10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Doctor Who
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2022
- Clearing up the confusion surrounding Doctor Who's biggest misconceptions.
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"Chris Chibnall had a five-year plan"
I would never accuse Chibnall of having any plan whatsoever.
Maybe he did have a 5 year plan. No one said it was any good.
A five year plan to get RTD to return.
He did have a five year plan but being a Chibbers plan, even the length of time to carry it out went tits up.
Good Riddens Chibnal 1
@RushiesBoots So you are a Holocaust denier.
Chibnall didn't have a 5 minute plan, never mind 5 years.
That’s not fair. It took him at least six minutes to think up the timeless child plot line. No more than seven though.
Chibnall appears to me to be someone who wants to cause trouble, no matter the consequences and not in a good way...
@@mitchellcampbell5743 it took him 6 minutes to think of the name. I think he just winged the rest.
Chibnal didn’t care as long as his woke political views were front and center Now I don’t care
as a youngster he was wrong and never changed. his writing was cancer to the 13th doctor.
As an amputee I really enjoyed the amputee woman in the episode where healing Nanites show up in London during the Battle of Britton and go about healing people wrong. The Doctor eventually sets things right (with the help of a medical doctor) and there is a woman, one of the victims and tells the medical doctor that she had come in with one leg but now she had two.
The doctor asks, "Are you sure you didn't miscount?"
For some reason I found this very amusing.
No, You're not the only one
That is one of the best lines ever! I always presumed that was the reason she'd been in the hospital in the first place. Something happened to her leg (likely involving shrapnel) meaning it had to be amputated and she wasn't discharged before the whole thing began. So she had only spent a week or two with only one leg!
@@sarahglover3286 I believe she had been an amputee for years. I wouldn't mind getting my leg back like that. Though I imagine it would take getting used to.
for some reason you found a joke written by a sitcom writer amusing....
@@comedyfish why do you care?
I was 10 in Nov 1963 and remember watching the first episode "live" on the 23rd, but what not many people know, or can remember, is that for the only time EVER, the BBC re-transmitted the complete first episode the following Saturday 30th just before episode 2 because of the devastating events that had taken place the previous Friday in Dallas. Now not many people know that :)
Anyone who knows the history of the show should know that. It's not like it hasn't been discussed many, many times over the decades.
I watched both showings of the first episode - and clearly remeber them.
Actually they didn't retransmit the same episode. At that time the show was filmed live to tape (perhaps with a delay). The original airing had the Doctor perform his lines much more severely. The producers (and Hartnell) took the "reshoot" as a chance to soften the Doctor's demeanor a notch. Both versions appear on the DVD from the "Beginnings" box set from 2006.
@@meatrace that’s not true, they filmed the episodes well in advance, they just had to film scenes in one take because editing wasn’t really possible in those days. They made a pilot but it never went to air, when they re-shot it that was the version that was broadcast on 23rd of November and then they re-showed that same version the following week because people missed it
Bullshit
I think i do have an answer for why the diamond wall didnt resent in room 12, its not official but i think it makes perfect sense
in the episode it was stated that the rooms inside the castle reset every day, it is also later revealed that the castle is actually inside the confession dial
i believe the diamond wall is the wall of the confession dial and not actually a part of the castle itself meaning it doesn't reset
"And no it isn't 'Mirror, mirror on the wall' . It's actually 'Magic mirror on the wall'"
No, it's not. Maybe in the Disney-film, but then Disney got it wrong and not everybody else. In the original fairy tale it is "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?" which translates to "Little mirror, little mirror, on the wall, who is the most beautiful one in the entire country?" or a little bit adjusted so it rhymes better: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
And by the way: Who is this "Everyone" who got these 10 things wrong?
The video is talking about MOVIE quotes, not original fairytale quotes!
Besides, walk up to 1000 people at random and the vast majority of them will have got their Snow White knowledge from the Disney animated film, so for all intents and purposes that’s the definitive version of the story.
@@danthemeegs8751 The issue is that they are correcting those who actually say it right.
People on Reddit, people on discord, twitter, etc.
I can confirm that I've seen all these misconceptions in the wild and they're all perfectly familiar to someone who's familiar with the fan community
@@WindspriteM In the wild, yep, I did see one of these misconceptions last time I went looking for moose.
@@danthemeegs8751 walk up to 1000 Germans, and they likely know the fairy tale. The anthology „Kinder- und Hausmärchen“ written down by the Grimm brothers are just German history and culture. The importance of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm for German history can be seen by this: The highest bank note in Germany before the Euro was introduced was 1,000 DM (Deutsche Mark). And on this bank note were portraits of the Grimm brothers (the complete list of portraits is: 5 DM: writer Bettina von Armin, 10 DM: scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss, 20 DM: poet Anette von Droste-Hülshoff, 50 DM: master builder Balthasar Neumann, 100 DM: pianist Clara Schumann, 200 DM: medical scientist Paul Ehrlich, 500 DM: painter, copper engraver and naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian)
My personal theory on Susan coining the TARDIS name and meaning is that Gallifrey had a children's programme like Blue Peter, and one week, they had a contest to name the new type of time capsule; Susan won.
Makes ya wonder what the badge for that show looks like...
My theory is that there is just...no other human word for TARDIS, so the TARDIS itself translates to that word when anybody is talking about any Timelord-made bigger-on-the-inside time and space machine
I like your theory, I can easily imagine Susan entering such competitions
@@carrot708 Exactly. Time Lords don't speak English, so we just hear the most convenient term, which is the English acronym Susan invented.
Just narrowly beating out Timey McTimeface...
Interestingly, in The War Games, the War Chief provides SIDRATs to navigate between different time zones. It’s just TARDIS spelled backwards, and it seems unlikely that would be a coincidence in Time Lord technology. The Master uses it too, and he and Susan don’t have any real interaction until The Five Doctors. It’s probable that it was a somewhat common acronym by the time they stole a Type 40 and fled Gallifrey.
10- I will accept that Jenny didn’t regenerate, if we also consider the possibility that she does have the ability to regenerate as a Timelord. This situation may only circumvented the process allowing her to continue her first generation. Frankly, if the series continues enough, I can see the character come back even in a new regenerated state.
I don't really have an issue with Jenny but I feel like regeneration is more than just DNA. It's generally presented a a Timelord secret, and cloning tech doesn't seem to be all that rare. I don't think it'd be as easy as cloning a Timelord, cloning would get you a clone/offspring of that particular incarnation but not someone who can regenerate. I just can't see the Timelords making it that easy. Plus we know not all Galifreyans are Timelords, and as far as we know only Timelords regenerate so presumably it's not an inherited ability, assuming Timelords aren't some sort of exclusive ethnic caste of Gallifreyan (and all of this ignores the explanation that they are created in looms exclusively).
It's possibly some sort of energy infused into an individual; in the case of River being conceived on the TARDIS that seems to have been enough, even with no Galifreyan DNA. And we see the Timelords grant the Doctor a new regeneration cycle. It doesn't seem like genetics so much as Timelord witchery/science, even if genetics play a part.
I like to believe they're somewhat like Jedi, choosing promising youngsters and enrolling them at the academy, infusing them with the ability to regenerate and exposing them to the schism at a young age. It would also further explain the Doctor's less-than-reverent feelings towards them.
@@mrjoe5292 well, I see a few problems. If the Chibnall era stands, The Doctor is not even truly Galifreyan but in actuality the Timeless Child, by which the elite Galifreyans learned to become Timelords. Therefore Jenny isn’t a clone of the Galifreyan timelords but a copy of the Timeless Child. Let alone I am not a fan of that twist, but there’s that.
Even that not withstanding, if Jenny had gotten her DNA from a non Timelord Galifreyan, then your argument would make sense. However, Timelords are exposed to the Eye of Harmony or the untempered schism which evolves them (changes their DNA). We have no reason to assume that what makes River a “Timelord”, having been conceived near to a time vortex, is not just as possible with a clone of someone changed by the the actual Eye or schism.
@@SB-vj7sz The Timeless Child explanation for the ability to regenerate appeears completely contradictory to the "they became what they were through prolonged exposure to the time vortex; over millions of years" explanation given when discussing River Song.
As for Jenny, I'm not sure of the meaning of the Doctor's line "she was too much like me". One possible explanation in my head at the moment is that Jenny understood that her death was going to bring peace between human and hath and so she decided not to regenerate in order to ensure that peace. But then 'The Source' allowed her to come back to life, without using a regeneration and changing her appearance (an alternative explanation is that, she was 'too much like the 10th Doctor' (who used his 'handy spare hand' to regenerate without a change of appearance) in that she didn't want to change and so used 'The Source' to survive the gunshot rather than a full regeneration) .
@@Rhydgaled but we agree that she should likely regenerate whereas my debate with @Mr Joe is that she won’t. I didn’t particularly care for the Timeless Child twist but only used it as an “if the Doctor was not truly Galifreyan” point. Wouldn’t it be awesome to have had a spin off though, like “The Doctor’s Daughter”. However, I would be satisfied with this character being revisited at some point in the future.
To me, Jenny didn't regenerate, she just healed in the same way that the Doctor grew himself a fightin' hand in that Christmas Special. That was why she still looked the same.
While in the movie it might be "Magic mirror on the wall", the original German version is "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand", with Spieglein being a diminutive of mirror. The saying of 'mirror, mirror' in German dates back at least to 1812.
For the 3. No Steven, it's because you write all your female characters in the same way that we confuse them.
(I love Moffat but this is his fault not ours.)
I feel like you just ruined my childhood 😲 You're right and now I have to work out how I can love and hate different versions of the same basic character.
We know from several different versions that often Daleks are basically like different parts of an army so some have more armour, some are more intelligent, some have special weapons and also we are seeing them over millions of years as they evolved as well. Just a matter of which version you came up against as to what they could do.
And some can make a mean cup of tea!
@@danthemeegs8751 “Would. You. Like. Some. Tea?”
also, writers are not infallible, and may have forgotten about certain abilities, or alternately "forgot" without truly forgetting
Originally the Dale's were the nazis and would be a catharsis for traumatised WWII survivors
they seem to be basicly the fusion of a one person tank and the tank.. wich is a pretty brilliant concept (inside they are protected but untouchable. wich is propably fine by them, suspecting every touch to be an attack.. but taking away the chance to be positively surprised... brilliant concept. immedeately opens up a whole world). like fear and hatefull solitary crabs but with a tank for a shell... and yea, different kinds of shells (tanks), different abilities. but my access, especially to the classic episodes, is so limited that I don't dare to make any statement about what first poped up when anyways. but I never thought much about it for precicely the reason you gave.
"The reference book The Time Traveller's Almanac, which is not accepted as a valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki, suggests that Jenny's revival was not due to regeneration but rather the Source, as suggested by visual cues in the episode."
Het, why not a little bit of both? Source energy, Time Lord biology, stir thoroughly, then stand back and watch the fireworks.
or the VFX department just used the same FX to save money.
@@Carwyn.Morris There's no green sparkles in Regenerative energy, there was in the gas released by both Jenny's mouth and the terraforming globe.
@@StevenCampsOut Again the FX department using the same FX to save money
@@StevenCampsOut there was very little of the "green sparkles," as you call it, in that effect. There was considerably more of the golden glow, a strong indicator of Regeneration Energy, in it than any "green sparkles." I'd wager that, as the regeneration was discussed later on, in comics at least (which are more canon than that, er, reference source).
7:20 MYTH: Doctor Who has been on the air for 59 years.
Reality: Doctor Who has been on the air for 43 years. There was a 16 year gap between the final episode of the 7th Doctor and the first episode of the 9th. (The TV movie excepted.) OK then call it 15 years that Who was off the air, not counting reruns.
It’s also effectively skipped years; 2009, 2016, 2019, and 2022 all had few-to-no new episodes, as well as 2012 and 2013 splitting a single season across the two years, effectively making each year only had half a season. The 2021 season was also quite short, even still a bit short after counting the 2022 specials.
Point is, to say that the show ran in a year like 2019 when the only episode of the year was on January 1st, and is officially recognized as a part of the previous season, doesn’t accurately represent reality.
I can’t speak for the state of the classic show, because I have little experience with it and don’t feel like sorting through air dates, but I imagine it would have had some similar struggle keeping to a schedule.
5:10 actually, it is "Mirror, mirror on the wall". Magic Mirror is a mistranslation of the original «Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand»
Blame Disney.
@@tabularasa0606 Sounds pretty Grimm to me...
Actually the Daleks definitely can’t climb stairs! They can fly to the top of the stairs, but they can’t climb
“The Day of The Doctor” made it abundantly clear that not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords (because it shows civilians on Gallifrey).
Why wouldn't the civilizans also be timelords?
even as far back the Deadly Assassin, they mention the Shobogans who are the native gallifreyans who didn’t become time lords
@@kingofstrangeness7014 that's like saying "why wouldn't every human on earth be in the military?" A Time-Lord is not a species name but a name for Gallifreyans who have entered "the academy" and become Time-Lords. Gallifreyans cannot naturally regenerate, only Time-Lords can when given this ability. The only difference is that they are only referred to as Time-Lords from that moment on instead of Gallifreyans unlike people from the military on earth who are of course still referred to as humans.
@@OverWims wait if only the time lords can regenerate, then why River can?
@@duodecim3452 I think that has something to do with being on the TARDIS during her conception.
I know River Song inside out, and she is definitely her own woman!
With River Song and Tasha Lem - it shows that the Doctor has a type of woman (slightly criminally insane).
Yes, I agree. That's also how Steven Moffat wrote his women - I believe he called his type "powerful and mysterious" in an interview once
So an ordinary Woman?
River Song's eccentricities mirror the Doctor's.
One of Doctor Who's many memorable continuity errors involves the name TARDIS.
TARDIS is Susan's PERSONAL name for her Grandfather's time-travel machine, yet on various occasions we hear it used as if it is a generic term for such a device.
Not sure this is an error. She created a name for it, it stuck, and when others like it are referenced, they use the same name. Sort of like "Yoda" is used as the name for Yoda's species.
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
10. Source energy and Regeneration energy are too similar. What if Jenny did regenerate? What if Source energy and Regeneration energy are the same thing? Perhaps being part Timelord is what allowed the Source energy to regenerate her.
9. Although I understand that not all Galifreyans are Timelords, it's easy to mistake because it's not just the fans that use them interchangably. Many show writers seem to forget this distinction, seeing as how often Timelords refer to Timelords as a race, ignoring any distinction between them and non-Timelord Galifreyans. Although I suppose this could be explained in how entitled Timelords tend to be.
7. I don't recall mention of a "five-year plan". But I do recall mention of a "3-season plan". But that could be a variation of the same myth I suppose.
Don’t forget she said that all Time lords were Galifreyans but that is simply not true. I remember there being a few companions becoming time lords.
@@MactelMordek That's another good point, because there is no reason for the title of Timelord to be race specific.
The only reason why it's considered race specific is because Timelords like to gatekeep. For example, what would you call River if not a Timelord? I mean, she's a time traveler, and she has regeneration energy. In fact, River was born with regeneration energy, which is something that only one other Timelord (as far as we know) can claim. And River is married to him.
We can assume Jenny didn't *fully* regenerate because she didn't change appearance but it is very possible that using *both* the source and regeneration energy she was able to heal herself without changing, kind of similar to how river used regeneration energy to stop the doctor dying or the tenth doctor regenerated but stayed the same by using his hand
@@SnowLily06 Now that's an interesting way to look at it. And perhaps you could argue that Jenny is incapable of regenerating on her own, but wouldn't have been able to be revived like she had without being part Timelord. And the fact that the Source wasn't specifically targeting her could be the reason whyit was just a partial regeneration like what you mentioned about the 10th Doctor.
The 3 season plan is believable, and probably true (doesn't mean it was a good plan) simply cause 3 seasons is kinda the standard.
Tasha Lem and River has many more in common to a point that either Moffat forgot character should have at least some differences, or he forgot that he placed River in there and told this. One particular one everyone forget is the doctor told Tasha she was fighting the psycopath in her.
OR....like most men, he values certain qualities in romantic entanglements.
In other words, River and Tasha were both his "type".
@@dashfatbastard Then he is very specific.
@@CemKalyoncu I know I am. In a thousand+ years, I should hope he knows what he likes. And of course, we are talking about only two women during a lifetime nearly one-score times greater than our own.
@@dashfatbastard Moffat has actually acknowledged that he wrote many of his Doctor Who women the same way - “powerful and mysterious” I think is how he put it!
@@danthemeegs8751 Two things can be true simultaneously. Moffat is stating how. I'm trying to get at why.
I think it was obvious chibnall didn’t have a 5 year plan, or any plan at all for that matter
He barely seemsed to have a plan for a season.
@@ciaradswim He was barely able to plan an episode
There are a couple of "dead unicorn" tropes associated with Doctor Who. One is that in the classic series "all alien planets looked like quarries". Whilst Doctor Who did film in quarries for some of its episodes, to depict barren planets, I think it was _Blake's 7_ that did that the most at the time and for whom the joke was originally said.
or abandoned factories, spooky stately homes, old castles...
In a fun double meaning, the lady playing "the doctor's daughter" in the episode, actually is the daughter of one of the early "Doctor" actors.
And Georgia went on to marry her father the Doctor ... not her real-life father (Peter Davison) obviously , but her "father" in that episode (David Tennant). AND both the 5th and 10th Doctor shared screen time for an episode. Talk about wibbley wobbly timey wimey.
Daughter of 5 Girlfriend of 10 Wife of 14
@@davidbrowne3761 Funny it sounds scandalous the way you wrote it ;D
@@bl8388 That's what Georgia posted to Social Media right after The Power of The Doctor Aired
WhoCulture: “Things Everyone Gets Wrong About DW”
Also WhoCulture: “DW has been ON THE AIR for 59 years…” 😂
That may still be a correct statement if we consider syndicated reruns.
Seriously? 😆
7:20 "Unearthly Child" first aired on November 23, 1963. Today is September 2022, so it is actually 58 years, 10 months and some change...so two months shy of 59 years.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc it's not yet at that 59 year anniversary, though.
@@matthewwells2520 people really be tripping because the lady rounded up 2 months
The books I read as a kid (Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1812) all had, "Mirror, mirror on the wall...", and you'll find it in every translation, e.g. the original German is "Spieglen, spieglen an der wand....". The fact that Disney inexplicably decided to change it to "Magic mirror..." doesn't make the original wrong; it's misquoted in the animation. Yet another example of [modern] Internetizens (who have probably never read the original story) rewriting history.
Mine didn't.
My translation had "Looking-Glass upon the Wall..."
My 1925 edition has
Tell me, glass, tell me true!
Of all the ladies in the land,
Who is the fairest? Tell me true?
I have watched since the first series. I missed the first few. As a 10 yr old, my friend at school told me about the series. He said "It's great, there are monsters called "Garlics." When I told my parents I wanted to watch this, they were rightly amused and asked if the monsters grabbed you and breathed in your face!!
chibnall didnt have a 5 year plan. chibnall didnt have any plans at all. he just threw shit at the wall to see what would happen
Oh he had a plan... to destroy Doctor Who.
Technically Daleks cannot "CLIMB" stairs. They can hover or levitate above stairs, they are not actually "CLIMBING" the stairs.
I remember when a rubber bath mat would stop Daleks in their tracks! 🤣
@@RealCelticGamer yet, they still often levitated, even in the original series. Moreso in the original series than people seem to remember.
@@MaryAnnNytowl yes, the times when they couldn't levitate were really only when the doctor was encountering them much earlier in their history.
Lawyers. You have to have handicap access.
Daleks: thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Pedantic🤣..
Went to the Doctor Who museum in Blackpool in 1984. I was in Heaven! Have a coffee mug with the Tardis on it, a leather Doctor Who book mark, own every episode except the last few on blu-ray and still watch them every year in sequence. My grown kids are fanatics like their Mom. My daughter called my G.P. Doctor Who. His name was Neville Hughes, he was from Birmingham, and he loved that she called him that. She was 3 at the time! Guess you could say we’re a bunch if nerds, but we’re proud of that. Wasn’t aware of these misconceptions until moments ago. Thanks! 🖖🏻 🇨🇦
I went too in the mid 70's. I was probably 7 or 8 years old. I was so excited to see the cybermen, I obviously didn't follow the story too well and didn't realize they were the baddies, I loved them! 😂
@@gardeninginthedesert I may have been an adult when I went through the museum, but the kid in me was going nuts! Kept telling myself “love been on the Tardis!” Great place … hope it’s still there pleasing fans forever!
@@Momcat_maggiefelinefan Sadly it closed down a long time ago.
@@gardeninginthedesert That’s so sad! In retrospect, it was quite possibly my favourite stop of my three week visit to Britain. Loads of good memories.
Honestly thought seeing that thumbnail, this was gonna talk about the "pull to open" thing with the TARDIS doors.
Even though Pull To Open only applies to the phone hatch door.
Pretty sure River says different. Also, that would be ridiculous and physically impossible for most people. If you pushed the door open then you wouldn't be able to shut it behind you. Real police boxes aren't bigger on the inside.
A couple of these I didn't know but most I did and in fact have never met a Doctor Who fan who made a lot of these "mistakes".
Online fan communities on twitter, Reddit, discord.
Seen it and it's totally real, especially the five year plan meme
While mainly right about Grade/Powell and Cregeen- the Unholy trinity, it was Grade who got the ball rolling when the show was 'rested'. So he instigated the whole thing. The behind-the scenes book Regeneration by Philip Segal and Gary Russell sheds a more interesting light on the subject- that it was a combination of things that led to the cancellation and well worth a read.
While you're right about the Disney movie quote, it's actually that quote that's wrong. In essentially every other iteration of the story it's "mirror mirror on the wall", including the German original ("Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand")
The original wasn't in German. Mostly because there was no Germany when it was written, but also because the Brothers Grimm didn't write it.
@@cutebutevil7387 ...?
That's a pretty bold claim, I think it'd be useful if you provided a source. Like with basically every story, there are theories about possible inspirations and aspects amalgamated into the story we know, but none are more than theories. Most scholars seem to dismiss these theories altogether.
What we know for sure is that the Brothers Grimm published the story we know today in 1812, in German, in Germany. Sure, Germany at the time didn't look the same, but name any European country that did. In 1812 "Germany" was the confederation of the Rhine, which is like 80% of Germany today. I'd say that's good enough.
So as far as the facts concerned, the authors are the Brothers Grimm, the original language is German, and the country of origin is today's Germany.
The image of Peter Capaldi's head on a nude torso will now haunt my nightmares for weeks. Thanks, Ellie.
Regarding the spare set of clothes, if the first run through isn't the first cycle then we can imagine the Doctor deciding to run through naked on one cycle to leave himself some clothes for later.
I think that it just makes more sense that the entire place revolves around him so of course it has a spare set of his clothes!
My thoughts were that he stripped to let the clothes dry, and while he was stuck waiting on them, was killed.
He wasn't actually in the fortress 😕
@@cutebutevil7387 How come you just went through this whole comments section disagreeing with me?
Time Lords aren't Gallifrey's "government officials." You're thinking of the High Council of the Time Lords. They wear the funny hats/collars.
Good point there. Time Lords could then be more like a privileged caste.
"Good luck getting that image out of your head."
Why would I want to?
Excellent point
I remember watching Dalek for the first time and seeing it go up the flight of stairs and found it amazing (despite the dodgy CGI) and then a couple of years later I watched Remembrance and was even more blown away. Just seeing the actual prop moving up and the lighting of the scene being dark made it all the more terrifying.
I always dislike when people said they did it for the first time in 2005 as it doesn't give credit to the people that did it back in the 80's with limited resources.
I can see people possibly conflating Chibnall's ideas with what was known as the Cartmel Plan from the original series, resulting in the idea of a Chibnall Plan. They both even involved changes to the nature of the Doctor.
Cartmel didn’t really have a plan either
5:08 "...and no, it isn't mirror mirror on the wall-" Yes. Yes, it damn well is! The only version where it's "magic mirror on the wall" is the Disney version. *LITERALLY EVERY OTHER VERSION EVER WRITTEN,* including the original German version written by the Brothers Grimm, themselves, had it mirror mirror on the wall. Well, okay, technically, the German version was "spieglen spieglan an der wand," which more directly translates to "looking glass looking glass on the wall," buuuuut, close enough.
Germany didn't exist back then so German wasn't a language and the Brothers Grimm didn't write the stories. But apart from that, you're absolutely right
I don't consider the timeless children canon, so I don't really give a crap what the episode says.
Great, intelligent video! One item was very illuminating! :) Just one thing: the wall was not made of daimond.
A naked Peter Capaldi's far from the worst visual I could imagine...
So close to 100k subscribers, keep up the good work!!
Let’s goooooo 🙌🙌
You can add that to the list of things people get wrong about Doctor Who. It has NOT, in fact been running for sixty years. It started nearly sixty years ago, BUT that's about the limit of the six decade connection. The original show actually ran from 1963 UNTIL 1989. With the exception of a single story movie in 1996, Doctor Who did NOT in fact, return to television until 2005, and has been running continuously since. The show has actually had a non-consecutive FORTY-THREE year run in all.
WHY DOES EVERYONE FORGET ABOUT THE TWO FILMS WITH PETER CUSHING? HE DESERVES CREDIT! ARGH!
Peter Cushing also had two movies, and I believe there was a movie in which the doctor went through several regenerations within the movie itself. Now whilst it hasn't been on TV that whole time, it has always had re-runs and movies related to it being played over the 60 years.
It was cancelled in 1986 and off for a little while but brought back with Sylvester McCoy but with a much lower budget and with a crazy time slot and show length
@@RossM3838 Off for a little while? It was cancelled in 1989, they made ONE TV movie in 1996, and we didn't see Doctor Who again as a regular TV program until 2005. I'd say that's a lot longer than "a little while."
@@houseofno it was cancelled earlier in1986 hence the doctor in distress recording So it wasn’t on continuously
6:31 - If you pay attention, you can actually notice that the figure moves similar to Matt Smith's movements, so it is likely that Smith himself might have shot the scene.
Love the editing of the clips for this video 👌🏽
Doctor Who has not 'been on the air' for 59 years. As for 'Dimensions', that was first coined (with grammatic accuracy) by Vicki in The Time Meddler and used throughout the original series other than a couple of instances, so no, 'Dimension' is not the most used iteration of the TARDIS acronym.
"Dimension" IS the most used. It's also the original, and it's written on the TARDIS plaque in Amy's Choice (see 6:01 in the video). It was even used by Twelve in The Pilot, an episode that could be viewed as Moffat soft-rebooting the series and getting things back to how they should be
@@danthemeegs8751 It most certainly is not. 26 years, bar the odd mention of 'dimension' in the first year and once in the '90s, it was 'dimensions'.
It did have to be re-aired a week later. But it debuted on Nov 23, 1963
Kennedy was assassinated on 22/11/1963.
Also, on Nov 22, 1963, the Beatles released 'With The Beatles'. This is the Album that got them noticed in America and started Beatlemania.
The number 1 thing people get wrong about Dr. Who, is the misconception that it is a good show. It isn't, and never has been good. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
In some of the classic Who stories the Daleks had anti-gravity technology, like the " lift " shafts in Planet Of The Daleks, so the only thing I can think is, that the forth Doctor's escape in Destiny Of The Daleks, is the cause of the staircase joke. But the reason the Dalek can't chase him, is because the ceiling is too low, for the Dalek to follow and the Dalek's gun can't get up at the right angle to hit him.
The cause of the Dr Who debut versus the Kennedy Assassination, actually comes from the BBC postponing programmes in a mark of respect, including the first Dr Who.
Tasha Lem is clearly one of many girlfriends, because the first Doctor romanced an ancient Greek woman, so his wife, Susan's grandmother clearly was either dead or they were divorced, or separated.
Technically the Daleks still can't "climb" stairs, flying is not climbing
@@Sullrosh Do you want to explain the difference to them? :)
They didn't _postpone_ the first episode. It most definitely aired. It was simply rebroadcast the next weekend.
The first Doctor romanced an Aztec woman, not a Greek.
@@jamesfrost126 OMG the memories come flooding back
Even Claudia Grant, who played Carol Anne Ford (Suzan Foreman) in An Adventure in Time and Space, when, as Susan, explains how she came up with Tardis uses 'dimensions' rather than 'dimension'. That really pissed me off.
I never even noticed people were saying it different sometimes.
What I do notice is that Susan was supposed to have come up with the name. Sometimes Timelords call them 'time capsules,' but I'm pretty sure they've called them Tardises, too, as have Daleks and other aliens. For a little kid that ran off with a dubious Timelord, that name sure went viral. Or maybe Susan used to work on Tardis technology and regenerated into a young girl? Or maybe.... she fibbed??
I knew that Jenny was from the source stuff, it’s clear with the fact it’s green tint and that she doesn’t change or modern regenerate explosion, just gets reborn
Galafreyans are the name of the race and time lords are the ones who ascend to a higher rank and get to live in the citadel
Even though Michael Grade didn't cancel Doctor Who, he still should take most of the blame. He got it into the state where it needed to be cancelled with intentions of getting it cancelled.
Jonathan Powell should take a lot of the blame
Grade does shoulder a lot of the blame, I agree
Michael Grade *did* cancel Doctor Who. But in 1985, not 1989, and it's a decision he was swiftly forced to reverse.
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
I have opinions about the timeless child stuff, and it could still be salvaged, imo. But my main issue was that gallifrey was just wiped out overnight by the master.
They almost ripped the universe apart during the time war, that he ran away from, but they couldn't handle one dude and some Cybermen? That's dumb as hell.
I know! how the heck did one guy kill all the time lords? There are hundreds of them and they have some of the most advanced technology in the universe. 700 years of war and the darleks couldn’t do it!
Also, side note: how do we know that it was all of galifrey? We only ever see one city, there could have been life on the other side of the planet that got wiped out at the end of timeless children?
Just so you know the timeless child episode was removed as cannon by the directors and the BBC. So it's not supposed to exist as a plot line anymore. At least just the Episodes in the 13th doctor about it.
Knew 10 out of 10. Also the wall doesn’t reset because it exists both in and outside the confession dial at the same time.
Can you explain how to clothes got there in the first place? I am severely confused
@@Skittelz it's a deliberately built time-loop, created by a particularly contrary Timelord. Whatever the Doctor would need to continue on in the Confession Dial would, of necessity, be there. This, so the Timelords could glean the information of who or what the Doctor believes is the Hybrid.
@@MaryAnnNytowl all true (and thank the gods I've finally found someone with a bit of sense who isn't just looking for ways to get The Doctor naked), but I'd say the Time Lord wasn't contrary as much as sparing their eyes from a naked Doctor running around the place.
Well, if the original plans for Ace had been carried out then not all Timelords would be Gallifrain. The plan was that the Doctor was preparing Ace to go to the Academy (or University) to become a Timelord. Of course, that was all done away with by the series cancelation and rebrith so I guess it's true now. :)
Not all Time Lords are Gallifreyan. The Doctor is a Time Lord, but he was brought to Gallifrey by Tecteun.
@@w1521 We don't speak of that non-sense.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Whether you speak of it or not, it was still confirmed as a fact onscreen.
@@w1521 I'm leaving it on the screen.
@@w1521 it was confirmed on screen in a season most fans didn’t like or watch, and hope will be retconned. It may be canon right now but you’ll find very few willing to accept it as fact.
In the Brain of Morbius it was stated that the Sisterhood gave the Timelords the Ability to regenerate. Something people forget.
Grade did his utmost to undermine the programme and made sure that his successor would have had to make a 2005-style commitment to repair the damage.
If the terraforming thing brought Jenny back and not the fact she’s The Doctor’s daughter, why didn’t it do that for all the other soldiers that died?
I think it's more she had the Potential to regenerate, but not the Regeneration Energy. The terraforming device provided that energy for her. (This same lack of energy is why most Time Lords are limited to 12 Regenerations but The Doctor seemingly has an endless supply, or was topped up at some point if you discard The Timeless Child)
@@Valdimarian thanks interesting. I did wonder why, if she regenerated, why she didn’t change. But would that not still be considered a regeneration? Or just, I don’t know, rejuvenated or something?
@@SteampunkFerret 10 managed to consume some regeneration energy and rejuvenate himself instead of regenerating, so there may be some mechanic for that built into his DNA.
@@Valdimarian true, I didn’t think about that. He kept his face. Well, he kept his entire self instead of changing.
She died about the same time he released it, can't remember if it was just before or just after, but either she had only just died when he released it so was still there and maybe her two hearts helped or if it was just after then it could reach her immediately, the others had been dead for hours or days by that point!
Chibnal didn't even have a morning plan
Maybe The Doctor's daughter Jenny might make a comeback too as David Tennant also made a comeback in Dr Who....Man it would be amazing series if both of them travel together
3:50. They're not climbing stairs! They're rising above them! 🤣
I was going to cite "The Chase" as the first proof of Daleks levitating, but not the part you indicated. When the Daleks are on the sailing ship, one of them is on the little upper deck portion. It could only have gotten there via levitation. But yeah, we actually SEE it in another part of the story. BTW, The Chase is one of the very best Classic serials, regardless of Doctor. (First, in this case.)
and yet same series, one is trapped by several rocks round it's base :)
The first proof of a Dalek levitating is surely the one emerging from the Thames in The Dalek Invasion Of Earth...
When "dimensions" has been said on the show - especially when its been said by the doctor himself - you cannot claim "dimension" is the only correct option. Ridiculous.
Nah! They can... The Correct Term is DIMENSION - Mainly as teh TARDIS generally travels RELATIVE to where it currently is... Ergo, If the Doctor Landed in Sherwood Forest in 1806, and had to fix events in that time period in that Particular Dimension... The TARDIS could NOT hop to a Similar Dimension to try and influence the Events in the Dimension it just left...
... This is actually discussed in DOOMSDAY - When the Doctor talks about the Rift that Torchwood has been messing with, How Timelords are FORBIDDEN from Dimension Hopping - What he ends up doing should NOT be possible! Under timelord regulation - ONLY RELATIVE DIMENSIONS can be reached, So direct Neighbours which do not deviate from the main timeline...
...IE: The doctor lands and there are Daleks ready to kill him! The TARDIS CANNOT JUMP to a Similar Timeline in an Alternate Dimension where there are NO DALEKS! That would Deviate from the Main Timeline too extensively and cause a Rift... It could however Jump to a Neighbouring Dimension where the Daleks are maybe slightly late to witness the Doctors Arrival!
Yeah that was a long winded and over complex "Theory" but that works!
There's no getting around the fact that at some point, the Doctor left his clothes, without having a replacement.
I came to Doctor Who from downloading it for my tv station. I still enjoy that he always seems to land where there's trouble (makes for better tv), while he also has his own problems.
You should watch all the episodes, we see that he usually lands where there's trouble because the TARDIS is a clever girl and The Doctor's easily bored 🙂
Michael Grade wanted to cancel Doctor Who, Jonathon Powell was his assistant, pretty much his protégé so when Grade left as soon as Powell had the opportunity he carried out his master's bidding and cancelled the series. Also Grade is full of crap as he complained about Doctor Who look cheap but he was in control of the budget at because he wanted to get rid of it he wouldn't give them more money.
I wondered why there was only one time we saw the TARDIS doors open OUT, rather then IN, in Matt Smith's first episode, when the TARDIS has crashed into Amelia's garden shed...
well in the episode when the TARDIS matrix was put in the body of a human, she mentioned about how the instructions on the police box says "pull" instead of "push" so its my interpretation that the TARDIS can open both ways but the doctor prefers to open it inwards than outwards and the only reason he opened it outwards in that episode is because it was on its side and destroyed and the doctor was at risk of death because the regeneration wasn't complete yet
The TARDIS doors also open outwards in The Ice Warriors One.
I'm.glad you mentioned 12 running around naked that's always amused me lol
Well actually sometimes nongallifreyians can be time lords
Chibnall couldn't plan his way out of a shallow hole in the ground!
The most obvious mistake people make is calling the main character Doctor Who. Also the name Time Rotor was never meant to apply to the central column but one of the controls. You might have mentioned this in a previous video.
Except in the early ending credits with Hartnell, he is listed as Doctor Who. Which makes it understandable that the character would be called this. Not to mention the ongoing joke: “I am the Doctor. Who?”
In the classic, there's an episode where some robotic voice says something like bring me Dr who. So..
@@lilithhawkins6454 It was WOTAN in War Machines. Some in the script department slipped up that day.
@@chrisandersen5635 They did for Eccleston's series too. Davis Tennant insisted they change the credits when he took over.
There is actually more evidence onscreen to prove his name *is* Doctor Who. Never mind WOTAN, the Doctor signs himself as Dr. W, and refers to himself as Doktor Von Wer when adopting a German persona, both in the early Troughton era. And then there's the credits on 566 of the show's 870 episodes, and "Doctor Who And The Silurians" on 7 of those, and The Death Of Doctor Who, Next Week: Dr. Who And The Savages, etc... And all those knowing looks and in-jokes whenever the phrase "Doctor Who" is uttered in the show, particularly in the Matt Smith era.
By contrast, there is no evidence whatsoever to prove that his name *isn't* Doctor Who.
When Donna checked Jenny’s heartbeat, she had two hearts because she had the Doctor’s DNA. So that gold dust coming out of her mouth really was her regenerating.
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While I like The Source Explanation for Jenny, Having Timelord DNA does leave the possibility that she can also Regenerate - So there is an opening to bring her back at any time they wish... And it would also mean they can cast a Different Actress and have an explanation! That said, NO JENY DID NOT REGENERATE - She HEALED! There is a Difference and we have seen it before...
... Namely when David Tennant lost his hand in The Christmas Invasion! Yeah, People forget that one...
So NO I can 100% accept Jenny did NOT Regenerate - It was the Source, but it does not mean she CANNOT REGENERATE!
There are some others I have thought of Fans and Non-Fans get wrong - EARTHSHOCK is a good one... Why didn't the Doctor use the TARDIS to save Adric? There is a very simple explanation... He couldn't!
Fans and Non-Fans always make teh mistake of thinking the Doctor can Pilot the TARDIS when in fact he TRIES but is only "Half Capable" - Not only is teh TARDIS Sentient to a degree and makes it sown decisions... LOOK AT THE CONSOLE!!! And yes, while never bought up regular in show... This is 100% CANON!
A TARDIS is supposed to have at least 3 Pilots, Preferably 6!!! Each TARDIS is supposed to have a crew of 3 to 6 people to fly it... That is how Timelords negate the will of the Semi Living Machine and make it do what they require... But the Doctor STOLE his TARDIS... He does not have a full crew, and the TARDIS itself can therefore influence where it wants to go and where it believes the Doctor Needs to be against his wishes!
Wait!? Am I saying that like the fans the TARDIS Hated Adric? No... Nothing like that! We all know TV Shows and Movie shave Dramatic Tension - So Adric's Final Scenes which seem to drag out - Much like Captain Jack when he almost dies and is saved by the Doctor at the last minute in The Doctor Dances probably lasted MERE SECONDS in Universe... The TARDIS simply could NOT allow such a rescue as it would have placed itself in Danger - While it is a fantastic and Amazing Machine, It's not impervious... Nor is it's Time Travel and Dimension Hopping abilities perfect... It takes a short amount of time to Land / Launch and is Vulnerable during this time...
For the show, We see time dragged out as that adds "Dramatic Tension" - But in Universe - Saving Adric was IMPOSSIBLE even with the TARDIS...
And I just realised I answered TWO in one Comment! The fact the Doctor Pilots teh TARDIS (He doesn't... He tries but is totally useless as it's not a Single Pilot Machine!) and WHY The Doctor did not save Adric! (It was IMPOSSIBLE!)
Also, a cyberman shot the control panel, so the doctor couldn't fly the TARDIS to save Adric
@@ronstreet6706 Yup! That too!
You think its bigger on the inside, but the tardis is wrapped around a bubble. And sits in a hollow on the outside of the field.
To answer the question on the castle from heaven sent...
The clothes, the food? believe it or not... the Vale is the one who prepared everything *for* the doctor. Apparently in the novelization of the ep, the Vale even becomes sentient and wished to escape *with* the doctor after he broke through the wall. Hoping it'd be taken with him... it's... kinda fucked up when you think about it.
I read that. I think it may have been a fanfic, though. Poor Veil, it could only act within it's restrictions and just wanted to be free, too.
pretty sure its not a novel just a short story written for a magazine
Um, Craytherwhatever, it's not Vale, as in Valyard. It's Veil, as in a face and/or body covering, one of which the Veil definitely wore.
The Veil prepared it? If we're pretending it actually exists, it's little more than an automaton that resets continuously with the fortress, how exactly do you think I predicts The Doctor's actions, even in future loops, to prepare things like clothes, let alone becomes sentient?
@@cutebutevil7387 The interpretation is that while the Doctor died & was effectively 'reset', the Veil remembered... everything. It had to be 'smart' enough to adapt to his hidden fear, track him through the ever changing labyrinth, follow it's rules , and extract the information. So all we are left to wonder is, how much can it learn. Even if it was a slow learner, it certainly had the time to achieve sentience.
in my reality the timeless child never took place and 12th skipped a regeneration
The Doctor had to leave his clothes the first time without a change for a couple reasons. First , if he didn't there wouldn't have been a change for the second time through, and thus every subsequent time. Second, he did the Dial the same every single time. That was the whole point of the show. I know Moffat wrote the damn thing, but sometimes I think he has a tendency to blame his own shortcomings as a writer on the fans interpreting it wrong.
2:50 Erm you forgot the most obvious examples of Gallifreyan non Time Lords! The people we see in the Time War flashbacks in the 50th! Also for references to the Academy you really should have included what the old lady in the barn said when Clara was hiding under a young boy (we later realise is the Doctor)'s bed in Listen!
Heaven Sent
The diamond wall didn't reset because it was not part of the loop. Why would a Time Lord put that in their own dial? It was placed there as part of the trap
Yeah you're half right - the wall didn't reset because it wasn't in the castle, it was the outer wall of the confession dial. Moffat has confirmed that too
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Yet it was clean every time the doctor got to it. No traces of blood or dirt.
The only five years of chibnal anyone wants is five straight years of him apologizing to Jody for fucking up so badly.
Oh, baloney. Why do so many of you overreact so very dramatically over this? I mean, sheesh, there were NOT that many poorly written episodes, and _not even as many_ as some other Doctors have been stuck with, LOL! Too many of you either have really short memories or have no knowledge of the original show at all.
@@MaryAnnNytowl its not over reacting. Chibnal was fucking terrible and wasted incredible talent. Jodies entire run was plagued with bad ideas that weren't her fault. We *finally* got an official gender swap for the doctor and it will be forever marked with a big asterisk that says "We just phoned this in folks"
Fuck forbid we hold them to a standard.
Yeah sure other doctors had bad episodes sprinkled out over a few seasons (poor Capaldi got a whole season of bullshit) but you don't get to dismiss wasting an incredible actress, feeding into the cult of sexism scifi already engenders.
She deserved better. We deserved better.
I really need that Jenny to come back.
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But a Dalek did try at the beginning of the series back in the day when they found the Dalek couldn't walk down the stairs or levitate. One tried to follow the Doctor down a few stairs and it hesitated, leading the Doctor and his companions realising it couldn't go downstairs and pushed it where it fell on its side.
It seems to me they can levitate on a plane, so they can go straight up and down, but not in the angle required to navigate a staircase. Would that explanation fit?
Of course Jenny regenerated. She became a complete different woman Who married David Tennant. 😂🤣😹🎉
He may not have cancelled Dr who but he still put Dr who on that path Dr who in the last year's was getting better views and more interesting.
Thank you!
Most of these are fake rumors I had never heard to begin with.
And I never used the wrong name for the TARDIS (nor does it roll better on the tongue, tbh).
As for #10... I'm pretty sure the mistaken assumption is only in this video.
Jenny wasn't a Time Lord.
Therefore nobody ever believed she would just get up and resurrect herself.
Everybody who saw the episode *SAW* that it was the terraforming energy from that place that helped her.
This was never in doubt, no need to rewatch it frame by frame.
*However,* what people assume is that the terraforming thingee *kickstarted* Jenny's partial Time Lord DNA, and allowed her to regenerate, hence why you see the typical golden regeneration effect *besides* the green thing.
Therefore, it was a unique combination of factors.
Something similar happens in "Let's Kill Hitler", by the way, with enough energy being given to the Doctor to keep him alive.
Sure, it is an assumption, but assuming that "no, that thing can resurrect anyone" is also an assumption.
Just a worse one.
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And Condolences on the passing of your Sovereign 🇬🇧
10 isn't 10, he's 11 and 12. We had the War Doctor between 8 & 9, so War Doctor is 9. That makes 9 actually 10, and 10 actually 11. Then Tennant's Doctor regenerated, though without changing his face, in Journey's End. He still used a full regeneration though. He said himself he used enough energy to heal himself, and channeled the rest into his spare hand. So the energy was all still used.
And 16?
Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis also died the same day as Kennedy, the Friday, and Moors Murders victim John Kilbride was abducted on the Saturday. A pretty grim weekend !
I bet a disproportionate number of physicists don't add the s because the first thing we think of when hearing the word dimension is different.
Plan or no plan. the Timeless child is, and will always will be, a very dumb idea that exists just to wreck the past of the series for no good reason other than he could.
I totally agree with you.
@@MactelMordek and we're not the only ones. Whatever long term fans were still around, at that point, have very vocally made their distate clear.
Even if you ingroe the 'current year politics aspect of the idea, or that it dirties the Time Lords so badly (not that the original series didn't often write them, and the High Coucil of the Time Lords in particular, as being shady, but this is a whole other level), it still ruins the character of the Dcotor.
Now the Doctor is no longer a Time Lord, the Doctor is something else and has unlimited lives (thus making anytime the character sacrifices their life, from here on out meaningless) and it devalues all the Doctors who came before.
It is the kind of thing a bad fan fiction writer would do, but at least, a fan fiction writer would actually care about Doctor Who and not so wreckless destroy the very foundations of the show.
Ya but if you vocalize your dislike of this disaster you are called names and told some junk about the show being about change🙄
@@MactelMordek So? Ignore them.
Good point