Great points you've brought up, I was wondering what felt off about the new season but couldn't quite put my finger on it. I definitely think the lack of an arc for the doctor's personality and the lack of impact on ruby's family is what mostly threw me off even with how great some of these episodes were. I hope the algorithm blesses you soon and this picks up more traction!

comparing this new season to the 2005 season feels a lil like deserved bullying

Yeah that's kind of what i thought and more. I felt like the Doctor was lacking flaws and was missing something no longer being the antisocial traveller with a sociable companian (which is fine but two characters balancing each other out in some way is interesting to me)

The title should say comparing Season 1 to Series 1, they've gone back to calling them seasons so it does also make it confusing with classic who

I agree with this whole assessment! Fundamentally what I’ve loved about RTD writing in the past was the very human element and it seems to have been replaced as something a bit more superficial but claiming to have the same amount of depth. I understand it’s harder with only 8 episodes a season but I think a larger contributor to the doctors lack of an arc is that the bigeneration provided an explanation for the doctor healing his mental health. I feel like this scares the writers away from making the doctor a complex or flawed character again but without that there’s no room to grow. I think it would have been interesting to lean into this and the current concept of toxic positivity. We saw it addressed in the doctor a bit at the end of Rogue. The doctor has always had a bit of this quality but if we see it at the forefront of 15’s personality and then are able to have an arc where he acknowledges and confronts his own toxic positivity and accepts that negative emotions don’t equal bad emotions, we could have been left with a more nuanced doctor for season 2 ahead.

My biggest hope for Season 2 is that the episodes are LONGER! The most baffling decision is regular episodes going back to 45 minutes, which is a regression as Chibnall era episodes were 50 minutes on AVERAGE, I find it incredibly baffling why we have gone back to 45 minutes with LESS episodes!

completely agree on the characters, I thought that 15 would have an arc opposite to 9 (starting child-like and whimsical and ending in bloodshed or existential horror) but nothing happened. he didn't change one bit over the entire series. same with ruby or any other character. That is where it failed for me. Still waiting for it though

great video and great job on the video too, keep up the content!

I wouldn't be so optimistic. Russel wrote season two right after season one. There's not really time to change it. Season two is probably the same as season one. Some good episodes, some bad episodes and all in all good season but average show. Sadly I think we'll have to wait a long time for Doctor Who to become the pinnacle of TV as it once was.

Great Video, Can believe you only have a few subs. Keep up the good work!

Very nice presentation and talking points. Earned a sub from me! Looking forward to what else you bring to the table!

Id say Nu-Season 1 is far too similiar to Season 2 with Tennent. Within a series that has a few duds, theres genuinely incredible episodes. Only difference is that the new series doesnt quite stick the landing with the finale. In time, I believe people are going to majorly warm up to the new show, just as people did with Matt, like they majorly did with Capaldi and one day might do with Whittaker

Keep up the great work!

classic who serise 1, nuwho series 1 and disney who series 1

as much as i like the new series im more so watching this as research for my animated fan series i wanna do lol. good video

Great video dude! The production quality is amazing, and i now kinda want to watch Doctor Who again.

Great vid lad

I think Russell used to have very strong rooting in the real world and used to have his finger on the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist. Now he’s a 60 year old man who clearly doesn’t understand social media or its consumption and is playing pop music from over 20 years ago… He hasn’t got an f’ing clue and most importantly, has clearly has lost touch with his audience and what people want/expect from Doctor Who. And yes, the grounded nature of it was totally absent from this new series! Too much mystery-box bs, not enough payoff and a lack of character development in favour of presenting a warped ethos and morals. Ncuti’s only arc seemed to be topping how much he could cry/scream/look as if he’s shat himself out of pure fear each week. Shame they messed up his first series so badly. It was just over-expensive half-baked, ill-thought-out vapid shit let’s be honest :/

So I actually like The Doctor not having an arc and leaving that for the world around him/the companion(s) - I don’t really like digging too much into either the back stories or always doing an arc for the Doctor. There’s only so much you can do since the character is 60 years old. Not saying you can’t do a Doctor arc, I just don’t think it’s necessary or something to critique. I however do agree with all your other thoughts, very well layed out video! very much enjoyed.

series 1 was better then series 1

I was so excited about the new new who but was left feeling like basically every episode felt so off starting with the main two charterer they had zero chemistry zero development in fact the doctor and rogue had better chemistry and a better ark in what 30 minuets than ruby and the doctor in the whole series. You say RTD gets a pass because the bar is so low i say the opposite the bar is so low and yet i am still massive underwhelmed and disappointed is actual worst since the bar was set so low and I am still disappointed that is truly an awful state of affairs without adding in the fact that it seems RTD is not back because he wants to create more who but because of the message and basically changing it into a fantasy show rather than scifi.