Thank you 😍 I know I’m not always so positive, so I’m so excited to actually be this hyped. Couldn’t stop myself speeding through the review straight away!
@@Scumner This was an incredible video, I think your excitement plus the music made it so exhilarating to watch! Keep up the great stuff as I know you will man
@@Scumner And the writers themselves. The writers are so obsessed with race its disgusting. I hope no one is gullible enough to think this is valid modern commentary or good writing.
This is a crazy idea but what if the planet we’re on is actually Skaro and the Citizens of FineTime are the original ancestors of either the Thals, the Kaled’s, or both?
Most of the previous episodes so far were basically fairytales with no real sci-fi science behind them. If we find ourselves in a hotel labyrinth with a Minotaur on the loose, it would be revealed that they were on board a spaceship with an alien Minotaur. if they were ghost bar of Charles Dickens on Christmas Eve, it would be revealed to be aliens from another world. But lately there have been no scientific explanations on most of the monsters or villains in the shows here though it’s straight up sci-fi that’s what I love
Absolutely loved this and didn’t really notice any of the micro aggressions which I’m annoyed at myself for but it’s my own fault for being seconds away from sleeping while watching it. And I was so salty Ricky died cause he seemed like a nice guy. It kinda reminded me of the whole ‘I can fix them’ thing
I think pepper-bean will be a returning character. I’m curious to see how they’ll bring her back, maybe the planet there on ends up being important later
While I picked up on all the obvious racist stuff, rewatching it again now while this uploads, it’s insane how many small micro-aggressions you can miss. Because we assume she’s a good bean, like every other Doctor-lite episode lead, it was easy to assume I’d misunderstood what she said or gave her the benefit of the doubt. The Doctor’s pop-up did look a bit spammy, compared to Ruby’s more careful approach. The disgust that they were in the same room at the time made a sort of sense, seeing as all their community is addicted to Skyping each other. But with the ending, going back it makes all those nasty lines form an insanely well-done picture, and there are so many other micro-aggressions I missed. Amazingly well done.
I have resolved after 73 yards to only watch the rest of this season through the eyes of reviewers, however your comment here makes me think of what people of color can go through. When something happens you ask, was that racism or was that something benign? Though that wasn't the highlight, I supposed RTD did that successfully if only on second viewing you go, YUP YUP, thats was racist. On the one hand we cant see racism everywhere but on the other, we cant pretend that it stopped existing.
@@doro626 exactly. You can assume all sorts of things. So many comments she makes are blatantly dodgy, I just assumed she didn’t know better, or that it was just a wonky bit of script, but oh no, actually intentional!
I know a lot of analogies can be made from this episode... destructive influencers, mindless followers, obvious racism, etc... and they are all valid analogies. The one I see jump out is the intense hate without reason. When the Doctor tries to warn the girl she won't listen to him until Ruby (someone who resembles her) convinces her to listen to him. At the end she would rather hold onto her hate and prejudices than follow the man who saved her. The way she turned on Ricky in order to save herself seems to be an oft played out theme within hate groups as well. I really loved the subversion of the Ricky character showing that not everyone has the same brainwashed mindset even when they're lumped together. I truly loved this episode and as heartbreaking as it was, there was a lot to absorb from this. Thank you for the review! You gained a new subscriber.
I agree. My favorite episode and I was not expecting it. At the end I sat there stunned. Powerful. And for the first time the Doctor acts like The Doctor.
@@DeusLucifer The Doctor has been angry all through his career. Even if you only look at New Who he's been angry so many times, and he cries a fair amount in the more dramatic episodes. What have you been watching?
@@Scumner He doesn't cry over this kind of stuff, he's used to flashing his universal badge to blend in and not caring at all about a society's personal hang ups, he will trick dumb people into getting saved cause he's seen all of time, he knows generational racism can wane over time just like in real life. He's not a doomer Gen Z. He's supposed to be the Doctor. And this was one of his MANY most un-Doctor like moments. Don't get me wrong, the acting itself was pretty good in that scene, but the writing for him and the script was horrendous.
@@9751matt He's never had to go through these situations before, The Doctor has cried plenty of times throughout the modern era, and he's a new regeneration, they're all different, that's the point.
I really enjoyed this episode and it’s mostly due to the ending. What’s so clever about this episode is that it doesn’t explicitly scream “They’re all Racist”. It’s brilliantly subtle and the ending could have different meanings depending on who’s watching the episode. For example I thought the reason why the citizens of FineTime didn’t want to travel with The Doctor was because of him being perceived as poor from the Uber Rich citizens of FineTime. This is because I found the ultimate demise of the FineTime citizens to be Prejudice of anyone that was not within their BUBBLE. Originally it’s their external AI Bubble’s that are trying to Kill them, and in the end it’s their internal Prejudicial Bubble that ultimately Dooms them. It’s completely Tragic and the Acting from Ncuti was absolutely phenomenal in this scene. To Go from Hope and optimism, to disbelief, to still trying to honestly save these awful citizens of FineTime, to laughing at the absurdity of Prejudice, to anger and sadness was just perfection from Ncuti. Honestly the 15th Doctor is becoming one of my favorites of all time up there with Tom Baker and David Tenet. Just what an ending to this episode.
This is RTD showing us all that Doctor Who is so back! That was really good. It looked in the trailer it might be a weak one but NO! Lindy was such a jerk towards Ricky and The Doctor. I ended up really liking the story and it's one of RTD's best stories ever!
Here are my thoughts on the symbolism in this episode. Here are three possible ways to understand the episode. I think the symbolism they were going for is the rich young people had locked themselves away from perceived danger, but the real danger was themselves. They were completely self-centred and self-obsessed. I think the commentary was about the rich elites who live in secure bubbles, secure from their perceived dangers, but unaware of the real dangers they face. It could also be a commentary on how pretty young attractive women prey on young men via OF, but they themselves are preyed upon by rich older men. For example, Andrew Tate. I think it was symbolic of a rich gated community. They think they are safe from their perceived dangers, but the real dangers is the systems they set up to protect themselves. Look at how predatory Home Owner's Associations can be with their rules and fines.
I think a lot of it is about racism though (pretty much the biggest theme there throughout), and how we accept micro aggressions every day without confronting them before they grow into major actions
@@Scumner I've watched it again and the racism is more obvious to me. I suppose I saw it more as rich snobbery rather than racism. Probably because I have more experienced with snobbery than racism.
"I think they should have seeded in the racism more" is probably the worst line of this otherwise great review. lindy blocked the doctor from the start and only realized later that it was the same guy she blocke and in the same conversation to her friends she talks about how "he isnt as stupid as he looks" and talking about disciplining him on a rewatch is very clearly a targeted RACIST attack on the doctor. it was absolutly seeded in throughout the episode especially from seeing the opinions of black/poc viewers on twitter i saw who were instantly uncomfortable with that language. I'm white as hell and only the line about the doctor looking the same set me off thinking "no way in hell russell wrote this about a black actor" and seeing the ending put it all together. it just seems lazy to me
In another episode a lot of those actions could have been (and clearly were this time) construed to be for other reasons, it’s to the strength of the episode that you can re-contextualise everything so hard, not just the blatant lines but every inch of the episode.
The episode was very confused. The racism could have been interesting to tackle had it not been tacked on. It didn't feel genuine and you don't get the message other than RTD doesn't like rich people.
at this rate in my opinion this is getting worse then jodi doctor who seasons, at least jodi had mystery alot of alien interaction actual horror to an extent, actual character development. but this new who doesnt have any of that its just a slide show of political and social views?? this is doctor who not a documentary of races, government, abortion? wtf is this? i didnt come for this by all mean have this in another tv show but dont just change the trend the doctor who had aliens and monster great mystery HORROR. just very disappointed just hoping this is just temporary as if they repeat this then no hope
Doctor Who is always political, it’s no where near a political as the Capaldi era. There was good horror last week, this week’s episode was also very tense, there are all sorts of ways to build tension. If politics are your problem maybe Doctor Who isn’t for you 🤷🏻♀️ It’s always been political
@Scumner doctor who was for me and yes I did enjoy jodi season to an extent excluding the timeless child. And I didn't deny there wasn't political stuff in doctor who but this season is just the worse and being back to back accopinated by bad writing in most episode doesn't add up. And I kindly say I'm not sure you been watching the same doctor who until now as this isn't doctor who
@@DeusLucifer I've watched most of Classic Who, all of New Who many many times, it's always been highly political. I think this episode has had some really bad writing too, but it's not the politics that's the issue. It's had weaker Sci-Fi, but the last few episodes have been a lot better. Here's to continuous improvement!
@@DeusLuciferone of the things in this episode is that people seem to see only what they want to see. Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars all are political. Many choose not to see it.
@@DeusLucifer No, I think the show started rough but got a lot better. I hated Devil's Chord and thought Boom was fine, but after that each episode has only gotten better. I'm never expecting good episodes, but I feel like they're likely to be decent at least now. Ncuti is amazing even in the bad episodes, which helps.
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Wow that was fast! Good job with the video!
Edit: Great music choice and I 100% agree, brilliant episode
Thank you 😍 I know I’m not always so positive, so I’m so excited to actually be this hyped. Couldn’t stop myself speeding through the review straight away!
@@Scumner This was an incredible video, I think your excitement plus the music made it so exhilarating to watch! Keep up the great stuff as I know you will man
Thanks man, I thought about waiting until morning and making it a bit cleaner, but I needed to get my raw feelings out now about my man Ricky 😂
@@Scumner Ricky was a HERO
R.I.P DOCTOR WHO 1963 - 2017
I was hoping a giant version of the slug would just erupt out the water and swallow the boat just after the TARDIS leaves
saaame
@@Scumner And the writers themselves. The writers are so obsessed with race its disgusting. I hope no one is gullible enough to think this is valid modern commentary or good writing.
Pour one out for Ricky September, the only one that was worth saving.
My GUY
He’d be a low-key good companion
I was rooting for the monsters.
Me too 😭
At the end the doctor was thinking the master was right lol!!!
so true bestie
This is a crazy idea but what if the planet we’re on is actually Skaro and the Citizens of FineTime are the original ancestors of either the Thals, the Kaled’s, or both?
Coolest idea yet!
Most of the previous episodes so far were basically fairytales with no real sci-fi science behind them. If we find ourselves in a hotel labyrinth with a Minotaur on the loose, it would be revealed that they were on board a spaceship with an alien Minotaur. if they were ghost bar of Charles Dickens on Christmas Eve, it would be revealed to be aliens from another world. But lately there have been no scientific explanations on most of the monsters or villains in the shows here though it’s straight up sci-fi that’s what I love
Agree! Sometimes we just need a monster!
Absolutely loved this and didn’t really notice any of the micro aggressions which I’m annoyed at myself for but it’s my own fault for being seconds away from sleeping while watching it. And I was so salty Ricky died cause he seemed like a nice guy. It kinda reminded me of the whole ‘I can fix them’ thing
Ricky was the only Woke bloke on the block, so he got clocked 😭
I think pepper-bean will be a returning character. I’m curious to see how they’ll bring her back, maybe the planet there on ends up being important later
I don’t see her coming back. Better to wonder what became of her
While I picked up on all the obvious racist stuff, rewatching it again now while this uploads, it’s insane how many small micro-aggressions you can miss.
Because we assume she’s a good bean, like every other Doctor-lite episode lead, it was easy to assume I’d misunderstood what she said or gave her the benefit of the doubt.
The Doctor’s pop-up did look a bit spammy, compared to Ruby’s more careful approach. The disgust that they were in the same room at the time made a sort of sense, seeing as all their community is addicted to Skyping each other.
But with the ending, going back it makes all those nasty lines form an insanely well-done picture, and there are so many other micro-aggressions I missed. Amazingly well done.
I have resolved after 73 yards to only watch the rest of this season through the eyes of reviewers, however your comment here makes me think of what people of color can go through. When something happens you ask, was that racism or was that something benign? Though that wasn't the highlight, I supposed RTD did that successfully if only on second viewing you go, YUP YUP, thats was racist. On the one hand we cant see racism everywhere but on the other, we cant pretend that it stopped existing.
@@doro626 exactly. You can assume all sorts of things. So many comments she makes are blatantly dodgy, I just assumed she didn’t know better, or that it was just a wonky bit of script, but oh no, actually intentional!
I know a lot of analogies can be made from this episode... destructive influencers, mindless followers, obvious racism, etc... and they are all valid analogies.
The one I see jump out is the intense hate without reason. When the Doctor tries to warn the girl she won't listen to him until Ruby (someone who resembles her) convinces her to listen to him. At the end she would rather hold onto her hate and prejudices than follow the man who saved her. The way she turned on Ricky in order to save herself seems to be an oft played out theme within hate groups as well.
I really loved the subversion of the Ricky character showing that not everyone has the same brainwashed mindset even when they're lumped together.
I truly loved this episode and as heartbreaking as it was, there was a lot to absorb from this.
Thank you for the review! You gained a new subscriber.
Thank you 🥰
I agree. My favorite episode and I was not expecting it. At the end I sat there stunned. Powerful. And for the first time the Doctor acts like The Doctor.
Had no right to be this good
i dont call getting angry and crying is acting like the doctor but you do you
@@DeusLucifer The Doctor has been angry all through his career. Even if you only look at New Who he's been angry so many times, and he cries a fair amount in the more dramatic episodes. What have you been watching?
@@Scumner He doesn't cry over this kind of stuff, he's used to flashing his universal badge to blend in and not caring at all about a society's personal hang ups, he will trick dumb people into getting saved cause he's seen all of time, he knows generational racism can wane over time just like in real life.
He's not a doomer Gen Z. He's supposed to be the Doctor. And this was one of his MANY most un-Doctor like moments. Don't get me wrong, the acting itself was pretty good in that scene, but the writing for him and the script was horrendous.
@@9751matt He's never had to go through these situations before, The Doctor has cried plenty of times throughout the modern era, and he's a new regeneration, they're all different, that's the point.
I really enjoyed this episode and it’s mostly due to the ending. What’s so clever about this episode is that it doesn’t explicitly scream “They’re all Racist”. It’s brilliantly subtle and the ending could have different meanings depending on who’s watching the episode. For example I thought the reason why the citizens of FineTime didn’t want to travel with The Doctor was because of him being perceived as poor from the Uber Rich citizens of FineTime. This is because I found the ultimate demise of the FineTime citizens to be Prejudice of anyone that was not within their BUBBLE. Originally it’s their external AI Bubble’s that are trying to Kill them, and in the end it’s their internal Prejudicial Bubble that ultimately Dooms them. It’s completely Tragic and the Acting from Ncuti was absolutely phenomenal in this scene. To
Go from Hope and optimism, to disbelief, to still trying to honestly save these awful citizens of FineTime, to laughing at the absurdity of Prejudice, to anger and sadness was just perfection from Ncuti. Honestly the 15th Doctor is becoming one of my favorites of all time up there with Tom Baker and David Tenet. Just what an ending to this episode.
Even more excited for the finale!
This is RTD showing us all that Doctor Who is so back! That was really good. It looked in the trailer it might be a weak one but NO! Lindy was such a jerk towards Ricky and The Doctor. I ended up really liking the story and it's one of RTD's best stories ever!
AT last! Now I'm just hype for the back-half of this series
sick background music. his world slaps
Agree
Here are my thoughts on the symbolism in this episode. Here are three possible ways to understand the episode.
I think the symbolism they were going for is the rich young people had locked themselves away from perceived danger, but the real danger was themselves. They were completely self-centred and self-obsessed.
I think the commentary was about the rich elites who live in secure bubbles, secure from their perceived dangers, but unaware of the real dangers they face. It could also be a commentary on how pretty young attractive women prey on young men via OF, but they themselves are preyed upon by rich older men. For example, Andrew Tate.
I think it was symbolic of a rich gated community. They think they are safe from their perceived dangers, but the real dangers is the systems they set up to protect themselves. Look at how predatory Home Owner's Associations can be with their rules and fines.
I think a lot of it is about racism though (pretty much the biggest theme there throughout), and how we accept micro aggressions every day without confronting them before they grow into major actions
@@Scumner those are valid interpretations too. I was just sharing my own thoughts and impressions.
@@johnburn8031 yeah, your points are all valid too, I just thought it was funny you missed out the main one 😂
@@Scumner I've watched it again and the racism is more obvious to me. I suppose I saw it more as rich snobbery rather than racism. Probably because I have more experienced with snobbery than racism.
@@johnburn8031 Yeah, it's a good lesson for us to look out for micro-aggressions more!
"I think they should have seeded in the racism more" is probably the worst line of this otherwise great review. lindy blocked the doctor from the start and only realized later that it was the same guy she blocke and in the same conversation to her friends she talks about how "he isnt as stupid as he looks" and talking about disciplining him on a rewatch is very clearly a targeted RACIST attack on the doctor. it was absolutly seeded in throughout the episode especially from seeing the opinions of black/poc viewers on twitter i saw who were instantly uncomfortable with that language. I'm white as hell and only the line about the doctor looking the same set me off thinking "no way in hell russell wrote this about a black actor" and seeing the ending put it all together. it just seems lazy to me
Already addressed this in the pinned comment. Review was made 2 minutes after the episode, already realised more as it uploaded. 🥰
In another episode a lot of those actions could have been (and clearly were this time) construed to be for other reasons, it’s to the strength of the episode that you can re-contextualise everything so hard, not just the blatant lines but every inch of the episode.
At no point did I say or think it came out of no where, on the first viewing I just felt like they could have done even more.
I like commentary on black leaders
Why didn’t they listen 😭
is it sarcazm? cause it feels like it
I did say it wasn't!
@@Scumner okay I still wasn't sure ☺️
Didn't enjoy the episode?
@@Scumner didn't watch it yet but promo materials looks so weird
@@Scumner Ricky September.... One of bright places besides Ruby and doctor..
And nobody even knows his destiny (
The episode was very confused. The racism could have been interesting to tackle had it not been tacked on. It didn't feel genuine and you don't get the message other than RTD doesn't like rich people.
It was throughout the whole episode, rewatches helped me there 🥰
@@Scumner I think a good script should get its themes across first time but that's just me.
It did, they just distracted us with another theme, it's very well done.
@@Scumner Meh, it was confused. Could have been a good episode.
@@pferreira1983 guess we will have to agree to disagree 😁
R.I.P Doctor Who 1963 - 2017
It actually kept going! Wasn’t always the best show, but it’s had good moments since 2017 🥰
Amazing how RTD has aimed this at the same people watching. Hilarious. Listen to your voice mate. Cudos to RTD. For me it was just sickening.
My voice enjoying it? Also why sickening? I did say I’d understand if people didn’t like how campy it was 🤷🏻♀️
@@Scumnerignore the hate mate, good review and props to you for getting it edited and out so quickly after the episode aired
I was too excited to wait 😂 After all the clips I almost didn’t bother watching tonight haha
at this rate in my opinion this is getting worse then jodi doctor who seasons, at least jodi had mystery alot of alien interaction actual horror to an extent, actual character development.
but this new who doesnt have any of that its just a slide show of political and social views?? this is doctor who not a documentary of races, government, abortion? wtf is this? i didnt come for this by all mean have this in another tv show but dont just change the trend the doctor who had aliens and monster great mystery HORROR. just very disappointed just hoping this is just temporary as if they repeat this then no hope
Doctor Who is always political, it’s no where near a political as the Capaldi era. There was good horror last week, this week’s episode was also very tense, there are all sorts of ways to build tension. If politics are your problem maybe Doctor Who isn’t for you 🤷🏻♀️ It’s always been political
@Scumner doctor who was for me and yes I did enjoy jodi season to an extent excluding the timeless child.
And I didn't deny there wasn't political stuff in doctor who but this season is just the worse and being back to back accopinated by bad writing in most episode doesn't add up.
And I kindly say I'm not sure you been watching the same doctor who until now as this isn't doctor who
@@DeusLucifer I've watched most of Classic Who, all of New Who many many times, it's always been highly political. I think this episode has had some really bad writing too, but it's not the politics that's the issue. It's had weaker Sci-Fi, but the last few episodes have been a lot better. Here's to continuous improvement!
@Scumner I'm hoping alright 🤞
@@DeusLuciferone of the things in this episode is that people seem to see only what they want to see. Doctor Who, Star Trek, Star Wars all are political. Many choose not to see it.
Each episode this season seems to be worse than the one before
Total rubbish
I think the opposite 🥰
sadly i agree i gave this season a shot but no hope to turn back as its already half way done
@@DeusLucifer Ok 🤷♀
@Scumner not to judge but are you confused to what I said?
@@DeusLucifer No, I think the show started rough but got a lot better. I hated Devil's Chord and thought Boom was fine, but after that each episode has only gotten better. I'm never expecting good episodes, but I feel like they're likely to be decent at least now. Ncuti is amazing even in the bad episodes, which helps.
Nooo it was 💩
Okay 🤷🏻♀️