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I tell you for a demonetized video youtube certainly put a lot of adverts on this one! Whoever is making royalties money from the clips used is making a lot of money out of your labour weaving them together.
The 1-2 punch of Dot and Bubble and Rogue is especially weird in retrospect. The Doctor encounters racism for the first time and then we go back in time and pretend that Regency era England was a multicultural, cosmopolitan culture with no racism instead of a brutal, colonial slave state.
When watching it i kept telling my partner who i was watching with how fucking weird it was and how the characters were acting totally different and how the studio clearly mandated they do a bridgerton episode and they even referenced that in the episode several times and lo and behold it was written by totally different writers. I feel like i cant blame rtd for that one too bad, that seems like the studio caused rouge to be shit by insisting on a desperate appeal to a young audience with no overlap by copying another show, and to try and create a jack harkness 2.
@123Voynich you do realize RTD is the showrunner right? He’s the one that commissioned them to write Rogue. He was very much involved through the entire process of making the episode.
Yeah, it was a nightmare. I don’t really enjoy the weird trend of pretending none of this happened and POC characters just slot nicely into the setting, and everything’s happy, and nobody’s treated badly. That’s not what happened, though, and a black man at the ball would’ve been something of a scandal and few people would’ve attended a ball there again. A gay kiss would also have grounds for imprisonment. The tacky incorporation of Bridgerton tropes “This is so Bridgerton” only made it worse. Be Doctor Who. Doctor Who will have a lasting legacy and Bridgerton will be forgotten.
I think my biggest problem with this season is the man himself, Russell. His behaviour in interviews while addressing some of the criticism feels like he is just tired of the show and wants to get away by acting like people are idiots for criticizing him. For example. Bigeneration he just laughs it off in an interview and says something like ''I imagine fans on the internet are gonna have a lot to say about this'' and proceeds to make the worst theory possible about every Doctor bigenerating just so he can explain Tales of the TARDIS (which he wrote) or Peter Davison looking older on that miniepisode in Series 3. Then, after the finale he proceeds to say stuff like ''Well, I did that because it was fun! This is Doctor Who, it's meant to be silly!''. And he even admits that he did all that mystery surrounding Ruby because it pushes the algorhitm for the show online, since fans make videos about it or discuss it on Twitter and Reddit. And he mentioned on SDCC how fun it would be to bring dead Doctors back to life through CGI. Proceeds to respond to the ''Ncuti cries a lot'' criticism with ''I don't care, I'm doing it anyway''.
YEAH IM GONNA GET POPCORN FOR THIS!!! So sorry man about all the copyright stuff my god, I was following along on twitter, I'm super excited for this, thank you so much
Never seen Doctor Who before, but I watched the whole thing on Patreon already and it was fantastic! It got me interested and I started watching the show after I finished your video. I'm on series 2 now, and I'm loving it so far! Great job as always bro 🤘
The word that keeps coming to mind when I think about RTD2 is “needless.” Needless in the sense that pretty much everything wrong with this series is an unforced error. Every single creative decision Russell made can’t be blamed on a lack of talent or bureaucratic meddling, it’s all on him and we know he can do better. We all know that what made RTD1 so impactful to so many of us was the emotional, character driven heart of those stories so to see him abandon it and treat us instead to cardboard cutout copies of characters that are 15 and Ruby is just… depressing. And that’s before we get into how nearly every episode is riddled with plot holes, narrative contrivances or creative decisions that are just laughably terrible. It’s all so pointless, because I expect better from the man who gave us 9 and 10. I don’t know how this happened… but it did, and we are all the worse off for it.
I'd say its the exact opposite problem. I don't imagine series 1 (2005) would have been as good if it had only been 8 episodes & people would probably raving about this latest series if it had 13 full episodes. As well as people need to stop pretending the series became bad because of an underwhelming finale: Everyone was raving for the individual episodes. Devil's Chord, Dot & Bubble, 74 yards & Rogue are all hall-of-fame episodes of Doctor Who.
@@samrobotsin All of the episodes you cited are bad. 😂 No, it didn’t become bad because of an underwhelming finale, it became bad because every episode was bad, or at the very least severely flawed. S1 would have been diminished if it only had 8 episodes, absolutely, but it would still have been 8 great episodes like Fathers Day and Dalek. Nothing in S14 even comes close to S1 at its worst.
This is how I feel as well. Like, he did all that mystery box nonsense with Ruby for...what reason? It kind of feels like he wrote himself in a corner earlier by creating the mystery, then he decided to watch the last three Star Wars movies and thought ''Yo, that could work'' and decided to write in the last minute the whole ''Ruby was special because WE made her special''. And it's so weird how back in his first era, this guy managed to write around the main actor leaving the show after one season. He managed to work around BBC wanting to cancel the show and not believing he could make it work. And now with a bigger budget, the support of the BBC, Disney and the fandom, it feels like he is just tired. His writing feels...tired. His biggest comebacks after being gone for 15 years is...bigeneration and ''Ruby's mom is actually normal''.
I've seen a couple reviews for the show and all I can say is it had the worst written finale I have ever fucking seen. How do you kill death with death? If you brought the god of death back in time to his younger self, wouldn't you just be making death twice as powerful. In that time he wouldn't kill himself
I think the idea is meant to be in math where two negatives make a positive. Dragging Sutekh throughout the time vortex is killing him all the times he killed the universe essentially undoing what he did.
You’ve perfectly encapsulated my thoughts about this series as I was watching it - especially on the finale. All of your criticisms of the substance of the show (or lack thereof) I completely agree with, and your reasoning for why the show is like this are equally valid - not to mention RTD writing the show during a writer’s strike where he didn’t have access to a writer’s room. Honestly, even if he did, Russell appears narcissistic to me and I wouldn’t be surprised if he would still have taken it all on himself - he is constantly masturbating in press (he spoke about mavity, a running gag he instantly forgot, “immensely funny and very very creative”) and even on screen (the first part of the finale in UNIT feels like this). Returning to a showrunner and a previous doctor also is anathema to the show which has always prided itself on constant change and innovation. I understand why the Beeb decided to go with a “safe pair of hands” in RTD after the Chibnall debacle, but really what we needed is giving it to a new creative team!
4 hours talking about Doctor Who? Yes please! I didn't expect to watch this in one go but here we are, too much time on my hands clearly. I've found talking about this new series to be quite exhausting since it aired, the faults being so blatant and bewildering from such an excellent writer. All I'll say is I was so disappointed by the return of RTD and the underutilisation of Ncuti who could be such an incredible Doctor. But I think having a conclusion that is hopeful, that does try to give RTD the benefit of the doubt because he had a herculean task and he shouldered it almost by himself, is interesting. He's made some massive mistakes and now the sheen of his return is slightly marred, maybe the focus can return to making excellent stories with deep interesting characters instead of trying to make Doctor Who as popular as it was before artificially. We can only hope.
A very well made video and well done on getting all completed so quickly. I can imagine that this was HELL to get through the copyright system. I personally enjoyed the series, but agree with a lot of what you said in the broad strokes. That said, I feel like there's a lot of padding here, a lot of repeating yourself to try and stretch out the run time of the video. But then again, I have to put the blame for that on BBC and Disney for foolishly labelling S14 as Season One. It's just a baffling move and so its perfectly justifiable for you to, as you do in this video, spend large portions directly comparing it to the 2005 Series One. If you view it as a Series 14, the 'speedrun catch-up' makes a lot more sense from a writing perspective, although it is personally in my opinion the clunkiest segment in the whole series writing wise (rivalled only by the Ruby mum reveal in EoD.) The 8 Episode problem is so large and effects the whole series but I don't think it can be helped, I'm sure if they could use their magic wand to make more episodes they would. Doesn't mean we can't still point it out because like it or not it changes everything about how we view the series but it isn't as simple as a math equation (minus money from special effects = more episodes!) Personally I think most episodes in the series, as standalone episodes, are actually rather good. But put together into a series it comes out less than the sum of its parts. And I think that's because the 45 minute format fundamentally sucks. New Who in general is majorly flawed but in the past its covered its flaws with high episode counts. I think if they _did_ want to actually do a new reboot, they needed to change the whole format of the show so it couldn't be directly compared to what came before. Especially in this current climate where nostalgia is king, calling a new series Season One is just begging for it to be torn apart and directly compared to the beloved episodes of old, just as you did with 73 Yards and Turn Left or Space Babies and Rose/End of the World. I feel like 73 Yards is better compared to Heaven Sent than Turn Left but that's neither here nor there. Either way, great video, keep up the great stuff
@@dwfan91- I am genuinely interested in why you think 73 Yards is better compared to Heaven Sent than Turn Left? The only comparison I can think of is you could argue both Twelve and Ruby have to face a fear?
@@SuperDoctor9 character alone, being chased by slow moving 'threat' which is actually a metaphor for their trauma, looping around, forced to go through never-ending trials to prove themselves. episodes take place over a far longer period of time than the audience first thinks when they start it and in general each episode's place in the series is generally more similar to each other than they are to turn left. there's more there but thats the basic gist. im almost convinced rtd watched heaven sent and thought to himself 'I can do that' and wrote 73 yards
@@dwfan91- That's interesting, I can definitely see the similarities with them both being followed and that being a metaphor and the length of time. But I'd argue Turn Left and Heaven Sent have more similarity in their placements in the series, both have to be where they are to work, whereas 73 Yards really could have been placed anywhere in the series as it has basically no impact on the characters or the series arc. Thinking about it there are more similarities between Turn Left and Heaven Sent than 73 Yards, both have to sacrifice something in the former whereas Ruby has people taken from her but she doesn't really choose to sacrifice anything. I realise I'm biased against 73 Yards as I think the other two episodes are far better, and I still think 73 Yards is a poor man's Turn Left, but an interesting perspective all the same!
Absolutely incredible video mate, this is my first time on your channel and you did such a great job articulating everything I felt watching the season. Seriously entertaining too, laughed out loud a lot watching this - I am a sucker for that clip of 9 though 😂👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
This is a good critique, could use a little editing and scripting to cut down a little bit on the runtime, but good points brought up and solid analysis. Hope you keep improving and making better essays and i get a wonderful season 2 critque! Enjoyed this thoroughly
Dr who hasn't been good since series 11 imo. The rampant adhd that kept getting worse and worse, the overbearing preschy-ness, the sonic screwdriver that fixes every damn problem, and so many more issues. The writing quality has gone so far downhill since 2017 that I can count the number of enjoyable episodes since then on 1 hand. But that's just me. I went back and watched the classic show after re-watching the new series recently and while there are definitely some duds in there it feels so much more genuine and they act like regular people in that show (for the most part). Idk if it's just me but the adhd nature of the new series has really soured on me over time.
Series 11?? Even though Capaldi was a great doctor I wouldn't call any one of his seasons great.. The show hasn't been great since the 50th anniversary
@@mullaoslo That's just wrong. The Capaldi era gets a bit divisive but S9 and S10 are considered some of the best. S7 wasn't well received either or you could even say S6. Basically it doesn't matter.
@@Comicbroe405 i give season 6 and 7 leaway becuase Moffat was at least able to keep the overall storyarch of 11 and the mysteries around him interesting until the end.. Some answers where underwealming like the silence but at least I was interested until the reveal.. I'll agree s 9-10 where an improvement over the seasons 6-8 but I'll take the best episodes of the latter over the best of the former every time.
Super sorry to hear about the copyright issues. The BBC's been really weird about this as of late - I know Council of Geeks has been having trouble with them lately as well. Here's hoping they knock it off sooner rather than later!
Russell definitely has "second album syndrome". He probably spent years thinking about his first few seasons. He put all his best stuff in it. But now the studio wants another album or they are pulling the plug on the band, so he has to shit out some stuff. He tries to replicate some of his old work, but he's changed and so has the audience. But it's not working
I feel like this season of Doctor Who was about Russel “righting old wrongs”. Taking strong social stances, fixing old continuity errors, and these things took precedence over telling a good story. Series 1 was about writing a great revival that could stand on its own and outlive him, but this one seems like a misguided attempt to fix things he maybe felt guilty about, like acknowledging the Shalka Doctor.
I think this is the first time I'm gonna be fully agreeing with a negative critique of yours. Loved the eps individually but as a series it's such a mess. Also would love to see a video on just Capaldi alone.
I found your channel about a year ago and although I've only checked out the videos of the games I like, I really like your styles. I'm also not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I grew up when it was mostly the Baker and McCoy stuff being played. Although I love Sci-fi the campiness never connected with me. Where my interest comes in is for some of the lore. I have seen some of the franchises I love, like Star Trek, be destroyed by poor writing and ideology. There are many content creators out there who dismantle what is being done to once-loved franchises., but it's actually nice to have that done with a bit of dignity. Sometimes things get unnecessarily personal towards the performers. But at the same time, they seem to play the race card or sexism card when poor writing is called out or simply for people choosing not to watch something. Again, great channel and the dignity is refreshing.
Ever since Matt Smith transitioned to Peter Capaldi the Doctor is now Gallifrey. That’s my theory on the split. But which doctor got Gallifrey’s energy? Perhaps half to both?
It would have been a good place to end Icl but DW can go on as long as it wants. Fresh blood is all that it requires. The best eps of the Chibnall aren't even his.
Oh, there is some stuff after Capaldi that I would even call very good, but I am ever more certain that it is not worth the associated pain of watching entire seasons for context (and that's the only way I'm capable of watching Who)
I am once again going to die on the hill that the meep pronoun bit is a good joke. People who dislike it are literally just hearing the words, "you're assuming a pronoun," and then just don't listen to the punchline.
Admittedly, and I really don't mean this as an insult but just as a statement, it is very obvious to people who are more in-tune with this type of issue. The immediate difference in the way Ruby is treated versus The Doctor, the fact that *everyone* in the society shown is white and for the most part they're the 'Aryan' BS ideal type of white... Class is the obvious, surface level thing and it's not like it isn't there, but it's kind of meant to be a bit of a wake up call here if you're struggling to see it even when it's baked in. Like, fuck this season, but admittedly if you care about not being racist, which I'm sure you probably aren't racist, then you should probably look at your lack of recognizing it as a good incentive to try to figure out what would signal others to see it that way, so that you might be more aware in the future? I know even I was a bit late in terms of seeing it, but my buddy Jordan who happens to be black pretty much immediately saw it and pointed it out and we were talking about some of his experiences and how easy it seems to be for people, including me, to overlook stuff like that. I'm sure you're going to take this terribly because this is the internet, but I've tried my best here to not come off as judgemental when I'm just trying to be informative.
@@pleasegoawaydude I haven't seen the episode since it came out, but from what I remember, don't they treat Ruby the exact same way? What's different about it? What's her face, main bitch who murdered the guy who rescued her to save her own skin, she was saying more or less the exact same things to both of them, wasn't she? Blocking them both, not putting up with their supposed nonsense, begrudgingly accepting their help, etc. At the end she says something like over the screen is one thing, but in person? No way. And that's more directed at the Doctor, sure, but couldn't that just be because he's the one actually talking to them at that point, while Ruby is just kinda standing there quietly? Don't just tell me it's obvious, give me a real argument, because it seems like you're just jumping to conclusions because you've got a chip on your shoulder to see everything as racist. Maybe you, personally don't. I don't know you. A lot of people these days are extremely oversensitive on all sides of all issues. To me, it just seemed like they weren't part of their insane clique, so they've got coodies or whatever.
The main problem with series 14 for me (I refuse to call it season 1) is that all of the episodes felt generic in story and character, like Space Babies was the space station episode, The Devil’s Chord was the recent history episode, Rogue was the regal episode and so on it just felt like the most basic versions of what these plots are capable of and like the writers especially Russell were on autopilot the entire time with the only one putting any original effort being Steven Moffat which shows to me why he was such an amazing writer in the past (imo he was a better writer compared to showrunner) and with how exceptional BOOM was I’m very curious to see what he does with this year’s Christmas special
This is me before finish the video. I’m about to go to work but when I get back I’ll edit this comment when I finish watching. Personally I felt it was an average season of Davies doctor who. Some absolutely amazing episodes, some ok episodes, some absolutely awful episodes that I will never rewatch, and a disappointing finale. Like 4 of Davies 5 previous seasons (I’m including the next doctor - end of time as it’s own season) we’re like this and I’m fine with it; I don’t personally feel it was a massive disappointment or a awful season, it was about what I expected from a RTD season and I’m hopeful he’ll bring in other writers and stick to what he’s good at with more serious episodes and not goofy silly episodes.
Weirdly, the music is never what got copyright claimed, it was always the video of the episodes themselves. I just downloaded them from UA-cam and converted them to MP3 and used them, UA-cam’s copyright system didn’t seem to have any issues
I will say to be fair in regards to character development Ruby's story isn't over yet so I think whatever happens in Season 2/Series 15 could very well benefit this season and Russell has said there are more answers to come so that may help give better context for this season, I do think we're missing something there. I think this was a solid season with some fantastic episodes though of course it isn't perfect and there are some things that even puzzled me on broadcast that I still can't quite wrap my head around but we'll see what happens! Either way I love Doctor Who and I ain't going anywhere!
BTW the plot of the episode about the Maestro reminds me of a movie that I've watched when I was little "Martians go Home". They were summoned by music and the way to deal with them was music again :D
I’m sorry, but you really could have edited this video to half of its running time. I’m halfway through, and there’s just way too much rambling and repetition.
@@djfrozen4534 but that's not the conflict here. The conflict is between a 4hr decent video and a 2hr great one (which would certainly require OP to put even more time and dedication into editing)
Honestly, I prefer the length. Got super excited when I saw how long this was. My brain just went "FINALLY, I can deep clean the bathroom!". Long videos like this are perfect for the background when doing mundane tasks like tidying or washing up.
@maniraptavia4008 Exactlyy! I don't need to be glued to the screen, I can just use the floating thing and watch it in the background whilst i do other things on my phone, etc
This new doctor constantly crying steals all of the pathos from all the previous times he ACTUALLY had to deal with something so heart breaking that it made him cry. This doctor is also rather useless compared to previous doctors, he seems more in the companion role of running around and just having fun and not actually caring about the issues they run into. Ever since RTD left the show the first time it has been a slow decline, Moffat had some good stuff but he got even more hit or miss than RTD was but the modern RTD is NOT the same man who saved the show. RTD of today want to use the show as a platform more often than just make a good show with consistency that you can weave your beliefs into. It is a very fine line that unfortunately seems less common these days.
This video should have been shorter I don't say that to be mean or just angry at a long. But making a long is hard, and you did seem to stretch some stuff unnecessarily.
I'm sorry to hear about your blocked wazoo. If this series was created by a complete unknown out of drama writing college , everyone would have blamed the amateurish writing and and wiping of canon . But for some reason , RTD is getting an almost free pass (in offline media) and virtually everything else is being blamed for the shows failings , including , or perhaps especially, the fans. This old hack-emperor has got far few clothes and I just hope he stops writing soon and the reins be given to real sci-fi writers.
Start of the Video and you show Nerdrotic and say "I dont think this is in good faith just by the Thumbnail" yet if you would ever actually listen to the side you think is "wrong" you would hear that they aren't ever talking about Diversity itself, they are talking about how piss poor the actors are. Doctors 13 and 15, since 14 is technically the 10th's face but a different character entirely, are not good actors for the Doctor. Their numbers show for it too, people weren't tuning out as their Doctors were on the screen and Tenent couldn't save it either, so it's also bad writing. I love the doctor up 13 but the only thing that saved 12 was Capaldi being an amazing actor, by his run the show was already being written poorly. The side you this "dont argue in good faith" are the only fans that have ever argued IN good faith. They're sick of piss poor writers and actors who get by putting out preformances and scripts that are either anti-self-IP or anti-fan. You just need to look at Disney Star Wars right now, there are Disney sponsered channels that tried to take down Star Wars Theory because he didn't like the Acolyte and he's the biggest channel. Rewriting Ripley, Star Wars Explained and his wife, Kyle Katarn, and a few others all made a synchronized attack against the people who were negative about the Acolyte trying to DEMONITIZE them. And lets not forget In Praise of Shadows trying to cancel Wendigoon and friends, all over political and media takes. Where is the hate mob that the other side storms up? Other than the multiple debunked Celebrities who left social media after a stinker of a movie, we only have the side that "argues in bad faith" saying *"We dont have any ill will towards any actresses and just have problem with X character for X reasonible reasons. The other side just refuses to accept that and write hit peice after hit peice, cancel attempt after cancel attempt. I go on this long winded comment for the same reason you made this Long Video, Im a fan, im a fan of you and Gary and all those people who you say "argue in bad faith" or are just "anti-woke" and dont act like you dont know what Woke is, it's everything extreme progressives want to push like normalizing LGBTQ+ Ideolody, Pushing Victim Narratives while also calling themselves Empowered, using Minorities as a crutch to gain power and a sheild to maintain it,they have very Socilistic and Communisitic Beliefs and if you press them on it they fall to peices or lash out like caged animals, that is all under the umbrella of Woke.
They don't have socialist views though. I think this is one of the defining distinctions between right wing anti-woke and left-wing antiwoke is the right wing anti-woke think the weaponised identity is some sort of psy-op attempt to bring about a Marxist revolution whereas the left-wing anti-woke see it as a psy-op attempt to prevent a revolution. Now, here is some evidence: that first season of the Chibnall era contains Kerblam, one of the most explicitly anti-left episodes of Doctor Who ever in its entire history; I have never seen Doctor Who do a dystopian story before in which the Doctor says the problem isn't the system. Sure it's shown us eco-fascism before (e.g. Robot and Invasion of the Dinosaurs) but the Doctor clearly states that just because the villains were radicalized to evil by ecologogical concerns doesn't mean those ecological concerns aren't real, but in Kerblam she is utterly supportive of the capitalist and doesn't even acknowledge that the villainous rebel against the system has a point. The whole point about woke is it is class-blind - an unpaid six-month internship at the Guardian for journalists "of colour" is considered giving an opportunity to the marginalised even though no one actually marginalised, regardless of colour, can afford to be unpaid for six months - you need affluent parents to work for long periods without pay. If Raytheon fly the rainbow flag "woke" thinks they are on the side of the angels. And this whole rise of aggressive identity politics came in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street when the establishment felt under threat.
Plot is important but the plot should always be in service of character, never the other way round (Its the reason why soap operas are so unanimously dogshit and poorly written)
Just sick of Doctor Woke, the show making it gay as possible when it’s just a si-fi show with a character who isn’t any sexuality and they wanna make it a story arch so much
Please go watch: The TV movie The Doctor Dances New Earth The Girl in the Fireplace Doomsday Smith and Jones Human Nature The Family of Blood Voyage of the Damned Silence in the Library Forest of the Dead Journey’s End Time of Angels Flesh and Stone The Impossible Astronaut Day of the Moon A Good Man Goes To War The Wedding of River Song The Snowmen The Name of the Doctor The Husbands of River Song The sexuality of the Doctor has been a big part of their character for a LONG time. Let’s also not forget that the Doctor’s first companion was his granddaughter (she clearly came from some where. She didn’t just pop out of the ground one day, or get delivered by a stork.)
Thank you, even as someone who likes this series. Im glad theres a good faith video out there that isnt grr minorites or grr black or trans people. Its tiring how rampant bigotry is in the DW fandom. As messy it is, Boom, 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble were all very good imo. Also the reason Russels given for low episode count is the old count made his mental health really poor with how much work it was
Did you see Mr Tardis' video? He thinks the sonic can't resemble a gun because this Dr is black ...black American kids playing Doctor Who, maybe with the toys...
Great video. You’ve outlined pretty much every issue I have with the new season and its characters. What a great 4 hours I’ve spent watching this (over the course of 3 days). And it’s really nice to see a critique that isn’t just “woke bad”. Loved your deep thought process, style, editing format, personality and morals.
I genuinely really enjoyed this season aside from the finale and 73 Yards is amazing, but I noticed I don’t really consider the whole at all. I got mad at the mention of 73 Yards in the finale cuz I wanted it to stay in its own bubble. It kinda cheapened its impact cuz it doesn't even explain anything, Doctor just said a random thing as if it was an explanation. Tho I agree with most of the criticism in this video. While overarching story was catastrophic, the episodes were good and some amazing. So I'm for now happy Doctor Who isn't boring anymore. Tho I hope for RTD to get his stuff together or a new showrunner that's competent.
Went and made dinner to watch this one! Always enjoy hearing your thoughts on things whether I agree or not but thanks for voicing some of my own thoughts!
Good video, too long. I agree with your criticism, it's valid and well thought out compared to other videos touching the same theme, as you demonstrated in the beginning. It kind of reminds me of the 5 hour video someone made, that became viral by people who read the title but didn't watch. I wouldn't worry about it getting demonetized, your name isn't Jessie or Vera (those who know, will know)
At this point ove watcged more hours of videos on Doctor Who then ive watched Doctor Who. Youre criticisams are really good and i loved the video❤ 4 hours is no joke
Okay, poised to press ‘play’. I’m probably not going to agree with all of what follows, but really, thumbs up for the time that goes into long-form essays like this. Certainly helps my working day to listen to them.
I'm not going to lie. This is real. Last night I dreamt I met the Doctor, but not the current one. I think it was 10 or maybe 11. I was invited to join the Tardis crew. Hell. Yes. BUT, and I swear this is true. The Tardis was a literal shit emoji, and you had to crawl in through the eye window. Even on a subconscious level, I think the show is shit now.
22:05 Love to point out the fact that this scene wasn’t in the initial episode and is the result of Disney’s audience testing. All that character building it does for the Doctor was not initially intended by Russel - L
The bigeneration was so dumb, if they didnt want 14 to regen, why not have him just retire to live with donna and then have the christmas special begin with 15 after an unspecified amount of time
Another epic video about a truly epic failure. Quite an achievement for just 12 episodes of RTD2. Yes, 12. I'm including the truly rancid Christmas turkey - wouldn't feed it to the dog - and the three rank 60th anniversary 'specials', which belong in a skip. I do, otherwise, agree wholeheartedly with what you have to say here. Well, there is one other key point on which our opinions diverge and that's on Ncuti Gatwa himself. I think he's a truly appalling actor. In fact, I don't think he can act at all. He can perform, in that he can project himself in a strutting model on a catwalk kind of way. But actual acting? Nope. I've seen things come out of a box from IKEA with more measurable acting skills. The various clips of him in your video were a painful reminder of just how dreadful his line reading is in almost every instance. Something that added to the already excruciating experience of watching RTD's non-stop clusterfuck of gobsmacking dumbness, ineptitude and piss-poor writing that would be rejected out of hand if it were handed in by anyone who wasn't already a big industry name. Grateful to you for alerting me to RTD's incoherent, soggy word salad about time dilation. Proof, if any were needed, and let's face it, it really isn't, that he either has dementia or has spent so long in a professional bubble filled with his own farts and the pungent halitosis of fawning sycophants who daren't tell him the truth about anything that it's rotted his brain and swollen his ego like a massive, bulging haemorrhoid that's about to pop and stink out the room. He needs to go. They all do - everyone who has been in any way involved with Doctor Who since 2005. Their time has been and gone.
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I tell you for a demonetized video youtube certainly put a lot of adverts on this one! Whoever is making royalties money from the clips used is making a lot of money out of your labour weaving them together.
The 1-2 punch of Dot and Bubble and Rogue is especially weird in retrospect. The Doctor encounters racism for the first time and then we go back in time and pretend that Regency era England was a multicultural, cosmopolitan culture with no racism instead of a brutal, colonial slave state.
When watching it i kept telling my partner who i was watching with how fucking weird it was and how the characters were acting totally different and how the studio clearly mandated they do a bridgerton episode and they even referenced that in the episode several times and lo and behold it was written by totally different writers. I feel like i cant blame rtd for that one too bad, that seems like the studio caused rouge to be shit by insisting on a desperate appeal to a young audience with no overlap by copying another show, and to try and create a jack harkness 2.
@123Voynich you do realize RTD is the showrunner right? He’s the one that commissioned them to write Rogue. He was very much involved through the entire process of making the episode.
Yeah, it was a nightmare. I don’t really enjoy the weird trend of pretending none of this happened and POC characters just slot nicely into the setting, and everything’s happy, and nobody’s treated badly. That’s not what happened, though, and a black man at the ball would’ve been something of a scandal and few people would’ve attended a ball there again. A gay kiss would also have grounds for imprisonment. The tacky incorporation of Bridgerton tropes “This is so Bridgerton” only made it worse. Be Doctor Who. Doctor Who will have a lasting legacy and Bridgerton will be forgotten.
oh man thats true!!
I'll come back to this in about 4 years when I watch Doctor Who and let you know
To be fair about the moral implications of killing the goblin king, he literally eats babies.
And Sutekh eradicated the entire universe but the Doctor cried about killing him
If you're here for the Assassin's Creed part it's at 3:20:58
I think my biggest problem with this season is the man himself, Russell. His behaviour in interviews while addressing some of the criticism feels like he is just tired of the show and wants to get away by acting like people are idiots for criticizing him.
For example. Bigeneration he just laughs it off in an interview and says something like ''I imagine fans on the internet are gonna have a lot to say about this'' and proceeds to make the worst theory possible about every Doctor bigenerating just so he can explain Tales of the TARDIS (which he wrote) or Peter Davison looking older on that miniepisode in Series 3.
Then, after the finale he proceeds to say stuff like ''Well, I did that because it was fun! This is Doctor Who, it's meant to be silly!''. And he even admits that he did all that mystery surrounding Ruby because it pushes the algorhitm for the show online, since fans make videos about it or discuss it on Twitter and Reddit.
And he mentioned on SDCC how fun it would be to bring dead Doctors back to life through CGI. Proceeds to respond to the ''Ncuti cries a lot'' criticism with ''I don't care, I'm doing it anyway''.
Can't wait to watch this 4 hour video about Doctor Who even though I've never seen a single episode.
After watching this, would you watch doctor who?
@@foxperson8943 Nah
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YEAH IM GONNA GET POPCORN FOR THIS!!! So sorry man about all the copyright stuff my god, I was following along on twitter, I'm super excited for this, thank you so much
Doctor Who: _Another era needing deconstruction on the same level as The Fall Of Doctor Who_
Jay Exci: MIA.
James: *Fine… I’ll do it myself.*
Era has just begun. It doesn't need a deconstruction rn, moreso good criticism that needs to be listened to.
A 4 hour video after 1 season is kinda crazy tho
@@MuttonErase Only thing crazier is how much of a letdown this series was.
@@MuttonErasehow is that crazy?
@@shutit8949 nvm I thought series 11 (the one jayexci did a video on) was multiple seasons
Never seen Doctor Who before, but I watched the whole thing on Patreon already and it was fantastic! It got me interested and I started watching the show after I finished your video. I'm on series 2 now, and I'm loving it so far! Great job as always bro 🤘
The word that keeps coming to mind when I think about RTD2 is “needless.”
Needless in the sense that pretty much everything wrong with this series is an unforced error. Every single creative decision Russell made can’t be blamed on a lack of talent or bureaucratic meddling, it’s all on him and we know he can do better. We all know that what made RTD1 so impactful to so many of us was the emotional, character driven heart of those stories so to see him abandon it and treat us instead to cardboard cutout copies of characters that are 15 and Ruby is just… depressing.
And that’s before we get into how nearly every episode is riddled with plot holes, narrative contrivances or creative decisions that are just laughably terrible. It’s all so pointless, because I expect better from the man who gave us 9 and 10.
I don’t know how this happened… but it did, and we are all the worse off for it.
Absolutely agree
I'd say its the exact opposite problem. I don't imagine series 1 (2005) would have been as good if it had only been 8 episodes & people would probably raving about this latest series if it had 13 full episodes. As well as people need to stop pretending the series became bad because of an underwhelming finale: Everyone was raving for the individual episodes. Devil's Chord, Dot & Bubble, 74 yards & Rogue are all hall-of-fame episodes of Doctor Who.
@@samrobotsin All of the episodes you cited are bad. 😂 No, it didn’t become bad because of an underwhelming finale, it became bad because every episode was bad, or at the very least severely flawed.
S1 would have been diminished if it only had 8 episodes, absolutely, but it would still have been 8 great episodes like Fathers Day and Dalek. Nothing in S14 even comes close to S1 at its worst.
This is how I feel as well. Like, he did all that mystery box nonsense with Ruby for...what reason? It kind of feels like he wrote himself in a corner earlier by creating the mystery, then he decided to watch the last three Star Wars movies and thought ''Yo, that could work'' and decided to write in the last minute the whole ''Ruby was special because WE made her special''.
And it's so weird how back in his first era, this guy managed to write around the main actor leaving the show after one season. He managed to work around BBC wanting to cancel the show and not believing he could make it work.
And now with a bigger budget, the support of the BBC, Disney and the fandom, it feels like he is just tired. His writing feels...tired. His biggest comebacks after being gone for 15 years is...bigeneration and ''Ruby's mom is actually normal''.
Watching the 4 hour LazerzZHD critique instead of the actual series so I have one degree of separation of the destruction of my love of a franchise
I've seen a couple reviews for the show and all I can say is it had the worst written finale I have ever fucking seen. How do you kill death with death? If you brought the god of death back in time to his younger self, wouldn't you just be making death twice as powerful. In that time he wouldn't kill himself
I think the idea is meant to be in math where two negatives make a positive. Dragging Sutekh throughout the time vortex is killing him all the times he killed the universe essentially undoing what he did.
You’ve perfectly encapsulated my thoughts about this series as I was watching it - especially on the finale. All of your criticisms of the substance of the show (or lack thereof) I completely agree with, and your reasoning for why the show is like this are equally valid - not to mention RTD writing the show during a writer’s strike where he didn’t have access to a writer’s room. Honestly, even if he did, Russell appears narcissistic to me and I wouldn’t be surprised if he would still have taken it all on himself - he is constantly masturbating in press (he spoke about mavity, a running gag he instantly forgot, “immensely funny and very very creative”) and even on screen (the first part of the finale in UNIT feels like this). Returning to a showrunner and a previous doctor also is anathema to the show which has always prided itself on constant change and innovation. I understand why the Beeb decided to go with a “safe pair of hands” in RTD after the Chibnall debacle, but really what we needed is giving it to a new creative team!
4 hours talking about Doctor Who? Yes please! I didn't expect to watch this in one go but here we are, too much time on my hands clearly. I've found talking about this new series to be quite exhausting since it aired, the faults being so blatant and bewildering from such an excellent writer. All I'll say is I was so disappointed by the return of RTD and the underutilisation of Ncuti who could be such an incredible Doctor. But I think having a conclusion that is hopeful, that does try to give RTD the benefit of the doubt because he had a herculean task and he shouldered it almost by himself, is interesting. He's made some massive mistakes and now the sheen of his return is slightly marred, maybe the focus can return to making excellent stories with deep interesting characters instead of trying to make Doctor Who as popular as it was before artificially. We can only hope.
A very well made video and well done on getting all completed so quickly. I can imagine that this was HELL to get through the copyright system. I personally enjoyed the series, but agree with a lot of what you said in the broad strokes. That said, I feel like there's a lot of padding here, a lot of repeating yourself to try and stretch out the run time of the video. But then again, I have to put the blame for that on BBC and Disney for foolishly labelling S14 as Season One. It's just a baffling move and so its perfectly justifiable for you to, as you do in this video, spend large portions directly comparing it to the 2005 Series One. If you view it as a Series 14, the 'speedrun catch-up' makes a lot more sense from a writing perspective, although it is personally in my opinion the clunkiest segment in the whole series writing wise (rivalled only by the Ruby mum reveal in EoD.)
The 8 Episode problem is so large and effects the whole series but I don't think it can be helped, I'm sure if they could use their magic wand to make more episodes they would. Doesn't mean we can't still point it out because like it or not it changes everything about how we view the series but it isn't as simple as a math equation (minus money from special effects = more episodes!) Personally I think most episodes in the series, as standalone episodes, are actually rather good. But put together into a series it comes out less than the sum of its parts. And I think that's because the 45 minute format fundamentally sucks.
New Who in general is majorly flawed but in the past its covered its flaws with high episode counts. I think if they _did_ want to actually do a new reboot, they needed to change the whole format of the show so it couldn't be directly compared to what came before. Especially in this current climate where nostalgia is king, calling a new series Season One is just begging for it to be torn apart and directly compared to the beloved episodes of old, just as you did with 73 Yards and Turn Left or Space Babies and Rose/End of the World. I feel like 73 Yards is better compared to Heaven Sent than Turn Left but that's neither here nor there. Either way, great video, keep up the great stuff
Love your videos man great comment
@@hexogramd8430 thank you, his video was great too
@@dwfan91- I am genuinely interested in why you think 73 Yards is better compared to Heaven Sent than Turn Left? The only comparison I can think of is you could argue both Twelve and Ruby have to face a fear?
@@SuperDoctor9 character alone, being chased by slow moving 'threat' which is actually a metaphor for their trauma, looping around, forced to go through never-ending trials to prove themselves. episodes take place over a far longer period of time than the audience first thinks when they start it and in general each episode's place in the series is generally more similar to each other than they are to turn left. there's more there but thats the basic gist. im almost convinced rtd watched heaven sent and thought to himself 'I can do that' and wrote 73 yards
@@dwfan91- That's interesting, I can definitely see the similarities with them both being followed and that being a metaphor and the length of time. But I'd argue Turn Left and Heaven Sent have more similarity in their placements in the series, both have to be where they are to work, whereas 73 Yards really could have been placed anywhere in the series as it has basically no impact on the characters or the series arc. Thinking about it there are more similarities between Turn Left and Heaven Sent than 73 Yards, both have to sacrifice something in the former whereas Ruby has people taken from her but she doesn't really choose to sacrifice anything. I realise I'm biased against 73 Yards as I think the other two episodes are far better, and I still think 73 Yards is a poor man's Turn Left, but an interesting perspective all the same!
Finished watching this on Patreon a few days ago and I must say, it's banger, maybe my favourite LazerzZ video to date. Congrats on the upload 👏 🎉
Absolutely incredible video mate, this is my first time on your channel and you did such a great job articulating everything I felt watching the season. Seriously entertaining too, laughed out loud a lot watching this - I am a sucker for that clip of 9 though 😂👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
This is a good critique, could use a little editing and scripting to cut down a little bit on the runtime, but good points brought up and solid analysis. Hope you keep improving and making better essays and i get a wonderful season 2 critque! Enjoyed this thoroughly
Dr who hasn't been good since series 11 imo. The rampant adhd that kept getting worse and worse, the overbearing preschy-ness, the sonic screwdriver that fixes every damn problem, and so many more issues. The writing quality has gone so far downhill since 2017 that I can count the number of enjoyable episodes since then on 1 hand. But that's just me. I went back and watched the classic show after re-watching the new series recently and while there are definitely some duds in there it feels so much more genuine and they act like regular people in that show (for the most part). Idk if it's just me but the adhd nature of the new series has really soured on me over time.
Tbf the sonic fixing everything had been an issue for a long time. Also in ep 2 we actually got one of its coolest uses yet.
Series 11?? Even though Capaldi was a great doctor I wouldn't call any one of his seasons great.. The show hasn't been great since the 50th anniversary
@@mullaoslo That's just wrong. The Capaldi era gets a bit divisive but S9 and S10 are considered some of the best. S7 wasn't well received either or you could even say S6. Basically it doesn't matter.
@@Comicbroe405 i give season 6 and 7 leaway becuase Moffat was at least able to keep the overall storyarch of 11 and the mysteries around him interesting until the end.. Some answers where underwealming like the silence but at least I was interested until the reveal..
I'll agree s 9-10 where an improvement over the seasons 6-8 but I'll take the best episodes of the latter over the best of the former every time.
@@mullaoslo Yeah I can't see that take at all considering some of the eps but sure man it's your opinion I'm not gonna say that's wrong.
this is a wonderful retrospective that sums up a lot of my feelings brilliantly, very good work
Always a joy to watch, good stuff mate!
Super sorry to hear about the copyright issues. The BBC's been really weird about this as of late - I know Council of Geeks has been having trouble with them lately as well. Here's hoping they knock it off sooner rather than later!
Well, I know what I'm doing for the next 4 hours.
Russell definitely has "second album syndrome". He probably spent years thinking about his first few seasons. He put all his best stuff in it. But now the studio wants another album or they are pulling the plug on the band, so he has to shit out some stuff. He tries to replicate some of his old work, but he's changed and so has the audience. But it's not working
Never watched doctor who but will watch the 4 hour video about doctor who because gamer James is cool
This video is fantastic! I thoroughly enjoy your breakdown and analysis.
The cure for bad doctor who, big finish baby. 8th doctor is amazing
13th Doctor is coming there too!
@@Comicbroe405 Given what BF was able to do with Colin, I'm actually really looking forward to seeing what they do with Jodie.
The speedrun cracked me up hard.
OMG you know Alan Wake :D
I feel like this season of Doctor Who was about Russel “righting old wrongs”. Taking strong social stances, fixing old continuity errors, and these things took precedence over telling a good story. Series 1 was about writing a great revival that could stand on its own and outlive him, but this one seems like a misguided attempt to fix things he maybe felt guilty about, like acknowledging the Shalka Doctor.
I think this is the first time I'm gonna be fully agreeing with a negative critique of yours. Loved the eps individually but as a series it's such a mess. Also would love to see a video on just Capaldi alone.
Yeah, you pointed out the flaws I HAD with ruby, she just..seemed off
I found your channel about a year ago and although I've only checked out the videos of the games I like, I really like your styles. I'm also not a huge fan of Doctor Who, I grew up when it was mostly the Baker and McCoy stuff being played. Although I love Sci-fi the campiness never connected with me. Where my interest comes in is for some of the lore.
I have seen some of the franchises I love, like Star Trek, be destroyed by poor writing and ideology. There are many content creators out there who dismantle what is being done to once-loved franchises., but it's actually nice to have that done with a bit of dignity. Sometimes things get unnecessarily personal towards the performers. But at the same time, they seem to play the race card or sexism card when poor writing is called out or simply for people choosing not to watch something.
Again, great channel and the dignity is refreshing.
Ever since Matt Smith transitioned to Peter Capaldi the Doctor is now Gallifrey.
That’s my theory on the split.
But which doctor got Gallifrey’s energy? Perhaps half to both?
When Capaldi said "Doctor, I let you go" it was a message for us all to do so as well
It would have been a good place to end Icl but DW can go on as long as it wants. Fresh blood is all that it requires. The best eps of the Chibnall aren't even his.
@@Comicbroe405not really saying much.
@@lewgallagher463 Kinda am cuz lot of ppl dismiss the Chibnall era as fully bad when its not & the new writers can clearly bring new perspective.
Oh, there is some stuff after Capaldi that I would even call very good, but I am ever more certain that it is not worth the associated pain of watching entire seasons for context (and that's the only way I'm capable of watching Who)
@@yavoth5850Yeah that's fair.
I am once again going to die on the hill that the meep pronoun bit is a good joke. People who dislike it are literally just hearing the words, "you're assuming a pronoun," and then just don't listen to the punchline.
Am I the only one who interpreted the end of Dot and Bubble as being about class, and not race? People just assert it like it's obvious.
Why not both?
@@theskelebro8013 That's also an option.
Admittedly, and I really don't mean this as an insult but just as a statement, it is very obvious to people who are more in-tune with this type of issue. The immediate difference in the way Ruby is treated versus The Doctor, the fact that *everyone* in the society shown is white and for the most part they're the 'Aryan' BS ideal type of white... Class is the obvious, surface level thing and it's not like it isn't there, but it's kind of meant to be a bit of a wake up call here if you're struggling to see it even when it's baked in. Like, fuck this season, but admittedly if you care about not being racist, which I'm sure you probably aren't racist, then you should probably look at your lack of recognizing it as a good incentive to try to figure out what would signal others to see it that way, so that you might be more aware in the future? I know even I was a bit late in terms of seeing it, but my buddy Jordan who happens to be black pretty much immediately saw it and pointed it out and we were talking about some of his experiences and how easy it seems to be for people, including me, to overlook stuff like that.
I'm sure you're going to take this terribly because this is the internet, but I've tried my best here to not come off as judgemental when I'm just trying to be informative.
@@pleasegoawaydude I haven't seen the episode since it came out, but from what I remember, don't they treat Ruby the exact same way? What's different about it? What's her face, main bitch who murdered the guy who rescued her to save her own skin, she was saying more or less the exact same things to both of them, wasn't she? Blocking them both, not putting up with their supposed nonsense, begrudgingly accepting their help, etc. At the end she says something like over the screen is one thing, but in person? No way. And that's more directed at the Doctor, sure, but couldn't that just be because he's the one actually talking to them at that point, while Ruby is just kinda standing there quietly? Don't just tell me it's obvious, give me a real argument, because it seems like you're just jumping to conclusions because you've got a chip on your shoulder to see everything as racist. Maybe you, personally don't. I don't know you. A lot of people these days are extremely oversensitive on all sides of all issues. To me, it just seemed like they weren't part of their insane clique, so they've got coodies or whatever.
The main problem with series 14 for me (I refuse to call it season 1) is that all of the episodes felt generic in story and character, like Space Babies was the space station episode, The Devil’s Chord was the recent history episode, Rogue was the regal episode and so on it just felt like the most basic versions of what these plots are capable of and like the writers especially Russell were on autopilot the entire time with the only one putting any original effort being Steven Moffat which shows to me why he was such an amazing writer in the past (imo he was a better writer compared to showrunner) and with how exceptional BOOM was I’m very curious to see what he does with this year’s Christmas special
This is me before finish the video. I’m about to go to work but when I get back I’ll edit this comment when I finish watching.
Personally I felt it was an average season of Davies doctor who. Some absolutely amazing episodes, some ok episodes, some absolutely awful episodes that I will never rewatch, and a disappointing finale.
Like 4 of Davies 5 previous seasons (I’m including the next doctor - end of time as it’s own season) we’re like this and I’m fine with it; I don’t personally feel it was a massive disappointment or a awful season, it was about what I expected from a RTD season and I’m hopeful he’ll bring in other writers and stick to what he’s good at with more serious episodes and not goofy silly episodes.
How did you manage to use the doctor who OST for the video? I would love to use these tracks for my own content in the future?
Weirdly, the music is never what got copyright claimed, it was always the video of the episodes themselves. I just downloaded them from UA-cam and converted them to MP3 and used them, UA-cam’s copyright system didn’t seem to have any issues
This perfectly articulates why I disliked this series finale which I was struggling to put my finger on. Absolutely phenomenal work!
I will say to be fair in regards to character development Ruby's story isn't over yet so I think whatever happens in Season 2/Series 15 could very well benefit this season and Russell has said there are more answers to come so that may help give better context for this season, I do think we're missing something there. I think this was a solid season with some fantastic episodes though of course it isn't perfect and there are some things that even puzzled me on broadcast that I still can't quite wrap my head around but we'll see what happens! Either way I love Doctor Who and I ain't going anywhere!
Yo nice to see you here
@@Comicbroe405 Hi there!
Great vid!
Thank you for not meat riding rtd like others
BTW the plot of the episode about the Maestro reminds me of a movie that I've watched when I was little "Martians go Home". They were summoned by music and the way to deal with them was music again :D
keep up the good work james :)
Thank Gallifrey this isn’t just one of those “WHAAAH WOKE!” type “reviews”.
Anyway, series 14 to me was the definition of a 6/10
I never watched doctor who nor do I care about it, but i love your videos James do i just might watch this whkle thing we will see
I’m sorry, but you really could have edited this video to half of its running time. I’m halfway through, and there’s just way too much rambling and repetition.
Tough shit. it's better to have people put time and dedication into something. I'd rather watch 4 hours of great content than 5 minutes of nonsense.
@@djfrozen4534 but that's not the conflict here. The conflict is between a 4hr decent video and a 2hr great one (which would certainly require OP to put even more time and dedication into editing)
someone’s just watched Drew Gooden’s new video
Honestly, I prefer the length. Got super excited when I saw how long this was. My brain just went "FINALLY, I can deep clean the bathroom!". Long videos like this are perfect for the background when doing mundane tasks like tidying or washing up.
@maniraptavia4008 Exactlyy! I don't need to be glued to the screen, I can just use the floating thing and watch it in the background whilst i do other things on my phone, etc
This new doctor constantly crying steals all of the pathos from all the previous times he ACTUALLY had to deal with something so heart breaking that it made him cry. This doctor is also rather useless compared to previous doctors, he seems more in the companion role of running around and just having fun and not actually caring about the issues they run into. Ever since RTD left the show the first time it has been a slow decline, Moffat had some good stuff but he got even more hit or miss than RTD was but the modern RTD is NOT the same man who saved the show. RTD of today want to use the show as a platform more often than just make a good show with consistency that you can weave your beliefs into. It is a very fine line that unfortunately seems less common these days.
1:46:42 yes we know who she is.
This video should have been shorter
I don't say that to be mean or just angry at a long. But making a long is hard, and you did seem to stretch some stuff unnecessarily.
I'm sorry to hear about your blocked wazoo.
If this series was created by a complete unknown out of drama writing college , everyone would have blamed the amateurish writing and and wiping of canon . But for some reason , RTD is getting an almost free pass (in offline media) and virtually everything else is being blamed for the shows failings , including , or perhaps especially, the fans.
This old hack-emperor has got far few clothes and I just hope he stops writing soon and the reins be given to real sci-fi writers.
For personal use 1:05:00
Why do you think arcs are mandatory?
I liked it 🤷♂️
Same
I like the actors but they just weren’t shown their true potential in the roles.
Start of the Video and you show Nerdrotic and say "I dont think this is in good faith just by the Thumbnail" yet if you would ever actually listen to the side you think is "wrong" you would hear that they aren't ever talking about Diversity itself, they are talking about how piss poor the actors are. Doctors 13 and 15, since 14 is technically the 10th's face but a different character entirely, are not good actors for the Doctor. Their numbers show for it too, people weren't tuning out as their Doctors were on the screen and Tenent couldn't save it either, so it's also bad writing. I love the doctor up 13 but the only thing that saved 12 was Capaldi being an amazing actor, by his run the show was already being written poorly. The side you this "dont argue in good faith" are the only fans that have ever argued IN good faith. They're sick of piss poor writers and actors who get by putting out preformances and scripts that are either anti-self-IP or anti-fan. You just need to look at Disney Star Wars right now, there are Disney sponsered channels that tried to take down Star Wars Theory because he didn't like the Acolyte and he's the biggest channel. Rewriting Ripley, Star Wars Explained and his wife, Kyle Katarn, and a few others all made a synchronized attack against the people who were negative about the Acolyte trying to DEMONITIZE them. And lets not forget In Praise of Shadows trying to cancel Wendigoon and friends, all over political and media takes. Where is the hate mob that the other side storms up? Other than the multiple debunked Celebrities who left social media after a stinker of a movie, we only have the side that "argues in bad faith" saying *"We dont have any ill will towards any actresses and just have problem with X character for X reasonible reasons. The other side just refuses to accept that and write hit peice after hit peice, cancel attempt after cancel attempt.
I go on this long winded comment for the same reason you made this Long Video, Im a fan, im a fan of you and Gary and all those people who you say "argue in bad faith" or are just "anti-woke" and dont act like you dont know what Woke is, it's everything extreme progressives want to push like normalizing LGBTQ+ Ideolody, Pushing Victim Narratives while also calling themselves Empowered, using Minorities as a crutch to gain power and a sheild to maintain it,they have very Socilistic and Communisitic Beliefs and if you press them on it they fall to peices or lash out like caged animals, that is all under the umbrella of Woke.
This is a lot of words for "I have no critical thinking skills" lmao
Bro defending a blatant racist
They don't have socialist views though. I think this is one of the defining distinctions between right wing anti-woke and left-wing antiwoke is the right wing anti-woke think the weaponised identity is some sort of psy-op attempt to bring about a Marxist revolution whereas the left-wing anti-woke see it as a psy-op attempt to prevent a revolution. Now, here is some evidence: that first season of the Chibnall era contains Kerblam, one of the most explicitly anti-left episodes of Doctor Who ever in its entire history; I have never seen Doctor Who do a dystopian story before in which the Doctor says the problem isn't the system. Sure it's shown us eco-fascism before (e.g. Robot and Invasion of the Dinosaurs) but the Doctor clearly states that just because the villains were radicalized to evil by ecologogical concerns doesn't mean those ecological concerns aren't real, but in Kerblam she is utterly supportive of the capitalist and doesn't even acknowledge that the villainous rebel against the system has a point. The whole point about woke is it is class-blind - an unpaid six-month internship at the Guardian for journalists "of colour" is considered giving an opportunity to the marginalised even though no one actually marginalised, regardless of colour, can afford to be unpaid for six months - you need affluent parents to work for long periods without pay. If Raytheon fly the rainbow flag "woke" thinks they are on the side of the angels. And this whole rise of aggressive identity politics came in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street when the establishment felt under threat.
We're so close to RTD writing himself into the series in some kind of cross-reality Witcher-style bleeding of realities.
Plot is important but the plot should always be in service of character, never the other way round
(Its the reason why soap operas are so unanimously dogshit and poorly written)
maybe i missed a few vids but his beard looks much sharper than what i remember
Doctor Who has been a shit slurry the last decade i can't believe it took people THIS long to catch on
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Yes. Doctor who went woke in 2017 which goes against the show itself therefore the show ended in 2017.
sarcasm? Doctor Who has been woke since 1963.
@@friendlyotaku9525 except that wouldn’t be possible would it.
@@wardjunior1450 Doctor Who's first Director was a gay Indian man, pretty progressive for the 1960s
@@kylerees3491 the fact you think that has anything to do with anything tells me everything.
@@wardjunior1450 the fact you think Doctor Who started being progressive in 2017 is extremely idiotic
Just sick of Doctor Woke, the show making it gay as possible when it’s just a si-fi show with a character who isn’t any sexuality and they wanna make it a story arch so much
Please go watch:
The TV movie
The Doctor Dances
New Earth
The Girl in the Fireplace
Doomsday
Smith and Jones
Human Nature
The Family of Blood
Voyage of the Damned
Silence in the Library
Forest of the Dead
Journey’s End
Time of Angels
Flesh and Stone
The Impossible Astronaut
Day of the Moon
A Good Man Goes To War
The Wedding of River Song
The Snowmen
The Name of the Doctor
The Husbands of River Song
The sexuality of the Doctor has been a big part of their character for a LONG time. Let’s also not forget that the Doctor’s first companion was his granddaughter (she clearly came from some where. She didn’t just pop out of the ground one day, or get delivered by a stork.)
58:30 it doesn't make them a chosen one at all but okay
Exactly! I'm really tired of people misunderstanding the Timeless Child.
i was so scared it was gonna be one of those critiques but when you said you're not a bigot i was so relieved 🏳⚧
Thank you, even as someone who likes this series. Im glad theres a good faith video out there that isnt grr minorites or grr black or trans people. Its tiring how rampant bigotry is in the DW fandom.
As messy it is, Boom, 73 Yards and Dot and Bubble were all very good imo.
Also the reason Russels given for low episode count is the old count made his mental health really poor with how much work it was
Real
Ok cool video and all but have you considered 'Jigsaw Salt Toymaker Sutekh Magic The Doctor Lies'? Checkmate.
He's not coming back from that one.
I didn't think Doctor Who could get worse than whatever the fuck Chibnall did, I was wrong.
about the 6 month time skip, there is one reason for it: Big Finish
You couldnt be MORE RIGHT
Did you see Mr Tardis' video? He thinks the sonic can't resemble a gun because this Dr is black ...black American kids playing Doctor Who, maybe with the toys...
Great video. You’ve outlined pretty much every issue I have with the new season and its characters. What a great 4 hours I’ve spent watching this (over the course of 3 days).
And it’s really nice to see a critique that isn’t just “woke bad”. Loved your deep thought process, style, editing format, personality and morals.
I genuinely really enjoyed this season aside from the finale and 73 Yards is amazing, but I noticed I don’t really consider the whole at all.
I got mad at the mention of 73 Yards in the finale cuz I wanted it to stay in its own bubble.
It kinda cheapened its impact cuz it doesn't even explain anything, Doctor just said a random thing as if it was an explanation.
Tho I agree with most of the criticism in this video. While overarching story was catastrophic, the episodes were good and some amazing. So I'm for now happy Doctor Who isn't boring anymore. Tho I hope for RTD to get his stuff together or a new showrunner that's competent.
Went and made dinner to watch this one! Always enjoy hearing your thoughts on things whether I agree or not but thanks for voicing some of my own thoughts!
I’m guessing you didn’t like it that much?
Love the video. This season really was a disaster.
But hey at least we still have Earthshock
Possibly one of my favourite videos yet, perfect balance of funny, critical but also really fair and good faith 💚
Good video, too long.
I agree with your criticism, it's valid and well thought out compared to other videos touching the same theme, as you demonstrated in the beginning. It kind of reminds me of the 5 hour video someone made, that became viral by people who read the title but didn't watch.
I wouldn't worry about it getting demonetized, your name isn't Jessie or Vera (those who know, will know)
At this point ove watcged more hours of videos on Doctor Who then ive watched Doctor Who. Youre criticisams are really good and i loved the video❤ 4 hours is no joke
Okay, poised to press ‘play’. I’m probably not going to agree with all of what follows, but really, thumbs up for the time that goes into long-form essays like this. Certainly helps my working day to listen to them.
BEHOLD
Jay Exci's succesor
Pretty much spot on! Excellent video!
I'm not going to lie. This is real.
Last night I dreamt I met the Doctor, but not the current one. I think it was 10 or maybe 11.
I was invited to join the Tardis crew.
Hell. Yes.
BUT, and I swear this is true.
The Tardis was a literal shit emoji, and you had to crawl in through the eye window.
Even on a subconscious level, I think the show is shit now.
👏 fantastic video
I love how essentially A death god stayed around because he was interested in the Doctor's Drama and was just irritated with the Ruby mystery lol
Agree with the TikTok clip but respectfully I ain’t watchin’ allat
Fair, appreciate the comment for the algorithm though 👌
22:05 Love to point out the fact that this scene wasn’t in the initial episode and is the result of Disney’s audience testing. All that character building it does for the Doctor was not initially intended by Russel - L
Okay, that's super interesting to know
The bigeneration was so dumb, if they didnt want 14 to regen, why not have him just retire to live with donna and then have the christmas special begin with 15 after an unspecified amount of time
Oh yeah like 8 to 9
Sorry this won't make money, if in 4 hours I like it ill drop a tip lol. Lets see how James is cooking lol.
Haha thank you, I hope you enjoy 🙏🏻
Another epic video about a truly epic failure. Quite an achievement for just 12 episodes of RTD2. Yes, 12. I'm including the truly rancid Christmas turkey - wouldn't feed it to the dog - and the three rank 60th anniversary 'specials', which belong in a skip.
I do, otherwise, agree wholeheartedly with what you have to say here. Well, there is one other key point on which our opinions diverge and that's on Ncuti Gatwa himself. I think he's a truly appalling actor. In fact, I don't think he can act at all. He can perform, in that he can project himself in a strutting model on a catwalk kind of way. But actual acting? Nope. I've seen things come out of a box from IKEA with more measurable acting skills.
The various clips of him in your video were a painful reminder of just how dreadful his line reading is in almost every instance. Something that added to the already excruciating experience of watching RTD's non-stop clusterfuck of gobsmacking dumbness, ineptitude and piss-poor writing that would be rejected out of hand if it were handed in by anyone who wasn't already a big industry name.
Grateful to you for alerting me to RTD's incoherent, soggy word salad about time dilation. Proof, if any were needed, and let's face it, it really isn't, that he either has dementia or has spent so long in a professional bubble filled with his own farts and the pungent halitosis of fawning sycophants who daren't tell him the truth about anything that it's rotted his brain and swollen his ego like a massive, bulging haemorrhoid that's about to pop and stink out the room.
He needs to go. They all do - everyone who has been in any way involved with Doctor Who since 2005. Their time has been and gone.
Came for AC analysis, critiques and hating on Odyssey from an Og fan like myself.
Stayed for the random 4h dismantling of the worst Dr Who season/era.