Where did the Doctor go for 40 or more years? 🙄 He disappeared? Trapped in time and space? On a long vacation? Maybe teaching advanced space time quantum mechanics at Gallifrey University? Maybe appearing on reality TV "Married To A Timelord'.
So, if it was a future Ruby why did she scare everyone? Even if they did use the Timey Whimey Ball it made _sense._ The writers of Doctor Who once were talented. Geez, what happened? What was the point of this episode? Star Trek had great bottle episodes. And those episodes made sense, or had a episodic reason.
Because it seems to be all about Russell T Davies and no other writers. Oh we have one from Stephen Moffitt keeping the Old boys going. Davies has good ideas but cannot write good science fiction
Future Ruby didn’t scare everybody, watch it again, they only got scared when they looked back and saw current Ruby from a distance, almost as if they could see her true self what did they see from that perspective, almost as if whilst being in the surroundings of the old lady/future Ruby, the perception filter of current Ruby didn’t work and they saw her for what she really is. The tricksters daughter.
@@akaRon there are lots of interpretations of what was said or done and how and why the people ran away. Considering this is the main concept of the story, it just seems ridiculous that it was never really answered what happened. Even if someone's eyes. Plus it doesn't make sense that the allegedly evil prime minister quit his job as well how did she manage him to do that
A Paradox used to be a thing in this show. So the Doctor breaks the BS circle and Ruby is forced to live out her life being haunted by an old women that is revealed to be her trying to undo what the Doctor did and eventually succeeds. How? If the Doctor never breaks the circle then there will be no Ruby to warn them. She will never be stranded to thrawt the nuke happy politician. You can't undo that which enabled you to undo it. Your efforts are only possible because that thing your trying to undo happened. Russell said the direction is "fantasy/folklore/magic/superstition" That's code for. I don't have to bother abiding by the rules. Even those I created. Also at the beginning of the episode. Why is their a scroll referencing Mad Jack. A person who won't be known for another 20 odd years.
For anyone who thinks any of this will be brought up ever again, RTD has given an interview with the Radio Times explaining how none of it will ever be spoken of in the future, you're supposed to just make up your own story and interpret it as you want.
There is an over arching, but not readily apparent, very deep meaning to this episode. A comment in another thread offered the best notion I’ve yet read on the meaning of the mysterious old woman. Yes, she is Ruby’s ghost, but she also represents something much more terrifying than that. She is death, personified. Which is why she frightens away everyone who speaks to her. Her purpose for the audience is as a metaphor for the death which stalks us our entire lives. Just as it does Ruby in the form of the ghost woman. While our own death is rarely at the forefront of our daily human awareness, neither is it ever far away. You might say, that death is always 73 yards away. Close, but not so close as to be very clear. The best that any of us can do is to ignore our self-knowledge that we will one day, die. At one point, Ruby simply accepts the ever-present mysterious older woman as an inevitable part of her daily human existence. Realizing, that there’s nothing she can do about her anyhow. Until, Ruby is at the end of her life, and then that mysterious woman comes closer, and closer to Ruby. While in her last moment of life, in her nursing home bed, Ruby loses her anxiety, and embraces death with outstretched arms. All through life, Ruby feels alone and isolated. Finally, she dies alone, as well. Something which, sadly, happens to far too many of us. Davies’ screen play makes that evident. Contrary to the suggestion by some haters that this episode is pointless, it rather, contains many worthwhile ideas and messages.The episode’s main fault is that it’s too ambitious for a one-hour TV show, which results in unexplained plot elements. For one thing, it is a story, within a story. The Mad-Jack part being the sub-episode. 73 Yards probably could have, and should have been made into a two-part episode. As for the time-paradoxes, those are explained by Tenant in the famous ‘Blink’ episode. Wibbly-Wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. In other words, don’t let such paradoxes interfere with the message of the story.
So all of what you said becomes meaningless with RTD's own words about the episode. He said there was no point to the episode, he specifically said he made it so the audience can make there own story.
@@dermywermy080 Don’t be stupid. Of course, there is some point to the episode. Regardless of the gullibility of those who believe whatever RTD says to further intrigue and discussion about the episode. The audience is not free to completely make up their own story because there is a set story framework. A set context. Events which are presented. Specific dialog.
@@dermywermy080 If that is all your level of intelligence (or politics) allows you to make of it, I won’t wast effort trying to convince you otherwise.
WHY? HOW? HOW DOES SHE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME? WHAT CAUSED IT? WHY WAS SHE STUCK AT 73 YARDS? WHAT DID SHE TELL EVERYONE TO MAKE THEM HATE HER? I... ... I'm not blaming you. I'm sure you told me everything. I have no intention of seeing the episode. I just know I will feel nothing but sadness and disappointment.
Those questions will only haunt you if you actually saw the episode. My husband and I both were asking these same exact questions and I know we will never get answers because there are none. The entire episode was poorly written. The acting was fine, but it was annoying that no one put their phones or mics on speaker for Ruby to even hear...like does NO ONE think to use speaker phone??!?
@@steve8510 There was nothing to understand. The episode ends with them undoing everything in the episode and nothing changes. You can yell all you wan't but that doesn't make it good.
@@dermywermy080 You're not a critic, and being a sad fanboy doesn't make you one, the real critics appreciated it, perhaps you should watch something simpler.
My big take away from this episode is literally to make people rewatch the episode to have it make “sense”. So many reviewers have said they have watched it 2,3 4 + times. Lots of “hidden” messages. Not enough minorities in the country side Give up cash, go digital Welsh are backwards and phobic (giving up on the EU) The right are the ultimate threats, “we failed to stop the big bad”, so, only you can. (The funny thing is we have the second most nukes in Europe after France, we have them out on deployment for immediate use…) Albion - white supremacy Straight white man bashing + powerful men r*pe culture Pushing the messaging of folk having Trans hated/adopted kids issues - every one rejects you, pushes you away once you change etc only you can find acceptance. Pushing, Gays are at risk. I do wonder with the “fantasy” push if the effect is removing a fairy glamour or putting one on them (similar to curse of Clyde langer from Sarah Jane). They seem to be pulling lots of themes from the SJA (the trickster) and using outfits (like Whittaker did). On the perception filter it shouldn’t work, the tardis as never had this effect (out side of pushing perspectives with modified tardis keys) if the old women is Millie, then it makes no sense, as no one’s got a problem with seeing and interacting with the young Millie. It’s got to be a curse, a glamour, an unknown Psychic ability from her family.
The prime minister running away. I think they were leaning in on the, more cleverly written- “don’t you look tired” Yeah, the tardis shouldn’t be getting buried. It’s safety circuits would kick in and move it. I do wonder if they will touch on the fairy realm that the dr disappeared into.
The episode doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure why some people seem to like it. I’d say the most annoying part, besides the Welsh assholes in the pub, is the people running away from the old woman. I mean, if that’s suppose to be old Ruby, why would that make people run away and/or hate young Ruby? Just no sense whatsoever.
@@craiglee3048 100% it’s the usual Jodie era “plot hook” of the grand reveal will all be worth it 👍, we promise … Theirs lots of things that could cause the effect (lots have been done so over the years but each gives a Chekhovs gun etc. to clue you in at some point) but non are approached in the show, they seem to set up “rules” which they brake repeatedly. I can’t remember if it was a throw away statement about it no longer snowing (not sure if that was just around ruby or globally - a very different outcome) Like the stuff with the twist women, at no point as ruby “freaked” out that in a very short period of time, she’s met the same women across multiple locations, planets, time zones and implementations.
I think this episode was a gift to the actress. She's leaving the show. She needs stuff for her reel. She needs more time to show off her skills. So, they give her an entire episode w/ her as the lead. This will help her get more work, in the future.
I think the reason why the producers of Dr. Who Series 14 went through the time, money, and trouble to shoot this episode was because it gives the fans something different relative to the average: Dr. meets mean alien, Dr. discovers alien is about to destroy the race/planet/galaxy/universe, and Dr. has to stop it from happening. 73 Yards, in my opinion is one of the best episodes of the entire franchise. Some might have trouble understanding the episode because they aren't seeing "Mad Jack" as the non-physical entity that it is but rather as an alien up to no good. This later viewpoint does lead to a lot of unanswered questions.... The way I understood it, "Mad Jack" was a supernatural, super-powerful, mysterious entity that truly_does_not_like_it when anyone breaks its fairy circle. It's power, though, is only surpassed by its mystery. This underlying idea really explains everything that happened in the episode. I LOVED IT! 👏👏👏
it's him shoving his agenda of moving Dr Who away from Sci-fi and turning towards supernatural story lines. But that is the antithesis of Dr Who. He's destroying the legacy. Change the title to Mr Whatsit and make all the supernatural themes you want. Dr who was always about Sci-fi.
@@wildwomanofthewoods No, it wasn't. Doctor who was about character and story (and in it's original conception, teaching kids about history). Nothing is "about sci-fi" in the same way nothing is "about thrillers". And the very premise of Doctor Who is the antithesis of sci-fi. "A man travels through time in a magic box" is not a sci-fi concept. Indeed, as has been said by many of the creative people involved in Who over the decades, it's not even a "writer's idea". Someone - I think Terrence Dicks, but I might be wrong - called it "the kind of idea a writer has in the bath and immediately dismisses". It borrows time travel from sci-fi, but it also borrows from mythology, it borrows from fantasy, and in practice it borrows from pretty much every genre of story-telling there is, all be it not all at the same time, and not in equal amounts. Now, if your point is simply "that's not what Who is for me", or "that's not what I want Who to be", then fair enough. Carry on (or, more reasonably if you hate it that much, don't carry on). Right now Who is whatever RTD wants it to be. You might not like that, but it's how it is. Just as with Doctors, there'll be another showrunner along sooner or later and the show will change again.
@@wildwomanofthewoods Are you kidding me? The third had the Daemons, LITERALLY the originators of demonic creatures. Fourth had Sutekh, basically a god of destruction. Ten had SATAN himself, as in the devil. The Gods of Ragnarok, the trickster, the Toymaker who was part of the first doctor's tenure, the vampires of E-Space, I could go on. Doctor Who is about going EVERYWHERE. As for this episode in particular, if you want mind screws look up Snakedance for a mind screw. This is a ghost story, this episode. The barriers about reality get broken down a bit and maybe that leads to her going through this hell. Devil's Chord literally featured a god or demon of music, so I enjoyed 73 yards because I've seen most of the episodes, going back to Hartnell, and this feels like a Doctor Who episode, this is consistent with the ENTIRE series. And she did a good job in it. This was her first episode. As for where the doctor was, who cares? That adds to the situation and her difficulties, and makes us ask questions, so I'm good.
@@TheMathsTutorJosh He explained it in a Radio Times interview (youtube hates links so I can't give one). They're never bringing it up again, you're expected to write the story for him in your head. So in a way, you're right. It is intentionally ambiguous.
I personally loved the episode, I really like the way this season is going and I''m so looking forward to how it will pan out. I'm back in love with Dr Who again after years of Chibnall.
@@Right_Said_Brett Very true... but it still went up. I think there are a lot of people who thought the numbers would just keep going down. Some RUclips creators were championing that viewpoint when the overnight numbers were declining. Now when they go up a bit (it's the highest overnight ratings of Series 1 so far), where are all the videos? A week ago, you couldn't swing a dead cat on here without hitting one... but now that the overnight numbers have improved (slightly), it doesn't fit their message.
If you were writing the TV listing to get people watching and intrigued about this episode there are things you would say. Who is the mystery woman haunting ruby? Why is she 73 yards away at all times? Where is the doctor? And who is mad jack!? Sounds good. Apart from the fact that none of those questions are actually ever answered or explain fully in The script.. and that is what the script is all about. Is mad jack an entity that suddenly can appear after his name is spoken in the fairy circle. The problem is now we are in a universe of superstition it seems like anything can happen and nobody has to explain it away they would just say oh it is magic. It's absolutely pointless really
No no Mad Jack originally Was reincarnated to Roger Ap Gwiliams But since Ruby stopped The Doctor from Breaking the Fairy Circle Mad Jack never re-entered our Realm
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω your explanation is perfectly reasonable but that isn't very clear in the actual program. Because ruby says mad jack at the fairy circle he is born and reincarnated in the Welsh politician. There needed to be more clear indicators this is what happened i think
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω it never says why the friends call him mad jack. Is it friendly banter? If he is mad and a psychopath surely some of his so-called friends would then say God you don't want this guy's prime minister he is insane I'm going to kill us all. So much of the plot doesn't make sense
@@CyberSlammer2024 they called him Mad Jack because he is Mad Jack he re entered our realm when The Doctor broke the circle and Ruby said the name also Russell said in an interview in radio times that the interpretation of this episode is up to us and we are free to create our own story because they will never mention these events again
Genuinely wondering if you go into each episode intending on hating it, or if you are open to seeing happiness and joy in anything at all? I’m going to watch some of your other videos that aren’t Doctor Who related to work out if you’re a toxic fan or if you are just disappointed in what you’re seeing. I reserve my personal judgement.
@@strakermidwich9679 So some seem to think. Those people have a fairly obvious solution available to them. The show was periodically reinventing itself decades before "reboots" and "soft reboots" were a thing. With all change, some fans of the original or previous version will be lost along the way, but probably not as many as would be lost if the show carried on completely unchanged and unaffected by everything around it.
@@chrispalmer7893 The vast majority have people have done the obvious thing. Hence the catastrophic viewing numbers. When you change a show so much it's no longer the show they fell in love with then people will check out. And you'll NEVER get those people back as the legacy is already ruined. And the constant Trans and LBGTQBBCITVSKY+ pandering is giving people the ICK and they've gone too. Remember the Doctor is no longer a Timelord. Is no longer from Gallifrey and also CAN'T die so where is the peril. The writing has devolved into utter nonsense now. Lazy and divisive. I'm afraid there is no way back now it's done!
Imagine if all the episodes where the series took a chance to breathe and just have fun with a concept got this sort of reaction. I swear none of you know how to have fun.
Exactly. I just saw this episode and I enjoyed it. Do you know why? Because it doesn't explain it all. BUT it does show something way more important. How Ruby deals with a situation. She managed to avert nuclear war and deal with something emotionally horrifying without giving in to despair. This episode isn't about the mystery, it's a litmus test. How does this companion survive and remain alive, how does she save the world. That's what I took from it anyway.
@@scottgodfrey7118 This is just Blink for the new series - people are losing their shit over it (derogatory) but will eventually come to see it as a good episode, just like they did with Blink.
It's very rarely been "strictly" science fiction (and the few times it's really leaned into "hard science fiction", mostly in the early 80s, didn't exactly lead to the creation of many classic stories, did it?) But yes, more fantasy than sci-fi is a choice RTD has made - and spoke openly about.
@@dermywermy080 And where would be if that happened? We'd be in precisely the same position because the showrunners will continue to do what they want to do with the show. Which is what they're paid for and entitled to do. Has it even occurred to you, even for a moment, that the people who say they're enjoying it are *gasp* actually enjoying it? Your use of the terms "shills" and "stans" strongly implies that you haven't. What an odd way to see the world...
Where did the Doctor go for 40 or more years?
🙄
He disappeared? Trapped in time and space? On a long vacation? Maybe teaching advanced space time quantum mechanics at Gallifrey University? Maybe appearing on reality TV "Married To A Timelord'.
"I can't do a Jamaican accent."
You can't do a Welsh or Southern England accent either.
So, if it was a future Ruby why did she scare everyone? Even if they did use the Timey Whimey Ball it made _sense._ The writers of Doctor Who once were talented. Geez, what happened? What was the point of this episode? Star Trek had great bottle episodes. And those episodes made sense, or had a episodic reason.
Because it seems to be all about Russell T Davies and no other writers. Oh we have one from Stephen Moffitt keeping the Old boys going. Davies has good ideas but cannot write good science fiction
Future Ruby didn’t scare everybody, watch it again, they only got scared when they looked back and saw current Ruby from a distance, almost as if they could see her true self what did they see from that perspective, almost as if whilst being in the surroundings of the old lady/future Ruby, the perception filter of current Ruby didn’t work and they saw her for what she really is. The tricksters daughter.
@@akaRon there are lots of interpretations of what was said or done and how and why the people ran away.
Considering this is the main concept of the story, it just seems ridiculous that it was never really answered what happened. Even if someone's eyes. Plus it doesn't make sense that the allegedly evil prime minister quit his job as well how did she manage him to do that
A Paradox used to be a thing in this show.
So the Doctor breaks the BS circle and Ruby is forced to live out her life being haunted by an old women that is revealed to be her trying to undo what the Doctor did and eventually succeeds.
How?
If the Doctor never breaks the circle then there will be no Ruby to warn them. She will never be stranded to thrawt the nuke happy politician. You can't undo that which enabled you to undo it. Your efforts are only possible because that thing your trying to undo happened.
Russell said the direction is "fantasy/folklore/magic/superstition" That's code for. I don't have to bother abiding by the rules. Even those I created.
Also at the beginning of the episode. Why is their a scroll referencing Mad Jack. A person who won't be known for another 20 odd years.
Only in Father's Day. Only.
@@some_might_say Boy, you had not idea. Is like read a review of Infinity War and complain that Thanos is not had his armor.
For anyone who thinks any of this will be brought up ever again, RTD has given an interview with the Radio Times explaining how none of it will ever be spoken of in the future, you're supposed to just make up your own story and interpret it as you want.
I did it make my own story
It was better than the episode
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω I started doing that a few years ago. Made my own Doctor too. Though he is suspiciously like the eighth....
Lol.
The thing is ReTarDavies has already said he's NEVER going to explain this nonsense awful episode!
There is an over arching, but not readily apparent, very deep meaning to this episode. A comment in another thread offered the best notion I’ve yet read on the meaning of the mysterious old woman. Yes, she is Ruby’s ghost, but she also represents something much more terrifying than that. She is death, personified. Which is why she frightens away everyone who speaks to her. Her purpose for the audience is as a metaphor for the death which stalks us our entire lives. Just as it does Ruby in the form of the ghost woman. While our own death is rarely at the forefront of our daily human awareness, neither is it ever far away. You might say, that death is always 73 yards away. Close, but not so close as to be very clear. The best that any of us can do is to ignore our self-knowledge that we will one day, die.
At one point, Ruby simply accepts the ever-present mysterious older woman as an inevitable part of her daily human existence. Realizing, that there’s nothing she can do about her anyhow. Until, Ruby is at the end of her life, and then that mysterious woman comes closer, and closer to Ruby. While in her last moment of life, in her nursing home bed, Ruby loses her anxiety, and embraces death with outstretched arms. All through life, Ruby feels alone and isolated. Finally, she dies alone, as well. Something which, sadly, happens to far too many of us. Davies’ screen play makes that evident.
Contrary to the suggestion by some haters that this episode is pointless, it rather, contains many worthwhile ideas and messages.The episode’s main fault is that it’s too ambitious for a one-hour TV show, which results in unexplained plot elements. For one thing, it is a story, within a story. The Mad-Jack part being the sub-episode. 73 Yards probably could have, and should have been made into a two-part episode. As for the time-paradoxes, those are explained by Tenant in the famous ‘Blink’ episode. Wibbly-Wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. In other words, don’t let such paradoxes interfere with the message of the story.
So all of what you said becomes meaningless with RTD's own words about the episode. He said there was no point to the episode, he specifically said he made it so the audience can make there own story.
@@dermywermy080 Don’t be stupid. Of course, there is some point to the episode. Regardless of the gullibility of those who believe whatever RTD says to further intrigue and discussion about the episode. The audience is not free to completely make up their own story because there is a set story framework. A set context. Events which are presented. Specific dialog.
@@New-tu3mn there is literally no point to the episode.
@@dermywermy080 If that is all your level of intelligence (or politics) allows you to make of it, I won’t wast effort trying to convince you otherwise.
@@New-tu3mn dude RTD even confirmed that there was no meaning to the episode. You are using head cannon to justify the episode.
God, it’s like watching the quartering.
I feel the Impossible Girl worked better (Clara)
WHY? HOW?
HOW DOES SHE TRAVEL BACK IN TIME?
WHAT CAUSED IT?
WHY WAS SHE STUCK AT 73 YARDS?
WHAT DID SHE TELL EVERYONE TO MAKE THEM HATE HER?
I...
...
I'm not blaming you. I'm sure you told me everything. I have no intention of seeing the episode. I just know I will feel nothing but sadness and disappointment.
Those questions will only haunt you if you actually saw the episode. My husband and I both were asking these same exact questions and I know we will never get answers because there are none. The entire episode was poorly written. The acting was fine, but it was annoying that no one put their phones or mics on speaker for Ruby to even hear...like does NO ONE think to use speaker phone??!?
R.I.P., Doctor Who.
WAAA WAA IT WENT OVER GERMY'S HEAD, WHICH IS SURPRISING GIVEN IT HAD TO CLEAR THE POINTY BIT ON TOP.
There was no point.
@@dermywermy080 IT'S ENTERTAINMENT DOPEY AND IF THE FANS AND CRITICS ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY THEY LOVED IT, SOUNDS LIKE YOU JUST DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
@@steve8510 There was nothing to understand. The episode ends with them undoing everything in the episode and nothing changes. You can yell all you wan't but that doesn't make it good.
@@dermywermy080 BWAHAHHAHAAA YOU JUST DESCRIBED LIFE.
@@dermywermy080 You're not a critic, and being a sad fanboy doesn't make you one, the real critics appreciated it, perhaps you should watch something simpler.
My big take away from this episode is literally to make people rewatch the episode to have it make “sense”. So many reviewers have said they have watched it 2,3 4 + times.
Lots of “hidden” messages.
Not enough minorities in the country side
Give up cash, go digital
Welsh are backwards and phobic (giving up on the EU)
The right are the ultimate threats, “we failed to stop the big bad”, so, only you can. (The funny thing is we have the second most nukes in Europe after France, we have them out on deployment for immediate use…)
Albion - white supremacy
Straight white man bashing + powerful men r*pe culture
Pushing the messaging of folk having Trans hated/adopted kids issues - every one rejects you, pushes you away once you change etc only you can find acceptance.
Pushing, Gays are at risk.
I do wonder with the “fantasy” push if the effect is removing a fairy glamour or putting one on them (similar to curse of Clyde langer from Sarah Jane).
They seem to be pulling lots of themes from the SJA (the trickster) and using outfits (like Whittaker did).
On the perception filter it shouldn’t work, the tardis as never had this effect (out side of pushing perspectives with modified tardis keys) if the old women is Millie, then it makes no sense, as no one’s got a problem with seeing and interacting with the young Millie. It’s got to be a curse, a glamour, an unknown Psychic ability from her family.
The prime minister running away. I think they were leaning in on the, more cleverly written- “don’t you look tired”
Yeah, the tardis shouldn’t be getting buried. It’s safety circuits would kick in and move it.
I do wonder if they will touch on the fairy realm that the dr disappeared into.
The episode doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure why some people seem to like it. I’d say the most annoying part, besides the Welsh assholes in the pub, is the people running away from the old woman. I mean, if that’s suppose to be old Ruby, why would that make people run away and/or hate young Ruby? Just no sense whatsoever.
@@craiglee3048 100% it’s the usual Jodie era “plot hook” of the grand reveal will all be worth it 👍, we promise …
Theirs lots of things that could cause the effect (lots have been done so over the years but each gives a Chekhovs gun etc. to clue you in at some point) but non are approached in the show, they seem to set up “rules” which they brake repeatedly.
I can’t remember if it was a throw away statement about it no longer snowing (not sure if that was just around ruby or globally - a very different outcome)
Like the stuff with the twist women, at no point as ruby “freaked” out that in a very short period of time, she’s met the same women across multiple locations, planets, time zones and implementations.
I think this episode was a gift to the actress. She's leaving the show. She needs stuff for her reel. She needs more time to show off her skills. So, they give her an entire episode w/ her as the lead. This will help her get more work, in the future.
She stay for another year.
I think the reason why the producers of Dr. Who Series 14 went through the time, money, and trouble to shoot this episode was because it gives the fans something different relative to the average: Dr. meets mean alien, Dr. discovers alien is about to destroy the race/planet/galaxy/universe, and Dr. has to stop it from happening. 73 Yards, in my opinion is one of the best episodes of the entire franchise. Some might have trouble understanding the episode because they aren't seeing "Mad Jack" as the non-physical entity that it is but rather as an alien up to no good. This later viewpoint does lead to a lot of unanswered questions.... The way I understood it, "Mad Jack" was a supernatural, super-powerful, mysterious entity that truly_does_not_like_it when anyone breaks its fairy circle. It's power, though, is only surpassed by its mystery. This underlying idea really explains everything that happened in the episode. I LOVED IT! 👏👏👏
it's him shoving his agenda of moving Dr Who away from Sci-fi and turning towards supernatural story lines. But that is the antithesis of Dr Who. He's destroying the legacy. Change the title to Mr Whatsit and make all the supernatural themes you want. Dr who was always about Sci-fi.
@@wildwomanofthewoods No, it wasn't. Doctor who was about character and story (and in it's original conception, teaching kids about history). Nothing is "about sci-fi" in the same way nothing is "about thrillers". And the very premise of Doctor Who is the antithesis of sci-fi. "A man travels through time in a magic box" is not a sci-fi concept. Indeed, as has been said by many of the creative people involved in Who over the decades, it's not even a "writer's idea". Someone - I think Terrence Dicks, but I might be wrong - called it "the kind of idea a writer has in the bath and immediately dismisses". It borrows time travel from sci-fi, but it also borrows from mythology, it borrows from fantasy, and in practice it borrows from pretty much every genre of story-telling there is, all be it not all at the same time, and not in equal amounts.
Now, if your point is simply "that's not what Who is for me", or "that's not what I want Who to be", then fair enough. Carry on (or, more reasonably if you hate it that much, don't carry on). Right now Who is whatever RTD wants it to be. You might not like that, but it's how it is. Just as with Doctors, there'll be another showrunner along sooner or later and the show will change again.
@@wildwomanofthewoods Are you kidding me? The third had the Daemons, LITERALLY the originators of demonic creatures. Fourth had Sutekh, basically a god of destruction. Ten had SATAN himself, as in the devil. The Gods of Ragnarok, the trickster, the Toymaker who was part of the first doctor's tenure, the vampires of E-Space, I could go on. Doctor Who is about going EVERYWHERE. As for this episode in particular, if you want mind screws look up Snakedance for a mind screw. This is a ghost story, this episode. The barriers about reality get broken down a bit and maybe that leads to her going through this hell. Devil's Chord literally featured a god or demon of music, so I enjoyed 73 yards because I've seen most of the episodes, going back to Hartnell, and this feels like a Doctor Who episode, this is consistent with the ENTIRE series. And she did a good job in it. This was her first episode. As for where the doctor was, who cares? That adds to the situation and her difficulties, and makes us ask questions, so I'm good.
Consider the possibility that maybe they will explain it in a later episode. It is intentionally ambiguous.
They're not.
@@arkworthy8594How do you know? Are you apart of this writing team that u like to hate?
@@TheMathsTutorJosh He explained it in a Radio Times interview (youtube hates links so I can't give one). They're never bringing it up again, you're expected to write the story for him in your head. So in a way, you're right. It is intentionally ambiguous.
I personally loved the episode, I really like the way this season is going and I''m so looking forward to how it will pan out. I'm back in love with Dr Who again after years of Chibnall.
Looks like the overnight ratings went up a bit for this episode.
The ratings went from 2 people to 3 people?
@@Right_Said_Brett Very true... but it still went up. I think there are a lot of people who thought the numbers would just keep going down. Some RUclips creators were championing that viewpoint when the overnight numbers were declining. Now when they go up a bit (it's the highest overnight ratings of Series 1 so far), where are all the videos? A week ago, you couldn't swing a dead cat on here without hitting one... but now that the overnight numbers have improved (slightly), it doesn't fit their message.
If you were writing the TV listing to get people watching and intrigued about this episode there are things you would say.
Who is the mystery woman haunting ruby?
Why is she 73 yards away at all times?
Where is the doctor?
And who is mad jack!?
Sounds good.
Apart from the fact that none of those questions are actually ever answered or explain fully in The script.. and that is what the script is all about.
Is mad jack an entity that suddenly can appear after his name is spoken in the fairy circle. The problem is now we are in a universe of superstition it seems like anything can happen and nobody has to explain it away they would just say oh it is magic. It's absolutely pointless really
No no Mad Jack originally
Was reincarnated to Roger
Ap Gwiliams
But since Ruby stopped The
Doctor from Breaking the Fairy
Circle
Mad Jack never re-entered our
Realm
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω your explanation is perfectly reasonable but that isn't very clear in the actual program.
Because ruby says mad jack at the fairy circle he is born and reincarnated in the Welsh politician. There needed to be more clear indicators this is what happened i think
@@CyberSlammer2024 remember
The interview he said that his friends
Called him Mad Jack
So that means
Originally he didn't re entered alone
@@ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ-ε1ω it never says why the friends call him mad jack. Is it friendly banter? If he is mad and a psychopath surely some of his so-called friends would then say God you don't want this guy's prime minister he is insane I'm going to kill us all.
So much of the plot doesn't make sense
@@CyberSlammer2024 they called him Mad Jack
because he is Mad Jack
he re entered our realm
when The Doctor broke the circle
and Ruby said the name
also Russell said in an interview in radio times that the interpretation
of this episode is up to us
and we are free to create our own story
because they will never mention these events
again
Genuinely wondering if you go into each episode intending on hating it, or if you are open to seeing happiness and joy in anything at all? I’m going to watch some of your other videos that aren’t Doctor Who related to work out if you’re a toxic fan or if you are just disappointed in what you’re seeing. I reserve my personal judgement.
No he's right. Dr Who is absolute shite now. In fact it's beyond awful!
@@strakermidwich9679 So some seem to think. Those people have a fairly obvious solution available to them. The show was periodically reinventing itself decades before "reboots" and "soft reboots" were a thing. With all change, some fans of the original or previous version will be lost along the way, but probably not as many as would be lost if the show carried on completely unchanged and unaffected by everything around it.
@@chrispalmer7893 The vast majority have people have done the obvious thing. Hence the catastrophic viewing numbers. When you change a show so much it's no longer the show they fell in love with then people will check out. And you'll NEVER get those people back as the legacy is already ruined. And the constant Trans and LBGTQBBCITVSKY+ pandering is giving people the ICK and they've gone too. Remember the Doctor is no longer a Timelord. Is no longer from Gallifrey and also CAN'T die so where is the peril. The writing has devolved into utter nonsense now. Lazy and divisive. I'm afraid there is no way back now it's done!
Imagine if all the episodes where the series took a chance to breathe and just have fun with a concept got this sort of reaction. I swear none of you know how to have fun.
Exactly. I just saw this episode and I enjoyed it. Do you know why? Because it doesn't explain it all. BUT it does show something way more important. How Ruby deals with a situation. She managed to avert nuclear war and deal with something emotionally horrifying without giving in to despair. This episode isn't about the mystery, it's a litmus test. How does this companion survive and remain alive, how does she save the world. That's what I took from it anyway.
@@scottgodfrey7118 This is just Blink for the new series - people are losing their shit over it (derogatory) but will eventually come to see it as a good episode, just like they did with Blink.
Highly illogical… 😢
Doctor who
Is no longer a strictly science fiction show its more fantasy
It's very rarely been "strictly" science fiction (and the few times it's really leaned into "hard science fiction", mostly in the early 80s, didn't exactly lead to the creation of many classic stories, did it?) But yes, more fantasy than sci-fi is a choice RTD has made - and spoke openly about.
Why do you keep watching Dr. Who?
Because if no one calls it out, and points out all the problems. You are left with the shills and stans saying it is perfectly fine.
@@dermywermy080 sometimes things are so far gone you just have to let them go… let it go Dermy, let it go.
@@dermywermy080 And where would be if that happened? We'd be in precisely the same position because the showrunners will continue to do what they want to do with the show. Which is what they're paid for and entitled to do.
Has it even occurred to you, even for a moment, that the people who say they're enjoying it are *gasp* actually enjoying it? Your use of the terms "shills" and "stans" strongly implies that you haven't. What an odd way to see the world...
@@chrispalmer7893 i will keep calling out bad media, and arguing with Stans about it.
@@dermywermy080 And they say there are no heroes anymore...
Dam dude if you want everything spoon feed to you maybe you should just watch law and order.
This is becoming the saddest cope yet. RTD specifically said the episode has no meaning.