Has Doctor Who made a Fatal Mistake? | Verdana Clips

[@gummyb426]

The only clips channel to post an hour long video

[@darkstar_619]

Fr I love it but this is half a movie 🔥

[@HerHollyness]

I honestly feel like I’m the only person in the world who hated 73 Yards. Like, thoroughly despised it. I enjoyed the episode while watching it, right up until the last moment when I realised we weren’t getting any answers and none of it made any sense at all. Comparing it to Turn Left is an entirely unfair comparison. Turn Left is a masterpiece, AND we get answers as to what happened and how Donna won the day. 73 Yards is like a giant middle finger to anyone who likes knowing why and how things are happening (which I’d imagine is most sci-fi enjoyers).

[@hazmat7949]

I've heard people say that if you don't like it then you can't like midnight. It's an episode that doesn't give an answer to everything but is a brilliant stand alone story with only one or two unanswered questions, next to a mystery box episode in 73 yards, which personally I still like despite its flaws

[@HerHollyness]

@@hazmat7949 LOL, "If you don't like this one thing then you're not allowed to like this other thing." I personally love Midnight and don't feel like those two episodes compare either. The only unanswered question in Midnight is 'What was the creature?' but, unlike with 73 Yards, you don't need to know that to understand the episode. You can understand the fear and paranoia the characters go through, as well as the loss of control the Doctor experiences, without knowing or caring what the creature was. But 73 Yards is different (and worse). There are many unanswered questions, some of which need to be answered in order to understand the episode and can't just be handwaved away. What was Old Ruby saying to make everyone, even trained soldiers and Kate (who didn't even get close to her), run away from actual Ruby? How did the time loop start? Was it fairies? Was it magic? Who knows? What made Old Ruby 2 realise she was in a loop and she needed to end it by saying 'Don't step' to herself at the end? What were the hand signals Old Ruby was doing? Where did the Doctor actually disappear to? None of these questions had answers and they need them for the resolution to feel satisfying, especially the first question. Ruby's own mother abandoned her and we never find out why. It's a very dissatisfying episode overall. As I said, I liked it while I was watching it. I liked the spooky tone and I was excited to get some answers. When we didn't, I hated it.

[@katemeiklejohn5800]

Apparently, you're not the only one who hated 73 Yards. I hated it too. It was complete rubbish, and I will never ever watch it again.

[@burgermasonreal]

i dont feel like im allowed to have opinions anymore because i enjoyed sleep no more

[@teamicecream9015]

It's a ghost story mixed with Turn Left. If you don't like ghost stories then it isn't for you. Just because it felt similar in ways to Turn Left doesn't mean you should expect a Turn Left ending, Doctor Who has always messed with other genres.

[@Pooter-it4yg]

I have lots of problems with Davies' awful reintroduction of Sutekh. But just for one, the original said "everywhere I tread I leave nothing but dust" or something like that, meaning he ruthlessly destroys. It didn't mean he had supervillain powers of evil dust. But then Davies - as shown in this misbegotten series and actually often before - is childish and literal. Just about everything in this run evidently came from "wouldn't it be cool if?" with nobody to tell him "no, it wouldn't".

[@HuntingViolets]

Could Disney really not afford a Beatles song? Disney?

[@markstirton]

£250.000 per song.

[@markjones-gu2fj]

73 yards was a rip off of a short french tv film in which a man who can't read has letter delivered and when he asks anyone to read it they run away in horror and not being able to read he never finds out what's in the letter .

[@Tyranniod]

Russel was once a trend setter who fell behind and is now desperately clinging onto other trends, hoping to catch up.

[@kennethnystrom593]

Real problem for Doctor Who is that it had a to good actor in the role of the Doctor in Peter Capaldi. He still overshines the newer people, And that is a curse for the newer actors (JW/NC) as they look like children compared to PC.

[@kevinjmccloy5865]

I’d agree with the 73 yards segment except I personally feel the issues started in the third act, the whole fascist leader plot line felt totally disconnected from the rest of the episode in terms of themes and messaging- it was another attempt to Tory bash by RTD which I’m not against, bash politics all you want but not at the expense of derailing the character journey Ruby was set on. The ending existence ruins any form of mystery as it is an attempt to give you an answer but that answer makes no sense. It’s an episode that feels like it’s using ambiguity as a scape goat for lazy writing.

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Yes WhoCulture has become a sycophantic outlet. We have the love-to-be-haters on one extreme and sycophantic fans full of faux hyperbole on the other. Never has it been so hard to be a balanced intelligent thinking but considerate middle ground viewer. I've lost my sense of caring too. Almost like the world itself, we have extremes running control everywhere and the what I assume the sileny majoirty have been discarded and made to be fearful. Your channel is great. Well done.

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

I've found Harbo Wholmes to be a pretty balanced and reasonable voice when it comes to the new series

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

​@@cameronmcgregor2583 Yes, I agree. I would not include that channel as an extreme in any way. There are about five channels I respect and enjoy. WHO culture obviously has a staff of three or four and it seems to be their income source hence they need to regularly produce new videos. Consequently, we get the common 10 best, 10 worst, 10 of everything lists and they're dull and boring. No, I haven’t watched them to form that opinion. Rather I used to watch maybe the first three/four minutes long ago and made up my mind it was to childish and populist for me.

[@VerdanaClips]

I'M SORRY ABOUT THE ROGUE EYELASH

[@HuntingViolets]

Wouldn't there still be poetry and possibly dance and at least prose and comedy in a planet without music?

[@Mrsjacktheripper09]

You brought to light, pretty much everything that rubs me wrong and worries me in this season. Thank you! Seriously. I thought it was just me.

[@solutions2exist556]

There is no Doctor Who in Doctor Who. Doctor Who does not know who Doctor Who is anymore. The current writers have never met Doctor Who. The real Doctor Who died in one of the last couple of regenerations. The current writers finished Doctor Who off for good. Change for change sake rarely works. Sad.

[@UomodAltriTempi]

As I've stated in other places on the Internet, _"Empire of Death"_ retroactively dismantled the majority of implications and plot points on which the stories of Series 1/14/40 were based on (especially _"The Church of Ruby Road"_ one). Everything happened because they were convinced of something that wasn't there in the first place, and somehow happened regardless: it's like the Bumblebee Anatomy meme... only that, in this case, it was taken too much seriously. This is, in my memory, the worst series of all; and I'm one of those who really liked and enjoyed the Chibnall Era of _"Doctor Who"_ , that is apparently considered as the low point of the show by other fans. Everyone of those three series, with their respective episodes, was more narratevely coherent in their resolutions that the stories in Series 1/14/40 would ever wish to be. And, just to end this flux of thoughts of mine... Davies really has to leave all public statements to the PR department: communication is evidently not at all his strength. Every time he write or release a statement, being into social media posts or interviews, he just ends up making a disaster. From someone who works in the communication field, I really don't envy the colleages who are responsible for Doctor Who's PR during this tenure...

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

I agree with what you said about Rey's parents being nobodies and how it is superior to Ruby's parents being nobodies but another thing you could've mentioned is that the star wars universe is a universe in which ordinary people can have supernatural powers for seemingly no reason but the doctor who universe isn't like that, the doctor had to remove the time vortex out of Rose's mind and had to wipe all his knowledge from Donna's mind because otherwise they both would've died. Humans don't just have supernatural powers in this world

[@PaulRichards-vz4pl]

The writing in new Who is atrocious. The humanisation of the Doctor makes it feel like I’m watching a different character all together. Classic Who had better writers with great casting but just didn’t have a big special effects budget. Modern Who is sound and fury signifying nothing. People die but they come back to life. The Doctor himself now doesn’t have to lose his body and can stick around. No consequences makes for a very dull show. The Doctor was never supposed to be a sexy male model but an unusual looking eccentric outsider. A stoic and resilient type with vast knowledge and not someone who calls people babes or sweetheart and runs away crying! RTD can’t help using too many soap elements and pop cultural references which will date the show badly. Dot & Bubble was ripping off The Machine Stops by E.M Forster. Russell barely has an original idea of his own. Sutekh was trapped in a time corridor not the time vortex so RTD can’t even get Classic Who right and so shouldn’t be using Classic characters if he can’t write them. This is the worst version of Doctor Who I’ve ever seen. This is an amazing assessment and Russell really needs to watch this.

[@IErikSteve]

I agree, babes.

[@PaulRichards-vz4pl]

@@IErikSteve 😂😂😂😂

[@DJ-LD]

Did you just call every doctor pre Christopher Eccleston not sexy and unattractive. Also dude. He literally brought back the master, the daleks, Davros, the cybermen, the sontarins and the Celestial Toymaker. That was him, Russell led that front, so saying he can't do well with classic villains is just incorrect. Oh, he also brought back classic doctor who companions as well, so whatever you're trying to get at is a bit flawed from the get-go or just straight up misinformation presented as though it were true. So the usual hate blindness or intentional hate fuel.

[@DJ-LD]

Probably more the former.

[@PaulRichards-vz4pl]

@@DJ-LD No I’m saying the original creators of Doctor Who didn’t want the Doctor a typical good looking generic type of character. That’s not to say you can’t have a good looking actor in the role however if it becomes nothing but a long line of good looking actors then it’s missing out on having more unusual looking types playing this part. It was Verity Lambert who said it’s best the actor chosen has something unusual looking about them. I think with Eccleston he had the big nose and ears. With Tennant he had a sort of geeky computer nerd look. Matt Smith was unusual looking with the forehead and chin and of course Peter Capaldi had the alien stick insect look. I suppose there was a slight goofy look to Whittaker but with Gatwa he does look like male model material which is very Hollywood. I can’t imagine RTD casting the likes of Hartnell, Troughton or Sylvester McCoy today. He and Julie Gardner made some comments in the past that weren’t too favourable regarding older actors. I’m not saying RTD didn’t bring Doctor Who back successfully at all. Yes he brought back Classic villains such as Davros which he for mad reasons wouldn’t today. Having grown up on Classic Who the thing that appealed to me most was the Doctor’s alien, aloof and eccentric qualities. He never flirted with anyone and nor did he break down in tears. RTD brought it back but not with the same characteristics. Now I don’t mind the Doctor being emotional when called for, although I prefer the Classic way of doing it but here with Gatwa he’s crying nearly every episode. It’s too over the top.

[@trevorfeelgood]

Russell t davies hates Dogs

[@anbFUSION]

18:34 we actually do learn a lot about the villain from turn left, just not directly in this episode. The bug that changes Donna's past works for the trickster, a god villain that appears in classic who and Sarah Jane adventures, and constantly tricks people into agreeing to change stuff in thier past, often with terrible results. It's a really cool villain that is worth looking up

[@davecolumbus8014]

Another set of six words to end the video could have been: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility And this is where I think Russell has fallen short.

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

I liked your thoughts on the whole idea of Ncutis Doctor crying so often. Having a good hold over your emotion does not equal crying all the time, maybe he could've cried in a couple of episodes but doing it so often makes him seem like he's gone too far the other way and is now a bit of an emotional mess who can't help but cry at every little sad thing

[@NukedKnight]

WOOOOOO Love your video on this, man I personally would've prefered this part of the video to be a seperate video tho that might just be me 😭

[@VerdanaVideos]

Well now it is! And thank you!

[@NukedKnight]

@@VerdanaVideos Yuh, thanks!! :D

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Who knows with RTD. He tells lies and this has now been proven.

[@Sonar_thee_trotter]

Bro materialized on my recommended page

[@akaiendo7312]

Dot and bubble felt very weird toward the end because the girl just murders Ricky then 2 minutes later I'm supposed to feels bad because this girl with no redeeming qualities who just murdered someone is also racist?! Like if the only point they wanted to make is that she is a terrible person maybe but it's clearly not the case and I was confused because the murder seemed a lot more important than her being racist to me.

[@jd_music23]

Okay. Do also need to say that the ratings can't really be commented on. We know that the ratings are based on TV. And most people aren't watching it on TV now and we don't have all streaming figures. Streaming has also changed viewing habits e.g. people will watch things later down the line on catch up rather than when it airs so won't be noted on viewing figures. Also if it's on Disney plus and iPlayer people who are in the UK may still watch it on Disney plus so less views would be counted again. Also it's still got the same level of popularity as before if you look at ratings compared to others shows that evening on TV... Just less people watch TV now. And also the time of year it aired has lower TV ratings anyway. So the "lower than ever" viewing figures is just misinformation.

[@purpleduke3193]

I honestly think Ruby's timeline and all the annoying conveniences in the plot when it comes to her mystery serves a potential purpose going forward. The whole of Ruby's background, arch and unremarkable solution absolutely scream Trickster. There's so much evidence for this theory both within the show, Tales of the TARDIS, and in bts interviews for it to be at least plausible that her entire character and circumstance to be just a ploy.

[@kathelliott6856]

Lets hope next season is better!

[@Hilda_ogden]

I swear people have been hating the showrunner ever since the revival. Ive literally witnessed the fandom go through this cycle all the time, they've NEVER been happy.

[@kydiszellinger2909]

I didn’t necessarily agree with all of your points, but I really did enjoy this video. It’s really well made and I’m quite shocked you don’t have more views/likes. Good job king, will keep watching!

[@littlekalezsi4372]

Dude, i love your work so much.

[@HuntingViolets]

They went through all the gods, so even though I didn't know Sutekh, they said he was the god of death, so I was okay. I ended up watching "Pyramids of Mars" before the finale, just because people online said I should, but I think I would have been fine without it. I do wish they would have lower-stakes finales.

[@Concreteowl]

Sutekh is the god of beneficial chaos and storms and foreigners and he has a donkey/ant-eater head not a Jackal. Anubis, his son is the God of the Dead, but not the God of Death. He looks after dead people he doesn't kill people. In Pyramids of Mars Sutekh becomes paranoid that anything could become his enemy so he wants everything dead so he can feel secure.

[@bjiornbjiorn]

Any discussion of Anubis allows you to use one of the fun words: Psychopomp

[@jammin023]

I love how RTD is subverting all the old tropes of storytelling - like original ideas, and coherence, and pacing, and logic, and character development, and cause-and-effect, and tonal gradients, and making sense.

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

To be fair he's done well in staying true to old tropes when he did a Chibnall in space babies and made it so that the clearly evil monster is obviously horribly misunderstood (despite the fact it has not been seeded in the episode at all)

[@joelsoetendorp3279]

there was a lot about this season, but it felt unlucky, not enough episodes or nguti and that terrible opening episode. Good stuff but it just felt unlucky and such a poorly thought out final episode. DId Sutek turn evil because Captain Jack creeped on him, when they were both hanging off of the Tardis? It's interesting how brave and break away the the Ecclestone season was. It has felt like it was going around in circles

[@elberno4243]

Boom, is a rehashed "The Doctor's Daughter" An army killing themselves, trying to terraform. Also, The Devil's Chord, was "The Idiot's Lantern" Dot & Bubble, is almost "Blink" Rogue, stinks of "The Girl In The Fireplace" The Finale, was "Last Of The Timelords"

[@Futurebound_jpg]

Damnnn i liked the episode about the maestro but your proposed rewrite wouldve been wayyyyy better

[@joelsoetendorp3279]

great detailed and fare review

[@Concreteowl]

I agree entirely except I dislike Rogue too.

[@Limes_not_Lemons]

Honestly I'll say The Devil's Chord is slowly turning into my least favourite episode of Ncuti's run so far, yes potentially even worse than Space Babies. The pacing is pretty terrible, the cut explanation for the musical ending scene is disappointing and it's the only episode where Ncuti's acting is actually pretty weak. His emotional acting is at least decent as always, but damn, physically he's so stiff in that episode, like the mlment where Maestro is controlling the TARDIS and he kinda stands straight pointing like it's a pantomime, or when he explains the pantheon of gods and he dramatically holds his hand out and kinda just freezes in a corny pose. It's an episode that feels so unnatural throughout, it feels like a first draft even down to the directing. If Space Babies is Doctor Who brainrot then The Devils Chord is an AI generated daily slop video. Honestly the worst Season debut for Doctor Who I can think of. Not counting the Christmas Special, Ncuti has the worst first main story since The Twin Dilemma, and that's depressing

[@CasualLog]

I love you verdana

[@SmartAlec86]

That dance number is actually explained in a deleted scene. Basically, the Doctor said that music is returning to the world, and so for the next few minutes, everyone will take part in a song and dance number as a reaction. It may not be the best explanation, but it's something. There's nothing wrong with the Doctor being more emotional now. It's part of the character progression. But yes, he cries too much. It ends up defeating the overall impact when he actually cries. But you're wrong about it making more sense to make him more stoic. This Doctor is a healed version of 14, but it's because of being healed from repressing his own emotions that he's now able to freely express his emotions honestly. He's more emotional because he's free of that mental burden. Fun Fact: That's not an entirely new TARDIS. I suppose it is the creation of it, but that's the Memory TARDIS which has been established in a miniseries that before this episode was just a way to previous Classic Doctor Who characters to remember details. And when the Season Finale was made, a new episode of that miniseries was made to correlate with it, with Ruby and 15 talking about the Sutekh serial. No real emotion to it? There's a whole Season's worth of emotion. Aside from the question of who Ruby's mother is, the key theme of the entire Season was the Doctor's desire to save everyone. So the fact that he has to kill Sutekh is painful to him. He took no joy or satisfaction from killing Sutekh, but he did it because he had to. Also, the entire Season wasn't teasing "The One Who Waits". It was only really mentioned in The Devil's Chord. My theory about why Ruby's mother couldn't be found was exactly because of what was explained. She was just an ordinary person, and nobody was looking for an ordinary person because it's never an ordinary person. And everyone; Ruby, the Doctor, UNIT, even Sutekh. Because they were all looking for someone special, they were incapable of comprehending the notion that she was just an ordinary person. And this all stems back to The Church on Ruby Road, where Ruby was surrounded by coincidences. And since coincidences tend to have a cosmic force applied to them, those cosmic coincidences are what hid Ruby's mother from detection. Fun Fact: The reason why Sutekh only took action when he did was because he was dormant for all that time. He was woken up in the second special when Donna spilled coffee on the TARDIS console. Sutekh was woken up with a cup of coffee. And the TARDIS first makes that groaning sound just afterwords when they land on that ship. Here's something to think about. If Sutekh was attached to the TARDIS for all that time, when 15 used that hammer to duplicate the TARDIS so 14 could also have one, was Sutekh also duplicated? Ruby leaving the TARDIS likely didn't feel as meaningful because of how short the Season was. We never really got enough time to care about her relation with the Doctor. Ironically, Flux did a better job with less time...but that's because 13's relationship with the new character didn't go too deep. Since "Season 1" was supposed to make you care about Ruby's relationship with the Doctor, a shorter Season just won't cut it. I've heard that her overall arc isn't finished. When you say "there was no answer", I would add "yet" to that comment. There is no answer yet. This still could be part of an overacting multi-Season plot. Toxic positivity is a thing. But it's not quite what your describing. But what you're describing is a thing too. I basically keep my focus on the fact that there is more Doctor Who to come. So there's a possibility that it will be explained later on. I mean, discovering who River Song was took multiple Seasons, two Doctors, and three companions to finally learn the truth. My theory about Mrs Flood is that she's actually Susan, as in the Doctor's grandaughter. Perhaps the problem with "Season 1" was simply bringing RTD back rather than getting a fresh writer. What did they do for 6 months before visiting a new planet? Visiting different time periods on Earth. Also, I know Space Babies wasn't a good episode, but doesn't being in a spaceship count? Maybe she just didn't have a good view. It's actually a myth that ratings went down. That's relying on the wrong statistics. Ratings didn't go down, viewership went down. And this applies to all of television. It's Spring. People will have better things to do that to stay inside and watch TV. And in the UK where the majority of Doctor Who fans are, the show aired at midnight. But when you compare Doctor Who's statistics with the rest of television, almost each and every episode was in the top 20 when it comes to viewership, which is an impressive feat. And even on Disney+, who were complaining about it not being as popular as they wanted, it was still in the top 10 live action shows. Season 1's ratings were in fact on par with Series 1 with Christopher Eccleston. That's not bad.

[@falsemessiah9902]

Woah … that’s incredible levels of coping

[@SmartAlec86]

@@falsemessiah9902 Coping with what?

[@thapotatonater827]

Only 1 fatal mistake…….i can name about a dozen of the top of my head.

[@NelsonStJames]

There is nothing wrong with handing over total control when you’re dealing with an actual auteur ( a word like genius that gets tossed around a bit too liberally these days ). RTD like George Lucas are not auteurs. There are very few auteurs in the film industry, and even fewer when it comes to television, Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey) being the only one that immediately comes to mind when thinking about the latter.

[@tomnorton4277]

George Lucas is an auteur. Russel T Davies isn't.

[@markkavanagh7377]

Doctor Whatevvvveeeerrrr!

[@Zayden5]

What had me was the lost chord was just C major 9:07 not even like Cdom7 yikes 😂😂 I have absolute pitch too imagine how unimpressed I was with it 😂😂

[@joshuajoshua2732]

Personally I think bringing back David Tennant as the 14th Doctor was a mistake and the bi-generation and making Ncuti's Doctor cry every brimming episode which either RTD doesn't fully understand the character anymore or he's simply doing it to piss people off or he just overthinks emotion. He seems a better writer at soap opera rather than science fiction and adding fantasy to which Dr. Who is not a fantasy show.

[@mugencc8496]

0:44 Are you implying Matt Smith didn't have drip?

[@TheAquabears]

After the trainwreck that was the Chibnall era, I was hoping they'd get the show back on track, but the season opener instantly repulsed me. I ended up sitting out the entire season waiting to hear it got good again. What I heard was, it didn't. And I'm not sorry I missed it.

[@Bujucu]

Thank you

[@TheTrollerGamer]

I loved Season 1, but the finale had me worried about RTD this time around. As someone who loved his first era and the 60th Specials, I was sure he was going to pull it off again. But the finale was so disappointing. When Sutekh was defeated like nothing, I knew it was coming because we are talking about the guy who wrote Donna defeating the Supreme Dalek and Davros by...controlling their chairs. So once Sutekh was killed, I was like ''Okay, we still have 20 minutes to go. RTD is known for solving the main threat in a silly way and then emotionally destroy us with the last 15 minutes of the episode''. Then...Ruby's mom is revealed. I was speechless by how bad it was and how infuriating the whole thing was. I will never not be angry when I remember lines like ''She is important because we made her important'' and ''She was naming you!''. Then we have RTD acting in the interviews like he is such a genius and he keeps saying things that makes me wonder he is getting old or if he just wants to troll the fans. Saying stuff like bringing back dead actors who played the Doctor by using CGI or saying the 4th wall breaks are just him being funny.

[@icarusandtherabbit]

Space Babies is the worst episode ever and needs to be deleted from cannon. Just watching the clips triggered my ptsd. I need The Mind Probe to forget it. Fear Her and the Twin Dilemma are classics compared to this. .

[@lieutenantadventures1479]

Nope.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

I tried. I got 12 minutes in and you said the ending for the Maestro episode was bad and then... offered something even worse. It feels like you missed the point of the episode. And, in fact, of the whole season.

[@noahwomack729]

What did he miss about the point of the episode? I feel like his version, while still hokey, gives the episode a better theme regarding talent and music, and involves the Beatles in the solution of the plot. As it stands, the episode feels like a really weak and shallow take on the power of music that exists to string us between silly imagery and an ending musical number. If you have some greater insight I'd love to hear it.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

@@noahwomack729 the point of the episode was to reverse the sin Davies was constantly accused of last time he was show runner - making the Doctor the best in the world at everything. The Doctor can't beat Maestro at a devil-went-down-to-Georgia music battle, because Maestro is like a god of music and the Doctor is clever, but not the most gifted musician of all time. That's also why the Doctor gets the note wrong and the Beatles have to fix it.

[@markkavanagh7377]

@michaeljohnsonetc. You are actually RTD and I claim my prize. :))

[@SubscribersWithNoVideosC-eq7ht]

@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg I'm a little confused by your point. You say that "The Doctor can't beat Maestro at a devil-went-down-to-Georgia music battle", but Verdana never suggested such a thing. His ending was for the Beatles AND all the other musicians at Abbey Road to team up to take down the Maestro, not for the Doctor to do it.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

@@SubscribersWithNoVideosC-eq7ht that's an answer to a different question. Noah asked me what the point was that he missed.