Isn't it to indicate the Doctor is feigning unconsciousness? From where the others are standing, they probably wouldn't be able to see him open his eyes? It's been forever, I don't even remember which story t hat is.
@@starschwar The story is The Space Museum. Not the best story, but it has some brilliant Hartnell moments including this scene, the one where he hides inside a Dalek, and the one where he imagines himself in a bathing suit to troll the guy reading his mind.
The ‘merry Christmas to all of you at home’ is proof that the doctor knows we’re watching. 15 winking at us with there’s always a twist and 12’s monologues also get close
@@TulpechaidoplaysMCWell if RTD didn’t come back, we’d still have that Donna ending; although before that happened I was always so keen to write a story about The Doctor coming back, on her last day of life, restoring her memories & having one last adventure with her before she dies, but now I don’t have to worry about that.
Just because someone looks at the camera doesn't necessarily mean they are breaking the fourth wall. e.g. River turning off the light is looking at the kids not us.
I get what you mean but it's more like, the camera is positioned in that way to have River be addressing the kids in the scene but also the audience watching like when Colin Baker says "I'm the doctor whether you like it or not," in the scene he's obviously talking to his companion but with how the camera is positioned it makes it so he's also telling that to the audience, yknow? I would say it counts
@@spicyfood6943 Well, it can't be both. It's either us or the thing they are looking at. Hitchcock has people looking into the camera a lot of the time but I doubt on any occasion he wanted us to think the character is acknowledging the audience.
@@flaggerify It literally can be both. The character doesn't have to literally know they are being filmed by a camera to speak "to" the audience, even if you wouldn't consider that breaking the fourth wall. But there _are_ a lot of examples in this video where the characters are definitely not looking at the camera, or where they are looking at/near the camera in a way that clearly is not addressing the audience at all.
@@flaggerify the characters aren't directly addressing the audience but the line of dialogue is simultaneously directed at the viewers, there's no reason why it can't be both lol
Maestro has at least one more from my memory - in the Devil's Chord they close curtains on a window and look at the camera and I have a feeling there are more but that may be wrong
Aw you missed my favorite from Night Terrors! The dad’s explaining that they stopped watching scary shows for the kid and 11 says, “No, you don’t want to do that…” and glances at the camera.
I really liked his 4th wall break in Before the Flood, that Intro was amazing. My interpretation was that 12 was trying to reassure the audience that he's okay and they shouldn't worry after the cliffhanger from the previous episode
I only just realised that during Ms Floods monologue, all of the prominent landmarks behind her have had major appearances in Dr Who, The Post Office Tower, St Pauls, London Eye, Big Ben and The Shard. London isn't laid out that way so I bet that was done as an Easter Egg.
I'm pretty sure that is accurate the iconic buildings so the post office tower st Paul's big Ben and the shard are all that distance apart from one another. It does look quite unusual but it is accurate I'm pretty aure
I would count tennant saying something along the lines of “I love Saturdays, I always travel on Saturdays. Hate sundays.” Doctor who aired on Saturdays.
I have this theory that the reason the doctor plays along with everything when they know that they’re in a show is because they are actually an actor employed by a certain company and if they don’t play along then the universe stops being made.
In “Boom” the Doctor and Ruby talk directly to the camera at the very end of the episode. In”73 Yards” Ruby looks into the skylight after her mom says horrible things to her. She is looking at the camera here too.
Love this!! There are also two fully-transformed primords in Inferno who very clearly look into the camera to be “scary” at different times. One of them is quite obvious. He “notices” the camera/viewer and then snarls directly at it. Episode 5 or 6.
Now that you mention it, there's 13's speech at the end of Orphan 55. "Be the best of humanity or..." (shot of a monster roaring at the camera). I don't know if that counts as a 4th wall break.
Hang on, what about Eleven’s sly little look to camera at the beginning of the 50th? Right after Clara rides the motorcycle into the Tardis, he looks up from his book at the camera.
I feel like the advent of video calling has altered the way camera looks can be understood. Some of them read as though they were looking at the audience, like a 4th wall break, but sometimes like in the TDOTD his "no sir all 13" it reads as though he's looking at the Timelords through a video call. And some of the old episodes are kinda recontextualized through this. The random people on the street. To me they aren't looking at me, they are looking at whoever is opposite them, because it's a public place and there are undeniably more people there
If you're going to include all the "these [x] all look the same to me", you should have included 1's "Haven't I seen your face before somewhere?... Yes, of course, I remember now, yes. The marketplace at Jaffa." from The Feast of Steven
There's also a scene in the 1996 Tv movie where 8 and Grace go for a walk, and then 8 talks about how his shoes are perfect before running off, Grace then looks at the audience in disbelief
The camera adress at the beginning of the Starbeast There's also the second time Maestro plays the dum-dum-dum of the theme in the dystopian future where she's taunting the Doctor. - This is sort of disputed though, I thought it was that initially, the BBC Iplayer subtitles support me whereas the Disney+ subtitles list it as the "Saxon theme" which makes no sense in this context.
Trust the iPlayer one, they're probably working from the actual scripts. For stupid contractual/business related reasons, Disney and everyone else has to do their own transcriptons for their subtitles, leading to many errors. The "Saxon theme" reference suggests they've got a fan working on it who's not as clever as they think they are.
Yeah. Just looking towards the 4th wall doesn't break it; It's only "broken" if the character shows awareness of what's on the other side (i.e., the audience).
Growing up it felt like all the master and Davros ever did was rant at the camera when they were supposed to be alone I guess the mind embellishes these things
Looking directly at the camera is not breaking the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall means to make direct intentionally contact/address to an audience with the aim to remind them they are just an audience. Most of these are just looking at the camera to either give us eye contact as another characters view or increase dramatics...
I found this incredibly annoying because most were not fourth wall breaks - looking directly at the camera is not necessarily a fourth wall break. Capaldi’s eyes, for instance, are clearly meant to put the viewer in the character’s POV. River is looking at her kids, not at us.
Spiking the camera (or "looking at the camera") is not inherently a 4th wall break. It can be, but it's the intent behind it that makes it a 4th wall break. For example: Martha could have just as easily looking at whoever was adjacent to her around the console.
merely looking directly into the lenses of a camera doesn’t make it a fourth wall break. a fourth wall break is when a character acknowledges the audience. a majority of these are not 4th wall breaks.
I spotted Anthony Ainley's Master breaking the 4th wall twice, the 1st time in Logopolis seems pretty obvious to me and I don't know why no one else in the fandom acknowledges it: ua-cam.com/video/K9IEj2dKfFc/v-deo.html And also at the cliffhanger of part 2 of Dragonfire, Kane speaks directly to the camera.
The Daleks Part 1: The 1st Doctor looks at the camera, smiles and says “At first light, then?” after pretending the Tardis fluid link has run out of mercury and deciding to go to the city
Night of the Doctor has another Meta Moment: (Still the best Minisode) At 2:48 of a 6:48 Minisode Ohila: You have a little under four minutes. (This is said around 2:48 and there are 4 Minutes Left of this) 8: Four minutes? That's ages. What if I get bored or need a television, couple of books. Anyone for chess? Bring me knitting.
This isn't related to the video, but I always love ominous foreshadowing in Doctor Who and Miss Flood's monologue is the newest entry to that very long list, and I'm so ready for next season
@somerandomguy2073 well fourth wall break has to somehow interact with the audience or atleast acknowledge their existence (also can mean jokes like same corridors). Here we have a character looking at something that is just out of frame
The one in the opening of the final episode "The Wedding of River Song" of the sixth season where Matt Smith gives a monologue, originally intended for the dying Dalek, but the camera shifts its attention from the perception of the Dalek, leaving us to believe that he is talking with us.
wait they did this since the start and the peter one where FINALLY somebody explains paradox theory without making it boring was fun. if i ever meet him i will say thank you for that. EVEN star trek tried and made it weird
Love this video. Goes great against people who say the newest show does too many or that it never had before. I always remembered the 4th Doctor’s 4th Wall breaks, because I thought that coincidence was deliberate. But my favorite one is probably when the 12th Doctor literally mentions the audience 😆💙💙
Remember the one with the Cybermen on the moon? It’s been a while but I _swear_ we could hear Two’s thoughts for a bit in that one, if that counts? Edit: also the Eleven regenerating bit was kind of a gut punch (I thought I was OVER that!)
Didn't Hartnell break the fourth wall in "The Time Meddler"? 'He won't listen, he's determined to have his own way. He's got to be stopped. He must be stopped!'
A character talking to themself is not breaking the 4th wall. Not even if they happen to be facing the 4th wall at the time. The break happens if they show awareness of what's behind the wall (us!).
@@therealpbristow Interesting. Well I just see breaking the fourth wall as someone looking at the wall (us) whatever the concept is. Merry Christmas btw
@@AndrewChapman Merry Christmas! (Says the "old-school theatre student and DW afficionado.) =;o} [RAISES HUGE BOTTLE OF SHERRY, AND TAKES A SMALL SIP IN SALUTE TO YOU]
I get that if you'd included all of the talking straight to the audience in "The Caves of Androzani" -- which is one reason I hate this episode so much -- you'd easily double the length of this video, but only using two clips from it is selling it very, very short.
@DrWhoFanJ Oh dear; We'd better inform the BBC! They've been erroneously referring to it as an episode for *decades*! (It won't let me include a link, but the first Google result for "BBC fifth doctor episode guide" is a fine example.) As for my despising this episode -- Apologies: Story. Force of habit -- could you provide me a list of Official Reasons to do so? I shouldn't like to find myself in error again.
I doubt this is EVERY fourth wall break in Doctor Who,with it's long,long history....as I suspect you know! 😉 .....actually, was River looking at the camera when she wished everyone goodnight? I thought she was just looking at everyone in the room.....
Thank you, Doctor. I appreciate that but the guy and the hat that kind of looked like a clown that was kind of the joke you're making his first appearance on doctor who and I mean joker from the comic books batman
If we're including "all these tunnels look the same to me" then how about "oh look, rocks!" in a quarry in Destiny of the Daleks.
The first one is possibly unintentional, more Hartnell trying not to fluff a take
Isn't it to indicate the Doctor is feigning unconsciousness? From where the others are standing, they probably wouldn't be able to see him open his eyes? It's been forever, I don't even remember which story t hat is.
@@starschwar The story is The Space Museum. Not the best story, but it has some brilliant Hartnell moments including this scene, the one where he hides inside a Dalek, and the one where he imagines himself in a bathing suit to troll the guy reading his mind.
That kinda makes it even more of a fourth wall break lol
Yeah I think at the end of the video the first fourth wall break is counted as a "possibly accidental" one
@@powpenguin7483 Oh yeah, and it also totally undermines regeneration. But ignore that
Those old people were just looking left and right to cross the street
Nah they saw the credits and booked it
I think it's fair to say that Peri had more than her fair share of identical-looking tunnels/corridors/mines/subways.
They all look the same…
The ‘merry Christmas to all of you at home’ is proof that the doctor knows we’re watching. 15 winking at us with there’s always a twist and 12’s monologues also get close
I like how Doctor Who is very Theatre based, so they have these little asides and “gentle nudges to the 4th wall” as Nicepool would call it.
“The proposal…”
@ exactly
12 definitely knew he was in a tv show
peter capaldi is FULLY aware when yapping about the beethoven thing lmao
I can’t wait to see how the Doctor avoids his story that ends in absolute terror 😊
Yeah those spooky omens are meaningless since we know that it won’t end poorly and all the consequences will be undone like what happened to Donna
@@TulpechaidoplaysMCWe know nothing of the kind.
@@TulpechaidoplaysMC yep
@@TulpechaidoplaysMCWell if RTD didn’t come back, we’d still have that Donna ending; although before that happened I was always so keen to write a story about The Doctor coming back, on her last day of life, restoring her memories & having one last adventure with her before she dies, but now I don’t have to worry about that.
Just because someone looks at the camera doesn't necessarily mean they are breaking the fourth wall. e.g. River turning off the light is looking at the kids not us.
I get what you mean but it's more like, the camera is positioned in that way to have River be addressing the kids in the scene but also the audience watching
like when Colin Baker says "I'm the doctor whether you like it or not," in the scene he's obviously talking to his companion but with how the camera is positioned it makes it so he's also telling that to the audience, yknow? I would say it counts
@@spicyfood6943 Well, it can't be both. It's either us or the thing they are looking at.
Hitchcock has people looking into the camera a lot of the time but I doubt on any occasion he wanted us to think the character is acknowledging the audience.
@@flaggerify It literally can be both. The character doesn't have to literally know they are being filmed by a camera to speak "to" the audience, even if you wouldn't consider that breaking the fourth wall. But there _are_ a lot of examples in this video where the characters are definitely not looking at the camera, or where they are looking at/near the camera in a way that clearly is not addressing the audience at all.
@@flaggerify the characters aren't directly addressing the audience but the line of dialogue is simultaneously directed at the viewers, there's no reason why it can't be both lol
@@spicyfood6943 Then every example is both.
Maestro has at least one more from my memory - in the Devil's Chord they close curtains on a window and look at the camera and I have a feeling there are more but that may be wrong
2:34 Happy Christmas to you, Doctor
Aw you missed my favorite from Night Terrors! The dad’s explaining that they stopped watching scary shows for the kid and 11 says, “No, you don’t want to do that…” and glances at the camera.
5:54 “You can never unsee it!”
*ADHD Memory has entered chat*
Capaldi does it best
I really liked his 4th wall break in Before the Flood, that Intro was amazing. My interpretation was that 12 was trying to reassure the audience that he's okay and they shouldn't worry after the cliffhanger from the previous episode
Don't skip the bootstrap theory right after making me cry at Matt Smith's regeneration
I only just realised that during Ms Floods monologue, all of the prominent landmarks behind her have had major appearances in Dr Who, The Post Office Tower, St Pauls, London Eye, Big Ben and The Shard. London isn't laid out that way so I bet that was done as an Easter Egg.
I'm pretty sure that is accurate the iconic buildings so the post office tower st Paul's big Ben and the shard are all that distance apart from one another. It does look quite unusual but it is accurate I'm pretty aure
It does also work as an Easter egg too though when you consider all the Easter eggs on Mrs floods suitcase
@@tardisglitch547 Theres other tall buildings surrounding the Shard and Post Office Tower, that are omitted for this shot
@@tardisglitch547Ruby lives in Notting Hill, you can't see all those buildings like that in Notting Hill in a single shot.
@@tardisglitch547 plus some of her outfits.
Never realised that Peri had a catchphrase
Most of the 60s looking at the camera ones aren't even looking at the camera lol
Peri was stuck in a neverending maze of corridors that all look the same to her.
I would count tennant saying something along the lines of “I love Saturdays, I always travel on Saturdays. Hate sundays.” Doctor who aired on Saturdays.
4:15 well if it isn't the nice department store lady that thinks the doctor and james corden are a couple
So, the doctor knows that he is inside a show, neat
Don't tell that to some bigoted fake fans. Cause they will double down than admit they weren't fans
I have this theory that the reason the doctor plays along with everything when they know that they’re in a show is because they are actually an actor employed by a certain company and if they don’t play along then the universe stops being made.
Doctor Who is canon in Doctor Who
In “Boom” the Doctor and Ruby talk directly to the camera at the very end of the episode.
In”73 Yards” Ruby looks into the skylight after her mom says horrible things to her. She is looking at the camera here too.
Love this!! There are also two fully-transformed primords in Inferno who very clearly look into the camera to be “scary” at different times. One of them is quite obvious. He “notices” the camera/viewer and then snarls directly at it. Episode 5 or 6.
Now that you mention it, there's 13's speech at the end of Orphan 55. "Be the best of humanity or..." (shot of a monster roaring at the camera). I don't know if that counts as a 4th wall break.
If the Doctor playing Clara's theme counts, could the string quartet playing Martha's theme in the Lazarus Experiment count too?
Sure, why the heck not
Plus Ruby playing her own theme in The Devils Chord
Hang on, what about Eleven’s sly little look to camera at the beginning of the 50th? Right after Clara rides the motorcycle into the Tardis, he looks up from his book at the camera.
He looks up from his book at Clara, not at the audience.
@@Carpedog2206 very clear look at the camera: ua-cam.com/video/j7K4fY5XrPc/v-deo.htmlsi=-6UNOHMaVBqfeRZp
@@zackrocklin-waltch6140 yes, you’re right.
The Zarbi that bumps into the camera in The Web Planet
The Web Planet mate
I feel like the advent of video calling has altered the way camera looks can be understood.
Some of them read as though they were looking at the audience, like a 4th wall break, but sometimes like in the TDOTD his "no sir all 13" it reads as though he's looking at the Timelords through a video call.
And some of the old episodes are kinda recontextualized through this. The random people on the street. To me they aren't looking at me, they are looking at whoever is opposite them, because it's a public place and there are undeniably more people there
If you're going to include all the "these [x] all look the same to me", you should have included 1's "Haven't I seen your face before somewhere?... Yes, of course, I remember now, yes. The marketplace at Jaffa." from The Feast of Steven
Considering the nature of regeneration (i.e. resurrections) The Doctor might go insane and think he is in a television show
Tom Baker's smiles give me the creeps
There's also a scene in the 1996 Tv movie where 8 and Grace go for a walk, and then 8 talks about how his shoes are perfect before running off, Grace then looks at the audience in disbelief
Baker had a lot 4 wall moments
I love your videos and glad to see they get the love you deserve
The camera adress at the beginning of the Starbeast
There's also the second time Maestro plays the dum-dum-dum of the theme in the dystopian future where she's taunting the Doctor. - This is sort of disputed though, I thought it was that initially, the BBC Iplayer subtitles support me whereas the Disney+ subtitles list it as the "Saxon theme" which makes no sense in this context.
Trust the iPlayer one, they're probably working from the actual scripts. For stupid contractual/business related reasons, Disney and everyone else has to do their own transcriptons for their subtitles, leading to many errors. The "Saxon theme" reference suggests they've got a fan working on it who's not as clever as they think they are.
A lot of these "fourth wall breaks" are very tenuous. A "fourth wall break" is when the actor gives a knowing wink to us viewers.
Yeah. Just looking towards the 4th wall doesn't break it; It's only "broken" if the character shows awareness of what's on the other side (i.e., the audience).
Growing up it felt like all the master and Davros ever did was rant at the camera when they were supposed to be alone
I guess the mind embellishes these things
Looking directly at the camera is not breaking the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall means to make direct intentionally contact/address to an audience with the aim to remind them they are just an audience. Most of these are just looking at the camera to either give us eye contact as another characters view or increase dramatics...
Sylv may not be looking at the camera, but I reckon his last line in Delta 2 should count: "I think I may have gone a little too far".
I found this incredibly annoying because most were not fourth wall breaks - looking directly at the camera is not necessarily a fourth wall break. Capaldi’s eyes, for instance, are clearly meant to put the viewer in the character’s POV. River is looking at her kids, not at us.
8:54 He actually wasn’t the doctor I was expecting, I somehow thought it was 9’s voice 💀
Spiking the camera (or "looking at the camera") is not inherently a 4th wall break. It can be, but it's the intent behind it that makes it a 4th wall break. For example: Martha could have just as easily looking at whoever was adjacent to her around the console.
What is the clip at 0:50 from?
The end of Shada
Doctor who
_Shada: Part Six._
What about the entire framing device from Love and Monsters?
And The Woman Who Fell To Earth
Pretty sure he's speaking to a webcam, but then Sleep No More wouldn't be counted
merely looking directly into the lenses of a camera doesn’t make it a fourth wall break. a fourth wall break is when a character acknowledges the audience. a majority of these are not 4th wall breaks.
0:53 which episode is that?
4
My favourite 4th wall break is piano one that made me Jinxed when I say imagine if she play doctor who theme and she did that how I got Jinxed
You forgot “trick or treat… Doctor” in Flux
This is brilliant! Some I’ve never seen before as well!
I spotted Anthony Ainley's Master breaking the 4th wall twice, the 1st time in Logopolis seems pretty obvious to me and I don't know why no one else in the fandom acknowledges it: ua-cam.com/video/K9IEj2dKfFc/v-deo.html
And also at the cliffhanger of part 2 of Dragonfire, Kane speaks directly to the camera.
5:20 is the best one, i cant believe you fast forwarded it... how very cynical of you. How could you.
The Daleks Part 1: The 1st Doctor looks at the camera, smiles and says “At first light, then?” after pretending the Tardis fluid link has run out of mercury and deciding to go to the city
What's the groovy theme remix playing over the text and where can I find it?
ua-cam.com/video/beuy8PO97Qw/v-deo.html
The theme from the Esrly Years VHS tapes from the 90s
Idk if anyone else has mentioned it but 14 and Donna both break the 4th wall in the opening of The Star Beast too
8:01-8:23 all these clips look the same to me
I mean a whole bunch of these were a massive reach lol. Its obvious the ones that were intentional, you didnt have to pad it out like this
what theme tune did you use in this video?
ua-cam.com/video/beuy8PO97Qw/v-deo.html
The theme from the Esrly Years VHS tapes from the 90s
Also wondering this!
Night of the Doctor has another Meta Moment: (Still the best Minisode)
At 2:48 of a 6:48 Minisode
Ohila: You have a little under four minutes. (This is said around 2:48 and there are 4 Minutes Left of this)
8: Four minutes? That's ages. What if I get bored or need a television, couple of books. Anyone for chess? Bring me knitting.
0:56 wait what's this from
Yoo fr
That there's from Shada!
_Shada: Part Six._
This isn't related to the video, but I always love ominous foreshadowing in Doctor Who and Miss Flood's monologue is the newest entry to that very long list, and I'm so ready for next season
Maaga in Galaxy 4
9:52 We fans have been asking that for over sixty years now, Bill!!!
You forgot Dragonfire’s part two when Kane talks to the camera
0:50 from where is that?
Im guessing Shada?
_Shada: Part Six._
“These corridors all look the same to me!” - Peri, 1984-86
She tried to get that in every story she was in. And, oddly, JNT didn't mind.
That's an in-joke. The show poking fun at itself. Not a fourth wall break.
Well about half weren't looking at the camera at all, bht okay I guess
That isn't what makes something a fourth wall break. They're still fourth wall breaks.
@somerandomguy2073 well fourth wall break has to somehow interact with the audience or atleast acknowledge their existence (also can mean jokes like same corridors). Here we have a character looking at something that is just out of frame
The one in the opening of the final episode "The Wedding of River Song" of the sixth season where Matt Smith gives a monologue, originally intended for the dying Dalek, but the camera shifts its attention from the perception of the Dalek, leaving us to believe that he is talking with us.
Series 6*
wait they did this since the start and the peter one where FINALLY somebody explains paradox theory without making it boring was fun. if i ever meet him i will say thank you for that. EVEN star trek tried and made it weird
again THIS is how you explain paradox theory BOOM
What’s the clip of Old Tom Baker from?
Shada I think
_Shada: Part Six._
Love this video. Goes great against people who say the newest show does too many or that it never had before. I always remembered the 4th Doctor’s 4th Wall breaks, because I thought that coincidence was deliberate.
But my favorite one is probably when the 12th Doctor literally mentions the audience 😆💙💙
0:56 what episode is this from ?
_Shada: Part Six._
@@DrWhoFanJ thank you
Brilliant
Isn't one of the cliffhangers for the twin dilemma the doctor looking at the camera and calling for Peri? I think it was part 3
0:49 what is this from
_The Invasion of Time: Part Six._
No the old tom baker one
wheres sylvesters wink from silver nemesis :(
Wonder if this was partly why Tom Baker wanted to be companionless after Elisabeth Sladen left lol
Don't forget the 5th Doctor,when he said at the end of "The Five Doctors".....
'That's how it all started'......
Maaga is straight at us in Galaxy 4. Tlotoxl possibly too.
7:05 We will figure out your true identity, "Ms Flood"!!! Mark my words!!! It's only a matter of time till we figure you out!!!
Some Dalek? Way to insult Mr. Dalek, stating you don't know his name!
Actually only the cult of skaro have names 🤓☝
@@Willy_Fisher Oh, they probably all have names. They just don't tell anyone(!)
@@alunrundle162 "I am not listening, Grexzol..." =:o}
(Look up "Second Empire". It's glorious!)
“Did I miss any?” 🤷♂
what cover of the doctor who theme is thsi
From 30 Years in the TARDIS, I think.
@@DayOldMeatNope. It’s the _Years_ theme.
What about Ncuti saying in Space Babies they should do a star treck episode
0:49 Wait when was this, I don't remember this! LOL
the 2017 animated reconstruction of shada
_Shada: Part Six._
@@lous74582021*
Thanks!
Remember the one with the Cybermen on the moon? It’s been a while but I _swear_ we could hear Two’s thoughts for a bit in that one, if that counts?
Edit: also the Eleven regenerating bit was kind of a gut punch (I thought I was OVER that!)
Yes, _The Moonbase_ does have audible internal dialogue, but that’s not breaking the fourth wall.
In the Library episodes, when CAL is watching the Doctor's antics on her TV, the OST is playing as in-universe incidental music from her TV.
That's more of an in-joke. They aren't breaking the fourth wall and addressing the viewers.
Didn't Hartnell break the fourth wall in "The Time Meddler"? 'He won't listen, he's determined to have his own way. He's got to be stopped. He must be stopped!'
A character talking to themself is not breaking the 4th wall. Not even if they happen to be facing the 4th wall at the time. The break happens if they show awareness of what's behind the wall (us!).
@@therealpbristow Didn't think that really mattered as they're still facing the camera, but okay.
@@AndrewChapman The concept of "breaking the fourth wall" pre-dates the invention of the camera.
@@therealpbristow Interesting. Well I just see breaking the fourth wall as someone looking at the wall (us) whatever the concept is. Merry Christmas btw
@@AndrewChapman Merry Christmas! (Says the "old-school theatre student and DW afficionado.) =;o}
[RAISES HUGE BOTTLE OF SHERRY, AND TAKES A SMALL SIP IN SALUTE TO YOU]
I get that if you'd included all of the talking straight to the audience in "The Caves of Androzani" -- which is one reason I hate this episode so much -- you'd easily double the length of this video, but only using two clips from it is selling it very, very short.
That is a story, not an episode, and those asides are not a reason to hate it.
@DrWhoFanJ
Oh dear; We'd better inform the BBC! They've been erroneously referring to it as an episode for *decades*!
(It won't let me include a link, but the first Google result for "BBC fifth doctor episode guide" is a fine example.)
As for my despising this episode -- Apologies: Story. Force of habit -- could you provide me a list of Official Reasons to do so? I shouldn't like to find myself in error again.
@@iainodlin Nope. They’ve been calling it a story. It’s four episodes.
Your question makes not the slightest lick of sense.
@@DrWhoFanJshut up, pedant.
@@DayOldMeatI’m not a pedant.
Jesus some of these aren’t even fourth wall breaks
But enough of them are to warrant this video.
Does Ryan not look into the camera when he wants to tell us about the greatest women he's ever met in the Woman Who Fell to Earth?
He’s making a UA-cam video. That’s not breaking the fourth wall.
I doubt this is EVERY fourth wall break in Doctor Who,with it's long,long history....as I suspect you know! 😉
.....actually, was River looking at the camera when she wished everyone goodnight? I thought she was just looking at everyone in the room.....
Thank you, Doctor.
I appreciate that but the guy and the hat that kind of looked like a clown that was kind of the joke you're making his first appearance on doctor who and I mean joker from the comic books batman
What?
I love how when the Doctor doesn't have a companion to hand, they just start talking to the camera.