Doctor Who 14x4 73 Yards Reaction

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[@LaurenMcGinty12]

73 yards more like 73 questions ???

[@goenmo]

So to summarize: As I understand it , the Doctor breaks the circle. Ruby is shunted into a time loop where somehow she is haunted by her future self. She uses her unique relationship with herself to stop Mad Jack (Roger ap Gwilliam) from escaping the loop into the real world. Then she has to live through the loop until the end/beginning comes round again so she can warn herself and prevent the circle from being broken. It is a sort of bootstrap paradox. As for the running away, I think there is a perception filter on Ruby. Whatever she is, getting close to the old lady version of her turns off the filter on the young version (like the filter can’t exist on both simultaneously). Whatever people see when they look back at the young version terrifies them, so they run away. There is this hypothesis running around that she is the Trickster’s daughter from Sarah Jane Adventures. Maybe she is? Or something even worse?

[@anniesharp4871]

My favourite episode in years. Masterful storytellying. Genuinely scary at times. Lovely character development. Totally different from what I expected. I'm sure lots of the remaining mystery will tie in with the finale BUT we don't need to be given all the answers. We know as much as Ruby does herself just like the tenth doctor in midnight. The complete intolerance for sophisticated, open endings from some modern audiences is absolutely bewildering to me.

[@garyheron]

Absolutely agree, there is a certain pleasure in an unexplained mystery.

[@janeenpuckett5946]

I wish I could give this several thumbs up!

[@Cally.Summer]

It's impressive that it was Millie's first episode (even before Church on Ruby Road.) Ncuti was off shooting Sex Education.

[@hrishiv27]

God, between Boom and 73 yards, we are so back…

[@JoeBackes]

I give this a 10 out of 10. A+. This was brilliant and sad. Millie carried the whole show. She was really good. The locals in the Welsh bar were perfect. Kate from UNIT gives a clue talking about "this timeline." Sometimes a time travel adventure can leave you all alone and it takes your whole life to resolve it. Very well written show.

[@mikebasil4832]

This can be a classic example of how a Doctor Who story can still be enjoyed despite being inevitably flawed. Thank you, Lauren. ☮️

[@pandaphil]

You can tell Ruby's age by the numbers on the Christmas cards by her window.

[@Trikeboy2]

I'm glad it is never revealed what scared people away. Not knowing is creepier than anything they could have put there. My favourite part was when Kate turned up. You expect her to help and when she abandons Ruby, it just feels wrong which is exactly what made it great.

[@lowkeyz99]

You know there will be no opening scene when the episode title came out very early

[@zvimur]

4:35.... Sian Phillips is 91 years strong!! She's either an actual Gallifreyan, or a Bene Geserit.

[@user-cy1bt8qu7z]

❤❤❤ loved it lm loving the new season

[@jaraket]

Reminded me of The Girl Who Waited a bit. A companion who lives a life without The Doctor and ends up saving her younger self, allowing her to live through days she never got to, sacrificing her own existence to do so.

[@janeenpuckett5946]

I believe the remaining questions in this episode will be answered by season’s end. LOVED this one!

[@ThePonderer]

Loved this one. Frankly sometimes I’m happy to have more questions than answers.

[@mikebasil4832]

That’s the kind of science fiction that mostly appeals to me too.

[@hollyvanwye9294]

I totally agree!

[@alexanderriley2979]

I thought it was a pretty awesome episode. And I don't need every question answered, either. As a matter of fact, there are some questions I don't want answered. The fact that the "old woman" knew enough about everyone to scare them silly or anger them completely..I'd rather not know. Maybe there are a near infinite amount of Rubys in separate universes going through this cycle until one in their universe gets it right. Anyhow, remember when you ask for weird, it's usually not the weird you wanted that shows up.

[@LuckDragonLair]

After watching the whole season I think this has a new perspective... it's starting to seed more into the season the concept of how we handle things we don't understand... we make up our own reasons, or we obsess over trying to explain it... and in doing so we create it's importance... much like someone did in the last episode of the season... All these examples of various concepts of how we give importance to things and significance because we can't stand not knowing/understanding it...

[@benjamindavis4974]

We will find out in the finale

[@steve8510]

Masterclass

[@ConorDale]

I hope we get the answers we need, I assume it’s going to tie in with 14th & Donna and the whole mavity situation, this world feels off somehow even when ruby’s at home it feels off and I think it’s because of that

[@tenmark7055]

Loved this one overall. My weak point though is that the Doctor sets up Mad Jack's existence before the circle is broken. At the end we still have the cir c le unbroken & presumably Mad Jack still exists?

[@LordLOC]

Mad Jack was just a dude, who was a bad guy who the Doctor mentioned becoming PM etc. So Ruby was thinking about him specifically when she read that RIP letter when that timeline was created just for Ruby. I'm pretty sure this implies that Mad Jack either died in the "real" timeline now, or never becomes PM as it is. Mostly because of how Ruby handled the situation in her timeline, and that she said she had been to Whales 3 times when it was only 2 and the 3rd was the cut off timeline event. Interestingly, she even remembers some of it, which is odd to be honest, adds to the mystery of who or what she might be.

[@AndrewTeale-cy3dw]

He didn't set up Mad Jack, He set up the future PM Rodger ap Gwilliam. Presumably the actions of the Doctor and or Ruby allowed the mythical Mad Jack, or some essence of him, to escaped the fairy ring and infested the future PM. In the restored and original timeline Gwilliam takes the country to the brink of nuclear war. In the alternative timeline the button would have been pushed.

[@XanderHarris1023]

If Ruby can go back and see her younger self how far does that power go. They are really harping on not being able to find her birth mother. Is it possible Ruby went back and put her baby self outside that church? (The memory changed) Yeah, it's a paradox, but so is this.

[@DanielRDrew]

I'm going with parallel out-of-sync bubble reality. I was likening it to Turn Left, but you made the better analogy of The Curse of Clyde Langer. I do wonder if we'll ever get to 2046 again to deal with that Prime Minister, or perhaps that aspect was deal with. Maybe it was a reality alongside the normal one? Maybe all that happens in the future anyway, though wait The Doctor said that that guy did become the PM. So either Ruby changed time or just in that bubble she did. And I also looked up the fairy circles and nothing really specific about the curses, just that some of the folklore was that you'd get cursed. Though what it said about the circles also reminded me of the fairy episode of Torchwood, so I was expecting something close to that somehow. Though that would have been too scary XD. Though perhaps some entity was unbound by the breaking of the circle even though it was fixed, since that was a legend or myth and the lines between myths and reality is overlapping this season. Man RTD was right that we'd be thinking a lot about this episode XD.

[@epicmonkey6663]

I like the new show for what it is episode 2 was amusing but I'm glad they can still do horror it gives me hope there will be more scary things along the wfay

[@zvimur]

Basically, RTD's take on Turn Left.

[@zvimur]

Or.. same for "The woman who waited"....

[@zeedfilippo3]

and "Blink", without the doctor

[@zvimur]

@@zeedfilippo3 Mmm. Blink had the opposite paradox, the reality didn't negate itself, rather set it in stone. Sally Sparrow didn't prevent the Doctor from loosing the TARDIS, just set him on the path to get it back

[@benjamindavis4974]

RTD wrote Turn Left

[@zvimur]

@@benjamindavis4974 Ouch, so he did.

[@user-dy5ku3gd7r]

I dont know about the woman's hand gestures and why exactly 73 yards, but i do have other theories. Where did the doctor go: he was the one who broke the fairy circle, so maybe his disappearance was a type of punishment. And why didnt Ruby disappear? She was the one who took the scroll about Mad Jack and read it, so taking down the PM had become her mission alone, although she didnt know it yet. Why did the woman make everyone hate Ruby: I feel like it was a defence mechanism, coz nothing should hamper Ruby's mission of dethroning the PM. If Unit, for example, successfully intervened and captured the woman, Ruby would have never been able to deal with the PM. So, its like: you try to approach her or talk to her, then you are repelled by her and driven away from Ruby, so that Ruby's mission can be completed without impediments or distractions. Nobody tried to approach the woman after Ruby dealt with the PM, so we don't know if this theory holds. There is no paradox. The episode occured in an alternate timeline. And in that timeline, Ruby stopped the PM from leading the "the world to the brink of nuclear war", to quote the Doctor. So there is no actual nuclear war. When the timeline is reset in the final scene, Ruby does not live a life where she will stop the PM, so it isnt a paradox. Her original timeline is restored. In the final scene, the doctor again tells Ruby about the dangerous PM. Going by the exact words of the Doctor, the PM will indeed come to power in 2046, but clearly doesn't do any catastrophic damage. He simply acquires the weapons for symbolism. This entire episode was in an alternate timeline and trying to be all meta coz in this alternate timeline, Doctor Who does not have a title sequence.

[@DanielRDrew]

Oh right the running. Hmm, I think perhaps it was something like she couldn't have accomplished what she did with the PM if she led a normal life. It was kind of like it was a forced destiny to be fated into this wraparound bubble timeline, so it forced her to be the kind of person who would be there at that time to do that task? Or something like that? XD

[@railfan711]

She was 40 when she was wearing the glasses.

[@LaurenMcGinty12]

Those glasses were one hell of a skin routine

[@gavinbruce6656]

Episode gave me "Inside No 9" vibes.

[@kant12]

I enjoyed it until the end. Such an RTD resolution. It feels right but makes no sense.

[@LordLOC]

It makes perfect sense though. Ruby was stuck in a time loop or in an offshoot timeline of her own creation when she read the letters in the fairy circle. The old woman who was always there was just Ruby, and after saving the UK (and the world I guess?) from that Mad Jack PM guy, she just lived the rest of her days until the end where the timeline snapped back to the start and we literally saw things from old Ruby/the old woman's perspective until Ruby stopped the Doctor from stepping on the circle thus breaking the time loop. I kind of elaborated a bit much here but it makes perfect sense (in a Doctor Who way of course) and plays into Ruby being "wrong" or different for whatever reason.

[@kant12]

@@LordLOC So why did Kate abandon Ruby? And it wasn't exactly a timeloop was it? It was more like the same couple seconds of Ruby at the end of her life projected at a fixed distance from Ruby in all timeframes. Even though we never saw old/dying Ruby perform those movements. Which would have been nice if like she was actually trying to do something that only made sense at the end when we saw what it was.

[@LordLOC]

@@kant12 I don't know why Kate and everyone else abandoned Ruby or ran away screaming. Maybe when confronting the old woman people saw it was old Ruby and just, I don't know, lost it for lack of a better term. Maybe the perception filter has something to do with it, who knows. Maybe it's because Ruby is "wrong" has something going on and it just made people get scared or what have you. And it would be more of a branched/splintered timeline than a timeloop but since things reset when older Ruby died and we then saw things from the old woman/Ruby's perspective at the end, it's a timeloop, of sorts lol

[@kant12]

@@LordLOC I also asked about Kate specifically because she didn't directly interact with old Ruby. Somehow just hearing something was enough. Plus most people seemed to go back to what they were doing. They didn't run away forever. When she stopped Roger momentarily you'd think he'd just have her fired and get back to work. And we didn't learn what happened to the Doctor the whole time. I could imagine maybe he got trapped somehow and the Tardis created the scenario to distract Ruby and change the past. But it still leaves a lot unanswered questions.

[@kerouac.jackson]

I think that fairy ring somehow trapped the Doctor away in a temporal prison within the space of Ruby's lifespan. She was somehow trapped seeing herself at the end of her lifespan, constantly separated by a distance of 73 yards (possibly each yard represents how many years she has left to live). And then when she finally died, everything snapped back, and the Doctor was released. And I guess the story that the people in Welsh bar were telling about the fairly ring trapping Mad Jack was about what the fairy ring did to the Doctor and not Mad Jack.

[@LordLOC]

I don't think the Doctor was trapped anywhere - I think it was Ruby specifically who was trapped in that timeline she was in. I think the Doctor was just there until Ruby read the RIP Mad Jack thing and that's when the new timeline for Ruby was created and she was probably frozen in front of the Doctor for an instant (because that's how these timeline weirdo events work in Doctor Who, remember Turn Left?). Kate herself said this timeline was suspended along her event aka a timeline just for Ruby basically to figure out how to "fix" things or whatever.

[@kerouac.jackson]

@@LordLOC Maybe? I think an argument could be made for the Doctor being trapped inside the fairy ring, and Ruby being trapped outside it. The point seemed to be to keep them separated.

[@LordLOC]

@@kerouac.jackson Maybe also? lol I don't think the point of the circle thingy was to keep them separated, though I wouldn't be surprised I suppose. I think it's just that they are bringing in a lot of supernatural things into the show now - and this is just one of those things.

[@Will-nn6ux]

By the way, did you see that thing where Ncuti was saying that his mum told him that he had been saying his name wrong?! The N is pronounced! It’s kind of like ‘un-shoot-ee’ but without the hard ‘uh’ sound. Nnnn-shoot-ee.

[@LaurenMcGinty12]

Yes! 😂

[@Will-nn6ux]

​@@LaurenMcGinty12Can you imagine finding out that you'd been pronouncing your own hand incorrectly?! 😂

[@dupersuper1938]

Millie's acting was great, and the alternate timeline stuff was interesting, but none of this stands up to any scrutiny at all. There's a difference between mysterious and just not explained, and there's zero explanation to why every one from her mom to the head of UNIT abandoned Ruby. An entertaining "turn your brain off" episode, but certainly no match for Boom.

[@joshuaverran9443]

Very boring episode.

[@DeusLucifer]

this is so dumb even the so called villain i have no idea what wrong he did and this entire ep is a paradox as non of the even happened if old ruby prevented young ruby from letting the doctor destroy the so called circle. worst writing RTD ever did to date. And even if he did everything is a God Dame paradox

[@thelazygamer1639]

He was going to fire nuclear missiles, he was also an abuser evidence by Marti. He was an evil man who needed to be stopped. Theories around the place, but it's heavily implied that Roger is still born even without breaking the circle, but breaking the circle releases an evil spirit called Mad Jack, who possesses Roger and makes him do more horrible things than he would have previously.

[@DeusLucifer]

@thelazygamer1639 I might be mistaken but I don't think he even mention he was absolutely eant to yh I want to launch a nuke only that the nation should start making them and stuff. Amd there was no evidence or facts saying anyone was abused by him

[@thelazygamer1639]

@DeusLucifer LITERALLY we have Marti to say he's a monster, she doesn't need to be covered in bruises and cuts to realize how badly he treated her. Why would the man tell anyone what his true plan was? He wanted to buy missiles from Pakistan, he wanted to go independent so that he COULD fire missiles without anyone telling him he couldn't. He cut off the interviewer when he implied that he wanted to fire a missile and told them to cut that bit out, he didn't want to public questioning his motives. You have all the evidence you need, but YOU need it spoon-fed to you from the man's own mouth like a mama bird feeding their babies because otherwise to you, context clues aren't actual evidence of a character's intentions.

[@Jamienomore]

The Episodes are getting worse. Have you seen Doctor Who on the REACT Channel. The Doctor and Ruby have to make decisions.

[@benjamindavis4974]

I don't know what you mean by this

[@Jamienomore]

@@benjamindavis4974 There is a Channel called REACT which is great fun to watch. Recently they had Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on a Doctor Who quiz,

[@thelazygamer1639]

Ruby made many decisions in this episode.

[@QuantumLockedInStone]

erm!

[@Richard-se1de]

It was so boring and predictable this show keeps getting worst and worst