UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 4 REACTION! + BROKEN GOOGLE DRIVE LINKS RESOLVED!

This episode started great but the second half was dreadful. Literally nothing seemed to resolve itself at all. I really do not like the last few episodes much at all.

Mark Ward

fun fact: in this episode while the ponds are on their anniversary trip, amy mentions marrying king henry viii, who is the father of queen elizabeth i. what's so important about her? well at the end of the 10th doctor's shakespeare episode with martha the queen was incredibly angry at the doctor, hinting at some problem she had with him, and in his farewell tour he mentioned to the ood that he had married queen elizabeth i, among other things (you'll get an explanation for that story later this season). but the reason i mentioned this is that if the doctor is married to queen elizabeth i and amy is married to elizabeth's father, that makes amy the doctor's mother in law TWICE (because he's also married to amy's real daughter river 😂)

Hi Adam, try the second link

Failwhale34

still not working

Adam C Turek

Video still not working ☹️

King parrott

Oof. Alright, thank you for the heads up! Will re-upload. Does the download work at least for GD?

Failwhale34

This just says unable to process video.

Helen Dobinson

So hyped to see your reaction of episode 5!

Sheriff

Fixed!

Failwhale34

Yeah- I had to manually do it since it was my first try and recording not entirely sure if the screen recording would work. Will get it right for the next ep ! ;)

Failwhale34

Thanks Mark! On it, woke up at 6AM to those messages and am working on 2 alternatives for better audio! :)

Failwhale34

I know someone mentioned it already but the audio for the ep is quite low, but you sound fine and the video quality is great!

Mark McKeown

FWIW the reason why the ending of this episode is a bit messy is because there were considerable problems behind the scenes. Series 7 in general had quite a few production problems, but this episode primarily suffered from the actor of the Shakri being incredibly uncooperative. This led to a considerable chunk of the ending having to be reshot and heavily edited in order to have it vaguely make sense. Great reaction BTW!

I am still unable to watch FMAB ep. 44. I think I'm going through withdrawals now XD

video is still processing. Will check back and see if if the links messed up. The wetransfer link should work for now!

Failwhale34

weird, yeah noticed one or two links were actin weird. Re-uploading along with an instant download via wetransfer for you Lucas!

Failwhale34

And while it wasn't Brig, Courtney did appear opposite Hartnell as Bret Vyon in The Daleks' Master Plan, and though it wasn't part of the main series, the Brig did appear with Six in Dimensions in Time for the 30th Anniversary, so one way or another Courtney is the only person to appear on screen with every single Doctor from the Classic run, truly a legend.

Dominic D

i cant watch this episode

Series 5 ep 1 still isn’t working

Lucas Pluck

Forreal- the confusion on my face. I was almost certain it’d be a two parter to get to that explanation... guess not 😂

Failwhale34

Enjoyed most of this episode, though the actual reason for the cubes feels like Chris Chib not knowing how on earth to end it all.

Mr K

LOL, oops. Good eye. That’s how you can tell I was dead tired uploading this (not recording the actual reaction, did that hours before!)

Failwhale34

Thank the gods! Haha 😂 one step closer to getting back to a well oiled machine again

Failwhale34

Hey Arriane! Thanks for the heads up! Glad you enjoyed the new look. Audio definitely seems to be an issue. I’ll do some more tests before jumping into more videos. Thanks for the feedback!!

Failwhale34

I tried a GD link at random and that worked mate. :)

Cooper Vision

That’s a solid point- 11 has aged a bit and nothing awful has happened- though I’m getting the feeling that won’t last long 😩😩😩

Failwhale34

Hey Emma! Thank you so much for the feedback, I’ll do some more tests before I record later this morning to have better audio :). Appreciate the feedback!

Failwhale34

Hey Coop! I updated only the GD links as those ones last longer than 7 days. Those are just for immediate downloads for newer uploads while GD is still processing. Are you able to download from the GD Drive links at least and or view them?

Failwhale34

All the Who download links are showing as expired for me.

Cooper Vision

I like the new set up however the actual audio of the episode was too quiet imo. Sounded as if sometimes we were just hearing it through your camera and the audio wasn't actually recorded? Not sure

Emma

Otherwise, you noted the way Smith compares to Tennant and I want to point out the narrative justification. Being distant from companions who weren't traveling with him full time any more and embracing the "dark Doctor" both had negative consequences that he realized around the end of his run. Is it surprising that since regenerating he's trying to be closer to his companions even when they aren't full time anymore, while trying to move away from his darkness? He's not fresh out of a war anymore either. There's been no truly bad shit to trigger his darker side in some time. It's logical that, until something pushes him again, he's at peace for the moment.

Sachal Ali

Ah finally an episode where I have stuff to say again! For Kate, others have given the details but the short version is her dad was a major Classic Who character. He actually came up in S6 while the Doctor was running from his death- learning that the Brigadier had passed away was what snapped him back and convinced him to face it.

Sachal Ali

I think the new setup is awesome. It's more open and lighter, less cramped than it was before. However I thought the audio of the actual episode was muffled, and its quality wasn't as good. I had to turn my volume up to hear it better, but since your personal audio was fine, the two volumes clashed. Not sure how you would go about fixing this, but I thought I'd let you know, so you can fix it in the future. Still an awesome reaction, and I'm really, really looking forwards to the next one. It's a big one, and I'm eager to see your reaction!

Arriane Skjonnemand

The next episode and then the Christmas episode are both really good.

Sorry to disappoint but the cubes are a one-off. And yeah, the ending is extremely rushed. They’ve been teasing Amy and Rory’s departure for several episodes now, we’re all getting impatient. It’s time for them to **** or get off the pot.

What you were missing in this episode is that Kate is the daughter of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, a classic Who companion better known simply as The Brigadier. He was the officer in charge of UNIT, and despite never actually travelling with the Doctor, is considered one of the all-time great companions, and appeared opposite every classic Doctor at least once excepting the first, sixth, and eighth (who, of course, only ever had that one movie). Although he never appeared in the modern series, owing in part to Nicholas Courtney's health, he did make an appearance in an episode of Sarah Jane Adventures, and there have been references to him; in The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky, when Ten wished he was there and the non-name guy in charge of UNIT said 'Understandable, but unfortunately he's stuck in Peru'. And of course, in the beginning of The Wedding of River Song, the Doctor tries to call him up, only to be informed by the staff at his nursing home that he had died a few months previous.

The "link" vs "download" are backwards.

Sachal Ali