Respectfully disagree with a lot but that’s the beauty of it. I found it odd how you counted some of the minisodes but not all of them. Also I’m glad I’ve finally found someone who also likes the Slitheen.
"The rebel flesh"/"The almost people" Can we take a minute to appreciate Matt Smith's timing with... himself... That shit is difficult and apparently he was just nailing take after take after take.
I’ll be honest I completely disagree with about 60% of this list, but honestly it’s made me look at the episodes I thought were perfect in a different way, and helped me see the merits of those I disregarded Nice job
Yeah I also started to look at other episodes in a different light but you can disregard that this dude gave Praxeus a better rating than Blink and The Silance in the library 2 parter, FUCKING PRAXEUS. He also gave Kill the moon a better rating then the greatest nuwho story yet Midnight
Doctor Who is one of the best shows ever made in my option because everyone loves different things about it. Like I disagree with a lot of what you’re saying but I know a lot of people who will think different things then both of us. Doctor Who is so fun because everyone gets something different out of it. And this video/comment section illustrates that perfectly.
yes,that's what i like about doctor who. There's not a lot of similar opinions from people,everyone has their favorite doctor,companion,episodes,seasons,villains etc. There is no one single doctor that is the most popular,everyone has their own favorite. It just shows that dw had a lot to offer.
@@meris8486 Interesting character work. It's experimental and really shakes the Doctor/Companion dynamic, which I think is probably good once in a while for a series that's 50 years old. Does have it's Moffat flaws, but I'm a sucker for abstract plots.
i think it's a lot of fun, looks great and Lennox Kelly is one of the best historical figure performances we've seen! Both are great! Sally Sparrow and co don't grab me like Moffat's other protagonists.
@@SamyulDavis fair enough. I agree Lenox Kelly was good but I do think the witches were a bit eeeeeh. I don't hate it tho, its like a 6 or 7 for me, but Blink will always be at least a 9. I just think the script and concept work so well together.
in every world, blink is contingent upon one massive bootstrap paradox. Admittedly just about every episode has some paradox or plot hole, but that whole episode centres around one, I don't understand why that doesn't bother people more
@@akaakaakaak5779 I think its because unlike many other stories which feature the same kind of paradox, Blink fully explores and explains it in an entertaining, easy to follow manner, making tiny plot holes seem insignificant.
@@sportaflopsupreme5313 but it's not tiny and it's not explained, it's the bedrock of the whole story and the attempt to explain it is literally "wibbly wobbly timey-wimey"
I completely agree. I'm not a SHOW ENDED WHITTAKER DENIAL type, but if you cut before the regeneration finished--that's about as perfect you can get to an ending. Missy's dead, River, Bill and Susan are a million miles away. (The faces in his desk in the pilot) It'd REALLY work.
If you make it so that he decides to die, it'd work as an ending. The Time of the Doctor also works as an ending if you ignore the fact that the timelords gave the doctor another set of regenerations. You would be missing out on Capaldi though.
BoraCM 39 okay, personally Capaldi‘s whole run would’ve made so much more sense if Paul McGann was the war doctor and Capaldi was the last generation. That’s all I’m gonna say
According to this video, Davis’ season ranking would be: 1) series 8 (7.38) 2) series 4 (7.28) 3) series 1 (7.07) 4) series 3 (6.79) 5) series 5 (6.64) 6) series 10 (6.46) 7) series 9 (6.37) 8) series 7 (6) 9) series 2 (5.92) 10) series 6 (5.43) 11) series 11 (4.64) 12) series 12 (4.09) The number in brackets is the average episode rating for that season.
Series 10 is just...perfect. 5 standard episodes, 2 bad episodes and 5 amazing episodes. That's too much consistency for Doctor Who, it's weird. The Pyramid at the End of the World should have been an exploration story, and Lie of the Land is just the worst way to resolve an arc.
It's almost like a more bearable Power of Three, with the Doctor getting to live normally, cooking omelettes and playing kickball, except it actually has a plot
You notice a lot of rtd two partners have the doctor stuck in a room for most of part 2 World war three hes stuck in the cabinet office The parting of the ways hes stuck on floor 500 Satan pit hes stuck in the pit Doomsday hes stuck in torch wood Family of blood hes stuck in john Smith The last of the time lords stuck with the master Journey end stuck with davros End of time part 2 stuck on a ship
@@nightowl8477 journey end hes in that prison with dravos all episode and end of time part 2 hes on on that ship end of the first act all of the second act and half the third act
It’s how RTD liked to stretch out of the plot (because we’re at the point where the Doctor himself is a huge plot mover and needs to get trapped to slow things down). Honestly, I only liked the last of the time lords. The family of blood dragged on too long and that whole John Smith thing got silly and frustrating. 1) Why is this random “nice” kid stealing stuff? I mean I’m just saying but if the entire plot could be avoided by one random little kid not stealing the plot device and hiding for 2 episodes then there’s a problem. 2) I didn’t really get the whole relationship thing. Like they over dramatized that way too much. John Smith had been there like a month and got to know that blonde chick for like a day. “Maybe” there was a budding romance there, but neither had spent enough time with each other to be risking the entire planet over it. Then it just made me mad beyond end when she got mad at 10 for not torturing himself by turning back into this guy she had just met and “maybe” would spend the rest of her life with. 3) I hate John Smith. He was far too against becoming the Doctor again when that whole persona existed like a month and the world was in danger. Utopia just takes that whole concept and does it so much better. Professor Yana is allured to the watch after it was pointed out to him (makes sense. It represents unimaginable power and opportunity) and he opens it and has that twist very quickly. Maybe the family of blood would have been better if that little kid opened the watch and “became” the Doctor, after which he and Martha would have to work to turn him back human and make John Smith the Doctor again.
Might have been a waste of time but I added your scores from each series and divided it by the number of episodes in that series, finding a mean average score for each series and the results are a hot take. (bear in mind I counted the christmas invasion as series 2) Worst to best 12 score of 4.5 11 score of 4.64 6 score of 5.42 2 score of 5.47 7 score of 6 9 score of 6.3 10 score of 6.46 5 score of 6.64 3 score of 6.79 1 score of 7.23 4 score of 7.28 8 score of 7.38
Chibnal's era is perfect for pure historicals, as Demons of the Punjab showed. If he wants to make a mark on the show, go for more pure histoicals. In addition, I would love to see more of Jo Martin's incarnation of the Doctor. Seemed like she had far more presence as the character than Whitaker has been allowed.
LardDragonEzra - The EXTRAS have more presence on screen than Whitaker’s Doctor. It’s not about allowing, she hasn’t put any of her own spin on the character...as she put it in an interview, her “spin” on the Doctor is “written on the page...” Shes not even TRYING. Just phoning it in. She’s a good actress in other things but my god, she’s just not good enough for this role. I can’t watch her without getting bored, falling asleep or becoming angry.
The problem with pure historicals is they don’t really offer anything for the audience and as such the show anymore. In the earliest days of Who (1960s), pure historicals were amazing because it did something unheard of. It let audiences experience history firsthand through the show and learn about things they might not have. The problem is back then history was only taught in the textbooks (if that) and just showing it added a lot to the conversation. Now, we have so much exposure to history that it needs to go beyond that. We have video games that put in right in the shoes of characters (and are really accurate and informational on top of being fun) and literal search engines on the phones that we carry around in our pockets we can use to look up any history at any time. Not to mention all the RUclips videos that make it fun (because history is hilarious) and all the other media with it (historical fiction is also much more common of a genre because its easier to research). Modern who has done this so far by instead focusing on historical figures or space invasions with the historical setting being in the background. Even when they focus on historical figures its not just a history lesson, but putting this figures in difficult and challenging situations that show us their character in ways we’d never seen (like Charles Dickens having to deal with alien ghosts). Chibnall’s historical are written like the show is still airing in the 20th century. They don’t add anything new to the conversation or interest me at all. The Demons of the Punjab was about the best of the bunch, and I still don’t really understand the “point” as a viewer with how it ended (also those demons are just knock off testimony), and during it the historical characters weren’t really “challenged” we were basically just watching history unfold as it did. Which is nice, but I mean... I can just look that stuff up. I kinda need more from my favorite show. The Rosa Parks episode was just nothing. I live in the U.S. and have gone through public education in the south. I’ve had to read Rosa Parks biography, watch endless videos/documentaries, and learn about the era in class. I’m black and I have to say I don’t care THAT much about something that happened before I was born. Racism was bad. We get it. Teach us the history and we’ll learn from it. Keep repeating the same thing over and over again and I’ll drown you out, and that’s all the episode did. It just restated basic information and added nothing to the conversation. Even the time traveling racist was JUST a racist (and there’s a LOT that can be discussed about race that no one ever does (like that human’s don’t have races biological and it’s just a social construct we can’t let go of, or that racism is just a result of a larger issue of people forming groups and seeing people outside their group as the enemy, or that we still haven’t taken the necessary steps to completely defeat racism, or that people are focusing too much on the government to solve it when it’s a social issue, or just anything... literally anything besides “racism is bad”). Arguably the pure historicals would work better if Doctor Who was a purely kids show. It’d be great for learning, but it’s a family show and has a MUCH larger audience to appeal to. Then there’s the issue that while writing these historicals Chibnall is still failing to develop any of the main cast or create any sort of coherent plot. Is Jo Martin the actor for Ruth? Because I absolutely hate what the Ruth Doctor is (timeless child nonsense), but completely agree that her portrayal had a lot more presence than 13. Whitaker honestly doesn’t seem suited for the role (not that she’s a bad actor, but her style and personality doesn’t fit). Martin (if she was Ruth) definitely felt like she’d make a great Doctor, and now I’m just made that was denied her own actual incarnation or run and was slotted to be this stupid timeless child nonsense. For that same reason the New Master (Sacha) feels like he’d work better as a new villain entirely (the entire character is a regression from Missy’s arc and the master was never that suicidal). Then again, I’d like for Gallifrey not to have destroyed twice in one series (or at all after it was brought back) so clearly Chibnall doesn’t care what the fans want.
@@jadedgal05 I think it’s just a problem with Chibnall and the main cast. I don’t feel anything from any of the TARDIS crew (maybe Graham). It doesn’t help that he threw 4 new characters at the show all at once.
To be fair the cold open is actually one of the best openings ever. Hoping to convince a friend who stopped watching at series 8 to watch the rest of Capaldi because he is SERIOUSLY missing out
Also, I liked the idea of Rings of Akhaten, but the problem is they never showed us this alien civilisation "devoting themselves, sacrficing themselves" to the big evil Sun. It just shows us a girl having performance anxiety and that's it. It needed a two parter to properly set stuff up and instead we only got one and devoted a stupidly long portion of it to a *leaf*. Mind you they put a lot of effort into the design, and you honestly wish we got more stories like this instead of roughly 75 % of the modern series taking place in contemporary Britain and us having to get told about the amazing off world adventures the Doctor got into that we *just* missed and which happened totally offscreen. And when we get an off world story, it's usually just set on a spaceship, prefferabely somewhere close to Earth anyway, the amount of actual *alien worlds* we boith visit *and* get to see (none of that Girl who Waited crap where we never see any of it, nor any of the inhabitants CUZ REASONS) is shockingly low. The Classic series had half the budget of a daily soap on a slightly unpopular TV network and yet they managed to split episodes between Earth and foreign planets based stories almost for the entire run, until the last season, which was hobled by Michael Grade's stupid budget cuts.
Yeah, I felt the same way about Rings; there was loads more world-building and understanding the personal stakes that it would have been great to see explored (which would have allowed me to more easily overlook the fact the Doc just basically destroys a millions-of-years-old civilisation and noone bats an eye, ot that he and Clara could both apparently ride a space bike in outer space with neither needing a helmet. I bloody loved the singing, though.
This is an impressive achievement that really illustrates how diverse the series is. Ranking all the episodes on the same metric will always be difficult but I can't disagree with much of this, particularly since I'm a huge Moffat fan. You've also basically confirmed by longstanding theory that Daleks In Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks will be remembered as a classic!
Please do SJA, it’s such an amazing show and much more consistent than doctor who is, so might make rating and comparisons more challenging and interesting. Kerblam is no The Empty Child, but there’s much less of a gulf between SJA’s offerings. The Eternity Trap and Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane are my top two favourites - I wish the Trickster would come back in doctor who.
theDoctorGeneric I personally love it, it just felt like dr who where as 11 felt like a completely different show. I’m getting series 7 vibes from 12 atm and after longer I’ll figure out if I love it or hate it. But at the moment I think I loved 12
Cephalon Sigma Thinking back to it, all the highlights have been done before and that REALLY brings it down for me. At least season 11 tried something new
@@thedoctorgeneric5007 Are you that shocked? I've seen every episode since the show began in the 60's, and it's one of my favorite seasons. I'd be more surprised if people liked Series 11.
Maybe he didn’t want to. He was a good writer, nightmare in silver was shi... less than ideal but from what I heard, it seems that there was a lot of interference from the higher ups in production. The Doctor’s Wife is one of my favorite stories and I would like to see more from him.
Probably because he's a shit hot writer. Why be a showrunner on a show you don't fully control when you could just adapt one of your own books into a show. For example, bad omens
I just realised that Night Terrors is the exact story that Fear Her wanted to be. It's a perfect example of a scared alien lashing out, and they didn't include anything ridiculous like the entire world being erased, or the Olympics. Night Terrors kept it intimate and personal, on a quite literal smaller scale. The dolls are still the only Doctor Who monster that i can confidently say i'm creeped out by. I have to say, i completely disagree with your ranking of the monk trilogy from Season 10. Pyramid at the End of the World's only negatives are the episodes that surround it. I'd personally give it a 8 or 9. I don't understand why you rate Pyramid at the End of the World so low because of Lie of the Land, but Heaven Sent gets a 9 despite Hell Bent's existence. It's utter perfection. The Doctor's 'defeat' of the monks feels totally earned, but then Bill saving the Doctor and dooming the world just set up the PERFECT episode to follow it up. Lie of the Land drags it down but Pyramid is still a great episode. Unlike the Master or the Daleks, the Monks are intimidating and threatening even when they're 'defeated' at the end of Pyramid. I still feel genuinely scared for Bill when the monks start to ask her for consent. The human leader's downfall all seem totally earned too, of course they wouldn't trust the Doctor with their planet like that after being shown the end of the world. The monk's plan made perfect sense, all the character motivations were great and the side characters were all genuinely compelling. I would've loved to see another episode with Erica. I personally couldn't see how they could stretch his blindness to another episode, but i see where you're coming from. I see why you don't like Pyramid, but giving it a 4 just seems bonkers. Also your point about the Master being ripped off.... yeah. I kinda see where you're coming from, but again i disagree. Sacha's master is what Simm's master tried to be. It added the extra bit of spice that made him a full character, unlike Simm's obnoxious and two-dimensional character. I personally think Sacha's master seemed so "over-the-top" was because no one else really tried. No one else has really portrayed that emotion in Season 11 or 10. I think Sacha would've been the perfect Master for 9 or 11. It was the amount of fun that Sacha was having that really saved his master for me. His actual character design is probably my favourite out of any Master. I think they should've brought back the Confession Dial. Let The Doctor dump the fam back on Earth because she's so scared of losing them to the Cybermen (Seriously... Why would she even let them in the same UNIVERSE as the Cybermen after what happened to Bill?) and have the Master dump the Doctor in her confession dial. The Doctor left the dial on Gallifrey in Hell Bent so this would've been perfect. Let the Master and the Doctor chat for 60 minutes inside the Dial. You get the same results, but your protagonist isn't literally trapped for the entire episode. The Timeless Children seems like if a fan watched the first 20 minutes of Hell Bent and thought "I could do better" and made something that's worthy of being called a fan-fiction. It's been SOOO long since we've seen an episode with only the Doctor and the Master. Martha and Wilf stole the show from Simm, Danny and Bill stole the show from Gomez. An episode where it's simply the Doctor and the Master in the confession dial, maybe exploring his own confession dial, would've been perfect. There's no need to ever touch the Cybermen again after the perfection that was the Season 10 finale. You simply cannot top that. It baffles me how Season 10 made the Cybermen the greatest antagonists ever put to screen, then just two seasons later they were made into a generic Sci-Fi robot army. The Timeless Children was okay for me. I liked the twist, because i've never cared much for the supposed Canon. I like the potential this brings for the future of the show. I think these Cybermen are the best designs aside from the Mondasian Cybermen from Season 10. I think the amount of energy and passion Sacha put into his performance was very fun to watch. 13 and Ruth worked well together, but she should've been more present. Season 12 is literally the season of "Wow are they gonna do this! This is such a cool concept! Could they perhaps... oh no it's over" The best example of this is Can you Hear me. There was an absolute PERFECT villain there! Yeah the fingers in the ears was a tiny bit cheesy but in a fun Doctor Who-esque way. Two immortals simply playing with the peoples of a planet because they're bord was a perfect metaphor for The Doctor and the Master. I was waiting the entire episode for a line like "You're no stranger to this Doctor..." or some sort of acknowledgement that yes the Doctor is also immortal and could potentially relate here. Let 13 have a new exciting take on Immortality that no other Doctor has ever had before. As a whole, I think Jodie's era is best summed up with "Oh... That's it? It's over already?" Every episode left me wanting more, but not in a good way.
Pyramid at the End of the World is a fantastically acted, fantastically realised mess of a story that breaks logic in order for its plot to work. I mean literally every single plot beat relies on impossibilities. A lab that vents toxins into the atmosphere as a cleaning method? A scientist who goes to work hungover? A scientist who leaves open every single security feature of the lab? A scientist who takes his mask off in a toxic environment? A door to a lab with a complicated combination lock? It's utter nonsense.
I hate it, it's the only doctor who episode I have turned off mid broadcast and not watched since. One could argue I need to give it another viewing but the plot plus the fact Strax and them are in it can't bring myself too
it is underrated. i agree the plot isnt good, and i wouldnt watch the episode for it, but it's a genuinely funny episode, all the characters are lovable and there are some really fantastic lines
@@SamyulDavis Thank you for vindicating that incredible Coleman performance in that last scene. It's one of the best single scenes in NuWho, and why I love Clara and 12 forever.
@@ScotchBeard78 I think Coleman and Capaldi have the finest chemistry in the entire New Who, but sadly people don't even acknowledge it cause of that "ugg is it Clara Who now" mindset
24:22 my screen froze and the audio got stuck repeating in "--riment" and the glitch screen, and I stood there, for like, 30 seconds, thinking "ha...haha... clever joke there mate...." then it was one minute and I was afraid it would get longer, but I didn't want to give in to the joke and then it was five minutes and my notebook started to make noises and I "ohnOOO" and it kapoof and now i hate sleep no more
Honestly? I wish we just skipped all the specials and had 10 regenerate in Journey's End. Maybe he's holding it back all throughout the episode (not like he was doing anything anyway), and it would give the finale some *actual* consequences. In what world is Rose getting the most perfect version of the Doctor a consequence??
@@nightowl8477 The end of time may not be the best story but it gave us some of the best dialogue and character development in the show. Also loved the doctor revisiting everyone, he thought he was dying after all.
@@nightowl8477 first of all the rose having her ideal doctor is not a consequence its the resolution to her story since its the last time we see her. It's still definitely a consequence for the doctor however. At that moment he's seeing his ideal life of love and a fulfilling life. This is all meant to isolate him and take everything away from him until he's finally had enough in waters of Mars where he realises that life is unfair and he has the power to change that fact. The 10th doctor is one of the most tragic because he's constantly shown his dream life with John Smith, human Doctor, river who who is meant to be his wife but dies, his daughter who dies and everyone moving on. And even after saving the world without sacrificeing his morals he's not even allowed to "live". I'm sorry but there are so many consequences the 10th doctor faces and the way he handles them is peak story telling of new who. He loses so much and yet at the end he decides to do what the doctor would do even when the price is so costly "to never be cruel or cowardly".
Episodes really struggle to hold my attention from Series 7 onwards. It's like when you're reading a book and realise that even though you've been reading you haven't taken the words in because you've been thinking about something else, and have to go back 2 pages. So many episodes where I realise I haven't absorbed any of what's going on for like 5 straight minutes, except I can't be bothered to rewind. And it happens again each time I try to rewatch them. There are a few good eggs, though.
@@meris8486 I rewatched s8 and most of 9 since this and managed to p a y a t t e n t i o n and it might've cured my Clara hatred to ambivalence to maybe even sorta kinda liking her a bit, feels weird
@@pinkperfectpeach7544 yeah I'm an RTD fanboy so I love me some Rose and I'll never love any companion as much as the ones from that era cos they're all steeped in nostalgia for me. And Clara with 11 is still trash because S7 as a whole I still regard as trash :') but her and Capaldi had a really nice and surprisingly natural chemistry
I feel like the Mary Shelly episode deserves a bit more credit, or at least the first half does. I was really enjoying it for the mystery and actual character interaction before the main series plot reared its ugly head, invading and ruining what I thought would've otherwise been my favourite Whittaker episode. Only other disagreements, I kinda like Arachnids in the UK and Sacha Dhawan's Master.
Hear, hear. I never swore at the screen so much because o a character. He's almost salvageable in the Kill The Moon ending, but then Moffat somehow makes him inexplicably hostile toward The Doctor, and implied that it's because his PTSD??
While I don't agree with all of your ratings, generally this is how I feel about the show. RTD comes out of the gate running with series 1, stumbles somewhat with series 2, returns to form in 3 and knocks it out of the park with 4 and the specials. Series 5 is my favourite Eleven series but for me it gets progressively worse until we reach Capaldi where each series builds on the greatness of the last. Then Chibnall takes over and I could not be bothered to continue past Rosa with series 11. Even so, I still prefer the 3 episodes I saw from series 11 over 12 because at least it was trying to be different and not rehashing old story beats from a decade ago as well as fiddling around with lore (that's not even necessarily referring to the Timeless Child because I've been disliking what seems like his utter dismissal of Moffat's era).
My sentiments lined up exactly with yours. Love this type of review. Fast, concise, and a great rundown of New Who. Please just add on to it with Series 13 - Infinity lol. Also. You should do classic Who 😁
Appreciate the love for Kill the Moon, there are literally dozens of us! Christmas Carol and Small Town named Mercy also amazing stories that are often slept on. Think you're too harsh on S12, but can understand where you're coming from.
13:06 okay so I just noticed thats the library from Silence in the LIbrary, and River Song is in that episode... god I love how cheap this show is sometimes.
After hearing the harsh snarky nitpicking I've heard another reviewer treat season 11 and 12, seeing you give some of the Whitaker stuff an 8 or a 9 (even if you find the other 2/3 is still underwhelming) is a breath of fresh air. I really am open-minded with the Timeless Child twist (it gives us some more mystery about the Doctor's past) though I can see why not everyone likes it. From what I've gathered, I think one of the main issues with Chibnall is that his stories seem better suited for a much longer episode (say, 90 minutes) than the 50 minutes he's given. That would explain why a lot of his episodes have rushed endings and little time for character work. Either he's not adjusting to the episodic limits, or he really needs more time. Granted, even his two-parters have issues, but its an observation.
If Chibnalls era had been standalone then I might agree with you but compared to other series it's just dreadful. I mean compare Human Nature to what you consider to be Whittaker's best and it's laughable.
Off topic but, following your recommendation, I listened to Spare Parts. Thank you! I'm a Cyberman fan who never listened to Big Finish before. Glad I did now. Silver Turk and Cyberman -The Complete Series, are now on their way.
I cut out a bunch of the extra episode and prologue stories out of the final edit as they weren't particularly funny or interesting. Graske is too close to my heart x
Ngl I disagree with a lot of this list but it's interesting to hear your reasoning. Sacha's master is amazing to me and I'm not to phased about the weird/lore changing ending of series 12. I find it difficult to complain about the show stagnating and then also complain when they try to give it a new twist and direction
I like new twist, but sorry have to disagree because making your main character in the story the most special person in the world is not a twist, it is the easiest trope for people to write
@@onvasean2485 yeah 3 years does wonders for changing opinion. The timeless child being the doctor sucks. If thr master was the timeless child it might have been better. But 🤷♂️ nothing to be done about it now but try and flesh it out and make the most of the storyline
I disagreed so many times with these scores. Praxeus higher than Fugitive of the Judoon and The Haunting of Villa Diodati? Really? Blink only a seven and not a ten? And I certainly wouldn't give Twice Upon A Time anything higher than a 7.
I know I'm late to the party but so many of these (especially Moffet ones) I wanted to rate a lot higher, but mainly because I really like the setup and questions. I understand that most of these ratings are analyzing how these episodes stand on their own though. Also I too would write an entire series set entirely inside the Tardis.
This video is really fun and interesting, even if I don't agree with a fair amount of it. I would really like to see something similar for classic who, maybe "Every Classic Doctor Who Serial rated in 20 seconds"
I'd actually give TWWFTE an 8. Not the strongest 8 but an 8 nonetheless. To me it's genuinely the most fresh DW has been since The 11th Hour! It has a cool villain with an even better atmosphere (man Tim Shaw's theme makes my ears get an...orgasm), 13 feels like the incarnation we were supposed to get after 12, and if you ask me it's one of the best Whittaker stories. Also companions are fun and so full of potential here that in general I think that this episode came out from a different writer all together
Tom Baker's Doctor fell off a telescope to his death. Whittaker fell thousands of feet onto a train and lived. After that I knew what a hack Chibnall is. It's overall a terrible episode.
Also Beast Below is just a mess mate. The plot makes no sense and the story forgets the goverment are the same people who was willing to murder children for minor school grievances and created the murder robots the gang runs away from, yet which are kinda treated as if they were not a thing the local goverment controls. Also, why was the UK the only country not to have a spaceship ? Never explained. Why did they need to keep wiping "Liz X's" memory and how does she not realise nobody she knows is even alive anymore. The story says that 1 % of the population can also decide to murder the other 99 % if just one percent agrees to Protest....why ? Also let's point out that hitting "Protest" drops people into the stomach of a whale. And even if the whale "doesn't eat children", considering the booth is only to be used by adults _and_ we never hear anything about adults....yeah, the whale might have eaten thousands of people. It's a confused hodgepodge with two obvious versions of the script that were smooshed together and no one made sure that stuff from Part 1 makes sense in Part 2.
This is interesting and has some truth to it, but it really hits the emotional beats. I feel my way through some stories more than others rather than just watching/reading them.
@@WeirdWonderful All of the emotion! Even from its first moments I totally get 11 and Amy and feel her first adventure, but then I will always be more focused on character and message than plot.
@@SamyulDavis I would say the first 50 big finish wouldn't take too long bitnthey do take 2 hours each and you almost definitely haven't heard them near enough to either remember them or form a well made opinion unlike the 15 years of rewatches youve had for this bunch . The setup for that lot is whatll take it out of you but its our Lord and saviours so you won't get bored
Wow... a RUclipsr who actually doesn't despise the chibnall era with every fibre of their being (I get that you don't like it but as somebody who actually loves the era as much as any other (well maybe not AS much) it's nice to see :-D)
A Town Called Mercy appreciation time, yeeees! It's the most underrated episode of the show as it's an overlooked masterpiece, great story, great 11 moments, absolutely great location and a great villain, we need more of this.
This was an enjoyable watch. I don’t agree with every review, but who would? I’m sure you weren’t expecting anyone to. This was a nice look back at all of new who. Notably, I do agree with your opinion on the series 12 finale and timeless children. At the end of the day the timeless child being the doctor is just an idea (I mean it is a fairly terrible one that almost certainly won’t work, but still just an idea). Whether they make it interesting or not or do anything with it that engages me/the audience we just don’t know yet. They don’t have to touch it at all; it’s something they CAN work with down the line. The problem with the finale is that the entire episode focused on telling the Doctor they are the timeless child. A series finale where half the cast is pretty worthless, that’s 2/3 exposition (and the Doctor being talked to at that), and with the Doctor doing pretty much nothing/doing what she’s told/letting someone else destroy her planet for her (and a character we JUST met at that) is just bad; objectively bad. The finale just showcases the root problem with Chibnall; he doesn’t know Doctor Who or the Doctor’s character and doesn’t bother to try. He just shoves cool sounding things into an episode and hopes we don’t see past the shiny new cyberman design.
Especially when this was the THIRD finale in 6 years which was the Master commanding the Cybermen. Chibnall is a weird one. He wrote a lot for Torchwood but could crumble. He did some good work in the Moffat Era but that's just it. Chibnall isn't a guy you put as a head writer for a sci-fi/fantasy series. He's a guy that needs direction, not one who sets it. When I was watching the Tesla episode, I loved the story but made a headcanon that the writer could only get it made by the BBC if it was a Doctor Who story and was forced to use the cast.
Shortlad333 No no bad, very bad. They can now just add "look a Doctor we don't know about" whenever they want and I feel it won't make the Doctor feel as special in the way if in big finish it's just a random person we've never heard of before
surely the title should be 'rated', not 'ranked'? the numbers had me confused at the start. saying they're being ranked suggests that you're gonna list them from worst to best or something. awesome video though :)
Great video. What I love is how positive it is (and I agree with lots of your more out there 10s) but that I also enjoy some of the ones you dislike, The Snowmen, for example. It comes across a real love letter to the show, even when you rate episodes poorly, and the positivity which is missing from a lot of Who content shines through. We absolutely should like different things to different degrees and its neccessary to see the flaws fairly from our points of view We do love this show after all don't we? A lot of the community seem to forget this, you don't. Bravo.
@@SamyulDavis Hahaha. Got that strange feeling of self doubt as when I introduced my girlfriend to The Five Doctors (her first classic Who). 'It's really good, I promise!' 😂 It's weird being a Who fan. Oh well, it worked out in the end with her. I won't be offended if you still hate it haha.
very cool and a fun video. i agree with 80% of the ratings but i appreciated the 10 second synopsis of what you thought of each episode more. great video! I just sometimes couldn't see if the rating was a 0 or an 8... They looked very similar, maybe use a slightly different font next time? it wasn't impossible to decipher but just unnecessarily harder to read. P.S. I wish 13 had character, its been 2 whole seasons and she still has me feeling up in the air. maybe if she was a bit more introverted like in the end of 'Can you hear me'. as it was definitely different to the other doctors. Anyway, peace!
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Respectfully disagree with a lot but that’s the beauty of it. I found it odd how you counted some of the minisodes but not all of them. Also I’m glad I’ve finally found someone who also likes the Slitheen.
I edited a lot of the minisodes and prequels out of the final edit as my comments weren't particularly interesting or funny
Attack of the Graske was the shit, I felt a part of my childhood die when they took it off the website.
@@jbear4433 ikr i played it so many times
I still can't beleive the Aliens in London two parter isnt a lot better regarded honestly.
@@SmartSmears it's better than series 11 and 12 by itself
"The rebel flesh"/"The almost people"
Can we take a minute to appreciate Matt Smith's timing with... himself...
That shit is difficult and apparently he was just nailing take after take after take.
Matt Smith's timing is his great talent, especially comic timing.
@@dhollsynthmusic no, but like, he would have had to do a take, then get make-up on, then do another take with identical timing
yes, and david and the actor for the woman in midnight, especially the woman as she had to time her speech to everyone else
This is a great idea for a video.
When two worlds collide 😏
Yea someone should make it
I’ll be honest I completely disagree with about 60% of this list, but honestly it’s made me look at the episodes I thought were perfect in a different way, and helped me see the merits of those I disregarded
Nice job
Yeah I also started to look at other episodes in a different light but you can disregard that this dude gave Praxeus a better rating than Blink and The Silance in the library 2 parter, FUCKING PRAXEUS. He also gave Kill the moon a better rating then the greatest nuwho story yet Midnight
Doctor Who is one of the best shows ever made in my option because everyone loves different things about it. Like I disagree with a lot of what you’re saying but I know a lot of people who will think different things then both of us. Doctor Who is so fun because everyone gets something different out of it. And this video/comment section illustrates that perfectly.
yes,that's what i like about doctor who. There's not a lot of similar opinions from people,everyone has their favorite doctor,companion,episodes,seasons,villains etc. There is no one single doctor that is the most popular,everyone has their own favorite. It just shows that dw had a lot to offer.
So true.
I’m going to take a guess this guy hates James cordon
Nathan Davis What makes you think that?
Who doesn't.
Frankie Hyland me lol
He didn't really add anything tho :/
Everyone hates James Cordon, and now his character is the only human strong enough to resist conversion. The baby had a better on screen presence
Wow 10/10 for Kill The Moon, You Are A Bold One.
I agree with him
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Why? It's rubbish
Wrong franchise.
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@@meris8486 Interesting character work. It's experimental and really shakes the Doctor/Companion dynamic, which I think is probably good once in a while for a series that's 50 years old. Does have it's Moffat flaws, but I'm a sucker for abstract plots.
Heaven sent 9???. How is the greatest DW episode not a 10 or 11
And kill the moon got a ten
You have some really peculiar opinions dude. But I respect them I guess?.......
IN WHAT REALM IS SHAKESPEARE CODE BETTER THAN BLINK MY GUY
i think it's a lot of fun, looks great and Lennox Kelly is one of the best historical figure performances we've seen! Both are great! Sally Sparrow and co don't grab me like Moffat's other protagonists.
@@SamyulDavis fair enough. I agree Lenox Kelly was good but I do think the witches were a bit eeeeeh. I don't hate it tho, its like a 6 or 7 for me, but Blink will always be at least a 9. I just think the script and concept work so well together.
in every world, blink is contingent upon one massive bootstrap paradox. Admittedly just about every episode has some paradox or plot hole, but that whole episode centres around one, I don't understand why that doesn't bother people more
@@akaakaakaak5779 I think its because unlike many other stories which feature the same kind of paradox, Blink fully explores and explains it in an entertaining, easy to follow manner, making tiny plot holes seem insignificant.
@@sportaflopsupreme5313 but it's not tiny and it's not explained, it's the bedrock of the whole story and the attempt to explain it is literally "wibbly wobbly timey-wimey"
IMO twice upon a time would actually have been a good (if not great) ending for all of doctor who.
I completely agree. I'm not a SHOW ENDED WHITTAKER DENIAL type, but if you cut before the regeneration finished--that's about as perfect you can get to an ending. Missy's dead, River, Bill and Susan are a million miles away. (The faces in his desk in the pilot)
It'd REALLY work.
Sinom that episode was shite no lie
@@bundyhinds7346 Agreed. Twice upon a time has literally zero stakes, just fan-service.
If you make it so that he decides to die, it'd work as an ending. The Time of the Doctor also works as an ending if you ignore the fact that the timelords gave the doctor another set of regenerations. You would be missing out on Capaldi though.
BoraCM 39 okay, personally Capaldi‘s whole run would’ve made so much more sense if Paul McGann was the war doctor and Capaldi was the last generation. That’s all I’m gonna say
According to this video, Davis’ season ranking would be:
1) series 8 (7.38)
2) series 4 (7.28)
3) series 1 (7.07)
4) series 3 (6.79)
5) series 5 (6.64)
6) series 10 (6.46)
7) series 9 (6.37)
8) series 7 (6)
9) series 2 (5.92)
10) series 6 (5.43)
11) series 11 (4.64)
12) series 12 (4.09)
The number in brackets is the average episode rating for that season.
I'd like to see how this ranking would change if you split season 7 into 7A and 7B
And by writer breakdown would be interesting.
5:38 finally after all these years, I’ve finally found someone else who likes Daleks in Manhattan/evolution of the Daleks!
all 12 of us!
I mean... I didn't know people didn't like it.
Insert Name here I liked it haha
It's not the best of course but is criminally underrated. It's at least a 6/7.
@@IlikeTrainsguy100 Considering this has the Daleks trying to be better but ultimately screwing themselves over, I liked it.
Very interesting and original video. Was a fun watch, loved some of the “controversial” opinions in this. I can see the hate already
Series 10 is just...perfect. 5 standard episodes, 2 bad episodes and 5 amazing episodes. That's too much consistency for Doctor Who, it's weird.
The Pyramid at the End of the World should have been an exploration story, and Lie of the Land is just the worst way to resolve an arc.
I'd say Empress of Mars was a bit below average but it's so consistent with Gatiss episodes it may as well not count
Pyramid at the End of the world is great for the "consent" thing it has going on. Who needs sex education when aliens can do it for you?
100% the best series since series 5 when it came out, although imo series 12 has now taken that title.
@@IlikeTrainsguy100 series 12 ???????????
@@kreemy123 What's wrong with series 12? It had one dodgy episode (like every series) apart from that is was great, felt like RTD era again.
James corden is unlikeable now but back at the time of the lodger he was bearable. I dispute that it’s not a good ep it’s one of the best
i like it too
the doctor and james have a good dynamic i liked the episodes with those 2
It's almost like a more bearable Power of Three, with the Doctor getting to live normally, cooking omelettes and playing kickball, except it actually has a plot
the lodger is great if you manage to avoid exposure to anything else corden has done
Outta all of that, this is the hill ur dying on?
You notice a lot of rtd two partners have the doctor stuck in a room for most of part 2
World war three hes stuck in the cabinet office
The parting of the ways hes stuck on floor 500
Satan pit hes stuck in the pit
Doomsday hes stuck in torch wood
Family of blood hes stuck in john Smith
The last of the time lords stuck with the master
Journey end stuck with davros
End of time part 2 stuck on a ship
Okay some of the latter ones are a bit of a stretch. You could say the same for Series 5, 7, 8 and 10.
@@nightowl8477 journey end hes in that prison with dravos all episode and end of time part 2 hes on on that ship end of the first act all of the second act and half the third act
“Stuck in John Smith”
That’s why I don’t see The Timeless Children being a bad episode just because she’s stuck in the same place most of the episode
It’s how RTD liked to stretch out of the plot (because we’re at the point where the Doctor himself is a huge plot mover and needs to get trapped to slow things down). Honestly, I only liked the last of the time lords. The family of blood dragged on too long and that whole John Smith thing got silly and frustrating. 1) Why is this random “nice” kid stealing stuff? I mean I’m just saying but if the entire plot could be avoided by one random little kid not stealing the plot device and hiding for 2 episodes then there’s a problem. 2) I didn’t really get the whole relationship thing. Like they over dramatized that way too much. John Smith had been there like a month and got to know that blonde chick for like a day. “Maybe” there was a budding romance there, but neither had spent enough time with each other to be risking the entire planet over it. Then it just made me mad beyond end when she got mad at 10 for not torturing himself by turning back into this guy she had just met and “maybe” would spend the rest of her life with. 3) I hate John Smith. He was far too against becoming the Doctor again when that whole persona existed like a month and the world was in danger. Utopia just takes that whole concept and does it so much better. Professor Yana is allured to the watch after it was pointed out to him (makes sense. It represents unimaginable power and opportunity) and he opens it and has that twist very quickly. Maybe the family of blood would have been better if that little kid opened the watch and “became” the Doctor, after which he and Martha would have to work to turn him back human and make John Smith the Doctor again.
Might have been a waste of time but I added your scores from each series and divided it by the number of episodes in that series, finding a mean average score for each series and the results are a hot take. (bear in mind I counted the christmas invasion as series 2)
Worst to best
12 score of 4.5
11 score of 4.64
6 score of 5.42
2 score of 5.47
7 score of 6
9 score of 6.3
10 score of 6.46
5 score of 6.64
3 score of 6.79
1 score of 7.23
4 score of 7.28
8 score of 7.38
This is honestly not a horrible series ranking.
I mean I wouldn’t put series 8 anywhere near that high but not a bad ranking really
Chibnal's era is perfect for pure historicals, as Demons of the Punjab showed. If he wants to make a mark on the show, go for more pure histoicals.
In addition, I would love to see more of Jo Martin's incarnation of the Doctor. Seemed like she had far more presence as the character than Whitaker has been allowed.
LardDragonEzra - The EXTRAS have more presence on screen than Whitaker’s Doctor.
It’s not about allowing, she hasn’t put any of her own spin on the character...as she put it in an interview, her “spin” on the Doctor is “written on the page...” Shes not even TRYING. Just phoning it in.
She’s a good actress in other things but my god, she’s just not good enough for this role. I can’t watch her without getting bored, falling asleep or becoming angry.
The problem with pure historicals is they don’t really offer anything for the audience and as such the show anymore. In the earliest days of Who (1960s), pure historicals were amazing because it did something unheard of. It let audiences experience history firsthand through the show and learn about things they might not have. The problem is back then history was only taught in the textbooks (if that) and just showing it added a lot to the conversation. Now, we have so much exposure to history that it needs to go beyond that. We have video games that put in right in the shoes of characters (and are really accurate and informational on top of being fun) and literal search engines on the phones that we carry around in our pockets we can use to look up any history at any time. Not to mention all the RUclips videos that make it fun (because history is hilarious) and all the other media with it (historical fiction is also much more common of a genre because its easier to research). Modern who has done this so far by instead focusing on historical figures or space invasions with the historical setting being in the background. Even when they focus on historical figures its not just a history lesson, but putting this figures in difficult and challenging situations that show us their character in ways we’d never seen (like Charles Dickens having to deal with alien ghosts). Chibnall’s historical are written like the show is still airing in the 20th century. They don’t add anything new to the conversation or interest me at all. The Demons of the Punjab was about the best of the bunch, and I still don’t really understand the “point” as a viewer with how it ended (also those demons are just knock off testimony), and during it the historical characters weren’t really “challenged” we were basically just watching history unfold as it did. Which is nice, but I mean... I can just look that stuff up. I kinda need more from my favorite show. The Rosa Parks episode was just nothing. I live in the U.S. and have gone through public education in the south. I’ve had to read Rosa Parks biography, watch endless videos/documentaries, and learn about the era in class. I’m black and I have to say I don’t care THAT much about something that happened before I was born. Racism was bad. We get it. Teach us the history and we’ll learn from it. Keep repeating the same thing over and over again and I’ll drown you out, and that’s all the episode did. It just restated basic information and added nothing to the conversation. Even the time traveling racist was JUST a racist (and there’s a LOT that can be discussed about race that no one ever does (like that human’s don’t have races biological and it’s just a social construct we can’t let go of, or that racism is just a result of a larger issue of people forming groups and seeing people outside their group as the enemy, or that we still haven’t taken the necessary steps to completely defeat racism, or that people are focusing too much on the government to solve it when it’s a social issue, or just anything... literally anything besides “racism is bad”). Arguably the pure historicals would work better if Doctor Who was a purely kids show. It’d be great for learning, but it’s a family show and has a MUCH larger audience to appeal to. Then there’s the issue that while writing these historicals Chibnall is still failing to develop any of the main cast or create any sort of coherent plot.
Is Jo Martin the actor for Ruth? Because I absolutely hate what the Ruth Doctor is (timeless child nonsense), but completely agree that her portrayal had a lot more presence than 13. Whitaker honestly doesn’t seem suited for the role (not that she’s a bad actor, but her style and personality doesn’t fit). Martin (if she was Ruth) definitely felt like she’d make a great Doctor, and now I’m just made that was denied her own actual incarnation or run and was slotted to be this stupid timeless child nonsense. For that same reason the New Master (Sacha) feels like he’d work better as a new villain entirely (the entire character is a regression from Missy’s arc and the master was never that suicidal). Then again, I’d like for Gallifrey not to have destroyed twice in one series (or at all after it was brought back) so clearly Chibnall doesn’t care what the fans want.
@@jadedgal05 I think it’s just a problem with Chibnall and the main cast. I don’t feel anything from any of the TARDIS crew (maybe Graham). It doesn’t help that he threw 4 new characters at the show all at once.
Calling the ending of The Idiot's Lantern "misguided" is a colossal understatement
Doctor Who does this fairly frequently though. What the hell is the ending of Tsuranga Conundrum trying to say about abortion for instance?
@@SamyulDavis I brought this up on Twitter recently actually, how ironic that pregnancy was used as an example of the show being "politically correct"
@@SamyulDavis I would argue Crimson Horror is better than Idiot's Lantern purely because Ada doesn't forgive her mother
22:50 This was actually the episode that got me into Doctor Who.
I only started watching Doctor Who in 2018. My first episode was the Eleventh Hour.
To be fair the cold open is actually one of the best openings ever. Hoping to convince a friend who stopped watching at series 8 to watch the rest of Capaldi because he is SERIOUSLY missing out
ok i was agreeing with a lot of this but then you didnt rate both world enough and time and the doctor falls a 10, that’s literally blasphemy s👏m👏h👏
agreed
but both those episodes are nonsensical trash..
@Bilbous Bagoda cool but not sure what i said that warranted that response
@Bilbous Bagoda oh god the reddit emoji police have found me
I hated it
Also, I liked the idea of Rings of Akhaten, but the problem is they never showed us this alien civilisation "devoting themselves, sacrficing themselves" to the big evil Sun. It just shows us a girl having performance anxiety and that's it. It needed a two parter to properly set stuff up and instead we only got one and devoted a stupidly long portion of it to a *leaf*.
Mind you they put a lot of effort into the design, and you honestly wish we got more stories like this instead of roughly 75 % of the modern series taking place in contemporary Britain and us having to get told about the amazing off world adventures the Doctor got into that we *just* missed and which happened totally offscreen. And when we get an off world story, it's usually just set on a spaceship, prefferabely somewhere close to Earth anyway, the amount of actual *alien worlds* we boith visit *and* get to see (none of that Girl who Waited crap where we never see any of it, nor any of the inhabitants CUZ REASONS) is shockingly low.
The Classic series had half the budget of a daily soap on a slightly unpopular TV network and yet they managed to split episodes between Earth and foreign planets based stories almost for the entire run, until the last season, which was hobled by Michael Grade's stupid budget cuts.
Yeah, I felt the same way about Rings; there was loads more world-building and understanding the personal stakes that it would have been great to see explored (which would have allowed me to more easily overlook the fact the Doc just basically destroys a millions-of-years-old civilisation and noone bats an eye, ot that he and Clara could both apparently ride a space bike in outer space with neither needing a helmet.
I bloody loved the singing, though.
When this is your favourite episode 😢
Ohh I love a good man goes to war it gives me goosebumps.
Good man goes to war is like kill the moon, you either think it's a masterpiece or one of the worst pieces of new who
slashing mars81 😂I couldn’t agree more
Love it too - never mind all the good scenes/lines, you really see haw far Rory has come in this episode from where he started.
This is an impressive achievement that really illustrates how diverse the series is. Ranking all the episodes on the same metric will always be difficult but I can't disagree with much of this, particularly since I'm a huge Moffat fan. You've also basically confirmed by longstanding theory that Daleks In Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks will be remembered as a classic!
Could you do the same for Torchwood and possibly other spin offs like Class or The Sarah Jane Adventures?
Now this is doable.
@@SamyulDavis please do a torchwood one, i feel that the show is underrated and that torchwood as a concept was underused as hell.
"In the end, it was all about family."
Please do SJA, it’s such an amazing show and much more consistent than doctor who is, so might make rating and comparisons more challenging and interesting. Kerblam is no The Empty Child, but there’s much less of a gulf between SJA’s offerings. The Eternity Trap and Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane are my top two favourites - I wish the Trickster would come back in doctor who.
i can understand more now to why you dislike series 12. i don’t agree, but i understand.
Wait... people actually enjoyed S12?! Whatever floats your boat I guess.
theDoctorGeneric I personally love it, it just felt like dr who where as 11 felt like a completely different show. I’m getting series 7 vibes from 12 atm and after longer I’ll figure out if I love it or hate it. But at the moment I think I loved 12
@@thedoctorgeneric5007 Yeah I thought it was great
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Thinking back to it, all the highlights have been done before and that REALLY brings it down for me. At least season 11 tried something new
@@thedoctorgeneric5007 Are you that shocked? I've seen every episode since the show began in the 60's, and it's one of my favorite seasons.
I'd be more surprised if people liked Series 11.
Wait, why *wasn't* Neil Gaiman considered for showrunner? He made an absolutely incredible debut.
Maybe he didn’t want to. He was a good writer, nightmare in silver was shi... less than ideal but from what I heard, it seems that there was a lot of interference from the higher ups in production. The Doctor’s Wife is one of my favorite stories and I would like to see more from him.
Yeah especially when you compare it to Chibs Freelance episodes
Probably because he's a shit hot writer. Why be a showrunner on a show you don't fully control when you could just adapt one of your own books into a show. For example, bad omens
@@MrMoustouche Good point
He said a feqw times in the past that he wants come back, hopefully Chibnail drops out after next season and maybe then.
I'm so happy someone else likes Kill The Moon, and Colemann's stand out, relationship defining character moment at the end. Really fantastic.
I just realised that Night Terrors is the exact story that Fear Her wanted to be. It's a perfect example of a scared alien lashing out, and they didn't include anything ridiculous like the entire world being erased, or the Olympics. Night Terrors kept it intimate and personal, on a quite literal smaller scale. The dolls are still the only Doctor Who monster that i can confidently say i'm creeped out by.
I have to say, i completely disagree with your ranking of the monk trilogy from Season 10. Pyramid at the End of the World's only negatives are the episodes that surround it. I'd personally give it a 8 or 9. I don't understand why you rate Pyramid at the End of the World so low because of Lie of the Land, but Heaven Sent gets a 9 despite Hell Bent's existence. It's utter perfection.
The Doctor's 'defeat' of the monks feels totally earned, but then Bill saving the Doctor and dooming the world just set up the PERFECT episode to follow it up. Lie of the Land drags it down but Pyramid is still a great episode.
Unlike the Master or the Daleks, the Monks are intimidating and threatening even when they're 'defeated' at the end of Pyramid. I still feel genuinely scared for Bill when the monks start to ask her for consent. The human leader's downfall all seem totally earned too, of course they wouldn't trust the Doctor with their planet like that after being shown the end of the world. The monk's plan made perfect sense, all the character motivations were great and the side characters were all genuinely compelling. I would've loved to see another episode with Erica. I personally couldn't see how they could stretch his blindness to another episode, but i see where you're coming from. I see why you don't like Pyramid, but giving it a 4 just seems bonkers.
Also your point about the Master being ripped off.... yeah. I kinda see where you're coming from, but again i disagree. Sacha's master is what Simm's master tried to be. It added the extra bit of spice that made him a full character, unlike Simm's obnoxious and two-dimensional character. I personally think Sacha's master seemed so "over-the-top" was because no one else really tried. No one else has really portrayed that emotion in Season 11 or 10. I think Sacha would've been the perfect Master for 9 or 11. It was the amount of fun that Sacha was having that really saved his master for me. His actual character design is probably my favourite out of any Master.
I think they should've brought back the Confession Dial. Let The Doctor dump the fam back on Earth because she's so scared of losing them to the Cybermen (Seriously... Why would she even let them in the same UNIVERSE as the Cybermen after what happened to Bill?) and have the Master dump the Doctor in her confession dial. The Doctor left the dial on Gallifrey in Hell Bent so this would've been perfect. Let the Master and the Doctor chat for 60 minutes inside the Dial. You get the same results, but your protagonist isn't literally trapped for the entire episode. The Timeless Children seems like if a fan watched the first 20 minutes of Hell Bent and thought "I could do better" and made something that's worthy of being called a fan-fiction.
It's been SOOO long since we've seen an episode with only the Doctor and the Master. Martha and Wilf stole the show from Simm, Danny and Bill stole the show from Gomez. An episode where it's simply the Doctor and the Master in the confession dial, maybe exploring his own confession dial, would've been perfect. There's no need to ever touch the Cybermen again after the perfection that was the Season 10 finale. You simply cannot top that. It baffles me how Season 10 made the Cybermen the greatest antagonists ever put to screen, then just two seasons later they were made into a generic Sci-Fi robot army.
The Timeless Children was okay for me. I liked the twist, because i've never cared much for the supposed Canon. I like the potential this brings for the future of the show. I think these Cybermen are the best designs aside from the Mondasian Cybermen from Season 10. I think the amount of energy and passion Sacha put into his performance was very fun to watch. 13 and Ruth worked well together, but she should've been more present.
Season 12 is literally the season of "Wow are they gonna do this! This is such a cool concept! Could they perhaps... oh no it's over" The best example of this is Can you Hear me. There was an absolute PERFECT villain there! Yeah the fingers in the ears was a tiny bit cheesy but in a fun Doctor Who-esque way. Two immortals simply playing with the peoples of a planet because they're bord was a perfect metaphor for The Doctor and the Master. I was waiting the entire episode for a line like "You're no stranger to this Doctor..." or some sort of acknowledgement that yes the Doctor is also immortal and could potentially relate here. Let 13 have a new exciting take on Immortality that no other Doctor has ever had before.
As a whole, I think Jodie's era is best summed up with "Oh... That's it? It's over already?" Every episode left me wanting more, but not in a good way.
Pyramid at the End of the World is a fantastically acted, fantastically realised mess of a story that breaks logic in order for its plot to work. I mean literally every single plot beat relies on impossibilities. A lab that vents toxins into the atmosphere as a cleaning method? A scientist who goes to work hungover? A scientist who leaves open every single security feature of the lab? A scientist who takes his mask off in a toxic environment? A door to a lab with a complicated combination lock? It's utter nonsense.
Damn wtf does everyone have against The Crimson Horror
I hate it, it's the only doctor who episode I have turned off mid broadcast and not watched since. One could argue I need to give it another viewing but the plot plus the fact Strax and them are in it can't bring myself too
@@beastyboyvideos YOU MISSED THE BEST PART OF THE EPISODE! The villain with her husband is the most funniest thing until the Pting and Orphan 55
does it really matter? I really liked it when I first watched it. So I don’t understand either
it is underrated. i agree the plot isnt good, and i wouldnt watch the episode for it, but it's a genuinely funny episode, all the characters are lovable and there are some really fantastic lines
does it really matter? I loved it
Excuse me.
You rated Kill the Moon higher than Heaven's Scent?
What manner of drugs were you on when you wrote this script?
*heaven sent
I SAID LET ME HAVE IT
MOON DRAGON DUST
@@SamyulDavis Thank you for vindicating that incredible Coleman performance in that last scene. It's one of the best single scenes in NuWho, and why I love Clara and 12 forever.
@@ScotchBeard78 I think Coleman and Capaldi have the finest chemistry in the entire New Who, but sadly people don't even acknowledge it cause of that "ugg is it Clara Who now" mindset
"I don't trust anyone who says they like The Crimson Horror" is the biggest mood I've ever heard
24:22 my screen froze and the audio got stuck repeating in "--riment" and the glitch screen, and I stood there, for like, 30 seconds, thinking "ha...haha... clever joke there mate...." then it was one minute and I was afraid it would get longer, but I didn't want to give in to the joke and then it was five minutes and my notebook started to make noises and I "ohnOOO" and it kapoof and now i hate sleep no more
Planet of the Dead is criminally underrated fun, in my opinion
Voyage of the Damned too imo. "The Doctor ends up in a nasty situation with a bunch of strangers" is just one of my favourite settings I guess lol
I’m still mad we still didn’t get that one off as a companion. Would have loved her with series 9... instead of Clara as the only companion... again.
The Snowmen is a good story I will die on this hill
It's a GREAT story. Possibly my all-time favorite.
I like it too
Get rid of the obnoxious three, and you'll have yourself a brilliant episode. This goes for pretty much every episode they're in.
@@ABrecher WHAT
Please elaborate this brilliantly bizarre take, I genuinely want to be turned
@@SamyulDavis Victorian Clara is the best Clara
I actually like a few from 7B. Bells of Saint John has a good idea, enjoyed Rings of Akahten, Always thought Cold War was a solid episode.
Surprised how many 10/10s you gave an 8 or 9 and alright episodes you gave a 10.
And he gave a shite episode a 10.
@@QuokkaCore ikr, I get everyone's tastes are different but that was a surprising watch
@@QuokkaCore yeh something tells me this guy doesn’t do critical thinking
Surprised you liked Orphan 55 more than Spyfall Part 2.
Interesting to see how much you disliked series 12. I think it had some bangers personally but I guess that's the beauty of opinions
I guess also watching the series in one go can affect an episode's rating when you see quickly what it was building up to.
@@christopherbennett5858 I suppose so. Then again, in my opinion an arc has to be judged both on it's components and conclusion
S12 is definitely my least favourite as a whole, at least.
27:42 until now, I thought I am the only one who actually think that story is almost perfect.
Wish Waters of Mars had been Tennant's regeneration story.
Honestly? I wish we just skipped all the specials and had 10 regenerate in Journey's End. Maybe he's holding it back all throughout the episode (not like he was doing anything anyway), and it would give the finale some *actual* consequences. In what world is Rose getting the most perfect version of the Doctor a consequence??
Waters of Mars is great but is it worth putting up with the other specials? I don't think so.
Well it’s more the tragedy of 10 losing Rose for good as well as Donna
@@nightowl8477 The end of time may not be the best story but it gave us some of the best dialogue and character development in the show. Also loved the doctor revisiting everyone, he thought he was dying after all.
@@nightowl8477 first of all the rose having her ideal doctor is not a consequence its the resolution to her story since its the last time we see her. It's still definitely a consequence for the doctor however. At that moment he's seeing his ideal life of love and a fulfilling life. This is all meant to isolate him and take everything away from him until he's finally had enough in waters of Mars where he realises that life is unfair and he has the power to change that fact. The 10th doctor is one of the most tragic because he's constantly shown his dream life with John Smith, human Doctor, river who who is meant to be his wife but dies, his daughter who dies and everyone moving on. And even after saving the world without sacrificeing his morals he's not even allowed to "live". I'm sorry but there are so many consequences the 10th doctor faces and the way he handles them is peak story telling of new who. He loses so much and yet at the end he decides to do what the doctor would do even when the price is so costly "to never be cruel or cowardly".
Episodes really struggle to hold my attention from Series 7 onwards. It's like when you're reading a book and realise that even though you've been reading you haven't taken the words in because you've been thinking about something else, and have to go back 2 pages. So many episodes where I realise I haven't absorbed any of what's going on for like 5 straight minutes, except I can't be bothered to rewind. And it happens again each time I try to rewatch them. There are a few good eggs, though.
I agree that season 7 is like that but afterwards the Capaldi era has some excellent stuff
@@meris8486 But sadly I tuned out the majority by accident >.
@@jdg9825
You'll probably have fun on rewatch, I'd love to wipe my memory of Heaven Sent and experience it for the first time again
@@meris8486 I rewatched s8 and most of 9 since this and managed to p a y a t t e n t i o n and it might've cured my Clara hatred to ambivalence to maybe even sorta kinda liking her a bit, feels weird
@@pinkperfectpeach7544 yeah I'm an RTD fanboy so I love me some Rose and I'll never love any companion as much as the ones from that era cos they're all steeped in nostalgia for me. And Clara with 11 is still trash because S7 as a whole I still regard as trash :') but her and Capaldi had a really nice and surprisingly natural chemistry
Great summary video! Thank you for all of your hard work entertaining us.
This, sir, is your best video.
I think the Jodie era's scores were like when a bad kid in school does something good so they get overly rewarded
Can we all acknowledge how the poison sky and utopia are masterpieces please?
Utopia is definitely a masterpiece ;)
I feel like the Mary Shelly episode deserves a bit more credit, or at least the first half does. I was really enjoying it for the mystery and actual character interaction before the main series plot reared its ugly head, invading and ruining what I thought would've otherwise been my favourite Whittaker episode. Only other disagreements, I kinda like Arachnids in the UK and Sacha Dhawan's Master.
Agree with some, disagree with some and that's all good. Can't believe you like Danny Pink however. He is my least favourite character of all time.
Hear, hear. I never swore at the screen so much because o a character. He's almost salvageable in the Kill The Moon ending, but then Moffat somehow makes him inexplicably hostile toward The Doctor, and implied that it's because his PTSD??
@@Alia-bc3rc Yeah, I'm an ex soldier myself and found his character to be really unrealistic.
@Joshua Simpson do you know the title of that story on Big Finish? I might give it a listen.
@Joshua Simpson Thanks. I will add it to the list of stuff to watch/listen to while we are having to stay indoors.
I’m also surprised you didn’t do an average or just a ranking for each series
While I don't agree with all of your ratings, generally this is how I feel about the show. RTD comes out of the gate running with series 1, stumbles somewhat with series 2, returns to form in 3 and knocks it out of the park with 4 and the specials. Series 5 is my favourite Eleven series but for me it gets progressively worse until we reach Capaldi where each series builds on the greatness of the last. Then Chibnall takes over and I could not be bothered to continue past Rosa with series 11. Even so, I still prefer the 3 episodes I saw from series 11 over 12 because at least it was trying to be different and not rehashing old story beats from a decade ago as well as fiddling around with lore (that's not even necessarily referring to the Timeless Child because I've been disliking what seems like his utter dismissal of Moffat's era).
My sentiments lined up exactly with yours. Love this type of review. Fast, concise, and a great rundown of New Who. Please just add on to it with Series 13 - Infinity lol.
Also. You should do classic Who 😁
I may not always agree with your opinions but I respect the work you put into justifying them. Nice video!
"Ending leaves me in tears"
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Funny guy
People really are surprised that out of 120+ reviews, Sam has different opinions to you.
That’s how opinions work
I love that someone said that dinosaurs on a spaceship isnt all bad...
S8 and 9 are criminally underrated.
Very interesting! Some I agree with, some I don't... nice too see someone who appreciates the short-lived Boom Town TARDIS team tho!
Time Crash gets in, but no Born Again? A great post regeneration mini-sode
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO LOVES TWICE UPON A TIME YES YES YES
Appreciate the love for Kill the Moon, there are literally dozens of us!
Christmas Carol and Small Town named Mercy also amazing stories that are often slept on.
Think you're too harsh on S12, but can understand where you're coming from.
good luck with every classic story
13:06 okay so I just noticed thats the library from Silence in the LIbrary, and River Song is in that episode... god I love how cheap this show is sometimes.
After hearing the harsh snarky nitpicking I've heard another reviewer treat season 11 and 12, seeing you give some of the Whitaker stuff an 8 or a 9 (even if you find the other 2/3 is still underwhelming) is a breath of fresh air. I really am open-minded with the Timeless Child twist (it gives us some more mystery about the Doctor's past) though I can see why not everyone likes it.
From what I've gathered, I think one of the main issues with Chibnall is that his stories seem better suited for a much longer episode (say, 90 minutes) than the 50 minutes he's given. That would explain why a lot of his episodes have rushed endings and little time for character work. Either he's not adjusting to the episodic limits, or he really needs more time. Granted, even his two-parters have issues, but its an observation.
If Chibnalls era had been standalone then I might agree with you but compared to other series it's just dreadful. I mean compare Human Nature to what you consider to be Whittaker's best and it's laughable.
Off topic but, following your recommendation, I listened to Spare Parts. Thank you! I'm a Cyberman fan who never listened to Big Finish before. Glad I did now. Silver Turk and Cyberman -The Complete Series, are now on their way.
150+ reviews!? Doctor Who reviewers everywhere eat your hearts out.
You included Attack of the Grask, but not Born Again?!
I cut out a bunch of the extra episode and prologue stories out of the final edit as they weren't particularly funny or interesting. Graske is too close to my heart x
@@SamyulDavis Oh oka- Bluh! 'The Final Edit?' So they're still out there somewhere!
The Missing DAVIS Episodes!
Sir, that was a work of Art.
Ambitious episode! Loved it!
Is it just me, or did it feel like Timeless Children feel more like a setup for something bigger, with the Division and the Matrix redactions?
Ngl I disagree with a lot of this list but it's interesting to hear your reasoning. Sacha's master is amazing to me and I'm not to phased about the weird/lore changing ending of series 12. I find it difficult to complain about the show stagnating and then also complain when they try to give it a new twist and direction
I like new twist, but sorry have to disagree because making your main character in the story the most special person in the world is not a twist, it is the easiest trope for people to write
@@onvasean2485 yeah 3 years does wonders for changing opinion. The timeless child being the doctor sucks. If thr master was the timeless child it might have been better. But 🤷♂️ nothing to be done about it now but try and flesh it out and make the most of the storyline
The next doctor is my favourite Christmas special.
I had to drop my phone immediately, my hands ached for weeks from these hot takes
I disagreed so many times with these scores. Praxeus higher than Fugitive of the Judoon and The Haunting of Villa Diodati? Really? Blink only a seven and not a ten? And I certainly wouldn't give Twice Upon A Time anything higher than a 7.
I know I'm late to the party but so many of these (especially Moffet ones) I wanted to rate a lot higher, but mainly because I really like the setup and questions. I understand that most of these ratings are analyzing how these episodes stand on their own though.
Also I too would write an entire series set entirely inside the Tardis.
Unpopular Opinion: There was never a bad season/series in Doctor Who
This video is really fun and interesting, even if I don't agree with a fair amount of it. I would really like to see something similar for classic who, maybe "Every Classic Doctor Who Serial rated in 20 seconds"
Coming soon! Working on the 60s stories now
I'd actually give TWWFTE an 8. Not the strongest 8 but an 8 nonetheless. To me it's genuinely the most fresh DW has been since The 11th Hour! It has a cool villain with an even better atmosphere (man Tim Shaw's theme makes my ears get an...orgasm), 13 feels like the incarnation we were supposed to get after 12, and if you ask me it's one of the best Whittaker stories. Also companions are fun and so full of potential here that in general I think that this episode came out from a different writer all together
Tom Baker's Doctor fell off a telescope to his death. Whittaker fell thousands of feet onto a train and lived. After that I knew what a hack Chibnall is. It's overall a terrible episode.
Also Beast Below is just a mess mate. The plot makes no sense and the story forgets the goverment are the same people who was willing to murder children for minor school grievances and created the murder robots the gang runs away from, yet which are kinda treated as if they were not a thing the local goverment controls.
Also, why was the UK the only country not to have a spaceship ? Never explained.
Why did they need to keep wiping "Liz X's" memory and how does she not realise nobody she knows is even alive anymore.
The story says that 1 % of the population can also decide to murder the other 99 % if just one percent agrees to Protest....why ?
Also let's point out that hitting "Protest" drops people into the stomach of a whale. And even if the whale "doesn't eat children", considering the booth is only to be used by adults _and_ we never hear anything about adults....yeah, the whale might have eaten thousands of people.
It's a confused hodgepodge with two obvious versions of the script that were smooshed together and no one made sure that stuff from Part 1 makes sense in Part 2.
This is interesting and has some truth to it, but it really hits the emotional beats. I feel my way through some stories more than others rather than just watching/reading them.
@@SamyulDavis The emotional scene was emotional, but the entire setup, lore and explanation is utterly scatterbrained.
@@WeirdWonderful All of the emotion! Even from its first moments I totally get 11 and Amy and feel her first adventure, but then I will always be more focused on character and message than plot.
i wonder if there's a universe where davis reviews the big finish main range like this, that'd probably be like a 2 hour video though
I adore how much you understand how good Capaldis era was
Yes! Someone else likes time of the doctor! I found it truly amazing
The last youtuber I watched who rated all episodes of new who. Put series 7B really highly
Peter Capaldi will always be my favourite doctor
GAIMAN FOR SHOWRUNNER IS THE BEST THING IVE NEVER THOUGHT OF.
Dare I even ask for Classic series or 1-50 big finish main range releases
we will SEE haha, this one was a nightmare and i'm not even sure the finished result is clean enough to make it work
@@SamyulDavis I would say the first 50 big finish wouldn't take too long bitnthey do take 2 hours each and you almost definitely haven't heard them near enough to either remember them or form a well made opinion unlike the 15 years of rewatches youve had for this bunch . The setup for that lot is whatll take it out of you but its our Lord and saviours so you won't get bored
@Xtra Spice Mikey r00d
Kill the moon 10
Heaven sent 9
Me 🤬🤬
I would love to see another vid like this but with the comics or old who or the big finish stuff
Great video and can agree with / understand most of your opinions. Really enjoying this channel :)
Kill the moon with a 10 though..... ooft
Wow... a RUclipsr who actually doesn't despise the chibnall era with every fibre of their being (I get that you don't like it but as somebody who actually loves the era as much as any other (well maybe not AS much) it's nice to see :-D)
Thank you!! I love kill the moon :,) thought I was the only one
(But it’s not better than heaven sent)
There's more than two of us! I've always really liked Kill The Moon, too.
A Town Called Mercy appreciation time, yeeees! It's the most underrated episode of the show as it's an overlooked masterpiece, great story, great 11 moments, absolutely great location and a great villain, we need more of this.
I can't believe it took me until 'Love and Monsters' to realise what the number at the bottom of the screen meant 😣
This was an enjoyable watch. I don’t agree with every review, but who would? I’m sure you weren’t expecting anyone to. This was a nice look back at all of new who. Notably, I do agree with your opinion on the series 12 finale and timeless children. At the end of the day the timeless child being the doctor is just an idea (I mean it is a fairly terrible one that almost certainly won’t work, but still just an idea). Whether they make it interesting or not or do anything with it that engages me/the audience we just don’t know yet. They don’t have to touch it at all; it’s something they CAN work with down the line. The problem with the finale is that the entire episode focused on telling the Doctor they are the timeless child. A series finale where half the cast is pretty worthless, that’s 2/3 exposition (and the Doctor being talked to at that), and with the Doctor doing pretty much nothing/doing what she’s told/letting someone else destroy her planet for her (and a character we JUST met at that) is just bad; objectively bad. The finale just showcases the root problem with Chibnall; he doesn’t know Doctor Who or the Doctor’s character and doesn’t bother to try. He just shoves cool sounding things into an episode and hopes we don’t see past the shiny new cyberman design.
Especially when this was the THIRD finale in 6 years which was the Master commanding the Cybermen.
Chibnall is a weird one. He wrote a lot for Torchwood but could crumble.
He did some good work in the Moffat Era but that's just it.
Chibnall isn't a guy you put as a head writer for a sci-fi/fantasy series. He's a guy that needs direction, not one who sets it.
When I was watching the Tesla episode, I loved the story but made a headcanon that the writer could only get it made by the BBC if it was a Doctor Who story and was forced to use the cast.
11:38 *cough* and where Amy jumps the Doctor's bones *cough cough*
Classic Who next? 😅
Finally! Someone who enjoys Time of the Doctor!
End of Series 12 twist is a way that Big Finish can now make literally everyone the Doctor, great but also awful.
Shortlad333
No no bad, very bad. They can now just add "look a Doctor we don't know about" whenever they want and I feel it won't make the Doctor feel as special in the way if in big finish it's just a random person we've never heard of before
@@aceywacey9871 they already did that but said it was a "doctor" from an alternate timeline
surely the title should be 'rated', not 'ranked'? the numbers had me confused at the start. saying they're being ranked suggests that you're gonna list them from worst to best or something. awesome video though :)
Great video. What I love is how positive it is (and I agree with lots of your more out there 10s) but that I also enjoy some of the ones you dislike, The Snowmen, for example. It comes across a real love letter to the show, even when you rate episodes poorly, and the positivity which is missing from a lot of Who content shines through. We absolutely should like different things to different degrees and its neccessary to see the flaws fairly from our points of view We do love this show after all don't we? A lot of the community seem to forget this, you don't. Bravo.
I will rewatch Snowmen right now!
@@SamyulDavis Hahaha. Got that strange feeling of self doubt as when I introduced my girlfriend to The Five Doctors (her first classic Who). 'It's really good, I promise!' 😂 It's weird being a Who fan. Oh well, it worked out in the end with her. I won't be offended if you still hate it haha.
very cool and a fun video. i agree with 80% of the ratings but i appreciated the 10 second synopsis of what you thought of each episode more. great video! I just sometimes couldn't see if the rating was a 0 or an 8... They looked very similar, maybe use a slightly different font next time? it wasn't impossible to decipher but just unnecessarily harder to read. P.S. I wish 13 had character, its been 2 whole seasons and she still has me feeling up in the air. maybe if she was a bit more introverted like in the end of 'Can you hear me'. as it was definitely different to the other doctors. Anyway, peace!