The episode was pretty explicit that heat wasn't enough; it was the love associated with the Olympic torch that did the trick. Also, they did say the Isolus chose Chloe because she was lonely, so she was already pretty isolated before it showed up. It was probably the situation with her dad that made her cut herself off.
My favourite thing about this episode is Nina Sosanya who plays the mum, Trish. Always love her work. She & David are close friends, and have been in this, ‘Casanova’, ‘Staged’, & ‘Good Omens’ together. Wonderful reaction, as always! 💜💜➕🌈🟦
16:48 IN CLASSIC WHO - The First Doctor's first Companion is his granddaughter who went by the name of Susan Foreman who was in Seasons 1 and 2. She calls him Grandfather all the time, not Doctor, one of the few people who do not call him Doctor. We know for sure she is at least Gallifreyan because the 20th Anniversary Special takes place on Gallifrey and she knows all the sights. Why her name was Susan, we do not know. Foreman comes from the name of the junkyard that TARDIS was in during the first episode. Two of her schoolteachers became Companions during the course of the first episode....
I'm very suprised that she haven't appear in this show yet. She is from Gallifrey, so it wouldn't be a problem with just playing her diffrent looking actress. I think there is a potential.
@@HelluvaGuy1025 They've been hinting at Susan's return during this whole past season with Ncuti Gatwa so I suspect that she may actually return to make an appearance next season. Carole Ann Ford is the only actress from the main cast of the original series from 1963 still living today.
I believe that Chloe was targeted by the lonely alien, because she was an abused child who was still trying to process what had happened to her and she needed love as much as the alien. Her mother was still trying to process what had happened to herself as well, so she wasn’t as available as she should have been for Chloe. Their ability to sing away the Spectre of her abusive father was a symbol of them beginning to move on together.
Easter egg, the Street was named after Dame Kelly Holmes who was the 800m and 1500m Olympic Champion. Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, and 1,000 metre distances. She held the British 800 metre record until 2021.
Kelly Holmes gold medals in 2024 are among my favourite sporting moments. Another is being in the Olympic stadium for 2012 to watch David Rudisha’s 800m record.
At the end where the Doctor picks up the torch, they needed a quick montage of people smiling and cheering as they watch their TVs, and the very last person they show is Elton from last episode, spitting out his tea in surprise.
It was not the heat of the fire, it was the feeling of community and love. The torch was the focus of all watching, even Rose said feel the love and tossed the ship up in the air not at the torch.
"Winds in the East Clouds coming in Like something is starting About to begin Can't quite put my finger On what lies in store But it feels like what's to happen All happened before. " Couldn't get a better description of the next two episodes.
This episode only got made, as a script written by Stephen Fry fell through at the last minute due to budget issues. The original episode was going to be set in the 1920's and have the Doctor fight an Arthurian Knight.
The First Doctor, way back when the show started in 1963, traveled with his granddaughter Susan. She was the first ever companion. Even in classic Who, the details of who his partner and other family might have been remained a mystery. The Time War happened off screen, in the time between Classic and NuWho. We don't know what happened to the Doctor's family, but since he calls himself the Last Time Lord, one way or another we can assume that they are dead.
At some point in the future, if your David Tennant crush doesn't go away (trust me it won't 😜) you should consider checking out Good Omens. Great, feel good show with a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor and it stars David and Michael Sheen who are 👌the dream team
@@funnylilgalreacts Sir Patrick Stewart from Star Trek The Next Generation actually carried Olympic Torch in London Olympics 2012. "British actor Sir Patrick Stewart takes his turn on the Olympic torch relay, praising the celebratory crowds. Stewart, best known as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, said carrying the torch through well wishers in Croydon was an experience he will 'never forget', adding that it was better than any movie premiere." -> ua-cam.com/video/Sd31HDy2PTU/v-deo.html
My favorite part of this episode is when the doctor is talking about what you need to travel and what you need most of all you need a hand to hold. Then Rose is pointing but the doctor is just like oh Rose needs me to hold her hand. 😢😢😂 It's so cute and wholesome 😊 The other is the ball bearings you can eat. It looked like Rose wasn't paying attention but at the end has a cake with them in her hand. ❤
The fact that the actual real life 2012 Olympics were actually in london and they didn't have David Tennant run with the torch for just a little bit devastates me.
It WAS Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins told her employers and or Bert ( Dick van Dyke) that she would only be there until the wind changes. Bert did remark about the wind changing before Mary came. And she left as soon as the wind changed.
Kookaburra is an Australian nursery rhyme that in the USA was a popular song sung by kids in sing-a-longs. In the 1960’s I sang it in music class and Girl Scout Camp. I still have all those songs in my head.
It was written by Marion Sinclair, a music teacher at Toorak College in Melbourne. The Girl Guides have adopted it as a traditional song, since Marion initially submitted it to a contest they held to raise money.
@@RobertJW ...And "Men at Work" got in trouble for using snippets of it in their hit song "Down Under", 'cos they assumed it was out of copyright and didn't check.
In the Empty Child two-parter: Doctor Constantine: "Before this war, I was both a father _and_ a grandfather; now I am neither." The Doctor: "Yep, know the feeling." 😏
Chloe's dad died and then she wasn't seen around as much. You'd think people would ask about her... because you're American. British people worry about their neighbors but would NEVER ring them up to check lol
The Doctor has already told Rose that she can spend her whole life with him, but he can't spend his whole life with her. Due to the difference in lifespans, The Doctor expects to lose Rose eventually.
While the Doctor’s comment about having been a father was a surprise to new viewers of the revival, this was common knowledge to fans of Classic Who since the original Doctor’s companion when the show began in 1963 was his own granddaughter Susan.
Last season, empty child. Dr. Constantine said, "before this War I was A Father and A Grandfather. Now I'm neither but I'm still a Dr." Eccelson said, "I know the feeling." The Doctor was a grandfather before Time War
There's a "storm coming " try "Dune". the Doctor's first companion was Susan his grand daughter so she must have had a mother . The torch was a symbol of love and togetherness , which the Isolis( the alien needed) wanted not just the heat .
The isolus may have need more than just the heat to aid in it's release. It needed love, or in this case, the representation of love, hence the Olympic torch.
22:33 I remember seeing this before the 2012 Olympics and when the 2012 Olympics happened really hoping that David Tennant would be the person that lite the torch but the torch was differs and David Tennant wasn’t there. But it would have been awesome!
16:49 The Doctor's first companion in the original series is his grand-daughter. We never see or are told about his family other than that in classic, but the implication is there. (if he has a grand-daughter, he must have a child.) Out in the real world, the writers/creators at the time apparently decided they didn't want people thinking about how William Hartnell would of had to have had sex in order to have a family, so they quickly just never talked about his family again.
The point about the Olympic Torch was it represented the love and hopes of all the nations coming together - it wasn't just heat, it was that feeling of family/ community. Fear Her is one of my least favourite episodes....not sure what was wrong, it just didn't quite gel somehow. Having sai that the quote 'A Council axe from a Council van' somehow entered our family vocabulary (you'd be amazed how often it fits right in - not frequently, but from time to time).
It was broadcast almost a year after the London 2012 announcement was made. The announcement was made the day after the 7/7 terror attacks in 2005. Series 2 came out in 2006!
That was partly filmed in my husband’s shop. They turned it into a dvd store but it’s really a vinyl record store in Newport South Wales. Lucky to meet David, Freema and Carey Mulligan. Got some lovely pictures from the set and them in the shop during breaks.
We do actually know The Doctor had a family. His first companion in the 60’s is Susan, his granddaughter. Her school teachers, Ian and Barbara become the Doctors first companions from Earth (that we know of, of course.) The first time I watched this episode, I didn’t really like it. I enjoy it much more on rewatch these days.
if you seen the old doctor who's susan is the doctor granddaughter. is all we know form the kid's who can say he can't have any more kid's on the way as time go by lol..
the torch was heat source because it represents hope love faith how each ring means something different its meant on a play for each of the rings meaning
This isn't a spoiler because it only comes up in the series as an Easter egg. The doctor's first traveling companion was his Granddaughter and her future husband.
22:06 "You're still gonna get picked up by him. He's not going to just drop you off somewhere and leave ya!" :: Awkwardly thinks of Susan ...and Sarah Jane ...and Jack Harkness... and... ::
the doctors actual family tree is as confusing as his own canon. the most concrete we have with just the show is that he has a grand daughter named susan, and that may or may not be her real name.
Fun fact: This episode loosely drew its inspiration from a late 80’s film called Paperhouse where a young bed-ridden girl draws things which apparently come to life - it’s quite terrifying! Paperhouse itself was inspired by a children’s fiction novel called ‘Marianne Dreams’ and was adapted for British television in the 1970’s as the children’s serial ‘Escape Into Night’.
Love how your portal opens when you snap your fingers. LOL (Sorry, couldn't resist). Very few episodes creep me out, and this is one of them for some reason.
'Season three of Doctor not me'? Maybe? Probably bad... "He'd never just drop you off somewhere and not come back" Sarah Jane might question that statement ;)
This episode was a last-minute addition, replacing a script by Stephen Fry that was too costly, so this was the "cheap" episode. You can tell it's last minute, cause the London 2012 Olympics were only announced in the summer of 2005. Hence the complete lack of the real London 2012 logo, as it didn't exist yet. (While we're at it, BBC News 24 wasn't called that by 2012 but yeah, hindsight is 2012, right?)
When you say '"Who knows?" like that it's obligatory to tap the side of your nose. One day you'll know why. Not the greatest episode but I must admit that having seen several people react to it, it's grown in my estimation. Nina Sosanya is always good (the Mum) and I always thought that Abisola Agbaje did really well as the alien, particularly snarling back at Rose! And I haven't seen that ending for a while, that was well done - written by Russell, presumably. Always a delight when a reaction pops up. It's almost time for really grown-up Doctor Who! Who 👃?
This episode is so underrated, it actually lists as one of the least liked new who episodes, and I never understood why. I've heard a lot of people say that Chloe's performance was a reason, but honestly I think she did a very good job of showing the loneliness of chloe during the short time we saw her without the isolus, and as for when the isolus was controlling her, it definitely gave obsessing and scared to me. As for the rest of the episode, I love this one. So many good details: the bit about the tardis needing to be re-parked, the moment(s) with the doctor sensing something is wrong or different (as in feeling where the ionic energy was, and then later when he said a storm was coming, it almost felt instinctual. And yeah, it definitely reminded me of Mary Poppins (Many fans love the idea that Mary Poppins is a Timelord, including me :3 )), the connection of the mother and chloe in the end. Also, when it comes to the isolus pod, it didn't just need heat, it needed love, and the olympic torch represented the love of all the fans.
This episode has been removed from BBC iPlayer - one of the cast Huw Edwards was later accused of child p*rn and rather than try to remove his scene, they chucked the entire episode.
They're in the process of re-recording Edwards's lines with another actor or newsreader - possibly Jason Mohammed, seeing as he has Who experience. It's surprising how much Edwards can be heard throughout. The redubbed version will available before too long, I'm sure.
5:00 Matthew Graham is also the creator of Life on Mars, which is another show I'd highly recommend, though this episode is probably not the best introduction to his work. 😅There's a lot of overlap with Doctor Who in terms of writers and producers.
Most likely outcome of an encounter with the Doctor (non-companion) - Death, Maiming, mental scars for life, etc. Pretty much if you see The Doctor it's time to go some other direction. Quickly.
The episode was pretty explicit that heat wasn't enough; it was the love associated with the Olympic torch that did the trick.
Also, they did say the Isolus chose Chloe because she was lonely, so she was already pretty isolated before it showed up. It was probably the situation with her dad that made her cut herself off.
Yep. Billions watching the torch and all that goodwill is what was needed.
"why couldnt she put it on the stove"
Ah yes, first thing I think of when I turn on the stove is the love of millions of people 😅
Maybe if it was a Thanksgiving episode but I don't think England has those.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 uh... Christmas?
A wimple is the headpiece a nun wears. Like the cat nuns that threatened the Doctor at New Earth.
The cats in the nun's wimple is a reference to the cat people from the first episode of this season "New Earth"
A wimple is the headdress warn by nuns, it goes around the face, head and under the chin.
I thought they were called habits, Lol.
My favourite thing about this episode is Nina Sosanya who plays the mum, Trish. Always love her work. She & David are close friends, and have been in this, ‘Casanova’, ‘Staged’, & ‘Good Omens’ together.
Wonderful reaction, as always! 💜💜➕🌈🟦
16:48 IN CLASSIC WHO - The First Doctor's first Companion is his granddaughter who went by the name of Susan Foreman who was in Seasons 1 and 2. She calls him Grandfather all the time, not Doctor, one of the few people who do not call him Doctor. We know for sure she is at least Gallifreyan because the 20th Anniversary Special takes place on Gallifrey and she knows all the sights. Why her name was Susan, we do not know. Foreman comes from the name of the junkyard that TARDIS was in during the first episode. Two of her schoolteachers became Companions during the course of the first episode....
Ooh have you watched classic doctor who? It’s hard to tell
I'm very suprised that she haven't appear in this show yet. She is from Gallifrey, so it wouldn't be a problem with just playing her diffrent looking actress. I think there is a potential.
@@HelluvaGuy1025 They've been hinting at Susan's return during this whole past season with Ncuti Gatwa so I suspect that she may actually return to make an appearance next season. Carole Ann Ford is the only actress from the main cast of the original series from 1963 still living today.
@@kerouac.jackson I haven't seen these new episodes with 14th Doctor. I need to watch them someday.
I believe that Chloe was targeted by the lonely alien, because she was an abused child who was still trying to process what had happened to her and she needed love as much as the alien. Her mother was still trying to process what had happened to herself as well, so she wasn’t as available as she should have been for Chloe. Their ability to sing away the Spectre of her abusive father was a symbol of them beginning to move on together.
Easter egg, the Street was named after Dame Kelly Holmes who was the 800m and 1500m Olympic Champion.
Holmes specialised in the 800 metres and 1,500 metres events and won gold medals for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, and 1,000 metre distances. She held the British 800 metre record until 2021.
Kelly Holmes gold medals in 2024 are among my favourite sporting moments.
Another is being in the Olympic stadium for 2012 to watch David Rudisha’s 800m record.
This was filmed in late 2005, so the London Olympics in 2012 had just been announced a couple of months earlier.
At the end where the Doctor picks up the torch, they needed a quick montage of people smiling and cheering as they watch their TVs, and the very last person they show is Elton from last episode, spitting out his tea in surprise.
It was not the heat of the fire, it was the feeling of community and love. The torch was the focus of all watching, even Rose said feel the love and tossed the ship up in the air not at the torch.
That council guy really loved filling in that pothole
I like this bit where he has to re-park the TARDIS. That was clever and cute.
To answer your question about the vehicles stalling, the alien ship was siphoning the heat. No heat, no internal combustion.
You have to admit, FLG , that humans have an amazing ability to ignore what's right in front of their face.
the doctor had a granddaughter called Susan in the original 60s show.
The Olympic torch was an emotional focal point and not simply a source of heat from the flame.
The alien spaceship needed heat AND emotional energy.
"Winds in the East
Clouds coming in
Like something is starting
About to begin
Can't quite put my finger
On what lies in store
But it feels like what's to happen
All happened before. "
Couldn't get a better description of the next two episodes.
This episode only got made, as a script written by Stephen Fry fell through at the last minute due to budget issues. The original episode was going to be set in the 1920's and have the Doctor fight an Arthurian Knight.
Another one of those “Wow, I _really_ do like Angela if I’m watching this” episodes. 😆
Thank you 😂😂
I love how the doctor didn't try and help thr guy, he just left him sprawled on the ground and on top of that, he stole all his glory!
The First Doctor, way back when the show started in 1963, traveled with his granddaughter Susan. She was the first ever companion.
Even in classic Who, the details of who his partner and other family might have been remained a mystery. The Time War happened off screen, in the time between Classic and NuWho. We don't know what happened to the Doctor's family, but since he calls himself the Last Time Lord, one way or another we can assume that they are dead.
At some point in the future, if your David Tennant crush doesn't go away (trust me it won't 😜) you should consider checking out Good Omens. Great, feel good show with a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-style humor and it stars David and Michael Sheen who are 👌the dream team
Would love to see her react to _Good Omens_ (crush or no crush) and _Staged._ A lot of other Tennant stuff to hit too. _Broadchurch,_ maybe.
I love that show
There was a massive petition trying to get Tennant to actually carry the torch when the time came but it didn't happen.
It would have been EPIC!
I just wanted them to show an empty stadium over the TV just before the Torch arrived. Would've been cool
@@funnylilgalreacts Sir Patrick Stewart from Star Trek The Next Generation actually carried Olympic Torch in London Olympics 2012. "British actor Sir Patrick Stewart takes his turn on the Olympic torch relay, praising the celebratory crowds. Stewart, best known as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, said carrying the torch through well wishers in Croydon was an experience he will 'never forget', adding that it was better than any movie premiere." -> ua-cam.com/video/Sd31HDy2PTU/v-deo.html
Matt Smith, however, did.
@@funnylilgalreactsThe actor next on your blanket DID carry the Torch.
My favorite part of this episode is when the doctor is talking about what you need to travel and what you need most of all you need a hand to hold. Then Rose is pointing but the doctor is just like oh Rose needs me to hold her hand. 😢😢😂 It's so cute and wholesome 😊
The other is the ball bearings you can eat. It looked like Rose wasn't paying attention but at the end has a cake with them in her hand. ❤
I love that you're still making references to the clicky head thing 😂
The Doctor was a grandfather once.
Reference to Lewis were from ITV detective drama Inspector Morse. Lewis was the Detective Constable assisting & eventually got the spinoff.
9:03 Reference to the first episode of the season. The cat nuns on New Earth
I so wish they got David Tennant in for the 2012 Olympic ceremony
He was a dad, once. A grandad, also. But hey, this is one of the good days. *Everyody lived.* Always nice to have one of those, before...
When the 2012 Olympics finally came around I remember hoping until the last second to see David show up
Matt Smith carried the Olympic torch from Cardiff...in 2012....LOVED IT!
The Tardis was at the 2012 Olympics.
The fact that the actual real life 2012 Olympics were actually in london and they didn't have David Tennant run with the torch for just a little bit devastates me.
It WAS Mary Poppins.
Mary Poppins told her employers and or Bert ( Dick van Dyke) that she would only be there until the wind changes.
Bert did remark about the wind changing before Mary came.
And she left as soon as the wind changed.
Kookaburra is an Australian nursery rhyme that in the USA was a popular song sung by kids in sing-a-longs. In the 1960’s I sang it in music class and Girl Scout Camp. I still have all those songs in my head.
I definitely learned it myself as a kid in the 90's from Barney which makes sense that they would use all kinds of nursery rhymes
It was written by Marion Sinclair, a music teacher at Toorak College in Melbourne.
The Girl Guides have adopted it as a traditional song, since Marion initially submitted it to a contest they held to raise money.
@@RobertJW ...And "Men at Work" got in trouble for using snippets of it in their hit song "Down Under", 'cos they assumed it was out of copyright and didn't check.
In the Empty Child two-parter:
Doctor Constantine: "Before this war, I was both a father _and_ a grandfather; now I am neither."
The Doctor: "Yep, know the feeling."
😏
The Doctor actually told Donna he was a father once, in The Doctor's Daughter. It was implied something tragic happened to his family.
The older lady is in one of the best episodes of Torchwood!
It wasn't just the heat, it was explained. The love and hope the torch represented was needed too.
Chloe's dad died and then she wasn't seen around as much. You'd think people would ask about her... because you're American. British people worry about their neighbors but would NEVER ring them up to check lol
The song is an old Australian kids song.
Everyone is fond of old Australian kids, no wonder there’s a song for them.
@@Richard_Ashton =:oD
You thought the Doctor was going to have to save Rose. Nope. The other way around. Rose saves the Doctor.
Crazy how this episode took place in the future when it aired and now it's in the past.
It's a very American trait to say that America is best at everything😂
they do have all the diabeatus
We do excel at that, don't we?
‘Murica
United States of America - 1
China - 2
Great Britain - 3
Well, to be fair, they do win a LOT of medals, every time. But yeah the way she said it was funny lol
The Doctor has already told Rose that she can spend her whole life with him, but he can't spend his whole life with her. Due to the difference in lifespans, The Doctor expects to lose Rose eventually.
While the Doctor’s comment about having been a father was a surprise to new viewers of the revival, this was common knowledge to fans of Classic Who since the original Doctor’s companion when the show began in 1963 was his own granddaughter Susan.
Last season, empty child. Dr. Constantine said, "before this War I was A Father and A Grandfather. Now I'm neither but I'm still a Dr." Eccelson said, "I know the feeling." The Doctor was a grandfather before Time War
There were petitions going around England to have David Tennant carry the torch in the 2012 Olympics lol. It didn’t work, but it was funny.
Kookaburra Sits in the Ole Gum Tree is an old Australian nursery rhyme about the bird (kookaburra) and the sound it makes.
Every child in the 50's, 60's 70's 80's and 90's learned to sing the Kookaburra song in Australia.
I learned it in Girl Scouts as a camp fire song in the 70s here in America.
1990, first grade summer camp in Northern California.
The reason it had to be the Olympic Torch was because it wasn't just the fire, but the global emotional connection to it.
Terminator and Mary Poppins - who hasn't got those mixed up?
Mary Poppins has a bag that's bigger on the inside. Time Lady?
There's a "storm coming " try "Dune". the Doctor's first companion was Susan his grand daughter so she must have had a mother . The torch was a symbol of love and togetherness , which the Isolis( the alien needed) wanted not just the heat .
The isolus may have need more than just the heat to aid in it's release. It needed love, or in this case, the representation of love, hence the Olympic torch.
Team GB were training and staying in my home town of Loughborough. I did have an opportunity to work at the Olympics in one of the restaurants.
I'm sure a lot of people will post this as well, but the very first Doctor's companion was his granddaughter Susan.
Deducing, not deducting, Doctor. Rose figures out a lot in this episode.
This series is able to pull off cheesy (most the time) 😆 hah! It helps, too, that BP & DT have insane chemistry… ❤
22:33 I remember seeing this before the 2012 Olympics and when the 2012 Olympics happened really hoping that David Tennant would be the person that lite the torch but the torch was differs and David Tennant wasn’t there. But it would have been awesome!
16:49 The Doctor's first companion in the original series is his grand-daughter. We never see or are told about his family other than that in classic, but the implication is there. (if he has a grand-daughter, he must have a child.)
Out in the real world, the writers/creators at the time apparently decided they didn't want people thinking about how William Hartnell would of had to have had sex in order to have a family, so they quickly just never talked about his family again.
Looms, my dear boy, looms.
The point about the Olympic Torch was it represented the love and hopes of all the nations coming together - it wasn't just heat, it was that feeling of family/ community.
Fear Her is one of my least favourite episodes....not sure what was wrong, it just didn't quite gel somehow.
Having sai that the quote 'A Council axe from a Council van' somehow entered our family vocabulary (you'd be amazed how often it fits right in - not frequently, but from time to time).
“ valiant child who will die in battle so very soon”
"Olympic Sport" 😂😂 Very slight spoiler for the distant future: there's a line in Capaldi's first episode that will break you. 😂
9:05 The face when Doctor says "I'm not really a cat person" 🤣
Give Xander a raise 🤣
Fun fact, this episode was made before the 2012 Olympics were announced to be in London.
It was broadcast almost a year after the London 2012 announcement was made.
The announcement was made the day after the 7/7 terror attacks in 2005. Series 2 came out in 2006!
In 2012 there were Olympic banners EVERYWHERE in London!
Happy-happy Who Day! It’s worth noting that not all Doctor-light episodes are bad. One of the best episodes of modern Who is
At least two of the best.
It's not really a reveal that the Doctor was a father. The first Doctor's first companion was his granddaughter, Susan.
By the time you get to Capaldi you'll be able to publish a nice fat book "Questions for the Doctor and Whovian Famdom"
Not all Doctor light episodes are bad. One of them just might be my absolute favourite.
That, of course, is Season 3, Episode 10 - "Blink"
Funny how the two most well regarded 10th doctor stories is a one that barely has the doctor and another that is only the doctor
That was partly filmed in my husband’s shop. They turned it into a dvd store but it’s really a vinyl record store in Newport South Wales. Lucky to meet David, Freema and Carey Mulligan. Got some lovely pictures from the set and them in the shop during breaks.
@@unclekarl5219 Turn Left and Midnight. Word.
@@unclekarl5219 I think there are better stories than Blink. The stories introducing Jack and River for example.
Why would you tell her this before she's seen it? Let her go in blind and discover it for herself.
The previous epidode was a logistic episode. They film two episodes at the same time. One of my favorite episodes is a logistics episode..
They called these "double banking episodes" at the time.
It was the love that is associated with the torch not just the fire itself
The doctor was not only a dad once, he was a grandfather.
We do actually know The Doctor had a family. His first companion in the 60’s is Susan, his granddaughter. Her school teachers, Ian and Barbara become the Doctors first companions from Earth (that we know of, of course.) The first time I watched this episode, I didn’t really like it. I enjoy it much more on rewatch these days.
if you seen the old doctor who's susan is the doctor granddaughter. is all we know form the kid's who can say he can't have any more kid's on the way as time go by lol..
the torch was heat source because it represents hope love faith how each ring means something different its meant on a play for each of the rings meaning
I just realized that the guy from the Counsel is the actor who plays Eamon Valda in The Wheel of Time.
Looking forward to Angela getting to the Christmas episode and meeting the bride...
This isn't a spoiler because it only comes up in the series as an Easter egg.
The doctor's first traveling companion was his Granddaughter and her future husband.
Susan's husband never actually travelled in the Tardis, but yes, the first companion was the doctor's grand-daughter.
22:06 "You're still gonna get picked up by him. He's not going to just drop you off somewhere and leave ya!"
:: Awkwardly thinks of Susan ...and Sarah Jane ...and Jack Harkness... and... ::
the doctors actual family tree is as confusing as his own canon. the most concrete we have with just the show is that he has a grand daughter named susan, and that may or may not be her real name.
:: Considers mentioning the episode The Doctor's Daughter ::
:: Reconsiders and thinks better of it ::
"Squiggles"?!
That is a
GREAT
name for a cat
"Squiggles"always reminds me of the Scrabble episode of The Show With Ze Frank (11-27-2006).
@@NeuroticNomadic Ze Frank?
I gotta see that one yet
(I like how he refers to birds as: "beards")
Fun fact:
This episode loosely drew its inspiration from a late 80’s film called Paperhouse where a young bed-ridden girl draws things which apparently come to life - it’s quite terrifying! Paperhouse itself was inspired by a children’s fiction novel called ‘Marianne Dreams’ and was adapted for British television in the 1970’s as the children’s serial ‘Escape Into Night’.
I used to own this on VHS! I am going to have to see if there is a BluRay is available.
Not all Minis are Mini Coopers the base model is the Mini One. Mini Coopers are the top of the range.
Love how your portal opens when you snap your fingers. LOL (Sorry, couldn't resist). Very few episodes creep me out, and this is one of them for some reason.
The mother of the little girl is in season 2 of Good Omens… also a few Doctor Who references sprinkled in as well.
Also was in _Casanova_ and other things with Tennant. Nina Sosanya. Love her.
She was also in season 1 of Good Omens, but, oddly, as a different character.
@@donaldb1 Yes, a nun. But not a cat nun.
'Season three of Doctor not me'? Maybe? Probably bad...
"He'd never just drop you off somewhere and not come back" Sarah Jane might question that statement ;)
...and Jack Harkness... and Susan Foreman... and...
Its not in new who yet but he does have a grandaughter. Susan
Matt Smith actually did carry the olympic torch in real life.
It's not often someone confuses Mary Poppins with The Terminator.
That's just because people don't pay attention to the right details. =;o}
This episode was a last-minute addition, replacing a script by Stephen Fry that was too costly, so this was the "cheap" episode. You can tell it's last minute, cause the London 2012 Olympics were only announced in the summer of 2005. Hence the complete lack of the real London 2012 logo, as it didn't exist yet. (While we're at it, BBC News 24 wasn't called that by 2012 but yeah, hindsight is 2012, right?)
When you say '"Who knows?" like that it's obligatory to tap the side of your nose. One day you'll know why.
Not the greatest episode but I must admit that having seen several people react to it, it's grown in my estimation. Nina Sosanya is always good (the Mum) and I always thought that Abisola Agbaje did really well as the alien, particularly snarling back at Rose!
And I haven't seen that ending for a while, that was well done - written by Russell, presumably.
Always a delight when a reaction pops up. It's almost time for really grown-up Doctor Who! Who 👃?
This episode is so underrated, it actually lists as one of the least liked new who episodes, and I never understood why. I've heard a lot of people say that Chloe's performance was a reason, but honestly I think she did a very good job of showing the loneliness of chloe during the short time we saw her without the isolus, and as for when the isolus was controlling her, it definitely gave obsessing and scared to me. As for the rest of the episode, I love this one. So many good details: the bit about the tardis needing to be re-parked, the moment(s) with the doctor sensing something is wrong or different (as in feeling where the ionic energy was, and then later when he said a storm was coming, it almost felt instinctual. And yeah, it definitely reminded me of Mary Poppins (Many fans love the idea that Mary Poppins is a Timelord, including me :3 )), the connection of the mother and chloe in the end. Also, when it comes to the isolus pod, it didn't just need heat, it needed love, and the olympic torch represented the love of all the fans.
This feels so much like a seventh doctor story that it's crazy.
This episode has been removed from BBC iPlayer - one of the cast Huw Edwards was later accused of child p*rn and rather than try to remove his scene, they chucked the entire episode.
They're in the process of re-recording Edwards's lines with another actor or newsreader - possibly Jason Mohammed, seeing as he has Who experience. It's surprising how much Edwards can be heard throughout. The redubbed version will available before too long, I'm sure.
cloud, silver, lining
"I don't remember this happening at the 2012 Olympics..." Well, that's not entirely true... 😉
Thousands of people just disappeared right in front of my eyes ...well this is a terrible turn of events. so British
oh boy lilgal you are so not ready for what's coming for you in two episodes time
5:00 Matthew Graham is also the creator of Life on Mars, which is another show I'd highly recommend, though this episode is probably not the best introduction to his work. 😅There's a lot of overlap with Doctor Who in terms of writers and producers.
Most likely outcome of an encounter with the Doctor (non-companion) - Death, Maiming, mental scars for life, etc. Pretty much if you see The Doctor it's time to go some other direction. Quickly.
Well... there was that one time.... "JUST THIS ONCE, everybody lives!!"