How To Fix: Doctor Who
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The first in a series of How To Fix. This episode I look at my favourite TV show: Doctor Who!
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YES to cliffhangers and multipart stories!!!
My biggest problem in the new series is that there are way too many feelings - especially romantic feelings between the doctors and their companions. The latest season started off pretty well: Capaldi's Doctor is old, Nardole is non-human, and Bill is a gay female. So there is less of a chance that they get romantically involved. But now they are all written out of the show :-(
I’ve had an idea for the sontarans for a while now:
Obviously the sontarsns are all clones, but what if the ORIGINAL sontarans were stranded on sontar and the clones left them because they saw them as impure or inferior. So now on sontar there’s these abandoned, primitive probably cannibalistic sontarans. I think it’d be kinda cool. Less skilled but more savage and creepy.
I agree with most of that. Certainly that Earthshock is easily the best cyberman story. Even the droids had a purpose.
Bit late to comment but yanno. I think that the science fiction aspect of Dr Who is pushed into fairytale looking messes in seasons 5-10. For example I don’t like that fact that the ‘power of the bond between father and son’ can defeat cyber men. if it could then everyone would do it when they were being upgraded.
That's what i watched doctor is for the cliffhangers, I liked that they explaned what is happend from the following week i looked forward to waiting to see what was going to happen to the doctor next.
I totally agree with the cliffhanger point, go back to the roots set by the class series, I feel that certain episodes where there are loads of ideas shoved in COULD work if they were split into more than 2 parts, eg: Stolen Earth/Journey's End should have had an extra episode to spread everything over equally because you've got all companions from the 9th/10th doctor returning, UNIT, Captain Jack's Torchwood (who basically get mostly forgotten about in Journey's End), Sarah Jane and her son, meta crisis doctor/doctor-donna, Davros, new Dalek Empire, insane Dalek Caan, The Crucible etc all crammed into 2 episodes
The BBC need to stop the shoeing in of political messages. That will improve the quality ten fold.
wildsurfer12 Not that I think you're wrong but the BBC made the next doctor a woman purely for their agenda. Yeah, we all know it. But they chose Jodie Whittaker because she's a fab actress.
Yes cause Classic Doctor Who was in no way political. Not one story had any political messages. Putting politics in Doctor Who started in 2005 and there was none before that
@@whawhawhawhaaaa You're right, but there's personal politics and then there's political allegory. The problem is that when a character becomes nothing more than a mouthpiece for the writer's lectures it just becomes clumsy, bad writing.
You said it. We need to treat villains properly. My mum recently reminded me of the episode where the Daleks are in WW2 serving the British army. (sorry I don't know the name as I started losing interest when Matt joined and basically stopped caring when Capaldi joined) Anyway, in my mum's words, I flipped out when I saw colourful Daleks, army Daleks and Daleks not killing every human they saw. Which in my adult mind is 100% reasonable. Seriously, Daleks are supposed to be war machines, all exactly the same, nameless and they kill everything on sight. that episode completely shattered the Dalek image. Plus, the doctor tricked Daleks (A super intelligent species which are in super advanced tanks full of ultra-advanced tech) with a jam tart. The Daleks I know would have killed the Daleks on sight seaming they can detect any weapon and would have known he was holding food.
Daleks = Nazis, Nazis don't walk around looking like power rangers and if they saw a jew in Hitler's office they'd shoot on sight. That's the Daleks I know. Please for the love of god next season have an episode where the Daleks are only a cameo in an episode where they wipe out a civilisation or something, make them menacing and make us want another Dalek episode.
also the fact that this latest series 10 we somehow got a 3 parter that felt incredibly underdeveloped and without the monks I wouldn't have known they were even connected. We should be getting deep and emotional human stories but for the last three years at least we've had very emotionless gimmicky plotlines that are only human in that they're all set on bloody earth every time! Each season should be 6×2 part episodes that actually feel impactful and interwoven.
People wanted simpler plot arcs, companions that aren't obsessed with The Doctor and a fun and not dark and gritty Doctor. Series 10 really knew what it was doing
Okay maybe I've been overpraising Series 10 but idk
Well the BBC did not listen to you about taking a risk in casting the new Doctor :(
hehe, I was thinking the exact same thing, when I first watched this.
Ditto
stvnbchmn And fan service, like putting the first doctor in the 12th doctor's last episode, the movelans and all the sonic screwdrivers and John Simm's master. And there is no respect doing what they did to the first doctor.
I would like Doctor who to have cliff hangers too and last 24 weeks with 6 storylines. Would also like Doctor Who to cover historic events again like in Hartnell era such as Aztecs, Gunfighters, reign of terror. Had hope Benedict Cumberbatch was new Doctor
Got a bit of the historical last season.
Personally I feel like Capaldi's Doctor should have been one of the greatest in the shows history, and like the poor sods in the 80s he has been seriously let down by the scriptwriters; Colin Baker proved he could do it in the far better written audio adventures. When you speak of having cliff hangers and multi episode stories, I immediately thought of GoT and The Walking Dead, their appeal relies upon viewers having to tune in week in week out to keep up with the show so extending the story over several weeks wouldn't be a problem and might help keep viewers; it would also mean stories aren't rushed to finish in an hour slot. In term of who the next actor should be (I can't see him agreeing to do it), I would throw every penny I had to get Rhys Ifans.
we need cliffhangers back though....seriously. Some of my best memories are the 70's and 80's episodes and you've got to wait a whole week or the next day in series 21 to find out what happens. Also Mission to the Unknown is a 1 part story too which features no regular cast. It wasn't mentioned in the vid, just thought I'd slot it in there .
It’s funny to listen to this from five years ago considering the bad stories that marked the 13th doctor years. Turns out Moffat wasn’t that bad after all. 😂
I am so sick of human companions, every single one omg Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy and on and on. I want aliens, I think arguably the fifth doctor had great alien companions like Adric and Nyssa and Turlough which gives some great variation.
*cough Nardole cough*
Mysterious Professor that is true he is the first in about 20 ish years but I don't think he's developed very well and often isn't in much of the episode he would be shoved in the TARDIS and disappear until the end. I don't even know what he is but I still like him 😊
they do it for a reason though
End The Storm yeah that would be nice I should have specified that I'm sick of present day human companions but I love captain jack, they should bring him back
The doctor should have a Silurian companion someday
Hire McGann and do the entire next season as flashback stories to Doctor #8 - THEN Martin Freeman might be free to become the next Doctor.
I have said similar things to you so many times. Classic Who had the writers but not the budget. New Who has the budget but not the writers. The program desperately needs jeopardy. Cliffhangers are the chance to let the monsters shine. There are so many ex-machina solutions. Look at the last episode of S10: The Doctor happens to fall on a computer which enabled him to quickly change an important code. Then he gets shot twice and blown up and the only Cyberman to survive is CyberBill with a slight limp yet he still doesn't regenerate. Makes you think that maybe the first, third, fourth and fifth Doctors may have given up a bit easily.
There definitely need to be episodes, four or more parters get things established and create depth of character on all sides.
Stop with all the I am The Doctor be afraid rubbish. If he stands in front of a monster chatting or being cocky then shoot him. Also don't have everything shooting and missing all the time this is Dr Who, not Star Wars.
Stop with the love interest rubbish. Imagine that Timelords are ugly blobby things (aliens) and that just as the Tardis translates language Timelords appear human to integrate with the predominant creature. I'm sure Rose, Martha, Amy and Clara wouldn't be flirting with an alien pile of spaghetti.
Have dead people stay dead which will give the monsters credibility and make them more of a threat. Bill should have decided that as there was no cure for being CyberBill that she stay behind to make the ultimate sacrifice. Rory was supposed to be an Auton at one point. Clara is was or will be a Dalek, yet there was a perfect opportunity missed to explain how that could have happened.
Give the viewers/fans something to care about. Don't make the endings clear. In every war that ends in victory there are losses on the way. Sometimes the monsters should win or neither side wins.
Single monsters work better than en-mass groups. Dalek worked better than any following Dalek story because there was only one (stinking) Dalek The Doctor couldn't just do what has been done to thousands or millions of Daleks and Cybermen and blown them all up because the story needed that one creature to last the whole episode. Alien is more intense than Aliens for the same reason.
RTD and The Moff are too busy patting themselves on the back and loving their own heroes that everything else has suffered. People don't care because everyone lives and the monsters have no credibility, threat or menace. The plots are too critical for the bad guys to win or neither side to lose. Where are the Magnus Greel's of this era? The Taren Capel's and Mehendri Solon's? All villains with an agenda that didn't involve taking over the universe and a valid reason behind their machiavellian machinations (quoting Henry Gordon Jago). Classic Who was not broken, it lacked investment and budget but told a great story (and a few duffers). If viewing is on the decline then it's the fault of the lack of imagination, story telling, threat and suspense that has been prevalent almost since New Who was born. Compare Rose to Blink for example a world of difference. Great writing makes inanimate objects scary. Poor writing makes inanimate objects a joke. You can decide which does which.
People often say that classic who had the writing not the budget and that's why it eventually got canceled. That seems to me like a gross oversimplification. The writing took a decline from Tom Baker's last season onward and didn't improve until nearly the end of Classic Who's run. The Davison era had great ideas, characters but didn't seem to know what to do with them and while it had some great individual stories there was a lot of wasted potential. Only about 3 stories from the Colin Baker era were good. I don't feel like a lack of money was its only problem. The writing seriously declined at a point similar to how New Who has done.
I like to think that series 10 actually fixed a few of these issues with the sort of 4 part cliffhangers leading through from oxygen to lie of the land.. Although alot of episodes these days are 45 and are crammed i really don't want to see shit episodes stretched out for an extra 15 mins like I'd just get too bored 😂😂
I feel the same way. The lack of storylines based on the Doctor's past last year was noticeable. But there were definitely callbacks (The Fez being my favorite)
I've got a personal one.
Tone down the orchestral music.
Like, even simple scenes where the Doctor is simply figuring out a puzzle is accompanied by some giant string and horn section telling you to recognise that he's figured out and is being heroic in doing so.
The music is generic, bland, flat and simply fills in space in the background. I can't even relate a piece of music to the new series, or recognise a theme for any of the monsters. Granted, they've done some syth-stuff this past few seasons, but it's been more of a pleasant surprise rather than a solid piece of atmospheric music, almost like an Easter egg.
But, old Who, even if it was someone mashing their hands on a Moog Synth messing around with the modulation (a la 'The Sea Devils') or a corny synth horn signalling the arrival of Cybermen Hoards (The Cyberman March from 80's Doctor Who) it was all unique and interesting and most importantly, memorable. Hell, 'The Silurians' has one of the weirdest musical soundtracks ever. But, it's a testament to how experimental the show was, and I think we've lose that with bloated budgets and a need to be cinematic and cutting edge.
Delia Derbyshire made some great incidental music back in the sixties with tape reels that was creepy and atmospheric (see 'Blue Veils and Golden Sands' and the majority of the 'Inferno' soundtrack for that matter.), why can't we do something similar now with all the technology we have?
That 80's Who did get seriously silly at times too. Remember that "dramatic footstep" music from Dragonfire? I laughed at that even when I was 8 years old. But I think orchestral music is a massive problem with modern TV in general. I can remember an episode of American Dad or Family Guy or something where they had an establishing shot of a shopping mall. I thought the speakers were about to blow out of my TV because of the frigging score. FFS man, I'm not watching a flipping opera.
Can we have Paddy Kingsland back? I love the electronic sounds of the early 80s.
Agreed. The orchestral music as now is seems melodramatic and overwrought, undermining what could be sinister, mysterious and genuinely dramatic.
I dunno, multi-part stories certainly didn't help series 9 despite the fact that there's only one standalone episode in that series. Really it doesn't matter how many episodes there are just as long as they're well written (though I agree that it helps to extend the episodes by 15 minutes)
As for the Daleks and Cybermen, really we need dark stories like a story depicting the Daleks' cruelty or a story similar to World Enough and Time that explores the body horror surrounding the Cybermen. Either make them threatening again BBC or don't use them at all.
And if you're going to do Dalek cameos, make them so that the Daleks play an integral role and/or are threatening unlike The Wedding of River Song and The Pilot that made them out to be pansies.
Good to see some passion. Can't say I agree with all your points but the ones you made were well presented, measured, thought out and delivered excellently. PS Revelation and remembrance were terrible! :)
Dont have characters that are the most important person in history and stop bringing companions back for the sake of bringing them back, well.....dont bring them back at all.
I totally agree with you about strax. He’s so annoying. I think now you can’t ever make a Sontaran episode ever again because the fear factor of them has been taken away with the comedy factor of strax. That’s a real shame because they are my favourite villain.
just thought I would tell you I love your channel keep up the awesome work, from your fellow Scottish viewer.
Thanks! But, fellow Scottish? I've got no Scottish DNA in me at all 😂
sorry I thought you were Scottish my bad, ( : keep up the good work though. you come across as Scottish at times, the swearing you kind of have a Scottish twang in your accent don't know if you've noticed.
@@dylanthomas2923 well, I'm half Irish so Its either Manc or that 😂
How to fix doctor who:
Don't have 1 head writer, have more
yes! retire the daleks and cybermen
The Punisher they are used too frequently.
Let the Doctor met someomne from the Past and NOT say: "We have an adventure before - like Elvis Presley, Ian Fleming and Sigmund Freud". A real fresh Reaction!
My Gawd you are speaking truth to my feelings. I thought by the last season of Moffat's run he was out of gas creatively
the only way to save this series is:
1- go back to 4 part stories
2- go back to the 70's Dr. Who ( The best era of the show)
3- Bring back Gallifrey, Rani, The Mending Monk, and the Proper Master
4- Focus on THE DOCTOR and not the companions
5- Exterminate the one who had the stupid idea of a female Doctor, even lame for Cosplay convention standard, this is the RIP of the series
6- get a proper SCRIPT EDITOR to fix all the crap jammed in the series since the 10th Doctor
It's references to the classic series that makes me love NuWho so much. Like you and many others, I became a Whovian thanks to the 9th Doctor and the first series. As I began to explore classic Who, imagine my surprise when I saw that the Nestene Consciousness and Sontarans were already villains. I LOVE the continuity. Like in "The Stolen Earth" when the Doctor says something about how he'd only seen something like that once before.... as we learn in Trial of a Time Lord. I guess one reason I love the continuity is because the second major Star Trek series seemed to want to pretend the original series never existed (been a Trekker for 46 years, relative noob to DW by comparison).
I would say slow the show down, make it quieter, less or zero CGI, fewer characters, better longer stories, better music etc. The original show was always played like it was live theater which is where it got so much of its charm. And a tardis interior thats more like the hartnell original with good lighting.
Why do we have to know the sexuality of a character. I started a job the other day, and the supervisor told me the manager was gay. I said to her why did I need to know this. Is Krang, the cyberman in Moonbase lgbt? Stop being New Labour, you're twenty years out of date...……….
They need to go back to classic who style with serials and multipart episodes, the minimum being 2 parts and the maximum being 6 parts. It leads to good character development and awesome cliffhangers.
ComedyCenter but that leads to every actor burning out due to the major filming schedules. 2 six parters would be the equivalent of one full season in the new season
Tbh I love doctor who references cause they keep people from forgetting classic who and Im properly scared a large part of the whovians are only newwho anf without the references most of them will never be lured to find out about classic episodes and that's sad. Doctor who references is the thing that's keeping new who and classic who together as one show rather than separate shows
David Tennants last season did have a dalek two-parter, "the Stolen Earth" and "Journeys End".
I think with the whole Terry Nation-BBC Dalek deal, they got it right in the latest series, it is just there for a couple of minutes (5 at tops), yet still being a bit of a bad-ass kicking the crap out of the Movellans
I think 3 years with each recent Doctor has been the proper length of tenur, mainly because the newer incarnation of the show can get really exhausting. The new Doctors all have these heavy dramatic moments, with tons of speeches, harrowing escapes, companions getting killed or converted. And the Doctor himself is made to be bigger and more important than anyone in the universe. So the ups and downs we have to go through are staggering within 3 years. Whereas the older Doctors had similar moments, but the whole show felt less earth shattering. It was more grounded, production-wise and story-wise. Heavy ideas were still explored, but the calmer tone and cheaper effects budget made the Doctor and his adventures easier to watch and binge. You didn't get as exhausted.
Plus, on multiple occasions they've tricked us into thinking the Doctor would leave and regenerate, then he didn't. Multiple false starts gets one pretty irritated with the show-runners and the Doctor, so honestly, getting a new one every 3 years to start things over again, on a new foot, is welcome. In my opinion, anyway.
1: Stop resurecing dead characters
2: Stop overusing the Daleks
3: Take more risks
4: Remove Hell Bent from canon
5: Bring back Bessie
6: Don't take my advice
In terms of a really chill episode, I really liked Gridlock (Season 3 is my favourite of the new series) but it made me think: what if there was a Doctor Who episode in an airport or train station?
Cliffhangers - yes!!!.... plus it would actually make the budget stretch further as there would be less expense on the show.... a 12 part series would only need say six different location/set designs.... surely that would mean more budget to spend on making it look super awesome!
Write Better Scripts- Agreed
Stop the Fan-Service- Disagreed
Retire the Daleks and the Cybermen- Disagreed
Stop turning your Monsters into Comic-Relief- Meh; My mom likes Strax
Choose Your Next Doctor carefully- Agreed
Bring back cliffhangers- Agreed
There aren't really any 1-part stories in Classic-Who.
Mission To The Unknown is part of the giant 12-part Dalek-Master Plan arc, and The Five Doctors and The T.V. Movie are feature-lengthed, and could be broken up into about 4 25 Minute parts.
A good dalek story would be the new paradigm of daleks in 2010 being in a war with the bronze daleks. A civil war or a raleasin why they are no longer in doctor who. Even the magicians apprentice didn't include them.
you should send this to the bbc, you make very good points in this.
There is one episode after Clara died where The Doctor wanders throughout a gothic structure apparently as a play thing of the Time Lords and Sisterhood of Kahn. I thought that the Time Lords were time locked in the time war and The Doctor is trying to find a way to restore them. I watched that episode at least 3 times and still do not get the plot or why it was even made. It was just weird throughout and could have been deleted from the series and the rest of the series still would have sort of made sense.
I think they Need to not Reveal the Doctor WAAAAY Before The Doctor Regenerates People WILL Watch the Episode if the doctor is regenerating ESPECIALLY If they Don't Know Who It's going to be
BBC "fixed" Dr. Who the same way I fixed my old tomcat. They cut his fucking balls off!
I think you are spot on, absolutely spot on
I agree the constant references to the original show just refer us back to a much better show while not really connecting the new show to the old. Incidentally The war Games is in 10 30 minute episodes while Mission to the Unknown was in one part and does not even include the Doctor. It set up the next story The Daleks Master Plan which was in 12 ( !) parts. Sadly neither Master Plan nor Mission exists any more. But with The Enemy of the World and the Web of Fear being recently found both in near completion who knows?
The only thing good about Hell Bent was the fact that Capaldi was in it. The rest was absolute rubbish and Moffat should be ashamed of himself. Resurrecting Clara, the Dr shooting the male time lord just so he could regenerate into a her, the hybrid. All rubbish and proof that Steven was stretched way too thin
If I were in charge, I would wipe everything from Series 8 and up from canon and start again. I would serialize it again, bring back more Classic-like Doctors and characters, and return to the musical style Paddy Kingsland gave us in the 80s.
I like Capaldi and I dare you to get Smith or Tennant to do that war speech! But yes, alot of it was annoying and it had HER in it that completely wrecked it!
Stop with the "remove from canon" schtick. It's annoying and counter-productive
If being longer can make a Doctor Who story better, then why is the monk trilogy from series 10 so unpopular?
Casual CraftMan But the majority of the classic series is 4 parts long so it can work. The monk trilogy was just crap and an example of how not to do it!
The length of the stories isn't the problem, it's the writing. Warriors of the deep and In the forest of the night are poorly written regardless of there length. Genesis of the Daleks and Midnight are well written regardless of there length. The length of a story only becomes a problem if the story has filler or drags out scenes to long.
Capaldi could have been an amazing doctor but I can't agree that he's the best of the new era (Considering I am a Tennant fan 😂)
The scripts and plots for his seasons have been subpar at best, and downright terrible at other times.
One of my favourite episodes for Capaldi was his first episode. It was a clean slate for the doctor (except for Clara) and the way it was going seemed as though we were going to get a darker, more grittier doctor than we've seen before. This I was all for. We were left wondering whether the robot jumped or whether Capaldi pushed him. By the end of his run he wasn't gritty, he was a joke. Capaldi is not a quirky guy. He is very serious. And so this should have translated to the show, with him being slightly quirky every now and then so it looks like he's trying to fit in. The part where he squirmed when Clara hugged him was hilarious. Thats the comedy I want. Not the doctor riding on a tank, playing the guitar, while in the medieval(ish) times. I mean wtf.
Also I don't agree entirely with Matt Smiths run declining in quality. If anything it was just as good as his first season. Clara and 11th doctor are one of my favourite duos. But obviously no-one can beat captain jack as a companion 😂
it's fairly obvious that 2 things would fix the programme - 1) bring back Catherine Tate forever. Okay now that I have that out of my system on a more serious note 2) reintroduce the occasional history series. The monsters and villains are just monotonous. Surprise us with just a good yarn. Comparing The Fires of Pompeii with The Romans it is not hard to figure out which is the more interesting. The Romans was not everyones favourite, unsuccessfully trying comedy but at least it was not just "just look at a monster trying to wreck the place."
Its the Same Problem with the Joker: Not every Batman Story needs him. Less is more!
Generally I agree, especially with the first point. Writing needs vast improvement. I especially hate the constant "end of the world/universe" plot line. I call it the John Nathan Turner curse. But of course they decided to go with a risk for the new Doctor.
You fix Doctor Who by ditching earth bound stories. And have the Doctor time travelling to alien planet's and different dimensions. That way you can introduce new monsters and new allies. And ditch the human companions
All Strax's jokes just aren't funny.
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Mission to the unknown??
I think they should bring back the boneless things from flatline... on skaro and trying to copy the daleks
"As a whole consistently bad" loool that doesn't make sense but I agree with everything you said and u have some good videos!
I hope series 11 has a lot of multi part episodes.
Boy this aged well
Just rewatched this: an excellent video. The top priority has to be decent writing, the quality of which nosedived when Steven Moffat took over as show runner, IMO. He was phenomenally good when writing odd episodes (Blink, The Empty Child, etc.), but then RTD was in overall charge and I wonder how much RTD had a hand in script editing those episodes? Who knows. I would have loved RTD to be running the show during Season 10. Peter Capaldi would have been more spiky rather than angry and Bill would have been so much more than: “You know I’m gay”, “I’m not interested in boys” and “I’M GAY!!!!!”. Oh well. Let’s see what Chris Chibnall serves up. I’m not hopeful, but happy to give it a chance.
Great video, which Capaldi episodes do you like? Cause I only like a few from series 8 & 9.
Brandon Hudson I must admit, there aren't many. I love Before the Flood/Under the Lake, Heaven Sent is brilliant and that's about it. Some episodes are OK like Deep Breath and the Zygon story but I have no interest in rewatching them any time soon. The majority are crap though
+Wingy Media yeah some of them are awful, some of the worst in the show's history, but I'll admit the ones you've mentioned plus a few other I actually do like and keep me watching since the show can produce good content. Let's hope series 10 isn't total arse, but then again after hell bent I don't think it could get worse (unless they bring Clara back for a full episode)
Mummy on the Orient Express was pretty good. Though to be fair it did suffer from being only 45 minutes. I honestly have liked Capaldi's era, he makes even meh episodes fun to watch. Oh and I have to say Series 10 has definitely been his best series.
And if they don't mess up the finale tonight, it might be one of my favourite series' period. There weren't any horrible episodes, just ones that I might give a pass (though I guess the 3 parter was pretty close to being trash, it was the last episode that saved it tbh).
lol i love silver nemesis :D
Yes I agree with a lot of this. The show needs better writing & definitely needs new monsters.
Oops, missed out the hyphen there! Multi-part...
i think they listend to you about the 60 minute episodes but there are only 10 not 12.
What's up with Hell Bent ?
How I see doctor who:
Russel T Davies:
Amazing way or re-energising the show for a modern audience with a good plot that stretched throughout the series and is subtle, look at the Bad Wolf concept, Vote Saxon and the Doctor Donna they were all subtle and over arching concepts. Furthermore the Xmas specials were mostly brilliant and RTD wasn't afraid to kill people and show that his monsters were deadly whereas Moffatt has barely killed anyone in his episodes and treats his monsters as a joke like you say. Also Moffat bundles all the best monsters into the same episode and just reduces their credibility time and time again and if you look at the first episode of Season 10 he chucked in a Dalek for absolutely no purpose and the monster was a fusion of the waters of mars and midnight. Finally it seems to me that Moffatt has ruined the continuity of the show as the past RTD era is almost never referenced and parts of that era have not been explained e.g. Why was Davros still alive, where
Is Jenny (the doctors daughter) and why not re use brilliant monsters like the slitheen instead of the same old monsters time and time again, he could bring back Captain Jack or something but no the whole show just feels completely disassociated from Seasons 1-4. That's my opinion anyways but feel free to debate with me.
Lol "brilliant monster like the slitheen". You must really check your sanity.
+Mysterious Professor tell me what was wrong with the slitheen
What was wrong with silly farting cheap-looking aliens? Are you serious?
RTD never killed any major character, btw.
Most of what you are saying I would agree with.
Love the channel so I subscribed... One thing I need to say you can't go on saying the show pushes it's past too much.. Then measure every monster's current stories to those of the past ... That sounds a bit of contradiction.. Just sayin! Keep up the good work ...
I think the "past" orientation of Shows is a general dissea.
Look at Star Trek. Star Wars too.
I think sometimes that Sci Fi Show makes have.... fear of the future?
No more reference back. Stop living in the past and look to the future. Maybe herself will stop the navel looking and have an identity as strong as the first four doctors who hardly referenced the past. The only time in the first 18 years was day of the daleks and brain of morbius, yeah, alright forget the three doctors but you know what I mean. And write for the intelligent thirteen year old and NOT a bunch of fat fifty year olds!!! By the way I'm 54.....
I think the last two show runners have dropped the ball badly. Russell T. Davies did a much better job than Moffat and Chibnall. And changing the doctor into a woman isn't groundbreaking it's just lazy. Doctor Who needs an actor with talent and depth and from what I've heard and seen this actress they got has little of both. Bring back quirkiness into the doctor like Tom Baker or David Tennant.
Scott Destan hang on a minute. Chibnall hasn't even started yet. Give him a chance. Yes it will probably be shit but...give him a chance :)
you where talking about monsters and I totally agree but what is your favorite doctor who monster in the new era?
my top favorite must be the midnight entity as we know so little about it and what it is and why it does what it does. I think midnight is one of the creepiest episodes in new who. Its creepy and renders everyone helpless and the doctor doesnt resolve everything with his magical equipment either so thats a great plus in my book
Ezid dow If you mean a monster introduced in the new series, it'd have to be The Empty Child. Absolutely terrified me!!
I hate capaldi, David Tenant was the best doctor of the New Era, nothing will change my mind.
You fix Doctor Who by ripping up the format by rebooting it. Axe the earth bound stories and have the Doctor travelling to alien planet's. Axe the human companions and have alien companions. Bring back the weeping angels along with bringing in new monsters
Even further down the crapper now
I think they should have made Donna Noble the new female Doctor Who, when she was in journey's end episode instead of introducing a female nobody ever heard of as the new Doctor Who.
My solution is bring back Matt Smith or bring back The Weeping Angels or both :)
Release Virison I'm sorry for you mate, but that would just be utter stupidity...
Play it safe
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The scripts need tightening up. Really fed up of all the loose ends. The series 10 Missy story arc is a loose end. What crime did she commit???
You are asking what crime did the Master (aka Missy) commit? Go back and watch just about every episode featuring the Master.
+David Briggs Not an answer. Who sentenced her? Why did the Doctor agree to look after her? HUGE PLOTHOLES?
Paul Charles Morris my guess is that it was the Monks who sentenced her, and with regard to the Doctor agreeing to look after her, he had essentially no choice, because otherwise she would have been destroyed, or something like that.
+David Briggs But, still a guess! Nothing said in concrete in the series.
Why have you taken down you reaction video down to a female doctor announcement
Just made it private for now. I was tired of reading such stupid comments about how me not liking a creative choice in a TV show (5 mins after it's announced) somehow means I'm oppressing women.
OK, I see what you mean.
Wingy Media There's no way they can fix it now! I was a member of the Doctor Who fan club of Australia for nearly 40years.....I'm not a fan now! They made a mockery of something I deeply cared for...and now I'm being treated like a evil person cos I'm expressing my opinion !!!!for some reason I'm not allowed to have an opinion because I don't agree with there new direction! It's heartbreaking!!!
Bugger the past. I so agree with you!! New monsters please, new situations. Tom Baker went six years without a dalek story, maybe don't feature them at all. The intelligent thirteen year old doesn't give a rats ass about daleks, just the possibility of having the imagination of time travel and all the wonderful escapisim that can happen...…...
Hey man, I know your thoughts on S11 are negative, but they've pretty much done everything you wanted them to in this video. Why don't you like the new series?
Because the writing and acting isn't good enough plain and simply. It's alright doing something but if you don't do it well then what's the point
Inasmuch as I loved watching reruns of classic Who with my kids when they were growing up back in the Nineties, my interest in the show never revived after the show returned for the new era. Indeed, I was not interested in even revisiting the old shows. For me, it was wholesome, colorful entertainment to share with my kids, and nothing more. To me, the show lacks any sweeping novelistic interest, and that's due, in my opinion, to a lack of interest in the Doctor character himself/herself. Simply changing their clothes fashion, or the design of the TARDIS or giving them minor facial tics, reactions and variations of mannerism just doesn't do it for me. I would like the see the Doctors be more fully realized, quirky and individual characters who have passions that go beyond the mere imperatives of the narratives. Good vs. Evil, battling invading aliens, dazzling special effects, and even on-the-nose political allegories -- and so forth -- are the height of boredom to me. Pertwee had his yellow Roadster and some indication of being a Renaissance man, and I found that very interesting. I would love to see the doctor characters have personal passions that stand apart from narrative and canonical tropes. Make one of the doctors a master chef, for instance. Think of the possibilities. The doctor's interest in food could make for interesting side trips and adventures. Let's say the doctor is on a mission, but also happens to know that the planet he's on makes the best fried Xenobian brains in the galaxy, for instance, and he's just as obsessed with finding and trying the recipe as he is in completing the missions. This could create conflict with his companions, who would constantly be trying to make him stay on mission. The variations could lead him to getting into unforeseen trouble and more adventures. Plus, there would be added visual interest as the production designers created crazy-ass looking feasts of gross dishes, and what not. This really would be thinking outside the box. Shows that fail to do that don't interest me.
From Who to Poo 💩 Moffat exterminated the Dr. Feel sorry for Peter capaldi having to play these weak series.
I wrote the same thing in the Council of Geeks about the same subject (ruclips.net/video/hCBJgJJXBZs/видео.html):
6) Think small ("base under siege" plot always works, it's a group of survivors on a shitty situation);
5) Make it dangerous and scary by killing people in every episode;
4) Make the villains being a threat (both old and new);
3) Forget about Earth and "this is end of the world (AGAIN!)" at the end of every season;
2) Explore the universe in 1 hour long episodes;
1) Stop with the PC/SJWs bullshit.
Sorry, but I have to disagree. I think series 8 and 9 have been two of the best in the shows history. I think there's very little need fixing for Doctor Who
Jonathan Fayers but both of those seasons were all centred around Clara mostly
Jonathan Fayers then you're fucking deluded
I completely disagree anything post RTD is just mediocre especially Season 7-9
Do you want to fight
I'll give you 2 and 3, they're pretty mediocre, but series 4 is one of the best seasons of television period, not just who.