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Review of The Sea Devils by WhoTheoryYT

6 April 2025

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Once again, a very good story. I felt this story was a great continuation of the Master's arc, as well as being a sequel to the Silurians, but above all it felt like a really high budget (comparatively) story with all of the stuff at sea, with a lot of great comedic moments. Some stand outs for me were the Master watching the Clangers, the Doctor playing blindfolded golf to pass some time, and him repeatedly stealing other people's food, all of which combined made this probably the funniest classic story I've seen so far. It feels like Jo is being developed a lot more this series, which I like, and alongside the last serial, this is shaping up to be my favourite season so far.


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Review of The Curse of Peladon by WhoTheoryYT

23 March 2025

This was 100% my favourite classic story so far. For starters, it was nice to have an off world story for the first time in a while, but I also liked the political aspects of it - I really liked the incorporation of the delegates from the different worlds, the drama around Hepesh misleading Peladon and the way the Doctor and Jo incorporated themselves into the situation (also nice how Jo's rather regal outfit was explained in episode one). Overall, a very fun story which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I'm now looking forward to the sequel in the next season.


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Review of Orbis by WhoTheoryYT

23 February 2025

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I feel like Orbis is kinda the Eighth Doctor's version of Trenzalore: the place he defends for hundreds of years and is willing to die for, and I really liked that we got to see Eight in a Time Of The Doctor-esque setting. There were some really heavy hitting moments, like when the Doctor tells Lucie that 'Sometimes people don't want to be saved, sometimes, it's time to die, you should respect that', an (in my opinion) incredibly profound line that really shows how committed he is to the planet. I enjoyed the other aspects of the story as a whole (although the ending was really depressing), and I'm hoping this leaves an impact on the Doctor-Companion dynamic over the rest of the series (shooting the Doctor probably won't do great things for the Doctor's friendship with Lucie I'd assume, and he's 600 years older).


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Review of The Claws of Axos by WhoTheoryYT

18 February 2025

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I thought this was a pretty average story overall, but I thought the interactions between the Doctor and The Master in the last two parts were great, both in that we got to see hints of their past friendship, and in the way it shows Three's more manipulative side for the first time in a really engaging way.


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Review of The Vengeance of Morbius by WhoTheoryYT

16 February 2025

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Well that ending was... Very unexpected. Obviously I know he's not actually dead but it sure feels like it, and I think that if they Doctor were to actually die, that would be an extremely fitting way to do it, going down with his enemy one last time to save the universe. Not much to say about the rest of the story, but I do like these lore heavy, Time Lord centric Eighth Doctor finales like this and Neverland, so I quite liked this one, and I liked Morbius in it. I'm really intrigued by the cliffhanger, so I'm really excited to get into the next series, (a good sign for any finale), but I just hope they resolve it in a non-cop outy way, cause I don't want the impact of the ending to be lessened (I suspect the sisterhood may have something to do with his inevitable survival but we'll see).


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Review of The Fall of the House of Pollard by WhoTheoryYT

11 February 2025

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NOOO, IT CAN'T END LIKE THAT! That was an incredibly heartbreaking but beautiful story, and is a great revisitation and quasi-sequel for the absolute classic stories that are Storm Warning, The Chimes Of Midnight, Seasons Of Fear, Zagreus, and more - the elements of Charley's family we've learned about all coming to a bittersweet close here. The story deals incredibly with the consequences of Charley's travels with the Doctor on her family in an incredibly heartfelt and emotional way, and goes into depth on the struggles Louisa and Richard Pollard faced after losing their daughter, and the effects of Charley's decision to board the R101. I really loved the moments between Charley and her father: the scene where he admits to reading her books specifically actually made me cry, and the joy he radiates when he realises she really is his Lottie is incredible (Hardiman gives an amazing performance as Richard here). The story really feels like a bookend on Charley's travels with Eight, all the references to their adventures, Charley's memories of her mother, and even mentioning characters like Edith and Grayle, this is just the perfect ending for that story, and I can't see anything else topping it in the series, it's just that good. I did not see the reveal at the end that the Viyrans had wiped her parents memories of her coming at all and it really caught me off guard, on the one hand, it stops them worrying about their daughter, but it just seems like such an unfeeling and callous thing to do, and really makes me loathe then on a visceral level now, like I actually hate them. Their morals are so skewed towards the supposed greater good that can't see that the things they are doing are blatantly bad, and - judging by their development of their own virus in this story - it just seems to be getting worse (I guess they're dislikability is intentional for the story but gosh that ending was screwed up, at least Richard's investments are looking up I guess). Overall, my favourite episode of the series so far by a looooong way, and I'm looking forward to the series finale next time!


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Review of The Legend of Baba Yaga by WhoTheoryYT

30 January 2025

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This episode was the part that - before the release of the set - that I was most skeptical of, I just thought it seemed... Out of place compared to the hard sci-fi I was expecting in a Fugitive Doctor series. And I was completely wrong. I absolute adored this episode, very different tonally from Fast Times, but a very interesting and entertaining story nonetheless. The way the episode deals with folklore seems like a much more Doctor Whoey way of incorporating fantasy elements into the show than the latest series has been doing, with the revelation at the end of the Baba Yaga and her hut being the result of a malfunctioning TARDIS's chameleon circuit and a psychic field (in the process addressing Fugitive's TARDIS's police boxiness) being, in my opinion, a great way to incorporate the very Time Lord heavy themes of the series with more fantastical elements. I thought things like the Doctor recognising Time Lord skulls because of the regenerative scorching, and the whole idea of the Doctor going to a folklore figure for help were cool and intriguing elements, and I thought The Fugitive Doctor also, might I add, got a lot of great lines in this one ('that's why you change your password regularly,' being a personal favourite), the episode, I feel, giving more of a flavour of what a regular Fugitive doctor TV episode could be like, keeping the Fugitive element as a framing device, but being a slightly lower stakes plot for the overall lore than all her prior appearances. Overall, I thought this was a very strong episode, and I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of the series soon.


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Review of Fast Times by WhoTheoryYT

29 January 2025

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Hearing 13's theme again gave me chills. That was a great start, I wasn't too sure about it at first but as it got into it there were a lot of things I really liked. The idea of fugitive coming across the Daleks for the first time was a really cool idea, and I loved the way they dealt with the Daleks knowing her but her not knowing the Daleks (I thought quite similar to Genesis but with the roles reversed), something you can only really do with a pre-hartnell doctor like this. I also thought scenes like the one where she used the New Mexico nuclear test to nuke the Daleks were also really interesting ideas, this one specifically being one I'm surprised hasn't been used in Doctor Who in some way before (to my knowledge), which as well as being cool, new ideas, show the differences, and more violent nature of this Doctor than those we're more familiar with. The overarching plot of Fugitive being, well, a fugitive is also seeming quite interesting to me so far, and I thought the way that she evaded Cosmagon at the end through the protection of those she'd helped in the episode was a nice touch, and really shows that even though she's a very different Doctor, she still can't help but help people, and is, in the end, the same person. The only real issue I had with it was that I felt the start was a bit too slow, and it jumped around with the prison stuff a bit too much before getting into the main plot, other than that though I thought this was a great start for the Fugitive Doctor's solo stuff, and, assuming all of BF's thirteen era stuff is like this, I am very excited!


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Review of The Zygon Who Fell to Earth by WhoTheoryYT

28 January 2025

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I was not expecting the sheer amount of twists in this story, that ending and Trevor's whole story was actually so sad, my only real issue was the Doctor taking so long to realise that Lucie was a Zygon when she was acting so strange the whole time, especially the weirdly prejudicial attitude she had towards the Zygons despite having no experience with them.


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Review of Inferno by WhoTheoryYT

25 January 2025

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I liked the parallel world plot, but I though the actual monsters were a bit weird and didn't really make much sense.


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Review of The Shadow at the Edge of the World by WhoTheoryYT

22 January 2025

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I liked this episode quite a bit, and I think I understand the structure of the series now, Charley goes into the prolixity and does something related to the overall Viyran/Lamentation Cypher plot (assuming it continues like this). I think the main problem I had with it was that I guessed the twist of the Slaverings being the infected expeditionary men very early on, which slightly lessened the experience, but other than that, a very solid story.


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Review of The Ambassadors of Death by WhoTheoryYT

7 January 2025

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The general may seem a bit insane wanting to nuke the aliens, but he is in reality, just any modern day politician. Jokes aside, I enjoyed this one, the music was especially nice compared the the odd Kazoo thing from the previous story, however the pacing was still slightly slow in my opinion (either that or 7 parts is too long for a modern audience lol). I'm really enjoying Pertwee as the Doctor, and I feel the these unit based stories are a really nice change from earlier stuff, so I'm liking the sort of genre of these a lot.


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Review of Doctor Who and the Silurians by WhoTheoryYT

4 January 2025

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I found the first few parts kinda boring to be honest, but I binged the latter half and it was really gripping, I really liked the plot with the plague epidemic, and that ending really caught me off guard.


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Review of Human Resources Part 2 by WhoTheoryYT

31 December 2024

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I really liked part 1, and part 2 followed on quite well, and I thought the wrap up of the story of Lucie and the Time Lords this series was very interesting (especially the politics between the high council and CIA), as well as the concept of the quantum crystallizer, which I thought was a really cool Time Lord weapon idea, quite similar to the Moment in some ways.


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Review of Blue Forgotten Planet by WhoTheoryYT

30 December 2024

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I have really liked this final story arc with 6 and Charley, and this story neatly bookends both that story as well as Charley's story as a whole, I both found this final story a very interesting concept in itself and how it dealt with Charley's exit, and her feelings towards the Eighth Doctor felt very satisfying too. I still hate Meela though, I was hoping she'd get what she deserved for the last two stories, and I felt Charley was too nice for forgiving her in the end.


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Review of Joy to the World by WhoTheoryYT

25 December 2024

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After the season 1 finale and last year's Christmas special, my expectations for this were not too high, but after seeing the concept and that it was a Moffat episode, I was cautiously optimistic. I'm happy to say that that optimism was warranted, this was probably one of my favourite Christmas specials of all time, I loved the idea, the execution (for the most part), and the character work, the year the Doctor spent on earth (reminiscent of The Power Of Three) being the highlight for me. As someone who loves to see the Doctor's complex relationship with time in this manner, I really thought that this was one of the best character moments of the Gatwa era so far, and I'm really hoping that the rest of the era follows suit stylistically. There were some parts of the episode that didn't quite land for me, like the slightly ropey CGI of Joy at the end and some of the ways the plot moved forwards, but overall I would say that this is a great, festive, timey wimey story.


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Review of Phobos by WhoTheoryYT

23 December 2024

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This is mostly just a quite boring, run of the mill Doctor Who story, but I did think that the main villain (the creature in the wormhole that feeds on euphoric fear) revealed in the latter part was a very engaging concept, although not really enough to make up for the pretty tedious first three quarters.


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Review of The Raincloud Man by WhoTheoryYT

19 December 2024

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I was already really liking this story as a sequel to The Condemned, (I loved that story as the start of the continuation of Charley's story, as well as the character of Menzies, this feeling very similar thematically) but when the Doctor started playing high stakes Top Trumps at a casino to end a war, the story was absolutely solidified as an absolute classic in my opinion.


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Review of Absolution by WhoTheoryYT

24 October 2024

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I feel like Charley was heavily mischaracterised at the beginning when she carelessly opened the Absolver when C'rizz clearly didn't want her too, and I found it really odd how A), the Utermisans just happened to choose C'rizz of all people to Absolve their people, this having never been previously hinted at in any way, and B) that the Doctor seemingly knew this but had never brought it up prior. I also really disliked the Doctor's seeming complete lack of care that C'rizz was dead, which I also thought was very out of character for any version of the doctor, but especially this one. Despite the very hard to follow, poorly paced plot, I did think that final scene with Charley redeemed it a bit (that scene broke me) and I'm looking forward to the next story following on from that.


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Review of Embrace the Darkness by WhoTheoryYT

24 July 2024

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I agree with Charley, Orliensa's constant cynicism and hostility towards everyone despite them doing nothing to her is really really annoying. Other than that the story's very strong


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Review of The War Master Part 1 by WhoTheoryYT

6 July 2024

Not really sure what was going on but I liked the vibes


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Review of Empire of Death by WhoTheoryYT

22 June 2024

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It was good but STOP TEASING US WITH SUSAN IF YOU HAVE NO SUSAN FOR US! It made me so paranoid Russell, please 😭


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