10 Insane Doctor Who Plot Twists That Nearly Happened

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  • @emmcod
    @emmcod Рік тому +166

    "maybe he was annoyed that he wasn't the one to snog David Tennant" I almost died laughing and also mood

    • @WhoCulture
      @WhoCulture  Рік тому +35

      let’s be honest it’s a feeling we’ve all felt

    • @hpatss4966
      @hpatss4966 Рік тому +8

      IM SCREAMING 😂😂😂

    • @davidthedeaf
      @davidthedeaf Рік тому +2

      @@WhoCulture you are actually mocking him by saying he is secretly gay, which is a put down to actual gay men.

    • @toast99bubbles
      @toast99bubbles Рік тому +10

      ​@@davidthedeaf No, it's not at all. It's a joke implying that everyone wants to kiss David Tennant.

    • @davidthedeaf
      @davidthedeaf Рік тому +1

      @@toast99bubbles I didn’t know you wrote the joke…

  • @karachter
    @karachter Рік тому +22

    chibnall nearly retconned pre-established lore? thank god he always had someone to stop him from doing that again...

  • @ianhydon1114
    @ianhydon1114 Рік тому +20

    Don't forget that in the brilliant Doctor Who episode Turn Left, Buckingham Palace was destroyed by the futuristic space Titanic, crashing on it the 10th Doctor had already been killed by that point having died underneath the River Thames attempting to save London and the Earth from the Racnoss. The Doctor was killed before he could regenerate.
    Donna was not there to stop him going to far in her bubble alternate universe timeline because she had never met him.
    Turn Left is the what might have been, but is one of the standout episodes of Doctor Who for any era.

  • @TheBlueWhoReview
    @TheBlueWhoReview Рік тому +37

    It's always interesting hearing about things which nearly happened. Some of these genuinely would have been cool if they did happen! 💙

  • @Brex10
    @Brex10 Рік тому +16

    Its interesting to heard how 3 of these were due to Moffat keeping things in check and people actually listening to him, if only the same had happened when he was showrunner on a couple of his strange changes. And DEAR LORD i wish someone had been able to keep Chibnal in chek and prevent timeless child from happening.

  • @Sci-Fi9131
    @Sci-Fi9131 Рік тому +9

    Another great video...I'm starting to suspect you are going back in time to make these the best videos ever!

  • @hollymatton474
    @hollymatton474 Рік тому +10

    Great video Who Culture! Really interesting and I honestly didn't know some of those things! 😊😊

  • @michaelbiscay9836
    @michaelbiscay9836 Рік тому +79

    RTD kills all the interesting characters.
    Moffat refuses to kill anyone.
    Those writers meetings must've been fun.

    • @pettytyrant2720
      @pettytyrant2720 Рік тому +14

      Mmm lets look at state of play at end of each showrunners time:
      RTD - Rose, stranded in parallel universe till she isnt, then alive with her entire family and her own human version of the Doctor. Rose's dad effectively resurrected from the dead, remarried to Jackie and with a new child. Jackie alive and well, and a mother again. Capt Jack cant die, ever. Mickey, left in a parallel universe till he isnt, alive and well. Martha, alive and well working for UNIT. Donna, cant remember the Doctor but alive, happily married and presumably rich from winning the lottery.
      Moffat- Amy and Rory, dead in the past. Clara, gets some extra time with Me, but ends up dead on Trap Street. River Song, dead. Bill, turned into a cyberman then a space ghost. Nardole, presumably dead, defending the humans from the inevitable cybermen attack.
      I never understand the view RTD killed off characters and Moffat didnt, its the exact opposite. Moffat killed just about everyone, RTD no one. In RTD era everyone gets a sickly sweet happy ending, in Moffat era you're doing well to get a bitter-sweet one.

    • @Jamestopboy
      @Jamestopboy Рік тому +15

      No, no. Moffat kills everyone. He just doesn’t KEEP them dead.

    • @pettytyrant2720
      @pettytyrant2720 Рік тому +4

      @@Jamestopboy Clara gets a swansong but she is still dead dead by end of it. Same with River, she gets to be a data ghost for a bit but she is still dead, her body fried up in the library. Amy and Rory might get to live out their lives till they die, but they still die. Only Bill gets an actual return to life afterwards, and shes never technically dead in the first place, just converted to a cyberman.
      So if the question is which showrunner killed of the most main characters its clearly Moffat, none of RTD's die and every single one gets a super happy ending, well except the Doctor.

    • @medafan53
      @medafan53 Рік тому +3

      @@pettytyrant2720 The original comment was more looking at the interesting side characters, rather than the companions.

    • @VolvoxSocks
      @VolvoxSocks 10 місяців тому +3

      @@Jamestopboy Well that's alright then.

  • @tracyroweauthor
    @tracyroweauthor Рік тому +27

    Not really related, but I had the thought recently that Clara is now basically immortal and she and Me could spend centuries having adventures around the universe before she returned to Trap Street at the moment she left. She obviously did eventually because time wasn't fractured. If nothing else, it would give her a chance to see her family one last time and maybe explain what was happening to her so they didn't spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened to her.
    Oh, and isn't Liz Shaw technically the prototype to X Files Scully?

  • @nekobat1962
    @nekobat1962 10 місяців тому +2

    She had already been The Bad Wolf and her likeness was The Moment, so yeah her being possessed would have been a bit too much.

  • @TheBlindDyslexic
    @TheBlindDyslexic Рік тому +2

    With AWESOMENESS that is RTD, what I think would be cool, is having an Alternate Universe Sarah Jane somehow come to Our Universe (maybe having Angela Cartwright from Lost in Space fame; or April Walker, who was chosen before the Lovely Elizabeth Sladen), granted she doesn't die, but we could kick-off another Sarah Jane Adventures while exploring how this version navigates Our universe while noting the difference.

  • @matthewparker5277
    @matthewparker5277 Рік тому +1

    I love that we don't get any context for most of the classic who scenes, 4:30 just got me spitting out my drink

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      That scene is widely remembered with fondness by a lot of people and regarded as a defining moment in their formative years.
      The dirty sods.

  • @kitcat8308
    @kitcat8308 8 місяців тому +1

    My Hubby's Theory and head cannon...... Matt Tenant Dr regeneration take two , will come to believe he needs to stop himself.... Eventually regenerating into the child who became " The Master".....
    And.... If you take it further..... "The Master" realizes how futile his mission to stop " The Dr" is and decides to -Just Have Fun- ... Eventually regenerating into "The Toymaker"
    Making them All "The Timeless Child"

  • @unorthodoxbox
    @unorthodoxbox Рік тому +10

    I have to disagree with RTD on the last one. I think Rose having been the beast would’ve added some interesting stakes and when it comes to dream sequences I think it’s down to how they’re executed and approached. Look at Amy’s choice as an example of it done well.

    • @peterg76yt
      @peterg76yt Рік тому

      I would disagree with a dream sequence but Doctor Who can have wibbly-wobbly alternate time lines or whatever else they need to have something that's not a dream.

  • @Sci-Fi-Mike
    @Sci-Fi-Mike Рік тому +1

    Very nice! Thanks, Ellie! Have a great day!

  • @frankharr9466
    @frankharr9466 Рік тому +2

    That's a good list.

  • @igorschmidlapp6987
    @igorschmidlapp6987 Рік тому +2

    Still no explanation for Peter Cushing's Doctor's existence while the First Doctor (Hartnell) was still on the air. I still call him Doctor 1.5, like the War Doctor (John Hurt) was Doctor 8.5....
    EDIT after re-watching the movies, I no longer make any claims about them being part of the Whoverse (no matter what they claim to be "based on"). The disqualifying differences are huge.
    "You may be a doctor. But I’m THE Doctor. The definite article you might say."
    The 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) to "Harry Sullivan"

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      Some years ago Dr Who magazine published a convincing argument on how to accept the movies as canon. It was very cleverly thought out and I thought "I'll have to remember that".
      I didn't.

  • @toast99bubbles
    @toast99bubbles Рік тому +4

    8:45 Charles isn't the King of England. The last King of England was Queen Anne. Charles is the King of the United Kingdom.

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому +1

      Technically, he is King of England. But he shouldn't be referred to as if that is his title. He's also King of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the overseas territories and dependencies.
      That's as of when I typed this. The way things are going in the UK, he could end up as the King of The Home Counties, Scots over the age of 65 and the Isle of Sheppy.

    • @toast99bubbles
      @toast99bubbles 9 місяців тому

      @@gilgameshofuruk4060 He's not. He's the King of the United Kingdom. The last person in the role of King of England would have been Queen Anne in 1707 when the Kingdom of England ended and the Kingdom of Great Britain began.

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому +1

      @toast99bubbles I said it wasn't his title, but he is still the monarch reigning over England. Just as he's the monarch reigning over the other places. If someone said "Who is the English people's king" we wouldn't say "We don't have one when we're being English, but we do when we are being subjects of the UK."
      And by the way, I know Anne had a lot of personal problems, but she wasn't a king, she was a queen.

    • @toast99bubbles
      @toast99bubbles 9 місяців тому

      @@gilgameshofuruk4060 Are you stupid or something? Queen Anne was sat in the role of King of England. Just like Queen Elizabeth the second was in the role of King of the United Kingdom. The title they went by was Queen because they were women, but the role they were in was King because that's the specific name of the role, whilst the role of Queen is for the wife of the King (hence why Prince Phillip just had the title of Prince, calling him King Phillip would have implied he was in the role of King, when he wasn't).

  • @charleslord2433
    @charleslord2433 10 місяців тому +1

    Not a twist as such but the sad death of the talented Howard Attfield led to bringing Bernard Cribbins back from being a cameo to one of the most beloved characters in NewWho. I can't imagine the subsequent episodes without Wilf.

  • @faziocarmelina548
    @faziocarmelina548 Рік тому +2

    I wish some plot twists would really happen just to see how it feels

  • @JohnColzzH
    @JohnColzzH Рік тому +7

    The cover photo got my attention. Nice
    First comment also btw

    • @messytexy
      @messytexy Рік тому +2

      It's Called A Thumbnail

  • @emptycradle1304
    @emptycradle1304 Рік тому +2

    i am sooo glad Rose was not the one possessed in "The Impossible Planet" from the moment I saw that possesion was on the table I suspected she would be possessed, it is such an obvious "twist" for additional manufactured drama. I decided if it happened I would immediately turn if off and stopped watching (it was one of the first episodes of doctor who i ever saw)

    • @emptycradle1304
      @emptycradle1304 Рік тому

      That is what I did with Preacher
      When he is testing his powers near the beginning and he says "tell me a secret" and guy replies "A secret" I saw what was coming but decided that if the guy was smart enough to test his powers he would be smart enough to know what that meant (orders he gives are very literal)
      I decided if it went the obvious route I expected I would turn it off and never watch it again.
      at the end of the episode he tells someone to "Show her your heart"...that was it for me... so dumb

  • @themadwarden6603
    @themadwarden6603 10 місяців тому

    That last one is literally exactly what happened to Clara in series 9's zygon storyline

  • @ashleyklotz3762
    @ashleyklotz3762 Рік тому +1

    Is it just me not seeing it, or did they just not explain why Elizabeth the 1st hated the Doc so much in the "Shakespeare Code" when in the "Day of the Doctor" he married her and she sent thru the years the "painting" for him? Did I miss the explanation on that?

    • @charleslord2433
      @charleslord2433 10 місяців тому +1

      He abandoned her. Yes, she was all sweetness in her note with the painting but the Liz I in the Shakespeare Code was fed up and angry.

    • @charleslord2433
      @charleslord2433 10 місяців тому +1

      It had been 37 years since they were married and he probably was gone for most of that.

    • @ashleyklotz3762
      @ashleyklotz3762 10 місяців тому +1

      @charleslord2433 that makes total sense and more obvious than my brain wanted to admit lol, thanks!

  • @Pub2k4
    @Pub2k4 Рік тому +2

    3:44 That’s my real name 😳

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      Hello Steven.

    • @Pub2k4
      @Pub2k4 9 місяців тому

      @@gilgameshofuruk4060 They got my last name right, too.

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      @Pub2k4 Hello Mr Carter.

    • @Pub2k4
      @Pub2k4 9 місяців тому

      @@gilgameshofuruk4060 Word…

  • @michaeltortorice9876
    @michaeltortorice9876 Рік тому +5

    I think if Sarah Jane had been killed off, I would not be the fan I am today.
    Considering the Doctor's aforementioned relationships with the Prime Ministers, one wonders what changed with Churchill.
    And that's all. No jokes this time. Just thanks for the vid.

  • @alasdairbruce7366
    @alasdairbruce7366 10 місяців тому +1

    I mean i might be an Aberdeen local but I don’t think we’re a worse fate than death. Is that genuinely what the rest of you think of us???

  • @ianlister7333
    @ianlister7333 Рік тому +7

    i should look this up, but didnt Turn Left, have the Titantic hitting London, if not Buckingham Palace?

    • @Domihork
      @Domihork Рік тому +7

      Yes, it did. A clip of that is even in this video. But it's just a reused footage from the Voyage of the Damned used as the broadcast in the episode and it then cuts to static, implying an impact.

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому +3

      Well remembered! So technically it did happen but also it didn't.... Very Doctor Who 😂😊

    • @ianlister7333
      @ianlister7333 Рік тому +1

      @@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars that does track, even if it has to be tracked via two different timelines

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому

      @@ianlister7333 true 😊

    • @medafan53
      @medafan53 Рік тому

      I think the could have been in voyage of the dammed was more the doctor didn't pull up quite fast enough, and smashes through the palace, instead of flying over it, whereas in Turn Left the Titanic, presumably, slammed straight into London and blew up.

  • @joshuacurphey3242
    @joshuacurphey3242 Рік тому +5

    So, Chibby back when he was just a writer on the show already had an idea for a retcon in mind that was vetoed? Is that why he soon became showrunner and invented the Timeless Child, so he could do whatever he wanted without anyone stopping his ideas?

  • @TheBlindDyslexic
    @TheBlindDyslexic Рік тому +8

    I never thought Captain Jack was the Face of Boe.
    Always looked at it as if the Face of Boe was actually an Alien race that somehow became Petrified and became those large stone Olmec
    heads. I know it has Plot holes Big enough to put several TARDIS interiors through, but nonetheless. That would have been cool.

    • @SamanthaS92
      @SamanthaS92 Рік тому +3

      During the 11th Doctor’s run, it’s said the heads on Easter Island were carved after the 11th’s (Matt Smith’s) head. 😅

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      ​@@SamanthaS92How unflattering for Matt!
      I can't unsee the lijen3ss now, though.

  • @Paradox-es3bl
    @Paradox-es3bl Рік тому

    Moffat overruling an idiot. Thank The Doctor.

  • @TheManInBlueFlames
    @TheManInBlueFlames Рік тому +2

    5:19 - I'm curious what you think of Harbo Wholmes's video that claims that Boe ISN'T Captain Jack? I dont know how it could be anyone OTHER than Jack it terms of probability. He seems to be attacking RTD just because he doesn't agree with him.

    • @Quirderph
      @Quirderph Рік тому

      Didn't RTD say that he didn't want to reveal whether or not Jack was *actually* Boe because the idea would stop being funny if we ever knew for sure?

  • @randybaumery-cp7tf
    @randybaumery-cp7tf Місяць тому

    Younger Sarah Jane Smith reminds me of actress Zooey Deschanel.

  • @draggo69
    @draggo69 Рік тому +2

    Nice!

  • @ZebitasMartinex
    @ZebitasMartinex Рік тому +2

    I always felt the whole Silurian thing was actually the intention to retcon that

  • @cooperblackwell1392
    @cooperblackwell1392 Рік тому

    The devil episode was fuckin dope

  • @Hmtecj
    @Hmtecj 8 місяців тому

    There is an issue. Jack is a mortal and the fdied in one of the episodes. So how can jack be the face of buff

  • @LordStormelion
    @LordStormelion Місяць тому

    3:09 chibnall sure does have a skill for ruining classic who

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar Рік тому +2

    You are right when you say writers and their egos I think you mean showrunners and their egos but it's the same diff isn't it.

  • @lycos94
    @lycos94 Рік тому

    technically #2 did happen, in turn left

  • @Michelle_Schu-blacka
    @Michelle_Schu-blacka Рік тому +4

    I didn't know Chibnall wrote Hungry Earth.
    So he can write a decent episode!

  • @inspector2363
    @inspector2363 Рік тому +3

    I'd have no problem with the stiff "Warriors of the Deep" Silurians being retconned as masks, as long as the REAL Silurian's existed.

    • @gilgameshofuruk4060
      @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

      I wouldn't mind "Warriors of the Deep" being retconned as having been a dream.

  • @gilgameshofuruk4060
    @gilgameshofuruk4060 9 місяців тому

    I thought the new Silurians looked better with the masks on. Without them, they just looked like actors in prosthetics. Human eyes and teeth in a reptile face just looks half-@rsed, no matter how well applied the scales are.
    Also female reptiles don't have mammaries. That's a mammals only thing. know the production team would have felt the need to show diversity, but who's to say the original Silurians weren't female? No need for body hugging costumes. Or did they want sexy geckos?

  • @i2iFX_Colleen
    @i2iFX_Colleen Рік тому

    OMGosh... the Infinity Gauntlet..... ummm just wondering if that is the very same gauntlet used in the first few episodes of Tourchwood????? Please tell me I am right...

    • @i2iFX_Colleen
      @i2iFX_Colleen Рік тому

      I am off to watch a few episodes of both!

    • @voltran7677
      @voltran7677 Рік тому +1

      its not, and the other gauntlet from torchwood does show up towards the end of season 2

    • @KevinTheTimeGeek86
      @KevinTheTimeGeek86 Рік тому +1

      I've always theorized it was a similar gauntlet, but not the exact same one. Therefore, the pair that were on Earth during "Torchwood" are still their own form of Time Lord tech with their own properties that just happened to slip through the cracks during the Time War.

  • @GroundhogJay
    @GroundhogJay 9 місяців тому

    Ugh. I hate being reminded that The Power of Three exists. But a horrid episode.

  • @josephcooter5763
    @josephcooter5763 Рік тому +2

    Here's a little twist for the 60th anniversary. Donna is actually the Devil Incarnate.

  • @bazzer124
    @bazzer124 Рік тому +3

    Perhaps someone can set me straight. I seem to remember (for whatever reason) the Face of Boe appearing in classic Who, specifically during the tenure of #4. It's just one of those nagging things that I cannot shake despite not finding any references to TFOB prior to #10. Help! Cheers....

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому +3

      I have no memory of any character remotely similar in Classic Who. I'm replying as I'm curious to know now too!

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ Рік тому +2

      You definitely didn’t see him in Tom Baker’s era as the character wasn’t created then. You will have seen him before David’s era, though, as his first appearance was in _The End of the World_ (2005) with Christopher Eccleston.

    • @bazzer124
      @bazzer124 Рік тому +2

      @@DrWhoFanJ Thanks. As I said, it's just something that nags me. Couldn't even explain why I thought he appeared earlier in Classic Who. Cheers....

    • @mikeklein5184
      @mikeklein5184 Рік тому +7

      You may be thinking thinking of the Fifth Doctor story “The Awakening” where an alien probe/creature called the Malus breaks through a wall and. Similar look but not Boe.

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому

      @@mikeklein5184 just found a clip of the Malus to prompt my own memory, might be what the OP remembers. I did wonder what other character it could have been 😊

  • @karmicselling4252
    @karmicselling4252 Рік тому

    You state that "The Face of Boe" is "Captain Jack". You may believe it to be true. However, it must be pointed out that this has never been confirmed in-story and therefore is not deemed Doctor Who canon to this point. Many people associated with Doctor Who including several of the actors and RTD himself are on the record as saying TFoB is probably CJH. But it has never been confirmed in the program itself. Cheers from the Land Down Under.

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ Рік тому

      It has, however, been confirmed that the two are the same thing. Watch CJH’s last scene in _Last of the Time Lords_ again. You’ll soon see the proof.

  • @mattthesilent777RED
    @mattthesilent777RED Рік тому +1

    Here's a great plot twist - Jodie Whittaker's era as well as every Doctor after her gets wiped from history and my Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Doctors take her place!

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ Рік тому

      Nope. That would be stupid and idiotic, just like the repetitive imbecile who keeps mentioning it.
      Just stop spewing this nonsense now; no intelligent human will ever agree with you, nor will they even believe a word that flops from your mouth for the briefest fraction of a millisecond!

  • @jb888888888
    @jb888888888 Рік тому

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  • @phantomsidious2934
    @phantomsidious2934 Рік тому +1

    River songs reveal wasn't a plot twist, it was so obvious in the opening two parter who she was, all the clues were there, and of course the biggest clue 'River' 'pond', 'Melody' 'song'.....so stupid, and let's be honest what did her reveal as Amy and Rory's daughter really do for the show? Nothing, useless reveal

    • @bazzer124
      @bazzer124 Рік тому +6

      Perhaps some of the 35,000,000 worldwide Doctor Who fans don't have the same keen insight as you. I'm sure you also called it when Jack Harkness revealed he was the Face of Boe. I certainly didn't see that one coming. Did you? Cheers....

    • @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars
      @weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars Рік тому +6

      It's funny how hindsight makes us confident in our memories... 😉

    • @brainlock72
      @brainlock72 Рік тому

      There were a LOT of hints connecting her to Jack, starting with the squareness gun and flirty attitude. Given the nanogenes introduced in his same introductory episode, they could have been the same person at different points in their timelines.

  • @krelldor
    @krelldor Рік тому +1

    Disney Who is what they should call it now it's trashed.

    • @toadtv4389
      @toadtv4389 Рік тому

      Disney only finance it

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ Рік тому +4

      It hasn’t been trashed, and Disney+ is merely the broadcaster for it outside the British Isles.
      Literally everything in your statement is objectively untrue nonsense.

    • @Quirderph
      @Quirderph Рік тому +2

      Dude, chill. They haven't even released a single new episode yet.
      Also, there are a *lot* of contenders for when the show did or didn't go to shit, depending on who you ask.

  • @jakeleegudgion
    @jakeleegudgion Рік тому +1

    1:37 I’m sorry but 65 isn’t a ‘far too young age’. I’ve had grandparents pass in their 70’s and my mother pass at an actual young age of 47… It is most certainly terrible how Sladen passed, and she was more than deserving of being around longer than she was. Moreover, it doesn’t change the fact she wasn’t young. Please, take some consideration when writing these video scrips

  • @beardedmotu2007
    @beardedmotu2007 Рік тому +1

    What if “ episodes would be good!!! RTD 💥💀Moffat live to 💀👻🗿Chibb ??? Aw Aw Aw too soon …lol Ellie ,with another awesome Dr Who video. 🗝️🟦📦🔊🔜