Dr Who 4x7 The Unicorn and the Wasp FULL REACTION
Added 2024-05-01 21:00:03 +0000 UTCAnd here is the full reaction π
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oh nice! I for some reason assumed you were watching from dvds. I hope you'll be able to watch all of Doctor Who without much difficulty with changing stream services. Having it all in one place would be so nice! So lucky indeed. :)
Larissa Reimer
2024-06-18 05:15:45 +0000 UTCAhh yay π that is so good to hear, Larissa! I'm watching on a streaming service here called Stan, though I think it only goes up to a certain series and then it goes to another streaming service! I wish everything could be in the one place, but we are also lucky that we have so many shows to watch π
Juliette Gaming
2024-06-17 06:14:45 +0000 UTCSuch a lovely reaction! I'm finally back to watching your full reactions! I've been using Video Prime for the doctor who episodes in the background as I watch you react. And for a while Doctor Who was taken off of Video Prime so I had no other way of watching the show along with you. I'm so glad finally its back! Now I can react to your full reactions finally! I've missed them :) <3
Larissa Reimer
2024-06-17 06:11:14 +0000 UTCActual deleted scenes: They visit Christie as in an old woman in the nursing home where she is having flashes of it and show her the book.
Jerry Setty (SpTigerJD1)
2024-05-09 07:45:44 +0000 UTCCluedo was infact inspired by the works of Agatha Christie. Fun fact, the car chase scene was using real vintage cars that couldn't go any faster than about 15/20 mph, so the car chase was so slow that they had to get creative with camera angles to make it look more intense haha. Also, David Tenants father makes a small cameo as a footman near the beginning of this episode. He joined David on set, so they offered to let him appear on camera.
SeeJay
2024-05-03 02:42:50 +0000 UTCFunny, I'm German and I think a French accent is much easier than a German (in English)
Oliver
2024-05-02 21:33:29 +0000 UTCI had the distinct honor of playing Hercules Poirot in our local production of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. That is definitely my favorite Agatha Christie novel, because of its powerful and surprisingly complex ending. As an aside... French accents are really, REALLY tough to get right. I kept turning into a German.
Martin Holt
2024-05-02 14:53:46 +0000 UTCClemency Eddison, the matron, bears a striking resemblance to Cassandra the villain of New-New-York. Which leads to speculation: was Clemency Eddison the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great [INSERT AS MANY GREATS AS NEEDED] great-great-great-great-grandmother of the bouncy trampoline? Note: I know they were both played by ZoΓ« Wanamaker. I'm just playing in the sandbox.
Martin Holt
2024-05-02 14:52:09 +0000 UTCThe scene is a little cheesy though and I'm happy they cut it because it's a great idea although badly executed. Not having "burned" this idea is a good thing imo.
Oliver
2024-05-02 11:50:02 +0000 UTCThere is an alternate ending to this episode where Donna and the Doctor visit Agatha on her deathbed and she remembers. They show her the book from the year 5 billion to make her realize her books value.
Oliver
2024-05-02 11:47:32 +0000 UTC"Murder at the vicar's rage" - Thank you!!! Although I saw the episode several times I never noticed the joke although it's pretty obvious. But since my first language isn't English I grew up with the translated titles of Agatha Christie's books and films. And vicarage isn't part of my active English vocabulary. So I didn't make the connection...
Oliver
2024-05-02 11:41:42 +0000 UTCThis is a hugely enjoyable episode -- the first one in the modern Who series deliberately played mainly for comedy, spoofing the conventions of the "whodunnit" genre even as it faithfully follows them. The use of Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance in 1926 is really clever, although it actually happened in December and they wanted the story to be set at the height of summer, hence the Doctor never mentioning the actual date when he shows the newspaper to Donna at the start. For the Christie fan, there are nearly two dozen of her book titles which Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies amused themselves with by inserting references to them. If you watch it again, you can pick out these ones in the dialogue: Appointment with Death, The Body in the Library, Cards on the Table, Cat Among the Pigeons, Crooked House, Dead Man's Folly, Death Comes as the End, Endless Night, The Moving Finger, The Murder at the Vicarage (at the end, the Doctor says "Murder at the vicar's rage" but admits it "needs a bit of work"...), Murder on the Orient Express, N or M?, Nemesis, The Secret Adversary, Sparkling Cyanide, Taken at the Flood, They Do It With Mirrors, and Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (in the teaser, the Professor says "Why didn't they ask... Heavens!" as he sees the wasp appear). There's also the visual references to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Death in the Clouds -- the paperback cover the Doctor shows Donna at the end is real. It's that image which gave the writers the initial idea for the giant wasp in this episode (although it's only a symbolic image; there isn't actually a giant wasp in Death in the Clouds, just an ordinary-sized one). And one last Christie title is the most obvious reference of all -- The Man in the Brown Suit... :-)
Steven Cooper
2024-05-02 08:31:23 +0000 UTCThat kitchen scene is one of my favourite moments in Doctor Who EVER!!
Juliette Gaming
2024-05-02 00:52:12 +0000 UTCGod, Donna just gets better and better. She is on TOP FORM this episode. So funny, charismatic, bombastic... I love her so much!!
NNC
2024-05-02 00:34:15 +0000 UTCthe cyanide scene is absolutely hilarious
OverWims
2024-05-01 23:39:28 +0000 UTCAgatha Christie began writing during the First World War and wrote over 100 novels, plays and short story collections. She was still writing to great acclaim until her death, and her books have now sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in over 100 foreign languages.
Spikle
2024-05-01 23:04:14 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite feel good episodes!! The βBand Candyβ of Doctor Who for a fun Buffy reference- the kitchen scene is absolute gold!!!
Aidan Fleming
2024-05-01 22:35:25 +0000 UTCIndeed! There is also a movie starring Vanessa Redgrave & Dustin Hoffman simply called Agatha which explores her disappearance.
Dyrla
2024-05-01 22:31:46 +0000 UTCI adored this one, Neil!! It felt like we as the audience were involved as well with figuring things out and it was just so fun. I think I've played a bit of an Agatha Christie Poirot game, but no books! I really must make more time to read, but... but... gaming!! π Thank you, Neil ππ₯°
Juliette Gaming
2024-05-01 22:29:05 +0000 UTCI am completely jealous! ICE CREAM π€€
Juliette Gaming
2024-05-01 22:27:28 +0000 UTCUNTIL NOW π
Juliette Gaming
2024-05-01 22:27:10 +0000 UTCAgatha Christie did indeed disappear for a number of days and to this day no one knows why.
Dyrla
2024-05-01 22:25:08 +0000 UTCThere are about 20 references, mostly verbal, to her books in this episode with The Doctor himself being one, The Man in the Brown Suit. The writer must have had fun inserting all these books into the script!
Dyrla
2024-05-01 22:23:23 +0000 UTCI seem to have this tradition now, of saving a small tub of ice cream for myself every week to have watching your Doctor Who reactions lol
TDA Entertainment
2024-05-01 22:03:23 +0000 UTCHi Juliette. This is such a fun episode isn't it? A murder mystery containing the usual plot twists and misdirections, but with added Doctor Who weirdness. Loved it! I also love how it ended up being Donna that gave Agatha Christie the idea for some of her books (and is also a time paradox). Apparently this episode features many nods to her books but, like yourself, I've not read any of them so that was lost on me unfortunately. Thanks for another great reaction Juliette. Have an awesome day!
Neil Hanson
2024-05-01 21:43:40 +0000 UTCI was JUST turning my pc off for bed, i don't remember this one so itll be good for me. lets goooo
Isac (Welsh_ML)
2024-05-01 21:09:21 +0000 UTC
