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hi friends!

here is my edited reaction to doctor who season 1 episode 4 "aliens of london"

this one was NASTY and also silly, in so many ways. what a cliffhanger too!!! 

thanks for watching with me!

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Edward Olson

I don't know where you heard it, but the White House DID NOT confirm aliens are real. There was a congressional hearing where some third party person said someone else told him they were real. Perhaps you are thinking of the footage release with UNEXPLAINED Aerial Phenomena (UAP) but again, it was just unexplained.

Katie Niekamp

I'm a Doctor Who superfan so I'm here with the (non-spoiler for new who) fun facts and lore lol. In 1970, the budget was slashed for the show and so the writers contrived a reason for the Doctor to be "grounded" on Earth and cutoff from space travel for a while (ie halting a never-ending rotation of expensive sets). This explains how humans would know he’s “the ultimate expert in extraterrestrial affairs.” That’s all I’ll say about that for now. If you plan to go back and watch all of classic who from 1963 at some point, please tell me to zip my lip about classic Who lore. To your comment about why they never go back to just a normal day- they had intermittent “historicals” for a while at the start of classic DW (ex. meeting Marco Polo). Interestingly, in the first story of DW ever, they just went back to cave man times- no outer space travel and no aliens. Historicals are some of my favorite early stories but I’m in the extreme minority on that one lol. As to this episode, as you can tell, it seems to be aiming at a younger audience in some ways (the farting, baby-faced aliens, camp bad-guy acting), though that clashes (imo) awkwardly with the horror of the skin suits and high body count. When Russel T. Davies (show runner) originally pitched the show to Christopher Eccleston (plays the doctor), he said it was going to be a very gritty, darker version of Doctor Who. Eccleston was dismayed by the immaturity of this two-parter and felt like this wasn’t really the project he signed on for. However, since you’re a few episodes down the line, you have probably seen that though DW remains child-friendly, the gravitas of the show quickly deepens and balances out as it finds its footing and settles on a tone. However, in my opinion, Christopher Eccleston still manages to inject a dark, turbulent energy into every performance, no matter the maturity level of the episode. I love that.