Empire of Death somehow, impossibly, manages to be a worse finale than The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos. I genuinely didn’t think that was possible.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
Honestly I'd probably still put it above Ranskoor Av Kolos, but it is a bit lackluster, particularly with how the Ruby's mum mystery box is tied up
@selmaunsley6683Ай бұрын
Indeed
@ThePondererАй бұрын
@@MidnightChimey Empire is certainly more *watchable* than Ranskoor is, in the sense that it’s not utterly boring and flaccid, but genuinely I’ll take boring over something that feels like it’s actively insulting my intelligence and emotional investment.
@ftumschkАй бұрын
@@ThePonderer Good point, albeit emotional investment was a non-factor in the "arcless" Series 11.
@AFriendRemembersАй бұрын
Worse than ranmoor? No. It absolutely stands head over shoulders above that abomination.
@MatthewCaunsfieldАй бұрын
I only think RTD ever really bothered about it very much. And now he's unfettered! 😯
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
He has more confidence, dare I say arrogance, as a writer now I'd say
@DaveLynchWriterАй бұрын
No, the dog for a walk had zero logic to it.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
If you squint very hard it had logic
@peterdixon7734Ай бұрын
"RTD does not do cause and effect." Amen to that. Set some German philosophers onto him.
@triplejazzmusicisall1883Ай бұрын
What a great and insighful review. RTD has become so arrogant not only does he no longer care about narrative and satsfying resolutions but he seems to think that alll his opinions are fact and those who take a different perspective are wrong. That man is an egotistical manipulative piece of hypocrisy.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
Don't know if I'd go that far but there is an arrogance in the way RTD comes across these days
@triplejazzmusicisall1883Ай бұрын
@@MidnightChimey I probably am going over-the-top. I just feel he barely resembles the same showrunner from 2005. That and he always is speaking to the press causing controversy where/when he has no need to. Have a top weekend.
@LeylaashleyАй бұрын
Because our only 3 lead writers for the last 20 years have been plotting something for far longer.
@selmaunsley6683Ай бұрын
I ranked space babies below this but I take that back because at Least that episode made sense
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
Space Babies is fine honestly, just a bit of an anonymous filler episode with some jank effects
@selmaunsley6683Ай бұрын
@@MidnightChimey tbf if my kids were still under 5 they would have liked it
@Alondro77Ай бұрын
@@MidnightChimey They needed to send in some Daleks to deal with the babies. Now THAT is TV I'd tune in for! AND LAUGH LOUDLY!!! (Alondro is a monster, you see...) >:D
@caitsidhe4560Ай бұрын
RTD and decent writting ...thats like expecting Chibnall to write anything that at least 3 year old would find good.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
RTD and dare I say even Chibnall have both proven capable of it on occasion, that's what is frustrating
@ftumschkАй бұрын
RTD and Chibnall weren't part of the Fitzroy Tavern set.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
I've come across a few sources (including Verdana's video) that indicate they were part of that circle
@ftumschkАй бұрын
@@MidnightChimey I'm afraid those sources were incorrect. RTD was based in Manchester at the time, and I've never seen any proof that Chibnall was part of the Vauxhall Tavern group.
@Scripture-ManАй бұрын
I honestly cannot understand how ANYONE could like or defend this show. These aren't stories, they're just a series of "events happening for no reason". That's not how TV shows are supposed to work. You can't just have random events happening. And the Doctor is now a wizard who can make anything appear out of thin air with his screwdriver. The show is nonsensical, not to mention offensive on so many levels, with the racism, sexism, etc.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
What racism, sexism?
@PaulRichards-vz4plАй бұрын
Dragging Sutekh backwards through the time vortex wouldn’t bring everything in the universe back to life because the vortex isn’t the physical fixed realm and also Sutekh wasn’t originally trapped in the time vortex. Death to death brings life! What utter crap! We’ve had magic hammers, magic gloves, magic earrings and intelligent rope! 😂😂Just stupid. No doubt RTD will say we’re in a fantasy realm and so any fantastical plots are permissible but wasn’t the Toymaker defeated and so why would we still be in this fantasy realm? Clearly RTD can’t write science fiction and relies on badly constructed fantasy. He can’t write the Doctor properly and so creates a bi-generated Doctor so he can sexualise and humanise the Doctor for his own pleasure. It’s a stinking mess.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
RTD won't try to justify his "fantastical plots" with any in-universe explanation because he doesn't feel the need to, as far as he's concerned the show isn't grounded in realism, and whether you like that or not I feel is quite subjective. I don't mind it for the most part, but the finale didn't work
@PaulRichards-vz4plАй бұрын
@@MidnightChimey The finale certainly didn’t work on that we can agree.
@TheBlackcredoАй бұрын
Ok. I was worried you were going to be one of those 'Doctor Who has gone woke' idiots. But I do understand your point.
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
I seem to attract plenty of them
@NeimitАй бұрын
Same, I hate those. But it wasn't that and I ended up mostly agreeing. It would be great to have some fresh new writers and more of them, even the show-runner, the next show-runner has to be someone new. David Tennant's return and the bigeneration not being explained sucked, like even Capaldi's face was explained in a satisfying way and he only played a character in a single episode previously... Tennant was a whole doctor. The bigeneration seems to be just written in for the sake of Tennant having like a 'happy ending', but there is no in universe explanation of it...
@MidnightChimeyАй бұрын
@@Neimit Normally I'm not fixated on every detail being explained but the trouble with Tennant coming back that bothers me is unless you explain it away somehow, it opens the door for any previous actor to just come back at any time, which is not a good direction for the show to go in, it's just not.
@GorensteinMediaАй бұрын
@@MidnightChimey Can we swap audiences?
@Scripture-ManАй бұрын
You hateful woke people need to understand that good people were here first. and we will ultimately triumph. You tyrants may currently have complete control over the media, hating and attacking everyone who refuses to join your religion, and says not to your unthinkable immorality, but this country used to be in the hands of good people - people who weren't racist, sexist or homophobic. People who didn't hate their fellow human beings, who had respect, love, kindness in their hearts, who believed in equality and tolerance. For hundreds of years, our society was good, and one day it will be good again when woke is overcome. You can hate. attack and "cancel" good people all you like but we were here first and ultimately, good people will triumph over you and your hatred. Your vicious, bigoted ways will be no more. I fully expect to be attacked for writing this because that's the woke way sadly.
@biosaariАй бұрын
So...I hear you saying that New Who is President Biden.