Acting Coach Reacts to Doctor Who S1E8 'Father's Day': A Journey Through Time and Emotion

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6 ай бұрын

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Join me as I delve into the emotionally charged episode 'Father's Day' from the first series of Doctor Who. Witness my genuine reactions and in-depth analysis of the performances and storytelling in this poignant episode. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insights into the world of acting and storytelling in TV and film.
Acting Coach Reacts to Doctor Who S1E8 'Father's Day'
In this episode of Doctor Who, titled 'Father's Day', we explore the complexities of time travel and its impact on personal histories. The episode centers around Rose's desire to save her father, leading to unforeseen consequences. As an acting coach, I was particularly drawn to the performances, which beautifully conveyed the emotional weight of the story.
The episode begins with a sense of anticipation and curiosity. Rose's longing to connect with her father, whom she never knew, sets the stage for a deeply personal journey. The actors skillfully portray the tension and excitement of this time-traveling adventure. The moment Rose meets her father is a masterclass in acting, capturing the raw emotion of a daughter seeing her father alive for the first time.
As the story unfolds, the consequences of altering the past become apparent. The actors deliver performances that are both nuanced and powerful, highlighting the internal struggles of their characters. The emotional climax, where Rose's father realizes he must sacrifice himself to correct the timeline, is heart-wrenching. The portrayal of this selfless act and its impact on Rose is a testament to the actors' ability to convey deep emotions convincingly.
In conclusion, 'Father's Day' is a standout episode in the Doctor Who series, not just for its intriguing plot but for the exceptional performances that bring the story to life. The exploration of complex themes such as sacrifice, love, and the consequences of our choices is handled with great sensitivity and skill by the cast, making it a memorable viewing experience.
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@claireyoung3538 6 ай бұрын

One does not simply watch Father’s Day without crying

@ym10up 6 ай бұрын

Truer words have never been said. There are some Rose episodes that are waterwork guaranteed.

@Cinnamon_Shaey 6 ай бұрын

True I think this is like my 5-6 time and still I find tears somewhere

@chanceneck8072 6 ай бұрын

@@Cinnamon_Shaey more like 20 for me... 😅

@amberdulay7238 6 ай бұрын

Rose’s tiny little “my daddy” is just peak Billie acting. Cannot get over that moment.

@tna_ 6 ай бұрын

Broke my heart 😭

@Longshanks1690 6 ай бұрын

One of my favourite moments in this episode, if not the entire series, is the scene where Rose is telling Pete what a great dad he is because of how heartbreaking it is. She just pours her heart out for him, expressing every fantasy and dream she’s ever had about her dad, imagining what a great guy he was based off Jackie’s rose tinted stories about her late husband and how her life would be so much better if he was in it. And what father doesn’t want to hear his little girl praise him, to know that she views him as the centre of her world? For most dads, being thought of in this light would be ideal… but much like the other themes of this episode, just because it feels good doesn’t mean it’s right. Pete knows himself. He knows that while he is a decent guy trying to do his best, he also knows that he’s unpredictable, erratic, disloyal and, above all, unreliable. He knows when Rose is talking about this perfect dad who does everything right that it’s not him, it can’t be him. You can see it written on Shaun Dingwall’s face as he slowly begins to understand that somethings wrong because as much as he wants to be the man she’s describing, much as he wishes he could be that man, it isn’t him. So that of course raises the obvious question “Why isn’t she describing the useless disappointment no one trusts? Why doesn’t my daughter know me?”He knows that as much as he loves his daughter, he isn’t reliable or dependable or someone she’d naturally look up to. He knows more often than not, he would let her down time and again, much as he wouldn’t mean to. Much as he wants to be the dad she believes him to be, he knows it’s not real. Which is why he’s then able to put the pieces together on his own and realise that to save everyone, he has to die. He knows he wouldn’t be there for her every time but he can be here now, for the one time in his little girl’s life that it really matters. There’s just so much packed into one little scene between Rose and Pete that cuts right to the core of who he is, because for all his faults, he is the man who sacrificed himself to save the world. I think this episode might be really well written or something idk, I’m just spitting though. 😂

@peterlewis2178 6 ай бұрын

To be fair, we don't really know for sure that he was disloyal. Sometimes a coat rack is just a coat rack.

@thomasgodfrey5877 6 ай бұрын

As a kid I found this episode boring, but as an adult this is my favorite episode of the entire show.

@Longshanks1690 6 ай бұрын

An underappreciated moment in this episode that I think doesn’t get enough attention is the scene with the Doctor, Stuart and Sarah. In the grand scheme of the show, the two of them were right. We never saw them before this episode, we’ll ever see them again, we know nothing else about them. It’s not even clear if they’ll remember this after the Doctor leaves. The Doctor doesn’t need to take the time out to focus on these randos and the episode doesn’t need to take time away from Pete and Rose for these one note characters… but it would be such a disservice to the Doctor if he had. The way Chris plays him going from focused on the door to snapping to attention when he realises that these people need comforting and help because they’re scared on what should be the happiest day of their lives is just so heartwarming. The Doctor often is a very big picture kind of character but it’s here we can see that he does care about the “little people,” the ones often written off as unimportant because their lives are interchangeable with everyone else’s. They’re not Time Lords, they don’t have a TARDIS, they’re not going to save the world… and that’s exactly why the Doctor takes the time out to reassure them. It’s not that he’s jealous of them or wants to be like them, if anything he’d hate the domestic life, but he understands the importance of people like them. It’s those simple, basic, universal human experiences that make the Earth the kind of planet that it is, they’re the people that the Doctor is defending. The Doctor sees a beauty in humanity where others see only banality, which is why he makes sure to remind them that they are important. They’re important to each other, and everyone they know, of course. But they’re also important because keeping the simple charm to what could be seen as a boring life is what keeps the Doctor motivated to keep fighting to protect them, to make sure that no one can take that away from them. The Doctor has been robbed of his home and if he can help it, he’s going to make sure no one else is robbed of theirs. It’s such a simple scene, but it gets right to the heart of the Doctor’s character to show what makes him a noble and heroic figure.

@ym10up 6 ай бұрын

"Mr. Watson - Come here - I want you" is what Bell supposedly said when telephone was used for the first time in history. I think it's probably the most fitting message for that scene.

@murdomaclachlan 6 ай бұрын

I love that you picked up on the "It's my job for it to be my fault" line, it's one of my favourites in the entire show. This episode is such a brilliant exploration of family and loss and love.

@CrankyGrandma 6 ай бұрын

Rose is such a blend of her parents. Her dad was smart and she is smart and easily adapts to crazy ideas just as he did. But she also has a good bit of Jackie. Billie Piper makes that seem real

@sp72929 6 ай бұрын

The greatest secret of DW being as successful as it is - the show is unpredictable, hilarious and silly and crazy but in all the craziness going on there are these little moments and sometimes whole episodes that hit you emotionally as hard as a freight train at full speed. Watching the show the first time I really liked how unusual it was. Then Father's Day came and I was in, hook, line and sinker, Big Time! Absolutely fantastic storytelling, the subtle and therefore so very real acting... wow! Just wow!

@MrPaulMorris 6 ай бұрын

Camille Coduri, who plays Jackie, is a wonderful actress whose performance is often overlooked. Written largely as a one dimensional comic side character, Camille made it so much more solid and believable. Few can switch so efectively in a heartbeat from comedy to pathos.

@rngwrldngnr 6 ай бұрын

17:15 Paul Cornell wrote this. He's only got a couple of episodes but he is a pillar of the expanded universe, particularly during the Wilderness Years. I've yet to experience one of his stories and come away disappointed.

@lydiarodgers 6 ай бұрын

i really need to look into his DW books because his episodes are my favourites

@franohmsford7548 6 ай бұрын

@@lydiarodgers He wrote Human Nature {the novel that the Tennant episodes are based on}. But I'd recommend starting with "Love and War" if you can. - He also wrote the fourth novel in the Timewyrm saga {the first New Adventures after the BBC cancelled the show} - Timewyrm: Revelation. And the Peter Davison Missing Adventure "Goth Opera" but that's a companion piece to the Terrance Dicks New Adventure "Blood Harvest" and I think Blood Harvest technically should be read first.

@elliottnoad1270 6 ай бұрын

The fact this comes immediately after The Long Game (at least TV wise, some debate on where the expanded universe stuff takes place) makes sense. Like The Long Game showed Adam wasn't a good companion (willing to risk breaking time for financial gain), Fathers Day shows Rose is flawed as well. but the two episodes also show how differently Rose & Adam responded to getting it wrong. On the one hand, Adam was acting out of wanting to get rich (even with an expanded universe story revealing part of why Adam wanted the future knowledge was to help his mum, a big part of it was still getting rich for selfish reasons). And then said it was all the Doctor's fault, that Adam got the chip & tried to get future knowledge. On the other, Rose's heart was in the right place (just wanting to save her dad rather than say getting rich and using some of that wealth to save him) + she was genuinely sorry afterwards and when she saw the consequences (Reapers swarming).

@carysbarnesviola 6 ай бұрын

Thanks you for a thoughtful reaction. You got how important the taxi home story is because that is what Pete’s story is about how beautiful and extraordinary an ordinary life is

@robvanriot 6 ай бұрын

Another triumph of an episode from this season. For all the sci fi and aliens and occasional silliness, Father's Day is the first time that Doctor Who shows you that it can really break your heart. It won't be the last. Oh boy, is it it ever not the last.

@OVM601 6 ай бұрын

I said on another reactor's channel that the last episodes of this season is where Murray Gold's music begins to really come into its own but I completely forgot how good it is in Father's Day. Murray Gold's music will go on to become an integral part of the formula going forward.

@Cinnamon_Shaey 6 ай бұрын

This episode is one of my favourites of s1, the two part with the empty child is also up there as i love jacks character

@13dronid 6 ай бұрын

Just saw your reaction to Father's Day. Absolutely the right reaction. Great performances managing to get the best out of a one episode story with plenty of world building, backstory, character development, emotional resonance and peril. Fantastic.

@KeithAndrewPGbiz 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoying these videos dude. And your take is spot on. I feel like this episode could, with a worse writer and less effective actors, have been really overblown and cheesy, but the script is delicate and the performances are laced with subtlety. You're right - the moment that sticks out is the very tiny shift in Jackie's face when it clicks that that's her daughter. I have absolutely no idea how actors do that. Amazing. Just amazing. An instant classic episode and one I still return to almost 20 years later.

@andycofin6983 5 ай бұрын

Just when you think it’s just so campy… it tears your heart, and just like your words to your children, it tears your heart, but it also oh so needed to keep you human.

@dlweiss 6 ай бұрын

The first truly great episode of the show. It really shows both the messiness and the depth of emotion that such time-travel stories can conjure, and it does so beautifully. ❤

@ym10up 6 ай бұрын

I really appreciate the first series of Doctor Who reboot. The anticipation of bringing back a show with a successful past, trying to continue the story, appealing to the old audience while attracting the new generation. The expectations and the stress that comes with must be sky-high. They really went hard with the writing and they nailed it. I honestly feel like all episodes of series 1 are bangers. This series set the foundation for the series to continue, securing the fundings and commission from the BBC. The same cannot necessarily be said about every series.

@ElysiaFields19 6 ай бұрын

Suddenly we are reminded how young our brave, impulsive, adventure-seeking, seeminly older than her years, 31:29 Rose, truly is. She causes me to feel a whirlwind of emotions while I wanted to both shake the girl fiercely and hug her and never let her go. And all of it was heartbreaking and beautiful.❤️‍🩹

@alexsimpkin5620 6 ай бұрын

There are laws for time travel, but they're more societal laws than physical laws. The First Law. No traveller may interfere with, nor exert influence over, their own timeline. The Second Law. No traveller may interfere with the timeline of a Fixed Temporal Nexus Point. The Third Law. No traveller shall breach the temporal barriers protecting the past and future of Gallifrey.

@glassshatterin9967 6 ай бұрын

I must have watched this episode like 5 or 6 times most recently on a plane before Christmas and I just started crying mid-flight... not many things make me cry either

@GoblinSing 6 ай бұрын

I love this episode so much. It makes me cry several times, every time. And everything you said about being a father rings so true to it all. I recently have had to come to terms with deep-set feelings that neither of my parents really did that... Softening blows, helping me to learn and be myself. If anything they created more of the inner conflict. And I am deeply sad to have left them now :( But it's a godsend to see thoughtful people, like yourself, who get it. And who try. And who take the fault when it is there. Like Pete said, that wasn't him. Or he didn't think so at least. But in those extra hours of life he got a chance for *exactly* that. And it means *the world* that he took it.

@omegafd6992 6 ай бұрын

this for me is the best episode of the show, so many brilliant performances the score the style, the lore everything.

@ym10up 6 ай бұрын

Whether or not the Doctor could have done it is up for debate. However, if he was able to do it, this episode would have been much less impactful. Pete was the perfect dad in Rose's mind because he wasn't there and Jakie told Rose all these stories that painted Pete in the best way. Had he lived, Jackie and Pete might have ended up spending life bickering or even ended up getting a divorce. Reality would have made it impossible for Pete to be as perfect as constructed by Jackie. The plotline took the Doctor out of the equation, thus allowing Pete to stand up, make the sacrifice, be the hero and be the dad that Rose had always imagined.

@tna_ 6 ай бұрын

💯🔥

@rossross3689 6 ай бұрын

I first watched this episode weeks after i had my first daughter. It broke me. Still does

@AmbassadorDavis 6 ай бұрын

Once we become parent's life changes so much in our priorities and how we want to build on a better life for those we have created, hear you bud

@raybearoz 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed watching you react... the rules to time? Yes, they will be explored and explained... just be patient...

@chanceneck8072 6 ай бұрын

Just try to be the best version of yourself, that you can be! For you and your kids. Everyone makes mistakes.

@space1999 6 ай бұрын

Love your comments about being a dad... I'm one myself and I couldn't agree more.... ps, the first (of many) episode to really do "feels " well in this show....

@sisterjesscah 6 ай бұрын

Fathers Day is absolutely my overall favourite episode in Doctor Who. The acting, plot and writing are all spot on. By the end of the episode, I'm usually a wreck of emotions. And it's one that I enjoy time after time. I love Pete as a character. Yes, he has his issues, but don't we all? I disagree woth his own assessment, I think he woukd have been an amazing Dad, given the opportunity. We see how much he stepped up when it counted. He gave his life, to save his only daughter. He was smart and perceptive and had a big heart. All of his best qualities, which he passed onto Rose. And I'm so glad that Rose got see them for herself. To see that while her Dad wasn't flawless (no-one is) he was still very much a good man and a hero. Someone she could be proud of calling her Dad. I just love him.

@StinsonSwarley 8 күн бұрын

Loved your commentary in the end

@jonathangoodwin5609 6 ай бұрын

The problem of this episode is that paradoxes never do this again.

@New-tu3mn 3 ай бұрын

Kudos, on your matured view of what it means to be a father.

@gregweatherup9596 6 ай бұрын

The pilot was good enough to get me interested. The 2nd episode almost turned me off the show. Unquiet Dead was good enough to keep me going. The farting aliens was weird, and combined with the weird timing (it was airing on PBS in the middle of the night) I almost dropped watching the show. Dalek was great and hooked me back in - I determined to give the show at least a season. Long game was decent. Then this one… Wow! It’s where I started listing Doctor Who as a great show. The next episodes, plus a certain one in season 2 secured it as one of my personal favorite shows. Before this episode I only knew a few examples of British TV and only from 2 things: comedies (Are You Being Served?, Monty Python, etc.) or historical tales (Masterpiece Theater, Downton Abbey, etc.). This was the first time I saw emotion in British TV.

@jennifermorris6848 6 ай бұрын

I really appreciate your analysis. So beautiful.

@teamicecream9015 6 ай бұрын

Was looking forward to this one

@carysbarnesviola 6 ай бұрын

Oh my… I’ve been waiting for this one. What a lovely surprise

@RobertBatina 5 ай бұрын

Hah! I’ve watched this episode half a dozen times and I have no idea how I never thought of them as Langoliers 😅🤦🏻‍♂️ Just found / started watching you tonight w the Doctor Who eps… don’t ever apologize or feel like you should comment on the acting parts less … I feel like those of us who lean on the faces, the body language, the tones … all of the stuff that makes a show compelling … we need to hear folks like us who see and appreciate all those details. 👍🏻

@Robert10075 6 ай бұрын

I’d love to see this guy pick apart the acting skills of EastEnders clips

@franohmsford7548 6 ай бұрын

If I was to list my Top 10 episodes of Nu-Who this would absolutely be in the upper echelons of said list! It's easily my #1 episode of Eccelstone's tenure.

@smashstuff86 6 ай бұрын

I was waiting for this episode.

@gumdeo Ай бұрын

Pete Tyler was indeed a smart man. But more importantly, he was a good man 😢

@Salfordian 6 ай бұрын

Chris said his dad was ill so he had two weeks off during this so Billy carried most of it

@SNMG7664 6 ай бұрын

When I was much younger this episode was very boring - as a kid I focused on the monsters and fantasy elements and they really didn't do very much here. Having since lost my own father though this episode hits completely differently.

@adaddinsane 6 ай бұрын

We all make mistakes. It's what you do after that's importnt.

@smashstuff86 6 ай бұрын

18:38 Just wait. Oops, I mean, spoilers.

@loriepecinasadler1413 6 ай бұрын

👍

@DisneyBatchman 6 ай бұрын

LOL! First off, great reaction. Second off, it's funny ... last time it was reversed. You said it right, but labeled it wrong. This time it's labeled right (Season 1, episode 8), but you said "That was season two episode eight." 8-D

@tna_ 6 ай бұрын

lol, My bad

@tna_ 6 ай бұрын

Can you tell I'm working hard, 😅

@lostgatherer 6 ай бұрын

watch I Hate Suzie for some more bilie piper acting

@joshuajoshua2732 6 ай бұрын

It's not one of my cup of tea of an episode i'm not into the whole soap opera aspect, i think also because i don't like Rose as a character and i know this will be a controversial opinion but it's considered one the top 10 episodes of fandom.