I get Freema might be too busy to come back...but they really don't want to bring in ANY returning companion as a full time cast member? Ace deserves her SJA show damn it! 😢

What? The CGI comment was a tongue in cheek joke? Did you actually believe it? Hahahahahahahaha no more beers for you 😁😁😁

ah yes my favourite show PIVOT

Mr Holmes

Wots star trek?

Great show

The train of thought between you two is brilliant

This is how I would rank them (based on personal preference not objective quality of the episodes): 12. The Pyramid at the End of the World 11. Empress of Mars 10. The Lie of the Land 9. Oxygen 8. Smile 7. The Return of Doctor Mysterio 6. The Eaters of Light 5. Thin Ice 4. Extremis 3. Knock Knock 2. The Pilot 1. World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls (I excluded Twice Upon a Time because I haven’t rewatched it since it first came out so I can’t judge it fairly.)

Capaldi was a great Doctor. I cant help thinking how much more I would have enjoyed this last series if Capaldi was still Doctor. Ive just developed extra respect for you guys. I started my new KZbin Channel BOOMER DOUG & the haters and weirdos have surfaced. Trying not to take it personally. On a positive note I had some lovely feedback too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3jVmJl8maaVfdksi=Mdw7L-m5NysI9oD9

The classic series is totally superior to the new series in every way bar special effects. I'd say people new to the classic series, watch early Tom Baker series or seasons 25 & 26. City of Death is one of the best though.

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This episode is so underrated, can't wait to watch the Podcast ✨ And can't wait for the guest too, that's so cool!

RIP Elizabeth

The letter 'i' was _wasted_ from your crappy spelling.

37:52 Thanks for the fat mention 😁 Slowly worming my way on the show with my luke warm takes and simpsons references 😂

ohhmgg you're such *terrible* fans! It WAS Tom Baker in the mummy bindings. He tried to get out of it but the director told him the viewers would tell if he wasn't in the costume. Obviously she was wrong [eyeroll]

Pyramids of Mars is a great DW story. I know lots of people say it's so overrated along with Caves of Androzani and Genesis of the Daleks but tbh its very very easy for everyone to say that about anything that's well respected and popular.

Dawgs of Mars

Do you think the War Between the Land and the Sea is gonna have that dawg in it?

Lads back with the classic review 💙💙

No really, is the same cheesy fun that RTD had. The real problem is that the audience change.

I recently rewatched Torchwood Children of Earth and it’s so good. RTD has completely lost his way. It’s hard to believe the same man wrote Children of Earth and this absolutely garbage.

Thanks for all your work this season lads! 💙💙

Think you’re really misremembering that TWD S6 midseason finale and premiere. And not that I often defend the show from that point onwards cos like I just spent a week in ICU and that was less painful than the latter half of TWD. In fact S1 Version 2 of DW is about on par. Dire stuff.

I wasn't aware that he had any to begin with... ho, snap!😅

Honestly. Yes… outside of wild blue yonder, the giggle, 73 yards and D&B every other RTD episode has been so mediocre that it just feels like more of a downgrade than the chibnall era. The fact that all the best episodes of this season have all been written by either Moffat or someone new says to me that the show should be written by someone who isn’t RTD and Russel himself should take the backseat and just “oversee” the production of the show with a loose season ark plan that new writers can tinker with.

1:34:00 Not me preparing things for my podcast instead of studying today and watching this for the 50th time now, haha 🙈 Thank you once again for your supportive and very wise words, guys! ✨💗 These really are awesome tips 🍀

I thought morris ruined the episode, his quips didn't add anything to the story and he just felt like a reaction character, I have nothing against the actor but I can't stand his character

I still haven't seen the whole video, but honestly, one of the best parts of watching Series 1 (2024 👀) was discussing it with other fans, whether on your live streams, in discussions, or chatting with friends and wondering about theories. That might also be why the finale feels so sad and underwhelming - I hate that I dislike it, but... 🥺 I still feel blessed I could watch it on its release days. This series has its gems, but the finale... 🙈 Edit: I kind of understand the "it ripped me apart" sort of thing. The Doctor is always excited to live after regeneration, so I think it could have been that, but then he realised how he actually feels about it? 🤔 The "something's missing" feeling. Edit2: Oh I completely agree about 73 yards. I wish it didn't get mentioned in the finale without being something very important, but it's a great standalone episode, one of the best pieces of media I've ever seen imho 💗

Literally - the finale has ruined the entire series. All those mysteries and they have an awful ending. RIP 😭😭😭

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In my personal opinion this finale ruined the entire season. All the buildup, all the mystery and it fell flat in the mud. Don't get me wrong the other episodes have worth and are enjoyable, this has just tainted them for me. Upsets me greatly.

I'm glad Morris enjoyed his pizza 🍕

Yeah, it was disappointing. Sutekh was wasted. A lot of the dialogue was so cringey and cheesy as RTD always is. The ending felt really padded out. The Doctor is now reduced to a whimpering coward. I know the Doctor is meant to be a pacifist but not to the point of crying his eyes out every five to ten minutes. The whole "spoon saves the universe" thing is something we have seen so many times now to the point where it feels stale. I mean do you remember The Infinite Quest where 10 uses a rusting spoon to stop Baltazhar in the opening scene. It was far better in that animation than it was in this, and that was written by Big Finish and DWN alumni Alan Barnes ffs.

I think this episode was fine though honestly my only real issue was the stupid explanation of the pointing like I can understand everything else like my 15 year old nephew's friends are all bloody tall and could easily pass for adults if they cloaked up which is also perfectly reasonable she wanted no chance of being recognised so that's good and the whole walking slowly is understandable it's a mix of regret, hesitation and just having given birth with probably no help. Then the explanation that it's only because Sutekh et al put stock in the mystery that the memory held such power causing weirdness which again makes sense but I just can't take that stupid name thing seriously. And I know RTD said in the commentary that Ruby says 'my real mum' was to show that she is still in the emotional stage but after all of the great adoption and fostering that has been handled so well it really hurt me because yes some people might say that realistically but it's not real he could have just said Bio or something it shows he needs a sensitivity reader and was stretched too thin. Thank god he's said that next season has more writers he should focus on the opening and ending to make them as good as possible. Sorry for the rambling.

The finale leaned too much on classic who. The whole mystery of Ruby's mom pointing to a street sign seems to me something a six year old could imagine and write. Huge letdown there.I also hated the idea that Sutech's minions so easily took over the tardis or that he's been effectively stowed away around the tardis since the Pyramids of months nonsensical Surely Captain Jack would have got more than he bargained for when he hitched a ride to the end of the universe! Surely he would have told the Doctor that something was afoot. Failing that the Tardis's psychic circuits would have issued some kind of warning... Of course the Finale also doesn't add up because Russell forgot that this isn't the same Tardis as the one from Pyramids of Mars!

This is literally the worst serise in doctor who history. Theres like 0 redemeeming factors. The only real reason people get behind it is diversity shilding. Hence why the " best " episode of the serise is dot and bubble but honestly thats not even a good a episode like theres no actual entertainment in someone getting racist abuse so no its not like empowering. On top of that gatwa is a very poor actor. I know some people will find it hard to get there head around but he is a one trick pony ( 3 trick) which is do his flamboyance then have his little HAHA moment then a little cry and back to camp. Thats not good acting because thats how every episode goes like literally everyone in that order. That does not make you a good actor it makes you poor. On top of that when you look at the show you dont see the doctor you just see gatwa. Like thats it when hes in a interview for GQ he is exactly the same as he is in barbie or in doctor who. Like he just plays himself but not in a good way. Constant costume changes help cement this as he has no iconic look. This must of been of gatwas doing from a selfish stand point as RTD has never chosen to do that in the past and didnt do it for the 60th specials. He also does nothing at all. During the entire season he solves 2 issues himself and both involve magic gloves so he really does nothing for the entire season. Ep 1 he changes nothing and the equilibrium of the babys and the aliens is the same at the end. Babies upstairs alien downstairs. Could of just never been there. Ep 2. Beetles save the day. The doctor just runs scared. Ep 3 he literally creates the problem by being there and an a.i dad holagram saves the day. Ep 4 hes not in it Ep 5 creates the issue by being there , the majority of them saved themsleves anyway and didnt even want his input. Ep 6 rouge had a pretty good handle of the situation and the doctor being there basically just kills rouge. Ep 7 nothing to do Ep 8 put a dog on a lead. He also couldnt discover a normal individual using a fucking time machine and unit solve the issue pretty easily in the end without needing him. The i love you line at the end is stupid and just creating a momemt for moments sake. The only reason that sence worked with rose is because you knew he wanted to say it back but cant. You have no impression he even likes ruby much after watching the serise. My theory is that russell did not want to cast gatwa and hes a disney choice. I think he is deliberately making him the useless doctor to prove a point hes the one who wrote it so people had the ammo to say not the real doctor by writing the bi generation. He doesn't even give him good technobabble. You get 0 impression watching it that he is even intelligent. Think about how stupid saying wibbly wobbly timey whimy actual is but is delivered and writen is such a way that you believe you just dont understand it because the person saying it is so much more intelligent then you. I believe hes already been killed off in s2 and thats why s3 is not confrimed yet and then we wil get some proper doctor who back in s3. WBY proves russell has not lost his writing skill as thats one of the best episodes in the shows history. The giggle is even good untill the last 5 mins. The only thing that has been achived by this is retrospectively jodies era actually seems really good compared to this mess. I know some youths will use diversity shilding to try and dispute this. But no diversity does not mean someone or something is Beyond criticism and it does not become automatically good because of this. One day these fad will faze out and we will go back to creating things to be entertaining rather than diverse.

I mean when it comes to answering "but what would make Doctor Who popular again?" Look at Pertwee's first season. Look at how popular Stranger things became. Maybe we need to pull back on colour and camp. Give a more grounded and surrealist doctor who series. And if well told, you'll probably have more non who fans be like "man, did you see Doctor Who? That was so creepy and cool" and it will grow out in a Stranger Things like fashon. I don't think it's a very hard equation to crack.

Ik it’s quite a lowkey finale after the bombastic start but I really enjoyed this episode, especially the scene in the coffee shop had me in tears. I do wish Sutekh had a more satisfying ending and I also think Ruby’s exit is a little abrupt (especially given that we’ve only spent 9 episodes getting to know her) but overall, 8/10

Do want to throw this out there as a female - I reached my height around 13-14. As for her body, she *just* gave birth. You can move on from that and focus on how the heck anyone could figure out that she was pointing at a sign and *why*

These new disney type shows look really good and glamourous yet they still manage to find room for filler in 8 episode seasons. I really wouldn't mind these shorter seasons IF the story feels full and complete yet they don't and i really dont understand why considering RTD 1.

I thought RTD had finally pulled a Moffat with the Sutekh noise being under our noses since the 60th. However, Sutekh has just been chillin out on the TARDIS since the fourth Doctor. Where the noises been that whole time? Could have been brilliant but got spun into something ridiculous.