HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I’m back and it’s about time. It’s been a couple weeks since the release of the Church on Ruby Road but I feel it’s finally time for me to give my full thoughts on the episode and on Russell T Davies’ new era of the show in general! Hope you enjoy!
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7/10 video could have been longer
great vid man! I actually liked the dinsey added scene. It served as a good intro to the doctor as he doesnt really come into the story till halfway through without it. Idk I thought it was a good view into his personality.
tbh the issue with there being 2 doctors being in the same place could be said at any time with any doctors. there's been a lot of stories that took place really close by to where another story took place, and sometimes at roughly the same time. the tardis has built in systems that try to prevent the doctor from interfering with their own timeline, so i imagine that's probably still the case. it was implied that 14 was still going to properly regenerate into 15, since ncuti's doctor commented on doing rehab out of order. my theory is that 15 and his tardis were taken out of the regular timeline when 14 would actually regenerate due to the toymaker.
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To be brutally honest I don't really care what the Tennant 14th Doctor is doing i'm only interested in what the present here and now Doctor is doing as far as i'm concerned the Fifteenth Doctor already resolved his issue and is now out of retirement newly regenerated from 14 their both the same person that whole bi-regeneration was just stupid and lazy and absolute nonsense if this becomes an on-going thing in the next regeneration i don't think ill want to continue watching the show because that's just going to make the whole thing boring.
I disagree with what you said about Ncuti being sidelined in The Giggle, if anything he immediately felt like he was on David Tennants level and I think its written in a way that the focus kind of shifts from 14 to 15. If anything after they beat the Toymaker it feels like 14 is the one who is sidelined. Anyway whilst I think the Christmas Special was around a 6/10 and nothing really to write home about, I genuinely didn't even think about 14 the whole time, I think its weird that people are hyperfixating on the fact that the previous incarnation still exists…like yeah its a show with time travel in it, any Doctor could show up at literally any point but no ones wondering where any other Doctor was.
The whole thing with 14 basically needing rehab from all of his adventures completely falls apart when he's given his own tardis he can go on his own adventures whenever he wants and there will be a threat there which he will stop because that's who he is so it would make more sense for him to just leave with no tardis if the whole thing is him needing rehab from all of the adventures having the Tardis that is definitely not healthy if we really want to get deep about it it's like a drug addict going to rehab but still having access to drugs in rehab? It makes no sense.
I do think the Timeless child is the next time war but I don't want any answers to it or anything for a very long time maybe never I'm a fan of the timeless child but only really because there is a mystery about it, talk about it sure but keep it as much of a mystery as possible.
Also if Gatwa couldn't film the 60th which would be a big thing anyway in his first story, RTD could have done a multi doctor story I know RTD said he didn't like them but him or even Chibnall could have done it maybe a few doctors have to come together to basically save there future self or something like the effects from the masters forced regeneration messed something up or the Toymaker has basically took Gatwa as a "toy" that makes a few of the doctors need to come back and save their future self 9 and 12 wouldn't come back but obviously u could have Tennant back as 10 Matt Smith has said he'd come back if he's asked and obviously Jodie u could also have classic doctors show up like in Power of The Doctor so all the doctors are celebrated and not just having one series of the show be the main thing, it could just be one long episode or even three episodes with one story with the toymaker this way every era of the show can be celebrated Gatwas doctor could maybe appear right at the end as the 14th Doctor going into the 14th series instead of a rebooted season 1 with the 15th doctor, but it is what is I enjoyed the specials just would have preferred something abit different to what we got
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you don't get it. you're overthinking the sonic screwdriver. It isn't for any of those reasons that they re-designed it. Disney does NOT own Harry Potter and they think there's a huge crossover audience from disillusioned Harry Potter fans. Disney realized , moving in a more FANTASY direction, as RTD said so, that JK Rowlings might try to sue them because the sonic screwdriver looks too much like a WAND, so they changed it into a REMOTE. Simple. Follow the money, be as cynical as possible, and you'll always get to the bottom of these things. me larn english righting laters!
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Better than the series 4 the sequel specials but still wasn't a "good episode" imo there were good moments but overall it was okay and if that's a sign of things to come….eek I will give it a go , lovely to hear you again 💙💙✨
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At the beginning Mrs flood complained about the police box , only after Ruby was saved by the doctor in her past and then stepping into the Tardis did mrs flood mention the Tardis by name – therefore think it’s a future Ruby.
(only based on this logic, probably something more complex or simplistic)
Welcome back! I think that part of the unsatisfied feeling you have regarding rehab/therapy is also because it shows no understanding of what healing looks like – rehab isn't just idyllic family dinners, what is 14 actually doing to go through the mental work of healing? How is his break actually demonstrated to help him? I don't buy that fun trips with old companions and their family and backyard dinners are it.
Personally, I want my fictional characters to work and be like real people so I don't really understand why the Doctor being fictional should mean the rules of real life therapy don't apply
I'm hopeful that the spinoffs will have less rtd involvement and that will offset the shorter seasons
It was wank. Nothing doctor who-ish about it.
i missed ur vids!!!
very glad ur back but damn bro u didn’t like husbands of river song?
You know what I dont like about the Giggle's ending? They call it rehab, as if to say the Doctor is "addicted" to traveling and adventuring and stuff
And then LESS THAN 3 WEEKS LATER we are back to traveling and adventuring
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you call something an "ass pull" never heard that term before. love it!
I just can’t ignore the fact that 14 is chilling at Donna’s house this whole time and I’m meant to believe he isn’t absolutely ITCHING to get out there and explore? I just don’t buy it at all. I feel like he’d be pulling his hair out after a few days of doing nothing. I adore DT but I wish they just let him regenerate fully into Ncuti. What Capaldi said about death as an important motif is so true… I was ready to sob like a baby at the end of The Giggle and then what actually happened just felt like a cop out.
i’m glad to hear i’m not the only one who thought the disney snowman scene felt a bit out of place!
When it comes to the "where is David Tennant" question, I think the best answer is that he just doesn't know. 9 times out 10, The Doctor doesn't go out of his way to save people, the Tardis usually just brings the Doctor to a certain time and place that is in peril and saves the day. The same thing goes for Torchwood, the reason the Doctor wasn't in Torchwood is because the Tardis doesn't take the Doctor to Wales when the episodes of Torchwood take place.
i think the beatles episode is episode 2, so if there is singing in that too it could definitely be too soon after the church on ruby road.
a cosmic 4th wall breaking entity taking over different people and breaking the 4th wall in other episodes would be a really cool idea! maybe taking over mrs flood more than other people because she lives next door to ruby?
your sonic screwdriver analysis is very freudian haha. i personally don’t mind it, but i don’t love it.
they should’ve listed the episode as “holiday special” instead of “special 4” or even put “the church on ruby road” on the posters/headers/episode art (whatever you call them) because listing it as “special 4” is definitely confusing for new viewers. unless they would prefer season 1 episode 1 to be the jumping on point?
thanks for the nice words & the mention!
I can't undersell just how apathetic I am to this new era.
I'm sorry but they really needed to pull out all the stops for these specials and they just didn't.
I think I might be done, well to be honest I stopped part way through Jodie's era, came back for the tennant specials, but now I think I'm just fully done.
Welp, time to go watch more classic stuff.
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i think your dying on a hill with the therapy/rehab point. I get what you are saying, it’s pointless from a writing perspective in your opinion to resolve the trauma from the events of series 12/flux and then have it as a plot point in the next episode, but the point people are making is that this IS him post rehab- he can cry about it and be honest with his emotions to himself and others. That’s why he isn’t depressed about it he’s just being real about it. I do agree it would be better to NOT DO THE SPLIT GENERATION bc it takes away from it a bit
I love husbands of river song, sorry 😢
the master mentions his disdain for the doctor because she technically gave him the ability to regenerate. but, as you mentioned, i think it would be more interesting for the master to actually be the timeless child. not only to continue to use the master as a narrative outlet to emphasize the abusive culture of the time lords, but to also flip the narrative on it’s head and have the master be a part of the doctor’s identity (i hope what i’m saying makes sense😅) like, the doctor having this looming knowledge that the master will always be a part of him. that he will always be capable of evil. i think it would be a good way to explore the doctor’s newfound moral ambiguity that you mentioned in the video and could be a good way to explore the doctor’s morality for new viewers (and it would also calm some of the ceaseless timeless child hate).
I just don't vibe with 15th hope 15th can grow on me
Plus 15th doctor doesn't have a sonic he has a sonic remote
i think it was a pretty good episode, considering this is russel t davies' first dw episode since departing around 2010. the choices to make it a bit more fantastical than sci-fi-y seemed a bit out of nowhere, but it was pretty good considering he is trying something new with the show! a lot of the plot seemed a bit more like a bulletin board filled with random ideas but not quite a cohesive story. again, this could be because of the timeframe given due to ncuti's schedule with barbie and sex education.
ruby is giving big roseclara love child vibes but mostly rtd's version of clara. her reason for following the doctor seem kinda random but very fun-oriented. i truly don't think there will be a romance between the two of them.
the transition from jodie to ncuti seemed pretty seemless. i would have liked to see the story of how the TARDIS interior changed and the sonic screwdriver, but i think thats alright.
it's a bit saddening that we couldnt get anything for the actual month of november for the 60th, but at least we got our first special with ncuti!!
The only thing I like about the Bigeneration is that it was triggered by The Toymaker wanted to do Game 3 with a third Doctor. That’s literally the only part I like. Just have Fifteen pop in with his TARDIS for an extended cameo. Or have the bigeneration only last a bit so Fourteen has to finish regenerating at the end of the episode. There are so many better ways to do this
1:35:22 im pretty sure it was implied when she broke the masters perception filter in spyfall
I dunno where to mention this but one of my close friends went to school in the same year as Millie it’s super cool
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I just appreciate the dedication to listening and discussing. I'm a massive media fan and an aspiring author. I love the passion behind this series, but it's old enough to have different audiences with different appeals. I've learned over the years that if you can't take a story by it's own merits, and then criticize it for what it is, then you aren't doing it right. And just like with the Chibnall era, which I didn't like overall but it had moments, I'm gonna watch every episode of this, too. The episode was fun and I am excited to see what they do with the talent.
Just throwing this out there, but couldn’t any Doctor, past, present or future hypothetically show up to any crisis?
Wondering what 14 is up to when things are going down is similar to asking where any of the Doctors were during something as huge as The Flux.
Nevertheless, I see where you’re coming from and I’m just as excited about the new series.
Talking about the 14th doctor makes me think about how the whole reason they nearly lost in WBY is because 14 just couldn’t help himself and his brain from puzzling things out and revealing mysteries even though he knew that’s exactly what the monsters wanted. So to then say that he’d be perfectly fine to settle down and just laze around eating food at Donna’s is insane to me. RTD literally just made the point that he is incapable of turning off his brain and turning away from the action and then expects us to believe he’ll happily settle into a life so boring that most people wouldn’t want to live it. It’s beyond unbelievable and it makes me think RTD has plans to keep using Tennant and maybe have something where 15 shows up to solve a thing and 14 is already there like heyyyyyy yeah I couldn’t stay out of the game. All around confusing and weird tho