I think The TARDIS purposely uses "accidents" as the excuse to act up and disobey and do what it wants. She is a brat like that even though she's loved.
As someone who’s young enough to have missed out on Who, but old enough to have been introduced to it around the end of David’s era, it’s (although understandable), so weird to hear this! Though you’ve been a bit spoiled on the Doctor Donna, getting to see seasons 1-4 play out in sequence and getting to that conclusion of David’s era is a whole other beauty. If you wish to venture forth, I salute you, there are so many loveable characters and stories to delve into and I envy you getting to watch it for the first time :)) Each Doctor is familiar and feels like the same Time Lord, whilst still bringing a fresh and slightly different take on the character every time!
i also recommend a rewatch of Clara & 12’s seasons as a binge because it works so much better that way at least for me. And season 10 with bill works so well.
It's a shame that a lot of people seem to dismiss Capaldis era on rewatches. While his first two seasons were often up and down in quality, his great stories are easily top ten for modern who. Mummy on the Orient express, Heaven sent,the doctor falls two parter. Plus the second best Christmas special with husbands of river song.
There are 3 David specials, and then Ncuti’s Christmas special follows it! It’s not been announced when his first full season will air next year, but they’re already filming his S2, so it shouldn’t be too long at all :)) And yes, even though I love Capaldi as the Doctor, and Missy’s time in his run, I personally wasn’t a huge fan of Clara/11 (which doesn’t help coming off’ve the deaths of Rory and Amy😅). Still, I think Moffat put more care into her with Capaldi and Bill was a loveable guest of the TARDIS, too :))
YESSS This is my favorite show EVER and it’s so cool that you’re doing it! Just wanna let you know as a fan from the US, it comes out on disney+ and it was the FIRST one advertised!! I know you’d like to know that lol
Yes! There are three specials, the first aired the Saturday just gone, the second is on Saturday December 2nd and the third is on Saturday December 9th so THREE consecutive Saturdays and then Ncuti's first episode will be on Christmas Day and his first full series (which will be 8 Episodes) will be in early 2024!
4:52 Funny you should mention the MCU since this story is adapted from a 1980 comic strip called Doctor Who and the Star Beast which was published by the UK arm of Marvel Comics. It even had 'Stan Lee Presents' at the beginning of each part.
I love the tardis fjhdsjkfhsd 'oh noooo a little coffee???? my weakness??? look im bursting into flames i simply couldnt go where you want me to, i guess UNFORTUNATELY donna will have to stay with us LONGER now! oh no!!' we all know that girl is being dramatic
I agree, it wasn't the same after Amy and Rory! I liked your reaction, very pure and emotional, so far from those that'd like to bring culture wars in OUR show! Thank you, girl!
I absolutely adore River Song! I love that you have transcripts of her scenes in the diary. I have one that I'm filling with autographs from Doctor Who actors. Alex Kingston was the first one to sign it, immediately followed by Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan. It was a dream come true, and I'm getting Matt Smith's this weekend, so the Pond family will be complete!
every saturday for the next 2 weeks theres a new episode with david tennant and catherine tate, and then ncuti takes over on christmas day for an xmas special:)
Fellow whovian and very hype for these videos whenever you have time also yes these are dropping weekly for the next 3 weeks I think? I think are getting three David Tennant specials total??
Not sure if anyone mentioned but unfortunately the actor who played Wilfred, Bernard Cribbins, passed away in 2022, so we probably aren't gonna see Wilf anymore
A lovely reaction to a luminously beautiful episode! From one Filipino Whovian to another... Glad I discovered your channel! Please cover more Dr Who episodes!!!! Naging talagang emotional ako sa kamatayan ni Donna, one of my all-time favorite companions! Salamat na she survived! I teared up a couple of times. Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble is a refreshing revelation! The cinematography and visuals were stunning, the pacing breathtaking and the performances truly moving... Can't wait for the rest of this new series with Ncuti Gatwa. As a non-binary Filipino senior living in Europe I love the delightful inclusivity of New Who! Ingat kayo and I look forward to more of your content!!! My first contact with then Doctor Who universe was when my father took my brother and I to the Gaiety or Odeon movie house in Ermita, I think,in 1966, to watch "Dalek's Invasion: Earth 2150 AD!" with the Daleks and Peter friggin' Cushing as Doctor Who! In my teen years in Germany in the 70s I watched the original series dubbed in German - but I like New Who best!
The Doctor is back! Jodie wasn't bad Doctor but she was let down by the writing and direction of the stories. This felt more like the Doctor of the past. I haven't had this much fun with the Doctor for so long. I hope this continues to Ncuti Gatwa's seasons. Side note: The Meep looks like something straight out of Harry Potter universe
Really liked this episode, it was a perfect introduction to the new era and Rachel Talaway continues to kill it as director. Tennant and Tate are top notch as always and it’s like they never left There’s two more specials this week and the week after then there’s the Christmas special Deffo keep going with it and do vids for Series 14 with Ncuti when that comes out
Have you watched Good Omens? If I missed it in your playlist just let me know. If not, you absolutely must! David Tennant and Michael Hseen are the perfect duo. They are great together.
I also stopped just a few episodes into Jodies time. Idk what happened but the show just stopped feeling like Doctor Who. The writing was so bad. Idk if it got better but I can't be bothered to see 😂 As someone who literally grew up watching Doctor Who though, this episode gave me hope that it'll get better again. I absolutely loved it
The writing did get a bit better, but never reached the quality of the previous eras in my opinion. The one thing I would recommend to people who were big fans of Doctor Who before Jodie’s era if they’re not sure if it’s worth their time, just watch the Series 12 episode “Fugitive of the Judoon”, especially if you have no clue what happens in Jodie’s era. No spoilers, but it’ll give you a good feel of what was brought back and what kind of things were introduced.
Chibnall happened. There were some great episodes, some terrible ones, and most were just mediocre. It was a roller coaster of inconsistent writing under Chibs.
Ten is my favorite doctor too so its so fun to see him and Donna together again. I watched all of thirteen's seasons, and it was okay during its high moments with a few stand out episodes. I am excited to get back to the "feel" of doctor who and better story lines/writing because Jodie is a really good actress, and the last few seasons of writing left me unimpressed with the material they gave her/the doctor (they did get slightly better as time went on).
You really are a big Doctor Who fan very impressed with script notes in your book this story is based on a comic book script that I read back in 1979 enjoy.
Interesting, i watched at least 2 seasons with Jodie, but i haven't watched the last one and maybe also never will. Main problem for me was however also not Jodie but the companions. In the end it went down after Claras dead for me. I was a huge fan of Clara, but i also loved of course Rose, Donna, Martha and Amy. But Bill just wasn't on the same level for me anymore, and then the pack of 3-4 with Jodie, they were so uninteresting that i don't even remember there names. So for me i would have even embraced Donna or Clara as a female doctor, but we need a good Doctor AND a good companion.
Unfortunately the actor for Wilfred died last year so they wouldn't have been able to show him in this episode unless they re-used old footage or they filmed with him before he passed :(
I messaged Rachel Talalay last year after Bernard Cribbins death & to my astonishment she replied after I said that they might not have been able to film enough to sadly include him (he was 94) in the story. Rachel replied with "What makes you think that?? 😉" I pray after that TARDIS reveal he was able to be pushed into that set & say "Now this is cleaner!" because it will both delight & break our hearts 💔😭
He finished filming for Doctor Who, it was his last role. It also makes sense that they wouldn’t include him as Bernard uses a wheelchair and it would’ve made the whole ‘escape the house’ scene virtually impossible to shoot.
I prefer the father-in-law, give me 5. Seriously, David Tennant's father-in-law is Peter Davison the 5th Doctor. The Doctor is married to the Doctor's Daughter, Georgia Tennant who played Jenny the doctor's daughter in 'The Doctor's Daughter'.
If you're interested in the doctors before Eccleston I would suggest the following: The Power of the Doctor (this was Jodie's last episode) it should counts as an 60th anniversary special. The Fiveish Doctors (five previous doctor portrayers try to crash 50th anniversary.) The Five Doctors (it's a classic all true Doctor Who fans should see.) An Adventure in Space and Time (biofilm about the first Doctor Who series)
So the saturday gone and the next two saturdays are the 3-part Doctor and Donna 60th Anniversary episodes. Then Nuti Gatwa as the Doctor is in the Christmas Episode (🎉I'm so happy the Christmas Episodes are back🎉!!!)
That's exactly what happened to me, stopped watching when Amy and Rory left and watched a few Clara's. I feel like the spirit of Doctor Who has changed too much
15:33 God, I pray it isn't the Master again (he's beginning to feel overused just like the Daleks); I mean, this show has a couple of potentially compelling Time Lord villains in the likes of the Rani, The Time Meddler, Omega, Rassilon, etc. and yet, the showrunners keep reviving the Master for some reason.... 😖
It's not. If you've been keeping up with the Doctor Who news/casting/spoilers, you'll know who it is. If not... then you'll find out in a future episode :D
I really enjoyed this episode and I especially loved the representation. I hope you will consider watching Good Omens. David Tennant is in it and it also has representation and it’s fantastic! PLEASE WATCH GOOD OMENS! I stopped watching JJ too when they killed Kilgrave off as well. Lol
Yes would love further reactions to this if possible. I loved everything but the ending, just felt like a cop out and an easy fix to the Donna situation. I stopped watching after Tennant left, could not watch it with another doctor
I agree about the Donna solution. As much as I enjoyed this episode, the whole "we could have just wished the problem away the whole time, and the only reason we didn't is because men can't let things go" point was... anticlimactic. And oddly sexist for an episode that seems to have been trying very hard to be inclusive. But meh, it doesn't bother me more than any other lazy writing 😅 (As for "how it could have been done better"... I dunno, off the top of my head, maybe Donna and Rose could temporarily get possessed by the solar psychedelia as it gets pulled out of the soldiers, and removing it binds it to the meta-crisis energy and extracts that as a fortunate side-effect. Is it techno-babble? Absolutely, but so is like 25% of the lines in this episode 😂. "Vindicating the cyberline" indeed.)
Jason means Healer or Physician so Donna named her son after The Doctor. Then her daughter took the name Rose 🌹.
Omg I love this
I think The TARDIS purposely uses "accidents" as the excuse to act up and disobey and do what it wants. She is a brat like that even though she's loved.
Oh 100%😂 The Doctor’s Wife is one of my favourite episodes hahah
"You thought you could escape ah explosion by regenerating outside ha ha watch this bitch!"
"Look, I didn't WANT to take you across spacetime, but you dinged me up a bit, so I will have to -- I have to --- I had to. Tenses are difficult!"
Agreed
TARDIS: Only ONE trip with Donna?! How very dare -
Donna: OH MY GOD I DID IT AGAIN
TARDIS: 😈
River Song is still to this day my favourite character. She's so damn iconic. I love that you have a TARDIS book that you wrote the scenes in
This was actually the 1st Doctor Who episode I have ever watched and I genuinely loved it. Looking forward to the next one.
Really recommend starting from season 1
As someone who’s young enough to have missed out on Who, but old enough to have been introduced to it around the end of David’s era, it’s (although understandable), so weird to hear this!
Though you’ve been a bit spoiled on the Doctor Donna, getting to see seasons 1-4 play out in sequence and getting to that conclusion of David’s era is a whole other beauty. If you wish to venture forth, I salute you, there are so many loveable characters and stories to delve into and I envy you getting to watch it for the first time :))
Each Doctor is familiar and feels like the same Time Lord, whilst still bringing a fresh and slightly different take on the character every time!
David Tennant will always have my heart. He’s MY Doctor.
i also recommend a rewatch of Clara & 12’s seasons as a binge because it works so much better that way at least for me. And season 10 with bill works so well.
It's a shame that a lot of people seem to dismiss Capaldis era on rewatches. While his first two seasons were often up and down in quality, his great stories are easily top ten for modern who. Mummy on the Orient express, Heaven sent,the doctor falls two parter. Plus the second best Christmas special with husbands of river song.
12th doctor is by best doctor of new who and Clara was better with 12 ur missing out
There are 3 David specials, and then Ncuti’s Christmas special follows it! It’s not been announced when his first full season will air next year, but they’re already filming his S2, so it shouldn’t be too long at all :))
And yes, even though I love Capaldi as the Doctor, and Missy’s time in his run, I personally wasn’t a huge fan of Clara/11 (which doesn’t help coming off’ve the deaths of Rory and Amy😅). Still, I think Moffat put more care into her with Capaldi and Bill was a loveable guest of the TARDIS, too :))
YESSS This is my favorite show EVER and it’s so cool that you’re doing it!
Just wanna let you know as a fan from the US, it comes out on disney+ and it was the FIRST one advertised!! I know you’d like to know that lol
Yes! There are three specials, the first aired the Saturday just gone, the second is on Saturday December 2nd and the third is on Saturday December 9th so THREE consecutive Saturdays and then Ncuti's first episode will be on Christmas Day and his first full series (which will be 8 Episodes) will be in early 2024!
4:52 Funny you should mention the MCU since this story is adapted from a 1980 comic strip called Doctor Who and the Star Beast which was published by the UK arm of Marvel Comics. It even had 'Stan Lee Presents' at the beginning of each part.
I love the tardis fjhdsjkfhsd 'oh noooo a little coffee???? my weakness??? look im bursting into flames i simply couldnt go where you want me to, i guess UNFORTUNATELY donna will have to stay with us LONGER now! oh no!!' we all know that girl is being dramatic
She’s just like me fr😭
"Donna, you know he won't stay no matter how much you ask. So you can stay instead! You'll have no choice!"
I agree, it wasn't the same after Amy and Rory! I liked your reaction, very pure and emotional, so far from those that'd like to bring culture wars in OUR show! Thank you, girl!
I absolutely adore River Song! I love that you have transcripts of her scenes in the diary. I have one that I'm filling with autographs from Doctor Who actors. Alex Kingston was the first one to sign it, immediately followed by Arthur Darvill and Karen Gillan. It was a dream come true, and I'm getting Matt Smith's this weekend, so the Pond family will be complete!
every saturday for the next 2 weeks theres a new episode with david tennant and catherine tate, and then ncuti takes over on christmas day for an xmas special:)
Fellow whovian and very hype for these videos whenever you have time also yes these are dropping weekly for the next 3 weeks I think? I think are getting three David Tennant specials total??
Yeah 3 specials with Tennant then the Christmas special with Ncuti!!
Not sure if anyone mentioned but unfortunately the actor who played Wilfred, Bernard Cribbins, passed away in 2022, so we probably aren't gonna see Wilf anymore
Yes, the next 2 specials are both coming out on the next 2 Saturdays - 2nd and 9th of December at 6;30pm I believe.
2nd December: Special 2
9th December: Special 3
25th December: Christmas Special with Ncuti Gatwa
2024 (probably March): Season One
A lovely reaction to a luminously beautiful episode! From one Filipino Whovian to another... Glad I discovered your channel! Please cover more Dr Who episodes!!!! Naging talagang emotional ako sa kamatayan ni Donna, one of my all-time favorite companions! Salamat na she survived! I teared up a couple of times. Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble is a refreshing revelation! The cinematography and visuals were stunning, the pacing breathtaking and the performances truly moving... Can't wait for the rest of this new series with Ncuti Gatwa. As a non-binary Filipino senior living in Europe I love the delightful inclusivity of New Who! Ingat kayo and I look forward to more of your content!!! My first contact with then Doctor Who universe was when my father took my brother and I to the Gaiety or Odeon movie house in Ermita, I think,in 1966, to watch "Dalek's Invasion: Earth 2150 AD!" with the Daleks and Peter friggin' Cushing as Doctor Who! In my teen years in Germany in the 70s I watched the original series dubbed in German - but I like New Who best!
Thank you for doing this for your non UK viewers!!!!
I was so disappointed bc I didn't think I'd get to see the 60th
why can’t you watch it?
It’s under Disney + pay wall , some people don’t want pay the mouse (I don’t blame them )
Doctor Who is dropping at 18:30 GMT world wide. It’s a BBC show so it’s going by London time
The Doctor is back! Jodie wasn't bad Doctor but she was let down by the writing and direction of the stories. This felt more like the Doctor of the past. I haven't had this much fun with the Doctor for so long. I hope this continues to Ncuti Gatwa's seasons.
Side note: The Meep looks like something straight out of Harry Potter universe
Really liked this episode, it was a perfect introduction to the new era and Rachel Talaway continues to kill it as director. Tennant and Tate are top notch as always and it’s like they never left
There’s two more specials this week and the week after then there’s the Christmas special
Deffo keep going with it and do vids for Series 14 with Ncuti when that comes out
OMG you are literally me. Every year I always say im gonna rewatch from the beginning but always stop somewhere around clara
Have you watched Good Omens? If I missed it in your playlist just let me know. If not, you absolutely must! David Tennant and Michael Hseen are the perfect duo. They are great together.
You need to watch the movie 'Bad Samaritan' for a great Tenant performance.
I also stopped just a few episodes into Jodies time. Idk what happened but the show just stopped feeling like Doctor Who. The writing was so bad. Idk if it got better but I can't be bothered to see 😂
As someone who literally grew up watching Doctor Who though, this episode gave me hope that it'll get better again. I absolutely loved it
The writing did get a bit better, but never reached the quality of the previous eras in my opinion. The one thing I would recommend to people who were big fans of Doctor Who before Jodie’s era if they’re not sure if it’s worth their time, just watch the Series 12 episode “Fugitive of the Judoon”, especially if you have no clue what happens in Jodie’s era. No spoilers, but it’ll give you a good feel of what was brought back and what kind of things were introduced.
Chibnall happened. There were some great episodes, some terrible ones, and most were just mediocre. It was a roller coaster of inconsistent writing under Chibs.
They are coming out on Saturdays yeah, I looked it up earlier the next 2 will be on December 2nd and December 9th
The reason they danced around actually showing Wilf is that Bernard Cribbins died last year... :(
Yes and no. He did die (sadly, of course), but he filmed the specials before then. He will be in one of the other two episodes.
They already finished filming his scenes before he died.
there are 2 more specials scheduled before xmas then regeneration to next doctor season 1 starts 2024
Best episode since capaldis finale
11:46 i feel your pain... they were my faborite companions
Ten is my favorite doctor too so its so fun to see him and Donna together again. I watched all of thirteen's seasons, and it was okay during its high moments with a few stand out episodes. I am excited to get back to the "feel" of doctor who and better story lines/writing because Jodie is a really good actress, and the last few seasons of writing left me unimpressed with the material they gave her/the doctor (they did get slightly better as time went on).
You really are a big Doctor Who fan very impressed with script notes in your book this story is based on a comic book script that I read back in 1979 enjoy.
Its every Saturday for the next two weeks I'm not sure after that though
Interesting, i watched at least 2 seasons with Jodie, but i haven't watched the last one and maybe also never will. Main problem for me was however also not Jodie but the companions. In the end it went down after Claras dead for me. I was a huge fan of Clara, but i also loved of course Rose, Donna, Martha and Amy. But Bill just wasn't on the same level for me anymore, and then the pack of 3-4 with Jodie, they were so uninteresting that i don't even remember there names.
So for me i would have even embraced Donna or Clara as a female doctor, but we need a good Doctor AND a good companion.
Peter Capaldi is my doctor
Unfortunately the actor for Wilfred died last year so they wouldn't have been able to show him in this episode unless they re-used old footage or they filmed with him before he passed :(
I messaged Rachel Talalay last year after Bernard Cribbins death & to my astonishment she replied after I said that they might not have been able to film enough to sadly include him (he was 94) in the story. Rachel replied with "What makes you think that?? 😉"
I pray after that TARDIS reveal he was able to be pushed into that set & say "Now this is cleaner!" because it will both delight & break our hearts 💔😭
These specials were filmed a year before he passed and he's in the behind the scenes footage so he'll show up.
They filmed these specials before he died, he appears in the third special so we will get to see him!
He finished filming for Doctor Who, it was his last role. It also makes sense that they wouldn’t include him as Bernard uses a wheelchair and it would’ve made the whole ‘escape the house’ scene virtually impossible to shoot.
I prefer the father-in-law, give me 5. Seriously, David Tennant's father-in-law is Peter Davison the 5th Doctor. The Doctor is married to the Doctor's Daughter, Georgia Tennant who played Jenny the doctor's daughter in 'The Doctor's Daughter'.
I like 5 the celery, the 7 the umbrella, 4 the scarf and number 3.
If you're interested in the doctors before Eccleston I would suggest the following:
The Power of the Doctor (this was Jodie's last episode) it should counts as an 60th anniversary special.
The Fiveish Doctors (five previous doctor portrayers try to crash 50th anniversary.)
The Five Doctors (it's a classic all true Doctor Who fans should see.)
An Adventure in Space and Time (biofilm about the first Doctor Who series)
So the saturday gone and the next two saturdays are the 3-part Doctor and Donna 60th Anniversary episodes.
Then Nuti Gatwa as the Doctor is in the Christmas Episode (🎉I'm so happy the Christmas Episodes are back🎉!!!)
That's exactly what happened to me, stopped watching when Amy and Rory left and watched a few Clara's. I feel like the spirit of Doctor Who has changed too much
15:33 God, I pray it isn't the Master again (he's beginning to feel overused just like the Daleks); I mean, this show has a couple of potentially compelling Time Lord villains in the likes of the Rani, The Time Meddler, Omega, Rassilon, etc. and yet, the showrunners keep reviving the Master for some reason.... 😖
It's not. If you've been keeping up with the Doctor Who news/casting/spoilers, you'll know who it is. If not... then you'll find out in a future episode :D
FWIW, David Tennant *is* in season 2 (and 3) of Jessica Jones - just not very much (I think two eps in season 2, and one is season 3).
I had no idea you were a Doctor Who fan!
/high five
I really enjoyed this episode and I especially loved the representation. I hope you will consider watching Good Omens. David Tennant is in it and it also has representation and it’s fantastic! PLEASE WATCH GOOD OMENS! I stopped watching JJ too when they killed Kilgrave off as well. Lol
I’ve watched Good Omens!! Love it sooo much, cant wait for season 3😍
I started during classic who tom baker era currently watching classics on tubi
I'm sorry if you didn't know... Bernard Cribbins (Wilf) passed away. I don't think we'll be seeing them together in this series.
I think he recorded scenes for the third special I mean in the trailer you could see the tip of his hat when donna was in one of the shots.
@helloneighborfan1626 I thought I remembered something like that but was thinking its too long now.
Water-proofing, Yes.
Coffee-proofing, NO!
The Doctor Monica
There are 2 more episodes with david tennant and catherine tate
Not a Doctor Who watcher but can I just say you're rocking that jacket
every sunday for the next few weeks
Dec 2nd and 9th both Saturdays
Now Doctor Who has Disney money. Disney+ is exhibiting everywhere outside UK
We appreciate how well you've articulated your own insights. Keep working hard as always.
Yes would love further reactions to this if possible.
I loved everything but the ending, just felt like a cop out and an easy fix to the Donna situation.
I stopped watching after Tennant left, could not watch it with another doctor
I agree about the Donna solution. As much as I enjoyed this episode, the whole "we could have just wished the problem away the whole time, and the only reason we didn't is because men can't let things go" point was... anticlimactic. And oddly sexist for an episode that seems to have been trying very hard to be inclusive. But meh, it doesn't bother me more than any other lazy writing 😅
(As for "how it could have been done better"... I dunno, off the top of my head, maybe Donna and Rose could temporarily get possessed by the solar psychedelia as it gets pulled out of the soldiers, and removing it binds it to the meta-crisis energy and extracts that as a fortunate side-effect. Is it techno-babble? Absolutely, but so is like 25% of the lines in this episode 😂. "Vindicating the cyberline" indeed.)
Where are you it’s on Sunday in Australia yes it’s weekly
Have you seen DuckTales? David is Scrooge.
single brain cell alright
You should at least give Jodie's last series a go.
Gen v please watch