Glad to hear you liked it. I really enjoyed it too and completely agree with you on your points. To talk about some subjects is hard because you never want to offend anyone but you put it well here. I agree with you. I’m all for representation, the more the merrier. But there is no denying that some of the writing on the subject was clunky. The kitchen scene did it so well and it felt like a natural conversation. The other parts felt clunky to me. But it didn’t detract from an otherwise throughly enjoyable adventure with The Doctor and Donna. It had emotional beats and the humour was on point for me.
Fantastic video mate. I agree when it comes to the last era of Doctor Who I was extremely put off, not only by the heavy heavy virtue signalling, but also a lot of the comments made by Jodie in interviews in regards to the classic era and people who like it. I was extremely excited when I heard Russell was coming back, and I knew he had evolved with his storytelling to a more progressive place, so I was prepared when I heard that a transgender woman was cast in the role of rose, and I knew it was going to have some impact because Russell wants More progressive stories told so I personally believe that, although that specific conversation you mentioned was shocking to most, I think it played well into the story. For example, the whole binary with Donna and non-binary with rose, I hear lots of conversations about how that makes no sense and I’m here thinking. Am I really one of the few people that can understand it so to explain. When Donna took on the meta crisis as a human, she’s unable to contain all of that power, hence why she almost died. Humans are binary as a species and (this is gonna upset a few people) being a cis gender woman. She is pure binary when Rose was born, obviously still with the effect of the meta crisis as a transgender she was non-binary and so she had the ability like the Doctor to withstand the meta crisis and help Donna let it go. Going back to the conversation in the kitchen as I said it came across shocking because you don’t see that on TV you don’t hear it on the radio. Yes a lot of more progressive stories are being told but in Doctor Who I’m pretty sure this is the first time someone’s actively asked for pronouns , so the whole anti-woke, the world is going to end brigade went up in arms saying Doctor Who is dead when in reality conversations like that happen and the doctor himself uses the as a pronoun so it’s kind of expected the conversation would inevitably happen sometime. I think my only real problem with the episode was how rushed the just letting go of the meta crisis was I know they only had limited time, but something more emotional more deep could’ve come from it. If there was another at least 10 minutes put into that part of the episode they could’ve gone for an initial pilot special and give it an hour and a half I guarantee you people would’ve sat there and watched it. The last thing I will mention is the whole “something a male presenting doctor wouldn’t understand” again, a shocking piece of writing that you don’t ever see or hear about so it’s new but again to me, it makes sense in the context of the episode and if they put that time into that part of the episode to explore the letting go of the meta crisis, just the little bit more it wouldn’t have been as shocking to people or at least to normal people not the extremely mad raging drooling at the mouth anti woke brigade. Sorry for the extremely long wall of text and I did use dictation so if there are any errors I apologise, I just felt I needed to explain because I don’t see the binary conversation popping up anywhere in fact who culture didn’t explore that in their Easter egg video, which I found shocking. I would love to hear your thoughts on that mate, and you take care.
I really enjoyed this episode for the most part. Don't think it's one of the best but it was a fun episode. Great to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate back. Always enjoyed the combination of the doctor and Donna. I didn't know the story of the Meep but suspected he would turn evil. The story is perhaps simple and not that special, but it was nice that you can follow it without getting lost somewhere along the way. Even though you have a lot of diversity charactar wise it didn't feel like box ticking, for the most part... till the very end where they made Donna say something like "if you were still a woman you know how to solve this by just letting go". That felt out of place like a bad commercial where everyone suddenly became bad at acting. It also felt like a cheep and easy way out of the problem how Donna can survive seeing/remembering the doctor and not have the Time Lord energy that was part of her kill her. Just let it go that's it really? But yes for the most part I enjoyed it.
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James, I'm just stopping by to say that there's a big new interview with Joe Bonamassa on Rick Beato's channel :-)
Glad to hear you liked it.
I really enjoyed it too and completely agree with you on your points.
To talk about some subjects is hard because you never want to offend anyone but you put it well here. I agree with you. I’m all for representation, the more the merrier. But there is no denying that some of the writing on the subject was clunky. The kitchen scene did it so well and it felt like a natural conversation. The other parts felt clunky to me. But it didn’t detract from an otherwise throughly enjoyable adventure with The Doctor and Donna. It had emotional beats and the humour was on point for me.
Great video I gave the story a 5 /10
Fantastic video mate.
I agree when it comes to the last era of Doctor Who I was extremely put off, not only by the heavy heavy virtue signalling, but also a lot of the comments made by Jodie in interviews in regards to the classic era and people who like it.
I was extremely excited when I heard Russell was coming back, and I knew he had evolved with his storytelling to a more progressive place, so I was prepared when I heard that a transgender woman was cast in the role of rose, and I knew it was going to have some impact because Russell wants More progressive stories told so I personally believe that, although that specific conversation you mentioned was shocking to most, I think it played well into the story.
For example, the whole binary with Donna and non-binary with rose, I hear lots of conversations about how that makes no sense and I’m here thinking. Am I really one of the few people that can understand it so to explain.
When Donna took on the meta crisis as a human, she’s unable to contain all of that power, hence why she almost died. Humans are binary as a species and (this is gonna upset a few people) being a cis gender woman. She is pure binary when Rose was born, obviously still with the effect of the meta crisis as a transgender she was non-binary and so she had the ability like the Doctor to withstand the meta crisis and help Donna let it go.
Going back to the conversation in the kitchen as I said it came across shocking because you don’t see that on TV you don’t hear it on the radio. Yes a lot of more progressive stories are being told but in Doctor Who I’m pretty sure this is the first time someone’s actively asked for pronouns , so the whole anti-woke, the world is going to end brigade went up in arms saying Doctor Who is dead when in reality conversations like that happen and the doctor himself uses the as a pronoun so it’s kind of expected the conversation would inevitably happen sometime.
I think my only real problem with the episode was how rushed the just letting go of the meta crisis was I know they only had limited time, but something more emotional more deep could’ve come from it. If there was another at least 10 minutes put into that part of the episode they could’ve gone for an initial pilot special and give it an hour and a half I guarantee you people would’ve sat there and watched it.
The last thing I will mention is the whole “something a male presenting doctor wouldn’t understand” again, a shocking piece of writing that you don’t ever see or hear about so it’s new but again to me, it makes sense in the context of the episode and if they put that time into that part of the episode to explore the letting go of the meta crisis, just the little bit more it wouldn’t have been as shocking to people or at least to normal people not the extremely mad raging drooling at the mouth anti woke brigade.
Sorry for the extremely long wall of text and I did use dictation so if there are any errors I apologise, I just felt I needed to explain because I don’t see the binary conversation popping up anywhere in fact who culture didn’t explore that in their Easter egg video, which I found shocking.
I would love to hear your thoughts on that mate, and you take care.
I thought the writing was incredibly cringe and woke
Of course you did
Just pointing out the obvious.
Yes but not all of it was completely cringe and woke
The way they treated the Doctor was disgusting & pretty double standards if truth be told
@@Nazz1967 I agree 100% it was super insulting and the preachy message was irritating
I really enjoyed this episode for the most part. Don't think it's one of the best but it was a fun episode. Great to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate back. Always enjoyed the combination of the doctor and Donna.
I didn't know the story of the Meep but suspected he would turn evil. The story is perhaps simple and not that special, but it was nice that you can follow it without getting lost somewhere along the way.
Even though you have a lot of diversity charactar wise it didn't feel like box ticking, for the most part... till the very end where they made Donna say something like "if you were still a woman you know how to solve this by just letting go". That felt out of place like a bad commercial where everyone suddenly became bad at acting. It also felt like a cheep and easy way out of the problem how Donna can survive seeing/remembering the doctor and not have the Time Lord energy that was part of her kill her. Just let it go that's it really?
But yes for the most part I enjoyed it.