Also ryan is is able to play a video game like call of duty witch takes a lot hand eye coordination and able to aim and perfectly hits all 4 of the robots when he has this condition. Joke of a side plot when the holes are everwhere
Thought I'd do a point by point review of your review... 1. The atmospheric data could easily be nothing more than looking at the weather potential, not the air quality 2. With multiple light sources, often only the strongest will cast a shadow, imagine the sun and a lamp - the sun will totally outshine the lamp giving one shadow. You need to now the details regarding the 3 stars before knowing how many shadows would be cast. 3. Dyspraxia is now a major character trait but only when it is required (ladder & bike) and disappears whenever required (shooting robots Call of Duty style). 4. I agreed with everything else you said. To conclude this episode was slightly worse than the last poor attempt and continued with the not so subtle sexism. Last week we had "If you can't get someone to do it" (do it yourself) a common quote first said by the lady who founded the PDSA and this week it was her being ignored when speaking to men. Next week is all whites are bad week and after that it will probably by why penises should be dissolved with acid at birth. 3/10 (At least it wasn't Fear Her!)
@TheKarlOshaughnessy It wasn't about not killing the robots. It was about not using guns and fighting them face-to-face. The Doctor's method is usually not direct confrontation.
That would be reasonable that knowing all the languages is impossible- but he's said that he knows all the languages... in past eps- I'm pretty sure mostly Smith's eps- he's said that he personally knows them. That the TARDIS was basically for the companions to understand...
I don't have issue with things that annoy him that can be the result of lazy writing, even if it doesn't bug me in certain shows- like, I'm a lot more forgiving of Doctor Who for all the Deus ex Machinas, and just absurd ways out of situations because I know first and foremost it's a kid's show, and it likes to ease some really serious and fucked up situations that could mess a kid up for years, with complete absurdity to snap someone from focusing too hard on something that can be legitamately terrifying a concept for adults. Like the whole "don't burn me" thing with Danny... ugh! So all those complaints I can hear and go "yup, he's completely right there!", even if I find it fine for Doctor Who specifically. I happened to have fun with the ep, even though like- the cloth trying to mummify what's his name made me laugh at how stupid it was... But like, he does breakdowns for SO many Doctor Who episodes, where things are talked about, in length... And the Doctor saying he understands baby, he understands horse... yes, the TARDIS translates- buuuuuuut it was also talked about way too often that he just knows the languages. And the google search "when was it said the doctor speaks all languages" to double check myself came up with this link (there were others but I'm not trusting random unsourced fan pages) pretty much instantly, which shows some proof that yes, the TARDIS does translate- there have been times it does seem like he just understands, and I had forgotten the Minetour episode where he was having problems translating certain words. doctorwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_languages_does_the_Doctor_speak
@steve gale - oooooh I agree with you on Moffat! Some of my favorite eps from the Davis era were written by Moffat... So when he was going to take over I was hopeful- Ugh, almost his whole run, with very few exceptions, I felt were a mix of lazy writing and just wanting to do something to piss his mark on Doctor Who history, with zero, or next to zero foreshadowing and lazy ass writing. "See, the Doctor wouldn't be who s/he is now because I invented Clara who went back in time and fucked with him through the years, down to which TARDIS to take!!!" But stuff was done implying he knew languages himself before Moffat... but Moffat definitely pissed on so many things...
Those translator chips might only translate languages that are programmed into it-- and the language on the floor wasn't one of those. Or, they might just be networked and only translate the spoken word in a small group.
Didn't spot that either. And she says "Oh, I forgot I put stuff in these pockets" just before, possibly an ADR line added in the edit, so I guess it is safe to say they are from the charity shop after all. That is actually quite a relief, it seemed like such a glaring continuity error, but it was just me not listening hard enough to the dialogue. Oops.
Bobble Bardsley I just rewatched a bit from the original broadcast. All those lines are quick but they can be easy to miss especially Jodie’s line about having stuff in her pockets.
"My whole family is living in fear, hiding from a terrible alien force trying to purge their planet" - "Oh yeah I totally get how you feel, my sister's mean to me"
The difference here is that he doesn't have to use his co-ordination in game to do so... it just does it for him. So I dont understand why Harry mentioned this though.
Unfortunately it wasn't a very funny one... a funny one makes sense. This did not... people are taking Ryan's dyspraxia, and are saying "Oh it means he's afraid of Ladders?". No... no it does not.
@@Kranitoko Well clearly some of us found it funny which is why we laughed at it. You didn't find it funny, that happens. Can't please everyone. Stop getting so fussed about it
@@vapoet I feel bad bc there is no actual good characters of colour, just lame excuses to have certain jokes. Eg the fuckin slave and the new ep where he gets slapped 😩 it's as if they haven't seen ppl of colour irl
I know during that entire part with the ship I was thinking: go to the sides, you idiots! Why do no one in movies and TV shows just jump to one side? Reminds me of the dumb 90's action movie I was (can't recall which one) where a character is, I kid you not, running from an oncoming train by following the tracks. It's like characters can't go to one side.
5/10. Bit boring. Bit bland. But then again, episode 2 always is so I'm still optimistic. Also, tf happend to Ryan's coordination problems? He can't climb a ladder but he can successfully shoot 5 robots whilst running? Okay.
Running would be effected by dyspraxia but shooting wouldnt because your non-dominant hand isn't doing anything different from your dominant hand when you're holding one gun. I assume the running is easier because it's something his body does most days (as opposed to bike riding which he refused to do.)
@@Santa-614 the gun he was using literally attached itself to his hand, so much so that he struggled to get out of it. His other hand was just supporting and he wasn't sniping, just randomly shooting and not really aiming. Also something else that makes that scene bullshit is that video games dont make you a good shot or help you know how to shoot real guns. Call of duty isn't actual training of any kind, so he wouldnt know how to do all that anyways. P.S. would call of duty be difficult to him too, since you must use both hands on the controller, and utilize hand-eye coordination?
The rags would have been a great antagonist IF it was revealed that the real name for desolation was FORSAKEN and the rags turned out to be the immortality device they found in mummy on the orient express. Its literally the perfect setting. Scientists forced to build the perfect weapons of war in the modern day so that the forsaken can be thousands of years pld when they get to the far future
I mean, Ryan has dyspraxia, so his fear of ladders does make sense? I personally prefer how we have a main male character who isn't a macho alpha male and is vulnerable in some respects.
Also he is is able to play a video game like call of duty witch takes a lot hand eye coordination and able to aim and perfectly hit all 4 of the robots joke of a side plot when the holes are everwhere
As someone who actually has dyspraxia, I've gone from people saying 'do you mean dyslexia' to 'so your afraid of ladders and can't ride a bike', in 2 weeks. No I'm not afraid of ladders and I've been able to ride a bike since I was 5, it's almost as if the writers didn't even bother to look up what dyspraxia actually was. You know what the biggest problem people with dyspraxia is, it's that they have bad handwriting, but I don't think that would make an exiting episode.
The reason Ryan doesn’t like ladders is because he has dyspraxia, like it’s physically hard for him to suff like that, that’s why in the first episode riding a bike was such a big deal
I think his issue is the characterisation of Ryan, one minute he is rushing in, running while aiming perfectly because of something he does in call of duty, and they the next he struggle to go up ladders? His dyspraxia was amazingly shown in the first episode but in this one it was inconsistent
eddie mango maybe he has some psychological stuff with ladders? I, for one, get stressed going down any stairs of there are no randrails after I fell down the stairs twice a year. Now I can even shout at someone who is walking right next to the handrail without holding onto it and is blocking me from using it myself. So... It might not be completely due to his dyspraxia. And I have quite bad eye-to-movement coordination myself, though I've never been diagnosed with this disorder (maybe it's due to the fact that it's nearly impossible to find a good doctor in my hometown and this disorder is also not very well known in my country), so I know that fear of having to perform a movement that you are afraid of which is also part of our normal lives. So I absolutely can relate to him being afraid of ladders (stairs in my case) and still being able to aim and shoot (I am a good shooter myself, can shoot from many weapons except for a pistol. And I'm good at aiming even with my short-sightedness).
i agree with atriya it makes sense for there to be a psychological reason for the ladders in the first episode he nearly slipped off of a crane ladder and his nan died when she fell off of a crane
As a dyspraxic myself, that doesn't justify it. I have never had an issue with ladders in my life. It's got piss-all to do with coordination, it's about grip.
Lookswise I kept thinking of "Frighteners" when Johnny Bartlett was attacking through the rug. That might have been because I just rewatched that again recently. :)
You know the whole point of the sonic screwdrivers inclusion was to open big locked doors. The original writers of the show decided that the doctor should be able to be stopped by many things, but never a door. So please stop complaining that a thing is performing its primary function. Because I'm sure if her sonic didn't work and she then gave an explanation as to why you'd just complain that the sonic didn't work.
Alice Pope-Terry I think it's more just that those 30 seconds of "oh no a door... oh it's okay I can open it " we're pointless. It didn't build tension, the door opened straight away, and absolutely nothing would have been different without those 30 seconds
Alice Pope-Terry well literally nothing changes of you remove that scene it’s not like the door was some big thing it just appeared then we got passed it in like 5 seconds
It does establish that there's something important behind said door. If there wasn't a big locked door then this enormous alien weapons base is just open to the public?
Alice Pope-Terry The original writers of the show also decided to get rid of said Sonic Screwdriver because it had become a 'deus ex machina', over used to get the doctor out of every tough situation. And I'm sorry but the Sonic Screwdriver's primary function was never devised to be a remote control door opener, this has only turned out to be its main use through lazy writing.
Three suns doesn't equal three shadows. Since the distance of the stars and the planet are so far of, all three would cast the same shadow. Edit: I dind't know I was watching a CinemaSins episodes. Explaning pointless "sins" is pointless.
Look at 2:05, the suns have more than enough angular separation. Big shadows would have a fuzzy edge and the shadow on the far right (2:09) would've terminated into 3 points rather than 1.
Like Kris said, there'd be a bit fat fuzzy shadow. The three stars are far off but they're also far apart, so it still wouldn't produce one big distinct shadow. It's just poorly conceived effects work.
The whole discussion is pointless since a system with three roughly equal size system can't have planets in there habitable zone, like shown in the episode. see source: www.space.com/33534-alien-planets-how-many-suns-limit.html
There were some great ideas throughout the episode - the Doctor missing the planet because it had been torn out of orbit, the scientists being forced to make fake bandages
Okay I'm rewatching the episode and here's some things I'm picking up to explain your points. You mention you wonder how The Doctor/Yaz and Graham/Ryan were split up. There's a bit near the start where Angstrom says "That was a very sneaky trick of his especially coming out of hyperjump". One can assume something occurred where Epzo arrived there first, scooped up the Doctor/Yaz, Angstrom followed but Epzo tricked her in some way and flew off, then Angstrom picked up Graham and Ryan. - It's something that they did cover their back about with a throwaway line, but yes a proper explanation might have been better. The surveying data line.... okay fine, can't find an explanation other than perhaps she knew it was still "habitable" but wanted to know for how long? Your point about the ship being in the sky and then seconds later being right at their doorstep...? That was a little bit pointless. The timing felt fine to me and the ship is hurtling to earth at probably hundreds of MPH. The sunglasses (I deleted my previous comment) but Tem in the comments explained this point. The lazer - I imagine it's only visible from a certain angle? As for why the 4 didn't get shot and only Epzo did? The Doctor told the three "don't run straight, they're predicting our path". They're robots. They're going to predict, so the fact the four aren't doing what the robots expect, of course each shot is going to miss! The Call of Duty section... yeah. Rip the show to shreds there. FFS talk about appealing to the "masses" -_-' was the worst part of the episode. The big locked door.... why are you worrying about this? Were the doctor not part of the situation it would have been more of a concern so... The inscription... the doctor knows thousands of languages because of being Galifreyan and/or because of the TARDIS; She's already been in the TARDIS and just knows many languages automatically. Graham most likely can't read it because he only HEARS English. but not read it. Kind of like an ear piece where an interpreter is talking in your ear. Now you mentioned earlier about the water and how pointless it is. That's fine, however I wonder if the water is something for a future episode? The inscriptions state about the Stenza forcing people to work to make horrible creations. The water is just one of them and wouldn't be surprised if the Stenza use it in future episodes. How did the doctor know they'd run out of Oxygen? She literally just said "they've shut down the life support systems, depriving us of air".... what do life support systems do Harry? They give you oxygen. They're shutting down. You're going to run out of air sometime... As for how she'd know they've been shut down? I mean it sounds like things are being shut down to me... And you're comment on "oh joy. We all know them being stranded on the planet will last a minute". THEY DON'T KNOW THAT. As far as they're concerned, they're trapped. Also, IT'S MEAN'T TO BE A SHOW FOR CHILDREN FFS. I'm sure some kids were probably going "NO! Oh no... Doctor :(" One thing you SHOULD have mentioned in your review was the OVER USE OF THE DAMN SONIC SCREWDRIVER. Like she used it for everything! EVEN WHEN EPZO WAS STRANGLED BY THE REMNANTS SHE WAS ZAPPING IT WITH HER SCREWDRIVER AND WAS LIKE "NOTHING'S WORKING ON IT" AND THEN ANGSTROM COMES ALONG AND JUST CUTS IT. LIKE WTF?! I'll admit. I didn't like the episode "much". For me it was around a 5/10 ish. I've been enjoying watching all your doctor who reviews... But I feel you nitpick the wrong things! :S
The thing with the ship wasn't about how fast it reach the planet but that if its going that fast how did they manage to run away from it, especially when they show when the Doctor finally hits the brakes. As you said, hundreds of MPH (probably thousands) , people can't run that fast.....
"The surveying data line (...) for how long?" - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence just so that you can be right. "Your point about (...) hundreds of MPH." - Harry talk about that because it made no sense that when the ship crashed, it was suddenly at human running pace. "The lazer (...) angle?" - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence just so that you can be right. (Also that's BS and makes no sense). "As for why (...) going to miss!" - Except that a human can still hit someone who isn't running in a straight with a low travel-time projectile. Have you never played a videogame before? So a SNIPER BOT; a ROBOT built for specifically SNIPING with this specific weapon, should not miss every single shot. I can do it, so why can a futuristic sniper robot not? Just because you aren't running in a straight line, doesn't mean you're suddenly immune to slow moving projectiles. "The big locked (...) concern so..." - Because it shouldn't exist. If you are any type of artist, you should knot if adding something changes absolutely nothing about the piece, YOU DON'T ADD IT. That's one of the big rules. The door adds absolutely nothing to anything, so it shouldn't exist. "The inscription (...) in your ear." - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence again. Can you prove that the chip only translates audio? Can you prove that since they were on the same planet as the tardis, it wasn't also translating? "Now you mentioned (...) future episodes." - The water being in a future episode doesn't justify it being in this one. As I said earlier, something that adds absolutely nothing to anything shouldn't exist. If it appears in a later episode, they could just say "oh it was from the planet with all the experimental murder weapons". "How did (...) down to me..." - Other than the first 80% of this being a strawman, sorry but "it sounds like things are being shut down to me" is wishy-washy and not valid. "And you're comment (...) Doctor :("" - Here's another strawman: The characters not knowing that was never the point, and it was not what Harry was arguing. The point was that THE AUDIENCE knows it was 'last a minute' because we know that she gets her tardis in this episode - thus eliminating all ''''tension''''. What's the point of there being a "oh no we're stranded" scene when the audience already knows that they won't be in 5 minutes because that's when the episode ends? And no, you can't use the cliche "hurr durr it's a children's show" get-out-of-jail-free card. Also, it's LASER, not lazer. Laser is an acronym.
"Amazing, everything you just said there is wrong" - Luke Skywalker You do realise Doctor Who is BUILT upon guesses and scaring children? Look back on almost every episode ever and tell me characters aren't guessing their way through things on most of them.
The episode was fine, it wasn't amazing but it wasn't as bad as you made it out to be. A couple of your points are flawed. 3:20 She says they're LIKE a pair she had before, not a problem. Pay attention. 6:00 The guy from earlier, you know the one in charge said he'd be disqualified if he killed anyone. So yeah, no. 7:30 Oh come on you've seen this before in Doctor Who before, Daleks were conveniently missing the doctor and friends before too. Plus these particular robots are on a planet where everything is designed to be as sadistic as possible so it makes sense for them to toy with their enemy 8:00 Toying with enemy, they have no need to fear being shot since they're basically invulnerable to everything. ... except an EMP I took more issue with the EMP than anything else in this episode, that was awfully convenient. 9:00 That's literally what the Sonic Screwdriver is for you know. And its not like its the first time the Doctor has done this either, The Doctors done this loads of times over the years, what a pointless complaint. 9:55 The doctor can "conveniently" read it, are you kidding me, the Doctor is a 2000 year old alien who is smarter than everyone, knows things nobody else does of course she's going to know alien languages. She would be able to talk to everyone without the translator chip things. 10:39 He has dyspraxia, he can't ride a bike. climbing ladders is dangerous for him dude. Climbing Ladders in call of duty is literally pressing a button, climbing one in real life is much more difficult. Then you can ask how did he shoot guns so well? that's a better question. 11:35 Alien planet designed to be as sadistic as possible. Creatures who are designed to torment people. Next. So in summary, I felt like you got so bored you were just looking for things to pick apart, which is fair enough.
He didn't pick up on these points because they were either not that obvious or Jodie said them too fast (as she tends to do) making the episode poor. Getting real sick of people defending everything remotely shite that comes out of this new series.
A&V Artwork so Jodie talking fast makes the show bad? And what are we supposed to do, just have everyone diss on the show? The first episode I loved, the second was so-so, 6/10, but so what? It’s only the 2nd one. Don’t bring down other people just because they have a different opinion than you. Have a nice day friend.
@@AVArtwork are you joking? "He didn't pick these points up because Jodie said them too quick as Jodie does" don't blame her! If he doesn't hear because he's not paying enough attention then that's tough shit! And if her talking quick makes the episode poor then well, I call bullshit
ScottJoC the robots were just not threatening though. They should of had some red shirts for them to kill. Shouldn’t have made them so laughably bad at shooting. I mean at least have them injure one or two of them in a meaningful way. At the end of the day if they were designed to torment people then they would shot them in the knee caps and watched as they tried to crawl to safety.
I was really bored during the episode and honestly bursted out in laughter when the toilet paper was talking. I’m surprised that my friends praised this episode.
James Jumper not necessarily - when the doctor reads the message it says the stenza (the villain from the first episode) made the world like this and I think they might be the big finale villain
There's probably no proper story arc, just some seeding and forshadowing and then a finale that's based on what was seeded. Kind of like how Series 1 did it with the Bad Wolf stuff.
Doesn't the Call of Duty game require lots of hand-to-eye coordination not just on-screen but the hand-held control pad? How come the high-intense laser guns didn't ignite the atmosphere? The water on this planet was toxic and dangerous, we then see the surface within the tunnels they walk through was wet and full of puddles. Is that sentient lifeform, used toilet paper?
All I could think about during the opening was "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which made the point of the odds of being in open space a ship picking you up before you die.
This episode was pretty average but I don't have any big complaints. It's taking things slow and the tone is a bit different. The only thing I think they should have changed is the tardis/monument reveal. That should have been a surprise at the end. The 'logic' of some the events was pretty bad though. Very Chibnall.
So a point about the three suns thing. it is mostly correct as the light from distant sources arrives parallel. Provided the angle between the sources from the target is relatively small, the shadows would be indistinguishable. However, more egregiously is the fact that the ship model is lit from a point light source - as we can see by the crisp sharp shadow. in reality distant sources are extended sources, and so would produce a softer shadow, this could have fixed by using a diffuse light source in what ever program the ship was compiled in.
The moment after the Jabba the Hutt character said that the planet was made treacherous, an ad for a sandwich started playing. I giggled for the rest of the video.
The monster shown 9:33 reminds me of beast from the book Magical beast and where to find them. It's the one which is a shadow and creeps into bedroom to devour sleeping people.
Finally. Someone else who was underwhelmed by this one. I probably liked it a bit more than you did, but I was baffled when I heard people saying this was as good if not better than the previous episode. I did want to point out that Ryan's fear of ladders stems from his dyspraxia which they brought up a lot in the first episode. It's not really comparable to simulated ladders in video games. But, I agreed with pretty much everything else you said. I do like the TARDIS, but that's basically all this episode was for. Even the title was the TARDIS. I guess Chibnall had the job of writing the first two episodes and put so much more effort into the first and then thought, let's just make the second about them finding the TARDIS. Still, next week's is the obligatory famous historical figure episode. And they range from really good to passable.
I think the point of the ladders in COD thing is referring to his "i play game, therefore i can shoot good irl" logic as opposed to a serious argument, since neither are anything like actually shooting/climbing stuff but the former gets a pass
Eh. Moffatt probably desensitised me to this kind of writing, because I kept thinking "at least the characters are better handled than they would have been under Moffatt"
Harry, in the first episode it's mentioned that Ryan has a motor-coordination problem, that's why he had trouble with the bike and that's why he probably has trouble with the ladders
I thought that too. There's a weird thing with the Doctor (and Tennant's Doctor had it too) where it's okay to kill if you do it in some indirect 'clever' way or if you trick the bad guy into doing it to themselves but if you do it yourself in a direct way then it's wrong. A weird double standard. It's almost like the writers can't think of a real non-violent way to deal with the bad guy so make these strange moral exceptions. The only difference between the two actions is the robots took longer to recover from the EMP. Plus, they're robots why should destroying them be a moral issue?
I was watching this episode with a group of people, and the call of duty bit was the most hilarious thing and I'm glad I could share that moment with my friends.
6:02 they do say near the start that they get a bonus for bringing them with them. It's kind of implied though and not mentioned at all throughout the rest of the episode
With Ryan and the ladders he has Dyspraxia which means he has no awareness of his space and surroundings, I have it as well and ladders can be quite a big problem because from my experience we don't know if we'd fall off or not and one miss step could cause a panic moment resulting us falling off. Pretty dangerous from quite a height.
I'm awful at Call of Duty because I'm dispraxic as well as Ryan. Now, it might just be because mine is worse than his but his is so severe that, at nineteen, he still isn't able to ride a bike when I learnt at age nine.
I'm not necessarily scared of ladders however I am more cautious than others because I'm clumsier than most. Also I can climb a crane but I will only be afraid of heights at the top.
dude if your talking about a crane as in the ones for construction or dock work that dont count as fuck i wouldnt go up there..fucking high, but seems you can climb and use ladders, sure you say slow but am slow on them too mianly becouse falling from heights is super painfull, do you feel the Ryan is a good view of your health problem for folk to take in at face value?, mean as they like to say kids will watch this and take from it etc.
Dont forget they run through the tunnels with an inch of water without a care. What if you splash the water on someone ankles or somewhere higher like hands. Running in shallow water gets everywhere especially with a group of people
Sorry but, HOW did they breathe in space at the start?? WHY and how did they get separated, picked up by two ships?? What are the bonuses?? Why didn't they transport straight to the actual TARDIS??(or the planet and don't say because the planet moved because that would mean the doc pinpoint the planet rather than the actual tardis which is almost okay except if you can you should be able to get a point on the Tardis first and for most, first finding the tardis and then the planet like a tracker, rather than the point of a planet laid out map). I don't know maybe it was explained. Although to be fair it doesn't need to BUT if you're going to justice things like the translator and such you've opened yourself up. I don't mean to nickpick, if it is but I couldn't help thinking such things. GREAt spot with the 3 SUNS and SUNGLASSES man, love it. I don't know finding plot holes was never really a thing until late the P. Cap eps. It also bugged me in the Shooting Range when Graham (who is like the best character so far) said the targets were human shaped when it was just established human are like never heard of. I don't know that's very very very small but it bothered me, just say people. Anyway soz.
@@MrToastBenstudios I'm glad someone remembers last season. I get that, but as true as it maybe you'd have to factor the amount of time till two ships came. Meaning also two people were left in space longer. But idk that's being super realistic. But fair enough thanks.
Zola I don’t agree with how they got picked up separately tbh, they were only a couple of meters away from each other and neither of the guest characters saw more than two of them
Wow, I thought it could not possibly be worse than the previous seasons. I stand corrected. Without the blue-box shots, I could not even tell it's Dr Who.
The Flash I hope that they actually go somewhere with the ’timeless child’ thing though. They made it seem that it'll play a larger part later on (maybe in series 12?).
Boi Boi I have faith that it will be handled well because it's written by Malorie Blackman, who wrote the Noughts and Crosses series. But we'll have to see.
Also when Ryan runs out and shoots all the robots that SHOULD have been extremely hard for him because of his perception problem or whatever it is that makes him practically unable of even riding a bike.
This episode was so bad, went nowhere did nothing. I caught myself channel surfing during the show, only to realize I had recorded on purpose. Pushing the Stenza to be the "new Daleks" is just miserable writing. No real threat there.
Want to take bets on how long it will be before they back peddle on not using classic monsters? I'm betting it's mid-season, at the latest. If the best they can come up with is taking brown rags, then they're going to have to go back to the original series well. That is worst than the Stephen King lamp monster from "Family Guy".
I was wondering about the sunglassess too. Maybe she just got them with the outfit and lied about it for fun. I wished the planet would have been more dangerous. The Tradis translating for them would have been a really cool idea.
YES! THANK YOU! Why no one even speaking about it? And what's up with montage? It was actually physically uncomfortable to watch - I just coudn't even keep up with scenery - are we at the same room? No? What is this shot and angle, what is this place? Why? What's going on again? And that last bit at Tardis? Daaaaamn... not a single pair of characters actually have spoken in the same shot! Btw, this robots aperently called sniperbots. If you can believe it.
She could have got them from the store, or found them on the street, or got them out of a toilet, the whole point is they keep skipping things so we have no idea where or when items may just randomly appear
I could suspend my disbelief for the whole ladder thing. I mean, he climbed up a huge one in the episode before, where he established he has a fear of heights, and that’s not to forget that his nan was killed by falling from a height, which would dig into his psyche or whatever. I don’t know
dunno barr the trolls folk seem to have legit concerns about the show and chibby boy, less on the whole female thing, infact the only thing i seen on the whole dr being female is older fans being pissed they didnt just bring back rana the other female time lord and switch it up a bit.
viral- yes you are probably right about it being the older fans who remember classic who, as being angry about the gender swap!!! i thought it made more sense to bring back a female galifreyan to front their own show but then that would take time to establish!! changing the doctor is just a lazy way for the bbc and it appears they dont care for the older fans opinions!!!!. the batman.
@@brucewayne7838 My only thing about the gender swap was treating it as normal when nothing supports that. There's one throwaway reference in the very silly "Doctor's Wife" and suddenly the Master is Missy, random Timelord becomes a woman and they're all so happy about it. Add to that the nonsense about how, suddenly, Gallifrey is a planet where gender is meaningless (didn't seem like that before) and the Doctor can't remember if he and the Master where male or female when they first met (despite there being no evidence that they were ever female before and I swear they keep dropping things that could be seen as hints that the Doctor has been a woman before, despite that being stupid and making no sense). I like things to be consistent and make sense and adding this to the lore now and treating it as common and normal doesn't. If they wanted to do this they should've made it rare and perhaps even almost unheard of. Made it central to the story.
Hmm, some good points there I hadn't thought of. I disagree with a couple though: - The TARDIS being at the end of their trek wasn't miraculous intervention - they were told upfront that the TARDIS was at the end of the trek - that's why they took it in the first place. - It would've made no sense to have them board the TARDIS at the end of "The woman who fell to Earth". Grace had just died, they just wanted to grieve and none of them were in the mood to voluntarily go for a jaunt with the Doctor. They needed to be given a taste of adventure before they'd be willing to voluntarily travel in the TARDIS. Being stranded on an alien planet having to make their way to the TARDIS is a pretty effective way of achieving that.
Think people have got so entangled in the whole "if you think a female doctor will be shit then you're a sexist pig" row that now that it's apparent that she IS shit they're too scared to admit it lol I've even got 40 and 50 odd year old classic Who fans saying she's the best doctor ever 😂😂😂 don't worry you chaps I'll say it now.....ahem..... JODIE WHITTAKER IS FUCKING SHIT IN HER CURRENT SUNDAY NIGHT TIME TRAVELLING ROLE......See I can't even bring myself to say she is the doctor because she isn't 😂😂😂
When I first heard they were making all original enemies, I was pretty excited. I like originality and newness. However, now experiencing a few of them, I am drastically underwhelmed. It’s pretty much just been, “Oh no, life-threatening aliens are here. But wait, I have this thing I found on the ground or pulled out of my ass.” Also, the whole process is way too jumpy. Almost as soon as they introduced the cloths they were up in flames. I don’t know, maybe it will get better from here.
very different from what everyone else has been saying.... while i dont agree with most of this i can tell you have your reasons. anyway i like the episode....
Honestly I LOVED that it episode When Jodie found the Tardis the moment when she walked up to it, spoke to it and went inside and looked around the atmosphere I felt was truly amazing, really great episode
🤣This is all so funny because it's true 🤣 It's like the writers weren't even trying. I still enjoyed the episode though. I think it was supposed to be more about the doctor's relationship with her companions than anything else. Also I think the new director doesn't really know how to shoot action.
chibs just could've had there be a sort of interplanetary patrol force, so it's not a coincidence they got picked up by ships. they could have one of the staff be the racers mums or smth, just not have that completly illigical gap
Great video, great points, sums out pretty much what I thought about the episode. EXCEPT the Ryan ladder comment: it was clearly established in the last episode that he has a arm-leg coordination issue (dyspraxia) so that 'fear of ladder' did not bother me at all. That is also, presumably, why he fell at the beginning during the ship crash. Climbing a ladder in Call of Duty and climbing one in real life with a disability is not exactly the same. Maybe you forgot this part from last episode?
The idea that his dyspraxia is severe enough to give him a fear of ladders but not severe enough to prevent him from headshotting several robots in quick succession while running is pretty ridiculous.
There's a difference between "survive in space for a few seconds" and "it takes a few seconds to die in horrible agony." The show itself is dying a horrible death right before our eyes. It may take a few seasons but...I suppose it could be said to be "surviving"? If you want to be pedantic. Meanwhile, the pain of the viewers blood boiling as we endure the vacuum of Chibnalls headspace, our eyes popping as we watch all hope freeze to shattering point, the viewing-figures inflate/burst/wither as the audience-numbers suffer a severe case of the bends...is something we'll just have to live with. Sorry, SURVIVE with. PS is there a Doctor in the house? (EDIT 4 days later) PPS: I loved Rosa. 🤦♂️
Anyone with questions about this should either read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or watch the 80s BBC mini-series. Just stay away from the motion picture they did a few years back, it's terrible.
It would have been great if they literally had to wait 1000 'suns' for the tardis to appear. Maybe have one episode where we see their relationship grow over the hundreds of days, possibly an alien comes in that episode because plot, then it appears
John McCrindle It's almost as if I was commenting on the fact that ALL she has done is ask questions, unlike Ryan or Graham, who have experienced way more character development. You could literally replace Yaz with a potted plant for most of the scenes in that episode. Think before you comment to avoid sounding like a total idiot next time.
Back in the original series, that was the main job of a companion. To ask the Doctor to explain everything for the audience. That and to get kidnapped and/or scream a lot.
But he can go out all guns blazing thinking he can hit targets, not to mention the actual CoD game needs excellent hand-eye coordination not only on-screen but also the control pad in which to play the game. The video is highlighting the inconsistency the writers have given the character.
So far, I have not liked series 11. Jodie Whittaker doesn't fit the personality of The Doctor for me; her writing makes her feel rather lame and the actor choice has led to a considerable loss of wit; besides, the doctor does have a darker side, and if Chris Chibnall is to do well, he has to bring that in. The problem is that it would be extremely hard to take a sad Whittaker seriously, compared to the performances that the previous two actors gave which allowed for enough flexibility so that they had both charm and sadness. Whittaker doesn't fit in that. Also this show has now gone from masterful, sad ideas and villians to killer cloths. What happened?
but the storyies normaly orbit the dr and friends some times with a deep stake in the story..such as the whole amy's kid being taken by the Palal mianframe folk, that whole arch was the dr and characters with a investment into what was happeing and tied directly to them..or what about time of the doctors..you know the one where all verstions went out there way to save there home planet?, the list goes on if your not careing about whats doing them then your going to find these one shot episodes sorta not your thing after a while.
I see where you're coming from here, but I don't associate with the classic show. The villains I miss are things like the weeping angels, the silence, the whisper men, the raven, all these unique villains, plus the episodes like Heaven Sent, which didn't really have a 'villain' as such.
It feels like they haven't figured out what personality they want to give her just yet. She seems to mostly be copying past Doctors rather than having a personality of her own. Each Doctor is supposed to have their own personality and so far she has none. I wish she would get one and make the part her own.
The thing is: the TARDIS translation system only works once they've stepped INTO the TARDIS, so the TARDIS knows who's travelling with The Doctor. Chibnall must've forgotten about this and came up with that glowing thing as a way around the fact.
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Yay! I always look forward to these! (I'm not expecting you too, but if you and: 'He Who Moans,' teamed up one day, I would lose my stuff!) :)
Hate how you didn't reply to my comment .
Also ryan is is able to play a video game like call of duty witch takes a lot hand eye coordination and able to aim and perfectly hits all 4 of the robots when he has this condition. Joke of a side plot when the holes are everwhere
Thought I'd do a point by point review of your review...
1. The atmospheric data could easily be nothing more than looking at the weather potential, not the air quality
2. With multiple light sources, often only the strongest will cast a shadow, imagine the sun and a lamp - the sun will totally outshine the lamp giving one shadow. You need to now the details regarding the 3 stars before knowing how many shadows would be cast.
3. Dyspraxia is now a major character trait but only when it is required (ladder & bike) and disappears whenever required (shooting robots Call of Duty style).
4. I agreed with everything else you said.
To conclude this episode was slightly worse than the last poor attempt and continued with the not so subtle sexism. Last week we had "If you can't get someone to do it" (do it yourself) a common quote first said by the lady who founded the PDSA and this week it was her being ignored when speaking to men.
Next week is all whites are bad week and after that it will probably by why penises should be dissolved with acid at birth.
3/10 (At least it wasn't Fear Her!)
ryan dislikes ladders because his dyspraxia....
I will admit, I find it strange that the Doctor would let Ryan run out and possibly get killed.
Insert Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka: "oh no. Stop. Don't do that. Danger. Please, stop. Oh no."
Yeah, but it's gonna stick with Ryan for life now that guns cause more problems than they solve. The greatest teacher failure is.
@@jjmcn8377 Just imagine if he died how awkward the rest of the episode would have been!
@TheKarlOshaughnessy It wasn't about not killing the robots. It was about not using guns and fighting them face-to-face. The Doctor's method is usually not direct confrontation.
Yeah it’s pretty stupid that she went on about not using guns because they kill then she goes and blows then up killing them all
Is no one else triggered about how the water is supposedly deadly but they just run through it in the tunnels cause its on the floor
It's just poisonous.
Its flesh eating
@@splooshy7117 Ah shit you're absolutely right wtf.
the plot siad they didnt need to worry about that.
jo games Don't worry the Doctor could just eat her celery and...oh wait, wrong Doctor😋
tbh i think it would be better with just graham, i love his character.
I wasn't sure about Graham at first but my god I love him. He's space dad to the rest of them!
Because he’s a *WHITE MAN?*
Imagine what would happen if Graham met Brian Williams.
3 is a crowd, but you need someone young a relateable surely
But I like Ryan rip 😢 oh well we all have different opinions
The doctor can read multiple languages anyway & I think the translator chips were only for spoken language.
That would be reasonable that knowing all the languages is impossible- but he's said that he knows all the languages... in past eps- I'm pretty sure mostly Smith's eps- he's said that he personally knows them.
That the TARDIS was basically for the companions to understand...
I don't have issue with things that annoy him that can be the result of lazy writing, even if it doesn't bug me in certain shows- like, I'm a lot more forgiving of Doctor Who for all the Deus ex Machinas, and just absurd ways out of situations because I know first and foremost it's a kid's show, and it likes to ease some really serious and fucked up situations that could mess a kid up for years, with complete absurdity to snap someone from focusing too hard on something that can be legitamately terrifying a concept for adults.
Like the whole "don't burn me" thing with Danny... ugh!
So all those complaints I can hear and go "yup, he's completely right there!", even if I find it fine for Doctor Who specifically. I happened to have fun with the ep, even though like- the cloth trying to mummify what's his name made me laugh at how stupid it was...
But like, he does breakdowns for SO many Doctor Who episodes, where things are talked about, in length... And the Doctor saying he understands baby, he understands horse... yes, the TARDIS translates- buuuuuuut it was also talked about way too often that he just knows the languages.
And the google search "when was it said the doctor speaks all languages" to double check myself came up with this link (there were others but I'm not trusting random unsourced fan pages) pretty much instantly, which shows some proof that yes, the TARDIS does translate- there have been times it does seem like he just understands, and I had forgotten the Minetour episode where he was having problems translating certain words.
doctorwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/What_languages_does_the_Doctor_speak
@steve gale - oooooh I agree with you on Moffat! Some of my favorite eps from the Davis era were written by Moffat...
So when he was going to take over I was hopeful-
Ugh, almost his whole run, with very few exceptions, I felt were a mix of lazy writing and just wanting to do something to piss his mark on Doctor Who history, with zero, or next to zero foreshadowing and lazy ass writing.
"See, the Doctor wouldn't be who s/he is now because I invented Clara who went back in time and fucked with him through the years, down to which TARDIS to take!!!"
But stuff was done implying he knew languages himself before Moffat... but Moffat definitely pissed on so many things...
Those translator chips might only translate languages that are programmed into it-- and the language on the floor wasn't one of those. Or, they might just be networked and only translate the spoken word in a small group.
i agree. tardis arton energy is maybe LITTLE BIT MORE POWERFUL THAN A TINY LITTLE STAR
3:40 Just a quick note: She says they're LIKE the pair she got from Pythagoras
To be fair I only realised this after seeing this clip on instagram
Didn't even notice, and I watched the episode like three times.
I just assumed she had them in one of the pockets in 12’s coat and then when she got the new coat from the charity shop she just put them in that one.
@@RadioactiveChannel06 Your right that makes complete sense.
Didn't spot that either. And she says "Oh, I forgot I put stuff in these pockets" just before, possibly an ADR line added in the edit, so I guess it is safe to say they are from the charity shop after all. That is actually quite a relief, it seemed like such a glaring continuity error, but it was just me not listening hard enough to the dialogue. Oops.
Bobble Bardsley I just rewatched a bit from the original broadcast. All those lines are quick but they can be easy to miss especially Jodie’s line about having stuff in her pockets.
Yaz compared her family life to this women whom had her family killed and escaping capture.
"My whole family is living in fear, hiding from a terrible alien force trying to purge their planet" - "Oh yeah I totally get how you feel, my sister's mean to me"
I had an aneurysm trying to read this. Fair point tho
Whom's had. Whoomsadd. Hoomsad.
HOOMSAD
HOOOOOMMMSSSAHD
Yeah, I have the feeling she’s gonna be the weak link in our companion team.
Super Skully weak link implies there is a link between these characters.
"You climb ladders in Call of Duty, Ryan!" made be burst out laughing
The difference here is that he doesn't have to use his co-ordination in game to do so... it just does it for him. So I dont understand why Harry mentioned this though.
@@Kranitoko It's called a joke, look it up
Unfortunately it wasn't a very funny one... a funny one makes sense. This did not... people are taking Ryan's dyspraxia, and are saying "Oh it means he's afraid of Ladders?". No... no it does not.
@@Kranitoko Well clearly some of us found it funny which is why we laughed at it. You didn't find it funny, that happens. Can't please everyone. Stop getting so fussed about it
@@RuptimusPrime stop getting so offended by it...
Ryan’s dyspraxia shouldn’t be an excuse for his poor characterisation
I snorted so loud. Fuck that guy honestly
He is somewhat hard to watch. Better than Mickey in series one, but still hard to watch.
He’s a joke, they’re using his awkwardness as a crutch, especially during the Rosa episode. Yes Martin Luther King, okay Rosa Parks etc
@@vapoet I feel bad bc there is no actual good characters of colour, just lame excuses to have certain jokes. Eg the fuckin slave and the new ep where he gets slapped 😩 it's as if they haven't seen ppl of colour irl
It's not it's a token ailment for a token character..... 2 points towards their PC diversity targets - ethnic and disabled 😂😂😂
I think they went to the Prometheus school of running away from things
Exactly my thought lol
@Hossein D cinemasins has defenitly got old and boring. you should try cinemawins, his videos are very interesting to watch and fairly educational.
They might have escaped if they ran uphill from the start however it's a big might. So it was safer to run away from it and get to cover.
I know during that entire part with the ship I was thinking: go to the sides, you idiots! Why do no one in movies and TV shows just jump to one side? Reminds me of the dumb 90's action movie I was (can't recall which one) where a character is, I kid you not, running from an oncoming train by following the tracks. It's like characters can't go to one side.
Ding!
5/10. Bit boring. Bit bland. But then again, episode 2 always is so I'm still optimistic.
Also, tf happend to Ryan's coordination problems? He can't climb a ladder but he can successfully shoot 5 robots whilst running? Okay.
He trained for it remember 'WOOO CALL OF DUTY RELOAD RELOAD'
Adrenaline helps
Running would be effected by dyspraxia but shooting wouldnt because your non-dominant hand isn't doing anything different from your dominant hand when you're holding one gun. I assume the running is easier because it's something his body does most days (as opposed to bike riding which he refused to do.)
@@Santa-614 the gun he was using literally attached itself to his hand, so much so that he struggled to get out of it. His other hand was just supporting and he wasn't sniping, just randomly shooting and not really aiming.
Also something else that makes that scene bullshit is that video games dont make you a good shot or help you know how to shoot real guns. Call of duty isn't actual training of any kind, so he wouldnt know how to do all that anyways.
P.S. would call of duty be difficult to him too, since you must use both hands on the controller, and utilize hand-eye coordination?
Same. Not necessarily that bad, but far from good.
The rags would have been a great antagonist IF it was revealed that the real name for desolation was FORSAKEN and the rags turned out to be the immortality device they found in mummy on the orient express.
Its literally the perfect setting. Scientists forced to build the perfect weapons of war in the modern day so that the forsaken can be thousands of years pld when they get to the far future
Officially put more thought into this episode than the people who made it.
The moment you played the chase music with the words "space chasers" and showed Bradley Walsh I burst out laughing.
Ryan: "I've played Call of Duty"
Chibnall: "How do you do fellow kids?"
I mean, Ryan has dyspraxia, so his fear of ladders does make sense? I personally prefer how we have a main male character who isn't a macho alpha male and is vulnerable in some respects.
And yet he can out-gun 4 robots literally designed to shoot people... because he played Call of Duty...
Did you not see Amy ponds husband
Mickey?
Also he is is able to play a video game like call of duty witch takes a lot hand eye coordination and able to aim and perfectly hit all 4 of the robots joke of a side plot when the holes are everwhere
As someone who actually has dyspraxia, I've gone from people saying 'do you mean dyslexia' to 'so your afraid of ladders and can't ride a bike', in 2 weeks. No I'm not afraid of ladders and I've been able to ride a bike since I was 5, it's almost as if the writers didn't even bother to look up what dyspraxia actually was. You know what the biggest problem people with dyspraxia is, it's that they have bad handwriting, but I don't think that would make an exiting episode.
The reason Ryan doesn’t like ladders is because he has dyspraxia, like it’s physically hard for him to suff like that, that’s why in the first episode riding a bike was such a big deal
yeah that doesn't make any sense but I'm just saying the ladder thing wasn't for no reason
I think his issue is the characterisation of Ryan, one minute he is rushing in, running while aiming perfectly because of something he does in call of duty, and they the next he struggle to go up ladders? His dyspraxia was amazingly shown in the first episode but in this one it was inconsistent
eddie mango maybe he has some psychological stuff with ladders? I, for one, get stressed going down any stairs of there are no randrails after I fell down the stairs twice a year. Now I can even shout at someone who is walking right next to the handrail without holding onto it and is blocking me from using it myself. So... It might not be completely due to his dyspraxia.
And I have quite bad eye-to-movement coordination myself, though I've never been diagnosed with this disorder (maybe it's due to the fact that it's nearly impossible to find a good doctor in my hometown and this disorder is also not very well known in my country), so I know that fear of having to perform a movement that you are afraid of which is also part of our normal lives. So I absolutely can relate to him being afraid of ladders (stairs in my case) and still being able to aim and shoot (I am a good shooter myself, can shoot from many weapons except for a pistol. And I'm good at aiming even with my short-sightedness).
i agree with atriya it makes sense for there to be a psychological reason for the ladders in the first episode he nearly slipped off of a crane ladder and his nan died when she fell off of a crane
As a dyspraxic myself, that doesn't justify it. I have never had an issue with ladders in my life. It's got piss-all to do with coordination, it's about grip.
The cloth looked & sounded like dementors from Harry Potter
Sentient tape you mean
They're obviously inspired by the apparition from _Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad_ by the master of ghost stories, M.R. James.
Lookswise I kept thinking of "Frighteners" when Johnny Bartlett was attacking through the rug. That might have been because I just rewatched that again recently. :)
It looked like flying toilet paper
Young red head chibnall: "It was very predictable with lots of running around corridors." Good job, chris.
You know the whole point of the sonic screwdrivers inclusion was to open big locked doors. The original writers of the show decided that the doctor should be able to be stopped by many things, but never a door. So please stop complaining that a thing is performing its primary function. Because I'm sure if her sonic didn't work and she then gave an explanation as to why you'd just complain that the sonic didn't work.
Alice Pope-Terry I think it's more just that those 30 seconds of "oh no a door... oh it's okay I can open it " we're pointless. It didn't build tension, the door opened straight away, and absolutely nothing would have been different without those 30 seconds
Alice Pope-Terry well literally nothing changes of you remove that scene it’s not like the door was some big thing it just appeared then we got passed it in like 5 seconds
It does establish that there's something important behind said door. If there wasn't a big locked door then this enormous alien weapons base is just open to the public?
Just so long as the big looked door isn't made of wood.
Alice Pope-Terry The original writers of the show also decided to get rid of said Sonic Screwdriver because it had become a 'deus ex machina', over used to get the doctor out of every tough situation. And I'm sorry but the Sonic Screwdriver's primary function was never devised to be a remote control door opener, this has only turned out to be its main use through lazy writing.
I just assumed the glasses were in the 12th Doctors jacket, and she took everything that was in the 12th Doctor’s jacket.
In the first episode the doctor says repeatedly (probably like 10 times ugh....) that there is absolutely nothing in her pockets
10:32
"YOU CLIMB LADDERS IN CALL OF DUTY RYAN!!!! (oooh my god)"
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
It seems like I’m the only person who hates the new tardis design
whats wrong with it
It's a bit too dark for my liking
Trust me, you really aren't.
Its pretty crap
No, the original was the best (the first Doctor one)
Dit it suck?
short answer: yes, it suck.
Long answer: this is the episode that make think this is not going to be a good time of Doctor Who.
Three suns doesn't equal three shadows. Since the distance of the stars and the planet are so far of, all three would cast the same shadow.
Edit: I dind't know I was watching a CinemaSins episodes. Explaning pointless "sins" is pointless.
And. Ding. *ding*
Look at 2:05, the suns have more than enough angular separation. Big shadows would have a fuzzy edge and the shadow on the far right (2:09) would've terminated into 3 points rather than 1.
Like Kris said, there'd be a bit fat fuzzy shadow. The three stars are far off but they're also far apart, so it still wouldn't produce one big distinct shadow. It's just poorly conceived effects work.
The whole discussion is pointless since a system with three roughly equal size system can't have planets in there habitable zone, like shown in the episode. see source: www.space.com/33534-alien-planets-how-many-suns-limit.html
I love that everyone who reviews this episode talks about title sequence. That speaks volumes about the episode "quality"!
it was fun. the idea had potential and should have been executed in a more minimalist, introspective way, but it was still fun.
I am so surprised that the budget is as large as it is.
There were some great ideas throughout the episode - the Doctor missing the planet because it had been torn out of orbit, the scientists being forced to make fake bandages
but they were neglected in favor of weird Call of Duty bullshit.
😂😂😂😂 yeah course it was 😏😏😏
Okay I'm rewatching the episode and here's some things I'm picking up to explain your points.
You mention you wonder how The Doctor/Yaz and Graham/Ryan were split up. There's a bit near the start where Angstrom says "That was a very sneaky trick of his especially coming out of hyperjump". One can assume something occurred where Epzo arrived there first, scooped up the Doctor/Yaz, Angstrom followed but Epzo tricked her in some way and flew off, then Angstrom picked up Graham and Ryan. - It's something that they did cover their back about with a throwaway line, but yes a proper explanation might have been better.
The surveying data line.... okay fine, can't find an explanation other than perhaps she knew it was still "habitable" but wanted to know for how long?
Your point about the ship being in the sky and then seconds later being right at their doorstep...? That was a little bit pointless. The timing felt fine to me and the ship is hurtling to earth at probably hundreds of MPH.
The sunglasses (I deleted my previous comment) but Tem in the comments explained this point.
The lazer - I imagine it's only visible from a certain angle?
As for why the 4 didn't get shot and only Epzo did? The Doctor told the three "don't run straight, they're predicting our path". They're robots. They're going to predict, so the fact the four aren't doing what the robots expect, of course each shot is going to miss!
The Call of Duty section... yeah. Rip the show to shreds there. FFS talk about appealing to the "masses" -_-' was the worst part of the episode.
The big locked door.... why are you worrying about this? Were the doctor not part of the situation it would have been more of a concern so...
The inscription... the doctor knows thousands of languages because of being Galifreyan and/or because of the TARDIS; She's already been in the TARDIS and just knows many languages automatically. Graham most likely can't read it because he only HEARS English. but not read it. Kind of like an ear piece where an interpreter is talking in your ear.
Now you mentioned earlier about the water and how pointless it is. That's fine, however I wonder if the water is something for a future episode? The inscriptions state about the Stenza forcing people to work to make horrible creations. The water is just one of them and wouldn't be surprised if the Stenza use it in future episodes.
How did the doctor know they'd run out of Oxygen? She literally just said "they've shut down the life support systems, depriving us of air".... what do life support systems do Harry? They give you oxygen. They're shutting down. You're going to run out of air sometime... As for how she'd know they've been shut down? I mean it sounds like things are being shut down to me...
And you're comment on "oh joy. We all know them being stranded on the planet will last a minute". THEY DON'T KNOW THAT. As far as they're concerned, they're trapped. Also, IT'S MEAN'T TO BE A SHOW FOR CHILDREN FFS. I'm sure some kids were probably going "NO! Oh no... Doctor :("
One thing you SHOULD have mentioned in your review was the OVER USE OF THE DAMN SONIC SCREWDRIVER. Like she used it for everything! EVEN WHEN EPZO WAS STRANGLED BY THE REMNANTS SHE WAS ZAPPING IT WITH HER SCREWDRIVER AND WAS LIKE "NOTHING'S WORKING ON IT" AND THEN ANGSTROM COMES ALONG AND JUST CUTS IT. LIKE WTF?!
I'll admit. I didn't like the episode "much". For me it was around a 5/10 ish. I've been enjoying watching all your doctor who reviews... But I feel you nitpick the wrong things! :S
The thing with the ship wasn't about how fast it reach the planet but that if its going that fast how did they manage to run away from it, especially when they show when the Doctor finally hits the brakes. As you said, hundreds of MPH (probably thousands) , people can't run that fast.....
Okay my bad.
However, entering the atmosphere would slow the ship down significantly anyway.
Literally agree with all of your points
"The surveying data line (...) for how long?" - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence just so that you can be right.
"Your point about (...) hundreds of MPH." - Harry talk about that because it made no sense that when the ship crashed, it was suddenly at human running pace.
"The lazer (...) angle?" - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence just so that you can be right. (Also that's BS and makes no sense).
"As for why (...) going to miss!" - Except that a human can still hit someone who isn't running in a straight with a low travel-time projectile. Have you never played a videogame before? So a SNIPER BOT; a ROBOT built for specifically SNIPING with this specific weapon, should not miss every single shot. I can do it, so why can a futuristic sniper robot not? Just because you aren't running in a straight line, doesn't mean you're suddenly immune to slow moving projectiles.
"The big locked (...) concern so..." - Because it shouldn't exist. If you are any type of artist, you should knot if adding something changes absolutely nothing about the piece, YOU DON'T ADD IT. That's one of the big rules. The door adds absolutely nothing to anything, so it shouldn't exist.
"The inscription (...) in your ear." - You're making things up / grabbing at ideas and speculating with no evidence again. Can you prove that the chip only translates audio? Can you prove that since they were on the same planet as the tardis, it wasn't also translating?
"Now you mentioned (...) future episodes." - The water being in a future episode doesn't justify it being in this one. As I said earlier, something that adds absolutely nothing to anything shouldn't exist. If it appears in a later episode, they could just say "oh it was from the planet with all the experimental murder weapons".
"How did (...) down to me..." - Other than the first 80% of this being a strawman, sorry but "it sounds like things are being shut down to me" is wishy-washy and not valid.
"And you're comment (...) Doctor :("" - Here's another strawman: The characters not knowing that was never the point, and it was not what Harry was arguing. The point was that THE AUDIENCE knows it was 'last a minute' because we know that she gets her tardis in this episode - thus eliminating all ''''tension''''. What's the point of there being a "oh no we're stranded" scene when the audience already knows that they won't be in 5 minutes because that's when the episode ends? And no, you can't use the cliche "hurr durr it's a children's show" get-out-of-jail-free card.
Also, it's LASER, not lazer. Laser is an acronym.
"Amazing, everything you just said there is wrong" - Luke Skywalker
You do realise Doctor Who is BUILT upon guesses and scaring children? Look back on almost every episode ever and tell me characters aren't guessing their way through things on most of them.
They went to the Promethius school of running away from things.
You need to listen closer mate, The Doctor says the sunglasses are LIKE an old pair she used have.
Yes but how did she get them I agree with u but how?
Probably the same as her outfit, from the charity shop?
They would have been in the Twelfth Doctor's clothes that she then transfered to hers.
@@angusmaxim3450 Except she made a big deal of her empty pockets.
I almost went full Smeagol, "what's has it gots in its nasty little pockets?"
Nadeem Mohammed You're bothered by that? Remember when 12 produced a cup of tea from nowhere?
The episode was fine, it wasn't amazing but it wasn't as bad as you made it out to be.
A couple of your points are flawed.
3:20 She says they're LIKE a pair she had before, not a problem. Pay attention.
6:00 The guy from earlier, you know the one in charge said he'd be disqualified if he killed anyone. So yeah, no.
7:30 Oh come on you've seen this before in Doctor Who before, Daleks were conveniently missing the doctor and friends before too.
Plus these particular robots are on a planet where everything is designed to be as sadistic as possible so it makes sense for them to toy with their enemy
8:00 Toying with enemy, they have no need to fear being shot since they're basically invulnerable to everything. ... except an EMP
I took more issue with the EMP than anything else in this episode, that was awfully convenient.
9:00 That's literally what the Sonic Screwdriver is for you know. And its not like its the first time the Doctor has done this either, The Doctors done this loads of times over the years, what a pointless complaint.
9:55 The doctor can "conveniently" read it, are you kidding me, the Doctor is a 2000 year old alien who is smarter than everyone, knows things nobody else does of course she's going to know alien languages. She would be able to talk to everyone without the translator chip things.
10:39 He has dyspraxia, he can't ride a bike. climbing ladders is dangerous for him dude. Climbing Ladders in call of duty is literally pressing a button, climbing one in real life is much more difficult. Then you can ask how did he shoot guns so well? that's a better question.
11:35 Alien planet designed to be as sadistic as possible. Creatures who are designed to torment people. Next.
So in summary, I felt like you got so bored you were just looking for things to pick apart, which is fair enough.
He didn't pick up on these points because they were either not that obvious or Jodie said them too fast (as she tends to do) making the episode poor. Getting real sick of people defending everything remotely shite that comes out of this new series.
I fkin love you.
7/10 wouldn't you say? An extra 1 for the beautiful Tardis. 1 for the exterior, 1 for the interior, 5 for the episode itself?
A&V Artwork so Jodie talking fast makes the show bad? And what are we supposed to do, just have everyone diss on the show? The first episode I loved, the second was so-so, 6/10, but so what? It’s only the 2nd one. Don’t bring down other people just because they have a different opinion than you.
Have a nice day friend.
@@AVArtwork are you joking? "He didn't pick these points up because Jodie said them too quick as Jodie does" don't blame her! If he doesn't hear because he's not paying enough attention then that's tough shit! And if her talking quick makes the episode poor then well, I call bullshit
ScottJoC the robots were just not threatening though. They should of had some red shirts for them to kill. Shouldn’t have made them so laughably bad at shooting. I mean at least have them injure one or two of them in a meaningful way. At the end of the day if they were designed to torment people then they would shot them in the knee caps and watched as they tried to crawl to safety.
I was really bored during the episode and honestly bursted out in laughter when the toilet paper was talking. I’m surprised that my friends praised this episode.
The reason he “doesn’t like ladders” is because of that disorder he has that was said in the last episode.
Dyspraxia.
Which is conveniently forgotten when he goes out to shoot aliens. How does he have the coordination for that if he can't climb a ladder?
i thought this episode wasnt nearly as bad as you make it out, its also not particularly good, theres no way i could give it a 2/10
yeah
Max I'd give it a 6.7/10 could have been more original but it was a decent episode
Solid 5
6 if I’m being generous
Probably a five
But just my thought
5. It was average, not particularly offensive but.
i think the rosa episode is just going to be a trainwreck of white guilt for 40 minutes
Sean Stark my thoughts to
Villain was so bad, just a dumb racist
@@jojibot9193 That was the point, lmao
it was
So the Doctor visited Pythagoras...a man who- may or may not exist; can't be bothered to research that Chris?
It’s my understanding that each episode this series is stand alone instead of an ongoing story arc.
James Jumper not necessarily - when the doctor reads the message it says the stenza (the villain from the first episode) made the world like this and I think they might be the big finale villain
@@thomasjones I rolled my eyes at that. It feels a bit like the abandoned series of Class
www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a867418/doctor-who-series-11-no-story-arc/
There's probably no proper story arc, just some seeding and forshadowing and then a finale that's based on what was seeded. Kind of like how Series 1 did it with the Bad Wolf stuff.
No story arc but the character development in each episode should be consistent
Favourite moment was when Graham went “Can people stop putting things inside me without my permission?”
Doesn't the Call of Duty game require lots of hand-to-eye coordination not just on-screen but the hand-held control pad?
How come the high-intense laser guns didn't ignite the atmosphere?
The water on this planet was toxic and dangerous, we then see the surface within the tunnels they walk through was wet and full of puddles.
Is that sentient lifeform, used toilet paper?
All I could think about during the opening was "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which made the point of the odds of being in open space a ship picking you up before you die.
to be fair most second episodes of a new doctor are basically filler
Yeah, this is still better than The Beast Below and New Earth.
@@TheCrippledEgg I actually really like both of those. Hated this one though.
Wonder why that is? This one had the upper hand of revealing things like the Tardis and the Opening. That might have helped.
No series arc, so I reckon most episodes this series will be filler.
@@TheCrippledEgg beast below was really good actually. New earth is on the same level as this - ok/good.
He hates ladders and some traumatic experience caused him to be afraid of riding a bicycle. And we still have no idea what he's afraid of or why.
This episode was pretty average but I don't have any big complaints. It's taking things slow and the tone is a bit different. The only thing I think they should have changed is the tardis/monument reveal. That should have been a surprise at the end. The 'logic' of some the events was pretty bad though. Very Chibnall.
Pretty sure the internet would have exploded if the Tardis 'just appears' at the end.
So a point about the three suns thing. it is mostly correct as the light from distant sources arrives parallel. Provided the angle between the sources from the target is relatively small, the shadows would be indistinguishable. However, more egregiously is the fact that the ship model is lit from a point light source - as we can see by the crisp sharp shadow. in reality distant sources are extended sources, and so would produce a softer shadow, this could have fixed by using a diffuse light source in what ever program the ship was compiled in.
The moment after the Jabba the Hutt character said that the planet was made treacherous, an ad for a sandwich started playing. I giggled for the rest of the video.
Id be happy just having a whole series revolving around graham lmao
The monster shown 9:33 reminds me of beast from the book Magical beast and where to find them. It's the one which is a shadow and creeps into bedroom to devour sleeping people.
Finally. Someone else who was underwhelmed by this one. I probably liked it a bit more than you did, but I was baffled when I heard people saying this was as good if not better than the previous episode.
I did want to point out that Ryan's fear of ladders stems from his dyspraxia which they brought up a lot in the first episode. It's not really comparable to simulated ladders in video games. But, I agreed with pretty much everything else you said. I do like the TARDIS, but that's basically all this episode was for. Even the title was the TARDIS.
I guess Chibnall had the job of writing the first two episodes and put so much more effort into the first and then thought, let's just make the second about them finding the TARDIS.
Still, next week's is the obligatory famous historical figure episode. And they range from really good to passable.
I think the point of the ladders in COD thing is referring to his "i play game, therefore i can shoot good irl" logic as opposed to a serious argument, since neither are anything like actually shooting/climbing stuff but the former gets a pass
Someone actually build a tardis and stop the bbc from the wreck they’ve made of this show two years ago!
Eh. Moffatt probably desensitised me to this kind of writing, because I kept thinking "at least the characters are better handled than they would have been under Moffatt"
'fun witty dialogue' did you get dropped as a child?
Harry, in the first episode it's mentioned that Ryan has a motor-coordination problem, that's why he had trouble with the bike and that's why he probably has trouble with the ladders
That ship looks strangly like the Event Horizon
Thankyou for including musical credits. There's a piece in there had been stuck in my head for months, and now i know what it is.
i would like to point out that using the guns is morally identical to using the emp on robots
Doc is anti gun and anti knife, but pro explosions, given she's caused like 4 of them in 2 episodes.
I thought that too. There's a weird thing with the Doctor (and Tennant's Doctor had it too) where it's okay to kill if you do it in some indirect 'clever' way or if you trick the bad guy into doing it to themselves but if you do it yourself in a direct way then it's wrong. A weird double standard. It's almost like the writers can't think of a real non-violent way to deal with the bad guy so make these strange moral exceptions.
The only difference between the two actions is the robots took longer to recover from the EMP. Plus, they're robots why should destroying them be a moral issue?
Can we just talk about how shocking the acting is when they get into the TARDIS, particularly from Ryan when she says it travels in time 😂
I was watching this episode with a group of people, and the call of duty bit was the most hilarious thing and I'm glad I could share that moment with my friends.
6:02 they do say near the start that they get a bonus for bringing them with them. It's kind of implied though and not mentioned at all throughout the rest of the episode
The ladders thing was established last episode mate
With Ryan and the ladders he has Dyspraxia which means he has no awareness of his space and surroundings, I have it as well and ladders can be quite a big problem because from my experience we don't know if we'd fall off or not and one miss step could cause a panic moment resulting us falling off. Pretty dangerous from quite a height.
I'm awful at Call of Duty because I'm dispraxic as well as Ryan. Now, it might just be because mine is worse than his but his is so severe that, at nineteen, he still isn't able to ride a bike when I learnt at age nine.
are you scared of ladders/unable to use them?.
I'm not necessarily scared of ladders however I am more cautious than others because I'm clumsier than most. Also I can climb a crane but I will only be afraid of heights at the top.
dude if your talking about a crane as in the ones for construction or dock work that dont count as fuck i wouldnt go up there..fucking high, but seems you can climb and use ladders, sure you say slow but am slow on them too mianly becouse falling from heights is super painfull, do you feel the Ryan is a good view of your health problem for folk to take in at face value?, mean as they like to say kids will watch this and take from it etc.
Dont forget they run through the tunnels with an inch of water without a care. What if you splash the water on someone ankles or somewhere higher like hands. Running in shallow water gets everywhere especially with a group of people
Sorry but, HOW did they breathe in space at the start?? WHY and how did they get separated, picked up by two ships?? What are the bonuses?? Why didn't they transport straight to the actual TARDIS??(or the planet and don't say because the planet moved because that would mean the doc pinpoint the planet rather than the actual tardis which is almost okay except if you can you should be able to get a point on the Tardis first and for most, first finding the tardis and then the planet like a tracker, rather than the point of a planet laid out map). I don't know maybe it was explained. Although to be fair it doesn't need to BUT if you're going to justice things like the translator and such you've opened yourself up. I don't mean to nickpick, if it is but I couldn't help thinking such things. GREAt spot with the 3 SUNS and SUNGLASSES man, love it. I don't know finding plot holes was never really a thing until late the P. Cap eps.
It also bugged me in the Shooting Range when Graham (who is like the best character so far) said the targets were human shaped when it was just established human are like never heard of. I don't know that's very very very small but it bothered me, just say people. Anyway soz.
You can survive for a few seconds when first exposed to the vacuum of space.
I mean they did spend an entire episode last season pointing this out.
@@MrToastBenstudios I'm glad someone remembers last season. I get that, but as true as it maybe you'd have to factor the amount of time till two ships came. Meaning also two people were left in space longer. But idk that's being super realistic. But fair enough thanks.
Zola I don’t agree with how they got picked up separately tbh, they were only a couple of meters away from each other and neither of the guest characters saw more than two of them
To be fair p. much every planet has a breathable atmosphere in doctor who lol
@@rm-ky9bl HA sorry apparently there was no planet
Wow, I thought it could not possibly be worse than the previous seasons.
I stand corrected.
Without the blue-box shots, I could not even tell it's Dr Who.
I did like the timeless child bit.
Also the come to daddy I mean mummy bit in the episode, that was funny.
The Flash I hope that they actually go somewhere with the ’timeless child’ thing though. They made it seem that it'll play a larger part later on (maybe in series 12?).
@@wizzy2201 Well... this is awkward.
The ladder thing is because of his dyspraxia, which makes complicates motions like climbing ladders or riding bicycles very difficult.
I'd say Sunday's episode could be a potential train wreck
It was
@@karenreznor4204 Elaborate? I thought they did it WAY better than I expected.
‘This entire planet has been made cruel’
Yeah that’s NOTHING like After Earth
I can't wait for the Rosa Parks episode tomorrow
I’m a little worried it will be just pandering
Boi Boi I have faith that it will be handled well because it's written by Malorie Blackman, who wrote the Noughts and Crosses series. But we'll have to see.
violets indeed
Also the "main villain" is a white male "alien" sigh I don't have high hopes but I could be totally wrong.
@@_MyNameIsAJ_ If Moffat wrote it Rosa Parks would just be River because every female character just ends up being River when it comes to him.
Also when Ryan runs out and shoots all the robots that SHOULD have been extremely hard for him because of his perception problem or whatever it is that makes him practically unable of even riding a bike.
This episode was so bad, went nowhere did nothing. I caught myself channel surfing during the show, only to realize I had recorded on purpose. Pushing the Stenza to be the "new Daleks" is just miserable writing. No real threat there.
Want to take bets on how long it will be before they back peddle on not using classic monsters? I'm betting it's mid-season, at the latest. If the best they can come up with is taking brown rags, then they're going to have to go back to the original series well. That is worst than the Stephen King lamp monster from "Family Guy".
@@LibraGamesUnlimited Na, they are going to ride this dead horse straight into the grave and blame the audience for not being woke enough.
@@FeralSnows Probably so, the far left has no clue about cutting losses or admitting defeat.
I was wondering about the sunglassess too. Maybe she just got them with the outfit and lied about it for fun. I wished the planet would have been more dangerous. The Tradis translating for them would have been a really cool idea.
okay I thought this episode was so boring, so glad someone else agrees
YES! THANK YOU! Why no one even speaking about it?
And what's up with montage? It was actually physically uncomfortable to watch - I just coudn't even keep up with scenery - are we at the same room? No? What is this shot and angle, what is this place? Why? What's going on again? And that last bit at Tardis? Daaaaamn... not a single pair of characters actually have spoken in the same shot!
Btw, this robots aperently called sniperbots. If you can believe it.
She said, “they’re _like_ a pair.” She probably got them from the charity store. You should listen a little harder next time, my friend.
She could have got them from the store, or found them on the street, or got them out of a toilet, the whole point is they keep skipping things so we have no idea where or when items may just randomly appear
The writing doesn't exactly encourage or demand you pay attention to it. In fact, it seems to actively discourage close attention being paid to it.
I could suspend my disbelief for the whole ladder thing. I mean, he climbed up a huge one in the episode before, where he established he has a fear of heights, and that’s not to forget that his nan was killed by falling from a height, which would dig into his psyche or whatever. I don’t know
I remember dr who being on a Saturday
Is it to boost viewing figures for this new
series it is on a Sunday with less
Competition from big shows.
i dont think so! probably because they changed it to a girl and are trying to woo new viewers to replace the one that are severey pissed off!!!!
dunno barr the trolls folk seem to have legit concerns about the show and chibby boy, less on the whole female thing, infact the only thing i seen on the whole dr being female is older fans being pissed they didnt just bring back rana the other female time lord and switch it up a bit.
viral- yes you are probably right about it being the older fans who remember classic who, as being angry about the gender swap!!! i thought it made more sense to bring back a female galifreyan to front their own show but then that would take time to establish!! changing the doctor is just a lazy way for the bbc and it appears they dont care for the older fans opinions!!!!. the batman.
I don't know about in the UK but in the U.S. Sunday had tons of big shows on and I'm betting "Doctor Who" is getting creamed over here.
@@brucewayne7838 My only thing about the gender swap was treating it as normal when nothing supports that. There's one throwaway reference in the very silly "Doctor's Wife" and suddenly the Master is Missy, random Timelord becomes a woman and they're all so happy about it.
Add to that the nonsense about how, suddenly, Gallifrey is a planet where gender is meaningless (didn't seem like that before) and the Doctor can't remember if he and the Master where male or female when they first met (despite there being no evidence that they were ever female before and I swear they keep dropping things that could be seen as hints that the Doctor has been a woman before, despite that being stupid and making no sense).
I like things to be consistent and make sense and adding this to the lore now and treating it as common and normal doesn't. If they wanted to do this they should've made it rare and perhaps even almost unheard of. Made it central to the story.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who picked up on there being three suns but everything having one shadow. It left me right royally puzzled!
At least it looks nice.
British Nerd what about the evil floaty rags that looked like cgi from the 90s
@@tomtatham5233 ok, besides that it looks nice. I mean, it's in the dark so you can barely see they look shit.
Yeah. I was quite impressed with how good it looked despite the story.
Hmm, some good points there I hadn't thought of.
I disagree with a couple though:
- The TARDIS being at the end of their trek wasn't miraculous intervention - they were told upfront that the TARDIS was at the end of the trek - that's why they took it in the first place.
- It would've made no sense to have them board the TARDIS at the end of "The woman who fell to Earth". Grace had just died, they just wanted to grieve and none of them were in the mood to voluntarily go for a jaunt with the Doctor. They needed to be given a taste of adventure before they'd be willing to voluntarily travel in the TARDIS. Being stranded on an alien planet having to make their way to the TARDIS is a pretty effective way of achieving that.
the episode bored me senseless, but even i didn,t notice this many plotholes or facepalm moments until watching this video. Chibbnall needs to go
Bit early to say that no?
Think people have got so entangled in the whole "if you think a female doctor will be shit then you're a sexist pig" row that now that it's apparent that she IS shit they're too scared to admit it lol I've even got 40 and 50 odd year old classic Who fans saying she's the best doctor ever 😂😂😂 don't worry you chaps I'll say it now.....ahem..... JODIE WHITTAKER IS FUCKING SHIT IN HER CURRENT SUNDAY NIGHT TIME TRAVELLING ROLE......See I can't even bring myself to say she is the doctor because she isn't 😂😂😂
Ryan has dyspraxia, which I also have. It causes issues with balance, which makes ladders terrifying.
How can you not have heard of acetylene?
Funsworth the brigadier certainly knew about it lol
Not a big welder I guess.
When I first heard they were making all original enemies, I was pretty excited. I like originality and newness. However, now experiencing a few of them, I am drastically underwhelmed. It’s pretty much just been, “Oh no, life-threatening aliens are here. But wait, I have this thing I found on the ground or pulled out of my ass.” Also, the whole process is way too jumpy. Almost as soon as they introduced the cloths they were up in flames. I don’t know, maybe it will get better from here.
At 10:30 you’re forgetting how climbing ladders is hard for him because of his coordination disorder, and he makes a deal out of it in episode 1 too
The characters adopted the Prometheus school of running away from things
very different from what everyone else has been saying.... while i dont agree with most of this i can tell you have your reasons. anyway i like the episode....
Honestly I LOVED that it episode
When Jodie found the Tardis the moment when she walked up to it, spoke to it and went inside and looked around the atmosphere I felt was truly amazing, really great episode
How many viewers will leave this week
Last weeks 1.5 million
Go BBC ruin shows its what you do best
My description of the episode: a suspense free romp on a dangerous planet were the dangerous things turned out to be completely useless.
🤣This is all so funny because it's true 🤣 It's like the writers weren't even trying. I still enjoyed the episode though. I think it was supposed to be more about the doctor's relationship with her companions than anything else. Also I think the new director doesn't really know how to shoot action.
chibs just could've had there be a sort of interplanetary patrol force, so it's not a coincidence they got picked up by ships. they could have one of the staff be the racers mums or smth, just not have that completly illigical gap
Yes it sucked, Jodie Whittaker is carrying a dull and script and even duller actors.
Their lack of reaction to the TARDIS was painful
Great video, great points, sums out pretty much what I thought about the episode.
EXCEPT the Ryan ladder comment: it was clearly established in the last episode that he has a arm-leg coordination issue (dyspraxia) so that 'fear of ladder' did not bother me at all. That is also, presumably, why he fell at the beginning during the ship crash.
Climbing a ladder in Call of Duty and climbing one in real life with a disability is not exactly the same.
Maybe you forgot this part from last episode?
The idea that his dyspraxia is severe enough to give him a fear of ladders but not severe enough to prevent him from headshotting several robots in quick succession while running is pretty ridiculous.
There's a difference between "survive in space for a few seconds" and "it takes a few seconds to die in horrible agony."
The show itself is dying a horrible death right before our eyes. It may take a few seasons but...I suppose it could be said to be "surviving"? If you want to be pedantic.
Meanwhile, the pain of the viewers blood boiling as we endure the vacuum of Chibnalls headspace, our eyes popping as we watch all hope freeze to shattering point, the viewing-figures inflate/burst/wither as the audience-numbers suffer a severe case of the bends...is something we'll just have to live with.
Sorry, SURVIVE with.
PS is there a Doctor in the house?
(EDIT 4 days later)
PPS: I loved Rosa. 🤦♂️
Anyone with questions about this should either read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or watch the 80s BBC mini-series. Just stay away from the motion picture they did a few years back, it's terrible.
The Doctor putting her fingers on the man's throat to stop him from talking was a reference to Pertwee and "Venusian aikido".
The Thirteenth Doctor yeah we know that but why
Ontos Idk a simple shuttity shut shut up would have been better.
2/10 is quite generous
It would have been great if they literally had to wait 1000 'suns' for the tardis to appear. Maybe have one episode where we see their relationship grow over the hundreds of days, possibly an alien comes in that episode because plot, then it appears
Also all Yaz has done so far is ask questions
Yeah I wish she'd do something noteworthy or get some interesting character development. Keep forgetting she even exists.
Philipp Tapsell yeah but it seems we are going to get that within the coming weeks.
John McCrindle It's almost as if I was commenting on the fact that ALL she has done is ask questions, unlike Ryan or Graham, who have experienced way more character development. You could literally replace Yaz with a potted plant for most of the scenes in that episode. Think before you comment to avoid sounding like a total idiot next time.
Back in the original series, that was the main job of a companion. To ask the Doctor to explain everything for the audience. That and to get kidnapped and/or scream a lot.
Ryan doesn't like ladders because of his disability. The hand-eye coordination thing that means he can't ride a bike.
But he can go out all guns blazing thinking he can hit targets, not to mention the actual CoD game needs excellent hand-eye coordination not only on-screen but also the control pad in which to play the game. The video is highlighting the inconsistency the writers have given the character.
Yeah, that's true. There needs to be some consistency.@@mekonta
So far, I have not liked series 11. Jodie Whittaker doesn't fit the personality of The Doctor for me; her writing makes her feel rather lame and the actor choice has led to a considerable loss of wit; besides, the doctor does have a darker side, and if Chris Chibnall is to do well, he has to bring that in. The problem is that it would be extremely hard to take a sad Whittaker seriously, compared to the performances that the previous two actors gave which allowed for enough flexibility so that they had both charm and sadness. Whittaker doesn't fit in that.
Also this show has now gone from masterful, sad ideas and villians to killer cloths. What happened?
VuraxisOfficial for me idc bout the Doctor or characters all I care about is the stories and monsters
but the storyies normaly orbit the dr and friends some times with a deep stake in the story..such as the whole amy's kid being taken by the Palal mianframe folk, that whole arch was the dr and characters with a investment into what was happeing and tied directly to them..or what about time of the doctors..you know the one where all verstions went out there way to save there home planet?, the list goes on if your not careing about whats doing them then your going to find these one shot episodes sorta not your thing after a while.
John McCrindle plus the candyman 😂
I see where you're coming from here, but I don't associate with the classic show. The villains I miss are things like the weeping angels, the silence, the whisper men, the raven, all these unique villains, plus the episodes like Heaven Sent, which didn't really have a 'villain' as such.
It feels like they haven't figured out what personality they want to give her just yet. She seems to mostly be copying past Doctors rather than having a personality of her own. Each Doctor is supposed to have their own personality and so far she has none. I wish she would get one and make the part her own.
The thing is: the TARDIS translation system only works once they've stepped INTO the TARDIS, so the TARDIS knows who's travelling with The Doctor. Chibnall must've forgotten about this and came up with that glowing thing as a way around the fact.