and also when the doctor pulls the body out the ocean there is NO remorse or guilt like a normal person she just goes "HIYA" (something like that) and totally ignores someones death. Absolutely discgraceful. Gonna copy and paste this review on their insta. 1 outve 10 is generous
Its just dumb that they left him that far in proximity to watch the birds...all by himself! Without even knowing if they were a proper threat or not! Oh yeah, let's leave one of our team members outside to watch this alien thing we know nothing about on his own, i'll bet he'll be completely fine. Oh shit, guess he's dead, its our turn to run now! Bloody ridiculous.
I swear they've just completely forgotten about Ryan's dyspraxia. It doesn't show up in any episodes apart from for 2 seconds on the train with Tesla and is then forgotten about. Character writing at its finest.
When I watched 'woman who fell to earth' I was looking forward to seeing how they would incorporate it into the narrative, having dyspraxia myself i thought Ryan could be a character i could emphathise with or project myself onto . But he just comes across as boring. All a bit of a let down really.
You would think they would look more panicked if they resorted to using essentially a plank of wood to attack back only to run? Maybe it's due to the directing.
Something I liked about the Davies era was that it was filmed in recognisable parts of the UK, it added a layer of familiarity and made me feel more attached. In some of the Moffat and pretty much every Chibnall era, it's either on some desert/field planet with bad sets and aliens which don't get time to be fleshed out or returned to.
I actually like the fact that not everything is in the UK. Doctor Who is not just known in the UK anymore, it became an international favourite (well, before this clusterfuck of a season), so it's nice to see the characters on other parts of the globe. It also opens up the possibility of dipping into other culture's folklore for new threats/monsters.
I thought this episode was just... It was so boring I can't come up with a proper insult. I have so many questions. The more I think it over the more I have. 1. Did they ever react to Amaru's death? Did they even realise he died? 2. How come only one of the Two Girls Roaming died, when Gabriela only survived because she was in the fucking tent?! 3. Why didnt they just sleep somewhere else, instead of sleeping next to plastic? 4. How didnt she hear the ambulance picking her up and taking to the hospital? She slept throughout it? That was so unbelievable I was hardly cognizant that that is what happened. 5. What race was Suki? 6. Why was she so stupid not to realise that the cure for humans WOULDN'T work on other races? 7. Why is this episode so much like Birdemic? 8. Why is it with so many of these episodes, the TARDIS crew just show up at the beginning in the right place at the right time? 9. How exactly did they detect those energy readings? 10. And what does "unusual energy readings" even mean? What is unusual? 11. Why hasn't there been any more set-up for the Timeless Child? In order to to make a plot line, you have to set it up throughout, not just at the beginning and then pay it off at the end. 12. Why can't we have an episode that ISN'T set on Earth? 13. Can we do more semi-doctor lite episodes? Like Blink-esque? Not saying we should have a fully doctor lite episode like Mission to the Unknown, but a semi would be nice. 14. Why *couldn't* it have been Autons? Instead of real birds, we could have plastic ones. Or plastic-biological hybrids. Or call it bioplastic. 15. What's up with the narration at the start? Like. Why? 16. How the hell did the quality drop so much from the last episode to this one? Did the writers know Harry had his ultimatum? So they were like, "shit, Big Boy Harry ain't gonna review us unless we make a good episode. Alright one good episode, so then we can make him feel pain for how shit the rest of the season will be." 17. How is the Doctor completely unaware of Praxeus? She seems to know everything about different lifeforms, apart from the rare or originally thought impossible ones (e.g. the midnight entity). This plague killed a whole planet; you would think she would know about it. 18. Remember how Ryan has dyspraxia? Well, apparently, neither did the writers, because he dissected a bird perfectly. 19. Why so MANY CHARACTERS?! There are too many companions for starters. Having three didnt work with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan, and back then the writers had way more time to tell a story, so why would it work now? Adding the extra characters, whom of which so many have important roles in the episode, just clutters up every scene. 20. What is even the point in Yaz being an police officer? It has no effect on her decision making or her role. All she does is mention it in passing. 21. Remember those seasons of Doctor Who where the "bad" episodes weren't written badly, just a bit filler-y? Well it seems like instead of consistently good episodes and one or two really bad ones, the show is now consistently terrible with one or two good episodes. 22. Remember when the writers had the whole 'bigger on the inside' dramatic show ONCE a season? And any other time it was short and concise? Yeah, me too. 23. There was at least a hundred birds in that small lab, *how did only Suki get scratched?* (F.Y.I. having 23 questions was coincidental reference to Family of Blood. A very pleasant one though!)
@@Chief_Miles_OBrien Blame Doctor Who for making me angry because it had the gall to make such a good episode and then immediately drop in quality to fucking terrible.
He also said he'd do Classic-Who, and that was like five years ago. Hey, if anyone's interested, I'm reviewing all the Doctor Who stories on my channel, with me just having uploaded my review of: 'Death To The Daleks (1974)!' No pressure, of-course; It just might be worth checking out! :)
When the official Doctor Who twitter account asked what was their favourite moment of the episode, most of the replies was just about the gay kiss and "yaaaayy gay representation" (forgetting that Bill, Captain Jack, Alonso, Madame Vastra, and Jenny exists). Really tells you the quality of the story. EDIT: Fixed typo, and added Madame Vastra, Jenny and Alonso to list of gay (or generally LGBT - like since Captain Jack does go for everyone) characters
This new doctor series is just like “hey guys did you know pollution is bad. It’s no good. Neither is war. Hey here’s a river full of trash. Wait where are you going. No come back... fine this new series wasn’t even made for you 😡.”.
Disgruntled goth Girl So is Global Warming. There’s a difference between bringing light to a subject and stuffing it down your throat. You don’t change people’s mind by forcing your narrative onto them. You show them why your opinion is a better way of thinking and help them to understand why they should change their mind. That’s what separates a story like ‘Praxeus’ and a story like ‘Oxygen’
Yeah, every episode since Resolution has been set on Earth and it looks like the next two episodes will be set on Earth as well! So much for the tagline '' *Space* . For All''...
@@meris8486 I'm not so sure about that. Cybermen have been confirmed as the finale villain. The 9th episode is literally called "ascension of the cybermen"
This episode pissed me off so much. I f***ing love viruses in fiction because there's so much that can be done with them, especially if we're talking an alien or supernatural virus. The fear of something unstoppable invading and morphing a persons body, and a race to try learn how to overcome it before it spreads too far, meanwhile the clock is constantly counting down could have been so interesting. But no, we had to learn about F***ING PLASTIC. And on a side note, why is it a virus? this could have worked so much better if this was something like nanobots made to clean up plastic in the ocean, but something went wrong and they're targeting the micro-plastics in peoples blood. Then a message about plastic pollution would have actually made sense since, you know, plastic has no qualities as food.
The funniest thing is that in this episode the doctor goes back to save the guy but in orph3n 69 ep the Doctor started to do a monologue while the ppl she was with were dying
Are you going to rename your Orphan 55 episode now? :D The Second Worst Doctor Who Episode. But this was exceptionally terrible, even by Chibnal standards.
This episode was such a missed opportunity. Imagine if it was actually the sea devils or the autons who were behind it all! That would’ve worked so much better and actually fit in with the idea that time is ‘swirling’ around her, building on the mystery that the previous episode established... OR the humanoid characters turned out to be time lords or something, even have the bloody Master show up maybe, ffs just give us something to sink our teeth into!
The tardis should have it’s own lab and medical bay, I’m sure we’ve had it before in the Cold Blood story. If not anymore then Journey through the Tardis (paraphrased) showed the device that recombines atoms. It can make a lab and chemcials that it needs.
Considering the TARDIS can literally make any room it needs... There's a Living Room, Wardrobe, Multiple Bedrooms, Swimming Pool, The Eye of Harmony, too many storage rooms, Observatory, Library, Cloister Room, and the Engine room. So why not a medical lab? There's even the Zero Room designed to help Time Lords during regeneration.
I don't know, most of the issues I have with this incarnation is the writing, my god it's awful, jesus christ it's awful. It's like an apocalypse of all the worst things have come together to cancel doctor who.
It hasnt felt like Doctor Who once. I miss the times where they actually travelled in the Tardis, had meaningful conversations. Where the characters felt like people. Pick pretty much any other modern episode from before season 11 and what I'm saying is evident.
The TARDIS thing is like they're trying to prove that Doctor Who is still iconic. But I'm finding myself rolling my eyes more and more over this show and at first I hoped it was just me getting older... Unfortunately, it's just bad. Granted I'm enjoying this season more than the last one.
I genuinely love how in your benny hill edit, the birds seem like they're screaming the old woman voice as the team run to the TARDIS. Brilliant editing!
Me, seeing the set for the area under the sea for the first time: Ahh, I see they took notes from the play my class put up at a apx 90$ budget last year for an assignment, a ungraded assignment.
@@MFACE1FIVE I thought the splitting up was executed pretty well. I know i'm in the minority, but I felt that because of the splitting up the companions actually got a chance to do stuff, instead of just being there for comic relief and unnecessary exposition.
For my version of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary episode, I wrote about my Thirteenth Doctor meeting six parallel universe versions of himself, out of the three female Doctors in that group, one of them will be played by Suki's actress Molly Harris (for now)
I liked the pathogen 🦠 Get crusty, explode XD I do agree with you, I’d like the explosion to only happen if they try to interfere or remove the infection, when left alone they cocoon and become a crusty corn cob leaking out more pathogen. That, rather than random explode LoL you aren’t infected from them exploding and breathing that person dust in. At least if it were a Defense mechanism and it were say crazy alien pathogen you could excuse the explosion not infecting you because of the lack of concentration of it at the time of interference. I didn’t like the Orphan 69 feel though. “The planet is fucked because of you humans.” Rather than “You should start doing *thing* to resolve *thing* and this future issue can be avoided.”
One thing I will say in this episode's defence is that at least the political subtext, while overt, was somewhat relevant to the plot with the base inside a gyre and the microplastics spreading the virus, unlike in Orphan 55 which could have happened anywhere
I liked Adam, and Adam's husband. But that was it. The scene with Adam's husband talking to Graham was the first bit I was 100% fine with. Couldn't they have done more with the GIANT HUMAN-MADE PLASTIC ISLAND? That would be the PERFECT thing to complain about! Barely anyone seems to know about them! Also, although I don't care about technical details like this that much, you can't fly a Soyuz with one astronaut. You aren't allowed to, you need at least two, and Russia reccomends there be three! They also would have opened the parachute at the wrong point, where it would have incinerated on reentry. Cloth doesn't have heat shields (or any sort of shields).
I watched last week’s episode, thought it was good and almost moved onto this week’s one (which was out when I watched it) but I thought I’d wait for this first.
Do any of the current companion arcs stand up to Amy Pond, Clara Oswald, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Rory Williams, Bill Potts, River Song or even Captain Jack Harkness?
I can remember quite a few weak Doctor Who episodes outside of Chibnall's era, but I still enjoyed watching all of them because of the Doctor, his companions and interactions between them. It used to be the core of the show, to me at least. I don't get exited when I see the Doctor on the screen anymore, I don't care if any of the companions die and I don't believe them when they call themselves a family. Each episode they also have these "heart-to-heart" talks, that always feel either lazy or unnecessary. And I still hate the camera work. Just waiting for a new showrunner and a new Doctor.
This episode had too many ideas for a 45 minute episode. This would have been a great mid series two parter where the Tardis team is absent for most of part one, giving it a good build up.
I don't think the predominance of Earth based stories can be put down purely to "budget" since the locales are quite exotic; we're having tropical beaches, mediterranean vineyards et cetera. I think it's the insistence on being "topical edutainment" means that they have to keep being on Earth because that's where all the topics they want to be edutaining about take place!
I thought this was better than the Judoon episode. I liked the fast paced energy, the concept of a plastic feeding pathogen excited me. It reminded me of the 70's sci-fi movie "The Andromeda Strain" except, again, with fast paced energy and no boring bits. I swear no second felt wasted making this episode, I was surprised the 50 minutes felt like 10! And an aspect I admired was that the companions have some character and shine, Yas in particular (finally). I felt every actor did a great job with Jodie Whitaker being satisfactory at least.
Admittedly, some lines stuck out like a sore thumb, I suspect Chibnall wrote them. "I'm a sucker for a scientist" is a bit of cringe i can stomach for a great episode. I can talk about the set design and cinematography too but these are the main points I liked.
A Doctor Who... Musical episode? I would watch that. Kinda like the Brigadoom episode in Lexx; maybe a musical reenactment of the Time War, or the history of the Timelords.
I liked it, tbh I've liked most of this season even oprhan 55 wasn't terrible for me (at least til the Greenpeace message at the end lol) I get why you don't like the editing but I didn't mind that splitting them up stops the third (or fourth I guess) wheel thing we had in series 11. I do appreciate that you explain your reasoning for not liking it, and that reason is something more than "waaah I don't like Jodie waaah" Whatever you think surely you'd have to agree this season is better than last, literally the only episodes there I liked and even remember are the first one, kerblam, the king James one and resolution, everything else was somewhere between average and trash. I kinda like your reviews, you do games?
Honestly, the last two series seem to like to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to messages or, in a more explained sense, say something is wrong but make it an "Us problem" rather than singling out specifics Orphan 55: We should all come together to save the planet even though most people's contributions are literally "arguing about the washing up when the house is burning down" compared to the industrial runoff and the anti-environmentalism that a lot of world leaders have atm. Arachnids in the UK: Trump alegory does bad things but when he kills a living being with a gun in front of the Doctor, he gets away with it and it's the creatures running on instinct that suffer a slow, horrific death. It takes you away: Leaving your child frightened and starving in the woods just so you can get some dead wife poon tang is okay. Praxeus: Microplastics are humanity are humanity in general's fault but totally not the consequence of other factors that no one person could ever fix without some immense backing. Wouldn't say it's political correctness. Just seems more like current event profiteering but without the genuine passion you'd put in it. The microplastic thing feels more like something Lovecraft would write about where he'd be scared of the science so much that he'd do little info. BTW Yaz episode when?
My main problem is the music, well or otherwise lack of music. Even in that small Tennant clip you played that laster about 2 seconds the score had such great affect. Even if there was an awful episode which now is the norm, I could possibly look past it as it would be carried by the music, like an off moffat episode. When chibnal wrote previous episodes pre show runner, yes they were the worst of there given series, but you were lulled into a facade with absolutely brilliant music. I miss Murray Gold.
Yes! I know I say this a lot, but it's relevant here: Hey, if anyone's interested, I'm reviewing all the Doctor Who stories on my channel, with me just having uploaded my review of: 'Death To The Daleks (1974)!' No pressure, of-course; It just might be worth checking out! :)
The only reason I know what happens in the series of Doctor who is because I get it from you. I'm not as patient as you are and o gave up on this series after 4 episodes. And now I know that I made the right decision. 😂 You go through it so I don't have to. Cheers
I was interested in the beginning since I liked the mystery and some of the random people were intersting (I wanted the ex-police dude to be a companion instead since he actually has character). It didnt take long for me to be bored, I honestly forgot for a second I was watchjng Doctor Who since I just kinda spaced out.
You briefly touched on that scene from Tennant's run, and I think it helped me realize why I dislike Chibnal's era. Doctor Who felt like it had heart. That scene with Tennant just makes me feel warm, and really empathize with the doctor and his situations unlike these newer episodes.
If only there were a character with a magic box that can save a spaceship from the supergravity of a black hole. Surely someone like that could solve a plastics crisis. But alas!
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Orphan 55: I'm the worst episode of Doctor Who ever!
Praxeus: Hold my beer.
Lol
Orphan 55 was worse, but Praxeus isn’t too much better.
At least praxeus got a rating right?
Who am I kidding
Kill The Moon: *sweating nervously*
This episode makes Kill the Moon look like Midnight.
I love how they just forgot about the guy that died on the beach and never mentioned him after he died
And why the fuck did he go close to the birds. They weren’t doing anything unusual (well at least more unusual then before).
His moms buggered a ‘Silence’ from the Moffat era, the instant he wasn’t being seen people forgot about the poor bastard.
I honestly thought I just missed it!
and also when the doctor pulls the body out the ocean there is NO remorse or guilt like a normal person she just goes "HIYA" (something like that) and totally ignores someones death. Absolutely discgraceful. Gonna copy and paste this review on their insta. 1 outve 10 is generous
Its just dumb that they left him that far in proximity to watch the birds...all by himself! Without even knowing if they were a proper threat or not! Oh yeah, let's leave one of our team members outside to watch this alien thing we know nothing about on his own, i'll bet he'll be completely fine. Oh shit, guess he's dead, its our turn to run now! Bloody ridiculous.
I swear they've just completely forgotten about Ryan's dyspraxia. It doesn't show up in any episodes apart from for 2 seconds on the train with Tesla and is then forgotten about. Character writing at its finest.
Daniel
Inclusivity though! That's the important thing...
I'm sure the Dyspraxia was just a shameful cover up for explaining why Ryan cannot act
i said this to my friend the other day, I said Ryan is just used as a representation, his dyspraxia only show's up when the plot requires it.
When I watched 'woman who fell to earth' I was looking forward to seeing how they would incorporate it into the narrative, having dyspraxia myself i thought Ryan could be a character i could emphathise with or project myself onto . But he just comes across as boring. All a bit of a let down really.
All he does is say what the audience has just seen.
"Look at that rock"
Hundreds of birds attacking several people in a small confined room
Only 1 person gets scratched? 🤦♂️
You would think they would look more panicked if they resorted to using essentially a plank of wood to attack back only to run? Maybe it's due to the directing.
The person that got scratched teleported away before the birds arrived too LMAO.
Birdemic II The Who-in-ing
Something I liked about the Davies era was that it was filmed in recognisable parts of the UK, it added a layer of familiarity and made me feel more attached. In some of the Moffat and pretty much every Chibnall era, it's either on some desert/field planet with bad sets and aliens which don't get time to be fleshed out or returned to.
Sheffield and Glocester feel pretty fleshed out but that's it.
I’m in desperate need of more Cardiff episodes
Ever watched the Tom baker era
I actually like the fact that not everything is in the UK. Doctor Who is not just known in the UK anymore, it became an international favourite (well, before this clusterfuck of a season), so it's nice to see the characters on other parts of the globe. It also opens up the possibility of dipping into other culture's folklore for new threats/monsters.
I thought this episode was just...
It was so boring I can't come up with a proper insult.
I have so many questions. The more I think it over the more I have.
1. Did they ever react to Amaru's death? Did they even realise he died?
2. How come only one of the Two Girls Roaming died, when Gabriela only survived because she was in the fucking tent?!
3. Why didnt they just sleep somewhere else, instead of sleeping next to plastic?
4. How didnt she hear the ambulance picking her up and taking to the hospital? She slept throughout it? That was so unbelievable I was hardly cognizant that that is what happened.
5. What race was Suki?
6. Why was she so stupid not to realise that the cure for humans WOULDN'T work on other races?
7. Why is this episode so much like Birdemic?
8. Why is it with so many of these episodes, the TARDIS crew just show up at the beginning in the right place at the right time?
9. How exactly did they detect those energy readings?
10. And what does "unusual energy readings" even mean? What is unusual?
11. Why hasn't there been any more set-up for the Timeless Child? In order to to make a plot line, you have to set it up throughout, not just at the beginning and then pay it off at the end.
12. Why can't we have an episode that ISN'T set on Earth?
13. Can we do more semi-doctor lite episodes? Like Blink-esque? Not saying we should have a fully doctor lite episode like Mission to the Unknown, but a semi would be nice.
14. Why *couldn't* it have been Autons? Instead of real birds, we could have plastic ones. Or plastic-biological hybrids. Or call it bioplastic.
15. What's up with the narration at the start? Like. Why?
16. How the hell did the quality drop so much from the last episode to this one? Did the writers know Harry had his ultimatum? So they were like, "shit, Big Boy Harry ain't gonna review us unless we make a good episode. Alright one good episode, so then we can make him feel pain for how shit the rest of the season will be."
17. How is the Doctor completely unaware of Praxeus? She seems to know everything about different lifeforms, apart from the rare or originally thought impossible ones (e.g. the midnight entity). This plague killed a whole planet; you would think she would know about it.
18. Remember how Ryan has dyspraxia? Well, apparently, neither did the writers, because he dissected a bird perfectly.
19. Why so MANY CHARACTERS?! There are too many companions for starters. Having three didnt work with Adric, Nyssa and Tegan, and back then the writers had way more time to tell a story, so why would it work now? Adding the extra characters, whom of which so many have important roles in the episode, just clutters up every scene.
20. What is even the point in Yaz being an police officer? It has no effect on her decision making or her role. All she does is mention it in passing.
21. Remember those seasons of Doctor Who where the "bad" episodes weren't written badly, just a bit filler-y? Well it seems like instead of consistently good episodes and one or two really bad ones, the show is now consistently terrible with one or two good episodes.
22. Remember when the writers had the whole 'bigger on the inside' dramatic show ONCE a season? And any other time it was short and concise? Yeah, me too.
23. There was at least a hundred birds in that small lab, *how did only Suki get scratched?*
(F.Y.I. having 23 questions was coincidental reference to Family of Blood. A very pleasant one though!)
On #16 when she seemingly knows EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
@@gingainfinity1034 ....except a deadly plague. Seems like a pretty big gap in knowledge
This has to be the most extensive come t I’ve ever seen
@@paulmumford7595 well it's a monologue. It has happened before, and I see no reason to criticise it
@@Chief_Miles_OBrien Blame Doctor Who for making me angry because it had the gall to make such a good episode and then immediately drop in quality to fucking terrible.
Can I please ask a review of the Who episode "Midnight" please.
I genuinely felt it was the first time the Doctor felt absolute fear.
he's going to be reviewing all of series 4 eventually, he said so.
He also said he'd do Classic-Who, and that was like five years ago.
Hey, if anyone's interested, I'm reviewing all the Doctor Who stories on my channel, with me just having uploaded my review of: 'Death To The Daleks (1974)!' No pressure, of-course; It just might be worth checking out! :)
Oh god yes, not just him my brother and me inches away from sh**ting bricks. 😱
Can you imagine Jodie in an episode like Midnight?
It would certainly restore hope for me.
ALSO, BRING BACK SUSAN AND IAN!
Your wish has been granted.
When the official Doctor Who twitter account asked what was their favourite moment of the episode, most of the replies was just about the gay kiss and "yaaaayy gay representation" (forgetting that Bill, Captain Jack, Alonso, Madame Vastra, and Jenny exists). Really tells you the quality of the story.
EDIT: Fixed typo, and added Madame Vastra, Jenny and Alonso to list of gay (or generally LGBT - like since Captain Jack does go for everyone) characters
technically Jack is not gay representation, pan representation if anything - but yeah same point
@@mjm3091 Excuse me, Jack is an Omni-sexual. He does not constrain his sexual desires to mere humans! 😋
To be fair that's like two out of a sea of straight characters so I can definitely see why people would be happy about that
jack isnt gay he's bi he'll go for anyone basically
@@alextheanimator2395 Except that he is gay in real life and people know and expect it in his acting.
This new doctor series is just like “hey guys did you know pollution is bad. It’s no good. Neither is war. Hey here’s a river full of trash. Wait where are you going. No come back... fine this new series wasn’t even made for you 😡.”.
Praxeus had some really easy fixes. If it slowed down a bit then it would've been a better episode. At least it didn't insult me like Orphan 55 did
The whole "plastic is your fault" thing was pretty insulting tbh
@@iAlexC82 i mean, it technically is our fault... so.
Disgruntled goth Girl So is Global Warming. There’s a difference between bringing light to a subject and stuffing it down your throat. You don’t change people’s mind by forcing your narrative onto them. You show them why your opinion is a better way of thinking and help them to understand why they should change their mind. That’s what separates a story like ‘Praxeus’ and a story like ‘Oxygen’
@@mobro538 no shit sherlock. i didn't like the episode.
Show Benni some fucking respect.
Yeah, every episode since Resolution has been set on Earth and it looks like the next two episodes will be set on Earth as well!
So much for the tagline '' *Space* . For All''...
I honestly think it's a deliberate decision, perhaps to set up something in the finale
@@meris8486 setting up a earth-set finale, where the travel to the far away world of Modern-day britain
@@meris8486 I'm not so sure about that. Cybermen have been confirmed as the finale villain. The 9th episode is literally called "ascension of the cybermen"
You do know every single episode in series 1 is Earth based
@@Overlord7135
The end of the world. The long game. Bad wolf. The parting of the ways. 4/13 episodes. Around 30% of it wasn't on earth
This episode pissed me off so much. I f***ing love viruses in fiction because there's so much that can be done with them, especially if we're talking an alien or supernatural virus. The fear of something unstoppable invading and morphing a persons body, and a race to try learn how to overcome it before it spreads too far, meanwhile the clock is constantly counting down could have been so interesting. But no, we had to learn about F***ING PLASTIC.
And on a side note, why is it a virus? this could have worked so much better if this was something like nanobots made to clean up plastic in the ocean, but something went wrong and they're targeting the micro-plastics in peoples blood. Then a message about plastic pollution would have actually made sense since, you know, plastic has no qualities as food.
The BENNI joke caught me so off guard and now my chest is aching from laughter 😂
The funniest thing is that in this episode the doctor goes back to save the guy but in orph3n 69 ep the Doctor started to do a monologue while the ppl she was with were dying
"Very unusual energy patterns"
Energy patterns
PTSD FLASHBACKS TO 42
I actually liked 42, I guess I'm alone in that.
@@karlpoppins It's one of Chibnall's best.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer And that's saying something
It's meh, which for Chibnall is good.
@@alkrolyd true
The vlogger woman was the most annoying, worst actor I've ever seen.
Rozmarin Ideas no, no one will ever be as annoying as BENNI!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even worse than BENNII!?!?
David Ormsby IS THAT YOU BENNI!!!!!!
You've seen Mandip and Toison right?
Bennnnnnnnniiiiiiiiii
Are you going to rename your Orphan 55 episode now? :D The Second Worst Doctor Who Episode.
But this was exceptionally terrible, even by Chibnal standards.
You're the guy who did Movie-Mistakes! NOSTALGIA! Something Chris Chibnall could learn from. :)
This episode was such a missed opportunity. Imagine if it was actually the sea devils or the autons who were behind it all! That would’ve worked so much better and actually fit in with the idea that time is ‘swirling’ around her, building on the mystery that the previous episode established... OR the humanoid characters turned out to be time lords or something, even have the bloody Master show up maybe, ffs just give us something to sink our teeth into!
Yes! I wanted the Sea Devils so badly!
I think the laboratory they encountered in ghost monument, with the living cloth things were occupied by kidnapped galifrayans.
The look of the infection on the people just made my skin crawl- it looked disgusting
The only good bit of the episode.
The tardis should have it’s own lab and medical bay, I’m sure we’ve had it before in the Cold Blood story.
If not anymore then Journey through the Tardis (paraphrased) showed the device that recombines atoms. It can make a lab and chemcials that it needs.
Considering the TARDIS can literally make any room it needs...
There's a Living Room, Wardrobe, Multiple Bedrooms, Swimming Pool, The Eye of Harmony, too many storage rooms, Observatory, Library, Cloister Room, and the Engine room. So why not a medical lab? There's even the Zero Room designed to help Time Lords during regeneration.
Doctor Who: Plastic is BAD!
Also Doctor Who: Don't forget to buy our shitty plastic merchandise!
I like Jodie, but this isn’t for her. She’s always like a supporting actor. She’s got no lead about her. Jesus. Even Love & Monsters was better.
I don't know, most of the issues I have with this incarnation is the writing, my god it's awful, jesus christ it's awful. It's like an apocalypse of all the worst things have come together to cancel doctor who.
It hasnt felt like Doctor Who once. I miss the times where they actually travelled in the Tardis, had meaningful conversations. Where the characters felt like people. Pick pretty much any other modern episode from before season 11 and what I'm saying is evident.
Doctor Who: Birdemic
Ikr
The TARDIS thing is like they're trying to prove that Doctor Who is still iconic. But I'm finding myself rolling my eyes more and more over this show and at first I hoped it was just me getting older... Unfortunately, it's just bad. Granted I'm enjoying this season more than the last one.
In the same way you might enjoy having your fingers amputated by a buzz saw more than being completely run over by a train.
@@lesigh1749 nah train would be quicker meaning less time to think about it
did it suck? the Sarah Jane adventures
Stewart McDonald please do this! They certainly didn’t suck tho
The answer for all the episodes: No
@@Glac0 I think all the overuse of the slitheen was annoying and of course so was the blathereen, but really I guess no episode was terrible
Normal RUclips Viewer Guy V2 I thought they were often some of the best
Mmm so is doctor who
It was lower than a snakes belly
There is only one think lower
Orphan 55 where's my benni
at least orphan 55 was a bit funny praxeus was boring and awful
BENNEHHHHHH
How do they keep forgetting Ryan is dyspraxic - it was the one thing vaugely intersting about him
He is also black, that counts as "interesting" character value nowadays.
I think we’re gonna need a compilation of every time Harry says “budget”
It’s like watching The Little Panda Fighter rather than Kung Fu Panda.
As soon as I heard benni I knew what was coming
@Xtra Spice Mikey You'd be able to buy the series from them.
I genuinely have enjoyed these reviews far more than the episodes
Wait, worse than Orphan 55
I need to watch this review now
I genuinely love how in your benny hill edit, the birds seem like they're screaming the old woman voice as the team run to the TARDIS. Brilliant editing!
Me, seeing the set for the area under the sea for the first time:
Ahh, I see they took notes from the play my class put up at a apx 90$ budget last year for an assignment, a ungraded assignment.
Aw man I love this videos just for you ripping into the show.
You Know I Actually Enjoyed This Episode,
Although I’m probably just riding the high of last week!
It was a great concept with shitty execution
@@MFACE1FIVE I thought the splitting up was executed pretty well. I know i'm in the minority, but I felt that because of the splitting up the companions actually got a chance to do stuff, instead of just being there for comic relief and unnecessary exposition.
I hope you grow up. Last week episode was bad and this one is trash (pun intended). We need better people, please grow up quick.
For my version of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary episode, I wrote about my Thirteenth Doctor meeting six parallel universe versions of himself, out of the three female Doctors in that group, one of them will be played by Suki's actress Molly Harris (for now)
I liked the pathogen 🦠
Get crusty, explode XD
I do agree with you, I’d like the explosion to only happen if they try to interfere or remove the infection, when left alone they cocoon and become a crusty corn cob leaking out more pathogen. That, rather than random explode LoL you aren’t infected from them exploding and breathing that person dust in.
At least if it were a Defense mechanism and it were say crazy alien pathogen you could excuse the explosion not infecting you because of the lack of concentration of it at the time of interference.
I didn’t like the Orphan 69 feel though. “The planet is fucked because of you humans.” Rather than “You should start doing *thing* to resolve *thing* and this future issue can be avoided.”
I was starting to worry you'd lost your delightfully savage touch! There's the Harry we all know and love ;)
I'm so glad he actually referenced Birdemic here, it's exactly what I was thinking haha
Birdemic was surely better than this.
I agree, as a Brazilian, I felt offended, men,she was so cringe, and her voice changes when she says an unimportant sentence in Portuguese, its weird
I want that Benni music over any stupid moment in this show from now on 😂😂
Thank you for following through with reviewing this shite so we don't have to. You have all my respects
One thing I will say in this episode's defence is that at least the political subtext, while overt, was somewhat relevant to the plot with the base inside a gyre and the microplastics spreading the virus, unlike in Orphan 55 which could have happened anywhere
I liked Adam, and Adam's husband. But that was it. The scene with Adam's husband talking to Graham was the first bit I was 100% fine with. Couldn't they have done more with the GIANT HUMAN-MADE PLASTIC ISLAND? That would be the PERFECT thing to complain about! Barely anyone seems to know about them!
Also, although I don't care about technical details like this that much, you can't fly a Soyuz with one astronaut. You aren't allowed to, you need at least two, and Russia reccomends there be three! They also would have opened the parachute at the wrong point, where it would have incinerated on reentry. Cloth doesn't have heat shields (or any sort of shields).
Chibnall: "I want an episode that ends with a gay kiss ....any incoherent crap that leads up to this gratuitous moment will do.."
But hey, I didn't kill one of them this time. Eh? Eh? Pretty amazing writing, isn't it, huh guys?
How is a gay kiss gratuitous? Maybe if they started boning in the TARDIS but is a kiss really too risqué for you?
I watched last week’s episode, thought it was good and almost moved onto this week’s one (which was out when I watched it) but I thought I’d wait for this first.
Do any of the current companion arcs stand up to Amy Pond, Clara Oswald, Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Rory Williams, Bill Potts, River Song or even Captain Jack Harkness?
Donna's story arc is amazing.
Atleast the companions weren't utterly useless
true. They actually did stuff this episode instead of standing around and saying stupid stuff like every other episode this season
WHERE WERE THE SEA-DEVILS?!
It was fine. Competent. I liked how the gang was split up, and I wish it was the Autons. That's about it. Solid 5/10.
I look forward to these reviews more than the actual show.
I can remember quite a few weak Doctor Who episodes outside of Chibnall's era, but I still enjoyed watching all of them because of the Doctor, his companions and interactions between them. It used to be the core of the show, to me at least. I don't get exited when I see the Doctor on the screen anymore, I don't care if any of the companions die and I don't believe them when they call themselves a family. Each episode they also have these "heart-to-heart" talks, that always feel either lazy or unnecessary. And I still hate the camera work. Just waiting for a new showrunner and a new Doctor.
Doctor doesnt save Kane and daughter despite giving a speech about taking action
Same Doctor manages to materialise TARDIS and save Jale cause...gay
This episode had too many ideas for a 45 minute episode. This would have been a great mid series two parter where the Tardis team is absent for most of part one, giving it a good build up.
5 seconds in and I've heard everything I need to hear. Let me get my popcorn ready! Tear it to shreds!
You’re gonna be sorry you gave the previous episode such a high score meaning you had to continue with the series.
I was afraid this might happen 😔
I think he might've given it a high score so that he could keep reviewing these
@@benb4192 Not really, since that episode (for the most part) was actually quite good
I'm glad, i enjoy these reviews.
I don't think the predominance of Earth based stories can be put down purely to "budget" since the locales are quite exotic; we're having tropical beaches, mediterranean vineyards et cetera. I think it's the insistence on being "topical edutainment" means that they have to keep being on Earth because that's where all the topics they want to be edutaining about take place!
I thought this was better than the Judoon episode. I liked the fast paced energy, the concept of a plastic feeding pathogen excited me. It reminded me of the 70's sci-fi movie "The Andromeda Strain" except, again, with fast paced energy and no boring bits. I swear no second felt wasted making this episode, I was surprised the 50 minutes felt like 10!
And an aspect I admired was that the companions have some character and shine, Yas in particular (finally). I felt every actor did a great job with Jodie Whitaker being satisfactory at least.
Admittedly, some lines stuck out like a sore thumb, I suspect Chibnall wrote them. "I'm a sucker for a scientist" is a bit of cringe i can stomach for a great episode. I can talk about the set design and cinematography too but these are the main points I liked.
Bless you for using the correct form of "turning in one's grave".
It's not fecking "spinning" - it comes from to 'toss and turn' in one's bed.
Birdemic 3: Plastic and Narration
A Doctor Who... Musical episode?
I would watch that. Kinda like the Brigadoom episode in Lexx; maybe a musical reenactment of the Time War, or the history of the Timelords.
at least the next episode looks amazing i cant wait for that
Hope dies last, right? Haha
Little did Harry know the 60th special is looking like a musical-ish episode.
I liked it, tbh I've liked most of this season even oprhan 55 wasn't terrible for me (at least til the Greenpeace message at the end lol) I get why you don't like the editing but I didn't mind that splitting them up stops the third (or fourth I guess) wheel thing we had in series 11.
I do appreciate that you explain your reasoning for not liking it, and that reason is something more than "waaah I don't like Jodie waaah"
Whatever you think surely you'd have to agree this season is better than last, literally the only episodes there I liked and even remember are the first one, kerblam, the king James one and resolution, everything else was somewhere between average and trash.
I kinda like your reviews, you do games?
Honestly, the last two series seem to like to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to messages or, in a more explained sense, say something is wrong but make it an "Us problem" rather than singling out specifics
Orphan 55: We should all come together to save the planet even though most people's contributions are literally "arguing about the washing up when the house is burning down" compared to the industrial runoff and the anti-environmentalism that a lot of world leaders have atm.
Arachnids in the UK: Trump alegory does bad things but when he kills a living being with a gun in front of the Doctor, he gets away with it and it's the creatures running on instinct that suffer a slow, horrific death.
It takes you away: Leaving your child frightened and starving in the woods just so you can get some dead wife poon tang is okay.
Praxeus: Microplastics are humanity are humanity in general's fault but totally not the consequence of other factors that no one person could ever fix without some immense backing.
Wouldn't say it's political correctness. Just seems more like current event profiteering but without the genuine passion you'd put in it. The microplastic thing feels more like something Lovecraft would write about where he'd be scared of the science so much that he'd do little info.
BTW Yaz episode when?
My main problem is the music, well or otherwise lack of music. Even in that small Tennant clip you played that laster about 2 seconds the score had such great affect. Even if there was an awful episode which now is the norm, I could possibly look past it as it would be carried by the music, like an off moffat episode. When chibnal wrote previous episodes pre show runner, yes they were the worst of there given series, but you were lulled into a facade with absolutely brilliant music. I miss Murray Gold.
Could you do some Classic Who Did It sucks?
Yes!
I know I say this a lot, but it's relevant here:
Hey, if anyone's interested, I'm reviewing all the Doctor Who stories on my channel, with me just having uploaded my review of: 'Death To The Daleks (1974)!' No pressure, of-course; It just might be worth checking out! :)
The only reason I know what happens in the series of Doctor who is because I get it from you. I'm not as patient as you are and o gave up on this series after 4 episodes. And now I know that I made the right decision. 😂 You go through it so I don't have to. Cheers
They should tales notes from it's always sunny and do a black and white detective episode. You're so right.
I love Harry when he's shitting on Doctor Who episodes.
The finale is going to reveal that Harry is correct and the doctor, yaz, graham, ryan and almost everyone they've met so far were cybermen
they left da homie outside with the killer birds and never thought about him once
*You say* "after such a decent episode, this was trash"
*I say* "More of the same then?"
Notice how Suki got scratched by birds despite teleporting out before....the birds actually... attacked..
Politically correct doesn’t mean “anything that I don’t like” you know.
If doctor who ever does a musical episode I will cry.
Honestly I didn’t mind this episode 😅
Please can you review inside number 9?
Yes!
10:59
Chibnall's motto for series 11: Tell, don't show.
Series 12: Show, don't tell. Then tell anyway.
I was interested in the beginning since I liked the mystery and some of the random people were intersting (I wanted the ex-police dude to be a companion instead since he actually has character). It didnt take long for me to be bored, I honestly forgot for a second I was watchjng Doctor Who since I just kinda spaced out.
Is this a Doctor Who episode or a creepypasta video with that thumbnail?
What about that other planet close to dying? Did everyone just not care about them?
You briefly touched on that scene from Tennant's run, and I think it helped me realize why I dislike Chibnal's era. Doctor Who felt like it had heart. That scene with Tennant just makes me feel warm, and really empathize with the doctor and his situations unlike these newer episodes.
I'm Brazilian and yes it was very frustrating
I like you read my mind... Totally... Without break... Just... The same thoughts :-)
Thank you for your videos mate, you are the only reason i keep watching doctor who
Oof 8.5 down to 1, and the second one this series at that.
Logic tells me you’re not enjoying this series of Doctor who very much.
If only there were a character with a magic box that can save a spaceship from the supergravity of a black hole. Surely someone like that could solve a plastics crisis. But alas!
Dunno why you thought the quality would be consistently better after Episode 5...
"Consistently better" is an unbelievably easy task if the status quo is the stuff before episode 5
Which one was 5?
Micky S Fugitive of The Judoon.
@@QuokkaCore shit that was the fifth?!
I can't believe they decided to make birdemic into a doctor who episode
I was not prepared for that lighthouse reference
“Imagine a doctor who musical episode” - this aged well 😅
Total agreement Fugitive of the Judoon the way it should and could be...
This a load of utter .... As for 1 out of 10 way to generous.
Finally I have been waiting a week for this
9:21 As a person, that's watching Steven Universe S02 right now, I really liked you saying Clod.
I really didn't think this was as bad as I had expected! Not as bad as Orphan Black.
tbf we could all reduce our plastic use. Wouldn't solve the problem on its own but it would help
But muh energy readings