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I finally realised the perfect way to explain the Cardiff thing. How a Londoner reacts to Cardiff is how a New Yorker reacts to New Jersey
"everything is legal in New Jersey"
@crazyashycoolno it is not. I'm saying this as an outsider observer from Britain. Original jersey is nicer
More like how New Yorkers react to Topeka.
@crazyashycool Just like Cardiff!
@@KevynJacobs Hey, at least Topeka isn't Toledo.
My understanding of the Jodie Whitaker era is that she did a fine job as a performer, but that the writing is widely considered sub-par… which is genuinely not her fault.
Whilst I agree that she could have had better writing, I still don't think it would have helped her that much really. All other doctors have had some truly awful lines of dialogue and they have chewed the scenery speaking every word of them. Jodie however, never managed to lift her lines off the pages they were written on.
My problem was also the companion team. I still don't know their names since i simply didn't care at all about them. I mean Bill was already not that great after Clara, who i absolutely loved. But that team of three .. the old guy was maybe the coolest even .. but all in all they were just meh. I would rank Kylie Minogue, who only played in one christmas special, way higher than them.
Yeah for a good doctor run you need a good actor for the doctor companions that play off the doctor well and a good story. Whitaker only had her good acting going for it and I agree while her acting was good it was not the greatest of all the doctors
@@MINKIN2I felt like the only episodes where Jodie truly became the Doctor on screen were the ones where she was allowed to actually emote and show the pain and curiousity of her Doctor instead of constantly acting like a CBeebies TV Show Host.
Off the top of my head, the few moments I remember briefly saying to myself “that’s the Doctor” were firstly, the scene when Jodie enters her Tardis for the first time, more specifically when the Tardis appears in front of her. She genuinely has a great moment with herself and the Tardis.
Another moment is when she’s explaining regeneration to the others, her Doctor genuinely gives a really nice metaphor for how she experiences Regenerating. Shame we didn’t get more of that kind of stuff.
Another one would be when Jodie faces the Dalek for the first time, her Doctor has that classic Doctor confidence to her and really felt like Jodie was properly enjoying facing off against the pepper pots.
And possibly my 2 favourite moments from Jodie, where she describes to her companion how their friendship actually works when it comes to making difficult decisions that can have huge consequences on all of Time and Space. You actually feel the anxiety and frustration coming out from Jodie’s Doctor in a way I really wish they let her explore more of. And when she exits the Tardis for the last time, just overlooking the ocean and smiling, welcoming in the Next Doctor with a lovely line of “Tag! You’re it!”
Ultimately Jodie did have a few stand out moments where she really does shine as the Doctor, it’s just that literally every other aspect of the production during her era was absolutely not at the level that it should’ve been at.
I will also have MASSIVE respect for Jodie due to her commitment to the role and the production during COVID. She really went out of her way to bring the character to families at home in different ways while they worked around the affected production.
I don't remember the companions name or stories
7:13 petition to keep the hand written title cards. It feels very Doctor Who somehow.
I not only whole heartedly agree I whole two heartedly agree
If she asked I would make her a title card template.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was indeed Charles Dickens' last unfinished novel.
There were several attempts at completing the story, most famously (and incongruously) as a musical in the 1980s by the Pina Colada song guy.
one thing that you should understand about the doctor - he isn't always right, but he does his best to do the right thing always.
The thing about Cardiff is that Russel T Davies, the showrunner, is himself a welshman. He's making a self-deprecating joke of sorts about the capital of his homeland, and how Londoners like Rose look down on it as an unremarkable backwater.
Fun fact: It makes it extra funny because, starting with the 2005 series, production and filming mostly shifted over to Wales full time. 2005 era Who is fundamentally a Welsh show.
Oh, Dicken's works don't just last. A Christmas Carol has NEVER been out of print ever since it was first published. And THAT is a legacy.
Christopher Eccleston is a Shakespearean actor and he has a knack of seamlessly transitioning through emotions with the simplest of expressions. Cardiff is where most of the episode were filmed
I loved that in this story Charles exclaims "What the Shakespeare?" instead of What the dickens...
He should know better! Shakespeare himself used the phrase in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" - its first recorded written use.
@@LlanchloThat could be purposeful- as a sense of satire or irony.
@@Llanchlo which makes What the Shakespeare an even better joke! I love it. (this whole joke does get revisited in season 3 too!)
The reason Rose was disappointed about Cardiff is that it’s not too far from London, where she’s from. So it’s a very unglamorous place for a time and space machine to land in.
To me, it felt like its the type of place people from bigger/nicer cities like to dump on. Like Cleveland.
Cardiff is also where they actually filmed this season of the show.
@@--cs3 Its not exactly the most glamourous city in the UK, and I can say that since I live there.
I don't feel like that's the full grasp of it. Like it being Cardiff in of itself is the joke, not that it's just somewhere close, but that, it's Cardiff. Tbh I'm finding it hard to explain myself, like it's just a cultural thing.
@@ClintBandito In movies when aliens attack its always london, paris, tokyo, new york, washington dc. This would be like they attacking Scranton Pennsylvania. Its not that its a crap town exactly it just not a glamours place to be.
@@ClintBandito It so happens that the entire Series was initially filmed in Cardiff. Hence the running joke of, how did we end up in Cardiff... again?!
I love going on this journey with people who are truly new to Who. I was a little girl in the 70s/80s when I discovered the Doctor on public television in America pre-cable TV times.
When it started up again in 2005 I took my kids on the journey and rediscovered the stories that I loved.
Now I absolutely adore going on this journey with reactors new to who.
We have walked similar paths then, though we're half a world away. My earliest memories of the show are of watching Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker repeats on an old 12 inch black and white TV my parents bought for me in the late 70's, along with other British TV shows (usually The Goodies) that made up the ABC (the government run Australian Broadcasting Company) kids hour in the afternoon. Back then Australia was a couple of years behind the UK, as they had to wait for the films to be physically shipped after being broadcast.
I was lucky I was able to get my kids interested; a certain event from the end of the second season I cannot name, involving the two most iconic enemies meeting, had my four year old lad bouncing up and down with excitement exclaiming, "This is wicked cool!" Sadly, the kids lost interest in the show as they grew older, though my elder lad mentioned he and his fiancee might watch Ncuti. The saddest part is having no one with whom I can share the excitement of unexpected developments; such as what happened at the end of The Giggle. Still, the show has been such a large part of my life I cannot imagine giving it up, and hope Russell et al can produce great content without too much interference from those at the House of Mouse.
My dad grew up on Doctor Who starting from the Pertwee years and in the months before the show came back when I was 5/6 he stuck me and my brother in a room with The Five Doctors on and we've been fans too ever since.
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There was a bunch of British shows on Sunday nights on PBS when I was a kid. Grew up watching it. Doctor Who was my favorite. Especially the Tom Baker years.
I wasn’t expecting to get into the show again in 2005. Thought about watching an episode or two for nostalgia’s sake but got addicted to the revival shows.
I was the same it was in the 80's and they were airing it on public TV. Tom Baker became my favorite doctor still to this day but I loved a lot of the newer doctors as well.
My oh my, the rift and Bad Wolf slapped straight across your face, so early on. The emotional devestation of Angela cometh...
ya, that hit me too, I forgot this was the first mention.
Simon Callow is the perfect guest star for this. He's not only a classic British actor, but also an expert on Dickens. He's played him many times, written a biography of him and used to go on tour as him, reading from his stories, which is something Dickens himself used to do, as you see here. Dickens was a sceptic in real life as well, and got involved with debunking mediums.
Skeptic? Didn’t he also go to seances like most Victorians or am I mixing him up with Doyle?
@@spazzyshortgirl23 Conan Doyle was definitely strongly into spiritualism, so you may be thinking of him. Dickens was interested in ghosts and horror stories and apparently did like going to seances, but not as a believer.
Normally a TARDIS utilizes a chameleon or stealth feature to hide or blend in, however this specific TARDIS's disguise circuits are damaged. A running joke is the police call boxes are so engrained in people's minds it goes un-noticed.
My theory is, the chameleon circuit isn't damaged at all. Most Time Lords want to skulk around unseen, and their TARDISes accommodate them. But the Doctor ... ? He wants people to know he's there to help, and the TARDIS is his symbol. It stays locked in a simple form, and beings from a hundred worlds all know that, if they see a blue box with a light on top, it means the Doctor has arrived.
Matt Smith even explained it to Amelia Pond: within milliseconds of materializing, the TARDIS scans the area for miles around, selects the form most capable of blending in ... and then takes the form of a police call box. That matches my theory exactly, the one difference being, I can explain WHY it takes the form of a police call box.
The best thing about it is it actually blended in with its environment.
In the very first episode.
Supposedly the idea was that it really would change to suit the setting, but back then the show had a budget of whatever spare change they found in the sofa cushions, so that never happened. So the handwave explanation became canon, then became tradition. If they tried to change it to Not A Police Box now, there'd be actual outrage.
(Kind of like Star Trek only having transporters because adding a shuttlepod prop to every planet set was too expensive for TOS, so...)
@@klemminguk They did actually try to fix the chameleon circuit once in Colin Baker's run. It promptly broke again at the end of the story and reverted to being a police box. You know for sure there was some outrage there for a while. haha
They have had it change its appearance in the past but it soon reverted. You spot on the cost and outrage especially with the direction the shows going, it maybe the “final nail” to some.
To people in the UK, chips are what you would call french fries and crisps are packet potato chips.
Here in Australia, chips are all of the above and you are just meant to realise which ones are being talked about from context. Although if it is ever likely to be unclear you might specify hot chips. And now I want chips.
Cardiff is significant in that it is completely insignificant, at least as far as everyone knows. It's the small town that is close enough to you to visit, but you never do because nothing happens there... as far as everyone knows. ;)
lol, toootally nothing to see there ;-)
😂😂😂😂😂😂
An American version, would be just about any city in the flyover states, outside of Chicago.
@@charlesbaldwin3166Any small town.
Cardiff is significant because it is where Doctor Who is filmed.
5:50 it's funny that you should mention that, because the first Doctor's companions (back in 1963) spent their whole time with him trying to get back home, but the TARDIS (thankfully, because I love them) always had other plans.
spoilers
"You never took me where I wanted to go!"
"No, but I always took you where you NEEDED to be!"
You should have looked it up. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was the last book he wrote. And he died before finishing it.
I saw it performed as a play, and when they reach the part where he died, the cast comes out, reveals that nobody knows who the killer was, and the audience voted on who they thought the killer was, and then they performed an ending based on the audience vote
That's really cool!
Charles Dickens did write The Mystery of Edwin Drood, but only partly before he died; it’s unfinished. However, in the 80’s it was adapted into a Broadway musical, that is also unfinished and relies on the audience to decide which ending happens on a given night. The Blue Elementals is not one of the imagined outcomes though…
And I think the thing about Cardiff is that it’s just not that far away from London, it’s not exotic for Rose, not as exotic as Naples. But also, in real life, it’s where the show was actually filmed and produced, so I think that’s part of the joke.
Not to mention this episode is a set up for the Torchwood spin off that would follow, set completely in Cardiff
@@tchakakhan5939 Maybe next season, not at this point, it hadn’t been thought of yet. That’s funny in hindsight, but don’t get ahead of everyone.
@@jeremymlad if it fits, it fits🤷🏾♂️ and its not really a spoiler anyways. I wonder what made the team come back to this episode and built upon on it considering it’s not particularly a stand out. The commitment to world building in this show is great
@@tchakakhan5939 I think a certain actress made an impression…
@@jeremymlad Torchwood was the anagram used for this series to keep its return a secret though, so little interesting tidbit there.
He was great gateway Doctor. He got me to fall in love with the whole DW Universe. He is a great actor. I cant wait for you to get to episode 9!!!!
There are still episodes 6 and 8, even before ep. 9.
@@AhsimNreiziev Can't forget episode 4...
This is the slant that a lot of Doctor Who episodes take. The historical ones often involve a historical figure or event being affected by aliens or something not of this earth. This is also a good example of an actor they like that they recast as another character later on with a tenuous connection.
shh, that borderlines a spoiler
The show was originally pitched to the bbc as an educational show where the doctor and companions travel and meet historical figures. It just became so much more.
@@user-jt1js5mr3f they didn't say which character. Even if they did, it's just casting, nothing to do with the plot. The connection is mentioned as a throwaway line.
@@godmagnus it’s enough to make people start looking for things they wouldn’t otherwise. Maybe I’m just particularly attentive and good at putting things together 🤷♂️
@@user-jt1js5mr3f to be honest the character connection isn’t even a big thing and you’d have to watch another thing to figure it out entirely.
my mom told me a story that when she was a little girl she went to her aunts funeral... Her Aunt had died sitting at the kitchen table and they did not tie her down properly at the Morgue. When she was with her Mom doing the viewing the body sat up... she said she ran almost all the way home before anyone could catch up to her.
Just to clarify, who ran? Your mom, your grandmother or your great-aunt? (options in order of comedy - from funny to "Can I get a stroke from laughing too hard?")
@@KevinLyda my mom
To quote The Tick... Don't blow up the Earth that's where I keep all my stuff! 🤣
Why does Eccleston’s doctor always make me feel young?
Oh the things you’re doing to see and experience for the first time 🥹.
The actress for Gwynth, Eve Myles, is Welsh herself. She went on to star in Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off series, and makes an appearance in Doctor Who as well.
Dr Who is filmed in Cardiff. The actress who played the maid is also in "Torchwood", the Dr Who spin-off. That series is about the Rift that appears here.
Came here to say that, except to add that Torchwood is the sexier, darker corner of the Whoniverse that I hope gets some reaction time when the time is right.
It's so interesting watching someone who doesn't know anything about Doctor Who. This series is interesting, because it needed to capture a new audience, while simultaneously entertaining an established fan base. And they did a good job. If you like this, you'll be blown away by what comes next.
Agreed. I haven't watched these since airing and I can't wait to show off British sci-fi. It gets better, funnier and weirder. In a good way. Ta- raa !!
@@UnhandyCandy280 I started my Doctor Who journey, and British sci-fi journey, with Tom Baker, the quintessential Doctor, in my opinion. Then moved on to the Hitchhikers Guide and Red Dwarf. Red Dwarf can be a bit to British, for some Americans.
@@johnmiller7682 Agreed about Red Dwarf. Hitchhikers is solid gold though. Tom is my Doctor too. I remember seeing Destiny of the Daleks and whilst i had seen other episodes before that, this story took hold of me... and Davros creeped me out no end.
11:46 The TARDIS has two devices to disguise itself. The first is a "Chameleon Circuit". It analyzes the surroundings and changes the external appearance of the TARDIS to something that fits with the surroundings. IF THE DARNED THING WORKED. It has not worked since episode 2 of the old series. Other TARDISes in the old show did work however. The other is a telepathic "Perception Filter". It makes others want to ignore if it is not doing anything (like people opening the door, flying, appearing/diasappearing etc.)
In the hitch hikers guild to the galaxy they had the SEP Field to discguise things. I know its not part of Doctor who lore but it is in my head cannon. The Somebody else's problem field is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.
Douglas Adams wrote some episodes of Doctor Who. I wonder if there's any connection?
@@FuzzyBunnyofInleThere is! Several in fact! Not only did Douglas Adams write for Doctor Who, he's also the man who came up with the idea for the episode "Voyage of the Damned."
Furthermore, in one classic who episode (possibly one written by Adams), The Fourth Doctor can be seen reading a book by Oolon Colluphid, who is a philosopher in the Hitchhiker's Guide universe, who wrote the books "Where God Went Wrong," "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes," and "Who is this God person anyway?"
Lastly (as far as I know at least) in one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books, which are implied to share a universe with the Hitchhiker's Guide, Dirk and Macduff visit a "Professor Chronotis" at Cambridge University, step into his office and get whisked back in time. Chronotis' office is massive on the inside, has a horse in it that couldn't possibly fit through the door, and travels in time.
And in Douglas Adams' cancelled/unaired Doctor Who story Shada, what are The Fourth Doctor and Romana up to? Visiting a professor named Chronotis at Cambridge University!
@@gazzamanazza4pm Wasn't Dirk Gently initially a rejected Doctor Who serial as well that was rejected and Adams then reworked it into Dirk Gently
@@SimonWakefieldUK Maybe. Not sure I've ever seen a definitive answer to that one.
Cardiff is the capitol of Wales and one of the largest cities in the UK. But for a Londoner, maybe a bit boring, combined with some poking fun at the Welsh. :) HOWEVER, it's where Doctor Who is produced! It's also where the Doctor Who Experience/Exhibit was from 2005-2017, where you could go see costumes and props and stuff like that -- including the interior TARDIS set!
Bit of trivia for you (unless you already know all this, in which case I’m just babbling): The Doctor’s “you’ll start a riot, Barbarella” @10:07 is a reference to the Jane Fonda cult film “Barbarella” (1968) which is…quite something. Extra bonus trivia: there’s a character in the film named “Durand Durand”, which is where Duran Duran got their name, and is presumably why they wrote a song called Electric Barbarella. Right, that’s me done; cheers.
And The Matmos, the mysterious bubbling force, gave its name to Mathmos lava lamps and the electronic duo Matmos as well.
(And for a Whovian link, the "head monocle" that Professor Ping uses is not dissimilar to those used by the Sensorites in the First Doctor story of the same name).
Oh Angela you have no idea what type of rabbit hole you're going down and I'm all here for it lol
I agree with you, Christopher is a wonderful actor. He does a great job portraying the trauma and guilt of what happened. If it wasn't for the behavior of some of the people responsible for running the show, I'm sure he would have hung around for a while. The Doctor definitely has a dark side. You'll find that part of the reason he loves traveling with companions is that they help keep him from crossing the line and keeping him honest.
The behavior of the people running the show was the problem? It is well known that he basically told them on the first day he did not agree with how they wanted him to play the doctor and fought with them every day.
It was Russell T Davies he had a problem with the person who has been credited mostly for the continued success of the show.
Either way though you think he was abused on set and everyone was after him, or you think he was a jerk that was mad he did not get his way. Which ever it is we most likely will never know for sure because there is only small statements from both sides that says what happened
@@jasonreynolds5633 To my knowledge, and I don't have the full story, there were three people, RTD and two producers, that he felt were being very unprofessional and he chose to leave. There was a recent Q&A with him and Billy Piper where he talks about it.
@@jasonreynolds5633i am 100% certain that is not it. c.e. is well known for always sticking up for the working class and that is exactly why he left. because the crew was treated badly and the working hours were terrible.
I would agree with this if other actors and actresses said something, but mostly what we get is the first season had a fast filming schedule, seems like he was the only one complaining about it.
Also there is an interview he did where he states that him and rtd got in an argument on the first day of shooting and their relationship never recovered
Like I said though we mostly only have his side of things as everyone else does not talk about it except to say they had a great time making the show and everyone they worked with was wonderfull
28:14 See if you notice anything unusual about the numbers on the clock of Big Ben.
After the crash was produced, the show decided to flip the image so the spaceship comes in from the right but of course that made the clock face become wrong.
Ecclestone is definitely one of my two favourite doctors. He is only around for one season but he gives us performances that are rarely matched in the whole show
I’m a huge nerd but it took me _forever_ to get started on Who. Once I did I definitely understood why people love it so much.
I’m so happy to see you going on this journey, I really think you’re going to love it too.
They’ll be ups and downs. Hits and misses (not every story is a winner). But for every episode you hate I promise there will be 3 more you love. Dr. Who is definitely a show quite unlike any other.
Fun facts about this episode:
- The writer does appear in a later episode, but you'll probably know him best as Mycroft in the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock show
- The girl playing Gwen (Eve Myles) impressed them so much she's the lead in the spinoff, Torchwood
- The gentleman playing DIckens is Simon Callow, a renowned British stage actor who has spent many years creating and working on Dickens related shows (after performing shows of Shakespeare's complete sonnets!). I've actually had the pleasure of meeting him - a 21st present for a budding actor from her mother - and he was a lovely and generous guy
The companions of the Doctor play an important role. They humanize the Doc a bit in their interactions with him, and, most importantly, they are someone for the Doctor to explain things to, so WE know what is going on. 😂
Yeah, the companions are always the viewers. They say what we're saying... What's that, who's this, why are they doing that etc. Sarah-Jane (from classic Who) is my fave !!
I'm so happy you're here for Christopher Eccelston. He is so so incredible!!! I'm so excited to see you on this journey 😭🖤
Kat gets to watch yet ANOTHER newb grow into a Dr Who Fan 😄
The Cardiff thing is basically because Who is filmed in Cardiff. Sort of a metajoke.
And its also not deemed the most exciting city in the UK. Or even in Wales. Especially if you're a Bit expecting Napoli. But if it had been BBC Manchester, the same joke would have been a Manchester joke.
I think Eccleston is my second favorite, it's hard for me not to love David Tennant playing the doctor, he's just so good. I think all the modern doctors(never watched the old series) do a really great job at the same time. :)
They filmed the show in Cardiff in Wales, and it makes setting stuff in Cardiff a lot cheaper than in other places. It is also why Torchwood is set in Cardiff (which one of the stars is the same actress who played Gwyneth, Eve Myles, stars in, and the Doctor and Rose both comment on how she looks like Gwyneth)
Eve Myles is amazing and Torchwood is definitely worth watching. It can be a bit sad at times, however
I don’t know much about a big fire in Cardiff in 1869, but I do know about the Great Fire of London in 1666. And the interesting thing about that is in the classic series episode The Visitation, London is attacked by aliens called the Terileptils, and one of them knocks a torch out of the 5th Doctor’s hand and ends up starting the great fire.
Understanding The Doctor takes Time....A Long Time...=))
Does it? 😅 Maybe when you're kid he instantly makes perfect sense, but if you start when you're an adult he takes time to understand.
The connection with the psychic paper is a good one to make - the Tardis (which is *supposed to change to blend into its environment, as others have said, but doesn't) has a mental effect that makes people kind of ignore it. Unless the story needs them to notice it, that is.
I always love the episodes where they travel into the past. I remember watching this for the first time. I knew a little about Charles Dickens before watching this episode, and as soon as Dickens mentioned the book he was inspired to finish and was planning to call it "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood and The Blue Elementals", I knew somehow that wouldn't happen, since The Mystery of Edwin Drood is pretty well known as an unfinished novel.
Your comments about Chris Eccleston are so true. For me the true test of an actor is up on a stage: can they move and amuse me in person? I've seen a couple of the other Doctors, I'm seeing another two in December. But last Christmas I managed to see Chris at last, playing Scrooge in the annual Christmas Carol at the Old Vic in London. He was just sensational, shifting effortlessly from the bitter old miser to the man who would always keep Christmas so well - dancing across the stage like a man half his age.
And of course, that's the connection to this week's episode! The writer Mark Gatiss has a fascination for Dickens and this story, and put on his own version of the play a couple of years ago. So many Dickens facts are interwoven into this one.
Doctor Who was filmed in Cardiff, capital of Wales, and it plays a part in some of these stories.
Oh, I almost forgot. One night I'd been to a play, can't remember which one, in London. As I was walking up the stairs towards the exit, I heard the unmistakable sound of Charles Dickens pontificating loudly about the show we'd just watched. Yes, it was Simon Callow and his partner right in front of me.
I love your style and whole attitude, really enjoying these reactions.
11:38 I believe there is what's known as a perception filter that the Doctor could use, but usually doesn't. It's difference from the chameleon circuit is that your gaze will just glance over anything with a perception filter on it. You can't see it unless you really focus.
Similar to the Somebody Else's Problem field in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Not invisibility per se, you might be able to see it, but the perception filter means it escapes your notice.
He is the Doctor of Everything, accept Medical and Cheese Making (This is something he says as Matt Smuth i dont remember in which episode but alright).
But the name Doctor was give to him because of a sense he is an Authority (And Probably because he makes people better sometimes)
Thank you for your appreciation of Christopher Eccleston! ❤️
The Doctor explains why the TARDIS is bigger on the inside in one or two old episodes (they used to have 2 hour episodes). He takes an object (I forget what) and puts it on a table across the room. It's small. Then he brings it close to his companion and says "now it's much bigger". He said it works like that. He doesn't explain how you travel the distance instantly when you walk through the door. :)
There actually was a major explosion in Wales in 1969, but not in Cardiff. On the 10th of June there was an underground explosion in a coal mine in southern wales, killing 53 men and boys (Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda).
A bit of cultural context - Cardiff = Wales. There is sibling animosity between Wales and England (even though they're both part of Britain). Originally it was violent animosity, when England conquered Wales. Rose is from London (so English) and reacting to finding herself in Wales instead of Italy. Fun fact - Doctor Who was filmed at the BBC's Cardiff studios.
Fun historical fact - 8 pounds a year sounds like a pittance; however the pound, or "pound sterling" was called that because it was the equivalent of a pound of sterling silver (and yes, the weight of equivalent coins equaled the weight of a pound)
The mystery of Edwin drood is Dickens' final book, and never finished, with no notes of where he intended it to go. He passed before he finished it.
"she was so full of life"
My sarcastic ass : "yeah that usually how it goes: life>lifen't"
And uh yeah they see the TARDIS but it a field around it that makes it so that no one really cares, they're like "huh blue box, neat" and move on
IIRC, Cardiff was the city the show was filmed in- where the studio was. Any references to the "rift" in Cardiff was an excuse to film on home turf instead of other locations.
The gift and the tragedy of the doctor is he makes everyone around him into heroes.
"I don't know if it was like yesterday ir if it felt like forever ago"
Yes.
American translation of the Cardiff line: "It's not Manhattan. It's New Jersey."
Eve Myles who plays Gwyneth, will go on to play the lead in the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, also set in Cardiff.
With regards to companions...
Many think that the Doctor is the hero of this show, but really, it is the companions that are the heroes. The Doctor is a hyper intelligent and capable elemental force capable of overcoming any opposition, but the companion is JUST a retail worker or temp office secretary, or a junior physician with no special skills or abilities but are raised to real heroic status by virtue of hanging around with our favorite idiot with a box and a screwdriver.
It's the companions that give the Doctor his humanity. It is a recurring story element that the Doctor loses part of himself whenever he loses a companion and becomes dangerously unstable till he finds a new one.
I don't think the name of the Doctor's home planet was mentioned yet......
It's not a huge Spoiler, but I don't know how strict FLGR is with these things.
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"Humanity" but that's a problem for me because the Doctor is not human he's a 900 year old ancient alien yes the companions have some heroic moments but the Doctor has more experience with time and space and has the most advanced intelligence than the companions he's beyond the companions if you go back to Classic Who companions were mostly there for the adventure and to look pretty and scream even some of the New Who companions were like that.
The Tardis doesn’t go where the Doctor want’s to go. It goes where Tardis thinks he’s needed to be next.
I started with Tom Baker (fourth Doctor) in the 1970s/1980s, but Eccleston was the first Doctor my wife watched, and we loved him. And the next one. And the next one. And the next...
The Doctor is 900 years old.
Rose is 19.
She's like his 30th pet human.
Loving these reaction videos ! Doctor who’s been part of my life for decades now so it’s cool to see someone experiencing it with fresh eyes
one thing you should know is the TARDIS has a concious in a way. when the doctor travels, yes they pick the location and time but the TARDIS is known to send the doctor where they /need/ to be because it's a time machine and connected to that sort of thing. unfortunately, where the doctor is needed is usually somewhere dangerous and full of threats.
As a long-time fan, it's a delight rewatching early eps. There's some much stuff being established in every episode. And it just adds to the glee of seeing your reactions, letting us live it through a fresh perspective. ♥ I love that you love it, and there's so much amazingness in store for you!
11:44 Especially in time before police boxes existed. In the 1860s, telephones didn't even exist yet. While several prototypes were invented by individual inventors since the 1840s, they were used as private fun ideas and nothing more. It was Alwxander Graham Bell who made the telephone into a mass medium in 1876.
It's implied that the Time War is extremely recent for this doctor, so he's still going through the grieving process intensely and wants to make amends.
What I love about Rose and the Doctor is that she's not afraid to call him on his shit. She doesn't blindly agree with him but she doesn't blame him either. She wanted to come and she recognizes her own agency. I love them so much
Cardiff is a well-known place where nothing happens, but it feels close to where something should happen. A good US parallel might be something like Hoboken New Jersey, where it's technically right next to New York, and you probably recognize the name, but don't recognize it from any event.
A German equivalent would probably be Bonn, an otherwise quiet city simply known as the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven until 1949, when it was made "temporary" capital of West Germany (a move partly influenced by being near Rhöndorf, the place where then-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lived).
Ipswich Qld vs Brisbane Qld?
Simon Callow is a big Dickens buff and used to do tours in character of Dickens doing readings of his works, much like the character does here and Dickens did in real life (he was very good at publicity). He only signed on to this episode on the proviso that the character of the author was treated with respect.
I do like how in this episode, and the last, Rose gravitates towards the overlooked workers - Gwyneth here, the blue plumber in the last episode. Having come from a crappy job in a shop, she empathises with the people who aren't the most "important" one in the room.
Charles Dickens was writing a book called The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It was an unfinished work that was found in his writing desk after his death. I don't know exactly what it was about, but I don't think it had anything ro do with blue elementals.
Doctor Who is filmed in Cardiff primarily. To my knowledge, Cardiff is also a place kinda looked down upon in the UK. So the gag is twofold- the Doctor having adopted British feelings about Cardiff, and the fact that technically any time he's at risk in the show he's usually going to die in Cardiff from a production standpoint.
Its interesting that you mentioned a 'great fire of Cardiff'. While this episode doesnt corraapond to a famous historical disaster, there WAS a story back in the Fifth Doctor's run (in the early 80s) which DID use an alien visitation as the explanation for the historical Great Fire of London.
Cardiff is a city in Wales (which is part of Great Britain, but not England)... The other commenters saying it's like Jersey to New Yorkers isn't far off - - or for you in Vegas, maybe Reno? Or since IIRC, you're originally a fellow Michigander... maybe Grand Rapids or Kalamazoo, Vs. Lansing or Detroit?...or maybe closer to how Lansing might be thought of by a person in Chicago... a ways from the hub, but not far enough to be exotic at all.
There's also an in-joke, since most of Doctor Who was, at that time, filmed in Cardiff - - it's just a big enough city, with a combination of old streets and modern business districts to stand in for London or other cities... and occasionally (with the older side streets) other times. It has studios to build sets and is a less expensive place to shoot than London... kind of like Hollywood movies filmed in Vancouver, or something similar.
Jodi Whittaker was great - - she's an excellent actress. The writing could have been better, but it wasn't as bad as people make out... plus most of Jodi's seasons were around the pandemic, which effected shooting schedules, making for short seasons that feel a bit erratic, rushed, and compressed. I like a lot of the concepts explored in Jodi's time as The Doctor.
It's been soooo long since I've watched these, it's feeling like the first time all over again. Thanks for starting this journey!
The 9th doctor is my favorite more so after coming back from combat. I have a special place in my heart for anyone that goes through a battlefield, let alone a war
There is a haunted coffin factory in Niagara Falls (Canadian side) that is the scariest thing I've ever done. These loosely historical ones are my favorite.
Yeah, the Tardis is seen by people. If the chameleon circuit was functioning properly it would disguise itself as something in the native environment and no one would be the wiser. The Doctor has a throwaway line in a later episode that where that despite being a blue police box, it's still innoccuous enough that people generally don't pay it much mind. There may also be a perception filter in effect that slightly affects peoples abilities to notice it other than who travel in it.
I watched a little of this new doctor (14th season) and I was interested in finding out more, starting with the 1st, but I was lazy because it was so long and kind of old. Then I saw that you were also starting from scratch and I thought “oh, why not?” and so every episode I watch I run here to see a little from another perspective haha! A hug from Brazil
It’s interesting that the Time War has some major effects outside the combatants themselves, like obviously the Gelth weren’t involved because the Doctor would recognise them otherwise, but the whole universe convulsed and destroyed random species. You’ll learn more about who and why, but it’s important to keep it in mind and you’ll see how the time war affected so much.
The Doctor once said wants the good of being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes you'll find that with the Doctor glad your enjoying the series.
Just look at Eccleston’s goofy grin, how could you not fall for him? 💓
The actress who plays Gwenith, the maid, comes back later in another role, in the show Torchwood.
He’s a Doctor of EVERYTHING!
All of the "new Who" including this episode from Series One, were produced by BBC Wales, in Cardiff.
Christopher Eccleston is my favourite Doctor, I know a lot of people would pick another favourite, but he was my first Doctor and some of my favourite episodes are in his season. Without his performance we wouldn't have been able to kickstart a reboot that's lasted 20 years. He was who we needed in this first season
The poking fun at Cardiff always cracks me up, they’ve filmed Doctor Who there for 20 years😂
Cardiff will play a nice role later on a good few times, also starts an off-branch of the series (Torchwood). Plus the Doctor Who experience/museum/exhibition is in Cardiff ^^
Welcome to tears and Doctor Who! 😢The two go hand in hand! Always a good idea to have some tissue on hand! And some of the moments will cause you to cry again, no matter how many times you see them. But there's so much to celebrate too, and so much that will make you laugh🤣...and be angry...pretty much EVERY emotion. It's part of the wonder of Doctor Who! 💙
Hey, Loving the Dr.Who reactions. The actor who played Dickens is a MASSIVE fan (ha ha) of Dickens. He has toured many, many times with one man shows with Dickens stories or about him. He's considered an aficionado on the subject, and was thrilled to play him on Dr. Who. Whilst this is a family adventure show, the classic series was famous for having 'hide behind the sofa' villains that kids were to scared to look at but couldn't leave the room to find out what happens. New who continues this trend. Can't wait for the next one.... seriously do 2 a week please. 😁
The way I interpreted the Cardiff joke, was similar to how NYC folks joke about New Jersey being the dirtier nastier next-door neighbor lol.
Yes! Was looking forward to this today 😄
Phantasmagoria: a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.
I’m glad you are doing Doctor Who. I tend to not go back and watch the show through often and this rewatch is a good way to get a review on the older episodes in a fresh context.
Angela thank you so much for doing the Doctor Who reactions. It’s been awhile since I have seen these episodes and they are fresh & new to me. I don’t have anything to spoil because honestly I can remember. Lol I’m enjoying seeing these episodes though your eyes and reading everyone’s thoughts! Anxiously awaiting the next video!
Great to see you enjoying this show. You really get the British humour too 😄😄
Doctor Who is filmed (mostly) in Cardiff, that the ‘in’ joke 😉 Cardiff is an awesome city btw, as is Wales too 🏴
My personal favourite Doctor is Tennant, but this episode is in my top 3 favourite episodes alongside Tooth and Claw and Blink which are S2 and S3 respectively. I love watching newcomers to see their reactions, and you're not disappointing! Keep it up 👍
I'm sorry but with this issue of recycling, I gotta go with the wisdom of That Guy, "dead people don't need their stuff.." 😁
The psychic servant (Gweneth)plays the lead(Gwen) in the Dr who spinoff Torchwood...& Cardiff is a Nexus point of temporal energy... Hence the rift