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The BBC used to like the fans of Doctor Who. Now, they treat us as racists, sexists, and stupid. If RTD pulls an Eccleston, it would be great, but I can see it getting worse.
Bless him...knowiy what we know, that must have hurt so much. Like Peter Capaldi, Colin is a long time wWho fan and has been watching since that start. How they treated him was horrible.
Colin Baker had every right to resent the show forever for the way the producers treated him but he never took it out on the fans and has always kept his love for the show and be a role model for multiple generations. Legend.
I remember DW fandom in the 90s really having it in for his run, largely based on negative reviews in the mags and such; the BBC, knowing about this, held off on releasing many of his eps because they figured they'd sell poorly. Until finally they'd put out just about everything else, so finally they just scraped the bottom of the barrel...Only for fans, seeing his eps with fresh eyes after so long, to surprisingly respond very fondly to them! Don't get me wrong, much about those eps did, in fact, suck, but his portrayal of the Doctor went over a LOT better now, as fans discovered that he was nowhere as abrasive and unlikable as they'd remembered...
@@HandofOmega Call me crazy, the patchwork outfit is actually original and gives this incarnation a lot of zest unfortunately his personality of the majority of the series didn’t match up(irritable shouty and angry). Yes, I have bad taste. Time Lash is my favorite episode and it’s a great Space Adventure. His Doctor Shined as He is just cool and actually formidable and dangerous!!!
The Matt Smith reveal was such a bizarre thing, I still remember watching it, just came out of nowhere, like we knew we'd meet him in that program but there was just zero build up. Then capaldi's one had enough build up for both of them
I feel it was smooth but maybe that’s because I was watching the spin off ‘Sarah Jane adventures’ at the time and they showed David’s exit and Matts entrance at the same time.
I've always hoped that one day they'll just reveal the next Doctor in the episode, with no earlier announcement. I feel like that could be pretty awesome.
The entire reason they do these announcements is because if they don't, someone will leak it first. And then the BBC would have zero control over the introduction
Whilst I didn’t watch it live, the live event around Capaldi’s announcement was definitely my favourite. It was the most grand and exciting and also gave plenty of time for people to watch the announcement as I missed the Whittaker announcement by a few minutes
I remember the aftermath of the announcement and everyone on tumblr, including myself, just found clips of him in The Thick of It and said “yep there’s our doctor” 😉 I don’t know why we went to that and didn’t remember his harrowing performance in Torchwood: Children of Earth but that is the beauty of the internet. I still choose to believe that Twelve’s “shuttity up up up” is a reference to The Thick Of It.
I did watch it live, but unfortunately if was before I became a proper fan, so I wasn't that into it. But it's still my favourite way of announcing it. I love the build up and the drama of it all. Even though I wasn't that bothered at the time, I still remember being tense and holding my breath during the presenter's little monologue before the big reveal.
I feel like the thing that makes his announcement so great is the fact that Capaldi is such a great fan of the show, he brought so much Doctor energy with him immediately and that’s what made this live broadcast work. While others, in my opinion, had to have some time for them to get into the role, you know, and for the fans to get used to them.
@@amadandearbhte4318 yeah same here i wasn’t a fan until my brother introduced me to it and I started watching some 10th doctor episodes and then loved Matt smith as 11 and then I really became a fan in 2016 when seeing capaldi. But I agree peters was my favorite
I'm so nostalgic for the Matt and Capaldi announcements. I definitely think an interview is my ideal way for the announcement. For the longest time all we knew of the 11th Doctor is "Matt Smith twiddles his fingers when talking".
Christopher Eccleston’s departure was actually intimated before his first episode was aired. In a BBC Radio 2 documentary (I can’t remember the date it was broadcast, but it was before his first episode) Chris was interviewed. The presenter asked “And are you in it for the long run?” Chris replied “I’ve done the long run”. At the time I took this to be an admission that he wouldn’t be doing a second series - it was in the past tense. I have always wondered why no-one else picked this up.
I've seen this interview before. I know which clip you mean. He's asked if he regenerates and he doesn't confirm or deny. He's told that fans won't be happy until he does years and years and he says that he's done 13, 45 minute episodes so that's much longer than classic seasons and episodes.
Yeah, that's how I want 14 to happen, just in the episode. I can't imagine that'll happen because I don't think they'll be able to stop a leak like that, but that would be awesome if they could!
Iirc at the time there had been photos of Hurt on set for the filming of the 50th and given his outfit it was assumed he was another Doctor. Not confirmed at all, till the end of Name, but we did still know he had been cast before that.
John Hurt doesn't get enough respect for his performance as the Doctor. That might be partially because he was already a legendary actor before Doctor Who but when he was cast as the Doctor, I hadn't seen him fully flex his acting chops onscreen. I'd heard him in a few voice acting roles (Kilgharrah and Woundwort were awesome) and seen his cameos in V for Vendetta and Harry Potter but voice acting is easier than physical acting because you don't need to worry about getting your expressions and body language right and the physical roles I've seen Hurt in didn't ask too much of him. Because I was going in without a great deal of knowledge about his career outside of everybody hyping him up as one of the greatest actors of his day, I was pleased to see that John Hurt's reputation had not been exaggerated. He really was one of the best of the best because he was under more pressure than any actor in the history of Doctor Who, with only Patrick Troughton and Matt Smith coming close, and he still delivered in spades. A lesser actor like Peter Capaldi or even Matt Smith would have buckled under the weight of being 1) the oldest Doctor ever, 2) a last minute addition to the 50th anniversary, 3) in danger of being upstaged by the 3 most popular Doctors of all time (yes, the Curator counts) and 4) not given enough time to fully flesh out his incarnation and grow comfortable in the role. Hurt had one shot to get it right and he hit the bullseye dead centre.
I know it's extremely unlikely, But I would personally love it if we could make it to the centenary special... and still not know who 14 is until Jodie regenerates. I just think that'd great. The only way they could have made it greater would have been if they didn't announce Jodie's departure, so when she Regenerates, it's a complete surprise. Again, the likelihood of that happening is infinitesimal... But I think it would be cool.
@@hotdog1214 Yeah a surprise regeneration/surprise new Doctor has been a dream of mine since I was a kid, but I feel like its almost literally impossible unless it was a brief cameo right at the end of a special/series (filmed in a closed set close to transmission) and there was a long gap before filming began resumed
If only; it's just impossible! I mean, I know RTD is doing specials next year, so it's not entirely impossible to keep it to a closed set, but it's very unlikely. Everything Doctor Who does is leaked by someone. It's very sad really.
I know RTD wanted to keep Ecceslton's Regen completely secret, but that leaked so...but yes it would be cool if they just kept mum until the actual regeneration so it would be surprised.
9 to 10 may have leaked, but I didn't know about it, so it took me by complete surprise! DW has become such a big THING since then, and the media and public are so thirsty for details, but a surprise like that would be my preferred way to learn about the new Doc...
17:23 - “Don’t know if he’s quite sinister enough” - *Peter, UK* A decade and a half later, Peter was able to utilize his attack eyebrows to bring a sufficient level of ‘sinister’ to the role.
Trouble is, Peter Capaldi went too far in Season 8. I barely saw the Doctor at all throughout that season and I almost think of him as being the Valeyard instead. Now that I've actually seen some of Michael Jayston's performance, I think it was a huge missed opportunity to not bring him back and use him to emphasise how far the Doctor fell after Capaldi took over. The Valeyard could have been hanging out in Missy's Nethersphere because he's an amalgamation of the Doctor instead of a full regeneration - this would also explain why Missy was so desperate to be friends with the Doctor again - then at the end of Season 8, he escapes from the Nethersphere and goes back to confront Colin Baker.
@@plantainsame2049 Well it felt like a villain going through a redemption arc. That's not how the Doctor was supposed to come across. John Hurt, Christopher Ecclestone, William Hartnell and even Colin Baker were basically doing the same character arc and none of them came across as outright villainous. Ecclestone was, to quote Jacki Tyler, "all charm and smiles" when he wasn't brooding about the Time War. Hurt could actually get away with coming across as evil since he was IN the Time War but there wasn't a single wicked bone in his body. Hartnell changed his performance during the reshoots of An Unearthly Child to stop the Doctor from coming across as an outright terrible person. And Baker, even after strangling her in a fit of post regeneration paranoia, instinctively tried to rush to Peri's aid when he realised she was in danger. His immediate reaction was "I must go to her! I must save her!" and that was in his first story, before he started softening up. Meanwhile, Peter Capaldi was totally fine with throwing Clara under the bus, expected her to be okay with it because in his sociopathic mind he was "respecting" her (Peter Capaldi didn't even sound sincere when he said that), and even had the audacity to lecture Clara about disloyalty in the most self-righteous and hypocritical rant I've ever heard from the Doctor after she'd not only lost her boyfriend, but had also been putting up with the Doctor's shit for most of the season. And there was no sense of introspection or self-awareness in Peter Capaldi's performance. Every time he tried to be introspective, he came across as a shitty man trying to pretend that he's not a shitty man so that the only person who puts any effort into supporting him doesn't leave. The most obvious display of this is that Capaldi was constantly projecting his issues onto Clara, whether it's a life or death situation or petty shit like Matt Smith regenerating into an ugly git with no self-esteem, and expecting her to either sort them out or validate his behaviour. It was like watching an abusive relationship. If I were in Clara's place, I would have told Peter Capaldi to get fucked halfway through his first season. I might have even gone out of my way to murder him in the hopes that he'd regenerate into somebody halfway tolerable. The "Am I a good man?" arc was supposed to come across as a good man questioning himself whilst making genuine mistakes. It wasn't supposed to come across as a terrible man making calculated decisions to be a shitty person and having to learn basic decency from scratch.
@@tomnorton4277 The first doctor tried to Blatantly caven someone's head with a rock And the 12th doctor still helped Clara even after she. Literally attended to commit murder-suicide on the both of them. She thought they were on a volcano and she locked them out of the tardis They wouldn't have even burned due to the tardis shields they would Have starved And did you listen to his speech he said did You think that I care for you so little Is that betraying me would make a difference
@@plantainsame2049 Yes, but at least he didn't treat Susan like shit. Peter Capaldi treated EVERYBODY like shit, even the people he's supposed to care about. On paper, Peter Capaldi was supposed to come across as the good guy in Dark Water. In practice, I was on Clara's side. The Doctor was SO fucking self-righteous, hypocritical and preachy, lecturing Clara about doing shit that's totally fine when HE does it and even gaslighting her with "cut out the whining" after he'd been whining for the entire scene while she let him vent without complaint, that I would have happily watched her push him into the volcano. And that was because of Peter Capaldi's performance. That scene could have had me siding with the Doctor is a less obnoxious actor was playing him. For example, the Doctor should have said "cut out the whining" to himself because Clara wasn't the one whining. She was actually being the mature one because she said it was "absolutely fair enough" if he kicked her out.
I know it would be impossible these days with social media and the Internet, but I'd love for the 14th Doctor to be revealed when Jodie regenerates, keep it a secret until the centenary special has finished airing.
Same, it'd be nice to be able to see it in the episode itself, but unfortunately, that's near to impossible with all sources, everything will be running the story the day it comes out. 🥺
My favourite announcement was Capaldi's. I love the way they had a whole showing of different people talking about their favourite Doctors from the entire 50 years of the show, including Peter Davison talking live. Then to have an interview with Capaldi on top of that was amazing
I remember watching the announcements of Capaldi & Whitaker, however now knowing that Matt Smith was just suddenly announced as the 11th Doctor so out of nowhere is hilarious
Even though Eleven is "my" Doctor, I wished, Capaldi could have stayed forever. Most of my favorite episodes were with him and he was by far the best actor who ever played the role!
@@Nuttybott Can I just have my opinion one single fucking time? Troughton has been my 2nd favorite Doctor, right after Eleven. But I think, since Capaldi, I'm putting him at #3 now.....
John Hurt acted circles around Peter Capaldi and did so whilst under considerably more pressure. Plus he's got a massive resume outside of Doctor Who, so claiming that Capaldi is the best actor to play the Doctor is ludicrous.
I don’t think the Troughton Rule needs to be followed anymore. When Troughton did it, the show was airing 40+ episodes a year with a very brief break, so it was easier to buy. Now, each doctor only has 10-12 episodes a season every eighteen months. They’re not in enough episodes for us to get to know them as well. I think five seasons would be a better choice now.
While the Matt Smith reveal is undoubtedly hilarious, I long for a surprise reveal, like was planned with Tennant until they got worried about leaks. Imagine the absolute shock of not knowing an actor was leaving the show and suddenly they’re regenerating
I was profoundly impressed by the Matt Smith introduction. "Here he is." What more does one need from an introduction? In 1966 not many kids were told by their parents that Hartnell was leaving, and the playgrounds were in nuclear meltdown on the Monday after the regeneration. Prefects were handing in their badges, etc.
My favourite announcement was Capaldi’s rockstar entrance, but it’s quite another thing to have the announcement come within an episode itself like the War Doctor and Fugitive Doctor
This video is making me wish we got Adventure in Space and Time biopics every year. Think about it, Troughton having to follow up with one of the weirdest plot devices ever, Pertwee's Manning's and Delgado's relationship, Pertwee's and Troughton's friendship/rivalry, Tom Baker's drama on sets, Davidson following up the most successful run of the show so far, mistreatment of Colin and ending with McCoy having to be the final doctor. I'd watch it
@@tokublwhovian This is kinda why I actually don’t want a biopic on RTD era. There is still positivity to all the old doctor’s stuff, and at the end everyone got a happy ending of some kind (Tom’s ending could be the publishing of Scratchman, Davidson, Baker and McCoy would be doing Big Finish)
Stealth bombing Matt Smith. That's something that needs to happen on more television. Random episode of the middle, and Matt Smith just interrupts the broadcast
My favorite has got to be the daily mail interviewing all the bricklayers who worked with Tom Baker. It's priceless even if it isn't the actual announcement
19:36 Maybe Eccleston (my favorite) would have returned for a crossover episode or Day of The Doctor if BBC didn't pull off such a scumbag move right there.
There is actually a more interesting story around the tenant reveal, he was at the time doing quartermass as a live event on bbc working with Jason Fleming. It was pretty much a done deal the first line was change to “good evening doctor” on the fly by Fleming causing tenant split a rye smile.
I'm still Sad the April Fool's prank saying that Tom Holland was going to be the 14th got me, it didn't show up in my newsfeed until Two days after April Fools, I generally thought for 10 minutes that he was the 14th doctor and I was so excited and then I saw the article was 2 days old... It literally broke my heart 😭
Personally I love it when stuff makes it onto screen unleaked. Jo Martin's reveal, McGann's return in Night of the Doctor... it's such a huge geekbumps moment when they can pull it off! Regarding Troughton's tiny newspaper column, it actually makes sense to me. Replacing a lead actor for a successful show was unheard of at the time. Everyone involved probably wanted the least fuss possible made over it.
I love how far we went when it came to announcing the doctor. Originally with Patrick announced as the doctor it was just a small news article with very little fanfare and then with Matt it’s this very big surprise during a documentary that comes out of nowhere then Capaldi as the doctor he gets this huge announcement with a crowd and everything
The hoodie and dark cloak SHOULD have been Jodie's Doctor / clothes. I like what we end up with too, no doubt - but damn does she scream "I'm the Doctor" in dark clothes. Also loved Capaldi's entrance, how he talked about it "I'm not the Doctor yet..." Wonderful Doctors, I remember the 80s ones, and the McGann announcement I didn't get until I saw a trailer on local FOX affiliate. Was crazy, loved McGann tho.
Even tho they obviously resized the clothes she regenerated in (imagine if 13 is flopping around in 12's oversized clothes the whole ep, lol), I still quite like that look on her, and kinda wish they'd kept, or modified, it. The first female Doc should have had some trouble coming to terms with the transition, instead of just instantly adapting to it, imo...
I only vaguely recall pre-Matt Smith announcements, those memories, like the Paul McGann announcement, are lost to time. My absolute ideal way to announce a new Doctor would be like War and Fugitive Doctor, in universe as it happens. I know that's pretty unlikely to happen what with the constant threat of leaks but as a fan that would be the ultimate reveal - I remember that feeling when 10 got shot by a Dalek and started regenerating, I looked across at my brother (also a Whovian) and we were dumbfounded; it turned out to be fake but that was very exciting. I do remember the announcements of 12 and 13, being the most recent, and at the time I thought the whole studio thing with Capaldi was a bit cringey - more the fault of the way it was presented rather than Peter himself. So my second choice would be similar to Whittaker's announcement, that really beautifully shot, mysterious piece that revealed the new Doctor - no audience whooping and clapping, no daft presenters asking how they feel being the 'new Doctor Who' 🤦♀ just calm and in the Whoniverse.
now firstly... that steven moffat impression was absolutely amazing! a few years ago I thought of doing a parody animation of steven moffat and if I ever do it I want that guy working on it!! I loved this video and I would prefer one day for them to just not announce the next doctor, no trailer nothing, just because fans at the moment are very difficult to please and it will force people to actually give it a chance by at the very least watching their first episode
It's astounding to think that there could conceivably be someone who was a small kid in 63, who actually watched all of this happen up to the present day! It's too implausible to think that they *never* missed an episode, but theoretically they could have actually seen every episode ever made...Imagine if they could talk to us here, online!
I remember the adverts for the first series of Doctor Who, I was six then. The opening scenes which were shown in the preview made me expect a rocket as the means of travel. I didn't manage to watch every episode up to the last Peter Capaldi when it first came out but I have seen every one up until the thirteenth doctor, which I just can't watch.
@@euanmarley7421 Wow, this is exactly what I didn't think I'd ever hear! If you've really been with this show from its very beginning in 63, I earnestly encourage you to please reach out, either to this channel or some DW site or channel, and offer your story! They, and us fans, would LOVE to hear all about what it was like to be a fan back then, esp what it was like leading up to it; we all know about how the initial ep was pre-empted because of JFK, but we've never heard about it from an actual viewers' perspective... Telling your story would mean a lot to us all, please consider it!
Believe it or not there are still many of us still alive. I was eleven and the program inspired my imagination as there had been nothing like it. I kept a Dr Who diary of every episode with my comments right up to the last one. I've got every existing video also. I got heavily into sci fi books in my teens and have written seven sci fi related books. I was sad when the series ended after Capadi but I have such fond memories of all the Doctors and looking forward to my weekly Saturday fix (though that did vary later on).
Haha, I guess I shouldn't sound so surprised, after all, I'm hardly a stripling myself; by which I mean that both my parents are still alive, and they are certainly old enough to have seen the show's beginning, had it been shown in the States (and if they had been into SF)! It's just that I've never heard older fans discuss their memories before, so that idea was somehow new to me. I still encourage ALL of you to reach out to creators, many channels would love to put together a compilation of your reminiscences, and I know the fans would love to hear about them! (For instance, my major questions are about the first regeneration: Did you know that was coming? Do you remember what the lost footage looked like? How long did it take you and your friends to get used to the new Doctor?)
"Can you imagine if the Fourteenth Doctor gets announced like this? Like, T'Nia Miller just gets announced in the back pages of the Plymouth Herald?" 3 weeks later: Ncuti Gatwa gets announced as the Fourteenth Doctor via a tweet.
It be teaser for the 13th last episode then most like a couple weeks or months later we get something about 60th anniversary they won't overshadow legend of the sea devils
@@thedoctorwhomaster3086 Surely RTD2 will be going into production soon? (And RTD isn't like Chibnall on keeping things so secretive) I can't expect them to keep us waiting past the end of May.
@@Lia-uf1ir exactly thats what said don't expect after legends of the sea devils they wait for longer after that if 14th doctor not in 60th then don't expect anything till after jodie whittaker final special 😉 if the 14th doctor is in 60th then we get something a couple of weeks after legend of the sea devils
I like to see 14 revealed at the very last moment. The way they wanted to do with David Tennant. It's weird thing that somewhere out there with there's someone waiting in the Wings waiting for the queue to enter the TARDIS.
My favourite was Capaldi because that was just such a great event, the build up and the reveal and all the excitement. I remember watching it as it happened and it was very fun. I personally think they’re going to try another John Hurt for the next one and not tell us who Jodie’s successor is until the regeneration actually happens. I think this because of how long it has been without an announcement and because the latests episode’s next time trailer showed Jodie starting to regenerate which implies they may have already filmed the change over and know who their next Doctor will be.
@MrTARDIS - I've got the press release from FOX announcing Paul McGann as the new DOCTOR WHO. It came along with an 8x10 B&W of McGann with the TARDIS from the same photoshoot all of the other photos came from. It was accompanied by a short video press kit that had what sounds like the interview with McGann that you quoted along with Sylvester McCoy and I think Segal. I don't have the press release right in front of me so I can't give you the exact date that's on it but I do know that it was in January. Great video!
I was so befuddled by that moment in the Confidential special back in 2009. Good to finally know it really was that jarring and it wasn't just me not paying attention like I always thought. I still remember having a mouthful of calzone during David Tennant's announcement and surprised I never choked or did a spittake. There was a split second where I mistook Jodie Whittaker's eye ball for Anna Freil's eye ball. Probably because she was my #1 pick and I was just willing my eye balls to see what they wanted to see, but whatever. I burst with excitement, then let down, then didn't recognize this blonde woman, then "Broadchurch girl"'s name came up and went "oh, yeah. She was great. Hardly recognised her". It was a rollercoaster. Anyway, great video. This was really worth the wait.👍
Yeah same with the Matt Smith announcement! 🤣 I remember his clip coming on and I actually rewound the TV thinking he must have already have been mentioned or shown and I blinked and missed it somehow
Colin Bakers tenure remains a tragedy. He was as much a fan as Tenant and Capaldi and he had just started to really settled in when they petformed thst dick move on him. I give thanks to Big Finish for giving him his dues and treating him with the respect he deserved.
This is an amazing, informative video! Particularly love the "Colin Baker was too nice" moment. 🤣🤣 I find it fascinating seeing those old announcement articles and interviews from Who history. Keep up the great work!
Superb, comprehensive exploration of all the announcements of Doctor Who casting. Two thoughts: 1. I really liked the short 1min video revealing Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor. 2. What if: in Jodie's final special, as she regenerates, and there's all the yellow energy, the camera pans away and the new Doctor arrives but off-screen (!) with an indistinct sigh, an exhale of air. So we don't know who it is or even if they're a man or a woman (!) And we have to wait until 2023's Season 14 to see the new Doctor for the first time!
It’s insane that they’ve never kept it secret until the right moment. I’d love to see them do a reveal actually IN the episode. But failing that and knowing the show’s track record for blowing their load on announcements I think the Capaldi reveal was the peak of Doctor reveals. While I think Tennant’s surprise award acceptance announcement was the best departure announcement. That being said the show probably isn’t popular or well liked enough any more to do a televised announcement special. And the chance of The Doctor winning a TV award for their performance is slim
I remember Matt Smith being announced on that TV special and thought "You're winging this!" so wasn't impressed. Still I calmed myself down and gave him a chance. He turned out to be one of my Top 3 Doctors of all time.
Peter Capaldi’s anxiousness, first doctor fanfare, and comment that plying the Doctor “won’t be easy because he hasn’t played the Doctor since he was nine” are all so adorable and lovely. I’ve always seen him as someone who was very honored to be in that role and humble and appreciative to the fans for welcoming and accepting him. It’s also a really sad watch to see when they gave him the Sonic Screwdriver prop on the set of “Twice Upon a Time” and he starts crying.
Peter Capaldi's better as a Doctor Who fan than as the Doctor himself. His sheer terror of playing his childhood hero came through in his performance so he had none of the confidence, power or charisma that the Doctor's supposed to have. Instead, he overcompensated by playing him as a sociopathic arsehole and hiding behind self-righteous speeches which, until The Zygon Inversion where he actually had something worthwhile to say, came across as a man desperately trying to pretend he's more powerful, important, knowledgable and experienced than he actually is. For all the grey hair on Peter Capaldi's head, I almost never believed he had lived for thousands of years. Matt Smith could convey how ancient the Doctor was with a single glance. Hiring a lifelong fan worked with David Tennant but that was lighting in a bottle. Clearly, Steven Moffat hoped it would strike twice but he overestimated Peter Capaldi's abilities.
I love how little fanfare troughtons announcement had. How much more surprising and shocking it must have made it for all those kids and adults who likely missed such an understated article. As much as I understand the impossibility of keeping secrets today, I’d love to see a doctor that isn’t revealed until the very moment they regenerate
The Twitter announcement this time was a bit disappointing. I was looking forward to a clip or something which would have made it way more exciting. Anyways Im really looking forward to Ncutis first season with Davies :)
Loved this trip down memory lane. I don't know if this helps but Sylvester McCoy revealed Paul McGann as the Doctor at a convention in late 1995, I think. This bit of information was then reported in a monthly fanzine called Time Brains 2013 in Sydney, Australia. I don't have the copy, but it was so early that the following issue the announcement was retracted as nothing could be found to confirm it. Then the issue after that it was confirmed again when the official news reports started rolling in.
It's odd that the media focused on Tom Baker being a brick layer considering he'd already been nominated for two golden globes and was working with the Royal National Theatre?
I was so excited when I saw Jodies reveal. The outfit was timeless and gorgeous, Jodie looked stunning and was glowing, and I thought we'd finally got away from the whole childishness of the ADHD Doctor bouncing around like a maniac. Then the episodes aired and Chibnall put her into a costume even Colin would have called tacky and we got the ADHD dialled up to 11. Truly, the fact the Doctor was now female was so wasted. Jodie is stunning. Her instagram and facebook is full of beautiful pictures of her in the most gorgeous outfits. She could have really played up the female side of the character, but we got a clown costume that removed any authority or gravitas from the role. They could have cast a man and apart from the odd comment it wouldn't have made a difference. There are many problems with the Chibnall era, but the biggest crime to me is taking one of the most beautiful women on television today and making her into a cheap, watered down Sylvester copy. Jo Martin did a better job as the female Doctor in her short screen time than Jodie did in her entire run. And I put that onto Chibnall not to Jodie. When you aren't given the material to work with there isn't a lot you can do.
A really great video! Thanks for reminding me about that DW confidential special, I'd completely forgotten it actually went out. Brought back so many memories of that period when everything about the show such as the logo etc changed. As a 9-year-old it was kind of scary but exciting!
As per the next announcement itself, I would prefer to see a Doctor incorporate their death/regeneration into a plan to defeat the villain. Imagine the villain finally defeating the Doctor, rolling on to complete their master plan (Master plan?) only to have a random underling that only showed up onscreen after the Doctor’s death flick the wrong switch, twist the wrong dial, and bring everything crashing down to a complete failure, and then look at the villain & say, “Yeah, that’s the thing about regenerations. You never really know what you’re gonna get until it happens” then smile, gather up any remaining companions, and fly away in the TARDIS.
I remember getting up at 3am to watch Capaldi’s announcement - of course it was worth it but the surprise regeneration attack is also good… Im sad to see Jodie go as she’s done a great job!
I must have been about 6/7 in 2005 so I was completely unaware 9 was going to regenerate. In fact, I didn't even know what regeneration was. The Doctor just straight up died in front of me and I sobbed for a week. If they can keep the reveal of the 14th Doctor until the regeneration and recreate that level of pure shock I would be overjoyed
Given that Series 14 has apparently already started production, this is unlikely, but I’d love if the BBC kept the casting of 14 a secret till they are revealed in the Centenary/60th.
Fantastic video!! A must watch for any DW fan 👍 I actually avoided all spoilers for Chris to David, to the point I didn't know he was leaving, so it was an amazing moment when he regenerated! I felt like the Doctor when the Runaway Bride turned up in the Tardis!
What sticks in my mind about Peter Capaldi's announcement as much as the reveal, is Rufus Hound (who is fantastic) getting the "He knocks four times" prophecy wrong and Bernard Cribbins (who is even more fantastic) bailing him out. I'd love to see a huge announcement of a massive, big name actor to play The Doctor with all the fanfare and celebration then, about twenty minutes into their first episode they regenerate into the actor that will continue the legacy.
Thanks for putting this one together. I've got to admit, I'm enjoying the anticipation of the next doctor's reveal almost as much as I enjoy the show itself.
I really really loved the video announcement of 13. Not only was the video and event itself great but it was great to see all the analysis videos that came out afterwards trying to speculate on what we were getting
I think the safest bet is they'll drop a video announcing T'Nia Miller (or whoever, but probably) as 14th this Sunday after "Legend of the Sea-Devils". Which is a dumb move and unfair to the episode and everyone who worked on it, with all they're work getting overshadowed like that. But that's what I think will happen.
The fact that Sylvester McCoy is literally standing on a box is hilarious. I actually remember watching the Hobbit, seeing him next to Ian McKellen, and thinking that he probably was, but to see it in the press release is deeply funny.
Smiths announcement was bloody great. As was Capaldi's, Moffat REALLY knew how to manage the show beyond the episodes, but he wouldn't have been able to do what he done without RTD'S amazing work to springboard from. Just so glad the Chinballs era is over.
I personally hate when an actor announces their leave before the airing of their last series stars. Jodie broke my heart and Flux hadn't even started airing. I've loved her era and am enjoying her specials but I am also eagerly looking forward to what is next and want to know who the 14th Doctor is already. The wait is killing me, all of us I think, and that's why I agree that the timing of her announcement was all wrong and it must've been to get ahead of news stories and rumors- which I'm glad they did, if true, because Jodie has dealt with enough media bashing as it is.
@@nathanielfarkas4431 I also hate the fact that they are REALLY stretching these last few episodes out as far as reasonable possible. I dont want to wait until October-November for the last episode >:(
i can’t wait to see who the new doctor will be!! matt smith’s announcement is probably my favorite! i also remember watching john hurt’s and thinking it was so cool
I had for a while an idea for a secret regeneration story (one that by it's very nature requires no announcements, except perhaps that the previous Doctor will be leaving soon, though not saying exactly when, on the day or previous day, not sure how that might work though) which I called "The Unknown Enemy" and in as sense is a semi-sequel to "Planet of Spiders" (and the beginning of a major season arc) but it sort of reverses the protagonists & antagonists dynamic with the Humans of Metebelis III sort of becoming the secondary bad guys of the story while the now reformed Spiders being now the victims and the Doctor unexpectedly & secretly regenerates after being separated from the companion and lured into a trap by a mysterious figure that's followed them to the planet, this figure then takes the previous Doctor's place for some nefarious plot to gain access to a world ending superweapon, however the companion starts to realise something is very wrong and "the Doctor" is acting totally out of character but this impostor seems to know everything about the Doctor, including stuff they shouldn't including a conversation they had in the Tardis just before they arrived. Meanwhile, the newly regenerated Doctor (the actual Doctor) along with a new edition to the Tardis crew (who happens to be a friendly and quite cute psychic spider) must prove their identity but the regeneration has left the new Doctor temporarily mute when the (real) Doctor recovers their ability to speak and finds a way to prove their identity the impostor is revealed to be a modified remote-controlled "Flesh Ganger" obviously the new Doctor saves everyone spectacularly, defeats the imposter and prevents a war between the humans & the angered Spiders... But the true villain (the Unknown Enemy) of all this has been off-planet the entire time, only communicating through the Ganger, the Doctor notes there's something dangerously familiar about this villain's voice but they remain unsure as to who it might be, it also seems whoever it is this mystery villain has taken some control over the Doctor's Tardis... The only clues we get as to who it is, is a shot of a masked Time-Lord like figure in black & silver robes, sitting in their own Tardis... its throne room like control room has a large stylized "V" symbol on the floor in front of the throne, which the "unknown enemy" is sitting on...
I'm willing to be £5 that this time next week, we'll either know the 14th Doctor, or we'll know when they'll be announced. Not just because of the episode on Sunday, but because knowing Mr TARDIS's luck the BBC will make this video outdated within 2 days.
Well stated, TK, but in order to boost the algorithm, I will now argue with you and state that with Mr TARDIS's luck the BBC will make this video outdated within _8_ days. Let the bitter disputes begin!
@@MarieDesJardin Unfortunately, you have elected to ignore the fact that 8 days from the date of this video being published, is a Saturday, and Chris Chibnall has showcased an anti-Saturday agenda in his era, so it's incredibly unlikely this video will be made outdated within 8 days, but instead either within 7 days or within 9 days or more.
@@tinykemper2561 Your reasoning is tight and sound, but for purposes of feeding the algorithm I must disagree with it. I therefore expect this video to be outdated within 6 or 10 days. No more, no less. The clock is ticking.
Tom Baker and David Tennant. The two greatest doctors of their times respectively and of all time. That being said, they knocked it outta the park almost every time. Eccleston was great, Smith and Capaldi were also great (at his best, Peter Capaldi was absolutely fantastic). The only one I never completely fell in love with by the end has been Jodie Whittacker and that has nothing to do with her being female. Just overall inconsistancies surrounding her period of the show. When she was on she was good, sometimes really good. At times though, she would verge on cringe. I’d heard plenty of rumors that they were gonna stop altogether. (Which would be such a shame as it would be a terrible incarnation to end on and if that were the case I’d probably sooner they ended on Capaldi.) Whoever the new one does end up being, if indeed there is another, I hope it sees a return to form and they can at least match Capaldi’s level.
My favorite announcements have to be the ones where they just drop the bomb on us mid-episode. I love surprises like that, it's like a mini-christmas and leaves my brain asking what the hell?
The stealth bomb reveal of Matt Smith was a stroke of subtle genius. The Stars In Their Eyes reveal of Peter Capaldi was OTT, awkward and seemed so unsuited to him. The show's decline in popularity during Capaldi's tenure, just makes his reveal show seem all the more silly and bittersweet in hindsight.
I feel like that was partially Peter Capaldi's fault. I loved the stories for the most part. There were a few duds like Sleep No More and In The Forest of the Night and the Lake two parter in Season 9 was forgettable aside from one cute moment where the Doctor said "Should I stop now?" and Clara replied "Please do" but for the most part, I think the criticisms of bad writing were blown WAY out of proportion during Capaldi's era. My biggest problem with it was Capaldi himself. Every time he was onscreen in Season 8, he was tolerable at best and infuriating at worst, portraying the Doctor as far too sociopathic for me to see him as a legitimate incarnation until Season 9. And even in Season 9, it was still an uphill battle for Capaldi to win me over, to the point where I didn't care about his suffering in Heaven Sent because I wanted Clara to come back for MY sake, not his. Every other sociopathic Doctor aside from William Hartnell, who was the first and could therefore get away with not fully figuring out the character, had something to remind you that they're an alien. Colin Baker had his ridiculous costume, Sylvester McCoy showed off clownish behaviour and John Hurt, supposedly the darkest Doctor, wasn't sociopathic at all, at least during his onscreen appearances. His shame was based more on how he viewed HIMSELF than what was shown of his Doctor's personality. Peter Capaldi not only lacked John Hurt's self-awareness but played the Doctor's sociopathy so straight that I almost wish he'd been playing the Valeyard instead. It wasn't like watching an alien who genuinely doesn't understand humanity, which was something that Matt Smith could pull off in his sleep. It was like watching a misanthropic human who fully understands humanity and not only resents us but sees us as insects to be played with while he hides behind being "socially awkward" (sound familiar?) as an excuse for his behaviour. Trust me, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I know what social awkwardness should look like - for example, I have trouble maintaining eye contact and a habit of walking with my hands either folded or behind my back - and it doesn't look like what Peter Capaldi was doing. Matt Smith on the other hand could absolutely pull off an autistic and/or socially awkward person. Another thing that keeps getting overlooked is that Capaldi was READY for Clara's betrayal in Dark Water. That means one of two things about his Doctor's personality. Either he's insanely paranoid about the woman who had been saving him for centuries without him noticing (You're welcome, Mr "You can't see me"). Or he was deliberately pushing Clara to her breaking point and had his backup plan in place for when she snapped. To be fair, this part actually can be blamed on the writing to some extent but it wasn't helped by the fact that Capaldi spent most of Season 8 being a complete dick to Clara anyway. We'd already solved the "what are you? A trick? A trap?" thing with Matt Smith, so the only somewhat reasonable excuse for Capaldi being a shitbag to Clara was the VERY vague idea of "the woman in the shop". The Doctor had absolutely no way of knowing that she was his oldest enemy and Clara had already proven her loyalty in both her own life and in the lives of all her echoes. And that's another thing. Outside of a throwaway moment in Day of the Doctor where Clara confirms that she remembers "a bit" of her other lives, the fact that she had countless echoes running around the universe was never brought up again. To Season 9's credit, it called back to Oswin by putting Clara into a Dalek in The Witches Familiar and I actually couldn't tell if the waitress Clara in Hell Bent was an echo or the real Clara until the diner was revealed to be her TARDIS but the sheer lack of gratitude from the Doctor for everything Clara did for him made me dislike him even more. Now let's talk about when Capaldi WASN'T being the Valeyard. In Season 8, he was trying to juggle far too many Doctors at once and he just doesn't have the range to pull that off, which is most notable when he's working with a script that seemed to be written with Matt Smith in mind. For example, if Matt Smith or Patrick Troughton got into a sword and spoon fight with Robin Hood, they'd treat it like the most normal thing in the world but Capaldi wasn't in his comfort zone in that episode. He also didn't have the mischievous, schoolboy like playfulness that William Hartnell could pull off when he wasn't being a grumpy old asshole. And no, Clara saying "Top of the class" in Into the Dalek doesn't change that. If Hartnell were playing the Doctor when she said that, I could buy that he actually needed to be taught a lesson about the potential of a good and/or redeemed Dalek because 1) Hartnell could bring some youth to the Doctor, something that was also one of the best parts of David Bradley's portrayal (just look at his eyes when he stammers "W-what was that?" and tell me that's not a young man in an old man's body) and 2) Hartnell was the Doctor long before the idea of good Daleks was explored with Dalek Sec, Dalek Caan and Oswin. Capaldi's Doctor had seen 2 redeemed Daleks and 1 who was never evil in the first place, so he absolutely knew that redeeming Rusty was possible. To be fair, I think even Laurence Olivier would be stretching himself too thin if he tried to be every Doctor at once on top of being a new Doctor at the same time but Capaldi's no Olivier, so even attempting to do it was a doomed endeavour. To Capaldi's credit, he got his act together in Season 9 but I wouldn't have made it that far if I didn't care so much about Clara. People keep trying to deflect blame onto either her or the writing but how many considered the possibility that Capaldi himself was the problem? John Hurt was a better Doctor in a single episode than he was in his entire debut season and Hurt was under FAR more pressure than Capaldi was.
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You got it will!
@@JeremyDuncan “you got it will”
Huh?
@@Robert-tl2vg Let me translate: I'll do the things you asked me to do, Mr. Tardis.
The BBC used to like the fans of Doctor Who. Now, they treat us as racists, sexists, and stupid. If RTD pulls an Eccleston, it would be great, but I can see it getting worse.
That clip of Colin Baker talking to the kid, broke my heart.
It’s so sad 😭
It's clear he loved the show and he was fucked by the BBC and it's a shame
Bless him...knowiy what we know, that must have hurt so much. Like Peter Capaldi, Colin is a long time wWho fan and has been watching since that start. How they treated him was horrible.
"I'd... like to do it all again." is heartbreaking
Imagine the child's horror when he'd see Colin regenerating.
Colin Baker had every right to resent the show forever for the way the producers treated him but he never took it out on the fans and has always kept his love for the show and be a role model for multiple generations. Legend.
It’s not the character or the actors fault but Eric Saward.
Same with Christopher Eccleston
@@digipeeper Also, RTD’s and others for Eccleston leaving.
I remember DW fandom in the 90s really having it in for his run, largely based on negative reviews in the mags and such; the BBC, knowing about this, held off on releasing many of his eps because they figured they'd sell poorly. Until finally they'd put out just about everything else, so finally they just scraped the bottom of the barrel...Only for fans, seeing his eps with fresh eyes after so long, to surprisingly respond very fondly to them! Don't get me wrong, much about those eps did, in fact, suck, but his portrayal of the Doctor went over a LOT better now, as fans discovered that he was nowhere as abrasive and unlikable as they'd remembered...
@@HandofOmega Call me crazy, the patchwork outfit is actually original and gives this incarnation a lot of zest unfortunately his personality of the majority of the series didn’t match up(irritable shouty and angry). Yes, I have bad taste. Time Lash is my favorite episode and it’s a great Space Adventure.
His Doctor Shined as He is just cool and actually formidable and dangerous!!!
The Matt Smith reveal was such a bizarre thing, I still remember watching it, just came out of nowhere, like we knew we'd meet him in that program but there was just zero build up. Then capaldi's one had enough build up for both of them
Yeah definitely, I remember feeling it was bizarre too
It feels like they cut a big segment out with the announcement.
I feel it was smooth but maybe that’s because I was watching the spin off ‘Sarah Jane adventures’ at the time and they showed David’s exit and Matts entrance at the same time.
And his actual appearance as the Doctor was ridiculously quick, in the actual change
He was just like "geronimo!!!" Into that clip
I'm so glad this video exists. This is major but forgotten Doctor Who history.
You could see the heart break in Colin Baker in that clip. So sad. He deserved so much better.
And feel it!
2:55 “Can you imagine if the Fourteenth Doctor was announced like this?”
Fast forward 2 weeks: It happened 😂
Yeah what happened there? I was waiting for a reveal similar to Jodie's which I actually liked a lot..
Fast forward 6 months. It was wrong anyway lol
How was Ncuti even revealed again? I can't even remember.
@@carealoo744 While he and RTD were on the BAFTA red carpet
@@carealoo744 An Instagram post
I've always hoped that one day they'll just reveal the next Doctor in the episode, with no earlier announcement. I feel like that could be pretty awesome.
The entire reason they do these announcements is because if they don't, someone will leak it first. And then the BBC would have zero control over the introduction
I can’t believe Mr. TARDIS solved the UNIT dating controversy single handedly!!!
Finally. Kinda spun my head a bit. Made we think about incidents during Who in the actual 80s. It cuts muster. Thank you.
That ‘Colin Baker - Too Nice’ cutaway was hilarious 🤣 🤣
Yep love our use of cutaways classic British humour got to love it 😂👏🏻
And now we shall add in "completely random Instagram/Twitter post" announcement
Nice to know that none of us thought of the 14th Doctor being announced by an instagram post.
It was also announced on Twitter 😆
Whilst I didn’t watch it live, the live event around Capaldi’s announcement was definitely my favourite. It was the most grand and exciting and also gave plenty of time for people to watch the announcement as I missed the Whittaker announcement by a few minutes
I remember the aftermath of the announcement and everyone on tumblr, including myself, just found clips of him in The Thick of It and said “yep there’s our doctor” 😉 I don’t know why we went to that and didn’t remember his harrowing performance in Torchwood: Children of Earth but that is the beauty of the internet. I still choose to believe that Twelve’s “shuttity up up up” is a reference to The Thick Of It.
I did watch it live, but unfortunately if was before I became a proper fan, so I wasn't that into it. But it's still my favourite way of announcing it. I love the build up and the drama of it all. Even though I wasn't that bothered at the time, I still remember being tense and holding my breath during the presenter's little monologue before the big reveal.
I feel like the thing that makes his announcement so great is the fact that Capaldi is such a great fan of the show, he brought so much Doctor energy with him immediately and that’s what made this live broadcast work. While others, in my opinion, had to have some time for them to get into the role, you know, and for the fans to get used to them.
@@amadandearbhte4318 yeah same here i wasn’t a fan until my brother introduced me to it and I started watching some 10th doctor episodes and then loved Matt smith as 11 and then I really became a fan in 2016 when seeing capaldi. But I agree peters was my favorite
@@jessica23claire ever time I hear him curse in the thick of it I just imagine that the 12th doctor would say that to people
I'm so nostalgic for the Matt and Capaldi announcements. I definitely think an interview is my ideal way for the announcement. For the longest time all we knew of the 11th Doctor is "Matt Smith twiddles his fingers when talking".
That twiddling alleviated a lot of fears, as I recall!
Christopher Eccleston’s departure was actually intimated before his first episode was aired. In a BBC Radio 2 documentary (I can’t remember the date it was broadcast, but it was before his first episode) Chris was interviewed. The presenter asked “And are you in it for the long run?” Chris replied “I’ve done the long run”. At the time I took this to be an admission that he wouldn’t be doing a second series - it was in the past tense. I have always wondered why no-one else picked this up.
I've seen this interview before. I know which clip you mean. He's asked if he regenerates and he doesn't confirm or deny. He's told that fans won't be happy until he does years and years and he says that he's done 13, 45 minute episodes so that's much longer than classic seasons and episodes.
My favorite way to announce a new Doctor: complete surprise. The John Hurt reveal was _incredibly_ hype.
Yeah, that's how I want 14 to happen, just in the episode. I can't imagine that'll happen because I don't think they'll be able to stop a leak like that, but that would be awesome if they could!
@@GedUK lmao
@@themythicwaffle yup, the leak killed the chance! Though I think they were going to announce it just before the BAFTAs went out
Iirc at the time there had been photos of Hurt on set for the filming of the 50th and given his outfit it was assumed he was another Doctor. Not confirmed at all, till the end of Name, but we did still know he had been cast before that.
John Hurt doesn't get enough respect for his performance as the Doctor. That might be partially because he was already a legendary actor before Doctor Who but when he was cast as the Doctor, I hadn't seen him fully flex his acting chops onscreen. I'd heard him in a few voice acting roles (Kilgharrah and Woundwort were awesome) and seen his cameos in V for Vendetta and Harry Potter but voice acting is easier than physical acting because you don't need to worry about getting your expressions and body language right and the physical roles I've seen Hurt in didn't ask too much of him. Because I was going in without a great deal of knowledge about his career outside of everybody hyping him up as one of the greatest actors of his day, I was pleased to see that John Hurt's reputation had not been exaggerated. He really was one of the best of the best because he was under more pressure than any actor in the history of Doctor Who, with only Patrick Troughton and Matt Smith coming close, and he still delivered in spades. A lesser actor like Peter Capaldi or even Matt Smith would have buckled under the weight of being 1) the oldest Doctor ever, 2) a last minute addition to the 50th anniversary, 3) in danger of being upstaged by the 3 most popular Doctors of all time (yes, the Curator counts) and 4) not given enough time to fully flesh out his incarnation and grow comfortable in the role. Hurt had one shot to get it right and he hit the bullseye dead centre.
I know it's extremely unlikely, But I would personally love it if we could make it to the centenary special... and still not know who 14 is until Jodie regenerates.
I just think that'd great. The only way they could have made it greater would have been if they didn't announce Jodie's departure, so when she Regenerates, it's a complete surprise.
Again, the likelihood of that happening is infinitesimal... But I think it would be cool.
Same, highly unlikely but we can dare to dream.
@@hotdog1214 Yeah a surprise regeneration/surprise new Doctor has been a dream of mine since I was a kid, but I feel like its almost literally impossible unless it was a brief cameo right at the end of a special/series (filmed in a closed set close to transmission) and there was a long gap before filming began resumed
If only; it's just impossible! I mean, I know RTD is doing specials next year, so it's not entirely impossible to keep it to a closed set, but it's very unlikely. Everything Doctor Who does is leaked by someone.
It's very sad really.
I know RTD wanted to keep Ecceslton's Regen completely secret, but that leaked so...but yes it would be cool if they just kept mum until the actual regeneration so it would be surprised.
9 to 10 may have leaked, but I didn't know about it, so it took me by complete surprise! DW has become such a big THING since then, and the media and public are so thirsty for details, but a surprise like that would be my preferred way to learn about the new Doc...
2022: a tweet, apparently
How modern
17:23 - “Don’t know if he’s quite sinister enough” - *Peter, UK*
A decade and a half later, Peter was able to utilize his attack eyebrows to bring a sufficient level of ‘sinister’ to the role.
Trouble is, Peter Capaldi went too far in Season 8. I barely saw the Doctor at all throughout that season and I almost think of him as being the Valeyard instead. Now that I've actually seen some of Michael Jayston's performance, I think it was a huge missed opportunity to not bring him back and use him to emphasise how far the Doctor fell after Capaldi took over. The Valeyard could have been hanging out in Missy's Nethersphere because he's an amalgamation of the Doctor instead of a full regeneration - this would also explain why Missy was so desperate to be friends with the Doctor again - then at the end of Season 8, he escapes from the Nethersphere and goes back to confront Colin Baker.
@@tomnorton4277That was kind of the overarching story of Seasonate am I a good man
@@plantainsame2049 Well it felt like a villain going through a redemption arc. That's not how the Doctor was supposed to come across.
John Hurt, Christopher Ecclestone, William Hartnell and even Colin Baker were basically doing the same character arc and none of them came across as outright villainous. Ecclestone was, to quote Jacki Tyler, "all charm and smiles" when he wasn't brooding about the Time War. Hurt could actually get away with coming across as evil since he was IN the Time War but there wasn't a single wicked bone in his body. Hartnell changed his performance during the reshoots of An Unearthly Child to stop the Doctor from coming across as an outright terrible person. And Baker, even after strangling her in a fit of post regeneration paranoia, instinctively tried to rush to Peri's aid when he realised she was in danger. His immediate reaction was "I must go to her! I must save her!" and that was in his first story, before he started softening up.
Meanwhile, Peter Capaldi was totally fine with throwing Clara under the bus, expected her to be okay with it because in his sociopathic mind he was "respecting" her (Peter Capaldi didn't even sound sincere when he said that), and even had the audacity to lecture Clara about disloyalty in the most self-righteous and hypocritical rant I've ever heard from the Doctor after she'd not only lost her boyfriend, but had also been putting up with the Doctor's shit for most of the season. And there was no sense of introspection or self-awareness in Peter Capaldi's performance. Every time he tried to be introspective, he came across as a shitty man trying to pretend that he's not a shitty man so that the only person who puts any effort into supporting him doesn't leave. The most obvious display of this is that Capaldi was constantly projecting his issues onto Clara, whether it's a life or death situation or petty shit like Matt Smith regenerating into an ugly git with no self-esteem, and expecting her to either sort them out or validate his behaviour. It was like watching an abusive relationship.
If I were in Clara's place, I would have told Peter Capaldi to get fucked halfway through his first season. I might have even gone out of my way to murder him in the hopes that he'd regenerate into somebody halfway tolerable.
The "Am I a good man?" arc was supposed to come across as a good man questioning himself whilst making genuine mistakes. It wasn't supposed to come across as a terrible man making calculated decisions to be a shitty person and having to learn basic decency from scratch.
@@tomnorton4277 The first doctor tried to Blatantly caven someone's head with a rock
And the 12th doctor still helped Clara even after she. Literally attended to commit murder-suicide on the both of them.
She thought they were on a volcano and she locked them out of the tardis
They wouldn't have even burned due to the tardis shields they would Have starved
And did you listen to his speech he said did You think that I care for you so little Is that betraying me would make a difference
@@plantainsame2049 Yes, but at least he didn't treat Susan like shit. Peter Capaldi treated EVERYBODY like shit, even the people he's supposed to care about.
On paper, Peter Capaldi was supposed to come across as the good guy in Dark Water. In practice, I was on Clara's side. The Doctor was SO fucking self-righteous, hypocritical and preachy, lecturing Clara about doing shit that's totally fine when HE does it and even gaslighting her with "cut out the whining" after he'd been whining for the entire scene while she let him vent without complaint, that I would have happily watched her push him into the volcano. And that was because of Peter Capaldi's performance. That scene could have had me siding with the Doctor is a less obnoxious actor was playing him. For example, the Doctor should have said "cut out the whining" to himself because Clara wasn't the one whining. She was actually being the mature one because she said it was "absolutely fair enough" if he kicked her out.
I know it would be impossible these days with social media and the Internet, but I'd love for the 14th Doctor to be revealed when Jodie regenerates, keep it a secret until the centenary special has finished airing.
To be fair, Jo Martin took me by surprise.
Same, it'd be nice to be able to see it in the episode itself, but unfortunately, that's near to impossible with all sources, everything will be running the story the day it comes out. 🥺
That would be the best. Especially since we still have a whole year before the 14th Doctor gets their first proper episode.
Too late.
That's incredible. I never knew about that early Blu-ray release thing.
210 fans and not a single one spoiled it. Amazing.
Nowadays they'd be demanding millions for their silence 🤦🏼♀️, but then again, maybe Dr. fans are just trustworthy 💖😅
Never get away with it now.
My favourite announcement was Capaldi's. I love the way they had a whole showing of different people talking about their favourite Doctors from the entire 50 years of the show, including Peter Davison talking live. Then to have an interview with Capaldi on top of that was amazing
I remember watching the announcements of Capaldi & Whitaker, however now knowing that Matt Smith was just suddenly announced as the 11th Doctor so out of nowhere is hilarious
Even though Eleven is "my" Doctor, I wished, Capaldi could have stayed forever. Most of my favorite episodes were with him and he was by far the best actor who ever played the role!
"he was by far the best actor who ever played the role!"
So you have never seen Patrick Troughton, then? :-/
@@Nuttybott Can I just have my opinion one single fucking time?
Troughton has been my 2nd favorite Doctor, right after Eleven. But I think, since Capaldi, I'm putting him at #3 now.....
John Hurt acted circles around Peter Capaldi and did so whilst under considerably more pressure. Plus he's got a massive resume outside of Doctor Who, so claiming that Capaldi is the best actor to play the Doctor is ludicrous.
I don’t think the Troughton Rule needs to be followed anymore. When Troughton did it, the show was airing 40+ episodes a year with a very brief break, so it was easier to buy. Now, each doctor only has 10-12 episodes a season every eighteen months. They’re not in enough episodes for us to get to know them as well. I think five seasons would be a better choice now.
While the Matt Smith reveal is undoubtedly hilarious, I long for a surprise reveal, like was planned with Tennant until they got worried about leaks. Imagine the absolute shock of not knowing an actor was leaving the show and suddenly they’re regenerating
Ncuti Gatwa, announced by the bbc on May 8th, 2022, with a tweet
I was profoundly impressed by the Matt Smith introduction. "Here he is." What more does one need from an introduction? In 1966 not many kids were told by their parents that Hartnell was leaving, and the playgrounds were in nuclear meltdown on the Monday after the regeneration. Prefects were handing in their badges, etc.
Just picturing this is so funny to me for some reason XD
My favourite announcement was Capaldi’s rockstar entrance, but it’s quite another thing to have the announcement come within an episode itself like the War Doctor and Fugitive Doctor
This video is making me wish we got Adventure in Space and Time biopics every year. Think about it, Troughton having to follow up with one of the weirdest plot devices ever, Pertwee's Manning's and Delgado's relationship, Pertwee's and Troughton's friendship/rivalry, Tom Baker's drama on sets, Davidson following up the most successful run of the show so far, mistreatment of Colin and ending with McCoy having to be the final doctor.
I'd watch it
Also on the RTD, Moffat and Chibnall eras. The RTD era biopic would be awkward 😬 Eccleston’s struggle, Barrowman’s antics and Clarke’s perversion.
@@tokublwhovian This is kinda why I actually don’t want a biopic on RTD era. There is still positivity to all the old doctor’s stuff, and at the end everyone got a happy ending of some kind (Tom’s ending could be the publishing of Scratchman, Davidson, Baker and McCoy would be doing Big Finish)
Stealth bombing Matt Smith. That's something that needs to happen on more television. Random episode of the middle, and Matt Smith just interrupts the broadcast
My favorite has got to be the daily mail interviewing all the bricklayers who worked with Tom Baker. It's priceless even if it isn't the actual announcement
19:36 Maybe Eccleston (my favorite) would have returned for a crossover episode or Day of The Doctor if BBC didn't pull off such a scumbag move right there.
True, true
There is actually a more interesting story around the tenant reveal, he was at the time doing quartermass as a live event on bbc working with Jason Fleming. It was pretty much a done deal the first line was change to “good evening doctor” on the fly by Fleming causing tenant split a rye smile.
I'm still Sad the April Fool's prank saying that Tom Holland was going to be the 14th got me, it didn't show up in my newsfeed until Two days after April Fools, I generally thought for 10 minutes that he was the 14th doctor and I was so excited and then I saw the article was 2 days old... It literally broke my heart 😭
Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi are on the exact opposite ends of the "Announcement" scale and I LOVE IT
Personally I love it when stuff makes it onto screen unleaked. Jo Martin's reveal, McGann's return in Night of the Doctor... it's such a huge geekbumps moment when they can pull it off!
Regarding Troughton's tiny newspaper column, it actually makes sense to me. Replacing a lead actor for a successful show was unheard of at the time. Everyone involved probably wanted the least fuss possible made over it.
I love how far we went when it came to announcing the doctor. Originally with Patrick announced as the doctor it was just a small news article with very little fanfare and then with Matt it’s this very big surprise during a documentary that comes out of nowhere then Capaldi as the doctor he gets this huge announcement with a crowd and everything
The hoodie and dark cloak SHOULD have been Jodie's Doctor / clothes. I like what we end up with too, no doubt - but damn does she scream "I'm the Doctor" in dark clothes.
Also loved Capaldi's entrance, how he talked about it "I'm not the Doctor yet..." Wonderful Doctors,
I remember the 80s ones, and the McGann announcement I didn't get until I saw a trailer on local FOX affiliate. Was crazy, loved McGann tho.
Even tho they obviously resized the clothes she regenerated in (imagine if 13 is flopping around in 12's oversized clothes the whole ep, lol), I still quite like that look on her, and kinda wish they'd kept, or modified, it. The first female Doc should have had some trouble coming to terms with the transition, instead of just instantly adapting to it, imo...
Aw I don't know, I like that her outfit is bright and distinctive
I only vaguely recall pre-Matt Smith announcements, those memories, like the Paul McGann announcement, are lost to time.
My absolute ideal way to announce a new Doctor would be like War and Fugitive Doctor, in universe as it happens. I know that's pretty unlikely to happen what with the constant threat of leaks but as a fan that would be the ultimate reveal - I remember that feeling when 10 got shot by a Dalek and started regenerating, I looked across at my brother (also a Whovian) and we were dumbfounded; it turned out to be fake but that was very exciting.
I do remember the announcements of 12 and 13, being the most recent, and at the time I thought the whole studio thing with Capaldi was a bit cringey - more the fault of the way it was presented rather than Peter himself. So my second choice would be similar to Whittaker's announcement, that really beautifully shot, mysterious piece that revealed the new Doctor - no audience whooping and clapping, no daft presenters asking how they feel being the 'new Doctor Who' 🤦♀ just calm and in the Whoniverse.
now firstly... that steven moffat impression was absolutely amazing! a few years ago I thought of doing a parody animation of steven moffat and if I ever do it I want that guy working on it!!
I loved this video and I would prefer one day for them to just not announce the next doctor, no trailer nothing, just because fans at the moment are very difficult to please and it will force people to actually give it a chance by at the very least watching their first episode
It's astounding to think that there could conceivably be someone who was a small kid in 63, who actually watched all of this happen up to the present day! It's too implausible to think that they *never* missed an episode, but theoretically they could have actually seen every episode ever made...Imagine if they could talk to us here, online!
I remember the adverts for the first series of Doctor Who, I was six then. The opening scenes which were shown in the preview made me expect a rocket as the means of travel. I didn't manage to watch every episode up to the last Peter Capaldi when it first came out but I have seen every one up until the thirteenth doctor, which I just can't watch.
@@euanmarley7421 Wow, this is exactly what I didn't think I'd ever hear! If you've really been with this show from its very beginning in 63, I earnestly encourage you to please reach out, either to this channel or some DW site or channel, and offer your story! They, and us fans, would LOVE to hear all about what it was like to be a fan back then, esp what it was like leading up to it; we all know about how the initial ep was pre-empted because of JFK, but we've never heard about it from an actual viewers' perspective...
Telling your story would mean a lot to us all, please consider it!
Well this mature old gal has been around since the start & stayed with it ever since. Its funny to think it's implausible to you.!
Believe it or not there are still many of us still alive. I was eleven and the program inspired my imagination as there had been nothing like it. I kept a Dr Who diary of every episode with my comments right up to the last one. I've got every existing video also. I got heavily into sci fi books in my teens and have written seven sci fi related books. I was sad when the series ended after Capadi but I have such fond memories of all the Doctors and looking forward to my weekly Saturday fix (though that did vary later on).
Haha, I guess I shouldn't sound so surprised, after all, I'm hardly a stripling myself; by which I mean that both my parents are still alive, and they are certainly old enough to have seen the show's beginning, had it been shown in the States (and if they had been into SF)! It's just that I've never heard older fans discuss their memories before, so that idea was somehow new to me. I still encourage ALL of you to reach out to creators, many channels would love to put together a compilation of your reminiscences, and I know the fans would love to hear about them!
(For instance, my major questions are about the first regeneration: Did you know that was coming? Do you remember what the lost footage looked like? How long did it take you and your friends to get used to the new Doctor?)
"Can you imagine if the Fourteenth Doctor gets announced like this? Like, T'Nia Miller just gets announced in the back pages of the Plymouth Herald?"
3 weeks later: Ncuti Gatwa gets announced as the Fourteenth Doctor via a tweet.
Yes
I miss dr who confidential
It may be back in the next era :D
And then the 14th with just a tweet I'm sorry it deserved better then that
Hopefully The New Doctor will be announced very soon. I'm expecting a teaser of it at the end of legend of the sea devils
It be teaser for the 13th last episode then most like a couple weeks or months later we get something about 60th anniversary they won't overshadow legend of the sea devils
@@thedoctorwhomaster3086 Surely RTD2 will be going into production soon? (And RTD isn't like Chibnall on keeping things so secretive) I can't expect them to keep us waiting past the end of May.
@@CharlieInDaUK Perhaps but they may wait at least a few days or weeks before the announcement?
@@Lia-uf1ir exactly thats what said don't expect after legends of the sea devils they wait for longer after that if 14th doctor not in 60th then don't expect anything till after jodie whittaker final special 😉 if the 14th doctor is in 60th then we get something a couple of weeks after legend of the sea devils
@@CharlieInDaUK RTD2 is already in Production I believe. At least for the 60th Anniversary .
I like to see 14 revealed at the very last moment. The way they wanted to do with David Tennant. It's weird thing that somewhere out there with there's someone waiting in the Wings waiting for the queue to enter the TARDIS.
My favourite was Capaldi because that was just such a great event, the build up and the reveal and all the excitement. I remember watching it as it happened and it was very fun.
I personally think they’re going to try another John Hurt for the next one and not tell us who Jodie’s successor is until the regeneration actually happens. I think this because of how long it has been without an announcement and because the latests episode’s next time trailer showed Jodie starting to regenerate which implies they may have already filmed the change over and know who their next Doctor will be.
The part about Colin Baker made me cry! He deserved better!
Like Jodie Whittaker, he was sabotaged by terrible production choices.
@MrTARDIS - I've got the press release from FOX announcing Paul McGann as the new DOCTOR WHO. It came along with an 8x10 B&W of McGann with the TARDIS from the same photoshoot all of the other photos came from. It was accompanied by a short video press kit that had what sounds like the interview with McGann that you quoted along with Sylvester McCoy and I think Segal. I don't have the press release right in front of me so I can't give you the exact date that's on it but I do know that it was in January.
Great video!
I was so befuddled by that moment in the Confidential special back in 2009. Good to finally know it really was that jarring and it wasn't just me not paying attention like I always thought.
I still remember having a mouthful of calzone during David Tennant's announcement and surprised I never choked or did a spittake.
There was a split second where I mistook Jodie Whittaker's eye ball for Anna Freil's eye ball. Probably because she was my #1 pick and I was just willing my eye balls to see what they wanted to see, but whatever. I burst with excitement, then let down, then didn't recognize this blonde woman, then "Broadchurch girl"'s name came up and went "oh, yeah. She was great. Hardly recognised her". It was a rollercoaster.
Anyway, great video. This was really worth the wait.👍
Yeah same with the Matt Smith announcement! 🤣 I remember his clip coming on and I actually rewound the TV thinking he must have already have been mentioned or shown and I blinked and missed it somehow
14: We KNOW it will not be a White Person.
No Problem obviously with that very facct: the problem is with us knowing it.
Colin Bakers tenure remains a tragedy. He was as much a fan as Tenant and Capaldi and he had just started to really settled in when they petformed thst dick move on him. I give thanks to Big Finish for giving him his dues and treating him with the respect he deserved.
The 14th doctor will be announced on RTD's Instagram
My favorite reveal had to be John Hurt. I've been a fan of his forever, and to see such a big name cast as the Doctor... blew me away!
This is an amazing, informative video! Particularly love the "Colin Baker was too nice" moment. 🤣🤣 I find it fascinating seeing those old announcement articles and interviews from Who history. Keep up the great work!
The way 14 got announced was rather understated like 2 and 3
Superb, comprehensive exploration of all the announcements of Doctor Who casting. Two thoughts:
1. I really liked the short 1min video revealing Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.
2. What if: in Jodie's final special, as she regenerates, and there's all the yellow energy, the camera pans away and the new Doctor arrives but off-screen (!) with an indistinct sigh, an exhale of air. So we don't know who it is or even if they're a man or a woman (!) And we have to wait until 2023's Season 14 to see the new Doctor for the first time!
60th anniversary special maybe?
It’s insane that they’ve never kept it secret until the right moment.
I’d love to see them do a reveal actually IN the episode. But failing that and knowing the show’s track record for blowing their load on announcements I think the Capaldi reveal was the peak of Doctor reveals.
While I think Tennant’s surprise award acceptance announcement was the best departure announcement.
That being said the show probably isn’t popular or well liked enough any more to do a televised announcement special.
And the chance of The Doctor winning a TV award for their performance is slim
I remember Matt Smith being announced on that TV special and thought "You're winging this!" so wasn't impressed. Still I calmed myself down and gave him a chance. He turned out to be one of my Top 3 Doctors of all time.
loved matt
Peter Capaldi’s anxiousness, first doctor fanfare, and comment that plying the Doctor “won’t be easy because he hasn’t played the Doctor since he was nine” are all so adorable and lovely. I’ve always seen him as someone who was very honored to be in that role and humble and appreciative to the fans for welcoming and accepting him. It’s also a really sad watch to see when they gave him the Sonic Screwdriver prop on the set of “Twice Upon a Time” and he starts crying.
Peter Capaldi's better as a Doctor Who fan than as the Doctor himself. His sheer terror of playing his childhood hero came through in his performance so he had none of the confidence, power or charisma that the Doctor's supposed to have. Instead, he overcompensated by playing him as a sociopathic arsehole and hiding behind self-righteous speeches which, until The Zygon Inversion where he actually had something worthwhile to say, came across as a man desperately trying to pretend he's more powerful, important, knowledgable and experienced than he actually is. For all the grey hair on Peter Capaldi's head, I almost never believed he had lived for thousands of years. Matt Smith could convey how ancient the Doctor was with a single glance.
Hiring a lifelong fan worked with David Tennant but that was lighting in a bottle. Clearly, Steven Moffat hoped it would strike twice but he overestimated Peter Capaldi's abilities.
I’d love it if you just kept editing this video onwards whenever a new doctor came out lol
No one talking how heartbreaking that Colin baker interview is🥺
I love how little fanfare troughtons announcement had. How much more surprising and shocking it must have made it for all those kids and adults who likely missed such an understated article. As much as I understand the impossibility of keeping secrets today, I’d love to see a doctor that isn’t revealed until the very moment they regenerate
The Twitter announcement this time was a bit disappointing. I was looking forward to a clip or something which would have made it way more exciting. Anyways Im really looking forward to Ncutis first season with Davies :)
Loved this trip down memory lane. I don't know if this helps but Sylvester McCoy revealed Paul McGann as the Doctor at a convention in late 1995, I think. This bit of information was then reported in a monthly fanzine called Time Brains 2013 in Sydney, Australia. I don't have the copy, but it was so early that the following issue the announcement was retracted as nothing could be found to confirm it. Then the issue after that it was confirmed again when the official news reports started rolling in.
Peter has prepared for the role for decades. That's dedication 🤣😍. He is so great
It's odd that the media focused on Tom Baker being a brick layer considering he'd already been nominated for two golden globes and was working with the Royal National Theatre?
I think I like the Peter capaldi type of announcement because it gives you more to see and it makes it feel special.
I was so excited when I saw Jodies reveal. The outfit was timeless and gorgeous, Jodie looked stunning and was glowing, and I thought we'd finally got away from the whole childishness of the ADHD Doctor bouncing around like a maniac. Then the episodes aired and Chibnall put her into a costume even Colin would have called tacky and we got the ADHD dialled up to 11. Truly, the fact the Doctor was now female was so wasted. Jodie is stunning. Her instagram and facebook is full of beautiful pictures of her in the most gorgeous outfits. She could have really played up the female side of the character, but we got a clown costume that removed any authority or gravitas from the role. They could have cast a man and apart from the odd comment it wouldn't have made a difference. There are many problems with the Chibnall era, but the biggest crime to me is taking one of the most beautiful women on television today and making her into a cheap, watered down Sylvester copy. Jo Martin did a better job as the female Doctor in her short screen time than Jodie did in her entire run. And I put that onto Chibnall not to Jodie. When you aren't given the material to work with there isn't a lot you can do.
I would love to see what Jodie Whittaker is capable of with a showrunner like Russel T Davies.
So the doctor isn't allowed to be energetic?
A really great video! Thanks for reminding me about that DW confidential special, I'd completely forgotten it actually went out. Brought back so many memories of that period when everything about the show such as the logo etc changed. As a 9-year-old it was kind of scary but exciting!
2nd Doctors announcment: *silent as hell*
14s announcment: hold my sonic screwdriver
I like Capaldi's huge spectacle, but i loved Hurt's surprise within the show... for the 14th, I think either of these would be amazing.
As per the next announcement itself, I would prefer to see a Doctor incorporate their death/regeneration into a plan to defeat the villain.
Imagine the villain finally defeating the Doctor, rolling on to complete their master plan (Master plan?) only to have a random underling that only showed up onscreen after the Doctor’s death flick the wrong switch, twist the wrong dial, and bring everything crashing down to a complete failure, and then look at the villain & say, “Yeah, that’s the thing about regenerations. You never really know what you’re gonna get until it happens” then smile, gather up any remaining companions, and fly away in the TARDIS.
I haven't seen Jodie's reveal before. Love it. She got me back into it, after being away from it from series 2 onwards. Hope I like the next one.
14:32 reading the article. Thank goodness it wasn’t Bill Cosby
I remember getting up at 3am to watch Capaldi’s announcement - of course it was worth it but the surprise regeneration attack is also good… Im sad to see Jodie go as she’s done a great job!
She was terrible
This video is really incredible and I am so grateful for the research that went into it
I must have been about 6/7 in 2005 so I was completely unaware 9 was going to regenerate. In fact, I didn't even know what regeneration was. The Doctor just straight up died in front of me and I sobbed for a week. If they can keep the reveal of the 14th Doctor until the regeneration and recreate that level of pure shock I would be overjoyed
Given that Series 14 has apparently already started production, this is unlikely, but I’d love if the BBC kept the casting of 14 a secret till they are revealed in the Centenary/60th.
Ncuiti- a tweet
Fantastic video!! A must watch for any DW fan 👍 I actually avoided all spoilers for Chris to David, to the point I didn't know he was leaving, so it was an amazing moment when he regenerated! I felt like the Doctor when the Runaway Bride turned up in the Tardis!
"WHAT?"
What sticks in my mind about Peter Capaldi's announcement as much as the reveal, is Rufus Hound (who is fantastic) getting the "He knocks four times" prophecy wrong and Bernard Cribbins (who is even more fantastic) bailing him out.
I'd love to see a huge announcement of a massive, big name actor to play The Doctor with all the fanfare and celebration then, about twenty minutes into their first episode they regenerate into the actor that will continue the legacy.
Haha yes I love this! Kind of like the first Scream movie did with Drew Barrymore
I love how the BBC just goes full circle with Ncuti
UPDATE!!!!!!!
They way they treated Christopher Eccelson is terrible. It damaged his career. Disgusting.
Thanks for putting this one together. I've got to admit, I'm enjoying the anticipation of the next doctor's reveal almost as much as I enjoy the show itself.
My theory for 14? Legends of the Sea Devils could have the answer, at least I'm hoping as much
I think so
Doubt it
I really really loved the video announcement of 13. Not only was the video and event itself great but it was great to see all the analysis videos that came out afterwards trying to speculate on what we were getting
"Introducing John Hurt as The Doctor".
The greatest wtf?! in the entire history of the show.
“Can you imagine if tnia Miller was announced like that?” “27 words” cut to Ncuti being announced with 3 emojis and a plus mark
Exactly what I was thinking lol
I think the safest bet is they'll drop a video announcing T'Nia Miller (or whoever, but probably) as 14th this Sunday after "Legend of the Sea-Devils". Which is a dumb move and unfair to the episode and everyone who worked on it, with all they're work getting overshadowed like that. But that's what I think will happen.
I think my favorite announcement would've been Tennant's, had it not been leaked, and I kinda wish they had done that for Ncuti Gatwa, but oh well.
The fact that Sylvester McCoy is literally standing on a box is hilarious. I actually remember watching the Hobbit, seeing him next to Ian McKellen, and thinking that he probably was, but to see it in the press release is deeply funny.
Smiths announcement was bloody great. As was Capaldi's, Moffat REALLY knew how to manage the show beyond the episodes, but he wouldn't have been able to do what he done without RTD'S amazing work to springboard from. Just so glad the Chinballs era is over.
I personally hate when an actor announces their leave before the airing of their last series stars. Jodie broke my heart and Flux hadn't even started airing. I've loved her era and am enjoying her specials but I am also eagerly looking forward to what is next and want to know who the 14th Doctor is already. The wait is killing me, all of us I think, and that's why I agree that the timing of her announcement was all wrong and it must've been to get ahead of news stories and rumors- which I'm glad they did, if true, because Jodie has dealt with enough media bashing as it is.
I think to which is making it worse is it’s been the longest wait between a doctor leaving and a new one announced other then the hiatus
@@nathanielfarkas4431 I also hate the fact that they are REALLY stretching these last few episodes out as far as reasonable possible. I dont want to wait until October-November for the last episode >:(
i can’t wait to see who the new doctor will be!! matt smith’s announcement is probably my favorite! i also remember watching john hurt’s and thinking it was so cool
I had for a while an idea for a secret regeneration story (one that by it's very nature requires no announcements, except perhaps that the previous Doctor will be leaving soon, though not saying exactly when, on the day or previous day, not sure how that might work though) which I called "The Unknown Enemy" and in as sense is a semi-sequel to "Planet of Spiders" (and the beginning of a major season arc) but it sort of reverses the protagonists & antagonists dynamic with the Humans of Metebelis III sort of becoming the secondary bad guys of the story while the now reformed Spiders being now the victims and the Doctor unexpectedly & secretly regenerates after being separated from the companion and lured into a trap by a mysterious figure that's followed them to the planet, this figure then takes the previous Doctor's place for some nefarious plot to gain access to a world ending superweapon, however the companion starts to realise something is very wrong and "the Doctor" is acting totally out of character but this impostor seems to know everything about the Doctor, including stuff they shouldn't including a conversation they had in the Tardis just before they arrived. Meanwhile, the newly regenerated Doctor (the actual Doctor) along with a new edition to the Tardis crew (who happens to be a friendly and quite cute psychic spider) must prove their identity but the regeneration has left the new Doctor temporarily mute when the (real) Doctor recovers their ability to speak and finds a way to prove their identity the impostor is revealed to be a modified remote-controlled "Flesh Ganger" obviously the new Doctor saves everyone spectacularly, defeats the imposter and prevents a war between the humans & the angered Spiders... But the true villain (the Unknown Enemy) of all this has been off-planet the entire time, only communicating through the Ganger, the Doctor notes there's something dangerously familiar about this villain's voice but they remain unsure as to who it might be, it also seems whoever it is this mystery villain has taken some control over the Doctor's Tardis... The only clues we get as to who it is, is a shot of a masked Time-Lord like figure in black & silver robes, sitting in their own Tardis... its throne room like control room has a large stylized "V" symbol on the floor in front of the throne, which the "unknown enemy" is sitting on...
I'm willing to be £5 that this time next week, we'll either know the 14th Doctor, or we'll know when they'll be announced.
Not just because of the episode on Sunday, but because knowing Mr TARDIS's luck the BBC will make this video outdated within 2 days.
Well stated, TK, but in order to boost the algorithm, I will now argue with you and state that with Mr TARDIS's luck the BBC will make this video outdated within _8_ days. Let the bitter disputes begin!
@@MarieDesJardin Unfortunately, you have elected to ignore the fact that 8 days from the date of this video being published, is a Saturday, and Chris Chibnall has showcased an anti-Saturday agenda in his era, so it's incredibly unlikely this video will be made outdated within 8 days, but instead either within 7 days or within 9 days or more.
@@tinykemper2561 Your reasoning is tight and sound, but for purposes of feeding the algorithm I must disagree with it. I therefore expect this video to be outdated within 6 or 10 days. No more, no less. The clock is ticking.
Ill take that fiver thanks
Fair do's. I'm training the carrier pigeons how to carry a note to your house. Could take a while...
Tom Baker and David Tennant. The two greatest doctors of their times respectively and of all time. That being said, they knocked it outta the park almost every time. Eccleston was great, Smith and Capaldi were also great (at his best, Peter Capaldi was absolutely fantastic). The only one I never completely fell in love with by the end has been Jodie Whittacker and that has nothing to do with her being female. Just overall inconsistancies surrounding her period of the show. When she was on she was good, sometimes really good. At times though, she would verge on cringe.
I’d heard plenty of rumors that they were gonna stop altogether. (Which would be such a shame as it would be a terrible incarnation to end on and if that were the case I’d probably sooner they ended on Capaldi.) Whoever the new one does end up being, if indeed there is another, I hope it sees a return to form and they can at least match Capaldi’s level.
Pertwee and Smith are my personal faves but i admit Tennant and Baker is the G. O. A. T
My favorite announcements have to be the ones where they just drop the bomb on us mid-episode. I love surprises like that, it's like a mini-christmas and leaves my brain asking what the hell?
The stealth bomb reveal of Matt Smith was a stroke of subtle genius. The Stars In Their Eyes reveal of Peter Capaldi was OTT, awkward and seemed so unsuited to him. The show's decline in popularity during Capaldi's tenure, just makes his reveal show seem all the more silly and bittersweet in hindsight.
the joke is Peter Capaldi riding a tank while playing an electric guitar in medieval times
I feel like that was partially Peter Capaldi's fault. I loved the stories for the most part. There were a few duds like Sleep No More and In The Forest of the Night and the Lake two parter in Season 9 was forgettable aside from one cute moment where the Doctor said "Should I stop now?" and Clara replied "Please do" but for the most part, I think the criticisms of bad writing were blown WAY out of proportion during Capaldi's era. My biggest problem with it was Capaldi himself. Every time he was onscreen in Season 8, he was tolerable at best and infuriating at worst, portraying the Doctor as far too sociopathic for me to see him as a legitimate incarnation until Season 9. And even in Season 9, it was still an uphill battle for Capaldi to win me over, to the point where I didn't care about his suffering in Heaven Sent because I wanted Clara to come back for MY sake, not his. Every other sociopathic Doctor aside from William Hartnell, who was the first and could therefore get away with not fully figuring out the character, had something to remind you that they're an alien. Colin Baker had his ridiculous costume, Sylvester McCoy showed off clownish behaviour and John Hurt, supposedly the darkest Doctor, wasn't sociopathic at all, at least during his onscreen appearances. His shame was based more on how he viewed HIMSELF than what was shown of his Doctor's personality. Peter Capaldi not only lacked John Hurt's self-awareness but played the Doctor's sociopathy so straight that I almost wish he'd been playing the Valeyard instead. It wasn't like watching an alien who genuinely doesn't understand humanity, which was something that Matt Smith could pull off in his sleep. It was like watching a misanthropic human who fully understands humanity and not only resents us but sees us as insects to be played with while he hides behind being "socially awkward" (sound familiar?) as an excuse for his behaviour. Trust me, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I know what social awkwardness should look like - for example, I have trouble maintaining eye contact and a habit of walking with my hands either folded or behind my back - and it doesn't look like what Peter Capaldi was doing. Matt Smith on the other hand could absolutely pull off an autistic and/or socially awkward person.
Another thing that keeps getting overlooked is that Capaldi was READY for Clara's betrayal in Dark Water. That means one of two things about his Doctor's personality. Either he's insanely paranoid about the woman who had been saving him for centuries without him noticing (You're welcome, Mr "You can't see me"). Or he was deliberately pushing Clara to her breaking point and had his backup plan in place for when she snapped. To be fair, this part actually can be blamed on the writing to some extent but it wasn't helped by the fact that Capaldi spent most of Season 8 being a complete dick to Clara anyway. We'd already solved the "what are you? A trick? A trap?" thing with Matt Smith, so the only somewhat reasonable excuse for Capaldi being a shitbag to Clara was the VERY vague idea of "the woman in the shop". The Doctor had absolutely no way of knowing that she was his oldest enemy and Clara had already proven her loyalty in both her own life and in the lives of all her echoes. And that's another thing. Outside of a throwaway moment in Day of the Doctor where Clara confirms that she remembers "a bit" of her other lives, the fact that she had countless echoes running around the universe was never brought up again. To Season 9's credit, it called back to Oswin by putting Clara into a Dalek in The Witches Familiar and I actually couldn't tell if the waitress Clara in Hell Bent was an echo or the real Clara until the diner was revealed to be her TARDIS but the sheer lack of gratitude from the Doctor for everything Clara did for him made me dislike him even more.
Now let's talk about when Capaldi WASN'T being the Valeyard. In Season 8, he was trying to juggle far too many Doctors at once and he just doesn't have the range to pull that off, which is most notable when he's working with a script that seemed to be written with Matt Smith in mind. For example, if Matt Smith or Patrick Troughton got into a sword and spoon fight with Robin Hood, they'd treat it like the most normal thing in the world but Capaldi wasn't in his comfort zone in that episode. He also didn't have the mischievous, schoolboy like playfulness that William Hartnell could pull off when he wasn't being a grumpy old asshole. And no, Clara saying "Top of the class" in Into the Dalek doesn't change that. If Hartnell were playing the Doctor when she said that, I could buy that he actually needed to be taught a lesson about the potential of a good and/or redeemed Dalek because 1) Hartnell could bring some youth to the Doctor, something that was also one of the best parts of David Bradley's portrayal (just look at his eyes when he stammers "W-what was that?" and tell me that's not a young man in an old man's body) and 2) Hartnell was the Doctor long before the idea of good Daleks was explored with Dalek Sec, Dalek Caan and Oswin. Capaldi's Doctor had seen 2 redeemed Daleks and 1 who was never evil in the first place, so he absolutely knew that redeeming Rusty was possible. To be fair, I think even Laurence Olivier would be stretching himself too thin if he tried to be every Doctor at once on top of being a new Doctor at the same time but Capaldi's no Olivier, so even attempting to do it was a doomed endeavour.
To Capaldi's credit, he got his act together in Season 9 but I wouldn't have made it that far if I didn't care so much about Clara. People keep trying to deflect blame onto either her or the writing but how many considered the possibility that Capaldi himself was the problem? John Hurt was a better Doctor in a single episode than he was in his entire debut season and Hurt was under FAR more pressure than Capaldi was.