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I really liked this special to be honest, don’t wanna over complicate it all

"You look human" "You look time lord" I mean, to me it's pretty obvious, the Doctor is telling her "I don't look 'like a human', I look like my race, in my eyes it's weird that your race resembles me"

I bet Christina wouldn’t have taken off her mask so early if she took a skillshare class about robbing a museum LOL

I like the “you look time lord” line. The time lords are an older species than the humans so it’s chronologically accurate. But also I think it explains why the Doctor hangs around earth so often. If he wants to admit it or not, he misses home. Even before the time war but more so after. And he lived here as #3. Earth means a lot to him

This episode isn't terrible, it's just aggressively fine

This episode is probably one of my guilty pleasures. It's not a particularly good episode by any means but it's fun. This might be an unpopular opinion but I really liked lady Christina. Her and the doctor played off eachother very well. I wouldnt have minded her as a companion especially since she's an art thief and so will would have been a morally grey character compared to the nice and good companions.

My trivial note to defend Planet of the Dead is that it made an attempt to have some historical education in the dialogue about the chalice belonging to King Athelstan from the Anglo-Saxon era, and not to mention is technically the first King of all England. Yeah, take that Horrible Histories fans who think it all started in 1066.

Surprised there wasn’t a mention of Doctor Who having Daniel Kalluuya before he went huge! (Another one from the long list)

I’d say the gravity lifts are fine given they were taken off a shipwreck. It’s not like it was just under some sand in the desert.

If The Waters Of Mars doesn't get an A or S ranking, we riot

You look human. You look time lord. It means that whilst she may believe he looks human(cause that’s what she’s used to), he believes that she looks like a time lord. Possibly him saying his species was around first? Or he’s just being smart haha

I love Planet of the Dead. It's a great fun story that embraces the sillyness that Doctor Who has at its core. This and the next story - the tonally polar opposite The Waters of Mars - together are the perfect examples of what I love about the show.

I think that this episode is underrated, I really like it.

are you kidding?! "you look human." "you look timelord." is a great exchange! It's telling her not to take everything at face value - there's more everything than it first seems, but then in terms of the two of them in particular - they're both just alike yet worlds away. you can read so many meanings for it and I think it works perfect - a very doctor thing to say.

Lee Evans as Malcolm was a stroke of genius. You can tell he had a hand in some of his quips like "It's the doctor" "Not right now thanks just got a bit of a sore throat"

Amazed that this episode wasn’t a recycled idea which was initially targeted to be for 45 minutes. It had all the hallmarks of an episode taking place between the two two-parters during that era: nice safe plot, interesting looking yet safe aliens, convenient plot points to keep it going along while giving a couple of pointers to the overall series arc. For an hour long special, it’s so mediocre I’m amazed it was even made!

I don’t get the hate for the episode. It’s easily one of the most fun the show has ever produced and Lady Christina would have been a great companion

I enjoy this episode more than I should because it's personal to me (sort of). My Dad actually auditioned for the bus driver role (he drove busses when the call went out) and got sent a single page from the script to do in a callback (or second audition or something idk exactly) that none of us could see. He didn't get it and when he saw the character in the episode decided to take it as a complement as he clearly wasn't grouchy enough 😂

“You look Time Lord” is a reference to the doctor having previously established that humans actually descended from Time Lord’s which is why he doesn’t look more “alien” compared to other aliens. Maybe humans didn’t directly evolve or descend from Timelords, but Timelords came first

The Doctor claiming Christina looking like a Time Lord isn't a bad or laughable line, in my opinion. It was previously mentioned in Donna's first episode as well. The Time Lords are the first, or as theorised, to "look like Humans". Humans came after Time Lords, and took the resemblance of their shape ("Humanoid"). Due to this, a Human would look like a Time Lord but a Time Lord wouldn't look like a Human if we're looking at it factually. Time Lords were first. I believe I read somewhere that the only reason many of the Universe look Humanoid is to do with the Morphic Field the Time Lords had put around the Universe, allowing others to take their form (appearance) or similar. However, please do correct me if that's wrong.

This was one of my favourite specials tho

The fly-people… why do they wear jumpsuits that look identical to ones used by humans on Earth, even down to the zippers, which they’d find very difficult if not impossible to use with their big claw hand things? Also, at 21:17 you can see that the CGI bus has the registration RUA 481W. The actual bus (at 15:55) has W974 GHM. This only places the age of the bus at either 29 years old and 9 years old!

Ah yes, Lady Christina with her two series of spin offs. Cause everyone wanted that….. Right?

When the doctor calls for unit but accidental gets the number wrong they say pizza geronimo and I wonder if they did that to foreshadow the 11th doctor

"Mickey Bricks would never" haha I'm just imagining the hustle theme playing as Lady Christina flies off in the bus. Credits roll

Upon rewatch I just ask how this basic companion got her own spinoff.

"Angela, how many fingers am I pointing up?" *cut to Doctor flipping Angela off*

I thought Carmen was born on the rift in Cardiff, that's why she could hear the voices of the dead.

Mickey Bricks would approve of this video. I binged Hustle last year and loved it. Every other heist story should just give up and go home because nothing comes close.

I always liked this special, it was just fun and I think Christina is a great match for the Doctor's wit. I would've loved to see her Travel with the Doctor for longer. Also the line "You look human", "You look timelord." makes sense to me at least. She's trying to understand the fact that he's actually an alien, but he looks human so is he just some crazy person? But to The Doctor, Timelords don't look like Humans, Human's look like the much more aged Timelords. They came before them so logically Humans look Timelord to a Gallifreyan.

Daniel Kaluuya sure stands out more now, doesn't he?

I always high key liked Christina (Not the flirty tension with the Doctor part though) and absolutely could've seen at least a half series with her as a companion with Ten. She screamed beginning stage of character development and I think her being so unlikable to some is exactly why she would have grown from that development. Like Donna but different circumstances and opportunities. Plus 'Planet of the Dead' always feels to me like it's got that "first episode of a new series" energy.

I always wondered why The Doctor didn’t just call the TARDIS to him, take the survivors with and drop them back on earth, The Doctor scans the wormhole and finds out why it’s there, closes the wormhole, leaves the bus as a snack and goes on with his life.

But at least we have seen gravity clamps before... remember Torchwood London?

San Helios is one letter away from the Elites from Halo's homeworld lol

I find it interesting that for every reason I don’t like Malcolm you like him and for every reason I like Osgood you don’t. There’s nothing more to it it’s just a nice reminder that opinions are fun. 😁

I think this story is alright. It’s no Dalek Invasion of Earth, Fury from the Deep, Inferno, Seeds of Doom, Caves of Androzani, Vengeance on Varos, Remembrance of the Daleks, Empty Child, Family of Blood, Eleventh Hour or Mummy on the Orient Express but it’s also no Smugglers, Space Pirates, Time Monster, Horns of Nimon, Time-Flight, Timelash, Time & the Rani, Long Game, Fear Her, Asylum of the Daleks, Kill the Moon

My opinion about this: The good: Location. Having recorded this in somewhere that is obviously not britain, is great. Plot. Is a very basic plot, and they keep it simple. Lady Christina. I think the actress has chemistry with tennant and the character has an interesting concept (although maybe not such interesting personality). For a one time companion, i did like it. The villains. They have this 9 season flavor of non evil villains, which is good considering that the episode is between daleks, cybermen and gallyfreians. The regular: The passengers. I have completely fotgotten about them. The...fact that the writers killed that nice flyperson,just because bringing him with the rest of the passenger would be awkward. The bad: That malcolm guy. He has the same problems that Osgood, although in him those problems are bigger. But the worst part for me, as an adult watching doctor who, is that it reminds me constantly that this is a kid show. Overall, i think is second place between the 2009 specials.

20:30 are you sure people are saying that? I mean it is embedded in most episodes, literally one of the cleanest tracking arcs in the show.

Terrible ???? Are u on spice

I always had a close place in my heart for this episode. As a kid I would always imagine that the school bus I would ride everyday would be sent to an alien planet and would think about what I'd do and how I'd survive. It was a nice bit of doctor who thinkings as I went to a from a very drab place.

You need an explanation of “you look timelord?” Ok, here you go “Timelords came first.”

11:11 I mean, he's right, Time Lords came first and humans look just like them. There are multiple potential canon reasons for this - Tom Baker touching the primordial ooze, or Rassilon intentionally making everyone humanoid via time travel fuckery in Zagreus. Probably a bunch more lol.

"You look human. You look Timelord." 'WhAt DoEs ThAt EvEn MeAn' It's obvious what it means if you take 5 seconds to think about it. Exterior-wise, Humans and Timelords look the exact same. To her, he looks human, To him, She "looks" Timelord. The exterior doesn't matter, what separates them is what's inside, both physically and metaphorically. Not gonna lie you really felt like you were stretching to hate this one.

3:50 I know it's a nit-pick, but how does psychic paper double as an oyster card? I've never understood that, and it doesn't make any sense. It works as fake ID becaue it's being shown to a person, but how does it fool an oyser card reader? Surely it'd just show up as blank.

My guess for the "You look Time Lord" line is because they existed before us, so it's more so that we take their image than the other way around.

Love how doctor who constantly pretend they’re in London when they’re clearly in Cardiff the majority of the time lol

That "magical negro's!" bit took me out. Can't just drop Key & Peele on people like that 🤣

I remember so little from this episode I’m starting to think I didn’t actually watch it

Well compared to the current Chibnall Era. The Easter Special feels like a whole Hinchcliffe era roled into ONE. And it is entertaining no doubt!

Whenever I come back to Tennant's run on Who, I always forget that this and the previous special exist.

9:47 Missed opportunity to say it's literally "spinning it's wheels"

14:42 I mean.... wasn't this 10 in series 3 constantly relating everything to Rose?

Very excited for the Lady Christina 2 set coming out next month!!!!!!!!!!

Cristina will always be my favourite companion, I'm still sad she never joined him permanently. Her and 10 had such a good repartee. Even if she joined 11 can you imagine her style combined with matt smiths hectic energy

14:30 breathing is very different to nicknames and the moment made me recall Donna too

Why is there never any doctor who Halloween specials?

I never heard someone call this episode bad. If you want a bad Tennant episode, it is “Fear Her.” I always skip that one. But i would like to see you focus on episodes with actual divided opinion, rather than just your own.

09:05 My issue with Osgood is that she's an audience stand-in that is commonly insulted in-universe, it is like Doctor Who laughing at its fans before killing them.

I feel like all of Steven Moffat's female characters are 'strong female character' and all of them are pretty much the same. That's my main criticism, that the companion of the day is boring and cookie cutter. My secondary criticism is why does everything always have to be about London, even when it's in space? Both of these are pretty nitpicky, really, so I guess it's a decent episode after all.

Sorry but Malcolm is more cartoonnish for me that Petronella Osgood.

i cannot wait for the waters of mars review

The begining clip of reindeer pulling the TARDIS threw me for a loop and I had to look it up, turns out it was a nothing bbc 1 promo

If he'd have just told UNIT where he parked the TARDIS and had them throw it through the wormhole he could have gotten everyone out easily

Another great video. Getting closer to Waters of Mars and the two part Xmas special! : D

It's crazy how if you asked me when Capt. Magambo first appeared I would have said here and not Turn Left. Weird how my mind did that.

In midnight, the doctor bonds with all the characters before too.

We don't have that many Easter movies, so I cherish this one.

There was a time when parts 1,2, and 4 of this episode were available as 10 minutes videos uploaded to KZfaq.

14:42 I think saying you ex didn't breath is more disturbing.

This story has a couple of references to the Gareth Roberts New Adventure novel The Highest Science, adapted by Big Finish as a full cast audio in 2014 (with one of the worst covers from them I’ve ever seen, like an amateur photoshop effort). One part of the novel was a trainload of commuters ending up on an alien planet because a Fortean Flicker was displacing objects in time and space, and the aliens in the novel, tortoise like Chelonians, were to have been in the episode but deemed highly impractical for the Dubai location shooting. The Chelonians were probably replaced by the Tritovores, although they’d have been more antagonistic as they refer to humans as parasites and liked killing them.

I've already commented but as this was the 200th story, I decided to see when we might get the 300th. And surprisingly, it will be next series as Revolution of the Daleks was the 296th I believe. It's crazy to think it took 15 years to get to story 100, The Stones of Blood. Then around 31 years to the 200th, and only 12 years to the 300th. I suppose will sometimes triple the story count of the classic series, it was going to be a lot quicker to get to bit still!

Look, if you want consistently top-quality writing and amazing cgi, you're watching the wrong show

Bro was playing with fire using that Key and Peele clip.

i had actually entirely forgotten this episode before coming across this review

At least the ''metal stingrays' look better than the Nimon...

Never has the title of special been so undeserved

the you look human and you look timeless interaction is just to enforce that time lords look human

Good ol' Lee Evans playing Malcolm

My issue with Clare is the same problem I have with the Doctors daughter, she is at her most interesting in her last moments and despite making her an action character they just aren't interesting and just have one character trait.

I happened to like it. I never ever pass it over when binging. It is a little light hearted funny story. Nothing speciel. But it cant all be Silence in the libary

Literally the most average doctor who story of all time

Finally, someone else who dosen't like Osgood!

If you were the Scientific Advisor of UNIT and had all the 3rd Doctor’s notes from when he was there, you would be a huge fan too.

What surprised me is Big Finish making Lady Christina series (second series coming up, even). She's so generic, practically Vienna meets knock-off Lara Croft.

Omfg, can you imagine a doctor who/hustle crossover? Man the things Mickey Bricks could do with time travel... 🤤

This is the first filmed by High Definition Episode of Doctor Who. Perhaps you would mistaken this is Torchwood,when you watched Opening Flight Night view Scene in this episode.

I swear if SkillShare appears in a Doctor Who episode, this guy will f***ing explode into oblivion

Wait, the bus wasn’t meant to be damaged? It was just accidentally damaged in transit and they rolled with it? That’s absolutely amazing lmao, I can forgive anything wrong with this episode now.

... there's a fly waiter bringing my soup...

Lady Christina is clearly based on Tabby from the FASA Dr Who role playing game's player's handbook.

This was actually my very first doctor who episode, way back when I'd been visiting my grandparents. I couldn't sleep that night, so I tried to distract myself with television, only to catch the episode at the point the bus passed through the wormhole, and I was hooked xD

11:14 That line was so good, they had to repeat it in the next series.

All I remember about this is that it was decent overall but Lee Evans character was beyond annoying. I'll watch tomorrow looking forward to your views and a refresher

This is partly based off on the book by Gareth Roberts. The Highest Science

I've made parallels between this episode and the silence in the library

the fear of failure, i just had an idea, they should turn that into a sort of character flaw in the future

Hi Harbo, are you going to be reviewing Series 5 in the same formate you gave done for RTD era?

I don't mind this episode but the next special, The Waters Of Mars, is one of my favourite ever episodes