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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- An honest review of the new reboot of Doctor Who!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 Ep 0 The Church on Ruby Road
03:35 Ep 1 Space Babies
07:28 Ep 2 The Devil's Chord
11:36 Ep 3 Boom
17:15 Ep 4 73 Yards
22:28 Ep 5 Dot & Bubble
27:16 Ep 6 Rogue
34:25 Ep 7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday
42:26 Ep 8 Empire of Death
50:52 Conclusions
My biggest issue with this series is that there is utterly no explanation of what happens or any logic whatsoever. Its always something random like the magic bungie cord is just so good at fixing it can drag around the god of death that spent thousands if not millions of years gaining strength and then destroying all life on earth. Or how the mom reveal was so built up and then it was just because it was important to ruby? Like the premise of 73 yards is so fascinating and yet, even though i love a mystery, there is no clues as to what the real answer is. So many interesting premises thrown away due to lazy writing.
@@youfoundwaldo77 yes I completely agree! It seems like a strange mix of trying to draw in a new audience and spoon feeding lots of information, but then other storylines have no explanation at all, like you said!
However this is all very intentional so while if it wasn't i think these would be issues, since it is I don't think so. The point of 73 Yards for example is leaving things up to interpretation! The mystery makes it work as well as it does. And the Intelligent rope works because it was set up with the Intelligent gloves which we first saw at Christmas, it's basically a Chekhov's gun! If it came out of nowhere I would agree but it doesn't.
It's funny that the opposite of lazy writing was what had made Doctor Who good. Generally speaking, you weren't left with having to interpret yourself- some gap in the storyline! This series sounds horrible, won't be watching.
@@nidh1109 there's plenty of stories where you have to interpret.
Imagine if it was even implied that the doctor went around jumping from planet to planet looking for Rogue before Sutekh made an appearance. Then they wouldn't have to say that Sutekh had been there since Tom Baker. The fact that the doctor had been jumping around space and time so much for his search would make the death trail magnitudal enough and they could've said that Sutekh boarded the tardis during wild blue yonder or smth which would explain why Susan has only been noticed throughout this season.
I think if the demise of everything was directly tied to the doctor's determination to save someone he allowed himself to have a connection with, it would have a massive impact on him and the audience witnessing his anger.
This would also explain why Sutekh decided to show himself now as opposed to it being completely random after 40 or so years of television
I thought the piano intro to the theme song worked wonderfully. Different strokes.
Okay serious question…what are your in universe theories for why the doctor cries so much? My thought is that this regeneration is an overcompensation for all his trauma and grief. So he shows is emotions very outwardly.
That's a fair theory! And if the writers had put that in clearly it would have made a lot more sense 😂
Great grounded review which I think reflects and vocalises, mine and a lot of people's experience of the show 👏
thank you so much!
You could trivially justify a musical episode of Doctor who. The tardis has telepathic translation. They land in a city that has its own universal translator covering it. Feedback loop ensues, and they have to untangle the mess before it fries everybody's brain. There's an episode. No magic, gods, or fairy circles required.
I lowkey forgot he murdered the goblin king, yet he lost his mind when he had to kill Sutekh wtf
So true! The contradictions are wild
That's nothing new though.
The musical part of Maestro's episode would have been better at the start of the episode. Idk, maestro doing such good music with space-magic that people just forget about real life and just want to dance and sing until they litteraly break a leg or their vocal cords. Now THAT would've been something.
And by the way, the conversation between Suthek and Clara Oswald, when she was holding onto the Tardis in The Name of the Doctor surely was fun.
That's so true! Definitely would have fit better in the episode!
@@spook7907 Ahaha 😆 and with Captain Jack! Rude nobody told the doctor really😂
@@sianirl oh and, please, do a review of 13, i would love that.
Am gonna rewatch Jodie's era again on friday. I remember finding it all Meh, but also not really watching it and having it in the background.
@@spook7907 yes! I will have to get myself hyped up for it 😂 my opinions of it weren't great but I will have to try and go in with a positive perspective 😆
I'd say yes to 13 but I don't want to do that to you. Although thoughts on Flux specifically would be cool.
@@21Michichi haha I appreciate that 😂 yeh I think I'd need to go back in with a more open mind as well
Very well said.
I'm pretty sure I liked this season... but I have so, so many irritations and frustrations that I have trouble forming into words. This helps get them in order in my head, thanks for that
I definitely came away from a lot of episodes really confused about my feelings, but watching them through a second time and really thinking about it I was able to analyse them a lot better! I'm so glad you could relate to the stuff I was saying 😊
They said that Ncuti's Doctor was a new "era" So, there was the new era started with Christopher Eccleston and this is the new new era. They are not going by regenerations any more???? Go figure.
The first minute of this video summed up EXACTLY my experience with doctor who
haha it's been a journey! 😂
Like you, I was over the moon when RTD was announced as returning and I liked NCuti Gatwa’s in Sex Education so I absolutely believed this would be the Golden Age of Doctor Who part 2 (the 1st Golden Age being RTD’s first round when we also had Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures and the amazing Season 4 Who finale with all 3 series crossover! There was no doubt in my mind it would be spectacular! Sadly I was very mistaken. And the biggest culprit is the thing I had absolutely zero concern about: RTD’s writing! Whereas RTD has always seemed a genius with his writing, easily mixing sound, logical Sci Fi with powerful emotions and real characters; aspects that sadly are missing from most sci fi and especially the past few series of Who. But this series is an utter mess. Logic is non-existent, rules are arbitrary and tend to be the “because I said so, but for this scene only” style rules. What is a show stopper in one scene can literally be solved by a sudden realization and a line of techno babble in the next. Doctor Who is no longer “Sci Fi” as there is no Science whatsoever, no logic, no adherence to the real world and the “fiction” aspect has become pure Fantasy but not anything coherent or meaningful; it truly smacks of poorly written fantasy fiction. As someone else said, it is like a bad AI version of RTD wrote all of this series and RTD was distracted or recuperating or in a coma somewhere. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING makes sense.It looks good enough, most of the time, (I do NOT think Sutekh looks impressive, the Helmeted motionless being was infinitely more effective than a CGI space jackal that can move…but doesn’t for some reason, just staying wrapped around the TARDIS before being chucked back into the Vortex to defeat him…despite him hanging around the TARDIS in the vortex being the way he achieved his evolution into a god to start with. It’s all utter bollocks. I dont know what happened to RTD between his first stint on WHo and this one - but it’s like comparing a true talent to someone who suffered significant head trauma and resulting severe neurological deficits. Please RTD give the writing duties to others before the series dies. I fully expect Disney to drop their funding or rather not renew it for S3. The production looks mostly great, the acting is mostly solid, it absolutely comes down to the writing or lack thereof.
Absolutely! I completely agree, I feel like everyone sings his praises so no clue what's happened!
What if Ruby's dad is Susan under a Chameleon Arch, and that's why Ruby is human.
@@DisposableMillennial ooh that would be interesting! Doesn't quite make up for the horrendous mum reveal 😂 but it would be a good start
My guess is that Mrs Flood is the re-generated Master, living incognito.
@@AlexMc9395 yeh definitely think that's a fair shout
@@sianirl that is theory i've been seeing around. one is she's the Rani, reborn.
Having her be another Master, after all the other storylines that have brought him back, especially the Missy era, would feel like a letdown. I think she's something else, but can't tell you what at this point.
@@Rognik Yes! I'd be much more excited for a different or new character
I have lots of different feelings about the season. I mostly agree with your lineup (don't like 73 Yards as much, but that's a minor quibble), and I'm very guarded for the next season. I don't entirely hate that Ruby's mother was a nobody, but the writing didn't justify why she was so mysterious. Rose Tyler was a nobody until she broke the TARDIS. Donna Noble was a nobody until she caused a metacrisis. Clara Oswald was a nobody until she jumped into the Doctor's time stream. Linda should have at least been the plaything of one of the gods to justify why various investigators couldn't learn anything about her unless you broke the rules of time and space.
As for enduring the Chibnill era, I'd be kind of interested to see you review it, but having endured the first series of his, I wouldn't inflict that on anyone unless they really wanted to.
@@Rognik Yes! I almost wished they did the mum reveal sooner and then had more time to explore things surrounding why it was such a mystery, but the way it was built up was just misleading. Like take a normal person and show how they are extraordinary, don't make someone out to be extraordinary and then reveal they are normal?
The Chibnall era is better than a lot of people give it credit for
Really enjoyed this Sian. Would you like to come and do a guest spot on our panel show, some time?
You should get some sound proofing padding for your room to make the echo a bit less and clean up the sound quality
I really enjoyed this season, but i appreciated hearing your opinions on each episode.
@@MrShowoff27 no that's so good if you enjoyed it! and I'm sure there will be a whole new audience as well, without the nostalgia bias from previous seasons, but it's definitely hard not to compare!
@@sianirlEmpire of death was the only episode that disappointed me. I was expecting like the pandorica opens/ Big bang kind of two-parter, and it was a letdown.
The 12th doctor is good x
I'm sorry but it's lost its magic for me
Which saddened me
@@philipgreen8227 It's a shame but I think that's the same for a lot of people ☹️
I enjoyed your take. I also like that we get your opinions as they happen and your guesses as to what might happen later in this video. Well Done.
I didn't enjoy 73 yards at all. Such a great premise delivered so disappointingly. I did hear someone say it's like a David Lynch film. If you enjoy his stuff (I don't) you are more likely to accept the unexplained weirdness in here.
I obviously still had a lot of criticism of the 73 yards episode, but I think when I was reflecting back on all of them I realised it was the one I was most invested in while watching it, I really wanted to see what happened and how Ruby dealt with everything. Admittedly it may be my favourite of a bad bunch 😂
@34:30 discount Borg.
love An honest review of the new reboot of Doctor Who! x
Great review
My biggest issue with this series honestly is most of the episodes are FAR too short. The average runtime during the Chibnall era was 50 minutes but now we are back to 45 minutes with LESS episodes? Why?! That baffles me. I did overall enjoy this series a lot but episodes definitely needed the extra runtime, I don't know why we've regressed...
The maestro playing piano transitioning into the Intro was awful? I liked ot quite much. Only the out of place dance/musical number at the end was a bit much for me.
Loves 9 and 10, not a fan of 13, and can laugh off cringy nonsense... Stop, you had me at "Standing desk... Feel like I'm gonna be expressive about this one". 😂😂
This really saddens me to say and I've been a fan of Dr. Who since 1998 my first Doctor was Tom Baker and my first companion was Leela and I have to say even with the Jodie Whittaker years I still been enjoying Dr. Who but this new disney era is the first time ever I been put off with Dr. Who this to me is not Dr. Who this is Soap Who.
@@joshuajoshua2732 It is such a shame! 😞 I'm really hoping they switch things up for the next series based on people's reactions 🤞
"Soap Who" huh? Did you not watch RTD's first era?
Yes first one I remember was Tom Baker also. Got really into it with Eccleston onwards. Even on rewatching, up to Capaldi lately, appreciate the quality and imagination even more. Hearing about these last two doctors series though, I won't be watching.
@@nidh1109 "hearing about" so you haven't even watched it?
doctor fighting to save the bogeyman was so jarring for me an episode after he spears the goblin king with a church
@@fusionwinters honestly a direct contradiction yeh, also he would have instantly been sucked out the airlock 😂 can't just hold onto the inside of the door
Tbf though the Goblins were much more dangerous.
Right - I have finally caught-up and watched the whole series now, and just watched your review. I agree with a lot of what you say (yes, Space Babies almost made me stop watching), but the series did get better as it went along. The final 2 episodes almost felt like "vintage" Dr Who, with some good old "hide behind the sofa" moments. Yes, some weak stuff in there, too, but I'll be watching Series 2. I enjoyed your review - look forward to the next one.
Hello 👋
I managed to get to your review of episode 6, whilst finding myself saying; stupid, silly, ridiculous or gross! Even the ham-fisted racism event you thought was well done. Realised I was too bored to care about the last two; thats when you know Who" is dead.
not gonna spoil the 60th specials but will say, theres something there that explains some stuff that makes that one part of the devils cord makes a lot more sense.
I have watched the 60th specials but maybe I missed it? feel free to give spoilers haha I want to know! 😊
@@sianirl remember how the doctor bi-Generated and how the Doctor duplicated the TARDIS? I think the musical number was an after effect. that's the takeaway I got. like with the toymaker you "win a prize", with the god of music "random musical", etc. there's always a by-product after effect that goes with that gods theme. with empire of death and the death of suetkh, I got the implication that the whole universe is back and reborn. Suetkh fixed the Flux. its there. Maybe theres a new galifrey.
@@cofteaamsr1717 ooh very interesting! I like it, that definitely would make a lot more sense!
@@sianirl yeah. theres been some things like that, I noticed. However with Sex Ed over and Ncuti hopefully having more time for Doctor Who, i think we'll have alot more doctor focus episodes next season.
.....the Doctor doesn't like to kill......really?.....ask the Goblins, oh, you can't.....
@@Beastiebaker you're not wrong there! I guess it's his aim from a moral standpoint at least, but it does definitely get conveniently forgotten in certain storylines!
The Doctor tries not to if they can avoid it, but there's many times they can't.
I don't like Goblins. They bite more than fairies.
Ernest emotional scenes are not all cringe.
Not crying would be cringe, I think. Standing on a land mine would make me cry.
I might have to disagree with your opinion about being confronted about his race, gender or sexuality, but you haven't seen the 60th specials yet where he most definitely is. Having said that, Doctor who has had no problem having digs at men for the last 5 or 6 series. Historically he may not have those issues, but in modern day, he will and it's grim to see as it's not from a storytelling perspective, it seems to shamefully be from a writer's perspective. 😬
Enjoyed your review though. He did cry way too much 😂
After seeing the cringe Harriet Arbinger plot, I was wondering when Alan Pocalypse would make an appearance 😂
I think Russell has either lost his touch or perhaps we are all a bit prepared for his style of writing this time.
Dialogue was so poo and the ending was sooooo bad. Just remember when you have kids to pop on a cloak and go point at a Give Way sign 😂
Nice upbeat video ❤
@@satansprguy2864 omg my god Alan Pocalypse got me 🤣
@sianirl haha loved your video. Looking forward to plenty more 😀😀
Is it because he is black or he is not a rich nepo baby? Classism, racism both?
The weird AI moment in Boom reminded me of that “father’s love” moment with James Corden and Matt Smith. Just ridiculous. This series was chock full of boring characters I just didn’t care about, Ruby and The Doctor included. The Doctor keeps telling us characters matter, but they’re just boring and… don’t. It’s worst at UNIT, though. I hate the scenes in UNIT. They’re the worst - nobody has a personality and all they do is repeat what The Doctor has said.
Oh, also, Ricky September was so interesting! He was far more interesting than any other characters in this series. …And they killed him. 🤔
Yes I completely agree! The episodes where everything is solved through 'the power of love' really frustrate me 🤦♀️ and we definitely need some more well developed secondary characters with personalities! 🙏 This video was already an hour but I feel like I still have some many points to make 😂
@@MizziProductions I know!!! They created a good character purely to kill him off
@@sianirlGirl, me too. Same. 🤯 I didn’t enjoy this series at all. Rogue was an interesting character too and I think they were trying to rework the earlier ‘Girl in the Fireplace’ arc with the bittersweet ending trope. They defeated the big bad, but at what cost? The sacrifice of a smart, interesting character who had so much more to offer/romance potential. 🤣 There are just so many problems with this series. Will you be watching the next one? I hope The Doctor and his next companion have more chemistry and they don’t spend the entire series forcing the idea that they’re ‘best friends’.
@@MizziProductions yeh I'm going to keep watching, probably after binging season 1-4 of the og reboot to keep me going 😂 but yeh it felt like they kept saying "we're best friends" rather than showing them building their friendship over time. Not sure who's calling the shots because it is so different to Russel T Davies' original style in the old seasons!
Space babies was super cringe and me loose hope for doctor who being good again! I hated all the toilet humor in space babies its soo bad but anyway that episode threw me off but then some of the other episodes were bad as well!! the only episodes I liked out of the new season were rogue and Boom and all the others were just so bad, I do love Ncuti tho
I think the crying part is more of a character development, since Mel even mentioned it in the first part of the finale to essentially 'Man up'.
It is opposite of Capaldi's Doctor.
@@WritingGeekNL I guess that's true and all the doctors are different, but I feel like the audience still needs some kind of emotional gauge to read the situation you know?
i completely disagree
Surrealism is fine as a concept, but whose? Some people have the gift of surreal imagery, they have a talent for it. The Dr Who writer/showrunner does not. On the Dot and Bubble "race" episode, wouldn't it have been ten times more effective in the battle against racism to simply write a black doctor throughout the series as capable, strong, reeking with integrity, gravitas and wisdom, instead of a dancing, promiscuous, emotionally unstable, ineffective twonk? Another question: Isn't it telling that the best performing episodes were the ones without the Doctor in them?
RTD wrote Martha & Mickey in a similarly pathetic way. I saw the pattern all the way back then.
Did you even watch the series? This Doctor is strong, capable and charismatic.
I hate this era so much, rubbish Doctor, rubbish acting and character. No emotional baggage but I’m also going to cry every episode, generally look and act weak AF, have zero authority, disappear for two episodes, have no chemistry with anyone I meet and snob random men I’ve met twenty minutes previous. Go away. Absolute train wreck of a series.
None of that is true but okay
@@friendlyotaku9525 literally every single thing of that is true
@@obiwankenobi687 nope none of it is.
@@friendlyotaku9525 so this is the Doctor we are told has no emotional baggage, that is true. The idiot then cries in how many episodes? 6 or 7 is it? So another true point. Acts camp, and looks completely authority-less, runs around scared, cries, has to hang onto Mel on the back of her motorbike like some weak companion who has to be saved. So….generally looks and acts weak is….true again. Disappear for two episodes? Two Doctor lite episodes so, oh look true again. Snogs a random man he’s met twenty minutes previous. Well….the snog happened, he met the guy about 20 minutes previously so oh look true again.
@@obiwankenobi687 except you are intentionally misrepresenting what actually happens. And you know it!
It's turned generic.