Doctor Who Love and Monsters

Glad you picked up on the cameos from Shirley Henderson (Ursula) and Peter Kay. On the Peter Kay matter, he was a fan growing up and when it rebooted in 2005 he wrote to Russell T Davies asking him to fulfil a childhood dream of being in the show. Originally he was going to play Elton, but he preferred to be a bad guy. Look forward to seeing other cameos in the future from notable British actors. This episode was kinda last minute. It was shot at the same time as the previous two parter to fill up the production time the BBC had given them for the whole series shoot. David and Billie were mainly focused on filming the two parter, hence the Doctor-lite nature of the story, a concept that you’ll see again from time to time in the show. So Russell crafted this story mainly for himself like to imagine if he was Elton and met the Doctor, what it would be like to be a super-fan of the Doctor. The monster design was actually the winner of a competition for the long running popular children’s entertainment show Blue Peter where they asked kids to submit designs for a Doctor Who villain. The kid who drew the Abzorbaloff had envisioned it as being the size of a double decker bus but he never got to tell the production team this. This episode has gone down as a divisive one for fans, some really despise it for being almost like a parody of DW fans in a way that insults them I guess, others like it for that reason and find it a funny oddball untraditional episode. I’m somewhere in the middle. I love how personal the story is, but some moments are kinda cringy.

Jack Mellor

Your comment about Ursula and her voice. If you've seen it she played moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

I understand where you're coming from and the concern. Unfortunately for series like Doctor Who, talking throughout along with the stoppages is pretty necessary because if I were to pause for every bit of my dialogue, when I restart the video, the spot before I start talking and the continuation before whatever skip would be included in what youtube hits. It's one reason outside of this, Lycoris Recoil and whatever full series reaction I decide on once Blackadder is done, there's nothing else I really do that with. 99% of what I record show wise is strictly for everyone in here and why I'm more prone to stopping to talk on those as opposed to this show or the anime, or full series. The stuff for y'all I pause so I don't ruin your experience, and on the youtube bound stuff, I talk way more to give me more spots editing wise to creatively get something on via editing.

David A Simmons

Alan, as a massive fan of yours (and a patreon member) I love your reactions to British shows I grew up with (various comedy series, Doctor Who etc.) and I realise you have to do what you have to, to break up content to avoid these shows being banned on YouTube, but are you not able to pause your reactions on a more regular basis (than you already do), when you want to comment on something? I say this because I feel you sometimes miss key dialogue lines in drama series (like Doctor Who), or missing great comedy lines (like in Blackadder) when you comment over them! Maybe pausing more often to comment will help you get round YouTube’s ridiculous rules?

Andrew Roberts

The creature was the result of a competition run by Blue Peter a kids TV program that has been running even longer than Doctor Who, it started in the late 1950s, I think you reacted to John Noakes climbing Nelsons Column to clean it from the program itself, it still shows twice a week, just goes to show how some kids minds work.

phillip green