The fact that 55-year-old Capaldi was more active in one episode than Ncuti was in the whole series speaks volumes for the lack of characterisation the Fifteenth Doctor has suffered from since his inception.
The thing is, it feels like he could do a good Doctor. I don't think the fact that he's gay or black should have to take away from it. The Doctor changes appearance and parts of his personality every time he regenerates, but there's always a sort of core personality you can detect in everyone up until Whitaker. Maybe it's faux pas to use gendered terms, but I would say he was always this hugely masculine presence in the show. He's always ready to take care of everybody. He always knows what needs to be done in any situation. Sometimes he's confused, but you can always see there's something cooking in his mind, like he's just one clue away from figuring out everything. You get the feeling that he's seen it all, done it all, and is ready for anything. But now he's letting his sexual desires get in the way of his friends' safety? He's staring in horror while he gets dragged away from a scary alien? Ncuti doesn't project that masculinity that the Doctor had. It's like the writers thought they had to make him more emotional just because of the actor they chose. With these last two iterations, there's this clear goal of emasculating the Doctor. They want him more confused, more unsure, more useless, so other characters can steal the spotlight without trying. It's just so clearly out of resonance with how he used to be written that it's jarring and unpleasant.
I touched grass so hard after this episode that I got into gardening. Did you know clovers actually make for great filler in lawns? Drought tolerant too.
Dude, grow vine green beans! They're SUPER easy to grow, and meaty as heck! And you just save a couple beans from each year to grow next year; it's great! Basil is another easy one. I grabbed a kit from the dollar store and they grew like CRAZY. I had to get them some decent-sized pots pretty quick. It made our backyard smell soooo nice! Mammoth sunflowers are also fun if you like to look at moths: When the heads were fully grown and drooped down, moths would sleep on them overnight. At least I think they were sleeping: They would be super chill, not moving around and letting us get really close. Moths are adorable when they aren't flying around. The only downside to mammoths is how _fragile_ they are. They grow SUPER quick, but DO NOT recover from damage. Which sucks, because it seems like everything where I live likes to eat them. XD
Sutekh the god of all gods, the god of death. The one who waits, and is feared by all the other gods. Got defeated by getting leashed and going out for a walk.
@@clarehidalgo They based him more on Anubis then Set for this. I feel like they overhyped and underused Sutekh. As observing the doctor for so long, I would expect him to be one step ahead of him in terms of planning. Until the doctor was able to out think him in the end.
The doctor to me always embodies the quote: “You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you're capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. Important difference.” Every previous doctor had respect in the universe because everyone knew if he wanted to, he could undo worlds without a weapon. He only showed this side when his hand was forced, but the wrath of a good man was there. Ncuti does not embody this in the slightest. He hardly has enough survival instinct to avoid getting dusted to death, he cries when things get tough, and his victory here feels undeserved. I don’t wish to insult Ncuti here, but his portrayal of the doctor feels…pathetic.
You also have the devil's run quote. So far in this season he used plot device gloves to bring a ship down to kill the goblin king. Everyone had to talk the Nanny out of killing the monster. Boom he needed to be saved by the A.I of a dead man. 73 yards he wasn't in it. Bubble they were sidelined and left the prominent threat alone. Rouge: Rouge had to sacrifice himself to save RUby. Then now ruby had to leash a Sutekh and to hope that he would bring everyone back.
That's an interesting idea. Being peaceful is a choice, it's the Doctor's 1st choice, but when pushed, there needs to be something underneath incase peace isn't the answer.
From what I can remember, the sonic screwdriver's function is as a tech omnitool, able to operate pretty much any technology. Now it's just a straight up magic wand.
This Doctor is weak and that is unforgivable. I don't care about his race or sexuality, but the fact he is just weak (and not always the smartest person in the room) is unforgivable.
I mean the Doctor not being the smartest person in the room has happened before. In the Classic series it would often be implied that other time lords were smarter for instance, and even that the Doctor was at best average for a time lord. In the new series River would sometimes seem smarter, and Donna was definitely smarter when she became part time lord.
@@erg1947 yeah, but he still.felt smarter than the average human. Because he's not human. He's a Time Lord. This Doctor doesn't give me that vibe, the "I'm something beyond human" vibe. He feels very human and that, in my eyes, is not a good thing. Maybe it's just me.
@@JKPippa funny enough feeling too human used to be probably the biggest complaint of Tennant's Doctor, now he's probably the most popular. I think it's just RTD's style of writing the Doctor.
@@erg1947the real problem isn't that he's too human and not the smartest person in the room at all times it's that he's often just straight up dumb and extremely incompetent in pretty much every episode. Half the time someone else has to save the day while he's too busy fumbling and crying to be of much help.
05:45 this death scene is what a child would write: "and then the scary monster blows DUST OF DEATH(TM) at the cool robot and kills him and then the head falls of the robot because he's dead and then...."
The 4th Doctor was once held captive by Davros, creator of the Daleks, in basically an electric chair, being tortured, and not once did I think that he still wasn't in control of the situation. I loved the 4th because of how alien he seemed at times. A lot of times it felt like you believed that he was going to do the right thing, but at the same time, you never really knew what was going on inside his head.
@@LordAntisonic The fact that he eschewed the usual three season tenure and went the distance with, I believe, seven, helps with the memories. I'm glad he did.
@@Alteori. Try watching some of the old ones. I grew up on 3 & 4. Tom Backers Doctor (4) had a companion I think you might like. I believe her name was Tela. She was a barbarian in the best of ways, constantly keeping the Doc on his toes cause she always was trying to end people. Great stuff.
@@joshuacr Actually, that would explain every bad choice this season. This just all feels like bad fanfiction RTD was making while Moffat and Chibnall were in the driver's seat.
But what's amazing, is that tenant did get shot back in time!!! But he was still smart enough to interact with the future in a way to fix it! I wouldn't care if this idiot got shot back in time. As long as he used his brain to fix it. Like the other doctors would have! He literally had to get help setting up pieces in the right spots. So they'd be in the right place at the right time for Sally. This "doctor" could never.
I watched both of Alteori’s finale videos. I’ve honestly never watched anything close to a 2 hour video before. Was curious to how the series I used to enjoy finally turned to, well, a lot of crying for that one dude. Ruby should have been the Doctor. Then she could’ve dumped this person off. Thank you for making it amusing!
43:30 I have long suspected the same, especially after I saw that photo of them with RTD holding him in his arms. What I find unacceptable is how old men are criticized for treating your actresses like this when they give them the roles. Meanwhile, here is an old, well known director who is gay, very publicly showing interest to a younger actor he gave a role in his show. There are no standards, or rather they are applied on top of the caste Hollywood has. This depraved place wants to be a church that oversees morality of this country. It would be laughable if so many people did not accept their authority and guidance.
Also, doesn't RTD have a husband or bf? We don't know for certain but unless they are super friendly with each other, I suspect. Bc putting him in a role like this seemed so forced. He doesn't have the acting skills for it. Even Jodi was a better actor. Now Gatwa does crying and drama well, but it's heavily misplaced for DW
@@Alteori Even if RTD has a partner already, it's extremely common for gay men to go outside of that partnership. A lot of them aren't monogamous and it's not necessarily considered cheating for them.
Issues with Sutekh clinging onto the TARDIS and corrupting it: 1. The exterior has been shrunk a few times before; did that also happen to him? 2. When the TARDIS was transferred into a human body, why didn't she tell the Doctor about Sutekh? 3. Journey's End had the TARDIS dunked into an energy core and almost destroyed; what was Sutekh's plan to escape? 4. The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang had the TARDIS blow up at every point in space and time, so what was Sutekh doing? 5. The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar had the TARDIS atomically disperse its exterior, so what was Sutekh holding onto during that time? 6. During the Time War, the Time Lords would've wanted to ensure the Daleks didn't sneak anything in, so it's likely they would've run extensive scans on anything that traversed the battlefield or entered Gallifrey; because of this, the Time Lords would've _absolutely_ detected Sutekh, so why didn't they? 7. If Sutekh had been placing Susans everywhere the TARDIS landed, then why hasn't she been seen before Series 14?
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω yes so at that point as a writer you should state she has been created throughout all of time ever since the POM story lol, it loses people
Even more basic question; in 11's first season the TARDIS lands between two shipping containers in the Olympics episode. There's a cute moment where it's revealed that the door is facing into one of the containers, 11 comes out, the container is about 20mm from the tardis door, he goes "oh.", goes back in, and the tardis rotates 90 degrees so he and Rose can exit. Sutekh should have clipped into the shipping container and died.
@@alienairplanes Omg alterori didn’t actually die!!! She replied back meaning she’s not dead 😵 😱 can you believe because I actually believe she died watching this show!!!! It’s called sarcasm as well just joking around like dude get a hint not everything everybody says is literally real it just a form of expression, you should touch some grass
@@alienairplanes mhmmmmmm I think we might of have a culture clash or whatever they called it, but it’s fine, sorry as well, just.. it’s hard to know when people are being serious or are being a dick, you know ? It’s like you can’t even be able to tell how there saying it like when it’s in real life conversation you can at least tell by there tone of voice or gestures of how they say thing but when it comes to text it harder since you can’t tell if there being serious or sarcastic or they have a different way of saying things that meaning different things
Quick reminder that Capaldi gave a _10-minute long speech_ to a _radicalised terrorist_ in an effort to talk them down, _and was successful!_ He spent those 10 minutes trying every tactic he could think of, from appealing to emotion, to using his vast experience to put things into perspective, to shaming and belittling them, to dismantling their plans and arguements, and eventually offered forgiveness. We could _feel_ how emotionally invested the Doctor was with the way he was practically _begging_ them to choose peace, and we understood that not through background music or being told, but because of the quality of the dialogue and Capaldi's sheer acting ability.
Capaldi's doctor took 10 minutes to talk down an alien terrorist from starting a war on a global scale but Gatwa's doctor would've taken only a minute because he'd start crying and yelling like a little bitch that even the alien terrorist would find it so pathetic that it would make them feel bad.
@@justinhammer3196 I think you're thinking of Eccleston. Either that or he's been told the same thing multiple times, but he was the first to my knowledge
Currently the Entertainment Industry as a whole seems to hate anything that has to do with Continuity, Lore and the Canon of franchises. It is so bad that they completely contradict the stuff they established in episodes that came right before it.
I’m old enough to remember Pyramids of Mars. RTD took that genuinely brilliant villain and reduced it to dragging a doggo behind the TARDIS. I honestly believe RTD saw Chibnall’s work and said’ “Hold on. Nobody gets to destroy this show but me!” Disney were robbed.
So touching the grass is amazing, I have gotten into what is called grounding, it frees me of chronic pain and makes me sleep better. Thank Ncuiti Gatwa for your suggestion.
It's been raining a lot where I live...So me and the kitties have been watching the grass. There sure are a LOT of bunnies around this year! I genuinely think there's a burrow or something under one of the apartment complex's bushes... And there's a deer around here that apparently gives zero F's, not caring about people and wandering around to eat the bushes in the middle of the day. He's learned well from the traffic-stopping geese. XD Also, apparently there's a flock of birds that like to chill in the tree directly beside my window. No nest, no berries... They just sit there and taunt the cats every so often. It's kinda hilarious. X)
@@braindecay9477at this point I am trying everything, I am on four different pharmaceuticals for high blood pressure, cholesterol...as well as walking my 10K a day and diet and fasting
@@braindecay9477with everything happening to me, (and TH-cam still censoring my comments!) I am willing to try everything, I am already on 4 different pharmaceuticals
I'm so glad they had all this supernatural build up to the fact that Ruby was an ordinary girl, and her mom is just an ordinary nurse that almost killed her daughter. I mean could you imagine if she was the tricksters daughter. The daughter of "the god of traps", who manipulates people into making a different choices that results in a alternate timeline where it could feed off of the resulting chaos. Who just so happens to be mad at Sutekh for killing all life in the universe. Because there is no more chaos just complete never ending order. So the trickster would have beef with the god of death and orchestrated an event that could prevent Sutekh's rise to power.
LOL yeah. And at the end where she supposedly points at the sign post, and that's why Ruby is called Ruby. ... That only works, if anybody on the street was there to see her do it. And probably not even then! And she's so emotional that supposedly her mother really chose her name. If that's true, she put about as much effort in to it as the social workers or whatever. Lucky she didn't leave her on Great Portland Street or something. LOL. That whole Ruby and her Mother arc was a complete waste of everybody's time, and they tried their best to make it mean something. It meant absolutely nothing. LOL
@@PeterCamberwick Isn't it lucky that the people who found her called her Ruby. Imagine finding out years later that the girl she abandoned as a baby was named Eve. Instead of the random street sign, she pointed at in the middle of the night.
Two things I thought of that would’ve made this episode a bit more interesting: - Rose should’ve become one of Sutekh’s servants - In the S4 finale Journey’s End, when she is saying goodbye to the Doctor, Sarah Jane told the Doctor that “you’ve got the biggest family in the universe”; this episode says Sutekh latched onto the TARDIS since Pyramid of Mars so he probably would’ve been around to hear that, so…when the Doctor asks Sutekh why he hadn’t killed him, Sutekh should’ve responded thusly: *“That would be too easy; I want to keep you alive so you can know how it feels to be so alone, flying through time like I was; you have the biggest family in the universe, right? I want you to live so that you can feel that family vanish”* or something like that, definitely would be a bit more professionally written than that XD
Another way to improve this episode or finale. Is to just not tie it into Ruby's backstory. The idea that the doctor had an enemy that has been watching him for thousands of years, waiting to strike. Would be a great idea for an episode on its own. Have Sutekh be on par with the doctor in terms of strategy. Have Sutekh know the doctor so well that he could predict his actions.
New doctor who logic. If you stab a man to death and then shoot him your actually brining him back to life. death x death = life. It should be impossible to misplace your keys. because as long as you remember a place that you lost them. Then it should be there. Time is memory.
Nah you gotta shoot the knife so you kill the thing that killed him. If the knife is dead then logically the man it killed must be alive. But yeah it doesn't matter where you place your keys just remember them in any place you want and it'll be there. Easiest way is to throw stuff in the trash when you don't need it and remember it in a drawer or under your pillow when you need it you just gotta unlearn object permanence.
@@Alteori No YOU should sell those, and give it a blushing face or something... you know because your mind is so far down the gutter it's on a first-name basis with Pennywise 🤣
The actors playing the previous Doctors could be silly and whimsical but there was always that spine of steel when needed. They could turn deathly serious in a second and you knew they meant business.
The Doctor is meant to have a willingness to fight- a never-say-die attitude; he's meant to have a fierceness & will to win- that has intimidated some of the greatest foes of the universe... What the Holy Hand Grenade is wrong with the writing of this show, that *_the finale_* just *can't* pull out _a particle_ of Eccleston, Capaldi, Tennant, or Smith's capacity...?! If I put aside all previous precedent for Dr Who- & just come into it blind -- Cast a gay actor - cast a black actor - cast a woman - hell, cast a gay, black woman if that's your bag- but for the love of all that matters: CAST AN ACTOR THAT CAN DO THE F^CKING JOB - this guy is clearly meant for nothing more taxing than contemporary drama...
"Time is memory." Well If only we could just remember better Doctor Who episodes and time travel back to before this shitshow and fix our broken timeline. 😭
The fact that Kate Lethbridge Stewart went out by sand instead of the Cybermen is so weak. I'm just expecting Anakin to pop in and say, "It's coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere."
"Do you ever dream of being an ambulance" my god lol, also new plothole, why was susan twist an ambulance in boom when shes meant to be a humanoid that acts as his minions. I'm pretty sure at this stage he hadnt written what she was yet lol
David tenants doctor didn’t just deal with stuff better, he expressed emotion a lot better too. The end of time, he defeats rassilon and the master and he thought he avoided regeneration, only to hear Wilfred stuck in the radiation chamber and realising the only way to save Wilfred was to kill himself. You see the doctor lose his cool for a second, get frustrated and vent. You actually see him cry a little bit, but it felt raw and it was genuine because tenant had presence and it genuinely felt we’d been on an journey with that doctor, especially after the waters of mars episode. Instead we just have a petulant child screaming out of the doors of the tardis into space who apparently enjoys bullying babies in his spare time. Absolutely pathetic.
@@Alteorivulnerability is the perfect word to describe it. Tenants doctor has been vulnerable several times in his run with the end of time probably being the most severe because he knows there’s no other way out. Come to think of it, the tenth doctor stuck in a tiny cage on the valiant had more presence than most of gatwas scenes. Just let that sink in….
"Most dangerous prime minister in history?" Wait what? Wouldn't that be John Saxon, you know - "The Master" when he was about to NUKE everything in the universe.
That is a good fair point. Though didn't they reset the time at the end of that 3-parter as I recall so none of those atrocities never really happened, so did Harold Saxxon do much in our timeline?
Something I find very disgusting that is never really brought up when discussing this show or this finale specifically. Is how the solution to beating the villain is quite literally rewriting history with your own beliefs. The whole idea of what you remember and what you think supersedes actually recorded history. So stuff like we were having before with people going Cleopatra is black and running with that as if it's fact despite having historical documents and stuff like that that suggest otherwise. It is quite literally saying what you believe in what you remember is more important than actual history and reality
The Ruby's mother thing. The Doctor says, "She's important, because we think she's important.". ... This is grade 1 BS, and the same stupid circular logic that seems to have become the norm these days. Literally no one except Ruby and the Doctor thought she was important ... oh and apparently Sutec, although that turned out to be complete garbage. Ruby outright asked the question that we were all thinking, and the Doctor's explanation was pure balls. RTD literally put the stupid non plot line in his characters own mouths and expected us not to notice! GEEEEEEEEEES!
You know where they did this plot before? The Last of the Time Lords.( S3 E 13) The Master, in Saxon guise, amassed his paradoxical former human now spheres from the future army using the paradox machine and captures the Doctor making them helpless and ages them about 900 years. The only way the Doctor is made powerful enough to resist is by having people talk about him for an entire year and I'll say his name at the same time in one moment. Someone who wasn't powerful became powerful because everyone knows them. In other words, "Ruby Tuesday" ripped off this crap!
Is not grade 1 BS, is even worse, is gaslighting and acting like the audience are literal idiots The show itself made the mother a mystery, they made her all this enigma about hiding her face, how even this advance magic virtual time camera couldn't show her, how gods were scared and confused about her, wearing a black coat like she was Death and DRAMATIC POINTING! ...and "lol she was just normal human naming her child by pointing at a sign with nobody around because...risons" This isn't even "bad writing", this is straight up click bait as a plot Pretty sure they admitted they wrote it up to "one up" internet theories which makes it even worse
Remember when the Doctor would pretend to be a weak/ crazy/dumb guy to throw off his enemies as he was basically planning ahead in secret something to defeat the monster of the week, even hiding his plans from his own companions? Good times. Now the Doctor is basically the fake incompetent persona he used to play around bigger threats played straight this time.
@@SammEater I remember Troughton’s Doctor doing that often. In The Wheel in Space he makes himself appear defenceless to lure a couple of Cybermen into an electrical forcefield. I miss when The Doctor was actually cunning.
@@labratt3742 Yeah Troughton's Doctor was pretty much like that. Almost every enemy of his would underestimate him due to how he presented himself, a smart move because he would always use that as an exploit to be ahead. Gatwa's "Doctor" wishes he could do that.
You just reminded me of how much I LOVED Dr. Who with Tennant and Smith.... even Capaldi, his "The man that stops the monsters" scene, his "Who frowned me this face" scene, and his "Zygon Inversion" speech where he's so incredibly sad but he channels it into pure fury and righteousness.
Tbh that's a pretty RTD thing to do. He pretty much always has his companions be normal people, the exception being Jack who was introduced and first written by Moffat and wasn't a long term companion.
The only reason I cared who her mother was was because she had super powers. She was more powerful than a timelord and a god. She could adjust time and mess up time mirrors, she had the power to alter the universe. The moment she was some random person of no importance. I don't even know why we had to meet her 🤣
Ditto. “Your mother is completely ordinary.” What? No. Snow. Time window. Why can’t we see her face? Why can’t Sutekh see her- ordinary? WTF? Done. So very done with this.
Doctors 10 through 12 were the peek of the series, they were fun, goofy, and absolutely terrifying when the sirltuation called for it. That's what true strength is
The ironic part about Mel constantly leading the Dr around by the hand is that back in 'old who' she would freeze up in fear like the Dr is now. People hated it so much back then that they decided to make her basically fearless whenever she was brought back. So they have literally reversed the roles here. 😂
Fun fact, if the sun suddenly went dark, it would take us 8ish minutes to find out. Expand that out to stars that are many light years away, and well, the starlight will be around for a LONG time.
That was "normal clever" in classic Doctor Who) And specifically in Pyramids of Mars Doctor even used to his advantage the fact that it takes radio waves 2 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars, like in your example with sunlight. But nowadays I guess it's in "too clever to understand" category. That's why now gloves and ropes are the only intelligent things in this show))
If the rest of the universe ceased to exist, the light from the closest star would still keep shining for about five years. The furthest ones would still appear to be burning for billions.
That's what I thought of, but given everything else in this two-parter, I'm not sure the writing team was smart or invested enough to consider that detail on purpose.
41:03 I would have written the god of death would have answered him "why would I kill someone that's already dead". And when the doctor replies "what do you mean". The god of death would have answered "this itself is your form of death, a prison you can never escape from to outlive everyone's love, to outlive every companion will ever choose to join you. Forever drown in the sadness a pure sadness knowing each and every memory you create is nothing more than bitter heartbreak knowing that no matter what you do you will always have time while everyone else embraces me at the end. My gift to you is eternal life that himself is eternal death to you never truly ending the pain you have accumulated over the millennia you have existed in this speck of time."
Like compare this to Eccleston’s finale. Same showrunner, only a couple more episodes to get to know him, and he showed us one of the most interesting portrayals of the doctor in that finale. He sent Rose away, sacrificed himself for her, was willing to die instead of harm humanity. THAT is who the doctor is
I’ve spent this whole season rolling my eyes and sighing hugely but you know what I’ll watch every painful episode of next season if you review them after. Comedy gold! 😂
The brutal comparison between 10, 11 and 15😂😂 What also pisses me off here is that 15 doesnt get angry when Mel dies. He's just sad. Just sad and crying. 9, 10, 11 and 12 would rip whatever killed their companion or earth apart. 15 just...cries
They retconned the hell out of Sutekh as well as how the Doctor beat him last time. Suketh was on Mars and whilst he was travelling from Mars to Earth Tom Baker's Doctor trapped it in his transportation tunnel thing, by making it so that Sutekh spent so long travelling between the planets that he would die of old age, no use of the time vortex at all. On top of this in 1911, Sutekh could kill you buy just looking at you,
The only good thing that came from this episode was all the memes with Sutekh where The TARDIS smashes into walls, explodes, shrinks, sinking into lava, 3 of them at the 50th anniversary, etc. All we can do is just laugh and mock at the terrible writing. I may watch the next Christmas special as that will be Moffat's last Doctor Who script (he says) but thank you Alteori for suffering this season for us. I've only watched Boom and just watched your commentary for the other episodes.
The Sonic screwdriver is such an OP item it is stupidly underutilized in this Dr. Who. The Sonic Screwdriver can do so many things even messing up with people like hastening their aging, one of the antagonists used the Sonic Screwdriver on Dr. Who to jump him so many years forward that his body morphed into some weird living mummified monkey. Iirc I think the Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver to tend a wound one time but I may be thinking of something else. Sutehk sounds like a cartoon villain, poor choice in VA. Also Alteori, go get yourself a pizza, you deserve it after taking so much psychic damage from this horrible show.
Technically, we've only seen the Master showcase that aging ability as far as I know. The doctor's screwdriver might not be able to do that, since it's not really supposed to cause harm I do agree that they seem to underutilize it in this series though It's as if they realized how op the screwdriver is, and to compensate they decided... Let's just forget about it for this scene
how is she remembering WHEN SHE WAS AT THE CHURCH 50 meters away wrapped in a cloth. also this ending means that the time lord dose not matter since everyone has the power to power everything and why did the music demon then tell us that Ruby has the power of the Eldest one? sounds like they did not bother reading their own script
Is it me or is it weird that In the acolyte we could've seen a fight with a Jedi master Wookie. Yet we cut to the Wookie just dead. Then Sutekh killed the cybermen and the Daleks the two most formidable armies in doctor who off screen. Like they have a bigger budged yet can they at least show us something impressive? Or did they waste all that money on the doctor's artificial tears?
Bigger budget but they used a lot more CGI this series. Boom apparently ended up taking up more budget than it was supposed to because the background was all CGI.
@@chrimsonphantom probably but that'd also limit what they can do with the background. It's supposed to be a war zone, not a quarry in Wales which would be where they'd usually film a scene like that.
...The mystery mom should have been Ruby herself. This just came to me from the quote about Susan not knowing if she's some sleeper agent like a Phoenix from the pre-finale episode. One thing to note with this idea, Ruby's adopted mom should be in this final living group. So basically in this episode, the doctor and Ruby try to find some Magic Life Embodying McGuffin, they are chased by Sutekh's minions, they escape, they find the needed McGuffin, they break it, and the only way to fix it is for someone to sacrifice their life, the Blonde Older Woman (I don't remember her name) gets turned to Sutekh's agent when one of the minions touched her while they were running away, and rather than kill her, made her a sleeper agent. Anyways, the adoption mom is left, she sacrifices her life, Ruby get the power of the life thing, kills Sutekh and realizes she created herself and places her baby her at the church, crying because she knows with this act she ensured her mother's death, but needed to do this to save the universe. She is now a god representing every life birthed or something. There. I ripped off the Bad Wolf Plot and at the very least it has some more cohesion than "Mystery mom was just a normal person all along~!" BS.
...... My sister... You said battyfish... *Here now lays the body of Paul, a fellow Jamaican who died a swift death from hearing the most epic utterance ever on this channel*
With all the mystery surrounding Ruby’s mother and how powerful she is combined with RTD back in charge I half expected her to be Rose Tyler/badwolf to be the mother watching this. 😂
I don't know Dr. Who, but I DO know villains. The monolog you want Sutekh to say is something akin to "You live because you can do nothing. You and your dear humans will live, trapped in that box, stewing with your own failure. And they will die. And you, Doctor, will be alone. An eternity of solitude with nothing but your own failure; with the knowledge that you are the cause of the death of the universe. Until one day, it grows too much, and you open the door, and embrace my gift. And then, all will be death."
I imagine the response would be. "You traveled with me longer than anyone has. You've seen those around me die, my friends, loved ones, and those I've tried to save perish around me. Though in all those years have you ever seen me give up. To those that have killed my, friends, loved ones, and those that I have failed to save. I have defeated them all, and they all fear my name. As will you, I defeated you once and I'll do it again and bring LIFE back to the universe. Because if your the god of death then I am the doctor. the god of life and your worst nightmare."
One of my favorite shows has a villain say "There will be peace in the dark" to try to tempt the heroes to allow him to control all life and eliminate conflict and struggle. I think even something simple like that, but with death would be pretty interesting for Doctor Who. The villain could offer death as a form of peace from the struggle of existing throughout time with little purpose and The Doctor could ponder a bit before giving a cool speech and getting the upper hand.
And now everything in the universe has had death killed... so everything alive in now immortal? In every point in time? Doesn't that result in INFINITE PARADOXES, and the universe should just implode as tons of those paradox-eating Reapers from "Father's Day" show up everywhere? The plot holes in the episode and in the canon from this one episode are so innumerable, I suspect we'll still be finding more after the Sun has finally burned out.
if the doctor had been the doctor during boom, he would have immediately pulled out the sonic screwdriver, determined how the mine was working, spoofed some kind of signal to delay the detonation, and jumped off. then the rest of the episode wouldve been some plot to uncover why the ambulances were going crazy and fix it, maybe ending the war in the process. instead we got this guy, claiming to be the doctor, just standing on the mine crying the entire episode while everyone else had conversations with each other, and the ambulances just kept saying thoughts and prayers while moffat sat, smugly chuckling about how big and profound an anti religious message it all is.
@@Alteori Whats funny is that plot was actually sort of done already with Tom Baker, he stood on a mine, made some funny quips like the doctor does, deactivated it and then continued on with the rest of the story lol
The whole "perception filter thing" is also being contradicted in the episode "the fires of Pompeii", when Lobus Caecilius buys the TARDIS for his collection, at least in my opinion
No, Alteori, you aren't missing anything. They literally wrote this to be this stupid including the ending and the big reveals...this was on purpose...a trick, a cruel trick to shame the audience for caring and getting invested. Also I absolutely died at "Thanos would never!"
if he is shocked over everything, and cries dramatically over everything, then nothing is monumental any more. Nothing is more tragic than the last episode. This doctor is no longer reliable, stable, or a rock to rely on to solve mysteries.
When he sent him forward in time he was fully intending to kill him …this whole does not kill is new Tom baker new Sutekh was far too dangerous and had to be destroyed for the sake of all
The Doctor has killed LOTS of enemies. Hell, Peter Davison's Doctor grabbed a Cyber Laser and shot the Cyber Leader half a dozen times straight in the chest in the end of the episode "Earthshock".
Holy… people really get paid for this. Real money. Actual currency of value in the world. And they also get mad that people don’t just love it, that they’re not praised for it. The fact that there’s still 2 million people watching. 🤦🏻♂️🤮
This episode is also funny for a Pole because the creators wanted it to sound Egyptian but not appropriate, hence Sutekh. Except that in Polish Sutek(h) means nipple xD
@@clarehidalgo It's been some years since Egyptian mythology was my thing o..o It may be as you say ^^ This does not change the fact that even when pronouncing this name, Poles clearly hear "nipple" xD
I think everyone is sleeping on his Ncuti's acting. Clearly his main character trait is that he is big gay and he does a pretty accurate job of an effeminate, emasculated man.
It’s even crazier cuz in a different video another TH-camr pointed out that he BOWS DOWN to other characters when greeting them as if he’s submitting to them which is so weird cuz he does it to like multiple people
But for him that's just him being himself. Acting would be if Karl Urban or Tom Hardy being believable as such a person. Acting was Daniel Defoe being believable playing a gay guy. Cuti being, well, himself is just a self insert. If he could convice an audience when playing, say, Shaka Zulu, THAT would be acting.
I have never seen you THIS done with something. And I don't blame you. This really was an absolute, irredeemable mess. Thank you for enduring it so we don't have to. (Also, putting all that V footage in the background made it VERY hard to focus on what you were saying because he's so hot. XD)
Considering how ground breaking this Doctor was supposed to be, they have done him no favours with this opening season. As this video points out there are so many things wrong with him. When I watch Doctor Who I always had this sense that when The Doctor is in the room that he is the smartest in the room and also has the most commanding presence. I always feel like things are going to be ok eventually. I do not get that feeling with this Doctor, not one bit. This Doctor keeps on crying and has to constantly be comforted by his companion(s). It is awful.
Good points no gravitas. Dr was always with twinkle amazed at life and crazy wild look in his eye. He had a "I love it when plan comes together" look. This guy has no idea all the time.
The joy of old Sutekh's perfromance was that he was soft spoken. Eloquent. He was calm and quiet, but the most deadly of opponents. Sutekh was intimidating by doing very little, mainly through speech and ideology. Making him a big howling dog and removing the quiet subtleties that made him what he was just makes me feel like this could have been anything else and it would be better for it.
ah if you haven't been paying attention there is no subtleties in this season. I feel like that would make Sutekh actually impressive, if they went with the idea that he was an old enemy of the doctor who waited for years for the right moment to strike. Who found a way to hurt the doctor in a way not even the doctor thought possible. So now it's a game of wits between doctor and his unknowing oldest companion.
The Doctor has been able to scan a planet looking for an individual or specific signatures before. Why couldn't he scan the planet using Ruby's DNA to search for similar matches? If he was undoing Death, why didn't he swing by Gallifrey to resurrect his people? Why did Sutek die this time but he didn't die the first time the Doctor threw him in the vortex? Wasn't the assumption only that Ruby's mother was important BECAUSE of the snow event? Didn't that happen and then it turned into 'your mother has to be something to CAUSE THAT'
I heard somewhere that Russel T Davies wanted a Doctor more relatable to young people/gen Z, who are "more open with their emotions", but I feel like that doesn't work the way he wanted. The Doctor comes off as too weak, and certainly passive. Being emotionally open doesn't mean crying or breaking over every single bad thing that happens to you. He still has to carry authority and be ready to act when survival kicks in. Like, you'd think the Doctor is so well-travelled and used to what happens around him that it still takes him quite a push to emotionally crack. That he wouldn't let out his upset unless the situation had a lot of gravity and was dire. He could even convey emotional vulnerability without crying if needed-through his voice, facial expressions or decision-making. Have him do something rash in desperation, realise his mistake and fix it by the end of the episode. Being emotionally open about your vulnerabilities doesn't mean crying over everything. In fact, in high-stakes situations, our brains can shove our feelings to the side as a survival mechanism. That's what he'd been doing for centuries. You think if he was emotionally open, it'd make more sense for someone so used to crises to crack afterwards, when it's over and everyone's safe. To show his emotional flaws to his companion and cry in private, in a slowed down scene where they're talking in the TARDIS or the aftermath of the action. Save the feelings for important moments or when action has deescalated. Or, since he's a milennia-old alien, have him express his upset in ways or around things that are alien, so even though he's upset we can't entirely fathom it as humans. You have to use crying for deliberate reasons and relatively sparingly for it to have impact and make the upset important, otherwise you trivialise it and make it look like the character can't handle any pressure People cry for a reason-so have a specific emotional arc to centre his reactions around and keep in mind what triggers it. Is it pain over grief or loss? Guilt over not being able to save people? Having his authority challenged? Being alone? Have there be specific situations that trigger this for a reason, not just have him cry willy-nilly. And there's an innate problem with trying to make the Doctor more emotionally relatable-he's a Time Lord, a several thousand-year-old alien. He's not going to be emotionally similar to human young people by nature. This is why, in previous iterations, the companions served as the emotional relatability to the audience. If you want to make the Doctor more emotionally open, you have to come at it from an alien perspective and think "Why/what would the Doctor cry about?". I think Ten's emotional upset in episodes like Midnight, or when he's seeing Donna from inside the cafe in The End of Time are more convincing, human and relatable than Fifteen's emotions coming out of nowhere at everything.
I have a love/hate for Ncuti's "I traveled to all those words...because it was fun." And proceeds to scream into the dying void of space because I can imagine any of the Doctors reacting a similar way, but Ncuti has done nothing but scream and cry throughout the season that it ruins the moment for me.
I found your channel because of this disaster of a TV show, and it's been an adventure laughing at it. Congrats on surviving and I look forward to whatever comes next!
I guess the only reason why Tennant's Doctor got to keep his own TARDIS was that they could argue that "he was off world" whenever something like that happened.
The whistle is just stupid, even classic who wasn’t that cheesy. The only whistle the doctor had was for his dog K-9. Also bid dog Sutekh was a tarded version of the original. The original Osiran was man sized. And was able to possess the doctor with no effort. This was just a weak tea attempt to recall an old enemy that, once again, failed horribly.
I wonder if this new doctor is supposed to have an entire character arch of learning to not cry, stop running, have more confidence and learn to be crafty and resourceful. Feels like a child is guiding this show along
At this point the only way to salvage the character of the Doctor is Ncuti dying and then Tenant turning up going: " Whoops seems some weird "time parasyte" (Yes he uses quotation and looks straight at the camera) latched onto me and made a fake Doctor"
"that is not ... that is not .. that is not...." ... folks, I think we just witnessed @Alteori's CPU crash before our eyes, because of this dumpster fire of a finale. :)
Funny thing that he was telling David Tennant's doctor to not be harsh on himself for not being able to save everyone and yet all he does when he can't save someone is cry and blame himself for it then do nothing about it It's so stupid it comes back around to being almost competent writing if they went that route
I just found your channel today and I’ve already binged several hours of your content. Your commentary about this abomination of a season was way more enjoyable to watch than the actual season finale. Easy sub!
Alteori, you are so funny. I do encourage you to take the opportunity to watch some of the old shows. I grew up on Doctor 3 & 4. So of course I’m partial to that time frame. Tom Backers 4th Doctor had a companion who was a barbarian, Tela I think. Best ever.
Tom Baker’s companion was Leela - she ended up leaving him to partner a Gallifreyan (male) whose group were not Time Lords. She was human from the far future whose people had been stranded on a planet and their technology devolved to hunter gatherer. Damn good actress, Louise Jameson.
The doctor explained that timelords can see how things in time 'should be' or if anything is 'odd' when they are in that time period... Also it's been hinted once or twice that the doctor just seems to 'know' things about historical events without ever needing to learn about them, due to them being 'fixed' or something...
59:48 the suns have all died, yet where is the light in UNIT coming from?! If no one is there to operate power stations and grids, where...where is that light coming from?! HAHAHA I'll shush now. This...just. This episode more than the others even, can't keep anything together longer than 73 seconds. HAHAHA
The fact that 55-year-old Capaldi was more active in one episode than Ncuti was in the whole series speaks volumes for the lack of characterisation the Fifteenth Doctor has suffered from since his inception.
Nah bro he’s gay so he’s has enough personality wat more could u want ?
What do you mean lack of characterization? His character is clearly being an early '80s gay stereotype. So stunning and brave!
(Obvious sarcasm)
Jon Pertwee had even more action. Aikido!!
How could he have characterization as The Doctor, when he isn't him, just like Whitaker wasn't him.
The thing is, it feels like he could do a good Doctor. I don't think the fact that he's gay or black should have to take away from it. The Doctor changes appearance and parts of his personality every time he regenerates, but there's always a sort of core personality you can detect in everyone up until Whitaker.
Maybe it's faux pas to use gendered terms, but I would say he was always this hugely masculine presence in the show. He's always ready to take care of everybody. He always knows what needs to be done in any situation. Sometimes he's confused, but you can always see there's something cooking in his mind, like he's just one clue away from figuring out everything. You get the feeling that he's seen it all, done it all, and is ready for anything. But now he's letting his sexual desires get in the way of his friends' safety? He's staring in horror while he gets dragged away from a scary alien? Ncuti doesn't project that masculinity that the Doctor had. It's like the writers thought they had to make him more emotional just because of the actor they chose.
With these last two iterations, there's this clear goal of emasculating the Doctor. They want him more confused, more unsure, more useless, so other characters can steal the spotlight without trying. It's just so clearly out of resonance with how he used to be written that it's jarring and unpleasant.
I touched grass so hard after this episode that I got into gardening. Did you know clovers actually make for great filler in lawns? Drought tolerant too.
Well, we found something good that came out of this episode.
Damn, congratz on getting into gardening. Based af.
Watch out for stepping on bees. Sincerely, for all concerned.
p.s. it also tends to leave bare spots when it puts out long runners.
Just wait till you grow your own fruit and vegetables all the soups and jams you could want
Dude, grow vine green beans! They're SUPER easy to grow, and meaty as heck! And you just save a couple beans from each year to grow next year; it's great!
Basil is another easy one. I grabbed a kit from the dollar store and they grew like CRAZY. I had to get them some decent-sized pots pretty quick. It made our backyard smell soooo nice!
Mammoth sunflowers are also fun if you like to look at moths: When the heads were fully grown and drooped down, moths would sleep on them overnight. At least I think they were sleeping: They would be super chill, not moving around and letting us get really close. Moths are adorable when they aren't flying around.
The only downside to mammoths is how _fragile_ they are. They grow SUPER quick, but DO NOT recover from damage. Which sucks, because it seems like everything where I live likes to eat them. XD
Sutekh the god of all gods, the god of death. The one who waits, and is feared by all the other gods. Got defeated by getting leashed and going out for a walk.
Am actually hurting at this.
It wasn't an enthusiastic walk, that's why he got stopped I guess
They were hyping Set/Sutekh up way too much. He's the god of the desert and storms not death
@@clarehidalgo They based him more on Anubis then Set for this. I feel like they overhyped and underused Sutekh. As observing the doctor for so long, I would expect him to be one step ahead of him in terms of planning. Until the doctor was able to out think him in the end.
@@chrimsonphantom still anubis isnt the god of death just funerals
the egyptian god of death is osiris
The doctor to me always embodies the quote: “You can't truly call yourself peaceful unless you're capable of great violence. If you're not capable of violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. Important difference.”
Every previous doctor had respect in the universe because everyone knew if he wanted to, he could undo worlds without a weapon. He only showed this side when his hand was forced, but the wrath of a good man was there.
Ncuti does not embody this in the slightest. He hardly has enough survival instinct to avoid getting dusted to death, he cries when things get tough, and his victory here feels undeserved. I don’t wish to insult Ncuti here, but his portrayal of the doctor feels…pathetic.
You also have the devil's run quote.
So far in this season he used plot device gloves to bring a ship down to kill the goblin king.
Everyone had to talk the Nanny out of killing the monster.
Boom he needed to be saved by the A.I of a dead man.
73 yards he wasn't in it.
Bubble they were sidelined and left the prominent threat alone.
Rouge: Rouge had to sacrifice himself to save RUby.
Then now ruby had to leash a Sutekh and to hope that he would bring everyone back.
It isn't the actor in this case. There's just only so much polishing you can give these awful scripts.
To be fair to Ncuti, whenever a show or film is this bad, it’s not just the actor who is at fault.
That's an interesting idea.
Being peaceful is a choice, it's the Doctor's 1st choice, but when pushed, there needs to be something underneath incase peace isn't the answer.
From what I can remember, the sonic screwdriver's function is as a tech omnitool, able to operate pretty much any technology. Now it's just a straight up magic wand.
" they are scientic instrument!, not water pistols" - The war doctor
And it failed as often as it worked, or at least took effort to tweak it right.
This Doctor is weak and that is unforgivable. I don't care about his race or sexuality, but the fact he is just weak (and not always the smartest person in the room) is unforgivable.
I mean the Doctor not being the smartest person in the room has happened before. In the Classic series it would often be implied that other time lords were smarter for instance, and even that the Doctor was at best average for a time lord. In the new series River would sometimes seem smarter, and Donna was definitely smarter when she became part time lord.
@@erg1947 yeah, but he still.felt smarter than the average human. Because he's not human. He's a Time Lord. This Doctor doesn't give me that vibe, the "I'm something beyond human" vibe. He feels very human and that, in my eyes, is not a good thing. Maybe it's just me.
@@JKPippa funny enough feeling too human used to be probably the biggest complaint of Tennant's Doctor, now he's probably the most popular. I think it's just RTD's style of writing the Doctor.
@@erg1947the real problem isn't that he's too human and not the smartest person in the room at all times it's that he's often just straight up dumb and extremely incompetent in pretty much every episode. Half the time someone else has to save the day while he's too busy fumbling and crying to be of much help.
We never did care about the woke message or gender or race. All we wanted were good stories but woke just had to ruin and corrupt everything.
"I'm tired of seeing his pelican mouth open all the time"
*looks back at screen, expecting sutekh*
*it's Ncuti*
oh
That pelican mouth probably opened a lot of doors for him
exactly the same thing happened to me 😂
05:45 this death scene is what a child would write: "and then the scary monster blows DUST OF DEATH(TM) at the cool robot and kills him and then the head falls of the robot because he's dead and then...."
The 4th Doctor was once held captive by Davros, creator of the Daleks, in basically an electric chair, being tortured, and not once did I think that he still wasn't in control of the situation. I loved the 4th because of how alien he seemed at times. A lot of times it felt like you believed that he was going to do the right thing, but at the same time, you never really knew what was going on inside his head.
4th doctor has some of the best episodes of the classic series. I only wish more of it(the old series) was available
@@tinyman1144 Isn't the entire Tom Baker run available on Brit Box?
@@chronicguardian9684 I've never heard of that, personally
He was the best, and the Dr I grew up with as a child.
@@LordAntisonic The fact that he eschewed the usual three season tenure and went the distance with, I believe, seven, helps with the memories. I'm glad he did.
Alteori suffered for us.
I REALLY DID!!! I spent the entire day working on this video and when I lay down to sleep, he followed me in my freaking dreams.
@@Alteori. Try watching some of the old ones. I grew up on 3 & 4. Tom Backers Doctor (4) had a companion I think you might like. I believe her name was Tela. She was a barbarian in the best of ways, constantly keeping the Doc on his toes cause she always was trying to end people. Great stuff.
@@Alteori. Thank you for your service😇
@@fredmonroe6042you mean Leela?
@@Alteori *Gives her comfort* rest now, little fox, rest now.
He has certainly mastered the stunned goldfish look...
Don't insult goldfish like that!😂🤣😂🤣
He studied under the actor of Bella from twilight (earlier movies)
Hm. Maybe Time Lords no longer have a nasal cavity to breathe thru? Would explain a lot. That and terminal eye infections
"What do you mean this isn't the audition for Live-Action Spongebob? Okay, I can work with this..."
thats not a goldfish face. its something else he had trained for years in stranger beds
Can you imagine this Doctor facing down an army of Daleks... or Weeping Angel's?
This Doctor would be dead in an instant, frozen in fear and crying, or getting shot back to the 80s, which he probably wouldn't mind.
The Weeping Angels sent him into an alternate '80s universe where he is a terrible fan fiction, and is never read again
@@joshuacr Actually, that would explain every bad choice this season. This just all feels like bad fanfiction RTD was making while Moffat and Chibnall were in the driver's seat.
He'd stand there, mouth open, waiting for the Daleks to insert their plungers into it ... enough head cinema.
And he'd outweep the Angels.
But what's amazing, is that tenant did get shot back in time!!! But he was still smart enough to interact with the future in a way to fix it!
I wouldn't care if this idiot got shot back in time. As long as he used his brain to fix it. Like the other doctors would have!
He literally had to get help setting up pieces in the right spots. So they'd be in the right place at the right time for Sally.
This "doctor" could never.
From "Doctor Who" to "Doctor WHAT?!"
Lol I think maybe it's more like Doctor Why?
Damn someone beat me to it..."Doctor WHHHHHYYYYYY?"
Doctor *How the Hell was this Greenlit!?*
To Doctor WTF?!
Doctor who even are you anymore?
Alteori wasn't the hero we deserved, but the one we needed.
Watch Mauler come out with a 6 hour Dr Who video now.
This finale was TLJ levels of bad.
@@almalone3282 Does Mauler watch Who?
@@TaoScribble He said so on real bbc
I watched both of Alteori’s finale videos. I’ve honestly never watched anything close to a 2 hour video before. Was curious to how the series I used to enjoy finally turned to, well, a lot of crying for that one dude. Ruby should have been the Doctor. Then she could’ve dumped this person off. Thank you for making it amusing!
FR...👏
43:30 I have long suspected the same, especially after I saw that photo of them with RTD holding him in his arms. What I find unacceptable is how old men are criticized for treating your actresses like this when they give them the roles. Meanwhile, here is an old, well known director who is gay, very publicly showing interest to a younger actor he gave a role in his show. There are no standards, or rather they are applied on top of the caste Hollywood has.
This depraved place wants to be a church that oversees morality of this country.
It would be laughable if so many people did not accept their authority and guidance.
Also, doesn't RTD have a husband or bf? We don't know for certain but unless they are super friendly with each other, I suspect. Bc putting him in a role like this seemed so forced. He doesn't have the acting skills for it. Even Jodi was a better actor. Now Gatwa does crying and drama well, but it's heavily misplaced for DW
@@Alteori Even if RTD has a partner already, it's extremely common for gay men to go outside of that partnership. A lot of them aren't monogamous and it's not necessarily considered cheating for them.
Issues with Sutekh clinging onto the TARDIS and corrupting it:
1. The exterior has been shrunk a few times before; did that also happen to him?
2. When the TARDIS was transferred into a human body, why didn't she tell the Doctor about Sutekh?
3. Journey's End had the TARDIS dunked into an energy core and almost destroyed; what was Sutekh's plan to escape?
4. The Pandorica Opens and The Big Bang had the TARDIS blow up at every point in space and time, so what was Sutekh doing?
5. The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar had the TARDIS atomically disperse its exterior, so what was Sutekh holding onto during that time?
6. During the Time War, the Time Lords would've wanted to ensure the Daleks didn't sneak anything in, so it's likely they would've run extensive scans on anything that traversed the battlefield or entered Gallifrey; because of this, the Time Lords would've _absolutely_ detected Sutekh, so why didn't they?
7. If Sutekh had been placing Susans everywhere the TARDIS landed, then why hasn't she been seen before Series 14?
I bet he was proper pissed when the Happiness Patrol painted him pink too.
💀🐺👿
She wasn't in the script then
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω yes so at that point as a writer you should state she has been created throughout all of time ever since the POM story lol, it loses people
You missed that Bad Wolf Rose Tyler would have felt him and then just destroyed him or sent him outside time.
Even more basic question; in 11's first season the TARDIS lands between two shipping containers in the Olympics episode. There's a cute moment where it's revealed that the door is facing into one of the containers, 11 comes out, the container is about 20mm from the tardis door, he goes "oh.", goes back in, and the tardis rotates 90 degrees so he and Rose can exit.
Sutekh should have clipped into the shipping container and died.
Dr. Who: "What am I missing?!"
Sutekh: "Testosterone!"
Daleks ghosts: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HE JUST EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR MANHOOD!
Maybe Sutekh aka Set cut off The Doctor's peepee and balls like he did to Osiris?
I imagined that in joe vevers' dalek impression 🤣
Your sacrifice will not be in vain
I hope not LOL. HOTD, atleast right now, took the edge off
She's watching TV, bro. It's really not that big of a deal.
@@alienairplanes Omg alterori didn’t actually die!!! She replied back meaning she’s not dead 😵 😱 can you believe because I actually believe she died watching this show!!!! It’s called sarcasm as well just joking around like dude get a hint not everything everybody says is literally real it just a form of expression, you should touch some grass
@@be6386 you could've just said you were joking, dude. I'm sorry I didn't fully understand it, I have that issue sometimes.
@@alienairplanes mhmmmmmm I think we might of have a culture clash or whatever they called it, but it’s fine, sorry as well, just.. it’s hard to know when people are being serious or are being a dick, you know ? It’s like you can’t even be able to tell how there saying it like when it’s in real life conversation you can at least tell by there tone of voice or gestures of how they say thing but when it comes to text it harder since you can’t tell if there being serious or sarcastic or they have a different way of saying things that meaning different things
Quick reminder that Capaldi gave a _10-minute long speech_ to a _radicalised terrorist_ in an effort to talk them down, _and was successful!_ He spent those 10 minutes trying every tactic he could think of, from appealing to emotion, to using his vast experience to put things into perspective, to shaming and belittling them, to dismantling their plans and arguements, and eventually offered forgiveness. We could _feel_ how emotionally invested the Doctor was with the way he was practically _begging_ them to choose peace, and we understood that not through background music or being told, but because of the quality of the dialogue and Capaldi's sheer acting ability.
Well Capaldi's doctor (who I loved) was also told he would make a good Dalek. And had emotion in the scene too.
Capaldi's doctor took 10 minutes to talk down an alien terrorist from starting a war on a global scale but Gatwa's doctor would've taken only a minute because he'd start crying and yelling like a little bitch that even the alien terrorist would find it so pathetic that it would make them feel bad.
@@justinhammer3196 I think you're thinking of Eccleston. Either that or he's been told the same thing multiple times, but he was the first to my knowledge
@@brandoncreek5709 ecclestone was the first in newwho
but cappaldi was too, in the episode, where they were miniaturized and entered a dalek...
Currently the Entertainment Industry as a whole seems to hate anything that has to do with Continuity, Lore and the Canon of franchises. It is so bad that they completely contradict the stuff they established in episodes that came right before it.
That sounds like The Acolyte.
"Destroy the past, kill it if you have to" -Kylo Ren
It is basically that mentality taken to its logical extreme.
I’m old enough to remember Pyramids of Mars. RTD took that genuinely brilliant villain and reduced it to dragging a doggo behind the TARDIS. I honestly believe RTD saw Chibnall’s work and said’ “Hold on. Nobody gets to destroy this show but me!”
Disney were robbed.
So touching the grass is amazing, I have gotten into what is called grounding, it frees me of chronic pain and makes me sleep better. Thank Ncuiti Gatwa for your suggestion.
It's been raining a lot where I live...So me and the kitties have been watching the grass.
There sure are a LOT of bunnies around this year! I genuinely think there's a burrow or something under one of the apartment complex's bushes... And there's a deer around here that apparently gives zero F's, not caring about people and wandering around to eat the bushes in the middle of the day. He's learned well from the traffic-stopping geese. XD
Also, apparently there's a flock of birds that like to chill in the tree directly beside my window. No nest, no berries... They just sit there and taunt the cats every so often. It's kinda hilarious. X)
@@TaoScribbleget a grounding mat and just stand on it, or just get yourself a patch of grass in a pan
I can't tell if y'all are joking or really got into weird esoteric pseudoscience 💀
@@braindecay9477at this point I am trying everything, I am on four different pharmaceuticals for high blood pressure, cholesterol...as well as walking my 10K a day and diet and fasting
@@braindecay9477with everything happening to me, (and TH-cam still censoring my comments!) I am willing to try everything, I am already on 4 different pharmaceuticals
I'm so glad they had all this supernatural build up to the fact that Ruby was an ordinary girl, and her mom is just an ordinary nurse that almost killed her daughter.
I mean could you imagine if she was the tricksters daughter. The daughter of "the god of traps", who manipulates people into making a different choices that results in a alternate timeline where it could feed off of the resulting chaos. Who just so happens to be mad at Sutekh for killing all life in the universe. Because there is no more chaos just complete never ending order. So the trickster would have beef with the god of death and orchestrated an event that could prevent Sutekh's rise to power.
LOL yeah. And at the end where she supposedly points at the sign post, and that's why Ruby is called Ruby. ... That only works, if anybody on the street was there to see her do it. And probably not even then! And she's so emotional that supposedly her mother really chose her name. If that's true, she put about as much effort in to it as the social workers or whatever. Lucky she didn't leave her on Great Portland Street or something. LOL. That whole Ruby and her Mother arc was a complete waste of everybody's time, and they tried their best to make it mean something. It meant absolutely nothing. LOL
@@PeterCamberwick Isn't it lucky that the people who found her called her Ruby. Imagine finding out years later that the girl she abandoned as a baby was named Eve. Instead of the random street sign, she pointed at in the middle of the night.
I would’ve been so mad if I was actually invested smh
@@PeterCamberwick HA it's a good thing she was born in London on Ruby Road. Imagine if she was born in LA -- The Legend of Sepulveda Saturday!!
Also why'd they choose Sutekh aka Set to be an order god when he's the Egyptian god of the deserts and storms and is pretty chaotic?
Ruby - "Does it work? will it fly?!"
Doctor - "No idea!"
Single most Doctor thing i've seen him say.
Two things I thought of that would’ve made this episode a bit more interesting:
- Rose should’ve become one of Sutekh’s servants
- In the S4 finale Journey’s End, when she is saying goodbye to the Doctor, Sarah Jane told the Doctor that “you’ve got the biggest family in the universe”; this episode says Sutekh latched onto the TARDIS since Pyramid of Mars so he probably would’ve been around to hear that, so…when the Doctor asks Sutekh why he hadn’t killed him, Sutekh should’ve responded thusly:
*“That would be too easy; I want to keep you alive so you can know how it feels to be so alone, flying through time like I was; you have the biggest family in the universe, right? I want you to live so that you can feel that family vanish”* or something like that, definitely would be a bit more professionally written than that XD
That's actually really good.
Another way to improve this episode or finale. Is to just not tie it into Ruby's backstory. The idea that the doctor had an enemy that has been watching him for thousands of years, waiting to strike. Would be a great idea for an episode on its own. Have Sutekh be on par with the doctor in terms of strategy. Have Sutekh know the doctor so well that he could predict his actions.
@@chrimsonphantom rather than randomly showing up, refuses to elaborate, and dies.
@@mickys8065 when you say it like that. It makes Sutekh sound really dumb. XD
@@chrimsonphantom I think there's a reason it makes him sound really dumb, lol
New doctor who logic. If you stab a man to death and then shoot him your actually brining him back to life. death x death = life.
It should be impossible to misplace your keys. because as long as you remember a place that you lost them. Then it should be there. Time is memory.
Nah you gotta shoot the knife so you kill the thing that killed him. If the knife is dead then logically the man it killed must be alive. But yeah it doesn't matter where you place your keys just remember them in any place you want and it'll be there. Easiest way is to throw stuff in the trash when you don't need it and remember it in a drawer or under your pillow when you need it you just gotta unlearn object permanence.
Now it all makes sense; the Doctor Who writers & showrunners studied English and Drama where Terrence Howard studied maths.
And clearly if you have memory you can time travel and affect the past… unless the plot says you can’t do that right now
“Remember it harder!” Put it on a T-shirt, Alteori!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 RTD should sell those. I would actually buy it
It needs to have your avatar somewhere on it rolling it's eyes.
Archer: "🤣Stop it, Russell! Stop with the phrasing!"
REMEMBER IT HARDER!
...
What?
I crapped my pants!
@@Alteori No YOU should sell those, and give it a blushing face or something... you know because your mind is so far down the gutter it's on a first-name basis with Pennywise 🤣
The actors playing the previous Doctors could be silly and whimsical but there was always that spine of steel when needed. They could turn deathly serious in a second and you knew they meant business.
The Doctor is meant to have a willingness to fight- a never-say-die attitude; he's meant to have a fierceness & will to win- that has intimidated some of the greatest foes of the universe...
What the Holy Hand Grenade is wrong with the writing of this show, that *_the finale_* just *can't* pull out _a particle_ of Eccleston, Capaldi, Tennant, or Smith's capacity...?!
If I put aside all previous precedent for Dr Who- & just come into it blind -- Cast a gay actor - cast a black actor - cast a woman - hell, cast a gay, black woman if that's your bag- but for the love of all that matters: CAST AN ACTOR THAT CAN DO THE F^CKING JOB - this guy is clearly meant for nothing more taxing than contemporary drama...
"Time is memory." Well If only we could just remember better Doctor Who episodes and time travel back to before this shitshow and fix our broken timeline. 😭
"There will be birds."
"Nothing we can do... except fight!"
I want a supercut of all the awful quotes from this season.
That's almost all the spoken dialogue.
The fact that Kate Lethbridge Stewart went out by sand instead of the Cybermen is so weak. I'm just expecting Anakin to pop in and say,
"It's coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere."
"Do you ever dream of being an ambulance" my god lol, also new plothole, why was susan twist an ambulance in boom when shes meant to be a humanoid that acts as his minions. I'm pretty sure at this stage he hadnt written what she was yet lol
David tenants doctor didn’t just deal with stuff better, he expressed emotion a lot better too.
The end of time, he defeats rassilon and the master and he thought he avoided regeneration, only to hear Wilfred stuck in the radiation chamber and realising the only way to save Wilfred was to kill himself.
You see the doctor lose his cool for a second, get frustrated and vent. You actually see him cry a little bit, but it felt raw and it was genuine because tenant had presence and it genuinely felt we’d been on an journey with that doctor, especially after the waters of mars episode.
Instead we just have a petulant child screaming out of the doors of the tardis into space who apparently enjoys bullying babies in his spare time.
Absolutely pathetic.
Yeah it feels like a payoff when we actually see David's doctor show raw emotion and vulnerability.
@@Alteorivulnerability is the perfect word to describe it. Tenants doctor has been vulnerable several times in his run with the end of time probably being the most severe because he knows there’s no other way out.
Come to think of it, the tenth doctor stuck in a tiny cage on the valiant had more presence than most of gatwas scenes. Just let that sink in….
"Most dangerous prime minister in history?" Wait what? Wouldn't that be John Saxon, you know - "The Master" when he was about to NUKE everything in the universe.
Yeah he seems to have forgot Harry Saxon
@@billmcdermott9647 Yeah. My bad. It's Harold not John.
@@allmightyweakling4167 John Saxon was a good actor though.
That is a good fair point. Though didn't they reset the time at the end of that 3-parter as I recall so none of those atrocities never really happened, so did Harold Saxxon do much in our timeline?
Even if they did reset the time, wouldn't the Doctor be the one who remembers that?
Something I find very disgusting that is never really brought up when discussing this show or this finale specifically. Is how the solution to beating the villain is quite literally rewriting history with your own beliefs. The whole idea of what you remember and what you think supersedes actually recorded history. So stuff like we were having before with people going Cleopatra is black and running with that as if it's fact despite having historical documents and stuff like that that suggest otherwise. It is quite literally saying what you believe in what you remember is more important than actual history and reality
The Ruby's mother thing. The Doctor says, "She's important, because we think she's important.". ... This is grade 1 BS, and the same stupid circular logic that seems to have become the norm these days. Literally no one except Ruby and the Doctor thought she was important ... oh and apparently Sutec, although that turned out to be complete garbage. Ruby outright asked the question that we were all thinking, and the Doctor's explanation was pure balls. RTD literally put the stupid non plot line in his characters own mouths and expected us not to notice! GEEEEEEEEEES!
You know where they did this plot before? The Last of the Time Lords.( S3 E 13) The Master, in Saxon guise, amassed his paradoxical former human now spheres from the future army using the paradox machine and captures the Doctor making them helpless and ages them about 900 years. The only way the Doctor is made powerful enough to resist is by having people talk about him for an entire year and I'll say his name at the same time in one moment. Someone who wasn't powerful became powerful because everyone knows them.
In other words, "Ruby Tuesday" ripped off this crap!
@@joshuacr yes but at least the previous version explained it with a 'psychic' network of satellites there was NONE of that with Ruby
@@Guardian582 agreed. This rip-off didn't even do a good story!
It didn’t work with Clara. It didn’t work now.
Is not grade 1 BS, is even worse, is gaslighting and acting like the audience are literal idiots
The show itself made the mother a mystery, they made her all this enigma about hiding her face, how even this advance magic virtual time camera couldn't show her, how gods were scared and confused about her, wearing a black coat like she was Death and DRAMATIC POINTING!
...and "lol she was just normal human naming her child by pointing at a sign with nobody around because...risons"
This isn't even "bad writing", this is straight up click bait as a plot
Pretty sure they admitted they wrote it up to "one up" internet theories which makes it even worse
The Doctor:
-“Why haven’t you killed me?”
The Dogo:
-“Because you’re not The Doctor”.
Doctor Boohoohoo. I'm not sorry for that joke.
Remember when the Doctor would pretend to be a weak/ crazy/dumb guy to throw off his enemies as he was basically planning ahead in secret something to defeat the monster of the week, even hiding his plans from his own companions?
Good times. Now the Doctor is basically the fake incompetent persona he used to play around bigger threats played straight this time.
@@SammEater I remember Troughton’s Doctor doing that often. In The Wheel in Space he makes himself appear defenceless to lure a couple of Cybermen into an electrical forcefield. I miss when The Doctor was actually cunning.
@@labratt3742 Yeah Troughton's Doctor was pretty much like that. Almost every enemy of his would underestimate him due to how he presented himself, a smart move because he would always use that as an exploit to be ahead.
Gatwa's "Doctor" wishes he could do that.
You just reminded me of how much I LOVED Dr. Who with Tennant and Smith.... even Capaldi, his "The man that stops the monsters" scene, his "Who frowned me this face" scene, and his "Zygon Inversion" speech where he's so incredibly sad but he channels it into pure fury and righteousness.
All kinds of hype and build up and pointing mysteriously for her mother to be the most ordinary person in the world... Yaaaayyyy
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the insulting way it was done too. I swear, RTD is probably laughing his ass off
RTD did say he was inspired by The Last Jedi
Tbh that's a pretty RTD thing to do. He pretty much always has his companions be normal people, the exception being Jack who was introduced and first written by Moffat and wasn't a long term companion.
@alteori
39:36 You absolutely slay me
In a hood for some reason
It's hilarious that Russel said his writing for this season was inspired by The Last Jedi.
The only reason I cared who her mother was was because she had super powers. She was more powerful than a timelord and a god. She could adjust time and mess up time mirrors, she had the power to alter the universe. The moment she was some random person of no importance. I don't even know why we had to meet her 🤣
I can't tell you how long I just sat there in front of the tele in shock. I mean... In shock 😂
Ditto. “Your mother is completely ordinary.”
What? No. Snow. Time window. Why can’t we see her face? Why can’t Sutekh see her- ordinary? WTF? Done. So very done with this.
Doctors 10 through 12 were the peek of the series, they were fun, goofy, and absolutely terrifying when the sirltuation called for it. That's what true strength is
So next season, we'll find out Ruby is a descendant of Davros.
You mean 9-12?
The ironic part about Mel constantly leading the Dr around by the hand is that back in 'old who' she would freeze up in fear like the Dr is now. People hated it so much back then that they decided to make her basically fearless whenever she was brought back. So they have literally reversed the roles here. 😂
So baffling “we know people hate this yeah?, so let’s make our main character do it!!”
Thank you for your sacrifice Alteori
Fun fact, if the sun suddenly went dark, it would take us 8ish minutes to find out. Expand that out to stars that are many light years away, and well, the starlight will be around for a LONG time.
That was "normal clever" in classic Doctor Who) And specifically in Pyramids of Mars Doctor even used to his advantage the fact that it takes radio waves 2 minutes to travel from Earth to Mars, like in your example with sunlight. But nowadays I guess it's in "too clever to understand" category. That's why now gloves and ropes are the only intelligent things in this show))
That doesn't matter for the stars that are close to the planets the episode visits, e.g. Earth and the wasteland one.
We live in a world where a lot of people think we live in a snowglobe and space is just a hoax.
If the rest of the universe ceased to exist, the light from the closest star would still keep shining for about five years.
The furthest ones would still appear to be burning for billions.
That's what I thought of, but given everything else in this two-parter, I'm not sure the writing team was smart or invested enough to consider that detail on purpose.
41:03 I would have written the god of death would have answered him "why would I kill someone that's already dead". And when the doctor replies "what do you mean". The god of death would have answered "this itself is your form of death, a prison you can never escape from to outlive everyone's love, to outlive every companion will ever choose to join you. Forever drown in the sadness a pure sadness knowing each and every memory you create is nothing more than bitter heartbreak knowing that no matter what you do you will always have time while everyone else embraces me at the end. My gift to you is eternal life that himself is eternal death to you never truly ending the pain you have accumulated over the millennia you have existed in this speck of time."
Daaaaaaamn. That's cold
@@Alteori it death and Time Lord cheat death, everytime the doctor is about to meet his end he finds a way out. Like having more lives 🤔
That would have been clever and we don’t do that anymore
That TARDIS interior is an abomination...
Like compare this to Eccleston’s finale. Same showrunner, only a couple more episodes to get to know him, and he showed us one of the most interesting portrayals of the doctor in that finale. He sent Rose away, sacrificed himself for her, was willing to die instead of harm humanity. THAT is who the doctor is
"I am an extinction level event, why does the god of death not kill me?"
Sounds like an answer to your own question. Maybe you get the job done faster
I’ve spent this whole season rolling my eyes and sighing hugely but you know what I’ll watch every painful episode of next season if you review them after. Comedy gold! 😂
Dr. Nick from the Simpsons is more of a doctor than he is.
The brutal comparison between 10, 11 and 15😂😂 What also pisses me off here is that 15 doesnt get angry when Mel dies. He's just sad. Just sad and crying. 9, 10, 11 and 12 would rip whatever killed their companion or earth apart. 15 just...cries
Jesus... 2 hours? This gotta be your longest video.
Also, hi Alteori! 👋🐐
Hi! Yes the longest on this channel I think :D
They retconned the hell out of Sutekh as well as how the Doctor beat him last time. Suketh was on Mars and whilst he was travelling from Mars to Earth Tom Baker's Doctor trapped it in his transportation tunnel thing, by making it so that Sutekh spent so long travelling between the planets that he would die of old age, no use of the time vortex at all.
On top of this in 1911, Sutekh could kill you buy just looking at you,
it new who they don't care about it and he somehow had the power to break time when he couldn't
The only good thing that came from this episode was all the memes with Sutekh where The TARDIS smashes into walls, explodes, shrinks, sinking into lava, 3 of them at the 50th anniversary, etc. All we can do is just laugh and mock at the terrible writing. I may watch the next Christmas special as that will be Moffat's last Doctor Who script (he says) but thank you Alteori for suffering this season for us. I've only watched Boom and just watched your commentary for the other episodes.
The Sonic screwdriver is such an OP item it is stupidly underutilized in this Dr. Who.
The Sonic Screwdriver can do so many things even messing up with people like hastening their aging, one of the antagonists used the Sonic Screwdriver on Dr. Who to jump him so many years forward that his body morphed into some weird living mummified monkey. Iirc I think the Doctor used the Sonic Screwdriver to tend a wound one time but I may be thinking of something else.
Sutehk sounds like a cartoon villain, poor choice in VA.
Also Alteori, go get yourself a pizza, you deserve it after taking so much psychic damage from this horrible show.
Just call it a magic wand. That's what it is by now.
Technically, we've only seen the Master showcase that aging ability as far as I know. The doctor's screwdriver might not be able to do that, since it's not really supposed to cause harm
I do agree that they seem to underutilize it in this series though
It's as if they realized how op the screwdriver is, and to compensate they decided... Let's just forget about it for this scene
@antoinegrange3286 That's only because The Master incorporated the Lazarus genetic manipulator tech into his own screwdriver.
how is she remembering WHEN SHE WAS AT THE CHURCH 50 meters away wrapped in a cloth.
also this ending means that the time lord dose not matter since everyone has the power to power everything and why did the music demon then tell us that Ruby has the power of the Eldest one? sounds like they did not bother reading their own script
The buildup made me *convinced* she was Rose Tyler’s daughter, created by Rose during the time she contained the entire Time Vortex.
Is it me or is it weird that In the acolyte we could've seen a fight with a Jedi master Wookie. Yet we cut to the Wookie just dead. Then Sutekh killed the cybermen and the Daleks the two most formidable armies in doctor who off screen. Like they have a bigger budged yet can they at least show us something impressive? Or did they waste all that money on the doctor's artificial tears?
Bigger budget but they used a lot more CGI this series. Boom apparently ended up taking up more budget than it was supposed to because the background was all CGI.
@@erg1947 that's just..... so dumb.
@@chrimsonphantom to be fair they didn't expect it to be that expensive, something went wrong.
@@erg1947 for a bottle episode where they are sticking to one location. couldn't they film on set or something?
@@chrimsonphantom probably but that'd also limit what they can do with the background. It's supposed to be a war zone, not a quarry in Wales which would be where they'd usually film a scene like that.
...The mystery mom should have been Ruby herself.
This just came to me from the quote about Susan not knowing if she's some sleeper agent like a Phoenix from the pre-finale episode. One thing to note with this idea, Ruby's adopted mom should be in this final living group.
So basically in this episode, the doctor and Ruby try to find some Magic Life Embodying McGuffin, they are chased by Sutekh's minions, they escape, they find the needed McGuffin, they break it, and the only way to fix it is for someone to sacrifice their life, the Blonde Older Woman (I don't remember her name) gets turned to Sutekh's agent when one of the minions touched her while they were running away, and rather than kill her, made her a sleeper agent. Anyways, the adoption mom is left, she sacrifices her life, Ruby get the power of the life thing, kills Sutekh and realizes she created herself and places her baby her at the church, crying because she knows with this act she ensured her mother's death, but needed to do this to save the universe. She is now a god representing every life birthed or something.
There. I ripped off the Bad Wolf Plot and at the very least it has some more cohesion than "Mystery mom was just a normal person all along~!" BS.
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My sister...
You said battyfish...
*Here now lays the body of Paul, a fellow Jamaican who died a swift death from hearing the most epic utterance ever on this channel*
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I laughed so hard when she said it
"you are what you eat, and consuming this is making me stupid"
ngl that goes kinda hard.
With all the mystery surrounding Ruby’s mother and how powerful she is combined with RTD back in charge I half expected her to be Rose Tyler/badwolf to be the mother watching this. 😂
I don't know Dr. Who, but I DO know villains. The monolog you want Sutekh to say is something akin to
"You live because you can do nothing. You and your dear humans will live, trapped in that box, stewing with your own failure. And they will die. And you, Doctor, will be alone. An eternity of solitude with nothing but your own failure; with the knowledge that you are the cause of the death of the universe. Until one day, it grows too much, and you open the door, and embrace my gift. And then, all will be death."
I imagine the response would be.
"You traveled with me longer than anyone has. You've seen those around me die, my friends, loved ones, and those I've tried to save perish around me. Though in all those years have you ever seen me give up. To those that have killed my, friends, loved ones, and those that I have failed to save. I have defeated them all, and they all fear my name. As will you, I defeated you once and I'll do it again and bring LIFE back to the universe. Because if your the god of death then I am the doctor. the god of life and your worst nightmare."
One of my favorite shows has a villain say "There will be peace in the dark" to try to tempt the heroes to allow him to control all life and eliminate conflict and struggle. I think even something simple like that, but with death would be pretty interesting for Doctor Who. The villain could offer death as a form of peace from the struggle of existing throughout time with little purpose and The Doctor could ponder a bit before giving a cool speech and getting the upper hand.
And now everything in the universe has had death killed... so everything alive in now immortal? In every point in time?
Doesn't that result in INFINITE PARADOXES, and the universe should just implode as tons of those paradox-eating Reapers from "Father's Day" show up everywhere?
The plot holes in the episode and in the canon from this one episode are so innumerable, I suspect we'll still be finding more after the Sun has finally burned out.
if the doctor had been the doctor during boom, he would have immediately pulled out the sonic screwdriver, determined how the mine was working, spoofed some kind of signal to delay the detonation, and jumped off. then the rest of the episode wouldve been some plot to uncover why the ambulances were going crazy and fix it, maybe ending the war in the process.
instead we got this guy, claiming to be the doctor, just standing on the mine crying the entire episode while everyone else had conversations with each other, and the ambulances just kept saying thoughts and prayers while moffat sat, smugly chuckling about how big and profound an anti religious message it all is.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You know, when you put it like that, it really does look stupid. As a standalone movie with regular humans : PEAK. But for the doctor lol
@@Alteori Whats funny is that plot was actually sort of done already with Tom Baker, he stood on a mine, made some funny quips like the doctor does, deactivated it and then continued on with the rest of the story lol
If the touch of Sutectk can bring the dead back to life, could they bring back Star Wars?
My condolences.
The whole "perception filter thing" is also being contradicted in the episode "the fires of Pompeii", when Lobus Caecilius buys the TARDIS for his collection, at least in my opinion
No, Alteori, you aren't missing anything. They literally wrote this to be this stupid including the ending and the big reveals...this was on purpose...a trick, a cruel trick to shame the audience for caring and getting invested. Also I absolutely died at "Thanos would never!"
I just finished a session of therapy before seeing this. I now need more therapy to talk about how my favorite shows have died
"SSSSSSSSPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!" - The Tick with his new Battle Cry
And still better writing.
if he is shocked over everything, and cries dramatically over everything, then nothing is monumental any more. Nothing is more tragic than the last episode. This doctor is no longer reliable, stable, or a rock to rely on to solve mysteries.
The god of death is lesser than a living bogey
When he sent him forward in time he was fully intending to kill him …this whole does not kill is new
Tom baker new Sutekh was far too dangerous and had to be destroyed for the sake of all
The Doctor has killed LOTS of enemies. Hell, Peter Davison's Doctor grabbed a Cyber Laser and shot the Cyber Leader half a dozen times straight in the chest in the end of the episode "Earthshock".
It also didnt matter to him when he skewered the goblin king and evaporated a whole race of goblins but we will ignore that lol.
Holy… people really get paid for this. Real money. Actual currency of value in the world. And they also get mad that people don’t just love it, that they’re not praised for it.
The fact that there’s still 2 million people watching. 🤦🏻♂️🤮
Was Russell T Davies traumatized by a flamboyant narcissistic homosexual man at some point in his life? This would be payback.
Probably more it's because he's not pretty enough to not be a laughing stock if he was this flamboyant.
This episode is also funny for a Pole because the creators wanted it to sound Egyptian but not appropriate, hence Sutekh. Except that in Polish Sutek(h) means nipple xD
Sutekh is another name of the Egyptian god, Set. So it is Egyptian not just sounds Egyptian
@@clarehidalgo It's been some years since Egyptian mythology was my thing o..o It may be as you say ^^
This does not change the fact that even when pronouncing this name, Poles clearly hear "nipple" xD
5:00 I'd say Rose is using the tablet to fire the lasers, but they forgot to show that.
Yes because she cant act lol, that is exactly what she was meant to convey but failed completely at getting it across
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 She's not taking her eyes off it because handheld tablets make terrible controllers; someone hand that girl a joystick. :)
I think everyone is sleeping on his Ncuti's acting. Clearly his main character trait is that he is big gay and he does a pretty accurate job of an effeminate, emasculated man.
He is the 80s cypher of a gay, an overexcited pre-pubescent girl....
It is utterly pathetic and quite frankly profoundly offensive to gay viewers...
You forgot crying, but yes this
It’s even crazier cuz in a different video another TH-camr pointed out that he BOWS DOWN to other characters when greeting them as if he’s submitting to them which is so weird cuz he does it to like multiple people
But for him that's just him being himself. Acting would be if Karl Urban or Tom Hardy being believable as such a person. Acting was Daniel Defoe being believable playing a gay guy. Cuti being, well, himself is just a self insert. If he could convice an audience when playing, say, Shaka Zulu, THAT would be acting.
@@tenchraven very true
I have never seen you THIS done with something. And I don't blame you. This really was an absolute, irredeemable mess. Thank you for enduring it so we don't have to.
(Also, putting all that V footage in the background made it VERY hard to focus on what you were saying because he's so hot. XD)
Considering how ground breaking this Doctor was supposed to be, they have done him no favours with this opening season. As this video points out there are so many things wrong with him. When I watch Doctor Who I always had this sense that when The Doctor is in the room that he is the smartest in the room and also has the most commanding presence. I always feel like things are going to be ok eventually. I do not get that feeling with this Doctor, not one bit. This Doctor keeps on crying and has to constantly be comforted by his companion(s). It is awful.
Good points no gravitas. Dr was always with twinkle amazed at life and crazy wild look in his eye. He had a "I love it when plan comes together" look. This guy has no idea all the time.
The joy of old Sutekh's perfromance was that he was soft spoken. Eloquent. He was calm and quiet, but the most deadly of opponents.
Sutekh was intimidating by doing very little, mainly through speech and ideology. Making him a big howling dog and removing the quiet subtleties that made him what he was just makes me feel like this could have been anything else and it would be better for it.
ah if you haven't been paying attention there is no subtleties in this season. I feel like that would make Sutekh actually impressive, if they went with the idea that he was an old enemy of the doctor who waited for years for the right moment to strike. Who found a way to hurt the doctor in a way not even the doctor thought possible. So now it's a game of wits between doctor and his unknowing oldest companion.
All I'm favor of Alteori reviewing Classic Who to pallet cleanse her of this mess, say Aye!
Aye
Aye
The Doctor has been able to scan a planet looking for an individual or specific signatures before. Why couldn't he scan the planet using Ruby's DNA to search for similar matches?
If he was undoing Death, why didn't he swing by Gallifrey to resurrect his people?
Why did Sutek die this time but he didn't die the first time the Doctor threw him in the vortex?
Wasn't the assumption only that Ruby's mother was important BECAUSE of the snow event? Didn't that happen and then it turned into 'your mother has to be something to CAUSE THAT'
He is always scared isn't he...
Angel Bob would have had a field day with this Doctor.
I heard somewhere that Russel T Davies wanted a Doctor more relatable to young people/gen Z, who are "more open with their emotions", but I feel like that doesn't work the way he wanted. The Doctor comes off as too weak, and certainly passive. Being emotionally open doesn't mean crying or breaking over every single bad thing that happens to you. He still has to carry authority and be ready to act when survival kicks in. Like, you'd think the Doctor is so well-travelled and used to what happens around him that it still takes him quite a push to emotionally crack. That he wouldn't let out his upset unless the situation had a lot of gravity and was dire. He could even convey emotional vulnerability without crying if needed-through his voice, facial expressions or decision-making. Have him do something rash in desperation, realise his mistake and fix it by the end of the episode. Being emotionally open about your vulnerabilities doesn't mean crying over everything. In fact, in high-stakes situations, our brains can shove our feelings to the side as a survival mechanism. That's what he'd been doing for centuries. You think if he was emotionally open, it'd make more sense for someone so used to crises to crack afterwards, when it's over and everyone's safe. To show his emotional flaws to his companion and cry in private, in a slowed down scene where they're talking in the TARDIS or the aftermath of the action. Save the feelings for important moments or when action has deescalated. Or, since he's a milennia-old alien, have him express his upset in ways or around things that are alien, so even though he's upset we can't entirely fathom it as humans. You have to use crying for deliberate reasons and relatively sparingly for it to have impact and make the upset important, otherwise you trivialise it and make it look like the character can't handle any pressure
People cry for a reason-so have a specific emotional arc to centre his reactions around and keep in mind what triggers it. Is it pain over grief or loss? Guilt over not being able to save people? Having his authority challenged? Being alone? Have there be specific situations that trigger this for a reason, not just have him cry willy-nilly.
And there's an innate problem with trying to make the Doctor more emotionally relatable-he's a Time Lord, a several thousand-year-old alien. He's not going to be emotionally similar to human young people by nature. This is why, in previous iterations, the companions served as the emotional relatability to the audience. If you want to make the Doctor more emotionally open, you have to come at it from an alien perspective and think "Why/what would the Doctor cry about?". I think Ten's emotional upset in episodes like Midnight, or when he's seeing Donna from inside the cafe in The End of Time are more convincing, human and relatable than Fifteen's emotions coming out of nowhere at everything.
I have a love/hate for Ncuti's
"I traveled to all those words...because it was fun." And proceeds to scream into the dying void of space because I can imagine any of the Doctors reacting a similar way, but Ncuti has done nothing but scream and cry throughout the season that it ruins the moment for me.
I found your channel because of this disaster of a TV show, and it's been an adventure laughing at it. Congrats on surviving and I look forward to whatever comes next!
They did Sutekh so dirty.
Like very poor usage of Sutekh aka SET, the British still stealing from Egypt
I guess the only reason why Tennant's Doctor got to keep his own TARDIS was that they could argue that "he was off world" whenever something like that happened.
The whistle is just stupid, even classic who wasn’t that cheesy. The only whistle the doctor had was for his dog K-9. Also bid dog Sutekh was a tarded version of the original. The original Osiran was man sized. And was able to possess the doctor with no effort. This was just a weak tea attempt to recall an old enemy that, once again, failed horribly.
I wonder if this new doctor is supposed to have an entire character arch of learning to not cry, stop running, have more confidence and learn to be crafty and resourceful. Feels like a child is guiding this show along
At this point the only way to salvage the character of the Doctor is Ncuti dying and then Tenant turning up going: " Whoops seems some weird "time parasyte" (Yes he uses quotation and looks straight at the camera) latched onto me and made a fake Doctor"
"that is not ... that is not .. that is not...." ... folks, I think we just witnessed @Alteori's CPU crash before our eyes, because of this dumpster fire of a finale. :)
Funny thing that he was telling David Tennant's doctor to not be harsh on himself for not being able to save everyone and yet all he does when he can't save someone is cry and blame himself for it then do nothing about it
It's so stupid it comes back around to being almost competent writing if they went that route
Ruby thanking her mom for putting her somewhere "safe". Yeah thanks mom for not chucking me in a wood chipper.....smh.
I just found your channel today and I’ve already binged several hours of your content. Your commentary about this abomination of a season was way more enjoyable to watch than the actual season finale. Easy sub!
Alteori, you are so funny. I do encourage you to take the opportunity to watch some of the old shows. I grew up on Doctor 3 & 4. So of course I’m partial to that time frame. Tom Backers 4th Doctor had a companion who was a barbarian, Tela I think. Best ever.
Tom Baker’s companion was Leela - she ended up leaving him to partner a Gallifreyan (male) whose group were not Time Lords. She was human from the far future whose people had been stranded on a planet and their technology devolved to hunter gatherer.
Damn good actress, Louise Jameson.
The doctor explained that timelords can see how things in time 'should be' or if anything is 'odd' when they are in that time period... Also it's been hinted once or twice that the doctor just seems to 'know' things about historical events without ever needing to learn about them, due to them being 'fixed' or something...
59:48 the suns have all died, yet where is the light in UNIT coming from?! If no one is there to operate power stations and grids, where...where is that light coming from?! HAHAHA I'll shush now. This...just. This episode more than the others even, can't keep anything together longer than 73 seconds. HAHAHA