I don't think Disney understands that different IP require different structure. 8 episodes became a sweet spot for a season arc. But it fumbles with shows that are episodic with a season mystery, its not enough time. X-Files, Star Trek, etc etc would be crap at 8 episodes a season (unless its a self contained arc like Picard Season 3)

Ok... so all we need is the Doctor to regenerate so that he looks like Ncuti's Doctor with the Bravery of Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker, Davison, Colin Baker, McCoy, McGann, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and Capaldi and the perspective of Whittaker in addition to the bravery. Ok, having emotions is fine, crying every two seconds is NOT the Doctor. HE or SHE is the one that keeps us safe from Sutek or the Daleks or the Cybermen. The Doctor's companions are doing what he is supposed to be doing. The fans hid behind the couch and the Doctor saves the day.

Not my idea of horror.. not a single film I would watch

Old time Whovian here, grew up with Who, starting Tom Baker in the Classic Series and though my interest wanes if it’s a Doctor/era I don’t particularly like, I have always been a fan! I considered RTD’s first run at Who to truly be the Golden Age of Doctor Who, with Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures (and a non-BBC K9 series for heaven’s sake!). When they all came together in Series 4 I truly thought we’d never see better. the 50th was dang close if not better! I started losing interest w Peter Capaldi’s first series. What had usually been a fairly well written Science fiction series now was just idiotic and had zero respect for science Or had lost any intellectual guards to keep the “science” in “science fiction”. The insipid story about the Moon being an egg is the first time I had EVER shut off an episode of Doctor Who (okay for like 30 seconds, but it was embarrassingly stupid! Gravitational anomalies on the moon that are so pin point precise that it can make someone in the same room float away but not the person who then runs under them to catch them! The lights on -actually I’m going to resist listing all the utterly ridiculous points or i’ll have a longer post tha this will be. Capaldi’s final season was IMO pretty good and redeemed his era. The Jodie Doctor era was awful as well, though again her final series was much better than the first 2. When I heard RTD was returning I was absolutely manic with happiness! I loved a NCuti Gatwa in Sex Education so I was all in for the new era and truly believed we were in for the Golden Age of Who part 2. It never EVER occurred to me RTD would fail. But he did. The writing is absolutely terrible this series. It is like bad fan fic, like first draft ideas never revised, never developed, just rush rush rush glitz and glamor and keep people,occupied before they think about things and question it and realize how none of it makes any sense! WTF happened? I swear if someone told me RTD had been in a coma and they used a ghost writer and a hastily jotted outline then I would finally have an explanation that makes sense for how bad this series was. I agree the Doctor seem totally out of character with his amorous forwardness in Rogue and had he acted that way toward a woman it would have seemed predatory! And no, I am Not being a homophobe, I play for that team so to speak, but I really feel the Doctor is alien and should be asexual, crushes on companions or caring for them deeply is one thing,,actively trying to bed so,done just seems completely out of character! I know RTD didn’t write this episode but still, use companions to explore sexual issues, the Doctor shouldn’t venture there. I didn’t like any of the stories. Or rather there were some less problematic than others, but honestly NONE of them made sense, one were explained and things just happened because RTD writes it that way and nothing develops in any natural or believable way. Such a huge disappointment and damaging to the series as a whole. F-

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Stopmotion is an absolute masterpiece

I agree with your analysis and discussion here. Peace.

That one scene in Pyewacket with the spiderwerewolf-thingy...

Ruby was the only good thing about this season, aside from maybe bringing back Gabriel Woolf as Sutekh. However, considering how badly Retarded Trash Davies butchered Sutekh, Woolf's voice acting couldn't save him no matter how chilling it was. If you want to listen to Woolf working with great scripts, watch Pyramids of Mars, The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit.

There were so many issues with the new season. Rant incoming. Space Babies was just too childish for a doctor who audience. Those kinds of fart and bogie jokes barely worked in the SJA, a show literally aimed at kids. The story had basially no substance to it apart from a hastily done Abortion commentary halfway through. Devil's Chord wasted a decent chunk of its runtime on a repetative musical number that didnt need to be there, and trying to explain to Ruby who the gods are, since RTD's new "20-30year progressive american audience" dont have that context. People are praising Jinx's performance, even though he just acts like every other Drag Queen on tv. BOOM sounds good on paper, until you realise you put the protagonist out of action for the entire story, threatening us with... the death of the protagonist in episode 3 of his first season? We know thats not going to happen. There are no stakes in the entire episode. They've done the corporate overlord commentary before, and have done it better before. So the episode really just doesnt stand out. 73 Yards starts off pretty strong. I don't mind a Doctor-lite episode, and when Ruby is in the pub/hotel in wales it has this great claustrophobic horror style which is pretty much instantly ditched and then the entire episode shifts focus to its political messaging. We also know, just like with epsiode 3, that there are zero stakes, since as soon as they start aging Ruby, we know its all getting undone by episodes end. We wasted an entire episode of the shortest season in Doctor Who history that needed to be used to further one or both of our protagonists, but instead its all literally undone by the end, leaving us exactly where we started. Dot and Bubble is a bland stupid story that's more or less banking on you being "progressive enough" to notice slight hints of racist tones to actually get invested in the story. Tones that I and nobody I know actually picked up on, since we don't give two shits about the skin colour of actors. It's not an investing point for me, so all that racial messaging went right over my head, so when RTD hits you over the head with it at the end, it feels like its coming out of nowhere. Ncuti and Millie give great performances in the last few minutes, but for most of the story they're completely irrelevant. Not to mention the massive plot hole of why the device is creating an army of maneating slugs when they can just... fling themselves through everyones brains? If you ignore the racial messaging, the story is just fucking terrible. Rogue is a more standard doctor who story, but get out of here with the dumbass falling in love angle they give 15 and Rogue. The Doctor doesnt go around falling in love with strangers, and when he does, it's not going to be with bounty hunters who literally kill people for a living. That's so out of character its actually ridiculous. Episode 7 is a waste of an episode entirely. Nobody does anything for the entire plot, only to waste the last half of the episode revealing a 50 year old villain that the "20-30 year progressive american fans" wont have any fucking context for. RTD and CO went on the media circuit austracising old fans, and then wastes a full episode on a huge reveal that means nothing to the people he's apparently writing the show for! Episode 8 was just RTD at his usual stuff. Setting ridiculous stakes that you know are going to be Deus Ex Machinad to the point where it never happened in the first place. His big bad ancient monster that is apparently more dangerous than the Daleks is defeated via hithcing him to the back of his truck and driving full speed down a road. He kills the greatest threat in history... via dragging death. And this whole "What happens when you bring death to death?" angle is the biggest asspull ive ever seen, and thats saying a lot from an RTD finale. There is so much more wrong with the season than just this. I havent touched upon the complete lack of characterisation for Ruby, or the lack of bond between them making the goodbye feel hollow. Or the mother being nobody making absolutely no sense, or even the fact that when the protagonist cries in literally every single episode, then its impossible to get emotional investement in anything that elicits that reaction. Just AGH.

There was an episode where the tardis become a women (sexy) still confused how sukeh didn’t become alive at that point.

Awful, just awful

season was good but finale was so bad. giving death to death for resurrection is stupid :(

actully i think this season is better the the flux

Great review, and you made very valid points. I pretty much agreed with all of them, so I would say that! I'm especially glad you picked up on the lack of science, which is something that irked me too. Growing up with Classic Who fired my lifelong passion for science, studying it at school and university. Sadly, I'm just not getting that from RTD2 so far, to the extent that I even found the idea of UNIT having a 13 year-old Scientific Adviser totally ridiculous. The way RTD wrote Morris - and his predecessor Shirley - just didn't convince me that they were scientists. Compare and contrast with Osgood and Liz Shaw. Even Malcolm in "Planet of the Dead" was a more credible boffin, although the wonderful Lee Evans played up the comic/eccentric aspects of his character. I look forward to more of your reviews in future. Keep up the good work!

I do miss the 13 episode seasons, we did not get a lot of time with Ruby and the Doctor, actually seeing them having adventures on other worlds and seeing more of how they both work together. The Doctor working things out, science and so forth.

I think Mrs. Flood is either Romana or the Rani. The prediction was rather unsettling.

The thing about Mrs. Flood's attire is that it reminds me of the first Romana's (Mary Tamm) attire during her first appearance in, "The Ribose Operation," written by the late Ian Marter who played Harry Sullivan from, "Robot," to, "The Terror of the Zygons." 1974 to 1976, I think. Really like your channel... Mark

Love your commentary! Excellent!

my name is Fernando, and you said it correctly, is funny to see some one recomend "Vacaciones del Terror" since in México we find it to be kinda a bad movie, but i guess to each their own 😁

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I am curious if there is a reason this season has been so child focused. Saving the baby in the christmas special. Space Babies, The little girl and her dad on the war planet. The maestro episode starting with a child's piano lesson. The Doctor has always loved children and especially babies ("no leave the new human they will only distract me"-12), but the first four episodes all had major child characters. They talk about Ruby being a baby left in the snow so much maybe they are trying to call back to her connection to children for a reason. I hope it's beyond "Kids are cute and Ruby and the Doctor like them".

I thoroughly didn't enjoy Rogue, sadly. I think it was poor in terms of its timing in the series, its plot, its character development, its antagonists, and so on 😅

Love it!

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Excellent review, and you've got a great presentation style!

I’ll check out Gorgo! I love movies like that. I recently enjoyed Mega Shark vs Mecha shark, written by the great Jose Prendes. I enjoyed Pyewacket, and Backcountry by the same director. Great vid 👍🏻🎃🎃🎃🎃🎥🎥🎥🎥

The Doctor instantly fell in love with Madame De Pompadour after first seeing her as a little girl moments earlier. The Doctor fought farting aliens and burping whellie bins. Yep it's Doctor Who. Get over it.

I loved the episode!! Though I hated the racism of Dot and Bubble.....

It was interesting to see you reflect how many felt when the doctor and rose romance happened. Watching the doctor flirt and emote in that way felt very un Doctor who. It felt like fan fiction to many. It was just growing pains and led to so much great exploration of the character. This episode was pretty standard who but after banger after banger it feels mid in comparison. I personally enjoyed the emotional rollercoaster of watching the doctor fall fast and break his heart fast.

It was good, it had classic monsters, and a character the dr was kinda obsessed with. How is this different from the madam depompadour episode. People are just knee jerking opinions.

It wasn’t a bad episode… it was awful, and it certainly wasn’t Doctor Who.

he was a tad bit too horny this episode

It feels t me like the whole season is fan fiction. The whole season may be fiction though - I think they are in a show or story. The finale will decide, one way or another.

oh ive seen stopmotion lol such a werid flim

I do have few issues with the ep, they did nothing with the tiktok guys death even tho the girl lied and said he was still alive so they should of waited because there was only one boat and that was only exit, so instead we had both group left (doctor and the bubble people)- kinda makes no sense, only way that this would of made sense is if she admited to the lie in some way or two they waited, two Why did the dot things kill them, because they started doing it before teh doctor showed up so the dots were not mad at them for the rasim

I just watched that, the amount of spit at the end xD he got some on his shirt and the other person

Smile 2 !!!! In October. I'm so excited

In the episode "Heaven Sent", the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) used his own body's energy to power a machine that created a copy of himself. So technically, any Who after that episode is not Doctor Who, because The Doctor died to power that machine, using up all of his regeneration energy. To sum up, Classic Who died with that episode, and therefore the blonde chick, the Tennant woke clone, and Shooty Gutwrench are NOT THE DOCTOR. We classic Who fans can just enjoy our classic episodes, knowing that the woke garbage coming out now is NOT Doctor Who, it is just woke trash that we can ignore, and no one of any value will be watching anyway. Quad Erat Demonstrandum.

The singing goblins were too much! In a good way and a bad way. 🤣

lol sick of the musical numbers, youll be surpise 99.9% of them are in the series, even had some during the david ten special

it was bad, the script writting is terrible there is no weight in decisions either

I feel bad for teenage Michael. This day distroyed his life. One day he had a bright future, had a scholarship, Alex, a great relationship with Max and Isobel, He was looking forward to the road trip, Had his music to calm his mind, Had a safe place to sleep at night... And it was all ripped away in one night. Because of the actions of other people. He can't stay in the shed anymore, he can't play guitar anymore, His relationship with Max tanks, he has to keep a massive secret from Isobel while also letting her think he is a thriple murderer, he can't use his scholarship because he has to stay close to Isobel, and he loses Alex. And litterally none of it was his fault.

What happened to the Roswell Channe?

Were did you go????

Could you do a review on STRANGER THINGS? Everyone one is wondering if there will be a Part 3 :)

They all looked okay, except the white guilt documentary

Question...so I subscribed to Shudder on Amazon prime video, would you happen to know if theres any difference with the Shudder App?

I'm surprised you didn't mention any Max/Liz scenes as favorites. Mine are from episode 9 where he said she was flawed but loved her, and she saw the best in him, so he sees the best in her. Then of course the first kiss with Iris from Goo Goo Dolls in the background. Then I loved when Liz told Max she wanted him, and that he better never let her go again, but promise to follow her. Lastly of course them having sex. Might have been filmed a little too close up, but when he touched her and she showed him how she felt, I melted. And of course I loved the Malex scene you discussed in the prison. Even though I still have a soft spot for MM because of the original series Can't wait to see whatever episodes you do regarding the original series. I'd love to see it broken down episode by episode, but I understand that may be too much. I'd take videos favorite scene/plot/character/couple/etc per season. Love just hearing your perspective on my favorite series of all time!

I recently saw Sleepaway Camp 1-3 all 3 were really good imo.. I also just recently watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time, what a great film. I followed it up with watching The Hills Have Eyes. If you haven't watched The Last Drive In with Joe Bob Briggs, you definitely should.