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Did the Doctor REALLY Commit Genocide in 'Terror of the Vervoids?' - Doctor Who
Burning a New Leaf (Mulching Doctor Who's “Terror of the Vervoids”): Terror of the Vervoids isn’t exactly the greatest Doctor Who story ever. Those plant-based villains were just … weird. But this bizarre aria from Colin Baker’s long swan song is now surprisingly relevant to the age of Ncuti. Why does Mel just appear out of nowhere? Is the Doctor just allowed to browse his future, or is there something more sinister at play? Pour a nice cool carrot juice, and don’t rage-quit the pod when we bring Sutekh’s gift of headcanon!
Intro 00:00:00
Previously… 00:01:58
Whomoji Challenge 00:06:52
POLL To Open 00:11:23
TL;DW 00:16:32
Commentary: Terror of the Vervains 00:19:40
Four Questions to Doomsday 01:06:09
What If the Evil Plot Had Succeeded? 01:09:45
Where Is the Clara Splinter? 01:16:22
Final Judgment 01:20:21
Randomizer! 01:26:41
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Story Essentials
Season 23, Serial 3
Story number: 145, per the The Pull To Open Codex bit.ly/3FHKJNK
Writer: Pip and Jane Baker
Director: Chris Clough
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Aired 1 - 22 November 1986
Pull To Open: The Trial of a Time Lord - Terror of the Vervoids
Season 5
Episode 30
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish bit.ly/3WagZRq
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Komentáře

  • @annahazeldine6225
    @annahazeldine6225 Před dnem

    My doctor and damn badass !😍

  • @John-tz2tx
    @John-tz2tx Před 2 dny

    It was Essex

  • @Mothcryptid98
    @Mothcryptid98 Před 5 dny

    Hello! I am trying to remember if you guys mentioned that you'd be attending LI Who con and recording a podcast/panel there this weekend in a previous Pull to Open? If so, what is the panel called?

  • @phonotical
    @phonotical Před 6 dny

    He never had a fragile ego, the bs you out out. Honestly.

  • @christophera556
    @christophera556 Před 7 dny

    The Tom Bakers years was when Doctor who reached its peak after Tom Baker left the serious it started to go down hill from there.

  • @carolinemerk9814
    @carolinemerk9814 Před 8 dny

    Your theory about Richard E. Grant as the Valeyard is really interesting. From what I remember, the last and perhaps ONLY onscreen reference to the Valeyard was made in series 7 by the Great Intelligence, played by none other than Richard E. Grant…

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 9 dny

    The Doctor is incorrigibly meddlesome.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      It really should be on his business card at this point

  • @ethanmelton576
    @ethanmelton576 Před 10 dny

    I wonder if Mel would have been better received if she was only in this story. But of course, that world have meant a brand new doctor and brand new companion at the beginning of season 24. The continuity-obsessed 80s wouldn't have allowed that.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      Interesting thought. It would have been bold, for sure - almost a confirmation that the Doctor has large swaths of adventures with random companions that we never see - basically a nod that all Big Finishes, novels and comics are or could be canon. Now that I think about it, I like it!

  • @ethanmelton576
    @ethanmelton576 Před 10 dny

    The Vervoids remind me of an interview about Troll 2, where the director was mad that all of his friends were becoming vegetarians. It feels like a bad arguement against vegetarianism. "If you're worried about the feelings of the animals we eat, what if the plants could feel?"

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      Motivation aside, it's an interesting thought experiment. What if there was no moral component to what you ate, since both plants and animals suffered equally? If it was all just down to health and taste, would it make any difference what you chose?

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 10 dny

    I can imagine the Vervoid teaming up with the Krynoids. My favorite plant DW story.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      Maybe the giant fungi from Mechanus could be their foot soldiers

    • @kemmdog4444
      @kemmdog4444 Před 9 dny

      @@PullToOpen Seeds of Doom is a favorite of mine with a great human villain.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      Ah. Maybe try... er, online alternatives 😇

  • @TheWhovinerd-1963
    @TheWhovinerd-1963 Před 10 dny

    I can’t find a good quality video of this scene anywhere and it’s really annoying 😭

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 10 dny

    It was nice to see that Michael Jayston got to do some BF audios as the War Yaleyard.

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před 11 dny

    I just realised something, and thought I'd put it in the comments here: In The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Kate doesn't know who Susan is. But in Day of The Doctor, there are photos of Susan in The Black Archive, and we know Kate's memory doesn't get wiped while entering or leaving the archive. Oopsie poopsie Russell?

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 9 dny

      Maybe they had Susan's photo and knew she was important to the Doctor but didn't know exactly who she was

    • @halloumi4959
      @halloumi4959 Před 9 dny

      @@PullToOpen Yeah, it's on brand for UNIT to stalk anyone who's been in spitting distance of a TARDIS 🤣

  • @Eltonlaleham
    @Eltonlaleham Před 14 dny

    Jon Pertwee was an awesome actor and he was the first Doctor I saw

  • @bloodmoon0205
    @bloodmoon0205 Před 14 dny

    The Doctor also had multiple goodbyes with Amy too.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 14 dny

      True, but Clara must have the record

  • @ShaneJMcEntee
    @ShaneJMcEntee Před 16 dny

    She confirmed this was not her idea

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 15 dny

      Oh, interesting. When?

    • @ShaneJMcEntee
      @ShaneJMcEntee Před 15 dny

      @@PullToOpen on the conversation with extra on Terminus on the Season 20 Blu-ray. She may be remembering wrong as apparently it was her idea according to a book she featured in the 80s.

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před 17 dny

    Was cool to hear you talk about the point I brought up in one of your comment sections about Trenzalore. I'm sad I missed seeing this live! Love to see you boys just talk Who

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 17 dny

      Thanks, dude! It was a great comment - something we wonder about often

  • @iwillheadlockyournan731

    Love this pod x

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 23 dny

    It’s good to see Angus Lennie as the innkeeper. Who was in the Ice Warriors previously and from the classic The Great Escape.

  • @ethanmelton576
    @ethanmelton576 Před 24 dny

    Ah, Terror of the Zygons. The DW story so Scottish that it opens up with a line about haggis.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      ...and ends with a line about penny-pinching. Scots are a frugal people, I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před 24 dny

    Of the episodes I've watched on the channel since I found you, this was the first Whomoji to stump me. I felt so silly after!

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      Not obvious, definitely. Chris getting it on the second try *almost* redeems that facepalmer with Caves of Androzani

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 24 dny

    That deleted scene you spoke of,the DVD release had it as an optional addition to the story.

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 24 dny

    “Is half power lethal?”

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      Could have been, and that's why the Doctor's a hero

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 24 dny

    The TARDIS has turned invisible before.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      Not intentionally, as a feature, though. Stuff like Keeper of Traken is usually an external force

    • @kemmdog4444
      @kemmdog4444 Před 23 dny

      @@PullToOpenThere’s an earlier DW story that has the TARDIS invisible. I wasn’t sure you’ve both seen it or not. I didn’t want to give the title if neither you had seen it.

  • @kemmdog4444
    @kemmdog4444 Před 24 dny

    To paraphrase the 10th Doctor,Chris. “No don’t do that, don’t do that.”😊😊

  • @toalladepapel
    @toalladepapel Před 24 dny

    loved that callback

  • @TheMemeguy127
    @TheMemeguy127 Před 25 dny

    Mel’s introduction was bad cause she didn’t have one

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      Yeah, it's too bad Bonnie Langford never got the pleasure of meeting the Doctor for the first time. At least the novels stepped in with Business Unusual, so it's there if you want to include it in your canon.

  • @gamerboiiiiiii
    @gamerboiiiiiii Před 25 dny

    Pretty sure the 'cloisters' themselves are cultural or religious buildings. With TARIDSes having miniture copies of them, also holding the eoh

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 24 dny

      The Time Lords love their traditions and ritual, definitely.

  • @Benjiesbeenbetter.
    @Benjiesbeenbetter. Před 26 dny

    I always got the impression that he was just as fond of Jo as the Doctor was. In an almost step-dad versus real dad sort of way.

  • @jensonkiin3678
    @jensonkiin3678 Před 29 dny

    A Brigadier in the British Army earns on average £108,000 ($138,394) per year. More than enough to afford a Mercedes.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 27 dny

      tbh that ain't a lot of money these days. a Lexus, maybe

  • @TheBlackHelicopterRevue
    @TheBlackHelicopterRevue Před měsícem

    Scary Rhubarb 😮

  • @Greaseball01
    @Greaseball01 Před měsícem

    Douglas Adams does it again

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 27 dny

      The guy was a wunderkind, no doubt

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před měsícem

    This is a thought I only just had and I wanted to share it with you guys because of your 'Clara splinter' section of your episodes; the timeline that Clara stepped into ended with the Doctor's death on Trenzalore right? So after time was changed in Time of The Doctor, there shouldn't actually be Clara splinters after that point, because the timeline literally didn't go that far. I find your Clara splinter section fun and you should keep it going! I only just realised this is all, thought you might be interested. 😅

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 27 dny

      It's timey-wimey, certainly. I think I follow, but who's to say there isn't some future where the Doctor eventually DOES get buried on Trenzalore? It could all come back around again.

    • @halloumi4959
      @halloumi4959 Před 27 dny

      @@PullToOpen There IS always a twist at the end. True.

  • @bonkersbuilds
    @bonkersbuilds Před měsícem

    There was never any police boxes there all just different doctors landing in London and seeing the tardis at a different point in time cloaked to look like a police box and cloaking to look like that

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před měsícem

    Yo shoutout to Dalek that Time Forgot, I remember watching that years ago, it was brilliant

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 27 dny

      wasn't it? One of the best fan-made videos

  • @the.girl.who.waited
    @the.girl.who.waited Před měsícem

    i love sarah jane. i loved her spin off and binge watched it cos it was so good! not to far from where i live, there’s a car that’s identical to the one in the show that sarah had. it always puts a smile on my face when i see it. RIP Liz ❤️🕊️

  • @robcaiger1781
    @robcaiger1781 Před měsícem

    Worth reading the actor David Banks’ wonderful book “Doctor Who - Cybermen”. It’s all in here as to why there are different versions & “tribes” of Cybermen. Met David (who played the Cyber leader for many years in the series when Dr Who went on tour in the UK. Lovely man. Also, Michael Kilgarriff who played the Cyber Controller in “Tomb”, reprised his role in “Attack of the Cybermen”, so it’s the same Controller. All in David’s book. Thanks for posting this, bought back great memories!

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před 27 dny

      Love that book! Slow to get going, but he really did his best to unite all the depictions of the Cybermen into a single vision

  • @elementalsuite
    @elementalsuite Před měsícem

    This episode messed up my mind very black mirror vibes

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před měsícem

      If you thought this had Black Mirror vibes, Dot and Bubble must have shattered that record

  • @robertshah6856
    @robertshah6856 Před měsícem

    Recently discovered your channel, love listening to your reviews when I'm crocheting 😊 The Tsuranga Conundrum's one of my fave Jodie Whittaker episodes + found your review super interesting + entertaining

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před měsícem

      Welcome aboard! Glad you found the review interesting even though we, uh, might not have loved it 😬

  • @drbeard4505
    @drbeard4505 Před měsícem

    Its also a direct callback to Three where his first companion of the era, Liz Shaw, tells him that he needs someone to explain things to.

  • @douglagver9812
    @douglagver9812 Před měsícem

    Yet this is a better plot point than the timeless child

  • @user-sz7sw3dr6j
    @user-sz7sw3dr6j Před měsícem

    You know clara did that aswell the tardis took years to come back to the doctor on trenzelore

  • @HereticReborn
    @HereticReborn Před měsícem

    Tom Baker and Liz Sladen best ever.

  • @Entillzha
    @Entillzha Před měsícem

    My favorite duo who shared the best chemistry on screen together were the 7th Doctor and Ace.

    • @PullToOpen
      @PullToOpen Před měsícem

      No question they were something special

  • @nicka3697
    @nicka3697 Před měsícem

    No sugars here in tea or coffee. That stuff is absolutely constrained - for the cakes and boscuits

  • @carolinemerk9814
    @carolinemerk9814 Před měsícem

    Y’all are wrong for that intro 😂

  • @halloumi4959
    @halloumi4959 Před měsícem

    That was a VERY cheeky intro with the audio clips you naughty boys