In a nutshell: The Doctor is an alien from another dimension that were brought to Gallifrey against his/her will, he were extremely exploited by the time lords. And after every reincarnation they wiped out the Doctor memory.
The Daleks actually first demonstrated an ability to fly up stairs during the Seventh Doctor serial “Remembrance of the Daleks”, which was part of classic Doctor Who, not modern Doctor Who.
Thank you, every time someone say its NU-Who i feel sad...noone seems to include “Remembrance of the Daleks”. Its also the Story that gave us the "clocksong" we could hear in Series 6, for the first time (but back in the days, much more creepy).
@@thomasnieswandt8805 - 'Remembrance Of The Daleks' is a great story, with many layers - I prefer it to 'Genesis Of The Daleks', to be honest. It's also the first time that explicitly shows why it is a terrible idea to piss The Doctor off. "Goodbye, Davros! And it hasn't been pleasant!" (The 'Hand Of Omega' homes into Skaro, and attempts to turn it into a singularity, annihilating it, and everything on it.)
@@thomasnieswandt8805 Do you know anywhere to watch classic Doctor Who? Sorry it's just i'm a massive fan but i'm only 14 so i wasn't really alive when the first ones came out and i've never been able to find where to watch it
@@grace211 IIRC BritBox has all of classic who on it - at least the episodes that still survive. Dailymotion may still have select episodes. Failing that, there's of course DVD.
Responding to the question about the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald’s memory, Moffat wrote: “No-one can know the Doctor’s name, except each successive showrunner. We’re taken into a special room far beneath the BBC and given the ancient and special runes that spell his true and awful name. We’re commanded never to reveal what we have learned, because then the show would have to be renamed Mildred. Oh, bugger.”
I remember in America in 1975 a friend turned me on to Doctor Who. I saw Tom Baker's first episode, and had no idea what the hell he went into a phone booth. I ended up being a long time fan.
@@eukgaming8914 I started when i was really young but didn't really love it. Idk when i did begin to love it! But i still started on the 1st episode and i am such a fan it's crazy
Well Time lords do have other powers ... Bond doesn't seem to be as smart as a time lord ( their brain works like a super computer , they have a very low body temperature , and offcourse the two hearts ... We need proof of all of these
@@thenonsenseguy2364 Well, we don't know how well a Time Lord's brain works after a few lifetimes of constantly consuming gin and tonics, he can be pretty cold blooded at times, and to my (admittedly often faulty) memory, we have no proof so far that he doesn't have two hearts. Although, come to think of it, given his favorite hobby a second heart might help maintain enough blood pressure for it.
@@WillLaPuerta I mean Bond is known for having multiple Skills that require like years of training ( which can be a proof ) , also A time lord can only regenerate 11 times ( The 11th Doctor was granted an extra set of regeneration) . So the most a time lord can regenerate is 11 times , and using 11th Doctor as proof we know that Time lords remain smart ( I mean not as smart as when they are in their prime , but still wayy smart than humans ) . Also Bond does lust after Human Women alot , but since we know That Time lords do have romantic taste as of the modern series and can be attracted to Humans ( Tenth Doctor and Rose ) .... so I guess it can't be held against him . The only thing now is the two heart thing , Lack of Tardis or knowledge of time travel and lack of intellectual interest ( Bond does have a lot of skills and is practically smart , but he is not a scholar ) . What am I getting to with this obsiviosly very boring comment... If You want to Imagine Bond as a Time traveling Alien Go for it , I have seen weirder fan fics
Man, I've never found the Weeping Angels scary. I mean in their first appearance, everyone who got caught by them ended up living fantastic lives. Like oh no, a stone statue alien is going to send me 40 years in the past where I'll meet the love of my life and live happily ever after!
I love how the war doctor mocks them holding their screwdrivers up and later on they use their screwdrivers to yeet the dalek through the painting lmao
For the earth bound thing I kinda always looked at it, as he puts it "humans look like Time Lords." It probably comforts him by reminding him of his people.
I love how in modern who it went from 'the TARDIS shakes and makes the weeehhwoorrrh noise' to 'you leave the brakes on and stabilisers off there, now it's smooth and silent' then to 'sometimes it's shakey sometimes it's not, the weeehwoorh is kinda there but not too loud'.
Funny thing I noticed while rewatching: When the 2005 revival starts, the TARDIS arriving or departing stirs up wind and the sound fills the area, such as a neighborhood street, like any sound would carry or echo. But of course, they downplay or lose that as the show goes on. We do still get things like trash cans knocked over, other things displaced when the TARDIS lands. So they wre trying for more realism, but then cut it for time and budget and effects costs. The sound of the TARDIS echoing and carrying through a city block, with buildings, cars, streets, was particularly effective to establish realism there, in the first few episodes. Really enjoying the rewatch.
@@libbymiss The Doctor : Not those levers. River Song : Hush. The Doctor : You probably want to press that button. River Song : Why? That evacuates the waste tank on deck seven. The Doctor : Does it? River Song : What is wrong with you? The Doctor : Better avoid deck seven then.
The nearest we have ever come to finding out The Doctor's name, was in the 1979 story, 'The Armageddon Factor', in which we meet an old schoolfriend of The Doctor (who is in his fourth incarnation at the time of this story), a wandering Time Lord called 'Drax'. He refers to The Doctor as 'Thete', which is the nickname he was given when younger: he was known as 'Theta-Sigma'. We get no nearer than that. The earliest appearance of the 'Fixed Point' idea, was in 1964's 'The Aztecs' (a superb story), where The Doctor tells his companion Barbara, who thinks that, as the Aztecs see her as the reincarnation of a dead Priestess, she might be able to stop them performing human sacrifice: "You can't rewrite history! Not one line!" In another very early story, someone suggests going back and killing Hitler in 1933. The Doctor's reply is on the lines of: "Ah, but he wasn't killed in 1933, was he?"
Thanks for bringing that up. I was remembering it as "Freet". You are 100% right, of course. I loved the series as a middle schooler, but have only followed it tangentially since.
I was sure that Theta-Sigma was his name at the Academy and not his true and real name but im sure the master knows it as they were friends as children
Wasn’t there an off comment by Peter Capaldi where he said his name was Bazil? I think it was during his zygon invasion episodes. Not the anniversary special. IDT it was that it was his first name or anything. I think he may have said middle name or something. I just remember something about it and I never hear anyone mention it.
I can cure their confusion. I will make them watch every single episode of Doctor Who that has ever been and hopefully brain wash them to love the show like I do
"Point and think" - On how to operate the screwdriver by Peter Capaldi Also, I always assumed the rules of time travel made perfect sense... to Timelords. I don't think humans have the mental capacity to understand all it's complexities. By the way, if there are any humans watching this, no offense.
Ten’s sonic has settings which are mentioned in a few episodes when he gives it to others, Eleven’s was an updated model with a psychic control system.
The laws of time travel name sense to the time lords because they literally created the concept of time. Look up the anchoring of the thread on the TARDIS fandom Wikipedia
“It’s more like a big ball of, Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.” I really really like that line. Just because like.. just say it out loud, it’s so fun to say But also, it plays into their character really well. It’s cool because he can’t really explain it in advanced terms, because eventually you get to a point where things are so big and so complicated that you just kinda give up on a scientific reason and can only explain it by terms that adults wouldn’t usually use. And I really like that because adults pride themselves on being mature and knowing about the world, but honestly their just strict assholes most of the time. But anyway. that takes really good plot and really good character development, (under moffat, might I add) and if describes the new doctors really well. Excluding 12 at the beginning of his run because he’s the only one who has a really major character arc which I find really interesting and really annoying at the same time because when your rewatching it’s hard to get the motivation to watch him get to that cool point in the arc where he’s very.. doctor-ish. In conclusion, best running-gag pop-up-line other than ‘hello sweetie’ and ‘spoilers!’ (Rose fans, please don’t come and attack me for that.)
5:43 and again, in classic who they could also ascend stairs, Dalek just had to remind people that, since for whatever reason people chose to ignore that. Hell even in remembrance it was the literal cliffhanger
The reason is because a lot of fans that watch the new series hasn't been here since the start and don't want to spend their time on the old version of the series that they re watching...
@@Adrian-uw8gv that completely misses the point. My and many other peoples issue is that in this video he characterizes their Levitation as if it’s something new NuWho added, which is not the case. He could have said “etc etc how could they be scary if you could run up a flight up stairs?” And either mention well they could fly in the 80s *then* mention how the revival incorporated that in part of making them scary again, *or* keep the same script and afterwards mention that they could fly in classic who instead of giving the impression that it was only until NuWho that they could fly. Especially if the video is talking about things that confuse fans, it doesn’t make sense to leave that out.
@@UgandanPrinc3 Ok... Not trying to be rude... But I think you are creating a problem that doesn't exist.... The guy just forgot that they flying was added before modern who Why is it so important if he got one fact wrong?
@@Adrian-uw8gv really, the only person that had a problem was you, just saying. Because again, like I said, I’m not the only one who wanted to clear that up, since not doing so that would literally do opposite of the thing the video is trying to help. If the point of the video is to help clear up things for non-fans, then you’d want to give them the full picture instead of randomly leaving stuff out, especially from one of the most highly regarded Dalek stories pre and post revival. Especially on channel specializing on Doctor Who. If this was like I dunno watch mojo then yeah they get stuff wrong all the time, but when they refer to them as “whoculture”, one would hope they would miss something that obvious. You even see in the video they show clips across the classic era for multiple points, so it’s not like it wouldn’t have fit the tone or style of the video. If anything it’s fun trivia to state oh btw they also could fly in the 80s, if anything it helps extend video length and assuming people finish the video since they’ve already been watching for 6 minutes video watch time and retention which makes YT’s algorithm happy.
@@UgandanPrinc3 Dude Listen, I misunderstood what you were trying to say, that's my bad, but you are creating this walls of text from a little mistake on a short video about doctor who It's not worth it, I don't know why you are so troubled about this topic, but I don't have the time nor the motivation to read that wall of text about such a silly mistake So... Have a nice day ;)
I remember the very first episode. It was so talked about, they screened it again for the ones who missed it. Probably the first repeat ever shown by the BBC.
My understanding was that the more commonly accepted reason for that repeat is that its premiere roughly coincided with the U.S. president’s assassination, taking away much of the public’s attention; thus motivating a repeat opportunity to watch said premiere. Regardless, the show was very quickly quite popular. Edited to sound less authoritative.
@@InimicalWit It was a combination of events that led to the repeat. There was also a large scale power cut that made a lot of people miss the first broadcast. My uncle missed it. Didn't bother with the second episode as he thought he wouldn't know what was going on then found out from his friends that the first episode was shown again immediately before the second.
According to the 11th Doctor his middle name is 'Bad Penny' (The God Complex) and according to 12 his first name is Basil (The Zygon Inversion). The Time Lords also referred to him as Theta Sigma (before he chose the title 'The Doctor but I don't know where that was said)
Also John Smith. Also also, since he figured the guy took on the girl's last name when they married (think the Ponds), does that mean his name is now Doctor Song? ;-)
I thought that the Daleks were able to levitate up the stairs in the Silvester McCoy episode "Rememberence of the Daleks"? I'm pretty sure that it was at the end of one of the first 3 episodes
Theta Sigma was actually his designation at the academy. No one except River and the Master know his real name. And maybe not the Master, I'm just assuming that.
FUN FACT!!! In the episode Doctor Donna, Donna explained how the chameleon circuit could be fixed with just a little rewiring. The Doctor has decided not to change it, either in her name as respect for the amazing woman, or they just like it :D
It's been mentioned a couple of times in the show that even though the tardis' chameleon circuit is stuck as a 1960's police box, it blends in to it's surroundings because it has a low level perception filter and people see it but they just don't really notice it. This has always puzzled me because if the tardis has a perception filter then why would it need a chameleon circuit and vice versa.
Because there are quite a few people who won’t be affected by the perception filter, or they might recognise a distinctive TARDIS exterior like the Doctor’s enemies usually do. Or maybe TARDISes don’t even come with perception filters, may the Doctor just fitted it in to compensate for the lack of a chameleon circuit.
@@EditedAF987 because if its something out the ordinary, the perception filter wouldn’t function properly. If you saw a big strange shiny thing then it would draw your gaze and cancel out the perception filter. But if you saw something common to the planet, you’re more likely to ignore it making the perception filter effect stronger
In one of my D&D sessions a while back, I used the phrase "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff," to describe a collective confusion among the group about an event. One player in particular got so angry he began shouting at me because: "I don't understand those fake-ass made-up words!" Responding with "All words are made up," was obviously not the proper reply and the session devolved into an argument. Needless to say, I don't go around saying many quotes from DW anymore after a few other off-putting reactions.
I know theres other reasons why ppl are attached to this show but my personal one is as a kid dr.who was my hero. He came in he saved the day he saved people and when i grew up lets just say i didn't have a fun childhood. So i would litterally imagine him coming and saving me. Some people think my attachment to the show is a little "too much" but you know it helped me and for that im grateful.
To add to the last one, my bestie is the biggest Doctor Who fan I have ever met and I thought I knew the series well. This man can quote anything, will tell you the episode, who said it, the characters in it and probably the exact moment it was said. He has been my encyclopedia for all things Who and he is always up to teach me more. Doctor Who fans are some of the best. Also for any of you reading this (and because my bestie also introduced me to this FB group) Scongo is the besr villain
Wow, as a true who, that was brilliant. You did gloss over that some of us fans are quite reserved and quite until we hear someone who is not a fan bad mouthing a series they don't watch themselves, giving it large about how impossible it is to follow. It's Science Fiction, the clue is right there. I feel Dr Who is still the single greatest sci-fi series ever. I love the genre, Star wars, all the Star Gatesand all the Star Treks. I'm not a great lover of gore so I'm as happy as happy can be. Long live The Doctor and his Tardis.
You know how people have been calling all vampires "Draculas" and you don't know if they're joking or sincere? I'm surprised people haven't started calling all time traveling characters "Doctor Whos".
If the rumours are to be believed it's actually Tectuan, who is 'The Other'. Chibnal is apparently using parts of the Cartmel Plan in the Timeless Child abomination!
He said the Mildred as a joke idk about theta sigma however, his/her name is ∂³Σx² which was said in the 1972 'The Making of Doctor Who'. It's got 38 syllables!
I like to believe that the doctor doesn’t tell us their name, because deep down, we all know that no answer that we get would ever be a satisfying answer
One, we look Gallifreyan, Not time Lord. Time Lord is a title not a species. Two, there have been many occasions in the old series and the current series where The Doctor has been talking to the TARDIS and mentioned that the TARDIS seems to like earth. But yeah, because of that, The Doctor has put a lot of time and energy keeping Earth safe.
@@tracyroweauthor No it's their race, this is referenced in the deadly assassin, briefly mentioned in Hell Bent and a big part of the plot in the Timeless Children.
A theory put about in the 1970's is that Gallifreyans aren't even vaguely humanoid in appearance, but appear to other races as humanoid, which goes some way to explaining why they can recognise each other, despite, to human eyes, having regenerated. It's a theory I liked, but does not stand close scrutiny. Still better than Chibnall's 'Timeless Child' bollocks, though.
@@brianartillery That just wouldn't be possible. Though an explanation as to why they generally still recognise each other would be good and still not sure on that, I like the concept of a timeless child but not that it's The Doctor!
I've been watching this show literally for as long as I can remember (pushing 49 this year), and it has taken me this long to work out why the show is so attached to our planet. The answer is surprisingly simple: The Doctor has, at many times, point out how important the expansion of humanity into the universe is to future history. The Waters of Mars entire plot revolves around this concept, with Adelaide's granddaughter being a pioneer in space due to her legacy. This means that, any time an alien menace shows up to threated humanity, the Doctor has to rock up and make sure the history of the next 5 billion plus years or so, isn't rewritten, thereby throwing the future of the entire universe into chaos. Oh, and there are times, eg when he's in the past, someone does something stupid, providing the same issue that needs resolving. Does this make sense to anyone else?
In Day of the Daleks, they are shown trundling happily around the house which has stepped terraces on all sides. And we didn't see even one Ogron carrying a loading ramp, so.....
The point you made about the screwdriver doing whatever the current writer wants it to do is such a good point to make when explaining any fandom to non fans! Because the base lore of any made up anything is "it had (an) author(s)". And however hard you try, sometimes the only explainion is "the writer thought it would be cool".
Capaldis doctor explained why it still blends in to this day. Has the doctor said to bill "humans are oblivious to whats around them". As he proceeds to ask a college student about the destroyed statue to the monks.
With the fandom family, Dr who is something that gets passed down as a heirloom in my family. We're all introduction when we're young enough to hid behind the sofa.
"Don't apply logic to who" -Matt Smith Btw I googled it a little while back and The Doctors real name is a math formula (I don't know if that's common knowledge or not don't come for me)
Actually, just as a point of correction, if the "War Doctor" is the ninth _incarnation,_ CE would be the tenth, DT would be eleventh and twelfth (vanity issues), MS would be the thirteenth and PC would be the fourteenth. So Jodie Whittaker is simultaneously the _thirteenth _*_Doctor_* and the _FIFTEENTH _*_incarnation_* (you said "13th & 14th")! Ignoring the much maligned/universally hate "timeless child" dreck, if we look at how MS regenerated into PC, you could also say that PC is the first of a new regeneration cycle, making JW the second, so JW becomes simultaneously the *Thirteenth, Fifteenth* _AND_ *Second!*
The only part of your video I, slightly, object to is the numerous times you mention almost sixty years. As a native Californian, who moved to England just before starting elementary school, in the 60's I know how long it's been since I first saw William Hartnell as the Doctor. And I'm still a big fan of The Doctor, as are my kids... and grand kids. As always, thank you so very much for the video.
First off, _brilliant_ video! Second: *_THANK YOU_* for blowing off the pointless fever dream that is "the Timeless Child" retcon nonsense... Third: the TARDIS chameleon circuit worked fine through numerous Doctor and Susan adventures, prior to their spending so (or too?) much time in 1963 London, at 76 Totter's Lane. In the second episode, Susan explains many of the outer shell shapes, including but not limited to a sudan chair... Keep up the good work!
LOL! That reminded me of "The Fairly OddParents" Every time Timmy's parents' name were about to be revealed something happens so that the viewer never hears it.
Actually he has regenerated far more times. There are 8 regenerations used before the first series, making the first Dr. the 9th regen. Then everything is fine until 8 regenerates off screen into John Hurt's War doctor. Not to mention Ruth is the doctor from a time we've yet seen. Plus at the end of Day of the Doctor "The Curator" is still the doctor just retired. He goes back to being Tom Baker as it was one of his own personal favorites. All in all there are actually 27 regenerations.
Hope this page hits 100k like TrekCulture did a while back. I wish the show would bring back Jenny just once....such a dropped plot thread her story is.
2:33 Ian Chesterton broke the chameleon device, when he flipped switches to reopen the TARDIS's doors. The Doctor was very consued in stoneage that the TARDIS didn't blend in ("Dear, Dear, how very disturbing" quote from the first Doctor). Besides, that's why I know that the Fugitive Doctor (AKA Fake-Doctor) is not the Doctor we are used to. Maybe she's the Doctor from an alternative reality or an impostore. Edit at 3:21 that doesn't apply to Romana, who almost kept her entire personality after regenerating (at will into any shape she desired).
The Doctor goes on sometimes about not crossing his own time stream, yet completely ignores that he's at the Last Great Frost Fair in 1814 at least twice in recent history (once as the 11th Doctor, once as the 12th), and references it in other episodes.
His is xenicilija. I know this as I took ages going through March to manage to translate the galifreyan on the top of 12’s tardis. Edit: I Assume the likes mean people believed it. I haven’t actually translated it but it’s very possible so if anyone translates it, tell them it was my idea
According to the Doctor's misses. The reason the T.A.R.D.I.S makes the noise while in flight. I because "he" leave the handbrake on. River Song also told the Doctor to "build a cabinet" in one episode. If I remember correct it was a Silence episode.
Not complicated? Well, there's a bridge in New York I wanna sell ya! LOL! Good video...... have you done one about ALL the companions? To make it easier, since Chris Eccleston.....
His real name is in one of the comics, in the comic it actually says “as we all know the doctors real name is” and it says his name, it’s a maths equation
That sentence got away from you huh. Lol, great explanation vid for non/casual fans. I'm a big fan of the more modern series, mostly season 4,, but I do like the old series too.
I once worked out that during the Third Doctor's exile in Earth, he still managed to visit alien worlds in a higher proportion of stories than in the whole of Russell T Davis's tenure.
Many, many years ago "Mad" comic did a story of the first three "Doctor Ooh"s trying to save the fourth from being eaten by a self-knitting scarf. Their efforts failed until a mysterious stranger took away the ball of wool. The stranger turned out to be the "real" Dr Ooh, Peter Cushing, who had what none of his TV counterparts had: _Big Screen Magic!_
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Marvel Comics (US) published Doctor Who comics for a while, and revealed his name as some mathematical equation. The first two letters? Theta Sigma. No idea if they called Douglas Adams on that one?
I think the police box still works because it's something most people wouldn't really notice being strange because of there once abundance. Like a payphone or a news paper stand you just think 'wow those still exist?' then keep walking
My theory is that the tardis has a perception filter on it, and only somebody with a level of telepathy needed would notice it. Even if it was just a flicker in the corner of they eye, it was still noticed.
Regarding the chameleon circuit of the Tardis it hasn't been stuck always. In fact out of all the incarnations of The Doctor one who is least liked it seems from the classic era did in fact fix it. The 6th Doctor did in fact fix the chameleon circuit of the Tardis. However,possibly due to both writers and fans this was never followed up. Instead they had The Doctor make a decision to keep the police box motif basically deactivating the chameleon circuit even though the 6th Doctor did fix it.
@@thenonsenseguy2364 It was written as such as I said because of the writers seeing the dislike by fans of changing the look of the Tardis to anything else but the iconic police box motif. It still doesn't change the fact that out of all of the Doctors the 6th was the only one to tinker with it successfully albeit temporary unlike the others.
He fixed it to change (in 'Attack Of The Cybermen') , which it did, but in no way blending in - a pipe organ, and a set of decorative wrought-iron gates do tend to stick out like a sore thumb. I think that the TARDIS itself regards the police box as it's default setting, now, to be honest. (As I sit here writing this, I can see 11 models of the TARDIS).
@@brianartillery You're right in that he got it to work albeit not properly just as you sighted in your examples of a pipe organ and a set of decorative wrought-iron gates to blend in yet you can't honestly say that the police box motif blends in any better than those two examples. It sticks out just as badly. Given that they've shown in New Who not only that the Tardis is sentient and it like as you say has decided to make the police box motif its default appearance permanently. I suppose this is why it was in the equivalent of a defective repair shop of sorts. Obviously properly working time machines like the Tardis don't have this issue and can blend in perfectly to their surroundings.
Why does the doctor spend so much time on Earth? That was answered by Rose Tyler. They come to Earth roughly once a week - whenever they run out of milk.
I'm just going to place this here: The Chameleon Circuit has been broken forever. The implication is that the TARDIS is supposed to "blend in"...but in several New Who episodes he just materializes...among people in the past. I think we just don't pay it any mind, but I do! I think the Tennant Shakespeare episode he does it, and I know that in the Mat Smith episode with the vampires in Renaissance Venice the TARDIS just appears on a dock and they walk out. Headcanon: Perhaps the TARDIS projects a psionic suggestion to seem like "nothing is there", like the way psychic paper works. But this contradicts with the chameleon circuit in the first place. Maybe the chameleon circuit is a backup disguise? I guess I'll go with that. But the possibility of the TARDIS interfering with peoples' brains is too much for me. 8-/
Loved your joke about TARDIS abbreviation although you got the actual one wrong, technically (literally according to one of your own videos)! Its dimention not dimensionS! Also the sonic has worked on wood a number of times, most obviously opening a wooden after barrell in The Curse of the Black Spot to save Rory! You didn't actually mention the internal Dalek and the 'fact' they have to be used in every series contractually!
NuWho has more than once pointed out that the TARDIS just kind of blends into the background and most people just don't notice it. (perception filter maybe?) the Sonic Screwdriver can't open dead lock seals either. I maintain the Timeless Child is not canon. Time and Relative DIMENSION in Space. Not dimensions.
>blends into the background yeah I can see that. perception filters are well established >deadlock seals that makes sense, it's mechanical and not electronic >timeless child same. waiting for capaldi to regenerate
It just dawned on me that the whirring sound made by the TARDIS is very similar to the ending of the song "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" by Genesis.
There's a Police call box just like the TARDIS in Bournemouth (well, Boscombe specifically) so I guess it would blend in again now. Can't explain how it managed to blend in when they went to see Shakespeare though...
I've been a fan since the early 80's. My farcebook banner is with Davison, Waterhouse, and Fielding. If I get started on explaining Doctor Who, people start leaving the room.
The TARDIS blends in because it's borrowed some tech from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and is using a SEP (somebody else's problem) device, it makes people ignore it because it's not their problem
Something call psychic lock. It makes people look away from things even though it is there. It’s like the doctor said: “It’s like trying to pay attention to someone who won’t look you back”
I was a loyal fan of Doctor Who since Christopher Eccleston and I was finally old enough to see it and so has met dad since the time of the one and only First Doctor William Hartnell but ever since the Timeless Child reveal we both has removed ourselves from Doctor Who as it was ruined with the massive retcon that changes everything about the show. (PS I’m not responding to anyone who attacks because they think it’s fun, I will only have a civil conversations for those who want to put a decent opinion)
@@lastboss4268 Basically a Gallifreyan explorer, not a Time Lord, called Tectaun travelled to a distant planet were she found a child a the bottom of a tear in reality. The child had the ability to infinitely regenerate and Tectaun experimented on the child to genetically give herself regenerations and created the Time Lords. This child was the Doctor and had many regenerations before William Hartnell (The First Doctor) meaning that in fact there were loads of 'Doctors' before the 'first' Doctor and therefore making the Doctor an immortal godlike being
How the fandom got over the casting of jodie whittaker was something to see cause the fans reaction to it was that people couldn’t be in the middle on it and will to wait until season 11 aired before judging her cause with her u had to be one of 2 factions u had to instantly love her or Instantly hate her before seeing any of her episodes which shows how bad fans can get
The Tardis makes that noise because "you leave the brakes on"!!
TARDIS
OR, someone’s key on a piano string processed through sound recording tech of the time. 1963.
Brakes lol the TARDIS doesn't have any wheels why does it need brakes
River knows best!
Because the Doctor doesn't like the "blue boringers" 😂😂
Stock answer to any Doctor Who novice: It's wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff. Cheers....
bazzer124 Thank you
Or the good ole 'I'll explain later'
In a nutshell: The Doctor is an alien from another dimension that were brought to Gallifrey against his/her will, he were extremely exploited by the time lords. And after every reincarnation they wiped out the Doctor memory.
@@AndreVictorGoncalves what
@@spoderman3189 Yeah
MY FAVORITE DOCTOR WHO QUOTE IS "FIRST THINGS FIRST, BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER".
Mine is "dont be smart, I'm the smart one, your the potatoe one!!"
Love that - which Doctor said it and when?
@@StillJustDreaming 4th, Tom Baker, 1980 episode Meglos (part 1 & 2).
@@detectivesquirrel2621 Thanks! It sounds like such a Doctor thing to say ;-)
My favorite quote is
"Don't eat pears they make your chin wet"
The Daleks actually first demonstrated an ability to fly up stairs during the Seventh Doctor serial “Remembrance of the Daleks”, which was part of classic Doctor Who, not modern Doctor Who.
Thank you, every time someone say its NU-Who i feel sad...noone seems to include “Remembrance of the Daleks”. Its also the Story that gave us the "clocksong" we could hear in Series 6, for the first time (but back in the days, much more creepy).
@@thomasnieswandt8805 - 'Remembrance Of The Daleks' is a great story, with many layers - I prefer it to 'Genesis Of The Daleks', to be honest. It's also the first time that explicitly shows why it is a terrible idea to piss The Doctor off.
"Goodbye, Davros! And it hasn't been pleasant!" (The 'Hand Of Omega' homes into Skaro, and attempts to turn it into a singularity, annihilating it, and everything on it.)
Really? Wow!
@@thomasnieswandt8805 Do you know anywhere to watch classic Doctor Who? Sorry it's just i'm a massive fan but i'm only 14 so i wasn't really alive when the first ones came out and i've never been able to find where to watch it
@@grace211 IIRC BritBox has all of classic who on it - at least the episodes that still survive. Dailymotion may still have select episodes. Failing that, there's of course DVD.
Responding to the question about the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald’s memory, Moffat wrote: “No-one can know the Doctor’s name, except each successive showrunner. We’re taken into a special room far beneath the BBC and given the ancient and special runes that spell his true and awful name. We’re commanded never to reveal what we have learned, because then the show would have to be renamed Mildred. Oh, bugger.”
I remember in America in 1975 a friend turned me on to Doctor Who. I saw Tom Baker's first episode, and had no idea what the hell he went into a phone booth. I ended up being a long time fan.
I'm quite new, and I started at Blink. lol
@@eukgaming8914 I started when i was really young but didn't really love it. Idk when i did begin to love it! But i still started on the 1st episode and i am such a fan it's crazy
I started at rose
I started at 11th hour
@@tonystark-bl1vu nice
Have you thought that the character known as "James Bond" might well be a Time Lord too? I mean, the regeneration is surely a clue.
Well Time lords do have other powers ... Bond doesn't seem to be as smart as a time lord ( their brain works like a super computer , they have a very low body temperature , and offcourse the two hearts ... We need proof of all of these
@@thenonsenseguy2364 Well, we don't know how well a Time Lord's brain works after a few lifetimes of constantly consuming gin and tonics, he can be pretty cold blooded at times, and to my (admittedly often faulty) memory, we have no proof so far that he doesn't have two hearts. Although, come to think of it, given his favorite hobby a second heart might help maintain enough blood pressure for it.
@@WillLaPuerta I mean Bond is known for having multiple Skills that require like years of training ( which can be a proof ) , also A time lord can only regenerate 11 times ( The 11th Doctor was granted an extra set of regeneration) . So the most a time lord can regenerate is 11 times , and using 11th Doctor as proof we know that Time lords remain smart ( I mean not as smart as when they are in their prime , but still wayy smart than humans ) .
Also Bond does lust after Human Women alot , but since we know That Time lords do have romantic taste as of the modern series and can be attracted to Humans ( Tenth Doctor and Rose ) .... so I guess it can't be held against him .
The only thing now is the two heart thing , Lack of Tardis or knowledge of time travel and lack of intellectual interest ( Bond does have a lot of skills and is practically smart , but he is not a scholar ) .
What am I getting to with this obsiviosly very boring comment... If You want to Imagine Bond as a Time traveling Alien Go for it , I have seen weirder fan fics
James Bond 007 is a title given to the agent in the agency, when one bond retires or dies a new one is assigned.
He's Rassilon slumming it.
“The TARDIS stands for Tethered And Release Device In Style”
Me: no, that’s the hot air balloon tardis.
I'd rewatched that episode a few days ago :D
*aerial
Tbh that is an outcast episode and i have only watched it once because it's so hard to find!!!
*Tethered Ariel Release Developed in Style
@@britishbeano it’s on iPlayer
Rule-11
People don’t get understand why every whovian is scared of any stone statues
Ugh if someone left one of those in my yard....
Or shop window dummies
Man, I've never found the Weeping Angels scary. I mean in their first appearance, everyone who got caught by them ended up living fantastic lives. Like oh no, a stone statue alien is going to send me 40 years in the past where I'll meet the love of my life and live happily ever after!
It's not just statues. Anything with the likeness of the Angels ARE angels
I love how the war doctor mocks them holding their screwdrivers up and later on they use their screwdrivers to yeet the dalek through the painting lmao
The sonic screwdrivers can also perform the calculations needed to work with wood - but it takes a long time.
Through RTD’s era, his rule for the sonic’s use that it couldn’t be use to save the day just by its use, just used to assist to getting there
His name is *REDACTED*
On his mother's side. :D
Hello, I'm the Doctor
Reason the doctor doesn't have a name is he is actually a scp
For the earth bound thing I kinda always looked at it, as he puts it "humans look like Time Lords." It probably comforts him by reminding him of his people.
Ok, that's heartbreaking - lovely, but heartbreaking :-( The poor lonely Time Lord...
I love how in modern who it went from 'the TARDIS shakes and makes the weeehhwoorrrh noise' to 'you leave the brakes on and stabilisers off there, now it's smooth and silent' then to 'sometimes it's shakey sometimes it's not, the weeehwoorh is kinda there but not too loud'.
the Doctor is still trying to figure out how to turn off the handbrake.
Also, he now has to avoid deck 7.
Funny thing I noticed while rewatching: When the 2005 revival starts, the TARDIS arriving or departing stirs up wind and the sound fills the area, such as a neighborhood street, like any sound would carry or echo. But of course, they downplay or lose that as the show goes on. We do still get things like trash cans knocked over, other things displaced when the TARDIS lands. So they wre trying for more realism, but then cut it for time and budget and effects costs. The sound of the TARDIS echoing and carrying through a city block, with buildings, cars, streets, was particularly effective to establish realism there, in the first few episodes. Really enjoying the rewatch.
@@tracyroweauthor oh yes, deck 7. No one would want to go there..
@@libbymiss
The Doctor : Not those levers.
River Song : Hush.
The Doctor : You probably want to press that button.
River Song : Why? That evacuates the waste tank on deck seven.
The Doctor : Does it?
River Song : What is wrong with you?
The Doctor : Better avoid deck seven then.
The nearest we have ever come to finding out The Doctor's name, was in the 1979 story, 'The Armageddon Factor', in which we meet an old schoolfriend of The Doctor (who is in his fourth incarnation at the time of this story), a wandering Time Lord called 'Drax'. He refers to The Doctor as 'Thete', which is the nickname he was given when younger: he was known as 'Theta-Sigma'. We get no nearer than that.
The earliest appearance of the 'Fixed Point' idea, was in 1964's 'The Aztecs' (a superb story), where The Doctor tells his companion Barbara, who thinks that, as the Aztecs see her as the reincarnation of a dead Priestess, she might be able to stop them performing human sacrifice:
"You can't rewrite history! Not one line!"
In another very early story, someone suggests going back and killing Hitler in 1933. The Doctor's reply is on the lines of:
"Ah, but he wasn't killed in 1933, was he?"
Thanks for bringing that up. I was remembering it as "Freet". You are 100% right, of course. I loved the series as a middle schooler, but have only followed it tangentially since.
I was sure that Theta-Sigma was his name at the Academy and not his true and real name but im sure the master knows it as they were friends as children
Wasn’t there an off comment by Peter Capaldi where he said his name was Bazil? I think it was during his zygon invasion episodes. Not the anniversary special. IDT it was that it was his first name or anything. I think he may have said middle name or something. I just remember something about it and I never hear anyone mention it.
I can cure their confusion. I will make them watch every single episode of Doctor Who that has ever been and hopefully brain wash them to love the show like I do
I did the math if they watch 8 hours a day, seven days a week it would take about 17/18 days. Yep, lets binge!!!!!
@@julieeverett7442 That can't be right? Did you only include Nu Who in that calculation?
@@robert.wigley no only classic, will have to rethink it, I'll get back to you!
ok 14.6 days for new who 31/32 days, still roughly a month, not too hard to do!
well, all the eps that still exist anyway
"Point and think" - On how to operate the screwdriver by Peter Capaldi
Also, I always assumed the rules of time travel made perfect sense... to Timelords. I don't think humans have the mental capacity to understand all it's complexities. By the way, if there are any humans watching this, no offense.
It’s all to do with Jeremy Bearimy.
Ten’s sonic has settings which are mentioned in a few episodes when he gives it to others, Eleven’s was an updated model with a psychic control system.
The laws of time travel name sense to the time lords because they literally created the concept of time. Look up the anchoring of the thread on the TARDIS fandom Wikipedia
@@waziotter The Good Place😌
“It’s more like a big ball of, Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff.”
I really really like that line. Just because like.. just say it out loud, it’s so fun to say
But also, it plays into their character really well. It’s cool because he can’t really explain it in advanced terms, because eventually you get to a point where things are so big and so complicated that you just kinda give up on a scientific reason and can only explain it by terms that adults wouldn’t usually use. And I really like that because adults pride themselves on being mature and knowing about the world, but honestly their just strict assholes most of the time.
But anyway. that takes really good plot and really good character development, (under moffat, might I add) and if describes the new doctors really well. Excluding 12 at the beginning of his run because he’s the only one who has a really major character arc which I find really interesting and really annoying at the same time because when your rewatching it’s hard to get the motivation to watch him get to that cool point in the arc where he’s very.. doctor-ish.
In conclusion, best running-gag pop-up-line other than ‘hello sweetie’ and ‘spoilers!’ (Rose fans, please don’t come and attack me for that.)
Fricken love that quote, one of my favorites lol 😂
It is good, but my favorite's always been "What are you going to do, assemble a cabinet at them?"
I see you've redecorated. I don't like it.
5:43 and again, in classic who they could also ascend stairs, Dalek just had to remind people that, since for whatever reason people chose to ignore that. Hell even in remembrance it was the literal cliffhanger
The reason is because a lot of fans that watch the new series hasn't been here since the start and don't want to spend their time on the old version of the series that they re watching...
@@Adrian-uw8gv that completely misses the point. My and many other peoples issue is that in this video he characterizes their Levitation as if it’s something new NuWho added, which is not the case. He could have said “etc etc how could they be scary if you could run up a flight up stairs?” And either mention well they could fly in the 80s *then* mention how the revival incorporated that in part of making them scary again, *or* keep the same script and afterwards mention that they could fly in classic who instead of giving the impression that it was only until NuWho that they could fly.
Especially if the video is talking about things that confuse fans, it doesn’t make sense to leave that out.
@@UgandanPrinc3 Ok...
Not trying to be rude...
But I think you are creating a problem that doesn't exist....
The guy just forgot that they flying was added before modern who
Why is it so important if he got one fact wrong?
@@Adrian-uw8gv really, the only person that had a problem was you, just saying. Because again, like I said, I’m not the only one who wanted to clear that up, since not doing so that would literally do opposite of the thing the video is trying to help.
If the point of the video is to help clear up things for non-fans, then you’d want to give them the full picture instead of randomly leaving stuff out, especially from one of the most highly regarded Dalek stories pre and post revival. Especially on channel specializing on Doctor Who. If this was like I dunno watch mojo then yeah they get stuff wrong all the time, but when they refer to them as “whoculture”, one would hope they would miss something that obvious.
You even see in the video they show clips across the classic era for multiple points, so it’s not like it wouldn’t have fit the tone or style of the video. If anything it’s fun trivia to state oh btw they also could fly in the 80s, if anything it helps extend video length and assuming people finish the video since they’ve already been watching for 6 minutes video watch time and retention which makes YT’s algorithm happy.
@@UgandanPrinc3 Dude
Listen, I misunderstood what you were trying to say, that's my bad, but you are creating this walls of text from a little mistake on a short video about doctor who
It's not worth it, I don't know why you are so troubled about this topic, but I don't have the time nor the motivation to read that wall of text about such a silly mistake
So... Have a nice day ;)
as an avid watcher of doctor who i loved this vid you summed the fans up perfectly
I got goosebumps from his description of the fans, got me all emotional and shit
I remember the very first episode. It was so talked about, they screened it again for the ones who missed it. Probably the first repeat ever shown by the BBC.
The BBC repeats shows all the time wat are you talking about
@@tshelby5212 I’m think he’s talking about the repeat of an unearthly child in 1963 when the BBC very rarely repeated anything.
My understanding was that the more commonly accepted reason for that repeat is that its premiere roughly coincided with the U.S. president’s assassination, taking away much of the public’s attention; thus motivating a repeat opportunity to watch said premiere. Regardless, the show was very quickly quite popular.
Edited to sound less authoritative.
@@InimicalWit It was a combination of events that led to the repeat. There was also a large scale power cut that made a lot of people miss the first broadcast. My uncle missed it. Didn't bother with the second episode as he thought he wouldn't know what was going on then found out from his friends that the first episode was shown again immediately before the second.
According to the 11th Doctor his middle name is 'Bad Penny' (The God Complex) and according to 12 his first name is Basil (The Zygon Inversion). The Time Lords also referred to him as Theta Sigma (before he chose the title 'The Doctor but I don't know where that was said)
What about Doctor Disco?
@@UgandanPrinc3 and, of course, Mr Smith. Then again, you could always just ask River Song. Cheers....
@@UgandanPrinc3 and Doctor Mysterio. Thought technically only Grant called him that.
Theta Sigma came from the story "The Armageddon Factor" (4th Doctor story). Drax kept calling him "Theta" to the Doctor's annoyance.
Also John Smith. Also also, since he figured the guy took on the girl's last name when they married (think the Ponds), does that mean his name is now Doctor Song? ;-)
Nice channel, bud. These really confused my non-Whovian brother
I thought that the Daleks were able to levitate up the stairs in the Silvester McCoy episode "Rememberence of the Daleks"? I'm pretty sure that it was at the end of one of the first 3 episodes
End of episode 1 and start of episode 2 (it's the same scene)
His name is ∂³Σx² which was said in the 1972 'The Making of Doctor Who'. It has 38 syllables in it.
how do you even say that
@@CrobatmanIamthenight if you say it the universe will end or something. It must not be spoken. (In other words I have no idea.)
@@max12421 LOL - so his name is a cubed partial derivative times sigma times x squared? Hmmm. No ending universe. Whew. Cheers....
Moffat said his name is Mildred
Theta Sigma was actually his designation at the academy. No one except River and the Master know his real name. And maybe not the Master, I'm just assuming that.
FUN FACT!!! In the episode Doctor Donna, Donna explained how the chameleon circuit could be fixed with just a little rewiring. The Doctor has decided not to change it, either in her name as respect for the amazing woman, or they just like it :D
he just doesn't care to
The Sixth was able to get it to change ... just not quite appropriately
It's been mentioned a couple of times in the show that even though the tardis' chameleon circuit is stuck as a 1960's police box, it blends in to it's surroundings because it has a low level perception filter and people see it but they just don't really notice it. This has always puzzled me because if the tardis has a perception filter then why would it need a chameleon circuit and vice versa.
Because there are quite a few people who won’t be affected by the perception filter, or they might recognise a distinctive TARDIS exterior like the Doctor’s enemies usually do.
Or maybe TARDISes don’t even come with perception filters, may the Doctor just fitted it in to compensate for the lack of a chameleon circuit.
@@EditedAF987 because if its something out the ordinary, the perception filter wouldn’t function properly. If you saw a big strange shiny thing then it would draw your gaze and cancel out the perception filter. But if you saw something common to the planet, you’re more likely to ignore it making the perception filter effect stronger
In one of my D&D sessions a while back, I used the phrase "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff," to describe a collective confusion among the group about an event. One player in particular got so angry he began shouting at me because: "I don't understand those fake-ass made-up words!" Responding with "All words are made up," was obviously not the proper reply and the session devolved into an argument. Needless to say, I don't go around saying many quotes from DW anymore after a few other off-putting reactions.
Excellent episode! Tight script and spot-on delivery. Keep up the good work.
I know theres other reasons why ppl are attached to this show but my personal one is as a kid dr.who was my hero. He came in he saved the day he saved people and when i grew up lets just say i didn't have a fun childhood. So i would litterally imagine him coming and saving me. Some people think my attachment to the show is a little "too much" but you know it helped me and for that im grateful.
To add to the last one, my bestie is the biggest Doctor Who fan I have ever met and I thought I knew the series well. This man can quote anything, will tell you the episode, who said it, the characters in it and probably the exact moment it was said. He has been my encyclopedia for all things Who and he is always up to teach me more. Doctor Who fans are some of the best.
Also for any of you reading this (and because my bestie also introduced me to this FB group) Scongo is the besr villain
Wow, as a true who, that was brilliant. You did gloss over that some of us fans are quite reserved and quite until we hear someone who is not a fan bad mouthing a series they don't watch themselves, giving it large about how impossible it is to follow. It's Science Fiction, the clue is right there. I feel Dr Who is still the single greatest sci-fi series ever. I love the genre, Star wars, all the Star Gatesand all the Star Treks. I'm not a great lover of gore so I'm as happy as happy can be. Long live The Doctor and his Tardis.
You know how people have been calling all vampires "Draculas" and you don't know if they're joking or sincere? I'm surprised people haven't started calling all time traveling characters "Doctor Whos".
I was always told his name was theta sigma but Moffat said his name is mildred
However his name is also apparently ∂³Σx² and has 38 syllables
I rather like theta sigma more than mildred honestly
The Doctors name is every name we heard him being called.
If the rumours are to be believed it's actually Tectuan, who is 'The Other'. Chibnal is apparently using parts of the Cartmel Plan in the Timeless Child abomination!
He said the Mildred as a joke idk about theta sigma however, his/her name is ∂³Σx² which was said in the 1972 'The Making of Doctor Who'. It's got 38 syllables!
@@grace211 oh :v that's a... That's a good name yeah, pretty doctor-y. And here I was thinking his name was Theta :') -kinda new to the fandom-
I like to believe that the doctor doesn’t tell us their name, because deep down, we all know that no answer that we get would ever be a satisfying answer
One, we look Gallifreyan, Not time Lord. Time Lord is a title not a species. Two, there have been many occasions in the old series and the current series where The Doctor has been talking to the TARDIS and mentioned that the TARDIS seems to like earth. But yeah, because of that, The Doctor has put a lot of time and energy keeping Earth safe.
People always seem to forget the Time Lords species is Shaboguns.
@@dylanlarge11 I thought the Shaboguns were a myth told to scare the kids on Gallifrey?
@@tracyroweauthor No it's their race, this is referenced in the deadly assassin, briefly mentioned in Hell Bent and a big part of the plot in the Timeless Children.
A theory put about in the 1970's is that Gallifreyans aren't even vaguely humanoid in appearance, but appear to other races as humanoid, which goes some way to explaining why they can recognise each other, despite, to human eyes, having regenerated. It's a theory I liked, but does not stand close scrutiny.
Still better than Chibnall's 'Timeless Child' bollocks, though.
@@brianartillery That just wouldn't be possible. Though an explanation as to why they generally still recognise each other would be good and still not sure on that, I like the concept of a timeless child but not that it's The Doctor!
The sonic screwdriver is, quite possibly, the best MacGuffin device ever created
I've been watching this show literally for as long as I can remember (pushing 49 this year), and it has taken me this long to work out why the show is so attached to our planet. The answer is surprisingly simple: The Doctor has, at many times, point out how important the expansion of humanity into the universe is to future history. The Waters of Mars entire plot revolves around this concept, with Adelaide's granddaughter being a pioneer in space due to her legacy. This means that, any time an alien menace shows up to threated humanity, the Doctor has to rock up and make sure the history of the next 5 billion plus years or so, isn't rewritten, thereby throwing the future of the entire universe into chaos.
Oh, and there are times, eg when he's in the past, someone does something stupid, providing the same issue that needs resolving.
Does this make sense to anyone else?
that makes perfect sense.
@@tracyroweauthor Thank you, I tend to get confused while explaining things to others, no matter how clear the argument is in my own mind.
It's a common misconception that Dalek introduced Daleks climbing stairs but it was actually Remembrance of the Daleks.
It's not a misconception
@@tshelby5212 then what is it?
In Day of the Daleks, they are shown trundling happily around the house which has stepped terraces on all sides. And we didn't see even one Ogron carrying a loading ramp, so.....
One of these days I'll go to one of the conventions..
The point you made about the screwdriver doing whatever the current writer wants it to do is such a good point to make when explaining any fandom to non fans! Because the base lore of any made up anything is "it had (an) author(s)". And however hard you try, sometimes the only explainion is "the writer thought it would be cool".
Capaldis doctor explained why it still blends in to this day. Has the doctor said to bill "humans are oblivious to whats around them". As he proceeds to ask a college student about the destroyed statue to the monks.
With the fandom family, Dr who is something that gets passed down as a heirloom in my family. We're all introduction when we're young enough to hid behind the sofa.
"Don't apply logic to who"
-Matt Smith
Btw I googled it a little while back and The Doctors real name is a math formula (I don't know if that's common knowledge or not don't come for me)
We’ll know his name very soon if Chibnal remains on
Hey, wanna call him Chinball?
I would throw a fit if he did that ngl. There's too much mystery around it, he's just gonna disappoint us all over again.
@@anirbankarmakar202 Like Olivia Coleman does? (as a joke)
@@anirbankarmakar202 Shitnall
@@libbymiss Same! I swear if he reveals his/her name i'm going to throw my TV at his bloody face
I thought the regen was because it was a kids show and they thought the Dr dying was to much for kids to handle.
To be fair I found regeneration traumatising as a kid. Seeing the doctor change was so sad
lol
Definitely not
Doctor not Dr.
I doubt that was the case, side characters die constantly in this show. And the pure historicals and Dalek stories could get really nasty at times.
Actually, just as a point of correction, if the "War Doctor" is the ninth _incarnation,_ CE would be the tenth, DT would be eleventh and twelfth (vanity issues), MS would be the thirteenth and PC would be the fourteenth. So Jodie Whittaker is simultaneously the _thirteenth _*_Doctor_* and the _FIFTEENTH _*_incarnation_* (you said "13th & 14th")!
Ignoring the much maligned/universally hate "timeless child" dreck, if we look at how MS regenerated into PC, you could also say that PC is the first of a new regeneration cycle, making JW the second, so JW becomes simultaneously the *Thirteenth, Fifteenth* _AND_ *Second!*
The only part of your video I, slightly, object to is the numerous times you mention almost sixty years. As a native Californian, who moved to England just before starting elementary school, in the 60's I know how long it's been since I first saw William Hartnell as the Doctor. And I'm still a big fan of The Doctor, as are my kids... and grand kids.
As always, thank you so very much for the video.
For a second I was like "wait did I click a TrekCulture video?"
Sonic Screwdriver? Sonic Plotdriver more like.
The Daleks going up stairs was done in the classic series in 1988's/ 1989's Rememberance Of The Daleks so far before 2005's Dalek episode
First off, _brilliant_ video!
Second: *_THANK YOU_* for blowing off the pointless fever dream that is "the Timeless Child" retcon nonsense...
Third: the TARDIS chameleon circuit worked fine through numerous Doctor and Susan adventures, prior to their spending so (or too?) much time in 1963 London, at 76 Totter's Lane.
In the second episode, Susan explains many of the outer shell shapes, including but not limited to a sudan chair...
Keep up the good work!
river: *is whispering to the doctor in silence in the library *
*bus drives by *
LOL!
That reminded me of "The Fairly OddParents" Every time Timmy's parents' name were about to be revealed something happens so that the viewer never hears it.
@@TBaker-xu5is mr & mrs turner
Actually he has regenerated far more times. There are 8 regenerations used before the first series, making the first Dr. the 9th regen. Then everything is fine until 8 regenerates off screen into John Hurt's War doctor. Not to mention Ruth is the doctor from a time we've yet seen. Plus at the end of Day of the Doctor "The Curator" is still the doctor just retired. He goes back to being Tom Baker as it was one of his own personal favorites. All in all there are actually 27 regenerations.
>ruth
do not mention that fake
Hope this page hits 100k like TrekCulture did a while back. I wish the show would bring back Jenny just once....such a dropped plot thread her story is.
As someone who tends to pick up your vids when they show in Recommends rather than when released, the little joke at the very end fits quite well
2:33 Ian Chesterton broke the chameleon device, when he flipped switches to reopen the TARDIS's doors. The Doctor was very consued in stoneage that the TARDIS didn't blend in ("Dear, Dear, how very disturbing" quote from the first Doctor). Besides, that's why I know that the Fugitive Doctor (AKA Fake-Doctor) is not the Doctor we are used to. Maybe she's the Doctor from an alternative reality or an impostore.
Edit at 3:21 that doesn't apply to Romana, who almost kept her entire personality after regenerating (at will into any shape she desired).
The tardis has a perception filter on it so you could look at it and your brain would go “yeah that checks out” and move on
Great Video but wish you had time to mention “the Companions” It wouldn’t be Dr Who without them! 🌹
For a Doctor dedicated channel like this, you should've known the Daleks were never hindered by stairs
Daleks look nothing like Mrs Stark! (Pepper Potts)
Thanks for the laugh😀
Americans: “Why is there a British show copying Bill & Ted?”
The Doctor goes on sometimes about not crossing his own time stream, yet completely ignores that he's at the Last Great Frost Fair in 1814 at least twice in recent history (once as the 11th Doctor, once as the 12th), and references it in other episodes.
His is xenicilija. I know this as I took ages going through March to manage to translate the galifreyan on the top of 12’s tardis.
Edit: I Assume the likes mean people believed it. I haven’t actually translated it but it’s very possible so if anyone translates it, tell them it was my idea
Sean is moving! He has been unfrozen from time!
One time I was at a party dressed as the 10th Doctor and ran into someone dressed as the 11th it was great 😁
LOL brilliant!
Must have had a good laugh at that lol
Named my dog Pond, so I could say "come along Pond" when out on walks
10:58 you forgot the other iconic baddies the master, and the cybermen.
According to the Doctor's misses. The reason the T.A.R.D.I.S makes the noise while in flight. I because "he" leave the handbrake on. River Song also told the Doctor to "build a cabinet" in one episode. If I remember correct it was a Silence episode.
Not complicated? Well, there's a bridge in New York I wanna sell ya! LOL! Good video...... have you done one about ALL the companions? To make it easier, since Chris Eccleston.....
OK subscribing. total fun.
'*explains all of who'
Me: dont question the fandom shaun!!!
His real name is in one of the comics, in the comic it actually says “as we all know the doctors real name is” and it says his name, it’s a maths equation
The next time the Doctor remakes the sonic screwdriver they should add a socket for a screw bit with flat on one end and Phillips head on the other.
That sentence got away from you huh. Lol, great explanation vid for non/casual fans. I'm a big fan of the more modern series, mostly season 4,, but I do like the old series too.
I once worked out that during the Third Doctor's exile in Earth, he still managed to visit alien worlds in a higher proportion of stories than in the whole of Russell T Davis's tenure.
First time watching your channel and this bit 3:59 gets the like and sub
Things that confuse people; number 10, literally the title of the show, great start
Drax: "'Allo, Thete!"
River's graffiti: Theta Sigma ALLLLLLL over the place.
You also neglected to mention the movies. Cushing was MY First Doctor.
Many, many years ago "Mad" comic did a story of the first three "Doctor Ooh"s trying to save the fourth from being eaten by a self-knitting scarf. Their efforts failed until a mysterious stranger took away the ball of wool.
The stranger turned out to be the "real" Dr Ooh, Peter Cushing, who had what none of his TV counterparts had:
_Big Screen Magic!_
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Marvel Comics (US) published Doctor Who comics for a while, and revealed his name as some mathematical equation. The first two letters? Theta Sigma. No idea if they called Douglas Adams on that one?
@@brainlock72 As I recall, the Doctor seemed to take exception to being called Theta Sigma by Drax as though it was an unflattering nickname.
And don't forget the Sonic Screwdriver's other weakness: A blowdrier. Set to medium. Every Doctor's nightmare... *shudders*
I think the police box still works because it's something most people wouldn't really notice being strange because of there once abundance. Like a payphone or a news paper stand you just think 'wow those still exist?' then keep walking
My theory is that the tardis has a perception filter on it, and only somebody with a level of telepathy needed would notice it. Even if it was just a flicker in the corner of they eye, it was still noticed.
Regarding the chameleon circuit of the Tardis it hasn't been stuck always. In fact out of all the incarnations of The Doctor one who is least liked it seems from the classic era did in fact fix it. The 6th Doctor did in fact fix the chameleon circuit of the Tardis. However,possibly due to both writers and fans this was never followed up. Instead they had The Doctor make a decision to keep the police box motif basically deactivating the chameleon circuit even though the 6th Doctor did fix it.
I mean it is cannon that the sixth Doctor's repair for the chameleon circuit was temprory
@@thenonsenseguy2364 It was written as such as I said because of the writers seeing the dislike by fans of changing the look of the Tardis to anything else but the iconic police box motif. It still doesn't change the fact that out of all of the Doctors the 6th was the only one to tinker with it successfully albeit temporary unlike the others.
He fixed it to change (in 'Attack Of The Cybermen') , which it did, but in no way blending in - a pipe organ, and a set of decorative wrought-iron gates do tend to stick out like a sore thumb.
I think that the TARDIS itself regards the police box as it's default setting, now, to be honest. (As I sit here writing this, I can see 11 models of the TARDIS).
@@brianartillery You're right in that he got it to work albeit not properly just as you sighted in your examples of a pipe organ and a set of decorative wrought-iron gates to blend in yet you can't honestly say that the police box motif blends in any better than those two examples. It sticks out just as badly. Given that they've shown in New Who not only that the Tardis is sentient and it like as you say has decided to make the police box motif its default appearance permanently. I suppose this is why it was in the equivalent of a defective repair shop of sorts. Obviously properly working time machines like the Tardis don't have this issue and can blend in perfectly to their surroundings.
@@Albert_Wesker_1969 yes Colin Baker usally Jokes about that fact in panels ... That he was the only Doctor out of them all to fix the circuit .
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Why does the doctor spend so much time on Earth? That was answered by Rose Tyler. They come to Earth roughly once a week - whenever they run out of milk.
I'm just going to place this here: The Chameleon Circuit has been broken forever. The implication is that the TARDIS is supposed to "blend in"...but in several New Who episodes he just materializes...among people in the past. I think we just don't pay it any mind, but I do! I think the Tennant Shakespeare episode he does it, and I know that in the Mat Smith episode with the vampires in Renaissance Venice the TARDIS just appears on a dock and they walk out. Headcanon: Perhaps the TARDIS projects a psionic suggestion to seem like "nothing is there", like the way psychic paper works. But this contradicts with the chameleon circuit in the first place. Maybe the chameleon circuit is a backup disguise? I guess I'll go with that. But the possibility of the TARDIS interfering with peoples' brains is too much for me. 8-/
If that's the case, why'd someone buy it in Pompeii, confusing it with "Modern Art"?
We just don't pay attention, that's why it works.
Think you are referring to a Perception Filter?
3:57 Chris Chibnall explaining Series 12 to the BBC
Loved your joke about TARDIS abbreviation although you got the actual one wrong, technically (literally according to one of your own videos)! Its dimention not dimensionS! Also the sonic has worked on wood a number of times, most obviously opening a wooden after barrell in The Curse of the Black Spot to save Rory! You didn't actually mention the internal Dalek and the 'fact' they have to be used in every series contractually!
I swear if any who-fan talks about timeless child, u gonna see me in court!!! IT NEVER FRICKIN' HAPPENED!!!
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NuWho has more than once pointed out that the TARDIS just kind of blends into the background and most people just don't notice it. (perception filter maybe?)
the Sonic Screwdriver can't open dead lock seals either.
I maintain the Timeless Child is not canon.
Time and Relative DIMENSION in Space. Not dimensions.
>blends into the background
yeah I can see that. perception filters are well established
>deadlock seals
that makes sense, it's mechanical and not electronic
>timeless child
same. waiting for capaldi to regenerate
@@Sillimant_ damn I'd kill for Capaldi to come back
It just dawned on me that the whirring sound made by the TARDIS is very similar to the ending of the song "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" by Genesis.
There's a Police call box just like the TARDIS in Bournemouth (well, Boscombe specifically) so I guess it would blend in again now. Can't explain how it managed to blend in when they went to see Shakespeare though...
Used to blend in. Then the chameleon circuit broke. Doctor never bothered to fix it.
I've been a fan since the early 80's. My farcebook banner is with Davison, Waterhouse, and Fielding. If I get started on explaining Doctor Who, people start leaving the room.
The TARDIS blends in because it's borrowed some tech from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and is using a SEP (somebody else's problem) device, it makes people ignore it because it's not their problem
Something call psychic lock. It makes people look away from things even though it is there. It’s like the doctor said: “It’s like trying to pay attention to someone who won’t look you back”
I don't know why but not a single word of that went in, maybe the music, but I listened to the whole video without hearing a single thing
Basil Funckenstein. Is his name, according to 12. 😂
Erm the Daleks first flied in Classic Who, that wasn't a change in Modern Who guys.
I was a loyal fan of Doctor Who since Christopher Eccleston and I was finally old enough to see it and so has met dad since the time of the one and only First Doctor William Hartnell but ever since the Timeless Child reveal we both has removed ourselves from Doctor Who as it was ruined with the massive retcon that changes everything about the show. (PS I’m not responding to anyone who attacks because they think it’s fun, I will only have a civil conversations for those who want to put a decent opinion)
Agreed
I haven’t watched since the 3W episode. What’s the deal with the timeless child?
@@lastboss4268 Basically a Gallifreyan explorer, not a Time Lord, called Tectaun travelled to a distant planet were she found a child a the bottom of a tear in reality. The child had the ability to infinitely regenerate and Tectaun experimented on the child to genetically give herself regenerations and created the Time Lords. This child was the Doctor and had many regenerations before William Hartnell (The First Doctor) meaning that in fact there were loads of 'Doctors' before the 'first' Doctor and therefore making the Doctor an immortal godlike being
@GamingWithChu Well that's just your opinion. We all have a right to a different opinion
How the fandom got over the casting of jodie whittaker was something to see cause the fans reaction to it was that people couldn’t be in the middle on it and will to wait until season 11 aired before judging her cause with her u had to be one of 2 factions u had to instantly love her or Instantly hate her before seeing any of her episodes which shows how bad fans can get
If you've seen how bad Rick and Morty fans can get, you've seen the absolute worst that any fandom can be.