Doctor Who Review Moffat DESTROYS Ncuti Gatwa Season 1 Episode 3

Doctor Who Review of Ncuti Gatwa's Season 1 Episode 3 Disney+ series with Russell T Davies. The BBC and Disney teamed up for Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who series 1, but have they kept up the quality of previous doctors like David Tennant or Matt Smith? Did Matt Smith make the right decision to move onto House of the Dragon? While Doctor Who faces a war torn planet and faith in episode 3. Is Doctor Who worth watching on Disney+?
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[@disparutoo]

Doctor Who Review of Season 1 Episode 3, this episode is written by Steven Moffat rather than Russel T Davies. While it did cut down on the messaging, it's still very much there, just about different topics. I'm not sure why every writer has come back just to push their new ideas but it seems to be the reason behind it. This episode is better than the Russel T Davies episodes, but that's not to say it's good. We've just lowered the bar and hope you don't think if the plot makes sense. The episode is also a lot worse when you understand the ideas behind it from Steven Moffat's interviews. Which is why I included it at the start. But what did you think about what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@racheljames7]

Disparu, you're a good soul with a pure heart. You have good morals and know the difference between right and wrong. I'm grateful for you. God bless, mate. ✝️

[@patriot639]

I have a theory about this "doctor" before the "female doctor" the actual doctor got infected with the woke mind virus which is what triggered his female transformation. The real doctor finally fought his way back up to the surface but he was still infected with the mind virus. The toymaker actually likes the doctor so he cured the doctor by extracting Ncuti out of him, and now this is just the woke mind virus fantasy land.

[@freman007]

Modern militaries actually work really hard to keep soldiers alive, to the point of compromising their effectiveness through carrying too much armor, because the cost of equipment is actually very cheap compared to the cost of training a soldier. Drop a rifle, you can replace the rifle. Lose a soldier and that's years of training down the toilet.

[@itsalwaysoniontime]

At least we actually got a plot this time

[@quatore-5886]

Hi Disparu, loved you on FNT! Sorry I can't finish this video, keep puking

[@DarthZ01]

any doctor before jodie: steps on a mine, immediately pulls out sonic and analyzes it, determines the function of detecting life, uses the sonic to spoof an inorganic signature and push it into the mine, mine deactivates temporarily, doctor leaps off and gets out of the blast radius before the sonic spoof ends. ncuti: steps on a mine, immediately begins crying

[@mayotango1317]

No with the Fourth Doctor. Even Tennant cry a lot.

[@dcarr8816]

Yes, I too recall the fourth Doctor also stepped on a mine and very calmly told Sarah and Harry to gingerly shove smaller rocks underneath it to support it before he moved off of it. While he was rather tense, he certainly did not break down in tears…..

[@alphamineron]

⁠@@mayotango1317 false, and when did Tennant cry? List the moment and tell me there wasn’t an entire season or episode worth of heavy build up behind it? Tennant cried for Master. Tennant cried for Rose. And those cries were manly cries… he was holding back tears not streaming them like water. Just like how Thor and Steve Rogers cried when Tony died. Their eyes were heavy, holding back tears… not sobbing like a paralyzed teenager

[@daveellis3048]

Atleast this meant he couldn't run away for once lol 😂😂

[@JB-yb4wn]

Why aren't you writing for the show? I would have watched that.

[@Eron_the_Relentless]

We've fallen very, very far from: Dalek : We have your associate. You will obey or she will be exterminated. The Doctor : No. [everyone looks at The Doctor, stunned] Dalek : Explain yourself. The Doctor : I said no. Dalek : What is the meaning of this negative? The Doctor : It means no! Dalek : But she will be destroyed! The Doctor : No! 'Cause this is what I'm gonna do - I'm gonna rescue her! I'm gonna save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm gonna save the Earth, and _then_ - just to finish you off - I'm gonna wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky! Dalek : But you have no weapons, no defences, no *plan*! The Doctor : Yeah, and doesn't that scare you to death? The Doctor : Rose? Rose : Yes, Doctor? The Doctor : I'm coming to get you.

[@faithcastillo9597]

I loved Eccleston's Doctor. Broody, a little bit dangerous and unpredictable, and totally loyal to his companions.

[@mayotango1317]

​@@faithcastillo9597No to Adam.

[@mayotango1317]

No forget this from Boom Town. JACK: Aw, sweet, look at these two. How come I never get any of that? DOCTOR: Buy me a drink first. JACK: You're such hard work. DOCTOR: But worth it.

[@Japaneseanimeguy]

I remember at one potint during the New Who era we had somebody stating that the most terrifying thing was to see The Doctor with no weapons. Just because he doesn't appear to be armed heavily does not mean he isn't a threat.

[@Killthefish]

​@@Japaneseanimeguyit was when the old doctor (Tennant and the one before forgot his name) had a weapon that you should worry, the stuff he could do without one was on the verge of being a walking WMD with unlimited uses but with a gun, hes just a literal demon

[@ComicArtiste]

Every time Ncuti says "babes" or "honey" it just makes me cringe. The doctor is supposed to be a superior being, not a snivelling gaylord

[@DarkSun123456789]

Not to mention what would happen if a normal white dude said "honey" to a woman.

[@MrPonytron]

What's even worse is that he was saying all that while standing on a mine

[@animefreak10023]

I'm a southern woman and we use babe and honey a lot. It's just part of our speech but it sounds so weird coming from him.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

It isn't the dr though, its gatwa playing gatwa, not a time lord

[@MrPonytron]

@@cyberleaderandy1 Good point there

[@Toliman.]

"Ambulances kill you with Thoughts and Prayers" So, it's an episode about Canada. Very progressive of the BBC.

[@natp8387]

Funny thought, looked into that. Turns out you gotta jump through a lot of hoops and convince several doctors to go that route. So it literally takes more work to get the Canadian medical board to kill you than to make an episode of Dr. Who now.

[@user-fg5zx4gz1z]

Tbf at least in Canada the Ambulances show up. I wouldn't be too sure about that in parts of the UK.

[@melissar4612]

I thought the same thing.

[@AnoneemusNoename]

@@user-fg5zx4gz1z Also we have MAID so doctors will kill you by snowing you into a forever sleep with drugs as well. Hey remember when Dr. Kavorkian was considered a bad guy and was sent to prison for second degree murder? Yeah...

[@theelder4797]

"You stubbed your toe? Best we can do is have you THINK about sew Ee side, and we pray you take us up on that offer." --- Canada-stan healthcare

[@jamesnoe7378]

Seeing David Tennant, being one of the greatest doctors and then seeing him now is truly devastating...

[@leeharris8102]

UK here.. i was born 1980, so Star Wars and Dr Who ect, i was in the middle of everything.. the Prequels were the big thing at the cinemas (me 18) so i am someone that likes them. anyway, with Dr Who, i saw some of the movies, (we only had 4 TV channels until 1997 lol) so anything that came on was worth watching lol... David Tennant is my Dr. he got me into it, Matt Smith was ok. as i have kids, i watched the Sarah Jane adventures too. they were ok. 1000x better than this crap. i said that saying you just been snowmaned in the first episode should not have happened. being a family show. had 100s of likes, then 1 angry face. woke up this morning and they were saying i was basically a bigot with an anti gay agenda, then had a screen shot of Snowmanning. to me, this is how leftists work, they will want you arrested if you misgender them but, they have no problem in twisting words to make me look like a bigot. him saying "i have just been snowmaned, i want to go home".. is what he said, there is no other way to take what he said, even though they attacked me from all angles, that is not going snowmanning, 2 different things. yet they want to make me look like a hateful bigot. anyway. it used to be, what happens in your bedroom is between you and your sheets. putting it in kids tv programs and schools is grooming, no other way to explain it..

[@psychogoreman198]

@@leeharris8102the woke and those who would pander are the modern equivalent to a certain German group, this is they’re tactics and people are finally starting to push back against it albeit silently which tbh, is the best way to do it otherwise you get what happens to you. I’m sorry to hear this has happened to you but it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Vote reform, boycott companies and enjoy the little things that make you happy 🇬🇧🤜🏻 (also 1988 born and raised SW UK)

[@thrrax]

@@leeharris8102 Phillip K. Dick once said that control begins when the powers to be change the meaning of words. I will add to that saying that now they're also changing the image of things. Think about it: no one can define what is a woman anymore, men get surgery to look like women, they dress like women, they go to women's spaces... If you speak against it you're an (insert buzz word here)ist. And this applies to a lot of aspects of our world now.

[@williammayo-ku4pc]

David Tennant should never have come back unless he was going to come back fully. Now, his legacy has been damaged.

[@mayotango1317]

​@@williammayo-ku4pcI'm sorry but the Fourteenth Doctor episodes didn't feel out of place from Series 4. I even found them funnier without the Doctor pining for Rose.

[@paulappleton9666]

I don't think I've ever rooted for some random landmine to explode so hard in my entire life.

[@TJ-um8ce]

😂😂😂😂

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

"If this landmine explodes, the energy from my body will destroy half this planet" I'm willing to let that happen.

[@marhawkman303]

@@xLionsxxSmithyx I have to question how a detonation device like that would even work. Seems more like a smart turret than bomb.

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Absolutely. Yet when it originally happened to Tom, Harry and Sarah really cared and so did the audience

[@misterboris2752]

The landmine was the true protagonist of the episode

[@Khadharphak]

This man fought satan with a smile but a landmine has him in sobbing hysterics, ok Moffat If you want him to cry, save it for when a companion dies or something, if you make a character so overly emotional they burst into tears at the drop of a hat it stunts the moments of actual emotion .

[@hothotheat3000]

Eccleston told us all. He had no time for the BBC’s foolishness and they tried to end his career over it. Glad that the truth is coming out about the high school clique running that place.

[@danculbert6349]

OOPS, you’re lying! Eccleston wasn’t talking about “the message” 😂 ,he didn’t like how he was treated on the production. He’s anti-conservative and supports the labour party, he’s not anti-woke.

[@Comrade_Liru]

@@danculbert6349 Where did the Original post mention anything about 'the message' or 'wokeness'? He mentioned that the BBC has some people that threatened to end his career, and that there's basically a high school clique running the BBC. You don't have to be Conservative to hate having to deal with clique bullshit in what's supposed to be a professional business. Then again, this is the BBC we're talking about, so maybe "professional business" is the wrong choice of words. :P

[@BuFFoTheArtClown]

I'm shocked. A man who uses state sponsored entertainment to create his shows is against Capitalism.

[@inquerion8867]

This particular episode wasn't against capitalism. It was against MIC. Look at the Ukraine - Russian war. MIC wants this war to go forever because it's profitable to them. Total victory of either side is not desirable. Same with Israel-Palesitne or any other older proxy war like American invasion of Vietnam. $$$

[@MilanousMedia]

Cough Last Jedi Cough

[@PaulusAlone]

@@MilanousMedia- “Based Economy” 😆👍

[@BarbarellaAlpha]

left leaning folks are not too bright in the noggin they confuse capitalism with corporatism heck they worship the state and then claim they are against fascism XD

[@mudcrab3420]

Worse - the BBC sold out to Disney, so it is now using state sponsored capitalism to bully capitalism.

[@levifoster5639]

As an American who only ever watched Doctor Who in passing, even i realize how much of a mockery this is

[@nvfury13]

Now imagine being an American who watched it since the 80s, starting with the first Doctor as PBS started showing it chronologically.

[@benchapman1581]

You don't know shit brother "an American who watches in passing I'm sorry I'm a Briti who has watched for my entire life this episode was good doctor who different doesn't mean bad but you Americans don't like different do you?

[@believer80]

​@@nvfury13❤🇺🇲❤

[@believer80]

❤🇺🇲❤

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@nvfury13Did they show Hartnell stories? That's great. I'd always heard they only showed Tom Baker ones.

[@RilaAudio]

Walking through a field of invisible mines is exactly what it feels like when I talk to my woke extended family members.

[@katarinabrunk8698]

This guy gets it

[@DocOck]

A massive plot hole no one has realized is that the mines are (presumably) designed for humans and The Doctor is a time lord who has numerous physiologically differences to a human (two hearts, ect) so the mine wouldn't register his emotions the same as a human.

[@katarinabrunk8698]

I pointed that out to my family during our watch. One hundred percent it doesn't register Timelord presences

[@markburns2621]

I mean...they do eventually for the "I'm a nuke" crapola.

[@ozzymand1as]

And yet he wanted Ruby to toss him the corpse stick because he didn't want her close enough to get caught in the blast if it fucked up

[@TheRoflcer]

The New Doctor: Episode 1 - Saves monster and unleashes it into the open world where it'll likely attack and possibly kill someone. Episode 2 - Runs away from a transmonster and has to get saved by The Beetles Episode 3 - Steps on a landmine and nearly gets 4 people killed.

[@StrangeCreed]

It's almost feeling like a psyop to propagate the mindset of diversity hires always being incompetent boobs, just handed their positions.

[@whiterabbit75]

Beatles. Don't worry, it's a common mistake.

[@DarkSun123456789]

And cries 5 times in 25 minutes.

[@TyeDPod]

"Nearly destroys a planet."

[@ottobaron6392]

When danger reared it's ugly head Who bravely turned his tail and fled he bravely ran away.

[@obsoletebutneat]

After that interview with Moffatt, it seems that Dr. Who has just become a platform for these people to vent about their own personal issues.

[@HonkHonkler]

Yep

[@benchapman1581]

brother that's has literally been in doctor who since inception filled with politics of the world because the doctor is at hearts a quintessentially left wing character he is chararised as such like anti war and discrimination for peace kindness and helping everyone he can

[@user-fg5zx4gz1z]

@@benchapman1581 No, it wasn't filled with politics of the current day. Occasionally a serial would pop up attacking the Inland Revenue (IRS) or industrial pollution but those aren't controversial issues to raise either with the left or the right. Also, being against discrimination & war, and being kind, isn't a characteristic of just the left. In both the UK and the USA it was the left, not the right, who tried to maintain institutionally racist systems. In the UK it was businesses who wanted to hire black and Asian people and the trade unions who refused to let them until mass protests forced the Labour (Democrat) government to outlaw racist practices in 1965. In the US is was the Republicans that abolished the slave trade.

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

@@benchapman1581 TIL not liking war makes you left-wing. Are you one of those people who think "left = good, right = bad, this is as far as politics goes, nothing else."?

[@Detwhat]

​@@benchapman1581He's all in favor of discrimination... against huwhites.

[@serpentinious7745]

Writes a script bashing capitalism and only succeeds in showing he has no idea what capitalism even is. What a Moffett

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Considering the ratings, it won't be benefiting from it either.

[@skwills1629]

He did not Understand what The Church Of England is Either... as "Ordained Marines": is Silly, and The Church Hierarchy, the Ones Who Wear the Collars , Really weren't Soldiers Historically. Not even during The Crusades, where it was Mainly Knights or Noblemen, Not Clergy, Who Lead and Charged into Battle.

[@danculbert6349]

Sorry but isn’t bashing capitalism a huge trope in Sci-fi in general? List of Scifi classics that bash capitalism in some way off the top of my head: Alien Aliens Children of Men Robocop (1 & 2) Blade Runner Brazil Eleysium District 9 They Live Wall-E Avatar Oh and several episodes of Dr Who over the decades 😂

[@skwills1629]

@@danculbert6349 - Not Only were Not All the Works on This List Bashing Capitalism, it is Irrelevant. You are saying No One can Critisie it in This Show because Others did it too.

[@danculbert6349]

@@skwills1629 I’m saying Sci-fi and, to be honest, most art in general, tends to criticise things like war, capitalism, discrimination etc. So I don’t understand why this episode of Dr Who is being criticised for doing something that its always done 😹

[@Incoherent-excitement]

The Daleks call The Doctor "The Oncoming Storm," which was believable with Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, and Capaldi. Ncuti is nothing more than a pathetic, wet blanket. Seeing Eccleston & Tennant's Doctors in those brief scenes in comparison to Ncuti just shows how far Dr Who has fallen.

[@Nana-Sheri]

Great use of those clips. Makes me nostalgic & mad how the character has been destroyed

[@donatist59]

Nothing unsells the new season like those old clips.

[@SimonLeicester]

Have you noticed how Ncuti's accent switches from London cockney in one scene to Jamaican Patois the next. Most off putting.

[@constantlyenthused336]

As a London cockney his cultural appropriation offends me 😂

[@elta1472]

...I did'nt realise there were rules to accents. Especially for an ageless and timeless being? I think he might've picked up more than 1 accent. I've got about 3 due to my travels.

[@SimonLeicester]

@@elta1472nothing wrong with accents. Just try and be consistent, choose one and stick with it at least for the duration of the episode

[@angrynapolean3820]

​@elta1472 Remember when David Tennant switched from a British accent to being Mexican? Yeah, that's because it didn't happen and the skirt-wearing guy just can't act.

[@Zenn3k]

He ALWAYS sounds Jamaican to me

[@bintube5269]

What exactly does The Doctor consider to be "modern" warfare, considering he jumps around time quite a bit.

[@user-hb3fi3vn2w]

Modern is anywhere he can get snowman'd

[@Killthefish]

​@@user-hb3fi3vn2wI'm guessing at what "snowmanned" is but I'd bet that Ancient Greece would be this guys favourite "Modern" times then

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

​​@@Killthefish whoa now, even Ancient Greece knew where to draw the line.

[@Killthefish]

@@xLionsxxSmithyx your right I shouldn't have put that on the entire greek people, BUT, let's hypothetically say he did go to greece I would assume he would be part of the "Scared Band of Thebes" if you know what I mean

[@elenoe8]

@@Killthefish no idea what greek sexual habits were, but as Gatwa teaches children through Disney channel now, you should know "snowmanned" means being covered in a "white goo" while having a d... in a mouth like a carrot.

[@winterwolfcr7]

Thoughts and prayers to Moffatt for the loss of his writing talent.

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

to think this same man also wrote "Blink", arguably one of the best episodes of Doctor Who. He must have banged his head or something

[@winterwolfcr7]

@@SpareSomeChange8080 Such an amazing episode! Also, in the first 4 seasons of New Who he wrote most of the best episodes. Including "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead." Which I'd say are some of Tennat's best outside his final episodes (and blink of course). lol as contentious him as show runner was. He really was an amazing Writer.

[@TJCID22]

He cried 5 times -5 TIMES!!!- in a single episode. WTF?!

[@friendlyotaku9525]

Yes, he's literally standing on a landmine that could kill everyone there!

[@AnantKumar-xf2pw]

​@@friendlyotaku9525omg what a unique situation he hasn't already gone thru on much larger scale literally almost every episode loo

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@AnantKumar-xf2pw yeah it is unique.

[@AnantKumar-xf2pw]

@@friendlyotaku9525 literally not.

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@AnantKumar-xf2pw It is. Either way this Doctor is a lot more emotionally vulnerable due to his therapy, he can show emotions and is a lot more open about them. Which I love! And Ncuti Gatwa is excellent.

[@highonanime6726]

You know the biggest problem in my opinion, is that they completely changed the purpose of the doctor's companion. It's literally their job to, ironically, keep him human. Because his darkside is deadlier then an entire dalek fleet. All this one does is act like his coping mechanism.

[@ptonpc]

Clara "I'm his carer" Capaldi's Doctor "She cares so I don't have to"

[@hothotheat3000]

They did a great job with Ten/Donna. She stood up to him and kept him honest and human. Those two were magic together.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

​@@hothotheat3000 my eternal regret with doctor who is we never got to see Eccleston and Donna together. Imagine the sparks

@@hothotheat3000 "Doctor, you can stop now." That one statement held so much depth and meaning.

[@whiterabbit75]

Don't forget that they act as exposition for the audience, by asking the Doctor what's going on.

[@DarthZ01]

im atheist, and even i get that thoughts and prayers is just a way to say "I dont have anything to contribute, but i am sympathetic." a way to give people a tiny bit of ease that they arent alone. could they use actual tangible help? sure. does that make it wrong to provide sympathy just because youre a normal human with empathy and feel bad you cant provide said help? not at all.

[@TheFreedyShow]

Can they just cancel this crap already. its an embarrassment to TV and Dr Who will never recover from this garbage.

[@timothymorris157]

Cocktor Poo sucks! Seems like the best thing they can do is cancel this shit show ASAP!

[@Hoopaugi]

"Why does a mine have lights on it?" "capitalism" Presented without further comment

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

Yeah, like, wouldn't capitalism lead to trade competition between the different weapons manufacturers, allowing the military to decide which ones to buy from, meaning they wouldn't buy something that is just completely idiotic and useless?

[@Hoopaugi]

@@quantumvideoscz2052 Just look at any existing weapons manufacturers. They sure as shit don't waste resources on making light up land mines that will try and detect if a living thing stepped on it. Packing explosive shit in a box that goes boom when anything heavy triggers it is much more cost effective.

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

@@quantumvideoscz2052 Indeed. Capitalism is all about open Trade, supply and demand, etc. But all the Communist Hollywood/London writers keep conflating it with Commercialism, Monopolism and just plain ‘take over the world” stupidity.. Because they canae separate Markets and Economy with Political ideologies…

[@newtonianromance]

Mine doesn't go off because this Doctor Who is dead inside.

[@JerryNapper]

And I gave up after just 2 episodes of Jodie, i did try and watch the Xmas special after Jodie, but eh it wasn't the same, and doesn't seem to have the passion it once had, by the looks of it its turned into something of High School Musical mixed with some sci fi, thats as simple as it gets.

[@Benjiesbeenbetter.]

​@@JerryNapperIt's like somebody heard that Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a great show, watched only the musical episode, didn't bother to find out the context or why it worked, and modelled Doctor Who after it. "So, there are quirky kids - we'll just have the Doctor be all the quirky kids - and they fight this weird looking guy who is the demon of music. So we get a weird looking guy and dress him as a piano..."

[@mayotango1317]

No, you are dead inside.

[@Raven777777777777777]

@@JerryNapper Jodie Whittaker was way better than this.

[@Gyrfalcon312]

Oohhhh! 🤝

[@atomicdancer]

I'm sending my thoughts and prayers to all the Doctor Who fans who are still watching this show 🙏

[@alphaotakux]

If they were true fans they wouldn't be watching and supporting this tripe.

[@danculbert6349]

@@alphaotakux If you’re a true fan of Dr Who you wouldn’t spend 80% of a review talking about the 10% of politics in the show

[@patrickhenry8425]

@@danculbert6349 why not?

[@unkemptjargon91]

So this entire episode is the doctor standing and freaking out on a mine that any other doctor would have immediatly used the sonic screwdriver on and quipped when the companion looked like it should have been a bigger deal? Greeeeat.

I could see 4 being all serious but the minute it is over he gives his big goofy smile and makes a quip about "Not having time to stand around all day, now come on 'insert companion name here' "

[@archstanton9073]

4 did step on a mine once and then had his companions help him out of it. No crying but the scene (not whole episode) was really tense.

[@Dullahan161]

He did in Genesis of the Daleks. It's a short but intense scene and instead of crying about it he asks his friend to help prop up the mine so not to set it off

[@spacedinosaur8733]

@@Dullahan161 Right, and when he's done, he takes a deep breath, thanks Harry, make a joke and they continue the adventure.

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

People seem to forget that the idea behind the mine is that it offers little to no leeway in changes to the environment.

[@keithmichael9965]

Faith is believing in something you can't see or prove. Faith requires active thinking and understanding of advanced theological realities. It's not a thoughtless exercise.

[@eastlynburkholder3559]

They are criticizing fake faith, fake faith used as a manipulation of others or an excuse to not think for yourself. Faith is not I hear a slogan and go with it thoughtlessly. That is what fake faith is or hypocrisy is .

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

@@eastlynburkholder3559 So Leftism in a Nutshell..

[@peewee3774]

He didn't even TRY to disable it with his sonic

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

It was in his prison wallet.

[@user-gj9uq3kb7y]

He didn't have it with him

[@LisaBeta-42]

As Moffat said: he forgot it, just pulling on a jacket and rushing out of his box - psycic paper might also have helped, but trying to keep your balance, makes it nearly impossible to rummage through your pockets😅

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

And how would he do that without moving?

[@friendlyotaku9525]

He can't as he cannot MOVE.

[@jeniferclemente1252]

I crack up every time there’s the mention of “the first female Doctor Who played by Ncuti” 😆 And the clips of weird pronunciation of words 😆

[@above.average.gaming.natio3026]

zzzzzzzzzzzz

[@lesigh1749]

Yeeeewwggh

[@jeniferclemente1252]

@@lesigh1749 🤣

[@above.average.gaming.natio3026]

@@lesigh1749 no

[@lesigh1749]

@@above.average.gaming.natio3026 That wasn't even a complete sentence. Do try harder.

[@DrumRug]

I have always hated the asinine myth that mines don't go off if you keep pressure on them. They work like triggers, if I keep my finger on a gun's trigger, it doesn't shoot when I let go. It shoots when I pull the trigger. Of the various sins this awful series has committed, the one thing it could have done was not make pointless traps that could be stopped by a guy with a with a sandbag or extra big rock. Edit: F*cks sake, the mine is confirming if there's a live target on it? You're telling me it can't detect vital life signs like heartbeat, breathing, or body temperature but it can detect EMOTION?!

[@billjacobs521]

Emotion is, after all, the only thing that really matters, doncha know?

[@Dullahan161]

Most mines today go off when you close in near a mine

[@friendlyotaku9525]

It's an alien mine, it works very differently

[@DrumRug]

@@friendlyotaku9525 Designing something based on emotions is pretty stupid. Designing any trap that doesn't immediately hurt the intended target is also pretty stupid. Like, imagine if "emotionless" soldiers were walking across them, but they knew to simply not feel strong emotions so they just calmly marched on without any trouble. That's how dumb it is.

[@friendlyotaku9525]

@@DrumRug not really.

[@Problembeing]

The 4th Doctor stood on a landmine in Genesis of the Daleks. That scene was wrapped up in under a minute, not stretched out for an hour.

[@kaykutcher2103]

It would've been far more interesting if he was on his own without a sonic screwdriver. At least there will be less of what passes for top notch dialogue nowadays.

[@UnchainedEruption]

You're comparing the very best of Doctor Who to the very worst. But hey at least this episode felt like a Doctor Who episode...sort of. It may be an absolutely terrible episode, but that's actually technically a step up from the first two this season.

[@pwgdeathhawk8146]

3 straight white guys died in this episode only to replaced by 9 diverse characters according to jinx monsoon

[@HonkHonkler]

Yep… Noticing…

[@mikoto7693]

I didn’t actually watch the episode but I was wondering about.

[@Reddotzebra]

Jinx Monsoon would actually be a likely companion name nowadays.

[@cormoran2303]

"Honey, I know how I look" Yeah, you look like Russel's Rent Boy.

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

"RENT BOY! Cigarette. " - Begbie - 'Trainspotting'

[@danculbert6349]

So do we just hate the gays now?

[@Gyrfalcon312]

Uugghhhh! 😆

[@benwarwick4290]

How can they preach about capitalism while funded by capitalism and relying on a tax from people to watch the show?

[@Tony_409]

They think preaching gives them an exemption

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

And in the end teach absolutely nothing about capitalism.. Because they dinae actually know what Capitalism is.

[@kaykutcher2103]

A common argument is that these 'artists' have no choice but comply to the system so their voices will be heard. Now, if you've been in the industry long enough like Russell and Moffett then why not retire, make 'art' with your own money, and show it free of charge? Oh, wait that's why, they won't get paid millions for it.

[@EthanTheDinoNerd]

Saw Doctor Who lowered to it's grave in 2017 Came to visit in 2024.... Smells like someone pissed on it.

[@FittedSheetGaming]

Remember when the doctor used to help someone then find out who they are, realizing the immense impact of his work being that he helped someone that will inspire/help countless others, plus a slight nod to the history nerds watching? Now we’ve got “she’ll be president of something…😐..”

[@CobaltXMusic]

LMFAO I'm sorry how the fuck is he meant to know who every random person is? He just saw Splice's character and her strong resolve and thought she'd make a good president one day

[@redreaper3065]

​@@CobaltXMusic so the doctor, the one with the superior intellect, capable of thinking at such a fast pace that time slows down to him SHOULDN'T recognize a name and realize their impact on history? You just blow in from stupid town?

[@CobaltXMusic]

@@redreaper3065 So you're saying because he has a superior intellect he should remember every person from every planet ever? We already know he doesn't. He is familiar with earth history (and our future in the show) because he's travelled all across it and studies it closely. We've seen moments (see a Good Man Goes To War) where he doesn't remember everyone *he's* interacted with, forget every random person on every planet ever. This isn't the Doctor saying that he just doesn't remember who Splice becomes, he's making a prediction cos while he knows about a bunch of planets that doesn't mean he knows about every president in history. Who says she'll have a major impact?

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

It’s probably a joke on Moffat’s part about how often his one-off characters are said to be really important in the future.

[@CobaltXMusic]

@@Jackson-ub1uv that actually makes more sense but wasn’t handled well. Would’ve been better if he added a “they always are.”

[@Danimeows]

Being agnostic I've always felt touched by thoughts and prayers. Recently when one of my cats was in the emergency animal hospital friends and people I barely knew online were giving me kind words while my husband and I waited to see if our five year old cat would live on new years day. I felt touched and comforted about people offering prayers, crossed fingers, well wishes etc. It made me feel less alone. Luckily my cat had a urinary tract blockage and is recovering nicely even if he hates his special diet.

[@faithcastillo9597]

So glad your kitty is doing well, and that he, or she, continues on that path. Equally glad it wasn't more serious. We have 4 of our own, and it's very stressful and frightening when one gets sick.

[@Danimeows]

@@faithcastillo9597 Thanks! It was terrifying because they thought he had kidney/bladder failure (we'd lost a five year old cat a few years ago with polycystic kidney disease) and he had just turned five years old! So he's not even one of my senior cats, of which several have crossed the rainbow bridge over the years.

[@luthasunspell8365]

Glad to hear your cat is better. ❤ And yes, I’m praying for you. 😉 Jesus loves you.

[@JoeOvercoat]

It’s the thought that counts. Best wishes! 😊

[@coyoteone6197]

Glad to know your cat was okay, and that you were comforted!

[@alfredvickers4054]

Sad how RTD and Moffat have been so consumed by the current ideology that they aren't capable of writing good stories anymore.

[@ldmt1995]

Gatwa is probably one of those actors that is afraid to look bad while acting.

[@Orieni]

I am an experienced, retired soldier. I understand how landmines work. I understand what they are intended to do. I understand how to use them. I understand why the activists wanted them gone. I understand why their feelings were always stupid and doomed to failure. I understand what anyone who actually understood the issue would have recommended instead of abolition. What I don’t understand is what moron would think lights would make the mine sexier to the soldiers who would purchase it, or why they wouldn’t be removed by the armorer if some fool bought them anyway. I also cannot comprehend making the fusing system actively work against the intent of a mine. They say that a good writer can write in any genre. They are wrong. You actually need to understand the genre, on at least some level.

[@brolohalflemming7042]

I think RTD might have been trolling Moffet. They do deal with Disney to get big budgets and the entire episode seems to be them standing in something that looks worse than the old sandpit on an old 35mm film can with some LEDs wrapped around it. At least the MIC makes stuff that will kill their target audience quickly instead of making them die of boredom.

Yep a lot of modern writers have forgotten a simple rule: Do your research!

[@FeedMeMister]

This entire episode is a classic example of someone criticising something they have not even barely a shallow understanding of. As a criticism of capitalism, a criticism of war, or as a criticism of organised religion, this fails by simple ignorance.

[@ivanelgharbi5861]

Yeha, but I can wrap my head around how the writer dosent understand that "mines are designed to kill people that dosent want to die".

[@mudcrab3420]

Actually slightly worse than that Orieni. Within the Industrial Military Complex you have Industry, The Customer and the End User. Industry is told to not speak to the End User cause the End User isn't paying the invoice. The Customer is the 'Government' who, in a perfect world, actually listen to the End Users (aka the actual armed forces). The Customer tells Industry what they are willing to pay for and then Industry attempts to not give them anything for free. So, making a land mine. If the Customer wants LED lights around the side then Industry would do it, cause, payment. If the Customer doesn't want LEDs then Industry are not going to spend time and money putting them in, cause, CAPITALISM. For writers who seem to both hate the Industrial Military Complex AND Capitalism they have no idea how either of them work.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

You would think, as important as they say representation is, they would try and represent their people in the best light possible like not showing an adult gay man and an ineffective, emotional mess.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Shh! Don't interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.

[@LibraGamesUnlimited]

@@theunknowncommenter725 good point.

[@DarkSun123456789]

They never thought that far, that's why every girlboss behaves like a bloke (Guyladriel for example) and every minority behaves exactly like the worst sterotypes about them.

[@DarkSun123456789]

@@theunknowncommenter725 It's not a mistake, they never thought that far. That is why every female lead acts like a dude. But when they do it, it's empowering, when the guy does it, it's toxic. Double standards and such.

[@theodoretaylor5772]

I've been asking that same thing for a few years now

[@rachalc3092]

Only evil wants to vilify "thoughts and prayers" so this soulless season for dr who makes sense. Evil has no soul.

[@MS-gk9vv]

They don't even understand the concept of adrenalin. Adrenalin rush = crying? WTF

[@maboelnreads]

I honestly think Russell T DEIvis is hoping he can turn this into a stage show musical, because that’s what everyone wants… in his head…

[@mayotango1317]

What abour Big Finish did a musical before.

[@serpentinious7745]

Him having voices in his head would explain a lot

[@JerryNapper]

Your forgetting this is owned by Disney now, so they're trying to turn it into something similar to High School Musical with sci fi, it just doesn't work and shouldn't be forced to work either. it is either SciFi or its not.....i think it needs to be cancelled before it gets too uhhhh out of control.

[@SammEater]

As someone that actually likes musicals that is just as bad as making Joker 2 a musical. I don't know what is happening with those talentless frauds but they are neither good musicians or story tellers to make a musical work.

[@paultoseland9524]

​@@SammEaterthat's the problem If they wanted a musical episode they need to hire someone with experience and success, such as Ryan Murphy (creator of Glee)

[@michaeltalpas]

So. Here's the thing. If his blood pressure goes up at all, the mine goes off. But the mine doesn't know if there is a living thing on it, or not. So, it can sense a 'change' in blood pressure; but not the 'presence' of blood pressure? Does it not detect the hearts beats creating that pressure?

[@michaeltalpas]

It can sense his blood pressure, but it can't feel the vibrations of him talking? Or singing?

[@HonkHonkler]

It makes no sense because the goal of the show now is just to bash us over the head with messaging.

[@michaeltalpas]

@@HonkHonkler Of course. There's no principles here, either narrative or physical. The point is to get us to submit.

[@a.morrigan5870]

I watched some BBC last night. Dug out some DVDs and watched an old show, a period drama, pure quality. Writing, acting, sets, costumes, it was wonderful. I wouldn't watch current day at gun point. RIP Dr Who.

[@chrimsonphantom]

They should've said that the mine will go off once it reaches a certain BPM. Meaning if someone accidentally step on one they need to remain calm until an ally is able to disarm the mine. Blowing up if they panic or step off the mine. Personally if i were to make a futuristic sci-fi bomb I would have the field be full of motion sensor invisible mines. meaning that a mine will locate a nearby target drive towards them and blow up.

[@starshineraiser6729]

With that flashlight, the belittling of faith, the introduction of the new sidekick to replace the “wrong” one, this is purposefully evil. Also, crying like a toddler is not acting.

[@brockdavid]

Corporations and governments want to war against Faith, it undermines the ‘authority’ of the wastrel and wannabe elites, it flies in the face of a State that wishes itself to be seen as a ‘god.’ It’s a continuous psychological operation, to debase and diminish humanity into slaves and thralls to the Archons. A peoples that don’t believe in anything, won’t stand for anything, and will fall for anything the Liars tell them.

[@slicerneons3300]

This is not television, it is visual vomit thrown on the TV screen. This is not worth watching and an affront to cinema.

[@lesigh1749]

Sending thoughts and prayers to Moffatt for his 2.04 million overnights.

[@stonecoldprose]

It's almost as if he...exterminated his audience.

[@qnebra]

This episode got punished in overnight ratings for last week episodes

[@lesigh1749]

@@qnebra Indeed, and next weeks episode will be punished for this one.

[@hothotheat3000]

They told people to touch grass and people did as they were told.

[@HankHillspimphand]

thats a huge drop......even with moffatt doing this episode

[@deeppiledreams]

Imagine how much this show cost to produce compared to Antiques Roadshow..... why? Because this had 1 million less viewers.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

Ohh man, I love antique roadshow.

[@suburbanbanshee]

@@xLionsxxSmithyx You know, the classic versions of the Doctor would make an excellent antiques appraiser.

[@stepheng8779]

​@@xLionsxxSmithyxFiona Bruce on a land mine, I'd watch that

[@Fred-gu6pk]

Well with Antiques Roadshow they do use some light so you can actually see the picture

[@timothyt.82]

Maybe this isn't the Doctor, and the TARDIS is trying to kill him because he is pretending to be the Doctor.

[@michaelplowman8674]

The Ncuti Doctor - Your problem is you have faith and you just need to lose to win. The woman soldier person - Prove it TND - What? No. You'll just have to take my word on it. It's like faith, but in me so it matters. Also, so far the 3 episodes have been heavy handed pro-abortion, alternative pronouns, and war is bad, and faith is bad (unless it's in the message). When do we get the J6 allegory?

[@billjacobs521]

The next episode will feature people who eat bugs for protein and are happy not owning any property.

[@friendlyotaku9525]

Doctor Who is a political show?! No way!!!

[@wakomikro]

That was definitely just a flesh light. What the hell? Not even trying to hide it. 🤢

[@LiberalConservatist]

I wish I had a TARDIS so I could go back in time and stop myself searching what a fleshlight is. They had the f’ing child holding it at the end of the episode! RTD and SM need locking up in jail!

[@wakomikro]

@@LiberalConservatist I'm so very sorry I did that. I wish I didn't know what it was. But I saw it and could believe what my eyes were witnessing. Straight up waving this veiny rod around shooting a blue dude out the end of it. These people have mental issues.

[@mikoto7693]

@@LiberalConservatistI wish the same thing about being “Snowmanned.” I could have gone through my life without knowing what that was.

[@yourikhan4425]

@@mikoto7693 I'm an extremely, pathologically, curious guy. I had enough warnings from Disparu to decide never looking up what was the (most likely depraved) meaning of that word. Thanks for giving me a confirmation that, for once, ignorance is bliss.

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

@@yourikhan4425 To be fair, the object itself is not particularly depraved or evil, it's just like any other "aDuLt" toy, if you know what I mean. It's the context of what happens in this episode that makes it so terrible.

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

Wait. They euth'ed a guy because it would take him 4 weeks to recover? WHO CAN WASTE MANPOWER LIKE THAT?! Does it take only 4 weeks to train up a new recruit and give him the weeks/months/years of experience that guy had to say nothing of growing the new recruit from a baby... Stupid plot point.

[@gimzod76]

Space Canada that has castro junior corpse propped up on a throne?

[@rogerloger1935]

@gimzod76 Thank God,he can't on the inuit then.😱

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

What’s cheaper and more effective in the short term, having a soldier contribute nothing to the war effort whilst taking up precious resources for 4 weeks, or shipping in a fresh, fully-trained, and able-bodied soldier who can get to work immediately?

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

@@Jackson-ub1uv Short-term thinking is how wars get lost. Triage, get him stable, ship him back home for recovery, he's not wasting "precious resources" on the frontline then.

[@Bloodlust1138]

Old Doctor steps on a mine: "Oh that's cute!" takes out sonic and disables it immediately. Nu Doctor steps on a mine: *Cries*

[@chrimsonphantom]

if there is a doctor who episode surrounding a mine. It would be something more of a biological mine or something actually cool and interesting.

[@user-zq6sz2cr6g]

Those tears look like eyedrops provided by the make-up department. The rest of the face doesn't show any emotion.

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

From what I saw of Jodie Whittaker, it struck as though she was doing an abysmal attempt at copying Matt Smith's Doctor just without any humour or real talent.

[@Rusty84CV]

I found Matt Smiths Doctor annoying, I didn't think Jodie was that bad

[@DonnaCPunk]

Jodie said she only saw a little of Tennant before they told her not to bother watching the show. So she just assumed Tennant's manic energy is what the character was in every regeneration.

[@quantumvideoscz2052]

@@Rusty84CV Smith's Doctor can definitely be abrasive by being too manic and goofy sometimes, but when he gets serious, you see he knows what he's doing. He's probably the closest Doctor to Ncuti's when it comes to pure goofball energy, yet Ncuti could never match his serious scenes. Like, he's a good comedic actor, but can you imagine him delivering something like the Akhaten speech?

[@theirishman6588]

I don't think Jodie Whittaker was at fault for her doctor. Jodie is an amazing actress (check out Broadchurch) but you cant have great acting with terrible writing. That's what fails here. when the writing is bad it brings everything down. With Nucti Gatwa it appears to be both terrible writing and terrible acting but that's because there was no interview process before he was hired. Davies said it himself that normally there is rigorous rounds of auditions but he hired Nucti on the spot in the first audition

[@toolegittoquit_001]

And now this clown is mimicking Jodie. Great 😬

[@sb7984]

It is no shock when superficial people think empathy is worthless. "But that's Hollywood, Baby!"

[@strider7008]

Tennant is going thru the whole dark knight character arc of the hero living to become the villain. Maybe he wants everyone to think Matt Smith is the goat.

[@petrie911]

I was wondering when he would finally get off the mine and on with the plot. I hadn't considered the idea that the mine was the entire plot.

[@jmace2424]

Sorry, Moffat, “Thoughts and Prayers” isn’t nearly as apt as “This is a kindness” in “The Girl Who Waited” because it accurately predicted Trudeau’s Canada.

[@hothotheat3000]

Surrounding someone and forcing a vaccine on them WELP

[@SirSpuddington]

So, Moffat initially didn't want to have the characters see the ambulance, he wanted the *idea* of the ambulance to be the scary thing. And yet, he wrote the Doctor to call them idiots for believing in something they can't see, even though the tension he wanted the audience to experience of being scared of something they can't see relies on the audience believing in the existence of something that they can't see - in other words, having faith that it's real. Doesn't that kinda undermine the whole point of the episode as I've heard it described? I haven't watched it, but just based on what I've heard that seems like a rather large contradiction that a competent writer would rectify.

[@BarbarellaAlpha]

it is Moffat trying to come off as deep and intellectual it is no different than post modern art, they think it is so deep and great and genius when objectively it is shiiite, no talent, void of skill

[@nvfury13]

@@BarbarellaAlphaBanana duct taped to a wall level.

[@billjacobs521]

Moffat isn't very smart. He's never been a very good writer. He IS very imaginative, he comes up with neat ideas and can make something good when working with other people whom he lets fix his crap, but on his own, he's always been a bit of a try-hard that doesn't think through the logical meaning of anything he puts on screen.

[@chrimsonphantom]

also to have the A.I memory of a dead person who's job is to leave a message to their next of kin. To have a bit of the instinct of the father to want to save their kid by being able to hack into a Ambulance we don't see. doesn't that require... A bit of faith.

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

Firstly, the finished product _did_ show the ambulances, and the finished product is what matters. Why are you criticising a _draft_ for being unpolished? Secondly, the Doctor’s criticism of faith was about people who use it to justify their own hate and stop themselves from thinking. The Doctor recognises that faith is needed, but he doesn’t like how it makes people more willing to be cruel and stupid.

[@leoncampbell8616]

I am now 100% sure these are the folks that see normal people being happy and wants to take it away.

[@edu-kt]

This wasn't a Regeneration, it was a Degeneration.

[@Specimin6]

My first ever Doctor Who episode was tbe episode they introduced Matt Smith as Eleven. Had a good friend who begged me to watch just one episode and that was the episode. I thought it was the dumbest thing I ever saw, up to the giant eyeball. Than Matt Smith had his amazing monologue to said eyeball, calling himself the Doctor and I got hooked. Such a shame seeing Doctor Who now

[@hothotheat3000]

The Eleventh Hour. The best series opener in recent memory.

[@tomnorton4277]

All of Matt Smith's speeches had weight behind them. Peter Capaldi tended to use speeches as a gimmick. "Sit down and talk!" was great and so was "I do what I do because it's right!" but I can barely remember anything he said in the insanely overrated Heaven Sent and several other speeches felt like they were just thrown in for the sake of a speech. His "man who stops the monsters" speech in Flatline is a good example, especially since Clara and Rigsy did all of the hard work and Capaldi just came in to take the glory at the end, whilst waving away the possibility of the whole thing being a misunderstanding. Remember when David Tennant made a sincere effort to understand the Midnight Monster and even the literal Devil? Capaldi just tossed out "I think you're monsters" and moved on because he was pissed off about being stuck in a miniaturised TARDIS for most of the episode. Whenever Matt Smith was saying a speech, it had purpose behind it. More often than not, he could scare off an enemy with words alone but his magnum opus in the speech department was undoubtedly The Rings of Akhaten. Scaring off Akhaten wasn't an option - the thing was literally a sentient star - but trying to overload it with too much story energy was feasible. It needed an extra push from Clara but Akhaten must have been getting full before she gave it the dessert.

[@billjacobs521]

@@tomnorton4277 I'm gonna disagree heavily; every one of his speeches was stupid. Akhaten? No, this thing eats memories of an entire civilization, the Doctor cannot overload it, that's dumb, and he fails. How about the one at Stone Henge? Psyche, that did nothing, it was all a trap. Similar to his attack on Demon's Run; actually irrelevant. Smith did a fine job and some of the softer moments worked and made sense, but all of his grand-standing always came off as stupid because Moffat refused to ALLOW it to be meaningful, he CONSTANTLY undermined The Doctor in those moments--he's either ignored, proven wrong, tricked, etc. Same with some of his humor that required very awkward and unnatural dialogue to set up. Smith and Capaldi tried their hardest but Moffat's writing really tanked once he was in charge.

[@Tenandrobilgi]

​@@tomnorton4277I completely disagree, Heaven Sent was one of the greatest epsiodes that came out from Moffat. Smith was good, but Capaldi was great. And his speeches are also great.

[@segevstormlord3713]

"Which will it be? Killer, or coward?" "Coward. Every time." Honest question: could Ncuti deliver this line effectively?

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Honest answer: no. Also valid for "can Ncuti play a character that isn't himself"

[@Danimeows]

No, he doesn't have the gravitas of Eccelston.

[@mayotango1317]

​@@marcogenovesi8570Tom Baker didn't even act to be the Doctor, he was himself.

[@jonathangoodwin5609]

Well no, and he shouldn't have to. They are different people, with different acting styles and different strengths.

[@kenwarren9450]

@@jonathangoodwin5609 Did you seriously just say that he shouldn't have to say a line effectively?

[@johnmoorefilm]

Tom Baker used to get along quite well with the British Army actually…😂

[@UnchainedEruption]

Jon Pertwee I think was an actual spy in WW2. I think Ian Fleming used his real life exploits as inspiration for James Bond.

[@mjuk1984]

Even the TARDIS is looking depressed being involved in this show

[@smallmetalowl3209]

It occurs that, in a universe without faith, no one would ever agree to be the Doctor’s companion.

[@chrimsonphantom]

Didn't the David Tennant's doctor beat the master the first time around with faith. Like the whole planet started calling out to him to save them?

[@FronteirWolf]

​@@chrimsonphantom yes, the doctor almost becomes a God in this universe. But Gatwa's doctor? No, he's the one who keeps on needing saving.

[@chrimsonphantom]

@@FronteirWolf in a episode that was to show how bad ass he was, Gatwa kept on crying. As supposed to Matt Smith who scared off an entire fleet in his debut episode. Then like you said he keeps on needing to be saved, the doctor should be the one who saves. In a position where it seems like he's vulnerable its because he doesn't want to annihilate you and your entire species out of respect.

[@Erniethebear]

They actually made me start rooting for the mine.

[@HonkHonkler]

Same

[@georgeray1906]

The mine has more charm and appeal than the actual "Doctor".

[@lurkyb0i602]

“ The only real crime for those of superlative intellect and great prowess is to allow one's self to become shackled by mediocrity. The crime is to let your grasp be less than your reach. To aim low” - Fabius Bile, Warhammer 40k

[@sol-hunter2332]

Why would capitalism throw LEDs on a landmine? Does he know how capitalism works? LEDs go against the design of a mine...

[@jmace2424]

I would be scared of an ambulance too, you might have found yourself in space Canada! 🤣

[@serpentinious7745]

It's got M.A.I.D. built-in, so I'm pretty sure they did

[@thrrax]

Apparently no one is able to design an efficient anti-anything mine, no matter the universe, the planet or the timeline. "I'm an ordained Anglican marine." - Guys, we found the female Adeptus Custodes!

[@FeedMeMister]

Anglican, though. That's definitely heresy to be purged.

[@TheSilentFirefly7567]

Religious Soldiers are common both in our real world history, but even Doctor Who. The Clerics of The Church in Flesh and Stone with Eleven, Amy, and River. The Anglican Marines were also in Demon's Run.

[@toolatetothestory]

Honestly I don't know why people get up in arms about the fem Adeptus Custodes. Didn't they used to work nearly naked? Do you prefer incredibly high key gay to female that much?

[@CubanWriter]

It would have been much braver of them if they elected to mock a different group of faithful people.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

But they never will, because they only hate Christianity. Other religions are okay with them.

[@dramaticwords]

Sounds like Gatwa took a page from the "Michael Burnham" school of acting.

[@Fishpasta4]

At this point I'm 100% sure part of Disney's contract with the BBC is that there must be at least one song from the Doctor in each episode.

[@Karzir1]

2.04 million views of this episode. Man, the weather must be absolutely beautiful for no one to be home and able to watch it.

[@Fred-gu6pk]

Well I was busy in the garden

[@ninja-mouse]

@@Fred-gu6pk touching grass?😉 i couldn't resist.

[@MalcolmWolf]

Ignoring the part where people view the show elsewhere at different times. I understand that does not fit your narrative though.

[@berestow]

@@MalcolmWolf ignoring the part where every other episode had more views than this shit. I understand that does not fit your narrative though.

[@kaykutcher2103]

The weather is more diabolical than they think because I was home! But the sunshine coming in through my window felt real nice I ended up just standing there not watching Who.

[@Tirryna]

After my daughter would have a nightmare, we would always play " What would the Doctor do?" ( Doctors 9- 12) Because the Doctor always was brave and solved, the biggest nightmarish problems. He was the fighter of nightmares....glad she's not a kid any more. Because "what would the Doctor do" would be now "cry And run"..

[@lenniegodber7805]

Personally I find the fact that 2 million people are still watching this show after all that’s happened to it over the years more disturbing than the merits of each individual episode

[@DarkSun123456789]

Losing almost 600k viewers in 3 episodes is a respectable drop though.

[@billjacobs521]

It's like anything; there will always be people who like ANYTHING that vaguely resembles the real thing they like. Or they will watch it out of a sense of obligation, as if it's a betrayal of Doctor Who to NOT watch this betrayal of Doctor Who.

[@eharasan]

12:04 "This is the first female Doctor played by Ncuti Gatwa" made me laugh out loud 😄

[@haku8135]

So there's a FULL GROWN MAN who was COMPRESSED into a "tube" and companion can pick up this compressed adult human man like he weighs nothing and not upwards of 100 pounds at least?

[@Raximus3000]

In UK try 181!

[@paulbond96]

I mean, 70% of our body is water, they said in the episode that the "i can't believe it's not a flashlight" weight approximely 6 kilos. it's like holding on a urn with a body's ashes

[@haku8135]

@@paulbond96 If all the water was removed it wouldn't look like that, it'd look like powder. You know, cause there's no water in there. Even assuming all the water is somehow deleted, it'd still weigh around 60 pounds, which is decently heavy especially if you're swinging it around with one hand when it has an inconvenient shape.

[@paulbond96]

@@haku8135 my point was, since the body was smelted, it is reasonable that a lot of weight is loss, for what I imagined that tube contains the brain and the spinal cord in order to replicate the AI.

[@brandonstone4432]

One question. Where the fų

[@andrewdrury958]

Your adding of how the other Dr's acted in intense situations really hammered home this new seasons issues

[@rogerfurlong1535]

So, EXTERMINATE, is as bad as 'thoughts and prayers' to this guy? Holy f*ck.

[@AtariDad]

It's not bad, it's just empty and hollow. It's the mantra of every soulless politician or corporation that tries their hand at performative empathy.

[@operationorigins4714]

Yes, yes it is. Thanks for playing 😙 it’s the most nonsensical thing you could ever say to someone who’s grieving. It just makes things worse.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Only demons find prayers offensive.

[@rogerfurlong1535]

@@operationorigins4714 So is 'sorry for your loss' a hate crime too you f*cking wacko?

[@ericchung3177]

@@AtariDadI mean that depends on the individual, no? Sometimes it’s just performative and virtue signaling but some people say it with genuine sincerity. When my grandfather died and people sent me well wishes and sympathy I didn’t get mad at them and want “thoughts and prayers” as a phrase to be associated with villains so people would stop saying it. That’s crazy.

[@ayadealjanabi1544]

I prefer to watch your reviews on shows like this, rather than watch the actual show! 🤷‍♂️

[@Black_Revue]

I learned more about Dr. Who from Reviewers like him and Wiki Entries

[@wakomikro]

Same here. Much more entertainment this way and I 8 don't have to yell at the screen like an old man. Lol😂 😢

[@savvystarfire6667]

Same 😂

[@mayotango1317]

And that why you live in the dark, in ignorance.

[@ayadealjanabi1544]

@@mayotango1317 One possible definition of ignorance would be sleep-walking into a societal collapse. Modern western culture is enraptured by the exaltation of degeneracy. By the time it wakes up, it will be too late. Indeed, looking at population statistics (in the west) it already is.

[@smoore6461]

I guess when we hear in Twitter that Moffett has had a tragedy in his life, we should all just reply, " HAHA SUCKS TO be YOU!!" That should satisfy him I guess.

Already happened, I think it is why he went off the rails so bad, he lost his husband a few years back and I think it drove him insane. Hence why he hates the thoughts and prayers, he is still stuck in the anger phase of grief, angry at everyone and everything but especially himself. But he projects it all onto others instead of facing it and dealing with it. Hell I am almost at 4 years since m wife died and this stage is the worst and most destructive to ones mental and physical well being. I bet good money all of his friends in the LGBT "Community" pushed him into going out and being wild to "Get over it" which is NOT processing grief, it is hiding from it.

[@smoore6461]

That Is sad that he list a loved one, but attacking people who offer you some degree of sympathy is the actions of an ass. I would be heartbroken if I lost my wife and I can understand being angry, but why attack people who are offering you genuine sympathy. Whatever I guess. He can choose to move on or stay in that bad place. It's not doing his writing any good for sure.

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

This actually explains a lot about the show tbh... It's clearly being projected through his writing... It would explain why the message of the episode was "People die, get over it" He needs to stop writing and go to therapy.

[@Aurumfae]

Lost my husband in 2020, but I didn't decide to treat people like garbage. Just because you lose someone doesn't make anyone special. Everyone suffers in some way/shape/form in this life, that's the only thing equal about it.

[@mercaius]

Doctor Ncuti: "If this mine detects I am alive, it will turn me into a super explosive and kill everyone!" Oh wow, a jaded trigger-happy soldier should have a real easy solution to that.

[@ScooBdont]

Did anyone, who actually watched this drivel, ever really believe the Doctor was going to be blown up in the 3rd episode? There’s absolutely no tension or risk because the audience knows he’s going to survive

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Yeah,put someone else in the mine.

[@dking1836]

BOOM! I would love to see this doctor regenerate to a British Bloke...

[@archstanton9073]

Drivel.

[@ScooBdont]

@@archstanton9073 Thanks for the heads up. Spell check/predictive text changed it and I didn’t catch it. 👍

[@billjacobs521]

I don't think that's a good argument. I mean, I don't think the Doctor is REALLY going to die, ever. The show will eventually stop but I doubt he'll be killed off. That doesn't mean, therefore, that they should never bother putting him in risky situations--that would be very boring.

[@Zenocrate]

Hello there, Disparu. I bid Doctor Who farewell midway through Matt Smith’s run and yet here I am, happily watching your dissection of the show’s dressed-up corpse.

[@cbnewham5633]

Cross-dressed up corpse, surely?

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

That's exactly when I gave up on Doctor Who; he never drew me in and all the crap with River Song was tiresome AF.

[@cbnewham5633]

@@sarasunshinemt4444 I gave up the moment it was revived by RTD. I knew what the agenda would be. Can't understand why people were so taken in by Moffitt, Tennant and the other luvvies. It was as plain as a pikestaff that this is what would eventually result - the only brakes were the BBC and society not being inundated by woke ideology. If it had been mine to redeveloped is have gone with more serious scripts and had more real science - for kids but with some proper stories that adults could appreciate - much as it was designed to be in the 60s. I've watched the occasional new episode over the years but it's been junk every time. Who finally got decent sets, at the expense of descent scripts and overacting morons like Tennant. It's demise under Disney will not be missed. No flowers please.

[@brockdavid]

I walked away during the Matt Smith era too, his Doctor was too much of a hyper active man-child for my tastes, I never could stand a grown man in a bow tie, it makes them look childish and infantile, it makes a man looks like a boy in a disturbing way.

[@BarbarellaAlpha]

Matt's last season is better than his middle season, although it staggers a bit due to swapping his companions and redecorating the tardis exterior who ever it was that told Matt to up the ante on being eccentric I blame ans the terrible story arc for 11th Dcotor's middle season. That River Song plotline was messy and silly AF unnecessary. I dont blame Matt Smith, his first season was great.

[@who.is_tauri7325]

That minefield scene drags our way too long wtf

[@YugiSupersaiyan]

Anyone else remember... In Genesis of the Daleks... The Doctor, played by Tom Baker, stepped on a landmine on Skaro? And stayed completely calm and composed?

[@HonkHonkler]

I’m disgusted this even shares the name of Doctor Who. This is brain melting…

[@Z1gguratVert1go]

Eccleston could have hopped through that minefield on a pogo stick. And William Hartnell could have done it even easier.

[@Raximus3000]

hopscotch while blindfolded.

[@katarinabrunk8698]

Now I wanna see it lol

[@PixelPixie86]

And without crying.

[@ThisIsSinzu]

By the power of the fallopian tubes, the mines avoided her feet in the mine field.

[@donatist59]

Then why didn't the melanin work?

[@nickdirienzo2849]

Couldn't he disarm the mine with his "butt plug/sonic screwdriver", or do something smart like an actual "Doctor"?

[@SNUSNU-lz7dh]

Imagine they made The waters of Mars now . I’m the TIMELORD QU33RTORIOUS babe

[@blankadams3120]

So, Doctor Cuties gave a little girl and her mother each a flesh tube? That's... not weird... side thought: If those tubes are just compacted bodies... they would still weigh the same as the body they came from... 200 pounds easily. If they're not the entire body, like, if they just wrapped the skin around whatever tech is necessary to power the holograms? Where's the rest of the bodies? Meanwhile: thoughts and prayers for everything past the T in LGB...

[@xLionsxxSmithyx]

I was thinking that too... huge oversight there.

[@Po0096]

If only the Doctor carries around some kind of tool he could have used to disable the mine in a minute, some kind of screwdriver but more advanced, maybe with sonics of some kind.