DID IT SUCK? Doctor Who [LEGEND OF THE SEA DEVILS REVIEW]

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    A new episode of Doctor Who came out it had sea devils in and it was terrible no big surprise
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  • @HarrysMovingMedia
    @HarrysMovingMedia  2 роки тому +14

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  • @Immortal_Ninja
    @Immortal_Ninja 2 роки тому +161

    "I think you're one of the greatest people I've ever known" what an insult to prior companions who were actually fleshed out characters.

    • @danielsgarden9283
      @danielsgarden9283 2 роки тому +1

      Yep.

    • @SimonLeicester
      @SimonLeicester 2 роки тому +12

      Wish they would stop doing that, especially when it comes to do nothing Yaz

    • @cameroncuss3920
      @cameroncuss3920 2 роки тому +22

      Jack, Donna, Sarah, K9, Clara, Rose, Ace, Romana, The Ponds, River etc.
      All of them just shoved under the rug for a person with no persoanlity, freaking Kamelion was a better companion then Yaz

    • @_rissi
      @_rissi 2 роки тому +15

      @@cameroncuss3920 I put even Donna's grandpa in this list.

    • @cameroncuss3920
      @cameroncuss3920 2 роки тому +5

      @@_rissi I totally agree

  • @DezorakStudio
    @DezorakStudio 2 роки тому +288

    is it strange that i no longer enjoy the series but im still addicted to this channel XD.

    • @tabularasa0606
      @tabularasa0606 2 роки тому +26

      There's just something enjoyable about seeing it being ripped apart.

    • @Bloomuhh
      @Bloomuhh 2 роки тому +7

      I haven’t watched who for years now, thoroughly enjoy the show being ripped to pieces

    • @charliemaline223
      @charliemaline223 2 роки тому

      Who actually enjoys the show anymore?

    • @budweiser600
      @budweiser600 2 роки тому

      yes?

    • @zacmumblethunder7466
      @zacmumblethunder7466 2 роки тому +4

      I find I'm like a kid who's found roadkill. I go back to Who every so often to see how badly it has rotted since last time I saw it.

  • @lewimillionzYT
    @lewimillionzYT 2 роки тому +64

    I just absolutely love that Dan the man slaughters like 6 sea devils in 1 swing. And doc is fine with it. But as soon as plot convenience pirate guy (forgot his name) kills one sea devil. It's a big deal 😂😂

    • @ottohartmann7444
      @ottohartmann7444 Рік тому +5

      not to mention that the doctor committed genocide on the Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans mere episodes ago without remorse

  • @andrewmanchiraju8005
    @andrewmanchiraju8005 2 роки тому +181

    3:01 this actually goes deeper than you think as Sea Devils being Silurians underwater is a point made in the classic series as Sea Devils are actually relatives of the Silurians

    • @britishnerd3919
      @britishnerd3919 2 роки тому +11

      Yeah that's why they team up in the worst episode of doctor who

    • @jakobbateman7717
      @jakobbateman7717 2 роки тому +49

      @@britishnerd3919 wait, I don't remember them showing up in the timeless child?

    • @britishnerd3919
      @britishnerd3919 2 роки тому +7

      @@jakobbateman7717 nah, when an episode is pointed by the bbc as the reason the show is cancelled, that's the worst episode

    • @vikingofvegas
      @vikingofvegas 2 роки тому +3

      @@britishnerd3919 Warriors of the Deep is arguably not the worst ever story

    • @JeffJolly1
      @JeffJolly1 2 роки тому +10

      @@britishnerd3919 possibly.... Until Chibnall took over

  • @christianwise637
    @christianwise637 2 роки тому +140

    This episode was the point where my last shreds of patience for this era finally snapped. I've kept giving it chances, kept allowing it to win me over, and every time I do I keep getting burned, and I'm just fed up. The same issues keep coming up over and over again, there's been absolutely no progress with regard to character development, there's no depth or interesting themes, and we have those exact same problems show up once again here in an episode that is so bad you have to wonder how anyone involved in the production thought this was in any way good enough to be shown on prime time BBC television. For the first time ever since I started watching this show, I'm actually begging for an era of this show to come to an end as quickly as possible, and I'm super glad we've only got one episode left. It's the end, and whether the moment has been prepared for or not, it cannot come soon enough

    • @normietwiceremoved
      @normietwiceremoved 2 роки тому +7

      Mine broke in Jodie's second series opener lol, but I went into this one with an open mind. What did I expect other than just sheer incompetence.

    • @Jarool21
      @Jarool21 2 роки тому +6

      I mean, Flux ended and we had 3 episodes left. Character development is either too ridiculous, or just won't happen. And this relationship between Yaz and The Doctor being shoehorned in... I originally stopped watching after the Orphan 55 episode, then I watched through the whole of New Who with a friend (and made him a fan), then we watched through these series and are going to finish watching the last special when it airs. I just made fun of this episode over and over during the viewing and that was the only fun that could be had watching it.
      Btw, we watched Whittaker/Chibnall's run because we were going through all of New Who (I knew it was garbage, and it still is), and I'm typically fairly lenient on a lot of stuff, and my friends are too, but even we would have fun saying "OMG new episode out! We gotta watch it!" as our 'new fan' friend groaned at the thought (don't be confused, we all dislike it overall, it's just funny to us to pretend to be excited to watch trash). So, at this point in time, we're going to watch the last special regardless, but I know it'll be a nothing episode that doesn't do anything groundbreaking, except get me excited for The Doctor FINALLY regenerating!

    • @CineScarborough
      @CineScarborough 2 роки тому

      The words of someone who clearly never watched Series 12 or Flux, which were among Doctor Who's greatest all tome series IMO.

    • @normietwiceremoved
      @normietwiceremoved 2 роки тому +10

      ​@@CineScarborough Is this a joke? They were an incoherent mess.

    • @CineScarborough
      @CineScarborough 2 роки тому

      @@normietwiceremoved Why would it be? Series 12 and Flux were incredible runs for the show, which gave us some of the revival's strongest episodes. The Haunting Of Villa Diodati and Village Of the Angels in particular are absolute classics of the new series.

  • @achromat666
    @achromat666 2 роки тому +56

    Additionally, I feel a need to express my frustration over the Yaz character....
    She was the least interesting character when Jodie's run started, they've made little to no effort to actually give her a reason to be there other than being a cast member on the show, and i can't stress this enough, having her fall in love with the Doctor is not an arc. There is exactly zero build up to it outside of possible nonsense in Flux I've not bothered to watch, and unless they started giving her a personality outside of whatever the script needs her to be, it literally means nothing. The entire first RTD run was based around characters falling in love with the Doctor or wanting to run with him eternally, but the characters were given time to actually mature and develop and give us a reason to care. Chibnall has provided an interesting possibility of development for 2 characters who are no longer even on the show, and they weren't even written well when they were there.
    Yaz is literally just there, and now has the distinction of being the companion that has stuck around longer than any other revival companions out of sheer lack of things to do with her. Think about that: 3 seasons, and I still don't know what makes this character tick. She started out wanting to be a better cop, and that got mentioned maybe three times over her entire run. She just randomly knows how to work things she should know nothing about and will occasionally spout Doctor nonsense because apparently writing is hard. And the worst trope of all, everyone just seems to love telling her how great she is when she's done nothing to earn it!!! That's not an arc, that just bad, lazy writing. Donna Noble was great because we saw a self centered, shallow woman transform into a companion with compassion, heart, and genuine love for other people. Martha Jones was swept off her feet by a stranger she fell in love with, and learned to stand on her own 2 feet without him because her didn't return those feelings and she needed to move on with her life. I can go on with every other revival companion up until Chibnall started and show your where growth and development took place.
    No one has developed over Chibnall's run, so any decision to create a character change feels out of place because it seems to come out of nowhere and lead to nothing. Expository planks of wood aren't people. And Yaz isn't remarkable, great, fantastic, terrific, or even remotely interesting.
    Edit: Yaz has been with the 13th Doctor for the whole run, but because the seasons were so short, Clara Oswald is actually still the longest serving companion in the revival era, as her 21/2 seasons run around 36 episodes to Yaz's 31.

    • @AAlexYousefi
      @AAlexYousefi 2 роки тому +4

      couldnt have said it better myself

    • @Mrcool210
      @Mrcool210 2 роки тому

      While Clara may be the longest standing nuwho companion she is the only companion to stay with the doctor from the start of their run and is there the entire time. Rose doesn't count with eccelston because she continued on with tennant and is considered Tennant's companion just as much as eccelston

    • @jsh7939
      @jsh7939 2 роки тому +7

      @@Mrcool210 This is somehow true. The bond between 13 and Yaz in 31 episodes is probably even less so than 10's with the girl from the Christmas Titanic episode. Just as an example. Every companion has an arc and is most importantly a personality. They always meld with the Doctor very well in their own ways. Yaz is simply there. She is as if someone wrote a list of good character traits down but then forgot to put them to film so instead we are just told how good she is. I genuinely can't remember a single good individual moment from her.

    • @chrisknight2631
      @chrisknight2631 Місяць тому

      Lynda with a Y does more in her half an episode back in season 1.
      Plus, she’s sweet

  • @TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond
    @TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond 2 роки тому +48

    That one guy was smiling and laughing like an idiot throughout almost the entire episode. Only took him about 15 minutes to get over the fact that HIS FATHER WAS JUST MURDERED IN FRONT OF HIM!

  • @MrRetroDev
    @MrRetroDev 2 роки тому +28

    The funny thing is: they did the whole "TARDIS underwater with its doors open" thing in the Capaldi era if I remember correctly. So it's really not as special as they make it out to be.

    • @rkah6187
      @rkah6187 Рік тому

      Still, it was a fun moment that reminded me for a second about older seasons; how much the Doctor loves the planet and that we all get to see the wonders of the universe. There is something special about opening up the TARDIS doors and see something completely out of the ordinary and wonderful. So that was a nice moment, even if done before.

  • @space1999
    @space1999 2 роки тому +54

    Did it suck? It's hard to put into words all the anger, frustration and sorrow this era has brought me, week after week and so it will suffice to say, yes. It did suck. Enormously.

    • @pedroxqui
      @pedroxqui 2 роки тому +12

      I don't feel anything anymore, I'm just waiting RTD comes and infuse some life into my corpse

    • @davidcotterill3819
      @davidcotterill3819 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah it was shite

    • @Rogasu
      @Rogasu 9 днів тому

      ​@@pedroxquiunlucky RTD new series is just as bad

  • @cheeo2
    @cheeo2 2 роки тому +33

    I think 90% of us were only excited for this episode to see the next time trailer and to be one more episode away from being free from this pain.

  • @Oodelally
    @Oodelally 2 роки тому +12

    The Sea Devils were dealt the same way as any villain is in the Chibnall era - a random character kills them off to take the ethical burden away from the Doctor - even though the Sea Devils were nearly the victim of a genocide.

  • @SirMeowsAlot89
    @SirMeowsAlot89 2 роки тому +85

    This episode is amazing!
    For the fact that it made Warriors of the Deep, no longer the worst Sea Devil episode!!!
    Truly an amazing feat!!

    • @richardconnold5207
      @richardconnold5207 2 роки тому +8

      You beat me to it, dude! 😃
      I'm not sure what went wrong, but, boy was this ever awful. A total waste of time, money and effort. It's no wonder that LOTSD has one of the lowest viewing figures, in the history of the show. Everyone involved should crawl away and hide under a rock.
      Still, I'm looking forward to seeing Ace, Tegan, and Kate Stewart, again.
      Let's hope that RTD and Ncuti Gatwa can rescue this embarrassing charade. It's gone on for far too long. Chibnall should be ashamed of himself.

  • @VPWedding
    @VPWedding 2 роки тому +4

    You forgot the bit where Pirate Lady “navigates by the stars” by looking into a sunset to find the North Star!

  • @achromat666
    @achromat666 2 роки тому +96

    I stopped watching this series after watching the Timeless Children. The sheer wrongheadedness and stupidity of the decisions made in that episode and the subsequent revelations from Chibs himself that he had no real plan for the series only reinforces that decision.
    Nothing that has followed has given me reason to go back, judging from both the panned responses and still declining viewership. There's nothing here to care about, and after one last episode I hopefully won't have to think about it again.

    • @danielsgarden9283
      @danielsgarden9283 2 роки тому +6

      After watching flux I wish I had stopped watching then too!

    • @joshuareynolds23
      @joshuareynolds23 2 роки тому +1

      I stopped watching after her third episode. I was hoping it would be good but, the writing was on the wall (and, not on paper like it should have been) that they cared more about brownie points rather than telling a great story.

    • @mattthesilent777RED
      @mattthesilent777RED Рік тому

      Why don't you try my Doctor Who, replace Chibnall's trash efforts with mine!

  • @thrallfan1056
    @thrallfan1056 2 роки тому +49

    Harry really needs to watch the original sea devils. It has one of the most enjoyable wacky scenes in all of Who where the Doctor and the Master fight each other in a sword duel.

    • @vikingofvegas
      @vikingofvegas 2 роки тому +8

      Hell yes! The Seadevils is a cracking story

    • @zacmumblethunder7466
      @zacmumblethunder7466 2 роки тому +3

      @@vikingofvegas First full story I saw. Instantly hooked.
      Can't believe it was almost half a century ago.

    • @marionbaggins
      @marionbaggins 2 роки тому +5

      That Fight scene shows Pertwee and Delgado had really great Chemistry together!!!

  • @TR1PLE_6
    @TR1PLE_6 2 роки тому +34

    "You didn't have to kill him"
    Says the woman who wiped out about a billion Daleks & Cybermen! 🙄
    Also love the way you used the SpongeBob music! 🤣

    • @richardconnold5207
      @richardconnold5207 2 роки тому +1

      The Sea Devil missed a trick. He should have said: "Neither did we need him alive".

    • @marshallhuffer4713
      @marshallhuffer4713 2 роки тому +5

      Not to mention locking up giant spiders to allow them suffocate and/or starve to death. Spiders also resort to cannibalism so they'll end up being killed.

    • @ThePsycoDolphin
      @ThePsycoDolphin 2 роки тому +2

      She also allowed tooth man to be locked in artificial suspension forever and ever while conscious, and ensuring the Master could put into a nazi concentration camp for having brown skin.
      She's like, the most immoral, heinous, evil Doctor ever. She makes Sixie's shooting of the Cybercontroller and Sevenths obliteration of Skaro look like the act of a peacenik. She's the Valeyard, the doctor who went wrong.

  • @jackablamo
    @jackablamo 2 роки тому +11

    This was the first chibnall episode I just turned off halfway through. Me and my dad just couldn’t take it anymore. This episode in particular is not just badly written but so sloppy in its pacing and editing. It’s unwatchable. So ready for this era to be over

  • @holyrolypoly
    @holyrolypoly 2 роки тому +33

    I haven't actually watched this episode so maybe it's explained, but that part about the poles switching being super bad really confused me. The Earth's poles flip about every 200,000 years on their own. It's really not that big of a deal. You certainly wouldn't feel it. Probably the only creatures who would notice would be birds.

    • @amadandearbhte4318
      @amadandearbhte4318 2 роки тому +7

      I know. Sure, we'd need to spend a crap ton of money replacing every compass and navigation system, there would also be emigration issues with birds (but of course, that has happened before and it sorted itself out). But catastrophic. No. That while premise really confused me. Its hardly like that computer 'problem' they thought was going to grind the world to a hault in 99 but turned out was going to be fine. That would have been devastating

    • @zacmumblethunder7466
      @zacmumblethunder7466 2 роки тому +5

      As far as I could tell, it was going to be devastating because the writer thought-
      Erm, no, it was because the writer _didn't_ think.

  • @lyricbot8513
    @lyricbot8513 2 роки тому +8

    I really wanted to like this episode and I like Yaz a lot, but when The Doctor said she preferred Yaz "even to my wife", I was like. That's out of order, that is. Huge burn on River Song out of nowhere.

    • @mattthesilent777RED
      @mattthesilent777RED Рік тому +2

      Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Amy Pond, River Song and Clara Oswald all flirted with the Doctor and yet they all seem to be dead to the Thirteenth Doctor

  • @Rambling-Thomas
    @Rambling-Thomas 2 роки тому +18

    I still haven't watched this episode, I genuinely forgot it was on, but by the time I knew about it I was already seeing people saying how bad it was. I just want this era of the show to be over, and I am worried Chibs is going to ruin Tegan and Ace as a parting gift to us.

  • @nigelcarren
    @nigelcarren 2 роки тому +8

    Drama school has a LOT to answer for!
    It's like a village-hall performance with an insanely huge budget.

    • @ftumschk
      @ftumschk 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed about the village-hall bit, although I wouldn't knock drama schools as such. Apart from McCoy and Capaldi, every actor who's played the Doctor went to a reputable drama school or (in Smith's case) studied drama at university.

  • @antoniaprentice
    @antoniaprentice 2 роки тому +3

    Dan just casually killing a load of Sea Devils like its nothing. At least in the Moffast/Smith story the doctor saw the Sylorians claim to earth 😅

  • @mickieg1994
    @mickieg1994 2 роки тому +12

    The more I watch the recent Dr who episodes, the more the dialogue, setting and story fall apart, the more I watch the more I notice, It's kind of like looking up at the stars in a way and that's kind of amazing, well done chibnall, you have created something with more problems than there are stars in the sky

  • @NOVA0335
    @NOVA0335 2 роки тому +13

    Honestly Russell Returning next year makes me more and more excited By the second, if there’s one man who can fix the dumpster fire that chibnall leaves behind it’s him.
    Edit: The new casting announcement is just making me more excited. This show is actually gonna be great again

  • @kurtchristel4035
    @kurtchristel4035 2 роки тому +18

    this episode was so dreadful. you can complain about the bad plot and dialogue in other episodes but... this episode. it's an absolute failure on even a technical level. They genuinely sped thru a 2-parters worth of scenes by having half of the action take place off screen, and numerous bouts of what can you can only describe as teleportation between shots. I had a headache watching this episode. I genuinely think THIS is the worst episode of the era.

  • @matty7834
    @matty7834 2 роки тому +10

    This episode made more sense when I was drunk than when I rewatched it sober 🤣

    • @tomking4726
      @tomking4726 Рік тому +1

      I actually messaged a friend and said 'I was sober when I watched it and it made no sense'... maybe a drunken re-watch will make it better?

  • @JeffJolly1
    @JeffJolly1 2 роки тому +13

    🤣 You're commentary on the episode was infinitely more entertaining than the episode itself 👍

  • @AndrewPRoberts
    @AndrewPRoberts 2 роки тому +2

    Doctor: "I think you're one of the greatest people I've ever known"
    Cardboard cutout: ....

  • @rhodrage
    @rhodrage 2 роки тому +7

    It took them way too long to figure out the lost ship and the flying ship were one on the same. It had to be said to them before they figured it out.
    Once they saw the ship taken over and discovering it hadn't sank they should have put 2 and 2 together.

  • @EmTom44
    @EmTom44 2 роки тому +6

    Tbh Ive gone from disliking the current series to just not caring less about it as I count down until RTD takes over

  • @GrubStLodger
    @GrubStLodger 2 роки тому +6

    I found it interesting how everyone only wanted to talk about the teaser trailer. It was the same with flux, people far more interested in what they might see than what they had seen.

  • @TheRealUnkn0wn_289
    @TheRealUnkn0wn_289 2 роки тому +7

    Sea devils and Silurians are related
    Modern silurians are actually a different relatives of the silurians from the ones from the classic series which is why they are different looking

    • @TheRealUnkn0wn_289
      @TheRealUnkn0wn_289 2 роки тому

      Also obvious plot twist hinted at before series 13 even came out, Dan may be more than what he is shown to be 😉

  • @peterd788
    @peterd788 2 роки тому +6

    They had the chance to drown Yaz and whoever Whittaker plays. Talk about a missed opportunity.

  • @Tom_9602
    @Tom_9602 2 роки тому +13

    10:44 This had me in stitches

  • @TristeNoirXIII
    @TristeNoirXIII 2 роки тому +3

    Watching From 9:00 To 10:25
    Considerign The Event That Happened Was 2 Years Later And Both Her Children Are 2 Years Older, Im Guessing that That This Episode Was Meant To be In 1809 And Not 1807

  • @TheGoddon
    @TheGoddon 2 роки тому +12

    How can a creator screw up this bad and simultaneously be so much in denial about it.

    • @JeffJolly1
      @JeffJolly1 2 роки тому

      Well the Doctor is a woman now, so obviously everything about the show is fantastic 🤣

    • @TheGoddon
      @TheGoddon 2 роки тому

      @@JeffJolly1 Even when the show farts, it smells like lavender.

    • @JeffJolly1
      @JeffJolly1 2 роки тому

      @@TheGoddon 😂

  • @benjamin._.mcalister1698
    @benjamin._.mcalister1698 2 роки тому +11

    Flux was the first series, including this episode, that I haven’t even given a shot because I’ve completely lost faith in this show as good let alone entertaining. However, what IS good and entertaining is this series. Thank you Harry, for making me continue to enjoy this show in the weirdest form ever, even while the show sucks ass

    • @soulvey
      @soulvey 2 роки тому

      It's a shame, because Flux had so much potential! There were some truly iconic moments, but also two villains who could totally end the Doctor in half a second just bumbling about not doing much, a finale with more loose ends than a tassel shop, a deus ex machina solution, and a dozen dangling questions that still haven't been addressed.

  • @JoeVington
    @JoeVington 2 роки тому +8

    You should watch the classic sea devils story, Jon pertwee is great, and you should watch other classic episodes

  • @normietwiceremoved
    @normietwiceremoved 2 роки тому +3

    The editing was SUPER WEIRD in this episode and other people noticed too. I felt like I was being constantly gaslit by the visuals or something. I rarely have experienced super weird editing like that of which in this episode.

  • @sanddagger36
    @sanddagger36 2 роки тому +4

    I don't even have to use the controversial changes in canon to explain why Chibnal's era sucks.
    It's the pacing/music/lighting/dialogue/acting

  • @shrimp3rjr413
    @shrimp3rjr413 2 роки тому +6

    Wasn't expecting a Breaking Bad reference, but I approve.

  • @beasty7063
    @beasty7063 2 роки тому +2

    The things I hate most about Jody whiterker is that she can’t even have her own iconic catch phrases it’s like really you guys seriously can’t think of something new to let her say ?

  • @danieljackowitz2343
    @danieljackowitz2343 2 роки тому +6

    I'm actually surprised that it even got a 1 from you. This era has been something I wouldn't give to a dog to eat, a cat to poop on, or my worst enemy to watch. I'm not expecting the RTD2 era to be a total course correction, but it will be better than whatever Chibs and Whits have crapped out.

  • @aceinthehole1843
    @aceinthehole1843 2 роки тому +3

    My biggest question in this all era is, why is yaz so fantastic

  • @soulvey
    @soulvey 2 роки тому +3

    I just saw this episode as another flagrant disregard for storytelling, disrespect for the actors, and a disdain for the audience. Chibnall has so much to wrap up before the end of his era, and he now has ONE special left to do that in. As we saw from Flux's bloated finale, he struggles to tie up too many loose ends deftly. Plus, as someone else pointed out, the same problems just kept popping up. I want this whole era to be over and behind us ASAP, and for Jodie to come back in a future special under a different showrunner's tenure.

  • @mrflibble1259
    @mrflibble1259 2 роки тому +2

    that Mr Benn reference caught me so off guard my god, I nearly choked on my frosties

  • @SimonLeicester
    @SimonLeicester 2 роки тому +5

    Just one more episode with Jodie and hopefully she'll be gone. I just feel she has no empathy for the character of The Doctor whatsoever and was woefully miscast for the role.
    Just go and watch the original Sea Devils story with the Pertwee's third Doctor, Jo Grant and the wonderful Roger Delgado as The Master to see how it should be done.

  • @macmoore4599
    @macmoore4599 2 роки тому +3

    After watching this episode, it makes those rumours about 10 minutes being edited out actually being true.

  • @ftumschk
    @ftumschk 2 роки тому +2

    One really needs to have seen the original Sea Devils story to appreciate how ill-served they were here; their physical appearance was great, that's where it ends. Why bother with swords and close-quarter combat when, tens of millions of years ago, Sea Devil science had already developed efficient rayguns which could kill at a distance? And all that woo-woo with Super Mario leaps, phantom ships etc was totally at odds with their very believable terrestrial (albeit amphibious) roots. Instead, we got generic sci-fi "monsters" with the almost magical powers of Marvel supervillains. It all made a nonsense of Malcolm Hulke's thoughtful original conception, and they rubbed salt into the wound by getting his name wrong in the credits.

  • @stephen-dfc
    @stephen-dfc 8 місяців тому

    Can’t believe the Sea Devils at 16:13 didn’t learn the flying skill from the first one

  • @CI-dh1rl
    @CI-dh1rl Рік тому +1

    I haven't got a clue why Chibnall writes dialogue as if the script is gonna be turned into a BigFinish audio

  • @xsm5525
    @xsm5525 2 роки тому +2

    did it suck?!?... do bears sh*t in the woods?

  • @robodoesedits8666
    @robodoesedits8666 2 роки тому +1

    how did madam ching get to her ship, which was parked in the middle of the ocean, did she swim too?

  • @faizmajin
    @faizmajin 2 роки тому +5

    Watched the episode on air date with family and had to keep asking them if I've fallen asleep and missed things because the episode was so disjointed.

  • @peterthosegriffins666
    @peterthosegriffins666 9 місяців тому

    I genuinely think a problem with the newer episode is they couldn't get the "fam" to work as a group of companions but by then contracts were signed. In a lot of cases you could switch all their lines. It's a shame, I really wanted this to be good.

  • @Log-On-Line
    @Log-On-Line 2 роки тому +1

    chibnall really does overuse the sonic she can basically do anything with it
    untie a rope - sonic
    make enemies drop there swords - sonic
    walk round in an empty room - sonic
    she could probably use it on wood now

  • @RedMadMichael
    @RedMadMichael 2 роки тому

    Glad to know your back wont curl up!

  • @march5057
    @march5057 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, you can really hear the standing up in his voice!

  • @peterthosegriffins666
    @peterthosegriffins666 9 місяців тому

    Interestingly enough, the early Silurian and Sea Devil episodes had deeper emotional conflicts, the Dr wanted the species to co-exist with humanity and only really destroyed them as a last option

  • @NileSWPhotography
    @NileSWPhotography 2 роки тому +2

    How can you not talk about the "date" comment when Thasmin were underwater? I was really really looking forward to that.

  • @juliet1203_
    @juliet1203_ 2 роки тому +2

    So on the community post about this coming out, I asked for rating predictions. I can now reveal, out of 6 who predicted... 3, including myself, predicted correctly! Congrats! Onto the last one pain filled story, when it releases...

    • @marshallhuffer4713
      @marshallhuffer4713 2 роки тому +1

      I was one of the 3 who predicted correctly.

    • @juliet1203_
      @juliet1203_ 2 роки тому

      @@marshallhuffer4713 This is gonna be a fun thing to do, I was interested to see if other people predicted before hand and I'm glad that I'm not the only one

  • @tolland4433
    @tolland4433 2 роки тому +3

    Great video. Only thing that bugged me was the fact that sea devils are actually Silurians that adapted to the sea rather than land, or something like that. I haven’t seen classic who but I’ve definitely heard that somewhere.

  • @barry1369
    @barry1369 2 роки тому +2

    The original sea devils story is brilliant

  • @mattthesilent777RED
    @mattthesilent777RED Рік тому

    The only thing I liked about this story was that every member of the TARDIS team was wearing period dress - Like I understand budget reasons, but there are times when either some or none of the TARDIS team blend in with their environment

  • @BloxieStuff
    @BloxieStuff 2 роки тому +3

    I heard some good potential about this before it came out
    I didn't even know it would be THIS BAD!
    Oh, this is terrible!

  • @zacmumblethunder7466
    @zacmumblethunder7466 2 роки тому

    That pirate ship deck looked like the set was built for a kid's TV Christmas musical.

  • @f_jtm
    @f_jtm 2 роки тому +1

    Mr Benn reference GOATed

  • @datnoob4394
    @datnoob4394 2 роки тому +2

    Harry's feeling generous.
    Where did the 1 come from? Not 0?

  • @tomico9154
    @tomico9154 2 роки тому +2

    I'm so glad this era is almost gone man.

  • @SimonLeicester
    @SimonLeicester 2 роки тому +1

    Great summing up of this episode. Makes my teeth itch even more when I see Jodie snarling away and waggling her stupid sonic screwdriver as a constant get out of jail card.

  • @fbrown9861
    @fbrown9861 2 роки тому +1

    also can I just say that the part about the poles switching confused me so much... because it's happened before in real life. it's a natural process that happens every 200,000-300,000 years and it's not catastrophic in the slightest. you can find this out with a 5 second google search

  • @beelez-xi1fi
    @beelez-xi1fi Рік тому

    Story : I think you're the one of the greatest people I've ever known Yas
    Viewer : Can i ask why that is? I've seen scant evidence throughout the narrative in all three series to suggest such a thing.
    Story : She's amazing BECAUSE I BLOODY WELL SAID SO, ALRIGHT!
    Viewer : OK cool, whatever I suppose...

  • @Brainshatterer
    @Brainshatterer 2 роки тому

    I need a clip of the Pimp my Ride reference. My dvr didn't record this episode and it isn't being replayed. Can anyone help?

  • @march5057
    @march5057 2 роки тому +33

    It truly is such a shame the writing and production has tarnished Jodie's time as the doctor, not only because she's a great actor but because she's the first female Doctor. They finally made the Doctor a woman and THIS is it's legacy, it's like it was done on purpose to implant the idea that the Doctor should always be male: "This is what happened last time we went with a woman, you want that to happen again?"

    • @timothylyons5686
      @timothylyons5686 2 роки тому

      You have forgotten Joanna Lumley then.

    • @jooie444
      @jooie444 2 роки тому

      She not a great actor, average at best!

  • @tonaerio
    @tonaerio 2 роки тому +1

    Not gonna lie I had no idea it had already came out, looked it up and apparently it was April 17th and I had no clue haha

  • @colonelthunderbolt4396
    @colonelthunderbolt4396 2 роки тому +4

    Chibnall-era Doctor Who logic: "Here's this legendary Chinese pirate. Let's throw aside her fame and legacy and focus on her being a mom. That's what only matters, right?"

  • @TheWalkingEyebrows
    @TheWalkingEyebrows 2 роки тому +1

    Before watching this video: this is going to be a bloodbath

  • @jamesa.fitzpatrick1566
    @jamesa.fitzpatrick1566 2 роки тому +1

    The sea monster is still out there, just like the totally fluxxed universe.

  • @terencekent615
    @terencekent615 2 роки тому +3

    I thought that 1 /10 was over generous.

  • @turnermiller1562
    @turnermiller1562 2 роки тому +3

    This one sucked bad, looking forward to the centenary for the old companions and whatever surprises there are, also cuz when it’s finally over we’ll be in RTD2 and that’s the money baby

  • @triplejazzmusicisall1883
    @triplejazzmusicisall1883 2 роки тому +1

    Well that's a very easy question to answer. YES It SUCKED!

  • @JynxedKoma
    @JynxedKoma 2 роки тому

    It wanted to plank myself within the first opening minute. How is that for an answer?

  • @ponchoman49
    @ponchoman49 Рік тому +2

    Calling out the Chibs era for what it is- utter crap!

  • @RabbiB0Y
    @RabbiB0Y 2 роки тому +2

    This is the first doctor who episode that I have seen where I legitimately said that's it? Like if felt like the complaints of marvel movies being all show like where's the meat

  • @Big_Bad_Gammon
    @Big_Bad_Gammon 2 роки тому +1

    16:10 had me rolling

  • @canyoucatchme138
    @canyoucatchme138 Рік тому

    For some reason this video is more interesting than the trailer, F the actual episode itself.

  • @timsbird1971
    @timsbird1971 2 роки тому +1

    This episode committed the ultimate sin of just being totally boring. I feel asleep during it and still haven’t tried re-watching.

  • @Pink_Panther79
    @Pink_Panther79 2 роки тому

    In the 'bottom of the ocean' bit I was confused, not because of the TARDIS but why a Cuttlefish is so deep underwater, shouldn't they be at coral reefs? This *isn't* a nitpick, I'm deadly serious.

  • @connorhinde
    @connorhinde 2 роки тому

    The Mr.Ben line got me!

  • @explodingwolfgaming8024
    @explodingwolfgaming8024 2 роки тому +1

    Also, did Chinese ships even have cannons in 1807? Their War Junks were mostly built for boarding right? And they fought mostly with fireships?

  • @partlyawesome
    @partlyawesome Рік тому

    By the way, you put "theneedledrop"'s top 50 albums of 2018 in your "did it suck" playlist for doctor who. Also putting these new reviews in episode release order at some point?

  • @GrumpyOldGit60
    @GrumpyOldGit60 2 роки тому

    I watched the episode and assumed I was drunk as it made no sense... I actually quite liked the visuals but I had no clue what was going on.

  • @haileyshannon7548
    @haileyshannon7548 2 роки тому

    No mention of Easter, oh it's secular

  • @dragonsalty
    @dragonsalty 2 роки тому

    It's not hard to do a front flip lol? Well, at least that is what I think... I mean, surely anyone could do one with height similar to The Doctor's placement

  • @MitchCyan
    @MitchCyan 2 роки тому +2

    RTD will return soon.

  • @twntodaywithniall7702
    @twntodaywithniall7702 2 роки тому +1

    15:45 heloo

  • @x5digi
    @x5digi 2 роки тому

    My man sea devil doing a mario jump

  • @evanmcclellan5878
    @evanmcclellan5878 5 місяців тому

    Doctor fr, how does Yaz even compare to rose, donna, or clara they did so much more to warrent being called one of the best people they know

  • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
    @TheSmart-CasualGamer 2 роки тому +4

    I admittedly quite like Planet of the Dead, I prefer it to The Waters of Mars.
    I gotta ask though, how didn't you know that the Sea Devils were underwater relatives to the Silurians? I've never seen their Classic Era episodes either, but that's basically the only thing notable about them compared to the normal Silurians. It's their defining trait.