I think my main problem with this new era is just how poorly paced the episodes are. Everything just feels so rushed and there isn't nearly enough time to breathe and just let the characters grow and develop. That's a disappointment coming from RTD because I think his biggest strength in his first era was his great characterization and character development.

I think something is being overlooked. "Joy to the World" can be criticized as being just OK. That is, on quality. Whereas it has been nearly impossible to criticize other episodes of S1 for quality at all without being called names, whether you liked them or not. This is a massive improvement.

Once again The Doctor could have done nothing and the result would have still been the same. Not the first time this has happened in the latest era.

was looking forward to hearing your thoughts, i personally preferred last years (i think) but thats still subject to change. Similarly to you I really liked some bits and then didn't gel with others and overall felt... a tad unsatisfied. I still need some time to fully mull on it

The episode itself wasn't great, but Ncuti was phenomal. Probably his best performance as the Doctor yet.

I feel the writers have become really careless in this new era. Surely the Doctor would be concerned about a Time Hotel and it's implications and would work to shut it down. Villengard came back for no apparent reason. Why was a Silurian running the hotel? Doesn't matter, don't think about it. I suspect Nicola Coughlan was used in all the promo shots because she's a bigger name than Steph De Walley and therefore would guarantee more viewers, which feels a pretty cynical move. Anita was way more interesting than Joy, whose life is so sad and lonely that it's better if she kills herself? Weird message. Ah but death is not the end. Well, maybe not for the doctor but it is for humans. Weird to suggest otherwise. I did like that they tried to highlight the loneliness some people feel at this time of year but this could have been a story about moving on, the Doctor helping Joy to move on and helping himself to move on but it's just a mess. Again. I really want to like RTD2 but it's a shame he's either forgotten or lost the ability he had to make this show work. I really hope season 2 is an improvement but I have my doubts.

I didn't like the song when I first heard it, but put it down to being a little too Disney. I let it slide because they are funding the project, so something like this was bound to happen. When I watched it the second time, however, I realised I disliked the song because it was entirely exposition about the Goblin King. It didn't feel like a genuine song the goblins would sing when offering him a tribute. I can't remember the actual lyrics, but "hey this is the Goblin King, he's really big, he eats babies" wasn't very compelling. The song could have been an interesting way to show goblin culture and give them a bit of depth, but the song was just complete fluff with no substance. I'm torn about what happened to the Goblin King, too. On the one hand, it is completely outside of the Doctor's character to kill so freely. This is someone who had trouble killing off the Daleks and he had way more reason to do that than having a small ruck with some goblins, baby eaters or not. On the other, we don't know anything about goblin culture and doing what he did might not kill the Goblin King. The King seemed to be part of the ship and they don't really live in physical reality the way we do. So giving him a grievious wound might just act like scuttling the ship, forcing the goblins to disappear to make repairs and tend to him. What I'm saying is, it didn't feel like a murder on the second watch through, but it also felt like something important had been left out to stop it being a murder. Honestly, if they'd put something into the song saying how he was an immortal part of their ship and never steered them wrong, it could have been a good way of explaining what happened without leaving a bad taste in the mouth for long-time fans. It didn't feel like he killed him, but from straight observation, he definitely did. I liked your review and think you bring up good points. I'll definitely be checking you out in the future.

Imagine if the entire series had ended with Revolution of the Daleks…

This episode has MASSIVELY grown on me. I really didnt connect with it when I first watched it. Now I genuinely really like it. It's got a nice vibe and I enjoy it quite a bit. Great video!

I guess on the screw driver debate up until now a sonic device has always been called the things its kind of in the broad shape of. All previous Sonics called a Screwdriver have been long cylinders, like screwdrivers are. When a sonic was in the form of a lip stick it was called the Sonic Lipstick, when it looked like a trowel it was called the Sonic trowel, when it was in the form of sunglasses it was called the Sonic Shades….. despite it always having broadly the same abilities. Which is why people think it could have been renamed here. Or just called a “Sonic” without any additional bit of the name.

It was a mixed bag for me

Really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, 'giving money away is a Doctor thing to do' so was him giving her the bloody money in the first place, could well of been that she was rich, but just not happy with it.

Who? Dont care. Im still outside touching grass.

Star beast was a fine episode, a perfect introductory episode for the specials I think. But yikes the ending was sloppy… I appreciate the trans rep and think rose was overall handled very well aside from the ending which was just really jank. Wild blue yonder is almost one of my favourite Doctor who eps ever… it’s just so bright, the cgi is a lil wonky but if the ship was darker there would’ve been no problem. But so much of the episode is SO GOOD I just wish the ship was darker, like with midnight. The giggle is fantastic and a really good closer to the specials and Neil Patrick Harris did an amazing job as the toy maker and is all round a top tier episode too. The specials overall are really good, a little bit jank with a couple strange decisions but I really liked them and seeing David and Catherine was awesome. Honestly I’d give an 8/10 and say they’re top tier

11:20: A better solution to the metacrisis was RIGHT THERE. Meep's ship had some sort of mind control device, right? Supposed to push something into minds, you might say? So reverse the polarity (of the neutron flow) to suck the metacrisis OUT of Donna and Rose. Make Donna and Rose have to help in order to jigger it correctly. It would make sense why it wasn't something that could be done before: the Doctor wouldn't willingly go seek out such a horrible machine. As a bonus, that energy could be funneled back into the Doctor with the same machine, which could have foreshadowed the bigeneration later. Not the bigeneration part but the first part was legit where I thought they were going with it.

The opening recap would have been fine if they had just used mid and close up shots. It was the seeing his feet standing on nothing that made it look really weird.

What do I think of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials one year later? 📌 Joy to the World trailer breakdown: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z56WooN_lqeKlac NOTE: There seems to be some audio compression issues during The Giggle review section, I’m not sure why that’s happened. patreon.com/joeyunderwood

Rest in peace Doctor Who! Too bad it came to this . . .

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the issue I have with RTD saying it was cut for time is... well, the episodes are FAR too short anyway, in the Chibnall era episodes were on average 50 minutes and yet for some reason we've gone back to 45 with LESS episodes? I really don't get that at all.

Is this Dantdm?

How did you remove the watermark from the top left corner?

Brilliant video I enjoyed that thank you. Also love your look you remind me of a rock band member from the 1970s! Really cool. Take care.

The Terror of the Zygones was the first Dr. Who book I read. It is so disappointing that it got removed from the iPlayer.

I'm expecting sea devils, but then I was expecting Ruby and Ruby's mum to be special and we all know how that turned out.

Having things like Villenguard featuring again go a nice way to making the Whoniverse feel like a consistent place.

I was awaiting the Gatwa tears lol. Somebody needs to do a Doctor cries tally chart for the next season 😂

Nice reaction