A 'Quick Guide' to New Who Series 11.

0:00 the next one who I'm planning on doing is a Judy Whitaker and since a lot of people have asked me for my thoughts on her I've decided I should take a look at her first series before I get to the verbal abuse given that at least 40% my online reputation is hatred for knew who my thoughts might or might not surprise you I generally liked it the show seems to be going down fairly well with general audiences and traditional critics so all the people online screaming about it have just worked out what it's been like for me since 2005 first off the thirteenth doctor though I'm very in favor of casting woman as a doctor and I think it's embarrassing that it took this long for it to happen I wouldn't have cast it he Whitaker she's classically attractive young bland and blond she's Davison I prefer my

0:45 doctorate of interesting faces usually that means ugly but not always to be older and to be almost anything but bland Whitakers doctors basically remake a 5-10 is like a remake of five with added irritation beyond Whitaker I'm generally in favor the show as truly at a facelift for the first time since I returned becoming a kitchen sink drama without a space staff radical shifts in style and even genre common and classic who it went for an often silly black and white monster and bass under siege show to a fairly serious color Spice joke between series 6 and 7 the shift within series 10 and 11 of new who is tiny comparison to that but it's there the show looks different sounds different is structured differently as a whole new cast new

1:32 TARDIS even I wouldn't be surprised as some of the people who had such a visceral reaction to series 11 weren't reacting to what the show is now but that it regenerated so much maybe the reaction would have been a little less dramatic if the earlier series has it changed more but nah series 1 to 10 generally stuck with the same atom Italy successful approach and as a result change became scary and where the show looks fantastic the cinematography seems for going for Ken Loach thing to match the new home base in Sheffield barely knew who often Luca mid afternoon kids TV show practically indistinguishable from the Sarah Jane Adventures the CGI generally looks more realistic and integrated into the shots I don't know if they changed special-effects seem to walk but it usually looks great it even sounds good

2:18 not different enough to marigold for me but it badly need to change so I'm fairly happy could do with a weirder theme though it's got possibly the most stunning into the shows of her hand generic as hell cuz it's just a remake of Pertwee's first but it's beautiful it's a fun jugs position from Capaldi's intro which didn't look great in fact it looks inferior to the test version the final design is stuck of a new chip but was the most original intro the show it had in decades there are traditionally three kinds of who intro the abstracts Hartnell trout nipper trees first the Time Tunnel Pertwee second Tom Baker's first McGann Eccleston Tennant Matt Smith's first and space Tom Baker second Davison Colin Baker McCoy Matt Smith's second with Capaldi the Shogun a new kind of intro

3:04 for the first time since the start of the 80s an abstract time tunnel but like I said it looked a bit crap anyway Whitaker's intro is generic it's an actual remake but it's the first purely abstract intro since the seventies and I love it I'm hoping the next intro manages to unite the beauty of Whitaker's intro with the cleverness of Capaldi's that could almost be a broader point but their eras but it's not I want to the Companions I generally like them they don't have some desks and either not amazing or whatnot they're just people going on adventures because that'd be cool to do as far as I'm concerned this is a return to the status quo of classic who after a decade of attempts to make the Companions as interesting as a doctor I'm enjoying having three companions in the TARDIS the crowded TARDIS is most connect with

3:50 Davison but route and also dead it creates an interesting dynamic but it does make a challenge for the writers to give muscling to do and no one's you get much to crack at most three companion stories somehow sidelined one of the companions in each story and the short length and new whose stories don't help the show feels much more classic who in general with the regular people companions the comparatively low level stakes and most stories and even the more overt politics and display I know a bunch of annoyed people weren't happy about that but I loved it because classic who was politically subtle as a brick for example back in the seventies Pertwee had two stories in the planet peloton and both of them runs riffs on contemporary politics in one the King appellate on how to decide whether it's planet will join the Galactic Federation it's about the UK and what will become the EU the end of a

4:37 sequel story based on the miners strike they're least seven days I could give many more examples of classic you in politics but this video is gonna be long enough I'm sure it'll come up later on I've not got only good things to say though the editing is often very rough as I'm not sure what's going on at times sometimes it feels like five or ten minutes is missing it's got some holdover new who dumb ideas that the doctor surviving the fall in the first episode but thanks to runaway bride making Time Lords and vulnerable after generation and the end of time to setting the falls don't kill Time Lords that's apparently acceptable but it sometimes has its own earlier new who style dumb ideas which stick out like a sore thumb because this is easily the most serious and low-key series since the show came back the ridiculous [ __ ] nearly er knew who felt more at home

5:22 because the tone that Russell the Devi set for knew who was essentially the same tone as series 16 of classic who ie pretty selling [Music] that's very odd this one's make an effort to be a little lass pretty silly to be a little more realistic so when it happens it's a little more at a place but enough waffling let's take a look episode the episode and if you want me to do this for other series than yoohoo please leave a comment hope they have the time and make a patron request the woman who fell to earth is one of the better opening doctor stories not just new who but classic as well it might even be the best & spearhead from space but I'd

6:09 remind you that most opening doctor stories are pretty bad I love the doctor without the usual crutches at the TARDIS and the sonic well without the sonic for a while at least I like that she did some full-on down-to-earth practical science ish stuff I love her too in particular much better than grabbing some equipment saying some bollocks and pressing a button that earlier in you who seems for affair pity she couldn't build a better looking sonic though rather than the tumorous vibrator she ends up with 13 like a bizarre amount of earlier doctors looks much better than her predecessors outfit than her own I hate revenge ill outfit but unlike say Eccleston's it's completely dark trash it's just vile no I know everyone felt when Colin Baker's appeared I mentioned the pitfalls of having three companions but this is an extra one the earlier

6:55 stories didn't it has to introduce all three characters and convince him to hang it with the doctor and tell the story in a single episode it mostly works but the companions are left a little flat the plots clearly been inspired by the predator movies but that's not a problem obvious images and retreads of existing works was common in classic who what is a problem is a villain himself he's fine and threatening in his armor and unceremonious murder but when the mask comes off his stupid face is revealed and the doctor shows mocking his name and he's officially pretty crab I like with eleven mocking Strax and ten mocking bannakaffalatta I hate the doctor calling the villain Tim Shaw why would the doctor mock an alien for an obviously human standpoint but calling Zim Shaw Tim Shaw because the writer didn't even try to put themselves in a

7:41 nonhumans head when writing her I'm not fond of her going on about the regeneration from Capaldi they never knew her before and this is a thing that happens to Time Lords why would she mention it at all 9 didn't tell rose that he used to look like Paul McGann John Hurt they're drawing attention universe to something that's mundane in universe and treating the regeneration differently from earlier ones I really wish they hadn't killed grace have her survive and stay home and very little changes in the series to come hell they could have made her irregular we need more companions that aren't young woman I'm not a massive fan of Graham Bradley Walsh's acting is a little more light entertainment than the others and it doesn't really jail but it's a big change from the companion norm and that's wonderful 13 manages somehow to be more of an insufferable [ __ ] than 10 when it comes to killing

8:27 going into a run to the poor terrified guy who was barely saved from a fate worse than death for kicking the alien attacked him to his certain doom apart for anything else certain doom is never certain and all this is just seconds after 13 did a seventh switcheroo and of the bad guy teleport bombs into his own body and over the story ends of the killer cliffhanger as the doctor makes a teleporter to find the TARDIS and leads them all stranded in space the ghost monument continues to look good honestly parts of the series look more expensive than the first Avengers movie check it again it looks like a TV movie the story gets off to a good start when half the cast do a Prometheus or forget that can run sideways these two human looking aliens need to find the ghost monument spoiler it's the TARDIS the whole

9:12 episode is one long chase which is an unusual and fairly crap idea to hang a story off quick shot a very sad-looking Eternals I really could have done with the aliens looking a bit alien and for them not to waste aren't Malick he's playing the evil guy in charge of the chase apart for anything else it's a bit dodgy to have the only Asian alien in a tent in the desert just a bit like a shake the planets being devastated by years of science-fiction weapons everything on it is deadly an ecosystem of alien made death it's a common issue with new who trying to make something or someone more impressive but only making it dumber toxic atmosphere killer Walter very dangerous planning as an atmosphere is so toxic that they've no issues breathing whatsoever the planet could

9:59 have just been a regular desert planet in the air they travel across could have had the same obstacles placed there deliberately same story but less clearly ridiculous because what they claim of the planet would line it with what we see I did like the doctor using Venusian Aikido it's most connected with the third doctor but it's popped up from time to time over the years according to the books the doctor is one of the few beings with only two arms that much to master add the two racers are a selfish idiot with a very obvious plot arc and a driven woman whose Northern Irish whatever happens here it's a better chance than I had back home the prize for the race is enough money to move them and their families to a safe planet why a safe planet because Zim shows people have Creed the weapons that devastated this planet and have been causing trouble for the local systems

10:44 the specter of a series plot arc begins but it's comparatively innocuous and mainly limited to a few stories the story goes downhill a bit when they get surrounded with deadly sniper robots in a deserted service station deadly sniper robots that can tame which are apparently firing bullets what's your better idea I don't think them they can't outthink bullets when they're clearly shooting lasers and then the sentient bandages which live in a settling star trying to kill them I'm not sure if it makes it more or less ridiculous of their voice but Kevan Lannister from Game of Thrones afraid of your own news oil in the bag enigmatic Ness ooh something knows [ __ ] for no good reason and it's making probing comments

11:32 lazy drama I'm very glad to get torched by novia setup it made them self-lighting it's one click of the finger hello likes yourself sometimes check of cigar is just check off cigar by the way they don't give an indication of dizziness nausea headaches or any other side effects of breathing acetylene it could have been a weird alien gas that didn't affect humans but still combusted but now we had to go with acetylene so Ryan and Graham could remember facts with settling both the racers have declared the winner but the doctor gets the real prize the TARDIS I love the interior but it kind of looks with Irani's and the doctors and I really wish this means save for the series finale and the whole series we search for it and to get the Companions home sort of like a reverse early

12:17 Pertwee crossed with a very beginning heart and all this series had a unique set up and threw it away the second it was convenient all in all this is the last good episode it is quality bit still looks great the plot is weak and the setting is ridiculous the ending is obvious and art mouths was wasted episode 3 is rows of the first celebrity historical for a while and the first I read classic of the series I'm not going to go through it like episodes 1 & 2 because I'd rather talk with its flaw that I've never seen anyone else talk about other than the [ __ ] pop music dubbed over the ending that nearly ruined dead no I'm talking about the villain kraskow he's a white supremacist from the far

13:03 future they're a bit cages to win but the 79th century was mentioned so I'm gonna go with that he intends to start Rosa Parks and kicking off Montgomery bus boycott because if you use your refusal to stand up as the point when human civilization went down he'll here's my issue this presupposes that anti black racism of this sort we have right now will last until the 79th century a time when according to other episodes humanity has spread across the Stars and interbred with aliens so much that there's not many pure humans left a time when almost 3,000 years earlier pansexuality became the norm because they were [ __ ] alien so much bigotry is a facet of culture and like all culture Duvall's and the sort of anti black racism that Crassus poses has its roots in the transatlantic slave trade

13:50 bigotry has apparently always existed and probably always will but it changes with time and culture I read about an interesting example of ancient Greek bigotry account remember reference so discounted if you want but whether it was real or not doesn't really matter it's an illustration the ancient Greeks viewed as pale people from the north of them as brave but stupid and the darker people to their south as smart or cowardly and being a mixture of the two they saw themselves as being in the Goldilocks zone between those two extremes the racism that is so horribly prevalent in our society will be totally alien to them and they live just over 2,000 years ago the idea that a man from a 6,000 years in the future would share one of our society's bigoted sicknesses honestly ridiculous he'd have his own [ __ ] that makes no [ __ ] sense of course that's not a nearly episode

14:37 breaking problem no that happens when you realize that by saying that modern anti black racism continues into the 79th century after all the cultural changes that by all logic should we did out or at least alter it the episode is saying that I'll never leave us that it's somehow intrinsic which is horrifying now don't get me wrong I don't think this was intended it's just an example of someone not noticing a regretful side effect while they wrote what happens all the time anyway please allow me to suggest a couple of possible alterations that keeps all the important and good stuff in the episode but fixes the problem idea one Crouse could be an alien have it that in the far future humanity is subjugated by an alien race and kept the second-class citizens make parallels with real-world bigotry Carrasco reveals that events of

15:24 the human race managed to rise up and gain freedom by looking into the past and using examples such as Rosa Parks and he's trying to undo that idea too and this is my preferred one kraskow isn't a time traveler he's a local races from Montgomery he met a time traveler who came back to meet Rosa Parks he somehow found out about what's gonna happen and so I decided to change history killing the time traveler to make sure you couldn't stop them maybe he sent the traveler back to the time of the dinosaurs there for setting up a Ryan does too at the end of course you could argue the point of sci-fi has to hold up a mirror and this certainly does that Rosa is mostly phenomenal I just feel it didn't quite think itself through from the sublime to the ridiculous arachnids in the UK is from a series Elevens most traditionally new

16:10 HEPA sowed the concept comes right from the same part of the brain as Russell the Degas Pig monsters giant spiders crude from toxic waste thanks to evil donald trump / howard schultz tan den but before all that we have a spectacular shot of a very festive time tunnel I like the branching of network rather than straight tunnel this episode introduces yeses family and they're my favorite new who family though there's not that much competition I was pretty mean to Bradley Walsh nipson one but he's great in this episode dealing with being home for the first time since Grace's funeral the CGI and the spiders is spectacular it'll be good for a decently budgeted feature film but the actual plot doesn't quite work the idea that both Graham and Yaz's family would have direct connections to the giant spider invasion is a bit too much to be

16:56 believable I would have bought one but not two and the explanation as to why Sheffield spiders so started growing is very very very silly frankly taking the classic who written making them aliens would have been better let's not help but the fact that our spiders as big as the smallest of the giant spiders should be dead or dying there's not enough oxygen in the air for spiders to grow that size not a big deal but the spider is being unable to survive after growing as a plot point they just to say that spiders need to become the size of a car start to die the last issue with this episode is the worst somehow the doctor concludes that a slow death by suffocation starvation or cannibalism is less cruel than just shooting the spiders we're gonna lure them in here with the promise of food then deal with

17:41 the spider mother in the ballroom you're going to let spiders use my panic room they deserve a humane natural death shootings quicker this is the point when 13 doesn't just overtake 10 when it comes to guns but laughs and throws up in his shoes at the end of the episode the companions come to the doctor and ask to travel and the doctor tries to war them away from and that's unusual I don't know if that was chip mill trying something new with the character or if that's him writing the doctor as a woman I really help us a former to my mind 13 should be written as a doctor and not written as a doctor as a woman now the good the cgi obviously the horror parts are handled very well Chris North is hilarious as a series as biggest [ __ ] it's still wearing as politics in its sleeve but criticizing gentrification and like I said I love you as his family

18:28 over all this so silly as new who gets but it's also pretty dour and serious it's a weird mix like a kid's film nailed to a drama and I really like it it's no good but I like it episode 5 is the Suranga conundrum and I'm not seeing that title again and I'll stir it out with the bad parts because most people don't like this they build up the monster only to reveal that's a crap version of stitch I wish the future humans have been aliens and it's a very bad sign when they're already reusing ideas for the fifth episode I losing the TARDIS and miraculously being saved in space back in the late 70s The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy did that once there was a comedy and the [ __ ] was being powered by thing that literally made the unlikely happen they've done it twice and complete seriousness without an infinite improbability drive

19:14 it's just weak writing I really wish they take another draft to come with another reason for them to be on board the hospital Shep I'm also not to impress for the ship's propensity to explode you think that of all the ships you'd want to avoid exploding that hospital ships would be fairly high in the list I mean the monster eats some random stuff and it explodes it bites something along as an escape pod and it explodes if you try to override the automated destination and he'll explode which makes you wonder why you can override it at all and lastly I'm annoyed by the convenience and some of the writing like the sonic being damaged but repairing itself just in the nick of time is cheap and it really should have had another draft now for the uber controversial stuff that shock horror I liked we got great pieces of world building from the biological Android

20:00 Kryten guy to the main controlled equipment to the male pregnancy that upset all the right people online you know it's a boy because is boys give birth to boys and girls give birth to girls that's how it is not where we come from Oh how's that work they even use this as a jumping off point for some character detail but Ryan I love the evolution of names over the eons the baby was called avocado in the end as a reason to the Victorian era people were named stuff like phlegm mammy and author I like that the doctor was impressed by general Cicero yes she's military and even classic who the doctor wasn't a fan but this is the doctor meeting historical figure you're mentioned in the book of celebrants you have to feed the army of the inside the back of the under kind I was one of many and the doctor loves them need I remind you that three

20:46 boasted rubbing friends with mouths a turn remember what is having a conversation would say thumb that is the personal name of our Chairman Mao Zedong he himself gave me leave to use it the doctor spends a chunk of the episode being answered to get back to the TARDIS I almost put that into the stuff I didn't like because there's no way scavengers are ever getting into the TARDIS but she was harrangue forming selfish and single-minded congratulations episode you had your cake and eat it too the episode tries to pull its two main problems together a neat little bow the monster and the bomb propensity to explode thing when it kind of works but I really wish should have been a piece of heavy-duty medical equipment like an MRI diff at the hospital theme or an engine core or something anything to write to the remote detonation Hospital oh and all

21:32 this reminds me of Russell the Davies story just treating itself a bit more seriously so just like the last episode there's something that I liked it's not limited to this episode like the earliest stories in classic who this series will draw actual information to the narrative stuff about how a particle accelerator works facts with spiders or Rosa Parks hell even the stuff but acetylene the show is in its own little way helping to teach the audience I hope it keeps it out demons the Punjab has a bunch in common with Rosa they're both historicals with times of great upheaval the both take place somewhere warm they're both what bigotry and they're both about something important one of the Companions grandmother's unlike Rosa though this is a probably accidental remake the twelfth doctor's final story like this it deals with beings that seek out the sin to die

22:18 for a sinister seeming but ultimately benevolent reason I'm really sad that this came out so soon after twice for a time because it blows it at the water and some of the impact is a lost because it's easily mistaken for a ripoff this is said during the partition of indian pakistan when millions of people were displaced and died because some british people drew a line in a map now a earlier new who historical z' tend to limit themselves to uncomplicated ears for it's mostly British audience this use of history that seeks to challenge the mostly British audiences II another return to something from classic who not a very common thing from classic ooh but something that happened the Highlanders worse in the aftermath the Battle of Culloden the mainly English army of King George had wiped out the mainly Scottish rebel Jacobites and in the aftermath mercilessly butchered the wounded and instituted cultural and ethnic cleansing

23:05 of the highlands and the story doesn't shy away from this it's a pure historical so there's no aliens the villains are the British Army the Highlanders face murder transportation indentured servitude in the colony or the gallows this episodes unvarnished we'll look at a period of history where the British did bad stuff is not new it's very old and frankly we should see it more often this is an outstanding episode and the aliens or ease of the weakest part personally I have preferred this to be a pure historical but if the change in this series 11 were too much for some people I should heard I think what a story without any sci-fi would do to them this is a big improvement for much of earlier new who not least because assets of a tragedy that the main characters in know what's gonna happen then piece by piece it does and they don't even try to avoid it under Moffat

23:50 er Davies they would have at least tried to change history to get a happy ending but not here and I appreciate that next is Karbala and I have complicated thoughts it's a good episode a lot like a crossing to Tom Baker stories the robots of death which also featured artificial intelligence being used for evil by human villain though this wisely didn't feature the guy dressing up as a robot because he thought he was one but the story it's most liked is the Sun makers I'll be at a failed version of it it was one of MIDI era Tom Baker's best stories why is it so good many different factors like just about everything Robert Holmes wrote it's witty and clever it's naked ly political and it's got a challenging ending the good and just revolution that brings down the evil government instantly starts massacring people and innocents will die

24:37 realistic stuff that who doesn't usually touch it's also unusually right-wing it's politics for who being fundamentally anti-tax and inspired by Holmes getting pissed off his tax bill now KaBlam sometimes gets the wit down but much less the cleverness it got the unusually right-wing politics down by making the villain a left-wing activist and making the ultimately benevolent system a new liberal wet dream but as studiously avoided the challenging and aang if the villain had succeeded with his plan and died in the attempt they could have jumped forward a bit to find out that it worked better than he could have dreamed of that humanity is free and he's lionized by a happy population who don't know what the horror cost make it happen and the heroes have the uncomfortable knowledge that evil sometimes breeds good in the same way that the Sun makers had good

25:23 breeding evil again it's like poetry so if they ride every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one hopefully it'll work like I said it's missing an actually challenging anding the ending we get has the company continued giving a few more scraps of wage slave jobs to a few people well most of the population live in squalor encouraged to buy useless tat from the company that de facto rules them to these we can do it's literally the least you could do the system in carb lamb is a gaping wound and then we barely apply a bandage to add it's not the first time that's happened in who well they're not usually so positive but the gaping wound in the end like I said earlier classic who warts politics and its leaves and sometimes those politics were garbage I knew who series 11 is

26:09 exactly the same now you could say the KaBlam is ending is challenging but I disagree it's a simple ending that comes from the episodes politics which are [ __ ] think about this it starts with a help me message instead of product something that has actually happened but rather than the mystery workers sending it its computer a computer this being harmed by guy was to help the workers and the happy ending for those workers great new conditions the rival the [ __ ] conditions of today the [ __ ] conditions of today that caused the original help me messages that inspired the episode thus taking inspiration from the real world and then there's this [ __ ] in the pain that inspired your episode the witch finders is a celebrity historical a fairly silly encapsulate historical

26:54 which makes it the closest thing to an old-school new who store this year usually I'd be annoyed but it's good new who I'm like mummy in the Orient Express with a little rewriting this could have been a brilliant classic who story but while mummy is totally an early fourth doctor's story this was slot him with fours last series or five or six Alan [ __ ] delivers a tour de force performances King James's ex James was the King of Scotland before inherited English crown he might have been the first King James of England but he was the sixth King James of Scotland and I'm gonna use a Scottish numbering system for various paddy reasons such as the Scottish crown jewels being much sexier than the English ones I mean look at that long erect sexy broadsword and finally because Bruce Wayne was

27:40 partially named after King of Scotland Robert the Bruce so I think you'll agree that the Scottish crown is far cooler than the English Cummings as King James is new whose first honest-to-goodness scenery devouring gas star that can stand toe-to-toe with Saul deed Zaroff nothing in the world can stop me now anyone played by Stephen Thorne Morgana they breed their children strong on this world no matter Kinya Karnas and the captain no Bella sky demon I say no I'm sorry

28:29 about the noise he does so enjoys but just well I love him I have a slight issue with his performance well King James the sixth was very very very gay him in it with the second or thought with the only gay men ever sitting English throne but he was also much more of a butch gay and what is your field of expertise my Nubian Prince paperwork mostly a Magister paper have fascinating you should talk Alan Cummings James strikes me is more similar to Charles the first James's son successor who was camp straight and was once played with unexpected boots knees by Peter Capaldi Cummings his choice of accent is also far more like Charles than James James's tongue was too large

29:16 for his mouth that made drinking and speaking difficult and he thinks got a shanks and well Charles was softly spoken with a light Scottish acts and James was fairly dedicated to fighting the powers over darkness he wrote a book on demonology a subject that included witches vampires werewolves and more Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to directly appeal to him he even used James's book for research James was behind the famous King James Bible which was the first version of the book to include the admonishment to not suffer a witch to live and away onto the rest of the episode the mud zombies look great well except for the bosses they're off all their origin is a very very silly and sorcerer plan but it fits with the overwhelming tone of the story and series dour and serious but with very

30:03 well realized ridiculous stuff this story in particular is like a Russell the Davies story with the brightness turned down and not just literally it takes you away is probably the most controversial episode of the series and weirdly enough I don't hate it as much as most people it's not perfect but I can't chunks of that really it's three stories that meander into each other the intro from a solid series 11 story the mid part from an okay but not great Russell Davies story and the finale from whatever someone wrote after snorting fumes and banging their head in a Moffett spread the thing that reminded me of most was warriors gate from the east based trilogy in Tom Baker's IRRI what with the interdimensional travel the void and it has to visualise stuff that really can't be visualized the saw

30:49 attract is beyond silly and the doctors attempt to feed it memories is basically a rerun of the rings of akhaten which was also silly I think the salt racks would have worked a bit better if it had featured something extra another doctor think about this the salt racked wants to trap people the doctor usually can't remember what happened to multi doctor stories until they happen to the older doctor so if the salt racked wanted to make the doctor stay all it had to do was pretend to be a previous doctor II got trapped she would assume that she helped him escape and would hopefully stay long enough to actually get trapped it had work even better if the doctor had previously encountered the salt racked but because it's so weird she remembered it like a dream so she's a bit hazed but what happened along the solid track to perfectly recreate the doctor had been there

31:34 previously you could even work this into the theme of loss by choosing a previous doctor with some pathos to mine this would avoid the need to have the suppose an emotional finality be between Whitaker and a frog I'm fine with the surrealism my favorite whose story is a mind robber the single most surreal Doctor Who story ever made but that frog doesn't work now that I've complained and suggested I'd like to defend the crappy cavern moths and Kevin ELLs Nizar throws from Babylon 5 a bit it's not a very cheap corridor between dimensions and hounded by beings that shouldn't exist it's part of the soul attract its great threats and a person who can use a carrot a stick or any other means to convince anyone who enters the mirror to the heart of the soul attract or its strongest and with the fictional danger in the caverns you're happy when you make it you feel safe and are less

32:21 likely to leave because you don't want to face a danger again the flesh moths are apparently dangerous and yet they don't actually kill anyone from outside the dimension the deadbeat dad possibly spent hours in there before he found his way through the first I'm the doctor he has and gram do get harried and to the next to the pearl to the salt racked Ryan and Hannah who's blind have no real trouble with him at all they're either the single worst monsters in Who history or they're a track and we're the stuff with Graham and grace was very good it was nice and affecting and it just reminds me if I wish then killed her off they should have probably done the resurrected dead in a weird eldritch location thing as a separate story par the concept with the center of a triple-decker storyline sandwich doesn't do it justice all three parts of this would actually work better

33:07 separate stories the first one a girl alone in a lodge in Norway and there's a monster outside the second the place that holds the dead who don't know how they got there a third a collection surrealism if done well those are great the mind robber rules there's a speech given by the doctor but how the universe can't exist with us all tract present that for both it's in our universe to function properly they need to be separate things she could be talking about this story structure our reality cannot work the soul attract energy present the most basic ideas of the universe just get ruined our universe cannot work with the soul attract in it anyway the doctor mansions having seven grandmother's and because they'll grab hold of anything I'll take that as a

33:53 reference to the looms because the looms are awesome under who Canon according to me and as we all know that's the only kind of that matters because I said so and would I lie or be wrong yes I would be wrong but I'm not because I'm as awesome as the looms the looms are a concept from pre-new who novels that Gallifrey uns aren't born but created from genetic looms each member of a family will donate some DNA in the loom will create a new family member from all the DNA creating someone who's related to all of them a bedtime story my garden used to tell me your dead grandmother I had seven but granny five my favorite used to tell me about the solar track now in the books this makes all girlfriends and a family cousins to each other but me this whole episode is full of wild

34:39 interesting ideas that don't gel other ideas that are dropped and others that don't get time to breathe and the last set of the cavern it's hilarious giant moths a balloon with a glow stick inside and zathras the banner this is an experiment it didn't work much than glad they made it it shows a bravery that I wish I earlier showrunners had more often the series finale is the Battle of Ron's graft Colossus and the last set with that title the banner so I'm moving on to everything but add this like a bunch of other stories has direct parallels with classic who in this case Legolas with the religious or religious adjacent people influencing reality in a psychic wave either devotions on the pirate planet what were the 20 like planets for reasons applaud we have the return of Zim Sean I think limiting the architects

35:26 words 110 and a tiny mention to was a wise decision not as wise as dropping it entirely but beggars can't be choosers the way the stands are them shots people were handled in Episode one and two seem to be setting up a broader conflict in the Empire in the doctor what with her horrible stuff beyond predator in getting some random mentions in Episode two it falls a bit flat to just have another fight with Zim Shaw we get more sanctimonious doctor stuff as she tells Graham that if he tries to kills MSHA and revenge for killing grace he won't be able to travel with her anymore I'm very glad that rule wasn't in place when the Lila was aboard as she was a [ __ ] serial killer all the time nice try show this is a pretty generic and underwhelming stories Zim Shaw pretends to be a God convinces some

36:12 psychic aliens to do his bidding captures planets and threatens the earth ho-hum the Earth's threatening part makes it even worse it's a half-hearted Russell T Davies finale cover version I don't like his finales I intend to do twenty whose and most of them but they went all in this is more like a shrug I'm not complaining that this isn't a Barnstormer finale that the narrative of the series doesn't build to a crescendo I don't think that who benefits from being structured like most shows these days with seasoned arcs my issue is that it's just man even the stakes don't make much sense simcha is collecting planets and if he has too many of them together the technology holding them in tiny stasis will fail and destroy the universe it's a handful of planets and one of them is the earth destroy all of the planets and

36:58 the earth is just as destroyed the universe both nonsensical and utterly pointless from a narrative POV it's like a dance board attempt to convince us that this is a traditional bake new whoo finale the episode seems to be setting up the doctor facing down her current rule about killing what with Zim she only being here because she spared him but it's abandoned really this whole script need another draft or two the guy I played Zim Shah was good he's still pretty nifty looking with his mask on and his voice is cool and marchetti's doing all kinds of acting but this is weak not quite 20 who level but weak okay whole series thoughts I thought this was one of the better new who series is series 11 is like a bunch of classic who elements most of which haven't come up in new who stuck into a

37:44 bland are now a simple person and can be stuff from classic who I'm often happy I'm such a caricature than if you remade a random Epson and yoohoo with cardboard sets and upper-class actress slumming it probably refer to the real new who I've been reading reviews and comments what the series has have been re watching the episodes and have come to the conclusion that my taste and who is just fundamentally different from most everyone else says I love the lack of glibness the more serious tone the washed out colors the science and history info dumps the politics even the [ __ ] politics like KaBlam hell I even like Chibnall was a showrunner the problem is when he writes as well I'm not in love a thirteen but that puts her on the same levels five eight nine and ten so she was good company if series 12 is as political as series 11 and based

38:31 but whatever read it probably won't be I really hope they do a third peloton story inspired by branch said because of that would just be perfect and I next up is my first Whittaker 20 who [Music]