Imagine if THAT was the best take! 🤣 poor guy was trying incredibly hard not to.

I enjoyed the story, and the concept - it was almost a precursor to Avatar but with less money than James Cameron would spend on a new pair of socks. The dialogue of the humans was very Victorian, you could almost hear Simon Rouse thinking out loud, "For fuck's sake, what am I doing here? Isn't The Bill starting yet?"

Despite its problems it still has a certain charm, which seems weird!

Human Nature/The Family of Blood since you didn't mention it on you're retrospective? Ok never mind maybe 42? Anyway great video as usual!

Interesting, so I'm guessing it's not a Moffat one like blink. I'm hoping your going to surprise us with an RTD story like midnight or maybe waters of Mars. Both of which were excellent stories in my opinion. Actually on second thoughts I think it's love and monsters. You've secretly loved it all this time and you can't go on lying to the world about your true feelings for it. 😄 only joking.

I'm going to guess something that doesn't get talked about a lot. Something like The Sontaran Stratagem or 42. Or maybe Turn Left, seeing as it's pretty much 45 minutes of Donna.

I'm rather fond of The Impossible Planet. Go for that one.

+Russell Tietjen that's a good suggestion, I really liked turn left. I know it's not really for everyone but I'm surprised it's been pretty much forgotten by so many. Planet of the ood is another good story that I never hear mentioned on lists from the tenth doctors era but maybe it's just me that likes that one. I tend to favour stories that are futuristic or set on alien worlds.

Ponds make less sense because we're told they lived a long life

That's so easy even I could whip up something. But Stubagful just does a great job with these reviews that it'd still be impossible to compete.

What I find annoying about the current overuse of the sonic screwdriver (BLOODY SERIES 5!) is that the Davies Era brought in a thing to stop the Sonic Screwdriver being the solution to every problem - the deadlock seal. With this, now stuff like doors and computers to be scanned can be sorted easily, but the sonic would be completely useless at solving the plot. What happened to the deadlock seal? Are they ever mentioned after Series 4?

I mean it's a guilty pleasure of mine but I do wonder if they where worried people didn't like Adric and so wouldn't have enjoyed it if it had went on about him too much. I do wonder what they should have done e.g. had the companions questioning if the doctor cared and being short with him all the episode?

My favourite companion after Dodo.

@@jaimelannister7274 Katarina?

Same here

Least Adric left when the DW crew knew they had too many companions (they should realise now no one cares about clara) And Adric died something that I'm sure many of us would have liked to have seen happened to old clara in last Christmas as its probably the only good nice ending she will get since she -when she leaves the show-will have had 4 Kill the moon Death in heaven Last Christmas Series 9

Clara was great.

Seems to be a trend with some bad companions. Maybe their deaths are supposed to.make us reflect on whether the hatred was justified. When Romana and a K9 left, we got Adric as a memento of the events. When Amy and Rory were tragically ripped from the doctor as well as following Victorian Clara's death, we get a companion who was dragged in because of plot. Coincidence?

@@sadako24 All good points. With regard to Adric's death, I suspect the reference at the beginning of Time Flight was there to explain his absence to anyone who might not have caught the last episode of Earthshock, which did pay sufficient respect to the character by its silent credits rolling over his broken badge. Time Flight could have started afresh without these scenes and given a few valuable extra seconds to the plot. I agree with you mostly on the female characters. Sarah-Jane was brave but was still sometimes the archetypal screamer. Leela was excellently played by Louise Jameson, it was easy to believe she thought she had to protect the doctor rather than vice versa. Mary Tamm's Romana lacked personality, but Lalla Ward rescued the character. Tegan and Nyssa were good characters, and we'll played by their respective actresses, but definitely let down by the scripts. I only recently learned from an old interview with Sarah Sutton that she was only 19 when she landed the role, and knowing that gives some credence to the apparent naive weakness of Nyssa. Janet Fielding wasn't acting much, she really is the "mouth on legs" that she calls Tegan in real life, and she fought against a lot of the misogyny. Interviewed about filming The Five Doctors, she recalled insisting that Tegan wouldn't stand for being sent to make the tea just because she was female, and so the script was changed to have Turlogh sent to help her! JNT ought to have known better than to be so blasé about the misogyny because, as a gay man he should have been familiar with discrimination. In criticising her wardrobe on the show, Fielding called him "The only gay man I ever met with absolutely no clue about fashion".

It is weird that this episode doesn't get the same criticism that talons get. Is it because it's so bad people just let it off or is it because people forget about it rather than talons that is often ranked high

@Cryer24597 Sorry for taking so long to respond. :) Well, I was mainly just going by who are considered to be: 'official,' companions.

The Mara? It was in "Kinda". Part 4 replaces the paper prop with some truly fantastic CGI.

@@ShamrockParticle And I believe The Mara also returns in "Snakedance"?

XDEV 4 out of 3 people would choose castration with a spoon over Underworld.

XDEV I attempted a lobotomy with a croc to try and forget it

+Stevie Butterfield I don't know I never really thought of Adric as a child. I know he could be a childish little prick but actor looks like a young adult to me. Was he supposed to be a child and child labor laws make it cheaper and easier to get someone older?

carealoo744 but he has died, they know he died

They can’t go back to a point on their own timestream. Otherwise they open up a paradox. They could only go either forward or back to before they arrived the first time

@@matthewduncan8523 What about Day of the Daleks, Father's Day, or any multi-doctor story?

@@archive9796 No they don't. They only saw the ship explode. They never had a camera showing Adric inside the ship as it exploded.

carealoo744 different incarnations doesn’t cause a full paradox but every incarnation forgets what happened. As is mentioned in literally every multi doctor story ever