Jason Spisak has recorded voice lines for Silco for season 2, so it's likely that he's going to be a new voice in Jinx's head. That's what i hope at least.

Cause he doesn't have all the baggage anymore he used to have as 14 fixed himself he stopped and recovered you'd know this if you'd paid attention to the specials 60th anniversary

​ @fireredninja9320 ROFL. Baggage? He was always the Doctor, and behaving like Doctor Before and after the time war. You'd know this if you'd watched classic Who. How can you say recovered, when he is essentially a bag of incompetent wet lettuce now? This season, in the first 7 episodes he saves ONLY 1 person - a snot monster. NanE saves the kids, Beatles save the day in Devils Chord, AI saves the day in Boom, 73 yards - no one dies, Dot & Bubble no one gets saved, Rogue: The Doctor almost gets Ruby killed through post twerk flirting and the day has to be saved by Rogue. THAT is not fixing himself. That is him being written as, and behaving as a Massive PU$$Y not the HERO he should be.

In the full version of this video we elaborate on the meaning of that a bit more. The way that anti-black racism specifically prevents him from being able to help these people; it specifically creates a barrier for him that would not have existed if one of his white faces were there instead. The Night of the Doctor IS actually a good example of racism preventing the Doctor from saving someone -- but that's anti-timelord racism. This video isn't about the first time the Doctor was stopped by prejudice, rather just the way this episode avoids racist TV tropes in favour of delivering a much more real, more raw and upsetting conclusion. I actually LOVE the connection you've made with 8 and Cass in Night of the Doctor though, that's a very cool sense of continuity you've spotted which would be really fun to explore in a future video ~ That prejudice, ignorance, the antithesis of the Doctor's ever-curious and ever-learning personality, is the one ever-present barrier to the Doctor's every goal :0 Thank you so much for commenting, it means a lot to all of us :D -The Bird

You mean the statue? That is 100% the chem-baroness Margot.

I have no idea who either of those characters are so I'm just gonna assume she's a new bad guy and enjoy Season 2. :)

I'm the only Australian Screeture, so I genuinely worry about the accent and lingo getting in the way of conveying my points to an international audience :x Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Our DW content doesn't get as much attention so it really means a lot to us all to see people getting into it! -The Bird

I'm so sorry to hear that, but I'm glad that this story spoke to you in a way that really matters (I hope) -The Bird

Hi and thanks for commenting! I'm really glad that you find 10's approach to regeneration an interesting aspect of the character, that's basically what the whole full video is about :D If you have a spare 18 minutes, or don't mind listening in the background, I think you would really enjoy the full video (kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJqvpWxnar-DjNU) as it delves into 10's outlook on regeneration, how it differs with the history and future of the show, what it means for the character himself in-universe AND for the show thematically! Thank you again for commenting, it really means a lot to all of us!! -The Bird

If true, it's possible that it could have been a white doctor and any other ethnicity of finetimers, but regardless I think it's as much a gut punch no matter what. I think the reason that might feel more impactful to you in concept is either because you're white or because flipping them would be a social subversion; either one would rob the audiences that this DID naturally impact of that experience. That is to say, white people such as me and (maybe?) you might have felt a bit icky, or creeped out, or unsettled by the aesthetic of Finetime and not quite been able to pinpoint why until the end. When I hear first-watch reviews from black people, they (most if not all) clocked it INSTANTLY because we -- as the socially dominant class being represented on screen -- are not predisposed to have those suspicions. For us, a light is shone on an issue intentionally kept invisible. For 'them', whoever they may be, this episode gives faithful representation of that kind of bigotry they may have experienced (unlike traditional anti-racist narratives where the bigots get to be proven wrong or defeated by an upstanding minority). The episode twist broadcasts itself to some people and not to others, and the reason WHY this has happened and WHY it worked is the point -- it's an episode that demands thought and discussion on the issue at hand from everyone. I would worry that flipping the races for the sake of risque subversion would only rob the episode of that social impact, and take the weight out of the conversations being had about it. All that to say, if it's true that Moffat told him not to do it with a white Doctor then I'm certainly glad, because the nerve that this episode struck simply wouldn't be there with a 1:1 role reversal. Thank you so much for watching and for commenting, it really means a lot to us and I love having these discussions :D -The Bird

To be honest I’d never considered the race swapping until after I saw RTD make that comment. He also said something about people assuming racism is gone in the far future and when actually it just evolves. And it just got me to thinking if history teaches us anything the ‘safe’ race of one century can be the victims the next. I just thought yeah, in the far future with interplanetary travel and the population so much bigger you probably would end up with people just removing themselves to giant ‘fine time’ bubbles with just one race/culture. I’m a sense coming full circle to before major travel/exploration of other continents was common. The only reason I think it might have been a bigger gut punch (not to take away from the episode at all it was amazing) is that unconsciously we’re so used to the doctor being white up till this point except for the fugitive doctor and his skin colour has never been an issue it would’ve come out of nowhere and almost nobody would’ve picked up on the micro-aggressions at all till after. With 15 you expect there’s going to be bigotry touched on at some point because of the nature of travelling into the past and even the present really. But yeah you’re right I do LOVE a good subversion of expectations or trope to get me thinking, like Bill and the Roman soldiers or the blue guy. I realise not everyone works that way. I just love all the discussions it’s creating tbh.

@@Look_Over_There Yeah I think the discussion this episode generates is its strongest trait and tallest trophy. There are a lot of sci-fi racism stories we could tell, but I think by specifically grounding it in something real while signalling that not only is it not of the past, it will be of the future too if it's allowed to be. The way the audience is so used to the Doctor being white as well is I think what tricks a lot of us whites into NOT catching all the small transgressions that non-white fans clocked immediately. Upon a little introspection, I think I missed them because the Doctor being white has allowed a "colour-blind" viewing experience. I have never assumed before that the Doctor's skin would cause a problem, and I didn't assume now that it was a problem for Lindy. That's why I think it's fun to imagine the combination of sci-fi racism subversion narratives, but that choosing a grounded real-life scenario for this episode is what fundamentally made it. As whites watching an anti-white episode written word-for-word like this episode was, I am sure we would still NOT catch the hints because swapping the roles doesn't swap the social privileges and biases we bring to the episode. So when I say stuff like "they couldn't make this episode with the roles reversed" what I really mean is that they couldn't make the AFFECTS or the discourse of this episode with reversed roles. They could create different discourse, different conversations, and I'd welcome a different episode to try that, but they couldn't replicate this episode's social affect because the social roles we bring to the episode with us are what the story is interacting with. As I said in the full version of this video, I'm sure we'll be talking about this episode for the next 10+ years just because of how it is written to intentionally deliver us an incomplete problem which is left up to us to ponder on. It MAKES you think, and that's what makes it so special in my opinion. -The Bird

I mean, I dunno what to tell you-- that's our channel's brand. Deal with it or don't, it's up to you!

Several of the old Doctors looked like gay white men ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What does it mean to get "disneyed"?

That's a good question, why DOES it specifically remind you of one American political party and its voters? The twist ending is explicitly about how Lindy and her society are racists who (like racists in real life) put all of the facts beneath their biases. Doesn't matter that The Doctor was right, doesn't matter that she couldn't walk by herself an hour ago and now she's going to go colonise land because it's her god given duty; none of it matters because her racial bias is axiomatic. That's not American, that's just how racism and prejudice manifest globally. The Nazis famously denounced what they called "Jewish physics" because their axiomatic antisemitism came before their interaction with science, and that's generally considered one of the core reasons that the German nuclear weapons program wasn't pursued with the sort of urgency that the US's was. If I had to guess, I would say you watch a lot of content creators who monetize the narrativisation of life; the condensing of all things into a flat story thread which you're encouraged to take part in by looking for that story in all things by starting with their conclusions and working backwards to find it in every day life. But that's just a thought ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -The Bird

@idlescree because thats all they talk about is their skin color and about hatred of others

@@idlescree democrats might black nazis and black supremacists

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Bold statement when we have the 13th Doctor Who, AFTER defeating the Master completely by convincing the Nazis that he was a spy for the Allies, decided to strip his disguise off so that the very-racist Nazis would punish him EXTRA hard because he wasn't really white. I quote: "now they'll see the REAL you." That was some pretty bad Doctoring, in my opinion :| -The Bird

here let me tell you something the 13th doctor exists

It's understandable that some people (ESPECIALLY if they haven't re-watched it after the twist ending) might have been mentally ticking the boxes of classism social commentary as the episode pottered along, and so railroaded themselves into that conclusion too early. But it's nuts to see people who HAVE reflected on it, HAVE rewatched, and still insist on denying the racism. Lindy literally turns to face Ruby and the Doctor and says "because you, SIR, are not one of us" like come on :| Thank you for watching though, and thank you for commenting! It seriously means a lot to all of us :D -The Bird

Imagine you show up to set on Day 1 in front of a brand new crew and then drop the rawest goddamn emotion any Doctor has portrayed since Capaldi's Zygon speech. THAT'S one hell of a first impression! :D -The Bird

In "making of" video they openly said that it was of racism. They somehow tried to shove in a racism card into the amateurish hodgepodge of criticism of social bubble, social alienation, trust fund kids, AI, and plain-old selfishness, that it all fell apart! My opinion, to be a racist one has to see those parsons of other race! In my country, there are almost no black people (0,4% of the population) - so no racism. You can't really be bigoted against a group that does not exist.

It's easy to think this on a first watch through because you don't know the underlying twist until the end, but if you rewatch it you'll notice a few things like: 1. Lindy instantly blocks the Doctor, doesn't block Ruby. 2. Lindy gets mad when the Doctor shows up again despite already engaging with Ruby. 3. Lindy didn't realise the Doctor was the same person because she thought they looked the same. 4. Lindy gets mad and seems betrayed(offended?) when she realises that Ruby and the Doctor are in the same room -- she comments on this in the end about how talking over the phone is 'one thing' but to be in the same space is another. 5. When Lindy has to convince her friends to listen she only tells them that HE is not "as stupid as he looks" despite Ruby contributing to the plan just as much. She only has to convince them to listen to the Doctor despite his appearance. 6. When asked why she can't go with the TARDIS, she turns to look at both Ruby and the Doctor and says exactly: "because YOU, sir, are not one of us" -- again specifically singling him out. That's not even the half of it but if you rewatch the episode you will pick a lot up. I think there is some commentary in there about classism as well, but certainly the twist ending is specifically and clearly racial. It's one of those episodes which COMPLETELY CHANGES when you rewatch it knowing the ending, highly recommend! :D Thanks for watching and for commenting~ -The Bird

@Volo870 Racism isn't an action, it's a bias and a prejudice. If the people of your 99.6% non-black population country considered black people to be generally lesser, or of a naturally lower social class, then those would be racist beliefs and they would be racists despite an inability to enact those prejudices upon anyone.

@@idlescree Why did you delete my comment? How can we have a civil argument, if you retroactively remove my statements?

@volo870 There's no deleted comment, I think YT just hasn't loaded properly. Try sorting comments to newest first, and then back to popular first if that doesn't work. Nothing auto-flagged for the review tab either. YT comments system has been very shaky lately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm a HUGE Doctor Who lore fan, but I'm not actually sure what was canon-breaking about this? Is there something I genuinely missed? Does this episode stand in contradiction to something significant (or not) in the established world building of Doctor Who? o-O -The Bird

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@@idlescree Please accept my apology for my rude message. It embarrassingly illustrates that, when addressing people online, I am no better than Lindy, and it has nothing to do with skin color. 😞 Future humanity in Doctor Who universe made interspecies contact - it stopped the “insider” bickering and projected its insecurities to other species: It enslaved the Ood, intermingled with Catkind, dabbled into transhumanism producing Cybermen, started senseless wars with Sontarans, exiled Silurians and were infiltrated by Zygon. It is never implied that in-lore humanity lost its prejudices. On the contrary, those became more prominent and caricaturedly distinct "speciesism" than squabbling about darker pigmented skin. TLDR: in "Planet of the Oods" those were the black guards fulfilling the order to gas the Oods.

@@idlescree Please accept my apology for my rude message. It embarrassingly illustrates that, when addressing people online, I am no better than Lindy, and it has nothing to do with Africans. 😔 Future humanity in Doctor Who universe made interspecies contact - it stopped the “insider” bickering and projected its insecurities to other species: It enslaved the Ood, intermingled with Catkind, dabbled into transhumanism producing Cybermen, started senseless wars with Sontarans, exiled Silurians and were infiltrated by Zygon. It is never implied that in-lore humanity lost its prejudices. On the contrary, those became more prominent and caricaturedly distinct "speciesism" than squabbling about darker pigmented skin. TLDR: in the "Planet of the Oods" those were the black guards fulfilling the order to dispose of the Oods.

David Tennant was just the fake teacher from Harry Potter 4? Peter Capaldi was just Sid's dad from Skins?

you sound like my dad talking about "its impossible to see jon pertwee as the doctor cause i saw him in werzel gummage as a kid"

@kermitenthusiast485 Tell me about it. Equally funny are the people calling THIS Doctor "gay", um, did you SEE what Jon Pertwee wore during his spy years? :') That's our gay icon right there! -The Bird