3/10 at best, part 2 was even worse and Lenny Henry wasn't even funny back in the 80s, I just think that compared to today's 'talent' he seems that way. Maybe you had to be there to remember how bad he was compared to his contemporaries. I miss Blackadder and Not the 9 O'clock News, never his mainstream dross. Dr What gets a point for this being a Master episode, the bad guys being okish (in this episode) and it starts with 1 point as default.

Episodes still to review: The Unquiet Dead The Long Game Father's Day Boom-Town Born-Again The Christmas Invasion New Earth Rise Of The Cybermen/Age Of Steel The Idiot's Lanturn The Runaway Bride The Infinite Quest The Lazerus Experiment Time-Crash Voyage Of The Dammed Partners In Crime Fires Of Pompeii Planet Of The Ood The Sontoran Strategm/The Poison Sky The Doctor's Daughter The Unicorn And The Wasp Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead Midnight Turn-Left The Stolen Earth/Journey's End The Next Doctor Planet Of The Dead Dreamland The Waters Of Mars The End Of Time (Parts 1 & 2) The Eleventh Hour Meanwhile In The TARDIS (#1) The Beast Below Victory Of The Daleks Time Of Angles/Flesh And Stone Meanwhile In The TARDIS (#2) Vampires In Venice Amy's Choice The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood The-Lodger The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang Space/Time A Christmas Carol The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon The Curse Of The Black-Spot The Doctor's Wife The Rebel-Flesh/The Almost-People A Good Man Goes To War Night-Terrors The Girl Who Waited The God-Complex Closing-Time The Wedding Of River-Song The Doctor, The Widow, And The Wardrobe Asylum Of The Daleks Dinosaurs On A Spaceship A Town Called Mercy The Power Of 3 Angles Take Manhattan P.S. The Snowmen The Bells Of Saint John's The Rings Of Akkatan Cold-War Hide Journey To The Center Of The TARDIS The Crimson Horror Nightmare In Silver The Name Of The Doctor An Adventure In Space And Time The Night Of The Doctor The Fiveish Doctors Reboot The Last Day The Day Of The Doctor The Time Of The Doctor Last Christmas If anyone's interested, I'm also reviewing all the Doctor Who stories on my channel, with me having just uploaded my review of: 'The Green Death (1973)!' No pressure, of course, just might be worth checking out! :)

I thought the monsters were the Racknoss, but I remembered seeing these from the trailer, and unless if the Racknoss was going to be completely-changed, it didn't happen. But, the scene from the trailer, still didn't show-up, so it's possible that the monsters, or the Racknoss will appear in a future episode...

I give spyfall part 1 8/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@generalnapoleonbonaparte3186 I feel like you just got overly-hyped, since it was better than Series 11. Anything better than Series 11, would look like a masterpiece, in comparison.

She also was rather unempathetic towards Graham at the end of Rosa after what he had to do at the end of that episode.

Come to think of it, Jodie's doctor comes across as unsympathetic a lot. Unlike maybe 9th doctor, it doesn't play into her character in any way and just comes across as someone who doesn't understand social skills. Doesn't even come across as funny.

@@normietwiceremoved Capaldi was the same (so I didn't like him very much) but at least it fit his personality

I think this is meant to be her personality but it seems shes just all the revival doctors blended which is just dumb imo. She has 9s lack of empathy, 10s tendency to not be aware of his surroundings, 11s childlike wonder and 12s tendency to not be aware of peoples emotions. It gets annoying

LOL chibs has fixed a lot and seemed to have listened to most criticism. But what you just pointed out hasn't been fixed. If you noticed, that's how chibs doctor is. Chibs sucks at sci-fi and he just can't write the doctor. Hella humans have died from last season to now. She didn't even care lol. The thing that was completely "not the doctor". Was when the officer told jodie to go back in the house, and she did! With no protest or anything lol like WTF? Then she just goes back in the house and watches the monitor with everyone else. HUH? No ingenius plan making or nothing, just asked everyone for their input like she isn't the doctor. Then she just sits there and watches them get killed, on her watch/care. She slowly walks outside and just makes a comment on how terrible they died lol. Scene switched to inside the house and she's just having a normal talk with the alien/murderer. It was bad! Don't get me started on chibs ignoring the Tardis and basically making it a prop/joke.

Yes! Usually Doctor Who makes it soo obvious when there's a plot twist coming. Missy and River for example were easily guessable! I much prefer this kind of reveal that you totally don't see coming, but when you look back you pick up subtle clues, but nothing in your face.

Two things i picked up while watching was the malice in his voice when talking to graham about his notes on the doctor, and the fact he was highly underwhelmed when he saw inside the TARDIS. no "IT ACTUALLY BIGGER ON THE INSIDE" or anything.

There was also the clue about the whole he has an entire life of images, surely he couldn't fake that? And O/Master pulls a face because that's what he did.

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TnT FoX I never understood why people did stuff like that

@Voltaic Fire Smeeee

@Voltaic Fire Heeeee

you mean: O no

I had to google it after first comment about it. To be honest i mostly wonder about the people commenting, that they know what it means without googling

My mum burst out laughing when they first said it. I shouldn't have asked her what it meant, my search history shall be forever tainted.

The Smart-Casual Gamer. Your mom knew? 👀

She's more internet culture literate than I am.

First I thought it is a Tor joke or sth like that, but the 'e' at the end of the word started crawling in my head and I remembered that Internet is still existing

Even CBBC wouldn't be this disappointing, because you know what you would expect. But this is BBC one, with talented actors and a massive budget and this is all they can do?

IMO The Sarah Jane Adventures has more competent storytelling than Chibnall's Doctor Who.

Tom Monty innit

@@hagridmary Yep, fun and enjoyable with connections to the main show

True, very true

To be fair I can 100% hear Peter capaldis doctor saying that if he came after Jodie. Out of all the problems this era has, this ain’t one of them

welcome to doctor who

@@Diamond_Squid Season 11 & 12 anyway. I understood the previous seasons much better than I did this episode

Almost definitely pre-Missy, possibly even pre-Simms. Don't think Chibnall has the imagination to come up with a workable method for The Master to renew his regeneration cycle for a second time. Plus as we've only ever seen 9 of the at least 18 Masters on screen it kind of makes more sense than Missy somehow regenerating.

he said in part 2 that he felt betrayed by the fact that the very existence of time lord society, his entire life, was built on a lie. He threw all of his redemption out of the window because he wanted to get revenge on all the people who ever lied right to his face. It's understandable, i mean, he may have tried to be a good person, but the master is still the master, if something angers him that much, if he learns something that is such a stinging slap in the face, he's not going to hold back anymore.

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab in his Master explained video on theDW YT channel he says he is after Missy and especially with the way Chibnall is retconning and is going to ruin things like how Gallifrey isn’t in the pocket dimensions and Gallifrey past you can assume he is retconning Missy’s redemption

Harry's Haunted House I be jamming to the official hhh playlist

nah youre not wrong it was pretttyyyy fucking obvious lol

“VOR is used around the world”

Why's he changed it? Not as Annoying as the wonderfully named Terry Nation Army changing their username to Dalek 1963 or something as equally unmemorable.

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab Probably for Halloween and just hasn’t changed it back

@@spacepenguins8939 Clearly not since he has it as a small logo on all the videos.

I never even noticed he changed it until now lol

I assumed he'd changed it for Halloween... maybe he's just forgotten to change it back.

SKILZ 8 finally. Someone who knows what they’re talking about lol

The impossible planet/the satan pit >>>>>

Whole Jodie's Doctor is literally Chibnail ripping off Tennants seasons. But mostly the bad parts.

@Brant Hall lack of emotion? Lol one of the negatives I always hear is that Tennant made the Doctor too human.

The tennant years where the highpoint of new doctor who. Been downhill ever sin cce.

This exactly plus because it wasn’t a depression mess to watch and fast paced it made all the dumb shit blow over people’s head and they only think it good because of the shock value the master reveal had

@Yana: I'm not sure I'd call the previous seasons a colossal turd as you did. I would, however, agree that it wasn't as annoying as the previous season. While Moffatt certainly had his ups and downs on episodes, the one thing he was definitely brilliant on was dialog - which clearly Chibnal is not. I see the potential of a new Doctor as being amazing. I see the execution as worthy of arranging one (similar to Queen Elizabeth's sentiment on arrangement of same). If we had someone in the writing room using their ideas (which, to be fair, are more unique) with Moffatt's dialog prowess, we would certainly have been immensely better off than we are now. I can't say I'm excited about this new staff and there's only so much Jodie and her 'fam' (which, by the way, is also annoying and campy) can do to unfornicate the situation.

@@IamJustJ. I agree, when I said 'seasons' it wasn't very fair. While Mofatt wasn't stellar towards the end of his run, he was a stronger writer than Chibnall so far.

Yeah. I tend to agree. Whilst Season 11 had moments (e.g. Rosa and the Witchfinder aside from the last 5 minutes), the show was operating on a 3/10. Not good enough to rewatch fully but not bad enough to be car crash media. Honestly, Chibnall reminds me of the character of Violet Evergarden in terms of writing. In her first letters, she wrote love letters like field reports, being very literal. You can also add in the Sugar writing method where you add rather dark subject matters (e.g. a guy leaving his blind child afraid and starving so he can bang what he thinks is her resurrected mother) without factoring it into the final conclusion. Honestly, just have Yaz punch him and threaten to sick CPS on him when she thinks the Doctor is out of earshot.

Well, series 11 was 2 years ago so you're technically correct.

@@christopherbennett5858 less than 2 years ago*.

@@BradleyS95 But more than a year ago since the last cliffhanger... considering season 11 had only 1 cliffhanger and it felt like the end of a comedic stargate SG1 episode.

@@christopherbennett5858 Okay but I used "Years" as plural, so I think this ep had the best Cliffhanger for years.

Wasn't she still evil at that time? Different connotations when someone like her says something like that.

da fuck is that

to late i searched it what the fuck is wrong with people

How did you even know that? Eww

Problematiique it’s a radio

@@Temptation666 ...or how would your parents? Eww again!

“Part one is a mixed bag.” *Gives it a 4/10.* I don’t think that’s how a mixed bag works.

This reviewer always complains about something that is explained in the episode. It’s his style. Or does not pay close enough attention on purpose. Idk. But I watch anyway!

Videos take time to make you doof

My powers have doubled since the last time we met, memer

Good. Twice the powers, double the memes

You're too dangerous to be left alive...

He somehow managed to shoot the bike and only the bike with every shot lmao

No estas solo, comparto tu dolor. Ya me han expulsado de dos grupos de facebook por dar mi opinion sincera.

Nah, not as bad as the bicycle stuff from Bells of Saint John.

@@angusmaxim3450 okay I lie, that was worse

@@angusmaxim3450 what? that part where the Doctor uses the robot with an anti-grav motorbyke?. That part was very cool

Completely agree, it was such a boring let down. way to quick and no build up. With Missy, it was many episodes in that we had no idea who this mysterious character was and had the reveal and things started to make a lot of sense. This time it was done in the first episode over something as stupid as him not being able to run as fast. Like really? that's the best Chris Chibnall can come up with?

I sit somewhere in the middle. It doesn't come close enough to sitting among the finest work Doctor who has ever produced yet it was enjoyable enough to sit through with the homages to Classic Who to made it feel like a breath of fresh air compared to last season. Both episodes would range between a 6 to 7 out of 10 for both parts respectively.

I rate "just OK" episodes at 5/10. This was better than "just OK", and nowhere near as low as a 4 in my book.

No

The main problem I had was that it was the same twist they've done for every master so far tho

Stelmaria yes I suppose they have. Probably because it works all the time. I know I’ve seen it before, I just didn’t realise it was so many times. There’s always a new backdrop to the twist so it doesn’t become dull. It has been down since classic who.

Stelmaria - I think it's because it's more of the Master's shtick, to have come back from the dead and make a sudden reappearance by setting up an elaborate plan. Granted, I'm not a fan of it if it retcons Missy's character arc we saw with 12, but given it's just been 2 episodes we'll see how this Master came to be

Chandler Hupp I have a hope and a theory that this master went crazy because of the timeless child, so the retcon of missy becomes easier to swallow.

Because the doctor is now a Feminist, all of their companions are now good allies. Only a misogynist doctor gets questioned or argues with his companions. :/

Not enough of an Improvement though

@@Pendleton115 it's a big step in the right direction which is personally all I needed this year. Obviously some things still to tweak but the rest of the series might fix it if y ask me

@@pundahandz7403 lol

Yep and I think it was intentional to stop the audience from actually thinking about what happened and how dumb is it

Happy yet?

carealoo744 , meh. I still think Spyfall was a solid opener, Night of Terror wasn’t bad but I think we peaked with Fugitive of The Judoon. However, the other two (don’t even want to say their names) have taken away massively from my overall enjoyment of the series and I’m officially very worried for how this is all gonna end, and when it probably ends badly, I won’t even be able to enjoy Spyfall or Fugitive because they set up a disaster. Granted, they are trying, which is more than you can say for series 11 which is just so bland it’s painful, but that’s not enough and although this has been an improvement in my opinion, they still have a VERY long way to go. Still excited to see what they do though, even if does turn out be hot hot trash🤷‍♂️.

@@jasperyoung6060 Wow... You uh... You Okay? :)