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Doctor Who 14x04/1x04 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Azmat Mahmood

Incredible episode. One that will be analysed and dissected for years to come.

Ryan

I'm sure I'm far from the only one who assumed this was the first part of RTD pulling the same trick as Midnight and Turn Left, cutting down on production issues by filming a Doctor-only and companion-only story at the same time. But no, it turns out Ncuti needed time off for the final season of Sex Education, which makes RTD's ability to spin a troublesome loss of his new lead star into one of the greatest things he's ever written, Who or otherwise, even more impressive. For as much as the show has a reputation for being terrifying and sending kids diving behind the couch, it's hard to think of another time where an entire episode was devoted to this kind of existential horror that's all the scarier for how inexplicable it is, where even the answer to the central mystery doesn't really clear up anything we'd been wondering. Indeed, the biggest compliment I can pay is that I figured out the 73 feet woman was Ruby herself pretty early on (though I doubt I would have figured it out, at least so quickly, if I wasn't such a huge fan of the Bent Neck Lady twist so that it now pops to the front of my mind whenever something like this happens), but the whole thing is still so well done that I didn't mind at all waiting for the episode to catch up to me. The closest I can think of is Midnight, and even that has the fact that it's an alien doing everything to give you some level of understanding. Old Ruby saying something that turns her own mother into every single father from Lost, what are we supposed to do with that? Ultimately, what I get from this episode is how trauma, mental or physical, doesn't need to control your life, and you can still do something meaningful, maybe even save the world from being destroyed by a fascist dictator. It's totally up in the air whether anything here is going to be explained in the season's second half, but none of it needed to be explained for Ruby to do good things with her life, and stay a good person. And that's definitely a lesson a lot of people could use right now. Though I do have to say, those people in the Wales pub can fuck off with their deliberately playing up the stereotype with zero prompting, just so they can then shout "You've been proven racist by the racist prover!" whenever someone doesn't magically intuit that it's an act. That kind of thing always pisses me off.

DieWinterkirsche

This episode is on the level of "Turn Left!" - Incredible!!

Thomas Corp

Three back-to-back amazing episodes followed by your fabulous reactions, Jess, and I am having just the best time with you and this show. I concur that it’s always fascinating to see when a companion is on their own without the Doctor and how they contend with the plot. This one felt like a very spooky The Girl Who Waited, and I loved it as you did. Millie is very assuredly gaining my respect and admiration for how phenomenally good she’s proving to be. This was a terrifying set-up. I’m aware of the idea/goal of finding a woman who will follow me to the ends of the earth and back. But isn’t this taking that concept just a wee bit too far? None of us was in the mood for the people in the Wales pub fucking with Ruby who was clearly having a trying time of things and didn’t need to be fucked with as she was. I loved the look on your face both times it happened, the latter instance, especially. My own comment was, “Oh, ok, fine, be unhelpful and unpleasant as shit with your eccentric performances, then. Piss off.” When they kick Ruby out, I’d say, “Well... Bye.” I share the lividity you would have had in Ruby’s place. I thought past a certain point that Ruby should have tried to resurrect Sir Christopher Lee and have him lead and perform a May Day type ritual to try and combat the mystery lady. Alternatively, have Sir Christopher as Duc le Richeau as that character was quite badass and knowledgeable when it came to dark and supernatural forces. A strength of the episode is even if you do predict the one twist, it doesn’t detract much. You mentioned having the idea of the mystery lady being Ruby, and perhaps we felt the same. Yeah, I surmised that as well. Same thing, the wheels turned some around when Ruby’s mom had the comments that she had upon confronting the woman. It more firmly cemented when they were being pretty adamant about being enigmatic about her face. How and why the lady was Ruby, was the greater question. I wish I had filmed myself, because my face on this one was probably memorable. I must have had a look on my face similar to Bruce Greenwood in The Fall of the House of Usher during the scene where he verifies to Victorine that he can hear the sound of the ticker, and he says, “Yeah, I can hear it. What IS that?” It hurt, the scenes with Ruby’s mom. I had heard somewhere that Kate would appear at least once, and it was still a jolt. Loved your own reaction to Kate. Superb thoughts on the not quite acceptance, yet the sort of acquiescence that this lady is driving everyone away, and you just seem fated to be alone. Then it is lovely to see the fire ignite when it’s realized about the PM, and we see Ruby begin to shine again. I knew the scenes with Marti would be upsetting to you. The skin crawled for me as well, especially as they said what happened without saying it, and that makes it worse as your mind paints the terrible picture. Good thought on how Ruby kind of talks to the mystery lady in the sort of excited manner when committing to taking down the horrid PM. It is like that sometimes when you have only the demons in your head for company; you set up a sewing circle with said demons and have a sort of coffee date. Fantastic reaction to Ruby siccing the mystery lady onto the PM. I made the one remark, “Could we borrow this lady and have her brought to the States sometime between now and Election Day in November? Please?” It was somewhat fun doing the math on the time jumps. For instance, the bulk of the PM plot is 2046. I did the math quick, saying, “I’ll be fifty-five. Same age as my parents and Peter Capaldi the year he got cast as the Doctor, come to think of it. Huh.” The latter time jump would put me at ninety-six, provided I hadn’t already shuffled off the mortal coil by then. Similar reactions to yours concerning the scenes of old Ruby, albeit you were more spooked, whereas I was mildly distracted by my comment, “Essentially, Ruby became the monolith?” In the end, it appears things are back to normal. I’m quite sure the fans are going to have a go at debating and interpreting the episode. Hopefully, they don’t get too insistent on people agreeing with their interpretations, if so, my response to those fans is, “Er, uh... Splunge?” I loved hearing all your thoughts on the episode, Jess. I do share your thoughts on the lack of a definitive answer or explanation, as yes, it felt very Kubrickian. Slight shades of Bergman as well, with a pinch of Mike Flanagan. And it just rolls around in your head like it did to me at work all of this morning. One area that is a surprise is you did not make a fashion observation and I did. I made a comment or two expressing a fondness for the Doctor’s duffel coat. In any case, another reaction this season that I adored as much as the episode, which yes, each episode thus far has been very unique. I’ve loved these last three episodes, and even if I’m not the biggest fan of the cgi babies episode, it was still fun and silly enough that it was a still a great time sharing it with you, Jess. Thank you for yet another lovely and wonderful Doctor Who reaction, Jess, much appreciated.

Thomas Corp
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I caught that about Ncuti being unavailable, thus Davies worked that to his advantage leading to, yeah, definitely some of his best work if not his best. Between the intensity of the Moffat’s landmine episode, and now this one, I’m sorry if this sounds too mean, I don’t think I’ve been this unsettled/emotionally put through the wringer with Doctor Who since pre-Chibnall. I likewise made the note, “We’re five episodes in, and already Ruby’s gotten stronger focus and development, leading to the strong emotional investment than Yaz got in her entire run. What the FUCK, Chibnall!?” I didn’t quite think of the Bent-Neck Lady myself, but I did get a Flanagan feeling some. So, yeah, like I said, the idea cemented around the time of Kate’s scene, though it was there earlier. It feels like the Tell-Tale Heart episode of The Fall of the House of Usher where even if you can somewhat readily tell where the twist is headed, you’re more hung up on the journey to get there, and how the revelation is presented. To say nothing of how it all happened to begin with, which it’s fantastic that the episode doesn’t provide an answer to that question. I got a strong The Girl Who Waited if it was an overt horror film vibe. That’s an interesting thought, what you expressed about the episode being a metaphor for “how trauma, mental or physical, doesn’t need to control your life, and you can still do something meaningful, maybe even save the world from being destroyed by a fascist dictator.” and I quite like that read. This episode feels like it’s going to be like in English class where everyone brings their own thoughts and interpretations to the table, and the teacher declares that everyone is right. Unless someone comes up with something ludicrously implausible and given how opaque this episode is in some ways, I don’t see how that could happen. Well said on the lesson being one that a lot of people could use right now. I think we all have a consensus view that the Wales pub people can fuck the fuck off. I hear you on that scene being as angering as it is.

Ryan
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I've seen some comments that the makeup to make 18 year old Millie look in her 30s and then 40s isn't convincing, to which I can only reply that our ideas of what people are supposed to look like at certain ages are completely fucked by the amount of pollution that prematurely aged people since the Industrial Revolution and only started being seriously cleaned up in the 1970s. Just look at Jennifer Lopez in the new movie Atlas; that's a 54 year old woman after spending her entire life outside of that era.

Thomas Corp
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Yeah, there is that built-in preconceptions of what people are supposed to look like at certain ages. There’s also sometimes just people who do not age much if at all. Take Marisa Tomei who I was beyond frustrated when people said she was too young to be Aunt May in the MCU, and she’s going to be sixty by the year’s end. She honestly looks pretty much exactly the same as she did in My Cousin Vinny, which came out a year after I was born, and I’m thirty-three. Genetics, you mention the clearing of the pollution, it’s all a gamble and a crapshoot, though now it’s uncanny that I look basically exactly like my dad did the year I was born when he was the age I am now.

Paul Flux

I loved this episode! I'm fine with the idea that it's not all explained for the viewer, and tied up with a nice bow. I hope we get more like this and Boom. A mystery that is open to interpretation and makes me think is so much better than snot monsters and fart jokes!

Ed Green

This is a great exploration of how it feels to be subjected to a horrible event you don't understand, and also of how it doesn't have to stop you from living your life. That being said, I do personally still want an explanation at some point. Everything has to make sense, even if we don't get to find out how. Closest I can come up with 10 minutes after the fact is: that wasn't actually Old Ruby; it was a faerie entity that responds to the breaking of its circles by putting the person responsible through a lifelong ideal then giving them the chance to go back and undo the breaking. I don't think there's any explanation of 'why did the things it was saying cause everyone in her life, even family and professional phenomena investigators, to abandon her?' that would satisfy me. The only thing that does satisfy me is that, like the writers intended for the audience, the horror was the point for Ruby too: the entity inflicted a nightmare on her, drawn from her own fears: in this case, fear of abandonment. The entity wanted her to feel horrified and afraid, to motivate her to undo the breaking of the circle.