@@MidnightChimey Empire is certainly more *watchable* than Ranskoor is, in the sense that it’s not utterly boring and flaccid, but genuinely I’ll take boring over something that feels like it’s actively insulting my intelligence and emotional investment.
What a great and insighful review. RTD has become so arrogant not only does he no longer care about narrative and satsfying resolutions but he seems to think that alll his opinions are fact and those who take a different perspective are wrong. That man is an egotistical manipulative piece of hypocrisy.
@@MidnightChimey I probably am going over-the-top. I just feel he barely resembles the same showrunner from 2005. That and he always is speaking to the press causing controversy where/when he has no need to. Have a top weekend.
@@MidnightChimey They needed to send in some Daleks to deal with the babies. Now THAT is TV I'd tune in for! AND LAUGH LOUDLY!!! (Alondro is a monster, you see...) >:D
@@MidnightChimey I'm afraid those sources were incorrect. RTD was based in Manchester at the time, and I've never seen any proof that Chibnall was part of the Vauxhall Tavern group.
I honestly cannot understand how ANYONE could like or defend this show. These aren't stories, they're just a series of "events happening for no reason". That's not how TV shows are supposed to work. You can't just have random events happening. And the Doctor is now a wizard who can make anything appear out of thin air with his screwdriver. The show is nonsensical, not to mention offensive on so many levels, with the racism, sexism, etc.
Dragging Sutekh backwards through the time vortex wouldn’t bring everything in the universe back to life because the vortex isn’t the physical fixed realm and also Sutekh wasn’t originally trapped in the time vortex. Death to death brings life! What utter crap! We’ve had magic hammers, magic gloves, magic earrings and intelligent rope! 😂😂Just stupid. No doubt RTD will say we’re in a fantasy realm and so any fantastical plots are permissible but wasn’t the Toymaker defeated and so why would we still be in this fantasy realm? Clearly RTD can’t write science fiction and relies on badly constructed fantasy. He can’t write the Doctor properly and so creates a bi-generated Doctor so he can sexualise and humanise the Doctor for his own pleasure. It’s a stinking mess.
RTD won't try to justify his "fantastical plots" with any in-universe explanation because he doesn't feel the need to, as far as he's concerned the show isn't grounded in realism, and whether you like that or not I feel is quite subjective. I don't mind it for the most part, but the finale didn't work
Same, I hate those. But it wasn't that and I ended up mostly agreeing. It would be great to have some fresh new writers and more of them, even the show-runner, the next show-runner has to be someone new. David Tennant's return and the bigeneration not being explained sucked, like even Capaldi's face was explained in a satisfying way and he only played a character in a single episode previously... Tennant was a whole doctor. The bigeneration seems to be just written in for the sake of Tennant having like a 'happy ending', but there is no in universe explanation of it...
@@Neimit Normally I'm not fixated on every detail being explained but the trouble with Tennant coming back that bothers me is unless you explain it away somehow, it opens the door for any previous actor to just come back at any time, which is not a good direction for the show to go in, it's just not.
You hateful woke people need to understand that good people were here first. and we will ultimately triumph. You tyrants may currently have complete control over the media, hating and attacking everyone who refuses to join your religion, and says not to your unthinkable immorality, but this country used to be in the hands of good people - people who weren't racist, sexist or homophobic. People who didn't hate their fellow human beings, who had respect, love, kindness in their hearts, who believed in equality and tolerance. For hundreds of years, our society was good, and one day it will be good again when woke is overcome. You can hate. attack and "cancel" good people all you like but we were here first and ultimately, good people will triumph over you and your hatred. Your vicious, bigoted ways will be no more. I fully expect to be attacked for writing this because that's the woke way sadly.
Empire of Death somehow, impossibly, manages to be a worse finale than The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos. I genuinely didn’t think that was possible.
Honestly I'd probably still put it above Ranskoor Av Kolos, but it is a bit lackluster, particularly with how the Ruby's mum mystery box is tied up
Indeed
@@MidnightChimey Empire is certainly more *watchable* than Ranskoor is, in the sense that it’s not utterly boring and flaccid, but genuinely I’ll take boring over something that feels like it’s actively insulting my intelligence and emotional investment.
@@ThePonderer Good point, albeit emotional investment was a non-factor in the "arcless" Series 11.
Worse than ranmoor? No. It absolutely stands head over shoulders above that abomination.
I only think RTD ever really bothered about it very much. And now he's unfettered! 😯
He has more confidence, dare I say arrogance, as a writer now I'd say
No, the dog for a walk had zero logic to it.
If you squint very hard it had logic
"RTD does not do cause and effect." Amen to that. Set some German philosophers onto him.
What a great and insighful review. RTD has become so arrogant not only does he no longer care about narrative and satsfying resolutions but he seems to think that alll his opinions are fact and those who take a different perspective are wrong. That man is an egotistical manipulative piece of hypocrisy.
Don't know if I'd go that far but there is an arrogance in the way RTD comes across these days
@@MidnightChimey I probably am going over-the-top. I just feel he barely resembles the same showrunner from 2005. That and he always is speaking to the press causing controversy where/when he has no need to. Have a top weekend.
Because our only 3 lead writers for the last 20 years have been plotting something for far longer.
I ranked space babies below this but I take that back because at Least that episode made sense
Space Babies is fine honestly, just a bit of an anonymous filler episode with some jank effects
@@MidnightChimey tbf if my kids were still under 5 they would have liked it
@@MidnightChimey They needed to send in some Daleks to deal with the babies. Now THAT is TV I'd tune in for! AND LAUGH LOUDLY!!! (Alondro is a monster, you see...) >:D
RTD and decent writting ...thats like expecting Chibnall to write anything that at least 3 year old would find good.
RTD and dare I say even Chibnall have both proven capable of it on occasion, that's what is frustrating
RTD and Chibnall weren't part of the Fitzroy Tavern set.
I've come across a few sources (including Verdana's video) that indicate they were part of that circle
@@MidnightChimey I'm afraid those sources were incorrect. RTD was based in Manchester at the time, and I've never seen any proof that Chibnall was part of the Vauxhall Tavern group.
I honestly cannot understand how ANYONE could like or defend this show. These aren't stories, they're just a series of "events happening for no reason". That's not how TV shows are supposed to work. You can't just have random events happening. And the Doctor is now a wizard who can make anything appear out of thin air with his screwdriver. The show is nonsensical, not to mention offensive on so many levels, with the racism, sexism, etc.
What racism, sexism?
Dragging Sutekh backwards through the time vortex wouldn’t bring everything in the universe back to life because the vortex isn’t the physical fixed realm and also Sutekh wasn’t originally trapped in the time vortex. Death to death brings life! What utter crap! We’ve had magic hammers, magic gloves, magic earrings and intelligent rope! 😂😂Just stupid. No doubt RTD will say we’re in a fantasy realm and so any fantastical plots are permissible but wasn’t the Toymaker defeated and so why would we still be in this fantasy realm? Clearly RTD can’t write science fiction and relies on badly constructed fantasy. He can’t write the Doctor properly and so creates a bi-generated Doctor so he can sexualise and humanise the Doctor for his own pleasure. It’s a stinking mess.
RTD won't try to justify his "fantastical plots" with any in-universe explanation because he doesn't feel the need to, as far as he's concerned the show isn't grounded in realism, and whether you like that or not I feel is quite subjective. I don't mind it for the most part, but the finale didn't work
@@MidnightChimey The finale certainly didn’t work on that we can agree.
Ok. I was worried you were going to be one of those 'Doctor Who has gone woke' idiots. But I do understand your point.
I seem to attract plenty of them
Same, I hate those. But it wasn't that and I ended up mostly agreeing.
It would be great to have some fresh new writers and more of them, even the show-runner, the next show-runner has to be someone new.
David Tennant's return and the bigeneration not being explained sucked, like even Capaldi's face was explained in a satisfying way and he only played a character in a single episode previously... Tennant was a whole doctor. The bigeneration seems to be just written in for the sake of Tennant having like a 'happy ending', but there is no in universe explanation of it...
@@Neimit Normally I'm not fixated on every detail being explained but the trouble with Tennant coming back that bothers me is unless you explain it away somehow, it opens the door for any previous actor to just come back at any time, which is not a good direction for the show to go in, it's just not.
@@MidnightChimey Can we swap audiences?
You hateful woke people need to understand that good people were here first. and we will ultimately triumph. You tyrants may currently have complete control over the media, hating and attacking everyone who refuses to join your religion, and says not to your unthinkable immorality, but this country used to be in the hands of good people - people who weren't racist, sexist or homophobic. People who didn't hate their fellow human beings, who had respect, love, kindness in their hearts, who believed in equality and tolerance. For hundreds of years, our society was good, and one day it will be good again when woke is overcome. You can hate. attack and "cancel" good people all you like but we were here first and ultimately, good people will triumph over you and your hatred. Your vicious, bigoted ways will be no more. I fully expect to be attacked for writing this because that's the woke way sadly.
So...I hear you saying that New Who is President Biden.