DID IT SUCK? | Doctor Who [THE POWER OF THE DOCTOR REVIEW]
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2022
- Finally, Harry spills his guts about Chibnall's grand finale: The Power of the Doctor. Within, he discusses Jodie's regeneration and the quality of the episode at large.
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Dude, just don't comment on the classic companions if you don't know what they're doing
Ace doesn't like baseball- she just used a baseball bat to beat up a Dalek in one of her stories. It's arguably the most iconic moment for her.
Chill, man. This was good.
@@steveandjeanniefrith236 I agree- I think a little nostalgia goes a long way. And while I know that everyone likes to act all tough and say that media shouldn't be thinking about the past and always looking forward, I personally think that that's all a load of balloney.
I think one of Series 11's greatest problems was that it very rarely acknowledged the fact that the show existed before 2018. Other than Jodie Whittaker wearing Peter Capaldi's clothes for the first episode, and the fact that she called herself: "The Doctor," there is literally not a single reason for us to even believe that what we were watching was Doctor Who in the first episode.
And sure- The Eleventh Hour was the same, but at least that had the TARDIS, as well as those flashbacks to the previous monsters and Doctors and... You know, it was well-written.
Seasons 7 and 13 also had no returning monsters or anything like that, but at least they had the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, the Fourth Doctor, and Sarah Jane to convince us that we were still watching the same show as before.
Nice Top Secret edit there! 👍
It's my #1 all time favorite comedy.....
The part where Graham turned up randomly inside a volcano in Bolivia with no establishing shot or explanation to how he got there had me dying of laughter
Easily amused then.
I loved it
I was just glad that Bradley Walsh had something more to do than a simple cameo at the end, which is what filming images seemed to imply.
Your profile picture is marvelous
@@Robert-tl2vg - I don’t think that was the point being made mate . . .
Rose was left with a another doctor and a tardis to grow, martha got a job at unit( thanks to the doctor recommending her)boosting her straight to her dream status as a doctor, donna got a winning lottery ticket, Amy and Rory got a house and car, clara got a whole tardis. But dan has to sleep on his mums sofa
This leads to him becoming Evil Dan.
Still a better ending than some other companions
@@PlatinumAltaria ooh, so the villain arc begins, this character is about to get a lot more interesting!
@beef business yeah but it would be nice to think it is canon, since Russell does too, it was just cut because someone els thought it would disturb an emotional scene, either way she got the man of her dreams, that sometimes talks like donna
@@PlatinumAltaria i didn’t know I wanted this till I read this! It must come now!
‘Did it suck?’ is a question that can be answered in the affirmative with another question - ‘Did Chibnall write it?’
Or "did chinball showrun it"?
The best thing I’ve ever heard about this era is that the dialogue is written as if it’s a audio show
So true!!
ngl that’s a discredit to audio dramas. even they are way more subtle than this era lmao
The worse thing about the reaction of Yaz and the doctor with the other companions is that its been done before....there's no way you can get it wrong and yet Chibnall even butchers this
This episode was absurd, nonsensical and incoherent…and I really enjoyed it. It was at least fun and entertaining, rather than Chibnall’s boring and tedious drivel. I would argue items Chibnall’s best episode and would give it a 4/10.
My partner was the camera man for the long shot in the jail 😅 I love your reviews so I just excitedly ran into the living room to tell him you likes it 😅
Not everything is bad in these shows. Some really good stuff by people who largely go unappreciated. Give him a hug.
That's exactly why I wanted Ian to show up, even if just for a cameo, for so-long. It'll be amazing for fans of the show in the years to come to know that the actor lived so-long.
You are absolutely right. It's an unholhy mess that gets worse the more you try to analyse it. I had great fun, which was mostly missing during Chibnall's era
Honestly I think it's fine for an episode to be a mess on paper but still a fun experience, that could be said about a lot of Moffat's run but I still find myself coming back to that era quite a bit. Agree that the energy in this episode was unmatched compared to a majority of Chibnall Who
If only the forced regeneration ended with Evil Jodie and not Dhawan in the Doctor's clothes
Fun fact! Vinder's actor, Jacob Anderson is also a musician under the name of, Rayleigh Ritchie and his music is seriously worth a listen
He also plays Grey Worm, the leader of Daenerys's unsullied army in Game of Thrones, if anyone hasn't noticed.
Wikipedia considers some of his stuff to be trip hop, I do really like trip hop so I might have to check his stuff out, thanks for the rec!
Those scenes with Tegan and Ace interacting with their Doctors actually do serve a bit of a larger purpose: closure. Both companions are notable for having a complicated relationship with their respective Doctors and didn't leave them on the best of terms. Tegan didn't initially want to travel with the Doctor and spent much of the time with him complaining about wanting to go back home. Then, when he did get her home, she realized that she made a mistake leaving him which ultimately lead to her rejoining him when she encountered him in Amsterdam a year later, only to eventually abruptly leave him after getting tired of all the death and destruction. Meanwhile Ace spent years traveling with the Doctor, constantly coping with his lies and manipulation throughout their travels which ultimately ends with her getting fed up and leaving him (the circumstances of which vary depending on which EU continuity for Seven and Ace you follow). Now I will grant you that at the end of the day this just further proves how ill-suited Jodie Whitaker is for this role that she was unable to have these moments on her own like 10 and 11 did with Sarah Jane and Jo Grant respectively, but as someone who loves both of these companions, I was glad to see both of them get closure with their respective Doctors.
I'm pretty sure they picked the original actors for these scenes because they were already there for the weird timelord afterlife scenes!
@@BEE-oz7yd I'm not really sure of the extent to which some of them were there though. Paul McGann, for example, was unable to film his stuff in studio so they just has to have him do his scenes from wherever he was at the time. This is why he wasn't wearing the robes, because they couldn't get them to him.
This was still one of the most entertaining messes ive ever watched
if it wasnt a series finale for an entire era
I don't think anything could sum up this era better than this. The best part of the episode was when Tennant was on screen.
@@PlatinumAltaria agreed he did more in like 8s than chibnall did in nearly 2hrs
@@PapaLuge huh?
The thing about Chibnall is he's so lazy as a writer and cares so little about what he shits out that he can't remember anything he's shat out previously. He does, however, consume what others have written and shits out degraded versions of what they wrote.
@@Robert-tl2vg He's saying Tennant's 8 second appearance was more enjoyable than the entire episode
I love how in a dumb way this episode comes full circle. Jodie's first episode had a scene where something was inserted into the characters bodies... And it happens here too 😂
may i say a genuine "thankyou sir" for the many times you have given me actual laughs out loud.. it is much appreciated
Why is nobody discussing the fact that Vinder is in the wrong time period? He exists in the modern day (when Flux was set) and that wormhole was not established to travel through time, only space. He shouldn't be able to be on the cyber planet in 1916.
You mentioned Dan's exit as being weird and anticlimactic, but to be honest I think Yaz's exit is even more nonsensical.
"You're one of the most special people I've ever met, and I loved being with you."
"I don't want this to end."
"I know. Now bugger off, I'm regenerating."
"K, bye."
I know loads of people shipped these two together, but I can never escape the feeling that the Doctor doesn't really like Yaz all that much
Honestly, I saw it as being the Doctor remembering what happened with Clara and Rose and regeneration and didn't want to put Yaz through that.
@@neptune04 good for you, make up something to try to cover chinballs dreadfully inept writing...
Who can blame her? Yaz is pointless and boring at best, a class a dullard.
@@space1999 *shrugs*
I don't think 13 liked any of her companions very much.
Ace was the only reason I enjoyed this episode, seeing her return was brilliant and I wanted her to beat up a Modernized Dalek so, much.. And did so quite fabulously.
Yeah I really liked Ace. Kinda wouldn't have minded her being a proper returning companion.
This guy’s humour is unmatched 😩😂 I literally laugh all through your videos man. Great review once again. Can’t wait for more.
That companion support group scene was lovely but it wasn’t the same without Sarah Jane for me, it was kinda heartbreaking 😖😖😖
I think ashad killed the soldier at 12:04 simply through the force of slamming him against the wall. Cybermen have been established to be VERY strong as early as tomb of the Cybermen so it's not unreasonable to assume he at least knocked him out with brute force alone.
It could've done with an audible "CRUNCH" or "CRACK" to make it more apparent like it smashed his ribcage (to assume it was lethal).
Alternatively Ashad sent him into the wall with enough force to knock him unconscious to make sure he can't pose opposition but still potentially get converted into a Cyberman once the battle was over.
Similar to how I imagine Cybermen during the Cyber Wars mostly using stun based weapons to be able to preserve more potential 'conscripts' for being turned into Cybermen (since as far as we know the Cybermen can only convert living humans).
@@Jedi_Spartan They've evolved as of the episodes closing time and dark water. The "conscripts" no longer have to be alive. Which makes them all the more dangerous.
@@mkno2799 didn't know if that was just limited to the ones created by Missy since her planned Cyber army seemingly relied heavily upon the Nethersphere which I don't think normal Cybermen have access to.
@@Jedi_Spartan Think that was only for that matrix-like simulation, Danny and the others were in. Since a similar situation happened in closing time. At least until recently cybermen have shown no problems upgrading the dead. Did enjoy this discussing though.
The parts with 5/Tegan and 7/Ace are absolutely the high parts of the episode and one of the only times I felt genuine emotion throughout the Chibnal era. It felt sincere, it felt EARNED and was actually well written. The rest of the episode? Not so much. The plot is so nothing I felt myself watching the clock a lot of the time. I'll let the review say the rest, but I did enjoy the regeneration. It was simple and suited Jodie's optimistic Doctor. I didn't feel much emotion around it given the rest of the era's sloppiness, but in terms of cinematography, music etc. it was a decent regeneration.
Roll on RTD-2 Era.
EDIT:
Oh right, the dream-crossroads thing with the other Doctors. I agree, decent concept and I liked the execution.
It truly says something that this era's turned out its final episode, and the things that people like most about it have NOTHING to do with the era it's acting as a conclusion to
I think thats because someone else wrote those characters that nerd-fan Chibnall was obsessed with for years, so he’s at least faithful to his childhood dreams of bringing closure to these characters, but not to the actual Doctor Who property, all he does is satisfy fan theories (like Timeless Child)
Honestly this episode was a gigantic mess, but it was a damn entertaining mess. That's about as good as Chibnall gets in my eyes
Moffat: "Ok Chris, just remember everything previous when you write your stories."
Moffat leaves and the Chris throws every previous work of Doctor Who into the bin,
Chibnall: "No thanks, I don't care about it and honestly I want the show to end,"
@@mattthesilent777RED I really doubt Chibnall wanted Doctor Who to end, and since when has the show cared about continuity lol
@@WiloPolis03 No one's really decided to give it some thought, but I did with my Doctor Who
@@mattthesilent777RED The dude has been a fan of the show since he was a kid, it would be really strange if he wanted to end it all of a sudden
@@WiloPolis03 Then why has he written as if he wants to?
6:07 That's how the wall looks after a real painting is taken off from it though. It always leaves a brighter space compared to rest of the wall behind.
I don’t understand why the master needs to steal the doctors body?? Like what’s stopping him from killing her and then just calling himself the doctor? It’s such a stupid plan
There seems to be a running theme with Sacha Dhawan's Master throughout the Chibnall era where he is incredibly self-loathing; there's always been an element of the Master being very heavily influenced by the Doctor (I.E. Derek Jacobi's pre-regeneration line: "If the Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I...") but this incarnation takes it to an even bigger extreme. In this episode he makes his Tardis into a parody of the Doctor's, he refers to the Daleks and Cybermen as his own "Fam" equivalent to the Doctor, he overwrites the Doctor's body, and then creates a frankenstein outfit of past Doctors clothes to wear. Before he gets turned back, he says: "I erased you Doctor...Don't let me go back to being me." He is envious of the Doctor and hates himself to the point that he would rather be his own twisted version of the Doctor. To me there is a motive there, and it's the one thing that we aren't bashed over the head with by endless exposition. I get the impression he's become nihilistic and discontent with his lot in life; he wants what the Doctor has, and in typical master fashion, rather than changing his villainous behaviour, (I.E. Missy) he sees the solution as simply stealing the Doctor's body.
There's also the whole Timeless Child thing, where the Master hates that his existence, and that of the entire Timelord race is predicated on the Doctor being a key part of their origin story; the Doctor is the special one and he is nothing without them. So again, it makes sense to take all of that away from the Doctor, so that he can (even if only technically) become the timeless child, and also tarnish the Doctor's legacy and turn all of her friends against her. However, the way he does it is pretty nonsensical, where the Master-Doctor pilots the Tardis to the Mushroom Kingdom which happens to have a front row seat to an interplanetary war, and then he says to a random space camera that he's the Doctor now and claims responsibility. How that's gonna fool anyone who knows anything about the Doctor I don't know... Cool idea, and I actually really like the way Dhawan plays it since it makes him seem really pathetic and childish, but like with everything in the Chibnall era it doesn't get enough focus here to really breathe.
@@GeriatricFan1963 I hate that story point . The Doctor has given many hints on how smart and brilliant the Master is . I know the Master can't be th Doctor but three can be a middle ground .
@@firegirl26 I don't really care for the Timeless Child stuff either, because it's so inconsequential to the Doctor's character, but as a motivating factor for the Master to resent and become jealous of the Doctor I feel it works for me and at least feels consistent every time the Master pops up in the Chibnall era.
I think a key part of the Master has always been this kind of nature vs nurture debate. The classic series presents the Master as just being twisted and evil by his very nature. With the RTD era we had the Master actually being a victim of the Timelords, driven insane by the neverending drum beat they put in his head. Then the Moffat era gives us Missy, an incarnation who is still chaotic and murderous, but actually wants to be friends with the Doctor again, and fights against her own nature to try and get better, and in the end her past literally won't let her. So the natural evolution from Missy, the closest we have ever had to a redeemed Master, is Dhawan's version, who doesn't have the same impulse control that Missy had. And because he failed as Missy, he ultimately decides: Why bother trying to change? He is miserable and alone, and the only solace he has is inflicting that same pain upon others. Also interesting is the Master-Doctor's reaction when his plan seems to have worked: He's in disbelief. When he angrily and petulantly shouts at Yaz "I am the Doctor!" there's a moment where he looks down almost sadly as it starts to sink in that the Doctor is truly gone. Even when he erases and replaces the Doctor, he cannot stop thinking about them. He's a Master that doesn't want to be the Master anymore, but doesn't see any other way out; no matter how hard he tries to change he will always fail and be back at square one, because he isn't the Doctor. So much of the Dhawan master's mockery of the Doctor comes across as him projecting the things he deep down hates about himself, about what he can't be.
@@GeriatricFan1963 Thats a great point and I agree with that assertion. However I don't think the episode (or frankly any of the previous episodes) illustrate that super well. Since you've laid it out like that is makes sense, but here it feels less like an intentional, thought out character concept and more like a coincidence
Did anyone else get the vibe that the Steel Planet was Gallifrey? I kept expecting the reveal that _that_ was what the Master did with Gallifrey after being abandoned there - especially after the Doctor asked him how he escaped and he sarcastically commented on how perceptive she was (ergo, that she was missing something obvious). But there was never a pay-off. The planet was just unnamed collateral damage.
"There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire.
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on!"
....except he wasn't a lover of the tsarina....
"DID IT SUCK?"
I can't speak for myself because I didn't watch it, but then lots of other people didn't either.
I guess that's the, um, 'achievement' of Chris Chibnall and, erm, team.
Power of the Doctor had the golden opportunity to have a Doctor-Lite episode with the Master as Rasputin which would have been better than the episode with the Sea Devils
Tbh by the end of his era I think most of us had just accepted that Chibnall's storytelling was never going to match the imagination or overall coherence of RTD's or Moffat's, so I'm just glad his last bow was a genuinely exciting one even if it was still absolute nonsense lol
Really good video! That awkwardly long pause on 10 and Donna was great haha
You need to see Remembrance of the Daleks to understand Ace's baseball bat
12:04 A similar thing happened in "Army of Ghosts" there they also forgot to add the electrocution effect for when one of the Cybermen was killing a news reporter, it looked goofy as hell
Victim shakes head aggressively - dies
25:50..that editing left me in stitches 😂
As a Croydon resident myself, I can confirm nobody wants to be dropped off in Croydon. You’ll most likely never make it out alive
Love how the planet destroying superweapon just sort of scortches the earth a bit when it passes over Cosplay Doctor.
I thought to myself "there should be a massive chasm there, but let's see what damage they actually go with"
Dear lord, a bit of Mr Muscle will get that out
To me, it was a nice end to Jodie's era. A sweet and lovely goodbye to the joyful Doctor's legacy and an homage to the show's history, bringing back old Doctors, but not making it a multi Doctor special. And of course the Ian Chesterton cameo was very nice.
Considering that the man is 97 years old, we don't know how much longer we have. Might as well be his final appearance in the role, so I'm glad Chibnall put him in that episode.
as long as the evil woman is dead, I'm happy. This has been the docotr with some of the most dubious morals in the series history. From "amazon exploiting workers isn't the problem, lets kill a man driven to the edge rather than just arrest him" to "starving to death is much better than guns"
@@Roboshi2007 Thanks for your opinion.
@@timrob12 I'm sorry but the Kablam episode is lowkey one of the worst episodes ever in terms of writing the doctors morals.
@@Roboshi2007 Maybe the writing isn't brilliant, but I love it for the visuals.
@@Roboshi2007
I completely agree.
However, it's not exactly the fault of the "evil woman" and you know that.
Don't just hate on Jodie for the sake of hating women or whatever, which if you re-read your original comment it does come across that way.
She's a brilliant actor, just see stuff like Broadchurch, but it was more the writing that I felt was lacking throughout her run. It held her back immensely.
Check out my conversation with Harbo about the regeneration scene: ua-cam.com/video/EuVR2vpoG5o/v-deo.html
I'm most likely late to the party by saying that the TARDIS console room looks like a dead giant radioactive spider
The forced regeneration from Whittaker to Sacha is really not how regeneration works, that pissed me off
Regeneration has changed constantly through the years from changing to fading to the next body to explosions (all Doctors from classic and new) To things like the Watcher (Logopolis) to being able to change forms several times to pick a body (Destiny of the Daleks) so who knows how regeneration is supposed to be?
@@neptune04 yeah but the whole meaning of regeneration is getting a new body right? Not switching minds?
@@helloitsme7553 True but my point is who knows what regenerations are capable of.
Ace was Ace, and we were not allowed to forget it. Her skill was making explosions to cause a distraction and saying "Ace" when it worked.
The projections Ace and Tegan saw really confused me. If this was their memory of The Doctor, why were they elderly? Why didn't The Doctor look like he did when they travelled with him? (Besides the fact that the actors have aged in the intervening 30 years!).
I was wondering what the episode would look like to someone without all of the nostalgia. Man, I thought it wouldn't be great, but that final rating 😩
Where is my BENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNIE!!!!!!
Excellent review! Very detailed. I appreciate your analysis
something i noticed about jodies performance at 27:21 is how she sounds like shes out of breath whenever shes talking or takes a big elongated breath out after speaking, makes her tone sound the same no matter what she says and makes me laugh and cringe at moments that are supposed to be taken seriously
I thought the painting was missing and the lighter shade of blue was due to dust and similar things building up on the exposed wall, whereas the painting covered and preserved the original colour of the wall?
Had to stop being a patron a bit due to finances but I'm jumping back in for this one 😂 to be fair I think this was her best episode
I found it my favorite episode cause parts of are what made past doctor who good (even if its a flawed copy). it sums up the issue i had with jodie well its not interesting so despite being better than some stuff its hold my attention less.
That's not saying much
@@MichaelM28 if a jodie episode is interesting it puts its above the others automatically
12:19 simple the guy was a genius, he didn't die, he was faking it so he would have a chance to get out alive.
Since Ashad was to busy killing the other and too focused in doing his task he didn't had time to check the guy
So funny because a GALLERY WOMT JUST LEAVE A BLANK SPACE ON A WALL. They would put something else up there instead, like you just wouldn't see that
7:40 The Master refered to himself by his name once and it wasn't even in the right context when Yaz was present. Besides, even if Yaz knew what the Cyberman was talking about, she could have possibly just been asking for clarification, since it wasn't like the Cybermen literally said:
"THE Master awaits."
Dude, just don't comment on the classic companions if you don't know what they're doing
Ace doesn't like baseball- she just used a baseball bat to beat up a Dalek in one of her stories. It's arguably the most iconic moment for her.
Not just any baseball bat though. It was enhanced by the Doctor to make it able to destroy Daleks.
Why was the Master just sleeping in the box while the Doctor-Master was running around doing whatever? I'm sure he could have caused more trouble with 2 of him
Nitpix did such a great review on Chibnall's four episodes before he became showrunner. Especially the Power of the Three one was so funny. I always have to watch out that I don't cofuse it with other people's reviews....
I thought it was really sad, that the Doctor met the first ever Good Dalek, that turned on their own volition. And then stepped aside and watched it get executed without any protest. And it was never addressed since. What the hell
No comment on how the Doctor's clothes regenerated too!?
Well because he doesn't know much about doctor who and he is stupid, he said many wrong thing and seems like misunderstood many things i don't know where to start, all I see is someone reviewing an episode and he is blinded by nostalgia
He didn't watched classic at all right? Or at least doctor who comic? There are many reality warper we know in Doctor who verse, celestial toy maker is one of them and it's confirmed he is villain of upcoming season.
I've seen hundreds of people talk about this in theory that celestial toymaker is the reason why doctor who regenerated to 10th and his cloth changed.
but this review dude is so smart he even notice things like "mIsSiNg sPeCiAl eFfEcT" but have no comment of something like that? Nah dude probably he said it somewhere in the video or in another video .
He is not reviewing, he is trying to find every bad thing in this episode and create a whole video on it.
I don't even know how people waited for him to create video about this episode?
You guys(not meaning you) are so strongly blinded by nostalgia that they can't see how wrong he is
Like he say how they clothes don't catch fires 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Beside he doesn't know anything about classic neither top tier and scaling in Doctor who and pretty clear trying to find reasons to hate the show, he doesn't even know about tardis.
How people really think this guy is smart and that review was true?
@@professorparadox795 I think maybe you are the one who is blinded by nostalgia?
@@bensadventuresonearth6126
I'm the one who is blinded by nostalgia 🤦🏻♂️
Glad I'm not the only one who thought Yaz having first Aid training was weird, even weirder is that before this episode, we never see her use a gun
Well First Aid training is really not uncommon for emergency workers and the police. As for firearms training... Well there are gun clubs and the police do get some training with firearms... We never really established that she'd been in any such program so... Yeah.
First aid. Fine.
Gunshooty? I kinda would have liked something that established some form of competency first.
14:15 this made me burst out laughing way harder than it should have LOL
Seeing Harry's slow descent into insanity has been the most entertaining thing about the chibnall era
Yaz would know what to do with the med-pack. All you do is walk up to it and press E, you’ve played ‘Half-Life’ right?
Just found your channel, excellent stuff.
I’ve been slowly watching reviews of this to see if anyone else saw the blatant flaw in the Master’s plan.
He transferred his consciousness into the Doctor’s body. Body swap. He then changed his new face back to his old one. So he was the master’s consciousness in the master’s face. He’s the master. Wearing the Doctors clothes. Clothes swap.
His plan was to destroy earth in the doctors name, but everybody would know that he wasn’t the doctor. It made no sense. Now, I get the unlimited regenerations, but this is never mentioned, so it had nothing to do with his plan. He wanted to torment humanity, the doctors friends AS the doctor. Again, he was the master. For the same results, when the doctor was captured (before the forced regen), he could’ve shot her in the head (a death too fast to regenerate from, as per ALL the lore) and simply put her clothes on. Same result but better, as she couldn’t force her way back somehow. Could’ve dropped her in a hole and filled it with concrete. No getting out of that. He went to all the trouble of the forced regen to just wear her clothes. If the unlimited regens were the thing, then he could have kept her captive and studied her.
What a stupid plan he went with. Absolute nonsense.
The first part of his plan was the good part. The body swap (although she could still force her way back but nobody knew that was possible). His consciousness, her face and body. He enslaves earth literally as the Doctor. Humanity is betrayed by the Doctor. Humanity is scared of the Doctor. Humanity hates the Doctor.
Imagine, she (the Master as the Doctor) gets back to Kate, Ace & the other one, all UNIT, Graham, Yaz if they made it happen without her seeing it all, gets them all together, saying the plan has been stopped and then as she’s talking about what she did, she starts laughing and acting a bit manic (it is NEVER revealed why - we know it’s the Master but nobody in-universe does), the whole world is told that the Doctor saved them all and then as he/she is doing a celebratory speech we get some great dialogue where she actually starts to agree with the Master and that humanity is poison etc etc and she thinks she’d like to rule the world/galaxy/universe whatever, the “Emperor Doctor” or something (God maybe?) and then gives the go ahead for the Daleks and the Cybermen to continue the plan, and humanity falls with her cackling away as it happens. Watching everyone who loves her die from the betrayal alone (well not quite die as we’d still need them).
That is a plan.
Forget all these time jumps back and forth. The fake arrest plot. The stupid paintings bit. The silly dance (however entertaining it was!).
Unit discovers an ancient artefact which we alone learn is the consciousness swapper. The first 15 minutes is it being taken to Unit HQ, the gang being called-in, and the cyber attack. A longer version of the scene were the guy is pushed against the wall and dies. A good five minute battle heist scene like that made to look like a long oner. The cybers are successful, teleport out with it. The doctor follows. The Daleks attack other parts of the planet. That second moon appears or whatever. The world is reeling. We see what happens to the doctor but for Unit and the gang, the Daleks stop, and remaining cybers power down, the second moon disappears. The doctor comes back - the world has been saved again. Episode ends with the in universe reveal that the Doctor betrays them and kills literal billions.
Anyway, I’ll shut up now. As you can see his plan winds me up something ridiculous. To the point of fanfic it seems!!
Great channel - subbed and looking forward to your newer stuff as well as catching up on the older ones. Just wanted to see if anyone else had the same problems with the Master’s plan. I will find someone but after a year it seems to just be me ☹️
I just want to know how Graham got there. He just turns up with no explanation.
The sonic screwdriver really has become an almighty instrument.
As ace is the best classic era companion and has the best doctor companion dynamic, plus how good the 7th doctor era is once ace joins, you should really watch those stories.
As for this episode, it did ace well and the conversation between her and 7 is probably my favourite scene in the episode.
Haven’t watch it fully but Im surprised you didn’t mention how many plot points and things have been copied from other more recent nuwho eps or how some of these things literally contradict things or points Chibnall himself established, like how the Master was so disgusted with the fact the doctor was the timeless child and a piece of her was in him that he destroyed Gallifrey and killed all the timelords but now he wants to became her 😂. Also a personal gripe I still can’t get over how dumb redundant and impossible regenerating cybermen are, how Yaz knows how the fly the Tardis perfectly when the doctor can’t half the time. But the callbacks were nice.
Yes! It's hilariously bad and messy. So many things that don't make sense and things kinda just happen for lazy reasons. Also the Master wanting to become the Doctor was hilariously dumb. Also Chibs never explained anything that he added to the lore completely. Overall this episode was a waste of time for me along with his whole era felt. Pointless trash that I am glad is finally over. What was the point of even adding the timeless crapper to the lore if he was never going to flesh it out lol. I am just happy RTD has returned
"I'm the doctor now" I mean you're wearing her clothes... why not have an episode where he actually pretends to be the Doctor, and defames her name by destroying planets or something? But I'll say this; at least the Master was confident enough to crossdress. Very ashamed of Tennant for magically regenerating the outfit off xD
@@PlatinumAltaria Jodie cant act, she would never be able to pull that off 🤷
"should i stay or should i go now.." gold,got a genuine lol .ty :-)
The paintings, the Oil Protestors nicked em! 😱
It’s sad Chinballs felt so strongly to mess the lore up so badly. Why bother with numbers anymore. I’m going to check back in decade or so.
So wish Paul McGann was given another run. Missed opportunity.
Bro i felt the same when seeing paul Mgann 😂
Chibnall's gun, gets shown specifically not to go off
I think 'Chibnall's flesh-eating water' is a more fitting name
It's great to see all the sight gags!
.....a fliffle....... I'll T-shirt thát line.
I'm one of those who stopped watching a couple of years ago but comes back for lovely reviews like this one. Thanks.
I'd love to see some reviews or a review of the new Don't Hug Me I'm Scared series on Channel 4
I agree with alot of your criticism but as a trained first aider working as a first responder, it's not that our ability expires. I dont forget how to give cpr, it's for insurance. if I'm trained and mess up it's my fault, if they don't train me and I mess up it's there fault. Thats why first aid expires.
The point is 200 years in the future I'd still be able to make a splint for a broken leg with my shirt and anything long hard and straight like a metal pole. So yaz would be more than capable of giving emergency first aid
I thought the head scratching part wasn't that she wouldn't know first aid but more, would she know far future first aid with new-fangled technology she'd never seen?
short answer: yes.
long answer: yes.
Staggering how low expectations have fallen for this show when you see the sheer number of people calling this a great episode. It was staggeringly average, unintentionally hilarious, and rescued only by Chibnall’s favourite plot device because he genuinely has no ideas of his own - nostalgia
Completely unrelated to this review, but that latin jazz playing in the background sounds so freaking good.
In my heart of hearts I wish the 'Ace becomes a timelord' plotline was actually canon, River was human by blood and she was kind of a time lord, so there is precedent.
I've only seen 4 episodes of Chibbles and Widdles run of Doctor Who. I knew from the start this was going to be bad based on the 4 episodes he wrote for the previous series. This final episode for both of them was the last straw with me ever going forward with the show again. Happily sticking to the classics.
Actually, I think a lot of us are not coming back. Looking at the direction that they're going and who they chose, yeah, I'm just not gonna do it. And most of my friends are like, it's not so canceled yet. The sentiment I've gotten from everybody I know is, yeah, they don't care. And honestly, I. Just happened upon your channel after being away for, I don't know how long, and just thought, ah, rather than watch the show, let's see the glass episode was like, and, well, we know how the last episode is. I don't have faith in Russell.
Return of the king!
It's a finale to 13th that doesnt focus on the doctor, it doesn't even focus on the yazz,
It focuses on the old companions out of which all teagan does is pull a switch.
It's very messy but yeah it's fun to watch.
I find it funny that all the other companions had rather bleak send offs, but 13's companions had therapy
I'm reminded of a joke l once read and the punchline was
women can run with scissors but should never scissor with the runs.
One thing I noticed in this episode is that the Masters costume is really inconsistent. Changes between scenes, where it very obviously shouldn’t have.
Also why is it set in many different time periods.
Thought my audio went out 14:10 😂
Someone SHOULD make a t-shirt saying: "I don't have time to factor you in"
The regeneration at the end was worth it
OMG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE I WATCHED THE EPISODE
People ask me, "Do you really think you could do better?" And yes, I do. A dog could do better operating a keyboard with its nose. One writing class would cover so many of the things Chibnall gets wrong; Chekhov's Gun, combining small character roles, cleaning up exposition, strong characterisation. WHY does this man have a job? Broadchurch had better be the Godfather given how poor his work on Doctor Who is, otherwise I can't believe he was hired anywhere without even a child's understanding of story structure.
I'm really glad some people liked this era, it means it wasn't a total waste of time and resources. I don't blame the actors, the set designers, any of the people who worked on this. It's the writing and general oversight that is comically bad to an embarrassing degree.
RTD had Chibnall writing episodes for Dr Who as did Moffat. He ran Torchwood series 2 for RTD because he was asked and the BBC asked him to show run the whole thing. Stick something on youtube that you have done so we can laugh at your expense.
@@booradley8895 So? And those episodes are mostly bad. Hiring him was a mistake!
@@AC-jl7hb I trust RTD and Moffat over someone who has not penned a script in his whole life.
So like, where did the teleporting master actually go?
Honestly this episode woud have been PERFECT to introduce the brigader cyberman, have him force tbe darleks and cybermen to fight by attacking the darleks and get the doctor caught in the crossfire. Ashads cloje should have been a complete version 9f his cyber armor too giveing some reason for him to ally.
I'll always argue that the worst offender of this era wasn't S11 or 12 - best described as: kinda dull/ absurd even for sci-fi (even for *DW*)/ annoyingly preachy at points which is almost impressive, cause the new era has tackled a lot of issues but with some level of skill and subtlety. Whereas the levels here were someone yelling "Chris! For goodness sake, Put. The Sledgehammer. DOWN." - but is actually 13/Flux. Because it was *good*. Not great, not even close, but my god!
After 2 seasons of, Well.., Flux was like finding a Dr. Pepper fountain of youth, in the middle of a desert, during a heatwave! And then they didn't even stick the landing, but instead plowed into the dirt face-first.
S7 is awful too
Honestly, I’ve tried repeatedly to start fresh with this episode; every time I think “okay, this time I’m giving it my full attention”, and every time my mind wanders off, I can’t keep track of where the characters are or why, and afterwards I genuinely struggle to remember what happened.
It’s just hopeless.
(Inhales) LETS FREAKING GO
Seriously, what the fuq is wrong with the modern era Who "writers" and making all characters immune to rapid deceleration syndrome? Now even humans in there sixties can survive falls that would kill a fugging cat.
Even though I never watched classic who, all the fan service moments were actually quite fun and well executed.
But all the usual Chibnall-isms crept their way in: Big yellow location text, bad exposition and completely wasting good ideas by cramming too much in to give any the light of day.
I liked the ideas of: The Master is Rasputin, the Master wants to take over the Doctor's body (although it should've stayed as Jodie so she could get a bit more acting in this episode), Dan leaving after a near death experience, the Doctor's hologram version, Jo Martin returning, Yaz learning to fly the Tardis. But all were shoved in together which led to not much exploration of any.
I did find myself impressed by quite a few of the effects in this one though. That's a thing with a lot of film & tv at the moment, there's great effects back to back with bad ones. At least the good ones in this were quite special, the old Doctors morphing into each other and of course the regenerations. And I did like that shot of Ace falling into the Tardis, that was cool.
I would say "Praise the show, Jodie's finally gone!" But the end has made me not bother
Thanks for capturing the series' not so slow descent into narrative stupidity and bad-anime levels of implausibility. It predates Chibnall, but in many ways this episode is an endpoint. Some appalling crap that no one with half a brain and a memory of the show's history can ignore. I remember RTD's first time in charge very fondly. There were basic narrative and character virtues, a concern for verisimilitude, that I hope he keeps. Desperately hope.