Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary was Abysmal #RIPDoctorWho

love the constant clips of you not being able to finish the circle puzzle, really humanizes you but showing us your flaws, good writing and directing

33:27 "London it's burning, it's over. The city is completely f'ck'd" it's incredible when sci-fi is able to connect with our reality, innit?

"mom look it's a spaceship🙂" this line delivery is genuinly surpassed by jay exci's parody, i'm fucking dead 💀

A certified creetosis moment: Struggling with the circle puzzle While RimWorld music plays

I genuinely am more interested in the story of that old 10th Doctor game about the "Eternity Clock" than I am interested in anything that the BBC has put out for the better part of the past decade...

David Tennant himself should be shooting down the idea that the Doctor never takes a break because his OWN FATHER-IN-LAW PLAYED A DOCTOR THAT NEVER STOPPED GOING ON ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOVED VACATIONING ON THE EYE OF ORION! Like, I'm honestly more pissed at David going along with this; the man is a Doctor Who fanatic, he pushed on Davies to be more authentic during his run, and now he's just cool with taking a dump all over his favorite show, his own character, the highlight of his career, and the very reason he became an actor. I wonder what Peter Davison thinks about all this, like his actual, unfiltered thoughts...

Of all the episodes of NewWho that didn’t need to exist, this one didn’t need to exist the the most.

Even by the end of the RTD era, I could smell the rot. Matt Smith had me largely checked out, not because I don't like him, he's a fine actor, but the stories were getting worse. Plus, I never liked River Song, or Amy, or Rory. I quit with Peter Capaldi. Not because I don't like him, he's a fine actor, but I just couldn't. Clara was insufferable, I hated the whole Mistress thing, I just couldn't find myself caring anymore. Then I learned about the whole "man flu" bit and the General regenerating from a white man to a black woman who then belittled her last regeneration. Jodie was a nope right from the start, so I never came back, and having seen reviews of episodes, I'm glad I dodged that bullet. Every time I get a vague feeling that maybe I should try, I learn some new, even more horrible episode plot and I nope on out. Also, as somebody that started with new Who, I never got to really experience Gallifrey, and it seems that every new writer has a hate boner for the planet, as they keep either destroying it or killing the Time Lords.

A good example where disabled people being portrayed as villians is actually problematic is, of all things, Cars 2. Basically, in the movie, lemon cars have a secret cabal where they plan to kill or otherwise control other cars out of jealousy over their ability/reliability. Which, regardless if it’s on purpose or by accident, is highly reminiscent of certain brands of conspiratorial thinking. I say it’s problematic, because their villainy is entirely because of their disability (provided you have the comprehension to see through the paper-thin metaphor of cars = humans). But of course, I also think it’s problematic when a character’s heroism is entirely because of their disability (like you’ve shown is a thing in this show).

Honestly, I just hate how everyone acts or reacts in this drivel. They act like cringey cosplayers trying to be characters from Doctor Who.

The best thing to come out of these specials is still the mileage Disparu's got from that "You stupid woman, and your weird child!" clip form The Star Beast.

Yknow Cree, I realize this is just ultra-pedantic of me to point out, but the choices on the 0:38 question that shows up on screen are all wrong answers, since its Jupiter

When Catherine Tate was confirmed to be coming back, I thought there was a chance each special would rip away one of the (relatively) happy endings for Tennant's companions: The Doctor/Donna remerges and kills Donna, Martha throws herself into some time loop or something, and the Meta Crisis Doctor needs to merge back into 14. But nope. It was all just "Remember these people? You liked these people. The show was good with these people. The show is good with these people."

They saw the backlash, they saw the comments… and doubled down… missing the point entirely. Oh well, another sci-fi franchise in the toilet…

Cool disabled villain: Dr. Arliss Loveless from Wild Wild West

Glad to see you got this uploaded eventually, Cree.

That monkey's paw analogy was hilarious. That's so true: moral is "be careful what you wish for".

I've read the comic strip the Star Beast was based off of. I've also listened to the audio adaptation by big finish. I thoroughly recommend both and a lot of the issues are fixed: - The "Dagger Drive" doesn't exist in the comic. Instead the issue is that Beep's ship is out of fuel for its sublight drives, so he instead decides to activate the warp drive directly while the ship is still on the ground, which will create a wormhole right in the middle of yorkshire. - Beep The Meep is much more manipulative in the comic than he is in the TV version. The audience is clued in to his internal monologue way before his true colours are revealed to the characters, as a result we see much more of his keeping up the act. For example, when Beep shoots the Wrarth Warriors on TV, he goes mask off completely, in the comic he cries and pleads that he's so sorry because he was sure his gun was set to stun mode. - Beep also spends much more time with Sharon (the girl who finds him in the original) and their dynamic is more significant to the story. - The original story is actually fucking funny, like really funny, it's got the goofy tongue in cheek tone that a lot of similar 80's comics did. The audio drama preserves this tone perfectly and expands on it with a bunch of extra humour that wouldn't have felt out of place in the original. - The Wrarth Warriors play a more significant role, helping the Doctor to catch the Meep. The Audio Drama expands on them even further, turning Zogroth and Zreeg into full on significant characters. The scene where the Warriors tell the Doctor the truth about the Meep is them sitting down for tea and biscuits, with one of the warriors eating a biscuit with his proboscis. This isn't significant, but it was funny. - Instead of the Wrarth Warriors just awkwardly expositing about how evil the Meep is, we get a flashback sequence actually showing the Meep armies on their bloodthirsty conquests, and honestly its fucking hilarious watching these little bastards slaughter their way across the cosmos. I was severely disappointed the new one didn't have this. - Fudge, he's one of the best characters in the original, and in this version they gave him a grand total of 3 minutes screentime at most. Overall, having now experienced all three iterations of the Star Beast, I can thoroughly say I am profoundly disappointed by Russell's treatment of the original story. He didn't make any attempt to preserve any of what made it special. He literally just poached the surface level elements of the Star Beast like the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors, I suspect as a cynical ploy to garner excitement for hardcore Who nerds like myself, and used them to tell his own not very good story. You could've replaced both the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors and nothing would change. But nope, Russell had to bait excitement from the old guard so he could rub the timeless child shit in our face. I plead with everybody who reads this comment to not let Russell's bastardization tarnish their view of the comic. I recommend it if you can get your hands on it, and I also thoroughly recommend the 2019 Big Finish Audioplay adaptation, which in my opinion is the best version of the story because its not only faithful to the original comic, but adds to it quite significantly whilst also preserving the charm wit and humour. No seriously, go listen to the Star Beast audio drama, you will have a much better experience than you would watching this shit.

I feel the only reason they brought back tennant and the nobles was because the higher ups realized theyd totally fucked up any shred of credibility they had left and were desperate for a nostalgia kick to bring back the audience. I was really hopeful and was about to watch it, until i saw literally 2 minutes of it online beforehand and saw it as a dumpster fire in an alley that smells of moldy piss

I watched your fallout stuff and really enjoyed it, was surprised to see doctor who stuff posted which used to be my favorite show but the decline is depressing and been going on for years now Good work