Also a nice wee homage as a Scottish folk song considering Steven moffat is Scottish and Ncuti Gatwa is Scottish-Rwandan (and only the second Doctor to have a Scottish accent despite being the 4th Scot to play The Doctor)
@@binrotheheretic8174 I replied very confidently that McCoy was using an English accent, but on a quick Google he was just enunciating more with a posh Scottish one, ive always assumed it just wasnt a great english accent haha
I adore the way he writes the Doctor. The Doctor truly feels like one character that transgresses regenerations - truly written like a 2,000 year old time lord. He makes the companion relationship matter and on top of all else the dialog, the plotting - all top notch. Truly one of the greatest - if not the greatest Doctor Who writer of all time.
This feels like a script Moffatt wrote for Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman's Doctor and companion, but Ncuti brought such a unique take to it that he somehow really made it his own.
There are a few references to old episodes here. Villengard: in _The Doctor Dances_ (2005), 9 implies that he blew up the weapons factory, and mentions that there's a banana grove there now, before switching Jack's sonic blaster for a banana. It's also the planet where Rusty is in _Twice Upon a Time_ (2017). The moon and the President's wife: in _The Magician's Apprentice_ (2015), Missy claims that the Doctor stole both. In _Hell Bent_ (2015), the Doctor tells the same story to Clara before correcting some of the details. The Anglican marines were a recurring thing in 11's era. Inspired by "Harry, I'm standing on a landmine" from _Genesis of the Daleks_ (1975)
Villengard, the corporation in this episode was mentioned previously, in fact in the 1st episode written by Moffatt The Empty Child. It was where Captain Jack got his weapon from and the 9th states that he's been there once. He turned it into a banana plantation.
9 implied he already did. Jack: have you been there? 9: once Jack: place blew up. It's all bananas now. 9: like I said, once. And what's wrong with bananas. Excellent source of potassium
Boom is Steven Moffat's triumphant return to Doctor Who, and he definitely didn't disappoint. A brilliantly tense, self-contained story that scolds AI algorithms, blind faith, capitalism, and the military industrial complex. Also, Varada Sethu (Mundy Flynn) is absolutely brilliant in her Whoniverse debut. Easily the best story of the season so far.
only moffat can write so profoundly about death with the “he’s not gone, he’s just dead, not gone” line whilst always achieving to kill off companions and bring them back in the same episode 😂
There was a point where I wondered if this was going to become an anti-faith message, but it wisely avoids that by showing, while The Doctor doesn't believe in it, he does recognize how important it can be. It reminds me a couple of other stories, one with the 11th and another with a classic Doctor (which I won;t say more so it doesn't spoil anything for Jess). This was a story where every character mattered!
No he actually says he doesn't like it, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need it. Slightly different. The important point being that faith isn't bad per se, but can be abused and can be used against naive people.
@@Rik77 I stick to what I wrote. He has strong trust in humanity, but I'd never call it faith, because he's also seen the worst of it. He might have had faith in Rassilon and the Timelords at one time, but that was betrayed again and again. He's discouraged the people who had faith in him against it. What would you say he has faith in?
well..... It's not "anti-faith" only as a technicality, but it is very much anti-religion. Apparently religions are just military forces throughout all history, and stupid ones at that. Tacking on a throw-away line about "I don't like having faith, but I've gotta anyways" isn't exactly tactful. It's still really anti-faith, as much as anything other than some vague believing in the human spirit. I also did wonder if Moffat has a personal thing against anglicans, tho maybe that's just cuz the anglican church is a british thing?
it's anti-blind faith rather than anti-faith all together. having faith is good but it's also good to have an open mind and to not let your faith consume you.
Moffat does it again. This episode was a beautiful flow of humor, tension, and drama. I missed this. LOL (no joke I was waiting specifically for THIS reaction because of THAT reference.)
This had a lot of Moffat's greatest hits in it. Two callbacks I didn't notice the first time I watched it were; the Doctor thinking by conversing with his dead/dying companion (Heaven Sent), and "I love you and you don't love me back", (Amy and Rory, particularly in Asylum of the Daleks), but Rory doesn't come back to life this time.
That's true for a number of long-time Doctor Who writers. Robert Holmes, as legendary as he was, often drew from the same well. Terry Nation was notorious for writing the same Dalek scripts to the point when Terrance Dicks had to nudge him to go in a different direction (and came up with "Genesis of the Daleks").
"Steven [Moffat], WHAT is WRONG with you?!?" LMAO!!!! THANKS for this, Sesska!!!! Such a committed Whovian--to roll with Nu Nu Who and Classic Who at the same time!!!!
When I was watching this episode Friday night and heard the reference to "Fish fingers and custard", I couldn't stop smiling for a substantial amount of time afterward. I thought, "I can't wait to see Jess's reaction to that reference!" And that reaction was just like I'd hoped it would be. Moffat is imho one of the best writers of the modern era, and this story confirms it in my mind. Loved Ncuti's performance, especially loved the layers of worry under the Doctor's brave face.
Anxiety can paralyze you, destroy your concentration and memory and you can stop being in the moment, but - and this is another sign of who was writing this - The Doctor tends to go in the opposite direction. He starts to think faster. It's rather like 'The Eleventh Hour' when he has to find his wits at record speed. Which is a chief part of the character's appeal.
The Unleashed was unintentionally hilarious when RTD put his foot in it in conversation with Moffat, saying how Doctor Who does fantasy and the supernatural now instead of that boring old "hard sci-fi, but your episode is hard sci-fi... er..." Then he talked about the importance of death and the jeopardy of death, to the man who brings every deceased character back to life in some shape or form.
Which made me laugh when RTD was chatting about death when all his companions got a happy ending , like he literally re-wrote rose’s ending and recently Donna’s 😂 and how on both those occasions across their seasons teased their “death”
@@GeorgeAlexander3110 I mean...neither of them actually died at all. It was just word games with how it was. Rose considered death after Doomsday because of her being missing and Donna losing herself. So really it wasn't actual death but RTD likes his misdirections. Moffat only killed Amy and Rory and they died of old age.
This, to me, had the Doctor Who vibes that were completely missing from the first two episodes. Enjoyed this a lot. Leave it to Moffat to release this banger
Another Moffat Classic, full of his favourite themes. Artificial afterlives and memory making a person, technological systems taking their job too literally without humanity to temper it, and a critique of blind faith.
I can totally relate to seeing this as a representation of anxiety. I struggle with anxiety daily and it can be very difficult to stay calm. This is why I love Doctor who, as you can find themes that link to daily struggles and emotions.👏🏻💙🥺😧❄️
Moffat's anger towards unchecked capitalism & war profiteering was absolutely palpable this episode. So refreshing after the fence straddling, double talking Chibnall ethos
Yes! they're my favourite DW episodes; the socio-political-commentary ones; from military-industrial complex to a general critique on politicians' feigned compassion & rhetoric after doing nothing to implement change, to damning a profiteering healthcare system. Loved this episode.❤
Oh, how I have missed sharing with you, Jess, the visceral emotions that come from Steven Moffat’s writing for Doctor Who. This one put you through it and then some. Just like old times, yes?
So Moffat is back for the Christmas Special this year (2024) and it'll be his 50th story which is apparently what he plans to be his last. But we'll see!
Who else managed to remember from doctor who (2005) series 1 ep 10 the doctor dances when the doctor talks about vilenguard and how he caused the meltdown. Fun little Easter egg and happy to have them bring the weapons manufacturers back for the new era of doctor who.
every time she said that all i could think of was that Ruby had gone and dragged her off the spa on the TARDIS to try and help the doc "get his zen on" 🤣
Love your "evil cactus" Classic Who shout out. :D I think a lot of people are missing the point when they claim "Moffat criticises blind faith" in this episode. They're seeing what they want to see. If anything, Moffat argues the benefits of it. It's a far more agnostic outlook, which is exactly how the Doctor should be in my opinion, rather than deciding one thing or another.
Loved this episode, but if I’m being 100% honest I have a small reservation about it, which is that it feels conspicuously like a script written for Capaldi.
I can hear Clara in about 80% of Ruby's lines in this episode. And yeah lines like "everywhere is a beach eventually" just sound like the Twelfth Doctor.
Well this script got me ten times closer to actually accepting Ncuti as the Doctor. He was too nice and missing that slightly dickish edge that nearly all Doctor's have. He feels closer to the Doctor in this than he ever has.
Why is nobody reacting to the fact that Ruby was identified as being 3082 years old? Theory: The Doctor will be revealed to be one of the others, from outside of the universe, representing life and death because of the ability to regenerate. Ruby will be one of them, too - maybe, representing the spacetime continuum, as she's able to make past memories appear in present time.
Everyone loves the fish fingers & custard reference and I do love that but the one that really gave me goosebumps was “the Moon and the President’s Wife”…
@@medichampion328 that one is probably Moffat forgetting he's used that wording before - he has an amazing capacity to forget he's used certain lines or jokes before aha
All three of these current episodes are completely mad in one way or another. "Boom" is the darkest so far. It's somewhat similar to "Oxygen" in its condemnation of unfettered capitalism, but amped right up. I wonder where in the timeline "Boom" takes place. Did this take place before the Doctor destroyed a Villengard factory (to become a banana grove)? Also, was this before or after we first meet the Anglican Marines with the Eleventh Doctor (did they evolve or devolve)?
What alarmed me was the Doctor's comment that the Anglican church was an army for "most of its history"! Unless he means that metaphorically, it means there's been a mysterious absence of Anglican Marines infuture-set stories, right up until the 11th Doctor showed up... Unless, maybe, they're the result of some change of history caused by the Time War?
As someone who struggled with anxiety for a good while, well said. Just gotta ride the waves through. Hope it gets easier for you, and that you find better and better surfboards. :)
My missus/complex partner ended her life two days fter this reaction dropped but I hadn't watched the episode. The messages at the end sent me to tears and I loved it. I needed it. She's not gone, she's just dead.
@@cutthr0atjake I mean Moffat has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a pathological liar when it comes to these kind of things, who's to say he won't show up again in a few years to write another episode?
Regardless of all the hardware, it's the emotional gut-punch served up that gets you about this one. Particularly as the last two stories have been relatively lightweight in that area. It is shocking that we're a good chunk of the way through the series already though.
Apparently the inclusion of the phrase “Thoughts and Prayers” in this episode was specifically done because of Moffat’s personal contempt for the phrase. He talks in peripheral materials about how infuriating it is that this stock phrase is constantly trotted out by politicians and other people in power in the aftermath of mass shootings and other tragedies as a way of seeming to express sympathy for the victims and their families while avoiding taking any responsibility to fix the problems that caused the tragedy. He hoped that, by making it the stock catch phrase of evil robots, like what “Exterminate” is for the Daleks, it would make people less willing to say it.
You are my favourite reactor. I feel like we laugh, cry, and jump at all the same things. So great to share this experience with you. Keep them coming.😊
It seems to me that the poem in this episode is like a hypercondensed version of the story that the Third Doctor told Jo Grant in The Time Monster. He tells a story about his worst day. He seeks out a wise monk for help and they teach him how to enjoy life properly.
While I believe he's referring to humanity in general, he did say he was going to be very cross with Ruby; there might be a touch of residual frustration of her risking her life for him.
Personally this and the last episode have both been great stories. I try not to be critical but i really was not a fan of the Space Babies episodes. It wasnt horrible, but after watching this episode im just glad the quality of the writing is good moving forward. This was a good episode for Fifteen. I feel like Ncuti is truly loving the role and making it his own. I'm excited for more. #FabulousFifteenth Doctor 🙏
I can't quite make out if Ncuti says "I'm AN explosive" or "I'm THE explosive". I'll going to go with the former just to posit a truly obscure reference. "I'm an Explosive" was the name of the film in which William Hartnell first had top billing, in 1933. I fully think Moffat is capable of throwing something like that in....
I think he said 'the', the mine turns the living person standing on it in to a bomb. With him being a Time Lord his explosion would have been much larger.
i have anxiety attacks myself. i feel for you. as far as the episode, i wasn't a fan of this episode. of the 3 this was my least favorite. thanks for such a nice monologue at the end. i love watching your reaction to these. you made me cry btw. thanks for that
I really like yoir take that its a representation of anxiety. When youre in thag state and things kerp happening and people turning up potrntially making it worse. Life can feel like that
Ruby turns a bit Clara in this, which is perhaps to be expected. However, I am hoping that this year's impossible girl turns out to be something a bit different. I suppose this story is a little bit like 'The Doctor Dances', but time politics now have given it a different slant. Things we would have laughed off in 2005 now feel all too possible again.
How you felt about the Moffat references is how i felt about Russel returning. Id love if we'd have Russel as showrunner with Moffat writint a few storiew each season and overseeing a few things. They both kinda complete each other.
Great reaction Jess. I reckon this is the best Doctor Who episode I've seen since matt Smith left. Really can't believe that's over 10 years ago 😮. Classic Steven Moffat.
This is actress Susan Twist's 5th episode recently. She played the ambulance droid lady. So, who is she, why does she keep turning up, and is the actresses' name significant? I dunno!
If the power of parental love can defeat the forces of greed and capitalism and technology at the drop of a hat, how did a dystopia of greed and capitalism and technology even develop in the first place
It did seem a bit trite... But to be fair, it wasn't *just* the power of parental love: It was also knowing where and how to *apply* that power (which was the Doctor's contribution). Someone had to have the idea of getting whatever was left of the father within the AI to send that specific message to the Bishop; Once the AI had got far enough through the network to achieve that, it presumably had learned enough tricks to see how it could outwit or circumvent the anti-malware system.
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Fun fact, the Skye Boat Song is one of the songs the 2nd Doctor played on his recorder whenever he needed to think or relax.
Also a nice wee homage as a Scottish folk song considering Steven moffat is Scottish and Ncuti Gatwa is Scottish-Rwandan (and only the second Doctor to have a Scottish accent despite being the 4th Scot to play The Doctor)
@@liddadonly the second doctor Jess has seen (i think) with a scottish accent but isn't it 3 out of the 4 not 2 using the accent ?
@@binrotheheretic8174 I replied very confidently that McCoy was using an English accent, but on a quick Google he was just enunciating more with a posh Scottish one, ive always assumed it just wasnt a great english accent haha
@@liddad 😀 it's the rolling R's that's the giveaway.
It's also the theme to Outlander, which was openly inspired by the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon.
“I’m fine, how are you?”
“Hey, who turned out the lights?”
Yeah, that was a tragic callback.
I adore the way he writes the Doctor. The Doctor truly feels like one character that transgresses regenerations - truly written like a 2,000 year old time lord. He makes the companion relationship matter and on top of all else the dialog, the plotting - all top notch. Truly one of the greatest - if not the greatest Doctor Who writer of all time.
This feels like a script Moffatt wrote for Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman's Doctor and companion, but Ncuti brought such a unique take to it that he somehow really made it his own.
The first half feels very 12 and the end feels very 11.
Apparently it was meant to be a Matt Smith’s episode. Personally, I don’t imagine 11th staying still long enough for it to work lmao, Ncuti killed it!
@@valerianaranjocruz25and 12 would be complaining whilst stood on it
There are a few references to old episodes here.
Villengard: in _The Doctor Dances_ (2005), 9 implies that he blew up the weapons factory, and mentions that there's a banana grove there now, before switching Jack's sonic blaster for a banana. It's also the planet where Rusty is in _Twice Upon a Time_ (2017).
The moon and the President's wife: in _The Magician's Apprentice_ (2015), Missy claims that the Doctor stole both. In _Hell Bent_ (2015), the Doctor tells the same story to Clara before correcting some of the details.
The Anglican marines were a recurring thing in 11's era.
Inspired by "Harry, I'm standing on a landmine" from _Genesis of the Daleks_ (1975)
The word "inspired" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Also, the snow stopping in mid-air recalls _Twice Upon a Time._
Fish fingers and custard.
Kiss Kiss was from river song.
@stevenmcmullan409 you beat me to it
The clara and 12 vibes were strong with one. Not a bad thing of course.
Villengard, the corporation in this episode was mentioned previously, in fact in the 1st episode written by Moffatt The Empty Child. It was where Captain Jack got his weapon from and the 9th states that he's been there once. He turned it into a banana plantation.
He also went from "Are you my mommy?" to "There's my daddy!"
Doctor is single-handedly gonna bring Villengard corp down at this rate.
9 implied he already did.
Jack: have you been there?
9: once
Jack: place blew up. It's all bananas now.
9: like I said, once. And what's wrong with bananas. Excellent source of potassium
Boom is Steven Moffat's triumphant return to Doctor Who, and he definitely didn't disappoint. A brilliantly tense, self-contained story that scolds AI algorithms, blind faith, capitalism, and the military industrial complex. Also, Varada Sethu (Mundy Flynn) is absolutely brilliant in her Whoniverse debut. Easily the best story of the season so far.
yikes
And scolding privatised healthcare schemes too!
So well shot as well. The side profiles of the tense doctor were spectacular.
@@variaxi935 Why is that a yikes
It was very mid-level Moffat.
I don't know if this has already been said, but the beat that the Doctor sings at the end is a Brazilian funk beat. LOL
only moffat can write so profoundly about death with the “he’s not gone, he’s just dead, not gone” line whilst always achieving to kill off companions and bring them back in the same episode 😂
imagine if this was a Capaldi episode omgggg
There was a point where I wondered if this was going to become an anti-faith message, but it wisely avoids that by showing, while The Doctor doesn't believe in it, he does recognize how important it can be. It reminds me a couple of other stories, one with the 11th and another with a classic Doctor (which I won;t say more so it doesn't spoil anything for Jess). This was a story where every character mattered!
No he actually says he doesn't like it, but that doesn't mean he doesn't need it. Slightly different. The important point being that faith isn't bad per se, but can be abused and can be used against naive people.
@@Rik77 I stick to what I wrote. He has strong trust in humanity, but I'd never call it faith, because he's also seen the worst of it. He might have had faith in Rassilon and the Timelords at one time, but that was betrayed again and again. He's discouraged the people who had faith in him against it. What would you say he has faith in?
well..... It's not "anti-faith" only as a technicality, but it is very much anti-religion. Apparently religions are just military forces throughout all history, and stupid ones at that.
Tacking on a throw-away line about "I don't like having faith, but I've gotta anyways" isn't exactly tactful. It's still really anti-faith, as much as anything other than some vague believing in the human spirit. I also did wonder if Moffat has a personal thing against anglicans, tho maybe that's just cuz the anglican church is a british thing?
it's anti-blind faith rather than anti-faith all together. having faith is good but it's also good to have an open mind and to not let your faith consume you.
Moffat does it again. This episode was a beautiful flow of humor, tension, and drama. I missed this. LOL (no joke I was waiting specifically for THIS reaction because of THAT reference.)
The 'bigger bang to dust' scene smelted me.
He must write for them again.
Great back and forth and chemistry already.
Moffat is writing this year’s Christmas special.
Dad to dad, dust to dust? No thanks.
@@flaggerifywhat's wrong?
not SMELTED! :O
Fish fingers and Custard!!
❤
This had a lot of Moffat's greatest hits in it. Two callbacks I didn't notice the first time I watched it were; the Doctor thinking by conversing with his dead/dying companion (Heaven Sent), and "I love you and you don't love me back", (Amy and Rory, particularly in Asylum of the Daleks), but Rory doesn't come back to life this time.
That's true for a number of long-time Doctor Who writers. Robert Holmes, as legendary as he was, often drew from the same well. Terry Nation was notorious for writing the same Dalek scripts to the point when Terrance Dicks had to nudge him to go in a different direction (and came up with "Genesis of the Daleks").
Also “I’m fine, how are you?” Repeating was a callback to “Hey, who turned out the lights?” (Silence in the Library) another great one of his.
Well, any of the repeating ones in that episode. “It’s okay, im fine,” is probably more on the nose
*Screams "CALMING ENVIRONMENT!"* 💀
"Steven [Moffat], WHAT is WRONG with you?!?" LMAO!!!! THANKS for this, Sesska!!!! Such a committed Whovian--to roll with Nu Nu Who and Classic Who at the same time!!!!
Everywhere is a beach eventually.
Not true, and what would it even mean?
@@frankshailes3205everything comes to dust (sand)
@@GeorgeAlexander3110'Everything must come to dust. All things. Everything dies. The Time War ends.'
Are you shore about that? ;)
@@ftumschk Ha! [HIGH FIVE] =:oD
Absolutely love the nod to the 11th Doctor at the end.
Me too.❤
That and it's also a nod to the first episode Moffat did as showrunner of Doctor Who
,,Do you remember the cactus,"
Me: ,,God bless the cacti" (Wilfred Mott)
Said cactus: ,,That's racist"
I think she was thinking of "Meglos"; she watched that recently for Classic Who and an evil cactus is hard to forget, lol!
Ruby sounded so much like Clara here. Definitely an improvement. Oh if only Moff had been made show runner for this season.
No thanks.
The king has returned with another classic! I love how much you love Moffat's writing too, he's the best.
I love Moffat episodes. It was great hearing references from his era. I knew the fish fingers & custard line would get you.
When I was watching this episode Friday night and heard the reference to "Fish fingers and custard", I couldn't stop smiling for a substantial amount of time afterward. I thought, "I can't wait to see Jess's reaction to that reference!" And that reaction was just like I'd hoped it would be. Moffat is imho one of the best writers of the modern era, and this story confirms it in my mind. Loved Ncuti's performance, especially loved the layers of worry under the Doctor's brave face.
Anxiety can paralyze you, destroy your concentration and memory and you can stop being in the moment, but - and this is another sign of who was writing this - The Doctor tends to go in the opposite direction. He starts to think faster. It's rather like 'The Eleventh Hour' when he has to find his wits at record speed. Which is a chief part of the character's appeal.
The Unleashed was unintentionally hilarious when RTD put his foot in it in conversation with Moffat, saying how Doctor Who does fantasy and the supernatural now instead of that boring old "hard sci-fi, but your episode is hard sci-fi... er..." Then he talked about the importance of death and the jeopardy of death, to the man who brings every deceased character back to life in some shape or form.
Which made me laugh when RTD was chatting about death when all his companions got a happy ending , like he literally re-wrote rose’s ending and recently Donna’s 😂 and how on both those occasions across their seasons teased their “death”
@@GeorgeAlexander3110 I mean...neither of them actually died at all. It was just word games with how it was. Rose considered death after Doomsday because of her being missing and Donna losing herself. So really it wasn't actual death but RTD likes his misdirections. Moffat only killed Amy and Rory and they died of old age.
12:37 “Hey, who turned out the lights?”
This, to me, had the Doctor Who vibes that were completely missing from the first two episodes. Enjoyed this a lot. Leave it to Moffat to release this banger
Another Moffat Classic, full of his favourite themes. Artificial afterlives and memory making a person, technological systems taking their job too literally without humanity to temper it, and a critique of blind faith.
and overwhelming degeneracy, his favorite of all nowadays
I'm sorry, what?@@variaxi935
Don’t forget killing off the companion! Another signature Moffat move
@@variaxi935 wtf do you mean by that lol
@@variaxi935 "Degeneracy" as if anyone takes that word seriously. You might as well say "All my commentary is worthless".
I can totally relate to seeing this as a representation of anxiety. I struggle with anxiety daily and it can be very difficult to stay calm.
This is why I love Doctor who, as you can find themes that link to daily struggles and emotions.👏🏻💙🥺😧❄️
Did anyone else notice when the ambulance said next of kin, that it sounded like it snuck in 666.
Moffat's anger towards unchecked capitalism & war profiteering was absolutely palpable this episode. So refreshing after the fence straddling, double talking Chibnall ethos
"Unchecked capitalism" It's just capitalism bro lmao
@@martinchuma You're absolutely right, unchecked capitalism is a tautology
@@martinchumaYou're absolutely right, unchecked capitalism is a tautology
Yes! they're my favourite DW episodes; the socio-political-commentary ones; from military-industrial complex to a general critique on politicians' feigned compassion & rhetoric after doing nothing to implement change, to damning a profiteering healthcare system. Loved this episode.❤
Chibnall = “Amazon is not that bad, actually.”
I got nostalgia for Tom Baker’s Doctor when he stepped on a land mine.
Oh, how I have missed sharing with you, Jess, the visceral emotions that come from Steven Moffat’s writing for Doctor Who. This one put you through it and then some. Just like old times, yes?
This has been the first story since twice upon a time that ive actually felt something. Its so good to have Moffat back.
Mundy was in Star Wars: Andor as Cinta (the stone cold rebel). Nice cross-franchise connection.
I’ve got a dog, he’s called Fred/ My dog is alive, he’s not dead/I love my dog, he loves me too/ I haven’t got a cat, only a dog .
So Moffat is back for the Christmas Special this year (2024) and it'll be his 50th story which is apparently what he plans to be his last. But we'll see!
“AHHHHHHHHHH A CALMING ENVIRONMENT!!” 😂 😂 😂
I translated this comment to English and apparently AHH... needs 11 H's, one short of your 10, to be considered proper English according to Google.
Who else managed to remember from doctor who (2005) series 1 ep 10 the doctor dances when the doctor talks about vilenguard and how he caused the meltdown. Fun little Easter egg and happy to have them bring the weapons manufacturers back for the new era of doctor who.
CaLMinG ENvinONmnNT 😂
every time she said that all i could think of was that Ruby had gone and dragged her off the spa on the TARDIS to try and help the doc "get his zen on" 🤣
A cactus walked into a shop. "Uh-oh!", said the shopkeeper, "Here comes a prickly customer"
I think I'm going to start introducing myself as a complex space-time event.
Love your "evil cactus" Classic Who shout out. :D
I think a lot of people are missing the point when they claim "Moffat criticises blind faith" in this episode. They're seeing what they want to see. If anything, Moffat argues the benefits of it. It's a far more agnostic outlook, which is exactly how the Doctor should be in my opinion, rather than deciding one thing or another.
Loved this episode, but if I’m being 100% honest I have a small reservation about it, which is that it feels conspicuously like a script written for Capaldi.
I can hear Clara in about 80% of Ruby's lines in this episode. And yeah lines like "everywhere is a beach eventually" just sound like the Twelfth Doctor.
Ruby is a pound shop Clara anyway RTD clearly took inspiration from her
@@kjo1849 “pound shop” is being a little rude I think.
Well this script got me ten times closer to actually accepting Ncuti as the Doctor. He was too nice and missing that slightly dickish edge that nearly all Doctor's have. He feels closer to the Doctor in this than he ever has.
He wouldn't have hugged complete strangers. Even with Gatwa it felt wrong.
Why is nobody reacting to the fact that Ruby was identified as being 3082 years old?
Theory: The Doctor will be revealed to be one of the others, from outside of the universe, representing life and death because of the ability to regenerate. Ruby will be one of them, too - maybe, representing the spacetime continuum, as she's able to make past memories appear in present time.
Calendar years, not age. It's reading her as out of time. I think your theory has merit otherwise.
I wonder how many references you caught. There are at least 15 past Moffat episodes references in this episode.
Everyone loves the fish fingers & custard reference and I do love that but the one that really gave me goosebumps was “the Moon and the President’s Wife”…
@@tommarshall4561Same here! 😀
Mundy says, "Even if that were possible, which it isn't..." which is a line also spoken by The General in the 50th Anniversary.
@@medichampion328 that one is probably Moffat forgetting he's used that wording before - he has an amazing capacity to forget he's used certain lines or jokes before aha
All three of these current episodes are completely mad in one way or another. "Boom" is the darkest so far. It's somewhat similar to "Oxygen" in its condemnation of unfettered capitalism, but amped right up.
I wonder where in the timeline "Boom" takes place. Did this take place before the Doctor destroyed a Villengard factory (to become a banana grove)? Also, was this before or after we first meet the Anglican Marines with the Eleventh Doctor (did they evolve or devolve)?
What alarmed me was the Doctor's comment that the Anglican church was an army for "most of its history"! Unless he means that metaphorically, it means there's been a mysterious absence of Anglican Marines infuture-set stories, right up until the 11th Doctor showed up... Unless, maybe, they're the result of some change of history caused by the Time War?
The unspoken love with the hologram ending was done in the Twelfth Doctor story "Before the Flood". It's a really tragic ending.
Best episode of Series 14 so far
Damn it! I was hoping you didn’t know that Moffat wrote this episode and you were going to scream with joy at the credits! 😂
As someone who struggled with anxiety for a good while, well said. Just gotta ride the waves through. Hope it gets easier for you, and that you find better and better surfboards. :)
Having watched this episode on the 23rd anniversary of my mother's death, the messages at the end hit hard.
[OFFERS A HUG]
sorry for your loss
My missus/complex partner ended her life two days fter this reaction dropped but I hadn't watched the episode.
The messages at the end sent me to tears and I loved it.
I needed it.
She's not gone, she's just dead.
Correct me if I'm wrong about Villainguard (sp?) being mentioned with Rose, 9 and Cpt Jack when he mentioned the weapons factory.
You're not wrong. =:o}
Yep. And it's also where he visits Rusty in 'Twice Upon a Time'. 😀
I read an article that season 1 and the Christmas special are the only times Moffatt is going to write for this era, unfortunately
So far. He hasn't written anything for season 2, but hasn't ruled out returning in the future.
This was my favourite episode of Doctor Who in over 6 years. So happy Moffat came back, I hope he does more next season :).
He's said he's not. Just this & the Christmas Episode.
@@cutthr0atjake I mean Moffat has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be a pathological liar when it comes to these kind of things, who's to say he won't show up again in a few years to write another episode?
@@christianwise637 Less a pathological liar, more a troll. I guess they can be the same thing.
Regardless of all the hardware, it's the emotional gut-punch served up that gets you about this one. Particularly as the last two stories have been relatively lightweight in that area. It is shocking that we're a good chunk of the way through the series already though.
Moffat strikes again! Splendid episode.❤️👍
Apparently the inclusion of the phrase “Thoughts and Prayers” in this episode was specifically done because of Moffat’s personal contempt for the phrase. He talks in peripheral materials about how infuriating it is that this stock phrase is constantly trotted out by politicians and other people in power in the aftermath of mass shootings and other tragedies as a way of seeming to express sympathy for the victims and their families while avoiding taking any responsibility to fix the problems that caused the tragedy. He hoped that, by making it the stock catch phrase of evil robots, like what “Exterminate” is for the Daleks, it would make people less willing to say it.
I was soo excited to see your reaction to this one! Moffat supremacy for the win ❤❤
You are my favourite reactor. I feel like we laugh, cry, and jump at all the same things. So great to share this experience with you. Keep them coming.😊
Ship in a bottle/Doctor on a landmine episode.... interesting.
It seems to me that the poem in this episode is like a hypercondensed version of the story that the Third Doctor told Jo Grant in The Time Monster. He tells a story about his worst day. He seeks out a wise monk for help and they teach him how to enjoy life properly.
Some day I'm going to watch this without crying.
Boom reminded me of closing time! There was so many callbacks. Kiss kiss from river song was great!
I don't like the implications that "your lifespan sucks" implies at ruby
he's talking about humans in general
The doctor has said that many times before
@tunderdiamant8651 yeah, but sometimes in writing it can be a little foreshadowing
@@tunderdiamant8651 not to mention she doesn't even do what the doctor tells her, so she might end up with a face the raven moment someday
While I believe he's referring to humanity in general, he did say he was going to be very cross with Ruby; there might be a touch of residual frustration of her risking her life for him.
this episode made me cry like 3 times fr
Personally this and the last episode have both been great stories. I try not to be critical but i really was not a fan of the Space Babies episodes. It wasnt horrible, but after watching this episode im just glad the quality of the writing is good moving forward. This was a good episode for Fifteen. I feel like Ncuti is truly loving the role and making it his own. I'm excited for more.
#FabulousFifteenth Doctor 🙏
Totally agree on all points.
I can't quite make out if Ncuti says "I'm AN explosive" or "I'm THE explosive".
I'll going to go with the former just to posit a truly obscure reference.
"I'm an Explosive" was the name of the film in which William Hartnell first had top billing, in 1933.
I fully think Moffat is capable of throwing something like that in....
I think he said 'the', the mine turns the living person standing on it in to a bomb. With him being a Time Lord his explosion would have been much larger.
That is one impressive deep cut reference to recognise. Kudos, sir!
As we used to do back in the day…*shakes fist in air* MOFFAT
Well, just rip my heart out Stephen why don't you? lol RIP John, Carson and Canterbury!
Steven Moffat, those aren't tears in my eyes....
Great reaction.
I think that you should go with "Season 40".
He said "the moon and the President's wife and suddenly I was back in The Matrix hearing Clara asking "was she nice, the President's wife?"
i have anxiety attacks myself. i feel for you. as far as the episode, i wasn't a fan of this episode. of the 3 this was my least favorite. thanks for such a nice monologue at the end. i love watching your reaction to these. you made me cry btw. thanks for that
Doctor Who's first proper satire on American society....
.....and they got Disney to fund it! 😁
What makes you think that's just American society? =:o/
@cutthr0atjake You are aware this is a british show right?
@joshuajoshua2732 Yes I am, Thoughts & prayers.
@@therealpbristow Nowhere else is as capitalist & noone else uses the empty gesture of "thoughts & prayers".
I think the moment of being sad for a long time is a callback to Clara. He doesn't want Ruby to get that reckless.
I really like yoir take that its a representation of anxiety. When youre in thag state and things kerp happening and people turning up potrntially making it worse. Life can feel like that
Ruby turns a bit Clara in this, which is perhaps to be expected. However, I am hoping that this year's impossible girl turns out to be something a bit different. I suppose this story is a little bit like 'The Doctor Dances', but time politics now have given it a different slant. Things we would have laughed off in 2005 now feel all too possible again.
such an intense episode I loved it
Need another banana grove. A much larger one this time.
Well, I think this is just set before that banana grove, um, "appeared". =;o}
How you felt about the Moffat references is how i felt about Russel returning. Id love if we'd have Russel as showrunner with Moffat writint a few storiew each season and overseeing a few things. They both kinda complete each other.
I hope we get at least one more Moffat episode this season...
He's only doing the Christmas special.
What a great episode
Great reaction Jess. I reckon this is the best Doctor Who episode I've seen since matt Smith left. Really can't believe that's over 10 years ago 😮. Classic Steven Moffat.
By far best episode of this season so far
Not if you count the Tennant ones.
@@flaggerify Those aren't part of this season.
@@HellfireComms It's still not the best.
Still not a great episode though. Average at best.
This is actress Susan Twist's 5th episode recently. She played the ambulance droid lady.
So, who is she, why does she keep turning up, and is the actresses' name significant?
I dunno!
For anyone who doesn't know: Vater means father in German :)
You can tell RTD was basically hands-off here.
If the power of parental love can defeat the forces of greed and capitalism and technology at the drop of a hat, how did a dystopia of greed and capitalism and technology even develop in the first place
It did seem a bit trite... But to be fair, it wasn't *just* the power of parental love: It was also knowing where and how to *apply* that power (which was the Doctor's contribution). Someone had to have the idea of getting whatever was left of the father within the AI to send that specific message to the Bishop; Once the AI had got far enough through the network to achieve that, it presumably had learned enough tricks to see how it could outwit or circumvent the anti-malware system.
#AllHailTheMoffForHisBrilliantEpisode
Moffat return of the KING
King in his own lunch box.
It's a good thing you liked Mundy's character. Remember that 😉
Not sure if you’re taking requests but I think you would really like the show Lucifer! It stars Tom Ellis as Lucifer and to summarize incredibly briefly, its basically the devil solving crime while learning about himself/humanity along the way :) anyway i love your content thanks for what you do
Most poorly concealed mines in the history of warfare?
Heh. Fair point. =:o}
They appear invisible until you actually step on one, then they become visible.
Yh Steven was good at written this episode 3 he does good work
Christ and Jehovah despise tattoos
Geronimo
It’s 7am but letsgo.