Hey Harbo I preferred the original title you gave the video "that time Doctor Who fought a shapeshifting wasp", the words shapeshifting wasp are what jumped out at me, the new title you chose is a bit generic, I prefer the more humorous titles you give them like "That time Doctor Who fought baked potatoes from space", especially to someone taking a trip down Doctor Who memory lane

i like birds

22:28 I think the implication here was that, due to this specific point in time marking a several-day absence with no explanation forthcoming at any later date, the real Agatha could have been killed, then replaced with an impostor.

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he doesnt understand what she means by something salty?sus

“HOW IS HARVEY WALLBANGER ONE WORD!?” 😂

The most ironic thing is when Donna referenced Clue, she should have known that Agatha Christie was inspiration for Clue

I need a shock

Hes right though

Supreme Dalek on the bridge: "Explain. Explain! EXPLAINN!!"

​@@pundahandz7403 we will explain later - dalek from curse of fatal death

@@pundahandz7403god, I can hear the Dalek voice…

Necroing a comment here but yeah, this was the actual reason.

Same

I haven't read any, either, but I know some of her better-known titles; I'm sure a lot went over my head, all the same

Agree, these are actually some of the most fun episodes in my opinion!

@@alessandrac7573 Yup. DW ain't DW without these type of eps imo.

Also Christopher Benjamin (Colonel Curbishley) plays Jago

@@HarboWholmes How have I never noticed that?

@@HarboWholmes and Sir Keith in Inferno

@@HarboWholmes thought it was him, couldn't remember his name unfortunately 🤣

Well at least we know the butler didnt do it

*Donna, but yes, I love their friendship.

@@rkah6187 ah damn yeah 😂

omg yeah

I was rewatching the poisoning clip just before watching this video, and was curious what the "sparkling cyanide" was. Turns out, it's a book.

@@garr_inc google all the Agatha Christie book and then rewatch the episode and like take a shot(or you know eat some chocolate or something) every time a title of one of her books is mentioned in the story. It's a fun game.

I noticed several, but I'm sure there were just as many that I missed

Yeah that was weird for me

Harbo does that a lot, honestly.

That's Harbo for ya!

it's with Martha speaking Shakespearian to Shakespeare

Brilliant.

In the original opening (with an older Christie recounting the episode) she calls him The Man in the Brown Suit, so originally it wasn't supposed to be subtle at all!

@@HarboWholmes but I like that they changed the opening allowing for that subtly .

Wait hold up which one was that?

I, too, would like to know which one that is

@@elliot1111 Horror of Fang Rock

Horror of Fang Rock, a Tom Baker story from Season 15 with Leela and a very good story aswell!

-And he got his whole identity from Agatha Christie murder mysteries- shouldve added that

I can somewhat never having heard of Agatha Christie before this but Pompeii really??

@@benstringer3133 Yes, and to add insult to injury I didn’t see the Pompeii episode until I was in high school. GENUINELY have no idea how I got so far into my life without hearing about it lol

@@camo6465 I wouldn’t worry. My friend didn’t know about the atomic bomb droppings until I told them a few years ago.. we’re 16 xD

@@hgwells1899 or maybe they just like. Have a life lmao

Art exists beyond its creator, no?

I don't want to sound naive, but what did the writer do or say exactly? I really like this episode but I'd still like to know what happened.

I'm in the same boat. One of my favourite episodes. Separate the art from the artist

@@joeduffy4547 He made some transphobic comments on Twitter I do believe

@@EmotionalVortex That really does suck. No wonder Harbo doesn't want to day his name.

My Mum is a big Christie fan too, she used to have every single book and she still remembers most of the twists when she sees adaptations aha

@@HarboWholmes same with my mum. She always watched the TV and Movie adaptations and had pretty much all of the books. my mum never re-reads books. Like she would read a book and then donate it to charity shop once she finished it. The only exception was Agatha Christie novels. Her favourite is And Then There Were None. My mum's love of Agatha Christie novels is the reason why I love mystery style programmes and stuff on TV. I find them interesting.

What did the writer do? I heard that they were being transphobic but I’m not sure

@@frde2190 Yeah he was really transphobic and basically said that like trans people are not real or valid that like a trans woman is still a man and other stuff like that. He is trash.

Me too, and I'm not a big fan of mystery!

Doctor Who is definitely the kind of show you'd mistake for a fever dream if you don't know much about DW at all

@@StormgemThunder yuuup

They’ve done that already... It’s a story called Timelash

@@DanTheMan2150AD Oh god no

@@tinykemper2561 oh god indeed.

@@DanTheMan2150AD And what a wasted opportunity _that_ was!

@@DanTheMan2150AD was that a big finish drama?

People don't hate it, its just weaker in an amazing series

Yeah, I don't think many people actually hate it. It's a good bit of fun, but not the highest quality episode ever made.

It’s my favourite doctor who episode

I don't know anyone that hates this episode. In fact it's a series favourite among my friends.

Yeah there's a reason why the term impostor syndrome exists. Like if it was just a way of thinking that you need to live up to expectations that other people have of you as motivation to do your best but it doesn't have a negative impact on your wellbeing then sure, that's positive but it isn't impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome is where you believe that you do not deserve the positive feedback from your work because you're tricking people to believe you're better than you are regardless of reality. The reason why this term and subsequent studies observe this phenomenon is because it has such a negative impact on a person's wellbeing that it intertwines with depression and anxiety disorders. It can be a cause or a symptom of mental illness. In my opinion, it's more like a form of dysmorphia since the mind will twist reality to fit its own narrative like when someone has body dysmorphia, they can be the thinnest person but because their mind is convinced the body is massively overweight the mind will twist facts and distort how people perceive reality. I understand the confusion surrounding impostor syndrome as we all will doubt that we deserve good things at some point in life but that isn't impostor syndrome. It's akin to someone who likes things neat and tidy saying that they have OCD, since to public knowledge the disorders have been oversimplified to the point where natural human behaviour is ascribed to mental illness.

Christopher Benjamin is a joy to watch in all of his stories. He's even amazing in Inferno.

@@blobfish5730 I always forget about Inferno. It's been a while since I watched that story, but I love it. It also ties into the Lethbridge-Stewart spin-off series.

P e r f e c t i o n

Cluedo came first!

Cluedo was invented here! It's not our fault Americans have trouble with words of more than one syllable. I actually live about a 20 minute walk away from the very house where it was invented.

not really. I think the writer for the eposide in question played a thumb I think in the Spy Kids

Start with murder on the orient express it is wild. The language is dated through

Yeah, celebrity historicals always seem to fall into that rut, even up to the 13th Doctor. I think this episode was one of the best of them, all things considered, certainly turned out much better than Tooth & Claw.

You have to seperate the art from the artist

I agree it’s a really good story but it’s hard to ignore that it’s written by a transphobe

@@nicolebee3283 yeah but at the same time. The story shows a very interesting and compelling set of gay characters. Seperate the art from the artist

I bloody love gareth roberts, he is great

@dr103 he doesnt hate anyones existance. All he said that he personally disagrees with gender ideology. He said so respectfully and everyone lost their shit. He is entitled to his opinion but many peopke are too intolerant to accept it.