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I would say The Giggle would have benefited from another 10 minutes runtime, so some of the themes might have been better explored.

The explanation for why Tennant's face came back was really satisfying for me. I was completely expecting RTD to come up with a half assed hand wavey explanation just to justify bringing Tennant back, but when it came about I was surprised at how much sense it made and am glad it was given the correct emotional weight.

I think that recap before the Star Beast could have been better but my parents, who have never seen an episode before, said it helped them. I get the reaction but I don’t know if we, as die hard fans, are in the best position to judge it. It wasn’t put out there for us. Coming after Star Wars: Ahsoka (for me) that has no prologue I appreciated the attempt.

The 60th Anniversary was amazing. I think when I look at it objectively, the 50th was far more consistent and probably a bit higher quality, however I enjoyed the 60th infinitely more. It was a slice of 3 different types of Who, and it just had so much heart that I couldn't help but smile the whole way through. I haven't rewatched new episodes this many times in YEARS. I loved it.

I had zero problem with the recap. There are people new to Who may have found it helpful.

Say what you will about Chibs, "Power of the Doctor" felt more like a celebration of the history of Doctor Who than any of the 60th specials did.

A personal up was in Wild Blur Yonder, where the Doctor was actually vulnerable and was tricked by the Donna Copy. And then after the Giggle, we're told that, yea, the Doctor does need a break, that's just using subtlety in the best way possible, imo

I really enjoyed the 60th anniversary specials! I completely respect other people's criticisms of them but personally for me they gave me this feeling of doctor who being back to what it should be! The Star Beast reintroduced us to donna and her family and found a solution that enabled her to remember the doctor, it also gave us beep the meep and the wrarth warriors, both of which I loved! Wild Blue Yonder was super creepy and for the first time in a long time I found myself watching an episode of doctor who from behind a cushion! 😂 And The Giggle was brilliant! Neil patrick harris as the toymaker, the new UNIT headquarters, and mel! The stories of each of these episodes actually felt well written and russell t davies was even able to give emotions to storylines like the flux and the timeless child! I loved the bigeneration and seeing the fourteenth doctor get his happy ending with donna and her family made my day! Even if they never go back to this storyline, we'll know he's happy still. Can't wait to see ncuti and millie in the christmas special! Thanks Ellie and Who Culture! 😊😊

Had there been no talk of them being the 60th anniversary specials, we'd never have known. Surely any anniversary celebration has to reflect that, not just one particular era of a show!

I am SOOO happy I discovered Whoculture prior to the specials! It has made this past month so much fun. It's really helped me get back into a show that has been part of my life since the early 80s, but not so much during the Chibnal years- no offense to Jodi- She was wonderful with what she had to work with. I LOVE how the show incorporated a noticeably bigger budget without losing completely that practical look of Who. I really noticed that in The Wild Blue Yonder. I loved that hallway BTW. Having that mysterious "thing" off in the distance was brilliant. The music- the emotional vibes. SO GOOD!!!. Anyway... can't wait for Christmas! Also- really hope someone throws DW Unleashed on the download sites so I can watch it over here!!!! KILLING me I can't see it. Think that's everything...

I really enjoyed them all my only problem with the DoctorDonna resolution was the Male presenting line because this Doctor has active memories of being a woman like it might have worked if they had explicitly made it about 10 not thinking of just letting it go by having 14 realize as they said it or something. Also have you guys thought about the Dilithium/Trellium down version for WhoCulture? Galvanic Down could work but Ups are much harder Artron Up or something?

The Meep in the pile of toys, the my arms are too long, Mavity, wheelchair with rockets, something so scary that the Tardis ran away, so let's go kick its arse, the Spice Girls dance and The Toymaker's ridiculously fake accent, fourteen using the Tardis like Marty McFly's hoverboard. 😆

Day of the Doctor is basically the definitive anniversary episode of that kind. It can't be topped. So RTD had to go in another direction. He pulled it off

I instantly like the video when there is a new Ups and Downs upload from WhoCulture, Amazing work!

I haven't watched series 4 since it aired. The recap was nice for us old casual viewers who haven't rewatched the series again.

NPH> Doogie Hoewser MD, to The Celestial Toymaker. Now THAT is one helluva wild evolution in your career!

I really really loved them. It's not the expected celebration, but what it is is a great jumping on point. We have 1) a new Doctor in a new, Earth based adventure, companion etc 2) bizzare off world adventure that showcases the danger and breath of adventures Doctor Who has 3) A world ending threat that gives us a... Regeneration(ish) of The Doctor and a promise of future adventures. Basically it's condensation of Doctor Who as a whole. Something for the old fans and something that can make it easier to recommend the show to ppl.

Love most of this Ellie but gotta completely disagree on the titles. They're phenomenal, including that great throwback logo.

Does anyone else just go “hiii ellieeee!!!” With a big smile like a child whenever Ellie greets us or is it just me because I’m happy to see more whoculture with Ellie?

Idk, that "timeless child" stuff was kinda super stupid. I'd be totally cool with them figuring out a way to write it out of the show.

David Tennant returning to the role of the Doctor is one of the best things that happened to Doctor Who franchise ever

The complete lack of a proper explanation of 13 regenerating into 14's clothes was a massive disappointment. It meant that RTD's excuse was not spoiler avoidance but actually the case. The fact that it was completely fine for the Master to be wearing 13's costume earlier in the same episode but a big problem when it came to 14 wearing it highlights the inconsistency. The RTD excuse just doesn't make sense. It makes the whole Davros-wheelchair thing look logical.

the clothes were what upset me the most. It could've been waved off as the Toymaker giving him his new suit when he regenerated. I know there's precedent with the first doctor's regeneration but still, a simple line would've sufficed. Hell, you can make the first doctor changing clothes when he regenerated due to the toymaker even back then! It actually would have been a cool connection!

I think that the Giggle is a back door pilot for a UNIT spinoff. That’s why the Vlinks and the unit world building. All the things that seem not needed. I think that Unit is going to go toward the Toymaker plotline and “the boss” that the Meep talked about. I think all of these are to be in the Unit show and I think the Doctor is flying off to the regular Doctor Who style show.

Point 1 - Agreed - the recap sequence would have been so much better if each of our heroes were filmed walking along the street - the streets of London - talking to camera to the side, as if to a friend - just catching up with us as they made their way to a busy Camden.. I sometimes think that RTD would benefit from a critical friend - just for these tonal choices (not the big decisions- those are his business)

I’ve been rewatching the series and just finished Daleks in Manhattan. One thing hit me: the Doctor save Laszlo’s life but couldn’t reverse the damage done by the Daleks. Why not take him in the TARDIS and find someone who could?

Biggest down: Donna and Rose trying to thrown down the Doctor: "it's a shame you're not a woman anymore" and " ...a male presenting time lord can never understand" Really? Cringiest of the cringe!! Also, these specials did not feel like the celebration of 60 years of DW. They were more of a filler between 13 and 15... 50th Anniversary special was much better than these three episodes combined.

I think wild blue yander is great because it’s the only episode that’s completely about the 14th doctor and Donna which is something I’m really glad we got considering we only got 3 adventures with 14

The fact that the Toymaker morphed into Joel Grey's character from Cabaret was an up for me

Do people think the hand that picked up the Master's tooth is the same one that picked up the Master's ring? As always thank you all so very much for the videos, and greetings of the season!

I always speculated that David's face came back because he and Donna needed each other. No other explanation seemed feasible to me. "The metacrisis was null and void after a solution was found." Well, yeah. Not sure what the problem is with that? They found a solution, so it is no longer a problem....

"We were children when Ten and Donna were around before!" I was in my twenties. Frankly I'm tired of hearing about how everyone was a baby for series four.

OMG, Ellie, you saved the best for last! I have watched The Goblin Song dozens of times since its release. I love it! It gives us a teeny tiny insight to The Doctor and Ruby, but mostly is just incredible fun. "He makes me swoon!" indeed. Thanks for your review.

Ellie says "Wild Blue Yonder" so fast, I hear "Wobbly Yonder."

The biggest up for me was having a happy ending for Donna and the fourteenth Doctor. As they have always been my favorite Doctor and companion, it warmed my heart to see them happy at the end. I also like that it leaves the door open for maybe seeing either or both of them again sometime in Doctor Who. Another up was seeing the interactions between the fourteenth and fifteenth Doctor. I think the bi-generation was a genius thing to do.

I really loved a lot of what was done in these specials, my only down would be that I expected the Toymaker to have been so much more essential to the whole story.

I am not a fan of the idea that the bigeneration offloads The Doctor's trauma. I think many of the best moments of all the series are when we get to see The Doctor be vulnerable as s/he acknowledges and FEELS that trauma. (Tennet is especially good at these moments, but all the modern Doctors have had great moments with this.) This show needs this emotional grounding to counter The Doctor's upbeat exuberance as S/he gallivants about time and space.

The fascinating thing about UNIT's Avengers Tower (and come to think of it, Marvel's Avengers Tower as well) is that we only ever see that one big "bridge" room with the monitors, the Vlinx, and every Unit character important to the story conveniently located all in one office, which happens to be connected to the helipad/cannon launchpad... and then there is the storage room they park the Tardis in. What do they need the rest of this Burj Khalifa sized skyscraper for? Is it 200 floors full of nothing but offices? If so, do 90% of London's citizens all work there, or are these offices all empty? If not, what else is in that tower? Do they have a R&D department full of impossible technology? Do they have guest rooms? A spa? A leisure centre? Part of me wants to see all of this explored, and the other part wants them to leave it all to our imagination.

14 must've had adventures w River Song since The Library is the only time 10 met her but she instantly recognizes him as so young.

While it could have been done better, the intro WAS necessary to catch up new viewers. Such viewers will not see a KZfaq video about it. The logo looked fine to me. What, you want the Sonic shoehorned in? It served a purpose in episode 1. And maybe 15 will use those new abilities again. For the second episode, the whole point was to strip them of everything. And in the third, it just wasn't needed. I don't see the problem. Every Doctor gets their own new sonic now. Sure part of it may be merch sales but I also think it's good lore. What's the problem? Davies already explained the clothes. It was a bad choice but that's what it was. I don't know why you would expect something in universe when it was clear that wasn't why he did it that way. His face was explained in the third special. And as for Doctor-Donna, why she doesn't die is explained by Rose and that part was good, imo. The giving it up part was bad, yes. Of course it wasn't talked about again, it was resolved. No offense but you seem to be giving a lot of downs because it doesn't perfectly fit the head cannon you built for yourself before the episodes came out. You literally admit this in the video but still go with it anyway. I like you Ellie but come on, I can't agree with this. And yet another down because it didn't match what was in your head. Come on. It was a more horror-like mystery show. There really wasn't much to show in previews unless you showed the monsters, which would ruin the whole reveal of them. The Flux makes no sense. It's already retconned in a way to let the solar system and surrounding space be able to exist, since as shown it shouldn't. But keep part of the universe destroyed is just dumb, imo. What is wrong with putting it there for the sake of it? The Vlinx was cool. I'm sure he'll show up again. But some great ups as well. The performances were all great and NPH was fantastic as The Toymaker. Loved the musical number.

Perhaps the big problem was rampant overspeculation. The 70s title card is effective. I don't know how the babies would have coped with Seeds of doom or Pyramids of Mars....... there are times when you just have to take things at face value and get on with it..... so let's just move onwards to Ncuti Gatwa

I don't know about the force field walls, but in my mind, there was an easy fix for the large map thing, and that was to give Tennant a pair of sunglasses instead, that could have implied he was using the sunglasses from Capaldi's era. I also didn't enjoy the upgrades too much.

While I definitely don't hate these episodes, I didn't like them as much as many fans (like you guys) did. The writing for these episodes was, generally speaking, much better than the writing of the Chibnall Era. However, it still wasn't on par with the quality of writing that I had come to love and expect from Doctor Who. I suppose my biggest surprise and takeaway from RTD's return is that, even though my favorite Doctor is the tenth doctor (which I associate mainly with RTD), I might actually be more of a Moffat fan in the writing department.

I did manage to watch the new scenes that bookended the old stories (via YT) that were featured in the Tales from the TARDIS. And they were fantastic. Being a fan of Who since the Classic years ... the reminsence and nostalgia definitely brought more than one tear to my eyes.

For international fans like me who didn’t get access to tales of the tardis and unleashed it feels like an underwhelming anniversary celebration cause all we got was the 3 specials and whatever clips from unleashed we were allowed to see on the KZfaq channel legally so it can feel like we are under appreciated cause most of the marketing was uk based and I know it’s a British show first but since it gone international during the moffat era we should be more embraced

one good thing about the episode The giggle is the toymaker told the doctor that I made a jigsaw puzzle out of your timeline how did you like it so I think that's how they're going to do away with the Timeless child they're going to say that it was just the toy maker messing with reality

"I'm so sorry to whoever designed that..." That was so British, I almost wanted to throw tea into a body of water. I think you covered all of my downs, pretty much one-for-one. I wouldn't have given Ncuti as many ups, because I think he's going to have to grow on me some more. But then, Matt Smith had to grow on me, and if I'm being honest, so did David Tennant. On the subject of clean-slate reboots vs acknowledging your history, I also agree that Smith's era handled it better than Whittaker"s. I don't know how it worked for everyone, but for me, once the history was acknowledged, the stories got better and Jodie's performance got better. It's kind of a shame that she opted to exit right when her version was getting interesting. Thanks for bonus video. I'm sure we'll speak again, but if not, Happy Christmas and be good or Father Christmas will bring you coal (which might be helpful as that studio is probably ideal for keeping sides of beef; you could burn the coal to keep warm - DISCLAIMER: please do not set fires in your attic). (EDIT) I'm so sorry, Bernard Cribbens, I forgot AGAIN: WILF LIVES!

I am so happy someone acknowledges Murray gold being back because the amount of times I cried out recognising motifs of characters was insane :D

I get the impression, RTD wasn’t so much about the nostalgia in these specials; so much as about the overall possibility of the program going forward. Returning as show runner for the foreseeable future, it makes sense to me, he would want to use this to hype the future. To hook in a new segment of the audience while serenading the long time audience. Yes, UNIT has been there on and off since the second Doctor, and it’s survived its own cancellation to come back bigger than ever. Looking forward. I’ve been watching since Tom Baker, and I for one am intrigued and curious. Thanks Ellie.

For what it is worth, as someone returning to the show, then subsequently going down a whoculture youtube rabbit hole, I really appreciated the recap at the start of star beast! Have been drifting from who for years since the writing in capaldi and whittaker's series declined.

WIld Blue Yonder will be one of my favorite episodes in the whole series (which for Americans that means all of the seasons). I found almost nothing wrong with it other than they couldnt find a way to add more time with Wilf.

I didn’t mind the recap. Was sat with my cuppa and the excitement was building. Agree with you on the sonic. The giggle needed a little longer run time for me. Overall I can see myself revisiting these episodes again in the future and still enjoying them which is what Doctor who has been missing the last few years for me!

Regarding the Vlinx... I assume it will get explained more in the future and feel like a propper character... but as they didn't in this, I feel it should have been either K9 or Mr Smith... either of them could have had those lines, and it have made sense... and would have had their own backstory already known... especially given its an anniversary special..

2:26 I also don't get why people are loving the new logo when it's not new, it's just the '70's Tom Baker one with "Who" lit up in yellow. If you think about it, there's actually a lot of re-using/re-cycling going on with these specials.

I disagree with your down on ‘Why this face?’ My immediate thought was that they would play off ‘The Doctor who regrets’ due to trauma from The Flux and other things 13 had gone through. This face shows a longing for a time when The Doctor had someone who was just a best friend and, bonus, this friend has an amazing grandfather he was able to open up to once during a time he was feeling very much the same way as now.

I think ignoring the Timeless child would have been a huge mistake.

The point of the Vlinx is to give UNIT, a solidly human organization focused on dealing with extraterrestrial threats, the boost they need to deal with those threats on a level(ish) playing field. The Vlinx is clearly designed to be UNIT's "guy in the chair", providing the human forces with the information and technology they need to win without being an overpowered auto-win that does all the hard work for them.

14:49 this Up was straight based in its explanation. Basically what I say whenever people ask why I prefer 14 over 10

The Tennant, The Tate, The Patrick Harris; oh, my! I thoroughly enjoyed these episodes, with maybe a slightly disappointed memory of the first special. Anyway, I loved them all. What I especially loved, adored, and will always admire the writers for was no need to bring back any old doctors to shock and wow us. It's too easy a story arc to fall back on, crossing timelines. Well done, RTD, well done. Also, excellent work, Ellie; many thanks for your devotion to not just watching Dr Who but delivering these Ups & Downs/Commentaries. Noice! As an afterthought. Are they ever going to explain why certain things appear to be set? For examples, The Doctor always meeting Wilf, the four knocks, the Doctor meeting Donna almost immediately in the first special. Is there some Gallifreyan force behind it (or a force from wherever the Doctor is really from)? Or are they just going to leave it as one-of-those-things? Or have they already explained it and I missed it?

The new Doctor isn't even the Doctor he is some thing new Tennant is still the DOCTOR everyone has missed this fact .

Biggest UP: The Doctor and Donna are back! Biggest DOWN? Nobody has Doctor Who: Unleashed on this side of the pond. Once again, viewers outside of the UK have zaro access to the behind-the-scenes content created for the episodes we get to see, and this geek would love to be able to see them. A quick note about the change from DT to Matt Smith: It took me a while to warm up to Matt's Doctor, but not because he's not David. It's because of the fixation on being cool. As an older person who has learned that being cool isn't all it's cracked up to be, I hated that the character with that wonderful speech on the Titanic several Catmases ago is now so intent on being cool.

As a controversial Whittaker run enjoyer, I’m so happy you upped the mention of the Timeless Child and the Flux, I was so worried they were gonna forget about it

I don’t think the super sonic screwdriver was null and void, because I think it’s pretty fair to speculate that they’ll be doing some sort of spin-off series with 14 and his adopted family at some point, I think all what you saw, the screwdriver, the duplicated tardis, the fact 14 has gone on at least a few trips since the bigeneration with his new family, I think you’ll see more of these things

Probably should be a down for the fact that, so far, none of the supplementary shows are available for international audiences.

I can't wait to find out if The Toy Maker's legions include The Trickster (reference Sarah Jane Adventures).

Your point at 26:00 was something I think Steven Moffatt fixed when handing over from Matt Smith's Doctor to Peter Capaldi's Doctor by the phone call to Clara telling her to give the new Doctor a chance!

I had completely forgotten the recap to start The Star Beast. I'm still not convinced that it was there when it premiered on Disney+. I had to go check and it's there, but I couldn't recall it at all.

I wonder what Wilf's role would have been in the Giggle if they had been able to film more scenes with him? I'm just glad we got what we got, and I agree, I'm glad they kept the scene in and kept Wilf alive in the show.

The clothes changing in the regeneration is probably a nod to the first doctor clothes changing when he regenerated.

It’s good to have it back on boxing day here in australia but its sad that thinking that Twice upon a time was the last christmas special on the ABC.

I just keep seeing Lenny Henry's Doctor from his comedy Dr Who sketch and now meeting the Muppets 😂

Ms. Ellie, you are a wonderfully joyous breath of fresh air on the Internet. Thank you for being you.

that Doctor Who brings back the old 3rd and 4th Doctor titles, it brought me back to the first episode I saw back in 1974 when Tom Baker took over, I liked it

You just started "up"#3. I'd like to add to #2 that there was a LONG stretch of companions (four in a row) who got really aggressive ejections from the TARDIS. I think that RTD and the writing staff wanted to soften that a little. I hope that RTD is not afraid to do stories about painful subjects like the Partitioning or Jim Crow.

One UP from me is the way the Doctor speaks informal to his companions in German (which is my native language). Usually, the Doctor speaks in a formal way to the companions, despite using their first names. Here, the Doctor and Companions (yes Kate does it too) use the "du" instead of "Sie".

The 14th and 15th Doctors are the same Doctor. You saw that during the bi-regeneration when you had the flyover during the bi-regeneration - 2 doctors and 1 shadow. As the 14th emotionally heals, the 15th will benefit from that healing.

I agree with everything you said Ellie. I didn’t even really think about the sonic until you mentioned it.

Do I feel bad for keeping singing about eating babies?! HELL NO, that song is a bop and already a traditional christmas song in my household

Yay! Ellie's back. At last. And rocking the Catherine Janeway Trek look. Great to have you up and downing Who again. 😊

That "appealing to the same age group" effect then and years later is very insightful.

I can't wait to see what the toymaker ran away from. Sounds like something similar to when 10 was told that something was coming back before Gallifrey reappeared over Earth.

This is also the only instance where the previous Doctors didn't have an antagonistic initial reaction to one another. All of them seem to be jealous or a feeling of resentment towards each other when they do a multi-Doctor episodes.

There's an argument that human scientists couldn't develop a defence because they were vulnerable to the signal themselves - once there was something that needed to be defended against, the human scientists weren't in a state to do that. It's still a bit odd that a seemingly immobile robot could do everything needed to build this technology, but the robot could study the signal by being an information hub, then reprogramming an existing technology to repurpose it might be enough. Well, along with having the sense to reverse-psychology people into using it.

There was a documentary on RTD on TV today that was even more spoilerific than the trailers on what’s coming up, I’m dying to know how they’re going to pull off the Ncuti Gatwa 60s episode, now!

I am hoping with 15th Doctor we get to see that positivity that he brought to the last episode of the specials, if so it should be a great new era of Doctor Who.

I loved these, loved 14, love 15, love the excitement level all over fandom, love the positivity, love the hints of future dangers. No real big downs, just little mehs here and there. However... I'm still mixed on Bigeneration because it does a lot of good, but I still feel they are cheating something important. When the point of your plot resolution is YOU MUST HEAL, IT TAKES TIME, then skipping it w/out some sort of retro-reintegration of 14 back into the Doctor at some point in their future/past, it just undermines the message of the episode's resolution, and sends an equally bad reverse message to the audience that if you need therapy, don't worry, you can just skip it by being happy and positive, which I don't think RTD wants for his legacy on this. 20 years ago I needed therapy, and I went, and I wouldn't want any young people to have a takeaway that you can just grin and bear it, that actual work isn't needed that must be passed on so your future self can be whole and happy. I really want 14's healing to be passed on in a meaningful way at some point down the line.

Up for Ellie's videos. I love her personality, enthusiasm about what she is talking about and agree with about 99% of what she talks about. Down for when she talks about how old she was when she watched season 4. I've just realised that I was older than she is now, when I was watching season 4 and now I really feel old now 😢

Ncuti's performance was so good I didn't even realize he was in his underwear until the last shot of the episode

You dropped a Down on the old school Doctor Who title card!!??? Ellie has earned a Down from me.

"Undo someone else's work." Moffat brought back the Time Lords. Chibnall killed them. The series has painted the Doctor's relationship with his people in a widely complicated way, showing the different sides of Gallifreyan society. Chibnall decided that the Doctor was never a Time Lord, never a Gallifreyan, and that instead, the Doctor's "people", instead took an abandoned child and experimented on them, used them like an assassin, and then wiped their memory. Chibnall did nothing but undo the work of others to make his own vision seem grander. Let alone, destroying all of the character development that the Master had.

I'm perfectly fine with bigeneration. No problems but I do have one question. If 15 said that bigeneration is a myth then how is it that RTD said that all the past doctors have bigenerated in the past? Why does the doctor not recall those past bigenerations?

Ncuti literally started his Doctor performance running, can’t wait to see him in action!

Tennant’s regen/non-regens etc. Has a hand cut off, saves it and regrows another. Starts to regen but shoots energy into hand that later “regens” into human/TimeLord hybrid. Previously was cloned into female. 13th regens back into 10. (Yeah, I know. But even they say brought back in episodes). Now bi-generation. They’ve done a lot to keep 10 around in some form. At least 4 versions around somewhere, if you go with regens don’t get rid of them just shunts them into new reality, which would explain the aging.

15 knew that 14 settled down and spent time with his "found family" as a healing process.. He said as much in the episode. Ergo, 15's present is *after* 14's future ... but wibbly wobbly ... and 15's Present is *now* even though 14's Future is still happening. I don't understand why folks are so confused about it.. this *is* Doctor Who and time is not linear for the Doctor.

Oh, just noticed Ellie’s fingernails…. It’s the same red as the hand that picks up the golden tooth. Ellie confirmed to be the one to release the Master 😮😮😮 If it gets Ellie onto the screen for Doctor Who, I’ll take it. I’d watch Ellie as the Masters companion all day long 😊😊😊

I’m fine with the recap in the star beast, but I just don’t know why they had my man david tennant floating in space instead of just being in the tardis or something

I believe the Boss is the new name for the Master. We have seen that bastard coming back again and again, he/she will be back...one way or another.

With the 60th IMMEDIATELY coming after the BBC centenary special, I feel that RTD didn't want to do something that had only just been done. That would explain why we didn't see Daleks or Cybermen or a large number of returning characters.

Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, new viewers, remember? NEW viewers.