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Coz it's all wrong Caveat.. Moffitt would have made a better fist of the show

Sorry to hear you don't love River, but glad to hear you liked her introduction at least.

Not great, really wasn't I suppose parts were okay but in places from what I remember is bad acting, most of it watchable, but overall no not really try again

I need harbo to review years and years

Good review of Empire of Death! I will admit I did enjoy the story and I feel like Russell is doing the Moffat approach for this story. I was happy that Ruby got to reunite with her mother. Maybe there will be more questions about Ruby in the next series. I wonder if Susan's return is the next series story arc?

I think they could simply have different doctors for different play styles. Have 3,9,7 as the direct combatant play type. Have 7,4,5 as a type of builder who can disable and reapply enemy force. Have all the modern doctors except 9 and 12 be stealth infiltrators who use perception filters and psychic paper to get past enemy encounters. Maybe it could play like a mix of hitman and mass effect. You use the environment to deal with enemies. But you can travel the cosmos and recruit jack and river to help with the fighting if you want.

Thank you for this!

What’s funny is that I literally called it from the beginning of the episode that the entity was Ruby all along, yet despite that, I still have no idea how she ended up becoming said entity

Name of the Doctor is a far superior episode. It wasn't Steven Moffat's strongest finale as he was still in his playing with the rules of time travel phase instead of his grounded and character focussed phase. However, compared to Russel T Davies' abomination, it looks like a masterpiece. 1) It provided an actual payoff for the Impossible Girl arc. 2) All of the characters were better, apart from maybe the Great Intelligence. Ironically, replacing the Intelligence with Sutekh would have probably worked. 3) Matt Smith emphasizes how much of an amateur Ncuti Gatwa is. 4) It introduced John Hurt and set up Day of the Doctor, which is the peak of Doctor Who. Now compare that to Empire of Death 1) There was no payoff for Ruby's supernatural existence. Russel T Davies is such an imbecile that he unironically ripped off Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. 2) It disrespected Sutekh. Even though the Great Intelligence didn't quite fit in with Name of the Doctor, Steven Moffat treated it with respect. 3) Ncuti Gatwa is a terrible Doctor. 4) This is probably the last time Gabriel Woolf will ever voice Sutekh. He deserved to go out on a high note, not on this trash. Empire of Death can kiss Name of the Doctor's boots but if not for Millie Gibson and Gabriel Woolf, it wouldn't even be worthy of doing that.

My one complaint is the ending where Catherine saves the day. Like couldn't she push the Kelly demon into the portal without jumping in herself? 🤷‍♂️

The only good things about this episode were Millie Gibson and Gabriel Woolf's acting and Sutekh's design. Millie and Gabriel are both far too good for this shit, so the fact that they signed up for it actually makes the whole thing sting more. In Millie's case, wasting her time and talent on this makes sense. She's a young actress who thought she was getting her big break. I feel bad for her because she was suckered into a shitshow. I hope she gets roles that are actually worthy of her talent after this. Gabriel doesn't have that excuse. He knows what good Doctor Who is and this late in his life, he can rest on his laurels and be proud that he was part of The Pyramids of Mars, The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit. Despite that, he still signed on. Granted, listening to him deliver Sutekh's dialogue is awesome but he should never have been part of such bad episodes in the first place. Sutekh should have returned in either Matt Smith's era or Peter Capaldi's era. The best place to use him was as a replacement for the Great Intelligence in Series 7. Of course, The Snowmen would need some changes due to Sutekh having nothing to do with snow but the basic story would stay the same. It could stay in Victorian London with Vastra, Jenny and Strax tagging along with the Doctor and Clara since Sutekh is immortal and therefore not confined to the Egyptian era. Furthermore, Sutekh would thrive in the Doctor's Time Stream, so Clara would still need to throw herself in after him. And Steven Moffat could have even had Sutekh be curious about Clara's echoes but his attempt to destroy the Doctor caused her to create them. This could also account for how Sutekh didn't figure her out because it never crossed his mind that HE was the reason the echo Clara's existed. I'm not sure where to put Sutekh in Peter Capaldi's era. There's nowhere that you can really slot him in without disrupting the story. However, Capaldi would have no doubt been ecstatic to have a chance to work with Gabriel Woolf. They could have had an episode where Sutekh casually points out that Capaldi was a sociopathic piece of shit in his first season. Heck, maybe Sutekh's even disappointed that his worthy enemy sank so low because there's no satisfaction in destroying the Doctor when he's not in his prime.

We can retcon it again. 1. Davros - can restored. 2. The Doctor - actually wasn't bigenerated it was the toy-maker playing the Doctor. 3. The Doctor was and is from Galafray, the memories were implanted. 4. The doctor knows the universe and doesnt need to be told what to do. 5. It didnt work for Donna and her memory has to be wiped again. Her child died as she wasn't real, and it was how she coped.

I thought Adric couldn't be saved because the TARDIS console was damaged?

Just watched this one and positively loved it but the scope of this world seemed a bit to large for the ending... But its hard to believe a reversion in tolerance... But depending how far into the future it is no way to really know I suppose. Just saying as skmeone who isnt a spring chicken not evennmy oarents were raised that way so that as a future for hunans is questionable. I'm fine with the message of fighting intoleranc3 and bigotry but I think that ending didnt work for me. I was really hoping their wealthy parents had sent them tk the planet to stop sucking off the family wealth so that thry could keep it all ro themselves.

Imo early Big Finish was a mesh but a very charming mesh. Quality was over the place and you either got terrible stories or amazingly enjoyable ones no middle ground. But after that... I don't know, they're just sort of there. The lows are higher and the highs are lower but I have a really hard time finding stories that are particularly memorable. I'll check this one out I guess.

Somehow, Sutekh returned.

Wow so they basically just threw away Missy’s character development… yah imma pretend that’s not what happened cause that’s stupid

I wonder what happened to Nathan Gibson

You should talk about classic who episodes and just explain what happens in them and how you would review them

I'm watching this video in 2024, and unfortunately I think a lot of your worries here turned out to be justified. The new era isn't necessarily bad, but it just doesn't have the magic of RTD's first era. The care that he took back then to develop his characters and world just isn't as present this time around. It actually makes me wish that we had gotten someone new after Chibnall left.

Do a Christmas episode on the chimes of midnight!

Watching the three specials with David Tennent after this was a complete relief after this disaster of a season, to be honest. 🫤

It’s been 9 years 😳😳😳

U gotta do more of these man!

I think the problem for the telefilm was mostly that it required the U.S. audience to show up for it to be successful... and it just wasn't that big a show back then. Oh, Doctor Who wasn't completely unknown... but it was still very much a cult t.v. show (unlike Star Trek... which had grown to be very mainstream). For most of it's run... it aired on Public Television in North America... not a big U.S. network. So relaunching with FOX ratings being needed for it keep going... that was just pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking. This was the next manifestation of a quintessentially British show... but now it had to appeal to North American audiences as well. And I think that didn't go well with the British audiences. And I say that as someone who doesn't hate Doctor Who: The Movie. I think it's got some big problems... but Paul McGann instantly became a Doctor I wanted to see more of. But that just wasn't in the cards. I've always had an appreciation for the fact that Doctor Who was not a Hollywood production... and that involving Hollywood in the show can make it feel less than like the show it should be.

man i've never heard harbowholmes swear before

Big Finish is not canon. Sorry..... Also in "Delta and the Bannermen" it is SO easy to travel back in time & space that there are dodgy tour buses. And an evil, apparently well-known mercenary gang can waltz in, and use the time machine to hunt down innocent victims

One of my favourite Big Finish time travel stories (maybe not as high on my list as the two-parter with the clocksmith or Palindrome, but still great fun.)

I don't think Time crashes are ordinary, I think the TARDIS just likes them and seeks them out. Same way it knows where to show up that the Doctor will be needed. See when I think of the Kennedy Assassination I think of The Master being there because of a novel, but you think of the 9th Doc being there. Funny that. And another example of how Adric could've been saved... 😆 I could dispute that but won't bother cause it's 🤣

14:00 'The Tramp Stamp of Peregrine Took' lol

"Doctor can't we use the TARDIS to save Adric?" "Uhhh... No. It's a fixed point in time or something like that." "You're sure we can't ask the Time Lords for help?" "No." "But..." "Adric is not coming back."

The thumbnail intrigued me, wondered where it was going.. "What is that?! it's the unknown!"

6:08 lmao

time traveling tourists I want to have made that story

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This is where I said goodbye to The Doctor 🙁

Why is it that we could believe a head in a jar has telepathy, but over the billions of years a guy who can not die can't learn telepathy. Just a thought.

I agree

I think that leaving the idea of Rose Tyler: Earth Defense is a good idea. To have her reprise her roll later on is better. If they made the spinoff series, especially so early in the revival of Doctor Who, would have confused many of the DW fans and would make it more difficult to concoct the meta-crisis Doctor where to be permanently be planted in the alternate time line with Rose. One spinoff worth watching would be of River Song, how she borrowed the tardis every once in a while and was able to return it exactly back where it was supposed to be. How she had more control over the tardis than the Doctor had baffles me. Also for the tardis to allow her to take joy rides without the Doctor's permission sounds interesting too.

I feel like this series has not been great with only 2 good episodes (Boom and Rogue)