I mean one of the best episodes of the show is him talking to Clara in denial only for him to remember that he's just talking to himself because she's dead.
They could have shown more of the lectures he held while he was guarding the vault at the university in series 10. I could listen to Capaldi explaining things as the doctor for hours.
@Gravestone999 Okay, but imagine this episode would be set before it was written, say in 2005. Imagine the Doctor, in this scene, with the TARDIS sitting in 2005: If you had a time machine, you could go back to 2005 and search the world for the blue box with the 12th Doctor inside. But you wouldn't find it anywhere. Even the companions of previous Doctor's have no idea who you are talking about. The 12th Doctor, and thereby the Paradox inside the Paradox, doesn't exist. Just having some fun here :D
The doctor says he named himself that because doctors help people. But later, River tells him that they called people who help people doctors after him.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry Humans are quantum systems that use energy. These systems create work (art, politics, the world you see around you). Many believe that the world exists in a state of entropy, but human work is the product of Quantum Computers (at this point in time the Earth has 7.6 billion. Once the world realises this these quantum Computers can activate creating Equilibrium, (but not total equilibrium because we need a dash of chaos in the order.
I have noticed two things: 1) The Doctor has an amp from Magpie Electronics; I love the in-house reference, that episode was insane. 2) The other thing is that the Doctor is talking about Beethoven, in a time-traveling British phone booth, and playing it on an electric guitar. It's a multi-layered reference to Bill & Ted, and I love it.
I love that this Doctor has a bunch of books,a vinyl player and his guitar just lying around. It feels lived in, it gives him more character and make him feel more real, like you know what he's doing when he's just kicking around just by looking at his home, every other Doctor just have a barren control room.
Actually that adds on to the characters notice how the 7th doctor doctor had the TV movie card is at the end of his career when he was practically just doing nothing just sitting around waiting for a natural regeneration before he became eight one's Tardis was lived in as well because he was hiding out in it and the 12th doctors Tardis looks lived in because he spends a lot of time reflecting on who he is as a person am I a good man but other doctors have more bear in control rooms because they are constantly adventuring not sitting still enough to let their home collect knick knacks
Don't forget that the TARDIS has other rooms we never see. No reason to assume the Doctor's other incarnations didn't just keep things out of the control room. Put it this way, do you store things in your driver's seat and footwell? Or do you keep them on the passenger seats and in the boot/trunk?
There's a 'carpet-bag' that shows up in a few episodes, it's usually under the console somehow, and what's in there? I hear you ask? Well, it canonically belongs to the comic version of 'Doctor Who' who appeared in children's comics way back in the 1960s. When the TV Movie 'The Doctor' wants to remember 'Doctor Who's adventures with John and Gillian', he will get out that bag and remember. It's been seen most recently in a Doctor Who Magazine comic story. Rather wonderful if you're as old as I am, and read those comics back then.
What makes this fitting is that the 12th Doctor himself a product of a bootstrap paradox. The 11th Doctor was only able to regenerate into him because the Time Lord gave him a new cycle, and the Time Lords only survived the Time War because the 12th Doctor contributed to saving it with his previous incarnations.
What he means is in the day of the doctor capaldi was present in the trapping of galifrea the reason the crack existed was because the time lords needed confermation that they could leave the pocket dimension The time lords used the crack to reset the doctors regeneration cycle The first doctor of the regeneration cycle showed up to save galifrea As such a bootstrap paradox
@@jmurray1110 While not relevant; the doctor spent one thousand years in grief and agony for his decision to destroy gallery, he spent billions of years punching through a wall made of diamond just to get there, and we have watched literally 50 years of the doctor trying to get back home. Then, Chibnall became the show runner and managed to destroy Gallifrey in just two seasons and the doctor is no longer gallifreyan. Like, wtf.
@@PD-ws4td Not really. Classic series Doctor didn't really care about Gallifrey. The 5th Doctor was made Lord President and the first thing he did was put someone else in charge and leave. War, 9, 10, and 10-2 electric boogaloo all believe Gallifrey to be destroyed completely and time-locked so they didn't try to go back because they literally couldn't. 11 and 12 did try to go back, though. The main problem here isn't Gallifrey being destroyed again. It's the fact that after 7 seasons of being lonely, depressed, and suffering because of its absence, hating the incarnation that destroyed it to the point he even stopped calling it the Doctor, going so far as to break through the time-lock 13 times to save it, spend thousands of years on Trenzalore defending the crack that linked it to the rest of the universe, and spending 2 seasons as the 12th Doctor unable to locate it and then punching a wall for 4 billion years to get to it (admittedly, before leaving again, but his memories were all tampered with at that time). After all that, the 13th Doctor didn't even blink when Gallifrey was destroyed. She was like "oh, ok, whatever" and LEFT. That is like Luke throwing his lightsaber away. A complete utter disrespect for the character's journey for the past decade and a half.
Here's a fun idea - what if the TARDIS was the inspiration for the police boxes it's modelled on? What if the Doctor landed in a point in time before they were made, a person working for the police saw it, sketched the design, took some artistic liberty, asked if the design was already patented or what have you, and then they were commissioned later on? A perfect example of a bootstrap paradox.
This shows precisely why they can't or maybe shouldn't use such paradoxes- why would the TARDIS be blue if this were true?- there would be no reason that it should be blue rather than, say, pink. This is the biggest issue with these paradoxes (self-causing loops)- why do some loops get initiated by their future self and others don't? There would need to be a time-transcendent cause setting these paradoxes into motion.
A great example of the bootstrap paradox in action is in "the day of the doctor". The fez that 11 puts on is in the under gallery because is came through the temporal portal to the tenth doctor, the war doctor then brings it back when it goes through again and gets left behind after they get sent to the Tower of London. Elizabeth then has it collected as a dangerous artifact and put in the under gallery where it sits and waits for 11 to put it on and throw it through the portal again. So the question is... where did the fez come from?
Of all the Docs I've seen (since #3), he is the only one who could truly do this. Maybe Christopher Ecclestone? But when Peter Capaldi does it, there is no question about it being right. Perhaps because he's been a teacher for so long? I just love this!
There wasn't a SINGLE teacher of mine who made me listen to him explaining something THAT carefully and then Capaldi started explaining and I was all ears
that's because you got teachers. Capaldi isn't a teacher. he's not there to teach things. he's there to make you enjoy things. Teachers want you to learn (sorry. they want you to pass the tests) but they won't put any extra effort to make you interested on that knowledge. Then, there's people like Capaldi that don't give a rat's fart about you passing any test. they want you to feel interested in what they say. let me give an example. most teenagers wouldn't give two sh*ts about Johann Sebastian Bach and his works. that's too boring. but, get a couple modern songs and show the students that they are "similar". show them that you can find similar things between Bach and Pokemon, lord of the rings, harry potter and, why not, the twilight saga or the MCU. the students will go WTF!!? are you serious? by learning about that guy I will understand better the music of harry potter? and, by the way, it's not a joke. Bach and the opening of the original Pokemon show are related. this is why you didn't learn with those teachers but you learned from Capaldi. one wants you to pass a test, the other wants you to enjoy a good show.
@@lindildeev5721 no. people working as teachers can make things interesting. I have seen a few of them myself. but being a teacher is just their profesion not what they are. the same way that I'm working at a call center but I'm a software developer and I couldn't care less about how to do my job beyond being paid and not getting fired. will I be able to teach my successor? no. no matter how much I know about my job. I won't be able to, properly, teach it to somebody beyond "there's a pdf at the shared folder. read it. if you have doubts as your companions" it has nothing to do with being, or not being, a teacher. you need to care for things to be able to make those things interesting. and, for that, you don't need to be a teacher. you could be the guy at the counter selling hamburgers.
@@nazakatali244 "who" is not a word in this context. "Who" is the name of the doctor that the fans gave him rather than his actual mysterious Galifrain ( I can't spell the name of the doctor's home planet) name.
yes, it's all about the scene at the very end when Sally sees the Doctor running and she gives him the full transcript of the "conversation" they already had, so that he can record the video following it so that she can find the record, make a transcription, give it to him .... and so the circle goes around and around. :) and the question is who came up with the original words the Doctor was saying, because it was neither Sally and her friend, because they just wrote down what they had heard in the video, nor the Doctor, because he was just reading the transcription that was given to him ;) I hope I explained it clearly enough.
Known Side Of The Internet don't think that really is a paradox though. Missy is the future version of the Master. The Master killing Missy is him killing his future self. It would be a paradox if the Master was the future of Missy and the Master again kills her because that would cancel out his version. Does that make sense?
I love how there was a rock version of the Doctor Who theme following this intro. Peter bringing his guitar music into the show as a character trait not seen yet by the doctor was brilliant.
Yeah, i love it when they subtly change the intro. There was one where the intro ended with clara saying “I’m the Doctor” and her name and face showed up on the credits before Capaldis.
I honestly love that detail because it feels like capaldi getting to live every doctor who nerd’s dream. Also to the other person here- i rewatched heaven sent recently and I finally picked up on that and it’s such a great small detail
@@fletcheragenda6014 I was disappointed Capaldi never guested on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson after becoming The Doctor. The geeking out would have been off the charts.
I think this is probably one of, if not the best scene of Capaldi’s Doctor. It really gives the viewer a sense of every part of the character, going from mad professor to rock star whilst scarcely batting an eye and dropping casual references to experiences time travelling along the way
You wouldnt mind if you paid to listen to him, but if he was some ass talking to his mate, or on his phone, or eating really loudly, then you'd mind. You'd have him kicked out if he kept talking after you told him to keep it down.
Also, the way Doctor saved River Song, is an example of this paradox. 12th gave River the screwdriver because he know he has to give her one before she went to the library. But 10th know he has to give her a screwdriver one day because River says he gave it to her in his future. So who idea was it to give River the screwdriver that allow Doctor to save her?
+Yugi mudo Same with Lister in Red Dwarf. He is his own dad, and his girlfriend is his mum. He got her pregnant, waited until the baby was born, took the baby back in time, the baby then grew up to become him and go through it all again in an constant loop.
Same with River's name. Amy and Rory named their daughter, Melody, for their friend Mels who brought them together. But since Melody turned into Mels in her first regeneration pairing them together, repeating the cycle. My nickname for that kind of bootstrap paradox is the"Marty's name from Back to the Future paradox". Clara Oswald herself is a paradox, since she was the one who caused herself to be taken by The Doctor to create the other versions of herself, repeating the cycle.
What they yet need to upload from Series 9: - Doctor's speech to Fisher King - Doctor's anti-war speech (all 8 mins) - Basically everything from Heaven Sent
They should have done some more straight-to-camera explanations with Peter. Not even in the show, just shorts for kids. It is an educational show, after all.
Things that are outside the usual, but have been at least theorized and documented in the real world, if not also actually applied. Really stretch the horizon of the world for people.
Fun fact: The only time a swear word is ever said in the entirety of the show is in Season 9, Episode 6, "The Woman Who Lived," where after hearing what Me was going to do with the Eyes, he simply said: Oh shit. This is literally the only time that the Doctor has ever sworn in the show, and I have checked, twice! I don't know why this was the only time this happened, so I can only provide you with facts. Have a good day.
Apparently back in the William Hartnell era Doctor Who was supposed to he educational with the doctor as a support character to Barbra Wright and Ian Chesterton. Barbara handled history and Ian was focused on Science. Or so I heard.
I love how he keeps talking to the camera- to us- to discuss things and explain things, even just thinking out loud, like in this or „Listen“. He’s such a awesome guy and then the guitar. Love it.
From what they loosely imply, he talks to himself as if someone's there when he's been alone too long. Sometimes you have no idea if a century passed between episodes.
He also wrote out the first draft of Hamlet for him in one of the first examples of a subtle masturbation joke in Doctor Who. "Poor chap sprained his wrist writing sonnets"
It just occurred to me that the Doctor's chosen name (i.e., "The Doctor") is a boot strap paradox. The Doctor chose the name because it means healer or wise man, and the word gained that meaning because the Doctor travelled around all over time helping people while using that name. He got it from us, and we got it from him. Who invented the word "doctor"?
@@ninjagamer1359 No, I’m fairly certain he chose it as an alias, after learning of it from Earth. “The Doctor” isn’t his real name, it’s a name he chose at some point.
@@ahlpym Yeah, a name he chose as part of a Time Lord tradition, meaning while he was on Gallifrey, I assume when being inducted into or graduating from the Academy. He was already called the Doctor BEFORE leaving in the stolen TARDIS - ON GALLIFREY, where he was born, raised, and lived up to that point. So it wouldn’t make any sense for him to have chosen an English word for his name randomly.
Peter Capaldi felt the most Doctor-y of the Doctors. Matt Smith was the one I identified with most, but he and most of the others always kinda felt like a reaction to previous regenerations, almost like repeated midlife crises. Peter felt like a distillation of all the Doctors, both in looks and behavior. "I've been alive too long, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun and do some good."
I miss capaldi. He was the first doctor I ever watched. I was hooked right away. He has the wiseness of Hartnell and the enthusiasm of Tennant. I like to think of him as every incarnation of the doctor morphed into one. True kudos to capaldi ✌️
Which really makes sense since supposedly the "12th" Doctor was not supposed to have been able to exist. 11 was supposed to be his final form. No more regenerations. So 12 being an amalgamation of all past regenerations, a "reset", makes a lot of sense. Of course 13s recent episodes have completely destroyed the lore around Regenerations entirely. :(
The fourth wall wasn't broken in that way. The Doctor Who universe was made to be pretty much a mirror of ours, meaning google exists. The fourth wall breaking came when the from the doctor speaking to us, the viewers.
@@everettrailfan yes magpie electronics is a recurring thing in doctor who. some of the things on matt smiths 1st console had magpie electronics written on them. I believe it was a keyboard. It was in one of the confidential episodes. The designing team likes to try and get it in to as many places as they can
I've been watching Doctor Who since Tom Baker's episode "Seeds of Doom". I would run home from 4th grade, dash into the living room, and eagerly watch this cool show about a time traveler and his companion as they fought a monstrous, world-devouring plant. Tom Baker has always been my Doctor. But Peter Capaldi? Mr. Capaldi, as I near 50 years old, is my Doctor, now. What an amazing run he's had! This speech, this introduction to the Bootstrap Paradox, is just one example out of dozens of how amazing his delivery, intensity, and emotional resonance can be. What a spectacular performance! Thank you, BBC, for sharing these fantastic excerpts!
Something that I feel sets Capaldi apart from others, is that you can really feel the many lifetimes he has carried with him. You can hear the personas of every other Doctor, yet it's still always Capaldi's own persona. It's weird but lovely.
I feel perhaps in years to come Peter Capaldi will be remembered fondly as one of the best doctors ever in the myriad history of Doctor Who he's perhaps not my personal favorite but he's one of us. He was a fan of Doctor Who growing up and when he had his chance he blew out all the doors, pulled all the stops and gave us one hell of a ride. My hat's off to him I really appreciated his run as The Doctor and I wish him success in anything else he ever does. Great performance.
My personal favourite example of the bootstrap paradox is from Series 8, Episode 4 'Listen'. The Doctor gives young Danny Pink the unarmed soldier. Orson Pink, gives Clara the unarmed soldier that he has inherited from his distant relative Danny. Clara gives the unarmed soldier to a young Doctor.
@@NiallHosking Not really. Orson isn't required to be directly descended from Danny, he could be a great-nephew, or some other close relationship through a sibling and still look similar to Danny.
This still is my favorite scene. Not because the acting was better than any other scene. Not because of stunning visuap effects. Because it has such an amazing philosophical question.
"Because it has such an amazing philosophical question." If time travel doesn't/can't exist then it's a meaningless question because it supposes an impossibility. If time travel does/can exist then it's actually a question of temporal physics rather than philosophy.
THIS is one of the reasons i loved capaldi! he's a wonderful orator! i wish i could have had professors like him in college . also, i LOVED when he talked directly to US, the audience!
honnestly kinda wish they had acctually recorded him dong a few and realeased them online like they were viral videos of one of hi students recording them
You know, Back to the Future is a great example of the Bootstrap Paradox. Marty plays Johnny B. Goode in 1955 because he heard Chuck Berry play it, but inspires Chuck Berry to write Johnny B. Goode in 1955 when Chuck hears Marty play it. So who wrote Johnny B. Goode?
Paul Ngo that was the 2nd movie for one, for two their logic of a separate timeline implies that anytime anyone changes the past it forms a separate timeline. So it would apply in the Beethoven example too
Chuck hears part of the song through a fifties telephone connection, gets inspired by those bits, composes and writes the song from those bits creating the whole song. Marty goes back in time and plays the whole song which Chuck hears bits from. Closed time loop.
Actually I think you could maybe say that he would have eventually wrote that song anyways but just so happened to hear it from Marty and got the inspiration sooner.
Funnily enough, Before The Flood aired on October 10th 2015 and this link - www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=The%20Bootstrap%20Paradox - clearly shows some interest in October 2015. Doctor Who actually got people learning about The Bootstrap Paradox.
I am utterly astounded I didn't know this. I am as goddamn nerdy as it is possible to be about this show, and I learn this now? This is the perfect fact for me.
Doctor Who is a fictional series on EastEnders. EastEnders is a fictional series on Doctor Who. They crossed over once. Try wrapping your head around THAT one.
Nope, it was just a *really* bad trip had by the Seventh Doctor. In all seriousness, they explained Dimensions In Time by it just being a really weird dream that Seven had.
I think I was 5 minutes into his first episode when he became my favorite. I love all the Doctors I've known, yes, including 13. She's brilliant, IMO. But Capaldi, to quote an earlier incarnation, was fantastic.
I think the reason that people love Tennant so much is that he consistently got good episodes. Swap him with any other actor and that would be everybodys favorite. The fact that Capaldi got people to like him even with some crap material shows how good he is.
personally, I think David's Doctor has a better character arc, but Peter has better episodes. Regardless, both of them are excellent as The Doctor and I think it's because they were both already fans of Doctor Who before the role.
the majority of the classic era doctors, except for 5th were ALL mature 1st quite old, so age shouldnt matter 3rd and 4th at least could out act ANY of the modern doctors
@@julieeverett7442 The first Doctor was literally the same age as Capaldi. The only reason he looked so old was that he surved in WW2. So the people saying Capaldi was too old to play him are also saying the Original Doctor was too old as well.
Hell, I remember in a episode where he talks to himself, and at one point, it's like two Doctors because he starts doing a pitch perfect Tom Baker. I mean, it was freaky.
Tom did that occasionally. More in the sense of talking to himself for lack of someone to talk at and be amazed by his brilliance. And yes I mean at not talk to. They serve as a sounding board for him to work out his reasoning on. Best way to understand a subject is to explain it to someoneelse.
From google: The Bootstrap Paradox is a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”.
OMG, that is a paradox itself. You googled the Bootstrap paradox and then you watched a video that told you to google the Bootstrap paradox. An endless loop of googling something you already googled
+ZIMOLO WHO not sure this is the place to explain it.. that footage wasn't recorded on the server and the map is very performance heavy so the lag wasnt server issues but hardware :)
I once wrote a fan fiction during high school years ago about the First Time Lord Human, an alternate reality of Doctor Who after Matt Smiths doctors death - he never regenerated. I was inspired after playing the Doctor Who mod for New Vegas and after this episode. The Courier travels to Los Angels 1947 and meets a woman then all of a sudden after a few days time itself started to destabilize and wheeping angels started appearing everywhere and it turns out he met Elizabeth Short, the woman from the Black Delilah murders, since she was never murdered, the killing never happened the paradox started and in order to complete it he confessed to Miss Short explaining everything and she suggests the Courier kills her in the very same fashion described in the police reports. My teachers loved it as they were also fans of Doctor Who. One of the best stories ive ever writen, even though it was a fan fiction.
I love these little self-aware exposition moments. They did it too in "listen". Without that, the episode would've been a bit meh, but thanks to that, it actually became quite good...
This is my favourite two parter of all time. The head twisting timey wimey nature of Before the Flood is amazing. Not every day someone out-Moffats Steven Moffat, but Toby Whithouse managed it with this episode
One of my favourite things about Capaldi's Doctor were the little lectures that he sometimes gave to the audience at the start of an episode, it didn't happen very often but it was always a treat. Whenever an episode opened like this I always thought "Well even if the episode sucks, at least it gave us this". I doubt Whittaker will do the same but I hope she has something that I love just as much.
I’ve watched this so many times, but just now noticed the amp is made by “magpie electrical”, the shop that is being controlled by the wire. It’s appeared many times in the series, like when the monks announce themselves, but I haven’t once noticed the doctors amp until now.
I really hope he continues to break the forth wall, its something that would make an incarnation of the doctor really unique. As long as he doesnt go around spelling Francis out of dead bodies it should be good
Y'know, I really liked these segments at the beginning of Capaldi's run where he'd just talk about a concept that'd come up later in the episode, seemingly to the camera. There was just something weirdly fascinating about it. ... I mean, I don't remember if it was an actual thing... Or even if it is whether it actually continued, but I definately remember liking it at the beginning of this episode and Listen. Felt like an interesting quirk of the new regeneration and weirdly didn't seem to take me out of the show.
fun fact: did you know that when he said to google the bootstrap paradox, the number of google searches for “bootstrap paradox” and “bootstrap paradox doctor who” markedly jumped. we are nothing if not predictable.
I like to think, even if he said that it didn't happen, that the Twelfth Doctor is Beethoven. Like he went back in time to play his music and became Beethoven in the same way the Master became Rasputin.
I wish we could have at least one part of an episode with each doctor doing something similar to this. I feel like Jodie whittaker could do this with a lot of energy and excitement
Peter Capaldi could read a washing machine warranty terms & condition and he would still shake my soul to the core.
Cap also could read the phone book and I’d listen
He could read a dictionary and it would sound like a brilliant lecture
He read the Cossack's reply to the Sultan and thanks to his foul-mouthed roles he was known for before The Doctor, he got a great laugh.
@@austinmorrison6953 What's a phone book?
@@ihateunicorns867 its a book that contains household phone numbers. not used now a days since there isnt much landline phones left
It is a shame Capaldi's Doctor didn't do this more often. This is really engaging having him talk the audience.
I mean one of the best episodes of the show is him talking to Clara in denial only for him to remember that he's just talking to himself because she's dead.
This and 'Listen' are one of my favorites for this exact reason
@@alecbormia4523 oof that's right
They could have shown more of the lectures he held while he was guarding the vault at the university in series 10. I could listen to Capaldi explaining things as the doctor for hours.
We really need a spin-off where we just see him teaching, as we see him when he meets Bill.
"Google it."
I did Doctor. This was the first link.
The video tells you to go to Google. Google tells you to go to the video. Who really referenced first?
Then who's idea was it to google it?
@@brandonchan5387 The Doctor's?
Who else is here because of Dark?
@Gravestone999 Okay, but imagine this episode would be set before it was written, say in 2005. Imagine the Doctor, in this scene, with the TARDIS sitting in 2005: If you had a time machine, you could go back to 2005 and search the world for the blue box with the 12th Doctor inside. But you wouldn't find it anywhere. Even the companions of previous Doctor's have no idea who you are talking about. The 12th Doctor, and thereby the Paradox inside the Paradox, doesn't exist.
Just having some fun here :D
The doctor says he named himself that because doctors help people. But later, River tells him that they called people who help people doctors after him.
Nice one!
so the ponds name their daughter after their daughter...and the doctor named himself...after himself.
Yeah, bit of inconsistent writing on that one, rather. Let's just assume the word Doctor is Gallifreyan and he brought it to earth.
@@Ser_Salty not really inconsistent just adds to the mystery that is the doctor
it'll be the mystery that will never be answered.
rule #1 The Doctor lies.
I wanna be taught *everything* by 12
The richness in that man's voice is Morgan Freeman levels of soothing
Who doesn't?
Yesss
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry
Humans are quantum systems that use energy. These systems create work (art, politics, the world you see around you).
Many believe that the world exists in a state of entropy, but human work is the product of Quantum Computers (at this point in time the Earth has 7.6 billion.
Once the world realises this these quantum Computers can activate creating Equilibrium, (but not total equilibrium because we need a dash of chaos in the order.
"This didn't happen, by the way."
I'm not sure I believe you, Twelve. This is a suspiciously specific analogy you're detailing.
Rule one about the doctor
@@kryten1016 the doctor lies
Beethoven is probably a previous doctor
It DID happen, but then he stepped on a butterfly. Poor Pete.
They do have suspiciously similar eyebrows.
6 met him nearing his death.
I could listen to Capaldi explain things like this for hours
I could as well
Peter Capaldi had lent his voice to numerous documentaries. Trawlermen comes to mind....
100%. I could also listen to Peter playing Who music for hours
explain things? With that voice I could listen to him read nutritional information and still be enthralled.
Me too!
Love that Capaldi incorporated his masterful guitar ability into his Doctor. It fit him so well.
I'm still waiting for a The Dreamboys reunion tour because...why not? 🙂
Wait, he was playing for real? I always assumed they just had someone else dub the sound like they do in most shows and movies lol.
@@HOTD108_ Nope. Capaldi is an expert guitar player outside of being an actor. He specifically plays electric guitars.
Just like how Matt Smith found a way to show off his soccer skills in one episode.
@@Spiketrooper didn’t he have a band at one point?
I have noticed two things:
1) The Doctor has an amp from Magpie Electronics; I love the in-house reference, that episode was insane.
2) The other thing is that the Doctor is talking about Beethoven, in a time-traveling British phone booth, and playing it on an electric guitar. It's a multi-layered reference to Bill & Ted, and I love it.
I just caught the Magpie reference too. Missed it all these years.
It was probably Capaldi's personal instrument, like the guitar itself.
Damn that's clever - a really swish way around the product placement rules for the bbc, too!
Magpie Electricals also has a shop in 'The Beast Below'.
- and it's partly inspired by 'Pye', a real British manufacturer of TVs and such.
I love that this Doctor has a bunch of books,a vinyl player and his guitar just lying around. It feels lived in, it gives him more character and make him feel more real, like you know what he's doing when he's just kicking around just by looking at his home, every other Doctor just have a barren control room.
Actually that adds on to the characters notice how the 7th doctor doctor had the TV movie card is at the end of his career when he was practically just doing nothing just sitting around waiting for a natural regeneration before he became eight one's Tardis was lived in as well because he was hiding out in it and the 12th doctors Tardis looks lived in because he spends a lot of time reflecting on who he is as a person am I a good man but other doctors have more bear in control rooms because they are constantly adventuring not sitting still enough to let their home collect knick knacks
Don't forget that the TARDIS has other rooms we never see. No reason to assume the Doctor's other incarnations didn't just keep things out of the control room.
Put it this way, do you store things in your driver's seat and footwell? Or do you keep them on the passenger seats and in the boot/trunk?
There's a 'carpet-bag' that shows up in a few episodes, it's usually under the console somehow, and what's in there? I hear you ask?
Well, it canonically belongs to the comic version of 'Doctor Who' who appeared in children's comics way back in the 1960s.
When the TV Movie 'The Doctor' wants to remember 'Doctor Who's adventures with John and Gillian', he will get out that bag and remember.
It's been seen most recently in a Doctor Who Magazine comic story.
Rather wonderful if you're as old as I am, and read those comics back then.
Yeah, this is what I really dislike about the new Tardis. It looks way too clean. The gamer lights are nice, but that's it.
What makes this fitting is that the 12th Doctor himself a product of a bootstrap paradox. The 11th Doctor was only able to regenerate into him because the Time Lord gave him a new cycle, and the Time Lords only survived the Time War because the 12th Doctor contributed to saving it with his previous incarnations.
The time lords only gave him a new cycle because they saw that they needed to give him another cycle in order to save themselves
What he means is in the day of the doctor capaldi was present in the trapping of galifrea
the reason the crack existed was because the time lords needed confermation that they could leave the pocket dimension
The time lords used the crack to reset the doctors regeneration cycle
The first doctor of the regeneration cycle showed up to save galifrea
As such a bootstrap paradox
@@jmurray1110 While not relevant; the doctor spent one thousand years in grief and agony for his decision to destroy gallery, he spent billions of years punching through a wall made of diamond just to get there, and we have watched literally 50 years of the doctor trying to get back home. Then, Chibnall became the show runner and managed to destroy Gallifrey in just two seasons and the doctor is no longer gallifreyan. Like, wtf.
@@PD-ws4td Not really. Classic series Doctor didn't really care about Gallifrey. The 5th Doctor was made Lord President and the first thing he did was put someone else in charge and leave. War, 9, 10, and 10-2 electric boogaloo all believe Gallifrey to be destroyed completely and time-locked so they didn't try to go back because they literally couldn't. 11 and 12 did try to go back, though.
The main problem here isn't Gallifrey being destroyed again. It's the fact that after 7 seasons of being lonely, depressed, and suffering because of its absence, hating the incarnation that destroyed it to the point he even stopped calling it the Doctor, going so far as to break through the time-lock 13 times to save it, spend thousands of years on Trenzalore defending the crack that linked it to the rest of the universe, and spending 2 seasons as the 12th Doctor unable to locate it and then punching a wall for 4 billion years to get to it (admittedly, before leaving again, but his memories were all tampered with at that time). After all that, the 13th Doctor didn't even blink when Gallifrey was destroyed. She was like "oh, ok, whatever" and LEFT. That is like Luke throwing his lightsaber away. A complete utter disrespect for the character's journey for the past decade and a half.
@@legoworld246 I agree wholeheartedly. What I meant was that 50 years of developing lore was demolished in one single episode.
Here's a fun idea - what if the TARDIS was the inspiration for the police boxes it's modelled on? What if the Doctor landed in a point in time before they were made, a person working for the police saw it, sketched the design, took some artistic liberty, asked if the design was already patented or what have you, and then they were commissioned later on?
A perfect example of a bootstrap paradox.
Now THAT! is the best bootstrap one i've seen!! that ones perfect! like oh my god!
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Or, what if the Doctor uses John Smith because it's a common name, or is John Smith common because the Doctor used it?
This shows precisely why they can't or maybe shouldn't use such paradoxes- why would the TARDIS be blue if this were true?- there would be no reason that it should be blue rather than, say, pink. This is the biggest issue with these paradoxes (self-causing loops)- why do some loops get initiated by their future self and others don't? There would need to be a time-transcendent cause setting these paradoxes into motion.
Did the doctor choose his title because it means wise and healer or does it mean wise and healer because the doctor uses it
A great example of the bootstrap paradox in action is in "the day of the doctor". The fez that 11 puts on is in the under gallery because is came through the temporal portal to the tenth doctor, the war doctor then brings it back when it goes through again and gets left behind after they get sent to the Tower of London. Elizabeth then has it collected as a dangerous artifact and put in the under gallery where it sits and waits for 11 to put it on and throw it through the portal again. So the question is... where did the fez come from?
David McClune the one that was shot.?It would've been reset along with everything else when the tardis exploded.
Mystique the cute blue alien Skye doesn’t really matter. That specific fez, in that version of reality, where did it come from
Its of infinite age
It's like river songs sonic screwdriver it was never made it's therefore a paradox
Kerblam!
I think it's pretty cool that they broke the fourth wall for this scene, having Capaldi talk directly to the audience.
it's what he does when he travels alone for too long
@@Kissfan96drHe's not alone when we're essentially with him!
Of all the Docs I've seen (since #3), he is the only one who could truly do this. Maybe Christopher Ecclestone? But when Peter Capaldi does it, there is no question about it being right. Perhaps because he's been a teacher for so long? I just love this!
@@Kissfan96dr and he questions it one episode talking about how could we know about the best camoflage species if we cant see it?
I think 12 just likes monologues and talking to himself
There wasn't a SINGLE teacher of mine who made me listen to him explaining something THAT carefully and then Capaldi started explaining and I was all ears
that's because you got teachers. Capaldi isn't a teacher.
he's not there to teach things. he's there to make you enjoy things.
Teachers want you to learn (sorry. they want you to pass the tests) but they won't put any extra effort to make you interested on that knowledge.
Then, there's people like Capaldi that don't give a rat's fart about you passing any test. they want you to feel interested in what they say.
let me give an example. most teenagers wouldn't give two sh*ts about Johann Sebastian Bach and his works. that's too boring.
but, get a couple modern songs and show the students that they are "similar".
show them that you can find similar things between Bach and Pokemon, lord of the rings, harry potter and, why not, the twilight saga or the MCU.
the students will go WTF!!? are you serious? by learning about that guy I will understand better the music of harry potter?
and, by the way, it's not a joke. Bach and the opening of the original Pokemon show are related.
this is why you didn't learn with those teachers but you learned from Capaldi. one wants you to pass a test, the other wants you to enjoy a good show.
@@WilliamWizer Bullshit. Teachers can totally make things interesting.
@@lindildeev5721 no. people working as teachers can make things interesting.
I have seen a few of them myself.
but being a teacher is just their profesion not what they are.
the same way that I'm working at a call center but I'm a software developer and I couldn't care less about how to do my job beyond being paid and not getting fired.
will I be able to teach my successor? no. no matter how much I know about my job. I won't be able to, properly, teach it to somebody beyond "there's a pdf at the shared folder. read it. if you have doubts as your companions"
it has nothing to do with being, or not being, a teacher. you need to care for things to be able to make those things interesting.
and, for that, you don't need to be a teacher. you could be the guy at the counter selling hamburgers.
@@lindildeev5721 they can but most don't care to because their job is to get you to pass tests
The answer is in the question:
*WHO* wrote Beethoven's 5th.
Beethoven.. Duh!
@@nazakatali244 "who" is not a word in this context. "Who" is the name of the doctor that the fans gave him rather than his actual mysterious Galifrain ( I can't spell the name of the doctor's home planet) name.
GeekyTechWolf so, what you're saying is it should be called who's fifth.
@@nazakatali244 That's what "Bruceolini and his big weenie" is saying.
GeekyTechWolf he was nicknamed Theta Sigma
One of the best examples of a bootstrap paradox: Blink.
+Denni Wintyr YES!! EXACTLY!! Blink IS a great example of the Bootstrap Paradox!!
EmeraldKoala2 Please explain. You're talking about the Doctor Who episode?? The original weeping angels
yes, it's all about the scene at the very end when Sally sees the Doctor running and she gives him the full transcript of the "conversation" they already had, so that he can record the video following it so that she can find the record, make a transcription, give it to him .... and so the circle goes around and around. :) and the question is who came up with the original words the Doctor was saying, because it was neither Sally and her friend, because they just wrote down what they had heard in the video, nor the Doctor, because he was just reading the transcription that was given to him ;) I hope I explained it clearly enough.
Another example: Master kills Missy (if *they* are the same person?)
Known Side Of The Internet don't think that really is a paradox though. Missy is the future version of the Master. The Master killing Missy is him killing his future self. It would be a paradox if the Master was the future of Missy and the Master again kills her because that would cancel out his version. Does that make sense?
I love how there was a rock version of the Doctor Who theme following this intro. Peter bringing his guitar music into the show as a character trait not seen yet by the doctor was brilliant.
Yeah, i love it when they subtly change the intro. There was one where the intro ended with clara saying “I’m the Doctor” and her name and face showed up on the credits before Capaldis.
I honestly love that detail because it feels like capaldi getting to live every doctor who nerd’s dream. Also to the other person here- i rewatched heaven sent recently and I finally picked up on that and it’s such a great small detail
@@fletcheragenda6014 I was disappointed Capaldi never guested on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson after becoming The Doctor. The geeking out would have been off the charts.
@@thatHARVguy Me too! Also, I had such high hopes that Craig would cameo on Who.
Not unprecedented; Patrick Troughton had his recorder, and it made complete narrative sense for Capaldi to be a disillusioned old punk.
10th Doctor: I have 3-D glasses!
11th Doctor: I have a fez!
12th Doctor: I have an electric guitar!
11th has a bowtie
@@atharvadeshpande6907 and a fez, and a Stetson, and also a TARDIS
13th Doctor: IM JUST SHIT
13th Doctor: I have biscuits!
Lol 12 also has the sonic sunglasses!
I think this is probably one of, if not the best scene of Capaldi’s Doctor. It really gives the viewer a sense of every part of the character, going from mad professor to rock star whilst scarcely batting an eye and dropping casual references to experiences time travelling along the way
Definitely not the best. The speech in the Zygon Inversion is the best but this is top 3 no doubt
The explanation of the Christmas Truce
Peter Capaldi could talk through the cinema and you wouldn't mind.
I'd pay to hear him talk
Danny O'Gara naaa
Yes.
You wouldnt mind if you paid to listen to him, but if he was some ass talking to his mate, or on his phone, or eating really loudly, then you'd mind. You'd have him kicked out if he kept talking after you told him to keep it down.
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Also, the way Doctor saved River Song, is an example of this paradox.
12th gave River the screwdriver because he know he has to give her one before she went to the library.
But 10th know he has to give her a screwdriver one day because River says he gave it to her in his future.
So who idea was it to give River the screwdriver that allow Doctor to save her?
+Yugi mudo Spot on!
+Yugi mudo Same with Lister in Red Dwarf. He is his own dad, and his girlfriend is his mum. He got her pregnant, waited until the baby was born, took the baby back in time, the baby then grew up to become him and go through it all again in an constant loop.
Same with River's name. Amy and Rory named their daughter, Melody, for their friend Mels who brought them together. But since Melody turned into Mels in her first regeneration pairing them together, repeating the cycle. My nickname for that kind of bootstrap paradox is the"Marty's name from Back to the Future paradox". Clara Oswald herself is a paradox, since she was the one who caused herself to be taken by The Doctor to create the other versions of herself, repeating the cycle.
+Neil Mackenzie YES!! Awesome reference :D
#SmegheadsForLife
Same with the 5th, 6th and 7th season finales.
What they yet need to upload from Series 9:
- Doctor's speech to Fisher King
- Doctor's anti-war speech (all 8 mins)
- Basically everything from Heaven Sent
+Valpas Kankaristo Heaven sent was a masterpiece! Unfortunately, it was probably the only one in series 9...
What anti war speech?
You mean the the one about mercy?
+PivotSpideyP No the one at the end of The Zygon Inversion.
+Gallifroozle oh yeah. Ok, I know which one. Thanks!
And clara facing the Raven
They should have done some more straight-to-camera explanations with Peter.
Not even in the show, just shorts for kids. It is an educational show, after all.
Things that are outside the usual, but have been at least theorized and documented in the real world, if not also actually applied. Really stretch the horizon of the world for people.
What do you mean I can't break the wall, I break the fourth dimension!
Fun fact: The only time a swear word is ever said in the entirety of the show is in Season 9, Episode 6, "The Woman Who Lived," where after hearing what Me was going to do with the Eyes, he simply said: Oh shit. This is literally the only time that the Doctor has ever sworn in the show, and I have checked, twice! I don't know why this was the only time this happened, so I can only provide you with facts. Have a good day.
I think Peter is the Doctor who has broken the 4th wall most times, he has at least done it 3 times
Apparently back in the William Hartnell era Doctor Who was supposed to he educational with the doctor as a support character to Barbra Wright and Ian Chesterton. Barbara handled history and Ian was focused on Science. Or so I heard.
I love how he keeps talking to the camera- to us- to discuss things and explain things, even just thinking out loud, like in this or „Listen“. He’s such a awesome guy and then the guitar. Love it.
What if the audience is the creature from "Listen"?
From what they loosely imply, he talks to himself as if someone's there when he's been alone too long. Sometimes you have no idea if a century passed between episodes.
Again breaking the 4th wall.
maybe the Doctor met Deadpool at one point
+deadplanetdalek1963 Docpool
+themeteorgroup love the ring to that
Damn, Doctor, back it again with the fourth wall breaks
+Valpas Kankaristo No, bad!
Doctor encountered the same problem before. He told Shakespear quotes to Shakespear.
This comment is 2 years old, but seeing Shakespeare without an "e" on the end is bothering me something fierce...
He also wrote out the first draft of Hamlet for him in one of the first examples of a subtle masturbation joke in Doctor Who.
"Poor chap sprained his wrist writing sonnets"
@@Dr.Death8520 shaquezpeer
God all I can remember is the time 8 meets 8 year old Shakespeare in Time of the Daleks
@@Dr.Death8520 it might be the first time i typed the word. to be honest I dont even remember typing it
It just occurred to me that the Doctor's chosen name (i.e., "The Doctor") is a boot strap paradox. The Doctor chose the name because it means healer or wise man, and the word gained that meaning because the Doctor travelled around all over time helping people while using that name. He got it from us, and we got it from him. Who invented the word "doctor"?
He also chose the name John Smith because it was a common name, then his use of it made it a common name
In Blink, Ten had received a script for the video he made, but that script is based of the video.
Where did the original script come from?
The Gallifreyans. This isn't a paradox, it just means "Doctor" was originally a Gallifreyan word.
@@ninjagamer1359
No, I’m fairly certain he chose it as an alias, after learning of it from Earth. “The Doctor” isn’t his real name, it’s a name he chose at some point.
@@ahlpym Yeah, a name he chose as part of a Time Lord tradition, meaning while he was on Gallifrey, I assume when being inducted into or graduating from the Academy. He was already called the Doctor BEFORE leaving in the stolen TARDIS - ON GALLIFREY, where he was born, raised, and lived up to that point. So it wouldn’t make any sense for him to have chosen an English word for his name randomly.
Peter Capaldi felt the most Doctor-y of the Doctors. Matt Smith was the one I identified with most, but he and most of the others always kinda felt like a reaction to previous regenerations, almost like repeated midlife crises. Peter felt like a distillation of all the Doctors, both in looks and behavior. "I've been alive too long, but that doesn't mean I can't have fun and do some good."
I miss capaldi. He was the first doctor I ever watched. I was hooked right away. He has the wiseness of Hartnell and the enthusiasm of Tennant. I like to think of him as every incarnation of the doctor morphed into one. True kudos to capaldi ✌️
Which really makes sense since supposedly the "12th" Doctor was not supposed to have been able to exist. 11 was supposed to be his final form. No more regenerations. So 12 being an amalgamation of all past regenerations, a "reset", makes a lot of sense.
Of course 13s recent episodes have completely destroyed the lore around Regenerations entirely. :(
@@grayeaglej which is sad because it’s fucked with me ever since
"Google it"
Haha I love it when the fourth wall is broken!
+TheEmberSeeker The thing is now when someone googles it this video will show up. lol
+cerberus144 a paradox in itself
Doctor says Google it, you google it and find a video of him saying Google it. :P
The fourth wall wasn't broken in that way. The Doctor Who universe was made to be pretty much a mirror of ours, meaning google exists. The fourth wall breaking came when the from the doctor speaking to us, the viewers.
+TheEmberSeeker it wasn't the fourth wall, later on we find out he was talking to Clara just out of shot.
+The Cookie Diary oh I forgot about that. Well it did make me go and Google it so I guess it tapped on the fourth wall lol.
Anyone notice the 'Magipie Electronics' on the amp? 'The Idiots Lantern' reference!
Rhys Williams fantastic reference!
Oh wait, wrong doctor...
I was waiting for someone notice that as well
Same. True whovians we are 😍
Magpie Electronics gets referenced a lot, though.
@@everettrailfan yes magpie electronics is a recurring thing in doctor who. some of the things on matt smiths 1st console had magpie electronics written on them. I believe it was a keyboard. It was in one of the confidential episodes. The designing team likes to try and get it in to as many places as they can
I've been watching Doctor Who since Tom Baker's episode "Seeds of Doom". I would run home from 4th grade, dash into the living room, and eagerly watch this cool show about a time traveler and his companion as they fought a monstrous, world-devouring plant. Tom Baker has always been my Doctor.
But Peter Capaldi?
Mr. Capaldi, as I near 50 years old, is my Doctor, now. What an amazing run he's had! This speech, this introduction to the Bootstrap Paradox, is just one example out of dozens of how amazing his delivery, intensity, and emotional resonance can be. What a spectacular performance!
Thank you, BBC, for sharing these fantastic excerpts!
Something that I feel sets Capaldi apart from others, is that you can really feel the many lifetimes he has carried with him. You can hear the personas of every other Doctor, yet it's still always Capaldi's own persona. It's weird but lovely.
@Dreaming Warlord yes, I realise this.
I feel perhaps in years to come Peter Capaldi will be remembered fondly as one of the best doctors ever in the myriad history of Doctor Who he's perhaps not my personal favorite but he's one of us. He was a fan of Doctor Who growing up and when he had his chance he blew out all the doors, pulled all the stops and gave us one hell of a ride. My hat's off to him I really appreciated his run as The Doctor and I wish him success in anything else he ever does. Great performance.
My personal favourite example of the bootstrap paradox is from Series 8, Episode 4 'Listen'.
The Doctor gives young Danny Pink the unarmed soldier.
Orson Pink, gives Clara the unarmed soldier that he has inherited from his distant relative Danny.
Clara gives the unarmed soldier to a young Doctor.
Then weirdly broken by Danny becoming a Cyberman...
@@NiallHosking Not really. Orson isn't required to be directly descended from Danny, he could be a great-nephew, or some other close relationship through a sibling and still look similar to Danny.
@@johndoe748 Orson is confirmed to be a distant descendant of Danny's uncle, if I remember right.
I love bootstrap paradoxes. They are the best kind.
KevServo Why not? Of course they are. Bootstrap paradoxes are cool.
+Connor Macfarlane Sonic Sunglasses, not so much. I always thought the fez was the coolest of cools.
BarteNERDS Fezes, Bow-ties and paradoxes are cool... But yes a fez is easily the coolest of the cools.
Being cool is cool
I'll bet if he'd said "Sonic sunglasses are cool" the fandom would not have hated on them. Just sayin'.
This still is my favorite scene.
Not because the acting was better than any other scene. Not because of stunning visuap effects.
Because it has such an amazing philosophical question.
Joey Verhaar it really makes you think...
and you just love being lectured by Capaldi
"Because it has such an amazing philosophical question."
If time travel doesn't/can't exist then it's a meaningless question because it supposes an impossibility.
If time travel does/can exist then it's actually a question of temporal physics rather than philosophy.
I love this intro. One of the best things I have seen, explaining about the Bootstrap paradox
THIS is one of the reasons i loved capaldi! he's a wonderful orator! i wish i could have had professors like him in college . also, i LOVED when he talked directly to US, the audience!
After The Devil's Chord, we now know that at any point the Fifteenth Doctor can absolutely do another lecture like this
I’m waiting for the day that he breaks the fourth the wall and does a cold opening like this
Headcannon: This is the Doctor in the future pre-recording one of his lectures for Series 10
All his students get super confused as to where the heck he's recording this, some kind of science fiction set piece?
“The professor sure has a nice and... quite bizarre personal study. Right Bill?”
“You. Have. No Idea”
honnestly kinda wish they had acctually recorded him dong a few and realeased them online like they were viral videos of one of hi students recording them
The doctor lies!
Beethoven is very intense
12th is very intense
12th = Beethoven
*Beethoven’s 5th starts, mashed up with the VSauce music* HEY VSAUCE, THE DOCTOR HERE
you stop that
rule number one~
and they kinda have the same haircut...
That's a bit of a stretch, but ok.
You know, Back to the Future is a great example of the Bootstrap Paradox. Marty plays Johnny B. Goode in 1955 because he heard Chuck Berry play it, but inspires Chuck Berry to write Johnny B. Goode in 1955 when Chuck hears Marty play it. So who wrote Johnny B. Goode?
Jeremy Xu Seperate timeline making it not a bootstrap paradox, i think
Paul Ngo that was the 2nd movie for one, for two their logic of a separate timeline implies that anytime anyone changes the past it forms a separate timeline. So it would apply in the Beethoven example too
Plus he basically gave his name to himself, so who came up with the idea of "Martin" to begin with if he is the reason he is called like that?
Chuck hears part of the song through a fifties telephone connection, gets inspired by those bits, composes and writes the song from those bits creating the whole song. Marty goes back in time and plays the whole song which Chuck hears bits from. Closed time loop.
Actually I think you could maybe say that he would have eventually wrote that song anyways but just so happened to hear it from Marty and got the inspiration sooner.
I love Capaldi. It’s just so oddly satisfying to listen to him for hours on end explaining random stuff like this.
i really wish there were more scenes of twelve talking directly to the camera. peter does such a good monologue
and everyone was googeling "The Bootstrap Paradox" XD
Funnily enough, Before The Flood aired on October 10th 2015 and this link - www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=The%20Bootstrap%20Paradox - clearly shows some interest in October 2015. Doctor Who actually got people learning about The Bootstrap Paradox.
I Googled "Butten-Strappen Paradox" because I didn't quite hear what Capaldi called it
haha
+Jared Leto LOL YUP i bet that wikipedia page saw record numbers that night
I admite, I googled it the moment I saw this episode(A thing with Doctor Who, it makes you think outside the box :)
Nice nod that the amp is from Magpie.
nod to what? Magpie?
Magpie is used as an Easter egg in many Doctor Who episode such as in The Idiot's Lantern.
Jordan Maloney - It wasn't used as an Easter egg in The Idiot's Lantern, that was when it first appeared. It was referred to again in The Beast Below
I am utterly astounded I didn't know this. I am as goddamn nerdy as it is possible to be about this show, and I learn this now? This is the perfect fact for me.
Also referred to in the Lie of the Land i believe
Doctor Who is a fictional series on EastEnders. EastEnders is a fictional series on Doctor Who. They crossed over once.
Try wrapping your head around THAT one.
Mind. Blown.
thats deadpool type meta
There isn't even a name for something like that! 0.0
@Josh King YES! I remember that. In the Dalek episode with Seven and Ace.
Nope, it was just a *really* bad trip had by the Seventh Doctor.
In all seriousness, they explained Dimensions In Time by it just being a really weird dream that Seven had.
I think I was 5 minutes into his first episode when he became my favorite.
I love all the Doctors I've known, yes, including 13. She's brilliant, IMO. But Capaldi, to quote an earlier incarnation, was fantastic.
I think his first episode does more damage than good.
Does that make this a bootstrap paradox?
I too, could listen to Capaldi explain things like this for hours. He really was one of the best incarnations of The Doctor.
I love how the Twelfth Doctor really bought back to mind the idea of a Doctor as an academic and explorer.
This is what I loved about this Doctor. I wish we had more of him speaking to the audience.
I remeber that I took out my phone and googled it - this show comands me now...
+Grigore Alegrispa "now?" XD
If Capaldi/The Doctor tells you to do something, you do it. You're not Donna Noble
He sounds like that really fun history teacher we all have
I miss him as the Doctor . Wish he stayed longer..
I'm sorry David, but Capaldi has taken your spot as my favorite doctor.
If anything Capaldi and Tennant are tied for me. Capaldi's the better act, but I love the Tennant era a million times more than Moffat's era.
I think the reason that people love Tennant so much is that he consistently got good episodes. Swap him with any other actor and that would be everybodys favorite. The fact that Capaldi got people to like him even with some crap material shows how good he is.
@@ragerodracir yeah that is very true
Don't feel bad, Nightshade Dawn. I feel the same.
personally, I think David's Doctor has a better character arc, but Peter has better episodes. Regardless, both of them are excellent as The Doctor and I think it's because they were both already fans of Doctor Who before the role.
In short: Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
Stuff.
TheAdorkableRJ exactly.
round things.
*I L O V E T H E R O U N D T H I N G S*
Sorry, timey what?
Peter Capaldi has earned my respect throughout series 9.
I really love that 12 just broke the 4th wall with no explanation. And ofc capaldi's guitar intro is dope
...Capaldi, I miss you old friend. You are and always will be my favorite doctor.
The guitar brought to mind - Bill and Twelve's Excellent Adventure
Going to miss Peters Doctor! Many argue because he wasnt young he shouldn’t be or could never be, but he played the part magnificently
the majority of the classic era doctors, except for 5th were ALL mature 1st quite old, so age shouldnt matter 3rd and 4th at least could out act ANY of the modern doctors
@@julieeverett7442 The first Doctor was literally the same age as Capaldi. The only reason he looked so old was that he surved in WW2. So the people saying Capaldi was too old to play him are also saying the Original Doctor was too old as well.
@@loganbreau882 the first 4 doctors were in their 40's and 50's I think 1st was 57
@@julieeverett7442 actually most of the classic doctors were in their 40s and 50s except the fifth doctor
@@TheProfessor230 Im aware
Lookin' at you, Marty McFly...
"HAY MCFLOY"
- Biff/Griff/Mad Doh Tannen (1885/1955/1985/2015)
"nobody calls me chicken!"
-Marty mcfly (1985/2015)
Funny how I was just watching BTTF not that long ago.
Chilliard2000 Doc And Twelfth should have a talk.
Stephen Reed You can make that happen in a Lego game, actually.
I love how with Capaldi they added scenes of him talking to the audience and no one batted an eye.
Hell, I remember in a episode where he talks to himself, and at one point, it's like two Doctors because he starts doing a pitch perfect Tom Baker. I mean, it was freaky.
Tom did that occasionally. More in the sense of talking to himself for lack of someone to talk at and be amazed by his brilliance. And yes I mean at not talk to. They serve as a sounding board for him to work out his reasoning on. Best way to understand a subject is to explain it to someoneelse.
From google: The Bootstrap Paradox is a theoretical paradox of time travel that occurs when an object or piece of information sent back in time becomes trapped within an infinite cause-effect loop in which the item no longer has a discernible point of origin, and is said to be “uncaused” or “self-created”.
Sooo... I googled Bootstrap Paradox and I ended up here.
But who put those words and syllables together? Who really first googled ... the bootstrap paradox? CHUNG CHUNG CHUNG CHUNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG
@@Yerflua You funny. Lol!😀
OMG, that is a paradox itself. You googled the Bootstrap paradox and then you watched a video that told you to google the Bootstrap paradox. An endless loop of googling something you already googled
@@afunnymonkey4948 Tell me about it. I've been googling bootstrap paradox for the past year... over and over... I can't stop!
@@StarwasterPrime oh no, we have lost another one. Hold on my dude, I will send the help team.
Peter Capaldi doesn't get enough love as the Doctor
That Tardis looks very realistic
+Septex Hi Septex! :D
+Septex hey your new (work in progress) server that your working on with the drunk turtle is looking epic. Just ignore the lag! ;)
+ZIMOLO WHO not sure this is the place to explain it.. that footage wasn't recorded on the server and the map is very performance heavy so the lag wasnt server issues but hardware :)
every youtubers nightmare, LAG
+Septex I suppose you know what a real TARDIS looks like, eh?
I love how when I Google "bootstrap paradox" like the doctor instructed it takes me to this video.
I keep coming back to this video because I love how 12 breaks the fourth wall and just explains the bootstrap paradox
I love it when he breaks the fourth wall. It's always slightly unsettling in the best way possible.
There should be a whole series of the Doctor explaining temporal paradoxes.
*a whole MINI series
Whenever Doctor Who tries to confuse me with time travel I just tell myself “wibblily wobbly, timey wimey”
Honestly, I wish more of Capaldi's episodes were him monologuing temporal paradoxes.
I love it when Capaldi breaks the 4th wall. So entertaining.
this is one of my favorites Capaldi scenes ever.
This doctor is such a rockstar!
"It's the bootstrap paradox. Google it."
But I just keep getting this TH-cam video...
*mind splode*
I once wrote a fan fiction during high school years ago about the First Time Lord Human, an alternate reality of Doctor Who after Matt Smiths doctors death - he never regenerated. I was inspired after playing the Doctor Who mod for New Vegas and after this episode. The Courier travels to Los Angels 1947 and meets a woman then all of a sudden after a few days time itself started to destabilize and wheeping angels started appearing everywhere and it turns out he met Elizabeth Short, the woman from the Black Delilah murders, since she was never murdered, the killing never happened the paradox started and in order to complete it he confessed to Miss Short explaining everything and she suggests the Courier kills her in the very same fashion described in the police reports. My teachers loved it as they were also fans of Doctor Who.
One of the best stories ive ever writen, even though it was a fan fiction.
I miss Peter's doctor so much. He was so invested in the role on screen and off he also had some of the best writing in new who.
I love these little self-aware exposition moments. They did it too in "listen". Without that, the episode would've been a bit meh, but thanks to that, it actually became quite good...
+OJWH Heaven Sent implies that this scene took place inside the Doctor's head.
is it the one with the voice monster thing that says what your saying at the same time?
ooh ok
combustinghandshakes I think you're talking about Midnight, one of #10's episodes.
This is my favourite two parter of all time. The head twisting timey wimey nature of Before the Flood is amazing. Not every day someone out-Moffats Steven Moffat, but Toby Whithouse managed it with this episode
One of my favourite things about Capaldi's Doctor were the little lectures that he sometimes gave to the audience at the start of an episode, it didn't happen very often but it was always a treat. Whenever an episode opened like this I always thought "Well even if the episode sucks, at least it gave us this". I doubt Whittaker will do the same but I hope she has something that I love just as much.
I’ve watched this so many times, but just now noticed the amp is made by “magpie electrical”, the shop that is being controlled by the wire. It’s appeared many times in the series, like when the monks announce themselves, but I haven’t once noticed the doctors amp until now.
This is what I love about Stephan Moffats and Calpaldis era. These episodes and moments where we become the Doctors companions.
I love how the 12th Doctor is the teacher, who isn't afraid of being alone but also is just rad as hell. Love this version of the Doctor.
I really hope he continues to break the forth wall, its something that would make an incarnation of the doctor really unique. As long as he doesnt go around spelling Francis out of dead bodies it should be good
Y'know, I really liked these segments at the beginning of Capaldi's run where he'd just talk about a concept that'd come up later in the episode, seemingly to the camera. There was just something weirdly fascinating about it.
... I mean, I don't remember if it was an actual thing... Or even if it is whether it actually continued, but I definately remember liking it at the beginning of this episode and Listen. Felt like an interesting quirk of the new regeneration and weirdly didn't seem to take me out of the show.
I like how he gets the obvious question out of the way before he gets too deep in the hypothetical scenario.
fun fact: did you know that when he said to google the bootstrap paradox, the number of google searches for “bootstrap paradox” and “bootstrap paradox doctor who” markedly jumped. we are nothing if not predictable.
Capaldi really stepped into his own in his second series and became one of my top 5 doctors
I like to think, even if he said that it didn't happen, that the Twelfth Doctor is Beethoven. Like he went back in time to play his music and became Beethoven in the same way the Master became Rasputin.
Oh comeon BBC you should have left the titles in too, Cappaldi's mean guitar on top of the titles was astonishing.
he's so perfect like he's literally THE doctor
I would love a mini series of just the doctor talking about paradoxes
The seventh Doctor and Ace once did a series about science, education for schools.
I went from smiling to Capaldi as the Doctor to "uggh"ing to Capaldi in the outro
+Valpas Kankaristo Don't forget to subscribe to the official Doctor Who TH-cam Channel! xDDD
"uggh"ing?
Saying "uggh"
+Valpas Kankaristo yeah sorry I got that. I meant is that a good uggh or a bad uggh?
Bad uggh
Thanks to this video, I learned from eyeballing how Capaldi played Beethoven’s fifth on guitar, power chords very rock n roll!
I wish we could have at least one part of an episode with each doctor doing something similar to this. I feel like Jodie whittaker could do this with a lot of energy and excitement
Capaldi was like having early seasons doctors with modern cameras, an amazing teacher and thinker, yet goofy and dark sometimes.
This guy could explain anything and I’d listen