Well that was on hell of a season and WHO IS MRS FLOOD?! Please do not insult those that like the episode when you don't or don't like it when you do. Comments like this will be removed as we can be better than that (I've seen this too much around this show lately). You can watch the full length, unedited commentary on Patreon alongside other exclusive content: www.patreon.com/shelma32 I hope you all enjoy the reaction!
@Shelma32Reactions Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and feelings on this Doctor Who series, and the original series! I enjoy your reactions to it as it’s like watching the show with an old friend- Fantastic!😆I mostly posts talks on artmaking, and poetry over on TikTok, but follow along with your content here, and look forward to your future installments. Also glad to see someone enjoying Red Dwarf as well!(I’m certain someone has pointed out the Tardis to you in Season 3 of that series.)😊🫀🫀⏱️🌌🟦 Cheers- Jameson
Explaining The Snow: the Time Window makes memories real. Then they rode a memory TARDIS into the time vortex but they were still connected to the window. Ruby’s memory of snow was projected into the vortex and appeared at various points in her timeline. The time window also explains how she was able to project herself back in time in 73yards.
Has been a joy watching this with you! We are confirmed to have Ruby in Season 2, there's more to her family's story. Anita Dobson, who plays Mrs. Flood, has confirmed we will learn a lot more about Mrs Flood next Season.
Your reaction to Mrs Flood at the end was priceless; same! Ruby's birth mother being an ordinary person was exactly what I was hoping for, I was so happy, and the scene of them reuniting was beautifully done. I loved this episode, but I'm really impatient for more, now! Thanks so much for all your wonderful reactions ❤.
And thank you so much for watching and commenting on my videos :) I personally adored the Ruby's mother reveal (though i understand those that don't like it). It was so beautiful done, 15's speech about it was wonderful and the reunion made me cry when i was editing. I NEED to know more about Mrs Flood and waiting till Christmas will be torture, lol.
I love that you understood and embraced the idea of Ruby's mum being ordinary. It shows how as humans, we build up mysteries with these astronomical answers when in reality it's anything but.
MY theories for this weeks ep... We know Ruby's story is not done. Though I do think RTD dropped the ball in communicating that leaving people frustrated. MY takeaways... Ruby herself has a perception filter as hinted in dialogue. Why did the Doctor not want Ruby to talk to her mother (out of character). Is she really Ruby's mother or is a plot a foot. Is Ruby's father related ot Mad Jack (Ap Gwilliam (of William) Her father's name is William. With the reveal that 73 yards is the range of a perception filter when it becomes more apparent that old Ruby (Jack's Herald) wasn't telling people terrible things, she was showing them terrible things, they all look directly at Ruby before they freak out. Does standing at the very edge of the perception filter cause it's effect to sort of glitch and you see what's really real? Finding Ruby's mother was far too easy, and none of Maestro or Sutekh's dialogue work if she is just some random teen mom. For a few scenes I was almost convinced UNIT set up a fake mom just to make Ruby stop looking for now
was it out of character? the doctor manipulated sometimes. He knew he would be alone after that again. 11 did this also with Amy so he hasn't to be alone
Sutekh only thought Ruby mom was some strange supernatural being because they did. The revelation she was an ordinary person was entirely in keeping with the shows theme. Have we forgot: “1100 years of travel in time and space and I’ve never met someone who wasn’t important before”
@@mattwho81 Doesn't explain a lot of dialogue by Sutekh and especially Maestro. The hidden song and the oldest one (Sutekh isn't the oldest one) Not to mention the small detail she can make it snow and Carol of the Bells play..... I know I can't, how about you?
With how Sue Triad was created by Sutekh, it makes me feel Harriet lived too after but maybe didn't want to stick around and just get away and find herself after what she went through. Maybe not but could go either way for now.
I have a theory about Mrs. Flood. I will try to explain without any spoilers. Suffice it to say from what you have already seen, the Doctor explained reasons for regeneration to Ruby and there were TWO provided. Something in one of those reasons was echoed by something Mrs. Flood said in the very same episode. Also, Mrs. Flood seems to start to remember things only after she sees the TARDIS in action (and then definitely has knowledge of what a TARDIS is). Mrs. Flood also seems rather clever and has clearly worked out certain things like "he waits no more" and to avoid a situation that has nothing to do with what she is here for. I would also remind that the Doctor looks at the camera and winks (and even in classic Who you have seen him already break the fourth wall). Now, this next one is really somewhat subjective, but I'm not convinced that Mrs. Flood is a villain. Her comments and delivery of them might seem a bit strange and alien but at the end of the day have we really seen her do anything bad to anyone? I mean, refusing to make someone a cup of tea? Oooh when will this villainy end? The outfit that is worn in the final scene (or one nearly 100% identical as far as I can tell) has been worn by someone in the Doctor's past (please... no one else tell Shelma who wore it or when because she hasn't reached that point in classic Who and I'm deliberately leaving this out but if you know, you know who I'm thinking about). The outfit could be a complete coincidence, but it would be a rather big coincidence (🤔 do I hear goblins on my roof? Perhaps). Of course, RTD also loves to throw misleading things into his stories just to mess with fans so... my theory could be entirely wrong. I will only say that if my theory is correct I will be quite excited when Mrs. Flood eventually reveals her true identity because I have long wanted this character to return. And if I'm wrong, well… I will be a bit disappointed but will probably be excited anyway about the reveal and that RTD got me with this one.
I have to say I've really enjoyed this season of Doctor Who and your reactions (and reactions from other open-minded people) to it. RTD seems to really go for the emotion of the moments and sometimes to get there the explanation is a bit rough (I am laughing just a little here in the same way the Doctor laughed about the time window - but not too often). It is what it is and, when you look at it that way, RTD really delivered on what he does best and what I expected him to do and that is magnificent (mostly). While this leaves little nagging details sometimes that I'm not entirely satisfied with (there are other writers who do that better than RTD), it has been so fun to watch this season and I felt the season just got better and better all the way through. There has been valid praise and valid criticism and it has been fun to see the reaction videos. There have been thoughtful comments about stories that make us think about the meanings and it is always fun to see how various reactors interpreted them and the similarities and differences to my own thoughts after watching the episodes. I really like that about Doctor Who stories and always have. Thanks for doing the reactions.
I thoroughly enjoyed this season of DOCTOR WHO. This season was far superior than the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall Era. After an underwhelming and disappointing opening episode of the season. The series got better and better as the episodes progressed. Wasn’t it brilliant that the incredible Gabriel Woolf reprised his role as Sutekh? I got bloody chills when I heard his voice which is so distinctive. He’s 91 years old. Absolutely amazing his voice hasn’t changed! I was 13 years old when PYRAMIDS OF MARS was broadcast in 1975.
This is definitely the best Doctor Who has been years for me and I so super excited for when I eventually get to Pyramids Of Mars. Though I am a few years off lol
Yeah, when it was over, I thought, "With all the 'specialness' Ruby showed earlier in the season, she can't just have 'normal' parents." 🤨 ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ And they never explained the 73 Yards stuff, even though there were several callbacks as she randomly remembered some things from that time. Did Ruby jump to a different timeline, or did the Doctor really disappear from it as I thought while watching it? How was Ruby able to project herself into her past to 'fix' the timeline as she knew it? What scared people off with old Ruby? Why did we see that future PM on the screen inside the Memory TARDIS? So many questions still in the Ruby story...
i do not think, that there will be more answers. BUT what if Mrs Flood had something to do with the snow, even if she was not there when it happened? Google the german fairytale of "Frau Holle" ;)
ap William means son of WILLIAM so RUBY and that PM are potentially Brother and Sister. Did anyone else spot it ? As I said this MUM stuff is the warm up
I do understand the hate a LITTLE bit. If you get overfed with fanservice these days, people expect that a mysterious character could be a special person like susan or trickster or something like that. People are not used to ordinary things anymore in tv shows. The power of the ordinary is unknown to most of them. Therefore they hoped there is really something sepcial happening with the mother as this was hinted throughout the season. What they do not get is the message: The power of believe that something ordinary can be special to other people and that Sutekh was so much afraid that somebody could rival his power. This fear wanted to let him now who she is. And this was his weak point I enjoyed this episode a lot and find it to be peak doctor who. The best who since Series 9 in fact :D
I agree on that being the message. I think the Doctor's speech about Ruby's mum really drove that home for me. I'm definitely going to be rewatching the episode because I think I'm going to like it even more the more I watch it. I definitely agree that I personally think that for me this is peak Doctor Who. Best in a long time.
It's absolutely okay. Wording things the right way isn't my strong suit sometimes, especially with things that cause anxiety. A lot of people have just been leaving rude comments that aren't constructive and it's not been the best.
I've enjoyed the series , although the first couple were a bit iffy . There have been some really good episodes with intriguing ideas and RTD has teased us with echoes of series past . Ruby , proved not to be impossible with mum and dad being human and I loved the idea that Ruby seeking her made her all important . The memory Tardis was a nice touch . The finale was spectacular , cheesy , mysterious and wonderful in equal measure . Judging by the outfit Mrs Flood is heading for the Christmas special and it leaves plenty of loose ends for that and in future , I've enjoyed hearing your thoughts and theories on all the episodes and look forward to the Christmas special .
I NEVER SAID I DIDN'T LIKE IT AND PLEASE NEVER INSULT ME BY SAYING THAT. ALL I SAID was I want more on RUBY'S effects and I am not the only one but it will probably be explained in the future
Im sorry but I don’t think I was talking about you. Apologies if you thought I was and if you were offended. I’ve had a lot of rude comments from people and i was trying to not be specific on particular people. I really am sorry but I didn’t mean to target anyone. I sometimes don’t word things the way I intend.
20:09 well obviously he’s been there before, because the planet wouldn’t be desolate unless the TARDIS had been there, and Sutekh had still been clinging onto the TARDIS by then.
Ngl the Ruby's mum being just a normal person just pissed me off a bit. Like oh she can make it snow coz she's important?? Nah just nah. Like the whole thing of her mum being this strange thing through the whole series then it's just some ordinary person is such a bad payoff imo. Like yes it's emotional but it could have been done so much better. Idk what it is with rtd and making part 2 of a series finale wrap up too easily.
Think of it this way.. people take the most ordinary people or things and turn them into things that are the most important and go to war and have fights because they think they are the most important case in point, religion, oil, money. He thought Ruby's mom was the super important person. She isn't
The 4th Doctor defeated Sutekh. Sutekh was never in the Vortex to latch on to the TARDIS. He wss in a time corridor linking Earth to Mars. This is a separate thing entirely. Sutekh was hurled beyond his own lifespan by the Doctor and died as a result before the TARDIS left the cellar and the time corridor collapsed (the sacophagus was on fire, which led to the house being destroyed). So explain how the current Doctor finished Sutekh off please?
I really love this season, and shooty as the doctor, but I am really starting to get ruffled by all these people who are saying all the episodes of rubbish, Ncuti is rubbish as the doctor. I feel like all they want to do is hate to Hate. Now they are calling for the show to be canceled
Well that was on hell of a season and WHO IS MRS FLOOD?!
Please do not insult those that like the episode when you don't or don't like it when you do. Comments like this will be removed as we can be better than that (I've seen this too much around this show lately).
You can watch the full length, unedited commentary on Patreon alongside other exclusive content: www.patreon.com/shelma32
I hope you all enjoy the reaction!
@Shelma32Reactions Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and feelings on this Doctor Who series, and the original series! I enjoy your reactions to it as it’s like watching the show with an old friend- Fantastic!😆I mostly posts talks on artmaking, and poetry over on TikTok, but follow along with your content here, and look forward to your future installments. Also glad to see someone enjoying Red Dwarf as well!(I’m certain someone has pointed out the Tardis to you in Season 3 of that series.)😊🫀🫀⏱️🌌🟦
Cheers- Jameson
Explaining The Snow: the Time Window makes memories real. Then they rode a memory TARDIS into the time vortex but they were still connected to the window. Ruby’s memory of snow was projected into the vortex and appeared at various points in her timeline. The time window also explains how she was able to project herself back in time in 73yards.
Has been a joy watching this with you!
We are confirmed to have Ruby in Season 2, there's more to her family's story.
Anita Dobson, who plays Mrs. Flood, has confirmed we will learn a lot more about Mrs Flood next Season.
I'm so glad that we're getting more Ruby. I'm so looking forward to more Mrs Flood/Anita Dobson as well.
Your reaction to Mrs Flood at the end was priceless; same!
Ruby's birth mother being an ordinary person was exactly what I was hoping for, I was so happy, and the scene of them reuniting was beautifully done. I loved this episode, but I'm really impatient for more, now!
Thanks so much for all your wonderful reactions ❤.
And thank you so much for watching and commenting on my videos :)
I personally adored the Ruby's mother reveal (though i understand those that don't like it). It was so beautiful done, 15's speech about it was wonderful and the reunion made me cry when i was editing.
I NEED to know more about Mrs Flood and waiting till Christmas will be torture, lol.
I loved this episode so much. Sobbed all through the end
I love it too! So many tears. Teared up again at multiple points whilst editing, lol.
I love that you understood and embraced the idea of Ruby's mum being ordinary. It shows how as humans, we build up mysteries with these astronomical answers when in reality it's anything but.
It's what's always been done, how normal things become myths and legends. I loved it.
MY theories for this weeks ep...
We know Ruby's story is not done. Though I do think RTD dropped the ball in communicating that leaving people frustrated. MY takeaways...
Ruby herself has a perception filter as hinted in dialogue.
Why did the Doctor not want Ruby to talk to her mother (out of character).
Is she really Ruby's mother or is a plot a foot.
Is Ruby's father related ot Mad Jack (Ap Gwilliam (of William) Her father's name is William.
With the reveal that 73 yards is the range of a perception filter when it becomes more apparent that old Ruby (Jack's Herald) wasn't telling people terrible things, she was showing them terrible things, they all look directly at Ruby before they freak out. Does standing at the very edge of the perception filter cause it's effect to sort of glitch and you see what's really real?
Finding Ruby's mother was far too easy, and none of Maestro or Sutekh's dialogue work if she is just some random teen mom. For a few scenes I was almost convinced UNIT set up a fake mom just to make Ruby stop looking for now
Yep, lots of questions to still be answered in the Ruby story.
was it out of character? the doctor manipulated sometimes. He knew he would be alone after that again. 11 did this also with Amy so he hasn't to be alone
Sutekh only thought Ruby mom was some strange supernatural being because they did. The revelation she was an ordinary person was entirely in keeping with the shows theme. Have we forgot: “1100 years of travel in time and space and I’ve never met someone who wasn’t important before”
@@Philmaster07 He had done everything he could up to that point to find her for Ruby
@@mattwho81 Doesn't explain a lot of dialogue by Sutekh and especially Maestro.
The hidden song and the oldest one (Sutekh isn't the oldest one)
Not to mention the small detail she can make it snow and Carol of the Bells play..... I know I can't, how about you?
With how Sue Triad was created by Sutekh, it makes me feel Harriet lived too after but maybe didn't want to stick around and just get away and find herself after what she went through. Maybe not but could go either way for now.
I'm not sure if Harriet was made like Sue, and could have returned, but she got blasted by the TARDIS. 💀
She's Susan's mother out for revenge for the kidnapping of her daughter.
Now we have two sutekh in Tardis 14 and Tardis 15.
I have a theory about Mrs. Flood. I will try to explain without any spoilers. Suffice it to say from what you have already seen, the Doctor explained reasons for regeneration to Ruby and there were TWO provided. Something in one of those reasons was echoed by something Mrs. Flood said in the very same episode. Also, Mrs. Flood seems to start to remember things only after she sees the TARDIS in action (and then definitely has knowledge of what a TARDIS is). Mrs. Flood also seems rather clever and has clearly worked out certain things like "he waits no more" and to avoid a situation that has nothing to do with what she is here for. I would also remind that the Doctor looks at the camera and winks (and even in classic Who you have seen him already break the fourth wall). Now, this next one is really somewhat subjective, but I'm not convinced that Mrs. Flood is a villain. Her comments and delivery of them might seem a bit strange and alien but at the end of the day have we really seen her do anything bad to anyone? I mean, refusing to make someone a cup of tea? Oooh when will this villainy end? The outfit that is worn in the final scene (or one nearly 100% identical as far as I can tell) has been worn by someone in the Doctor's past (please... no one else tell Shelma who wore it or when because she hasn't reached that point in classic Who and I'm deliberately leaving this out but if you know, you know who I'm thinking about). The outfit could be a complete coincidence, but it would be a rather big coincidence (🤔 do I hear goblins on my roof? Perhaps). Of course, RTD also loves to throw misleading things into his stories just to mess with fans so... my theory could be entirely wrong. I will only say that if my theory is correct I will be quite excited when Mrs. Flood eventually reveals her true identity because I have long wanted this character to return. And if I'm wrong, well… I will be a bit disappointed but will probably be excited anyway about the reveal and that RTD got me with this one.
There are so many different theories about Mrs Flood and I am so super excited to find out!
Jogged my memory about the outfit and you might well be right .
I have to say I've really enjoyed this season of Doctor Who and your reactions (and reactions from other open-minded people) to it. RTD seems to really go for the emotion of the moments and sometimes to get there the explanation is a bit rough (I am laughing just a little here in the same way the Doctor laughed about the time window - but not too often). It is what it is and, when you look at it that way, RTD really delivered on what he does best and what I expected him to do and that is magnificent (mostly). While this leaves little nagging details sometimes that I'm not entirely satisfied with (there are other writers who do that better than RTD), it has been so fun to watch this season and I felt the season just got better and better all the way through. There has been valid praise and valid criticism and it has been fun to see the reaction videos. There have been thoughtful comments about stories that make us think about the meanings and it is always fun to see how various reactors interpreted them and the similarities and differences to my own thoughts after watching the episodes. I really like that about Doctor Who stories and always have. Thanks for doing the reactions.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the reactions and the series :)
I thoroughly enjoyed this season of DOCTOR WHO. This season was far superior than the Jodie Whittaker/Chris Chibnall Era. After an underwhelming and disappointing opening episode of the season. The series got better and better as the episodes progressed. Wasn’t it brilliant that the incredible Gabriel Woolf reprised his role as Sutekh? I got bloody chills when I heard his voice which is so distinctive. He’s 91 years old. Absolutely amazing his voice hasn’t changed! I was 13 years old when PYRAMIDS OF MARS was broadcast in 1975.
This is definitely the best Doctor Who has been years for me and I so super excited for when I eventually get to Pyramids Of Mars. Though I am a few years off lol
Yeah, when it was over, I thought, "With all the 'specialness' Ruby showed earlier in the season, she can't just have 'normal' parents." 🤨
❄️ ❄️ ❄️
And they never explained the 73 Yards stuff, even though there were several callbacks as she randomly remembered some things from that time. Did Ruby jump to a different timeline, or did the Doctor really disappear from it as I thought while watching it? How was Ruby able to project herself into her past to 'fix' the timeline as she knew it? What scared people off with old Ruby? Why did we see that future PM on the screen inside the Memory TARDIS?
So many questions still in the Ruby story...
i do not think, that there will be more answers. BUT what if Mrs Flood had something to do with the snow, even if she was not there when it happened? Google the german fairytale of "Frau Holle" ;)
THE FATHER OF RUBY is important with all the stuff about the warm up
ap William means son of WILLIAM so RUBY and that PM
are potentially Brother and Sister.
Did anyone else spot it ?
As I said this MUM stuff is the warm up
honestly loved your reactions this season its been a great season, and you're reactions are so amazing
Aww, thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed the reactions and the season :)
Can't wait to see more of your reactions and watch some of the previous ones you've done too 🙂
The scene where she met her mum I was in floods 😭
I cried again whilst editing it.
saying holy fork after an emotional scene about a spoon.. great use of good place quotes
Didn’t even think of that 😂
I do understand the hate a LITTLE bit. If you get overfed with fanservice these days, people expect that a mysterious character could be a special person like susan or trickster or something like that. People are not used to ordinary things anymore in tv shows. The power of the ordinary is unknown to most of them. Therefore they hoped there is really something sepcial happening with the mother as this was hinted throughout the season. What they do not get is the message: The power of believe that something ordinary can be special to other people and that Sutekh was so much afraid that somebody could rival his power. This fear wanted to let him now who she is. And this was his weak point
I enjoyed this episode a lot and find it to be peak doctor who. The best who since Series 9 in fact :D
I agree on that being the message. I think the Doctor's speech about Ruby's mum really drove that home for me. I'm definitely going to be rewatching the episode because I think I'm going to like it even more the more I watch it.
I definitely agree that I personally think that for me this is peak Doctor Who. Best in a long time.
Loved it so much! Wonderful reaction, as always! 💜💜➕🌈🟦 54:43
I am so glad you enjoyed :)
SORRY TO SHELMA for my phone giving me a message I misunderstood.
I get weird phone calls as well sometimes
It's absolutely okay. Wording things the right way isn't my strong suit sometimes, especially with things that cause anxiety. A lot of people have just been leaving rude comments that aren't constructive and it's not been the best.
I've enjoyed the series , although the first couple were a bit iffy . There have been some really good episodes with intriguing ideas and RTD has teased us with echoes of series past . Ruby , proved not to be impossible with mum and dad being human and I loved the idea that Ruby seeking her made her all important . The memory Tardis was a nice touch .
The finale was spectacular , cheesy , mysterious and wonderful in equal measure . Judging by the outfit Mrs Flood is heading for the Christmas special and it leaves plenty of loose ends for that and in future , I've enjoyed hearing your thoughts and theories on all the episodes and look forward to the Christmas special .
I'm so glad you enjoyed :)
I HAD NO TROUBLE WITH THE MUM but explain the snow and music sometime though it could be something Flood is doing
It did snow when Mrs flood was on the roof it wasn't Ruby that time
SORRY NEVER SPOTTED IT
THANKS
I NEVER SAID I DIDN'T LIKE IT AND PLEASE NEVER INSULT ME BY SAYING THAT.
ALL I SAID was I want more on RUBY'S effects and I am not the only one but it will probably be explained in the future
Im sorry but I don’t think I was talking about you. Apologies if you thought I was and if you were offended. I’ve had a lot of rude comments from people and i was trying to not be specific on particular people. I really am sorry but I didn’t mean to target anyone. I sometimes don’t word things the way I intend.
Selma pyramids of
Mars
20:09 well obviously he’s been there before, because the planet wouldn’t be desolate unless the TARDIS had been there, and Sutekh had still been clinging onto the TARDIS by then.
True. I sometimes don't think of the most obvious things lol
Ngl the Ruby's mum being just a normal person just pissed me off a bit. Like oh she can make it snow coz she's important?? Nah just nah. Like the whole thing of her mum being this strange thing through the whole series then it's just some ordinary person is such a bad payoff imo. Like yes it's emotional but it could have been done so much better. Idk what it is with rtd and making part 2 of a series finale wrap up too easily.
Think of it this way.. people take the most ordinary people or things and turn them into things that are the most important and go to war and have fights because they think they are the most important case in point, religion, oil, money. He thought Ruby's mom was the super important person. She isn't
If you haven't seen all of classic or seen it at all, I suggest you watch it. A lot of the stuff in new who will make sense once you do
I'm reacting to it on the channel and I'm just about to edit my reaction to 3x22 for Patreon (which is 2 weeks ahead of the channel).
This incarnation of the doctor is finishing the job of defeating sutekh for the past doctor
The 4th Doctor defeated Sutekh. Sutekh was never in the Vortex to latch on to the TARDIS. He wss in a time corridor linking Earth to Mars. This is a separate thing entirely. Sutekh was hurled beyond his own lifespan by the Doctor and died as a result before the TARDIS left the cellar and the time corridor collapsed (the sacophagus was on fire, which led to the house being destroyed). So explain how the current Doctor finished Sutekh off please?
The episode was good in some parts but i hated the ending it felt too much like a soap opera.
I really love this season, and shooty as the doctor, but I am really starting to get ruffled by all these people who are saying all the episodes of rubbish, Ncuti is rubbish as the doctor. I feel like all they want to do is hate to Hate. Now they are calling for the show to be canceled
Awful story, full of holes, retcons and how to ruin a classic villain.