All this time I've been thinking "I should really review something else" and then my love for the show returned when I binged through these episodes and Blink in one sitting. Marvelous stories, at the height of the revival. Looking forward to hearing what you all think!
JON SNOW honestly I doubt it will even come close to this level of greatness . Sadly I think Chibnal just isn’t cabaple of being a showrunner for Doctor who.
@@JONSNOW-jw3zx Looked on the wiki page and I'm guessing Chibnall is laying off on the writing and allowing other people to write episodes which does seem promising, however bit put off at how they are going for a more movie block buster style rather than the normal doctor who style. I think the cybermen story-line might make the show a bit more bearable.
@dr103 I remember Eccleston going a bit dark and just demanding the last dalek alive (at the time) to kill itself, which it replied with "You would make a good dalek" So i do think 9 is capable of being that dark.
He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor who had fought with gods and demons, why he’d run away from us and hidden. He was being kind.
I never got this.... He was being 'kind' - kind of cheapens that when his 'kindess' involves allowing 4 aliens to tear up and destroy an innocent village while hunting him.
@@someguy7317 Yes! Someone else gets it! For all their talk about the glory of peace, it's the refusal of confrontation, that is the reason for all the deaths here. And not once is that tragic irony ever realized in it's full impact. David Tennant's run was absolutely maddening sometimes.
@@fictiontheorizer1991 This is actually a common feature of the Doctor. For starters he can be very callous about death, he rarely reacts when other people are about to be killed in front of him, except a mate, and in this series he moves on when the doctor, whose blood got sucked, died and Martha took the time to close his eyes. I only noticed it recently, after re-watching Doctor Who so much, since he just would not protest (Or bat an eyelid.) when people are dying in front of him. The Doctor has a definite morality which is heavily opposed to killing humans especially and has saved the Earth numerous times from foreign invasion, one must wonder that being an alien he empathises and wants them to live (For example in the Christmas invasion where he sees them off and later the aliens are killed, he has a hatred for man. This is mirrored well in the 11th Doctor's inauguration as well since the Doctor ensures they stay out.). Ultimately he is not perfect, people need to stop trying to claim him to be, but this is consistent with earlier in his run, he gives someone one chance to change and if this is not taken up then he snaps. He is silent and just wreaks vengeance, like killing a bunch of spider babies (Donna's expression at the time was enough to push through how honestly horrifying the Doctor can be.). He rescues Venice from not vampires but that ending is so @~?£ing sad when he is crying that the species will die. Of course there is the Master where the Doctor would never kill him no matter what. While the Doctor is a hero and good, he is an alien.
“He’s like fire and ice and rage, he’s like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun, he’s ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time and he can see the centre of the universe, and he is wonderful...” ~ Tim Timothy Tim
@@WinterSteele I haven't seen nearly enough of the original Doctors to include their companions, but of the post-Eccleston companions I'd put the top three as Rose > Donna > Martha.
@@TheLonelyGoomba moffat was absolutely amazing in terms of ideas like when his episodes hit they are amazing he isn't the best writer tho as in he needs someone to have oversight on him because he isn't the best at charter writing so literally him with someone good at charter writing creates absolutely incredible stories
series three was my fave for such a long time because of this, i loved how when the doctor finally stopped dragging his feet about martha the series cranked it up a level.
I feel very privialged as I got to be tought by the director of these episodes Charles Palmer at my film school. We talked breifly about these eps as i expressed that they were 2 of my faves. He said that he had doubts these kinds of episodes would be good with the dr who fans but David Tennant told Charlie that the fans will actually love them for the reasons Charlie thought they wouldnt work, because the doctor wont be the doctor. A terrific guy who does enjoy dr who as well as working on projects in such depth.
I miss Doctor Who. It sounds weird, but I think the fact that CGI and technology has got so good makes Series 11 and now 12 look more like a film, it also looks far too mainstream. I miss Tennant and Smith the most, Capaldi too.
@@tikitong7285 can’t remember the last time I was dying for a doctor who episode to come out. I remember end of time. I was counting down the seconds. Even Matt Smith’s farewell. Capaldi I found myself not too excited but I’d still watch them and enjoy it. With Whittaker I couldn’t even remember the episodes were on half the time. More time I missed them and just watched them the following week loool
An interesting fact, but in the McCoy Era novel, there aren't any scarecrows. They were added for this episode. And have you noticed that the Doctor kills the family "justly", in the same way the teachers thought fighting in wars was just and honourable?
He doesn't kill them at all, that's the scariest part of it. They killed, maimed, destroyed peaceful lives and stole the bodies of innocent people in an attempt to steal the doctor's immortality because they thought it was a gift, so the doctor punished them by showing them that living forever is a curse. He gave them the immortality they wanted, and it ended up possibly being the cruelest thing he could have done.
They would have died eventually. Well, Mother and Sister of Mine wouldn't, but Father of Mine was trapped inside a star. He would have died eventually.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Father of Mine wasn't trapped inside a star, but I see why you're misremembering it that way. He was wrapped in chains "forged from a dwarf star alloy" and left in a hidden chamber to rot alone for eternity.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Not sure why you're apologising lol, you've done nothing wrong. I only remember it so exactly because I rewatched the episode the other day.
Henry McClintock yeah I agree series 4 was really consistent. Series 3 episodes 8-12 just do a bit more for me because I’m not a fan of the series 4 finale and I think turn left is just okay.
That ending where he punishes the family for eternity makes SO much more sense now that I know that the story was originally written with the Seventh Doctor in mind.
These 2 episodes and blink could be considered near perfection in my eyes, also it’s funny how these episodes have 2 actors who’d go to game of thrones and 2 different game of thrones actors appeared much later in the capaldi time
Oh man, I thought for sure you were going to reference when Ten was making amends with those he had developed a relationship with in his current regeneration; like when he saved Martha and Mickey from the Sauntaran (sorry for spelling), went to Donna's wedding and gave a farewell to Wilfred, and, relevant to this episode, when he went to the book signing event of the granddaughter of his romantic love in this episode, and asked "Was she happy?".
One of my personal most heartbreaking moments ever in Doctor Who is still the montage of John Smith's future life. These two episodes are some of the show's finest and they were written by a fan years prior.
Not only was this one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever, it also set up the best plot twist in TV history. I didn't know who The Master was at the time I first saw this, but when Professor Yana pulled out that watch I lost it🤯
Both the actors that play the Headmaster and Tim Latimer shared a scene in the Force Awakens together as well, really mad that all these years later they would reunite on Star Wars of all things.
it wasn't a self-destruct. The Doctor messed wit their ship, feeding energy back into the primary heat converters, massively over-heating the core until it exploded, or at least that was what I picked up from what he said.
The Tardis can't be that heavy because several times in Pertwee's era UNIT would just chuck it on the back of a lorry and take it places. Obviosuly when I say chucked I don't actually mean that, but a small lorry can easily move it so it can't be that bad.
Custard_Timelord Yeah that’s because it’s true weight is suppressed I think the doctor once said it could flatten the Earth, and then I think in Trenzalore the dimensions broke down and it went to it’s proper size? Idk lol xD timey wimey wibbly wobbly
Martha is hugely underrated. She's by far the most capable of companions in the modern era, and the Doctor treated her really badly. She makes it through so much, and makes the right choice by leaving the Doctor, and joins Torchwood. I would've loved to see her back with the Doctor, but it's unrealistic as the Doctor was a complete dick to her, and now she's doing her own work with aliens, away from the Doctor being condescending.
Oh wow that comic maker. 😂 It's one of those things that I would've completely forgotten about *forever* until it's brought up and all the memories immediately flood back. Good times 😄
I had to replay that transformation scene a few times because Tennant was just that good. Also, can I love that imaginary life that they could have had? It was so perfect.
18:09 in the episode flatline the doctor says they Tardis is always lighter. If it were to land with it true weight it would fracture the surface of the earth’
One time I made a comic on the comic maker that was quite a few pages, when I was like, nine maybe, and had no idea how technology worked. The printer wouldn't work so I turned off the computer and left the room. My dad tried to print off something later that day and the printer suddenly decided to print off the 100+ pages that had somehow not printed earlier. He wasn't pleased.
Season 3 and 4, I think are the golden ages of doctor who, it had the best stories and the best characters, whilst also running alongside torchwood and sarah-jane adventures
i’ll never forget when the preview for this episode was shown on the “next time” section and all we got shown was the doctor being human and 7 year old me had never been more confused and excited for anything in my life
Someone made a very good point that this story is totally pointless because the doctor kills the family in literally 30 seconds at the end, if it was that easy why didn't he just do that at the beginning?
I forgot how great and emotional these episodes were. Looking forward to when you review the season 4 specials in 5 years, some of Tennant’s best acting in Who
Still remember my sister being terrified of the scarecrows, so I used to go into her room at night and whisper “The scarecrows are coming to get you”. She didn’t get much sleep on those nights
Met Paul Cornell (the writer of this two parter and Father’s Day) at Dublin International Comic Expo asked him his inspiration of this episode and he told me it was Superman II
doctor who is the kind of show where you can never know whether or not you'll be getting a good episode, an average episode, or a terrible episode. Episodes like these two are the one's that keep me invested this weird show, no matter how bad it gets, it always comes back around and eventually we'llget gems like these two.
I mean not to be nitpicky but I just from the science babble it sounds less like a self destruct and more like he overloaded some kind of systems which results in the explosion, so standard doctor witty solution. You cant really take the science babble at face value but still, he said something about rerouting energy to a primary heat converter. If thats overloaded because of it, it sounds less like a self destruct and more like an intentional action that leads to the ship exploding
Thanks for your reviews. I especially like how you point out several motifs (in writing / portrayal / shooting) like something simple as a slanted frame (and much much more). God, I miss the old writers, and now I know even better why that is.
On one of the DVD extras, it's noted that when everyone met for the read-though and introduced themselves and the part they'd be playing, David said that he'd be playing "John Smith". Actually, David plays three roles: the Doctor, John Smith, and the Doctor playing John Smith, not for long, but it's subtly different from the John Smith we've come to know. The Doctor really shows his alien-ness when he casually invites Joan to come travelling with him: the man she knew and loved is dead, and yet here he is asking her to try again.
@@azuregriffin1116 well this was many years after this episode aired so she's an adult. We hosted a doctor who convention and she was a guest. Events transpired...
Little Hidden line in the music at the beginning of human nature says “follow the master” at possibly the quietest moment so you can definitely lookout for that next time you watch it.
Thomas Sangster's whole performance and the fact that they loosely made him parallel The Doctor was also incredible. And the veteran at the end, you didn't mention that :( I also haven't watched these episodes for about 5 years but I just remember that shit bc they're a complete masterpiece
In the middle of the video and just realized it’s like another regeneration for John Smith...because he’s losing his life all over again. Like a foreshadowing of what his regeneration that is to come is truly like within his own mind. How he feels when he loses it all
One of my favourite Tennant episodes, it's brilliant and fantastic! Plus I never made anything on the comic maker but I had many happy memories on the trailer maker, sadly all my experiments are lost in the time vortex!
I still think the way the doctor dealt with them at the end of this was one of my favourite endings in any of the episodes it just goes to show that the doctor isn't someone you mess with he really is dealing with a low of dark things and when that side comes out you better hope you're not on the other side of it
Love this episode is finally getting its time to shine with this video and Full-Fat Videos showcasing its masterclass in writing. It is pretty much perfect. The acting and overall menace of the villains, how David and the writers get u to care about John Smith as a separate entity, the EPIC ending which just makes u understand why armies run away at the very mention of his name. So cool. The only thing that bothers me if Martha being an idiot and letting the family know John Smith is the Doctor, but she did better than other companions would under similar circumstances so MASTERPIECE!
18:00 People have physically moved the Tardis around on numerous occasions. It's been moved by UNIT trucks (off-screen), horse drawn wagons and at least one helicopter. I think it's been shown picked up and carried off by like 6 or 8 dudes before. Though they never specify out loud, they sure do treat it like it effectively weighs about what a wooden box that size would weigh.
When I first saw these I had to go onto Iplayer because I thought I'd missed an episode. The start was superb. It was all fantastic. I'd love 'John Smiths book'.
The way the Doctor dealt with the Family was bone chilling....it was a concept confirmed in A Good Man Goes to War. If the Doctor was "good" he wouldn't need to observe so many rules. It makes you wonder what the Doctor did before he decided to run away from Gallifrey. Did he do dark deeds he regrets? Was he trained to do unthinkable things and had a crisis of conscience? We don't know, but these moments firmly establish that he has a dark side, and the universe is lucky he chooses to not embrace them.
I met Thomas Brodie Sangster the other day walking home from university and he was such a nice guy, I instantly told him I was a fiend for doctor who even though hes a film star and he was in doctor who for 90 minutes 😂 still tho what a lovely guy
I don't know if anyone else thinks this, but I've always thought that showing John Smith the future he could have was almost an apology and a gift from the Doctor. John Smith gets to see the life he can't live, as does Joan. And as shown earlier, proximity to the watch brings out the Doctor, so I've always wondered if it was The Doctor who reaches out to hold the watch with Joan
I only recently discovered a relative of mine died fighting in the First World War in 1917, older than the boys in this show but at least six years younger than I am now. He was just a lad still, now this episode seems to hit a little harder knowing my great grandfather lost a brother to that war.
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All this time I've been thinking "I should really review something else" and then my love for the show returned when I binged through these episodes and Blink in one sitting. Marvelous stories, at the height of the revival. Looking forward to hearing what you all think!
Fantastic
What do you think about the series 12 trailer?
JON SNOW honestly I doubt it will even come close to this level of greatness . Sadly I think Chibnal just isn’t cabaple of being a showrunner for Doctor who.
@@aleksaivanovic8375 I don't think it'll be this good but I think it looks promising (compared to the last series)
@@JONSNOW-jw3zx Looked on the wiki page and I'm guessing Chibnall is laying off on the writing and allowing other people to write episodes which does seem promising, however bit put off at how they are going for a more movie block buster style rather than the normal doctor who style. I think the cybermen story-line might make the show a bit more bearable.
"We wanted to live forever. So the Doctor made sure that we did."
Such a chilling line. Honestly gives me goosebumps.
Splasher Blaster The glory days... I can’t imagine The Thirteenth Doctor being capable of inspiring that much fear.
@dr103 I remember Eccleston going a bit dark and just demanding the last dalek alive (at the time) to kill itself, which it replied with "You would make a good dalek" So i do think 9 is capable of being that dark.
No second chances that's the kind of man i am
Huh, so we all forgetting that one time Matt Smith left that old guy to get blown to bits by missles
Not anymore, because the 13th Doctor freed the little girl.
"your friend or your lover?Your choice."
Chills, every time
He never raised his voice. That was the worst thing. The fury of the Time Lord. And then we discovered why. Why this Doctor who had fought with gods and demons, why he’d run away from us and hidden.
He was being kind.
This.
THIS THIS THIS!!!
I never got this.... He was being 'kind' - kind of cheapens that when his 'kindess' involves allowing 4 aliens to tear up and destroy an innocent village while hunting him.
@@someguy7317 Yes! Someone else gets it!
For all their talk about the glory of peace, it's the refusal of confrontation, that is the reason for all the deaths here.
And not once is that tragic irony ever realized in it's full impact. David Tennant's run was absolutely maddening sometimes.
@@fictiontheorizer1991 This is actually a common feature of the Doctor. For starters he can be very callous about death, he rarely reacts when other people are about to be killed in front of him, except a mate, and in this series he moves on when the doctor, whose blood got sucked, died and Martha took the time to close his eyes. I only noticed it recently, after re-watching Doctor Who so much, since he just would not protest (Or bat an eyelid.) when people are dying in front of him. The Doctor has a definite morality which is heavily opposed to killing humans especially and has saved the Earth numerous times from foreign invasion, one must wonder that being an alien he empathises and wants them to live (For example in the Christmas invasion where he sees them off and later the aliens are killed, he has a hatred for man. This is mirrored well in the 11th Doctor's inauguration as well since the Doctor ensures they stay out.). Ultimately he is not perfect, people need to stop trying to claim him to be, but this is consistent with earlier in his run, he gives someone one chance to change and if this is not taken up then he snaps. He is silent and just wreaks vengeance, like killing a bunch of spider babies (Donna's expression at the time was enough to push through how honestly horrifying the Doctor can be.). He rescues Venice from not vampires but that ending is so @~?£ing sad when he is crying that the species will die. Of course there is the Master where the Doctor would never kill him no matter what. While the Doctor is a hero and good, he is an alien.
“He’s like fire and ice and rage, he’s like the night and the storm and the heart of the sun, he’s ancient and forever, he burns at the centre of time and he can see the centre of the universe, and he is wonderful...” ~ Tim Timothy Tim
It’s actually ‘he can see the turn of the universe.’
These episodes are a show case of how brilliant Martha was.
I still think she was just too in love with him, it was just annoying sometimes.
To this day, Martha is one of my favorite companions. She's criminally underrated.
@@WinterSteele I haven't seen nearly enough of the original Doctors to include their companions, but of the post-Eccleston companions I'd put the top three as Rose > Donna > Martha.
Man I miss Martha. She just had so much more development than Yas, ryan and Graham put together!
Martha is for men of culture who make their own packed lunches and wipe their own bottoms
"God you're rubbish as a human!" Only in Doctor Who.
😂😂
Nice to see you here
Watching this made me sad about the current state of the series.
We only have ourselves to blame. We are the ones that complained so much about Moffat we ended up with Chibnall.
@@SpringtrapLover2010 I preferred Moffat to be fair. Atleast prior to Clara. Was all downhill from there for the most part
@@TheLonelyGoomba moffat was absolutely amazing in terms of ideas like when his episodes hit they are amazing he isn't the best writer tho as in he needs someone to have oversight on him because he isn't the best at charter writing so literally him with someone good at charter writing creates absolutely incredible stories
What was wrong with Clara?
@@lianacordova2682she was unbearable come the capldi era
I can’t believe Family of Blood, Blink and Utopia all came after each other🤩
Jasper Young Nowadays we’d be lucky to get a SINGLE episode of that quality in one series of Doctor Who.
Series 3 is fantastic tbh and I hate that it's always brushed aside when talking about RTD's run.
series 3 is probably the best season of the revival
series three was my fave for such a long time because of this, i loved how when the doctor finally stopped dragging his feet about martha the series cranked it up a level.
@@ragerodracir Series 1 and 3 are world class. Series 2 and 4 aren't bad of course but 1 and 3 are just elite
I feel very privialged as I got to be tought by the director of these episodes Charles Palmer at my film school. We talked breifly about these eps as i expressed that they were 2 of my faves. He said that he had doubts these kinds of episodes would be good with the dr who fans but David Tennant told Charlie that the fans will actually love them for the reasons Charlie thought they wouldnt work, because the doctor wont be the doctor. A terrific guy who does enjoy dr who as well as working on projects in such depth.
For real? That's awesome!
Wow! I wish I could have had that opportunity!
Very talented guy
Blink is up next...
*Opens popcorn*
@dr103 oh shut the fuck up no one ask for ur opinion
blink is good human nature and family of blood is good
so they are both equally good so non
is much better
And again no one ask for ur opinion
The real truth is I just want to make someone angry
It's just called trolling
In my oh-so-humble opinion, this two-parter is the absolute best the revival has to offer. Timeless.
DID SOMEONE SAY THE TIMELESS CHILD?!
I would hope it's humble since it's wrong. It definitely doesn't need to be wrong AND arrogant.
I miss Doctor Who. It sounds weird, but I think the fact that CGI and technology has got so good makes Series 11 and now 12 look more like a film, it also looks far too mainstream. I miss Tennant and Smith the most, Capaldi too.
No, I get that. We need to go back to Series 10. It looked clean, but it was warm. Doctor Who isn't a cold sci-fi.
I feel like CGI has really made things worse. I loved the authenticity of 9, 10, 11 (kinda) episodes. Really agree with this comment.
Now we the 13th doctor. A complete mess. 10, 11 and even 12 were good but 13 is just bad stories and terrible characters. Just boring.
@@tikitong7285 can’t remember the last time I was dying for a doctor who episode to come out. I remember end of time. I was counting down the seconds. Even Matt Smith’s farewell. Capaldi I found myself not too excited but I’d still watch them and enjoy it. With Whittaker I couldn’t even remember the episodes were on half the time. More time I missed them and just watched them the following week loool
i liked those times where the cgi wasn't like the now day movies, but when it was great... i think the cgi now makes it... well.... weird...
An interesting fact, but in the McCoy Era novel, there aren't any scarecrows. They were added for this episode.
And have you noticed that the Doctor kills the family "justly", in the same way the teachers thought fighting in wars was just and honourable?
He doesn't kill them at all, that's the scariest part of it. They killed, maimed, destroyed peaceful lives and stole the bodies of innocent people in an attempt to steal the doctor's immortality because they thought it was a gift, so the doctor punished them by showing them that living forever is a curse. He gave them the immortality they wanted, and it ended up possibly being the cruelest thing he could have done.
They would have died eventually.
Well, Mother and Sister of Mine wouldn't, but Father of Mine was trapped inside a star. He would have died eventually.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Father of Mine wasn't trapped inside a star, but I see why you're misremembering it that way. He was wrapped in chains "forged from a dwarf star alloy" and left in a hidden chamber to rot alone for eternity.
@@mrglibb I thought the Dwarf Star alloy was from the star he was trapped in. My apologies.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Not sure why you're apologising lol, you've done nothing wrong. I only remember it so exactly because I rewatched the episode the other day.
I think this is easiest the most consistent run of episodes in the entire revival.
Yep. Can't argue with that. Though 4 comes close.
Series 4 between episode 8-13 is constantly brilliant too
Silence in the LIbrary, Forest of the Dead, Midnight, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth, and Journey's End take the cake for me
Agreed. Always found series 3 very underrated.
Henry McClintock yeah I agree series 4 was really consistent. Series 3 episodes 8-12 just do a bit more for me because I’m not a fan of the series 4 finale and I think turn left is just okay.
I still love how Harry Lloyd is the great great great grandson of Charles Dickens
That ending where he punishes the family for eternity makes SO much more sense now that I know that the story was originally written with the Seventh Doctor in mind.
Crazy how these episodes bring up spicy topics like racism, sexism and war WITHOUT BEING PREACHY.
TheGrouchyGamer PREACH!
I'm looking at you, Chibnall
@Voltaic Fire i really doubt you've never met a racist lmao
Yeah, if anything the guy who made this video was more preachy than the episode itself, and he only brought stuff like that up in a handful of lines.
@@eileenschmelcher7350 go to the Sun and read the comments... Its disgusting. EVERYONE there is racist.
"did it suck?" like that was a question
I was really expecting him to say yes
The answer's yes
Series 11: Jared Leto
Series 3: Joaquin Phoenix
Perfect
Series 4: Heath Ledger
Series 1: Mark hamill
Sadly accurate
These 2 episodes and blink could be considered near perfection in my eyes, also it’s funny how these episodes have 2 actors who’d go to game of thrones and 2 different game of thrones actors appeared much later in the capaldi time
I've noticed that there tends to be a lot of crossover with Doctor Who and other British-based shows/films
@@spongemaster not as many British actors availible.
@@azuregriffin1116 And the BBC is a monolith in the UK
@@che3se1495 true.
Hit me right in the heart with the Trailer Maker.
I used to make trailers with that all the time as a child
Do u remember the dalek game in van statens base?
@@joshuadenning4594 yeahh. What about the K9 one with the autons in the first level
Or the empty child one I could.never do. Ot was so difficult
Philippe Etienne bro don’t get me started on the K9 game you’re gonna make me cry
Oh man, I thought for sure you were going to reference when Ten was making amends with those he had developed a relationship with in his current regeneration; like when he saved Martha and Mickey from the Sauntaran (sorry for spelling), went to Donna's wedding and gave a farewell to Wilfred, and, relevant to this episode, when he went to the book signing event of the granddaughter of his romantic love in this episode, and asked "Was she happy?".
That classic dalek game from the OLD who website was a stuff of gaming legend for my family.
The one where you escape the lab? Helllll yeahhhhhh
These two episodes together result in a masterpiece of a story. Definitely two of my favourite episodes.
One of my personal most heartbreaking moments ever in Doctor Who is still the montage of John Smith's future life. These two episodes are some of the show's finest and they were written by a fan years prior.
My favourite Doctor Who story of all time.
The ending of the Family of Blood is brilliant.
Not only was this one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever, it also set up the best plot twist in TV history. I didn't know who The Master was at the time I first saw this, but when Professor Yana pulled out that watch I lost it🤯
I think the TARDIS is about as heavy as its outer form, like in Flatline, when the TARDIS shrank, Clara was able to easily lift the mini TARDIS.
I think in the Flatline episode they stated that the Tardis can alter it's weight, and does so all the time. It's true weight would crush a planet.
Damn. I forgot how tall 10’s hair gets sometimes.
The images of the trailer maker and comic maker awakened a deep nostalgia inside me I didn’t know existed
I was literally just sat here thinking when is he gonna upload this 😂
The second half of this season are my favourite doctor who episodes
I'll never get tired of hearing about the BEST EPISODES OF DOCTOR WHO
Both the actors that play the Headmaster and Tim Latimer shared a scene in the Force Awakens together as well, really mad that all these years later they would reunite on Star Wars of all things.
What scene is that?
Season 3 had some cracking episodes.
It's certainly very underrated, especially compared to 1 and 4
it wasn't a self-destruct. The Doctor messed wit their ship, feeding energy back into the primary heat converters, massively over-heating the core until it exploded, or at least that was what I picked up from what he said.
Fun little fact: Harry Lloyd is the great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens.
The Tardis can't be that heavy because several times in Pertwee's era UNIT would just chuck it on the back of a lorry and take it places. Obviosuly when I say chucked I don't actually mean that, but a small lorry can easily move it so it can't be that bad.
Custard_Timelord Yeah that’s because it’s true weight is suppressed I think the doctor once said it could flatten the Earth, and then I think in Trenzalore the dimensions broke down and it went to it’s proper size? Idk lol xD timey wimey wibbly wobbly
Harry Lloyd is so fantastic as a villain his performance still carries weight to this date.
Minor nitpick; the novel wasn’t fan fiction; it was an officially licensed book. 😊
These episodes were dark as shit, loved them.
Martha is hugely underrated. She's by far the most capable of companions in the modern era, and the Doctor treated her really badly. She makes it through so much, and makes the right choice by leaving the Doctor, and joins Torchwood. I would've loved to see her back with the Doctor, but it's unrealistic as the Doctor was a complete dick to her, and now she's doing her own work with aliens, away from the Doctor being condescending.
How have you not reviewed this yet. It’s literally the best
the music that plays when the scarecrow, march
'Just Scarecrows to War' its called
is one of my favorite pieces of music in Dr who
0:34 THE ****ING COMIC MAKER OH MY GOD
The RTD era never stopped giving.
Oh wow that comic maker. 😂 It's one of those things that I would've completely forgotten about *forever* until it's brought up and all the memories immediately flood back. Good times 😄
I had to replay that transformation scene a few times because Tennant was just that good. Also, can I love that imaginary life that they could have had? It was so perfect.
18:09 in the episode flatline the doctor says they Tardis is always lighter. If it were to land with it true weight it would fracture the surface of the earth’
That A7X 'Welcome to the family' made me so happy.
One time I made a comic on the comic maker that was quite a few pages, when I was like, nine maybe, and had no idea how technology worked. The printer wouldn't work so I turned off the computer and left the room.
My dad tried to print off something later that day and the printer suddenly decided to print off the 100+ pages that had somehow not printed earlier. He wasn't pleased.
That's happened to me before
Well Jeremy doesn't need to worry about being a scarecrow forever since he's gonna be reincarnated as a Targaryen Prince
Season 3 and 4, I think are the golden ages of doctor who, it had the best stories and the best characters, whilst also running alongside torchwood and sarah-jane adventures
i’ll never forget when the preview for this episode was shown on the “next time” section and all we got shown was the doctor being human and 7 year old me had never been more confused and excited for anything in my life
Someone made a very good point that this story is totally pointless because the doctor kills the family in literally 30 seconds at the end, if it was that easy why didn't he just do that at the beginning?
I forgot how great and emotional these episodes were. Looking forward to when you review the season 4 specials in 5 years, some of Tennant’s best acting in Who
Still remember my sister being terrified of the scarecrows, so I used to go into her room at night and whisper
“The scarecrows are coming to get you”. She didn’t get much sleep on those nights
God, I miss the Comic and Trailer Makers.
I wanted to make a comic so bad, but I live in the US. 😩
Definitely one of my, not only favorite Tennant stories, but favorite new series stories. I give both of these parts a 10/10
An interesting fact you might not know. Harry Lloyd is actually the great great grandson of Charles Dickens.
Human Nature / Family of Blood is the two parter that is like wine, it only gets better and is appreciated more with age and maturity ❤️❤️❤️
Met Paul Cornell (the writer of this two parter and Father’s Day) at Dublin International Comic Expo asked him his inspiration of this episode and he told me it was Superman II
You didn't even the moment that really got to me when i first watched these episodes.
"Will they thank you?"
That hit me really hard.
Fun fact: Paul Cornell was actually a friend of my parents when they were younger
doctor who is the kind of show where you can never know whether or not you'll be getting a good episode, an average episode, or a terrible episode. Episodes like these two are the one's that keep me invested this weird show, no matter how bad it gets, it always comes back around and eventually we'llget gems like these two.
I mean not to be nitpicky but I just from the science babble it sounds less like a self destruct and more like he overloaded some kind of systems which results in the explosion, so standard doctor witty solution. You cant really take the science babble at face value but still, he said something about rerouting energy to a primary heat converter. If thats overloaded because of it, it sounds less like a self destruct and more like an intentional action that leads to the ship exploding
great video though
agree with both of you
Thanks for your reviews. I especially like how you point out several motifs (in writing / portrayal / shooting) like something simple as a slanted frame (and much much more). God, I miss the old writers, and now I know even better why that is.
On one of the DVD extras, it's noted that when everyone met for the read-though and introduced themselves and the part they'd be playing, David said that he'd be playing "John Smith".
Actually, David plays three roles: the Doctor, John Smith, and the Doctor playing John Smith, not for long, but it's subtly different from the John Smith we've come to know.
The Doctor really shows his alien-ness when he casually invites Joan to come travelling with him: the man she knew and loved is dead, and yet here he is asking her to try again.
Why haven’t we gotten a retrospective on the Doctor Who flash games yet? The Trailer Maker, Dalek Breakout, K9 on a Mission etc.
13:10 this shot, with the pov camera and eye level angle is fucking terrifying in my opinion
These episodes are the beginning of the Doctor we see during "The Waters of Mars"!
A friend of mine managed to get with Daughter of Mine
Hm? Do explain...
Um... what?
@@azuregriffin1116 well this was many years after this episode aired so she's an adult. We hosted a doctor who convention and she was a guest. Events transpired...
@@airshiphead lmao
bruh
Little Hidden line in the music at the beginning of human nature says “follow the master” at possibly the quietest moment so you can definitely lookout for that next time you watch it.
THEY NEED TO ADAPT MORE WHO NOVELS FOR THE SCREEN
"The Time Lord has such adventures, but he could never have a life like that"
Thomas Sangster's whole performance and the fact that they loosely made him parallel The Doctor was also incredible. And the veteran at the end, you didn't mention that :(
I also haven't watched these episodes for about 5 years but I just remember that shit bc they're a complete masterpiece
That nostalgia, the trailer maker 😍
Harry, where’s the Father’s Day review?! 😁
In the middle of the video and just realized it’s like another regeneration for John Smith...because he’s losing his life all over again. Like a foreshadowing of what his regeneration that is to come is truly like within his own mind. How he feels when he loses it all
Awkward moment when the worst part of a 2 part story is a spotlight lmfao
One of my favourite Tennant episodes, it's brilliant and fantastic! Plus I never made anything on the comic maker but I had many happy memories on the trailer maker, sadly all my experiments are lost in the time vortex!
Taking both as one episode, this is in my top 5 favourite Dr. Who episodes. Brilliant on so many levels.
I REMEMBER THAT COMIC MAKER! :D
I still think the way the doctor dealt with them at the end of this was one of my favourite endings in any of the episodes it just goes to show that the doctor isn't someone you mess with he really is dealing with a low of dark things and when that side comes out you better hope you're not on the other side of it
I love how every time I re watch doctor who I go "OH SHIT THEY WERE IN GAME OF THRONES"
One thing that took me out of this episode was when the army attacked the school and they used a different actor for Baines ( 16:04 )
I think they also used a different when he goes into the spaceship.
Love this episode is finally getting its time to shine with this video and Full-Fat Videos showcasing its masterclass in writing. It is pretty much perfect. The acting and overall menace of the villains, how David and the writers get u to care about John Smith as a separate entity, the EPIC ending which just makes u understand why armies run away at the very mention of his name. So cool. The only thing that bothers me if Martha being an idiot and letting the family know John Smith is the Doctor, but she did better than other companions would under similar circumstances so MASTERPIECE!
18:00 People have physically moved the Tardis around on numerous occasions. It's been moved by UNIT trucks (off-screen), horse drawn wagons and at least one helicopter. I think it's been shown picked up and carried off by like 6 or 8 dudes before. Though they never specify out loud, they sure do treat it like it effectively weighs about what a wooden box that size would weigh.
That comic maker and trailer maker nostalgia hit me different
pretty sure there was such a big nostalgia overdose, my body froze
those games tho
man he could have made a good tom riddle
When I first saw these I had to go onto Iplayer because I thought I'd missed an episode. The start was superb. It was all fantastic. I'd love
'John Smiths book'.
These episodes had me reeling for several days. One of the most disturbing stories I’ve ever experienced.
Loved the A7X shout out at 5.49 😄❤️
The way the Doctor dealt with the Family was bone chilling....it was a concept confirmed in A Good Man Goes to War. If the Doctor was "good" he wouldn't need to observe so many rules. It makes you wonder what the Doctor did before he decided to run away from Gallifrey. Did he do dark deeds he regrets? Was he trained to do unthinkable things and had a crisis of conscience? We don't know, but these moments firmly establish that he has a dark side, and the universe is lucky he chooses to not embrace them.
Scrooge fighting Viktor is one of my favourite Doctor Who two-parters.
omg the comic maker. seeing that made me think i was a kid again
I met Thomas Brodie Sangster the other day walking home from university and he was such a nice guy, I instantly told him I was a fiend for doctor who even though hes a film star and he was in doctor who for 90 minutes 😂 still tho what a lovely guy
Jack Jones and you just casually say “I met Thomas Brodie Sangster the other day...”
@@EmblaBexell yeah I saw him and I was like hold up aren't you that guy off the telly he goes "well I'm an actor" 😂😂 so jokes I'm such an idiot omfg
I don't know if anyone else thinks this, but I've always thought that showing John Smith the future he could have was almost an apology and a gift from the Doctor. John Smith gets to see the life he can't live, as does Joan. And as shown earlier, proximity to the watch brings out the Doctor, so I've always wondered if it was The Doctor who reaches out to hold the watch with Joan
I only recently discovered a relative of mine died fighting in the First World War in 1917, older than the boys in this show but at least six years younger than I am now. He was just a lad still, now this episode seems to hit a little harder knowing my great grandfather lost a brother to that war.