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00:00If there's one thing we love about Doctor Who, and let's be real, there's a lot of things we
00:03love about Doctor Who, is that we love the zany wackiness of it all, even if sometimes we're so
00:08confused. And that's something that we're going to look at today. Those moments that left us thoroughly
00:13scratching our heads, they might have not taken us out of the episode or made us enjoy it any less,
00:18but certainly once the dust settles and we sit back we go, wait a minute, what? I'm Sean Farrick
00:23for Who Culture and here are 10 Doctor Who moments that make no sense. Number 10. Graham
00:28randomly shows up in a volcano. Despite an extended runtime the power of the Doctor was bursting at
00:33the seams. It had a lot to cram in, including a cameo from everyone's favorite game show hosting
00:38companion. Bradley Walsh returned to the fray as Graham, leading a support group for ex-companions
00:42at the episode's end. Before this he saved the day by helping Ace defeat the Daleks, who were trying
00:46to set off numerous volcanoes all at once. I told you it was a busy episode. But hang on just
00:50a jiffy,
00:51how the hell did Graham get there? How does he just show up inside a volcano? Last we checked there
00:56are
00:56no public footpaths into the center of boiling hot pits of doom, even if one simply can walk
01:01into Mordor. Sorry. And Graham hardly has the resources or the athleticism of a James Bond
01:06super spy. And how did he even know which volcano to visit? It won't shock you to learn that there
01:10were quite a few of them dotted around the earth. It's one of those things that you're just meant to
01:14accept, but it still keeps me awake at night thinking about it. Number 9. Destroying the Cybermen
01:18with love. Before he inexplicably became one of the most hated men on earth, James Corden made two
01:24appearances in Doctor Who as the lovable lad Craig Owens. In The Lodger, the 11th Doctor helps Craig
01:29come to terms with his love for his best friend Sophie. When he pays him a second visit in closing
01:33time, Craig and Sophie have a baby called Alfie, or Storm again Dark Lord of all to his mates. The
01:37Doctor, Craig and Stormzy discover that a group of Cybermen are hiding in a nearby shopping center,
01:42because even robots can't resist a bargain. They end up capturing Craig and begin converting him when he
01:46hears Alfie's cries. They wouldn't, would they? Oh yes they would. Craig uses the power of love to overcome the
01:53conversion, saving himself and eventually leading to the Cybermen's destruction. Really the power of
01:58love, okay. It might be the most cliched hackneyed ending imaginable, but I gotta do next week. The
02:02Doctor fakes his own death. We probably should have seen this coming. Considering that love saves the
02:07day was also the solution in The Lodger, but doing this to the Cybermen was a little bit criminal.
02:12Number 8. They throw rocks now. Blink is one of those episodes that will always have a place in the
02:16hearts of Whovians, which makes it all the more difficult to accept that there's really weird detail
02:21right at the start of it. Sally Sparrow first gets a sense that her life is about to make a
02:24strange
02:25turn when she reads a message scrawled on the wall of Wester Drumlin's Duck Now. Moments later a rock
02:30flies in through the window, narrowly avoiding her head. According to writer Stephen Moffat, a nearby
02:34Weeping Angel threw the rock so that it could make Sally an easier target, which was perhaps the first
02:39clue that he was a bit confused by his own monster. We've never seen another Angel attempt anything like
02:43this, so what made this one such a wimp? Angels move at lightning speeds, even the weaker ones in Blink,
02:49as we see at the end of the episode. So why do they need to incapacitate their victims? Surely that's
02:54the whole point of their ability. Sorry Stevie boy, but you're not off the hook with this one.
02:58Number 7. Legend of the Sea Devils. Just generally. Ah, Legend of the Sea Devils. What a beautiful,
03:04beautiful mess. Jodie Whittaker's second to last outing as The Doctor is not only the least watched
03:09New Who episode ever, but it was also roundly smashed by fans and critics. The production of the episode
03:15was extremely rushed, something even showrunner Chris Chibnall has admitted to, and oh boy you
03:20can tell. At one point the TARDIS, with the Doctor and Yaz on board, gets eaten by a giant sea
03:25monster.
03:25A few minutes pass, and we spend some time with Pirate Dan, and when we cut back to the Doctor
03:29and
03:30Yaz, they're somehow inside the Sea Devil's base. What? It's not clear where they are, or how they got
03:36there. Is the Sea Devil base inside the monster? Or has it transported them somewhere else? And where's the
03:41monster now? There are so many small disconnects like this one throughout the episode, and it makes
03:45the whole thing rather confusing, and a bit frustrating really, to watch. Number 6. Captain
03:50Jack goes hand hunting. In David Tennant's first proper outing as the Tenth Doctor, he engages in
03:55a sword fight with the Sycorax leader, which cost him one of his hands. Thankfully he's able to grow
03:59a new fighting hand in its place, which is rather good at throwing satsumas. The severed limb would serve
04:04as a critical plot point later down the line, as Ten is able to use it to stave off regeneration,
04:09leading to the creation of the Metacrisis Doctor. Before that, however, he's reunited with his lost
04:14appendage, thanks to Captain Jack Harkness, who gives it to him in the Season 3 finale. Question is,
04:19how the hell did Jack get it? Sure, Jack works for Torchwood, and can use some
04:23whizzy-wuzzy super-duper doctor detector, but he still would have needed to track it down very quickly
04:27after it was lost, in order to preserve it so well. The bigger sticking point is the fact that the
04:31hand fell
04:31over London, directly into the EastEnders title sequence, by the looks of it, while Jack is based in
04:36Cardiff, a good 150 miles away. Number 5, The Doctor's Cue Cards. Under the Lake is the first
04:43part of the two-parter from Season 9, in which the Twelfth Doctor and Clara have to deal with a
04:47bunch
04:47of murderous ghosts aboard an underwater mining facility. It's all very interesting and spooky
04:52and science fiction-y, but none of that is why it's on our list. The reason is something far more
04:56simple. When the Doctor confronts the crew of the facility early in the story and realises he's been a
05:00tad insensitive by expressing amazement that their dead friend coming back as a ghost, Clara reminds him of the
05:05cards in his pocket, a selection of stock phrases to help him deal with various situations. This
05:09gets a cheap laugh when the Doctor reads out the painfully generic statement written on one card,
05:14but everything else about this moment is really rather flawed. The Doctor might be an alien, but
05:17he's not an idiot. He's dealt with plenty of complicated emotional matters without needing a
05:21script, so what makes this one so different? It's also difficult to believe that the Doctor and Clara sat
05:25down one night for some arts and crafts to put these cards together. You'll note I said difficult to
05:30believe, not impossible to believe, frankly I think the Doctor would have used a lot of stickers. Clearly
05:35the writers liked the gag, but didn't really put an awful lot of thought into whether or not it made
05:39sense. Number four, slowest walk ever. Shooty Gatwa kicked off his tenure in the 2023 Christmas special
05:46The Church on Ruby Road, and good grief, was it something else? In a good way, he did a whole
05:50musical
05:50number for crying out loud. The special also introduced new companion Ruby Sunday and set up her backstory as a
05:55foundling abandoned on Christmas Eve. Fifteen ends up traveling back to that day in order to save baby
06:00Ruby from becoming goblin food, which is where this odd moment takes place. When the Doctor arrives,
06:05Ruby's mother is already walking away from the church. He then hot fuzzes the goblin king, rescues
06:10Ruby, touches back down on the ground and runs back to the TARDIS, all of which takes several minutes,
06:14and the mother is still in the exact same place she was when he first arrived. Come on now, there's
06:18taking your
06:19time, and then there's really taking your time. Is she actually three kids in a trench coat? Was she really
06:24wearing heavy shoes? Maybe we'll find out that there were some timey-wimey shenanigans going on here,
06:29like the jacketless Matt Smith in Flesh and Stone, or maybe it was done for dramatic effect,
06:34so the Doctor could stare at her walking away, and walking, and walking, and walking. Either way,
06:39it takes you out of the moment, and makes little sense to boot. Number three, why do the Daleks have
06:44a spin button? At the end of the season four finale, just when everything looks bleak for the 10th Doctor
06:49and
06:49his army of friends, human weapons, Donna Noble ascends. The power of the Doctor Donna kicks in,
06:54giving her genius intellect, and allowing her to set in motion the destruction of the Dalek fleet.
06:58She disables their weapons, disarms the reality bomb, sorry, THE REALITY BOMB, and makes them do
07:04donuts. Okay then, Donna twists a little button on the control desk, and makes all of the Daleks spin
07:08around, round, baby, right, round, spin, ahem, then she makes them go the other way, because you would,
07:14wouldn't you? This is funny and all, and cuts through the bleakness of the previous moment, but it
07:18raises a whole bunch of questions. Chief among them, why the Daleks would have a spin function in the first
07:23place,
07:23not to mention a host of other switches and levers that make them completely useless. Maybe Russell
07:27D. Davis wanted to see spinning Daleks, and you know what? That's fair. Number two, quite possibly
07:32the worst soldiers in existence. Season nine's The Zygon Invasion, The Zygon Inversion, is remembered
07:38for Peter Capaldi's incredible speech at the end of the second episode, and rightly so. However,
07:43the rest of the story isn't quite so strong. It's good, don't get us wrong, it's solid, it's just that
07:48you'd probably be better off booting up the speech on YouTube rather than sitting through the whole 90
07:52minutes. One highly questionable moment occurs when a group of soldiers approach a Zygon-infested
07:57church. Knowing full well that the Zygons are capable of shape-shifting, the soldiers are reminded
08:01just before the mission begins that you know what they're capable of, do not fall victim to it. In
08:06other words, when the Zygons inevitably take the form of someone you love in order to trick you, ignore it.
08:10Guess what happens next? Almost immediately, the lead soldier is duped when a Zygon emerges from the
08:15church, posing as his mother. And despite every single piece of evidence pointing to the fact
08:20that they're being lured to their deaths, the entire group of soldiers lower their weapons, enter the
08:25church and are murdered. Well, gee, if only someone had warned them. It's utterly ridiculous that a
08:30trained group of soldiers would fall for such a simple ruse. Without a doubt one of the most
08:34contrived moments in recent Doctor Who history. Number one, buh-bye Boat Swain. Remember him from
08:40season six as the Curse of the Black Spot? You probably don't and there's a very good reason for it.
08:45The Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds end up on a pirate ship where the crew are being hunted by a
08:49siren,
08:49which comes for anyone who sustains even the slightest of injuries. Heading up the Buccaneers
08:54is Captain Henry Avery played by Hugh Bonneville. His fellow Sea Dogs include a character known simply
08:59as the Boat Swain, portrayed by Lee Ross. This guy is just sort of there to begin with until he
09:03gets
09:03wounded about halfway through and then he just vanishes to thin air. If you think we're exaggerating,
09:07we're not. The Boat Swain literally disappears from the story and only emerges at the very end,
09:11reunited with his crew to never explain what happened to him or where he went. Apparently,
09:15there was this whole subplot filmed about this character that was cut during editing,
09:18creating a significant continuity error in the final episode. Shall we start taking bets on Big
09:22Finish plugging the Gap with a series of audio adventures? The Boat Swain Adventures. It fly off
09:26the shelves. That's everything for our list today, folks. Thank you so much for watching along. Thanks
09:31so much to Jacob Simmons who wrote the original article upon which this video is based. You can check
09:35that out over on whatculture.com. I have been Sean Farrick. You can follow us at Whoculture on the
09:40various socials and you can get me at Sean Farrick as well. You're awesome. You're wonderful. Keep
09:44things wibbly wobbly and remember you deserve love so treat yourself well.
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