I Was Wrong About Doctor Who Series 14

[@HarboWholmes]

What were your predictions and did they come true?

[@lpc9929]

The the bacteria

[@sba8710]

I thought we would be back to the 10th doctor writing again. I had no idea that this doctor wanted to be a club kid and that nothing was subtle in terms of lecturing the public. I think this is in a large part Disney’s influence and BlackRock the large shareholder that is pushing all these agendas.

[@Rainos62]

I gave up doctor who after series 12. Series 11 was just boring and i hated the timeless child story just doesnt work for the doctor it felt like subversion just for subversion. I feel they should retcon it to at least be not the doctor but susan which would make it way more interesting.

[@zave_02]

i predicted it would be a colossal flop and i was definitely correct

[@mattthesilent777RED]

I predicted everything would be bad... guess I was right

[@DaegosYT]

Tbf the Doctor isn't necessarily referring to the Timeless Child arc when he says he's an orphan. We learned in the Capaldi era that he grew up in an orphanage on Gallifrey.

[@archusrtm6325]

I believe most timelords have a similar situation as due to all timelords being infertile(the last curse of the shadow people) they are created often without any parents using a machine called a loom,

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@archusrtm6325 LOOM.

[@creed8712]

@@archusrtm6325we don’t talk about looms anymore

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

This is how I will see it from now on so I can forget about that fiasco.

[@ilo2224]

Murray Gold not releasing soundtracks is a massive disservice to the fans and possible future composers

[@usualblokeluke]

In all fairness, I remember him stating the reason he didn't release the Series 10 Soundtrack is because people were leaking the Series 9 music tracks without his knowledge or consent. And the process of putting all those music pieces together for CDs only for it to be leaked really took it out of him. Doesn't make it any less unfortunate, but he does have his reasons.

[@vullord666]

​@@usualblokeluketo be fair, I'm honestly surprised it's even up for him or it's an ordeal he has to go through. That seems like something the BBC should handle if not force (with proper compensation). Like, again I don't know the situation, but the way it just reads from being described that way makes it sound like the man is an indie composer.

[@KadeSmash]

He isn't your property

[@ftumschk]

The good news is that you can create your own Segun Akinola soundracks simply by recording yourself farting in the bath ;)

[@tom_4615]

It’s probably not up to him when it gets released

[@jvblhc]

One thing I miss in this season is the companions actually call The Doctor on the carpet. I like Ruby, but there was no moment when she and The Doctor get into a little argument. Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy and more would give The Doctor "what for" when they thought he was doing something wrong. That's how they build their friendship with the Doctor, and that's how The Doctor realizes how great the companions really are. But in this season, Ruby and the Doctor became friends right away and, as far as I know, they never had any problems with each other. Which make a lot of the 15th Doctor stories somewhat bland.

[@music2012pink]

Yeah I really hope we get this in the next season as they said she will still join the Dr (even if only part time) I mean he ruined her kitchen by parking inside like that but we never see any of that aftermath or her families reaction to him (just a quick scene in the 3rd last ep of him promising her mom hell protect her) then it's a 6 month jump and the kitchen is good as new & their best of friends. Time run was a really bad idea, especially having "I barely knew him" (ok when 13s fam said that because she never really talked about herself, but 15 give her an info dump after a day and deep lore dumps even his closet allys didn't/don't know) & next episode says "I've known this man a long time" lying? Another big time jump we don't know about? Even the start can be a bit arguable; he was following her, possibly before we see her, running secret scans after he gets her in his box, and secret tests after she goes home which he damages with no consequences.🤦🏼‍♀️

[@Comicbroe405]

I remember ppl predicting the Daleks would be in the finale. Honestly I'm glad they're staying away for a while. Skaro was mentioned tho.

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

I think everyone feels like daleks are getting stale now and overused but I still think I would enjoy a classic dalek finale more than whatever the rubbish we got was

[@HuntingViolets]

"Last of the Time Lords" -- since Fourteen still exists in universe (despite Davies's Venice joke), perhaps we should retire this phrase, show.

[@tableprinterdoor]

And the fact that due to Chib the Doctor isn’t even a time lord anymore

​@@tableprinterdoorin retrospect, it might even make him "the first of the time lords" 😝

[@SoupyBoy-Nyah]

Aint the master still out there aswell? I swear he just never dies

[@HuntingViolets]

@@tableprinterdoor You become a Time Lord. All Gaillfreyans aren't Time Lords. If anything, the Doctor has now been established as the first Time Lord in a sense, which kind of takes away from the "just some guy" (gender neutral) who wanted adventure and stole a time machine aspect.

[@klop4228]

​@@SoupyBoy-Nyah He's suffering on some planet somewhere, I believe

[@Spekor]

daleks were mentioned many times in series 14. not just children in need. but even in empire of death the doctor is like "the death sands are spreading.. they've even taken skarro..."

[@williamgabriel2245]

Apparently some people on twitter had predicted sutekh as a returning villain

[@PlatinumAltaria]

People have been "predicting" the Rani for forever, sooner or later you're bound to get it right in a show this big.

[@timrob12]

Probably, but some people expect every character from the last 60 years to come back at some point.

[@herrjohnssen]

Yes, but only after trailers released, or just as a lucky "haha funny" guess

[@Dinosaur656]

​@@PlatinumAltariaThat's so true, people were predicting Mrs. Flood is Romana, but how many times have we had the "OMG Romana's gonna return", at this point there's no point in predicting Doctor Who's future.

[@notapplicable6985]

​@@PlatinumAltariaTrue, but sutekh was one of the few celesital level villians not menitioned by name in the giggle and Sutekh was initially defeated by the doctor by being trapped in a place where he could move but only very slowly

[@danielgertler5976]

I support RTD not ignoring the Timeless Child even if I don't like it very much. A good writer takes something the fans didn't like and makes it work. See the Clone Wars as another example.

[@goergebobicles1351]

I don't think anyone hated the clone wars itself. It's been a thing since the first star wars movie after all.

[@solanumlycopersicum5594]

@@goergebobicles1351 It is interesting though. If you read the first Extended Universe novel, they talk about the Clone Wars as if the Republic was fighting the clones. It is really interesting how different the backstory turned out, to what people assumed about it. For example, the word "Sith" did not exist back then. They were just called "Dark Jedi".

[@goergebobicles1351]

@@solanumlycopersicum5594 the word sith has been around since the early drafts of starwars. Lucas had to cut a lot of the jargon when making the first film.

[@amazingdisgrace1684]

That Murray God prediction is almost like the universe playing a practical joke on you. Because you could have just phrased it "Murray Gold will not return to compose for the show" or something. But you specifically said we wouldn't _see_ him in Series 14. And, as you pointed out, we literally did! (Full disclosure, I did not. I found out after the fact. 😅)

[@irrevenant3]

Personally I'd like to see NuNuWho model its seasons on the half-seasons of S7 rather than trying to keep the same style of series arcs they used when they had 13 eps per season to play with. IMO, find a middle ground where each 2 NuNuWho seasons roughly equate to a single NuWho series (with some tweaks to the pacing and arc to allow for the 'mid-season' intermission).

[@music2012pink]

Definitely, they were going to have the series earlier in the year but the sutekh CGI pushed it back, and it doesn't look like there's any thing till Christmas 😭 so few episodes with such a long gap is unbearable but at least it's better than just an Easter special for a full year 😭

[@davidrohde2636]

Pedantic 101: With the doctor being the timeless child, wouldn't that mean no matter if Susan was made a timelord or just a Shabogan, doesn't she have the doctors dna, so Susan has the ability to live longer than most or even be able to regenerate

[@qwertyuio404]

2:03: “The only villain to return from the show’s history was Sutekh … Yeah, I don’t think anyone would have predicted that back in 2022” Jay Exci in 2021: “Well, I was talking to *Sutekh* the other day, (right? you remember him), and then …” I mean technically it’s not 2022 so _I guess_ Harbo’s still right…

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Jay and Stu?

[@qwertyuio404]

@@sacrificiallamb4568 nah. From Accurate 13th Doctor Parody. But if anything from the Jay and Stu streams were to come true, I would hope it’s an Abzorbaloff implying he created Gallifrey

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@qwertyuio404 Oh. I liked that one.

[@Domihork]

Honestly, my biggest problem with series 14 is not even really the season itself, it's RTD's approach of "suck my di*k" when fans question anything. It's like he had been watching too much of Pitch Meetings and forgot that it's a sketch, not a real meeting and that "so the plot can happen" is not enough of an explanation or that "I need you to get off my back about it" is not enough of an excuse. His doing things just for the sake of it and then looking down on the fans as if everybody around him was wrong and he's the only one who's right. It's quite arrogant actually.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

Depends if you prefer your televisual entertainment to be 'art' or 'commodity'. Davies presenting his art and saying 'this is what it is' is fine if you want it to be art. If all you wanted was mass-produced 'Doctor Who Flavoured Product', it won't be for you.

[@Comicbroe405]

Can you be a bit more specific about the fans part? After the finale he hasn't said anything about the twist backlash.

[@leavealoner]

I truly don't get this take, because I personally didn't really expect many things to be answered at all yet in a short FIRST season. It's very normal for shows to SET UP the mystery in the first season, and now a lot of fans are butthurt that the mysteries aren't fully answered yet, and somehow blame it on RTD as if does it on purpose to offend the fans. Is it genuinely so hard to believe that when the season ends on a mysterious cliffhanger of Misses Flood speaking directly to the audience and basically saying "it's not over yet" that, you know, your frustration that the mystery isn't over is there to KEEP YOU WATCHING and not to offend you into stop watching? It's genuinely baffling to me to have such a bad faith take on it all, because that seems to me the absolute least likely thing to be the case here. RTD loves doctor who and wants to see it grow, saying F you to the fans is the absolute last thing he would do.

[@Domihork]

@@leavealoner Yeah. He set up several mysteries. And then left them alone. It's not just Mrs Flood (about whom he said it might never be revealed). It's the mother (and RTD literally laughing at how it doesn't make any sense in the commentary and saying "it had to be like that for the plot"), it's 73 yards...

[@joshuareynolds23]

​@@Domihork73 yards shows you that it wasn't her mother it was ruby Sunday herself they literally show you that in the episode itself.

[@MarshallLeeA]

The Doctor does expect for Susan to have changed faces, so we can assume that she's a Time Lord

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

She was literally in Classic Who.

[@Alkeeros]

Don't forget when UNIT was helping the Doctor try to decipher who Susan was, they asked "if she changed her face, would you still recognize your granddaughter?" So I assume she's a timelord (I'm a NuWho fan and not part of the wider discourse, I didn't even know it was up for debate, I took it as read)

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

She is. Doctor stranded her in the far future after a Dalek Invasion of Earth, though. You can guess which episode that was in.

[@matriculus2]

The predictions I made that was most wrong was that the series wouldn't feature big references to established canon, thinking it would follow along the same lines of RTD 1 era of keeping everything new and fresh to entice new viewers.

[@HuntingViolets]

Why is it such a problem for shows now to have 13 episodes?

[@idunnook9169]

I think it's to do with higher budgets led episode and sfx

[@oscareditedthis]

They did mention the daleks in the last (maybe second last ep). When sutekh(?) killed every planet that the doctor had been on. They mentioned that Skaro and the daleks were extinct. We didnt seem them but it was mentioned.

[@richardbradbury3658]

As a Classic era fanatic, it is curious to watch NuWho fans echoing how many felt with RTD1 in terms of not giving the stories room to breathe, which seems to echo standalone 40 minute stories replacing the more leisurely and spacious character development of a four or six part comparative epic as the norm. The lack of episodes maybe provides insight into how this change felt in a qualitative level. It is too short to do justice to the potential, Part of what made Doctor Who stand out was the level of immersion this allowed compared to American television at the time, which seemed completely lost on the post MTV soundbyte generation who, it seemed, completely failed to appreciated this, apparently regarding any piece of entertainment with less than ten explosions a minute as too slow to hold their attention. It might benefit best from having a single storyline each season and losing the whole standalone solo episode format because this insubstantial, high octane(ish) fast-food approach does not do the show any justice at all (and never did).

[@Domihork]

It's also kind of funny that the same people who refused to call series 1 season 27 are now refusing to call series 14 season 1 :D

[@Corsair77]

I want your opinion as a classic era fan. I've been a Doctor Who fan for 10 years and I still love the show now as much as I did when I was 12. I love Ncuti and Millie. But I want your opinion on the show now versus the classic era. I'm fine with differing opinions.

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

I would like more of these opinions as I agree.

[@music2012pink]

Yeah, I know some people preferred the Flux season then the season prior. Maybe do what some long running shows did when they transferred from stand alone/monster of the week format to season long arcs, when they try to have the odd one or two stand alone episodes mixing in when the main characters are struggling/hitting a brick wall and need a break or get pulled along/trapped somewhere while on a quest for something important to main story, or from an alternative POV. They could have these be with the usual Dr light and bottle (limited) eps, but spread out not like BOOM, 73 Yards, and Dot & Bubble all together, with 3 other stand alone monster of the week episodes before the double bil final tries to tie everything up into a bow but just falls short 😱

[@FransHoorn]

Any plans to look into your glass bowl again for series fift- _season two_ ?

[@ClockMaster-mq2hm]

Forty-one is one of my personal favorite Numbers! 😌

[@_smerte42]

season 41*

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@ClockMaster-mq2hm Are we including the Wilderness Years in that?

[@bobsherwood3542]

I giggled profusely when you said about Murray Gold. I remember thinking exactly the same thing!

[@mathieuleader8601]

Looking back I think it would have been great if RTD continued with the Grand Serpent arc from FLUX given the UNIT based finale.

[@Saycheeseburger]

I’m glad someone else feels the same way regarding Gold’s soundtrack- the title sequence, while it’s definitely Doctor Who, it’s unoriginal and has no identity of its own, just riding off the series 4 theme unlike Doctor who XI or series 8 theme

[@heyjude9703]

Brits use series and Americans use seasons to measure a year of the shows. Series is used to describe full show, ie The Simpsons series, in USA. In the beginning when I read the series conclusion was getting close, I thought the show was ending. Lol I think series 14 was rebranded season 1 by Disney to Americanize the show.

[@Andy.Gledhill.Models.]

The original classic era was classified as "seasons". The 2005 re-boot era changed to "series". Disney wanted it re-branded as season 1 because they don't have the rights to stream the 2005 re-boot era. That is why they wanted a soft re-boot.

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

@@Andy.Gledhill.Models. Thanks for saying it for me. BBC changed it for the Disney deal to happen, otherwise Doctor Who would be trapped on Max in America until Series 15. Although now the Irish can't watch new Doctor Who at all, so...

[@music2012pink]

So... 🍀☠️⛵🦜👑 😉

[@adamburke4738]

I wish Davies ignored the Timeless Child.

[@raphaelbernard7954]

I have followed DR Who since way back (70's) and enjoyed Series 14. I hope it continues.

[@RoyalKingOliver]

The fact that we had 3 Tardises in Universe at one point absolutely baffled me.

There were 3 tardises at the basement of the black archive (or was it the then-hq of unit?), all side by side, during the end of 50th anniversary special 🙂 and now that I think about it, there were 13 of them around Gallifrey just a few minutes ago...

[@linksel3034]

saying that seeing suzan counts is a stretch, if you want to go literal you'd have to accept the doctor too, he is a timelord and we saw him

[@music2012pink]

"Timelords" plural, more than just him, if we're being literal

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

I have to add on the politics prediction that Space Babies was about how countries treat asylum seekers (made very clear by a line about how they couldn't claim asylum on the distant planet until the space station reached its territory.)

[@CineScarborough]

Ruby isn't a single series companion. She is confirmed to be returning full time next year alongside Varada Sethu.

[@MarcosSantos-dj6lk]

you are right is becoming sad this change in general for tv shows. Even House of the Dragon only get 8 episodes in season 2. I can see Doctor Who in a few years becoming only 6 per seasons and 1 special. Sadly

Literally the previous season was 6 episodes, and only 3 specials the next year instead of a season. 8 seems to be an improvement over that, though I'm not sure about the quality. Hopefully they'll add more episodes in the upcoming seasons

[@MarcosSantos-dj6lk]

yeah but had 4 more specials making feel like was 9 episodes but just divided like in season 7. Flux looks like a arc.

@@MarcosSantos-dj6lk flux "is" an arc, it's a single story spread over six episodes, much like the classic series. As far as I remember there were only 3 specials the next year (the new year dalek thingy, sea devils stuff and power of the doctor), unless you count power of the doctor two episodes, which it was in the re-runs, but BBC First here aired it the same day (or maybe the next day) as its British premiere, and it was definitely in one piece... Anyway, you're partly right, in it that those 3 specials felt like the continuation of the flux, but they were too few and far between to have felt like even half a season (remember, series 7 had its full 13 episodes, and the Christmas special tucked in between the two halves, and the 50th anniversary and the next Christmas special right after that made the second half with Clara an impressive 11 episode continuous series), even the first half of series 7 with Amy and Rory consists of 5 episodes, just one short of flux. Regardless of the episode counts, series one through ten were amazing, after which I believe the show lost its direction somewhat. Fewer episode seasons in which character development etc are staggered certainly don't help (although I loved the David Tennant specials, probably because it didn't need such character development!) hopefully the show will regain its direction somehow...

[@desmondcoppin591]

Everyone always criticizes everything that’s new. But this season is not that that bad. It’s definitely better than chibnall, and honestly it has some nice ideas.

[@SpaceFluffDW]

0:02 Mr Smith?! It’s been so long, how have you been? I hope you haven’t been speaking with the Slitheen again!

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

Sure you were wrong about the Daleks - but you guessed there would be politics that's the most important thing - and I find that great.

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

They must have stopped the 'tone' meetings they apparently would hold way back in 2005.

[@DomSmith]

I reckon we'll see a dalek in season 2!

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Terry Nation's estate going to love this.

[@timrob12]

I don't know if I had any predictions for the series. Maybe something about Classic Doctors returning (which happened with Tom Baker in archive footage) and imposter versions of the Doctor and Ruby (didn't really happen, but was alluded to in Rogue with Ruby 'cosplaying'). So yeah, I was properly surprised throughout the whole thing.

[@darynvoss7883]

I think you should actually lose a point for your first guess. Predicting daleks in the only modern series that did not have daleks deserves punishment.

[@calumgardner6936]

I do hope Ncuti does get to face the Daleks at some point, I totally get that they’re on a well earned hiatus at the moment, but given that all of his predecessors have come across them (apart from Paul McGann I think) it would only be fair that he does as well. In fact I think he did even say himself in an interview or something recently he felt a bit let down that he didn’t get to in Series 14, so here’s hoping 🤞🏻🙏🏻

[@nikonbear7882]

I don’t know about Ncuti facing the Daleks. He has mentioned wanting to destroy an opponent by twerking…

[@scottpoerschke8807]

When are we going to visit some alien worlds? I have been waiting for that since 2005. Look at Season 18 - there was 30 mins on Earth in Logopolis for the whole season

[@superkid801]

Do you know if that guy has another crystal ball? Good predictions you made. That was fun to look back on

[@aaronvasseur6559]

Every tv series should have at least 10 episodes doctor who is no different if they can make 8 episodes they can 100% make 10 it’s 2 more not a big deal but if they give us 10 episodes it will feel less rushed

[@brewster_4]

Clearly you have never worked in the TV and film industry if you think 2 more episodes are no big deal. Someone has to write those episodes Someone has to make costumes and sets Someone has to cast actors A whole team is needed just to film And let's not forget about how much work VFX are And this is only a small portion of work that goes into making an episode of TV

[@petergohan]

This season was ok imo, it was not as bad as the Jodie era, mostly because of the stories because i have nothing against her, i just don't like the musicals, but it's to be expected from a heavily disney funded show.

[@seraphinberktold7087]

I predicted, or rather hoped, that RTD knows the ingredients and traits that made Doctor Who such an enjoyable science fiction time travel series. I predicted that after that disaster that Flux was, after the sub-par writing that marred Jodie Whittacker's tenure, RTD would bring back the New Who show in all its glory. Boy, was I wrong! I am really fed up with social political agendas in entertainment, especially when they are written and delivered in such a blunt, ham-fisted in-your-face way. Make no mistake, Captain Jack Harkness was an excellent character in my book, but series 14 turned Doctor Who into an exhibition of RTD attitudes, beliefs and lifestyle. We already had a Zeitgeist retconning of Doctor Who when the timeless children were shoehorned into the lore. Oh, sorry, dear Zeitgeist, of course the Time Lords were an all female creation. And please excuse us for not mentioning any of this for nearly 60 years of storytelling. Please accept our sincerest apologies! That same nonsense happened in Star Wars, too, in those abysmal Acolyte stories. Best ignore feminist and LGBTQ agendas if they are shoved down your throat with a vengenance and without any elegance or finesse. Jodie Whittacker's Doctor died anyway several times over when she dropped out of the TARDIS (and was not saved River Song style); she froze to death and suffocated in space, burned up entering the atmosphere and the remains were smashed to pulp when she hit that train on the ground. Whittacker's and Gatwa's stories can be seen as a Time Lord's dying mind going wild. Which explains a lot of the chaos in Flux, that goblin nonsense in "Church on Ruby Road" and that laughable space babies episode plus some more weird stories past Peter Capaldi's era. Yes, that is a good explanation of what happened after Peter Capaldi's farewell. I will wait for the day Doctor Who comes back on track in style.

[@DriverHenryWho3245]

Now don't be sad, 'cause 5:33

[@DriverHenryWho3245]

The title made me think you'd changed your mind on the series lol. Guess as the title said, I was wrong. Opinion still respected though ✌️

[@ozmond]

Oh yeah we didn’t see any Daleks

[@cameronmcgregor2583]

When people complain about season 14 and its almost weekly soceo-political messaging most people will clap back with something like "doctor who has always been political, get used to it" which is true but I have never known of a season like this where so many episodes seem to have these kinds of messagings, and for the majority of these they aren't like the subtle politically inclined episodes where you can choose to understand the message, its so in your face that its almost impossible not to see which becomes quite grating quite quickly. Doctor who was a scifi show that touched on politics on occasion but at the moment it feels more like a politicial commentary show that uses scifi as a tool to get its message across

[@booradley8895]

14 was a step down from previous series

[@Nathan-FG01]

Taking the real world discourse out of the equation. The writing and story for the first episode (the only one i actually watch myself) was poor. 1st: space babies? Really? 2nd: The CGI for the lips on said babies was so distracting. 8-13yo would have made a better choice and would have allowed for better dialogue from the children. 3rd: the monster.... wasn't scary. Dispited the doc saying he was scared it didnt come across well enough. I noticed 3-4 reused cuts of the monster running down the hall. And the editing gave me more of a headache than a jumpsuits. 4th: the doc was scared and said he never gets scared and runs. Utter BS. He always runs, its his thing. He gets scared, "scared keeps you fast" its why he out runs the monsters. 5th: the doc scares the babies and laughed his ass of in the back. It was funny. But need i really explain why the doc doing it is so stupid for his character? 6th: the doc had an irrational attachment to the monster. It is literally the boogieman, in bogie form. Outside what ive watched personaly, the doc is ALWAYS emotional and crying. Like evey episode. It makes him seem pathetic. Emotional scenes aren't compelling if they happen evey episode in this way. If he looked somber until a truly dipressing moment then it would be earned, like when the earth and eveywhere hes be just f***ing dies. Also theface the doc pulls is so bizarre for these moments 😯. The finally. They replaced wheelchair lady with mobility scooter kid. Why? "Rose" returned and was working for unit. Again, Why? What qualifications do they have? Scooter kid shoots through the back of the others when shooting Sutek. And again, why are there guns in mobility devices, recoil exists. These aren't nit pics. If you cant get an audience immersed and interested, youve failed as a writer, director, and actor. Some moments were better than others, but being better than garbage isnt an achievement. Im sure someone liked it, and there allowed to like it. I myself have a low bar for what i consider entertaining. I love SAO which was and is seen as Isekei trash, and righly so, but it was fun and entertaining to watch. I grew up watching doctor who, my mum grew up with it. i was born in 2003, i saw it all from Chris to Jodie. And this is as bad if not worse than Jodie's run in terms as entertainment. If i cant rewatch and still enjoy it, its not that good. Blink The impossible astronaut Listen Dalek Rose The family of blood Great episode amongst many that i can go back an still enjoy. I cant say the same for Jodie and Gatwa. Nor the 60th "Specials"

[@ValyrianPrince]

Did got pressed and changed his mind to pander 😂

[@CulturePhilter]

You win some you lose some. 😂

[@maydarichoybonov170]

Series 14 post release analysis

[@jeckjeck3119]

Wonder is Sutekh brought back Time Lords.

[@yuri7885]

Most of these are like "Duh, obviously" Not very strong predictions lmao

[@hirudinaria]

I predicted that Series 14 will suck hard the moment I heard the name Disney 😢😢😢

[@AmazingKevinWClark]

It was already losing most of it's audience long before Disney.

[@hirudinaria]

@@AmazingKevinWClark True but that was the Chibnall effect. With Davies, Tennant and Tate announcement most audience would have considered returning, were it not muddled with the rep of Disney 🤮

[@sacrificiallamb4568]

Same.

[@IsThatDrak]

who starts a video with "and" lol

[@elberno4243]

3:45 All the episodes were rehashed concepts. 4 of 8 directly taken from series 1 Church ORR, was Rose retold - S1 Space babies was End Of The World - S1 Devils Chord was Idiots Lantern - S2 Fine Time was Blink - S2 73 Yards was Father's Day - S1 Boom was Doctor's Daughter - S4 Chulders pretending to be human, like Slitheen - S1 The Finale was Last Of The Timelords - S3

[@eccentriastes6273]

I mean, try to name any Doctor Who story post-Hartnell that doesn't have one or two ideas in common with a previous Doctor Who story.

[@razorback8300]

How is blink similar to dot and bubble. The only thing similar to it is that they are doctor lite stories

[@DogMutilator]

I predicted it would be good. Didn't age well.

[@Saxgod]

Your wrong. It’s a reboot and is season 1. So you’re wrong on the second one too

[@NelsonStJames]

I have no doubt that at some point in the distant future, if the show should survive, there will come a showrunner that will come along and retconn the whole Timeless child thing. It’s actually not that difficult.

[@AmazingKevinWClark]

I think the actress plays Ruby better than she is written. And Davies is a fool for taking inspiration from the Star Wars movie that destroyed any chance the sequel series might have had at being okay.

[@Jamestopboy]

See, the stuff about Murray Gold is completely wrong. His music is FABULOUS and the theme tune is excellent. Do not make me whip out the #FakeFan… because I will if necessary.

[@CraigEaton]

So, series 15. We will see the viewing figures drop below 2 Million.

[@Barisso2]

I thought rtd would fix he broke it more

[@PatriciaCoberly]

Doctor Dead Horse will probably last one more season...

[@jeffcarey3045]

"But but... Doctor Who has always been political!" Yeah, during a time when "being political" wasn't so divisive. A time when most if not all people could agree with what was being said. A time when "being political" wasn't suggesting how people vote in their own political beliefs. A time when the writing respected differences of opinion. Because this was a time when all "sides" of Britain's politics understood each other well enough to live together. This was a time when politics was about politics - about running a country, about existing among a world of other nations. A time when politics was "us against the world" and not "us against ourselves." I hate to credit Chibnall, but he got racism right in the episode Rosa, where the Doctor and crew meet Rosa Parks and ensure she gets on that bus to start the civil rights movement. It wasn't subtle (it's never about subtlety, it's about realism). Those were real racists that really existed, and really did those things. It was documenting, not commenting. They were portrayed rather accurately, and not as cartoonish hate-villains. You don't make sly comments on tragic things, you observe what happened and respect those that went through it. It was a somber episode where the Doctor and crew had to ensure something awful happened to Rosa, against their own morality. Davies' Dot and Bubble, on the other hand, was done without respect to the affected people - it was all "racists bad" commentary. The fact that racism is bad should go without saying. If you have to TELL somebody racism is bad - you're not writing a story about racism, you're lecturing about it. Or how about the Star Beast? That was half an hour of "trans people good" commentary, which should go without saying. If you have to TELL somebody that "trans people are people too" - you're lecturing. Thing is, most of us already know these things. Racism is bad. Trans people are people. It's pretty basic shit in 2024. And if that's what Russel finds topical, then we're going to have some pretty basic episodes.

[@mystic_mimi21]

I feel let down and disappointed. It was all a bit meh. I’ll only rewatch Boom and maestro eps. RTD has fallen into a trap many writers have been doing lately. ANY criticism is lumped together. Both bigoted hate (which should be ignored) and valid criticism are treated the same, RTD just shrugging it off and calling all fans haters. That’s risky territory. I didn’t like this series not because there are people of colour or gays (I’m queer myself lol and not a bigot) but rather the misleading Ruby’s mum story, the underwhelming finale and under utilised Suhtek, also the rushed and under developed personality of Ruby

[@JasonTodd01]

I predicted it being Godawful and I was right

[@pozzyvibes6997]

Doctor Who fans try not to hate Doctor Who challenge lmao

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

I predicted I wouldn't watch series 14 and I didn't. I'm a psycho.

[@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq]

*psychic

[@Arcadi4.44]

I truly think most people applauding Gatwas performance are just subconsciously brainwashed into thinking any other opinion is racist. Especially because I havent seen 1 person of colour say they liked it. I'm mixed race and I thought he was rubbish typecasting with no real talent. I'm sure he'd be great in a theatre, but not in a sci fi drama with close ups and an expectation of realistic and dramatised but immersive performances. Not when he's filling in the shoes of Smith, Tennant and Capaldi, not to mention Eccleston. The writing definitely didnt help matters. But I dont blame the writing for the acting being terrible.

[@brewster_4]

"I didn't like it, so there's no way anyone else does!" Listen to how silly you sound

[@R.senals_Arsenal]

You giving the Series 6 out of 10 is exactly why I didn't watch your last vid, cause I knew you were gonna lowball it for reasons I wouldn't agree with. I give it a 7.5 out of 10, the best since Series 10.

[@richardgurney1844]

I also think it's the best since Series 10 - but would still give it 6/10 (maybe 6.5 really)

[@artofdrinking]

The bar hasn't been high since series 10 tbf.

[@Fawstah]

the fact that you're branding messages you don't like political says way mroe about you than what you watch.

[@davesmith-rs1yo]

Did you predict its shit and will be cancelled? If so your right😂

[@leethomas2155]

I made only one prediction and it came true... The show became even worse trash than the Whittaker years.

[@salsylexhagen7423]

Season 14 was a 💩 show. Hope 15 is better but not holding out much hope.

[@SirJayington3rd]

My predictions were would be this show, would get super gay and super woke, with a dreadful actor.... i was right

[@umwha]

16:20 you must be joking saying Dot and Bubble had an 'amazing ending'. I can only assume you are biased. There is no metric where that was either good, or makes any sense.

[@brewster_4]

What doesn't make sense about it?

[@mikelachey824]

ANYTHING and EVERYTHING can be called political if your approach to life is left OR right. This was a very disappointing series and it really didnt have to be. It was lazy writing disguised as complex. There was some moments that shined like a traditional Who episode, but what hurt it the most is that it concentrated more on having Ncuti play the very gay Doctor, instead of a gay man just playing a role. When he wasnt forced to portray his sexuality, he really hit the role perfectly. You cant suddenly give the Doctor a sexual identity, when the premise is pretty much that the Doctor doesnt really have one, because the Doctor never even knows what the Doctor will regenerate as everytime. Its as much a surprise for the Doctor, as for the audience. They did it with Jodie. Had to make her Bi or lesbian...why? That has no point to the show at all. With Captain Jack they hit perfectly. Who knows what his sexuality was. The fun was he flirted with everyone. Women, men, robots, aliens. LOL Have no issues with gay, straight, transgendered communities and I support all their rights, but if you are going to use them the same way the black actor was used decades ago, playing the token "black stereotype", its just as damaging. They killed a lot of potential here, by making sure they put in gay actors, trans actors and made sure that stood out in the story. Kinda the very opposite of equality and treating them as ya would everybody. Just let Ncuti play the damn role of the Doctor figuring his way out of crisis after crisis against the Daleks, Cybermen, the Silurian and whatever enemy. Give us an hour away from all the nonsense to recharge and enjoy timey whimey crazy entertainment. The guy is a hell of an actor, let the dude play the damn role

[@brewster_4]

The Doctor doesn't have a sexual identity? I guess I must've imagined the 1996 TV movie, the Doctor Dances, the Girl in the Fireplace, Voyage of the Damned, Journey's End, and all the episodes River Song is in

[@triplejazzmusicisall1883]

Harbo must be the exact opposite of RTD. RTD uses hyperbole whereas Harbo uses balanced accurate language. RTD tells lies. Harbo is extremely honest. RTD usually denies errors of judgement whereas Harbo is quite self-critical and as honest as one could get. RTD rarely gets things right, maybe 25% of the time (at that is being generous). Harbo got 60% correction score and he didn't attempt to distort the figures . RTD is gushy over the top, almost drama queen like whereas Harbo is not overtly emotional and uses evidence and facts to form an argument. RTD thinks he is God. Harbo I think serves his viewers with excellent posts. RTD's Season 14 has had terrible ratings whereas Harbo's nmber of views and subscribers I assume has gained a lot of new blood. I wonder what score I'll get from my six perceptions/views?

[@MrTrooper31]

BOLLOCKS shill Production ltd

[@ThomasMcCarthy-mu5of]

Not just the worst Dr who of all time but the worst sci fi show of all time. Poor stories bad scripts bad acting poor production values. Constant propaganda and attempted social engineering. Terrible. Rtd has confused his sexual preferences with politics and substituted his predictions over good story telling in the pursuit of ideology. I never rated Rtd as a showrunner. All the best stories from his initial reboot all those years ago were written and produced by other more talented people. Rtd is an ego maniac possibly a sociopath and incapable of writing anything that entertains main stream viewer's. If you chose showrunners who insist on inserting their personal sexual preferences over entertainment where would it end? Next series catering for BDSM and fem Dom Dr Dominatrix? Just say you're updating the series for a modern audience, femdom with a bit of BDSM kink might gain a wider following amongst the public. Yeah femdom a go be more inclusive. Break boundaries new first's. Dr Dominatrix and her slave companion.

[@davidhunt3161]

black wtf

[@aaronvasseur6559]

The best thing is no one cares about your opinion and the doctor who is doing well again so that’s all that matters we can’t keep listening to you haters because all you people do is chat crap

[@TheGloopOfMobius]

Cope

[@ValyrianPrince]

Grow up you’re unhinged

[@MizziProductions]

I felt the same about Murray this series. I absolutely love 9’s theme with the haunting isolated vocals, Madame De Pompadour always puts a lump in my throat too. This series’ score just felt cut-and-paste Disney. 🫣