*This season of Doctor Who failed because it went full RTD... NEVER go full RTD!!!* 😮

@Mark-nh2hs

17 күн бұрын

Someone needs a long ruler and slap his hand and say "No". Let someone else write for the show.

I was expecting it to be bad, but he exceeded even my expectations

ruby's mum was just a young woman escaping her awful stepfather ...who managed to have a baby in secret then don a voluminous cape and hood and walk through manchester on xmas eve to dump her baby without anyone spotting her. and when a strange black dude in a police box magically appears doesnt shout "plz look after her and call her ruby" like a normal person but just stands and points ominously

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

It makes perfect sense… 😂😂😂

If you're wondering where the Disney money is going, remember some episodes of this season have seven executive producers. I'm amazed Mark Gatiss hasn't been welcomed back into the clique to take his scoop from the lovely Disney bag o' cash.

@MKR5210

16 күн бұрын

Contrary to popular opinion, not everyone has a price

@malcolmwynn-jones5210

16 күн бұрын

@@MKR5210 Dear God!!! You're implying Mark Gatiss has integrity. After all these years of being Steve Moffat's BMGF. It'll Be Lawrence Miles next.

I feel so cheated. Why does it snow? Why did Maestro call Ruby, “very wrong”? What’s very wrong about the normal, human child of a normal, human woman? What’s up with the music? Is Ruby some kind of anthropomorphic recording device? Absolute shite and drivel.

I wasted £16.50 at the cinema last night watching the finale. There was absolute silence when everyone left.

@Woke_Invaders

18 күн бұрын

You deserved it. RTD is laughing his woke ass off.

@SusanBell-dl5gr

18 күн бұрын

and you are not surprised lol

@georgemoseley1504

18 күн бұрын

@@Woke_Invaders harsh😅

@charg1nmalaz0r51

17 күн бұрын

@@georgemoseley1504 true though, i'm not sure how this wasnt obvious from space babies lol

@malcolmwynn-jones5210

17 күн бұрын

Some cinemas had very few people turning up. The cinema in Westfield shopping centre had just three lone people in it, all sat away from each other. Imagine paying £20 to spend your Friday night sat in a strange room with two strange men, watching a rubbish episode of Doctor Who and then having to leave together at 1:25am with everything shut and a long wait for the nightbus. I wonder if they made eye contact or acknowledged each other, especially if they ended up awkwardly bumping into each other again at the bus stop? Still, at least it wasn't raining on the shortest night of the year. If Doctor Who is ever shown in cinemas again, it'll have to be very limited screenings in specialist cinemas that do cult screenings, such as the BFI in London. Even the cinema on London's Regent's Street was mostly empty. Given that it's 173 yards from the BBC, perhaps the small audience was mainly staffers with free tickets?

What a load of complete bollocks! If we are to believe that Sutekh was hiding in the TARDIS since 1975, does that mean there's another Sutekh in a garden in North London with Doctor 14? Tennant's TARDIS after all is the original TARDIS. If Ruby's mum is a nobody and Ruby is a human, why the snow and the music and all the mysterious garbage we've had to endure. This rubbish is an insult to people who trusted in RTD to deliver something better than an episode of EastEnders. Count me out for next season.

@Payne2view

18 күн бұрын

Yup.

@saltywench

18 күн бұрын

THANK YOU. I've been asking this everywhere and people keep saying 14 comes after 15 somehow.

@TheDarrenLock

18 күн бұрын

That’s bollocks and 14 has the original TARDIS. 15’s TARDIS is the copy…

@user-or3oe4cq6m

17 күн бұрын

​@@TheDarrenLockthat's what I said. So if 14 is the original TARDIS, Sutekh must be in that one as well!

@charg1nmalaz0r51

17 күн бұрын

@@saltywench That was their fan fiction they came up with the explain the bi regeneration when people pointed out how stupid it was, thats where that comes from

I mean when it comes to answering "but what would make Doctor Who popular again?" Look at Pertwee's first season. Look at how popular Stranger things became. Maybe we need to pull back on colour and camp. Give a more grounded and surrealist doctor who series. And if well told, you'll probably have more non who fans be like "man, did you see Doctor Who? That was so creepy and cool" and it will grow out in a Stranger Things like fashon. I don't think it's a very hard equation to crack.

@TheDarrenLock

18 күн бұрын

We had a more grounded series with Chibnall, but everyone hated him (except me). Oh well…

@Farsight-nc1ib

17 күн бұрын

Easy! Take it back to what made the classic stories great. A Doctor who isn't a woke, pc stereotype, great stories and plenty of scares!

@vordman

17 күн бұрын

Pertwee's first year was the summit for me. I'm not sure if RTD could write something like Inferno, where the story is intricately plotted, the characters believable and the threat very real.

@adamfreddo5703

17 күн бұрын

@@vordman I mean years and years had similar dark political elements with a more modern lense of course. It's just for some reason Russell feels Doctor Who needs to be completely light when shows like House of the Dragon and stranger things are resonating more with darker elements. He is completely losing touch. Children love the dark stuff. Hell even Tom Baker's golden age was gothic horror.

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

Indeed, just go watch kids TV from the 70s that I grew up with.

Having been watching since the beginning in the 60s I feel your pain. It was utter crap! Russell should be utterly ashamed

Don’t question, consume product.

Pointless and totally frustrating , with a plot so full of holes it was almost one big hole. I kept thinking if Sutekh hitched a ride on the Tardis, when it split at the end of "Giggle" did he split as well? What was the other Doctor doing as the world ended , having a nice cup of tea with Donna and her mum? Argghhh, it was just awful

What would have been much more fun than having them watch Pyramids of Mars on I-Player is if they had had to do a Trial and Tribblations type episode in which they had to wander around the manor during the events of Pyramids of Mars trying to avoid Tom and Sarah so they don't create a paradox, in order to retrieve a piece of Osiran technology that is in Scarman's collection of Egyptian artefacts

@TheDarrenLock

8 күн бұрын

That’s far too creative. Stop it!

Also RTD made it clear what he thinks of Pyramids of Mars by making the Doctor say it was "Cultural Appropriation" knowing that the New "fans" of the show with the same ideology as him will start calling it problematic and vilify the Classic story. Even in the context of the story and canon it makes zero sense as there was no cultural Appropriation. The Orsians were aliens and gave technology and knowledge to the ancient Egyptians in return they were seen as Gods and the "Egyptian" imagery could of come from the Aliens. Also I felt they just dismissed the 4th Doctor as just someone who used to use the TARDIS and them talked to Mel about all the great times they had.

@chriszone50

17 күн бұрын

For me, that was one of the worst scenes, I hated it so much. The cultural appropriation comment made no sense, considering Sutek and the Osirans were at the core of Egyptian mythology. Also, they make Ruby look stupid by making her ask who the 4th doctor is despite regeneration being explained to her, and the doctor is doing his absolute utmost to hide his previous lives like he is ashamed, laughing at the fact that Ruby is oblivious to his past.

@Mark-nh2hs

17 күн бұрын

​​@@chriszone50exactly it made zero sense. I've never been so pissed off with NuWho normally it's a eye roll or a "Whatever" but this seemed to be a pointed attack at Pyramids of Mars and he knows full well what the reaction of particular people in the fandom will do and make the story problematic. Yeah he dismissed the 4th Doctor but then proceeded to chat with Mel about the fun and adventures they went on in front of ruby - what?? 😂

@Farsight-nc1ib

17 күн бұрын

It's revisionist nonsense. The Egyptians 'appropriated' their religion from the Osirans

Her surname is from her mother's name (Carla Sunday).

@TheDarrenLock

16 күн бұрын

It doesn’t matter. None of it matters. For lolz, her father’s surname is Garnet making her Ruby Garnet, which shows you the vapid level of Davies’ imagination… 🤡🤡🤡

RTD's answer to "Who is Ruby's mum?" comes off as him trying to trick the fans, rather than provide them with a satisfying resolution. It's not funny, it's not clever, it's just incredibly boring and makes the build-up meaningless.

@EthanKnight97

17 күн бұрын

RTD took inspiration from Rey from Disney Star Wars. J.J. Abrams Mystery Box of nothing

Well...what a pile of pants that was. Plot holes so big you could drive a double decker bus through. Sutehk saying rubys secret was a bigger threat than the timelord...only for her to be just a normal person? What the absolute flipping heck was all that about? You telling me the doctor couldn't find a spoon or a peice of metal anywhere but only from a random woman? Ruby making snow everywhere...WHY....she not just normal after all? why did meistro panic over her song of she was just normal? why was rubys mum wearing a huge robe? who was supposed to see her pointing? if it's the doctor, why would rubys mum care to stop and point just to tell him a name that would mean nothing to him? why did ruby make it snow everywhere if it was a memory of an event she would probablyexperiencd when she was DAYS OLD! TIME IS NOT A MEMORY RUSSEL!! why did sutehk look like a fiberglass dog on the flashback screen yet immediately looked like scoobydoo when he attatched himself to the tardis? Are we really supposed to believe sutehk was there when the tardis splintered at frontios? What about the big bang reset? was stupid!!! Just a stupid reset button. How completely LAME. Don't get me started on the cultural appropriation quip. Egyptian culture was based on tbe osirans..not stolen by sutehk. Sutehk was totally wasted. That ending was abysmal! So now death brings life? Really? It reversed every death? Why? Sutehk lived for centuries sitting on top of the tardis in the vortex, but now he is destroyed by exposure to it? Russel apparently can't write for toffee anymore and i have to say I only enjoyed a single episode this series....last week's. Russel failed to end on a high and fumbled the ball. Rubbish episode ending a rubbish season. 2 out of 10.

@TheDarrenLock

16 күн бұрын

I feel your pain! 😞

Just from point one of "Suetek"... Just accepting the nonsense at face value, Isn't Suetek sitting on top of Doctor 10/14s Tardis? When did he climb off the original onto the one made by the toymaker's hammer? How did he have hundred's of years of control over a tardis 6 months old? Or did the toymaker make another Suetek. My brain aches. And when did Doctor "I would NEVER" become Doctor killer? He straight up murdered Suetek. I'm also really tired of spot the crying doctor. OH YES, Why was Kate holding hands and giving sexy eye to the subordinate employee? What's up with that? lmao

@TheDarrenLock

18 күн бұрын

U.N.I.T. HR department needs to be informed of that. I think having a relationship with your subordinates could be compromising to national security! 😂😂😂

Hello Darren, you don’t know me but I am here from your Facebook comment about Jimmy Savile. That comment made me die of laughter and the amount of people being annoyed at it after was hilarious. So I decided to subscribe

@TheDarrenLock

18 күн бұрын

Are you sure about this? I’m a very naughty boy, you know! 🫤

@p.r5135

17 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock it’s really funny mate and if you make dark humor on your KZread like you do on Facebook I’ll keep watching yer content

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

Well you might enjoy my “Coffee Time” series where I react to the daily news on livestream. kzread.info/head/PL4HGEgXkSjpJjT9QqBV6frcQnK2p03COu

RTD said it would be exciting. Did I miss that bit in amongst all that other guff?

I kind of wish they'd briefly brought back the Reapers from the 'Fathers Day' episode and, as a callback, have them chase Sutekh & the Tardis, raising the stakes a bit, and then they eat Sutekh while he's being defeated, its a missed opportunity.

@TheDarrenLock

15 күн бұрын

Yes, there are plenty of other satisfying ways of solving the problem!

... and the SNOW?

The Death Dust didn't go far enough....Hoping for a 'Sutekh, Velma and Shaggy solve Mysteries' series.

What a complete disappointment. Soap opera rubbish and an insult to Sutekh and Classic Doctor Who.

Im amazed people are still watching Doctor Who despite everything they done to disrespect and ruination of the show's lore since 2017. RTD was never going to undo the damage done, now hes gone full J.J Abrams mode. Respect you still stuck around. RIP Doctor Who 1963-2017

Honestly was doomed to fail when American's got it the same time as us, without paying the TV licence, automatically put a sour taste in for the entire show going forward without even seeing the content.

Well thought out. I don't completely agree but that's life lol. The only problem with your idea for pulling Sutekh off, ha ha, is that if Sutekh doesn't return they have no reason to go back and pull him off in the first place and things get all paradoxically timey-wimey. Wasn't the spoon just to repair the screen? I didn't pick up on it needing to contain a memory. Although having seen the memory TARDIS several times now I find it hard to believe there was no metal they could use in there. The memory TARDIS is the setting for Tales of the TARDIS if you fancy giving those a watch. The new scenes bookending the classic stories are quite charming and are set in the memory TARDIS. There were definitely some good ideas but as you say, think about it a little and it falls apart.

I think Superman was one of the first movies I must have ever seen in the cinema, and I didn't like the time-travel reset back then as it was just daft. Reset buttons remove or cheapen all real drama and are a big symptom of lazy writing.

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

Yes, it was daft and annoying, the same way “it was all a dream” and its subsets are poor story telling. But with Superman you feel his desperation…

@gnattress

17 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock And it was probably the first time many of us met this kind of narrative device. And then DW knows we've seen that, and knows the Doctor can travel back in time to potentially save someone, but he leaves Adric to die, and that was powerful. RTD could learn from that.

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

There are so many ways this story could have resolved itself. But RTD returns to well worn ways…most irritating.

First thing... Who's Next is on my record player right now! Nice! Second, I've grown more cross about this entire series the longer I think about it. If Sutekh escaped at the end of time after the salty business, sure. But when the TARDIS was a living, breathing woman... Wouldn't she say, "Oh yeah, Sutekh is on the roof. Might want to check on that." Or something. I feel insulted, I feel betrayed and I feel lied to. The f*ing memory TARDIS... JESUS!!! People just seem fine with it... Makes no sense. Definitely room for more crying. I'd like next series to be mainly crying... It really has weight to it when it NEVER STOPS!!!! And in the end... Oh! There's Mrs. Flood to be vaguely sinister and wink at the camera... OH GOD I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!!! We were promised cake... There was no cake... The cake is a lie.

She’ll be called Ruby Garnet next year, won’t she? Still, I liked scary Mel.

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

It was nice to see Bonnie Langford do a mature performance - fixing the awful Mel from the past.

I agree, was hoping they would have given Sutekh more depth. I liked your sonic screwdriver!

@TheDarrenLock

16 күн бұрын

Thanks, I have many of them! 🙄

Nice one darren

@TheDarrenLock

9 күн бұрын

Thanks 👍

I gave up on it so I did not watch the last few episodes but did they explain how she made it snow or was it just unexplained magic.

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

She was just an ordinary girl - no explanation for the snow or music or anything, despite it happening in the final episode!

Empire of Dirge.

A spoon has a memory, but is it as sharp-witted as a knife?

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

I know you never take a spoon to a knife fight…

@alanbeaumont4848

15 күн бұрын

Fork knows...

I have very little sympathy for anyone who stuck around after Gatwa tooned a TARDIS out with an ACME hammer and then those goblins turned up. You're punishing yourselves.

@TheDarrenLock

15 күн бұрын

It's something to watch and moan about. Also, I treat Dr Who like a football team. Sometimes I don't enjoy the new striker, sometimes I thnk the manager has made all the wrong decisions and sometimes the team pulls together and pulls off a win. There's no actual punishment involved...

@pikehead1

14 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock I support Q.P.R so I totally understand lol

@TheDarrenLock

14 күн бұрын

Reminds me of the old joke we had as kids. "Do you like football?" "No, I support Leyton Orient"...

@alanbeaumont4848

14 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock I'm a Spurs man. It's the hope that gets to you...

@pikehead1

14 күн бұрын

Best bit of graffiti I ever saw ....Q.P.R shit but local...😊

Remeber when doctor who used to come out with some wishy washy explanation or plot point. Didn't happend a fair bit but u let it go cos its just a bit of fun. It's seems that nowadays these plot points are every plot point. To the point that I litterly have no idea what just happened. It im far fromstupid my IQ I'd well abive average, I would have nought I would be able to understand a family show. But no, it made no fucling sense

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

“Don’t worry, I’ll explain later!”

@garethlowbridge2979

17 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock lol Rowen Atkinsons doctor would he a step up at this stage

Glad I stopped watching doctor who two weeks ago, rather watch Darren's review, more entertaining 😂

@TheDarrenLock

18 күн бұрын

I suffer, so you don’t have to! 👍

@Moonlightgraeme

18 күн бұрын

@@TheDarrenLock much appreciated Darren 👍

Thank you Darren .I agree with everything you have said .The series was terrible. Davies has killed the Doctor Who with poor writing .

In 73 yards, Ruby stopped Ap Griffith from being PM so how did his DNA policy get implemented - even ignoring the causality block of Earth being destroyed not just once but every time he landed on Earth. Apparently Mrs Flood is an older Mary Poppins who cosplays as Clara & Romana 1 in her fur coat. Just two things of many which made the episode the biggest pile of inconsistent, contradictory, insulting rubbish.

It was rubbish with cartoonist nonsense and dragged out plots. Sutekh was reduced to a pantomime horse. Seen DW since 1970s and met classic Doctors.

this was pointless, a girl can make it snow thinking of her mum, a hidden song that worrys a god, the mum is un seen all the time making you think , this is it has to be a god as it stated only one woman can save the day, no a damn human mum im beyond annoyed, dr who has gone so down hill i might not watch the next series pathetic

I hate to say it but that was the doctor Who version of the Tory election campaign. I've mostly liked this season but that really was snatching defeat from the teeth of victory. It was rushed and parts of it just didn't hang together: Davies slipped up. He can do so much better! Remember 'Years and Years' and 'It's a Sin?' Perhaps if they'd ditched one of the bad episodes and made the finale a three partner to give time to join all the dots? And Anita Dobson's monologue to camera at the end? I felt patronised and insulted.

How many have you had ol son?

@TheDarrenLock

16 күн бұрын

Are you talking drink? I don’t drink…so nothing. 🤡🤡🤡

Money spent on drugs 😂

@malcolmwynn-jones5210

17 күн бұрын

It would explain some of RTD's tweets over the last couple of years.

Overall pretty fine / decent season of Doctor Who. Doesn’t stick the landing tho. The writing of this new era has honestly been pretty good, better than people are giving it credit for. That being said, the two parter finale was by far the weakest written of the series which is quite a shame really. Here is my ranking of the episodes: 7: Space Babies - 4/10 6: Legend of Ruby Sunday / Empire of Death - 5/10 5: Rogue - 6/10 4: Boom - 7/10 3: The Devil’s Chord - 7/10 2: Dot and Bubble - 8/10 1: 73 Yards - 8/10 And the specials: 4: The Church on Ruby Road - 6/10 3: The Star Beast - 7/10 2: The Giggle - 8/10 1: Wild Blue Yonder - 9/10

@Fcker-oi8ex

18 күн бұрын

The writing has been pathetic overall. Placing ideology above all else is not the best move as Disney Star Wars is finding out with that Acolyte trash.

I really wish youtube could tell me which reviewers are baselessly disgruntled... sigh, nice guitar collection I guess

@TheDarrenLock

17 күн бұрын

“Baselessly disgruntled” is the opposite of my review. Oh well, at least I tried to explain why I was not happy with it. 🙄

Turdy Davies has lost the plot and Doctor Who is just his gay wet dream now.

@luckybag6814

18 күн бұрын

True. Never mind the pyramids of Mars. Look out for the piles of Uranus.

We always knew it was going to be a magic reset button. Worst Doctor Who writer of all time. Worst Doctor of all time. Worst series of Doctor Who of all time. This makes season 24 look like a masterpiece.