I was on board from the release of that first picture! He immediately reminded me of classic Doctor Who with a single image. I remember how angry people were when Matt Smith took over and how quickly it turned around. I think that helped me accept Capaldi right away. Capaldi is my Doctor. Tom Baker was my Doctor as a kid. Capaldi is my Doctor from the modern era. So good!

Capaldi is my favorite Doctor, I love Matt Smith and David Tennant, but I think what drew me to Capaldi's Doctor was his grumpiness and sarcasm, I loved that you could viscerally FEEL the Doctor's pain through Capaldi's acting. He was done with death, he hated seeing people die, and he made me LOVE Clara. He was the first Doctor my son and I got to watch as new episodes aired, we had watched the 10th and 11th on DVD and BBC America, but the 12th was the first Doctor we got to watch as new episodes. So that helps draw me into his story as well.

One-off appearances don’t have to hurt! -CVGWJames

Pater Capaldi has been one of my favorite Doctors, pretty much even from the start. The two companions Clara and was it Billy? they both kinda hit certain points that i disliked however. What I wanted more of though was Missy and the Doctor. Specifically her trying to be "good" but doing it in a bad way.

Peter capaldi is actually the reason I started watching Doctor who. His portrayal and acting was beautiful. And funny enough (I am straight)I find him so Damn sexy.. it’s those Silver Foxes, gets me every time

I never hated peter capaldi Doctor

The first season was a bit hit or miss with stories but imho season 9 cleaned up quite a bit, as did series 10 and once I got to those, seeing his cold outer shell start to break, I loved him. My guess is that first season being spotty took away front the good episodes and tainted his original run. I was skeptical of him too, until I watched flatline and I fell in love. That speech, him trying to reason, begging and pleading for anything else, some form of peace or negotiation, before he begrudgingly did what he had to do, to me that is everything the doctor stood for, that is when she showed his true colors to me. And I loved him and capaldi's acting as him after that. And season 9 further cracked at the exterior.

I also came to the same conclusion that the Doctor takes care of them in his spare time after he realised he would have to in Father's Day. Though I think the idea of them being just predators who only show up to paradoxes they happen to be aware of is a much neater solution

Proud to be a Capaldi day 1er 🥰

The reapers are so good but yea if they were to show up again it would be the last near twenty years of episodes into question

Most hated - what are you going on about? He was outstanding. 'Kill The Moon' was the only story I wish he was not part of.

This song and the Vale Decem is one of the GOAT songs

What abut the Class cliffhanger with the weeping angel invasion prophecy

Screw them I want the Slitheen

This is just my observation, but Adric's character is deeper than his often-criticized surface behavior. Behind his seemingly arrogant demeanor was someone seeking validation from the doctor and crew. After losing his brother and never quite fitting in with the TARDIS team, he constantly tried to prove his worth - sometimes even by opposing them. His final sacrifice demonstrated his ultimate desire to be a hero like the doctor.

Agreed, this song carries emotion on within, which is the most humane thing you can get from that show apart the Doctor's hopeless scenes.

They got him… eventually.

They also appear in the doctor who comics where they appear as a big bad but i dont remember if unit is mentioned

I'd argue the only "hardcore viewers" that hated him were mostly New Who-only fans who only knew the Doctor (and only wanted him to be) this hyperactive, super-smiley, super-friendly, cuddle-bug type of character*. Classic Who, having more Doctors at the time, had a wider range of personalities and types for the character. Capaldi was very much in line with Doctor Who, not just by doing a hard 180 from the previous Doctor, but also his coldness and tetchy personality. Some of the people who only watched Tennant and Smith didn't realize this could happen. From what I've seen, most who loved the Classics loved Capaldi almost instantly. *Which is why I disagree when you say Tennant and Smith are nothing alike. If anything, Day of the Doctor shows off how they're really quite similar. And Smith could get really dark!

Let's not forget that it took a DECADE for Georgia Moffet to reprise her role as Jenny for Big Finish. It's entirely possible that the third part of this hypothetical trilogy is on the schedule, just behind a LOT of other ideas that were in the works earlier, it's also entirely possible given the lukewarm reception to the Harmony Shoal, that they've just been nixed, and we'll never hear from them again.

I hope rassilon is hiding as a human or a different alien in another planet in a different time ,maybe like saamuel said with the sisterhood of karn maybe played by jodie comer or chris 'o dowd

What if it’s the obvious that united mentioned in the legend of ruby Sunday when Moris or Kate said except for the obvious and that we’ll get him 😅

You don't get it. It's all wibbly wobbly timiey whimey stuff.

I think the grand serpents (Rassilon) exit in flux leads to the timless child and the flux happening in the future- causing 14s return onwards leading the doctor into a trap to rewrite the past, regenerating by becoming the TC

I will say normally I would expect something to explain it but because the episode was an superhero/superman/James Bond style episode I kinda let it slide and never excepted him to show up again

I want them to come back as full villains

Maybe during the mummy overtaking the world with Bil Potts, the intruder decided to stop... and since then nothing new... and he died from the clam virus in the birds are going down fluxus or other thing that just came months before the pandemic hit IRL

unit were shutdown after the capaldi era... so this creature succeded in having unit shut down until it reopened! :P Isn'T that it? FLUX erased them then !!

I think there should always be something tragic about them, and the viewer should always be reminded that underneath the metal and the cold logic, is a being that had its “humanity” for lack of a better word, stripped from them and forced into these cold metal shells.

Rassilon’s fate will be addressed later...

It was freaky when he revealed he slit his children’s throats when they joined the resistance.

Holy crap I was literally thinking about this like a day ago. So during the comic where he allied with the Cybermen, after they betrayed him he finally had some humility and realized he was wrong and helped the doctor fix everything. That timeline was erased but I think he still remembers it and that would have changed them somewhat. As they weren't on planet at the time I think they survived, perhaps exploring the universe in retrospection of themselves. My hope is that they return someday, wanting to rebuild the time lords, but into something better, a changed being who actually wants to build a world worthy of the doctor calling home.

He's the best. Never been an actor close to him in the role

I Loved peter capaldi As The Doctor

One thing I think is totally overlooked about dr who is the fact they don't even need to try to recast characters as similar looking people...need a bad guy timelord then get who evers available and all the fans just accept it 😂 no other show could do that

The thing that really undermined Ashad wasn't so much the Master so much as the fact that his grand plan was stripping out the organic and turning the cybermen into robots; the fact that the Master basically called him out on it in universe really rams home how stupid and pointless that was, which also bizarrely indicates the writers were aware of this but didn't think to do something more interesting. The idea of a zealot who clearly retains humanity and emotions but is not only willing but completely determined to embrace the upgrading is a very good fresh take on the cybermen, that is only really held back by the fact that such a person would inevitably upgrade out of existence as soon as it were possible; Infuriatingly the writers somehow managed to create the very narrow range of circumstances were a character like Ashad could exist, and then closed that window without taking advantage of it.

I bet rassilon, having been head of gallifrey for that long will play a part in seeing it restored honestly.

Became The Grand Serpent, infiltrated Unit. The flux lead him to the trickster, which allows him to reunite 14 with Donna, leading ti Bi generation. Donna/ 14 become the Hybrid. 15 becomes the Timeless child, causing a universal rewrite. The child becomes fugitive, who is saved by 13s Tardis as she fell to earth. By default 13 found the Tardis after Fugitive, causing her to see her own future. Fugitive is the spy masters counterpart, born after the rewrite, because she was hiding as Ruth he found 13 instead.

He was friends with omega

How did you tune down shepherds boy? That’s the best tune of the song I’ve ever heard! Link please?

Doctors 9-12 from new who really made this show awesome. I have much respect for classic who but wow, a being who is depressed and lonely and sad and has the capacity for great anger and destruction but still choosing the path of mercy and the hero, and good/kindness. That’s something this show lost after capaldi. The Doctor of war ❤

Wow! What a great video! What I think would be an interesting idea is if you take a character like Rassilon and take away everything that makes him powerful, and make him one man out fro revenge. Imagine him going throughout all of time and space, stalking the doctor and altering his personal history. Imagine you are watching the show and certain things just don't add up, and you begin to realize the doctor's life is being taken apart slowly. But outside of what he does, he needs to have a defined personality and not just be this mythic monolith of lore.

Patrick O'Kane gave a menacing performance as Ashad.

If it does, i wonder if they would bring back a character unseen in years. My pick would be The War Chief from The War Games

I always wanted the Jodie's Cybermen trilogy of episodes having come about from the unresolved case in the animated episode Real Time

bro who is over. they killed it with shallowness.