DID IT SUCK? | Doctor Who Flux #1 [HALLOWEEN APOCALYPSE REVIEW]
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Doctor Who is back on TV! New friends, old enemies and some crystal people appear and of course, Harry has an opinion on it all in his review of the Doctor Who Flux (Series 13) episode "The Halloween Apocalypse"
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Tell me why you got nothing good to say about doctor who all you're doing is making other people hate doctor who
4:34 that's sneering
If you were confused about the Liverpool 1820 segment it's about the construction of the williamson tunnels. Theres a massive network of tunnels built under liverpool by a rich victorian philanthropist with seemingly no purpose so I imagine its gonna try and explain that
Too bad I don’t think anyone outside if Liverpool knows of them so it seems really random
Who the hell would ever know this without getting an explanation from a kind fellow such as yourself XD
@@oldoldmeme I only know cos I'm a scouser and I even know plenty of other scousers who dont know. I know Chibnall is from Merseyside so I imagine he heard about it growing up
@@LorasTyrell354 Pretty shortsighted of him to write it into such an internationally accepted show without expanding upon it.
They had a scene at the museum which they could have used to explain that. Was it cut for time or something?
I went into this episode with the expectation I needed to turn my brain off to enjoy it. It started wobbly for me but I did really enjoy it overall. It is fully a trailer feeling episode as you said. Thanks for the review! Signed up to Patrion because I was excited to hear what you thought!
That sounds a lot like what I did, which was to turn my brain off with a drinking game. Take a sip for every cringeworthy line of dialog. Take a sip for every piece of shitty exposition. There were some other rules, but those were the main ones. I almost died of alcohol poisoning.
@@JontyLevine I'm sure the lockdown this year helped build up your tolerance to alcohol
To be fair, they did mention that the ships were meant to attach together to make a new makeshift habitat for the humans since the earth was going to be destroyed, so that does explain why they're so big despite only holding 1 person. Anyways great video, looking forward to the next!
Where was Yaz's Lupari though? Karvanista was pretty awful to her trying to kill her, although it was so over the top of was bound to fail as an execution, plus the kill drones couldn't shoot straight.
@@andrewsmart4491 yaz maybe wasn't on the list？i would imagine the dog aliens did some kind of calculation before sending the whole fleet, when Yaz is on the tardis
@@lorlok623 it's a shame the fans have to explain what the writer neglected to
@@andrewsmart4491 again tbf, it was mentioned in the episode that Dan's Lupar hit a time disturbance that's why he made it to earth quicker than the rest of the fleet, I guess he was fine with killing Yaz because he's only honour bound to Dan.
@@harrycollins4659 I thought the Lupari were genetically bound to the whole human race and had to save them whether they liked it or not
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I only have one little correction/note I wanna point out, please feel free to add your own to the discussion.
I realised only a few hours ago that Dan's "job" was actually shown (not told lmao) to us at the end of the New Year's special. I *think* he's a painter, but nothing in the new episode really confirms this, so I'm just assuming he's a man with a van...
Plasterer.
@Mr. Yoga John Bishop said it on the one show. Apparently it'll be brought up in the season.
hey dude, all the sontarans are clones so they are all played by dan starky.
Have fun watching war of the sontarans :D
This episode constantly flipped from being great, to suddenly being god awful, then immediately jumping back to being great again. This happened about six times into the episode.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Dan. All of him, from his opening bit in the museum, to his relationship with Diane, to the scene where he looks at his empty cupboard (Powerful stuff, glad it's being covered, even in brief!)
- The bit with Claire talking to The Doctor and Yaz, and her bit with the door.
- The Weeping Angels as a whole.
- The Space Hound, and his entire deal. That whole plot was great, I loved it.
- Yaz having the most character she's ever had (Though Dan still has more development than she does, sadly).
- The Doctor using the virus from Orphan 55 was good, I love it when The Doctor uses stuff we saw them pick up earlier.
LOWLIGHTS:
- The opening scene with the stupid antigravity circus training being the solution to the problem. That was the worst bit of the whole episode.
- The bit where the swarm said "Trick or Treat" directly at the camera.
- The Chilli Guy in the Arctic Circle scene. A typical Chibnall "made to die" character with no personality.
- The planets being destroyed looked bloody awful. (Also, did the rest of the Solar System get destroyed since they only surrounded Earth? What happened to the moon? Or the sun? Are the Ice Warriors refugees now? They should have made a half pipe to flip the flux a different direction.)
- The bit where Yaz and The Doctor are talking about their attitudes to eachother that was immediately interrupted by an alarm. (To quote the great J Exci "Character time is over, now it's time for plot!") That scene fitted the stereotype so well it felt almost like a self-aware jab at itself.
- The worrying feeling I have about the Swarm's abilities to regenerate themselves means that they're something to do with The Doctor's pre-Timeless Child origins from beyond the purple portal.
Yaz is helped by the fact that she was the only companion for this episode, Chibnill was forced to develop her more, and even then I thought she still wasn't really a character and had no progress made on the 'why we should care about Yaz' front. She was good foil for the doctor tho, but she still is a non-character
This perfectly lines up w my thoughts
Acc u missed the keys things
You know you’re watching a Chris Chibnall episode when 30 seconds into the episode there’s already a countdown
Must admit it was better than what I was expecting. John Bishop is surprisingly good imo
These old white males keep being the only good thing about the regular cast. Ironic.
The TARDIS can change shape whenever it wants. If there's something wrong with it, why wouldn't odd shapeshiftey things happen. The new doors thing seem in line with that.
To me it made perfect sense. The TARDIS is clearly dying or damaged due to its life span, and therefore it’s glitching. Literally.
@@drd2121 Exactly, seems like an odd nitpick for something that actually seems in line with what we know already
@@rhodrage I’ve watched two reviews of this, one was nerdrotic. Obviously he only has bad things to say about the Chibnall era which is fair enough tbh. But it annoys me when so many reviewers are like *”This* is happening and we are literally not told why it’s happening so it makes no sense”. Jesus, like your meant to be saying “why is that happening? - ah going to have to wait a few episodes for that to be explained”.
@@rhodrage obviously to whether it dying, we are meant to wait and see. I’m so confused as to why people get so het up about things not being solved when they are literally meant to be left up in the air for a few goddamn episodes until it becomes the main problem of the episode to which we’ll get that long awaited context. The threads of the arc must be established as they were in this episode and now they need to be picked off one by one. Sontarans, Angels, Swarm/Flux, Tardis, Tunnels....... Literally 5 plot points, one for each of the remaining episodes. I hate humans.
@@drd2121 oh. I assumed it was dying due to the psychic interference between the doctor and that Crystal guy. The doctor and the tardis do have some sort of weird connection right? So maybe with the crystal guy forcing a conversation mentally with the doctor it violated the tardis on its bypass to the doctor?
Idk? Haha does that make sense? 😅
Whatever disadvantages this episode has, can we agree that it's the best introductory episode of Chibnal era? In previous seasons introductory episode was quite disappointing.
I thought the Woman Who Fell to Earth had potential. But so very little was followed through on other than Graham's motivation following Grace's death (which, I'm sorry, was kind of a fridging moment that no one seems that bothered about). But at least this one felt jam-packed, fast-paced, and energetic.
This episode was pure JJ Abrams mystery box nothingness.
Can't wait to see how Chinballs fails to pay off any of it. Let's hope he doesn't ruin the show anymore when he does.
Exactly it was eother force awakens or rise of skywalker or both
I'm just wondering if Chibs is going to ruin the Weeping Angels more than Moffat ended up doing.
I laughed far more than I should have at this 😆
@@FarronOfHouseFarron I think there is a difference between "ruining" the weeping angels and "overusing" them. Moffat did a great job coming up with the weeping angels as a concept initially and the s5 two part story "The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone" was a great way of reintroducing them to the show as a force to be reckoned with. But I do agree that every subsequent appearance from them was unnecessary during Moffats era. Easily could've been replaced with any other alien race and served the same purpose.
@@soar_community Fair statement actually. I come down hard on him for his use of the Weeping Angels because my first thoughts of them are the ridiculous Statue of Liberty one and then the ending of that episode, implying it's any statue as well.
For a Chibnall episode this is good. The Doctor finally feels like the Doctor. Jodie seems more confident in the role now. Yas finally gets some development and is actually confronting the Doctor over her actions. It’s so nice to see this. The effect of Ryan leaving the Tardis has resulted in this and makes the show so much better. The special effects are stunning, but as per with the rest of the Chris Chibnall era the writing and dialogue is a bit iffy. It’s not perfect and has some issues. Chris Chibnall can write some good content but there is always something boring about it. However, saying that, this is still a good episode to start off the six chapter. I feel Chris Chibnall may well be more comfortable writing chapters with arcs over 6 stories. He clearly enjoys classic Doctor Who mixed with the RTD era & I feel it will work well for Series 13. While Chris Chibnall’s writing can be boring and bland, he does classic villains really well imo! The Sontarans look amazing and the next chapter should make the Sontarans a serious force again.
The flux is RTD coming to end the chibnall era
I know why people liked it, nothing really happens except setting up the flux and bad guy, and the 90% other was pointless so Chibnall couldn't mess it up easily
I enjoyed it too but I'm very dubious of where its going. The amount of times doctor who has had a good setup for it all to come tumbling down like a house of cards
True. I mean I enjoyed it but I don't like how it doesn't have an independent storyline. Most of Doctor who is episodic, even a newcomer could watch one and get a nice time out of it. You don't need to watch X amount of episodes for it to make sense for you. This is especially important for series openers where many would start watching. But with this one, if you haven't seen last season, you will have no idea what's happening and definitely won't enjoy it.
i have a theory about the weeping angel, i think thats not an evil Weeping Angel. I think that lady is an loop, the angel sends her back every time she fails to prevent whats happening.
I had a similar thought. That she keeps getting sent back and forth but I’m not sure why yet, what would be the reason for it.
I don't feel like chibnall is clever enough for that
@@obiwankenobi687 the weeping angels are alive, they're not savages. They're also an inherently time traveling species, if the universe stops existing due to the flux, so do they.
This is the only Chibnall episode I've ever enjoyed and it was actually good
I liked the spider one with budget Trump, just because it makes me laugh every time Cosplay Doctor gets upset that the Orange Man mercyshoots the mother Spider before the Doctor can let them all suffocate traumatically like an utter psychopath.
@@nixonagnewreviews7206 😂
The thing about the Tardis bed and handcuffs also struck me too.
I probably would have enjoyed any of the many subplots if they were the only focus of the episode. I was particularly intrigued by the guy in the observation satellite, and the Dan abduction/rescue subplots. However, with the runtime split between that and the numerous other subplots, the whole thing felt exceptionally overstuffed and unfocused.
SPOILERS.... (had to be done - all in good fun. I enjoyed the episode for what it was).
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Audience: Hey, so I thought the Division was a Gallifreyan thing that was comprised of mainly Timelords doing black ops stuff. Why would they also employ a Dog Man, and if they did, why was he allowed to leave with his memories intact? And how did the Doctor even find out about him if the Division covers its tracks so well?
Chibs: Don't know. But we're here now. Just go with it.
Audience: Hey, so if Swarm is so dangerous and being held in this big old space prison in the middle of nowhere and these two Division ladies are there to make sure he can't get out, why are they so woefully unprepared to deal with him when he does escape? And why did the prison fail? It just turned off its defenses and let him go. How? Why? How did he actually manage this escape? Did he plan this? Was it an accident? What gives? It's never mentioned again.
Chibs: Don't know. But moving on...
Audience: Hey, so if Swarm is so dangerous that he has to be held in some big old space prison, how come his seemingly equally dangerous sister is just hiding inside the body of an Artic housewife?
Chibs: Because.
Audience: Hey, so how did Swarm get to the Artic?
Chibs: Er... unclear.
Audience: Also, was his sister, like, unknowingly trapped inside that woman's body? Did the woman know she was in there? Did her man know? What's all this about?
Chibs: Hey look! Sontarans! Dog People! Weeping Angels!
Audience: Hey, so if the dog people are meant to protect humanity why would the main Dog Guy actively try to kill Yaz? Why wouldn't he simply tell the Doctor what he's up to?
Chibs: Also unclear... Drama?
Audience: Hey, so Dan just loves his city so much he doesn't want to look for work because he's too busy pretending to be a tour guide because he just loves everything so much he's practically glowing. He has no food, but refuses to use food banks for fear of taking a can of soup away from someone more in need... so, what's with the OTT need to make him some sort of grinning saint?
Chibs: We have to do the work so the audience doesn't assume he's evil. Also, he might be evil.
Audience: Right...
Chibs: Right.
Audience: Hey, so if Dan has no food or money, how was he gonna go on a date with the nice museum lady without at least paying his way? What was the plan there?
Chibs: Doesn't matter now, does it?
Audience: Hey, so the universe-ending energy hurricane can't get past a special dog spaceship formation? Because their hulls are made of a special material that it would seem doesn't exist anywhere else in the known universe... That was handy, wasn't it?
Chibs: I know. Isn't sci-fi great when it's done well?
Audience: Hey wait a minute. So there were like 7 billion dog ships coming to Earth. One for each human?
Chibs: Yup. Man's best friend.
Audience: But... does that mean literally one human per ship?
Chibs: I guess so. (Looks at the script) I mean, that's what it says in here.
Audience: So the dog people were coming to literally rip newborn babies from the parents' arms and put them on their own ships? Kids were gonna be locked in those electrified floor cages with no food or water or idea of what was happening to them? Old people with dementia too? Disabled people? People with learning difficulties or a neurodivergence? Those cages were barely big enough for Dan to fit inside without zapping himself, what if a big person had to fit in there? This is horrifying!
Chibs: Oh my God that *is* horrifying.
Audience: So is that what they were going to do?!
Chibs: Unclear. Glad they didn't though. That woulda been dark.
Audience: Unclear?! You're the writer!
Chibs: *shrugs*
Audience: Hey, so how could that guy from Outpost Rose outrun the Flux in a dinky little escape pod but the TARDIS couldn't?
Chibs: Because the plot needs to happen.
Audience: Hey, so the Flux is a lot like Cloud Galactus, and Parallax, and the snap, and the Nexus from Star Trek. Aren't you worried about this looking a bit derivative?
Chibs: Not at all! People don't watch Star Trek, anyway. Or remember things. We're safe as kittens.
Audience: Hey, so the 13th Doctor has caught a bit of stink in the past for being an uncaring, dismissive, incompetent Doctor. You don't do her any favours when you have her actively ignore a person who clearly knows her, but from a different point in her timeline, is clearly in trouble, and says a red flaggy phrase like "I'm going home the long way round". And 13 doesn't even blink. She just leaves her there and doesn't pick up on the distress this woman's in, or that she might have answers as to what's going on. And then the woman gets done in by an Angel. That's weirdly incompetent of the Doctor. I could never see 11 missing a chance like that to help someone or probe further. Or 12. Or 10. No other Doctor would have done that... okay, maybe 6. Did you just intentionally nerf her perceptiveness here so the plot could happen?
Chibs: Well, the plot did happen. So...
Audience: Hey, so when Claire's getting stalked by the Angel, are we expected to feel a sense of tension around the idea that if she gets inside her house, she'll be able to escape? From an Angel? The species that's been shown previously to be able to force its way inside reinforced blast-proof spaceship doors? A wooden front door is gonna stop it? Really? It kind of undermines the tension a bit, doesn't it?
Chibs: Hey why don't you shut up and move on?
Audience: Hey, so a big criticism of series 11 and 12 was the paper-thin writing for the companions. No one got to shine very much, least of all, Yaz. She was a thinly written, inactive, exposition machine who seemed to exist to ask questions and be told what to do. But now she's a gruff, snarky, I-can-do-anything girl boss. She's hacking security codes for the dog man's human cage, she's reading radiation levels from the TARDIS console, she's doing judo flips on rocket-powered hoverboards, and even helping to pilot the TARDIS. That's a sharp change in characterisation and ability without showing the audience that development.
Chibs: Wait, I know this one... (reads notes)... I've just written "Make Strong Female Character" here. Did we not do that?
Audience: ...
Chibs: ...
Audience: ...
Chibs: Yaz is probably gay, by the way.
Audience: Hey, so Liverpool 1820, Weeping Angels, Sontarans, Spooky House, Outpost Rose... what's the deal with all that?
Chibs: Don't worry about that. That stuff's in the "Later Drawer". But it sure does make episode 1 feel fast-paced and substantive without actually having to follow through on anything, doesn't it? It's what great writers call "jangling the keys".
Audience:
Chibs: It was Moffat's favourite technique. I think he'd like this epsiode.
Audience: Like... the technique he used in Time of the Doctor? And the Wedding of River Song? The technique to move at a million miles an hour, throw tonnes of info at the audience that they don't need, and spin so many plates that he's scrambling to pay off all his nudge-nudge-wink-wink setups? That technique?
Chibs: Brilliant, isn't it?
Audience: Right, yea. Brilliant. Those episodes aged super well. Look, one last thing.
Chibs: Shoot.
Audience: Our universe isn't trillions of light-years in size. And those are the wrong Sontarans. And the Master shouldn't be evil now. And this Timeless Children thing makes so little sense. And I hate these Daleks and the fact that no one on Earth can remember them... again. AND WHY IS A PRE-HARTNELL DOCTOR RUNNING AROUND IN A POLICE BOX CALLING THEMSELVES THE DOCTOR?! STOP IT. Just stop it!
Chibs: (waggles eyebrows)
Audience: What?
Chibs: You're right.
Audience: I am?
Chibs: Yes, you are. *Our* universe isn't that big. But an alternate one might be.
Audience: Ohhhhhhh
Chibs: Ahhhhhhh Haaaaa
Audience: Yes, please do that.
Chibs: ...
Chibs: NO.
I read the whole thing. I do not regret it. Best review 10/10
@@vildiac what he said 11/10
Excellent review!
I wish the DWM letters page would publish this, so you could tear Chibs’ writing another hole 🕳 much more publicly
Great comment! Probably Karvanista was supposed to protect Dan only, so he didn't care a lot about Yaz or other humans. Remember he was screaming “that's my human, give me back my human”. Anyway, not trying to justify such behaviour
My prediction: The Flux isn't destroying stuff. It's just something that happens when something major happens which causes the course of the whole universe to change, basically going against everything we've been told before about fixed points in time. It's technically erasing the current known universe but everything is just being moved to the modified universe. Somehow The Doctor and everyone else in the Tardis manages to cross over without any damage and all their knowledge of the previous universe.
I love how you roast the bad parts and tell it like it is; I have so many friends who are ready to praise literally anything chibnall puts out so it was really refreshing to see a more thought-out opinion. Thanks for the laughs, your channel continues to be a delight!
I’ll also never understand why Clare didn’t just close the damn door instead of staring at the angel until she blinked.
Being in Ireland unable to stream doctor who in any legal way I'm happy you are here to tell me I didn't miss anything special 😂
Pros: more energetic, more action packed. And (personally) Dan is funny/charming enough that I already like him.
Con: everything else. Its SO rushed and chaotic that it has "Stuff Is Happening And It Means Something, We Promise" fatigue.
The first thing I said after seeing this was "That was an interesting trailer for the upcoming series..."
I'm glad I'm not the only 1 who wasn't really impressed by this episode. It's really was just an extended trailer with lots of mystery boxes and shock for shock value. I have a hard time getting excited over 20+ plot threads being thrown at us, given that usually it's much easier to set up "mysteries" than actually give a satisfying answer and conclusion, along with it's still Chibnall writing this.
Plus if I'm gonna be honest, I feel like a good chunk of these plot threads won't be even explained, like the sister being disguised and part of the Division for some reason. I hope I will be proven wrong though.
Will see how this goes but so far not impressed.
honestly I quite enjoyed this episode.
Maybe it's just me but it was a huge improvement
I just watch reviews of this show now. Can not BEAR Jodie as the doctor, so no longer waste 40+ mins of my life on it. Couldn't they have found a better actress for this iconic role! AND they need to lose the sonic screwdriver! Sick of seeing it as a get out of jail card.
My predicted rating of Doctor Who Season 13 is a "Just watch Timeless on Netflix for god's sake they actually put effort in"/10
I thought there was too much going on in this episode but I still kind of enjoyed it mainly because of John Bishop and the dog alien.
It was like budget star wars, but without the hot half naked princess leia
I'm hoping that the rest of the episodes are going to focus on one or two things, not 17 different things. Like "War of the Sontarans" sounds like it's most going to, well, a war featuring Sontarans. The Halloween episode was cluttered and Chibnall still doesn't know who to trim dialog, create an actual funny joke, or give us any reason why, after two seasons and two specials, we're supposed to care about Yaz,. But I assuming that each episode after this will be individual stories that are still tied somehow with the rest of Chibnall master plan. And, despite it being cluttered, it still held my interest.
Next episode has Vinder in it and the weeping angel story as well as sontarans. So at the very least there’s going to be three storylines going on at once again. I think this is what it’s going to be like all series
@@obiwankenobi687 What are you talking about? The Weeping Angels aren't until episode 4.
@@BlueSparxLPs erm they were literally in it last week. The main bulk of their story will be episode 4 but it doesn’t mean they won’t make an appearance in other episodes
@@obiwankenobi687 You said "The Weeping Angel *story*" specifically, which episode 1 didn't have. I'd be surprised if they showed up in episode 2 as well and I've seen no promotional material that suggests they are, but tbh I don't think a short scene like what we had in episode 1 would be too messy (assuming episode 2 as a whole will be more focused to its A plot; didn't really feel like episode 1 had any plot that could have been considered the A plot).
@@BlueSparxLPs I meant the weeping angel story as bits from it, there were promo pictures in DWM for episode 2 showing an old couple in a car, who are from the weeping angel story, the trailer then showed Vinder and the sontaran story. So I merely said, this week looks like it’s going to be more of the same jumping around between plots. Three plots at least
So that "Obi Wan Kenobi" bit as harry called it actually something I've been wanting the show to do SINCE CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON!
because in "Rose" they do the whole bit about the fact that the Doctor "Feels the rotation of the Earth" and all the life on it that's honestly a genuinely pretty cool idea and gives the Time Lords a sense of real cosmic power... and then they completely forget about it, do nothing with it and have done nothing with that ever since
Then Jodie brings it back granted it's slightly changed to be more "visions" and feeling the *universe* as opposed to planets but I'm just happy they've finally done something with that little detail they had lying around since the first episode of NewWho
Clare is clearly Chibnall trying to bring back the whole mystery of River Song 😂
A moment of silence for the 1 subscriber Harry lost during the premier of this review. "mark" was got by the weeping angels.
I low-key liked it BUT this is just the first episode. Let’s see her actually do something Doctory
"Let's see her do/say something Doctory."
I've been asking for this since 2018
This episode was the final nail in the coffin for me.
The doctor pulling classic manipulation on Yaz like an abusive partner, and running about like a hyperactive child
The cheesy, childish, coincidence ridden script.
Dan, who is so pushed as being the lovely nice guy that it comes off as creepy and dull.
The God awful dog costume
The flux itself which has no sense of space, speed, distance and therefore becomes confusing before it's scary.
The many many subplots that have no development which destroys the episodes pacing, focus, and structure, meaning the actually relevant bits need to be rushed.
So ye, overall better than expected
LOL love that ending sentence
Bruh I thought my TV was messed up during that Liverpool transition, I refused to believe you could mess up a shot like that and NOT re-do it!
the doctor becomes northern.....and literally everyone else in the series including the aliens are northern as well.....
With the visuals and music of this doctor's series, I think they've really tried to make it look like one of those abstract films like Annihilation, etc. Just an observation but it's funny how they're trying this sort of style when you look back at previous iterations like Ecclesto's, Tennant's and Smith's runs, the art style wa very different. You could just see it as doctor who immediately but the new ones are either too green screeny or too abstract to tell it's who. It's a decent idea since the setting allows for it but the execution is odd coming from someone who preferred the aforementioned doctors' series.
I was told going in, that this season was structured like a classic eara season. Multiple episodes covering one long story. As such, my expectations met reality and I found that where previously I'd have to turn off my brain, this season was clearly produced by a team who actually knew what they were doing. Gone are the huge sections of tell don't show. The dialogue feels far less artificial, in some places replaced entirely with body langauge and acting. the show is no explaining basic sci-fi premises, like we're idiot children, and instead assumes your smart enough to understand them, and background elements are put there on purpose to hint at upcoming story elements. Oh, and the cinematography is done by people who actually know how cinematography works. As for the music. Unlike the previous two seasons of elevator music. The music actually matches, sets up and deliberately manipulates the mood. Oh, and best of all, the preachyness has been completely removed.
Unlike the last two seasons, this season was produced by people who are actually competent. The trouble is, after the unmittigated awfullness of the last two seasons, people are emotionally coloured against this doctor, and are understandably hyper criticle of a show that spent 2 seasons insulting it's male audience right to it's face with lines like "Hi, I've had an upgrade." This season is so different, I would not be surprised to find out that chibnal is little more than a figure head.
He's actually credited as writing the entire thing, with one episode being cowritten. I'm pleasantly surprised. Characters like Dan are such a refreshing step up, the standard really has been raised for Chibnall companions. Hell even Yaz has personality this time around.
@@WiloPolis03 I did notice him being credited. However, I wonder to what extent that is an "in name only" scenario. Because this jump in quality is like being told someones 5 year old just done an oil painting, when you saw them doing messy stick figures in crayons only last week.
@@abrr2000 Yeah but to me it still feels like Chibnall's writing, just kicked up by 5 notches. In a weird way Dan feels like a very Chibnall-y character, but like actually good lol
Edit- Also the main villains have that Chib cheesiness, but again, in a good way this time
It's weird. Chibnall's kind of the opposite of Moffat in writing strengths. Moffat is a great dramatic writer but is terrible at building overarching plots when they're his to construct (eg The Silence or the Clara across time plotline in Season 8). Chibnall is awful at writing standalone episodes but is reasonably good at building overarching narratives. Chibnall is good at creating interesting premises (creepy evil Amazon, that Season 11 TARDIS in the desert episode, the witch trial episode etc) but falls flat on the excecution. The guy works best as an overarching executive and head writer managing and refining other people's ideas than as a direct writer at this point.
I actually thought this episode was really good
Same!
Imo it was the best of Chibnalls era, 7/10
Same here. You're not the only one.
me too i liked it!
I think it had enough interesting ideas to make it fun to watch even if it is flawed and doesn't amount to much. It's not perfect, but it is decently enjoyable to watch which is a major improvement from the past two series. I'm glad they're trying something new. While it won't be perfect, hopefully enough of it will be good so that RTD will have something left to work with.
The most refreshing Doctor Who ep in years imo.
Dialogue not the best but as a plotline goes it’s not bad.
It didn’t have a plot
So.. what exactly happened. It was so good from 9 - 12. Then for some reason when we got to 13. It just. Fell off. 14 was then good. And 15 is fine
I am writing to congratulate the people brave enough to sit through the entire episode, and having a strong will, not to turn this off, and actually get through the end, your alot braver the me.
Dr Who ended with Peter Capaldi.
Ended with tennant
Don't know anymore if i enjoyed this episode because my expectations are so pitifully low now that I desperately cling to anything that slightly peaks my interest or if it actually is good. Chibnall's era has completely fried my senses
Either way, I am looking forward to seeing where this goes
I am really surprised that no comparison has been drawn between the Flux and Davros plan to also destroy everything at molecular scale in Season 4. In fact, it was kind of cool seeing what this would have looked like up close rather than dots of lights disappearing.
This video just reinforces why I am not feeling any fomo for missing any of the previous few series. Used to love Dr who - it looks like a bad written episode of red dwarf without the gags.
I feel exactly the same. There was a time under Davis when I wouldn’t miss an episode for the world.
15:28 I laughed so hard at this “what planet? Who cares? Who are the people? Again. Who cares?”
Been looking forward to this!
Awh when the Dr says let me zoom out and then proceeds to zoom in on the screen of the war ships. The when the house gets shrunk it cuts to another scene, liek i wanna see the dr reaction, oh wait that will be shown later.
It only occurred while watching your review that Claire is fully aware of the Weeping Angels - but is *then* blinked back in time. I wonder if she'll have a Blink style episode where she seemingly survives, and then they'll meet her again in the episode set in the past and be like "what, I thought you survived?!". Or, maybe she just keeps getting blinked over and over again and that's why she's so-- addled in the brain.
The only thing I HATE about this episode is the claustrophobic nature of the sets seen with The Karvanista’s ship, and Sontaran ship. We also saw this in the Daleks ship in Revolution Of The Daleks. What happened to MASSIVE settings seen in Parting Of the Ways or Journey’s End?? Hell even the Sicorax’s rock ship???
Perhaps the restrictions of filming under COVID have something to do with this 🤔
Yeah, I thought that too - it looked cheap, like they were saving money by not lighting most of the (small) sets.
Also if the dog people's job was to save the human race why did the doggo tie Yaz over a sea of acid? Surely she is one of the people his species is protecting?
Well she wasn't his assigned human
And how would he know if she was a human from that time
If your job was to save the human race, why not just save a few thousand people and repopulate somewhere else, rather than sending seven billion two-mile wide ships to kidnap each and every human (and apparently break up families, kidnap infants from their mothers, etc.)
@@berserkasaurusrex4233 ye that would make more sense
But I guess the species bond just doesn't work that way
Good to have you back where I don't have to watch this garbage.
First time I hear anyone else than me talking about that Jedi mind trick performed by Chewbacca
holy, i have not laughed this hard in a while - such a good recap before part 2
The first episode was obviously as setup for what's to come, but it's a good setup. It made me curious of what's to come and that's a good thing.
Harry and Harbos friendship is iconic
did it suck?....hold my beer
I just watch these videos now instead of the episodes.
Most definitely it sucked let's hope Russell t Davies saves this series yet again
4:34 this is adorable
3:30 Well Big Finish needs SOMETHING to work with.
Iim thinking the theories that the doctor is connected to the division what makes me say this is when that creature (who had been imprisoned since the beginning of the universe) said that the guard that was to retire that "he's seen those eyes for a thousand years...." could this mean that they can regenerate and are from where the Doctor came from? Thus making a little sense to the timeless child story line.
Pretty much what I was expecting . I was expecting crap and crap was what we got.💩
I can't wait for the scrunch face Assassin of joy to go.
Jodi is the worst Doctor every, and yes I did give her a chance.
Overall this episode seemed alright, and I really like the concept of the flux so far, but there are just too many seemingly unrelated places all being shoved in your face for me to call it good. Once the plot of the doctor got going that was decent, but the arctic circle place and that victorian guy or whatever for example were just pointless and made a very shaky start. 5 or 6 out of 10 for me I'd say.
People are still watching this? It’s beyond garbage. I’m waiting for RTD to come back.
"This isn't war. This is pest control."
10:25 absolutely killed me
I thought Covid legitimately killed of Doctor Who for good
Band of Dogs? Oh! I thought you were talking about the Doctor and Yaz.
You know, it was a lot better than I expected
yes. yes it did
Okay so I read a book that was a doctor who and it was about the 13th doctor group, and they actually got developed in spite of the fact it wasn't even Canon to the show
I'm confident Whittaker will get some decent big finish stories for her doctor after her run on the show is done.
I’m so glad you also noticed that terrible digital zoom into the museum. I can’t believe the level of don’t care the Chibnall era has had.
8:24 Can someone else please confirm to me, that they were as surprised as I was by how enormously large this person´s eyes were!...
Like, I was legit scared...
10:05
That was a good review, I'm looking forward to War of the Sontarans.
The perfect start for the new RTD era, The 12th Doctor regenerating into 13 was just him having a bad trip on some psychic pollen, and everything that happened during the Chibnall era was all just an illusion.
a giant talking dog with a Yorkshire accent? Felt like I was watching an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Dream Lord liked to use psychic pollen. 13 deserves to be "just another bad dream".
I don't think that's fair to the actors to make their 4 years mean nothing. RTD should just roll with it.
This video confuses me. Throughout the main part it sounds as though you disliked it, but your conclusion gives the opposite impression that you enjoyed it as a 'trailer' for the rest of the series. Which is exactly what the beginning of a six-part story should be.
While season 10 pretended to be a soft reset, in the end it really wasn't, with episode 11, 12 and the special being a finale for a lot of things that have been going on the the show for a long time before season 10
I feel like the only one that thinks that this was the WEAKEST Chibnall Era opener...
People are giving it credit for potential, as though they've forgotten Fugitive of the Judoon's disappointment. Vote Jo Martin for 14 btw.
I think the new years specials were better and had a little more potential than this, though were still broing and pretty garabage
I think your maths on the ships sizes is wrong. 0.073km sq is 73m sq. Which is roughly 8.5m x 8.5m, probably about the size of the room Dan was imprisoned on.
The camera moving into the window being that shakey really annoys me
I did notice this season had, like, zero 'vid references.
also my thought with this episode is it would be a pretty solid episode if all 6 parts were released all at once, like netflix binge shows, waiting 2 months for some of this stuff to be resolved is just annoying. i don't think it should have been released at once or anything, the episode just feels like it was written for that format
I agree with everything you said, I am interested in the rest though.
What I really dislike is the music. Will murry gold return with davis?
Gotta disagree this was a massive improvement, this will be a proper send off for Jodie
I think that people will probably prefer the following episodes as they (hopefully) won't be crammed with a lot of plot points and can each focus on a couple per episode. I'm probably looking forward to whatever episode will have The Weeping Angels in most, hopefully they stay on "Blink" mechanic and no "snapping your neck" like in Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone.
Yes. Yes it did.
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Your calculations: I guess one could argue it depends how close those ships were to the earth when they formed the sphere around it. How close would you say the ships were when you did your calculations? 😅
Ive noticed people complain and say "well where have the lupari been every other time the earth was in trouble" and initially I'd agree with them. But perhaps in this situation they knew about the Flux way in advance. Every other time things have happened to the earth before they could save the humans. Plus maybe it's a.... Newly established agreement? 🤷♂️😅
If we go off the modern series alone.
Series 1: Far future, Daleks come out of hiding, attack the Earth swiftly.
Series 2: Cybermen and Daleks invade, Domestic but very contained. Unlikely the universe would know.
Series 3: This is one plot hole. They have advance warning for seeing as the planet is deemed closed at the start of episode 13 due to extinction. Either that or the Master is too big of a threat.
Series 4: Earth moved from place of origin, they have no idea where it is.
Series 5: Universe collapsed
Series 6: Alternative timeline
Series 7: The cubes could’ve been a warning so that could be a potential plot hole.
Series 8: Cybermen appear suddenly, story stays domestic so wider universe doesn’t know.
Series 9: Takes place on Gallifrey
Series 10,: Colony ship away from Earth.
Can’t speak for series 11 and 12, barely seen any of them so someone could inform me. They are a plot hole imo but it’s not like it’s not the worst. :B
@@unorthodoxbox nicely explained dude. Though let's not forget the episodes that weren't just season finales 😅 also there's classic who too
@@Kranitokoif we go through Classic who it's gonna be a plot hole either way. Honestly I'm not that bothered by it and I don't think othera should be either. A show going for nearly sixty years is gonna have a ton of plot holes and contradictions sown into it.
I liked it. Busy, but we’ll see how it plays out.
I really wish that they gave us 7 more episodes before this one so that the Series would have 13 and be not so ark focused.
Maybe it's because I haven't watched any Chibnall who in 18 months (apart from Revolution of the Daleks which I watched at 2am while Drunk), but this was phenomenally bad, even by Chibnall's incredibly low standards. It reminded me a lot of the Rise of Skywalker, as they're both just an overwhelming barrage of set peices happening back to back to back. It's kind of hard to judge what these plot threads are going to become, but hopefully it can be mildly better than this.
Also WHY can the Doctor just suddenly FEEL the universe breaking??! Ok I get the TARDIS is connected and draws energy from the universe but that’s NOT how the Doctor… works????
That is because in the Chibnall canon the Doctor is actually a god...
@@PlatinumAltaria um.. do you remember nine's speech in rose? As for a god, its nothing compared to tennant's run
@@bob5432 Except 10 isn't actually god, he just has a god complex. 13 actually is god, a unique special creature.
Every season is chronological from start to finish. Think you need a thesaurus.
I just billed it down to a crappy assignment for that rotation guy rather than a prisoner.
Flux = master predicted