Explaining the Doctor Who Iceberg

Join me in this video, where I spend over an hour explaining Doctor Who, specifically explaining the Doctor Who Iceberg. Iceberg charts (iceberg meme) are tiered lists separating topics from least to most obscure, and this one is no exception. This Doctor Who iceberg chart covers all sorts of Doctor Who mysteries, so I'll do my best to explain them! Who knows, you might even learn something!

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0:00 Intro
0:51 Tier 1: Clear Skies
4:07 Tier 2: Diving In
6:56 Tier 3: Submerged
12:23 Tier 4: Diving Deep
20:25 Tier 5: Fading Light
29:25 Intermission
30:13 Tier 6: Plunging Deeper
37:42 Tier 7: Dark Waters
45:28 Tier 8: Vast Depths
57:05 Tier 9: Approaching Endtimes
1:05:34 Tier 10: The Void
1:14:51 Outro

[zoefioretta]

if youre an american who likes doctor who i dont trust you sorry not sorry

[muttipi]

It’s all based on reality man i was there dude i met the 10th doctor once and he was pretending to be some guy named dave or something and he kept saying cryptic stuff like “stop following me around it’s all fake im going to call the police, ” are ‘the police’ a species of aliens they never mentioned in the series?

[KyrieFortune]

Tier 1-9: progressively obscure trivia
Tier 10: reality is an illusion

[mellojoe]

I still want to believe that miss frizzle is secretly River song.

[Aby]

I like to believe that Ten's levitating jesus act in The Last of the Time Lords was just him remembering the levitation book.

[robbiesmith]

Oof, I'm so glad RTD never made that thing with Rose's backstory canon. One of the nicest things about the early NuWho companions what that they were just Totally Normal Unimportant People. Rose was literally just some 19yr old Londoner who happened to be quite brave and bright. Martha was similarly just a capable medical student, and while she saved the world and travelled the globe, she did that on her own merit, and it wasn't because prophecy foretold it or something.
The you've got Donna, whom I love and cherish, who was seemingly always destined to meet the Doctor. As was Wilf, because he had the all important role of accidentally causing the death of one of his favourite people in the universe.
Then there's Amy, caught up in an insane plot to birth River Song and kill the Doctor. And then of course Clara, who yeets herself into the Doctor's timestream and 'was born to save the Doctor'.
I love all these companions, but god I hate it when they become the centre of the entire goddamn universe. They're normal people who just happen to be friends with a quirky time traveller. Having Rose and Martha stay (comparatively) unimportant in the scheme of the universe was nice.

[alistairetheblu]

The theory about Rory being the Master got a lot more specific. There were a couple of times they refered to him as hearing drums in his head, which was a big plot point for the Master. When River Song regenerated in front of them he got a headache. There's an episode where everyone finds their biggest fear in a room, except Rory, and when the Doctor finds his we don't see it but the Doctor says "of course it'd be you". It really feels like something they were considering even if they didn't go with it in the end. ...and it's Peter Davison btw, not Davidson. Only one D, at the start.

[alfredvickers]

If Chibnall revealed that the Doctor and the Master really _were_ siblings the whole time, that would make Missy kissing the 12th Doctor a bit awkward. But, hey, Star Wars got away with it!

[AceFurryTrash]

I know stuff from every tier I'm both proud and ashamed

[iMarryTheGaga]

I feel with the Rose scrapped storyline, that kinda happened with Clara in a loose way. She became the ‘perfect’ companion for the Doctor, so much so she was becoming the Doctor (which obviously ultimately killed her), but instead of the Doctor messing with a human for the perfect companion, Missy stepped in and chose Clara because she knew she would be the best match for him. So in a round about way, we kinda got that storyline

[future]

If anyone asks me to explain doctor who, I will send them this

[Gay_Jesus]

tier 5 is when I started not knowing a few things
then tier 6 is when I knew nothing

[justanormalhumanbeing]

The reason Rassilon mentions the Weeping Angels is because he was saying the two people who stood against the end of time would have to watch on their failure and destruction with their hands over their eyes like weeping angels. Later in the episode there were two time Lords stood covering their eyes. It wasn't saying that time Lords were weeping angels but just a reference to them

[thatlonewolfguy]

Holy shit this goes from trivia and "hey bet you didn't know this weird lil fact" to


D O C T O R W H O I S R E A L A N D H E R E I S P R O O F

[dean]

Regeneration is something that Time Lords specifically can control. They took classes on how to do it prior to becoming Time Lords. I believe it was the Master who said that our Doctor barely passed the class.

[azaleacolburn]

Tier 1-9 normal stuff I know, Tier 10: THE DOCTOR IS REAL!

[andrewsmart]

Surprised that when talking about the Doctor's age you didn't mention RTD'S novella Dr Who and the Time War which details how time was weaponised during the conflict with combatants being aged and de-aged several times, The Doctor was left with no idea of his true age but estimated it to be in the late 800's which he rounded up to a nice even 900. It's also posited that due to The Doctor essentially living within the Time Vortex he doesn't physically age at the same rate as other Timelords which leads into his extremely aged appearance after defending Trenzalore for so long.

[samtheenbygremlin]

Didn't 12 say Missy/Master was his first crush? If they're brothers that would be real weird

[hifive]

Up until Tier 7/8 I thought "yeah I know all of this stuff". Then he came to Tier 9-10 and I even felt a little shiver down my spine. Either these are scary coincidences or he is really good at making something seem scary. Or both.

[gay_madilynn]

- sees this video
- "hey this is cool ima watch it"
- over an hour long
- nearly 1 am
- oh no