And I like how whenever the toymaker isn't using accents and just his natural voice it does sound slightly similar to Micheal Gaughs original performance
When exactly in the video does his expression change in realizing it’s the Toymaker? Cause it’s a little hard to tell if he realized this when the Toymaker was tossing balls at him.
@@EliasLavado-c4mit looks like he's trying to figure out exactly who he is throughout the juggling segment but in my mind 0:53 is when he finally realises that he's the toymaker
The cuts between the new and old actors of the Doctor and the Toymaker as well as the music when the Doctor namedrops the Toymaker is the icing on the cake for me
Had the exact same feel as Turn Left when Donna wakes up from the trickster bug and remembers the blonde woman and to tell the Doctor something and they run outside and the TARDIS has translated every text everywhere to BAD WOLF and the cloister bells in the TARDIS are ringing to warn the end of the universe. SO badass.
Very rare for the doctor to show genuine fear here. He knows who he is up against and what is at stake. He also knows the ones he care about are in danger as long as the toymaker is free.
Yeah I always find it frustrating when characters are this slow on the uptake. It's always refreshing when you find one who moves first and then asks questions later. There was one I saw recently where the character said after the fact: "He told me to shut the portal with a total of 0 swears or jokes. That means it's SERIOUS."
@@onefastsled I feel like they want to show strong and brave side character... instead, they just show how dumb they are. If I was the doctor, I would have told her to kick rocks after that accident. How can you trust someone who can't even be reliable to run to safety in face of danger
I mean, to be fair, it wouldn't have worked unless the Toymaker allowed it. If he doesn't want Donna in the Tardis, it doesn't matter how fast she runs, she's not making it there. It's a great line for establishing his threat level, but the Toymaker wanted Donna there and nothing the Doctor or Donna did was going to matter until she had seen and heard what the Toymaker wanted her to see and hear.
Well you have to know that the Doctor deals in science and the physical universe. The Toymaker is an extra-dimensional being that doesn't have to follow the rules of the universe at all. The Doctor has no gadget or technique that can stop him. The Toymaker can literally do and make anything he wants, and he only does things for his own amusement. They literally haven't faced off since 1966, so the epic music and flashbacks to Doctor Who in 1966 were epic.
The brief flashes of Michael Gough and William Hartnell set up the vibe of this ancient rivalry so perfectly. Even If you had no knowledge of classic Who prior this is all that's needed to feel the tension and dread The Doctor is feeling. I could watch David's Doctor and NPH as the Toymaker constantly. So good. Topped off with the bow and the Giggle score. I adore this scene 👏
m.th-cam.com/video/bsKHCG8fWWQ/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUgdGhlIGRvY3RvciBtaW1pY3MgdG95bWFrZXIgdm9pY2U%3D In this past encounter with The Toymaker, the trick with the game was that the pieces are controlled by a particular voice, not any player. Mimicking the voice is all it takes to move the pieces.
One of the things the character the toy maker could do is juggling, but fortunatley neil was already skilled at that task so it was no problem for him...
Cassandra was never the last human, the last humans were all the humans at the end of the universe in Utopia. Cassandra calls herself the last human because she's the last "pure" human who has no alien in her bloodline since the other humans "mingled"
The true last humans were the ones who gathered at Utopia at the end of the universe. They were far closer to the original humans than Cassandra, a fact that was handwaved by the Doctor as humanity returning to form, which doesn't make sense. Probably someone found and, and for some reason, replicated an ancient genetic archive of some kind. Scientists have speculated that life might continue indefinitely despite the "heat death" of the universe, if it just evolves the ability to use energy far more slowly as the amount of energy available gets steadily lower. They've estimated that, with the right slowdown schedule, there's no upper limit to the total number of thoughts that living beings could think, despite the fact that they must continually think at a slower speed to avoid using up too much energy. Beings adapted for the Heat Death of the universe would look nothing like current day humans.
0:15 *CREEPY circus music starts* 1:34 *creepy music intensifies* This is a dangerous and dark villain Love these villain introductions And yikes the Doctor’s face, he looked utterly terrified and cautious at the same time. D: “Donna go back to the TARDIS.” “You never tell me to do that.” Me: “Donna if the Doctor’s THAT scared that’s a warning you better listen.” START RUNNING
Last time the Doctor tried to just remove Donna from the situation was the Vashta Narada. And the he didn't bother asking that time because there was a teleporter so he tried to just send her without permission. This time he is just praying the Toymaker ignores her if she makes a run for it.
“Donna, go back to the Tardis.” Chills. But given the Toymakers power, I wonder if that would even really make a difference. If he was truly determined to get someone, could anything really stop him?
The last time they met, the Doctor defeated the Toymaker by imitating his voice. Now the Toymaker speaks in fake accents, because he plays his games to win and won’t fall for the same trick twice.
@@silverstarlight9395 Shows how much you know. The Toymaker was already established as being racist at the start of the episode, so those accents you mentioned would not be out of character for him, nor prompt outcry.
after this guy, a giant dog of a god showed up, someone that the Doctor knew from his past as well, does this mean that more old enemies from his past are gonna resurface in the first time in decades?
As a TTRPG nerd i do wonder how the Toymaker would respond to someone challenging him.and.going Pathfinder. Or Dungeons and Dragons or some such. Like how would 'winning/losing' be established. Its telling a story of make belief in a collaborative way. Like by the rules of his binding existence how does he create stakes....does he bring the game to life? Like full on celestial toy powers we larping with real stakes now and somehow brings the monsters and stuff to life too? Like how would that go down i wonder
All I’m thinking about is how many takes this must have been Edit: after rewatching for the 512th time, I think I now know where the cuts are and how they stitched it together. Still impressive for him to juggle and act at the same time
Would the Toymaker be surprised if Donna had slapped him in the face because he has returned to give the Doctor more trouble many years after their last meeting, when the Doctor was in his original form as an old man with long, white hair?
I'm guessing they just copied it from somewhere which has subtitles colour-coded by character (probably BBC iPlayer), and forgot to remove the formatting for TH-cam. The Toymaker's dialogue would be cyan. I think Donna's would be yellow. The Doctor's dialogue isn't tagged so would default to white.
as someone who watched classic who, when i heard to Celestial Toy Maker was gonna be in it, i thought it was gonna be epic. Q but playing actual games, messing with the Doctor maybe for a whole season. Instead we got .... this.. Damn shame.
I love the shift in tone in the doctor when he realises its the toymaker
And I like how whenever the toymaker isn't using accents and just his natural voice it does sound slightly similar to Micheal Gaughs original performance
When exactly in the video does his expression change in realizing it’s the Toymaker? Cause it’s a little hard to tell if he realized this when the Toymaker was tossing balls at him.
@@EliasLavado-c4mit looks like he's trying to figure out exactly who he is throughout the juggling segment but in my mind 0:53 is when he finally realises that he's the toymaker
The cuts between the new and old actors of the Doctor and the Toymaker as well as the music when the Doctor namedrops the Toymaker is the icing on the cake for me
Yeah I was surprised to see it too since Davis rarely did flashbacks in his previous run.
Did Neil Patrick Harris watch the old Who to match the O.G. actor's smirk? It's uncannily similar.
The first time I heard the line “Donna go back to the Tardis” it sent shivers down my spine, as I knew for the Doctor to say that it must be serious
Had the exact same feel as Turn Left when Donna wakes up from the trickster bug and remembers the blonde woman and to tell the Doctor something and they run outside and the TARDIS has translated every text everywhere to BAD WOLF and the cloister bells in the TARDIS are ringing to warn the end of the universe. SO badass.
I agree
Very rare for the doctor to show genuine fear here. He knows who he is up against and what is at stake. He also knows the ones he care about are in danger as long as the toymaker is free.
@@jamiestewart48 Oh yeah another iconic moment of British television
@@jamiestewart48 You say "badass" I say "lame magical rule-of-cool plotting that makes no sense".
Doctor "Get back to the TARDIS"
Donna "You never tell me to do that"
Lady, that just shows HOW MUCH FASTER YOU NEED TO RUN BACK TO THE TARDIS
Yeah I always find it frustrating when characters are this slow on the uptake. It's always refreshing when you find one who moves first and then asks questions later.
There was one I saw recently where the character said after the fact: "He told me to shut the portal with a total of 0 swears or jokes. That means it's SERIOUS."
@@Stealth0978which just further reinforces the point. He’s NEVER told you to get back to the safety of the Tardis. Now that he has. Fucking RUN
@@onefastsled I feel like they want to show strong and brave side character... instead, they just show how dumb they are.
If I was the doctor, I would have told her to kick rocks after that accident. How can you trust someone who can't even be reliable to run to safety in face of danger
@@leyrua helluva boss
I mean, to be fair, it wouldn't have worked unless the Toymaker allowed it. If he doesn't want Donna in the Tardis, it doesn't matter how fast she runs, she's not making it there. It's a great line for establishing his threat level, but the Toymaker wanted Donna there and nothing the Doctor or Donna did was going to matter until she had seen and heard what the Toymaker wanted her to see and hear.
1:25 "Lady Luck will show the way, win the game, or here you stay."
You can tell Neil Patrick Harris is having fun in this role.
Dude he IS fun
Yeah. Some of the best characters in media are ones where you can tell the actor just had so much fun with the character.
He’s having a ball (no pun intended).
@@Hei_Darkfire I mean he played an obscure DC villain in _Batman: The Brave and the Bold_ and it was one of the best episodes of the show.
@@TheTrueAdept : Which DC villain did he play in Batman: The Brave and the Bold?!!
“I wondered which of you had the balls”
I've never watched Doctor Who but this scene gives me chills. Such amazing acting, tone and music
Well you have to know that the Doctor deals in science and the physical universe. The Toymaker is an extra-dimensional being that doesn't have to follow the rules of the universe at all. The Doctor has no gadget or technique that can stop him. The Toymaker can literally do and make anything he wants, and he only does things for his own amusement. They literally haven't faced off since 1966, so the epic music and flashbacks to Doctor Who in 1966 were epic.
The brief flashes of Michael Gough and William Hartnell set up the vibe of this ancient rivalry so perfectly. Even If you had no knowledge of classic Who prior this is all that's needed to feel the tension and dread The Doctor is feeling. I could watch David's Doctor and NPH as the Toymaker constantly. So good. Topped off with the bow and the Giggle score. I adore this scene 👏
He likely developed the bad accents to counter the way the Doctor defeated him the last time.
Really? How do the accents play into this?
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In this past encounter with The Toymaker, the trick with the game was that the pieces are controlled by a particular voice, not any player. Mimicking the voice is all it takes to move the pieces.
@@CyberLink70the first doctor tricked his game by imitating the Toymaker's voice
Oh my gosh that’s brilliant!! And it explains why he constantly changes.
I don’t care if the writers had that in mind, it’s canon now.
@@Devils-Holyman well that's all right then.
i found this a bit funny when the doctor was looking throw the window
One of the things the character the toy maker could do is juggling, but fortunatley neil was already skilled at that task so it was no problem for him...
1:47 he is really work for this epic laugh.
Did I hear that right? The toy maker was on about the year 5 billion and the last human? Was that a nod to Cassandra??
It all seems to work with what we know, Cassandra will be the last human and was originally a man, so I thing it could have been her he referenced.
Cassandra was never the last human, the last humans were all the humans at the end of the universe in Utopia. Cassandra calls herself the last human because she's the last "pure" human who has no alien in her bloodline since the other humans "mingled"
@@Atomicrow Some mingled with aliens while some simply evolved into forms that Cassandra regarded as mutants.
@@girlgarde6 of one, half-dozen of the other, she's still a bigot.
The true last humans were the ones who gathered at Utopia at the end of the universe. They were far closer to the original humans than Cassandra, a fact that was handwaved by the Doctor as humanity returning to form, which doesn't make sense. Probably someone found and, and for some reason, replicated an ancient genetic archive of some kind.
Scientists have speculated that life might continue indefinitely despite the "heat death" of the universe, if it just evolves the ability to use energy far more slowly as the amount of energy available gets steadily lower. They've estimated that, with the right slowdown schedule, there's no upper limit to the total number of thoughts that living beings could think, despite the fact that they must continually think at a slower speed to avoid using up too much energy.
Beings adapted for the Heat Death of the universe would look nothing like current day humans.
ToyMaker appearance overwhelmed me! It seems he was super villian ever in Doctor Who!!!
I just realized that laugh is the same laugh that is later used by the Maestro.
Yes.. that's why the doctor was scared of maestros laugh
Love the change in accent! Very sinister with the British accent
He’s doing an impression of Michael Gough,who was the first actor to play the Toymaker.
I mean who could take a villain with a german accent serious, we are such a friendly and peachfull people
@@lennard939 well apparently the entire population of Germany did in the 1930's and 1940's, so there's that.
0:15 *CREEPY circus music starts*
1:34 *creepy music intensifies*
This is a dangerous and dark villain
Love these villain introductions
And yikes the Doctor’s face, he looked utterly terrified and cautious at the same time.
D: “Donna go back to the TARDIS.”
“You never tell me to do that.”
Me: “Donna if the Doctor’s THAT scared that’s a warning you better listen.”
START RUNNING
When the doctor tells you to run. You run.
1:47 so it was his laugh
Reminds me of that Woody Woodpecker cartoon.
Throws balls, keeps juggling 3 balls, throws ball, still juggling 3, repeat😂
Yeah, Torvic knows this game very well, doesn't he, doctor? ^^
Since his youth the doctor has always been an expert in this ball (rock) game.
1:25 Toymaker: Miss me Heir Doctor.. because only I and my fellows in the pantheon certainly have missed you😏😈
Including The One Who Waited...Sue-Tech.
@@davidchism6081 he was included but I intentionally left his name out to avoid spoiling it
Last time the Doctor tried to just remove Donna from the situation was the Vashta Narada. And the he didn't bother asking that time because there was a teleporter so he tried to just send her without permission. This time he is just praying the Toymaker ignores her if she makes a run for it.
The toy maker. Guy who controls reality
Neil Patrick Harris nailed this role. I really hope we get to see him as the toymaker again.
The toymaker my fav from the doctor
“Donna, go back to the Tardis.” Chills. But given the Toymakers power, I wonder if that would even really make a difference. If he was truly determined to get someone, could anything really stop him?
You would think the first game would have been hide and seek...
Developed hide and seek because someone was having fun throwing rocks...
@@JeffreyWood-ku8gd hide and seek from predator animals. Hide the food and the predator hunts you and the food.
In biblical history it is. God and Adam play it
DAMN the score is incredible. Scene wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable without it.
I would love the toymaker to return to doctor who
Agree and with a good sprit of staying with a good reason.
The master or some other villain could probably find a way to bring the toymaker back to existence or create a copy of him
His Germanlish is driving me insane lol
In the German dub he speaks with English accent.
Its part of the gig, the toymaker sees all of those things as fun toys and games to play with
The last time they met, the Doctor defeated the Toymaker by imitating his voice. Now the Toymaker speaks in fake accents, because he plays his games to win and won’t fall for the same trick twice.
I know right! If he was badly mimicking an Indian or Chinese accent, everybody would jump to racism.
@@silverstarlight9395 Shows how much you know. The Toymaker was already established as being racist at the start of the episode, so those accents you mentioned would not be out of character for him, nor prompt outcry.
The Toymaker couldn't leave the Doctor alone many years after their 1st encounter.
The Celestial Toymaker
shame they wouldnt call him that because "wacist"
Here after devils chord
Ok…
Best part of this show
after this guy, a giant dog of a god showed up, someone that the Doctor knew from his past as well, does this mean that more old enemies from his past are gonna resurface in the first time in decades?
It's mr CELESTIAL Toymaker to you, thank you very much
1:31 - I Love the Choir! Is there a longer version of this?
No.
After this series finishes they might do a soundtrack.
@@JavertRAI said the same thing for series 10.
Count Olaf in disguise ☝️
Did anyone notice his laugh from stooky Bill
No, nobody noticed the giggle. /s
Obviously…
This has got to be one of Barney’s weirdest plays in the Playbook
0:53 That’s a burn and a low blow to the Doctor from the Toymaker. What a way to get under the man’s skin.
Great stuff like the scene in Mawdryn Undead when the Doctor triggers the Brig's forgotten memories.
I remember when the Toymaker briefly stopped with the games and got hired as Bruce Wayne's butler.
Ah yes «the toymaker» from the Playbook
ha-ha-ha HA-HA-HA ha
Why is the guy from Broadchurch so afraid of Batman's butler though?
And how did batman's butler become barney from friends
Deep cut reference to the toymaker in the Hartnell years played by Michael Gough who also played the butler in the Tim burton batman series.
If you remember watching that episode of Dr who (Hartnell) Don't forget to take your medication grandpa ;)
Oh! Great subtitles
Doctor "get back to the kitchen
Donna "WHAT!?"
Doctor "Tardis, Sorry. Get back to the Tardis"
As a TTRPG nerd i do wonder how the Toymaker would respond to someone challenging him.and.going Pathfinder. Or Dungeons and Dragons or some such.
Like how would 'winning/losing' be established. Its telling a story of make belief in a collaborative way. Like by the rules of his binding existence how does he create stakes....does he bring the game to life? Like full on celestial toy powers we larping with real stakes now and somehow brings the monsters and stuff to life too?
Like how would that go down i wonder
The "la la la" in the background reminds me a lot of the one you hear in Five Nights at Freddy's movie 😃
agreed. I was wondering what it reminded me of. When the animatronics look at the picture and she says "they can see you now"
I hate current doctor who (For the most part) but this man is an amazing Toymaker.
Gotta give credit where its due.
Stone-age man killed another with a rock - like the Doctor almost did so many years ago.
All I’m thinking about is how many takes this must have been
Edit: after rewatching for the 512th time, I think I now know where the cuts are and how they stitched it together. Still impressive for him to juggle and act at the same time
To be honest, juggling is really not that hard to learn. Once you manage to learn it, it's kinda automatic.
Would Davros,The Zygons,Silences,Snowmen & Weeping Angels Join Lord Vortech in LEGO Dimension’s
1:26
NPH… one of the deadliest actors of space and time!
The accent gives me ear chancer but still funny
Would the Toymaker be surprised if Donna had slapped him in the face because he has returned to give the Doctor more trouble many years after their last meeting, when the Doctor was in his original form as an old man with long, white hair?
These playbook characters are getting out of hand barney
Hey can someone help me I’ve got the captions on and not sure if this is intentional but it says what color is that I’m on a phone not a computer
Bit late, but it appears to by a cyan blue color.
@@ultraguardiansev465 thank you I had no idea what it was because if you turn on the captions there’s those numbers at the start
I'm guessing they just copied it from somewhere which has subtitles colour-coded by character (probably BBC iPlayer), and forgot to remove the formatting for TH-cam. The Toymaker's dialogue would be cyan. I think Donna's would be yellow. The Doctor's dialogue isn't tagged so would default to white.
Em relação aquela bruxa o amigo dela podia ir pra força sendo responsável por mim que ela iria adorar
Fingiram preocupação só pensando no próprio umbigo ainda tentei acreditar, porém o comportamento seco desumano já foi revelado
es ist ein boll ist falsch es heist ball
I remember why I'm not fond of The Doctor female companions, they always ask why rather than just go, read the situation for god sake.
Agente tenta ser legal por um minuto mais nem na possibilidade de um próximo morrer não importam
Mais lógico aquele bruxa não demostrar nenhum sentimento aquele peão ridículo isso tudo foi poupado lógico que era teatro
This had so much promise. Such a shame.
as someone who watched classic who, when i heard to Celestial Toy Maker was gonna be in it, i thought it was gonna be epic.
Q but playing actual games, messing with the Doctor maybe for a whole season. Instead we got .... this.. Damn shame.
The last good episode of Doctor who (until Nucti turns up at the end and the quality massively dips)
The fake German accent is kinda throwing me off here. Is there a reason for it?
Absolutely awful episode.
I spotted a continuity error. He is juggling 3 balls but he throws more than 3 at the Doctor. Bet the editor feels like an idiot.
I thought it was like he was conjuring a new ball to replace the old one every time he threw a ball at the Doctor, I mean the guys essentially a god
The point is meant to be that he creates a new ball each time. It’s meant to show the type of character that the Toymaker is
Bruh, he's obviously just conjuring a new ball after throwing one.
Dude is a reality warping eldritch god, he's making it happen on purpose
your kidding right, he threw 6 balls it would be impossible for them to get it wrong, he's a god he's doing it to mess with the Doctor