Given the most recent finale, this video has aged pretty well.

It's interesting how often the 3rd to last episode is often so strong, maybe even stronger than the finales themselves

No way I get recommended this after the Empire of Deathv 'meh'wakening

Personally my favorite finale will always be The Doctor Falls, it definitely has its flaws, but when it hits, it really hits.

Series 3's three parter Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of The Time Lords is SUCH a great arc but Utopia is just 🤌🤌🤌

Just came back from the new finale... Oh Boy...

Wilf was not a Tory don’t you dare suggest something so awful

I can't really recall the classic era ever even thinking in terms of a crescendo to a finale. For a time the last story was longer (with varied results) but it wasn't really a finale and I don't ever really remember being that concerned. It was just the end of a season/series. In the modern era the decision was obviously made to tailor the format to changed tastes. This brought us the pre-title mini-cliff hangers but it also seems they felt that some through continuity was necessary. The problem with that has been that it can only really involve a thin trail of bread crumbs then getting whacked round the head with a stale loaf right at the end. Not exactly ideal...

The point of every episode in Series 1 leading to the finale is why I like Series 1 the most lol. Just hangs together the best of RTD's series imo

I hate how some Doctor Who DVD box sets don't include the Specials.

After watching empire of death i can say with all confidence, yes , yes they can sometimes suck, not always, most of them are at least good i think, the thing is maybe they are not that smart in their resolutions

many people would say that, including me, i guess there’s just a lot riding on them. everything ends up being crammed in and coming off as cheap, but i think this is really interesting and actually kinda changed my mind! thanks for that, no punishment pears necessary

They wasn't referencing the torchwood series 1 finale they were referencing boom Town with the earthquake that's why Tennant says I was a different man back then because he was Eccleston

"All it's missing is Heaven Sent" 😂

Feel like every nuwho writers struggle with endings proven again unfourtnetly this week, which is a shame because there's so many good penultimate episodes

Recently finished Series 2 with my girlfriend, she guessed the Daleks appearance 😅 "At least it's not Daleks" in reference to the Cybermen

Perfectly balanced critique, especially everything to do with the RTD companions. No notes. Ringing that bell!

I will not take this Tooth and Claw slander

After watching RTD's newest finale? Yes, he sucks at them lol

This video aged very well

I've felt like the show has struggled with a lot of its finales. The only one's that I've loved are Season 1, Season 2, Season 4, & Season 10. Not to say that there isn't something to like about the others but usually the flaws make it hard to rewatch.

When Donna defeats the Daleks cause some panel she's in front of controls everything, I always imagine it's just the plumbing panel and all she can do is back up Davros' leavings.

The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday, Journey’s End, The Big Bang and The Name of the Doctor all are top tier however after theyre not great bar TDF

My answer: RTD is bad at series finales. I think they got worse from series to series and Moffat delivered the first one that really worked for me again.

Paha, the series 14 one definitely isn’t. I mean as a whole, the series has just been so rough

Might as well rate them. S1 9/10 S2 10/10 S3 9/10 S4 10/10 S5 8/10 S6 9/10 S7 8/10 S8 10/10 S9 7/10 S10 11/10 S11 5/10 S12 7/10 S13 7/10 S14 8/10

I never took time to think wilf could be a tory... hes the one that we'd of spared

Also recommene to me after S14 finale. And the last words of this video rings true. Consequences matter. There was none

My thoughts on the new who season endings: Series 1: Good Series 2: Great Series 3: Perfect Series 4: THE GOAT Tennant Special: Perfect Series 5: Good Series 6: Good Series 7: Ok Smith Special: Great Series 8: Ok Series 9: Ok Capaldi Special: Very Good Series 10: Ok Capaldi Regeneration: Very Good Series 11: Bad Series 12: Ok ish 13/Flux: Ok 14: Bad Tennant Return: Great Season 1: Hopefully it will be Great!

Last of the Time Lords' resolution is a complete disaster, but I will NEVER forget the image of David Tennent T posing the Master into submission. It's just hilarious XD Better to be a memorably bad finale than a forgettable one like The Battle of Ranskor Av Kolos, or Name of the Doctor.

There's a formula. Earth/Universe is under threat by one of the main 3 big enemies. The resolutions are as stated, cheap. To try and mitigate against that RTD always adds a cost. a character "dies" (but not really), or the Doctor regenerates so effectively dies. These things happen every single time. That works because people care about the characters, and only because people care about characters. Maybe because Murray Gold is on hand to tell you how to feel too. I'm not really disagreeing about characters and their value as RTD is very good at that but its just any story requiring a deus ex machina needs a rewrite.

"He also has rizz??" - Immediately presses subscribe

Simple awnser No

Bad Wolf / Parting of the ways tops

Yep. The Last of the Time Lords, Journey's End, The End of Time, The Name of the Doctor are awful. The Wedding of River Song, Hell Bent (I guess I hate Arya Stark), Death in Heaven are a mixed bag. The Doctor Falls is mostly cool, but I believe the Doctor should pay for what happened to Bill.

Very good vid, but you kinda stole Harbo Wholmes’ thumbnail style

Peter capaldi and christopher eccleston had the best finales

Series 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10 all had excellent finales

There are labour voters that are total monarchists 😂. My grandparents never voted Tory their entire lives and absolutely loved the royals. Us humans are complicated and will have conflicting opinions compared to their actions in life

do a part 2 with steven moffat's and chris chibnall's.

Top takes and sarcasm yet you wonder how your channel is growing fast? There's a quote in the girl in the fireplace that would describe you and it's not the banana one.

I've just watched the finale to (ahem) Season #1 with Ncuti Gatwa. It was awful. All of RTD's worst traits - reliance on deus ex machina, justifying rabbits from hats with nonsensical wordplay and heavy expositionary dialogue with lashings of mawkishness (and not a little condescension) - were to the fore. Eight episodes, two bog standard but ok; two very good, and a great cliffhanger on the penultimate one. Then the finale - and it's an absolute shambles. You're probably working on a video as I write. Honestly - it's cack.

“Skill issue” 😂

I agree but series 1 has the best

RTD 1 the best finales and the last Capaldi one

… Yes

The newest finale I just finished watching and the legend of ruby Sunday mystery was soooooooooooooooooo bad!!!! I miss old who

Is this an interesting vid-YES

no and yes, DOOMSDAY was great; PARTING OF THE WAYS was great; the rest? not so much. Just tell stories and DW audiences will be fine.

These days its bad full stop. You’d have to be damaged to enjoy this pap.

Since Davies showed 14th doctor in the end of SEASON ONE!!! I am perfectly sure #Davieskneweverything and now we can blame him for every single consequence.😅 P.s why you didn't cover specials?

What about the end of time?

Honestly, Moffat had an amazing finale every season of his. I don't get the hate Hell Bent gets it's one of the episodes of who.

Why do all the Doctor's old friends freak out at the prospect of the Daleks in 'Stolen Earth', they've all seen them defeated at least once each.

I think when a Doctor Who finale works, it’s basically a masterpiece or at minimum engaging from start to finish. For me that’s the finales of Series 1, 2, 5, 9, and 10. When they’re weak though, they tend to be VERY weak. The finales which I’d say are “good but not great” are 3, 4, and 8.

I don't know whether "Tooth and Claw" is that forgettable. I always remember what jerks Rose and the Doctor are in it. (Now I'll rewatch and find out they're great, but that's where I am now.) I think the cybermen are scarier because they take you over and make you one of them; they are the zombies of the future. Daleks just kill you. That is also why they beat the cybermen here. Freema Agyeman also didn't like the unrequited love for Martha, so she thinks Martha deserves better too. RTD told her that everyone has experienced unrequited love, and he thought it was important. (That it was important to do with the only main companion on the show who black is certainly an issue. I cannot overstate some of the issues here.) However, I think the real problem is not her having feelings for the Doctor but the way he treats her, alternating between flirting and pushing her away and actually treating her quite badly at times. I don't think Martha is "pining" for the Doctor out of left field is what I'm saying. And people who love pining hate Martha pining. Not saying that's you, but Martha deserves better from the show AND the fans. Eh, I'm okay without major character death, thanks. Donna is the Doctor's real mother. Worse. The Doctor and Donna have a grown child together. The Doctor and Donna are Rose's father- and mother-in-law. Think about that one.

13:32 oh my god it's lucifer!

Dalek V. Cybermen: Dawn of Doomsday. The dalek reveal blew my mind when I was 12

5:18 I lost it at "all it's missing is heaven sent"

Mmm... Kinda aged like milk, huh? 😅

I honestly really like the Series 8 finale; I tend to think of it as "what if Doomsday had better effects and a bigger budget and was more exciting".

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but the RTD finales are all some of my least favourite stories out of both Classic and New Who. The only writer who nailed finales for me is Moffat. For me, Journey’s End is in my top ten worst stories of all time.

Its funny how what's her face shooting the master was " a bit out of nowhere, sure there were some hints, but it wouldve been better if she muttered a curse under her breath" but then "the details of one of the events being over the radio, how easy you could miss it, but its cool because that makes it realistic" Really highkights that for a lot of people, something feels out of nowhere because they don't have great social skills and can't read the emotions on subtle actors performances.

As a Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor enjoyer, you do make a very good point about Murry Gold. It's just a very good score ok! To be fair I think I also like the Doctor coming down and hugging the struggling Master telling him he forgives him, and then a few moments later decides to keep him locked up with him till he reforms, just for the Master to get shot and refuse to regenerate out of petty spite. It's a fun mix of sweet and deeply fucked up. And tbf maybe I had just been keeping an eye on Lucy, but when she shot him I thought "Good for her!" Thematically it kind of counterpoints the Doctor's Messiahnic thing where humanity doesn't revolve around the Doctor's decisions. You can even say it ties into Martha's choice to leave him at the end.

My favourite finale is controversially dark water/death in heaven, but its probably because im just the biggest missy fan and she makes up for all the problems (i still dont emotionally connect with clara/danny after watching the episode like 6 times, i just cheer when missy mary poppinses in after the supposed to be emotional moment) also i dont count it as a cyberman story, because again, MISSY!!!

Parting of the Ways, All Moff era finales, timeless children, The Vanquishers and the power of the Doctor are top tier serirsly series 2-4 just run down the formula of series one sadly so yeah ...three finales of weakness and series 11 finale sadly ...but yeah ... In terms of finales I dare say doctor who has a better track record of finales ...than most other shows ....Buffy literally being the only other show with perfect track record really ....

Creating the whoniverse The time war unfolded, paving the way for the Bad Wolf phenomenon. Bad Wolf's existence was crucial for the salvation of Gallifrey. The rescue of Gallifrey set in motion the formation of the cracks in time. These cracks extended the Doctor's life. The Doctor's prolonged life was necessary to persuade the first Doctor to regenerate. The encounter between the first and twelfth Doctors shaped 2-11's journey into becoming the twelfth. This makes the doctor a fixed event in time, leading to the TARDIS dropping the thirteenth Doctor to Earth. The thirteenth Doctor, now immortal with regenerative abilities, shares similarities with the Timeless Child. The Doctor's destiny inevitably leads to becoming the Timeless Child, with the TARDIS finding the Doctor's future after the Fugitive Doctor's salvation. Thirteen experiences this future out of sequence due to the TARDIS trading Doctors, saving the Fugitive Doctor from the Division, and finding Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS at the Ghost Monument. Thirteen, constructing her sonic screwdriver on Earth without the software from the previous sonic, remained unaware of the TARDIS's unknown trade, leading to her being oblivious to Missy and the Master's previous deaths and their crossing into different universes. The intricate layers of time and the Doctor's timeline continue to unfold in unexpected ways. Fugitive prevents her own Division-ruled future, and in doing so, alters the Doctor's timeline. Ruby Sunday, child of Bel and Vindor, left at Ruby Road, plays a crucial role in unwriting the Division and allowing a new Gallifrey to take its place. The Flux leads the Grand Serpent (Rassilon) to deep space, striking a deal with a trickster, eventually leading the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors to Donna. This results in the permanent return of the Doctor Donna, sparking the fifteenth Doctor's regeneration with memory loss. The Doctor Donna Hybrid stands in the ruins of the original Gallifrey as prophecy unfolds. The Fugitive, as the future Doctor, intersects with the fifteenth regeneration, guiding them to Ruby Road to understand the necessity of becoming the Timeless Child. This allows Ruby to be born, unwriting the Division and ensuring the continuation of the new universe. The sequence of events repeats, with Lulubell and Mrs. Flood being future versions of Ruby and the next parallel Doctor born in the subsequent timeline. The Whoniverse's origin traces back to William Hartnell's first Doctor meeting Peter Capaldi's twelfth Doctor. The Doctor's encounter with Professor Yana, who was revealed as the Master, was essential for guiding the Tenth Doctor to his regeneration. This regeneration led Clara to the Eleventh Doctor, playing a crucial role in the plan to save Gallifrey. The Eleventh Doctor's actions then set in motion a series of events, including leading the Twelfth Doctor to the trap street. The trap street was influenced by the Twelfth Doctor's familiar face from Pompeii, who granted Ashildr immortality. This immortality, in turn, attracted the attention of Rassilon, leading him to Earth and eventually becoming the Grand Serpent. The intricate web of connections showcases the interconnected nature of the Doctor's timeline, where each meeting and decision shape the course of events across time and space. Indeed, this rich tapestry of the Doctor's timeline opens up exciting possibilities for spinoffs and a vast "Whoniverse." A Fugitive's timeline exploring the Timeless Child's prequel could seamlessly link classic, reboot, and Whoniverse eras, providing a captivating journey through the Doctor's history. Ruby, the new Doctor in a new universe, offers a fresh perspective, retelling classic stories with alternative narratives on a modern budget, breathing new life into familiar tales. DrDonna on Earth working for UNIT adds another dynamic layer, blending the Doctor's adventures with the complexities of Earth's defense against extraterrestrial threats. The Original Doctor, with the ability to travel anywhere within the Whoniverse, provides an opportunity to explore uncharted territories and revisit iconic moments, creating a sense of continuity and nostalgia. These spinoffs promise to enrich the Doctor Who experience, offering fans diverse and interconnected stories across time, space, and different incarnations of the beloved Time Lord.

The RTD finales are the best because he always plans them out, the easter eggs are there throughout the series and the story is well paced and the material of the plot is used to its full potential. But Moffat's finales always feel underused and poorly paceded (except series 10) but they do feel epic. But Chibnall's finales have bad stories and are flat and dull.

Well, I think the finales of series 1, 4, 5, 9, 10 and 12 worked very well (with series 10 as the real highlight), while series 3, 6 and 11 fell flat. The rest of them; 2, 7, 8 and 13, were okay but not that great.

'Turn Left' is basically 'Sliding Doors', so really not that original. Also, where are the 'Reapers' from 'Father's Day'. They turned up for one man not being killed, but not for this ?

So, IF you can just absorb the Heart of theTardis and wipe out the Daleks with a wave of your hand, as Rose did, why didn't the Timelords just do that in The Time War ? They had hundreds of Tardises, and almost all of thm more modern than The Tardis. It makes no sense.

I skipped to 14:24 and for some reason heard “at the end of the episode, Moffat decided to leave the Tardis”.

I think the issue with the series finales really stems from the issue with the story arcs as a whole. For whatever reason, Doctor Who loves dropping constant reminders of a mystery without offering any clues or development until the final two episodes. That much buildup will inevitably lead to disappointment, particularly given how quickly things are resolved relative to the amount of time it takes to get you interested.

Series 1 finale is brilliant, so is series 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I don’t get the issue. Only series 11 is god awful. Even bad acting aside series 12 is a big grand finale, as is 13.

Don't even need to bring up Jodies run. We all know that isn't DW

One thing I will say about RTD finales is he has it mostly set up with the whole season, so it feels good seeing some payoff.

Lil bit lol

Series 1 to 10 new who … perfection . Then came the ticking of boxes and shit writing and acting of 13th era

is doctor who bad at series finales? fuck no. is this video clickbait? yes.

The Parting of the Ways works. Doomsday works. Last of the Time Lords works, but only just. Journey's End works. The End of Time works. The Big Bang doesn't work. The Wedding of River Song doesn't work. The Name of the Doctor doesn't really work, but it's a good and gripping romp, so it's fine. The Time of the Doctor doesn't work, but it's alright. Death in Heaven doesn't work. Hell Bent doesn't work at all. The Doctor Falls works. Twice Upon A Time is flawed but alright. Series 11 Finale doesn't work. Series 12 Finale doesn't work. Series 13 Finale doesn't really work, but compared to the previous two, it's fine. The Giggle works.