Doctor Who: Modern 1x13: "The Parting of The Ways" | FINALE REACTION!!

[@stickytapenrust6869]

Farewell Chris. I was 14 when this series was broadcast. By David’s first series I had aged a bit more and by his second, I was 16 and went off Who for a few years as David Tennant didn’t impress. So NuWho S1 arrived *just* at the right time in my life for me. Christopher Eccleston - you were *MY* Doctor!

[@SeanS102]

The production company Bad Wolf is named after this as opposed to the other way around

[@Jaketherobonrd]

Well it’s the end of Eccleston. It’s a shame he only lasted one season because he was great! This was definitely a stand out finale no doubt. Funny story I remember is before the episode went out on first broadcast, friend of mine had a theory that Jack was in league with the Daleks and was their emperor. So glad he was wrong

[@parsnip168]

Yeah wish he did more seasons amazing actor. Perfect for the doctor

[@kemmdog4444]

After Jack shot the Dalek inside the TARDIS, he said that the gun didn’t work anymore.

[@Finbarzapek]

It’s interesting for me to remember back on this. It all felt so epic and magnificent at the time, and for a while I genuinely considered it the best 45 mins of ‘Doctor Who’ ever. The show I’d considered dead and gone was more alive than it had ever been. Bear in mind that just a year earlier, the Daleks had been a comedy gag in ‘Looney Tunes: Back in Action’. It had been pretty cool to see them in that movie, but they’d still just been a joke. That was how the world saw them in the early 21st century - a joke. Now they were back for real, and in 2005 they were a serious threat. Once again they were up there with the greatest sci-fi villains - up on the highest rung with Darth Vader, Khan, the Klingons, the Martians from ‘War of the Worlds’ etc The Daleks were BACK. And killing people by the millions. And then we had the regeneration to top it off. I wish they’d somehow managed to keep that a secret but it was leaked all over the newspapers months earlier. Eccleston was amazing in his single season - one of the best Doctors ever. The fact that the revived show is still going today, almost 20 years later, is a testament to the strong foundations put in place in 2005.

[@MrPaulMorris]

A good finale that is almost a textbook example of (literally) a 'deus ex machina' resolution!

[@Benji568]

The actress who played one of the Satellite 5 operators was also in a recent live event that Big Finish put on on London called "The Stuff of Legend". I went on the opening performance and it was fantastic.

[@TastySalamanders]

I'm a little surprised the Born Again minisode isn't on your DVD. I got the DVDs when they originally came out and it was included. But could also be a regional difference since I'm in Australia and not America.

[@scottredding7357]

I like how the Emperor is hiding in the dark until he gets to have a dramatic reveal.

[@benjaminwilson2945]

40:34 The majority of schools in the UK don't have a mascot. The ones that do will be the exception.

[@MrEvers]

If the Kaleds became the Daleks, then these must be Numahs.

[@7thHourFilms]

Do you think they sing Numah Numah? ...Did I just age myself too much?

[@MrEvers]

@@7thHourFilms I'm 38, the pain is real. Also, now I want that Dalek cover of "Dragostea din tei"

[@HuntingViolets]

My favorite Doctor. But now I can go backwards through his run.

[@dorememe8548]

It’s so exciting getting to see a classic Doctor Who fan experience David Tennant for the first time.

[@swanchamp5136]

The UK doesn't really have high school mascots for school teams. School sports is not as big a thing as it is in America. The only time I've seen mascots in the UK are for football teams.

[@SeanS102]

Even then the mascots aren't as prevalent

[@barriehull7076]

The original Mini, like Micky's, had small cc engines and are not all Mini Coopers, only the top of the range. Engine cc: 848 cc, 970 cc, 997 cc, 998 cc, 1,071 cc, 1,098 cc, 1,275 cc A-series I4.

[@imafgc]

Farewell 9th Doctor, one of my top 4 favourite Doctors (1 and 7 being two others, the 4th? you haven't got there yet). I love Chris's portrayal of the Doctor, the trauma lingering just under the surface and his arc of this season being one of acceptance and coming to terms with what he thinks he's done and Chris performs it perfectly and I will always love the ending to the Doctor Dances "just this once, everybody lives". Season 1 overall is one of my favourite seasons of new Who and I'm glad you both enjoyed it very much. Also here's a quote from the actress Maureen O'Brien (who played Vicki) about her view on the 9th Doctor "For me, he is the most convincing successor to William Hartnell because he has a quality of danger, real danger. A guy who if you get on the wrong side of him could really allow his rage to run away with him, but he keeps it in check. I think for kids that's really important. We'll follow this guy, we'll go with this guy and he's also a man on a quest. A man with a purpose. A man with a passion. And I think all those things could have come directly from Bill and since he's supposed to be an embodiment of Bill, since they all are, I think he's a really serious contender"

[@ValueNetwork]

You Asked how many daleks props they had: I believe they only had 3 Daleks (the 3 you see in that Hallway scene where they get shot at to 0 effect). Plus a extra from Dalek was a backup that they used as a SFX prop (the Mutant at the end of Dalek and the damaged Dalek after Jack blows it up are the same prop, you can see that it has the Gold stripe across its waist, whereas the Daleks made for this story are fully brown) Shots like the one where the Daleks march in formation to attack the base were created by them filming the same 3 daleks over and over again then stitching the shots together. And all of the flying scenes + Backround daleks were CGI.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

First returned appearance of the Dalek Emperor since 1967 with the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) story "The Evil of the Daleks".

[@kemmdog4444]

“It’s the end but the moment has been prepared for.”

[@Mayeur000Donz]

The Dalek Emperor is seriously Thanos-quality. Almost every line from him is memorable.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

I don't know if Christopher Eccleston has the essense of Sylvester McCoy but I do see a Tom Baker essence with Eccleston definately, particulary with the humour.

[@HuntingViolets]

"Alien reindeer coming to kill Father Christmas." Another one for the title list.

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4575]

Your Dad’s reaction to Love & Monsters is going to be something

[@rhysh7390]

So good! Ecclestone was a fantastic Doctor. The buzz around that season when it aired in the UK was so special after how the general feeling for the show had been when the classic run had finished. No duffers in this season! Hope you get to watch the children in need special before the first proper episode! Explains what happened to Barcelona!

[@joshuajoshua2732]

There is a book called "Dr. Who and the Time War" that was written by Russell T. Davies himself before the existence of the War Doctor (John Hurt) RTD's original intension was to have the Eighth Doctor be the one to have fought in the Time War which the book ended with the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) regenerating into the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston).

[@SeanS102]

More of a short story, it was later published in anthology, but it is not book length

[@kemmdog4444]

Apparently this is same Emperor of the Daleks from Evil of the Daleks.

[@jacobhogan3208]

Rip the Dalek Emperor: Evil of The Daleks - Parting Of The Ways

[@alexbruce9499]

The way I see it, the Dalek Emperor managed to break the Doctor. Throughout their exchanges, the Emperor keeps picking at the Doctor's guilt and trauma over having destroyed the Time Lords along with the Daleks. So when the point came for the Doctor to make the same kind of decision again, he couldn't go through with it.

[@rocketeer3667]

I never saw your Channel before. For a split second I had the impression that a bespectacled Klingon Cosplayer was co-hosting with Jonathan Frakes. 🤣

[@keithsolley]

in a later episode they had to make a completely new Emperor Dalek mutant because the water from this episode had rusted the metal inside

[@MrApplelovin]

As someone who works within the Church, the 'do not blaspheme' GIF is fairly high in my most used list 😅

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

32:15 I feel like alot of people figured out the big reveal, including figuring out the red herring

[@colby_247]

Remember to watch Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2005 before the Christmas special. You can watch it in KZbin there's a 1080p upscale version.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

The slitheen is a family name not their actual race name their race is raxacoricofallapatorians which I still have trouble pronouncing.

[@whobp8]

And so, having re-re-disposed of the Daleks, it's exit, stage left for the Ninth Doctor. I'm not sure how well using an anagram of Rose's name instead of Bad Wolf would have worked. "Everywhere we go, the same two words, following us. Le Royster!" Or Trey Loser spray painted on the side of the TARDIS. 😂

[@jthoward]

20:00 Oh you just wait until you meet 12

[@daxeah8472]

I know yall have so very much Who to go through, but if yall ever need a break, I think yall would love The Expanse. Particularly due to the contents of your discussion.

[@BrianDavidson-q1j]

Whose afraid of the big 'BAD WOLF '

[@SuperCookie64]

I assume you'll be watching "Born Again" as well? Edit: That'll teach me to watch the whole video, lol

[@briancarlosgreen]

He says he will at the end of the video

[@wardjunior1450]

Everyone was talking about doctor who at this point. People would have figured out anything.

[@HuntingViolets]

Why does it have to be a goofy picture, though? You could put the number on the other side too.

[@MrJ.Smith1234]

This was such a good series of Doctor Who as it managed to surpass all ideas about Doctor Who just being a goofy, cheap sci-fi show. I honestly think if the BBC had just ended there with it then it would have been a fitting conclusion to the show.

[@tokublwhovian]

Is it just me or does the episode look sped up?

[@space1999]

Back when dr who could do little wrong....

[@elliottnoad1270]

Rumour has it that there was an alternative ending where Eccleston Doctor survived but Rose was dying, with the alt was shown to the press before airing to keep the regeneration secret/act as a if Eccleston was going to stay. Of course the BBC announced the Regeneration as Revival S1 began airing so the suprise was lost.

[@resiseven7407]

they announced it early because the news was leaked

[@stickytapenrust6869]

I kind of get the feeling that Lynda would have been the next companion had Rose died.

[@Longshanks1690]

@@stickytapenrust6869Nah, she was always a red herring. It’s such an obvious setup that she’s been introduced and given a companion like personality that she has to die.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

I prefer the classic regenerations over the modern ones because the classic ones were always creative and artistic and I like that it was done with a new special effect every time and when the Doctor lays down because it makes it look like he's actually dying, though with NuWho I was intrigued with the golden glow highlander regeneration the first time round with Eccleston because it was new and different at the time but now it has become a really tired trope and I wish they would get back to laying down and regenerate with a different effect.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

"Religion of the Daleks" would had made a nice episode title.

[@HuntingViolets]

Tennant looks small in that jacket. It's like, who is this kid?

[@Rocket1377]

It's funny, because he's actually taller than Christopher Eccleston. He's just much skinnier.

[@ZondaFRoadster]

I never did understand. How could Rose hold onto the time vortex for at least a couple of minutes with no long-term health effects, when the Doctor couldn't handle it for more than 20 seconds without it effectively killing him?

[@andrewroberts299]

This! 100% That whole sequence just didn’t work in that context.

[@7thHourFilms]

Perhaps it was just a matter of building energy. Like the longer Rose had it, the worse it was. So once The Doctor took it, it was at a critical point thus hurting him much faster.

[@andrewroberts299]

@@7thHourFilms that’s a good plausible explanation. Shame it wasn’t addressed in the 9th Doctor’s last speech, or in 10th’s first story.

[@MuchWhittering]

11:18 They only had 3 Dalek props. It's not exactly CGI, it's a lot of cutting up the frame to double up the same props, I believe. You've seen the Emperor Dalek before, he's in The Evil of the Daleks, which you watched a LONG time ago now. On the twist thing, I dunno what show that is, but I know that the people behind The Simpsons have said they found someone online in the 90s who figured out Who Shot Mr Burns perfectly. I've seen speculation that Harry Potter was changed because people figured out potential twists. Total Wipeout didn't begin until 2009 (Based on the 2008 US show Wipeout), so that would have been a tad difficult to do in 2005. "Most schools have a mascot." Not in the UK. School sports aren't really a thing here. After school football or other sports might be a thing, but we don't have "teams". Certainly this entire industry of school sports being a major thing people follow and attend games for, is absolutely not a thing here. Even at university level, if you're in the netball or football team, I guarantee nobody else will care.

[@alexbruce9499]

Although it's not clear whether it's intended to be the same Dalek Emperor from Evil of the Daleks, or a different Dalek Emperor. I mean, they also saw another Dalek Emperor in Remembrance of the Daleks, but it happened to be Davros holding the title.