@christinewhoyt I will be too, but unfortunately RTD just said in an interview that he will be upholding Chris Chibnalls writing direction, and continuing the timeless child story ):
18:10 time protects itself and if a time traveler interacts with themself, the younger version doesn’t keep the memories. also it’s standard english because the audience counts as a character (as we’ve seen with the weeping angels) and thus is affected by the translation circuit
- and Police Boxes were usually made of concrete slabs, not wood. The TARDIS seen in the DW series is wearing the shape of a TV series prop, not a police box. Odd, that.
1:23 - "An episode that exemplifies this is Deep Breath, which kicks of the show's eighth 'series'. That's the term they use instead of 'seasons' in Britain, because the only weather they know is rain." - As a British person, I take issue with the idea that we only know rain. 😤 It's often very windy here too.....and sometimes we have fog and sleet. 🧐
It was done deliberately to separate the “classic” and “new” Who. Classic who uses seasons and new who use series. However it is going back to “season 1” with the 15th Doctor Ncuti Gatwa. Hope that helps :)
1:38 the reason why it’s called series 8 is because it’s the reboot of Doctor Who, which happened in 2005 after it was cancelled in the late 80s, so everything before the late 80s is seasons and everything after is series, so people don’t get it mixed up except there now changing that with the new ‘season’ coming out which is going to start from season one again. And yes, the only thing I know is rain.
Greatest show of all time in my opinion, it’s by no means the best written but it’s the most entertaining for me to watch personally. I love it , will never get bored either
@@NicholasGresik with the resurgence of doctor who as well we are living good , we have RTD , Murray Gold , Catherine state and David Tennant back. It feels like we are living a fever dream , also Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th doctor is an inspired casting for sure. I just know he will be phenomenal.
Yes, funny, scary and epic are three good reasons for watching this genius idea for a TV show, but I would also have included "emotionally impactful" as an equally strong facet of the show. When it's written well, as it probably is about to be again with RTD's new era, then it can be heart-wrenching at times.
While I'm fully ready for RTD to break my heart again, I will say that I do appreciate that this last doctor, 13, had zero companions die or have tragic endings. That was nice reprieve from the tragedy and heartbreak that's usually been associated with companions. It was fun and completely not serious in tone the entire time. Yes, messy than the show usually has been execution wise in the modern era, it still fits in quite nicely with lots of the nonsense from the Classic Era.
@@TheGeorgeD13 Yes, there has to be a lot of depth to characters and their story arcs before it's possible to become emotionally invested in their joys and tragedies, and the past few years were - for me, personally - too lightweight for any of that to evolve.
@@TheGeorgeD13 Well, it's a good thing for those who think it's a good thing. Those who don't are probably looking forward to something with a bit more dramatic weight. But I think that there will be a lot of light-heartedness in RTD's Who, which you might enjoy, although light-hearted isn't the same thing as lightweight.
Man the fact RTD , Murray Gold , David Tennant and Catherine Tate are back feels like a fever dream , I can’t believe it. I’ve Heard RTD is gonna be around for at least 7 series too which would be phenomenal, no one does Doctor Who better than him , Moffat comes close however.
Instead of "unhinged", check the tenets of Surrealism. You may be surprised at how Doctor Who fits within. I've been a Surrealist for as long as I can remember, back to the sixties when the programme first launched onto our television screens and that was a time when The Goons were fresh in the memory. As a matter of fact, an episode called The Siege of Fort Night, featured a dimensionally transcendental gas stove that if you turned it's dial, and entered through it's oven door, led to a railway station and the train to Fort Night was just pulling in. It's writer, Spike Milligan, was certainly one of Britain's leading Surrealist writers at the time. The Beatles were also well tinged with Surrealism. Doctor Who was part of that philosophical environment and uses that philosophy so it can boldly go anywhere that would seriously bend any of the more purist SFs and possibly even break them. Star Trek had to invent the holodeck in order to match up that degree of flexibility.
I'm glad you highlight the bad episodes! Part of what makes Doctor Who so special is that you really *never* know what you're going to get. Is it going to make you cry, laugh, change you as a person, or will it be the worst shit you've ever seen?
Love the vid! Quick correction though! They actually use Series for the 2005 reboot as a way to not be confused the original that started in 1963 as that era used Seasons.
Thanks for watching :) And I actually didn't know Classic Who had "seasons." Always thought that was a universal thing in the UK that they were called series
I started with the New Dr Who, a couple years ago, and suddenly one day I stopped. And this week I started to watch it again, but this time I started with the Dr Who classic to meet all the doctors :)
Kill the Moon is honestly one that flew under the radar slightly for me, because Peter Capaldi sold these things so well 😭 and the ending was distracting enough for me as an angst lover.
In defense of Ghost Light, light isn't from our universe so he doesn't understand time as we do. But it's a strange story. As for people just accepting the Doctor it's a time lord thing. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the Doctor is assumed to be a spy or a murderer but nobody seems to notice the incongruity. Even when he is playing an electric guitar on top of a tank.
it is amazing how far you can get when you're confident, and i must say the doctor is always confident. he always enters the situation and takes control, and why stop him? he seems to know what hes doing.
Btw it’s a police box, and we call the classic show seasons so it doesn’t get confusing And the Doctors forget Day of the Doctor intentionally, also the TADDIS translates everything to English for us
Thanks for this lively, witty recommendation of Doctor Who, Nicholas. I am British and was born in 1970 and became hooked in the mid-Fourth Doctor era (although I have memories going back farther). I loved it with all my heart, and continued to do so when it was eventually cancelled in 1989. Since its revival in 2005 I have enjoyed much of what has been served up. There are in-series explanations for why we see alien writing in English, but I won't bore you with them on here (they don't entirely convince anyway!). And British TV calling seasons "series" - you're probably right - we don't have any seasons as it's always raining. 😂
Thanks for watching! Really appreciate the positive feedback :) And yeah, you can probably poke holes in my arguments because of the show's really flexible rules, but again that's part of the show's charm 😊
"Wow! The TARDIS! Finally, I get an adventure!" *Opening credits roll* *Attack of the Daleks* "Eh. They're not that scary any more..." *By Russel T Davies* "Oh no."
As a Doctor Who mega fan, I agree with practically everything here. Except for the fact that Ghost Light is sheer brilliance. The show has its bad episodes, but those are mostly Warriors of the Deep and Legend of the Sea Devils.
Ghostlight is seriously one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time. I may be biased as i first watched it when I was 10, but if you watch it 100 times over and see all the stuff you missed every other time you watched it, its awesome.
Oh yeah, I totally agree I should've included that. The Eleventh Doctor's theme is just perfection 👌🏼So stoked Gold is coming back for the new series too
Hey, note from a sound nerd here: Most editing programs have a "dehummer" or "denoise" effect you can add to clips, and just tweak it around a bit which would massively improve audio quality. Highly recommend as you seen to have a rather loud humming noise in the background, but it's a consistent one which means it's much easier to get rid of :) Hopefully I'm not spewing info you were already aware of, and hope you continue the good work!
"Heaven Sent" kills me to watch. Such an incredibly well written story, such amazing acting, such a well thought out setting, all ruined by one decision reeking of such incredible stupidity that I can't see anything else for it. He punches the wall with his fist. Look I understand why so many love this episode so much but for me that is something I can never forgive. There is no possible chance his fist would ever have done anything to that wall. To do what he's doing there you have to have something with at least enough hardness to chip the tiniest bit off what you're hitting. Your fist is so full of padding it's nonsense to think it touches that wall. And he absolutely had an option that would have at least been believable. He had a shovel!
the empty child was one of the first doctor who episodes i ever watched, and the ripe age of like. 7 or 8. it still TERRIFIES me to this day, and at the time, put me off the show for a good three months
Lol, yeah I can see how that one can be traumatic 😅 The first episode I ever saw was the "Runaway Bride" and the Empress of the Racnoss gave me nightmares for a while
The main part of Ghoslight is what the underlings on Light's spaceship are up to - one is the survey agent and the other is the experimental control. Light is going through a dormant phase and the survey agent evolves into a Victorian Gentleman as it's designed to take on the form of the dominant life-form of the planet being surveyed. While its master is asleep, it forms a plan to use an invitation to a royal event from the explorer chap to assassinate Queen Victoria and take over the British Empire and eventually the world. The survey agent calls himself Josiah Smith and sets up a twisted version of a Victorian Household having killed and/or hypnotised the family that live there. The Control agent breaks free from her prison in the ship and begins to evolve into a Victorian Lady heavily referencing Pygmalion/ My Fair Lady and de-evolves the Survey Agent while the Doctor deals with Light. It's about madness, power, Victorian notions of biological and divine superiority and emancipation and it's brilliant. The audiobook of the novel is helpful in pulling the elements together cuz, as you said, it was cut down from 4 eps and so is pretty confusing.
I’ll add that “Kill The Moon” isn’t just absurd because it’s pretending the moon is an egg, but also because it’s an awful anti-abortion metaphor and the Doctor literally says “It’s your moon, womankind, your choice!” then proceeds to shame the idea of blowing up the moon.
To watch Ghost Light, I used a streaming service called "BritBox." They've got a ton of classic Who on that, it seems, but none of the newer stuff. I live in the US too so maybe that helps
4:43 I would unironically watch that 🤣 also,none of the Doctors remember Day of the Doctor's events except the most recent incarnation.If I'm not wrong,this is the explanation for "The Five Doctors" and it still applies,I think it's to prevent problems in time or something.The quote "You've redecorated! I don't like it." is said by the 2nd Doctor in the 1st multi-doctor story,"The Three Doctors".
3:51 I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I let someone get away with calling Cluedo, Clue. The creator of the game was Anthony E Pratt, of Birmingham, who lived quite close to where I am. So put some respect on his creation.
I’m not sure whether this was intentional or not, but the “Failed Career as a Hand Model” joke is actually pretty relevant for the 1st Doctor! In a short story written by Eoin Colfer, “A Big Hand For The Doctor”, the 1st doctor is getting hand replacement surgery after losing it in a fight :)
During the tenure of Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, the show runner was Stephen Moffat. The Moff tried to turn Who into a fantasy, rather than sci-fi/ space opera, and had several stories that really broke from the mold that made for great Who. “Kill the Moon” was one of these stories. He is also responsible for having the Doctor refer to himself as, “A madman in a blue box”, and trying to establish that, “Rule #1: The Doctor (tells) lies”, both of which really detracted from the titular character’s… character, IMO. Further, he changed established canon on a whim, to suit the story he wanted to tell, and went so far as to say that Doctor Who has no canon, which is, quite frankly, nonsense. As a writer, I consider the Moff to be quite exceptional. As a show runner, not so much. He needed someone to put him in check when he went OTT, and the show suffered somewhat because of this. I am of the opinion that he did more damage to the show, than much-maligned Chris Chibnall (his successor) is accused of doing. I am not a huge fan of Chibnall, but he did try to restore some mystery to the Doctor, even though it was clunky, and heavy-handed. One plot point I wish they had pursued was what has become known as “the Cartmel Masterplan”. During the tenure of the seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy, then script editor for the show, Andrew Cartmel, and the writers, decided to add to the Doctor’s backstory. Rather than just being another Time Lord, they were going to reveal that the Doctor was one of three individuals, who were responsible for the creation of Time Lord society. The first two were Rassilon, the legendary leader of the Time Lords, and Omega, the Time Lord who created the Eye of Harmony, from where the Time Lords obtain the energy necessary to power their society, machines, etc. The Doctor was going to be revealed as “the Other” - the third person in this trinity. This was meant to give some new mystique to the character, as well as to explain why the Doctor is the only one of his people who is not indolent, and the only renegade who is on the side of “good”, as it were. Sadly, the show went into hiatus just as they were planning to introduce this to the show. As this was never carried out, it paved the way for Chibnall, some 20+ years later, to introduce the concept of the Doctor being “the Timeless Child”, a being whose existence was the catalyst for the Time Lords gaining the ability to regenerate. As a result, we now do not know what the Doctor’s origins are, other than they were found at an energy gate as a lost child, brought back to Gallifrey, and adopted by a scientist, who experimented on the child to learn the secrets of regeneration, once this ability was discovered.
Honestly one of the most unhinged moments that stays with me is Captain Jack, imprisoned in an until then quite fun fashion game show. His clothes are singed off and the robots tell him: "Time for a face-off" Capt Jack: "Oh, will I compete with someone?" Robot: "No, literal face-off" *reveals chainsaw hands* Other robot: "A dogs head would look good on you" *reveals and snips scissor hands* Captain Jack: *grabs pistol from behind* Robot: "Where were you hiding that?" Jack: "You don't wanna know" And it all turns out to be a complicated plot to transport gameshow contestants to alien labour prisons I feel like the writers of this show single handidly power half of the illegal drug industry
Hey mate if you dont have it i recommend just one peace of acoustic foam and put it around your mic to try and null that buzzing in the back of your audio
Honestly, its insane how dr who will go from an episode which is a metaphor for abortion (lets kill the moon) then proceeds to give you one of the best piece of media like heaven sent. dr who is truly unhinged
'Kill The Moon' was an example of a BBC mandarin who demanded that, as his kid's favourite book is 'The Dinosaur The Pooped A Planet', that Doctor Who MUST REFLECT THIS GREAT TRUTH. - and spiders, everyone is frightened of spiders.
@@stevetheduck1425honestly its insane to me how even the thought of the episode got screened, you couldnt even say it was a fun episode considering there was no humor or fun to it, half of it was just them screaming the message "abortion bad" at you in the least subtle way possible
The reason the previous Doctors don't remember anything is based on an old rule of the show. When two of the same person from different points in their timeline meet, the youngest copy loses the memory of the meeting once they depart from each other. This prevents paradoxes in the timestream. The only one who remembers the meeting is the most recent version. In this case, the Eleventh Doctor would be the only one to remember meeting his past selves in order to save Gallifrey. The War Doctor even mentions this. War: I won't remember this, will I? 11: The timestreams are out of sync. You can't retain it. No. War: So, I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey instead of burn it... I have to live with that...
Great video man, really astounding that the algo picked you up so well so early in your career here. Good job, keep it up. Also lmao we do not hate "kill the moon" for the same reasons. For me it's the clumsy ass abortion metaphor. But I respect all haters of kill the moon, regardless of reason
The Doctor might be writing in English or Gallifreyian. It doesn't matter as Tardises telepathically translate almost any language and there is more than on TARDIS on Gallifrey.
No. They use the word series to differentiate post 2005 reboot Doctor Who seasons from the original 1963-1989 seasons. Plus police boxes weren't phone booths, they were essentially mini prison cells where a suspect could be detained until back up arrived. I mean why do you think the phone is accessible only from the outside?
Doctor who often ignores established scientific facts. Actually, they seem to have hard time in grasping gravity in particular (eg. episode Impossible planet).
The phone was available to use by anyone, a little cupboard on the outside of the box. The box itself could be used as a temporary cell for any criminals a policemen might apprehend before they could be collected and taken to the station.
HOW ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT THE FEZ?? ITS 11's iconic accessory that he loves and wears at every possible opportunity, of course there's a fez Easter egg! Can I just check that you have actually watched the show? 😅
I just find it weird the Queen deemed it "dangerous," which is why it was hidden away to begin with. What's dangerous about a fez? It's like the most innocent thing in the world 😂
Honestly, _Kill the Moon_ could have gotten away with throwing everything we know about the moon, gravity and eggs out of the window if it were halfway interesting. Almost every episode of Doctor Who is on some fundamental level incredibly stupid. What sets the good ones apart, is how well they distract you from that fact. It's as you say when discussing _The Day of the Doctor:_ "why is there a fez there? Who cares! It's the 10th and the 11th doctor together in the same scene!"
Thanks so much!! And yeah, that idea is definitely what got me hooked on the show. I remember when 9 told Rose he had a spaceship, and I was all like, "Ok." And then he popped back saying, "It also travels in time." Then my mind kinda imploded because I realized that with that power, literally anything you can imagine as a storyteller can become possible. It's such a brilliant premise
I seldom subscribe... Hey kid - I just subscribed to your channel. 159 subscribers - and it was only 144 when I started watching. I've been watching WHO since - well, I don't know a time I wasn't, but suffice to say one of my first memories is of the Doctor falling to his death... That should narrow it down for you. I clicked on your vid because - how dare someone call Doctor Who Unhinged!? But, you're right. It's unhinged. And, more to the point, your presentation is smooth, your arguments are sound, and you carried me through all 19.49 minutes of the video. Bravo. Capaldi is undoubtedly the best actor to play the Doctor (aside from Troughton; can't touch Troughton), and I seriously doubt any other actor to have played the role could have pulled off the brilliance that is Heaven Sent. I still miss him...
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! It means a lot!! I definitely miss Capaldi as well (he's my personal favorite). His performance was so electric, captivating, and striking. He'll always be my Doctor :)
I'm glad you like "Heaven Sent" because a lot of people hated it. I love it, it's a masterpiece. Science is terrible in this series, as are season arcs. But for whatever reason drawing on itself it possible as rabid fans have become writers. Star Trek and Star Wars have a sort of self-reference too but I think Who is careful not to lose the episodic focus so companion banter is always front and center and if a viewer is lost, they can just follow the comedic companion banter and it is the essence of the show I think. It used to be the Doctor would always get hit on the head and captured, but they shortened it to just getting captured. The doctor is resourceful enough to wreak havoc without weapons, but he does need reasons and often there are interesting or weird situations, as you highlight. The Doctor is barely in "Blink" and all the characters in it are brand-new, so I do think there is yet more spin-off potential that somehow isn't still happening. I think even a spin-off without the Doctor could work, although none have lasted. I am curious of what you think of Torchwood and Class and The Sarah Jane Adventures? Terminator had good spinoffs too I think. Also what you thought of the Jodi Whitaker doctor?
What is Class? Everything I found in IMDb doesn't seem like doctor who? Edit: never mind. It is the 2016 8 episode thing. I'll just leave my comment for engagement of the channel.
I LOVED Torchwood but haven't seen Class or the Sarah Jane Adventures. I haven't seen really anything of Jodie Whittaker's era as the Doctor either so I can't comment on that. But I wish they'd bring back Torchwood so bad because that darker take on the Doctor Who universe was amazing. Thanks for watching :)
I feel like this video has stirred the slumbering giant that is the "Ghost Light" fanbase 😂 Based on some of the comments I've read, it's definitely a force to be reckoned with
Lol, I totally forgot he's Scottish since he does a British accent in the show 😅 But yes, Scottish actor David Tennant definitely deserves the title of "Scottish."
Its always kinda annoyed me how sometimes the doctor and his companion will travel to the past and show up in modern clothing yet no one will say anything.
I suppose it's since they travel into the past so often, it'd get old seeing characters go: "My, my! What strange garments you're wearing!" for the ten thousandth time, lol. But yeah, I get what you mean
So, Ghostlight, Light is a surveyor of the universe, from a noncorporeal species. It created an experiment to help it catalog life, with a test and null component. The test component decides it wants more and crashes the ship trapping light and the null inside the ship. The test component then takes over the house that was built in the crash sight, driving mad the inhabitants and mesmerizing them. The test's idea of evolution is one of progression towards supremacy (a eugenicists view) with the target set upon English royalty (Sax Coburg)...so is intending to overthrow the monarchy to place itself there. The Doctor frees the null which voices a view of becoming a 'proper lady' thus changing itself, something the null component isn't meant to do. Light is awakened and due to a lack of understanding of evolution or an incomplete understanding is disgusted that all it's work has been for naught, at which the plot ostensibly is as you state... There's also this whole thing with Ace having been to the house in the future and having felt the lingering 'presence of evil' and then burnt the house down...which elicits the amazing 'Burnt toast' speech. The above being said the serial does not convey almost any of this with any clarity as it was chopped up, (and originally was meant to be the Doctor returning to his own family home, this would later become the Doctor Who book Lungburrow).
The very first Sonic Screwdriver really did only undo screws, of any type. It's evolved a bit since then.
Interesting, I actually didn’t know that! Nowadays it seems to do whatever the plot needs it to, lol
He's had 1600 years too improve it.
@@AndrewHalliwellyet it still can’t do wood
@@NicholasGresikSecond Doctor story about possessed seaweed, but first surviving use is in 'The War Games'.
@@NicholasGresikexcept wood
I hope this brings people to watch Dr. Who, because this is a really fun recounting of a show I love dearly lol
Aw, thanks! :)
It should, up until the Chibnall/Whittaker era and then they'll drop off. Like the rest of the fan base.
@@Hyperguyver2 you're not wrong );
@@blootooth00 I watched and still not dropping it up knowing RTD is back on the realm. :D
@christinewhoyt I will be too, but unfortunately RTD just said in an interview that he will be upholding Chris Chibnalls writing direction, and continuing the timeless child story ):
18:10 time protects itself and if a time traveler interacts with themself, the younger version doesn’t keep the memories. also it’s standard english because the audience counts as a character (as we’ve seen with the weeping angels) and thus is affected by the translation circuit
Slight correction, it's not a phone booth, it's a police box, they have different functions to a phone booth.
- and Police Boxes were usually made of concrete slabs, not wood. The TARDIS seen in the DW series is wearing the shape of a TV series prop, not a police box. Odd, that.
Although making calls to the police is one of them. So it's a phone booth to the public, but a mini police station to the police officer on the beat.
Wow, as a massive whovian, I don't think I could have put it better myself. 20 minutes, and not one second wasted. Nice job.
Thanks so much :) Your positive feedback means a lot!
I love Heaven Sent for a different reason: The track "Shepherd's Boy". Best track in the series, Murray Gold will have to do a lot to upstage that.
For real, the music in the entire episode is so fire
1000% Agree that music is aMaZiNg
I think thats one hell of a bird.
1:23 - "An episode that exemplifies this is Deep Breath, which kicks of the show's eighth 'series'. That's the term they use instead of 'seasons' in Britain, because the only weather they know is rain."
- As a British person, I take issue with the idea that we only know rain. 😤 It's often very windy here too.....and sometimes we have fog and sleet. 🧐
- often all in the same day, so, yes, we have 'weather' and 'climate', too. Often in the same day.
Same with us over here in Seattle. I looked it up and Seattle and London actually have extremely similar climates lol
It was done deliberately to separate the “classic” and “new” Who. Classic who uses seasons and new who use series. However it is going back to “season 1” with the 15th Doctor Ncuti Gatwa. Hope that helps :)
We can have 4 seasons in one day here in the UK 😂
@elisemw5 I actually had no idea about that, that's kinda interesting. Always thought "series" was just the standard like "seasons" are for the US
18:41 the capaldi's cameo send SHIVERS for me... that single shoot was SO GOOD
Agreed!
Appreciate the 12th Doctor love! This was a very fun and snappy intro to the show, I also really liked the video's editing.
Thanks so much :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
1:38 the reason why it’s called series 8 is because it’s the reboot of Doctor Who, which happened in 2005 after it was cancelled in the late 80s, so everything before the late 80s is seasons and everything after is series, so people don’t get it mixed up except there now changing that with the new ‘season’ coming out which is going to start from season one again. And yes, the only thing I know is rain.
Was just about to comment this! But they are scrapping it due to a new season 1 with Ncuti Gatwa 🙃
Greatest show of all time in my opinion, it’s by no means the best written but it’s the most entertaining for me to watch personally. I love it , will never get bored either
Couldn't agree more
@@NicholasGresik with the resurgence of doctor who as well we are living good , we have RTD , Murray Gold , Catherine state and David Tennant back. It feels like we are living a fever dream , also Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th doctor is an inspired casting for sure. I just know he will be phenomenal.
Yes, funny, scary and epic are three good reasons for watching this genius idea for a TV show, but I would also have included "emotionally impactful" as an equally strong facet of the show. When it's written well, as it probably is about to be again with RTD's new era, then it can be heart-wrenching at times.
While I'm fully ready for RTD to break my heart again, I will say that I do appreciate that this last doctor, 13, had zero companions die or have tragic endings. That was nice reprieve from the tragedy and heartbreak that's usually been associated with companions. It was fun and completely not serious in tone the entire time. Yes, messy than the show usually has been execution wise in the modern era, it still fits in quite nicely with lots of the nonsense from the Classic Era.
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Yes, there has to be a lot of depth to characters and their story arcs before it's possible to become emotionally invested in their joys and tragedies, and the past few years were - for me, personally - too lightweight for any of that to evolve.
@@D-Cameron Eh, I disagree. The lightweightness was a good thing.
@@TheGeorgeD13 Well, it's a good thing for those who think it's a good thing. Those who don't are probably looking forward to something with a bit more dramatic weight. But I think that there will be a lot of light-heartedness in RTD's Who, which you might enjoy, although light-hearted isn't the same thing as lightweight.
Man the fact RTD , Murray Gold , David Tennant and Catherine Tate are back feels like a fever dream , I can’t believe it. I’ve Heard RTD is gonna be around for at least 7 series too which would be phenomenal, no one does Doctor Who better than him , Moffat comes close however.
Very pleased with all the Capaldi representation in this video. That's my GOAT
He's truly a top-tier Doctor. And also my personal favorite too :)
I summarized Blink and the concept of the weeping angels to my bsfs and they were so shook. They thought DW was whimsical and fun all the time.
Yeah, it's definitely pretty edgy for something that's meant to be a family program
As a massive Whovian hearing you trying to explain it all super basically is hillarious! Nothing you said was wrong though, this show really is mad!
Thanks!! :)
Funnily enough the first time the sonic screwdriver was used it was used for precisely that, unscrewing screws
Yeah, but in its second appearance, it was used to cut a hole in a metal door, hah. It didn't take long for it to become more than just a screwdriver.
This is a great video to get new people into doctor who, very entertainingly and concisely summing up the unhinged brilliance, love it
Thanks so much! Your positive feedback means a lot :)
Instead of "unhinged", check the tenets of Surrealism. You may be surprised at how Doctor Who fits within. I've been a Surrealist for as long as I can remember, back to the sixties when the programme first launched onto our television screens and that was a time when The Goons were fresh in the memory. As a matter of fact, an episode called The Siege of Fort Night, featured a dimensionally transcendental gas stove that if you turned it's dial, and entered through it's oven door, led to a railway station and the train to Fort Night was just pulling in. It's writer, Spike Milligan, was certainly one of Britain's leading Surrealist writers at the time. The Beatles were also well tinged with Surrealism. Doctor Who was part of that philosophical environment and uses that philosophy so it can boldly go anywhere that would seriously bend any of the more purist SFs and possibly even break them. Star Trek had to invent the holodeck in order to match up that degree of flexibility.
Yeah I could agree with that. Thanks for watching :)
I'm glad you highlight the bad episodes! Part of what makes Doctor Who so special is that you really *never* know what you're going to get. Is it going to make you cry, laugh, change you as a person, or will it be the worst shit you've ever seen?
Lol, yeah I couldn't agree more. Thanks for watching :)
Huge fan of Ghost Light, but great summing up of our show!
Thanks so much! :)
I've watched Dr Who for years, and your description and review is perfect and had me laughing me head off. Brilliant! Alons-y!
Thank you so much, wow! :)
Love the vid! Quick correction though! They actually use Series for the 2005 reboot as a way to not be confused the original that started in 1963 as that era used Seasons.
Thanks for watching :) And I actually didn't know Classic Who had "seasons." Always thought that was a universal thing in the UK that they were called series
I started with the New Dr Who, a couple years ago, and suddenly one day I stopped. And this week I started to watch it again, but this time I started with the Dr Who classic to meet all the doctors :)
I like it. You're returning to New Who "the long way round" :)
Classic show is numbered in seasons, New show is numbered in series, new, new show is who knows what.
I've heard they're starting from 1 again and I think that's pretty interesting
Kill the Moon is honestly one that flew under the radar slightly for me, because Peter Capaldi sold these things so well 😭 and the ending was distracting enough for me as an angst lover.
I'll admit he DOES give a pretty solid monologue at the end. Gotta love Capaldi, I miss him as the Doctor
@NicholasGresik he could read the phone book in character and I'd watch!!!
Thanks for posting this! I absolutely enjoyed it and will be sharing it with friends who haven't quite caught "Who fever" yet!
Glad you enjoyed it!
In defense of Ghost Light, light isn't from our universe so he doesn't understand time as we do. But it's a strange story. As for people just accepting the Doctor it's a time lord thing. Sometimes it works. Sometimes the Doctor is assumed to be a spy or a murderer but nobody seems to notice the incongruity. Even when he is playing an electric guitar on top of a tank.
it is amazing how far you can get when you're confident, and i must say the doctor is always confident. he always enters the situation and takes control, and why stop him? he seems to know what hes doing.
It like the ninth Doctor said. What do you do when you see a strange object on the sidewalk? You walk past it!
Btw it’s a police box, and we call the classic show seasons so it doesn’t get confusing
And the Doctors forget Day of the Doctor intentionally, also the TADDIS translates everything to English for us
Thanks for this lively, witty recommendation of Doctor Who, Nicholas. I am British and was born in 1970 and became hooked in the mid-Fourth Doctor era (although I have memories going back farther). I loved it with all my heart, and continued to do so when it was eventually cancelled in 1989. Since its revival in 2005 I have enjoyed much of what has been served up. There are in-series explanations for why we see alien writing in English, but I won't bore you with them on here (they don't entirely convince anyway!). And British TV calling seasons "series" - you're probably right - we don't have any seasons as it's always raining. 😂
Thanks for watching! Really appreciate the positive feedback :) And yeah, you can probably poke holes in my arguments because of the show's really flexible rules, but again that's part of the show's charm 😊
Empty Child, scared me as a child, Blink, scared me as a teenager. But Night Terrors...That haunts me to this day!
Definitely :)
"Wow! The TARDIS! Finally, I get an adventure!"
*Opening credits roll*
*Attack of the Daleks*
"Eh. They're not that scary any more..."
*By Russel T Davies*
"Oh no."
Clara really is a cat on a paraglider XD
Awesome video!
Thanks!! :)
"because the only weather they know is rain." 😂
I know it’s so tragic 😂 The sun is oft regarded as a mythical creature over there. Like Unicorns and Mr. Bean
...and Mary Poppins was a real person! Americans who haven't visited the UK have some funny ideas. We have hot weather here too!
I wish i love rain but we do actually get a decent amount of sun last summer i even got a tan in England from one day at the coast in Scarborough
As a Doctor Who mega fan, I agree with practically everything here.
Except for the fact that Ghost Light is sheer brilliance.
The show has its bad episodes, but those are mostly Warriors of the Deep and Legend of the Sea Devils.
Agree! Ghostlight is fantastic!
i agree legends of the sea devils is soooooooo bad
Poor Sea Devils, stuck with some of the worst stories.
I love how all the "Ghost Light" fans are rallying in support of the episode :) It's really wholesome to me
Love and Monsters is worse tbh
Doctor Who is forever my comfort show and safe space even when sometimes it's harrowing dangerous and terrifying at times too! Masterpiece 💙💙✨
Thanks for watching 😁
@@NicholasGresik such a pleasure I see doctor who and I have to check it 💙💙✨
Ghostlight is seriously one of the best Doctor Who stories of all time. I may be biased as i first watched it when I was 10, but if you watch it 100 times over and see all the stuff you missed every other time you watched it, its awesome.
Any of the episodes with the Weeping Angels are the true scariest episodes
I agree 1000%
Hahaha I love the description and the parts you showed. I don't know doctor who is just something else haha.
Thanks for watching :)
Don’t forget the music. The epic music by Murray Gold and the sound the TARDIs makes should be on your list.
Oh yeah, I totally agree I should've included that. The Eleventh Doctor's theme is just perfection 👌🏼So stoked Gold is coming back for the new series too
I clicked for the series 10 in the thumbnail, and even though you didn't mention it at all, I still watched the whole video
Thanks for watching! Even though I didn't mention it, I do want to put it in for the record that I do really like series 10 :) The Doctor Falls is 👌🏼
Hey, note from a sound nerd here: Most editing programs have a "dehummer" or "denoise" effect you can add to clips, and just tweak it around a bit which would massively improve audio quality. Highly recommend as you seen to have a rather loud humming noise in the background, but it's a consistent one which means it's much easier to get rid of :)
Hopefully I'm not spewing info you were already aware of, and hope you continue the good work!
Thanks for letting me know! I'll fix it for future videos
Subbed, as a massive Doctor Who fan, nice to find other's who are like me and just love the world of The Doctor! 😃
Thanks so much! 😄 Glad to have you onboard :)
Dr Who is only occasionally science fantasy, it is normally science horror as was its forerunner tv show The Quantermass Experiment.
Woo Quatermass rep!
"Heaven Sent" kills me to watch. Such an incredibly well written story, such amazing acting, such a well thought out setting, all ruined by one decision reeking of such incredible stupidity that I can't see anything else for it.
He punches the wall with his fist. Look I understand why so many love this episode so much but for me that is something I can never forgive. There is no possible chance his fist would ever have done anything to that wall. To do what he's doing there you have to have something with at least enough hardness to chip the tiniest bit off what you're hitting. Your fist is so full of padding it's nonsense to think it touches that wall. And he absolutely had an option that would have at least been believable. He had a shovel!
I guess Time Lord bones are just super hard? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
the empty child was one of the first doctor who episodes i ever watched, and the ripe age of like. 7 or 8. it still TERRIFIES me to this day, and at the time, put me off the show for a good three months
Lol, yeah I can see how that one can be traumatic 😅 The first episode I ever saw was the "Runaway Bride" and the Empress of the Racnoss gave me nightmares for a while
I started with Rose so same, although I was only 4! Probably had some nightmares from that if I ask my parents!
The main part of Ghoslight is what the underlings on Light's spaceship are up to - one is the survey agent and the other is the experimental control. Light is going through a dormant phase and the survey agent evolves into a Victorian Gentleman as it's designed to take on the form of the dominant life-form of the planet being surveyed. While its master is asleep, it forms a plan to use an invitation to a royal event from the explorer chap to assassinate Queen Victoria and take over the British Empire and eventually the world. The survey agent calls himself Josiah Smith and sets up a twisted version of a Victorian Household having killed and/or hypnotised the family that live there. The Control agent breaks free from her prison in the ship and begins to evolve into a Victorian Lady heavily referencing Pygmalion/ My Fair Lady and de-evolves the Survey Agent while the Doctor deals with Light. It's about madness, power, Victorian notions of biological and divine superiority and emancipation and it's brilliant. The audiobook of the novel is helpful in pulling the elements together cuz, as you said, it was cut down from 4 eps and so is pretty confusing.
I like your explanation it helps
Nice to see that Kevin kept busy after The Wonder Years ended.
😂
At the end of the 50th anniversary special I think they explain that he forgets about it each time 👍
I’ll add that “Kill The Moon” isn’t just absurd because it’s pretending the moon is an egg, but also because it’s an awful anti-abortion metaphor and the Doctor literally says “It’s your moon, womankind, your choice!” then proceeds to shame the idea of blowing up the moon.
Where do I watch the classic series in the us that isn’t using a vpn to access iplayer
To watch Ghost Light, I used a streaming service called "BritBox." They've got a ton of classic Who on that, it seems, but none of the newer stuff. I live in the US too so maybe that helps
Great video but just to let you know, you seem to have a strong hum on your mic an eq cut somewhere around 250hz(ish) would sort it
Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it for the next one 👍🏼
4:43 I would unironically watch that 🤣
also,none of the Doctors remember Day of the Doctor's events except the most recent incarnation.If I'm not wrong,this is the explanation for "The Five Doctors" and it still applies,I think it's to prevent problems in time or something.The quote "You've redecorated! I don't like it." is said by the 2nd Doctor in the 1st multi-doctor story,"The Three Doctors".
I like how you mentioned the sonic before the TARDIS
I just put it in alphabetical order: Doctor, Sonic, TARDIS. The Holy Trinity of the show
3:51 I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I let someone get away with calling Cluedo, Clue.
The creator of the game was Anthony E Pratt, of Birmingham, who lived quite close to where I am. So put some respect on his creation.
It's called Clue in america and that's where I live I've done nothing wrong 😂
I’m not sure whether this was intentional or not, but the “Failed Career as a Hand Model” joke is actually pretty relevant for the 1st Doctor! In a short story written by Eoin Colfer, “A Big Hand For The Doctor”, the 1st doctor is getting hand replacement surgery after losing it in a fight :)
During the tenure of Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, the show runner was Stephen Moffat. The Moff tried to turn Who into a fantasy, rather than sci-fi/ space opera, and had several stories that really broke from the mold that made for great Who. “Kill the Moon” was one of these stories. He is also responsible for having the Doctor refer to himself as, “A madman in a blue box”, and trying to establish that, “Rule #1: The Doctor (tells) lies”, both of which really detracted from the titular character’s… character, IMO. Further, he changed established canon on a whim, to suit the story he wanted to tell, and went so far as to say that Doctor Who has no canon, which is, quite frankly, nonsense.
As a writer, I consider the Moff to be quite exceptional. As a show runner, not so much. He needed someone to put him in check when he went OTT, and the show suffered somewhat because of this. I am of the opinion that he did more damage to the show, than much-maligned Chris Chibnall (his successor) is accused of doing. I am not a huge fan of Chibnall, but he did try to restore some mystery to the Doctor, even though it was clunky, and heavy-handed.
One plot point I wish they had pursued was what has become known as “the Cartmel Masterplan”. During the tenure of the seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy, then script editor for the show, Andrew Cartmel, and the writers, decided to add to the Doctor’s backstory. Rather than just being another Time Lord, they were going to reveal that the Doctor was one of three individuals, who were responsible for the creation of Time Lord society. The first two were Rassilon, the legendary leader of the Time Lords, and Omega, the Time Lord who created the Eye of Harmony, from where the Time Lords obtain the energy necessary to power their society, machines, etc. The Doctor was going to be revealed as “the Other” - the third person in this trinity. This was meant to give some new mystique to the character, as well as to explain why the Doctor is the only one of his people who is not indolent, and the only renegade who is on the side of “good”, as it were. Sadly, the show went into hiatus just as they were planning to introduce this to the show.
As this was never carried out, it paved the way for Chibnall, some 20+ years later, to introduce the concept of the Doctor being “the Timeless Child”, a being whose existence was the catalyst for the Time Lords gaining the ability to regenerate. As a result, we now do not know what the Doctor’s origins are, other than they were found at an energy gate as a lost child, brought back to Gallifrey, and adopted by a scientist, who experimented on the child to learn the secrets of regeneration, once this ability was discovered.
I love your take on things and can agree with some points. Thanks for watching my video :)
This. Was. Amazing. I love DW, and honestly, this is 100% accurate. 1 more subscriber here.
Wow, thank you!
Honestly one of the most unhinged moments that stays with me is Captain Jack, imprisoned in an until then quite fun fashion game show. His clothes are singed off and the robots tell him: "Time for a face-off"
Capt Jack: "Oh, will I compete with someone?"
Robot: "No, literal face-off" *reveals chainsaw hands*
Other robot: "A dogs head would look good on you" *reveals and snips scissor hands*
Captain Jack: *grabs pistol from behind*
Robot: "Where were you hiding that?"
Jack: "You don't wanna know"
And it all turns out to be a complicated plot to transport gameshow contestants to alien labour prisons
I feel like the writers of this show single handidly power half of the illegal drug industry
The Doctor does have a doctorate. He just has a lot of them.
I bet that's just what he wants you to think 🙃
My issue with the 50th is it was originally going to be Christopher Eccleson as 9th.
I love the idea of the War Doctor and I'd never change that, but I'll always also wish 9 was there alongside 10 and 11.
10:56 light sounds like testimony but with a bad temper lol
Hey mate if you dont have it i recommend just one peace of acoustic foam and put it around your mic to try and null that buzzing in the back of your audio
Thanks, I'll try that 👍
Nah unfortunately we're not silly enough to not know what a season is. Its called series to differentiate between classic who and new who
Using the BBC's own terminology from the times DW was first made, it's a series of serials.
Honestly, its insane how dr who will go from an episode which is a metaphor for abortion (lets kill the moon) then proceeds to give you one of the best piece of media like heaven sent. dr who is truly unhinged
As much as I love doctor who, dear god that episode was a terrible way to do it
'Kill The Moon' was an example of a BBC mandarin who demanded that, as his kid's favourite book is 'The Dinosaur The Pooped A Planet', that Doctor Who MUST REFLECT THIS GREAT TRUTH. - and spiders, everyone is frightened of spiders.
@@stevetheduck1425honestly its insane to me how even the thought of the episode got screened, you couldnt even say it was a fun episode considering there was no humor or fun to it, half of it was just them screaming the message "abortion bad" at you in the least subtle way possible
The reason the previous Doctors don't remember anything is based on an old rule of the show. When two of the same person from different points in their timeline meet, the youngest copy loses the memory of the meeting once they depart from each other. This prevents paradoxes in the timestream. The only one who remembers the meeting is the most recent version. In this case, the Eleventh Doctor would be the only one to remember meeting his past selves in order to save Gallifrey.
The War Doctor even mentions this.
War: I won't remember this, will I?
11: The timestreams are out of sync. You can't retain it. No.
War: So, I won't remember that I tried to save Gallifrey instead of burn it... I have to live with that...
I still think it's weird 🙃
@@NicholasGresik it is, but it works. And there's your explanation as to why none of them remember it 😀
Just wanted to say, I loved the joke about the UK using Series instead of Seasons
I'm glad SOMEONE appreciates my comedic genius 🙃 Lol, thanks for watching :)
Great video man, really astounding that the algo picked you up so well so early in your career here. Good job, keep it up.
Also lmao we do not hate "kill the moon" for the same reasons. For me it's the clumsy ass abortion metaphor. But I respect all haters of kill the moon, regardless of reason
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Astoundingly unhinged 😂 that is very accurate
This dude looks like he should be the 3rd Sprouse brother
They actually created me from their DNA to be the ultimate Sprouse brother, but then I escaped the lab and now here I am making UA-cam vids
@@NicholasGresik this will be my head canon from now on whenever I visit your channel aha
Drew gooden covering Dr. Who?
This is nice.
I've never been more flattered
That's a blatant lie I've seen the sun at least twice. You are so funny. Thanks for the amazing video I really enjoyed it.
You're welcome and thanks so much for watching :)
5:16 They still freak me out. I can deal with weeping angels, but that kid freaks me out, especially when you see someone transform. Yikes.
Agreed, the transformations are so creepy and unsettling. Pure perfection.
Your script is great
Thanks :)
Yeeees heaven sent was amazing, I loved it so much. Made capaldi comparable to how much I loved David and Matt.
The Doctor might be writing in English or Gallifreyian. It doesn't matter as Tardises telepathically translate almost any language and there is more than on TARDIS on Gallifrey.
Yeah, that makes sense. Didn't think of it like that
No. They use the word series to differentiate post 2005 reboot Doctor Who seasons from the original 1963-1989 seasons.
Plus police boxes weren't phone booths, they were essentially mini prison cells where a suspect could be detained until back up arrived. I mean why do you think the phone is accessible only from the outside?
Nah, I'm still pretty sure it's because of the rain 😂 Haha, just screwin' with you guys 🙃
Doctor who often ignores established scientific facts. Actually, they seem to have hard time in grasping gravity in particular (eg. episode Impossible planet).
I guess at the end of the day it's whatever helps them tell the story they want
You said heaven sent is your favorite so i subscribed due to your correctness
Why thank you
He actually is a doctor tho, and it is actually a telephone booth
It's more like a small office for police officers that includes a phone in addition
@@oldwebshooter a booth, with a telephone
The phone was available to use by anyone, a little cupboard on the outside of the box. The box itself could be used as a temporary cell for any criminals a policemen might apprehend before they could be collected and taken to the station.
@@AndrewHalliwell yet it's still a booth with a telephone
He's not a medical doctor but I believe he has (some kind of) phd
Up till 12th regeneration Doctor Who was the best show of ALL TIME
FYI it’s a police box not a telephone booth
Lol, I feel like the entire country has corrected me at this point 😂
“I’m the Doctor. I save people.”
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
HOW ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT THE FEZ?? ITS 11's iconic accessory that he loves and wears at every possible opportunity, of course there's a fez Easter egg! Can I just check that you have actually watched the show? 😅
I just find it weird the Queen deemed it "dangerous," which is why it was hidden away to begin with. What's dangerous about a fez? It's like the most innocent thing in the world 😂
Welcome to the party. If you get bored you can come back in 10 years and have something new to chat about
Honestly, _Kill the Moon_ could have gotten away with throwing everything we know about the moon, gravity and eggs out of the window if it were halfway interesting. Almost every episode of Doctor Who is on some fundamental level incredibly stupid. What sets the good ones apart, is how well they distract you from that fact. It's as you say when discussing _The Day of the Doctor:_ "why is there a fez there? Who cares! It's the 10th and the 11th doctor together in the same scene!"
even this guy is too afraid to talk about the Absorbaloff. i get it, me too
I just didn't want to spoil such a special treat for the newcomers, lol
This is an excellent review of Doctor Who…it can do and be anything sand everything….
Thanks so much!! And yeah, that idea is definitely what got me hooked on the show. I remember when 9 told Rose he had a spaceship, and I was all like, "Ok." And then he popped back saying, "It also travels in time." Then my mind kinda imploded because I realized that with that power, literally anything you can imagine as a storyteller can become possible. It's such a brilliant premise
I seldom subscribe... Hey kid - I just subscribed to your channel. 159 subscribers - and it was only 144 when I started watching.
I've been watching WHO since - well, I don't know a time I wasn't, but suffice to say one of my first memories is of the Doctor falling to his death... That should narrow it down for you. I clicked on your vid because - how dare someone call Doctor Who Unhinged!? But, you're right. It's unhinged. And, more to the point, your presentation is smooth, your arguments are sound, and you carried me through all 19.49 minutes of the video. Bravo.
Capaldi is undoubtedly the best actor to play the Doctor (aside from Troughton; can't touch Troughton), and I seriously doubt any other actor to have played the role could have pulled off the brilliance that is Heaven Sent. I still miss him...
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! It means a lot!! I definitely miss Capaldi as well (he's my personal favorite). His performance was so electric, captivating, and striking. He'll always be my Doctor :)
I'm glad you like "Heaven Sent" because a lot of people hated it. I love it, it's a masterpiece. Science is terrible in this series, as are season arcs. But for whatever reason drawing on itself it possible as rabid fans have become writers. Star Trek and Star Wars have a sort of self-reference too but I think Who is careful not to lose the episodic focus so companion banter is always front and center and if a viewer is lost, they can just follow the comedic companion banter and it is the essence of the show I think. It used to be the Doctor would always get hit on the head and captured, but they shortened it to just getting captured. The doctor is resourceful enough to wreak havoc without weapons, but he does need reasons and often there are interesting or weird situations, as you highlight. The Doctor is barely in "Blink" and all the characters in it are brand-new, so I do think there is yet more spin-off potential that somehow isn't still happening. I think even a spin-off without the Doctor could work, although none have lasted. I am curious of what you think of Torchwood and Class and The Sarah Jane Adventures? Terminator had good spinoffs too I think. Also what you thought of the Jodi Whitaker doctor?
What is Class? Everything I found in IMDb doesn't seem like doctor who?
Edit: never mind. It is the 2016 8 episode thing. I'll just leave my comment for engagement of the channel.
I LOVED Torchwood but haven't seen Class or the Sarah Jane Adventures. I haven't seen really anything of Jodie Whittaker's era as the Doctor either so I can't comment on that. But I wish they'd bring back Torchwood so bad because that darker take on the Doctor Who universe was amazing. Thanks for watching :)
I do love as someone who grew up watching this show, I find none of its aspects like a time-traveling police box weird
It does make for good branding, I'll give it that
As a huge ghost light fan I’m being held back
I feel like this video has stirred the slumbering giant that is the "Ghost Light" fanbase 😂 Based on some of the comments I've read, it's definitely a force to be reckoned with
He is an actual doctor and its a police box not a phone booth
does david tennant not get the title of scottish? :(
Lol, I totally forgot he's Scottish since he does a British accent in the show 😅 But yes, Scottish actor David Tennant definitely deserves the title of "Scottish."
very good video! keep it up! :)
Thanks, will do!
There is something so american about this video.
Its always kinda annoyed me how sometimes the doctor and his companion will travel to the past and show up in modern clothing yet no one will say anything.
I suppose it's since they travel into the past so often, it'd get old seeing characters go: "My, my! What strange garments you're wearing!" for the ten thousandth time, lol. But yeah, I get what you mean
Glad to see new Whovians
*Cluedo
Like the titular character in the popular book series "Where's Wally" the original was our version
Yep. It's "Clue" in America. Actually didn't know it's still "Cluedo" in the UK. Found that to be interesting. The more ya know 🌈⭐
@@NicholasGresik
Eh I'm just being petty for no reason 😂 good video btw 👌
So, Ghostlight, Light is a surveyor of the universe, from a noncorporeal species. It created an experiment to help it catalog life, with a test and null component. The test component decides it wants more and crashes the ship trapping light and the null inside the ship. The test component then takes over the house that was built in the crash sight, driving mad the inhabitants and mesmerizing them. The test's idea of evolution is one of progression towards supremacy (a eugenicists view) with the target set upon English royalty (Sax Coburg)...so is intending to overthrow the monarchy to place itself there. The Doctor frees the null which voices a view of becoming a 'proper lady' thus changing itself, something the null component isn't meant to do. Light is awakened and due to a lack of understanding of evolution or an incomplete understanding is disgusted that all it's work has been for naught, at which the plot ostensibly is as you state... There's also this whole thing with Ace having been to the house in the future and having felt the lingering 'presence of evil' and then burnt the house down...which elicits the amazing 'Burnt toast' speech.
The above being said the serial does not convey almost any of this with any clarity as it was chopped up, (and originally was meant to be the Doctor returning to his own family home, this would later become the Doctor Who book Lungburrow).