Why the Doctor Who Season 1 Finale FLOPPED
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Doctor Who Season 1 has now come to a close, ending with the two part story containing The Legend of Ruby Sunday and Empire of Death. This ending did not live up to people's expectations generally, but why was this. Lets find out today.
Video Chapter's:
00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Untraditional finale format
02:18 - The reveals
03:24 - Not epic enough
04:34 - Overview
05:18 - Outro
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Good analysis, agree with a lot of the points you've made.
It was amazing! Loved it 😂You are so wrong ❤
Nah I enjoyed it, I just had a few issues personally that were more retrospective issues. I am more trying to answer why people would not like it. It’s a good thing you did enjoy it though, it sucks not enjoying things 👍😂.
The 'reveal' is no reveal at all. She and her mother are perfectly ordinary, which makes all the build-up (the snow!), inexplicable and pointless.
I agree. I mean because of that it is still a reveal. A reveal that we have been mislead.
@@TheLaneDW yeah, dammit.
Remember the writers strike ? Yeah and those terrible humans that write for SNL The Late Show and even The View ? Well the quality of writing in UK isn't much better 😮😮
I dont personally think that is the issue. RTD took his time with this series having almost 2 years which is less than he had for his first run, and he needed less stories.
I liked the season,it was flawed but every season is,while the finale wasn’t the best and rogue is my least favourite episode in the season (just felt a little poor in writing) I can say this is definitely a season that needed at least 2 more episodes,hopefully the next season is longer but personally I give this an 8 or a 7 out of 10
One more thing: I love how much of a breath of fresh air this felt since the chibnal era,sometimes I wonder if jodie (I might have spelt that wrong) could be brought back in a multi doctor story just without chibnal so we can see something better then true chibnal era except the few ones that were solid episodes,is that a bad thing I’m starting to think it’s a bad thing I want to see another episode with her in it
Thats a fairly good score and I would agree with you. Sadly I think its confirmed next season is also 8 episodes as it has already been filmed but if the show gets a 3rd they should definitely consider an increase to at least 10 episodes.
Thats not a bad thing. I personally like her general portrayal of the doctor and I too would like to see her back if they did a multi-doctor story. I do think it could be good having someone other chibnal try to write her, but with that said, he might do a better job if he only has to do the character and not the whole show.
@@TheLaneDW good point
Sorry to disagree but whilst I far prefer Moffat finales, and this was still my least favourite RTD finale.
It was RTD doing the Big Bang you're not wrong there - but for me that's great, I loved those more personal finales. But basically being the exact same premise and not being as good is a loser.
Ok so lets start with the intro:
The Big Bang wiped out the universe last week, you've had a week to sit on that and digest it. There's been time to process that yes some of it will come back, "but how". You also know the name of the next episode so fan guesses weren't a million miles off.
The Empire of Death waits until part two to do it - and your immediate reaction is "well they're coming back", and you've no time to savour the fun of guessing how.
Then there's pacing:
The Big Bang slowly introduces us to the idea that the universe is collapsing
Empire of Death waits until the episode is 2/3rds over to show someone is still alive and what that looks like.
The Big Bang has the vortex manipulator shenanigans to keep up the pace - this has a quest for a spoon.
The Big Bang has the stone Dalek pursuing them on instinct - this had us slowly waiting for Mel to turn as they sat around the TARDIS.
Then the resolution:
Series 5 had built up the pandorica's abilities early on, Amy's connection with the cracks and her ability to restore characters from it.
Empire of Death just had Sutekh spit out his sand for no reason and then the brand new concept of "death to death" - if you kill a dead thing it just stays dead.
Finally when Amy remembers her parents back into existence they don't know they've been gone, you get Amy's happiness not a rollercoaster of emotion. Ruby should have found her mum one episode, talked about working up the courage to talk to her - then had the happy ending. Here it just killed the flow. All that was needed for this episode was for her to know who her mum was, wouldn't the reunion have been a great thing to do in the Christmas special? I mean, it's Christmas!
Also why does Sutekh care about the mystery of Ruby?
Really terrible pacing, it just wasn't fun.
Well each to their own I guess. I personally enjoyed the pacing, I just thought the elements around it needed to be stronger. I did get a comment on my tierlist video with why sutekh cared about rubys mum. They said they saw it as him being like a representative of a fan. He has been following the doctor since 4, and has seen all the mysteries the doctor has faced and so he will want to know this one. Not a perfect solution but I can get with it.
I mean meta in general is fine, if it works on the base level too. But none of those mysteries would have mattered to Sutek as he was wiping out all life.
Also another potshot at the fans wouldn’t be particularly welcome - he’s taken a few lately, not to mention following up replacing Osgood with a bunch of murderous cosplayers.