Doctor Who S1E04 Watch A Long
Added 2024-06-06 20:00:04 +0000 UTCHey Peaches! Get your thinking hats on and turn on all the lights in the room. It's the first horror-ish episode of the season. But what is going on? What are the rules? Why is all this happening? Help us figure it out!
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mystery? its welsh people in the welsh countryside. XD Remember russel is welsh.
Jake Beaumont
2024-06-07 17:01:46 +0000 UTCI liked this episode while I was watching it, but I'm with Jay - I was left frustrated and unsatisfied. There wasn't enough here to justify that level of mystery and ambiguity. The Roger ap Gwilliam stuff was ultimately a pointless diversion, and if she made it so that timeline is void, then it made no difference. The biggest mystery here is why those people in the pub were so rude and how they got away with charging £5 for a Coke (that's $6.50, incidentally).
Chris J
2024-06-07 13:30:45 +0000 UTCThe part with the Roger was a brilliant part because she did exactly like Kate Stewart said, she took the unexplainable and tried to invent her own rules to make it work... but in the end... they were just the rules she made up.
FalcorDragon
2024-06-07 01:13:47 +0000 UTCImo rules dampen the point of a supernatural story. Supernatural means unexplainable. But to make it palatable to audiences so many things try to put rules on it. Horror movies almost always have to be lawful to create a solution, a wau to survive. Doctor who does this somewhat. Like we know why supernatural things are coming in more often. And many can be stopped with salt. But this episode i adore as its breaking those rules. The unit soldiers had necklaces of salt for witchcraft. This would stop the toymaker. But didnt work on the fairy circle. Complete... true.. mystery. Pure. The main story is just a ruby redemption story.
Jake Beaumont
2024-06-07 00:58:00 +0000 UTCRussell t davies has said its NOT a ghost story. It was set up that way intentionally in the pub... but then destroyed when they were just playing a prank. Its a Ruby story, with unexplainable supernatural elements. Ever since the salt thing in the 60th anniversary, supernatural entities have been bleeding into the universe. The pantheon. Goblins. and... fairy circles. The doctor stepped on it. He got banished. The timelines got suspended so the tardis became inaccesbible (like in fathers day series 1 2005), and ruby got cursed to fix the mistake. I believe the doctor is usually the one who stops the prime minister, off camera. Without him Ruby has to do it. So the fairy circle gives her clues to do it herself, and redeem herself. But it makes everuone run from her, not only as a way to stop the prime minister, but also to make sure she does it alone. With no support. She succeeds. Grows old. Dies becomes the woman a tiny bit earlier (supernatural wibbly wobbly timey wimey) and stops the doctor. The prime minister STILL gets stopped... as the doctor is back. The only mystery is what she says. But like i said before... thats not possible to answer satisfyingly. So fun to theorise and joke about. "Ruby likes pineapple on pizza"
Jake Beaumont
2024-06-07 00:53:58 +0000 UTCLike you said it needs to be a good answer... but the trouble is it will never be good enough. Its like answering "whats the doctors name" it will NEVER be satisfying. Its more fun to theorise. What could you possibly say to make a mother despise a daughter she adores. No answer to that question will ever satisfy anyone... because it will just be something awful that we will respond to with "oh yeah thats a bad thing to say" then we'll move on. Just like the midnight entity... its best left a mystery. Its supernatural after all.
Jake Beaumont
2024-06-07 00:45:00 +0000 UTCThis gave me very much Turn Left vibes, that episode where Donna lived a life without the Doctor because she turned left instead of right. Great big paralell world
Luna Ulloa
2024-06-07 00:25:12 +0000 UTCThere’s something ironically satisfying about not knowing the rules behind this episode, like you guys called out. So often in Who, we follow the formulaic pattern of mystery—>action—>realization—>explanation, almost always with the Doctor solving the riddle. One fun thing that this season is doing is moving more into the ephemeral, the weird, the truly unexplained, and reveling and finding comfort in that weird space of Not Knowing. We get our episodic reset at the end so that series can continue, and making this a first-person personal story arc allows that motif to continue forward: the Ruby we end with hasn’t gone through the episode, she’s reacting to what we see at the end and that’s it. We get to sit in the mystery and ponder. And that’s a weird sort of fun in its own right. I get the feeling we’ll look back on this at the end of the season very very fondly.
fivefingers_through_fire
2024-06-07 00:04:01 +0000 UTCOh right on! This is awesome!
Luna Ulloa
2024-06-06 23:32:06 +0000 UTCThis was the first thing Millie Gibson shot as the new companion. What a way to kick off your first Doctor Who shooting schedule.
Aimee Lynn
2024-06-06 21:41:58 +0000 UTC
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