The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO 15x2 Breakdown, Review, & Ending Explained!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Let's get into it, ladies and gentlemen. And thanks, Neurochronic Reddy now in this video. Yeah, all right, ladies and gentlemen, we watch The Lux. Not going to lie to you guys, we actually watched it like an hour ago. A lot of stuff happened in the past hour that had to go handle, including me leaving this place. But we're back now. And I remember everything that happened.

Starting point is 00:00:23 John, why don't you go first? This was lovely. This is, I mean, it's the kind of Doctor Who episode I like. way, but also, you know, when it really took the swing and got kind of kooky and meta and started playing with the frame and like you said, doing a she-hulk. Yeah, I was really kind of delighted by that. I haven't, you know, I think a lot of stuff like this, especially these kinds of episodes where they find a creative solution where it's not just as cut and dry as like, oh, we got to vanquish this villain somehow. You know, you always maybe have a cause to go back and like really examine the bits

Starting point is 00:00:57 and pieces, especially because there is so much meta-commentary from the, you know, from our buds in the audience who they go to see eventually and the question then becomes, are they lampshading certain elements of the writing? Or are they being clever and sort of commenting on it, you know, because everything else is in place?

Starting point is 00:01:13 But, you know, regardless, I thought the adventure was really fun. I really liked the mood and the atmosphere and the way they played with the animation. Reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode, which a lot of Doctor Who episodes can like border on. certainly but this one had yeah like that sort of spooky sort of um there's like a a spooky

Starting point is 00:01:34 glimmer that I cannot quite put into words about a twilight zone that can be like fun even though it's a bit foreboding and yeah I thought it used its time and place well and you know there's just a long tradition of movies and shows about movies and shows and I thought the way that they captured those elements here and did not like a full retrospective of animation but you know at least some level of uh use of the different phases of animation in cinema over time was pretty fun and uh and yeah i like a creative solution episode and i like you know all the different ensemble characters they got to flesh this out i feel like sometimes you do a period p or any any episode where you're going anywhere other than the time that you're in

Starting point is 00:02:20 is going to cost in terms of production design and you know period piece can be just as tricky with that as future piece. And I thought it was kind of conscientious that they got this, you know, old 50, you know, old Miami, you know, theater marquee, but it's kind of deserted. And there's a diner across the way. There are a couple people around. And that's kind of what speaks to the twilight zoniness. It's like it's, you have that crowd of the theater at the beginning. But for the rest of the episode, you're kind of only with a few people. And it gives it this sort of interesting, again, Twilight Zone-esque feel. I had a lot of fun with this. I really enjoyed this one. I like this one. It's weird. I feel like their pattern of going episode two. We're going to have a

Starting point is 00:02:59 harbinger and some kind of God. So far, those have been of these past two seasons like the one I was like, damn, this is the season premiere. You know, like I liked the previous episode, but we had our gripes with it. And not that there couldn't be gripes with this one, but this one had much more of that like, oh yeah, now we're cooking with gas or whatever the phrase is. What did you think? I think everything you said is pretty much on point. I like this one quite a bit. And it was, there are aspects for sure that I do think could have perhaps been a little bit more highlighted.

Starting point is 00:03:39 And I will talk about positive stuff first. And not so I'm only doing that structure where you're like, well, let me do positives first so people know I like it. I think like the positives outshine stuff that I think could have been perhaps a little bit more had a bit of a magnifying glass to them the the aesthetics are really cool uh i like how even though you're traveling in 1952 i appreciated actually isolating it in this one like a couple of locations you know and i have been getting a little bit more into like classic hollywood lately and primarily you know if i mean totally honest it's just like kind of the old hollywood monster

Starting point is 00:04:18 movies it's not really like a classic i don't really watching like film noir and all that shit It's mainly a classic Hollywood monster's horror. But it still reminds you of a lot of things that was the broad spectrum of classic Hollywood, which is often very few locations. And characters who are consistently speaking in a way that everyone's sort of a narrator. Everyone is kind of, you know, nowadays we call it,

Starting point is 00:04:44 very expositional dialogue, yet there was like a style and a rhythm to how expositional dialogue was so heavy. heavily implemented back then and you get some of those flourishes primarily with the projectionist I think you know like he doesn't do like a full on voice um but there's like two paths you can go you can kind of be the mom who's waiting for Tommy Lee who feels like an authentic woman from 1950s and then you got the projectionist who feels like a character I would see in a 1950s movie and I like how he was like that character you would see in a 1950s movie and it seemed

Starting point is 00:05:22 to have like a reverence for a very specific chunk of time and we've done things like you were saying that mess would film style and episode two of last season was all about musical and this one's all about movies and to get the cinematic magical experience and to get things of like the doctor in animation format was was pretty sweet and I like the performance of the god of light quite a bit too he was really really enjoyable part of the shortcoming I think that happens for for me is that it's he's a little i don't really feel like the god of light is um as active as a of a threat as a that has been part of the fun of the harbinger storylines is you know really getting to but he's really they'll get me wrong there's like i would say like there's a there's a great

Starting point is 00:06:08 percentage of him majority that is fun to watch love the dialogue made me laugh um creepy in the in the prologue of the story before the credits so it was enjoyable and i like actually the almost fairy tale-esque Del Toro, Guillermo Del Toro type of ending where it's not some type of thing where we defeated and abolished this creature, banished it somewhere. It sort of is melancholic in a way.

Starting point is 00:06:36 There's something better sweet about the way they defeat the God of Light or quote unquote defeat the God of Light. So there's so much I loved about it, but I do feel like the presence of him kind of vanishes for a lot of it. And granted, it allows us to get some cool shit like with the whole pulling down the film thing and meeting the fan the hoovians you know like there was some pretty cool shit that they actually still did do so that was like one thing is because comparatively like when you look at um what is episode two's name of the devil's chord what is the uh maestro maestro like maestro is an active presence yeah you know the toy maker active presence despite all hijinks and stuff and i don't feel like god of life is super

Starting point is 00:07:22 act at a certain point god of life is really not around yeah until you're back in the theater you know so yeah that's like one one little thing and and uh in terms of like them being people of color i'd rather them at least acknowledge it than not acknowledge it at all uh and they did do a little bit of toying with it you know just a little bit didn't make it the point to the episode but i think we've already done that in doctor who i think it's easy to say that but anytime you take the doctor and you put him into a city where that would be a thing especially a black doctor it's like you kind of have to do it you know well i think they get around that by having nobody really be in town except those couple of people outside who are like well we're fine with it and then they do

Starting point is 00:08:06 it again with the fake cop and stuff yeah yeah so i uh i i enjoyed i enjoy that i don't know i like like the racial tension shit so that that was cool and um yeah it's a celebration of of so many things and for Doctor Who to be such a legacy show to honor the legacy of films is pretty cool and Belinda still getting to know

Starting point is 00:08:32 I do think by because Belinda was not in the special right where Ruby Sunday the whole special was about Ruby Sunday and currently I feel like by this point I was way more invested in Ruby Sunday

Starting point is 00:08:49 but that is because she's a whitey is because it is because yeah you have the whole special that was all about ruby and and then you had uh this or the amount of time you get to like the second episode of this season you're already well invested into ruby and there's so much about like what is ruby doing and their chemistry and such so i was a little bit taken aback in the beginning of this when they were it seemed like we were not really working towards that but they brought it back it brought it to a full circle of trust by the end of it, which was cool. But they didn't. I don't know. I'm still waiting for the show to really flesh it out a tad bit more and to really feel the connection between them and for as an

Starting point is 00:09:38 audience member to develop more of a connection. But I'm curious if you guys, though, feel that connection with Belinda already. I'm still like, I'm not quite there yet. And I'm waiting to get there. I like her. I like them both. I like them as performers and I like watching them together. I appreciate that this couple episodes we've seen so far has kind of taken a gradual approach to them becoming doctor and companion. It's in this episode somewhere in there that you can kind of see like, oh, instead of being mostly focused on just, we got to get me home. I'm kind of seeing this world of the doctor and what he does and the magic of that and sort of coming on to it gradually, which. I do think is cool, but I also agree that like I don't feel necessarily like I'm watching like the doctor and his companion right now. And that's kind of neat. Again, that's something I'll kind of wait for the totality of the season to fully, you know, form an opinion on. But I mean, yeah, as of these two episodes, it does feel like a sort of preliminary thing is happening between them and maybe by the next episode they'll be like in full step together. Not that she's going to

Starting point is 00:10:45 give up on getting home. That seems obviously like a wrap-around aspect of the season. And that whole thing about like the show ends on May 25th or 24th, whatever, you know, was a bit of an ominous. I'm like, do you just mean like the season or do you or is this a subtle hint that you're going to like cancel Dr. Drew? Is that when the show ends? Because the season ends? I don't know. But my guess would be that they probably did that on purpose to make it so that like by that that episode will be the season finale at least. It would be my guess, but I'm not sure. I feel like this is shooties last season. It could be.

Starting point is 00:11:18 I mean, there's lots of speculation. I would be sad for it to be, but also, you know, I get that they kind of hold you. From what I, from listening to Who Culture and stuff like that, it seems like they hold you. And you can't go do other stuff or it's harder to do other stuff. And I get why he would want to, certainly, as his star rises. But it's such a joy to watch him. And I really like, yeah, it's like that. I like them together.

Starting point is 00:11:41 I'm waiting for the context of the writing to really make it feel like that's in full gear. and there was some stuff in the first episode where it's like oh blend is like sort of adapting to this pretty easily um this had a little bit more i think of everything in terms of like emotional flavors to that stuff it got me more excited or seeing more of like the okay again the gradual onset of their companionship uh their relationship together her wanting to indulge in some of this stuff rather than yeah having that single mind um i found out who played mr bro oh god i keep forgetting his name mr bright like he want to call him mr bright side yeah got a light mm-hmm oh trying to think of a good hint uh i don't have one though it's allan coming huh yeah doing a doing a voice i hear it yes doing a real voice once you hear it you're like okay accent you know embodying the cartoon because partly probably through the episode i was thinking to myself like oh did they get some classic voice actor like i don't know like a billy

Starting point is 00:12:44 west or something who's done like a million cartoon um but alan coming i thought was yeah you hear it and you go oh of course and then yeah i thought he even though you he's appeared in person on the show before but like you know even if you hear that and you're like damn i wish i could have seen him on screen you know at the same time i'm like what a cool thing for him to do though as this yeah like fully animated creature i'm sure he's done a bunch of animated stuff too and he's having a bit of like a renaissance again yeah i like the break that they did with the hoovians because if they ended it in a spot with them that the doctor who world is fictional and they broke it to the but they kept it so meta to the point that like they make the hoovians fictional as well

Starting point is 00:13:33 that way we're watching we're for sure watching a show because i think you break a certain it keeps the uh suspension of disbelief and buying into the reality of this fictional world um still very real versus if they went back and it was like well i feel like we're just watching a tv show now when the whole point is he escaped into this world uh that escapism would kind of gnaw at the back of my head a little bit of knowing like they're just watching a tv show that would affect the whole thing so to actually do the inverse of that meta thing that other properties have done actually i think was a really really smart call yeah i don't know if you know what i mean by that

Starting point is 00:14:13 elaborate like in she-hulk they make it really clear like oh she lives in some tv world now like she's just a tv show and then so whenever i i watch i see anything of she-hulk i'm like oh this is not really matter to the mc this is or something i don't know it makes me hyper-aware like i don't need to really buy into the reality of this sure because i'm aware it's something fictional and the character doesn't really have any bearing on this character and the character goes as fictional too characters kind of goes along with it much of the time yeah anyway i mean my favorite usage of it is still the movie last action hero have you seen that movie i don't have any functional recollection of it i probably saw it as a young young child

Starting point is 00:14:52 contending to be with the fact that you are in a fictional world is uh is it a weird existential moment of life to have so yeah i think there's a lot of really cool things here but i i loved it overall though i was i would give the devil's core definitely the leg up like kind of by a lot um but in terms of a in terms of another installment of doctor who i think it's a great installment and in terms of compared to last week i think it's way better uh so yeah i thought this was really fun any last thoughts it's fun and nifty it's like i get what you mean it's it's not necessarily like the maestro makes you feel like damn this is a force of the universe the name you know the nature of the universe and this also encapsulates that but in a way that feels much more isolated

Starting point is 00:15:32 and removed so i like i get that and yeah like the idea that you kind of do this sort of fun or a boris with the fans because at first it's like oh we're all in the show and the doctor doctor's world is the real world but then to come back to us at the end it was like oh we're still here it's almost like a parallel reality or something that that i don't know this yeah this found as much as yeah this could have been like more dynamite especially because so many things about it do work like i did think they found really fun ways of getting cheeky with the the reality for sure and that certainly left a mark in an impression so yeah even if it's not like one of the top tier episodes this had some stuff in it that was top tier yeah yeah yeah all right cool all right guys what's you think about this episode thank you guys so much for bearing with us keep in mind moving forward they're more than likely going to be uploaded on mondays um i know that's past the time when people stop giving a shit about when that episode's out now because your window is so small it's about last season they were uploading these on friday and now they uploaded a saturday that greatly affects um the way we are um doing the operations around here

Starting point is 00:16:37 and got to abide by that for now so thank you guys for being patience so please do hit that bell get yourself a choose your doctor t-shirt it would mean the world and believe me you won't regret it thank you reject nation we'll see you guys soon brian j 79 listen i got to go to a family reunion and i think it's about it's about time that we bring brian j 79 with us oh introduce you to the fam they're going to love you no pressure it's important that you bring someone who really doesn't belong at the reunion you want someone to be uncomfortable. It's the topic of conversation. Here, we'll play

Starting point is 00:17:15 it out. I'm going to be my uncle Joseph and John's going to be his Aunt Petunia and he's going to say so I'm going to be like John, who's that bloke over there with the curly hair in the little freckles on his face? Oh,

Starting point is 00:17:31 what do you mean the one over there? Taking up space and breathing out of air. Oh, I'll know who that is. That are all there is Greg's friend Brian J. 79. I hear he likes to, he likes to, he likes to, he likes to go to the pub and add some fishing chips and ride the tube, drinking tea, and going to watching down the peaches and pears. Yes, and colonising. And Benny Hill, taking over and worshipping the prime minister.

Starting point is 00:18:03 And have a crump here visiting Big Ben. We're listening to Simon Pegg. Do you love Oasis or Blur? or the cure of the smiths. That's what they're going to say about you, man. A lot of questions. I think we did the job. I think we did the job.

Starting point is 00:18:21 And I think, I don't need to see you on the other side. You're satisfied. Point taken. More after the break.

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The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO 15x2 Breakdown, Review, & Ending Explained!

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