Doctor Who Christmas Special Review - Joy To The World is the BBC and Disney+ team up to destroy Christmas. Now I never expected The Doctor to destroy Bethlehem by giving a star an origin story, but here we are. Although the 8 critics who reviewed it enjoyed the episode, is it any surprise when it's undermining the religious Christian holiday of Christmas? This episode is full of the message, seemingly put in at random. But even without that, this is NOT a good episode. Which while expected in 2024 Doctor Who, you would have thought Russel T Davies and Steven Moffat could have put more effort into a Christmas Story. But what do you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Just FYI, I have never met anyone, religious or otherwise, who could credibly explain to me why a being who could speak the universe into existence would need or want to wait billions of years for the universe to organize itself. Anyone who claims that the Big Bang is an analogy for God, or a tool used by God, isn't actually religious, they're just people who haven't thought through their own terrible premise. Rather like the people who make current day Doctor Who.
Youre wrong, the dodo wasn't just not tasty enough not to bred, it was so disgusting my country men hunted it to extinction, one of the rare good things the Dutch have done.
Yeah, it took them DECADES of this series (literally decades!!), until they tweaked and updated it enough to finally get me to watch it and truly enjoy it. And then... just ONE episode to kill it again. Of course, I TRIED to suspend higher disbelief, but their purposeful and deliberate destruction of this series really solidified my indifference once again. IF one truly wants to watch again, there's about five, good VFX filled seasons and story line that will always "work." But this chum?! Not good for bottom-feeders, really... They can keep it.
My grandmother always told me, “I don’t care what they tell you in school, the wise men only found Christ because a soul eating star born of a plump British woman led the way.”
Irish. The fat blonde is Irish. So either Joy is also Irish (in which case why didn't she just take her Mother back to their home nation and avoid the BRITISH rules about protecting the NHS) or the BBC casting department is denying fat blonde British women the roles in DW they rightly deserve.
26:30 he was using the Sonic Screwdriver to control a WOODEN mop. The one thing that the Sonic Screwdriver can't effect is wood. They really just don't care about their own lore at all do they.
He's even called people dumb who thought the sonic could work on wood . (In one case it did but took hundred of years and multiple doctors) But it was unlocked anyway
I love how Davies turned a sonic screwdriver, a device that can only do things sound can do, into a magic wand. And then they invented the deadlock seal, then the thing with wood. RTD doesn’t know how to write this series. He can make great episodes, but they’re few and far between
@@tgiacin435 As much as I like to rag on RTD, in his defense, the series has flip-flopped on what the sonic screw-driver can and cannot do. Its first introduction to the series had it function like a regular screw driver using sound vibrations to screw and unscrew a common screw on a gun holster. When it was re-introduced, it only worked on electronic devices, and since then it has become more and more of a magical bullshit device (or deus ex machina if you want to use the correct term) until it was destroyed during the Peter Davidson years because the writers saw how much of a crutch it had become. RTD's take on the sonic wand was... dumb and lazy.... to put it diplomatically, and his use of the device just shows that his is not a good writer, nor ever was. Yet the seeds of abuse were in the classic series. Jon Pertwee using the sonic screwdriver to ignite marsh gas, for example.
@@thepikachu176so the way I’ve thought of that is the fact that there are multiple types of wood on the planet and even if they figured out that bit of wood door it’s molecular structure is completely different from other woods.
Lizardmen have rights you know. How dare you not know how to properly address this strange alien unexpectedly standing in the middle of your room. She deserved to be yelled at for that. I mean they did hit it off with that comment about the doctor being scolded for accidentally misgendering an overgrown gremlin like alien being. Stopping the conversation to confirm its pronouns first is obviously a much bigger deal than finding out why it was shot out of the sky, and if it is currently in danger from being hunted down right now, so I'm not surprised really.
Remember a few regeneration ago when the Doctor was trying to convince people they should be call Homo Reptilia? Ignoring the fact that makes zero sense under the formal naming conventions, Homo in context effectively means Man and Reptilia is what lizards are. The Doctor HIMSELF has effectively called the violent genocidal cultural failures lizardmen before in a period where Moffat was showrunner. Sigh. Fk this show.
The arrogance of anyone to claim that they know who will be, “on the right side of history”, is absolutely maddening to me. & I used to like David tennant..
You’re watching history be created in real time, they’re creating a narrative that will exist past the tipping point of society collapse or demographic change.
The irony of Dr Who preaching about 'mansplaining' when that's exactly what Tennant's return episodes did with "Rose" explaining to the audience about being a woman.
Yeah isn't that how you learned about the monsters and everything? You would learn about them through the Doctor, as he's the one who's been all over time and space. He would be the ONE person who WOULD know everything. All while the sidekick being there as a literal stand-in for the audience so he had a reason to dump exposition and lore. Rick and Morty does the exact same thing with that duo but that modern audience lapped that up no problem. Interesting.
5:00 Moffat really thinks no one else but him has noticed the extra door in a hotel room. This really is the perfect example of how these “creatives” live in a bubble and have zero self-awareness.
Seriously... No one watched this. Because no one talked about it and honestly... No one even cared to tell anyone they were not GOING to watch it. Everyone forgot it was happening. That is now... Beyond Apathy.
My Nan watched this, and had no idea what was even happening. She's watched Dr. Who since the original one and obviously isn't up-to-date with the modern audience versions. But it was a Christmas special so she had it on. I was there when she was watching it and I couldn't believe how bad it was, I heard the word "mansplaining" and at that point I had to block out the noise. That's the REAL audience who end up watching these shows: confused elderly folk who put it on while they wait for Coronation Street to air.
It's the fact that viewing figures dropped drastically when Dr Who came on and returned when Wallace and Gromit started says it all. A lot of people deliberately changed the channel for the duration of the show. It's being actively rejected. I hear the drumming? Can you hear it? "Dun,dun,dun,dun! Dun,dun,dun,dun!" The inevitable drums of 1989 nipping at the heels of this sinking ship.
I'm not religious, but even I was like, "nope! This is NOT ok!" . They would never try this sh*t with any other religion.
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Of course not, they are too chicken shit to go after Islam the same way.
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In that aspect our expectations will not be subverted. They have this respect for the sensitive elements within other cultures... The game of identity politics is one of exclusion, racism and inequality.
You're right in the sense that they probably wouldn't try it with any other religion. And that's the part that's not okay.... All religions should be mocked equally.
I have watched a total of 3 movies (0 shows) since 2019 and none I’ve paid for, apathy finally kicked in after 30 years of I’m a bad person destroying the world with climate, bla bla bla.. But I love watching these reviews, that is pure entertainment I”d pay for Despot of Antrim Mauler Baby face The drinker Gary Cynic Etc.. thank god for youtubers
It's so weird seeing how hateful David Tennant is. Never really got that vibe from him. Especially when he spent so much of his Good Omens run trying to claim the opposite.
Yeah it's certainly ruined everything hes in now for me. Im so tired of actors giving their opinions and preaching to the masses. Like no one is telling you not to have an opinion but just do your job
The funny thing about them spending a fortune on building a hotel room... is the ACTUAL hotel in Cardiff looks identical to the set. The exterior and reception were filmed there, so why not shoot in one of the rooms? Only downside now, of course is their previously reasonable prices (I've stayed there twice) will skyrocket to fleece all the Whovians from now on.
@@TerryCooperYT it's like how they literally had to go as "Bigger on the Inside" as they could with the new Tardis Interior. Both those sets cost a fortune, for nothing.
Filming in actual rooms is not easy. You need space for the cameras and lights, the audio gets messed up, etc. There is a reason that a soundstage is a thing.
@@justforever96 absolutely this. Building a soundstage is frequently more economical than shooting on site - and not even for green screen purposes. It's just shows the naivety of the actress that she was impressed that the crew was just doing their job at making it look like a real hotel room.
Cant wait for the episode where Gatwa goes back in time to save Princess Diana but they get side tracked by the fashion and shopping of the time and she ends up dying anyways.
Moffat: We'll discover the answer to The Greatest Mystery in the Universe! drumroll please! What is that second door in a hotel room for?? Random group of seven year olds: You mean the door to the adjoining room?
Yeah. LOL. I mean, even if you didn't work it out yourself by noticing the geography of where you were, the first thing you'd do is ask your parents, "What's that door for?", and they would tell you.
@@wishingwell12345 It's a bit old fashioned; it was common in the 80s to build hotels with mostly or all connecting, and now they build them generally with only a few, so you usually have to request them in newer builds. Places with a lot of family groups tend to have more available than ones near airports and such. I know way too much about them because I once stayed in one with my dog, and my mother and her dog in the adjoining room. We used the door and closed it to go to sleep, but my dog wouldn't settle down the entire night, knowing those two she loved so much were on the other side. And for a long while afterward, every time she saw one of those doors, she'd get excited thinking my mother might be staying on the other side, and spend the entire night trying to get me to open that door. Very sweet and very annoying :) So I got used to requesting rooms without connecting doors, haha.
"I'm not one to criticize reusing the same material, it's basically the foundation of this channel." The layers in this joke were so good. Well played.
That clip of Tennant is still completely poisoning his run for me any time I see it... Also, Gatwa is such a terrible pick for a Doctor still, he does not sound in any way elegant or intelligent whenever he speaks, I do not get any sort of "goofy on the outside, cold destructive tempest on the inside" feeling. I just get a feeling that he does not belong.
Yea at first I kinda enjoyed him. I thought he had the energy and charm to pull it off. He could’ve been at least a solid doctor, but the more I watched the more I realized that he’s just a goofy cornball. He doesn’t feel like the Dr. This perfectly explains why he’s a bad doctor. No under the surface darkness that peaks out from time to time.
Every role that Gatwa has been paid for, he only played himself. Even now he is just playing himself. It's just that everyone in the show CALLS him 'doctor'.
@@Mereologist remember the day when actors were allowed to act not just be I think that ended in 2010 We used to have method actors now we have methhead actors
When we come out the other side of this period of insanity, a lot of actors will no longer be employable and lot of episodes of TV shows will be quietly never shown again.
In Dot and Bubble the Crying Man and his Beard end up bickering about which one of them saw the Handsome Guy first and waste time when he could of been starting to unlock the door. Then later is dies because the dot thing turns up. Clear observation is that if he hadn't been standing around being objectified by the Crying Man he would have more than likely been able to open the door in time. Conclusion? Ncuti's character got him killed by allowing himself to get pointlessly distracted. Worse Doctor Ever Plus. (also is it any wonder the survivors brush him off at the end? We know by the sub count one of the characters claims to have just how many people lived in that city. How many did the Crying Man manage to rescue? A dozen maybe? In their eyes the Crying Man is UTTERLY USELESS and will more than likely get them all killed. So even when the BBC and RTD are trying to make a story about racism they can't get it right. Spoiler RTD? If you have to explain the message in your story via a secondary source you have failed as a story teller.)
Exactly, because they despise the moral values that teach you lying, murdering, stealing, and wanting to hurt others is not allowed, and that you must love everyone. SJWs are the ones who bring gray morality or say that the good things about Star Wars is that there is no good or evil. They are essentially evil people who want to do whatever they want.
@@Vaguer_Weevil They are. Remember these people have to do disgusting things behind closed doors to get their jobs, of course they will slam anything virtuous, kind etc because they are anything but that and are beyond redemption.
Im not religious but there is something digusting about how theyre trying to shoehorn themselves into religious events and tell everyone it only happend because of a woman was involved. The massive lack of a coherent plot is the least of the trouble here, imo. These people are genuine bigots.
Plot twist, the mother would have been fine, the hospital staff were about to tell her she could go home next week. Then sadly she had her soul harvested instead
Even though it's depressing to see Doctor who's corpse being pissed constantly but at least Disparu is here is make funny jokes. Sphincter of time is hilarious
Every time I see Tenant I'm stunned by the negative feelings he generates in me now. It's betrayal, it's insulting, it's disgusting. He's a total POC and I refuse to give him another cent ever under any circumstances. He's WRONG about us 😥
He, like many other followers of the message, would rather normalize these mentally ill individuals, like his own child, to avoid being guilty of doing wrong by his child.
10th doctor: The man who regrets 11th doctor: The man who forgets 12th doctor The Man Who Accepts 13Th Doctor: The Women Who Couldn't Care less 14Th Doctor: The Man Who Is Depressed
Women apparently really like being the third wheel in gay relationships? Idk why but if you'd like to know the vast majority of all gay fiction is written by women. It's to the point where if it's actually written by a man it's like a needle in stack of needles.
Women might. But it's hard to put that into this without re writing history. Or further ruining a show. But can it get worse than being torched and stomped on till it only resembles the name of the show and using a few tools the previous good thing had. As of now, this show only relates to Doctor Who by name and tools, absolutely painful to watch. Merry fkin Christmas.
Congratulations to Disney and the BBC from transforming _Dr Who_ from a boring old fuddy-duddy science fiction show to the Brunning-&-Stave-endorsed fantasy series _Dr What In The Actual Fook Is This?!_
It wasn't boring, I enjoyed watching even up to Capaldi! And then the next season started. I was barely watching Capaldi despite there being some good episodes and I watched the rest of the series after the one he was stuck in the confession dial. Then SHE came...
@12:00 why aren't the stone age people shown as black or at least brown skinned? Isn't that an important part of BBCs messaging on how the British Isles were original full of black people?
This comment shows that it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Also who sees a FEW people on screen and goes, "I'm going to bring race into this for some reason, since I can see a few people are a specific race, that means they're trying to say something " like chillax. EDIT: It seems people didn't get my comment. I'll preface with that I think recent Doctor Who is incredibly mid, to get out any "wow, you'll defend anything the BBC does" accusations right away. I'll admit that BBC has a history of changing history to fit their beliefs. But it seems you people look into every little thing and assume it's some race message. Like saying that because a different programme by the BBC says something this means this specific moment in this programme by the BBC has any significance is like saying that The Lion King and Peter Pan are in the same universe because they're both by Disney.
How many times did the modern doctor cry , again This show is not for me anymore after 50 years of watching I'm currently in my back garden touching grass
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And at least in recent history, god 9, 10 and 11 all had damn good reasons to cry in the few episodes they did.
Capaldi _almost_ cried a couple of times. But in the end he manned up and did the proper thing, spent millions of years suffering to save his beloved friend to which he had a "duty of care"
When he was going on about how no one knew because it would take too long to find out... Did the writers forget that the character is supposed to be a fkn **TIME LORD** ?!!
I miss Douglas Adams he'd been so clever with an Adjoining Room gag. Even just have it be the simple "Who says it only has to Adjoining to one room?" Not this implied moronic behavior that nobody knows that what door is for, I've known what that door is for since I was five.
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Heck DA gave us a great insight into doors, just look at Marvin and what he has to say about doors. For example: "You watch this door, it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates".
I'm reminded of the farcaster doors from Hyperion. Those could pass for a normal door in a normal building until activated and linking to other farcaster doors all over the milkyway. You could even do a little skit where at first the door goes to time hotel central and when someone opens it next it just goes to the next room.
I saw a fan description of the Silurians once: "The children of an older, stranger Creation." Okay, that has mythic resonance and engages my interest. Why can't modern Dr Who hold a candle to that?
💯 % I said this out loud when I was watching it... sonic screwdriverlet's don't work on wood. This Doctor said it last Christmas in the first episode when they were on the flying boat. Let's break everything in Doctor Who.
I enjoy watching your Dr who reviews. They leave me feeling informed and thankful. Informed about the depth of Dr. who depravity, thankful I didn't watch them myself.
A company who pushes identity politics that literally go against Christian religion is literally taking credit for creating the star that brought the Three Wise Men to Jesus' birth.... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted by something in my entire life. The shear hubris of this show knows no bounds. I can't believe I ever liked this show.
Theyve been doing this openly for decades, people were called crackpots for pointing it out, but the propaganda has been obvious for those who bother to look for decades.
"I can't believe I ever liked this show." Well the series was actually good before the 2010s. The mid 2010s is when the show fell into a black hole of stupidity with the Whitaker era and it's gotten worse since. I actually feel really bad for someone who was originally a fan of this franchise. Out of all the timelines where this show was good or bad, you lads sadly got one of if not the worst in terms the continuation of this IP.
I can’t believe an adult believes that a star could lead people somewhere - they are not little balls of light as the primitives that wrote the Bible believed
Him having to stay in the same room for a year was also a reference to the pandemic. "Hey, remember when you couldn't leave your house? We'll the doctor had to do the same thing."
Capaldi's Who literally had an episode doing basic philosophy about the Free Lunch Paradox, and they're just going "nah, don't worry about it." What a regression.
He does do a bit of breathless exposition about what the bootstrap paradox is in this one too, but it's an extremely insubstantial and unsatisfying scene compared to Capaldi's. A pot noodle quality bootstrap paradox scene.
@@demaupin ah yes, bootstrap paradox - I always forget its proper name :) What a waste of a fun philosophical novelty. With Capaldi's, the fact that it's an absurd paradox is the point, here it's just braindead deus ex machina.
I missed that one (not the one of crying as he said goodbye to Chair Night & the hotel lady). So that makes 3x in one episode he cried (at least) - the 3 wise men turned into the 3 pathetic crying bouts.
So, I’m guessing that the show didn’t even spend a moment to recap what the lizard man actually was for the benefit of newer fans or those that simply forgot? That was a Silurian. They aren’t aliens at all, but Dinosaurs. A sapient species of dinosaur that went into hibernation when the asteroid approached Earth. Still others built space Arks as a way to preserve not just their species but all dinosaurs on another planet. There’s probably a lot more but that’s what I’m familiar with. I think by the 26th century the Silurians had awakened from their millions of years of hibernation and successfully integrated into human society. I hope so. I’ve always liked the thought of the sci fi concept of a race of sentient dinosaurs surviving somehow and with both humans and them being wise enough and calm enough to live together sharing the planet of our mutual origin. Oops, lol, I went on a bit of a tangent there. Sorry about that. But yes, dinosaur, not alien.
Dr Who was that part of Christmas Day where you stopped watching tv to go and get some turkey sandwiches and your munchies ready…before Wallace & Gromit and Gavin & Stacey came on!
It's perfectly fitting that this statement in the show goes to prove that the Biased Broadcasting Company only employs people who know NOTHING about British History, so they can be good little employees who won't notice inaccuracies in the bullshit they are told to spew.
So if that black man gleefully, disrespectfully wears a kilt, that’s not cultural appropriation, but if I sing along to a dr Dre song I should be exiled to Siberia?
I like the IDEA of the plot. Stuck in a hotel with hidden doors, that sounds cool. The execution is extremely poor. The temporary companions are awful. Someone else said in this in the comments, but I'll repeat. I waited for your review rather than watching the episode.
Also, the Doctor travels through time to go to a hotel with free milk on their complimentary coffee bar. Which means he's basically stealing, when he could just as easily pay.
Interesting how they make the first black Doctor a thief who steals everything not nailed down. I thought the BBC and Disney prided themselves on being progressive rather than reinforcing racial stereotypes?
I’m so sick of Christians being mocked. Jesus is literally the reason for the season. They wouldn’t be making money (or attempting to) off their specials if it wasn’t for his birth in the first place. We have to stop putting up with this. This is serious and it has consequences.
They know we are not going to run over people in "the religion of peace" markets, burning "peaceful centers," beheading teachers,... Bullies are nasty.
Consequences. Like what twinkle toes? Everything is fair game for mockery, but I suppose you’re right as these types aren’t doing parody like South Park or Ricky Gervais. It’s just open disdain.
"Pardon my French, but what the French are you doing in this room?" Didn't Steven Moffat used to be a professional writer at one point? Now he writes lines like that. "You were being mansplained by a suitcase"
Not only are they that stupid, they're worse. There's an expression about being a day late and a dollar short. The BBC went 365 better and Joy was a year late to the birth.
The new Ruby should be called Ruby Tuesday, because she eats a lot. For British readers of this comment, Ruby Tuesday is a burger restaurant in America.
So we have come from a world where such creatures like Weeping Wngels and Daleks were the biggest threat to.... To.... Disintegrating breifcases..... WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUU
Let's be honest it started with shop dummies coming to life. Doctor Who has been awful since it returned, people just pretend it's good because it's not a comedy show, Posh people stuff, brain rotting reality TV or a depressing murder drama or Soap, that's all Britain ever makes now.
@@Adam-sd2ow To play devil's advocate, the shop dummies coming to life came from stories in the 70s, so IDK if that's the best example for saying that Doctor Who started declining from 2005 onwards. Though I do agree about British TV being terrible these days.
Since the premise is that the "Time Hotel" uses previously not booked rooms in hotels of the past, how is Base Camp at Everest, a Train Carriage & an ancient temple thingy, one of those? Plus all those "rooms" could only be used ONCE!
Disparu reaction to 'How's care's Who's Room it is?!', sounds like something Capaldi's Doctor would say. Speaking of Capaldi they go and rip off the Bootstrap Paradox from 'The Flood'.
That "Holiday" term always annoys me as that's what we do in the summer here in the UK. Nothing to do with Christmas. You go to Benidorm or wherever on holiday. For some reason they're trying to replace "Christmas" with "Holiday"...
There's that one episode with Amy and Rory where he struggled to be stuck in one place to watch those cubes or whatever. It was a funny montage of him being silly showing how bored he was, not this tripe.
@@PersonallyPerhaps Well the whole "festival" is more to celebrate the fact that he got caught, and tortured..and failed to blow up parliament. So they kind of WERE for him..but I doubt he'd have been pleased.
As someone who has seen all remaining classic Who episodes and stopped watching halfway through Capaldi I just do not care about this show masquerading as Doctor Who. Doctor who has returned to being what it was during the 1990's hiatus.....a faded, but nice memory. RIP Doctor Who.
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme In 2024 Doctor Who unfortunately experienced its lowest overnight ratings to date. The 7-day catch-up figures also saw a new series low. Russell T Davies previously acknowledged the drop stating, “They might not be the ratings we'd love. We always want higher.” Meanwhile one anonymous source close to the production at Disney, was quoted as saying that the future “hangs in the balance” and that it “may not last beyond its initial two seasons.”
As a Scotsman I feel deeply offended that this actor feels it’s ok to culturally operate my culture (tarter & kilts). He can’t keep getting away with this.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Considering his experiences with paranoia, racism, sectarianism and just general mental troubles along with his poor understanding of stuff like the term liminal spaces, he probably wrote something far superior to this rubbish. Man was deeply troubled and his works weren't fully appreciated in his life but he wrote some brilliant fiction.
@@Japaneseanimeguy He wasnt troubled, he just saw reality for what it is, and people who lie to themselves to keep up the illusion everything is okay called him mad for it.
Yep, there's some interconnecting hotel-room door shenanigans in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" iirc. 1936. In a town full of mutant fish-people you really shouldn't spend the night in a hotel called The Gilman House. The signposting is right there.
... ... The Mop is made of WOOD... ... THE SONIC DOESN'T DO WOOD! And no, the time War didn't fix that issue,. They ran 1,000 years of calculations to get through one door, and then it was right back to not being able to do wood. ffffffaaaaaaaccccceeeeeppppaaaalllllmmmmmm
@@GafferPerkeleAnd the fact that the Day of the Doctor was a Zygon story when they could've done so much more with the Daleks instead... Especially since the last proper Dalek story was Asylum, which completely wasted them IMO.
Don't worry, this is an alternative timeline where the 12th doctor didn't die and we get this sh*t, in the proper time line the 12th doctor decided to give up, mainly because Clara and the girl who played aria are running around the universe, trying to save it, on top of bill and her lover running around the universe as well trying to save it.
@@SpareSomeChange8080 I'm fine with that, apart from the one thing it explicitly states it doesn't do, multiple times. I'm just gonna head-canon a metal mop head and pretend he was moving that. And that the sonic can balance a 6 foot pole over whatever its manipulating. I wouldn't mind, but why would you use the sonic for that anyway? There are 1,000 gadgets he could have whipped together in less time than it takes him to name them, and instead, they literally wave a lore-break in your face. It does dense solids and electronics, and anything softer than wood is where the magic ends. Apparently, that's too much of a restriction for them these days. They can't even tolerate a hierarchy of materials.
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme TBH - I didn't watch the episode. I gave up on Doctor Who years ago... So did my wife - shes got tons of Doctor Who merchandise, all the old boxsets...but doesn't watch anymore. My father _did_ watch it this year - he's 70 and has been watching Doctor Who his whole life...he told me that he was *massively dissapointed* with it this year...but that he did enjoy Wallace & Gromit ❤
You are one of my top RUclipsrs. But this doctor who tipped me over the edge, I can't cope lol.. 21:51 makes me question whether I can finish even a review of it from the good Mr Disparu..
6:20 Are you seriously telling me her character’s name is Joy Almondo? Like the Almond Joy candy bar? Is this just crass product placement, or some sort of secret dig at her that she didn’t realize?
Thanks to your reviews, I could 'watch' the last 2 1/2 doctors, because your humor and wit are the shield between us and the unbridled and agonizing mediocrity this show had become. Merry Belated and Happy New Year!
Doctor Who Christmas Special Review - Joy To The World is the BBC and Disney+ team up to destroy Christmas. Now I never expected The Doctor to destroy Bethlehem by giving a star an origin story, but here we are. Although the 8 critics who reviewed it enjoyed the episode, is it any surprise when it's undermining the religious Christian holiday of Christmas? This episode is full of the message, seemingly put in at random. But even without that, this is NOT a good episode. Which while expected in 2024 Doctor Who, you would have thought Russel T Davies and Steven Moffat could have put more effort into a Christmas Story. But what do you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Just FYI, I have never met anyone, religious or otherwise, who could credibly explain to me why a being who could speak the universe into existence would need or want to wait billions of years for the universe to organize itself.
Anyone who claims that the Big Bang is an analogy for God, or a tool used by God, isn't actually religious, they're just people who haven't thought through their own terrible premise.
Rather like the people who make current day Doctor Who.
Youre wrong, the dodo wasn't just not tasty enough not to bred, it was so disgusting my country men hunted it to extinction, one of the rare good things the Dutch have done.
Happy New Years to you Disparu 🐿😊
Yeah, it took them DECADES of this series (literally decades!!), until they tweaked and updated it enough to finally get me to watch it and truly enjoy it. And then... just ONE episode to kill it again.
Of course, I TRIED to suspend higher disbelief, but their purposeful and deliberate destruction of this series really solidified my indifference once again. IF one truly wants to watch again, there's about five, good VFX filled seasons and story line that will always "work." But this chum?! Not good for bottom-feeders, really... They can keep it.
Does this star remind you of the star from (The Rings of Akhaten ), it seems that they want to tie the doctor to this star.
My grandmother always told me, “I don’t care what they tell you in school, the wise men only found Christ because a soul eating star born of a plump British woman led the way.”
you spelt 'fat paddy girl' incorrectly.
Irish.
The fat blonde is Irish. So either Joy is also Irish (in which case why didn't she just take her Mother back to their home nation and avoid the BRITISH rules about protecting the NHS) or the BBC casting department is denying fat blonde British women the roles in DW they rightly deserve.
And star @@atoning2009
How dare you say plump!
It's fat or tubby. She didn't work hard to get those looks for you to diminish them by saying plump.
How dare you start making fun of the woman who single-handedly served as a beacon for the Son of God.
Love it when the million dollar company tells me capitalism is bad.
*billion
Billion*
I hate champagne socialists
Billion dollar
It's not the company that writes the show...
considering theyre paid via your taxes, yeah duh
"We're writing the first black Doctor, what should we have him do?"
"Have him be an annoying pest and use the TARDIS to steal."
The doctor has done worse things than steal
Bold of you to presume someone has written something and not just told Gatwa to act Gatwa on the show.
According to "them" isn't he the 2nd black doctor? The first "was" a black female.
@@oneangrygeek4575 well 'we' dont really like chibnall, but the fugitive doctor is sadly canon
Looked at the doctor and that’s checks out
"He looks like he just discovered Pluto"
Nah. He's grinning like he just discovered Uranus.
It's somehow fitting that Wallace & Gromit is the final bulwark of British culture still remaining after all the others have fallen.
Have you seen the new film yet? I've got bad news.
@@thecommentor2619 is Wallace gay? Is Gromit promoting refugee immigration?
I hope they never touch Blackadder or Yes, (Prime) Minister.
Wind in the willows and Watership down are still undamaged... I hope.
Yes considerably more brown plastercine used.
26:30 he was using the Sonic Screwdriver to control a WOODEN mop. The one thing that the Sonic Screwdriver can't effect is wood.
They really just don't care about their own lore at all do they.
He's even called people dumb who thought the sonic could work on wood . (In one case it did but took hundred of years and multiple doctors) But it was unlocked anyway
It's controlling the tiny metal screws? xD
@@KurayamiWinter I feel like you put more thought into this comment than the BBC put into this entire script lol.
@@asmooshi9752 if you're referring to day of the Doctor, the door was literally unlocked and Clara opened it. They were about to do that though lol
There are metal rings holding the mophead to the stick........
"It's a sonic, it doesn't work on wood" - proceed to use sonic to make it work on a wooden mop
I love how Davies turned a sonic screwdriver, a device that can only do things sound can do, into a magic wand. And then they invented the deadlock seal, then the thing with wood. RTD doesn’t know how to write this series. He can make great episodes, but they’re few and far between
Didnt they have some centuries to calculate it in the 50th special? Idk
@@tgiacin435 As much as I like to rag on RTD, in his defense, the series has flip-flopped on what the sonic screw-driver can and cannot do. Its first introduction to the series had it function like a regular screw driver using sound vibrations to screw and unscrew a common screw on a gun holster. When it was re-introduced, it only worked on electronic devices, and since then it has become more and more of a magical bullshit device (or deus ex machina if you want to use the correct term) until it was destroyed during the Peter Davidson years because the writers saw how much of a crutch it had become.
RTD's take on the sonic wand was... dumb and lazy.... to put it diplomatically, and his use of the device just shows that his is not a good writer, nor ever was. Yet the seeds of abuse were in the classic series. Jon Pertwee using the sonic screwdriver to ignite marsh gas, for example.
@@thepikachu176so the way I’ve thought of that is the fact that there are multiple types of wood on the planet and even if they figured out that bit of wood door it’s molecular structure is completely different from other woods.
@ fair enough
"Don't call him a lizardman!" is exactly the shape shifting lizard propaganda we can expect from the BBC
Lizardmen have rights you know. How dare you not know how to properly address this strange alien unexpectedly standing in the middle of your room. She deserved to be yelled at for that. I mean they did hit it off with that comment about the doctor being scolded for accidentally misgendering an overgrown gremlin like alien being. Stopping the conversation to confirm its pronouns first is obviously a much bigger deal than finding out why it was shot out of the sky, and if it is currently in danger from being hunted down right now, so I'm not surprised really.
@@Jsa460 Okay that's if, I'm getting the flame thrower.
Remember a few regeneration ago when the Doctor was trying to convince people they should be call Homo Reptilia?
Ignoring the fact that makes zero sense under the formal naming conventions, Homo in context effectively means Man and Reptilia is what lizards are.
The Doctor HIMSELF has effectively called the violent genocidal cultural failures lizardmen before in a period where Moffat was showrunner.
Sigh. Fk this show.
Indeed. Clear evidence of allegiance to the lizard overlords.
But that fictional race always had 2 clearly defined sex/gender roles. I'm beginning to assume our "elite" class of lizard people have no such thing.
PLOT TWIST:
This was the birth of the star in the episode of Long Song where the Doctor had to eliminate the star CUZ IT WOULDNT STOP EATING
OMG!.. That's disturbingly logical!.. And what's even more disturbing is that's more logical than the episode itself!..
As a black man, I can't stand this black Doctor Who. He's a terrible representation of modern black men and our masculinity.
He's supposed to undermine black masculinity. That's the whole point, sadly.
Waiting for the Dr Who special where they go back in time to Muhammad's wedding to a 9 year-old.
She was 6, 9 was when the marriage was consummated!
The BBC would be fine with consummating marriages with 9 yr olds.
@@jesperFrost It's a fair mixup; 9 is 18 in goat years
@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese That made me laugh more than it should have!
actually, Mohammed married the girl when she was SIX, and raped her at age NINE.
The arrogance of anyone to claim that they know who will be, “on the right side of history”, is absolutely maddening to me.
& I used to like David tennant..
Always thought there was something "not quite right" about Tennant
You’re watching history be created in real time, they’re creating a narrative that will exist past the tipping point of society collapse or demographic change.
And the way 2024 has ended and 2025 is going to start. He is on the WRONG side of history. 2025 will be the year all this BS starts to go away again.
Yeah....can't watch anything he's in now.
The thing is anyone with common sense can tell they WONT be on the “right” side of history. It’s BS
The irony of Dr Who preaching about 'mansplaining' when that's exactly what Tennant's return episodes did with "Rose" explaining to the audience about being a woman.
Except Rose wasn't really a woman.
@ hence the quotation marks lol
It was a male lecturing the audience about what it means to be a woman
Yeah isn't that how you learned about the monsters and everything? You would learn about them through the Doctor, as he's the one who's been all over time and space. He would be the ONE person who WOULD know everything.
All while the sidekick being there as a literal stand-in for the audience so he had a reason to dump exposition and lore. Rick and Morty does the exact same thing with that duo but that modern audience lapped that up no problem. Interesting.
😂👍
It wasn't preaching. It was a joke. Jeez what's wrong with ppl
5:00 Moffat really thinks no one else but him has noticed the extra door in a hotel room. This really is the perfect example of how these “creatives” live in a bubble and have zero self-awareness.
I don't think I've ever seen a hotel room on screen / in a story, where the adjoining door wasn't a plot device.
The wokey woke always think they are morally and intellectually superior when it's often the opposite
Opening Chekov's door
When Tennant says things like "they'll all go away soon..." it's almost like he's bragging about some hyper-evil, Hogwartsian means of doing so...
There's heavy Umbridge energy in social-engineering progressive circles of thought, so it makes sense.
He means all those who object are old farts who remember when the world was sane, and so will die off soon.
Well, he was a Death Eater.
Well he was talking about his audience so...
Seriously... No one watched this. Because no one talked about it and honestly... No one even cared to tell anyone they were not GOING to watch it.
Everyone forgot it was happening.
That is now... Beyond Apathy.
Apathy is wonderful
Sad to say I caught the last 5 minutes while waiting for Wallace and Gromit.
My Nan watched this, and had no idea what was even happening. She's watched Dr. Who since the original one and obviously isn't up-to-date with the modern audience versions. But it was a Christmas special so she had it on.
I was there when she was watching it and I couldn't believe how bad it was, I heard the word "mansplaining" and at that point I had to block out the noise. That's the REAL audience who end up watching these shows: confused elderly folk who put it on while they wait for Coronation Street to air.
Apathy: the true pop culture killer.
It's the fact that viewing figures dropped drastically when Dr Who came on and returned when Wallace and Gromit started says it all. A lot of people deliberately changed the channel for the duration of the show. It's being actively rejected.
I hear the drumming? Can you hear it? "Dun,dun,dun,dun! Dun,dun,dun,dun!" The inevitable drums of 1989 nipping at the heels of this sinking ship.
I'm not religious, but even I was like, "nope! This is NOT ok!" . They would never try this sh*t with any other religion.
Of course not, they are too chicken shit to go after Islam the same way.
In that aspect our expectations will not be subverted.
They have this respect for the sensitive elements within other cultures...
The game of identity politics is one of exclusion, racism and inequality.
Thank you. On behalf of all Christians who wish to live in peace with all people but do not like having our beliefs belittled ... thank you.
You're right in the sense that they probably wouldn't try it with any other religion. And that's the part that's not okay.... All religions should be mocked equally.
All the episode did was provide a silly little "what if" explanation for the star's appearance.
I didn't even bother watching the episode and waited for your review as its much more entertaining.
I would rather spoon out my eyes than watching most the crap Disparu endures, this way I get to enjoy instead of suffering.
This is the way. :)
Yes, you see! As I said in the Comments for another video, "waiting for Disparu's Review like a normal person", I was!
I have watched a total of 3 movies (0 shows) since 2019 and none I’ve paid for, apathy finally kicked in after 30 years of I’m a bad person destroying the world with climate, bla bla bla..
But I love watching these reviews, that is pure entertainment I”d pay for
Despot of Antrim
Mauler
Baby face
The drinker
Gary
Cynic
Etc..
thank god for youtubers
Agreed. 100x better than anything coming out of Hollywood.
It's so weird seeing how hateful David Tennant is. Never really got that vibe from him. Especially when he spent so much of his Good Omens run trying to claim the opposite.
Yeah it's certainly ruined everything hes in now for me. Im so tired of actors giving their opinions and preaching to the masses. Like no one is telling you not to have an opinion but just do your job
The second season of Good Omens was f*cking abysmal. I really hoped Terry's ghost would come down and punch Gaimans Tits off for that shite.
He's a lefty and this is him desperately trying to convince himself he's not standing with bad people.
Same dude.
The funny thing about them spending a fortune on building a hotel room... is the ACTUAL hotel in Cardiff looks identical to the set. The exterior and reception were filmed there, so why not shoot in one of the rooms? Only downside now, of course is their previously reasonable prices (I've stayed there twice) will skyrocket to fleece all the Whovians from now on.
@@TerryCooperYT it's like how they literally had to go as "Bigger on the Inside" as they could with the new Tardis Interior. Both those sets cost a fortune, for nothing.
All the hotel rooms are filled with sea people.
Filming in actual rooms is not easy. You need space for the cameras and lights, the audio gets messed up, etc. There is a reason that a soundstage is a thing.
@@justforever96 absolutely this. Building a soundstage is frequently more economical than shooting on site - and not even for green screen purposes. It's just shows the naivety of the actress that she was impressed that the crew was just doing their job at making it look like a real hotel room.
Don't think there are any Dr who fans left, so they will have to slash prices
That "the BBC wouldn't understand a child in a shabby hotel room unless it's crying" line.....
Magnificent. Good show, sir.
Cant wait for the episode where Gatwa goes back in time to save Princess Diana but they get side tracked by the fashion and shopping of the time and she ends up dying anyways.
lmao that might actually make for a good episode so you know it's never gonna happen
aT THIS RATE HE WILL GO BACK IN TIME AND SAVE PRINCESS PEACH.
What about stopping Jimmy Savile but they end up sidetracked by all the "homophobia" and "racism" of the BBC of the time?
@@sopcannon And then Princess Monoke!
@@CD-Gaming I'd love to see that, Princess Mononoke and her wolves would drink their blood.
Even as a child I knew that door went to an adjoining room in a hotel.
Moffat: We'll discover the answer to The Greatest Mystery in the Universe!
drumroll please!
What is that second door in a hotel room for??
Random group of seven year olds: You mean the door to the adjoining room?
Yeah. LOL. I mean, even if you didn't work it out yourself by noticing the geography of where you were, the first thing you'd do is ask your parents, "What's that door for?", and they would tell you.
How many hotels actually have adjoining rooms? The vast majority I've been in don't.
@@wishingwell12345 It's a bit old fashioned; it was common in the 80s to build hotels with mostly or all connecting, and now they build them generally with only a few, so you usually have to request them in newer builds. Places with a lot of family groups tend to have more available than ones near airports and such.
I know way too much about them because I once stayed in one with my dog, and my mother and her dog in the adjoining room. We used the door and closed it to go to sleep, but my dog wouldn't settle down the entire night, knowing those two she loved so much were on the other side. And for a long while afterward, every time she saw one of those doors, she'd get excited thinking my mother might be staying on the other side, and spend the entire night trying to get me to open that door. Very sweet and very annoying :)
So I got used to requesting rooms without connecting doors, haha.
I mean, even the Motel 6 has got those.
"I'm not one to criticize reusing the same material, it's basically the foundation of this channel." The layers in this joke were so good. Well played.
“WHO CARES WHOSE ROOM IT IS, ITS A PISSING ALIEN!”
- Disperu 2024
That clip of Tennant is still completely poisoning his run for me any time I see it...
Also, Gatwa is such a terrible pick for a Doctor still, he does not sound in any way elegant or intelligent whenever he speaks, I do not get any sort of "goofy on the outside, cold destructive tempest on the inside" feeling. I just get a feeling that he does not belong.
Yea at first I kinda enjoyed him. I thought he had the energy and charm to pull it off. He could’ve been at least a solid doctor, but the more I watched the more I realized that he’s just a goofy cornball. He doesn’t feel like the Dr.
This perfectly explains why he’s a bad doctor. No under the surface darkness that peaks out from time to time.
To me he was never the doctor
Daft Jamie was more accurate
Look it up 😂😂
Every role that Gatwa has been paid for, he only played himself. Even now he is just playing himself. It's just that everyone in the show CALLS him 'doctor'.
@@Mereologist remember the day when actors were allowed to act not just be
I think that ended in 2010
We used to have method actors now we have methhead actors
When we come out the other side of this period of insanity, a lot of actors will no longer be employable and lot of episodes of TV shows will be quietly never shown again.
Want to point out 3 extra people died because the doctor refused to follow the first guy into the bar. Worst doctor ever
Sorry not seeing any doctor
All I'm seeing is red dwarfs cat
Annoying, loves himself and the only person that could make him happy is himself
@@snakedaemongaming6590 least Cat was mostly harmless and kept to the Red Dwarf.
@@BunkerAnon yeah but this is what happens when cat leaves the ship
Explains a lot doesn't it
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@@snakedaemongaming6590 also true and accurate.
In Dot and Bubble the Crying Man and his Beard end up bickering about which one of them saw the Handsome Guy first and waste time when he could of been starting to unlock the door. Then later is dies because the dot thing turns up. Clear observation is that if he hadn't been standing around being objectified by the Crying Man he would have more than likely been able to open the door in time.
Conclusion? Ncuti's character got him killed by allowing himself to get pointlessly distracted.
Worse Doctor Ever Plus.
(also is it any wonder the survivors brush him off at the end? We know by the sub count one of the characters claims to have just how many people lived in that city. How many did the Crying Man manage to rescue? A dozen maybe? In their eyes the Crying Man is UTTERLY USELESS and will more than likely get them all killed. So even when the BBC and RTD are trying to make a story about racism they can't get it right. Spoiler RTD? If you have to explain the message in your story via a secondary source you have failed as a story teller.)
They're so scared of offending anyone, but the people who believe in heavenly redemption and kindness are open for mockery. How very virtuous.
Exactly, because they despise the moral values that teach you lying, murdering, stealing, and wanting to hurt others is not allowed, and that you must love everyone. SJWs are the ones who bring gray morality or say that the good things about Star Wars is that there is no good or evil. They are essentially evil people who want to do whatever they want.
They offended me
By making anything after 2010
Almost sounds like they're jealous
They're so open minded and compassionate though!
@@Vaguer_Weevil They are. Remember these people have to do disgusting things behind closed doors to get their jobs, of course they will slam anything virtuous, kind etc because they are anything but that and are beyond redemption.
Im not religious but there is something digusting about how theyre trying to shoehorn themselves into religious events and tell everyone it only happend because of a woman was involved.
The massive lack of a coherent plot is the least of the trouble here, imo. These people are genuine bigots.
Plot twist, the mother would have been fine, the hospital staff were about to tell her she could go home next week. Then sadly she had her soul harvested instead
I can't bear Gatwas voice, not even for a second, my finger is hovering over the mute button.
Wat du youUUUu hav against his Voice?
@annatardlordofderps9181 The same thing I have against your ridiculous spelling.
@@jcdenton1310
Works for me.
@@Chillmax You was meant to read that comment IN Ncuti's voice
Is this Arrrggghhmmed??? 😂😂
"It's Fun But Forced"
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Said every BBC exec to the children.....
Mmmmm.... delivering their own type of BBC to thr children no doubt
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Even though it's depressing to see Doctor who's corpse being pissed constantly but at least Disparu is here is make funny jokes.
Sphincter of time is hilarious
A sun that consumes things?
Sounds familiar.
Every time I see Tenant I'm stunned by the negative feelings he generates in me now. It's betrayal, it's insulting, it's disgusting. He's a total POC and I refuse to give him another cent ever under any circumstances. He's WRONG about us 😥
He, like many other followers of the message, would rather normalize these mentally ill individuals, like his own child, to avoid being guilty of doing wrong by his child.
10th doctor: The man who regrets
11th doctor: The man who forgets
12th doctor The Man Who Accepts
13Th Doctor: The Women Who Couldn't Care less
14Th Doctor: The Man Who Is Depressed
A platonic romcom? Who the hell wants that?!
Dibbs on reminding them Friends exists!
Weirdos. There is a market for things like that, but it's really small
Women apparently really like being the third wheel in gay relationships? Idk why but if you'd like to know the vast majority of all gay fiction is written by women. It's to the point where if it's actually written by a man it's like a needle in stack of needles.
Women might. But it's hard to put that into this without re writing history. Or further ruining a show.
But can it get worse than being torched and stomped on till it only resembles the name of the show and using a few tools the previous good thing had.
As of now, this show only relates to Doctor Who by name and tools, absolutely painful to watch.
Merry fkin Christmas.
@@stoneymahoney9106 These clowns don't have friends, they just have people that they haven't turned against yet.
Congratulations to Disney and the BBC from transforming _Dr Who_ from a boring old fuddy-duddy science fiction show to the Brunning-&-Stave-endorsed fantasy series _Dr What In The Actual Fook Is This?!_
Boring?
It wasn't boring, I enjoyed watching even up to Capaldi! And then the next season started. I was barely watching Capaldi despite there being some good episodes and I watched the rest of the series after the one he was stuck in the confession dial.
Then SHE came...
@12:00 why aren't the stone age people shown as black or at least brown skinned? Isn't that an important part of BBCs messaging on how the British Isles were original full of black people?
That's the thing with trying to prop up a big network of lies, some fall through cracks every now and then.
This comment shows that it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Also who sees a FEW people on screen and goes, "I'm going to bring race into this for some reason, since I can see a few people are a specific race, that means they're trying to say something " like chillax.
EDIT:
It seems people didn't get my comment.
I'll preface with that I think recent Doctor Who is incredibly mid, to get out any "wow, you'll defend anything the BBC does" accusations right away.
I'll admit that BBC has a history of changing history to fit their beliefs.
But it seems you people look into every little thing and assume it's some race message.
Like saying that because a different programme by the BBC says something this means this specific moment in this programme by the BBC has any significance is like saying that The Lion King and Peter Pan are in the same universe because they're both by Disney.
@@NathanSavageDamage Pattern recognition, look it up.
@@CJ-kg7yq Provide many examples and explain the significance.
@@NathanSavageDamage Or i could tell you to go f yourself and move on with my day?
I’m agnostic and even I thought that ending was pretty damn sacrilegious.
"History is on a perversive trajectory" - Maybe on your browser history Tennant
How many times did the modern doctor cry , again
This show is not for me anymore after 50 years of watching I'm currently in my back garden touching grass
And at least in recent history, god 9, 10 and 11 all had damn good reasons to cry in the few episodes they did.
Capaldi _almost_ cried a couple of times. But in the end he manned up and did the proper thing, spent millions of years suffering to save his beloved friend to which he had a "duty of care"
Disparu taking the absolute piss out of this garbage, that’s the best gift I got this Christmas
I look forward to the episode where the Doctor goes back to 7th century Mecca
You mean where they kill him for being a non-believer? Me too!
And then he says: YoUU need to do better Prophet!
He could travel to modern day let’s be honest the demographic there haven’t changed since the 7th century theyed still stone him
Not just the doctor but everybody involved would be thrown out from high places
@@jeffkitson9565
He cannot go there without getting...
This episode tells me they genuinely do not care about Time Travel Mechanics in a Time Travel Show. Their only concern is the THE MESSAGE
They seem to have entirely forgotten about the TARDIS.
@bricelory9534 They couldn't make the TARDIS "paradox proof" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When he was going on about how no one knew because it would take too long to find out... Did the writers forget that the character is supposed to be a fkn **TIME LORD** ?!!
A Black Doctor Who and all he thinks about is using the TARDIS to go through time and space, just to nick shit...
Que Az with the Robyn Hood theme....
I miss Douglas Adams he'd been so clever with an Adjoining Room gag. Even just have it be the simple "Who says it only has to Adjoining to one room?" Not this implied moronic behavior that nobody knows that what door is for, I've known what that door is for since I was five.
Heck DA gave us a great insight into doors, just look at Marvin and what he has to say about doors.
For example: "You watch this door, it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates".
Oh that would have been an angle. It's a smart door and that is who The Doctor has to converse with.
Well said, back when we had DNA & Who was great 😊
I'm reminded of the farcaster doors from Hyperion.
Those could pass for a normal door in a normal building until activated and linking to other farcaster doors all over the milkyway.
You could even do a little skit where at first the door goes to time hotel central and when someone opens it next it just goes to the next room.
Dirk Gently made more sense than any of this NuWho
Point of order. The Silurians aren't aliens. They're the original inhabitants of Earth.
They're...earthliens lol. Literally how eleven awkwardly described them
I saw a fan description of the Silurians once: "The children of an older, stranger Creation." Okay, that has mythic resonance and engages my interest. Why can't modern Dr Who hold a candle to that?
Alien just means "outsider" so they still are aliens by human standards, just not *space* aliens.
@@harbl99 RTD ran outta people to rip off in his writing.
@@katarinabrunk8698 I bet money they've either forgotten that part, or don't give a shit.
How is he using the sonic screwdriver to make the mop move? It doesn't work on wood.
Get aaaaaaaaall the way off my back about that!
@@TheDreamfinder99oh sorry let me back up off that thing!
💯 % I said this out loud when I was watching it... sonic screwdriverlet's don't work on wood. This Doctor said it last Christmas in the first episode when they were on the flying boat. Let's break everything in Doctor Who.
They had an upgrade or something
I thought it did after The Day of the Doctor
Not even the Christmas episode was immune from flag-waving for the gay community. Now that’s offensive.
Why? Jesus was obviously gay. Unmarried, great communicator, understood PR and from all artistic representations had an amazing hair care routine.
Say sike right now @@jnielson1121
Yeah, that part where they all got nude and banged was unnecessary.
@jnielson1121 you are joking, right? It's really hard to tell these days, and I have legit seen people unironically claim Jesus was Trans, soooo
lol, Jesus never said a single thing about gay or trans people ... however he did rail against rich folks on multiple occasions.
I enjoy watching your Dr who reviews. They leave me feeling informed and thankful. Informed about the depth of Dr. who depravity, thankful I didn't watch them myself.
A company who pushes identity politics that literally go against Christian religion is literally taking credit for creating the star that brought the Three Wise Men to Jesus' birth.... I don't think I've ever been so disgusted by something in my entire life. The shear hubris of this show knows no bounds. I can't believe I ever liked this show.
"We follered a floatin' fat bird." -- Wise King who sounds uncannily like Disparu
Theyve been doing this openly for decades, people were called crackpots for pointing it out, but the propaganda has been obvious for those who bother to look for decades.
"I can't believe I ever liked this show." Well the series was actually good before the 2010s. The mid 2010s is when the show fell into a black hole of stupidity with the Whitaker era and it's gotten worse since. I actually feel really bad for someone who was originally a fan of this franchise. Out of all the timelines where this show was good or bad, you lads sadly got one of if not the worst in terms the continuation of this IP.
I can’t believe an adult believes that a star could lead people somewhere - they are not little balls of light as the primitives that wrote the Bible believed
@@camillecunningham7348I’m a fan and I didn’t watch much of Capaldi but he is a great actor. The next two I didn’t watch at all.
Okay, that pandemic callback scene was genuinely disgusting.
I still don't hate the BBC enough.
Someone once tried to convince me Glass Onion was the greatest movie ever made because it was a Covid allegory that let us hate on rich people
@@stoneymahoney9106 Just not the rich people who made it, who are awful people.
Him having to stay in the same room for a year was also a reference to the pandemic. "Hey, remember when you couldn't leave your house? We'll the doctor had to do the same thing."
Interesting. Looking forward to seeing this in the video
So glad I don’t pay for a TV licence!!
It's like Kamala Harris's campaign management team got jobs as a TV and film crew lol.
This is real
They gotta get paid somehow because she didn't pay them.
So mean but I don't know to which 😂
"DID YOU EAT A SUN"
That fucking killed me
Capaldi's Who literally had an episode doing basic philosophy about the Free Lunch Paradox, and they're just going "nah, don't worry about it." What a regression.
He does do a bit of breathless exposition about what the bootstrap paradox is in this one too, but it's an extremely insubstantial and unsatisfying scene compared to Capaldi's. A pot noodle quality bootstrap paradox scene.
@@demaupin ah yes, bootstrap paradox - I always forget its proper name :) What a waste of a fun philosophical novelty. With Capaldi's, the fact that it's an absurd paradox is the point, here it's just braindead deus ex machina.
Can't believe you missed the tears/crying when the lizard man died, who he met less than a minute before. 😅
I missed that one (not the one of crying as he said goodbye to Chair Night & the hotel lady). So that makes 3x in one episode he cried (at least) - the 3 wise men turned into the 3 pathetic crying bouts.
So, I’m guessing that the show didn’t even spend a moment to recap what the lizard man actually was for the benefit of newer fans or those that simply forgot?
That was a Silurian.
They aren’t aliens at all, but Dinosaurs. A sapient species of dinosaur that went into hibernation when the asteroid approached Earth. Still others built space Arks as a way to preserve not just their species but all dinosaurs on another planet.
There’s probably a lot more but that’s what I’m familiar with. I think by the 26th century the Silurians had awakened from their millions of years of hibernation and successfully integrated into human society.
I hope so. I’ve always liked the thought of the sci fi concept of a race of sentient dinosaurs surviving somehow and with both humans and them being wise enough and calm enough to live together sharing the planet of our mutual origin.
Oops, lol, I went on a bit of a tangent there. Sorry about that. But yes, dinosaur, not alien.
Dr Who was that part of Christmas Day where you stopped watching tv to go and get some turkey sandwiches and your munchies ready…before Wallace & Gromit and Gavin & Stacey came on!
Get some cheese and crackers. Then watching some some Wallace & Gromit, now that sounds like a good time.
@@chrimsonphantom I had some sweet chilli peanuts, 4 cans of Stella and some Lindt/Lindor chocolates as Christmas presents…they did the trick! 🤣
@@GIBBO4182 That sounds good, I'm glad you had a nice Christmas.
For me Wallace and Gromit followed by Back to the future and the Two Ronnies.
Wow! This entire comment thread sounds so cozy and joyful! I should write some of this down!.
Pretty sure that the fireworks aren’t ‘for’ Guy Fawkes, they’re basically in mockery of his incompetence if anything.
A celebration of his failure.
It's perfectly fitting that this statement in the show goes to prove that the Biased Broadcasting Company only employs people who know NOTHING about British History, so they can be good little employees who won't notice inaccuracies in the bullshit they are told to spew.
In the past it was bonfire [hence the Bonfire Day], where dummies of Guy Fawkes were burnt, before the switched to fireworks.
So if that black man gleefully, disrespectfully wears a kilt, that’s not cultural appropriation, but if I sing along to a dr Dre song I should be exiled to Siberia?
😂 Salt mine for thee!
Siberia would be better than London at this point.
I like the IDEA of the plot. Stuck in a hotel with hidden doors, that sounds cool. The execution is extremely poor. The temporary companions are awful. Someone else said in this in the comments, but I'll repeat. I waited for your review rather than watching the episode.
Also, the Doctor travels through time to go to a hotel with free milk on their complimentary coffee bar. Which means he's basically stealing, when he could just as easily pay.
Yeah, The Doctor steals things. That’s kinda how his adventures began in the first place
"Getting something for free is stealing" bro what
@@suburbanbanshee he's done wayyyy worse
Interesting how they make the first black Doctor a thief who steals everything not nailed down.
I thought the BBC and Disney prided themselves on being progressive rather than reinforcing racial stereotypes?
He could just as easily go to a dairy.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Disparu! Thank you for your entertainment services this year too!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and yours
I’m so sick of Christians being mocked. Jesus is literally the reason for the season. They wouldn’t be making money (or attempting to) off their specials if it wasn’t for his birth in the first place. We have to stop putting up with this. This is serious and it has consequences.
I'm not even religious, and I'm absolutely sick of it too.
Evil only begets more evil
@@MarxyDe_Strooder also hope Wallace and Gromit didn't something stupid waiting it to come Netflix. Anybody know
They know we are not going to run over people in "the religion of peace" markets, burning "peaceful centers," beheading teachers,... Bullies are nasty.
Consequences. Like what twinkle toes? Everything is fair game for mockery, but I suppose you’re right as these types aren’t doing parody like South Park or Ricky Gervais. It’s just open disdain.
There is no Doctor anymore, there's just Gatwa being Gatwa on screen.
"Pardon my French, but what the French are you doing in this room?" Didn't Steven Moffat used to be a professional writer at one point? Now he writes lines like that. "You were being mansplained by a suitcase"
They can't have been that stupid, they just can't have been "That" stupid to go "no, we need to modernity the nativity"
It's not stupidity, it's hate.
Yup, I'm genuinely starting to think we are in a simulation.
@@andrewbailey7045that’s exactly what it is
Not only are they that stupid, they're worse. There's an expression about being a day late and a dollar short. The BBC went 365 better and Joy was a year late to the birth.
Never attribute incompetence to what is clearly malicious intent.
Doctor who is a sad husk of its former self
Her character is Joy Almondo? As in Almond Joy? Never met a candybar she didn't like?
Almondo was supposed to be read as "to the world", but Moffat is too brainrotten to realize what it actually sounds like
We don’t have that chocolate bar in the UK so in his defence how was he supposed to know?
But the Almond Joy has nuts.
😅😂
Almond Oy
The new Ruby should be called Ruby Tuesday, because she eats a lot. For British readers of this comment, Ruby Tuesday is a burger restaurant in America.
😂😂 🇺🇸 🍔
All Hail Disparu for having SO much fun with this one! Great way to help end a very weird year. Laughed a lot Thanks!
So we have come from a world where such creatures like Weeping Wngels and Daleks were the biggest threat to.... To.... Disintegrating breifcases.....
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUU
Never forget White Men are always the biggest threat
@@24zawisza those are big bads, there are plenty of doctor who villains who aren't really a threat.
Let's be honest it started with shop dummies coming to life. Doctor Who has been awful since it returned, people just pretend it's good because it's not a comedy show, Posh people stuff, brain rotting reality TV or a depressing murder drama or Soap, that's all Britain ever makes now.
@@Adam-sd2ow To play devil's advocate, the shop dummies coming to life came from stories in the 70s, so IDK if that's the best example for saying that Doctor Who started declining from 2005 onwards.
Though I do agree about British TV being terrible these days.
What did you do to rubee!? she been stung by bees?" Dam what a roast.
I dunno, I think the Stupid Bint is kinda hawt.
Better than sandfleas!!!😂😂😂
"Nobody knows what the locked door is for." You guys. You guys! I figured it out! He has an IQ of 15.
(Astonished) Fifteen?! That’s _three times_ as much as I thought he had!
Less than half of what we hoped for.
Since the premise is that the "Time Hotel" uses previously not booked rooms in hotels of the past, how is Base Camp at Everest, a Train Carriage & an ancient temple thingy, one of those? Plus all those "rooms" could only be used ONCE!
Disparu reaction to 'How's care's Who's Room it is?!', sounds like something Capaldi's Doctor would say. Speaking of Capaldi they go and rip off the Bootstrap Paradox from 'The Flood'.
The deliberate cultural subversion has done nothing but show me what is culturally worth a damn. Thanks Ncuti Gatwa. Thatwa.
I can’t believe that this is the year I’m not mocking dr who
@rosssoyka860 through great fire comes light, and pain becomes wisdom
I honestly didn't even know there was a "Holiday Special" this year.
Wouldn’t call it a Christmas special would they. No chance.
First that I heard any mention of it was on Christmas day. Before that, I didn't think they were doing one this year.
That "Holiday" term always annoys me as that's what we do in the summer here in the UK. Nothing to do with Christmas. You go to Benidorm or wherever on holiday. For some reason they're trying to replace "Christmas" with "Holiday"...
If I remember right, the only time the doctor was able to be normal he literally had to erase his memory.
Yep and along with that, he altered himself and became human as well.
@@MirandaSinistra well he wasn't being normal on his time on Earth
There's that one episode with Amy and Rory where he struggled to be stuck in one place to watch those cubes or whatever. It was a funny montage of him being silly showing how bored he was, not this tripe.
I was born in 1963 and LOVED Doctor Who ... thank you so much for watching this so I don't have to.
"The guy who tried to blow up parliament! These fireworks are for him!"
well.....KIND OF
What’s the actually reason for the fireworks ?
@@PersonallyPerhaps Well the whole "festival" is more to celebrate the fact that he got caught, and tortured..and failed to blow up parliament. So they kind of WERE for him..but I doubt he'd have been pleased.
Now it just makes the average Brit wish he succeeded.
Hugo Weaving: - heavy breathing -
In my language briefcases are female, so by calling it "mansplaining" this show has disrespected the case's pronouns.
How dare they!
Merry Christmas to you Disparu and a happy New Year. May you always be happy, healthy and entertaining.
As someone who has seen all remaining classic Who episodes and stopped watching halfway through Capaldi I just do not care about this show masquerading as Doctor Who.
Doctor who has returned to being what it was during the 1990's hiatus.....a faded, but nice memory.
RIP Doctor Who.
I love doctor who in 2024.
It's going strong
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme Nobody cares, people these days watch utter cr@p.
@Theguythatstoleyourmeme why are you shilling so hard?
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme In 2024 Doctor Who unfortunately experienced its lowest overnight ratings to date. The 7-day catch-up figures also saw a new series low. Russell T Davies previously acknowledged the drop stating, “They might not be the ratings we'd love. We always want higher.”
Meanwhile one anonymous source close to the production at Disney, was quoted as saying that the future “hangs in the balance” and that it “may not last beyond its initial two seasons.”
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme for a show and IP thats lasted multiple decades, give me 5 reasons why you think it's going strong?
As a Scotsman I feel deeply offended that this actor feels it’s ok to culturally operate my culture (tarter & kilts). He can’t keep getting away with this.
But David Scottish himself 😂lol
"In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The only thing that makes this possible to watch, is Disparu constantly interrupting it every few seconds.
Even then, I can barely stand it! I muted whenever the actors talked in their interviews because it was so horrible.
Pretty sure Lovecraft used the interconnecting doors between hotel rooms in the 1930s...
Considering his experiences with paranoia, racism, sectarianism and just general mental troubles along with his poor understanding of stuff like the term liminal spaces, he probably wrote something far superior to this rubbish. Man was deeply troubled and his works weren't fully appreciated in his life but he wrote some brilliant fiction.
@@Japaneseanimeguy He wasnt troubled, he just saw reality for what it is, and people who lie to themselves to keep up the illusion everything is okay called him mad for it.
@@dorugoramon0518 Atheists are nihilists. There's no reason for them to exist and they know it. Empty, meaningless people just waiting for death.
Yep, there's some interconnecting hotel-room door shenanigans in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" iirc. 1936. In a town full of mutant fish-people you really shouldn't spend the night in a hotel called The Gilman House. The signposting is right there.
Thanks bro for bringing us some fantastic content this year. Have a safe and happy New Year everyone.
In this episode of Doctor WHO, the doctor explores the mystery of “The chair in the corner of the room”
"Just because you become the new companion doesn't mean you get to eat the last one."
I spit out my drink XD
With CGI they can have literally any form of alien they want, and they have a man in a rubber mask from the toy shop. Where did the budget go?
Into recreating a budget hotel
The budget went into rent boys for Gatwa and RTD
Honestly, the rubber mask is probably better than anything they'd make with CGI.
Probably paying off reviewers.
@@stevedean2516 ?
... ... The Mop is made of WOOD... ...
THE SONIC DOESN'T DO WOOD!
And no, the time War didn't fix that issue,. They ran 1,000 years of calculations to get through one door, and then it was right back to not being able to do wood.
ffffffaaaaaaaccccceeeeeppppaaaalllllmmmmmm
and then it was open. That season was truly the start of the downfall.
@@GafferPerkeleAnd the fact that the Day of the Doctor was a Zygon story when they could've done so much more with the Daleks instead... Especially since the last proper Dalek story was Asylum, which completely wasted them IMO.
Don't worry, this is an alternative timeline where the 12th doctor didn't die and we get this sh*t, in the proper time line the 12th doctor decided to give up, mainly because Clara and the girl who played aria are running around the universe, trying to save it, on top of bill and her lover running around the universe as well trying to save it.
Deus Ex Screwdriver. It does whatever they want, whenever they want, because they can't write for toffee
@@SpareSomeChange8080 I'm fine with that, apart from the one thing it explicitly states it doesn't do, multiple times.
I'm just gonna head-canon a metal mop head and pretend he was moving that. And that the sonic can balance a 6 foot pole over whatever its manipulating.
I wouldn't mind, but why would you use the sonic for that anyway? There are 1,000 gadgets he could have whipped together in less time than it takes him to name them, and instead, they literally wave a lore-break in your face.
It does dense solids and electronics, and anything softer than wood is where the magic ends. Apparently, that's too much of a restriction for them these days. They can't even tolerate a hierarchy of materials.
Watching Dr Who fail is bringing joy to my world.
I’m watching it every Christmas
@@Madison-iw8ix it's not failing
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme lol - Good one!
It's failing on _every single metric_ that it can be judged on.
@@cmdrreggit I mean in writing, in viewership it is
@@Theguythatstoleyourmeme TBH - I didn't watch the episode. I gave up on Doctor Who years ago...
So did my wife - shes got tons of Doctor Who merchandise, all the old boxsets...but doesn't watch anymore.
My father _did_ watch it this year - he's 70 and has been watching Doctor Who his whole life...he told me that he was *massively dissapointed* with it this year...but that he did enjoy Wallace & Gromit ❤
Excuse my French but that episode was complete sh-eye-t.
You are one of my top RUclipsrs.
But this doctor who tipped me over the edge, I can't cope lol.. 21:51 makes me question whether I can finish even a review of it from the good Mr Disparu..
So yet another episode of this doctor being completely worthless & saving nobody. Hell because of his incompetence more people actually died
6:20 Are you seriously telling me her character’s name is Joy Almondo? Like the Almond Joy candy bar? Is this just crass product placement, or some sort of secret dig at her that she didn’t realize?
Al Mondo = "to the world" but clearly they didn't think this through at all.
We don’t have that chocolate in the UK so how could it be product placement?
It's a UK show. We don't have Almond Joy. So not product placement.
One would think the Disney team would have said something.
😂
Doesn't she look Italian to you? (Or would that be Spanish?)
Thanks to your reviews, I could 'watch' the last 2 1/2 doctors, because your humor and wit are the shield between us and the unbridled and agonizing mediocrity this show had become. Merry Belated and Happy New Year!
I can't ever understand a word the Doctor says in this show. Feels like I'm having a stroke