Hiring Chris Chibnall. That is an easy one.

I'm actually concerned about the Disney involvement. They have the money but will they understand the series, modern and its history. Doctor Who is so quintessentially British I really don't feel they'll do it any favours 😕 I'm finding it difficult to put into words, I suppose it should be character driven by actors who are fantastic but not necessarily well known rather than special effects and throwing money to make something work. I'm Crap at trying to explain myself 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♀️

Bringing David Tennant back. Infinite regenerations and they waste one bringing a previous incarnation back. I hope it plays out better than it sounds.

Infinite regenerations...

With you completely on #2. I've been saying that saddling a brand new Doctor with *three* unfamiliar companions was a misstep. They should have been introduced gradually, as Matt Smith's companions were.

It would have made more sense if introduced or playing into the Dalek civil war, where one side had Davros and the other had these enhanced Daleks that thought they were even more superior. I think it was an old who storyline for either the 5th or 7th Doctor.

Nope not the only one. Then again, I found myself disagreeing with almost all the supposed "mistakes" of modern Who (except the too many companions for the most recent Doctor - that just became a confusing mess). And they do love to hate on the Neil Gaiman episodes with IMO minimal basis.

Trouble is that those props, in addition to looking like ugly children's toys, were virtually unworkable for the operators, being too tall and front-heavy.

They reminded me of the iPhone5.

Loved the look of the new look daleks. I thought they looked really powerful. If one of them had ordered me to lick them, I'd have complied.

It was so bad I gave up after two series.

@@LightingSparks82give flux a watch. best of the 3 series

Dang. You're actually right.

@@LightingSparks82 yep, I didn't quite make it through series 12. I gave up after Praxues. I only binged the end of series 12 and series 13 because I saw that her last episode aired 🙄

I do agree with that about Grace.

I think that is an amazing idea!

True. That would’ve made so much more sense to how oswin is there

You're talking about a species that has had civil wars of extermination against the slightest deviation from their base design being the ones most likely to be upgrading themselves. What?

Actually the real error was not having jenna join the show at that point. Oswin could've escaped with the doctor, and he could've probably helped her in trying to regain her humanity physically because he probably knows people who could've created a new body to transfer her mind into.

I think the cult of Skaro are the black dalek and the other 3 present in the daleks take Manhattan. There was the other appearance in Doomsday too. Not sure what these coloured ones are! Guess ima go take a look as i eat my lunch right now haha :)

​@@phoebemae8316dalek sec and the other three are the cult of skaro if not the remaining members. the colourful daleks were the paradigm daleks if thats what you mean

Yes the regeneration was not smooth at all that time, from 5 to 6 and from 11 to 12 were the worst regenerations for the Doctor. Colin Baker became violent and Capaldi lost his memories.

@@tvguy61 He did temporarily, to anyone who knew him but didn't understand the regeneration process, that would have been scary

If only that had been his first and only appearance

@@Fairyfink Yes! Welcome to the team!

Adric was a great companion with Baker better than any of the New Who ones. A combination of Jamie, Zoe and Ace's best traits

I totally agree. I loved this character, and i was really sad to see him go, because i felt he was adding something really interesting, a different point of view, especially when the doctor is young. That might be part of why Wilf was so awesome with 10.

Graham was my favorite of 13's companions.

Graham was the only companion watchable in the Chibnall run

But three companions are too many in a story that runs for one hour and also has to have an antagonist in which the audience is able to even minimally invest. With an established Doctor maybe you can try a few stories with a wider ensemble but constantly putting your title character into the background is just bad storytelling and that's what far too many Jodie Whittaker stories suffered from.

@@augustus4047 True, it was good to have less companions... But i think keeping Yas in the end wasn't the best choice. She's the only one who didn't have any character development, and she wasn't bringing anything to the doctor, i felt like she even took the doctor's place too many times. Hopefully Dan joined them and brought something different. Of course, it's only my opinion, but i would have been more interested in a story with Graham and Ryan next to the doctor. Their chemestry might have been really great.

I also enjoyed the Dalek Sec hybrid and thought it was an interesting new direction and I loved the design. Even if the 5" figure became a shelf-warmer due to others dislike (I didn't mind, it meant more for me to pick up for customs - thought the idea of Human-Dalek hybrids as a new Imperial Dalek threat would be a fun idea. Heck even a 'Davros clone' custom with a modified Dalek Sec hybrid head was a fun project)

I couldn't have said it any better, totally agree

No she should have never been a companion , she was stupid and was there filling in the D&I boxes

Gay bill? No

Agreed. This comment deserves more love.

IMO they weren't awful but the hump-back was weird, the Lego-look design was a mistake and I think that simply messing with such an iconic look was probably misguided. They also didn't "fit", in as much as they looked like something from a different show, or a different lineage, or maybe even a different paradigm, if you will. ;) I have no objections to alternative colours (as was done a few times in classic Who), tweaks in appearance (throughout the runs) and specials (like the emperor, or even the special weapons Dalek) but I thought that the paradigm Daleks, that were clearly originally meant to be the new look, just didn't cut it for me. I think, perhaps, they didn't look "industrial" or "military" enough. The old, short pepper pots are what they are. They shouldn't work, but they do, and have done for a long time.

I think a few, subtle changes, like a more muted metalic finish, and some slight tweaks to the shape, would have made the New Paradigm Daleks work. What convinced me that I liked them was seeing one at The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, and I involuntarily found it intimidating! I'd met Daleks before, and never felt anything but delight, but standing next to that inert, empty, bright yellow, but large and imposing Eternal Dalek shell, my lizard brain reacted to it as a potential threat. It looked like something that I would not want to see rolling along my street, any more than I'd want to see a military tank. If they hadn't been designed as merchandise for kids, the beefier Daleks could have really been great.

@@DavidBeddard Funnily enough, it was Cardiff that really cemented for me just how terrifying the Daleks - any Daleks - could be. We went just as Capaldi was starting and one of areas represented a ruined area of Skaro. There were several deactivated (gold/brass) Daleks strewn around but we could all see the tracks in the ground in front of them and we all knew that, sooner or later, they would so something. A kid was volunteered to grab a "time gem" (or something) from near one of the Daleks and we knew, we all knew, exactly what was going to happen. As she approached, the lights started flickering, a faltering ex-ter-min... was heard and the various Daleks started to twitch and move on their tracks. Kids and adults alike fighting over each other to get out. 😁Absolutely brilliant, and terrifying. The Cardiff experience was excellent and it's a crying shame that it ended. I still hold that they just missed the mark with the paradigm Daleks though (and there was one "in the flesh" when I was at Cardiff too, so I've seen them close up as well). They're not bad, but they lose a certain je ne sais quoi that the originals had without replacing it with something better as far as I'm concerned. To me, the diminutive stature of the originals and ballgown-gliding motion, contrasted with their harsh extremist, genocidal rantings is part of what makes them. To bulk them up and give them deeper voices, to me, looked and sounded like an attempt at trying too hard to make something that was too consciously contrived to grab onto some easy handles of what was meant to be scary for a modern audience, but without getting why the originals had worked for so long. All this opinion, and the Daleks are only my second favourite enemy - I've always been a cyberman kind of person. I agree with the video that the fast Cybermen didn't work either. However, when they recreated the Mondasian Cybermen, and made Bill into one, now that was a terrifying, genuinely horrible (in a good way) recreation and updating of a classic. The old cloth-faced ones became the stuff of nightmares again. The best way to make the Daleks (and any other enemy) scary, is good writing (which we don't always get, but when we do it can be amazing). And that, I think, is also sometimes lost in discussions. It doesn't matter if the props are a bit shonky, if the set wobbles, etc, etc, if the writing is good. The props are just the framework to hang the experience on, for the actor to hold, for people to run away from or hide from, to be the dohickey needed to reverse the polarity and so on. They need provide little more realism than the painted scenery in a theatre - *if* the package as a whole is well written, well acted and thoroughly engaging. Fortunately, it often is - and these days usually comes with great visuals as well.

@@Enjay001 Yep, I mostly agree with you. I'm also more of a Cyberman person, although I quite liked the Nightmare Cybermen (even though the story wasn't quite up to scratch, unfortunately). I felt they were made too fast for my disbelief to remain suspended, but the idea that they could be much faster than humans felt like a good one to me. Slowly marching Cybermen irritate me. Sure, there's a time and a place for a relentless hoard that doesn't need to run because they're in no hurry and they'll get you eventually, but the idea that, at any moment, an augmented, cybernetic being could outmatch you at anything means you really need a good strategy to escape. Now, where they lost me was Chibnall ripped off the Kaylon from The Orville and had the flying cyber-head laser drones. Cybermats weren't cyber-hands, cyberdrones don't need to be hovering cyber-heads.

@@DavidBeddard "I felt they were made too fast for my disbelief to remain suspended, but the idea that they could be much faster than humans felt like a good one to me." Yep, agreed. I'd have been fine with their technology making them faster (something of a staple of cybernetics in sci-fi anyway) but these were moving almost like DC Comics The Flash. Too much. A point of interest is that the cybermen have evolved throughout the history of Who; each incarnation usually being a bit more advanced than the previous one in some way. So if you make them too strong/fast/powerful/whatever, you have to bear in mind what you are going to do with them next time around to either build on that or find a reason for the edge/advantage to have gone again.

Or the Cylons from Battlestar, they could resurrect with their consciousness intact.

TBF, the Borg are a bit of a crib from the Cybermen. Is stealing back still stealing?

That is one of the greatest Doctor Who moments EVER.

He injured his knee in the show - like Matt Smith had when they first met to compare ideas about the role. The hero-stand: running away - turning around and pointig your screwdriver (the body still moves on and the knee snaps)... There was a gap-year between the two Shoal of Harmony specials... well Clara had gone and the Doctor took billions of years to get over that one (or not - there is a quantum locked Clara with time-travelling abilities, who could impersonate all the "dead" splinter-Claras, because she lacks an ageing body or heartbeat).

​@@LisaBeta-42 "Regency-era london's always been diverse" 🤔🤥

I actually miss the Paradigm Daleks

@@pikachucetthesecond4296 Same same

Better than 13's time, Aired on a Monday in Australia, really not good for views, 12 was on a Sunday for me, and I enjoyed it. Also, Classic Who worked with 3 Companions because 1 episode in Classic was longer than 1 Modern Who Episode, that's why the Fam didn't grow. And Yes how 10's and 11's Companions took time before traveling with them.

Chibby SHOULD feel remorse about how horrible his run was. And learns to never touch another show again. Edit: Two companions is the max any Doctor can have, imo. Because that second one can be a close friend to the first one.

I was surprised to hear that Underworld is supposed to be Baker 1's worst. It's not a bad story. I can overlook the CSO sets just by thinking that the rock of the newly forming planet has some weird energy that puts a line around everyone. Eh, it's as good an explanation as any, and better than quite a few the series has come up with for budget induced oddities over the years. I had the novel back in the day and read it about a dozen times. I always thought Creature From the Pit was supposed to be the worst of TB's time.

I thought Trial of the Time Lord was terrible, the Valeyard Master Plan is to kill some Time Lords on some justice committee?

Yes!

16th indeed!

Cringe

Smith & Piper where in the sally Lockhart films too.

There also was Lalla Ward (Romana II), Derek Jacobi (the Yana master), and Geoffrey Beavers (one of the burned masters) together in one version of Hamlet back in 1980.

@@neptune04 Ooh - that's good... I can start imaging how a Top Ten might look already!

There’s a film from 1953 called will any gentleman which has both Willian hartnell and Jon pertwee on screen at the same time

And Hotel! (I think that's the title) has McGann, Capaldi, and another dr

Same

The only issue I have with them is the paint. Maybe they could have used a more metallic colour and then it might have made them seem more like the older Darlek that they were replacing but still seeming like an upgrade. When I saw them for the first time I liked the bold change and was disappointed not to see them used to their full potential

I agree and like Luke said, if they had been metallic colours, they would have looked fantastic

Bradley Walsh was the standout actor, which came as a surprise to me as I'd only seen him as a presenter until then. He brought real humanity to the role despite dealing with some of the weakest scripts of the new era. John Bishop as Dan also seemed a talent somewhat wasted. Maybe they will run into a future Doctor, perhaps Ncuti's incarnation...?

@@KeironCharles I saw Walsh in L&O Order U.K which also had Freeman Agenya(Martha Jones) in it. Dan was part of the Woke agenda lets make white men weak. The last strong male adult companion (I don't consider Captain Jack a companion) was Harry Sullivan.

That is acknowledged by many, but “green screen” is usually the default name for such effects, no matter the background color being used.

@@brainlock72 And for many others it's blue screen, and it's careless either way. The right term is chroma key.

@@brainlock72 Or in the BBC it was always CSO colour separation overlay.

@@josgibbons6777 I watched an outtake of Pond on some blue “animal” with a blue background Gunn was filming for Guardians3, earlier. It all depends on what color the actors are/are wearing and what effects are going in. These days, it’s a LOT easier to adjust the FX than in 1970s.

Too soon 😂😂😂

​@@NeilCWCampbell It's been 66 million years! Get over it.

@@the_once-and-future_king. or yesterday, that's the thing about time travel;)

@@NeilCWCampbell Well I suppose if you look at it from a non-linear progression from cause to effect...

i dont get it, can someone explain

All three where often interchangeable. Really i'd of had yaz join them later dureing the spider one, that's a good story for her to do some investigating in.

The 3 companions were such an obvious error that I regularly rant about in comment sections (maybe this video will give me a chance to hang up my keyboard...) Sci-Fi (and Dr Who in particular) require a huge amount of exposition, introducing/explaining the setting, issues and characters. In 'classic who' you often didn't see the monster until the end of episode 1 of a story so you had time for background stories. Oh and minor correction to this video the new episodes are mostly 45-50 (minus credits). There truly wasn't time in any script for 4 main characters, the 'locals' (story specific good guys / victims) and the villains / monsters. Oh and I'd replace number 1 on this list with the preaching episodes of Jodie's era. I thought Rosa was a fantastic episode, but week after week the stories were trying to either teach the audience about historical characters or environmental / moral issues (Kerblam, Orphan 55, Praxeus). I thought the program was meant to be entertainment.

That was kind of a cold blooded comment, Ellie.

@@daveautzen9089 To be fair, she didn't write it. I don't know how much leeway she has to adlib, but I'm guessing it was in the script.

LOL, yeah, that was a good'un!

@@michaeltortorice9876 I didn’t think about that, but still…poor Adric

When was that?

I know right? The episodes I watched reminded me of 8 legged freaks, quantum leap, lilo and stitch, Predator etc it's like somebody was given some homework and left it to the last minute and cludged something together off somebody elses cool online work while trying not to make it look plagiarised.

Ryan had dypraxia(?) But he was able to COD no-scope the androids. 🤔

2 whole episodes? Are you sure it was that much? It horrifies me that such valuable property as Dr Who (not to mention Star Trek & Star Wars on occasion) can be given to people who have no feel for the material.

And precisely 0% of that is actually true in the slightest.

The entire Chibb's era was an unmitigated disaster. There was absolutely no redeeming feature to it. Especially the fans who viciously attacked any criticism of it. We are lucky it wasn't the end of Doctor Who.

@@Earthsinger100 Literally every single word of that is utter nonsense and you know it. (At least, I really hope you know it or you’re even more deluded than one ever thought possible. Then again, it takes an unreal level of delusion to even *think* any of that gibberish *might possibly* be plausible, so…)

@@DrWhoFanJ Is that you Chris?

@@davidagnew6191 Nope, in the same way you’re not the credited writer of _The Brain of Morbius_.

Peter had 3 right away. Mr Hartnell had 3.

​@@williammitchell4417 well said! As such Matt Smith had Rory and Amy but River hanging around made a third companion for some good stories. So that's two and a half male doctors with three Companions who by the OPs standards required them to prop up their doctor 🙄😕😔 Eighth Doctor in his audios has three a lot of the time recently with Liv, Helen and Tania.... The Doctor has Companions or none, they're still great Doctors ❤

@@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars the quirky part about Jodie's first season was that the young man needed someone else to get him OUT of trouble.