Doctor Who review of Season 1 Episode 4 where Ncuti Gatwa disappears and Ruby is left to carry the show. This episode happened as Ncuti was busy filming another TV series and it definitely resulted in a more serious atmosphere that I don't think would be possible with him there. Unfortunately, the plot was seemingly not written. There was a lot of scenes that on their own were interesting, but built up to nothing and didn't make sense in retrospect. The 2nd rewatch of this episode is made so much worse when you realise what its building up to and which lines were just bait that never led to anything. Will it be explained later? Will be satisfying that point even if it is? I have my doubts, especially if Ruby is what I think she is. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Dude, I am sorry... normally I love your videos, but I honestly could not bare to even watch it. The Three seconds of them walking out of the Tartus was too much... I just can not stand hearing him speak! I want to commit a hate crime myself against my poor video monitor! Even Robin in the Hood was easier to watch(you watch) than this total Sheep SH*t!
Change the title, it will never improve. It was ruined forever. They had a 30 year old black male play the role of a 15 year old girl and make fun of David Tenant's Doctor for not being a woman anymore... That's p word philia, black supremacy, and feminism all in one. No thanks.
I think the most stupid thing about the episode was not the fairies cursing Ruby (who did nothing) instead of the Doctor, but that the UK would want to buy Pakistan's nukes, and that Pakistan would sell them (and be defenseless against India...)
another review found that the old woman is using sign language. they got her to sign, 'you are blessed. thank you for what you gave me' or something like that just for the old woman to be making the same hand gestures over and over. but it could be something that means something later. since ruby and the woman are the same person??????? love your reviews. glad i clicked onto your new year episode review. keep on buggering on!
Disparu, I live in Wales, nice place, attractive sheep but our government is total rubbish and are trying to stop tourists because of "climate Change" and a 20mph speed limit and yes drinks are expensive and have a Welsh tax. Nobody sings anymore, we just weep.
My DNA has revealed a 42% Welsh ancestry...I can think of no reason to visit my roots whilst Wales is being raped by those lunatics in your government ☹️
Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick? Baldrick: No, but I often thought I'd like to. Blackadder: Well, don't, it’s a ghastly place. Bands of tough sinewy men roam the countryside, terrorizing people with their close harmony singing. And you need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names. Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick. You’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
It's even dumber when you actually know what fairy circles are. They're not things people put together with string and lucky charms. They're circles of flowers, or mushrooms. They aren't manmade at all!
Exactly. I was confused that the show used string instead of flowers and/or mushrooms. I also don't think I've ever heard of a story involving a time loop for whomever stepped into a fairy circle.
@@KekoaponoNever heard of a time loop, but that time goes differently in the fairy realm is a theme I encountered. So it’s at least not totally off theme imo.
Isn‘t the string and charms stuff part of the witch mythology? Imo it looks a bit like they merged witch stuff with fairy stuff instead of staying on theme.
Episode 1: Steps out on a butterfly, major issues happen. Episode 3: Steps out on a landmine, major issues happen. Episode 4: Steps out on a piece of string, major issues happen. A normal Time Lord would learn from this.
@@inquerion8867 It's almost like Davies is trying to tell us that the gay black doctor is the bad half. I'm surprised Davies didn't make him disabled as well to drive the point home.
The welsh are the natives of Brittain, probably RTD wants to be deported back to Saxony or Normandy and give the land back to them (so they can share it with Muslims).
Loose ends from this episode: 1. What does the old woman keep whispering that everyone she talks to runs away from Ruby forever? 2. Upon old Ruby time-travelling, why does the Doctor still mention Roger ap Gwilliam, “after” Ruby deposed him? He shouldn’t have been the most dangerous PM. 3. What was the relevance of the fairy circle? How did it make the Doctor disappear and lock the TARDIS? 4. (not really a loose end) Why use the number 65 three times? £65 for the inn, £65 billion invested in nuclear weapons, 65 years of being followed by the woman. 5. (rapid-fire) What caused this? How did the woman make old Ruby time travel? What made the woman maintain a 73-yard distance? RTD is leaning far more into magic than science fiction these days. Kate even admits it lol, when she admits that UNIT often investigates the supernatural.
@Gorbz "I used to read word up magazine."... I'm sorry, my pavlovian conditioning kicked in there. But yeah, it really was she even vaguely had a recollection at the end, just like a dream.
So she's suddenly abandoned by the Doctor, lives sad and alone for 60-ish years save for an SCP-esque entity in her peripheral vision haunting her, realizes on her own deathbed that she *is* the entity, and then suddenly it's all undone and then everything goes back to normal except she has a vague idea that it *did* happen...? I mean, wokeness and everything else aside, is this kind of (poorly-written) existentialism normal for a Dr. Who episode? Feels more like SCP Foundation X Black Mirror X Twilight Zone to me.
Maybe, except they don't explain how any of this works, why does the older Ruby never age, why does everyone who talks to her run away terrified, how does she constantly maintain a distance of 73 yards even when Ruby is on trains and such, why does the Doctor dissappear the moment the circle breaks. I'm not against a bit of mystery ala Midnight but you need to explain something.
No. There have been a few episodes with unexplained little side things, and there was magic in a few of the oldest episodes, but this has not been normal.
Feels mostly like the proverbial “and then she woke up and it was all a dream” to me. You know, the ARCHETYPE of an unskilled writer who hasn’t learned to write consequences yet…
RTD was already whispering ‘bigots’ while the episode was being written. He mutters the word to himself in his sleep. His heart beats the word in morse code. (He should probably get that checked)
This honestly had the makings of a great episode, good atmosphere and an interesting, mysterious 'monster'. I'm wondering at what point during writing this episode did Russell T Davies think "hmm... you know what would make this episode brilliant? If it was more anticlimactic than a life insurance advert and make no fucking sense"
Imagine having a time machine, travelling through time and space, ... and then just visiting Welsh dwellers in the present. Nothing more. Good usage of an adventure.
Well, you can make current-day Wales exciting, but you need to do something like Susan Cooper or R.M. Boston or Day of the Triffids or... A Doctor Who episode that is not crup.
The problem with mystery boxes is that all the suspense, tension, and curiosity generated becomes retroactively bad if what's inside is not worth the wait. “The box was empty the whole time” is a shitty subversion of expectation that punishes the viewer for caring and engaging with the show.
Yup, but it does work on people who only care about emotional impact in the moment; they were happy along for the ride and don't care that it ended with a fart.
The difference between science and magic is why RTD is leaning more towards magic. He can make up the rules, even if they don't make sense, and when a critic points it out he can just say it's magic. As usual, a literary choice comes back to pure laziness.
But even in the fantasy genre, there have to be rules and structure, No writer can just pull the plot out of thin air, one has to think of the consequences in the story and put themselves in the audience’s shoes, what will they think, what ramifications does the spell have and the rules of the realm.
@@bobo577 That explanation she's given actually points this out, except it's completely ruined by using it to take cheap shots at religion. Magic, regardless of the setting, has rules. Even in soft magic systems this is true, and for the actual characters in a world that has a magic system, figuring out those rules is basically a different kind of science. You don't necessarily need to figure out HOW magic does something, but there is supposed to be rules for WHAT it can do, and by figuring those out you achieve a working knowledge base. How it does those things can then be worked out by empirical experiments, even if some things can't be fully explained, and when you reach the point that most things are explored, it basically ceases to be magical at all.
@@bobo577you beat me to it. Magic has rules too, and figuring them out should be part of the story. Like Tim Burton's sleepy hollow, Johnny Depp's character doesn't believe in magic until he sees it with his own eyes. And then he decides, " well it still has to follow some kind of rules so we need to figure out what those rules are. "
Funnily enough, I would argue that Steven Moffat's writing actually had a lot of magic elements. His way of writing is more like he's writing a fairytale than a science fiction tale, a little similar to how Neil Gaiman writes. But you know... Moffat at least until the end of season one of Matt Smith, kept very consistent with his fairytale formula and style, and kept the language very fairy tale like as well. "The girl who waited." "The raggedy man." "The guarding centurian." Sounds like fairytale characters and has that childlike wonder to it, and sort of a childlike fairytale logic that is filled with awe and wonder so it doesn't all have to be explained. Does Rory waiting around for a thousand years guarding Amy make sense? He never got discovered and never left his post, never got damaged, and then he got turned back into a real boy somehow... No... It doesn't make sense. But the fairytale message, the spirit of it, the wondrous of this tale of the loyal guardian is satisfying as a fairytale as he is finally rewarded with being turned back into a real boy and gets the girl he guarded so loyally. It's emotionally satisfying as a fairytale. Now it's just... Nothing... It's inconsistent and there is no wonder and no fairytale logic anyway.
I can see the writing process going like this; "Hmm, what could the mysterious woman have said to Carla to make her cut off her adopted daughter for the rest of her life, to the point of disowning her and filing an injunction? Eh, the fans'll think of something for me"
Can you imagine Gatwa being there, constantly on the run from the woman 73 yards away and crying the whole time. Then Ruby dies, travels back, and all is well. Yay!!! What happened, idk. Yay!!!
They ripped off the Haunting of Hill House, that was the story there, a girl seeing a lady ghost her whole life to end being that very ghost from the future the whole time.
RTD Mimicked Joss Whedon when he brought the show back, now he's mimicking J.J. Abrams, the difference is Whedon was riding high at the time, Abrams is on the down slope. I imagine if RTD was doing this ten years ago, people might have liked it more, but now folks are sick of Abrams' shit
So Ruby has been going after herself for 60 years. But never dropped a note explaining what happened. Despite wanting to inform herself about what happened.
That would be accurate... but with all the fourth-wall breaking already established and RTD's clear hatred for the fans, I've a feeling he's headed in more of a She-Hulk kind of direction.
Last week: Company hires Christians because only Christians are stupid enough to believe invisible things can be real. And same company also builds real invisible landmines.
Remember when budgeting was low so they had all the episodes based on earth, this feels the same, except their money is at an all time high, they cant even muster up the creativeness to make a new planet
Even when the budget was low, they had alot of alien planets and ships. RTD had a problem with too much earth-focus right from the start.
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@@billjacobs521 Well of course, RTD is part of a group who think the only exciting entertaining thing in the world is teenage girl level drama BS and "Realism" aka can't go to another planet, gotta appeal to the 15yo girl who isnt even watching so set it in some modern(ish) setting. Basically trying to appeal to non sciu fi fans by undermining the sci fi and focusing on TV drama show BS with sex as the basis for the entire show.
The old woman being an older ruby felt immensely cliche to me. It’s the first thing I thought of when I understood the premise fully. It’s a shame. The “it follows”-like premise of a mysterious supernatural figure that follows you around definitely had me interested by just experiencing it from this review only. Unlike it follows, everyone else can actually see the mystery person and instead of the mystery person trying to kill the protag, it’s just watching, with anyone who tries to intervene being suspiciously turned against the protag. The horror elements, feelings of desperation & hopelessness, an ironic sense of isolation despite never truly being alone. I can firmly say this is probably the worst episode thus far for actually offering the idea of an intriguing story and being unable to live up to it.
What's funny is that the only people who talk to her are folks Ruby asks to, and UNIT. Wouldn't a ton of people be talking to her though, like, "Can I help you ma'am?" or "Oy, why are you standing in the middle of the street!?" Shouldn't TONS of people be running from Ruby and then telling everyone else to stay away from her over decades? Like, this should be in the news--even outside observers should eventually discover the pattern.
@@billjacobs521also, people would be absolutely confused by her very presence, because she looks like a ‘blurry woman” at any distance… Seriously, there is no explanation for anything… It’s just concentrated Crap.
At first I thought the woman was the one who was mentioned in the notes angry that circle been broken. Could have been a good option aswell.. fix the circle and have your annoying Dr back.
@@FreeTheDonbas Also, because the blondie is pretty darn cute. Edit: never mind, I speedread your comment, I thought you were talking about this episode, not Blink.
You’ve missed out the best bits. Gatwa touches grass at the beginning of the episode! Hence why he vanished! He took his own advice. 😆 Then Ruby gets repeatedly told not to walk on the grass on the football pitch. Presumably the snipers were ordered to shoot her before she could touch the grass too! 🤣
So funny how Ncuti tells Doctor Who 2024 audience to "Touch Grass", then in this episode, British Authorities were warning, over and over, "GET OFF THE GRASS"! TOO FUNNY, yo'!
I like having to think for myself about things. I don't always have to be beat over the head with what's happening. HOWEVER, good writing doesn't have to spell everything out for the audience, as the clues given answer what needs to be answered. HERE: there are no clues or hints, just things happening without rhyme or reason, it seems. No clues given and apparently, no f**ks by RTD. I still growl when thinking of this episode, especially since parts were interesting and had me pulled in until half-way through. SO many things doesn't connect or make any sense. gGGRRRrr!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Sorry RTD, but that only works when we have a preexisting relationship with this particular Doctor. Instead, we get pain relief.
I'm just some fat American from Cincinnati.Ohio and i'm not a doctor who fan by any means but I love watching it's downfall because it intrigues me But let's not forget that the first several episodes.They very openly mocked Christianity and the church of England all because they didn't like thoughts and prayers.The worst thing you could ever say to someone.
@@Lazy_eye_blobFish Oh they hate Christianity. That's on their list of characteristics that need to be ridiculed, along with being white, male, straight, masculine, patriotic, Conservative, or belonging ancestrally to the Anglosphere. (Being Anglo-Saxon has now been declared a sign or white supremacy by our esteemed educators in the U.K.)
I think Millie Gibson plays her character well and is an endearing actress in this. Too bad most of what she's given to work with is shite. But there is one huge plus in this episode: the Doctor wasn't in much of it. Sad that that counts as a kind of freaking bonus, but here we are. 😐
Yes, I have no problem with her, and I thought she acted the suspense in this ep very well. If anything, having her as the lead served to highlight just how poor the writing is, since we didn't have Gatwa's over/underacting to distract from it.
@@marychocolatefairy Agreed. Though from the events of this episode it reminded me of at least one other Doctor Who episode I'd seen in the past (though after ten years sine I last watched and all my concussions I can't remember which episode(s) it may have been), which makes me think that the writers are so bad that they're just recycling past ideas wholesale and planting progressive ideas to make them "modern" scripts. And after literal human generations of the Doctor being this person who was always finding solutions no matter how insane the situations, having this supposed doctor's reactions to stress be to panic, cry, run away, freeze and do nothing, or some combination of all of those is really just discouraging. I watch Disparu to learn how bad it's going, because I'm not going to give BBC or Disney the 'bonus' of a hate watch. Just ugh.
Millie Gibson's a great actress. At 18 years old, she was already capable of carrying an entire episode. It may have been an episode that makes no sense in hindsight, but Gibson clearly put everything into it because I think she was genuinely excited to be part of Doctor Who. I saw her behind the scenes and she was both enthusiastic and charmingly shy at the same time. I actually feel bad for her, because I'm almost positive that her excitement developed into disappointment the longer she worked on it, which is probably why she decided "fuck this, I'm out". And even with that, Millie remained professional throughout the whole thing. She was a teenager who handled herself with more maturity than the grown men she was working with. While Retarded Trash Dildo and Shitty Gaywa (yes, I'm being immature but those losers get no respect from me) were making excuses and lashing out at the fans, Millie Gibson simply stayed quiet, did her job, thanked the fans in that video for the cinema release, and moved on to other projects. The girl is a class act. The way she handled the whole thing was very similar to how Emilia Clarke handled the backlash to the last season of Game of Thrones.
It's like they wanted to recreate the way everyone kept being scared of Donna's back in Turn Left by having everyone get scared of old Ruby, but couldn't figure out something for old Ruby to say to actually make them scared.
Another point that makes no sense is that Ruby won't travel on planes or boats because of some vaguely unspecified fears. Doesn't she realise that when she was on the train the woman was maintaining her constant 73 yards despite the fact that to do that she needed to be moving at about 120 miles per hour and presumably smashing straight through any obstacle that happened to be 73 yards away?
It's been four episodes, and I'm still lost as to what Ncuti Gatwa's default Doctor Who outfit is. The action figure is totally going to come with a wardrobe, so you can play dress up in all these outfits.
There isn't going to be a default outfit. Nothing to be 'recognizable' about his design. The only thing that people will remember once his run is over(unless massive changed occur) is that he was the black gay one. Ncuti just wanted an excuse to play dress up as an immortal alien.
Your commentary had me in tears of laughter. I don't watch Dr Who anymore, but your reviews are a highlight of the week. Thank you for your selfless toil, these episodes seem hell to sit through in the raw form.
In an outfit that you would cross the road to avoid if you saw him coming the other way. He seriously looks like a 5 year old. But that would seem to be the intelectual level for the show.
So, for all her lifetime, did Ruby never try, say... sending a DRONE over with a camera and microphone, so she can talk to the old woman? Or using a telescope to see her up close, and realize she IS her, as an old woman? This seriously makes her look incredibly dumb as a character, if she had a lifetime and never thought of any of these things.
What the fairy hell was this episode??? Why did everyone run away from the old woman? It was just Ruby as an old woman. Not horrifying or scary or anything. And why did Ruby get cursed by some fairies for the Doctor stepping on a circle? Also, magic now exists? I thought most magic and wizards in Who are revealed as powerful aliens most of the time, no? And seriously, time-travel wise, this made no sense, it is a complete paradox, she could not warn herself without all this never happening. Additionally, why would the UK buy Pakistan's nukes? Why would Pakistan ever sell it -and be instantly invaded by India? Why was this bad analogue for TRump/Boris Johnson even in this? Now all this will happen again but Ruby won't be there to stop him.
Well, there is this theory that she is "The Devil" or daughter of it. Or one of these RTD "pantheon" gods like Toymaker. That would explain her weird powers like making snow out of nowhere. Apparently, Toymaker (which even in 1960s Classic Who had weird unexplained Q like powers; watch Calestial Toymaker serial from Hartnell era) allowed "magic" to enter Doctor Who universe. Maybe if his "legions" are finally defeated, his magic Q like buddies will go away and Doctor Who will return to Sci FI. There is also this theory that Toymaker/pantheon made the Doctor stuck inside a TV show...nothing that happened after The Giggle is real.
@@inquerion8867 He already met the devil and threw it into a black hole. But yes, I agree there were a few episodes where "magic" existed in the really old episodes, before Doctor Who had really started to establish lore because they expected to be cancelled basically every day.
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Heck in nearly every case of "magic" it is most often a being from the previous Universe with different rules, having survived the end of theirs and the beginning of our Universe and now have abilities in our existence that are "magic" or "god tier" power.
One of the rules of writing in general, not only supernatural stories is that if you can't explain why something happens, then don't give an answer. Because not having an answer is better than giving one that doesn't make any bloody sense.
You're right, that is one of the most intellectually offensive endings I have encountered in a long time. Endings *usually* get botched when writers don't know how to bring all the loose ends together tie them up. But this was different - they were clearly intending on the mysterious woman to be Ruby all along. They basically wrote the ending first. There's no excuse, this was just shit writing.
You know, it makes a lot more sense when you look at it as though the writing team is taking the exact same approach as that of Rick and Morty. They are treating this as more of a mainstream Rick and Morty type thing and aren't focused on the story, just the story elements. It is truly entertaining that they can even try to mask hating this show as bigotry. They tried the good old "mistreat the current fanbase in the hopes of drawing in another fanbase" and I'm genuinely confused who told them that this was still the business model. It's been failing since Star Wars: TLJ. To get a fanbase at all, you need something objectively GOOD. They don't get it. Never will until they stop hiring the dregs of Tumblr for their script writing projects.
Disparu said something about this guy ruining the atmosphere because he looks too happy. I agree. He always smiles, which is fitting to play a very optimistic character, but it is just terrible for doc who. I dont know, I will pretend we dont know what favors this actor did to get this role, but he is the worst doc defeating Jodie.
The only reason I doubted myself on that was that it makes no effing sense. People running away from an old woman., for no reason Old woman just teleporting around, for no reason. Old woman "looks like what she looks like" and can't be recorded in any way, for no reason. I instantly went "so the old woman is you" but then couldn't see how that would actually work with any of the things happening. Turns out, it *didn't* work with any of the things happening, but they didn't care!
@@ImminDragon I got a sneaky suspition the old lady = the same as when the 4th Doctor died. "the white ghost doctor" "This moment has been prepaired" = Ruby is family to our Doctor. Family as in most lilkly his sister. I can go into a long rant why that is so, but in MEGA super short. Remember when 9th grabbed Rose hand in beginning of Rose. and all those adventures with her until she got trapped in that other whoniverse... and she got an brother (with parents from two different whoniversis; read Hybrid)) (and a mother from our Earth...1996 movie; and not born within our(read classic) Whoniverse (Ghostlight last episode) .... Yessssss I am saying Rose Tyler is our Doctor´s sister + a ALOT more for instance in a MEGA short recap... You know shes the Bad wolf girl... But shes also the mother to the Master. Bad wolf girl + the man born out of war and chaos.....= Baby Master... ANd then after everyone forgot whom they where (as everyone died) wont go into how we know this, but they all died as Mondas fell. (and got saved twice times over to a brand new type of time machine (the original first TARDIS) that became the Matrix on Gallifey much later...(+ it had all our souls and body patterns stored; in "Heaven & Hell" running matrix worlds... ROse MArioN (Tyler) became. RO MA Nalunda (the girl with the many names) AND as all the end of the timewar (where the Daleks only ever was puppets; not those that really was the true enemy in that timewar (Rassilons original ppl where that enemy) Long story short..."Romana" ascended in tha tlast moment of the timewar as Gallifrey was both burnt and frozen in the very same moment (split up the Timelords into two opposing factions) 1 trying to defend/guard thier fate and 1 that does everything it can to avoid its fate.... =Romana became the new WHoniverse "White guardian" and you saw her guard her s and her child´s (The Masters) ascentions during End of time both parts) The Master didnt ascend until Missy tricked her pastself into returning to the end of the timewar to spite her out of existance (thus Missy the new Black guardian over time came to be...) = Missy have been setting up guarding her ascention this entire time... AND! Ruby could very well this white guardian (the hair) that is able to do "ascended" stuff... orrrrrr thre is this sneaky suspition that JW as the Doctor had a "virgin" birthed" kid during that off year.... = Ruby is the Doctor... = we get even more spacier with the many Doctors runnning around.... Ohh I so skippe tons off stuff id like to have mentioned but hthere u go.
I came down here to see if anyone else thought it was Ruby. My guess was that the Ruby the audience followed was like, a Doppleganger that was freed from the circle and stole her life but she lost her memory for some reason. I thought old Ruby was telling people the Ruby they spoke with was a demon or something.
It's not like he's a graceful dancer, even. And he has the charisma of a wet paper bag. You can learn to dance, and you can improve charisma. But RTD focuses on these weak points. Most short, wiry guys are very masculine, and a lot of them are charismatic and energetic in a fascinating way. (The Second Doctor was short and quirky, and he ran scenes as much as he wanted.) But we get this guy. Not great for his career.
I hate it because it's supposed to be a hero and he's twirling around in a skirt. and telling the world how gay he is. This is supposed to be the same person as the one who showed us a scale model of war and how important it was to sit down and talk.
its kinda funny to me that for me last 10 years the best doctor who episode was where doctor was just by himself and peter capaldi showed how great of an actor he is (Heaven Sent) which is one of the greatest episodes for me in general and now we are relieved that doctor is not in the episode. how far doctor who has fallen
@@siixdxebec They/them is easy enough. If it's "Ze/hir/hir" or "Per/per/pers" for example, then it gets confusing. How are we supposed to know these before we meet a person and then they get offended when we use the wrong ones? Name tags would help. I hard time just remembering peoples' names after meeting them.
@@SRMoore1178 You know it's all just a mind game when it changes from moment to moment so you have to constantly be begging for proper terms or for apology.
Ruby or whatever her name is breaks a time loop and now a Welsh guy will launch nukes in her new timeline. I've never watched Dr. Who, including this episode, and I can safely say this episode is dogshit. This was bafflingly dumb.
Which is also weird because I feel like RTD forgot he's not American; Prime Minister's are not the same as Presidents, you don't vote directly for them and then they can do whatever they want. You vote for a PARTY which, if it gets a majority, chooses a Prime Minister, so apparently the whole party (dunno what party it was but I'm sure RTD made them Tories) wanted a nuclear armageddon? Why? This is such a random "bad thing" for "some guy" to be doing that Ruby has to stop.
The fact that you already saw a smartphone before the moment Ruby asked if she could pay with her phone kind of undermines that moment as well. It basically means that either the landlady is messing with her, or Ruby has landed at some point in the early 2010's where smartphones are a thing but electronic payments with your phone have yet to be introduced to the public. Either way, not a huge deal.
Or, because it's the countryside and not everyone in the world is Tech savvy, they don't have the reader for those transactions. A lot of places in Switzerland doesn't have them, especially in the country side where the internet can be Iffy That could be believeable in Rural Wales
Trowse-VUN-ith. Like the first syllable of trousers but with an s sound, then vun rhymes with fun, then ith as in with, except with the th in thread or breathe. Probably easier to say than spell.
@@inquerion8867I'm native Welsh, born and raised here in Port Talbot and even I failed to understand half of this Dr. Who episode. It's filmed around Cardiff which I can reach in 30 minutes by train.
I still cannot comprehend how this episode got a higher rating than boom on IMDb. Atleast boom had a coherent plot. Tbf Gatwa getting thanos snapped definitely helped the experience.
Was it coherent? I think that's debatable. But as he said, this episode did have atmosphere, some sad moments, the actress did a decent job, etc. He even enjoyed it until it ended. This is becoming common these days; stuff comes out that people are like "Alright, this is a decent experience" and they give it a good rating...until they think about it and go "Hey, wait a minute!" The entire Fallout show is like this--people binge watched it over a weekend and thought it was okay, until they started thinking about it.
@@billjacobs521 yeah I guess people just go off their gut reactions. I just can’t wrap my head around it. I mean I thought besides some of boom’s bs preachy moments it was very tense and high stakes. I always liked Moffat’s writing. This however was just a waste of time. My belief is that one should never take the audience’s time for granted. Even a second of eyeballs on the screen is a luxury and to have a whole episode just end with no answers feels like a huge waste of time and slap in the face to the audience.
So, if the old woman Ruby always stays 73 yards away from her, and weirdly she never sees her move even when moving towards her... does that mean she is floating? Did in the whole 50-60 something years Ruby lived from now, never did she try standing in front of a cliff and walking towards it so the old woman falls off of it? :P
@@billjacobs521 except when shes on that train, technically the old woman should have been speeding along side her and not being stationary as the train moved and she looked at her lol. i imagine it would have killed the tension though
Being Welsh myself, got no beef for the Welsh bashing - you're English, comes with the territory... Plus main reason why Wales was less colonised than Ireland or Scotland, is that we weren't worth it AND were more of a Guerilla Warfare defense in valleys of mist. Wales has always had the Mystical heritage, mainly due to the british weather and landscapes - we're the origin of King Arthur after all. Anyhow, what bothered me the most, was Ruby not ageing until she's a Granny, just her glasses seemed to increase in diameter! Love the coverage; 1st episode was annoying, 2nd episode - even from just your clips - made me physically cringe with absolute disgust, 3rd episode was just stupid - the Mine was simply dreadful, and this 4th like you said, had a good framework and setup for... nothing. Writing just as meaningless as the rest, just without the heavy-handed preaching of whatever.
That's the UK, slagging each other off. I caught my Mom watching this episode at the pub scene, I went upstairs. I asked her what she thought and she just went "meh."
"Improvement" being a relative term, and an extremely generous one at that. It feels sort of like if you asked an AI to write a good doctor who episode, the roots are buried there somewhere of what could have been a comprehendible story - but it gets bogged down in mystery box lazy writing, a random tangent into TDS land, and then fails to stick the landing whatsoever leaving the audience more confused than when they started.
17:00 That's not how we got the nation though? We got it because their king was dead (Probably us), their nobles couldn't agree on who to replace him, so the king of the Britons built a castle, moved his pregnant wife there to give birth, and then walked in on the welsh nobles arguing, and showed his son saying "If you cannot chose a king, may I present my son. He was born of this land and speaks not a word of English." And the welsh agreed, and as he couldn't be crowned king of wales (cos we ruled it), he remained the prince of wales, hence why the title is still used in the British monarchy. It's literally how they came to rule wales.
@@theblacknothing Would make for a good one too. Doubly so cos if I have it right... The crown prince is the prince of wales, so if wales broke off, he could be crowned king of wales. If the king of England died before the succession was altered he would then wind up ruing England, and if precedent was followed England would be ruled by the king of Wales and the crown prince would be the prince of England.
That is among the most funny ways to hijack a nations rulership I've ever heard. Please tell me you can get that as an event in a Crusader Kings game, because my god that's just too funny.
I still don’t know what the _point_ of this episode is. Was RTD trying to a a bad rip of The Watcher from Classic Who? 🤦🏻♀️ I’ve seen better hinting at important story lines in an 13 episode _anime._
I think Equidistant means equal distance from a referent, which does not imply an unchanging distance from a referent. You could, for instance, have two things go from 4 feet away from a given point, or 3 feet away from a given point. They are still equidistant from the referent, but their distance from each other has changed.
I agree, this ep' was a HUUUGE Nothing Burger PERIOD. Even if some things are explained down the line, there is no excuse in a bottle episode that doesn't hint at that in any way. Even, last episode Ncuti winked at the camera beyond the fourth wall. Lazy, but that wink and statement about always a twist at the end, was more than is given in this fourth episode! Your thoughts were similar to mine in that, for a bottle episode, this should stand on its own instead of relying on episodes afterward to do what is the job of this bottle episode. This wasn't a part 1 of another ep', it's the only part for this story. OY! So TERRIBLE and FRUSTRATING! I didn't think they could go much lower than the Chibnall era, yet...I think things are progressively getting far worse than Chibnall...
I mean, there is a cliff sideview, but you are supposed to have a drone for really impressive footage, and you are supposed to do eerie camera angles to start things off. If Time Team makes a cliff seem taller and scarier than Doctor Who, that is a bad sign. I mean, they used to specialize in making quarries look frightening and exotic, so why can't they do something with the ocean?
I live in Wales and stuff in this episode is not even accurate or the usually expected/somewhat stereotype of Welsh people. RTD/The people who made this episode are Englishmen who think just bcos they now moved to or work at BBC Wales they somehow know the centuries old or even current welsh culture that natives live by. We do say 'Look at the state OF you!'. The accents in this episode are horrendously wrong and aweful l ike nails on chalkboard cringe when I hear it. While people may have got Welsh things wrong in other shows/movies they still tried to get basics/did some research or followed the humourous stereotypes. This show made in Wales gets everything Wrong bcos it is made by Woke 'welsh' talentless youngsters or Woke clueless English writers. This episode is an insult to Welsh culture and talented intelligent welsh writers.
Why are ratings so low? Maybe it's because all entertainment has to be gay, have a woman, while also being poorly written trash, and we are supposed to watch? Why???
I wouldn't care if everything was gay and had women if it were at least good. Unfortunately, writing is handicapped by ideologies. My girlfriend and I watched Runaway Jury yesterday. There is a scene where the main chick confronts the main bad guy on a train, and afterward, the main chick is panicked by the encounter. My girlfriend pointed out she hadn't seen that in a while, I asked her what? And she said an actual female character.
@mickieg1994 My girlfriend has probably already seen it. South Park was one of the off-limits shows I wasn't allowed to watch while I lived with my parents, and I just never went back to watch it after I was on my own. But I'll look it up when I get home from work.
“Have a woman?” Do you know how boring entertainment would be without half the world’s population? You couldn’t even do certain genres unless you wanted them to be gay. Women exist. Women are why you’re here. This isn’t your “no girls allowed because cooties” treehouse.
And, if it isn't some form of scripted drama it's an endless litany of absolute tripe reality tv X factor, Britain's got talent, married at first sight, big brother, I'm a celebrity etc etc
Even the decent parts of this episode in terms of atmosphere just borrowed from (copied) better stories covering similar scenes, mostly horror - It Follows, Lights Out, Triangle...it was like a weird mashup of all three with a million plotholes that none of the aforementioned properties contained.
This... feels like Russel T Davies really wanted to make his own version of "Turn Left." and "Blink." mixed into one but also didn't want to make it obvious that's what he wanted... Honestly I don't think he has the brains to write an episode like "Blink." Time Paradox episodes are actually insanely difficult to pull off, it's so difficult that while Steven Moffat tried, he really stopped being able to do it once he was the show runner and had to quickly push out a whole new season every single year. He could make it work in the FIRST Matt Smith season because he had three years to write for it instead of only one, but yeah... It really takes some thinking and planning to make these paradox's works. "Turn Left." just happened to be a very fortunate episode as the show itself perfectly lined up for it with Donna having been introduced so much earlier and brought back later on pure accident to set it up, and between her first appearance and the episode the Doctor had saved the world a bunch of times so... Him dying back then would have a very natural outcome we now get to see. Not that hard an episode to write, just lined up extremely fortunately.
@@SageOfLimitlessHands Yes, that was Welsh. As languages go, it's like Gaelic and Celtic (Scottish and Irish)... in that it's even more screwed up than English.
28:02 So, magic is on the table, but the idea of an all powerful god is ludicrous? When the has already fought a god on the second episode of this season?🤦🏾♂️
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Doctor Who review of Season 1 Episode 4 where Ncuti Gatwa disappears and Ruby is left to carry the show. This episode happened as Ncuti was busy filming another TV series and it definitely resulted in a more serious atmosphere that I don't think would be possible with him there. Unfortunately, the plot was seemingly not written. There was a lot of scenes that on their own were interesting, but built up to nothing and didn't make sense in retrospect. The 2nd rewatch of this episode is made so much worse when you realise what its building up to and which lines were just bait that never led to anything. Will it be explained later? Will be satisfying that point even if it is? I have my doubts, especially if Ruby is what I think she is. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
Dude, I am sorry... normally I love your videos, but I honestly could not bare to even watch it. The Three seconds of them walking out of the Tartus was too much... I just can not stand hearing him speak! I want to commit a hate crime myself against my poor video monitor! Even Robin in the Hood was easier to watch(you watch) than this total Sheep SH*t!
Change the title, it will never improve. It was ruined forever.
They had a 30 year old black male play the role of a 15 year old girl and make fun of David Tenant's Doctor for not being a woman anymore... That's p word philia, black supremacy, and feminism all in one. No thanks.
I think the most stupid thing about the episode was not the fairies cursing Ruby (who did nothing) instead of the Doctor, but that the UK would want to buy Pakistan's nukes, and that Pakistan would sell them (and be defenseless against India...)
The idea was smarter than the writers.
another review found that the old woman is using sign language. they got her to sign, 'you are blessed. thank you for what you gave me' or something like that just for the old woman to be making the same hand gestures over and over. but it could be something that means something later. since ruby and the woman are the same person??????? love your reviews. glad i clicked onto your new year episode review. keep on buggering on!
Disparu, I live in Wales, nice place, attractive sheep but our government is total rubbish and are trying to stop tourists because of "climate Change" and a 20mph speed limit and yes drinks are expensive and have a Welsh tax. Nobody sings anymore, we just weep.
Wait, what do you mean attractive sheep? ...WHAT DO YOU MEAN ATTRACTIVE SHEEP!?
Canadian here, I literally know nothing about the Welsh jokes, so it just comes across as harsh haha, but glad to see you're taking it in stride.
"Disparu, I live in Wales, nice place, attractive sheep"
.....Welsh confirmed.
"Nobody sings anymore, we just weep"
Some people would call that music
My DNA has revealed a 42% Welsh ancestry...I can think of no reason to visit my roots whilst Wales is being raped by those lunatics in your government ☹️
Do you have extra wide welly tops?
Blackadder: Have you ever been to Wales, Baldrick?
Baldrick: No, but I often thought I'd like to.
Blackadder: Well, don't, it’s a ghastly place. Bands of tough sinewy men roam the countryside, terrorizing people with their close harmony singing. And you need half a pint of phlegm in your throat just to pronounce the place names. Never ask for directions in Wales, Baldrick. You’ll be washing spit out of your hair for a fortnight.
Capt. Blackadder: Sir, there's something wrong with your fiancée.
Gen. Melchett: Oh my god. She's not Welsh, is she?
A better piece of writing there never was.
Geez, I just learnt a pack of words from this quote 😂😂😂
@@felixschrobenah3822Perfectly fitting for Blackadder. 😊
Ah Blackadder!! 😂😂😂
When the BBC had talent!
It's even dumber when you actually know what fairy circles are. They're not things people put together with string and lucky charms. They're circles of flowers, or mushrooms. They aren't manmade at all!
That's what I was thinking. Does no one working in TV do basic research anymore?
@@formerlydistantorigins6972 no one working in TV has brains
Exactly. I was confused that the show used string instead of flowers and/or mushrooms. I also don't think I've ever heard of a story involving a time loop for whomever stepped into a fairy circle.
@@KekoaponoNever heard of a time loop, but that time goes differently in the fairy realm is a theme I encountered. So it’s at least not totally off theme imo.
Isn‘t the string and charms stuff part of the witch mythology? Imo it looks a bit like they merged witch stuff with fairy stuff instead of staying on theme.
I bet the 'old woman' was just warning everyone that Ncuti Gatwa would show up if they talked to Ruby
That's my headcanon now.
Episode 1: Steps out on a butterfly, major issues happen.
Episode 3: Steps out on a landmine, major issues happen.
Episode 4: Steps out on a piece of string, major issues happen.
A normal Time Lord would learn from this.
There is something wrong with this Doctor. He also keep forgetting things. Like he lost half of his intelligence and cunning when he got split in two.
oh my god, I can't believe I didn't notice that.
Wonder what happens when he steps in dogshit!?
@@inquerion8867 It's almost like Davies is trying to tell us that the gay black doctor is the bad half. I'm surprised Davies didn't make him disabled as well to drive the point home.
From the review it sounds like Episode 4: Steps out on a piece of string, nothing happens.
It's weird the whole world is forced to be diverse but Welsh can actually be all white people. How RTD missed that?
The continuous "Welsh were oppressed" rhetoric was likely meant to serve as cover for that.
The welsh are the natives of Brittain, probably RTD wants to be deported back to Saxony or Normandy and give the land back to them (so they can share it with Muslims).
You can be gay without being a stereotype.
Gatwa: "Hold my beer."
That wasn't his beer
**Margarita**
"Mojito"
''Shirley Temple''
Smell my fingers
Loose ends from this episode:
1. What does the old woman keep whispering that everyone she talks to runs away from Ruby forever?
2. Upon old Ruby time-travelling, why does the Doctor still mention Roger ap Gwilliam, “after” Ruby deposed him? He shouldn’t have been the most dangerous PM.
3. What was the relevance of the fairy circle? How did it make the Doctor disappear and lock the TARDIS?
4. (not really a loose end) Why use the number 65 three times? £65 for the inn, £65 billion invested in nuclear weapons, 65 years of being followed by the woman.
5. (rapid-fire) What caused this? How did the woman make old Ruby time travel? What made the woman maintain a 73-yard distance?
RTD is leaning far more into magic than science fiction these days. Kate even admits it lol, when she admits that UNIT often investigates the supernatural.
UNIT? Do you mean Torchwood 2.0?
"Some stuff happens... and then she travels back in time through magic or something, and none of it happened."
- Russell T. Davis
Right up there with "and it was all a dream"
@Gorbz "I used to read word up magazine."... I'm sorry, my pavlovian conditioning kicked in there. But yeah, it really was she even vaguely had a recollection at the end, just like a dream.
Black Mirror level writing. 😊
So she's suddenly abandoned by the Doctor, lives sad and alone for 60-ish years save for an SCP-esque entity in her peripheral vision haunting her, realizes on her own deathbed that she *is* the entity, and then suddenly it's all undone and then everything goes back to normal except she has a vague idea that it *did* happen...? I mean, wokeness and everything else aside, is this kind of (poorly-written) existentialism normal for a Dr. Who episode? Feels more like SCP Foundation X Black Mirror X Twilight Zone to me.
Normally you have some kind of achievements for secondary characters left on their own.
Sounds like one of the Seventh Doctor's elaborate traps
Maybe, except they don't explain how any of this works, why does the older Ruby never age, why does everyone who talks to her run away terrified, how does she constantly maintain a distance of 73 yards even when Ruby is on trains and such, why does the Doctor dissappear the moment the circle breaks. I'm not against a bit of mystery ala Midnight but you need to explain something.
No. There have been a few episodes with unexplained little side things, and there was magic in a few of the oldest episodes, but this has not been normal.
Feels mostly like the proverbial “and then she woke up and it was all a dream” to me. You know, the ARCHETYPE of an unskilled writer who hasn’t learned to write consequences yet…
Has RTD called people bigots for asking about the logic of this episode yet?
Logic, like math, is racist.
i believe he addresses all fan mail to male fans (see what i did there!) as 'Dear Racist, Homophobic piece of distended spewtum'
Yes, actually.
RTD was already whispering ‘bigots’ while the episode was being written. He mutters the word to himself in his sleep. His heart beats the word in morse code. (He should probably get that checked)
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 Can you site a source for this?
This honestly had the makings of a great episode, good atmosphere and an interesting, mysterious 'monster'. I'm wondering at what point during writing this episode did Russell T Davies think "hmm... you know what would make this episode brilliant? If it was more anticlimactic than a life insurance advert and make no fucking sense"
Imagine having a time machine, travelling through time and space, ... and then just visiting Welsh dwellers in the present. Nothing more. Good usage of an adventure.
Well, you can make current-day Wales exciting, but you need to do something like Susan Cooper or R.M. Boston or Day of the Triffids or... A Doctor Who episode that is not crup.
This somehow made this even worse when you phrase it that way.
You can say the same about The Doctor consistently being in London (the show films in Cardiff, Wales pretending its London)
Cheap special effects. They need to save money, recently...
The staff is 100% money laundering. Boom is the obvious example
The problem with mystery boxes is that all the suspense, tension, and curiosity generated becomes retroactively bad if what's inside is not worth the wait. “The box was empty the whole time” is a shitty subversion of expectation that punishes the viewer for caring and engaging with the show.
Yup, but it does work on people who only care about emotional impact in the moment; they were happy along for the ride and don't care that it ended with a fart.
That's not a problem with mystery boxes. It's a problem with people who don't know how to write mystery boxes.
The difference between science and magic is why RTD is leaning more towards magic.
He can make up the rules, even if they don't make sense, and when a critic points it out he can just say it's magic.
As usual, a literary choice comes back to pure laziness.
But even in the fantasy genre, there have to be rules and structure, No writer can just pull the plot out of thin air, one has to think of the consequences in the story and put themselves in the audience’s shoes, what will they think, what ramifications does the spell have and the rules of the realm.
@@bobo577 That explanation she's given actually points this out, except it's completely ruined by using it to take cheap shots at religion.
Magic, regardless of the setting, has rules. Even in soft magic systems this is true, and for the actual characters in a world that has a magic system, figuring out those rules is basically a different kind of science. You don't necessarily need to figure out HOW magic does something, but there is supposed to be rules for WHAT it can do, and by figuring those out you achieve a working knowledge base.
How it does those things can then be worked out by empirical experiments, even if some things can't be fully explained, and when you reach the point that most things are explored, it basically ceases to be magical at all.
RTD employs a lot of magical thinking in his daily life. Science isn't his strong point.
@@bobo577you beat me to it. Magic has rules too, and figuring them out should be part of the story. Like Tim Burton's sleepy hollow, Johnny Depp's character doesn't believe in magic until he sees it with his own eyes. And then he decides, " well it still has to follow some kind of rules so we need to figure out what those rules are. "
Funnily enough, I would argue that Steven Moffat's writing actually had a lot of magic elements.
His way of writing is more like he's writing a fairytale than a science fiction tale, a little similar to how Neil Gaiman writes.
But you know... Moffat at least until the end of season one of Matt Smith, kept very consistent with his fairytale formula and style, and kept the language very fairy tale like as well.
"The girl who waited." "The raggedy man." "The guarding centurian."
Sounds like fairytale characters and has that childlike wonder to it, and sort of a childlike fairytale logic that is filled with awe and wonder so it doesn't all have to be explained.
Does Rory waiting around for a thousand years guarding Amy make sense? He never got discovered and never left his post, never got damaged, and then he got turned back into a real boy somehow... No... It doesn't make sense.
But the fairytale message, the spirit of it, the wondrous of this tale of the loyal guardian is satisfying as a fairytale as he is finally rewarded with being turned back into a real boy and gets the girl he guarded so loyally. It's emotionally satisfying as a fairytale.
Now it's just... Nothing... It's inconsistent and there is no wonder and no fairytale logic anyway.
I can see the writing process going like this; "Hmm, what could the mysterious woman have said to Carla to make her cut off her adopted daughter for the rest of her life, to the point of disowning her and filing an injunction? Eh, the fans'll think of something for me"
Only Fans.
Can you imagine Gatwa being there, constantly on the run from the woman 73 yards away and crying the whole time. Then Ruby dies, travels back, and all is well. Yay!!! What happened, idk. Yay!!!
They ripped off the Haunting of Hill House, that was the story there, a girl seeing a lady ghost her whole life to end being that very ghost from the future the whole time.
As well as the movie It Follows. It’s a lazy rip off
@@kruddster1 Yeah these writers are Hacks.
The old JJ Abrams approach of "... that is a story for another time."
RTD Mimicked Joss Whedon when he brought the show back, now he's mimicking J.J. Abrams, the difference is Whedon was riding high at the time, Abrams is on the down slope. I imagine if RTD was doing this ten years ago, people might have liked it more, but now folks are sick of Abrams' shit
So Ruby has been going after herself for 60 years. But never dropped a note explaining what happened. Despite wanting to inform herself about what happened.
No need to drop a note... she can communicate telepathically. But just never chose to. For no reason.
@@Mereologist no
The Spiteful One does seem like an accurate name for RTD at this point.
So, it's a self-0nsert character?
That would be accurate... but with all the fourth-wall breaking already established and RTD's clear hatred for the fans, I've a feeling he's headed in more of a She-Hulk kind of direction.
"belief in god"-bad. "belief in fairies" magical and good! its a mystery!
Last week: Company hires Christians because only Christians are stupid enough to believe invisible things can be real. And same company also builds real invisible landmines.
Remember when budgeting was low so they had all the episodes based on earth, this feels the same, except their money is at an all time high, they cant even muster up the creativeness to make a new planet
Even when the budget was low, they had alot of alien planets and ships. RTD had a problem with too much earth-focus right from the start.
@@billjacobs521 Well of course, RTD is part of a group who think the only exciting entertaining thing in the world is teenage girl level drama BS and "Realism" aka can't go to another planet, gotta appeal to the 15yo girl who isnt even watching so set it in some modern(ish) setting.
Basically trying to appeal to non sciu fi fans by undermining the sci fi and focusing on TV drama show BS with sex as the basis for the entire show.
I miss the gravel pit in the south of England 😭
I actually really liked the Jon Pertwee era.
The old women said: "In 30 seconds Gatwa will be here." Of course everybody ran as fast as they could.
Ah yes Dr. Who and his companion are now adult children not because of their sense of wonder but because they act like actual children.
The old woman being an older ruby felt immensely cliche to me. It’s the first thing I thought of when I understood the premise fully.
It’s a shame. The “it follows”-like premise of a mysterious supernatural figure that follows you around definitely had me interested by just experiencing it from this review only. Unlike it follows, everyone else can actually see the mystery person and instead of the mystery person trying to kill the protag, it’s just watching, with anyone who tries to intervene being suspiciously turned against the protag. The horror elements, feelings of desperation & hopelessness, an ironic sense of isolation despite never truly being alone.
I can firmly say this is probably the worst episode thus far for actually offering the idea of an intriguing story and being unable to live up to it.
What's funny is that the only people who talk to her are folks Ruby asks to, and UNIT. Wouldn't a ton of people be talking to her though, like, "Can I help you ma'am?" or "Oy, why are you standing in the middle of the street!?" Shouldn't TONS of people be running from Ruby and then telling everyone else to stay away from her over decades? Like, this should be in the news--even outside observers should eventually discover the pattern.
You wouldnt believe how many people seemed to be shocked about it though.. honestly it was painfully obvious pretty early on
@@billjacobs521also, people would be absolutely confused by her very presence, because she looks like a ‘blurry woman” at any distance… Seriously, there is no explanation for anything… It’s just concentrated Crap.
At first I thought the woman was the one who was mentioned in the notes angry that circle been broken. Could have been a good option aswell.. fix the circle and have your annoying Dr back.
so the reason why more people saw this was because the main character of the series wasn't in it?!
OOF! that's not a good sign.
I guess someone was eating an apple a day...
to be fair, the only reason Blink is watchable is because Casanova is barely in it.
You'd think they'd learn from this.
@@FreeTheDonbas Also, because the blondie is pretty darn cute.
Edit: never mind, I speedread your comment, I thought you were talking about this episode, not Blink.
nah, they were drunk from the sports and fell asleep
You’ve missed out the best bits. Gatwa touches grass at the beginning of the episode! Hence why he vanished! He took his own advice. 😆
Then Ruby gets repeatedly told not to walk on the grass on the football pitch. Presumably the snipers were ordered to shoot her before she could touch the grass too! 🤣
The guy in the pub wearing make up seems to be "The only gay in the village"
There's no Village Atheist since the whole village is atheist.
Yess!!! The comment I was looking for 🤣 I would have laughed my ass off if the lady at the bar was called Myfanwy 😆
Because Gatwa wasn't there
my gf made this joke, iv never been more attracted to her!
That's what I said as well :D
So funny how Ncuti tells Doctor Who 2024 audience to "Touch Grass", then in this episode, British Authorities were warning, over and over, "GET OFF THE GRASS"! TOO FUNNY, yo'!
I like having to think for myself about things. I don't always have to be beat over the head with what's happening. HOWEVER, good writing doesn't have to spell everything out for the audience, as the clues given answer what needs to be answered. HERE: there are no clues or hints, just things happening without rhyme or reason, it seems. No clues given and apparently, no f**ks by RTD. I still growl when thinking of this episode, especially since parts were interesting and had me pulled in until half-way through. SO many things doesn't connect or make any sense. gGGRRRrr!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Sorry RTD, but that only works when we have a preexisting relationship with this particular Doctor. Instead, we get pain relief.
And of course the Welsh have to be "pagan" because faux paganism is chic and regardless of the fact the Welsh were Christians before the English were.
I'm just some fat American from Cincinnati.Ohio and i'm not a doctor who fan by any means but I love watching it's downfall because it intrigues me But let's not forget that the first several episodes.They very openly mocked Christianity and the church of England all because they didn't like thoughts and prayers.The worst thing you could ever say to someone.
@@Lazy_eye_blobFish Oh they hate Christianity. That's on their list of characteristics that need to be ridiculed, along with being white, male, straight, masculine, patriotic, Conservative, or belonging ancestrally to the Anglosphere. (Being Anglo-Saxon has now been declared a sign or white supremacy by our esteemed educators in the U.K.)
any mysticism, preferably non European, is preferred
I'd love to hear MauLer's reaction to the hilarious Welsh insults!😂
Shouldve edited in MauLer's icon when he said that. 😂
Thought I was a thick skinned Welshman when it came to English insults, but even my hackles started to be raised 😂
MauLer will go Full Welsh on him. 🤣
All Disparu has to do is show him the Isle of Mann flag.
Mauler's reaction?? "Heloo Ladies and Gentlemen. Andor was excellent!!!"
I think Millie Gibson plays her character well and is an endearing actress in this. Too bad most of what she's given to work with is shite. But there is one huge plus in this episode: the Doctor wasn't in much of it. Sad that that counts as a kind of freaking bonus, but here we are. 😐
Yes, I have no problem with her, and I thought she acted the suspense in this ep very well. If anything, having her as the lead served to highlight just how poor the writing is, since we didn't have Gatwa's over/underacting to distract from it.
@@marychocolatefairy Agreed. Though from the events of this episode it reminded me of at least one other Doctor Who episode I'd seen in the past (though after ten years sine I last watched and all my concussions I can't remember which episode(s) it may have been), which makes me think that the writers are so bad that they're just recycling past ideas wholesale and planting progressive ideas to make them "modern" scripts.
And after literal human generations of the Doctor being this person who was always finding solutions no matter how insane the situations, having this supposed doctor's reactions to stress be to panic, cry, run away, freeze and do nothing, or some combination of all of those is really just discouraging. I watch Disparu to learn how bad it's going, because I'm not going to give BBC or Disney the 'bonus' of a hate watch. Just ugh.
I'd have to agree, if she were given a classic Davies script I think she could've shined more
Yes, I've seen the thumbnail as well
Millie Gibson's a great actress. At 18 years old, she was already capable of carrying an entire episode. It may have been an episode that makes no sense in hindsight, but Gibson clearly put everything into it because I think she was genuinely excited to be part of Doctor Who. I saw her behind the scenes and she was both enthusiastic and charmingly shy at the same time. I actually feel bad for her, because I'm almost positive that her excitement developed into disappointment the longer she worked on it, which is probably why she decided "fuck this, I'm out".
And even with that, Millie remained professional throughout the whole thing. She was a teenager who handled herself with more maturity than the grown men she was working with. While Retarded Trash Dildo and Shitty Gaywa (yes, I'm being immature but those losers get no respect from me) were making excuses and lashing out at the fans, Millie Gibson simply stayed quiet, did her job, thanked the fans in that video for the cinema release, and moved on to other projects. The girl is a class act. The way she handled the whole thing was very similar to how Emilia Clarke handled the backlash to the last season of Game of Thrones.
We now return to _Nurse What..._
Any relation to Nurse Ratched?
Undergraduate Why.
hmm...... good name for a Companion. :D
Nurse What sounds like it could be a horror movie monster. What we have here is General Practitioner Why?
Intern When
Therapist How
Surgeon Where
It's like they wanted to recreate the way everyone kept being scared of Donna's back in Turn Left by having everyone get scared of old Ruby, but couldn't figure out something for old Ruby to say to actually make them scared.
You can definitely tell this episode was inspired by turn left.
Dr who now with 90% less dr.
Is the spiteful one actually just russell t davis.
And 90+% less viewership…
@mtlbstrd I'm relying on disparu to watch them for me.
He really taking one for the team on this .
Another point that makes no sense is that Ruby won't travel on planes or boats because of some vaguely unspecified fears. Doesn't she realise that when she was on the train the woman was maintaining her constant 73 yards despite the fact that to do that she needed to be moving at about 120 miles per hour and presumably smashing straight through any obstacle that happened to be 73 yards away?
Well, unless it's an inverse idea of the Weeping Angels. In this case, the figure was only there when Ruby looked for her?
It's been four episodes, and I'm still lost as to what Ncuti Gatwa's default Doctor Who outfit is. The action figure is totally going to come with a wardrobe, so you can play dress up in all these outfits.
True. I've seen more changes on Ncuti than any other doctor. Make him even more not like the Doctor
There isn't going to be a default outfit. Nothing to be 'recognizable' about his design. The only thing that people will remember once his run is over(unless massive changed occur) is that he was the black gay one. Ncuti just wanted an excuse to play dress up as an immortal alien.
His 1960's outfit was cool, did not like the haircut though.
@@SammEater His big hair looked so ridiculous and out of place in an episode that had moments that were supposed to be scary.
@@marychocolatefairy Yeah, just another one for the list of poor decisions by the people running the show.
Your commentary had me in tears of laughter. I don't watch Dr Who anymore, but your reviews are a highlight of the week. Thank you for your selfless toil, these episodes seem hell to sit through in the raw form.
I love how he steps out the Tardis in an outfit made for the setting and acts surprised that he is in Wales lol
In an outfit that you would cross the road to avoid if you saw him coming the other way. He seriously looks like a 5 year old. But that would seem to be the intelectual level for the show.
So, for all her lifetime, did Ruby never try, say... sending a DRONE over with a camera and microphone, so she can talk to the old woman? Or using a telescope to see her up close, and realize she IS her, as an old woman? This seriously makes her look incredibly dumb as a character, if she had a lifetime and never thought of any of these things.
Well the old version apparently could talk to her at any time anyway since she spoke to her in the end.. so both versions of herself are dumb
@@V123es Yeah what was stopping old Ruby from going towards her when she ends up breaking the loop anyway?
What the fairy hell was this episode??? Why did everyone run away from the old woman? It was just Ruby as an old woman. Not horrifying or scary or anything. And why did Ruby get cursed by some fairies for the Doctor stepping on a circle? Also, magic now exists? I thought most magic and wizards in Who are revealed as powerful aliens most of the time, no?
And seriously, time-travel wise, this made no sense, it is a complete paradox, she could not warn herself without all this never happening.
Additionally, why would the UK buy Pakistan's nukes? Why would Pakistan ever sell it -and be instantly invaded by India? Why was this bad analogue for TRump/Boris Johnson even in this? Now all this will happen again but Ruby won't be there to stop him.
Well, there is this theory that she is "The Devil" or daughter of it. Or one of these RTD "pantheon" gods like Toymaker. That would explain her weird powers like making snow out of nowhere.
Apparently, Toymaker (which even in 1960s Classic Who had weird unexplained Q like powers; watch Calestial Toymaker serial from Hartnell era) allowed "magic" to enter Doctor Who universe. Maybe if his "legions" are finally defeated, his magic Q like buddies will go away and Doctor Who will return to Sci FI.
There is also this theory that Toymaker/pantheon made the Doctor stuck inside a TV show...nothing that happened after The Giggle is real.
@@inquerion8867 That would explain why she's so frustratingly annoying, she's an imp, lmao.
@@inquerion8867 He already met the devil and threw it into a black hole. But yes, I agree there were a few episodes where "magic" existed in the really old episodes, before Doctor Who had really started to establish lore because they expected to be cancelled basically every day.
Heck in nearly every case of "magic" it is most often a being from the previous Universe with different rules, having survived the end of theirs and the beginning of our Universe and now have abilities in our existence that are "magic" or "god tier" power.
Just waiting for the Reveal that Ruby's mother is Ruby.
One of the rules of writing in general, not only supernatural stories is that if you can't explain why something happens, then don't give an answer. Because not having an answer is better than giving one that doesn't make any bloody sense.
You're right, that is one of the most intellectually offensive endings I have encountered in a long time. Endings *usually* get botched when writers don't know how to bring all the loose ends together tie them up. But this was different - they were clearly intending on the mysterious woman to be Ruby all along. They basically wrote the ending first. There's no excuse, this was just shit writing.
You know, it makes a lot more sense when you look at it as though the writing team is taking the exact same approach as that of Rick and Morty. They are treating this as more of a mainstream Rick and Morty type thing and aren't focused on the story, just the story elements. It is truly entertaining that they can even try to mask hating this show as bigotry. They tried the good old "mistreat the current fanbase in the hopes of drawing in another fanbase" and I'm genuinely confused who told them that this was still the business model. It's been failing since Star Wars: TLJ. To get a fanbase at all, you need something objectively GOOD. They don't get it. Never will until they stop hiring the dregs of Tumblr for their script writing projects.
So it turns out you get a better episode if you remove Ncuti Gatwa... huh.
Nah, the creators of this show will never get it.
Disparu said something about this guy ruining the atmosphere because he looks too happy. I agree. He always smiles, which is fitting
to play a very optimistic character, but it is just terrible for doc who. I dont know, I will pretend we dont know what favors this actor did to get this role, but he is the worst doc defeating Jodie.
I knew 15 seconds after Gatwa disappeared that the old woman was Rube from the future.
Same, hair gave it away.
The only reason I doubted myself on that was that it makes no effing sense. People running away from an old woman., for no reason Old woman just teleporting around, for no reason. Old woman "looks like what she looks like" and can't be recorded in any way, for no reason. I instantly went "so the old woman is you" but then couldn't see how that would actually work with any of the things happening. Turns out, it *didn't* work with any of the things happening, but they didn't care!
@@ImminDragon I got a sneaky suspition the old lady = the same as when the 4th Doctor died. "the white ghost doctor"
"This moment has been prepaired"
= Ruby is family to our Doctor.
Family as in most lilkly his sister.
I can go into a long rant why that is so, but in MEGA super short.
Remember when 9th grabbed Rose hand in beginning of Rose.
and all those adventures with her until she got trapped in that other whoniverse...
and she got an brother (with parents from two different whoniversis; read Hybrid)) (and a mother from our Earth...1996 movie; and not born within our(read classic) Whoniverse (Ghostlight last episode)
....
Yessssss I am saying Rose Tyler is our Doctor´s sister
+ a ALOT more for instance in a MEGA short recap...
You know shes the Bad wolf girl...
But shes also the mother to the Master.
Bad wolf girl + the man born out of war and chaos.....= Baby Master...
ANd then after everyone forgot whom they where (as everyone died) wont go into how we know this, but they all died as Mondas fell. (and got saved twice times over to a brand new type of time machine (the original first TARDIS) that became the Matrix on Gallifey much later...(+ it had all our souls and body patterns stored; in "Heaven & Hell" running matrix worlds...
ROse MArioN (Tyler) became.
RO MA Nalunda (the girl with the many names)
AND as all the end of the timewar (where the Daleks only ever was puppets; not those that really was the true enemy in that timewar (Rassilons original ppl where that enemy)
Long story short..."Romana" ascended in tha tlast moment of the timewar as Gallifrey was both burnt and frozen in the very same moment (split up the Timelords into two opposing factions) 1 trying to defend/guard thier fate and 1 that does everything it can to avoid its fate....
=Romana became the new WHoniverse "White guardian" and you saw her guard her s and her child´s (The Masters) ascentions during End of time both parts)
The Master didnt ascend until Missy tricked her pastself into returning to the end of the timewar to spite her out of existance (thus Missy the new Black guardian over time came to be...) = Missy have been setting up guarding her ascention this entire time...
AND!
Ruby could very well this white guardian (the hair) that is able to do "ascended" stuff...
orrrrrr
thre is this sneaky suspition that JW as the Doctor had a "virgin" birthed" kid during that off year....
=
Ruby is the Doctor... = we get even more spacier with the many Doctors runnning around....
Ohh I so skippe tons off stuff id like to have mentioned but hthere u go.
I came down here to see if anyone else thought it was Ruby. My guess was that the Ruby the audience followed was like, a Doppleganger that was freed from the circle and stole her life but she lost her memory for some reason. I thought old Ruby was telling people the Ruby they spoke with was a demon or something.
As soon as she first appeared I said it was her.
next episode Dr Who cares steps on a cow pat in Scotland.
I think the change to Fantasy is the built in excuse they have for when the views drop off and people stop buying my racism excuse.
“Button up flies, because sheep can hear a zipper a mile away” - ROFL HSWTF … just brutal LOL.
Wales... where the men are men (and thus no Dr. WTF)...
and the sheep are...
who knew, removing the yasss queeen gay man made a show better
Wooly woofter
wtf is wrong with you?
5 quid for a glass of coke is insane... Tell that to the AO Arena in Manchester where it's £6.20 XD
In my local village Pub it's just £1.60...
Double Vodka and Coke is £4.40
Lord, that club sequence with that ON MY OOOOOWWWN song will never not make me chuckle.
I can't stand it. Only because it's an ear worm. It gets stuck in my head like cancer
"IM FALLING DOWN ON MY AAAAAASSS"
I want that song
if anyone has it's name please tell me
It's not like he's a graceful dancer, even. And he has the charisma of a wet paper bag.
You can learn to dance, and you can improve charisma. But RTD focuses on these weak points.
Most short, wiry guys are very masculine, and a lot of them are charismatic and energetic in a fascinating way. (The Second Doctor was short and quirky, and he ran scenes as much as he wanted.)
But we get this guy. Not great for his career.
I hate it because it's supposed to be a hero and he's twirling around in a skirt. and telling the world how gay he is. This is supposed to be the same person as the one who showed us a scale model of war and how important it was to sit down and talk.
its kinda funny to me that for me last 10 years the best doctor who episode was where doctor was just by himself and peter capaldi showed how great of an actor he is (Heaven Sent) which is one of the greatest episodes for me in general and now we are relieved that doctor is not in the episode. how far doctor who has fallen
He's a stereotype. An embarrassing, annoying stereotype.
They/them is a stereotype, remember we gotta use their bullshit
@@GrumpyMunkyGameDesignnotice you used they/them there, it’s not that hard then huh?
@@siixdxebec They/them is easy enough. If it's "Ze/hir/hir" or "Per/per/pers" for example, then it gets confusing. How are we supposed to know these before we meet a person and then they get offended when we use the wrong ones? Name tags would help. I hard time just remembering peoples' names after meeting them.
@@SRMoore1178 You know it's all just a mind game when it changes from moment to moment so you have to constantly be begging for proper terms or for apology.
@@siixdxebec WHOOOOOSH
Sounds like RTD had a few beers, watched "Donnie Darko", and then copied it for the next script whilst inebriated.
If only RTD had also copied the ending of Donnie Darko, too...
Disparu vs Mauler.... this is going to happen
Pretty sure he was on their streams a few times.
@@SwiftNimblefoot I meant little a bum fight, with mewbschlie cloaked in a Welsh flag... the dragon one not the lobster one
@@stephenlanuto5993 But Disparu knows The Longman's only weakness....... The Isle of Man flag!
I salute you sir.......god that video was hilarious, I think Rags was actually worried he'd have to call 999
"They're not gonna write that... YES THEY BLEEDING ARE!" Sums up the entire season so far.
Ruby or whatever her name is breaks a time loop and now a Welsh guy will launch nukes in her new timeline. I've never watched Dr. Who, including this episode, and I can safely say this episode is dogshit. This was bafflingly dumb.
Which is also weird because I feel like RTD forgot he's not American; Prime Minister's are not the same as Presidents, you don't vote directly for them and then they can do whatever they want. You vote for a PARTY which, if it gets a majority, chooses a Prime Minister, so apparently the whole party (dunno what party it was but I'm sure RTD made them Tories) wanted a nuclear armageddon? Why? This is such a random "bad thing" for "some guy" to be doing that Ruby has to stop.
Longshanks set the fortresses up to protect England from Welsh war Lords after he was taken prisoner as a teen and buggered senseless😂
His fault for trying to escape dressed as a sheep.
@@TheBayzent😂😂😂
never knew that? no wonder why he hated celts
they truly are savages
When do we find out that Ncuti Gatwa was The Master all along? And David Tennant spent the whole time in some sort of time prison.
Now that would be an awesome twist, the happy go lucky, overly happy nicecty nice guy turns out to not be the doctor.
This sounds like a great way to undo the mess they made.
But that woman in the bar IS a witch, the Bene Gesserit reverend mother Gaius Helen Mohiam!
Drinking away the PTSD of banging Vlaximir Harkonnen before he was a Skarsgard.
Pay your bar tab, or face the Gom Jabbar.
She was also a Witch in the second Ewok movie.
The fact that you already saw a smartphone before the moment Ruby asked if she could pay with her phone kind of undermines that moment as well. It basically means that either the landlady is messing with her, or Ruby has landed at some point in the early 2010's where smartphones are a thing but electronic payments with your phone have yet to be introduced to the public. Either way, not a huge deal.
Or, because it's the countryside and not everyone in the world is Tech savvy, they don't have the reader for those transactions. A lot of places in Switzerland doesn't have them, especially in the country side where the internet can be Iffy
That could be believeable in Rural Wales
Ironic about the lack of electricity near Trawsfynydd, an actual nuclear power station 😂
And what a waste of Dame Sian Phillips
Trawsfynydd... how can anyone pronounce that without breaking a tongue??? :D
@@SwiftNimblefoot I guess, it's not hard for native Welsh speakers.
Like for me it's easy to pronounce this: "Chrząszczyżewoszyce". ;)
Trowse-VUN-ith.
Like the first syllable of trousers but with an s sound,
then vun rhymes with fun,
then ith as in with, except with the th in thread or breathe.
Probably easier to say than spell.
@@inquerion8867I'm native Welsh, born and raised here in Port Talbot and even I failed to understand half of this Dr. Who episode. It's filmed around Cardiff which I can reach in 30 minutes by train.
@@inquerion8867 There are far too many consonants for so few vowels in that word.
I still cannot comprehend how this episode got a higher rating than boom on IMDb. Atleast boom had a coherent plot. Tbf Gatwa getting thanos snapped definitely helped the experience.
Yeah this was dumb. Why was everyone terrified of an old woman???
That was explained in the review. It didn't have Gatwa in it.
Was it coherent? I think that's debatable. But as he said, this episode did have atmosphere, some sad moments, the actress did a decent job, etc. He even enjoyed it until it ended. This is becoming common these days; stuff comes out that people are like "Alright, this is a decent experience" and they give it a good rating...until they think about it and go "Hey, wait a minute!" The entire Fallout show is like this--people binge watched it over a weekend and thought it was okay, until they started thinking about it.
@@billjacobs521 yeah I guess people just go off their gut reactions. I just can’t wrap my head around it. I mean I thought besides some of boom’s bs preachy moments it was very tense and high stakes. I always liked Moffat’s writing. This however was just a waste of time. My belief is that one should never take the audience’s time for granted. Even a second of eyeballs on the screen is a luxury and to have a whole episode just end with no answers feels like a huge waste of time and slap in the face to the audience.
So, if the old woman Ruby always stays 73 yards away from her, and weirdly she never sees her move even when moving towards her... does that mean she is floating? Did in the whole 50-60 something years Ruby lived from now, never did she try standing in front of a cliff and walking towards it so the old woman falls off of it? :P
Well, apparently the old woman CAN move to different places, so long as they are the same distance.
@@billjacobs521 except when shes on that train, technically the old woman should have been speeding along side her and not being stationary as the train moved and she looked at her lol. i imagine it would have killed the tension though
small airplane...small boat on the Atlantic (or a pond in my pasture)
@@billjacobs521 Pity, would have been hilarious if Ruby moved next to a cliff and she fell down.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51 LOOOOL that'd be hilarious. Like a gremlin on the wing!
Gatwa makes a great case for hate crimes. He is the embodiment of a "kick me" sign
You’re not kidding, as soon as I saw his garish ‘chocolatelyness’ (his words) mince out of the Tardis I literally shuddered 🤢
Hahaaa brutal but true
Here's the kooky thing; what if we were judging them by the content of their character all along
just noticed patterns and made assessments
Ok that's to far mate
@@theyatsyspami’ve had this thought before. I am judging them by the content of their character (that includes smell right?), and i don’t like them.
Being Welsh myself, got no beef for the Welsh bashing - you're English, comes with the territory... Plus main reason why Wales was less colonised than Ireland or Scotland, is that we weren't worth it AND were more of a Guerilla Warfare defense in valleys of mist. Wales has always had the Mystical heritage, mainly due to the british weather and landscapes - we're the origin of King Arthur after all.
Anyhow, what bothered me the most, was Ruby not ageing until she's a Granny, just her glasses seemed to increase in diameter! Love the coverage; 1st episode was annoying, 2nd episode - even from just your clips - made me physically cringe with absolute disgust, 3rd episode was just stupid - the Mine was simply dreadful, and this 4th like you said, had a good framework and setup for... nothing. Writing just as meaningless as the rest, just without the heavy-handed preaching of whatever.
That's the UK, slagging each other off. I caught my Mom watching this episode at the pub scene, I went upstairs. I asked her what she thought and she just went "meh."
Please never stop reviewing Dr Who. Makes my day to see these uploaded.
Episode one: steps on butterfly. Episode three: steps on mine. Episode four: steps on some string.
I'm sensing a theme here.
Coming up in Ep 5... "steps on crack"
"always being followed by the weird lunatic"
which one is the weird lunatic, there seems to be so many
"Improvement" being a relative term, and an extremely generous one at that.
It feels sort of like if you asked an AI to write a good doctor who episode, the roots are buried there somewhere of what could have been a comprehendible story - but it gets bogged down in mystery box lazy writing, a random tangent into TDS land, and then fails to stick the landing whatsoever leaving the audience more confused than when they started.
all of time and space to explore and you go to Wales...
When all else fails... try Wales
How does he step out of the Tardis, already dressed for a seaside visit, but only "realise" where he is when he gets outside? 🤔 🙄
17:00
That's not how we got the nation though?
We got it because their king was dead (Probably us), their nobles couldn't agree on who to replace him, so the king of the Britons built a castle, moved his pregnant wife there to give birth, and then walked in on the welsh nobles arguing, and showed his son saying "If you cannot chose a king, may I present my son. He was born of this land and speaks not a word of English."
And the welsh agreed, and as he couldn't be crowned king of wales (cos we ruled it), he remained the prince of wales, hence why the title is still used in the British monarchy. It's literally how they came to rule wales.
That sounds like a Monty Python skit
@@theblacknothing Would make for a good one too. Doubly so cos if I have it right... The crown prince is the prince of wales, so if wales broke off, he could be crowned king of wales. If the king of England died before the succession was altered he would then wind up ruing England, and if precedent was followed England would be ruled by the king of Wales and the crown prince would be the prince of England.
@@adamjenkins7653 There it is. We have our skit title. "The King of Wales."
That is among the most funny ways to hijack a nations rulership I've ever heard. Please tell me you can get that as an event in a Crusader Kings game, because my god that's just too funny.
I still don’t know what the _point_ of this episode is. Was RTD trying to a a bad rip of The Watcher from Classic Who? 🤦🏻♀️ I’ve seen better hinting at important story lines in an 13 episode _anime._
He travels in the Turdis. Seems fitting for that level of quality.
Should be disguised as a porta-potty.
😂
You mean the retardis.
not the first time he's entered a box of poop
@@zimriel BEST. COMMENT!!!! 😂🤣
I have a sinking feeling that Ruby will be revealed as another Timeless Child...
You had me in stitches!!!! Love from Wales 🏴🏴🏴🏴
I think Equidistant means equal distance from a referent, which does not imply an unchanging distance from a referent. You could, for instance, have two things go from 4 feet away from a given point, or 3 feet away from a given point. They are still equidistant from the referent, but their distance from each other has changed.
Russell T Davies looks like the guy who ran after the cyclist, tried to kick it, and fell over himself after the attempted kick
"A clown takes a pratfall"
I agree, this ep' was a HUUUGE Nothing Burger PERIOD. Even if some things are explained down the line, there is no excuse in a bottle episode that doesn't hint at that in any way. Even, last episode Ncuti winked at the camera beyond the fourth wall. Lazy, but that wink and statement about always a twist at the end, was more than is given in this fourth episode!
Your thoughts were similar to mine in that, for a bottle episode, this should stand on its own instead of relying on episodes afterward to do what is the job of this bottle episode. This wasn't a part 1 of another ep', it's the only part for this story. OY! So TERRIBLE and FRUSTRATING! I didn't think they could go much lower than the Chibnall era, yet...I think things are progressively getting far worse than Chibnall...
*_I don't know who you're roasting harder here, Disparu, the (Not) Doctor or the Welsh._*
*_Enjoyable, either way._*
Another great review. I think what shocked me the most was seeing such a distinguished actress as Dame Siân Phillips in such an episode.
The old lady in the pub was played by Sian Phillips. Nice to see her again. One of the greats.
Queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans :)
Wots with all the stepping on things when they leave the TARDIS 1st a butterfly then a mine & now a magic stringy thing
Youd think hed have been a bit more aware of his surroundings since they JUST had the whole dumb mine thing on the previous trip lol
Speaking of accents whenever Disparu says "Fairy" it sounds like he's saying "Furry".
The Circle of Furries is *next week's* episode of Nurse What.
DON'T GIVE RTD ANYMORE IDEAS!
I think the woman in the beret is actress Siân Phillips, who played Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam in the 1984 "Dune"
And was in I Claudius back in the day with a huge theatrical career behind her.
Isn’t that the same cliff edge where Jodi regenerates into Tennant? Where she had a proper upgrade to the previous model
It's not a cliff edge without a shot of the cliff from the other side, so we can feel its height and starkness. And we don't get that.
I mean, there is a cliff sideview, but you are supposed to have a drone for really impressive footage, and you are supposed to do eerie camera angles to start things off.
If Time Team makes a cliff seem taller and scarier than Doctor Who, that is a bad sign.
I mean, they used to specialize in making quarries look frightening and exotic, so why can't they do something with the ocean?
"State on you..." Is just how the Welsh speak 😭 please don't pick on us, it's not our fault this shit episode was filmed here!
You've just got to accept it. He specifically made a Portland oregon(Where I live) joke in one of his Willow episodes. It was hilariously true, too.
I live in Wales and stuff in this episode is not even accurate or the usually expected/somewhat stereotype of Welsh people. RTD/The people who made this episode are Englishmen who think just bcos they now moved to or work at BBC Wales they somehow know the centuries old or even current welsh culture that natives live by.
We do say 'Look at the state OF you!'.
The accents in this episode are horrendously wrong and aweful l ike nails on chalkboard cringe when I hear it.
While people may have got Welsh things wrong in other shows/movies they still tried to get basics/did some research or followed the humourous stereotypes. This show made in Wales gets everything Wrong bcos it is made by Woke 'welsh' talentless youngsters or Woke clueless English writers.
This episode is an insult to Welsh culture and talented intelligent welsh writers.
@@5pointview717 Isn't Davies Welsh? If not born there then his family comes from there?
The welsh are born with vestigial tails and a fleece.
Disparu: "Wales is worse!"
Mauler: "Hold my beer..."
To be fair, I've lived in both Wales and London, and Wales is a lot nicer. The sheep are less 'stabby' for one.
Why are ratings so low?
Maybe it's because all entertainment has to be gay, have a woman, while also being poorly written trash, and we are supposed to watch? Why???
I wouldn't care if everything was gay and had women if it were at least good. Unfortunately, writing is handicapped by ideologies.
My girlfriend and I watched Runaway Jury yesterday. There is a scene where the main chick confronts the main bad guy on a train, and afterward, the main chick is panicked by the encounter. My girlfriend pointed out she hadn't seen that in a while, I asked her what? And she said an actual female character.
The South Park episode, into the panderverse, if you haven't seen it, based on your comment I think you would love it
@mickieg1994 My girlfriend has probably already seen it. South Park was one of the off-limits shows I wasn't allowed to watch while I lived with my parents, and I just never went back to watch it after I was on my own. But I'll look it up when I get home from work.
“Have a woman?” Do you know how boring entertainment would be without half the world’s population? You couldn’t even do certain genres unless you wanted them to be gay. Women exist. Women are why you’re here. This isn’t your “no girls allowed because cooties” treehouse.
And, if it isn't some form of scripted drama it's an endless litany of absolute tripe reality tv
X factor, Britain's got talent, married at first sight, big brother, I'm a celebrity etc etc
Even the decent parts of this episode in terms of atmosphere just borrowed from (copied) better stories covering similar scenes, mostly horror - It Follows, Lights Out, Triangle...it was like a weird mashup of all three with a million plotholes that none of the aforementioned properties contained.
with all the Wales comments I started being suspicious that league of gentlemen was supposed to be welsh people but no it was Lancashire
This... feels like Russel T Davies really wanted to make his own version of "Turn Left." and "Blink." mixed into one but also didn't want to make it obvious that's what he wanted...
Honestly I don't think he has the brains to write an episode like "Blink."
Time Paradox episodes are actually insanely difficult to pull off, it's so difficult that while Steven Moffat tried, he really stopped being able to do it once he was the show runner and had to quickly push out a whole new season every single year.
He could make it work in the FIRST Matt Smith season because he had three years to write for it instead of only one, but yeah... It really takes some thinking and planning to make these paradox's works.
"Turn Left." just happened to be a very fortunate episode as the show itself perfectly lined up for it with Donna having been introduced so much earlier and brought back later on pure accident to set it up, and between her first appearance and the episode the Doctor had saved the world a bunch of times so... Him dying back then would have a very natural outcome we now get to see. Not that hard an episode to write, just lined up extremely fortunately.
The pub name is "Y Pren Marw", translated it means "The Deadwood"
In what language?
@@SageOfLimitlessHands i'll give you one guess
@charg1nmalaz0r51 No clue hence why I asked. I meant does Wales have its only language?
@@SageOfLimitlessHands Yes, that was Welsh. As languages go, it's like Gaelic and Celtic (Scottish and Irish)... in that it's even more screwed up than English.
@nyetzdyec3391 Ahh I see. Interesting
You’d think the doctor would watch where he’s putting his feet by now! What’s he going to step on next week to cause drama?
28:02 So, magic is on the table, but the idea of an all powerful god is ludicrous? When the has already fought a god on the second episode of this season?🤦🏾♂️