Doctor Who: Boom Breakdown - 21 Easter Eggs & References!

Meeps, marines, and fish custard! Here’s our breakdown of Doctor Who Season 1's third episode - Boom!
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[@touchztone]

Surely surely surely Splices constant refrain of “Where’s my daddy” was a call back to “are you my mummy?”

[@Melina_Evarblume_Seelie]

Nah, that's a reach and a stretch of the concept of a callback.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

"Are you my mummy?" was my ringtone. Scared the heck out of a little girl in a shop. She ran to her mum and clung on for dear life.

[@gf1006]

I don’t think its a direct reference but its reminiscent of it probably unintentionally. Just a symptom of Moffat’s writing

[@OliverSmithson-ir9fi]

Loved that episode

[@kmfind]

I thought so, especially with it being another child in a war zone.

[@kassidyj97]

There was also a throwback with the line about "basically just wait til daddy gets home" also reflects River Song saying in "The Angels Take Manhattan" when she says "just you wait til my husband gets home"

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

what reflects River Song = the ending of the hologram of Vater and the Doctor saying : What survives is Love! I.E. River survived. Her loves shines through.

[@judithstrachan9399]

I thought of Manhattan then, too, & I wasn’t watching.

[@tapicationer]

Also “Closing Time” when 11 says “Daddy’s coming home!” Basically same plot too, dad solves everything.

[@dwarfwhite7296]

also in "Husbands of River Song" River calls herself with the Doctor "mummy and daddy" in the moment when they planned how they escaped from meteor strike.

[@Cally.Summer]

There's a parallel with "The Beast Below" (and therefore an addition to the Moffat Count). Ruby is connected to a machine which shows her calendar age and fails to tell her who her next of kin is. In The Beast Below, Amy is told her calendar age and the polling booth cannot tell her marital status.

[@OliverSmithson-ir9fi]

Nice spot 👍

[@georg194]

I, as a german viewer, liked that the Anglican Marine Bishop Vater and his associates of the church on the planet were waring german military camouflage. 👍 for the costume department just connecting the name to the country. Nice Easter Egg. It makes the world building for the church bigger

[@elliottwatt5297]

I think Vater’s AI overcoming the machine is a bit like Tasha Lem overcoming the Dalek programming, or Clara overcoming the Dalek programming, or Bill overcoming the Cyberman conversion. It’s about emotion and love over the machines.

[@RumRunneerFilms]

The Doctor making people...better

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

Danny Pink! The Promise of a Soldier !!!!

[@elliottwatt5297]

@@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914 oh yeah, that’s a good one too.

[@aprildawnsunshine4326]

​@@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914 "love is not an emotion, love is a promise"

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

@@aprildawnsunshine4326 Love is all. XD period.

[@altosanon]

"The long way round" was also used in the Girl in the Fireplace first I think.

[@tautau1a]

it was also used by Clara in her exit scene of her exit episode.

[@naewilliams4662]

Also used by 12 when he goes to Gallery after Heaven Sent

[@tomgeoghegan9234]

When I heard the reference to sentient mud, I thought about Capaldi’s episode “The Magician’s Apprentice” when a young Davros is being pursued across a muddy field booby-trapped with “handmines” (connection to the landmines in Boom as well?) Later in that same episode, Missy shows Clara that the organic matter in the underground Dalek graveyard still has some sort of consciousness since it can feel pain & react (when Missy pokes it with the stick).

[@cholten99]

Yup, that was certainly what I thought of

[@Stephen-Jones]

Anyone else get shudders when Ellie said 'Icecream, icecream, icecream"?

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

That viral UK nine year old complaining about being charged 9 pounds for 2 ice cream treats came to mind... "Bloody Hell!" ;-P

[@WhoCulture]

Weather is warm, she just really wanted a chilly snack!

[@mikegillespie4979]

​@WhoCulture Ruby ' Since when is the church an army?' Doctor ' Since most of your history. You've been living in a blip.' 🤔 Also wasn't Ruby left at a church. 😉. Kiss kiss.

[@JoeSiegler]

5:37 - Take an up for the Harry Sullivan announcement, and take a second up for including it here.

[@KBRoller]

Love saving the day (or, more generally if you prefer, empathy saving the day) is such a big part of the intrinsic character of the Doctor, through all their regenerations. It's such a big part that Eight specifically found a way to *not be the Doctor anymore* when he thought empathy would be a hinderance during the Time War. (Though I still count the War Doctor as a Doctor, for sure.) That's why, when I see people complaining that Fifteen "shows too much emotion", I'm just like... what show have YOU been watching all these years where empathy WASN'T core to everything the Doctor stands for? 😅

[@micron000]

Have you read the rest of 'An Arundel Tomb'? It's a poem about the nature of time, mortality, and love - and I wonder if any other lines in it were used as inspiration for Ruby's story, or this season in general. It totally feels like a Moffat thing to do, say, if RTD told him about this poem being used as inspiration, and then he goes and directly gets the Doctor to quote it right under our noses (kinda like he did with his episode titles in that interview a while back lol). I think it has some merit, since among other things, the poem reads: 1. "It meets his left-hand gauntlet ... His hand withdrawn, holding her hand" - Mavity glove scene, Church on Ruby Road 2. "The air would change to soundless damage" - The sonic canceling out sound scene from the Devil's Chord 3. "Snow fell, undated" - Pretty much every episode so far lol 4. "The endless altered people came" - could be a reference to the baby farm in Space Babies 5. "Washing at their identity / Now, helpless in the hollow of / An unarmorial age, a trough / Of smoke in slow suspended skeins" - Boom, especially the scenes with Ruby being read by the ambulance (uarmorial, age, washed identity) and the bit about the robots blowing away the suspended smoke. Basically, I might be reading too much into it, but I found it very interesting, and if it is true, I wonder what other lines will come to have meaning? E.g. there are lines about "The earl and countess lie in stone / Their proper habits vaguely shown" which might refer to the future regency episode; or "And that faint hint of the absurd" which sounds to me like this season overall, with it being more "fantastical" than ever before. Also, while I did actually realise or discover everything on your list before watching this time, having it all in one brilliantly edited and well presented video, is still really fun. So thank you :)

[@shangothrax]

These videos keep me going during the workweek...lol..

[@KyleWitten]

I'm hurt and disappointed that you neglected the most important 51st Century reference in Doctor Who. K-9 Mark 1 is from the 51st Century (the year 5000 to be exact).

[@digitig]

That would be the last year of the 50th century. I'll get my coat...

[@judithstrachan9399]

50th

[@digitig]

@@judithstrachan9399 Yes. Corrected.

[@hermiona1147]

Captain Jack is also from 51st century

[@ChazaMazza_]

"hey, who turned out the lights?"

[@WhoCulture]

😲😲😲😲

[@ChazaMazza_]

@@WhoCulture i- i- ice cream

[@cherry.blossom_tree]

A bit that hasn't been mentioned in the Ups & Downs nor here is that when Ruby was scanned by the ambulance, it said her age was over 3,000 years old. I interpreted her sobbing and asking who her next of kin was more as, "my mum is long gone, I don't know who my birth parents were, and I don't know if I have any descendents. Who *is* my next of kin?" And if anything, an indirect (and perhaps a bit of a stretch of an easter egg) connection could be that she'd be an "impossible girl" by being over 3,000 years old. Thought it was worth sharing. ❤

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

More like she would want to know who her mom is.

[@TheMilkman-ur5ip]

Also, when Clara tells Ashildr that they’re gonna go back to Galifrey, she also says “the long way round”

[@Creek932]

I love that the thumbnail makes it look like Ruby is related to the Meep.

[@jameskeeling5278]

River Song's weapons were also from Villengard. Thought Ellie might like this

[@MrMetallix]

To be fair, those were actually the weapons that captain Jack left on the tardis…. River just… adopted them

[@jameskeeling5278]

​@MrMetallix Really? (I need to catch up on S5 and S6 tbh)

[@VinnieBartilucci]

yeah it's the SAME squareness gun, no?

[@MrMetallix]

@@jameskeeling5278 I don’t think it’s specifically said it, but it was implied

[@dwarfwhite7296]

​@@MrMetallixthere was also a theory that the temporal bracelet used by River belonged to Jack. There's literally a line from Dorrium when he's selling River's bracelet about how it belonged to a time agent.

[@MichelleWilliams-oo9cl]

How did Ellie (of all people miss the River Song reference? In The Angels Take Manhattan, River says “It means Mr Grayle, just you wait til my husband gets home”. I had honestly thought and hoped that she would pick up on that reference, I did during the episode. Ellie. Ellie. Ellie. I’m a little disappointed, seeing as River is your favourite character and mine. Just jokes, I love you really

[@robyngwendolynshiloh5277]

So... only episodes Susan Twist hasnt been in of new stuff is the first special and the 3rd... but what if shes the hand at the end grabbing the tooth?

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

I thought that, too. Or what if she's the Meep? Ok, maybe not...

[@gf1006]

@@happyslapsgiving5421she could be “the boss” that the meep spoke about

[@movieblues4614]

Maybe she is the one who waits.

[@TastySalamanders]

Even if she didn't appear in The Giggle, Triad Technology is mentioned, and as mentioned in this video - her character appears to be connected to Triad Technology. So at the very least it could count as an indirect reference.

[@LoverOfBellies]

​@@TastySalamandersI thought it was Villaingusrd & that was the weapons manufacturer; I've not heard Triad Technology referenced before

[@elvenstranger]

The "Long way around" phrase is so good at painting whatever they are talking about as an epic journey, appropriate for many Doctor references.

[@nate2d2]

I feel like the Ambulance was sort of a call back to the ambulance in the Empty Child with the nano genes which was also an ambulance causing problems until everybody lives. The lights on the mine reminded me of the lights in the space suits in Silence in the Library/Forrest of the Dead. And you sort of mentions this with the glitching voiced repeating phrases but more than just the fact that there was thre glitching was the fact that there was this digital echo of a person after death.

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

The "Where there's snow there's" cut-off also references the last thing the third Doctor says to Sarah Jane when he says "A tear Sarah-Jane. No, don't cry! Where there's life there's ..." ("Planet of the Spiders.") The full phrase is actually said in The Daemons by another character. "Where there's life there's hope." This might be a clue to the big bad in the finale.

[@ihavekalashnikovyoudomath9275]

Sounds like a build up to Krampus. Carol of the Bells, snow, lack of hope(naughty kids), maybe we get the return of Santa

[@diamant_2dot0]

There is also mention of "The long way around" in The girl in the fire place

[@TheTeamAka]

I'm so happy you mentioned the skyeboat song, no one seems to have noticed it, the 2nd doctor is my favorite space hobo

[@bretth342]

It makes sense 15 like fishsticks and custard too. Both he and 11 followed Tennant. It makes sense they'd share some details

[@DrWhoFanJ]

fish fingers*

[@Jayghopkins]

42 second is the fastest i ever caught one of these

[@robyngwendolynshiloh5277]

Watching the vid 42 mins after and this was the highlighted comment

[@kassidyj97]

42 minutes here

[@Riprocproductions95]

@@robyngwendolynshiloh527750 minutes 😅

[@WhoCulture]

42 seconds? Not fast enough, do better next time!

[@Delicy]

There is always a TWIST at the end

[@TheVicarstownSentinel]

A SUSAN TWIST at the end

[@KBRoller]

@@TheVicarstownSentinel A DOCTOR'S GRANDDAUGHTER SUSAN TWIST at the end

[@steve-0493]

Those last lines coming outta the helmets, STILL HAUNTING AFTER 16YRS!!😁✌️🥃🤪

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

I've seen sentient mud before... it killed Tasha Yar... Sorry... different group... and he was more tar than mud... ;-P

[@callumlearmonth5629]

I instantly thought of Bob when she said the two weping angels episodes

[@RWoodland57]

Did anyone else get serious Star Wars vibes from that final tableau against the sky? And the ghostly dead Vater/Vader?

[@neilsullivan6416]

What's got me wondering is, not only did the Ambulance identify the recently arrived, Ruby Sunday, but also put her calendar age at 3082 years, that's very precise, yet couldn't Identify The Doctor

[@dharusiokay9426]

Ruby is human, the Ambulance is supposed to take care of humans (if it pays enough...) and probably has access to all human medical records. ...which will make me look quite dumb If it turns out that Ruby is not human...

[@arthemis1039]

@@dharusiokay9426 even if Ruby is not human, she would be registered in 21st century databases and ADN

[@neilsullivan6416]

@@dharusiokay9426 granted it may have instant access to medical records but I'm sure it wouldn't be instant for 3000 year old records, from a different planet. Just consider there were 134 million births last year according to google, and that's only Earth. And given her physical age shouldn't that have thrown up an error

[@sjacpswbs03162005]

Taking the date of the episode (5/10/5087) and taking away the calendar age of 3082 gives 2005, and she’s a Christmas baby, so it shows she’s just temporally displaced

[@Gigachad_cat]

Also 5:13 "Harry I've stepped on a landmine"

[@AnnBearForFreedom]

"There's always a Twist at the end", hmm?

[@KBRoller]

I almost feel like Russel just heard the name "Susan Twist" and was like, "I don't care HOW we get her, but we can't NOT have her!" 😂 Nominative determinism at work.

[@shshyie]

I think the reference to the post-mortem repetition from SitL was intended, due to both stories not only being set in the same century, but also using similar reasons as to why they're still able to talk. SitL had it be due to time running out on a digital imprint of a consciousness, leaving behind a "data ghost". Boom was resolved by Vater's casket saving and uploading aspects of his personality and conscious and incorporating them into the ai retained within, likely being less complete and complex due to vilengarde wanting to save money and make the battery last longer in order to give a guaranteed final message to a loved one who sees, making them more likely to join the fight in hopes of avenging, thus increasing their profits.

[@justicetamplen]

If Ms. Flood had been played by Susan Twist I would maybe see where this was going and be moderately unconfused… needless to say, I am supremely confused and excited 😂

[@kadosho02]

Love all the references, and nods. So many to find

[@victorl7524]

I liked the way 15th talks to Ruby even if she took a fatal blast: it reminded me a lot of Heaven Sent! There's also the Terminator's reference with the "who terminated you, John?"!

[@veggiet2009]

Had anyone noticed the IMDb description now lists "Susan Twist" third? It's Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson, Susan Twist

[@1Gidget]

been waiting all week for this 🥹

[@Riprocproductions95]

Same!

[@idealmma]

The very end with the two facing away gave me a 50th anniversary ending vibe when I saw it and again today on here.

[@RuthlessBoot3455]

I just watched Yards and i can't wait for your reaction and ups and down video

[@hansvandermeulen5515]

The Susan Twist reminds me a bit of fhree different Claras in Moffat era Who.

[@muttshouse]

Maybe she's Clara? Afterall she said she reached into all the Doctor's lives to help him.

[@judithstrachan9399]

True, & that could include future Doctors, but she was always Clara.

[@craigfrancisjohnson]

Ooo you saying ice cream gave me chills

[@francisco_m7849]

7:45 😮 Ellie I cannot believe I did not catch this. From the moment that I first watched the episode and all the videos you have done up to now, it was not until now in the boom breakdown that I noticed that when Ruby was looking at the medical robot, and all the haze of the dust it looks like a Dalek. Take a good look at it and without knowing what it is, tell me with that light flashing back-and-forth, the outline did not give the impression of a Dalek, Which again goes back to the fourth doctor birth of the Daleks.

[@doppelganger3992]

LOL Moff counter.

[@WhoCulture]

It had to be done

[@brianmac5638]

Wondering what you guys think of the theory that Ruby is related to the Trickster somehow?

[@brasswirebrush]

There's been so much imagery around parents and children this season, that I think Ruby has to be either the parent or child of someone significant. Whether that's the Trickster, the Toymaker, the Master, Susan Foreman, or someone else entirely, I think it's too early to say.

[@hardestbodie8087]

After the landmine is defused it displays Xs all around. X's are a symbol commonly used for KISSes at the end of a letter or note. XOXOX! Also, am I the only one that thinks that Mundy stole the Doctor's Tardis key during the hug? Ruby was shown using hers at the beginning of the episode and was shown to have it at the end. They made it a HUGE point that the Doctor couldn't find his. Will the Tardis doors open and she walks right in on them or will they return to the Tardis from an adventure and find her inside waiting?

[@curtwall7089]

Great vid i love to see doc visit villengard factory which is now banana field because something else is happening

[@mackenzieh6612]

I might be too deep in DW lore cause i thought the reference to the moon and the president's wife was to river song, the doctor having been galifreys president once upon a time i thought when "the long way round " was said in the 50th anniversary as a reference to the girl in the fireplace but idk if that even makes sense

[@OliverSmithson-ir9fi]

I'm proud of recognizing most of these

[@danielpratt237]

“Don’t you know there’s more to life than the moon and the presidents wife.” Feels like a reference to the Library’s virtual world, which contains Doctor Moon and River, and River is the First Lady of a couple of presidencies.

[@SG20three]

Nice easter egg breakdown. Thank you! The Ambulance looks like the WOTAN War Machines.

[@shirley34]

I only managed to recognize a few of the ones mentioned, but what you didn't mention was the planets in the sky, which is a reference to "the stolen earth" "journeys end" the doctor Donna episodes season 4, where there were planets in the sky

[@rutepereira7628]

Clara also says she's going to her fate the long way round!! I loved this little reference

[@Gooberguy8705]

Maybe Susan Twist could be "The One Who Waits"

[@badfairy9554]

i think that too

[@Umiel12]

The Doctor did sing “There’s always a Twist at the end.”

[@friendlyotaku9525]

I don't think so, I think it is a separate character but Susan Twist will definitely be important!

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

7:16 u also forgot in 50th anniversary the war doctor while regerating said the long way wrong as well as the first doctor saying here we go the long way round while regerating in twice upon a time

[@iandalby4273]

73 yards reminded me of a skit in a Two Ronnies serial The Phantom Rasberryblower of old London Town.There was a police and the phantom and he was being chased by said police who everytime the phantom stop he would say,"Here,I want a word with you!!"

[@TomLednorMusic]

7:05 It’s also paraphrased in the Girl in the Fireplace to such a beautiful affect

[@confusedsnake]

The scene when the Doctor says something like "we sent the dad in, and now the ambulances are coming" or something similar (I watched it in spanish, so I'm not sure what the actual line is). That scene kind of reminded me of the empty child, when he says that they have sent the kid to his room, while they're on the kid's "room". I know it's not the same, but it was the first thing that came to my mind.

[@maximilianlipp7246]

Atually I becamne these Silence in a Library vides right in the moment he dies and is heard repeating this line. It gave me shivers...

[@MrSmileyFaceGames]

Interesting. Could it be possible that villengard is just an evolution of UNIT? Also, could it be possible that the suits in Silence in the Library were made by villengard?

[@josephineb8659]

Another thing that #4 is referencing, is “Just you wait until my husband gets home” which was said by River in Angels Take Manhattan

[@ryder2085]

YESS!! THE GREEN LASERS!! WEHN I FIRST SAW THE EPSIODE I THOUGHT THAT!!!!

[@FanboyMarkJabroni]

So basically Moffat sitting down to write this script, cackling to himself? 😂

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

I do like listening when Ellie takes a segment "the long way 'round"... ;-)

[@KiwiRuby-rf8ot]

Yay! Been waiting for this one all week :)

[@Lou09011]

Also if you notice Ruby Sunday is born on Christmas eve when the ninth doctor is introduced to rose.(I think)

[@ftumschk]

Vater, in German, is pronounced like "farter"... so maybe he was really a Slitheen ;)

[@betoeg2]

Boom was the best episode since Peter Capaldi’s exit.

[@hastekulvaati9681]

It was very boiler plate Moffat. I personally preferred a lot of the 13th Doctors penultimate season.

[@JoelGrant-yo8b]

I preferred Wild Blue Yonder actually.

[@danthemeegs8751]

It's my favourite episode since World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls. Though I do love The Church on Ruby Road, The Giggle, Wild Blue Yonder, Village of the Angels, and The Haunting of Villa Diodati as well

[@MrStGeorgeIllawarra]

Good lord no. Typical overrated Moffat.

[@Cherrylein89]

There’s always a twist at the end.

[@ugolomb]

Re "what survives of us is love": I assume this means that the Doctor has actually met Larkin, who'd spoken the phrase it to them, maybe even before he included it in his poem

[@karencollins1892]

Surprised that the `Dad to Dad` line wasn`t referenced.

[@SithTyphoon]

I thought that. It is very striking his insistence of confirming that the doctor is a Dad.

[@dataofborg]

To me that was the most important clue to the season in the whole episode

[@Concreteowl]

The Doctor sets off a sonic mine in the Tsuranga Conundrum, before she dies she says "Boom"

[@vultan2000]

We’ve had references to the Doctor’s family and the snow in Twice Upon a Time came before Twelve’s regeneration. So what if Ruby is the Doctor’s daughter or granddaughter (via Jenny) and will regenerate into Verada Sethu? And her mother is played by Susan Twist, either a regeneration of Jenny, or Susan, acting as her guardian.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Boom was a great episode. The best episode of Doctor Who we've had in a long time. Good acting by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson.

[@gavla3550]

15:07 smooth 😊

[@WhoCulture]

Totally intentional.

[@ugolomb]

In linear time, I assume this story takes place before the Doctor destroyed the Villengard factory, an act that I assume was performed by either the War Doctor or the 9th Doctor (so, in the Doctor's past, but presumably in the other characters' future). Maybe extended media give more precise information about this? In TV, AFAIK, we only get a throwaway remark from the 9th Doctor

[@josephcooter5763]

Vater means father. That reminds me Father I went down to Camp along with Camping Gooding.

[@Kowalski_props]

German speaker here. The word Vater is pronounced V-ah-tah Not V-ay-ter, now I know that’s really petty of me but I just wanted to point that out

[@judithstrachan9399]

It’s also Latin, where we don’t REALLY know how it was pronounced, but toffee-nosed Pommy aristocrat wannabes used to call their parents Mater & Vater, pronounced that way.

[@Higinjhhg1123]

Susan twist being a future doctor would be incredible!!!

[@richtheobald4390]

"Ruby picked up Vater's vacuum packed corpse" I guess she had the guts!

[@jackhulbert5252]

Do you still do freelance list writing? The website contributor link goes to a blank page.

[@D.W.-tt4ng]

I think that the snow could be the return of the great intelligence. And perhaps Susan Twist is a Clara like character. Not necessarily an older Clara coming back but someone who has always been with and unnoticed by the Doctor. I don't remember the name of the episode but when Clara entered the Doctor's time stream there were short clips of her back and helping all of the doctors starting #1 in 1964 all the way thru the 1970s 80s 90s and onto the present day. Those are my 2 working theories. ANNNNND DISCUSS...............

[@garywoolton1875]

i did feel the mic drop also similar to 11 dropping his bowtie, it's over... and Canto telling Munday he loved her and was OK she didn't love him back. Something Rory said in Asylum of the Daleks to Amy.

[@Dynasty954]

1:18 I thought that was Queen Elizabeth.

[@Jeffjway]

We have the skye boat song which was featured in Web of Fear, the first assistance of the Great Intellegence. We have Snow, which is very tied to Ruby's backstory, which the Great Intellegence used in The Snowmen and ... well kinda associated with Yetis.. We know, the GI hates the Doctor and split himself over the timelines to kill the Doctor in Name of the Doctor, only to be thwarted by Clara who splita herself too. So what are the chances Ruby is linked to the GI? Is the GI the one who waits? The eldest? Is Ruby a Clara fragment sent to help the Doctor?

[@quintuscrinis8032]

Interesting that you hadn't twigged the point about the church father link before given it's directly brought up in the Time of Angels clip you then used.

[@pickanapple]

When Ruby is going to give The Doctor the corpse, he says "Let's dance," referencing The Doctor Dances

[@francisco_m7849]

😊 Ellie, I did a little bit of digging. Turns out Susan twist does not have a Wikipedia page. She has IMDb and Doctor Who wiki but proper Wikipedia page where you can look up a list of her appearances I have not found. Which is interesting character if you were going to try to see a list of appearances or upcoming appearances, and you cannot find it.

[@thewiseturtle]

That would be an entirely extra level of complexity to this season, if "Susan Twist" was actually the character's name, not the actor's name...

[@danphillips8530]

Susan Twist has gotta be the 'The One Who Waits', surely.

[@sheersternfeld1914]

2:51 the Silence's army weren't the same group

[@markvantoorenburg7259]

Until now, I thought twist was also the neighbour that broke the 4th wall in episode one.

[@marikastewart2730]

For #7, was that Susan Twist riding a moped with the Doctor? the one in front holding the handles?

[@retnavybrat]

I believe that's Mel.

[@TheRealSim37]

Theory for 73 Yards' name: the creepy old lady is always standing 73 yards away from Ruby? Also, I'm probably wrong, but wasn't the Bogeyman's scream 73 decibels?

[@KaijudoMaster11]

Clara also says the long way round in "Hell Bent"

[@LoverOfBellies]

Why wasn't Susan Twist in the Star Beast & the Giggle?!

[@markcolgan3262]

I’m still convinced Susan twist character is either the doctors daughter (Susan mum) or someone ancestor related to brigadier and the leftbridge Stewarts

[@NightSide139]

Has anyone thought that Susan Twist might be the new Mistress/Master? I thought that the fourth time I saw her, myself.

[@tacobowler]

Clara also says she’s going back to that Raven “The long way around.”