more generally, the business world in the USA.
Before watching this, I can only say: I hope you enjoy this two-parter as much as I and so many others did
Steven Moffat: Making ordinary things terrifying and creating creepy catchphrases since 2005. His episodes are some of the best, but do tend towards horror at times.
DW was broadcast weekly, but I think the episodes took longer to film. They were also filmed somewhat out of order, probably due to availability of people, locations etc.
Moffat took "kids hiding behind the sofa" very seriously.
Oh my god, seeing Jack’s looks affect people irl just makes the running joke all the more real
Ahh the legendary Captain Jack Harkness makes his debut! Played by the legendary John Barrowman too!
It's just kind of a shame about what John Barrowman has become legendary FOR, in the last few years.
Whoop
Barrowman! \*shakes fist*
Yeah ! I know!
technically, we have already seen him, but spoilers I guess (oh, and "spoilers" is also a spoiler)
Fun fact: (apologies if this is elsewhere in the comments, I have done a quick spot check) Chula was the name of the Indian restaurant in London where all the guest writers (Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman and Paul Cornell) went together to celebrate their commissions. They had a bet on for one of them to include the name in their episode(s).
Also, on the Matt Smith point, Doctor Who airs weekly when the series is on, but each episode would take roughly two weeks to film (four weeks for a two-parter), at this point in time. Hope that makes sense!
"Typical."
Oh, there's very little typical about Captain Jack. 😂
The reason why her father's death is the fixed point is that Rose would probably not have dropped out of school if her father were still alive. SHe wouldn't be working in that shop. As a result of this whole situation, she would never meet the doctor and save his father. So there is a huge paradox.
There are huge paradoxes in any backward time travel anyway.
it is even simpler than that. If her father lived she wouldn't have a reason to go back and save him, thus causing him to die.
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@Djorgal I disagree with “always”, but not by much. As a general rule, yep; paradoxen abound. There is the odd exception, tho. I can think of a few. I’d argue one of the Harry Potter stories has one of the more famous in recent memory. Side note: the ones where they don’t create paradoxes are some of my faves. :) The giant caveat to all the is is that : it may depend on one’s definition of “paradox”. FWIW I generally go with “if the complete chronological version of the story being told doesn’t change as a result of time travel, there’s no paradox”.
@@noahrobin1941 I agree that those are the best time travel stories, but it isn't paradox free. Specifically, it's known as the ontological paradox and it allows circular causation.
Imagine a time traveler who's a fan of Shakespeare. He goes back in time to meet the bard himself, but to his dismay he finds that the man is just a schmuck with no inspiration whatsoever.
Our time traveler realizes that at this rate, Shakespeare's never gonna write anything and the world will be deprived of his work. He decides to do something about it, and since he's such a great fan, he knows all of Shakespeare's work by heart (or maybe it's stored in his phone) and gives it to Shakespeare to publish as his own.
Shakespeare is a charlatan, but no one's the wiser, so history is unchanged. No paradox, right?
Except. Who wrote Macbeth? Shakespeare didn't, it was just handed to him by the time traveler, and the time traveler didn't write it either. There's the ontological paradox.
Terminator 1, Harry Potter, Fry being his own grandpa in Futurama. I love those time travel stories, but they aren't paradox free. It's just a bit less blatant than others.
P.S : You say you disagree with me saying "always". I didn't. I said "any". That's sensibly the same thing, true, but I didn't use that word :)
Welcome back funnylilgalreacts, I've missed your ( Doctor Who ) reactions, humour and smile. :)
Albion is another name for the UK and the Albion Hospital was where the Pig creature was taken to in Aliens of London
Which is why I've always found it odd that Fable is set in Albion. It's become a bit of a fantasy thing, maybe because people link it to older times and stories like King Arthur?
Was hoping someone had mentioned the Aliens of London connection. It's why the camera shot panned up the way it did.
About the last episode, I think it's less that Rose's dad dying is a fixed point in time, and more that by saving him, Rose had changed her own personal timeline. Her life would have been very different had she grown up with her dad around - maybe she'd never have met the Doctor at all, or even if she had, she may not have agreed to travel with him (implication in the episode being that she said yes when he mentioned time travel so that she could see her dad) and even if things did play out similarly, they would have had no reason to be there on that date, since her dad didn't die. So she wouldn't have then come back in time to see his death, meaning she didn't save him, and round and round it goes. Paradox.
Love this two-part episode, though. It's probably my favourite story of S1.
The Last Dalek and the Empty Child define Eccleston's Doctor for me. His portrayal of the trauma of surviving the Time War to the hopeful redemption of saving everyone in this tiny village was perfect.
I don't disagree with your point. Eccleston said in an interview once that he's often known for being good at playing emotionally tortured moments, but here he demonstrates complete mastery over the whole spectrum of emotion from deepest rage to utmost joy. EVERYBODY LIVES!
HOWEVER... Tiny Village?! They're in the middle of London! I suppose you could just mean the neighbourhood, such as how the boroughs of London are sometimes called villages, but that choice of words still stuck out to me; and after all, the Nanogenes were a threat to the whole world, not just this little area.
@@gazzamanazza4pm Oh, I think "EVERYBODY LIVES" is a direct extension of the tortured moments. He's jubilant of course, but there's something just a little extra manic in his performance that gives you the sense that he really, really needed a win.
@@toddjh Oh, it absolutely is. Maybe the only reason The Doctor can feel such deep joy is because he can also feel such deep anguish.
@@gazzamanazza4pmYou are correct and i only focused on the small group of people shown in the episode. I apologize for my mistake.
@@toddjhspoilers!
There are so many things this show will embed into your life. Snapping fingers and "Are you my mummy?", are just the beginning.
Angela:”What am I doing with my life?!” Me:Making us cackle at things like “Shake your meat” and all of the other funny things you say! Thank you. I really needed that laugh! 😂🤣
The general rule in Doctor Who is that you're ok affecting events you're not already intimately tied to, but bad stuff happens if you change anything you're a big part of. There are also certain "fixed" points that will cause bad stuff if *anyone* interferes with them - the Doctor can usually recognise these. The number of edge cases is enormous, however.
My opinion of Stephen Moffat is that he writes *amazing* one or two episode stories, but falls apart if he has to write longer arcs. The longer the arc, the more he falls apart. So whenever there's a one-off Moffat story, you know you're in for a wonderful treat!
Agreed.
@@salyx Sherlock could have been so good, but the more it went on, the more I was like, "WTF is happening with this plot?" 😂 I stopped watching when it changed from being a detective show to being a government conspiracy show.
Theorizing isn't annoying. It's the best part of reactions. If you were to theorize that Thor, Batman, and Yoda are going to fly in on the SS enterprise to save the day, then I'd question what show you were watching but generally speaking I enjoy the theorizing.
idk... even that sort of story isn't terribly far outside Doctor Who's wheelhouse, _especially_ in the comics, and the Land of Fiction is also a thing.
Doctor Who is basically the dream setting to write for!
I mean, they’ve teamed up with Disney now so two out of three…..
@@LightLMN Assimalation2 comic book has entered the chat.
"Typical"...
Not even 2 minutes later, thirsts over Jack...
I was watching a classic movie or something with my grandmother years ago. This was also when swing music was back and I was playing it for her all the time in the car. She and her family had had a really, really rough Great Depression. They lived just outside Atlantic City where all the big bands came to play and it was an R&R stop for the soldiers. During the movie, she leans over to me and said, "I know there was a war on, but it was a really good time."
Woo hoo! We are back!
Oooohhhhh gosh, I'm so excited to see your reaction to the second part!!
Also, it's hard not to immediately fall in love with Jack dancing on top of a cloaked spaceship next to (I'm saying it) Big Ben 😜
- Kat
This two-parter was the point at which we understood that the Doctor Who revival team really got who he was.
Top ten episode all-time, maybe top 5.
First things first: Love the t-shirt! Go Tigers!!!
Second: Welcome back. I hope you had a great vacation, but glad you're back to Doctor Who.
Yes, Steven Moffat wrote some of the best Dr. Who episodes. Some say his time as showrunner was ... uneven, but personally I don't find anything worth complaining about.
Somehow it doesn't seem fair that you get to watch this double episode in one go, but we have to wait a week to see your reaction! 😛
John Barrowman is fantastic, and the character of Captain Jack is one of the best characters from Doctor Who. He has a spin-off series called Torchwood, but I only saw a few episodes of it. I was fortunate to meet him at a convention and apologized to him for not watching all of Torchwood yet. He said, "You're forgiven for your lack of wood" 😂 Truly one of the best
Captain Jack Harkness😍 one of the best characters!!!.....
Also.....I love and hate that episode.....damn this child is creepy!!!
"Is it a child or an alien?..." yes.... :)
I'm sorry about your sister, know that we Whovians are here for ya ♥ lovely video, too !
Dr. Constantine is played by Richard Wilson known to the younger generations as Gaius the Court Physician from the BBC fantasy drama Merlin, (several other actors who played key roles in that adaptation of Arthurian Legend turn up in the RTD era, 3 of the ‘several’ have larger speaking roles in single episodes, and the 4th is a minor character who appears in one scene as far as I’m aware.)
That is indeed John Barrowman, who is probably one of the most popular characters introduced in the revival series. I even named my cat after Jack Harkness because he's the most affectionate cat I've ever had. Even vets have told me "your cat is so lovey!"
Been waiting for you to watch this two-parter. More than anything else in that first season, *this* two-parter is what told me what The Doctor epitomizes.
Your theories are fun. We all did the same the first time. The show uses a few misdirections to keep you guessing but all will be revealed.
"Psycho Pippi Longstocking..." LOL!!!! THANKS for this!!!!! #DoctorWho #TheEmptyChild #DoctorWhoS12005 #DoctorWhoS1
ah yes one of the nightmare fuel episodes ...
been waiting for this one... this was my gateway
I like hearing your theories. Its fun listening to you try to guess what's happening
I obviously saw John Barrowman in this way before he was in Arrow. I was shocked seeing him turn up there considering what his character is like in that show. Jack is a time agent rather than a time lord. Time agent is a job while time lord is a species (kind of).
We tend to call it Big Ben too. Technically Big Ben is just the name of the bell while the tower is the Elizabeth Tower.
That must be so tough for your friend going through post partum psychosis. It must be so terrifying. They did an episode about it on Call the Midwife (which is an excellent show by the way) and it was heartbreaking for all involved.
Love CtM, but I did love the earlier seasons a bit more. Simply because i'm a history buff, so seeing things from that far back was more interesting to me...
Brit here, I know that technically it's only the bell that's called Big Ben but i can reassure you that most Brits called the clock Big Ben too so don't feel bad.
We got her everyone, she's definitely going to watch Torchwood
Love the little touch in this - when asking the kids why the came back to London after being evacuated to the countryside, one just quitely says 'there was a man...'
This was the episode that Doctor Who became Doctor Who for. I was hooked after this.
WELCOME BACK!!!! I’ve missed these so much!!
Loved your embarrassed look when you realized what you said about shaking your meat. I guess sometimes words come out before we realize that people might see it as meaning something else.
"We need a TARDIS cat"... the current TARDIS dog prob wouldn't like that.
DELETE THIS, WTF
I love your editor. Thought I was done, then the snapping at the end took the hot and cold comments earlier over the top. It's just so enjoyable, thanks.
This is one of my favorite two parters in Doctor Who. It has a very satisfying ending and it introduces Captain Jack Harkness who is such an interesting character. Can’t wait to see your reaction to the second part and the rest of the season!
‘’That’s Rose Tyler in the tardis with the doctor.’’
Psychic paper is what the Doctor uses to show people what they expect.
You can totally float theories during the beginning of Moffat episodes, and that's the great thing they are almost always going to be wrong lol
"I always think of A League of Their Own" XD That's a good point, that's such a great scene
I found out recently that “Albion” is simply a name often given to mythologized versions of old England, so when it appears in the show (it does several times over the course of modern Who) it gets used like “555” gets used as an area code in Hollywood productions. It’s kind of a nod to the ancient mythology of the British isles, but it keeps them from having to use real names, like in this case having to use a real hospital name from the time of the London Blitz. I think that’s very neat, personally. But not, strictly speaking, an Easter egg, so much.
Starting with this episode through the end of the first season was what cemented this show for me. Forever my number one show, the very top of my personal pantheon. ❤️
There's also a less pleasant modern(ish) use of 'Albion', the phrase 'Perfidious Albion' - which refers to an alleged culture of political treachery... but typically it's used to specifically mean England, and is only a couple of hundred years old as an expression. Also, in the 1980s British TV take on Robin Hood, 'Robin of Sherwood', Robin's mystical sword was named Albion...
Houses of Parliament has a tower called the Elizabeth Tower that has a clock on it.
That Tower holds the Bell called "Big Ben" that rings out the time.
Calling it any of the above, if not absolutely correct, is perfectly acceptable.
I am so glad that you are on this Doctor Who journey; that you are clearly enjoying it; and that you are immersed into Ecclestons run!
❤
Others will say, oh just wait until you get to this Doctor, or that one, or that you should be delving into the classic Doctors more... Simply savour the here and now (ironically). Ecclestons is a fantastic Doctor that is too often overlooked or even underappreciated. And he is a wonderful intro to this universe which I am pleased to note that you will probably miss when he bows out.
Have fun with these stories and be reassured that there are 60 years of other adventures waiting for you at your leisure.
😁❤️
I for one love you throwing out theories every couple minutes. Doctor Who at its core is a science based mystery adventure show, at least usually. Trying to puzzle out the mystery before Doc and the companion is part oof the fun!! (just wait until you get to the end of 10 and all of 11 lol)
still one of the best early NuWho eps, man. For some reason this just brought me back to watching this for the first time and how genuinely horrofying that mask transformation was. (and also just. Jack. love him)
One of the most impactful episodes to me, so creepy and then the end... your connection to Jamie means your going to get all the feels at the end.
Awe! Honey ❤️ the coincidence with Jamie… the universe is definitely trying to get a message to you!
I have just watched all of your reactions to Doctor Who and I'm subscribing. I love how understanding you are and I see that you really enjoy the show. Also I found out that you're reacting to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as well. I think I'm going to watch those reactions while I'm waiting for the next one of Doctor Who.
From what I've learned, Big Ben is just the name of the biggest bell in the tower, and the tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower.
This was my first episode of Doctor Who ever and I fell in love with Jack immediately.
The eyeroll over Jack focusing on Rose's rear end is quickly forgotten once you realize how handsome he is, I see 😂
To be honest, my issue wasn’t even with Jack looking at roses rear end. It was more so that a man wrote the episode and thought that that was a good idea.
@@funnylilgalreacts in this case, it's establishing character for Jack, as is the very next moment with the other officer. If it was just "fanservice", the audience would have been given a much better view of what Jack was looking at.
This is one of my favourite episodes! I can't wait to watch you watching it!
Missed these so much, hope you’re feeling better and your team enjoyed their vacation 😊. These are pretty much the only videos I watch the intro and outro
Well, in general, people do call it Big Ben.
"Not the clock or the tower,
But the bell that tolls the hour."
26:40 the Albion Hospital is a reference to Aliens of London, as that's the exact same hospital where the pig-pilot was sent to by UNIT.
"Who is Captain Jack?"
One of the best characters in the new run... the full answer gets a tad more complicated.
these intros are going places I never dared imagine and I love it
That’s the best part about being new to a series all the speculation and opinions
One reason that makes it easy to romanticize the WWII era, in the US at least, is that the music industry resisted the call from the government to broadcast military marches, and instead wrote an endless stream of sentimental love songs. Underneath these love songs was a hint of what they were fighting for, but it wasn't quite as overtly militaristic.
Been waiting for your reaction to this!
it was released weekly, Think Matt Smith was referring to filming which i think is a few weeks per episode
“It’s always off slightly, except with roses dad, then it was dead on”
Ooo too soon 😂
FINALLY! Been waiting for this to come back. I still wish we had more than one episode a week from you 🥲 maybe two parters could be within the same week?
Jack is absolutely a fan Favorite.