Why Doctor Who is a MESS - NitPix

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and I was officially crammed to Doctor Who profit people flooded my mailbox writing you were right you were right about Chris Chibnall this new season it's all wrong man it's all wrong but listen this is what doctor who consistently does it changes every couple of years it reinvents itself like a teenager with daddy issues this is the new me mum I wear black and drink rose blood now it's not a phase it's not a phase and that's what one comes to expect with Doctor Who for over 50 years it's regularly brought in an all-new team of producers actors and writers but the fanbase responds to every single small change is often one of frustration anger and distrust everyone involved in the making of Doctor Who since the 80s has been hated by some group of people somewhere and hey so have I I have hated Doctor Who as much as the next fan I have squealed and tantrums about the place like a lost baby man but eventually I always come around to some degree but this time when I finished season 11 I didn't feel angry I didn't tantrum and whine I felt sad and I didn't know if it was the content or if I'm just old now I didn't know if I was just another stubborn Doctor Who fan I'm willing to accept change due to my own personal bias or if I was right about Chris Chibnall all along to figure this out I went through all of the shows history to try and discover what it is about Doctor Who that always kept me there despite the fact that so often in my life I complained about it so what I'm going to do in this video is unpack all of season 11 and tell you everything that I don't like about it and then I'm going to tell you why that doesn't really matter I haven't just been watching Doctor Who for the last five months I've mostly been playing raids Shadow legends is the newest and freshest mobile RPG with hundreds of champions to collect and customize a storyline which I can only describe as Peng juice PvP battles b-b-b battles and 3d graphics which are so good you will start conflating the game with reality this portable Gammage is priceless because raids shadow Legends is absolutely bloody free and the juice doesn't stop flowing because once you sign up you can take part in the special launch tournament and win in-game prizes so I guess in a way raid really is reality so to support the nitpicks boys help us get bread by going to the description and downloading raid now through my links to get 50,000 silver immediately and a free epic champion as part of the new player program yeah I'll go back to talking about Doctor Who let me take you back to the swinging 60s TV shows look like this and they sounded like this the baby none of these shows had any money and none of them were good but there weren't any armchair critics like me to moan about the miss on scene tonal consistency on narrative structure everyone just watched them and they were happy with what they were given because in the 60s everyone just entertained themselves with dumb like Styx and racism Sydney Newman was a Canadian producer who was working as the head of drama at the BBC he has an idea about an old man traveling in time and he threw money at Verity Lambert to go and make it the BBC in the 60s was a powerful Institute with a lot of talent behind it they were able to design a pretty neat-looking spaceship along with an iconic themed shoe oh yeah the first Doctor Who story is one where the doctor in his companions go to the Stone Age and interact with cave people for a bit I'm not even kidding absolutely nothing happens in it but like I said all of TV was bad back then it's not like they could switch the channel and watch something more interesting after spending time in the Stone Age the doctor and his companions get into the TARDIS and pop to a different planet in the future is here they come across that a race of alien Nazis that want to murder anything that isn't them this scared the absolute out of everyone and it makes Doctor Who a household name in the UK forcing tons of young impressionable sixties kids to hide behind their couch which by the way did anyone else's parents who watched Doctor Who say they hid behind the sofa because mine dead I know lots of people whose parents have told them that lets it all stems from childhood we left remember like most kids in my generation hide and be in the city what the is that about who hides behind a couch surely you just hide behind your pillow or something and aren't couches mostly up against the wall anyway because the docs who can travel anywhere from a school in 1963 to the Stone Age to an alien planet in the far future the writing staff were only limited by the budget at that time within the first three months of the show's origin it was clear that the quality of the show was infrequent every time someone sat down to watch a new Doctor Who story they had no idea if they'd be getting a tightly scripted piece of science fiction master work or something that was boring as Doctor Who carried on for three years maintaining its popularity and continuing with its hit-or-miss mentality as the years went by the writers production staff and most of the cast members were replaced the doctor would frequently swap out his companions as often as I changed out the piss bucket that's under my bed which is a lot the only person who couldn't be swapped out was William Hartnell the actor who played the doctor the straining filming schedule was taking a toll on his health the show was a national hit but they couldn't have Doctor Who without the doctor it was here that Sydney Newman came up with another genius idea it was quoted as saying hey guys this doctor guy's an alien let's just make him change his face change his face change his face change it change it change it change it counter space this was the missing ingredient necessary to make Doctor Who immortal it would continue for a further two decades the role of the doctor cycled through eight different actors and the writers introduced new aspects such as the sonic screwdriver a nifty device that opens doors operates technical devices and anything else the script needs it to do Gallifrey the doctor's home planet Time Lords the people who live on Gallifrey and the master the doctors arch enemy other than the Daleks who's also a Time Lord but he's like an evil one and they used to be brothers or something well they were like they knew they were friends or something but how did Doctor Who stay on there for such a long time well I'll tell you it was because it had the ability to adapt and change in the 70s it took inspiration from the science fiction show Quatermass and in the 80s it took more of an inspiration from Star Wars as audience expectations of television changed Doctor Who changed with it from the very inception of the show its ownership had never been weighed on a single Walter his ownership shifted from Robert Holmes to Douglas Adams to John nathan-turner John nathan-turner was 16 when Doctor Who first aired and was a big fan of the show for much of his early life he got a job working on the show in the 70s and wiped his way up for 10 years until he got the top producer position as a fan of the show he had a strong opinion on where dr. who had gone wrong and proceeded to make huge changes the fans who had sat through the best and the worst of Doctor Who for the last 20 years were now more entitled they were the only people that knew how good dr. who could be so when inevitably the ratings diminished and the budget was slashed fans were quick to criticize John nathan-turner one of those people was Chris Chibnall h19 in this clip it was perhaps a little too routine Doctor Who very much what the audience is expecting is not really very challenging for them to watch as the show continued to drop in ratings fans began to worry about the show's longevity the song doctor in distress was produced in a bid to keep the show running this mesmerizing harmony of softer vocals [Music] was sadly not enough to stop Doctor Who from being cancelled four years later the fans festered like prison wine for over a decade writing fan scripts and fan books and fan audio dramas a group of Doctor Who fans even made a fan film with long term fan Paul McGann but in that 16 year gap TV had changed television now had showrunners alters that would oversee all the creative aspects of the show like David Chase would for The Sopranos David Simon would filled the wire and Josh Whedon would for Firefly though John nathan-turner has seen as the man behind Doctor Who in the 80s he never wrote a single episode he just sort of shaped it it didn't have much control over the show though as he was forced to fire Colin Baker was always jumping through hoops to appease the BBC for the first time in Doctor Who's history a single author would step in and take control of both the writing and production of the show in 2005 big boy Malloy Russell T Davies stepped in brought Doctor Who back from the ashes and made everyone love it again we went for a rebirth of the doctor the Daleks the Cybermen the master they were all birthed out in glistening high-definition by one huge Welsh Doctor Who fan and just when doctor who had been restored to the height of its popularity he bowed his head and left the world of who it was here that Steven Moffat took over a showrunner he was known in the UK for Sherlock and for writing some of the best episodes of who in Russells error under Moffitt's guidance doctor who was modernised for a second time the scale was upped and the show gained international were praised including a new fan base from across the pond but after making six seasons of Doctor Who Moffat decided to move on and do other things with his life the next in line for the Doctor Who throne was Chris Chibnall the traitor of broadchurch Chibnall was tasked with reinventing and modernizing Doctor Who for a 2018 audience and it came out five months ago similar to Chris Chibnall in 1986 many 19 year-old white boys are upset about these new Doctor Who episodes Doctor Who still exists largely on an episode by episode basis and these episodes will either be a hit or a miss for you personally there are fans out there that love every episode unconditionally and power to those people but these new chip new episodes are considered by many myself included to be entirely missus but if you'd like to see how I rate each episode of Doctor Who since it came back in 2005 I put up a video on my second channel where I go through all of them but surely these new episodes can't be that bad it's still a time-traveling alien in a blue box using a magic wand to fight men in rubber costumes how much worse can it possibly be let's find out the most important day in any Doctor Who's showrunners life is their first episode this is their pitch to us the audience it lays out the groundwork for what we can expect from their vision of who it's essential to get right if you want to lessen the inevitable onslaught of a fanbase who all think they can do it better than you both Russell T Davis and Steven Moffat understood this and pulled out some major Peng juice in their episodes Rose and the eleventh hour these episodes masterfully introduced the characters tone and genre in Rose we are introduced to Rose an average 19 year old London girl going about her day in these quick punchy edits which allow us to piece together the type of life she leads everything's quite normal until she's asked to go down to the dark dingy basement tension bills as we see shop mannequins slowly start to move as they stagger towards the frightened vulnerable Billie Piper it looks like she's done for but then at the last minute a cheeky northern man in a leather jacket grabs her hand and saves her boom the doctor with a companion running away from science fiction monsters all while exchanging snappy witty dialogue this is Russell T Davis's pitch for Doctor Who is his vision of the show in a nutshell and were only five minutes into the very first episode is concise and to the point the relationship between the doctor and Rose is the focus of the episodes and the emotional crux of the whole season I'm the doctor by the way what's your name Rose nice to meet you rose run for your life 13 years later Chris Chibnall has a crack at establishing his version of who it opens with brian sinclair vlogging on his youtube channel finally a Doctor Who companion that I can relate to a humble British youtuber but bro what kind of youtubing are you doing Ryan s what kind of terrible name is that you need to work on your branding you've just uploaded a video called hey you could have made that a lot more clickbait how about my nan fell off a crane and died storytime / iPhone giveaway that will get you views I don't know why I'm giving this YouTube noob advice anyway it's not like he ever does YouTube again ever it's just a really convenient narrative device to have Ryan speak directly to the audience similar to what Russell T Davies wrote in Love & monsters but it's even worse here because Ryan isn't even the sort of lad to have a youtube channel it doesn't seem to have any interest in filmmaking or storytelling or vlogging he's a pretty shy guy who works in a warehouse ryan explains to us that he's a pretty smart capable guy but can't ride a bike yet this is because he has dyspraxia condition which gives him bad coordination but ryan isn't the only companion there are an additional three characters that need to be introduced before we meet the new doctor so quickfire we got grace Ryan's nan who's so nice that you really hope she won't fall off a crane Bram very nice guy he's Grace's second husband and really wants Ryan to call him grandad and lastly we've got yaz yeah she's nice nice as well she used to study at school with Ryan and there's now a filthy Pig she wants to do more than just handle parking disputes I'm capable of more than parking disputes I don't quite know what she wants murder cases maybe arson stabbings but why you 22 what before you run you know so that's everyone introduced then it's time to get on with the plot Brian goes on a rager because he can't ride a bike and throws it off a cliff his grandparents go home without him but Paul Ryan gets more than what he bargained for when upon searching for his bike he comes across a big pink cold fig so he does what any old geezer would do and calls the roses which is conveniently Yeahs because now she gets to do more than just deal with parking disputes I want to do mom can you not get them to give me something that will test me something a bit different they look at it a bit together and go oh this is odd but before they can finger the fig any further ryan gets a phone call from grace and gram their train has mysteriously stopped and out of the darkness they see a glowing tentacle alien which is conveniently linked with this mysterious fig but something that's also convenient for them is that the doctor also conveniently falls into the same carriage as them conveniently placing herself directly in front of old tentacles here thank God because only God Himself could manifest all these coincidences you could call that bad writing but isn't that all of life really just a series of complex incomprehensible coincidences that lead you to the present moment I don't know who you are or why you're watching this video you could have gone through some sort of tragedy a breakup maybe but whoever you are it all comes down to a series of unpredictable moments that propel you into the present no matter who you are that's what it comes down to and here we both are in the present sharing in our mutual bitter curiosity about Doctor Who so anyway let's compare that to how Buffett introduces his vision of who in the eleventh hour the doctor crash-lands in Amelia pond garden little Amelia goes to investigate an ounce brings out the eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith the doctor investigates a mysterious crack in Amy's bedroom but then he has to leave to stop the TARDIS from blowing up when he comes back it's been years and Amy is all grown up she thought the doctor was her imaginary friend she calls him raggedy man because he's wearing the ragged costume of the temp doctor the doctor calls her the girl who waited this is just something Steven Moffat likes to do he gives his Doctor Who characters poetic titles that's his style the man's got style Moffat Payne's the doctor as an imaginary friend to the new companion he's a man unlike any other an ancient magician that sees the beauty within the fabric of the universe we are first introduced to the character through the eyes of a child he makes her laugh makes her feel safe and he leaves her spellbound the doctor shares in her childlike whimsy and it's sharply contrast against the brooding David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston who may have had issues connecting with children viewers will always approach a new season with the new doctor with a sense of caution we get attached to a certain actor playing the role in a certain way and when someone new comes in it's very easy to turn our noses up and disgust Moffat makes sure to give Matt Smith plenty of time to showcase his acting chops we see him testing out his new taste bugs joking with Amy delivering technobabble and interacting with his environment before the major conflict of the episode starts we have an understanding of what type of character he is and are fully on board with Moffitt's vision of the eleventh Doctor Whitakers doctor is not given the same type of space she's introduced right immense conflict she's just regenerated and crashed down to earth similar to the eleventh Doctor however instead of having time to chill out get her bearings and get to know her new companions she spends the entire episode running from set piece to set piece the doctor is best when he's putting out lots of fires simultaneously having to run from one place no chip no no we've gone from a series of scenes which feature gritty Sheffield's social realism to a woman fooling thousands of feet from the sky through the roof of a train she gets up immediately it grabs a hanging electrical tube and stabs the CGI tentacle monster with it that makes it dormant for ten seconds it then wakes up again gives them all a shock and then leaves the doctor then proceeds to ask everyone loads of questions when's the next train Jim this is the last one back but the doors are locked how did you both get in drivers window was smashed in what's your name piece you ask a lot of questions morning not very charismatic the daughter asks if anyone's seen anything elsewhere tonight and Ryan and yaz know what's up that weird big thing from earlier so they drive all the way back and it's vanished where'd the fig goes well this guy has it and he films it and stares at it for a bit Oh shibby you really know how to build up a mystery I'm on the edge of my seat when we cut back to the doctor they're in a completely different location and the daughter faints because that's what the doctor tends to do right after regenerating I think your so the writers can have scenes where the companions discuss at length wherever they should trust the doctors new face on you said to renewed he doesn't he doesn't look renewed he looks older you thought he was young he looked young Oh Russell and Moffat chose not to do this with their first doctors because when you've got people that have never met the doctor before there's nothing to really talk about the third doctor played by Jon Pertwee was asleep for almost a whole hour before he got up and did anything but then when he does wake up he sneaks around the unit base pretends to be a showering soldier and then when no one's looking he's still some clothes still Zachar and then this is his first real bit of dialogue all right all right I suppose you want to see my pass it's what I haven't got one and I'm not gonna tell you my name either but you just tell Rick at your left bridges to earth and I want to see him well don't just stand there argument get on what a nutter within a few minutes the doctor is introduced as a character that's intelligent cunning devious childish and a the 13th doctor wakes up from asleep and immediately launches straight into shouting the plotter her baffled companions micro implants which co2 DNA notice how they seem uncomfortable confused scared we as an audience don't feel any warmth towards this new doctor because we are seeing her from their perspective in rows after the initial conflict is over there is a karma period in which the ninth doctor played by Christopher Eccleston for some light investigating there's a strange man in my bedroom yes there is these interactions allow you to grasp what his sense of humor is like its general disregard for social norms and what excites him Russell uses a tool to characterise the doctor that Chibnall has entirely overlooked comedy Russell and Moffat use comedic dialogue to characterize their doctors and it makes us as an audience warm to them like a piping hot cup of joe lots of planets Eleanor I've seen you somewhere before not me brand new face it first time on when Chippenham writes for the doctor the jokes are lukewarm tepid cups of vomit remember biology how many for my to do phone no on there not anymore the doctor explains that they've all been injected with DNA bombs by that tentacle thing the DNA bombs will rewrite their DNA completely and kill them all in 10 minutes only joking there's no countdowns in this one boys signals over countdowns the bombs can go off at any moment but for some unknown reason they haven't yet the doctor tracks the signal back to the tentacle monster and they all leave to find it and that's the end of the scene its entire purpose is to explain all of the plot to get them to the next scene the scene is surface level and has no depth to it but this is Doctor Who we're talking about it's hardly the wire how much depth can you expect a scene in Doctor Who to have well in Steven Moffat the eleventh hour the doctor realizes there's been an alien fugitive living in Amy's house for over a deck the prison guards responsible for the fugitive are going to destroy the earth if he's not taken back into custody within an hour the doctor with no TARDIS or sonic screwdriver stuck in a village in the middle of nowhere but instead of focusing on the plot the scenes are focused around the relationship between the doctor and Amy Pond as they walk through the village it becomes clear that amy has had an obsession with the doctor since she was a child the doctor launches into technobabble but the scene isn't really about that the scene has really focused around how these people react to seeing the manifestation of Amy's imaginary friend to come to life the doctor is completely oblivious to this subtext which adds further depth to the scene so assuming a medium-sized starship that's 20 minutes what do you think 20 minutes nurse boy give me your phone how could he be real he was never real though now give me it was just a game we were we were kids you made me dress up as in we've got 20 minutes 20 minutes and what are you the doctor Yes Doctor all those cartoons you did when you were little then suddenly the doctor gets a Eureka moment when he sees an oddly taking photographs of a man in his dog instead of the massive eye of Sauron staring down at Earth from space he realizes he can save the planet and is about to launch into action but amy is having none of it and handcuffs him to a car and demands to know who he is Amy is a hot-headed Scottish woman she has grown impatient with the doctor shrugging away her questions and acting as if she's not in the room she's overly emotional in his for frightened demanding she's an active protagonist and isn't happy being ordered around by the doctor Chibnall writes his companions as flawless passive sick EO fans not a single one ever clashes with the doctor they barely even argue amongst themselves it's hard to have to stink characters when everyone always agrees with each other everyone is always in the right and everyone's always really nice you might be thinking that Rose Tyler was an archetypal Mary ray sue but she would often argue with the doctor or make mistakes you were right you are a look if I did forget some kid called Mickey it's not that I'm busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape blundin about on top of this planet all right yes it is companions are important they're the characters we personally relate to in a Doctor Who story their knowledge of the universe fits in with our own and they serve as a narrative tool they ask questions about their environment which produces exposition Neri dialogue they're often grand a story more in reality as their contemporary attitudes and ideals will contrast with the science fiction genre they often act as a moral compass for the doctor questioning what's right and what's wrong the doctor is hyper intelligent immortal and a time traveler is hard to fill any genuine tension when the leading character is so Opie is the Companions that are emotionally and physically vulnerable and it is them who we connect with the emotional stakes are judged not through the large-scale visual effects but by the level of conflict that's exerted on the companions when Russell T Davis brought back the master in season three he takes over the planet and murders 10% of Earth's population but what gives the episode high emotional stakes as that Martha Jones's family of kidnapped and tortured for a year we've never seen Martha challenged and tested this much before and is a great example of hound companions provide that much-needed emotional anchor in an episode of Doctor Who in tipples vision of who the doctor talks to all three of her companions in exactly the same way she's warm to them she's kind and she humors their questions but there's a lack of intimacy I never understood what she genuinely likes about them or why she enjoys traveling with them this first episode was dying to have a scene in which the doctor gets to know them on a personal basis something that made her friendship of these free normies tangible and genuine but instead of developing the core characters chip knows priority is in developing the half-baked plot of his first episodes as we watch this Rando stare at this huge fig some more the fig opens up and some power ancient-looking geezer crawls out and stomps over to the Rando who's all like what happened to my sister and then the alien that was in the fig kills him but I know what you're asking tentacles Power Ranger boy DNA bombs what the is happening here well one of Graham's mates calls him up and tells him about some shady electric that's going up on this building the doctor and a crew get there and discovered the tentacle alien isn't actually an alien at all but more of a bio organic data-collecting MacGuffin it holds the data of one of the guys from the train earlier you know this guy the data has been collected for the Power Ranger whose name is Tim Shaw Tim Shaw is basically doing a predator thing where he's been sent to earth to hunt a human and if he does he becomes king of the Power Rangers he turns up on the roof and starts saying he should kill the doctor and her crew but he doesn't he just gives them all the exposition we need to Fred these loose and lackluster ingredients together nevermind that it seems like a pretty shitty test for a warrior race to go through since they plow through humans like I plow through your mum yeah that's right I your mum all that I was sprouting out earlier about coincidences and that's being bound together by a mutual interest in doctor who was just all to make you like me I your mum Tim Shaw absorbs all the Intel from the bio tentacle squid robot and teleports away cube man style after his target who literally seems like a person I could beat the out of so now it's time for the big finale and it's all on this crane because Tim Shaw's target works as a crane driver he has low self-esteem and he's all alone it's the loneliness of the tower crane driver so isolated so distant from reality and nobody looking down at the ants below the doctor confronts Tim sure again and after a bit of a scuffle she reveals that when he scanned that tentacle monster earlier on the roof he actually absorbed everyone's DNA bombs because she put the DNA bombs in the tentacle thing with her screwdriver and he absorbed the DNA bombs when he absorbed the data and he didn't know he was tricked he was tricked by the doctors cunning so he's filled with DNA bombs and he teleports away just as the bombs are going off or maybe he'll come back later in another episode maybe Tim Shaw will be a universally loved and acclaimed Doctor Who villain because he's just such a well conceived and interesting antagonist Brian's grandmother grace is up climbing the crane and she's trying to stop the squid from hurting people and she falls off the crane and dies there's a funeral which must have happened immediately after because the doctor is invited to it despite not really knowing her very well then the doctor gets her clothes from a charity shop and then she tries to teleport to a TARDIS on her own but instead she accidentally teleports everyone in the room to the middle of space that's the cliffhanger we end on this episode could have been made a lot tidier if it cut out all the fat and made the narrative components simpler if you want to do a story about an alien warrior that needs to hunt a specific person why choose this Rando crane driver why not go for Ryan yaz or Graham follow a terminator structure with the doctor acting as a protector for the target constantly evading danger and trying to figure out the mystery as to what's happening when you start involving DNA bombs giant pink figs and a subplot with this guy and his sister you're just wasting valuable time and clustering the story with crap well why not make Tim Shaw Stargate that way her death would be more tragic and wouldn't seem like something that could have easily been avoided it would have made Tim Shore more frightening villain and her death would have had a stronger emotional impact on the audience the doctor is a highly empathetic character that takes the responsibility for protecting the people they care about the doctor failed when she let grace die yet this is never something she feels guilty for and there's never any blame put on the doctor by grace as close family as the episodes continue the doctor will smile and promise to keep people safe but no point do any of her companions say oh man what about grace she wasn't safe man Graham is the most prominent and consistent family member Ryan has Graham should feel protective of Ryan's well-being and should always want to keep him safe above all else but he sees traveling with the doctor as one big roller coaster never questioning the safety of it I'm more than happy to see his grandson put in high-risk situations if it was written as a character that actually cared about Ryan it would create conflict it would create drama and it would make the characters more defined this is the foundation of the problems that you find with almost all of chiba NAL's written episodes it's a bunch of fred chasing with disappointing reveals which don't carry any impact or emotional resonance there's not enough characters there's not enough distinguishable themes and the science fiction is boring I know what you're thinking are you going to look at every episode of season 11 in a scene-by-scene sequence analysis are you going to do that with all 11 episodes because honestly that feels quite boring no that's not what I'm going to do I'm just doing it for this one the first one as I said earlier this is chip Noel's pitch to us his vision for Doctor Who but I still don't understand what that is exactly I don't understand if Chibnall series is lighter or darker in tone I don't know who these characters are and what makes them different from anyone else on earth I don't understand why they like the doctor and vice-versa the woman who fell to earth is an hour long Rose is 45 minutes with less time Russell was able to establish four strong characters give us a genuinely unsettling monster establish the TARDIS and establish the doctor as an enigmatic figure that is always accompanied by death he's able to fit all this into 45 minutes plus give us a cheeky monologue on top of that when Moffat introduces new companions the guy goes full whack he puts everything into it in Clara's first episode as a companion a plane is about to crash so the doctor and Clara get into the TARDIS and materialize on the plane and then stop it from crashing and all of that is made to look like one shot then in Peter Capaldi's last season he's introduced as this legendary professor who's been lecturing at the University for decades we have these amazing sequences where the doctor gives lectures about art science and time travel so when one year later we've got this unambitious doll poorly thought through version of Doctor Who it just bloody depresses me it's like the show has been drained of fun colour and enthusiasm but is Chibnall to blame or is the issue more to do with what's in between the doctors legs the doctor has been a big old blokey bloke for a long time forever actually until now now he's a woman with a big old vagina between his legs but that's not a big deal right that won't change anything right wrong of course it will change things it changes lots of things since his inception the character of the doctor has been built around two personality types which are typically associated with male traits easy for a charming romantic flirty man who takes his companions on weird space dates or he's a slightly seen are whimsical grandfather with a glint in his eye and the secrets of the universe on his shoulders though each actor brought their own spin to this framework these are the archetypes we associate with the doctor but now that the doctor is female these traditional versions of the doctor won't work anymore and that's a bad thing right no of course not you've sexist idiot if anything is a good thing Doctor Who as a show is fluid like a microwave chalky doughnut doughnut there's been microwaved too much so much so that it's loopy like gluten gloopy like gluten gloopy glue like gluten first doctor gluten who for you nothing solid nothing stable is constantly Glu Glu glutens but changing the doctors gender is probably one of the biggest changes the date this change was a great incentive to bring in new fans as well as excite writers with the possibility of a completely new setup I was especially excited after seeing how Steven Moffat reinterpreted the master as a woman for the first time Missy is still an evil Time Lord she's still confident and manipulative but these aspects of her character have been reinstated in a new way she's less insane than the original master she's more flirtatious and her relationship with the doctor is entirely different the masters motivation stops being one hell-bent on domination and evil schemes and instead becomes her trying to be a good person the nature of the character evolved he embraced Missy's inherent and allowed the change of gender to genuinely progress a character without sacrificing her status within the Doctor Who universe Moffat didn't just change the way the master looked her character was completely reinvented from the ground up however the Masters gender change wasn't revealed into the end of her first season as a surprise twist she had numerous scenes to build up to the bigger masking this wasn't something chipler could do with the show's central character when Jodie Whittaker was announced as the thirteenth doctor the fan base were immediately split you had a side which smugly raised up their champagne glasses while sitting up on their high horses Tooting about how progressive the show was to have a woman with a time womb and there was an opposing side which screamed and cursed in agony at the idea of it all but after all the fighting and arguing online season 11 feels like the direct result of that split in order to please one side the beep made the doctor a woman but in order to not piss off the other side they made her as uncontroversial as possible Whitakers doctor as a whole has less of an overall narrative focus than what we've seen in previous seasons this is partly due to the number of main protagonists and Doctor Who doubling from two to four and that's not even including all the bloody supporting characters Chibnall seems to always clog his scripts up with the attention is never really on the doctor she seems to always be in the background nipping at everyone's heels and barely having any dominance in her scenes this results in the doctor having far fewer moments of brilliance but let's break down the 13th Doctor as a character she's childish she speaks her mind and short quick sentences and she's very easily excitable most of the humor with her character comes from her being socially awkward all these traits are commonly associated with the doctor it's as if she's been undercooked she lacks the ego the flair for the dramatic the width the flirtiness the leadership the broodiness and that tinge of tragedy Russell and Moffat built on the doctor's god complex and would often paint him as a mythological protector that's always accompanied by death chip Moore's vision of the character doesn't seem to have the same level of ambition for complexity but does stripping the daughter of these traits make her character less compelling not necessarily the show is constantly being reinvented and I welcome a showrunner coming in and changing things up but there's nothing new or game-changing about the characterization of the thirteenth doctor the only thing that makes her different is her biology biology Chibnall hasn't taken advantage of the doctors newfound feminine in any way is pretty much ignored apart from the odd line here and there it's as if the doctor is trying to ignore her new gender rather than embrace it as Missy did if a woman had had been embraced in the writing process we could have had an entirely new approach to the character I'm not saying that should have been this way however the doctor has always been a gendered character and displayed traits that coincided with his regeneration not just in relations gender but age and even class as well a female doctor could have signified a new direction for the character to go in and that change in characterization could have led to an entirely new approach to how she handles conflict we could have had a doctor who's good at spying or assuming false identities she could have been depicted as a germaphobe finicky or easily grossed out by things she could be written as materialistic sensitive or tactile they could have heightened her sense of empathy even make it a part of the doctors character to adjust to the change after being a man for so long the obvious idea is to make her more of a mother figure to juxtapose the parental role that the dots are traditionally portrayed the kind of mother who can murder with a sonic screwdriver television shows like fleabag or orange is the new black tackle female issues and embrace the sociological differences they exist between genders as a strength they show how femininity can be grotesque or violent or horny the interactions motivations and floors these female characters and body are different to the ones normally written for men he says he'll only talk to you through potential proceedings if you go for a drink with him of course I know outrageous stops - after you said it either my hair isn't great at the moment in modern television less and less does one come across female characters who are present to serve simple functions like empowerment or to simply give a male protagonist someone to save and in fact there are tons of examples of this being present even in the past it's such a shame that the first woman to play the character of the doctor to be part of what is considered a British institution has been pushed into a less leading role and seems to have been directed to interpret her character as a less engaging middle ground between Matt Smith and David Tennant only this time they have removed any of the character flaws which they possess even small quirky floors which humanize the doctor like often times he talked to his TARDIS as if he was a guy who was way too into his car how are you sexy thing it's almost like he wants to put his dick in the console I was interested in seeing how Chibnall would write a female doctor interacting with her TARDIS which he still show that same slightly romantic relationship or would her interaction be entirely different in you how does a female doctor engage with her sexuality but it seems as though the doctor is lost at this point because she just treats it like a piece of equipment kind of boring really but the most important relationship in the doctor's life is the one with their companions as I said in the previous slide chip knows companions are happy little cucumbers happy to roll from set peace to set peace without any major conflict with the doctor this is a major problem as conflict is the easiest path to characterization and it makes the relationships fill Ironton special for example when Rose is in her second episode she asks the doctor questions about his background she asks about his race and where he's from but he just gets mad defensive then the second act starts and it's all action Rose nearly dies this tree woman dies the doctor figures out skin flaps evil plan and he saves the day then in the epilogue for the episode The Doctor and Rose go get chips is here that he comes out with his big secret is the last of the Timelords he tells her that there was a huge war between the Time Lords and the Daleks this war was called the time war and it all happened off-screen the doctor is the only one that survived and is the last of his kind we know he's still suffering from the emotional fallout from the war because of his dutty behavior from earlier the scene is intimate Rose has won over the doctors trust and their relationship has been strengthened the doctor has given Rose privileged information about himself that he wouldn't reveal to most people Moffat does exactly the same thing in a me second episode a chip Noel's version of the doctor has no secrets nothing personal to reveal and her scenes with her companions lack that intimacy instead of writing scenes that aims are better to find the central character of the show the attention is put on developing the back stories of randos in the ghost monument this guy even gets an entire monologue all the doctor gets is a scene where she tells her new companions that she's failed and that they're all going to die sorry I failed you we're stuck here are we I promise you and I'll let you down we've got each other now I'll be dead within one rotation another thing that pisses me off is that the thirteenth doctor will often randomly name drop dead celebrity she's hung out with shades oh so like an old pair of mine I say mine Remember Who I borrowed them off now it was either Audrey Hepburn or Pythagoras oh yeah those are clearly Pythagoras's pair of pry marks Sony's these name drops don't make us seem cool or interesting it just reminds me of my mate Darren who won't stop mentioning that one time when he shared a joint with Rupert Grint Darren people will finger an impressive guy without mentioning that experience you have more value than that Rupert Grint isn't even all that I guess at the core of it I've always held a bitter jealousy towards all the female and gay Doctor Who fans who lusted over Tennant Smith and Capaldi's dick I was just really looking forward to being able to have my Turner objectifying the doctor but they have made us so neutral so broadly grounded to please the many but I can't even find it in me to objectify her I can't even enjoy where to go on the basis level and I know it's definitely not her fault because she is hella sexy in that black mirror episode where she cheats on her husband so all that I'm left to conclude in terms of how they wanted to build whiticus doctor is that they didn't have a bloody clue but you could argue that this season aim to dial the doctor back a bit and instead focus on social and justices some people have used this as a catalyst for claiming the show has become too damn political there's been taken over by the evil soy drinking falafel wrap loony sjw left so now here we are doctor who has lost it all it's become entirely obsessed with its political agenda and as a result has lost any semblance of being a good show JK doctor who has always been politically orientated and always to the left there's a whole story with the Eighth Doctor which criticizes the racist attitudes of the Brits during the 60s but if that wasn't enough it also shows a civil war between black and white Daleks the white Daleks think they're superior to the black Daleks and the whole time the doctor in his companion go around talking about how bad racism is this isn't anything new and actually I expect it in my who tried to make you their slave they just want to use you yeah evil the doctors agenda has always been one a peaceful conflict resolution protecting oppress cultures and criticizing any forms of regressive opinions that are found throughout the galaxy but that's not to say that this new season of Doctor Who has even made itself more political they're only around three episodes that you could argue have a socio-political focus these are Rosa demons of the Punjab and KaBlam chip Lansford episode Rosa is co-written by Malorie Blackman who wrote the book series noughts and crosses the knots and crosses books are set in a parallel universe this 21st century world is similar to our own except race segregation is still prevalent this makes Mallory perfect for writing a Doctor Who episode featuring Rosa Parks the first lady of civil rights the mother of the freedom movement and an activist who's best known for a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott this episode is definitely one of the strongest in the season as it's not covered in chopin all's bland grubby fingerprints all the scenes with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King or engaging and well constructed but more importantly this episode dares to try something new with the show's format in classic Doctor Who the doctors seem to only want to travel with white people for the 26 years it was on television the writers never fought to bring in a companion of color I find this particularly strange as the show frequently articulates messages of tolerance and equality it would have been controversial of course but not as controversial as a horror own Star Trek by the 80s doctor whose ratings were in decline the show needed to be modernized and changed the show was cancelled in 1986 and two years later red dwarf was aired on BBC two this episodic comedy science fiction show became a cult classic and for many nerds it filled the doctor who shaped hole in their hearts half of the main cast were black and the show wasn't considered controversial or risky for its casting decisions if they had cast a black actor to play the doctor or one of his companions if done properly it could have revitalized the show for a new audience it wasn't until 2007 that the doctor would travel with fan favorite companion Martha Jones but with this representation comes a slight hitch take it to the Future absolutely no problems at all they have a great time hanging out with cat people but take it to England in the 16th century and the locals there might not be as accommodating Martha is understandably concerned about this but the doctor shrugs it away and reassures her that she's fine exactly why in case you've noticed even though during this time period Queen Elizabeth the first who briefly appears in the same episode have publicly said that Africans would be arrested and exiled from England on site but if this episode was historically accurate everyone they met would be five foot two and reek of the brutal side of history is ignored for the sake of romanticizing the thrill of travelling with the doctor Moffitt approaches racism and Doctor Who in the same way in Finn ice the doctor and Bill go to 1814 it shows a multicultural London and it's asserted that racism isn't something Bill should really worry about sure it's slightly alluded to or maybe touched on at NC bit but you who never really ran with historical realities or made them a part of their show which is a shame as oppressive environments can be more conductive to new types of conflict Shipton's approach to his first historical episode is entirely different in Rosa the dr. Graham Yasim Rian accidentally materialized in Montgomery Alabama 1955 upon leaving the TARDIS Rian is racially assaulted both verbally and physically whilst Russell T Davis and Steven Moffat shied away from discussing racism and Doctor Who head-on Chris Chibnall and Malorie Blackman Ryan uncensored and realistic depiction of racial discrimination in the 1950s I don't know how it goes would you folks from your boy he'll be swinging from true with the news for negative she dodges a white woman of course however the emotional impact of the scene is weakened by the meek response from our protagonists the doctor is responsible for Ryan's safety and well-being but after the assault she just stands around awkwardly in the background and says we don't want any trouble after this Rosa Parks appears out of nowhere and handles the situation after the assaulter leaves the doctor fangirls / Rosa who tells them to leave Alabama the doctor scans Rosa with a screwdriver and starts giving exposition about artron energy there isn't any attention brought back to Ryan and everyone ignores the assault even happens Ryan shrugs the whole thing off only seeming slightly frustrated Graham is also responsible for Ryan he loves him as a grandson but aside from rubbing his face a bit he doesn't give him a emotional support he never seems concern for Ryan's well-being and is unmoved by this aggressive display of discrimination Ryan and yaz are dehumanized Furber when they are kicked out of a restaurant and it's only here that the doctor suggests that they wait in the TARDIS it's as if she's only just realized this environment is hostile and dangerous for two of her close friends the episode focuses on Rosa Parks involvement in the civil rights movement but because our protagonists are so detached and unmoved by these acts of intolerance we as an audience lack emotional investment in the narrative but if every historical episode of Doctor Who that always comes an alien antagonist with Dickens there were ghosts with Shakespeare there were witches and now with Rosa Parks we have a time-traveling space racist named Roscoe this geezer is from the far future and has murdered over 2,000 people he states that things started to go wrong when civil rights were introduced to America and sets out on a dastardly plan to stop Rosa Parks from performing her bus boycott with the hope of changing history Roscoe is so bland and uncharismatic especially for a future racist responsible for the death of 2,000 people any interactions with him and the protagonist simply play out as him standing across from them giving a monologue about his plans to rewrite history and then vaguely threatening them he's unable to inflict pain on any living being because of a neural restrictor in his brain there is very little that makes him stand out as an antagonist he doesn't really do a whole lot and when he does do something it's off screen for instance he interferes with a bus so that Rosa Parks can't get on it it cuts her a trash bus and everyone's like oh it must have been that guy the greaser from the future the blandness continues until Ryan shows up with a time gun and sends that back to the dinosaurs the science fiction aspects that make up this episode feel entirely half-baked I know in the past we've had werewolves vampires and a giant wasp and they are dumb but it always seemed like these creatures were directly informed by the environment they were in or they served a larger purpose of celebrating and playing tribute to the historical figures featured in them the witch is speaking a Shakespearean prose Dickens doorknocker forms a ghostly apparition an Agatha Christie witnesses a series of murders in a country house they aren't by any means good episodes but the creatures felt like they had a presence they posed a genuine threat to the characters in that circumstance they also have a unique chemistry with the historical figures they're interacting and the postmodern nature of it all makes it feel like a satisfying piece of writing kraskow is entirely separate from the civil rights movement and aside from being a racist doesn't help to articulate the hardships Rosa Parks had to go through or celebrate the culture of Rosa Parks was a part of in Vincent and the doctor the doctor and Amy visit Vincent van Gogh the antagonist of the episode is a creature which embodies and represents van Gogh stew pressure we connect with Vincent's struggles and we learn about the historical period he lived in at the end of the episode the doctor takes van Gogh to present-day London to show him how much his work will be appreciated and respected in the future this all feels bittersweet as you the viewer still know that he will eventually take his own life we aren't told what depression does to people it's never explained to us we're shown it in an interesting unique way this blends of sci-fi playfulness and sadness are the sort of tones that are particularly unique to Doctor Who much like in Rosa they choose to celebrate the historical figure with a pretty heavy-handed monologue at the end in Rosa is performed by the doctor with them all standing around the TARDIS looking at a TV screen but in Vinson and the doctor is performed by Bill Nye directly to the painter as you watch the personal impact this has on Van Gogh they also use van Gogh's painting to influence the cinematography and set design of the whole episode giving the episode a distinct and beautiful feeling this level of ambition was something Rosa would have really benefited from as there are a ton of great civil rights artists and photographers that could have acted a stylistic use for the episode ultimately Rosa ended up feeling like just another Doctor Who episode when it could have elevated into a piece of drama that was considerably more stands out all this episode really aims to do is inform us about Rosa Parks and that's all it ends up doing never really wanting to explore any other themes or ideas that could have come with this narrative demons of the Punjab suffers from the same problems the episode central focus is on the India's partition this is an often underrepresented time in our history a doctor who is perfect for capturing the political landscape and culture from a modern angle yaws has an Indian heritage and convinces the doctor to take her back in time to meet her grandmother when she was young the doctor agrees and they're in the Punjab yaz is a third-generation immigrant and has never even been to India before it's an important part of our identity but will she find more in common with her grandmother than differences will Umbreon approve of yeah is modern and Western attitudes will Yeahs connect with her family's culture of all she miss her life in Sheffield well strapped in and prepared to have none of those questions answers though matically this episode is about one thing partition how and why it happened the conflict between Muslims and Hindus and the effect partition had on millions of people this episode plays out more like an ITV historical drama as opposed to a time-traveling sci-fi show the doctor and her companions feel more like narrative roadblocks preventing the depth necessary from conveying this issue in an impactful way they arrived the day before partition in medias as grandmother unbury they're surprised to discover that um Breen plans to marry Prem a man who isn't Yaz's grandfather but prams brother Manish doesn't improve as their family is Hindu and hers is Muslim this story in and of itself could have worked but they have to shove in a bunch of British people constantly commenting to one another about what's happening and then because it's Doctor Who they have to shove in some alien but these creatures just turn out to be entirely inconsequential to the narrative their passive aliens that just want to watch people die because their planet was blown up it's a pretty far-fetched explanation for something that's essentially a red herring the scenes with the doctor trying to outsmart them and figure out their plan is merely a distraction put there to convince you that what you're watching is Doctor Who instead of an ITV drama about partition with pretty awful acting there's nothing holy a bat man who would approve your union better he died then to find himself [Music] in the very first Doctor Who serials of the 60s there are a number of episodes that have been dubbed pure historicals these are historical episodes that have no science fiction plot elements and instead focus entirely on creating conflict of the more realistic issues you could find yourself in as a time traveler or if Rosa and demons of the Punjab would have benefited from entirely removing the lain science fiction elements and instead making their episodes revolve around the social political issues of the respective episodes the writers of these episodes Vinay Patel and Malorie Blackman are well qualified to write about these historical events and social issues you could not describe the approach to the political aspects of these episodes as virtue signaling as they are clearly writing sincerely but these people aren't science fiction writers and it shows the science fiction aspects feel forced and undeveloped they are a bland attractor from the most interesting parts of the episodes which are the social political themes and messages so why not bring back the pure historical this would allow the writers to fully focus on building a realistic politically charged environment and allow them to create engaging stories through that but why the would they want to get rid of the monsters don't you know that trying to break formula is risky we could lose viewership you idiots but what about black mirror black mirror is a British science fiction show that is commenting on social issues time and time again the futuristic aspects of the show work hand in hand with making a see our own reality reflected in a dystopian future doctor who will occasionally dip its toe into similar waters with episodes like smile bad wolf and gridlock oh and there was an episode in the newest season that did that what was it called again oh yeah KaBlam remember KaBlam the one that looked good we all fought hey Jimmy Webb hasn't written it those robos look pretty lit and there's gonna be some kind of social commentary on Amazon's working conditions what could possibly go wrong oh they're doing Toy Story 2 ever worked in one of those Amazon warehouses yeah I didn't think so I did I had to work two jobs to support my little squirt YouTube and the Amazon warehouse or what we used to call it the slaughterhouse day-in day-out wrapping up your furries 200 deliveries an hour a human conveyor belt only permitted half an hour breaks and given minimum wage what is my purpose and we're just another cog in the machine I have a voice I get home so exhausted I can barely stand my son staring at the dinosaur project screaming play it again play it again I have a voice I have a voice I'm sorry Charlie there's no time to watch the dinosaur project because dr. who has made an episode about the very problem that I am experiencing taking down the Titans at Amazon and empowering me as a worker finally I have a voice so the episode gets off to a good start the doctor and her companions arrive at the KaBlam headquarters after receiving a cry for help in a package the doctor ordered the KaBlam HQ is literally a planet which holds the entire production line of KaBlam the doctor and her team apply as workers and split off into their different work areas with the doctor and Ryan working the conveyor belt Graham and cleaning and yeah as in the warehouse from here we see the horrible working conditions which the people at kablamo pit under as each of the companions befriends a different worker acaba you see the fascistic regime that is enforced by these sinister KaBlam robots and the evil bosses whilst we were busy staring at our phones technology what annex our jobs great conversation guys but unnecessary talking can lead to efficiency reductions why not pick up the pace a little come on Kira we engage brain if you can find it sorry mr. Stayton hey don't talk to her like that it's okay all the while the workers are mysteriously disappearing all these layers are built upon one another and given the history of this season but also all of Doctor Who you feel like this would be an episode which would want to comment on the oppressive work regimes that have especially been in the news recently so it's pretty surprised when the twist is that it's not one of the workers who needs help but in fact the KaBlam system itself in these helps stopping a worker who is trying to program the delivery box of KaBlam to send out explosive bubble wrap to civilians this desperate act of terrorism is in order to try and bring more rights and opportunities to human workers you know an understandable response to the horrible working conditions which everyone is under the doctor manages to save the day by blowing up all the robots as well as murdering the worker advocating for more rights she gives the KaBlam bosses a slap on the wrist and they promise to try and improve things that could plan so that this never happens again yep great moves doctor have faith in the people who rarely seem to show much care or empathy for their workforce at all I understand that the antagonist of KaBlam was putting innocent lives at risk with his bubble wrap plot of terror but often the doctor is a character built on empathy and will often resolve conflict without killing people that's why they don't carry a weapon with them just a buzzing phallic device in KaBlam we can understand why this guy's acting out he's reached the end of his tether he's young and just needs some talking to I find it really strange that the doctor just cold-heartedly offs the kid without even feeling bad about it even though the sci-fi elements of KaBlam are all there and look good and feel good the messaging seems all off having the doctor working to protect a genuine system of oppression a system which isn't far from slavery feels so unlike doctor who last year South Park aired an episode called unfulfilled this episode looked into the working conditions of Amazon workers and a societal role Amazon has on our day-to-day lives KaBlam could have easily made larger statements on the nature of consumerism and capitalism these people live on a factory planet they work all day just to send their impoverished penniless family some money and they're supposed to be thankful for this job the last season of South Park consistently explored social political issues from school shootings child abuse and anxiety the latest season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia explored gender sexual harassment and homosexuality issue focus are is what's popular at the moment and that's not a bad thing like any kind of art it can be done in a way that pulls your heartstrings and leaves you feeling better informed about the modern world we're living it a great example of this is a short free minute film that looks into the social political issues surrounding article 13 made by made by me Wow but just because your art is about something important doesn't make it good or even necessarily interesting in a world where making art with a political point has found its way into the mainstream is no longer enough to just raise these issues to our attention we're being told about them constantly you need to use form and have genuine creative ambition to find new and compelling ways to put these issues across otherwise you just end up like most bad are forgettable and that's the last thing Doctor Who should ever be however it's not the individual episodes that make this season son is the whole bloody package now in my first video I talked about how Chris Chibnall was a bad writer and after the release of this season it's pretty clear that not much has changed he's still a bad writer but being a showrunner is more than just writing is designing and managing the entire season is overseeing every creative aspect of the show chip noir has final say on the decisions surrounding the core characters their arcs and the overarching narrative of the season but he also has producing obligations from hiring writers directors set designers and actors the job of show running is to have an overall vision or tone for a show and being able to communicate that effectively to everyone else involved a good showrunner is defined by how carefully and meticulously they build up the features of their unique universe this is what allows the show like Doctor Who to stand out when Russell T Davis was running the show what comes to mind are aliens like the Judoon the Slovene or the OOD odds slightly funny looking disgusting creatures you can imagine them all sharing a room together when comparing this to Chibnall season it's hard to see the petting share a run with Tim Shaw or these cloth monsters that doesn't feel like there's a continuity that ties everything together we hop from one episode to the next and it feels as if they purposely want to place each one in a bubble by the time Tim Shaw shows up in the finale episode it doesn't feel that exciting or interesting as his presence in the universe feels small and unimportant in Josh Whedon's Firefly the rivers are hinted at in the very first episode they're established within the law of the show as a race of deadly cannibals in a fervor episode we see the aftermath of one of them attacks as one of the main antagonists for the season the plan was to slowly build up to a Riva confrontation the show was cancelled before Whedon was able to achieve this but he was able to focus on them for the film serenity in Russell T Davis's first season he brought on Robert Sherman to write an episode entitled darling this expanded more on the lore of the show giving us more information about the time war and showed the potent Aceves singular Dalek as we see it murder the out of everyone then when it comes to the season finale Russell brings in an entire fleet thousands of the this finale also takes place in the same location as a previous episode in the same season it's been a hundred years since the doctor was last there and the station has become an Orwellian dystopian nightmare the doctor is heartbroken to discover his involvement in the station a hundred years prior is exactly what led to the very future he's found himself in when it looks like all is lost the doctor sends Rose back home to protect her it's here that she sits with her mother and Mickey and realizes she's unable to go back to her old life and leave the doctor to die alone right now and he's fighting for us the whole planet if Jackie Tyler and Mickey Smith were supporting characters in Father's Day in boomtown are both featured heavily in the Slovene two-parter it's in the season finale that we see all the various elements of the first season be re incorporated and brought back this continuity between episodes feels hella satisfying and makes the universe truly immersive Chibnall tries to up the stakes in his finale by having Tim Shaw threaten to decimate entire planets with the last planet being earth but these planets haven't been established in any previous episodes and there are no characters on earth that we've seen for longer than a single episode it's hard to fill that sense of risk as we don't even cut back to earth to see anyone reacting to the incoming alien attack despite this being an interplanetary fret the episode still ends up feeling small-scale and pretty standard Chibnall also tries to make the emotional stakes higher by reminding us that Tim Shaw is responsible for the death of Graham's wife and Ryan's grandmother grace however as Grace fell off a crane wrestling a tentacle monster it's hard for the audience to put that same emphasis on Tim Shore as Graham does nonetheless Graham raging at Tim Shore is the closest thing we get to a current Rock in this whole season throughout the episodes we regularly gets to see him morning grace when he learns that Tim Shaw is back he tells the doctor that he's gonna kill that two feet wet the doctor tells him not to do that even though she Glee Lee incinerated that teenager in KaBlam but the doctors hypocrisy works a trick on Graham who instead of killing Tim Shaw instead ops to put him in a stasis chamber for the rest of eternity where she could argue us a lot worse than death anyway if it was me I would definitely choose death over that nice one Graham you've bloated bastard you learn a lesson I think it's hardly a character arc and more of a character ah but I guess it's something the basis of any good story is change if you watch a story unfold and by the end of it no one's learnt anything or developed it's an experience similar to watching paint dry a character arc is when a character goes from one perspective on life to another one the doctor remembers who she is and gained some new friends and that's about it she doesn't have to make any difficult decisions or go through any hardships Ryan has dyspraxia and finds it hard to ride a bike then in one episode he climbs a ladder and that's about it he also confronts his father but there was never any indication that he wouldn't have been able to do this prior to meeting the doctor yes goes through zero changes and gray in paints a shelf and the doctor and her companions all sit around it and watch it slowly dry the status of the paint changes from wet to dry and Graham feels a sense of accomplishment for being able to paint a shelf Steven Moffat as a showrunner and Doctor Who employed ambitious narrative arts in his seasons Amy Pond starts her first episode running away with the doctor from her marriage to Rory and her last episode shows her sacrificing her life with the doctor to spend the rest of her years to live with Rory Clara slowly becomes obsessive for travelling with the doctor she begins to become manipulative and controlling in a way that mirrors the doctor Moffat introduces a complex and nuanced romance plot with the doctor and professor River Song killing her in her first episodes and then working backwards with the two of them always meeting out of sync the ability to craft these stories over multiple episodes and seasons is the difference between a good showrunner and a bad one but part of the problem is down to the writers that are being hired to write these episodes Steven Moffat was given a lot of freedom when he first introduced River Song in the weeping angels and episodes where Russell T Davis was show running this meant that Moffat could expand and bring back these ideas for his own seasons they weren't mates or anything Moffat had rigged paradis episode of Doctor Who for comic relief and it was well-known that Moffat was a huge Doctor Who fan boy Russell knew this and asked him to write an episode for his new season but Moffat wasn't the only Doctor Who fan that he asked on to the new season he also brought on Paul Cornell who had written a Doctor Who novel called human nature for now later adapted this story for series 3 of the show Steven Moffat as a showrunner brought on Neil Gaiman and Neil cross to write episodes both Neil's have a superb sense of style and tone Neil cross had been a showrunner on Luther and Neil Gaiman has a perfect sense of distorted fantasy and used his six writing skills to pen two of the most interesting Doctor Who episodes of the Matt Smith era out of all the writers Chibnall brought on for his season none of them had written any Doctor Who's stories before or even had any experience writing with sci-fi or high budget drama and sadly when you bring in people who usually write for low-budget soaps that's what you're going to get low-budget soaps not only this but the directing of the new season looks considerably more flat compared to what we have seen in recent seasons if you look at the directing in cold war an episode where the doctor goes up against an Ice Warrior on a submarine during the cold war we can see how much the directing can influence the tone in John ray of the show it switches from high-octane fast-paced action period drama to a directing style that pays homage to the Alien franchise soldiers get taken down one by one as if they were in a gritties 80s sci-fi movie we've also seen directing stars that emulate westerns Stanley Kubrick and Detective noir films doctor who used to have a very cinematic developed relationship with its camera and use of color comparatively season 11 feels so flat is often static and the colors feel washed out there isn't that drive to find unique ways to tell its story but it's not just the visuals that have been downgraded tragically one of the most blatant and miserable losses of this new season is Murray gold he had been sound tracking Doctor Who since his 2005 reboot in those first ten seasons the show took on many forms but the one aspect of consistency was Murray gold I haven't really spoken about music much on this channel but if you bear with me I'm gonna try and channel my inner sideways and attempt to explain why Murray gold is pure gold he composed musical themes and motifs for virtually every aspect of the show for example in season three the doctor Martha and Captain Jack Harkness are hiding out as fugitives in the Britain where the Master is Prime Minister the doctor starts to talk about his home planet Gallifrey and we hear this motif he goes on to explain that the master stared into the time vortex and went insane this track is then repeated when the master dies and the doctor tortures his body like Luke tosses Darth Vader except this time there's an even larger homoerotic subtext this motif is used to represent the doctors conflicting emotions about the master the master is the only other Time Lord alive and the doctor doesn't want to be alone but despite this he knows that the master would rather dive and try and be a good person okay so bookmark that information I'm gonna get back to it in season 10 we're introduced to the doctor's new companion bill where the new companion comes a new murray gold theme with roses theme gold uses piano I never get used to this never different ground beneath our feet different sky with Martha's phim gold uses a choir with Donna we get strings [Music] and with bill we have a guitar accompanying piano later on in this season we learned that the doctor has been keeping the master now known as Missy locked away in a vault the doctor and bill get into deep when bill gives these alien monks consent to enslave earth the doctor and bill go down into the vault to ask Missy to give them information to help them she tells them that the only way to defeat the monks is to sever the psychic link between bill and the monks the only way to do this is to kill bill Missy goes on to tell the daughter that his version of good doesn't complate with her own and that she'll never be the person he wants her to be this scene is about the doctors conflicted relationship with the master but it's emotional core his bills response to being told she has to be sacrificed to save the earth this is what Marie gold does musically he brings back the motif from ten years ago what did she say come on and adds a guitar your version of gute is not absolute it's vain arrogant sentimental if you're waiting for me to become all that there are countless scenes that have this level of multifaceted musical composition as gold has been building up these motifs for 12 years these musical motifs contributed to the tapestry of the universe and it gave the show a tangible continuity that brought everything together but now with season 11 that is all stripped away the soundtrack is so moist it's almost ambience there are very few moments in which I can say the music really stands out to me and that's not necessarily because it's bad the problem is with its sameness phonetically it all sounds similar none of the companions have a theme and most of it sounds like this your genius [Music] if there had been a musical composition that was used when grace died every time it was brought back we'd know her character would be thinking about her it would remind us of her tragic death and it would pull on our heartstrings before when we saw the Cybermen we'd hear these big loud imposing trombones [Music] [Applause] if we saw the Daleks we'd hear a demonic chorus [Music] and now when we see Tim sure we hear this it sounds like a reverb to fart would it have really been that difficult to give the guy some kind of menacing motif that could be later re incorporated in the finale something anything that could have given this show some sort of gravitas but this is the problem of season 11 its Doctor Who but it feels drained of a lot of its ambition and energy that was present with the previous showrunners with the previous ten seasons it felt like I had a fought through plan goals they wanted to achieve with narrative and scope there seemed to be a real deal of passion behind the show but now it feels like it's scrambling for itself to try and find some footing it feels rushed but regardless of what's happening behind the scenes of production I know one thing for certain showrunning Doctor Who is really difficult the production that goes into an episode of Doctor Who is nothing like any other long-running show the level of craft and budget that goes into one episode of modern Doctor Who is the equivalent of most low-budget films can you think of any other television show that has this many sets this many actors this many special effects this many narrative strands to keep up with with this much pressure every script has to be different and funny and scary and family-friendly but also it has to live up to the expectations set up over decades of television it can't repeat itself but it also can't be too different and the fans always complain they are never satisfied but despite all these hardships and struggles that come with making this show all it ever really manages to be at its very best is average genesis of the Daleks is considered by many to be the best classic Doctor Who serial is Tom Baker at his best and it's written by Terry nation the guy who invented the Daleks and wrote their very first story in the 60s the episode gives the chilling origins story of the Daleks and it has Sarah Jane Smith one of the greatest classic companions it's pure Peng juice and I love it but if you grab someone randomly off the street take them into your degenerate dingy basement sit them down on your pile of newspapers and force them to watch your limited edition blu-ray of Genesis of the Daleks from start to finish chances are they yawn themselves to death they won't give a it's dated now it's slow and dialogue heavy and that's the best classic who has to offer then when you get to Russell davus his first season is outstanding it's funny clever it has great characters but it still has fighting aliens a villain played by Simon Pegg who worships a CGI blob monster and a romantic subtext with a nine hundred year old alien man in a 19 year old girl then you get to Moffat and boy oh boy does he go for whack at times remember how I talked about his plotline with River Song through multiple seasons and episodes we're constantly questioning who this woman is and who she is - the doctor Moffat builds up to the grand reveal and it's amy pond's daughter who is also part time Lord because she was conceived on the TARDIS what oh you know Amy's best friend melody no I've never seen her before no she's always been there we just never had her in any episodes before that's weird why are you bringing in a new character out of nowhere surprised she's River Song what why are you ruining it Moffat you hack fraud oh but wait let's just go back to Russell briefly his last ever Doctor Who story is called the end of time and it's a master story the master comes back from the dead and he keeps eating chicken and he shoots lining out his hands and Donna's grandpa is in it and those of other old people and the doctor just keeps walking around and telling everyone he's going to die the master turns everyone on earth into him and Russell brings back the Time Lords in it and none of it makes any sense Russell started off so well and now he's just it he's all of it why are you ruining it Russell you hack fraud and despite knowing all of this despite knowing that a vast vast majority of the people that connect with and love this show are most likely twelve-year-old kids that couldn't give less of a about character conflict narrative structure gender politics and social historical issues I still spent three months putting together this video and all it's done is leave me back to the same question I had at the very start of all of this Doctor Who is not popular because it's a good show in fact a lot of the time it is pretty trash corny and dumb even at its best that is what it is so why is it that a show like Doctor Who has been so popular for 50 years because Doctor Who is not like any show ever it's less of a narrative TV show at this point a more of this limitless box which with good writing can be filled to the brim with memorable and unique ideas a lot of Doctor Who is getting through the shlok the to get to those episodes which are really special or even within the bad stuff you can get special moments the second episode of Tenon's first season new earth has the Dalton Rose go to new earth this episode finds them in a futuristic hospital and it ends with the dots are curing every disease in the universe by combining all the medicine so yeah it's really dumb but within this episode is also a playful body switch subplot where we get to see David Tennant and Billie Piper show off their comedic range as they keep getting possessed by Cassandra a neurotic flirty crazy skin flap watching these actors switch between different physicalities and voices is insanely fun and entertaining cassandra is able to express the characters inner thoughts and hidden secrets which adds to the characterization of our lead protagonists it's goofy weird like this that can't be found in any other show when dr. who gets good it's truly something sincerely special and that's why it's so easy to stick by even now even when it's being it's least interesting to me I'm aware that I'm only judging this by the criteria that I want my daughter who to meet for me that's weird crazy out there stories aliens that can live in two dimensions conscious fat that jumps out of people the doctors TARDIS becoming human and flirting with him the fact that all these things can exist under the same TV show is a sign of how varied this show can be the show's format is one that can always surprise us each episode is a fresh start a chance to tell a new story to look at different characters worlds and themes in 2013 Adult Swim aired Rick and Morty the show's format is a super-intelligent old man traveling to various worlds and going on science-fiction adventures with his young naive assistant it's become a huge smash hit and it only goes to show that this format is far far from dead and we can expect to have people writing Doctor Who stories for further decades to come but chip nulls run isn't without little glimmers of hope Alan Cummings in the Witchfinder is jokes a Dalek possessing a young geologist or Body Snatchers style set to rock music as proper up my alley and the doctor negotiating peace with a sentient universe that's taken the shape of a frog is lettuce hell these elements that I enjoy most about the show are still there in very brief moments but they are present and for as long as they are I'm going to keep watching and probably complaining and that's alright the loved one has for doctor who is generally better defined by how much you can hate it and still watch it because no matter how bad or even bland doctor who can be it will always be special and with such a vocal community you can spend hours finding out the different perspectives and views on this behemoth of a television show and really I wouldn't have it any other way has been a lot of that in Doctor Who Rhys Mayo for the character surviving in the 60s Doctor Who was just another show people would watch it and enjoy it as the years turned into decades and as the children grew up analyzing and discussing what they enjoyed and didn't enjoy about the show became part of the fun by having so many different narrative elements that can be cross-examined and developed the magic of the writing process was deconstructed by the fans they weren't simply watching a TV show anymore they were consciously watching the difference between good writers and bad writers good villains and bad villains they saw the same doctor stuck on a space-based story over and over again it was slightly different elements and this led them to see art more critically and write Doctor Who stories of their own these fans were going to be some of the biggest names in television and influenced a whole new generation of budding science fiction writers Chris Chibnall himself was a prominent member of the Doctor Who society and was one of the show's biggest critics this informed his own path as a writer when Doctor Who fans watch a bad episode of Doctor Who they see wasted potential because they have hundreds of episodes novels and audio dramas to directly compare it to their desires to watch a flawless season something different but also familiar out-of-this-world fantastic science fiction concepts but also grounded in reality were finally scripted character drama and a sense of pathos they want classic villains reinterpreted in new ways but also brand new antagonists that will become iconic in their own way this is impossible as everyone's version of good Doctor Who is different it's all subjective the most popular most viewed episodes of the show are all pretty mediocre stories that just so happen to be on television when nothing else was on or they were broadcast on Christmas when everyone at home was bloated with needs and drunk I just wanted to watch something familiar with the whole family so in conclusion season 11 of Doctor Who is badly written the characters have nothing going for them the science fiction elements are trash and it lacks the vivaciousness we've seen in the previous 10 seasons it might get better it might not but it doesn't matter because we've had 10 seasons of a pretty unique and wonderful television show peep show had 9 seasons Sopranos had 6 the why I had 5 dirt genly's holistic Detective Agency only had two and Firefly didn't even finish its first season nothing lasts forever and we've got to accept that if you're bummed out about this new season just go back and watch all of who that's what I did and I had a great time but there's still a ton of Big Finish audio books with the actors reprising their roles there's chimes of midnight and Jubilee and spare parts and human resources and most of these were on Spotify too we've had an abundance of spectacular Doctor Who stories and we'll get more in the future let's see what Chibnall produces next if it sucks at least we can analyze it and talk about it at least that will distract us from the meaningless pit of existence so yeah it doesn't matter nothing matters make sure to LIKE subscribe and let me know what you think down below but be sure to start an endless chain of debates down there if someone says their opinion on Doctor Who and you disagree of it make sure to tell them exactly that just turn it into a war zone down there whoo well that's the video finally done I finally said my piece it feels good to get it like off my chest what are you still what are you still doing here I'm done I finished it's over I was talking about everything all right since you made it this far um I'll tell you about my life at the moment remember the bit in my 13 reasons why season to review and max covered himself in blue paint and pretended to be Will Smith from Aladdin and then when Sam wished to be small like Matt Damon and downsizing I had that Illustrated released a song about it and then I made a nitpicks fashion line we just want best show at London Fashion Week the judges said cool colors bro would be cover the sweatshirts were available in white and they were a bit cheaper so yeah I've done that now the sale of which goes towards more short films like this one we made based off a tweet speaking of tweets you can follow me on Twitter and if you reply to this pinned tweet there's a chance that you can win a white sweatshirt completely for free WWWE pixel code at UK get your Genie teased and genie jumps we ship internationally and yeah I've also got a second channel dick pics where me and Max have reviewed every episode of the Doctor Who since it came back I yeah this was a long video to make it took a lot of time I love work if it does well we might go more into long-form but you know we're flexible we're hoping to do more short film stuff because we did that article 13 thing so do make sure to check out those short film stuff and support that if you are genuinely interested and if you just want me to review things until I become an old man and die then um let me know and I'll see what I can do I did have grandkids so I could be still talking about Doctor Who you who knows yeah you guys take care thank you again for listening to my over bloated oversaturated thoughts on a show for this this amount of time honestly appreciate it alright guys bye

Channel: NitPix

Views: 1,529,445

Keywords: Doctor Who, Chris Chibnall, BBC, Jodie Whittaker, TARDIS, Fanbase, NitPix, MESS, The Worse, I hate, Season 11, Sonic Screwdriver, The Master, Missy, Dalek, Davros, Tim Shaw, Woman Who Fell To Earth, P'Ting, Stenza, Ryan, Yaz, Graham, Bradley Walsh, The 13th Doctor, Murry Gold, David Tennant, peter capaldi, christopher eccleston, Matt Smith, Wales, Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, River Song, Amy Pond, Rose Tyler, Science Fiction, 1963, 50 years, Tom Baker, Cybermen, Review, Video Essay

Id: KMbZkR9vOrw

Length: 83min 0sec (4980 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 03 2019

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