So goddamn good. In a way this is almost an inverse of the Rings of Akhaten, using a few notes from that episode to highlight how there the speech worked and how here it didn't. Simply epic stuff
Hear me out From 0:23 to 0:36 we can clearly listen to a "The Long Song" inversion, while we can hear from 0:36 till the end of the song several leitmotifs from the 12th Doctor's merged all into one.
The last 2 Doctor-lite episodes have been strangely haunting. 73 yards stayed with me watching Ruby grow old and alone, and this one just exaggerated my anxieties about social media nowadays.
yeah it's kind of crazy as someone who grew up to watch social media begin as this small niche thing to dominate our lives how racism has somehow gotten WORSE over the past 20 years. the language is more subtle, but in more recent times it's become much more direct, the attitudes much more violent. it's crazy how when i grew up in the 10s i was lowkey annoyed of "SJWs" and liberals or whatever dominating everything but now in the early 2020s it feels so normalized and stronger than ever. social media has regressed our standards on how to treat fellow human beings and only fanned the flames of fundamentalism, nationalism, and outright racism and this episode was an incredible commentary on the insular echo chambers that leads to such ugly xenophobic tendencies calcifying into a culture that passes it off as normal.
@@ZDProds-c8p The final 10 minutes were good because it was the climax of the episode. If the rest of the episode hadn't been building up to that moment, it wouldn't have hit as hard. Also I genuinely don't get what people didn't like about it other than the fact that the Doctor wasn't omnipresent for the entire episode. It was great, had horrifying new CGI monsters, gutwrenching horror, tension, and mystery. The revelation that the entire homeworld was destroyed was a gut punch. The whole episode kept delivering with heavy twists that were all great.
@@forcedalekoh yes! I know someone else said it but it has a James Bond feel. But to me the scene shows that sometimes the Doctor doesn’t always win and this music showcases that to a T
Would be cool to see ncuti do a reverse 9, where over time he becomes more and more mean spirited and begins to close himself off from the people around him.
@@Pendleton115 i was about to say, this doctor was touted as the sort of "rebirth", split from the 14th doctor that needed to heal his traumas, and able to move on, so it would be interesting to see him lose his innocence in a way, having to handle this sort of moral contamination
The as thing was as much as they needed saving they never really deserved it asides Ricky, but like in the Titanic Christmas special, we can’t choose who lives and who dies, that would make us monsters.
I can’t find a link so take it with a generous pinch of salt, but I’m fairly sure I saw something somewhere about there being plans to release series 10 OST.
As someone who also lives series 8, I completely agree! This series started fairly basic with Space Babies (and I totally get why, it’s a jumping-on point for new viewers to get used to the format), but each episode since has gotten progressively better, with 73 Yards and this one being masterpieces. I love the creeping emergence of the supernatural, and how many of the episodes completely subvert their initial premise.
I wasn’t looking forward to the social media/phone bad episode but it really surprised me. Can’t wait to see even more iconic Ncuti moments after this.
The people of Finetime aren't human, you can see their blood is a blue/green colour in the episode. Gives "blue-bloods" a quite literal meaning, man that episode is so good.
Sounds so good! Too me this music either feels like The Doctor failing or him leaving them too die, tbh Ncuti has been through a lot do far, i feel bad for him
The part that uses the notes from the rings of Akhaten just before fithteen's kicks in sounds so pessimisticly hopeful, which isn't something id be using to describe anything
Murray Gold bringing a short variant of "The Long Song" from Series 7B's "The Rings of Akhaten", then moving seamlessly into the darker variant of Fifteen... Currently, the best episode of Series 14 and the best music of this series!
It really feels like theres elements of frustration in there but then I also agree with other comments stating there’s some James Bond in there I think there’ll be a vengeance episode and the Doctor will come out on top
There is no official soundtrack release. Other than The Goblin Song as a single, we haven't had anything officially released since the Series 9 album in 2018. Just lots of fan rips!
Absolutely love this version of the doctors theme, reminds of the long song and is anybody else getting Anakins dark deeds vibes from it as well? Brilliant theme.
This episode felt open ended again and I actually love it like how the girl betrays that Rick guy and the Doctor barley realises and again what were those creatures it feels like the doctor is realising something strange is going on and that theme made it even weirder I’m telling you that girl has got smth to do with this big twist
@@richardsaxty2911 definitely I 100% agree I genuinely think this episode is supposed to look like just any other doctor who episode but I think it’s KEY to this plot twist
For some reason when it started playing I thought it was gonna be a new variation of the Shepherd's Boy 😂 definitely one of my favourite songs of the season tho
Theory Time: Everything lives and everything dies. And sometimes Doctor. You can't save every society that doesn't need or deserve saving. No matter how noble your intentions are. You're a good person, Doctor. However, despite all your regenerations. Underneath it all you care too much for humanity. Too much that it could become your own undoing. Blinding on what is in front of you and what really matters. (Referring to Ruby and others.) Tread lightly, Doctor. While your journey for this planet has reached its end. You should focus on your companions. For they are the parts that make you…you. Especially in the dark of times when you really need it right now. End theory. Thanks to anyone who reads this.
The only thing that I hope is that she is dead but she won't be. She was raised without intimacy as such I am assuming that she is a sociopath. She's also the daughter of a weapon's manufacturer. The self-proclaimed leader of the survivors said that they wanted to be "pioneers like our ancestors" which hints at new world America colonialism. I wouldn't be surprised if she comes back as the leader of the survivors. I just hope she gets a reckoning. It's amazing to me how they muted the brutal death of the good finetime character because the doctor wouldn't have stood one minute learning the truth. Ncuti is proving himself to be the doctor. I bet he would have tore her a new one if he knew.
@@Mrchair-bk5ns Yeah, I already heavily disliked the character, but when Rick died she became the worst character in the show ever. My first thought when he offered to take them with him was "she's gonna be out of the Tardis, as soon as he finds out what happened to Rick". No wonder the dots grew to hate these people, it was utterly deserved.
Maybe because the finetime survivors were going out into the vale (the wilderness we were shown, which had rivers between hills like the description of a vale). But it's definitely reminiscent of the Valeyard! Also, I've never heard of vale meaning goodbye? I know it can mean "ok" in Spanish but besides that and the English word for the natural area I described (basically a valley), I don't know any other meaning for vale
@@adinakruijssen3056 Oh sorry--that was a running thing back in Ten's day; there was a track in the OST called "vale decem" which meant "goodbye ten" in Latin or something.
I know this might be a controversial thing, but to me this seems like The Doctor experiencing racism for the first time and not knowing what to do with it
Why did I completely miss that this episode is about racism? I thought it was a critique on the ignorance of the younger generations or something, and then a classism thing at the end. I thought because the Doctor was pretending to work for Finetime they just assumed he was lower class. Tbh I think I was waiting for the racism plotline the whole time, and by the time it was finally used I'd written it off because they missed so many chances to use it, and I thought they just wouldn't
@@somerandomguy2073 it was though, because every bad thing Lindy did could have been explained as one of the 7 other character flaws she was given. The writing was a mess imo
So goddamn good. In a way this is almost an inverse of the Rings of Akhaten, using a few notes from that episode to highlight how there the speech worked and how here it didn't. Simply epic stuff
omg hello 91st doctor who fan did you like the soundtrack this episode
@@twolve I liked everything about this episode
@@dwfan91- the goat
Oh yeah! It is like Rings of Akhaten, good spot! Also love the videos bro.
Literally THIS! As soon as those higher notes come in to the lower ones, I thought it sounded like Rings of Akhaten! at round 00:30
there's a few notes in the middle that sound like rings of akhaten
yes exactly!!!
I thought I was the only one that heard it, fascinating moment of sound
My jaw dropped when I heard it
0:29 and yes you're so correct
timestamp?
It felt like the music really represented the Doctor's want to save them, but it kept being pushed down.
I love the music design!
The music in this scene and the whole episode was brilliant
That’s Murray Gold for ya!
Never have I ever hated someone from doctor who before. The residents of Finetime took the cake
Yeah, no wonder why the dots turned against them and the slugs were chasing them.
In a universe where Daleks exist, creatures that live to hate every other living being in existence, the people of Fine Time were still worse.
It's a great twist that the evil AI actually had a good reason to turn against its users.
The Daleks at least are funny!
Exactly because The Daleks didn't chose to be racist, Finetime did.
Exactly why we needed Murray Gold back. This was one of the most impactful scenes in the entire show I had goosebumps the entire time.
Hear me out
From 0:23 to 0:36 we can clearly listen to a "The Long Song" inversion, while we can hear from 0:36 till the end of the song several leitmotifs from the 12th Doctor's merged all into one.
I think that's reaching a bit
maaaate yes I can hear that
No from 0:36 is 15s theme
@@thebasicviewer9690 exactly theres no new theme here
did I get regeneration like music in the beginning
The last 2 Doctor-lite episodes have been strangely haunting. 73 yards stayed with me watching Ruby grow old and alone, and this one just exaggerated my anxieties about social media nowadays.
yeah it's kind of crazy as someone who grew up to watch social media begin as this small niche thing to dominate our lives how racism has somehow gotten WORSE over the past 20 years. the language is more subtle, but in more recent times it's become much more direct, the attitudes much more violent. it's crazy how when i grew up in the 10s i was lowkey annoyed of "SJWs" and liberals or whatever dominating everything but now in the early 2020s it feels so normalized and stronger than ever. social media has regressed our standards on how to treat fellow human beings and only fanned the flames of fundamentalism, nationalism, and outright racism and this episode was an incredible commentary on the insular echo chambers that leads to such ugly xenophobic tendencies calcifying into a culture that passes it off as normal.
@@brandotenda what was this word vomet
Why was dot and bubble actually so good tho
Facts
The final 10 minutes were good, rest of it was average surely
I thought from the promo that it would suck but it's really strong.
@@ZDProds-c8p The final 10 minutes were good because it was the climax of the episode. If the rest of the episode hadn't been building up to that moment, it wouldn't have hit as hard. Also I genuinely don't get what people didn't like about it other than the fact that the Doctor wasn't omnipresent for the entire episode. It was great, had horrifying new CGI monsters, gutwrenching horror, tension, and mystery. The revelation that the entire homeworld was destroyed was a gut punch. The whole episode kept delivering with heavy twists that were all great.
@@ZDProds-c8p this makes no sense, it’s only as strong because of what came before especially on rewatch.
It kind of has a James Bond feel to it.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that
Yesss
Absolutely
Thats exactly what I thought, specifically when he turns around
You're talking about 0:42, right?
I know you were!
Its like if the speech failed in rings of akhaten. Similar notes, darker ending.
Murray Gold being awesome as always!
I am very happy that he is back
Yes! His theme is epic as it is, but this variation hits different
Its so much more cinematic
@@forcedalekoh yes! I know someone else said it but it has a James Bond feel. But to me the scene shows that sometimes the Doctor doesn’t always win and this music showcases that to a T
There's something very Darth Vader about this version of the theme. God, I can't wait for more doctor-dark
ME TOO!
Would be cool to see ncuti do a reverse 9, where over time he becomes more and more mean spirited and begins to close himself off from the people around him.
The Doctor getting dark is my favourite thing about the show. Ncuti would absolutely eat it up too.
@@Pendleton115 i was about to say, this doctor was touted as the sort of "rebirth", split from the 14th doctor that needed to heal his traumas, and able to move on, so it would be interesting to see him lose his innocence in a way, having to handle this sort of moral contamination
@@db5094 I really hope this is the direction they’re going in.
Kind of like what happened to 10, but even more dramatic
One word: Goosebumps
Real
The as thing was as much as they needed saving they never really deserved it asides Ricky, but like in the Titanic Christmas special, we can’t choose who lives and who dies, that would make us monsters.
The posh kids were being hunted down by the dots and the slugs and they were created by someone who strongly disagreed with that principle.
That was one of the darkest episodes I’ve ever seen of dr who
Some of the notes in the middle are straight up from the Long Song in the Rings of Akhaten
With the lyrics of Wake Up missing 🙂
0:29
@@HyperDaveUK there's been a _lot_ of dialogue this season about dreaming. maybe the _music_ is telling him to wake up.
And that's why Murray Gold is the GOAT! The GOOOATTTTT!!
It was perfect. Perfect. Everything, down to the last minute details.
Love how you can hear a motif from The Long Song, then it slowly fades into a dark version of Fifteenth
Murray Gold. Honestly what a legend
The Long Song was always used for heartwarmingly tearjerking moments. This moment… was just a plain tearjerker for it to be sampled.
Ive love the whole series so far, but this is the first time i immediately went back to watch a scene again and again... oh my god its so good
WHEN IS MURRAY RELEASING ALL THESE AND THE 60TH SOUNDTRACK BROO I WANT TO LISTEN TO THE TOYMAKER'S THEME
We still need the S10 ost as well!
oh my god, the way I heard all the beats to fifteen while he was having that meltdown... felt it to the core
0:49 "Beware, the Phantom of the Opera"
Ok but “The Vale” is SUSPICIOUSLY close to “The Valeyard” for The Doctor’s theme
Vale means farewell in Latin
Or Vale Decem xd
I think that's a fanmade title
Waiting for the 14th Doctor spin-off having a theme called "The Yard"
I’m starting to get concerned we’ll never get an official release of the soundtrack as we still haven’t gotten Series 10 & the 60th Specials yet
Murray uploaded the Goblin Song which gives me hope that at least this season will get released
I can’t find a link so take it with a generous pinch of salt, but I’m fairly sure I saw something somewhere about there being plans to release series 10 OST.
It's so fucking Bond bro, I love it
This season is the best since series 8 for me. I love series 8
As someone who also lives series 8, I completely agree! This series started fairly basic with Space Babies (and I totally get why, it’s a jumping-on point for new viewers to get used to the format), but each episode since has gotten progressively better, with 73 Yards and this one being masterpieces. I love the creeping emergence of the supernatural, and how many of the episodes completely subvert their initial premise.
The best Doctor Who Ost since 2017
I wasn’t looking forward to the social media/phone bad episode but it really surprised me. Can’t wait to see even more iconic Ncuti moments after this.
Oh Murray gold you strike time and time again
You know I've never agreed with an evil ai wanting to destroy humanity before
..........but......
The people of Finetime aren't human, you can see their blood is a blue/green colour in the episode. Gives "blue-bloods" a quite literal meaning, man that episode is so good.
@@Infinitystar225 You're right, I forgot about that
*The Oncoming Storm…*
Yes…..the storm approaches 🔥🔥🔥
so excited
They somehow made even the Daleks look good, they’d accept help
This soundtrack will be this doctor's regeneration music, listen to what I'm saying
I felt it when he screamed
Sounds so good! Too me this music either feels like The Doctor failing or him leaving them too die, tbh Ncuti has been through a lot do far, i feel bad for him
I hope we hear this theme again.
Probably will play it during 15 to 16
Anyone else get flashbacks to 11's regeneration at 0:27?
The part that uses the notes from the rings of Akhaten just before fithteen's kicks in sounds so pessimisticly hopeful, which isn't something id be using to describe anything
Good to see a darker side to 15 ❤
So far, and by far, my favourite moment of 15 and Ncuti Gatwa as a whole.
Murray Gold bringing a short variant of "The Long Song" from Series 7B's "The Rings of Akhaten", then moving seamlessly into the darker variant of Fifteen... Currently, the best episode of Series 14 and the best music of this series!
Murray gold is too good for this
I love the use of the same instruments of 15's original theme we heard from the Giggle.
A slower Rings of Akhaten meets James Bond! Awesome stuff like Gold's old bangers
I wonder if this will be the music played when he (hopefully not for a long time) regenerates into the next doctor
I can hear a touch of rings of akateen ✨ chills
John Barry would be proud.
proper goosebumps I had hearing this !!
Best thing out of the episode whole episode
I need a loop of the first 30 secs it’s so good
The VALE? VALE-YARD!?!
It really feels like theres elements of frustration in there but then I also agree with other comments stating there’s some James Bond in there I think there’ll be a vengeance episode and the Doctor will come out on top
My eyes tear up the same way we’ve seen 15 do when that first part hits damn there’s a lot of Emotion in this
Definitely need to get the soundtrack.
I find this Doctor too emotional. I don't remember the first ones but hadn't he cry in every episodes he appeared in (except maybe the Toymaker one)
Wait. Is it actually called “The Vale” on the soundtrack, or is that what you’re calling it? Because if that’s the case, Valeyard confirmed?
My thoughts as well. Its probably just what the uploader is calling it, but if not then Holy shit!
Vale is the Latin Word for Farewell. e.g. 10's final track is called "Vale Decem", or, "Farewell 10"
@@Jay244 Ah, okay. So “The Farewell”. Makes much more sense.
I came up with the name myself, Vale meaning farewell (leaving the people behind) and also cause this was the Doctor turning a bit darker..
There is no official soundtrack release. Other than The Goblin Song as a single, we haven't had anything officially released since the Series 9 album in 2018. Just lots of fan rips!
Absolutely love this version of the doctors theme, reminds of the long song and is anybody else getting Anakins dark deeds vibes from it as well? Brilliant theme.
Sorry Dr. I always says never trust good people.
Anybody else think this theme, at least the beginning will be his regeneration music?
This episode felt open ended again and I actually love it like how the girl betrays that Rick guy and the Doctor barley realises and again what were those creatures it feels like the doctor is realising something strange is going on and that theme made it even weirder I’m telling you that girl has got smth to do with this big twist
And Susan Twist played her mum. Something interesting going on with this episode for sure.
@@richardsaxty2911 definitely I 100% agree I genuinely think this episode is supposed to look like just any other doctor who episode but I think it’s KEY to this plot twist
This music and Ncuti’s final moment where he looks back made me wonder if we’re going to see 15 take a darker turn
For some reason when it started playing I thought it was gonna be a new variation of the Shepherd's Boy 😂 definitely one of my favourite songs of the season tho
This gives me Valeyard vibes for some reason.
RTD: "No more darker half, did you really think id let that happen?"
Dr: you dont know me!
RTD: "Don't I?"
Theory Time:
Everything lives and everything dies. And sometimes Doctor. You can't save every society that doesn't need or deserve saving. No matter how noble your intentions are.
You're a good person, Doctor. However, despite all your regenerations. Underneath it all you care too much for humanity. Too much that it could become your own undoing. Blinding on what is in front of you and what really matters. (Referring to Ruby and others.)
Tread lightly, Doctor. While your journey for this planet has reached its end. You should focus on your companions. For they are the parts that make you…you. Especially in the dark of times when you really need it right now.
End theory.
Thanks to anyone who reads this.
The beginning of it gave me rings of akhaten vibes
Why do I feel like a mix of this and "Saving the Doctor" would match good
Murray's still got it- I wish he would go this hard for all the themes though (even though he has been doing great so far)
This will be his theme when it is his time to regenerate
I loved this theme
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Peak television
From around 0.21 to 0.36 it evoked The Rings of Akhaten for me.
its called the vale? next season there's going to be a theme called the yard, I'm calling it
Imagine this theme was 15th regeneration
If this is 'the vale'
Is 14's dark theme 'the yard'
amazing music
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I had to report this video for emotional abuse. I can't- It's just so bitter and sad and it pulls on my heart so so tightly
I’m betting all my money that’ll play again either in the finale or when Ncuti has a full-on Time Lord Victorious moment and has really goes too far
I hope it does play again, like in the lead up to the finale would be awesome
I love the part from 0:36 onwards!
Is it just me that noticed the title sequence was a little faster than usual?
do i hear future regenaration music at that beginning bit ;)
Some notes sounded like the music that plays in the closing scenes of Children of Earth when Jack leaves earth
I knew I recognised it from somewhere and was trying so hard to remember where i'd heard it before but you're so right!!
The long song
I want to know what sutekh was up to during day of the doctor
The first part kinda sounds like part of the new doctor theme from an adventure in space and time
If that teen attituded, clumsy, good for nothing, murderer comes back, I might be done.
The only thing that I hope is that she is dead but she won't be. She was raised without intimacy as such I am assuming that she is a sociopath. She's also the daughter of a weapon's manufacturer. The self-proclaimed leader of the survivors said that they wanted to be "pioneers like our ancestors" which hints at new world America colonialism. I wouldn't be surprised if she comes back as the leader of the survivors. I just hope she gets a reckoning. It's amazing to me how they muted the brutal death of the good finetime character because the doctor wouldn't have stood one minute learning the truth. Ncuti is proving himself to be the doctor. I bet he would have tore her a new one if he knew.
@@Mrchair-bk5ns Yeah, I already heavily disliked the character, but when Rick died she became the worst character in the show ever. My first thought when he offered to take them with him was "she's gonna be out of the Tardis, as soon as he finds out what happened to Rick". No wonder the dots grew to hate these people, it was utterly deserved.
I cannot blame the dot for turning on the people in finetime this entire episode made me so frustrated
Im team slug and dot
Sorry, it’s called “the Vale?” I understand it could mean “vale” as in “goodbye” but I can’t help but think of the Valeyard
Maybe because the finetime survivors were going out into the vale (the wilderness we were shown, which had rivers between hills like the description of a vale). But it's definitely reminiscent of the Valeyard!
Also, I've never heard of vale meaning goodbye? I know it can mean "ok" in Spanish but besides that and the English word for the natural area I described (basically a valley), I don't know any other meaning for vale
@@adinakruijssen3056 Oh sorry--that was a running thing back in Ten's day; there was a track in the OST called "vale decem" which meant "goodbye ten" in Latin or something.
Appreciate this (but could do without a big link to another video being slapped over the last 19 seconds of a 65-second video).
“The Vale”?
Well, that’s not concerning at all…
The Doctor’s theme (racism edition)
I know this might be a controversial thing, but to me this seems like The Doctor experiencing racism for the first time and not knowing what to do with it
This is. They were racist. This is not subtext.
I think it was deliberately done so you can interpret it as either racist or classist. Or both. They obviously aren't mutually exclusive @pianoif
@@pianoif I know. Me just trying not to make ppl angry if they think differently
@@audiebridge3103 No in bts Russell says it's meant to be blatantly racist.
its very obviously racism and you can see the protag being racist towards the doctor throughout the whole episode,
Vale for Valeyard perhaps?
Why did I completely miss that this episode is about racism? I thought it was a critique on the ignorance of the younger generations or something, and then a classism thing at the end. I thought because the Doctor was pretending to work for Finetime they just assumed he was lower class.
Tbh I think I was waiting for the racism plotline the whole time, and by the time it was finally used I'd written it off because they missed so many chances to use it, and I thought they just wouldn't
It wasn't exactly subtle?
@@somerandomguy2073 it was though, because every bad thing Lindy did could have been explained as one of the 7 other character flaws she was given. The writing was a mess imo
Regeneration music fr
So sad