Doctor Who Season 4 Episode 14 Reaction | The Next Doctor

[@purrceys7959]

An episode with two of my favourite actors - David Tennant & David Morrissey. As a Canadian, the first time I saw David Morrissey was as "the Governor" in the Walking Dead, doing a light Georgia accent. I had no idea he was an English actor from Liverpool. He would have made a great Doctor. Apparently he was told he couldn't tell anyone that he wasn't going to be the next doctor. His kids kept asking "Are we going to have to move to Cardiff? (where Doctor Who is filmed)".

[@cryptozoomauler5505]

I liked The Governor more than I liked Negan! I didn't even realize it was the same actor until I read your comment.

[@mikenelson3632]

For walking dead fans this episode is called the doctor vs the Governor

[@KelliFranklin]

That's how I view it! Lol

[@sallyatticum]

The two Davids worked together in Blackpool, a musical murder mystery involving a love triangle with the Empress of the Racnoss, Sarah Parish... Great fun. Lots of singing and dancing with quite a few future Who alum.

[@purrceys7959]

Their version of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" is hilarious.

[@nupefromdaville]

My deep dive will drop on Sunday

[@nancyscogin7549]

Are you a Who Dat or is that just a fleur deal lis? Looking forward to your breakdown.

[@theultimatetvchannel]

Yessssss!

[@nupefromdaville]

@@nancyscogin7549 my "DaVille" is the original Ville - Louisville. Symbol of Louisville

[@scottredding7357]

I love the TARDIS acronym.

[@AJ-rp7ux]

It's one of the really fun stories, one of a handful of Christmas Who episodes that get played every Christmas in my home. The best, of course, is the upcoming A Christmas Carol.

[@wendypow1963]

I love the Christmas Carol special. Two great stars in entertainment.

[@cryptozoomauler5505]

My favorite as well. ​@@wendypow1963

[@mikenelson3632]

Rekkai (sorry not sure of the spelling) missed a great opportunity for a 'ello guv'nor......

[@rockysherlock]

He was the governor in the walking dead

[@mikenelson3632]

@@rockysherlock yes that's what I'm referring to

[@zinnia2980]

We are loving the reactions to Dr Who 👌 David Morrissey is such a great actor, one of the best and it was a fantastic performance. Thank you for your videos 👋

[@hornorsilk2901]

When this was first shown, people really did wonder, is this it....

[@DakNJaxter]

I wonder, if the title was leaked, it would that help sell the cliffhanger to Stolen Earth.

[@OldManFerdiad]

@@DakNJaxter yeah, absolutely. David Morrissey is pretty well known in the UK and the tabloids leaked that he was playing "The Doctor" in the Christmas Special right before Stolen Earth... man that was a long week for that regeneration cliffhanger resolution.

[@SyncCryo]

You've reached the end of the SD picture quality era 😂

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

What's SD?

[@SKprodoldacc]

@@Legendary3Dgamer standard definition, HD is high definition like 1080p and then you nowadays have UHD which is ultra HD etc

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

@@SKprodoldacc that’s complex for me 😅

[@SKprodoldacc]

@@Legendary3Dgamer basically SD is older more grainy looking HD is just good to look at, better quality, looks more real

[@SKprodoldacc]

@@Legendary3Dgamer more detailed essentially 😭

[@Thunderyhail]

Rosita is supposed to be an amalgamation of all the new who companions so far she acts like Donna looks like Martha and a name similar to rose

[@wendypow1963]

The Christmas specials actually air on Christmas Day in the x UK, so have always been easy viewing type episodes. I'm a fan of David Morrissey, so it was a treat having him star in an episode.

[@solitarymaninblack]

8:04 The actress was a main cast member for TV series Ballykissangel. Colin Farrell also starred.

[@elliedo01]

When The Doctor sees the doctor’s ‘sonic screwdriver,’ my first thought was ‘Dollar Store Doctor’. Sorry Mr Morrisey, you’re lovely.

[@turbopokey]

Uh, but wasn’t that just a regular screwdriver?

[@elliedo01]

@@turbopokey yes, that’s the joke

[@RegianOne]

That Next Doctor is David Morrisey. He played the Governor on the Walking Dead. Also the next episode isn't my favourite..... But at least not as bad as Fear Her

[@Persewna4]

Yeeeaaah the next one is not great, but there are some fun moments/characters in it. I would probably put it above Fear Her and below Love and Monsters in my ranking, if only because of ELO's Mr. Blue Sky featuring prominently in the episode, I can't not feel happy when I hear that song, lol.

[@RegianOne]

@@Persewna4 yeah Michelle Ryan's character is really just one of the weak points in the episode. A real charisma vacuum. It really isn't easy trying not to spoil things

[@Persewna4]

​@@RegianOne that's a really good way of putting it.

[@R_SENAL]

The Next Doctor you may recognize as The Governor on the early seasons of The Walking Dead. There are 4 more episodes, the reason was the show took 2009 off mostly. Next one is from April 2009 - Planet of the Dead. 🤣 "Think of the Childrenses!" Reminded me of Black Dynamite. I dig the Doctor Evil mouth pinky things at the end too. Jolly Good Show Sirs!! This ep is kinda mid for me too. The next one gets some hate from some, but I love it, and then the next 3 IMO are OUTstanding!! JS, the send off is w/style!

[@grabtharshammer]

Dervla Kirwan, Irish Actress, Miss Hartigan. Done a lot of UK TV and is a good actress. Has done a lot of Stage plays and some films too. Also looked into her own history (TV programme Who Do You Think You Are) - Her Great Grandmother was sister to Michael Collins, the Irish nationalist leader. You could say her whole family had been against the British Victorian values, so any wonder she teamed up with the Cybermen 😉

[@UserName-vb4lg]

DT couldn’t commit to another season, he was committed to a play. So they did 5 specials instead of another season. But yes, it was nice to get as much as they could before 11. But 11 is a lot of people’s (me included) favorite, so…

[@littlemissmello]

I think generally people either name Tom Baker or David Tennant as their favourite, most commonly. But I don't think there has ever been a bad Doctor

[@TenCapQuesada]

First saw Dervla Kirwan in "Ballykissangel". She makes a great villain, though!

[@ftde1]

1:29 IMDb lists these specials under "Unknown Season". Some later ones as well, I believe, so there might be spoilers.

[@p.r.4748]

‘The Next Doctor’

[@HuntingViolets]

David Morrissey and David Tennant also co-starred together in the series _Blackpoole,_ a musical detective show. Maybe you'll check it out sometime -- only four episodes, I think. I enjoy this episode a lot. The stakes are actually pretty high, because if this plan succeeded, it would changed the modern-day world (as we've seen demonstrated a couple of times). But, obviously, we know everything generally works out in _Doctor Who_ (outside of characters dying whom we might want to live sometimes). Coming into it and not knowing who the next Doctor is, you might think this is going to be it. The concept of meeting like this and having it be the case is certainly an interesting one.

[@kayhardy2871]

Ello Bruv - great reaction as usual 😊

[@coderdenewbie]

This episode is called 'the next doctor'

[@HuntingViolets]

Not knowing the episode name at the beginning is a real loss in this one.

[@johngriffiths4373]

There is 2 animated Dr who episodes voiced by David Tennant one of them with matha and a full guest appearance as the doctor in the Sarah Jane adventures: "the wedding of Sarah Jane Smith." a Dr Who spinoff shown that year before he left.

[@R_SENAL]

Just a quick note: you labeled this as Power of the Daleks, it is actually "The Next Doctor"

[@mageeaaron2624]

8:20 Oh snaps! That would of been crazy! 😂💪

[@cryptozoomauler5505]

The bond villain was Goldfinger.

[@serenshadow89]

Keep going! y'all are about to enter my favorite era of Doctor Who! Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor and Steven Moffat as showrunner. Its the fairy tale era and it has a special place in my heart! Matt Smith was the youngest actor to play The Doctor and it was his first big role... he starts out magnificent but you can see him grow into both the character and himself as an actor. I love his portrayal of The Doctor!

[@jakeconstantine693]

the description still has the summary for power of the daleks episode six

[@DrWho-jw3yg]

I have really been enjoying you guys doing these DW reactions!

[@RegianOne]

The British Empire abolished slavery empire wide in 1834. Slavery wasn't allowed in Great Britain at least from the 1500s

[@grabtharshammer]

Actually the slave TRADE was abolished in Britain in the 19th Century, and slavery itself across the Empire as you said. However Slavery was not made illegal in Britain until the early 2000's, because it had never been recognised as a state of being in Law. So technically Slavery was allowed, just not recognised as a thing.

[@RegianOne]

@@grabtharshammer the 1807 slave trade act made the slave trade illegal in the British Empire. This act also allowed the Royal Navy to police the Atlantic Ocean, giving them thr authority to intercept all ships leaving from Africa. Many of those ships would be American. The Royal Navy would board those ships and confiscate the slaves (considered as property) and what ever else they wanted. The Americans also complained that American were pressed into Royal Navy service. These actions by the British Empire would lead to the Americans taking an action that would lead to the War of 1812. Because the British Empire was busy fighting Napoleon President James Madison thought that it was a good idea to invade Canada to annex it. Possibly forgetting that the Canadian Regiments were part of the same British Empire Army. Because the US was bogged down in Canada and the rest of the British Empire Army defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, they were dispatched to America. And when they arrived there were no soldiers to defend. So they burnt down Washington DC including the White House. Slavery in the British Empire wasn't abolished in 1834. Some nations in the West Indies still celebrate this anniversary as emancipation day. The majority of the people on the American ships were freed and taken to the West Indies. The problem was the local governors wanted to keep slavery in place. So further action was taken in London to Abolish slavery in 1834. Three decades before the US did.

[@RegianOne]

@@grabtharshammer the British Empire abolished the slave trade in 1807 in the British Empire. Slavery itself was abolished in the British Empire in 1834 with the slavery act of 1833.

[@ArticAnomaly]

Slavery was abolished by the Norman's in England after the Domesday Book revealed 10% of the population was enslaved. It was made punishable by a hefty fine/tax to the King. It was likely done solely as a way to raise some quick funds. In 1102 the Council of London reformed some laws regulating the Church and one change was to ban Slavery and you could be tried and punished in a Church court (not a Royal Court). The combination of being banned by the Church and heavily fined/taxed by the King effectively killed the Slave trade off, even though it wasn't technically illegal. It was the lack of an effective slave trade in England for 600 years that caused public opinion to be so heavily against the slave trade, causing the UK to set up the West Africa Squadron to stop slave ships, a court to declare that slaves a free as soon as they set foot on English soil and for us to attempt to heavily push anti-slave trade policy such as the embargo of Brazil.

[@tygar4916]

Midnight (series 4 episode 10) was deleted.

[@Stuart_Cox1969]

£5 in 1851 is now worth £585 today

[@Which-Craft]

This was such a fun episode. Tennant and Morrisey are great together. There are videos that have them doing "music videos". Hilarious.

[@mageeaaron2624]

2:00 When I first watched this episode back in the day, I've finished The Walking Dead season 3 mid finale. I was like, "What's the Governor doing in 1851?!" 😭😂 I was also surprised that the actor is from England as well. 🙏🏽💪

[@peterd788]

This episode is about someone desperately running from grief. The next episode is awful but the one after could legitimately have been turned into a big screen movie.

[@solitarymaninblack]

I saw that Ninja Batman anime. Really good.

[@jennaking710]

The show runners are not squeezing out as many episodes as they can make David Tennant do, the main show runner Russel T Davies just loves Tennant so much he can't bare to put him down. Remember, he wrote Tennant a part where he's a 2nd Doctor who ages like a real human and can't regenerate. Tennant can be in his 70's now and still come back to be the Doctor in this show if they want to go back to that parallel world in 20 years from now, he's got a future acting part for life as the Doctor no matter how many other regeneration there are in our world.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

This is the last Dr. Who episode to be filmed and broadcast in standard definition. Although their were drawings of the previous Doctors from John Smith's diary from the episode "Human Nature" this is the first time ever in NuWho to show footage of all the Classic Doctors as well as the NuWho ones which are: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. 2 months before this episode was broadcast David Tennant announced after winning at the bafta awards that he was stepping down as the Doctor and it was rumoured and theorised that David Morrisey would possibly be the next eleventh incarnation of the Doctor this episode of course proved to be false it was annouced in january and i can say it since you guys already know that Matt Smith was annouced as the Doctor number 11.

[@usersilhouettes]

Change title to the next doctor

[@GhostPurple69]

yeah so at this point it was well-known to even a mainstream audience that tennant was on his way out, and davies sure loves to troll people who think they know what's going to happen. 😆 this and the next episode (an easter special) are good light fun, but the one after *that*, episode 16 by this count, the 2009 autumn special, gosh i frickin adore that one. just thinking about it right now, i'm getting chills from how much it hit me. absolutely one of the best episodes of doctor who, new series or old-at least, for my personal tastes. the show would hit that sort of peak for me again until the peter capaldi era (series 8-10). a cool thing about just watching the show straight through on a compressed schedule, as you two are doing, is how you can't really help just responding to the material on its own terms rather than spend months or years building up expectations. so i'm super curious how you'll receive the capaldi stuff. irl, the show had just been back for a long while when capaldi hit, and it had reached a critical mass of cultural saturation. the people who first got into it nine years earlier, many of them kids back in 2005, had outgrown it and didn't find it "cool" anymore. also, 2014-2017, tv viewing patterns were rapidly changing and and the bbc is a slow-moving ship at the best of times. so a *ton* of people skipped once matt smith left and projected all these weird ideas on the capaldi era without even watching it. if you get someone who used to be into doctor who but drifted away at some point, it's almost certainly gonna be around series 8. but thing is, this is precisely when the show gets a *massive* shot in the arm, creatively. those three series (well, two-and-a-half-the new writing team takes over midway through series 8) are, for me and many others who stuck through it, the absolute pinnacle of the show. ... there's also an ongoing joke in certain circles that anyone who made it through the capaldi era is trans now. which, anecdotally... uhm, well yeah. but one's individual milage may vary. 😆

[@HuntingViolets]

A nursemaid is a nanny. Not the most exciting ending for Rosita, though. Maybe they'll still have adventures.

[@solitarymaninblack]

David Morrissey was kinda channeling the Fourth Doctor.

[@Ronariverah]

I forgot about this one!

[@mnogobukv960]

Can't wait for Waters Of Mars special.

[@sedaotieno]

Nah that James Bond villain quote was by Auric Goldfinger in Goldfinger, it wasn't Blofeld 😅... a lot of people think it was Blofeld though, I guess it's cause Blofeld is so famous compared to the rest of them

[@RegianOne]

And the quote was. Bond : Do you expect me to talk? Goldfinger: No Mr Bond, I expect you to die! It is also possibly the first movie to use the ironic one liner. Upon Bond throwing a radio in the tub to electrocute a villain, and subsequent electrocution. Bond just says, "Shocking".

[@solitarymaninblack]

Syntell with his Diddyisms.

[@TheHumanPalindrome]

‘ello governor! 😂

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

20:31 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mageeaaron2624]

2:34 Yikes! 😂

[@joshuaverran9443]

Right first time it's 4 specials after this.

[@Hamishreacts]

4 more episodes after this👍

[@mageeaaron2624]

23:44 Amen! 🙏🏽💪

[@robertwareham8466]

"The one and the only... ten. So far."

[@mageeaaron2624]

17:37 Yikes! 😂

[@mageeaaron2624]

This is where the fun begins!! 🙏🏽💪

[@abbaskazmi2558]

This Christmas special it is so underrated it's in my top 12 Special of the whole show it's at the 7th or 6th spot.

[@joshuaverran9443]

The thing is though if Jackson Lake was supposedly a future version of the Doctor when he made the comment to Rosita that "This is hardly work for a woman" while the Doctor's personality does change with each regeneration and went completely a wrong turn he should be forward thinking with his attitude when it comes to misogyny but with the Classic Doctors they were more upper class and more in charge with authority than the modern Doctors and yes there was a slight bit of sexism with his female companions but Doctors, companions and times evolve just like James Bond but he does care for his companions.

[@geetee4459]

This one - and the next - are light-weight fun. But stuff gets real after that.

[@Masq1980]

Well...given the time they are in, I am sure 5 pound notes was a lot of money to him lol. I agree there were better christmas episodes most definitely, though I do like this one simply because as far as I recall, I don't think I've ever seen an episode where someone has successfully gotten the Doctor to have christmas dinner with them except for this guy and I think that's fantastic that the Doctor consented to celebrate the holiday with him!

[@nathanallen980]

Ohhh yes I wasnt expecting this so soon

[@Persewna4]

Yeah, I'm with Rekkai on this episode, it's fine just not amazing. In a ranking of Christmas Specials it's definitely toward the bottom, in an all episode ranking I'd put it in the middle. The story is kind of bland and the scale feels small, but there are some great character performances, esp the villain, as well as the early mystery surrounding the "Next" Doctor. I do like how that mystery resolves, although once it does the rest of the episode loses a lot of tension. Like, there's never doubt that the Doctor will stop the Cybermen, and the way he does has barely any impact, compared to previous ways the Doctor stopped the Cybermen. I think the reason it feels like the threat is smaller is because it is. If we look at the Cybermen's last appearance, they had taken over the entire globe in a matter of minutes. In this episode, everything they've done has been contained to this one small town. We also don't see any characters get "upgraded", which takes away from the personal stakes for the Doctor and the audience. This is actually the first of the 5 specials, so only 4 left to go. The next one is meh, but the one after that is phenomenal, I would say on a similar level as the second half of season 4. Looking forward to seeing you react to them sometime soon!

[@phtevenj]

i wonder if the lady thats the 'cyber king' is the voice of the 'ann droid', at the end of season 1? she sounds like it

[@OldManFerdiad]

Ann Droid was a cameo voice performance by Anne Robinson who hosted the gameshow "The Weakest Link". The Cyber King was just Dervla Kirwan's voice electronically modulated.

[@phtevenj]

@@OldManFerdiad sure sounds the same though 😆

[@OldManFerdiad]

@@phtevenj I'd never noticed before but yeah, they really do lol I'm now envisioning Anne Robinson as a cybercontroller hahaha

[@space1999]

Just wait..... an episode will arrive VERY soon which will involve TONS of discussion after the story.... many peoples fav episode.... its a real one to discuss.... u may get 2 it next week....

[@RegianOne]

The Next Doctor is one of the specials. There are 4 more episodes of the specials left.

[@mageeaaron2624]

19:24 👀 😂

[@solitarymaninblack]

I would Rosita was treated more as a servant or slave.

[@mageeaaron2624]

5:56 Aye!!!! 😂💪

[@bennettnez4711]

This one's great

[@space1999]

Now u guys have nearly finished RTD's first run with this show, I'm curious to hear your comparisons to his 2nd time in charge, ie the current run? Does it feel different? Better? Worse? Etc etc... for me it feels very different... both eras have positives and negatives for me....

[@AhsimNreiziev]

RTD does love to do a bit of trolling.....

[@SoTOreo]

Not gonna lie i usually skip this one on rewatches and reactions but figured its been a while so i would rewatch this one. yea is RTD being cheeky with the title also the whole womans mind being superior to the male minds it had previously taken over... no one complained about that back then lol but you put that plot today and everyone cries woke. but yea this episode has some fun moments but its yea overall pretty mid. i do love me some steampunk though so while not really feeling the big threat being that big of a deal i did enjoy a lot of the designs in this one

[@NJH01]

I did the same haha I usually just watch the first 20 minutes or so for the reaction of the mystery and then skip to the Jackson Lakes speech at the end

[@XMASTER99]

Yall should react to sense 8

[@Triskaan]

Yeah, a fun episode but not breathtaking by any means. But that's the charm of DW, not every one can be stellar af, you gotta roll with the highs and lows.

[@nathanedwards4728]

if you guys have watched the walking dead the next doctor played The Governor

[@geoffdunn4912]

Merry Christmas in July! Another reason for so many specials was there was quite a long gap between seasons, so they wanted to have something to put out. This episode is my least favorite of the bunch. It just seemed too much of a cheap tease. Still decent, though.

[@lukebarton5075]

‘Ello Guvnor.

[@cornparade6874]

These titles are getting out of hand

[@richardwilliams5387]

Wow, you're really turning these out...

[@nathanedwards4728]

think you are confusing a nurse maid with a wet nurse (the wet nurse gave the tata's) it was a servant in the UK

[@DonHbankz]

First 😅

[@Hamishreacts]

This is my least favourite episode of the specials hope that give you some hope for the rest of the specials

[@solitarymaninblack]

I saw that Ninja Batman anime. Really good.