Apparently the idea WAS floated about because of how popular the Paternoster Gang became, but Moffat shot it down because he "didn't want to dilute the Doctor Who brand on Television".
One scene which I find hilarious but i understand why it's always left out, if in the episode where they go to the doctor's grave and Jenny is dying and Vastra says to Strax "Bring her back, or I will destroy you!" And Strax basically says "Calm the f*ck down, this sh*t is easy to fix."
I feel that would be a bad idea for everyone. It'd be terrible for the fans as they'd have wonderful characters ruined by inept writers and it'd be terrible for the writers as ruining a character with a point of comparison would make it blatantly obvious to even more people that they are in fact inept writers.
@@jwwprod3862 Yeah, but I personally didn't like the design. I know it's more true to the original. But to me it looks really cheap and weird. Like the actors are wearing masks, which of course they are, but the 2010 sontarans looked way better.
@@RDMGAMER Not. What. Happened. Show just became boring. I do not care if this comment is 6 months old I need to say *somewhere* that I'm tired of seeing this or I think I'm going to explode.
The Doctor: "When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?" *moment of concentration* Strax: "A grenade!"
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell that the actor didn't improvise some of those lines. That part where he yells about being run over by a cab. I bet it was originally improved before they had to redo it just for the take. Cause it honestly looked like Matt was about to say something before Strax butted in.
@@samtrotter7177 A little improv from a creative type in the moment can really add something. Since the advent of digital cameras, directors have and grant more leeway for multiple takes. And I think actors like Ryan Reynolds spend a lot of time before production, noodling with their lines. But maybe there is too much emphasis on it and too little emphasis on a tightly written story lines and scripts. I guess it depends on the writer and how good the writing is. If they nailed it, there's not much you can do but make it worse with a bunch of vamping.
@@samtrotter7177 To be fair Dan Starkey, the actor who plays Strax, is a writer too. He even wrote one of the Big Finish episodes for The Paternoster Gang. He's clearly quite familiar with Strax's character so I wouldn't put it past him to improvise a few lines here and there 😊
Sadly, that's always the way with the companions, even the really popular ones. Actors deciding to leave the role aside, it is an unfortunate necessity if the show is going to continue growing. A show without change stagnates, and that which stagnates dies...or is given to a bad showrunner who does stagnation's job instead.
@@gestaltdude they never got a proper conclusion though as they weren't really companions. Compared to the RTD era when even minor characters like Jackie, Mickey had a closure to their stories. We never saw these guys after Deep Breath, I'd like them to pop up at least one more time.
The Doctor: You think I'll go solve a mystery for any bint who smiles at me?! Who do you think I am?! Strax: Sherlock Holmes. The Doctor: DON'T try to be clever, Strax, it doesn't suit you. Strax: Yes, sir. The Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one. Strax: Yes, sir. The Doctor: Now go away. Strax: Yes... Mister Holmes. The Doctor: Oi! Shut up! (As Strax walks away, laughing) You're not funny! Or clever! And you've got tiny little legs!
“Deflected narcissism, traces of passive aggressive and…a lot of muscular young men doing sport” “What are you looking at?” “Your subconscious” couldn’t stop laughing for a while after that one
She didn't want to lost the memories, then or at the end. And Dan Starkey's Strax combines over-the-top British and potato-dwarf insanity. Now, prepare for obliteration.
You should have put in “who do I look like” “Sherlock Holmes” “listen you are nothing but a potato blah blah blah blah” “okay...Mr.Holmes” I can’t remember the rest of what the doctor said, but that was one of my favorite bits from Strax
I have to admit to a 'guilty pleasure'. When Strax 'paper trains' Clara by beaning her with The Times, it cracks me up whenever I watch it. I like Clara, I really do, but those times she gets too 'River Song' with the Doctor, I think of that rotating rolled up paper...🙋🏻♀️🗞️💥Whap! 😂
What's remarkable about Strax -- and this is true of the Doctor and many of the characters he encounters -- is that they are all bereft of community; they are often orphans or the last of their kind. They all work at making something of their lives. Vastra, Strax, even Jenny, all do the best they can with what life or time has left them.
(At 2:47 to 2:58 ) Commander Strax: [cackling while gunning down the Bad Guys] "SONTAR-HA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HEH HAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" (OMG?!!!!..... Hahahahahahaha! Commander Strax looks like he's been playing to much Warhammer 40K? Heh hahahahahahaha!!!) LOL
@@Chimera936 (Me speaking in a Supreme Dalek voice): [in agreement] "Same here too. Strax is awesome. Plus..... I would really really really REALLY like to see Strax make a grand return onscreen appearance again someday....... even if that's most likely unlikely due to a NO THANKS from that MEDDLING CHRIS CHIBNALL when he and JODIE WHITTAKER completely RUINED Doctor Who Series 11, 12, and ALSO Series 13 FOREVER!!! DOCTOR HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME!!! HE MUST BE TOTALLY EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!!"
You know what be nice to see. If Strax had his own series like maybe at some point he is coming to the end of his life and thought about lot of his past reaching his way to his present each episode at a time in best and funny ways we not even imagine, even take some moments of how he meet the Doctor and how he ended up where he did all to adventuring up to the last few moments of which we see the rest play out :3
@@mevolander8478 It's not shit bcs It's different, yes It's not as good as it was back in 2005 but so was DW in the 80s and many people still enjoyed it. Just because things change doesnt mean they become bad
A good one I think should've been part of this from The Snowmen "It's the human male from the institute. What's he doing here? Suggest we melt his brain using projectile acid vision then interrogate him." (looks from Jenny and Vastra) "Other way around."
Why have we not seen any new Strax, Jenny and Vastra since Peter Capaldi's regeneration episode? They should have had an entire season as full time companions.
Damn I miss Strax. So expertly played. Unfortunately, as much as a part of me would love a Patternoster spin off, I'm not sure they would work terribly well without the large Whoniverse. It would be like Joey, if he was joined by Janice and maybe David the physicist. Entertaining characters in their own right, but not why people watched the show, and not enough depth to them to be entertaining over a long time.
Strax and the rest of the Paternoster Gang could easily carry their own Doctor Who spin off!
I believe Big Finish has some stories
Apparently the idea WAS floated about because of how popular the Paternoster Gang became, but Moffat shot it down because he "didn't want to dilute the Doctor Who brand on Television".
@@charondusk5608 was that why torchwood was stopped?
@@lord_egg That's probably the main reason?
@@charondusk5608 I thought it was shot down because Moffat already felt overworked between Doctor Who and Sherlock
"Madam Vastra asked if you needed any grenades!"
"Did she?"
"She may have said, 'help.'"
Same thing really
"And we will NOT melt him with acid"
“Old habits….”
@@TheFallofTheEleventh
"The times! Do you want me to send it up?"
@thespidercrafter8547 "yes please!"
"YAHHHH" 💥🤯
I love Strax, he's such a psychotic potato with homicidal tendencies! 🤣🤣
Yet also a wonderful nurse
@@mikeyates7931 but of course! 🤣
100% Agreed! He's an adorable potato dwarf
@@tadastudiosartdevelopment5462”look! It’s been snowing :D”
Strax is quite accomplished at battlefield medicine, as you'd expect for a species that has been at war so long.
One scene which I find hilarious but i understand why it's always left out, if in the episode where they go to the doctor's grave and Jenny is dying and Vastra says to Strax "Bring her back, or I will destroy you!" And Strax basically says "Calm the f*ck down, this sh*t is easy to fix."
"Miss Clara, you look better now you're up. . . Trick of the light, you still look terrible." 🤣🤣😂
Such a missed opportunity to have Strax and the Paternoster gang appear with the 13th Doctor. Just Strax constantly calling 13 “Boy!”
I feel that would be a bad idea for everyone. It'd be terrible for the fans as they'd have wonderful characters ruined by inept writers and it'd be terrible for the writers as ruining a character with a point of comparison would make it blatantly obvious to even more people that they are in fact inept writers.
Well they brought back the Sontarans at the very least.
dr who is to woke for that now. 13 would be offended and start a podcast about how sexist the show is.
@@jwwprod3862
Yeah, but I personally didn't like the design. I know it's more true to the original. But to me it looks really cheap and weird. Like the actors are wearing masks, which of course they are, but the 2010 sontarans looked way better.
@@RDMGAMER Not. What. Happened. Show just became boring.
I do not care if this comment is 6 months old I need to say *somewhere* that I'm tired of seeing this or I think I'm going to explode.
The Doctor: "When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?"
*moment of concentration*
Strax: "A grenade!"
Eleven: .. Right, ask a Sontaran a stupid question…
What got me was the look of glee on his face. It's the look a kid makes when he knows the answer to the teacher's question.
"Sir, Please do not noogie me during combat prep"
Came to say this 😂😂 he secretly liked it you can see the little smile.
3:19 Strax is the *only* character in Dr Who that realised how dangerous the North is!
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell that the actor didn't improvise some of those lines. That part where he yells about being run over by a cab. I bet it was originally improved before they had to redo it just for the take. Cause it honestly looked like Matt was about to say something before Strax butted in.
I agree and I also think Laser Monkeys was improvised
I will never understand why everyone is obsessed with good writing always having just been improvised by the actors: absolutely baffling.
@@samtrotter7177 A little improv from a creative type in the moment can really add something. Since the advent of digital cameras, directors have and grant more leeway for multiple takes. And I think actors like Ryan Reynolds spend a lot of time before production, noodling with their lines. But maybe there is too much emphasis on it and too little emphasis on a tightly written story lines and scripts.
I guess it depends on the writer and how good the writing is. If they nailed it, there's not much you can do but make it worse with a bunch of vamping.
Who is Matt
@@samtrotter7177 To be fair Dan Starkey, the actor who plays Strax, is a writer too. He even wrote one of the Big Finish episodes for The Paternoster Gang. He's clearly quite familiar with Strax's character so I wouldn't put it past him to improvise a few lines here and there 😊
It's a shame that the capaldi and future series just forgot about strax and the others. It would be nice to see them again in the show
Sadly, that's always the way with the companions, even the really popular ones. Actors deciding to leave the role aside, it is an unfortunate necessity if the show is going to continue growing. A show without change stagnates, and that which stagnates dies...or is given to a bad showrunner who does stagnation's job instead.
well they no longer owe the doctor after demon's run?
@@gestaltdude they never got a proper conclusion though as they weren't really companions. Compared to the RTD era when even minor characters like Jackie, Mickey had a closure to their stories. We never saw these guys after Deep Breath, I'd like them to pop up at least one more time.
Well there's always the Big Finish stories. Paternoster Gang. Same actors! I'm going to start listening when I can afford it.
The Doctor: You think I'll go solve a mystery for any bint who smiles at me?! Who do you think I am?!
Strax: Sherlock Holmes.
The Doctor: DON'T try to be clever, Strax, it doesn't suit you.
Strax: Yes, sir.
The Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one.
Strax: Yes, sir.
The Doctor: Now go away.
Strax: Yes... Mister Holmes.
The Doctor: Oi! Shut up! (As Strax walks away, laughing) You're not funny! Or clever! And you've got tiny little legs!
"Enviable spleen! Well done!" Great line. I too wish to have an enviable spleen
“Deflected narcissism, traces of passive aggressive and…a lot of muscular young men doing sport”
“What are you looking at?”
“Your subconscious” couldn’t stop laughing for a while after that one
😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅😅😂
I love how matter-of-fact he is, like "Oh yeah, just peering into your noggin', don't mind me."
Strax is kind of adorable
He is : )
Loyal and brave. Kind of like a pet. But with grenades and tactical training.
Does Amazon carry Automated Laser Monkeys? Asking for a friend.
No they ran out of stock
@@pandamoon_man3747 Damn.
No I bought them all
@@pandamoon_man3747 They're ALWAYS out of stock!
We all need a spin off with Vastra, Jenny and Strax
There is one on Big Finish
The way strax says "do you want me to get the memory worm" after forgetting he was supposed to cracks me up every time 🤣
Strax v's the memory worm still has me in stitches no matter how many times I see it
Strax is literally my fave character
3:21 in fairness that's how we Irish prepare for the North
I hope you are talking about the Icelandic?
@@Drobium77 obviously not
@@cianbarry9207 lolz
I heard the north was more posh?
@@FrostReave did you hear that from a northerner
4:00 he said two different sentences with same intensity lmao
LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS IN THE NAME OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Straax: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
*rolls eyes* “Strax…”
“Sorry! :D”
4:10 FRAG OUT!
Sir emergency!!! I think I've been run over by a taxi!
when are they getting their own spin off! vastra, jenny, and strax DESERVE IT!
She didn't want to lost the memories, then or at the end. And Dan Starkey's Strax combines over-the-top British and potato-dwarf insanity. Now, prepare for obliteration.
Oh strax 🤣🤣🤣 I've never laughed so hard
The memory worm part where he needs to fetch it was hilarious well written.
This is my favorite thing today.
Do not attempt to escape or you will be obliterated! May I take your coat?
Vastra, Jenny and Strax deserved their own show...
Why Strax sounds like Boris Johnson in both voice and level of reason?
The only thing missing is that white straw from Boris head.
Strax has a surprisingly good bedside manner.
Well, he IS a nurse.
This might be one of my favorite character videos ever.
Magnificent quantities of lactic fluid!!
Was never much of a fan of dr who, but when I watched an episode with strax for the first time I got hooked. What a hilarious character
“And we’ll melt him with acid. Sorry, old habit.”
0:08 gets me every time
You should have put in “who do I look like” “Sherlock Holmes” “listen you are nothing but a potato blah blah blah blah” “okay...Mr.Holmes” I can’t remember the rest of what the doctor said, but that was one of my favorite bits from Strax
I have to admit to a 'guilty pleasure'. When Strax 'paper trains' Clara by beaning her with The Times, it cracks me up whenever I watch it. I like Clara, I really do, but those times she gets too 'River Song' with the Doctor, I think of that rotating rolled up paper...🙋🏻♀️🗞️💥Whap! 😂
Strax has my vote for best character.
A gRenAde :D
:D
What's remarkable about Strax -- and this is true of the Doctor and many of the characters he encounters -- is that they are all bereft of community; they are often orphans or the last of their kind. They all work at making something of their lives. Vastra, Strax, even Jenny, all do the best they can with what life or time has left them.
I’ve been watching it 10 times already. It will never get old
I have not watched many episodes of Dr. Who, but Strax makes me wish they had a whole series with him. I love Strax!😂
(At 2:47 to 2:58 ) Commander Strax: [cackling while gunning down the Bad Guys] "SONTAR-HA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HEH HAHAHAHAHA!!! HAHAHAHA!!!" (OMG?!!!!..... Hahahahahahaha! Commander Strax looks like he's been playing to much Warhammer 40K? Heh hahahahahahaha!!!) LOL
imo that is one of Strax's best moments 😂 , it had me wheezing
@@Chimera936 (Me speaking in a Supreme Dalek voice): [in agreement] "Same here too. Strax is awesome. Plus..... I would really really really REALLY like to see Strax make a grand return onscreen appearance again someday....... even if that's most likely unlikely due to a NO THANKS from that MEDDLING CHRIS CHIBNALL when he and JODIE WHITTAKER completely RUINED Doctor Who Series 11, 12, and ALSO Series 13 FOREVER!!! DOCTOR HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME!!! HE MUST BE TOTALLY EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!! EXTERMINATED!!!"
4:08 The Times. ShallIsenditUp?
The only thing missing is the Songtaran Christmas Carol
You know what be nice to see.
If Strax had his own series like maybe at some point he is coming to the end of his life and thought about lot of his past reaching his way to his present each episode at a time in best and funny ways we not even imagine, even take some moments of how he meet the Doctor and how he ended up where he did all to adventuring up to the last few moments of which we see the rest play out :3
The way Vastra responds to Strax kills me. 😆
2:54 This isn't war, this is sport! ha!
Exit the box and surrender yourself to the glory of the sontaran empire.
Shush
D...doctor?
The times send it up XD
his best quote is by far “I can produce MAGNIFICENT quantities of lactic fluid!!!!”
Still wondering if we will ever see these Sontaran weapons Strax keeps ratling off .. especially the automated laser-monkeys.
God I still love Strax just knocking her ass out with the paper lol
Strax is my favourite character
Strax doming clara with the newspaper will never not be funny to me.
Strax is the best Doctor Who companion.
Really an amusing character that Strax.
Look! Its been snowing! *stares in wonder*
As a person from "The North", he's under selling it
Strax: nonbinary himbo
Strax is awesome! You gotta love him 😂😂😂
Potato Dwarf. Yeah that's the best way to describe Strax.
1:00 "Typical middle child of six million" 😂
Love strax
2:40 we did not need to know that
Strax is genuinely one of my favourite characters from the Latter seasons
“It could be sport”
Classic middle child of six million
"Psycotic drawrf potato" best line
the Paternoster Gang would have made a great show
I miss the Paternoster Gang.
I miss when Doctor Who was good.
Was there any need to attack current Doctor Who here? No, there wasn’t, so (with the utmost respect) _hush._
@@patchworkfellow4262 i think it being shit is need enough to call it shit
@@mevolander8478 It's not shit bcs It's different, yes It's not as good as it was back in 2005 but so was DW in the 80s and many people still enjoyed it. Just because things change doesnt mean they become bad
@@patchworkfellow4262 Yes, there is always need, now hush sycophant.
@@goodmorning4498 Fuck off, bigot.
2:52 why they don't give him weapons, it's like letting a wild dog off its leash.
I just bought a strax head. Missing the face but so cool to know one of these appearances are it.
having watched the whole video this is my favorite ever.
A good one I think should've been part of this from The Snowmen
"It's the human male from the institute. What's he doing here? Suggest we melt his brain using projectile acid vision then interrogate him."
(looks from Jenny and Vastra)
"Other way around."
Brilliant thanks
is this iron man
The writing on this show was so good!
These first 11 seconds is all I need out of strax it’s just makes me so happy! 0:00
There's also some really nice moments in the audio adventures.
I have met this potato dwarf irl
Very nice dude
Look it’s been snowing!
That last one "Men" 🤣
Madam Vastra puts me in mind of Gentleman Jack.
Is that sport.... It COULD be sport...
What was the last bit? Is it from a mini episode?
Its so good no one can hate
Why have we not seen any new Strax, Jenny and Vastra since Peter Capaldi's regeneration episode? They should have had an entire season as full time companions.
I miss Strax
Who doesn't?
Basically a British version of Drax
hes so cute
Damn I miss Strax. So expertly played. Unfortunately, as much as a part of me would love a Patternoster spin off, I'm not sure they would work terribly well without the large Whoniverse. It would be like Joey, if he was joined by Janice and maybe David the physicist. Entertaining characters in their own right, but not why people watched the show, and not enough depth to them to be entertaining over a long time.
2:40 i cant be the only one thinking about how that taste
ok
ko
Lol!
Sontar Ha ha ha ha ha ha!