The "I haven't done a stream in a while" stream

Please be kind, its not my fault I'm incompetent
/ stubagful

[@eccentriastes6273]

So Stu mentioned 73 Yards, Heaven Sent, Blink, and Turn Left as top tier episodes. Sounds like the formula for great Doctor Who is to either have the Doctor barely be in it at all, or have nothing BUT the Doctor.

[@alfje5492]

The Doctor can do (almost) anything, so taking him out (or limiting his power like in Midnight or Heaven Sent), makes the writer step up their game and come up with a satisfying story without the Deus ex Machina trump card that the Doctor so often is. It doesn't always work (Love and Monsters), but Doctor-lite episodes are usually very good.

[@qwertyuio404]

Its all or nothing and you get perfection. Except for love and monsters ignore that one.

[@casualcraftman1599]

I'm so sorry I asked about The Boys alongside that milk question.

[@markmccambridge7255]

Black mirror episode of moffats massive brain vs stuarts toenail.

[@SunniestAutumn]

73 yards is wonderful. It's like an episode of Twilight Zone. For people super into continuity its only real value is its status as a character study on Ruby. An episode of Doctor Who entirely dedicated to exploring Ruby's fear of abandonment is a genuine stroke of mad genius. I mean, thay is what it is. The episode is not an intense science fantasy plot about Mad Jack and fairy circles and heralds. That stuff is all fiction and nonsense. It's a Ruby's nightmare daydream come to life, where for poorly explained reasons she is abandoned by the person she trusts and is haubted by the fear that it will happen again. And it does. Strangers can't help her overcome it, her family can't help her with it, even professionals can't help her. In this fictional nightmare of Ruby's own creation she lives her life haunted by her fear, never allowing herself to get close to others again because of it. So what is Roger ap Gwilliam? In Ruby's fiction Roger is basically the purpose for her suffering. It's the idea that her trauma and fear has meaning. That the Doctor's last convo with her was a great big warning and that the nonsense on the fairy circle was real and she needs to stop it. That once she did this, it would be a great big victory where she conquers the fear she has had since childhood and have her life back again. But that's not reality, not even in the fiction of the daydream. The fear of abandonment doesn't have a purpose. She won't conquer it in one big victorious gesture. It will haunt her forever and go unanswered until the day she dies. It's only when Ruby acknowledges the manifestation with the Doctor there that the daydream breaks. The Doctor is not going to vanish on her inexplicably. The Doctor won't abandon her for no reason and the fear, despite how it feels, is not real. She wasn't abandoned by the Doctor in Wales on her latest visit. Her third visit to Wales is now.

[@casualcraftman1599]

I would also be a terrible Doctor Who showrunner. Combing Farscape insanity and Invincible violence would never be allowed for any IP watched by children. The BBC will turn down the pitch of making their most popular sci-fi family show just like a sci-fi show they censored a lot when broadcasted.

[@Aneurin_Hunt]

Let's be honest Ringo Starr's greatest achievement is narrating Thomas the Tank Engine for the first two seasons.

[@BH-98]

It is, that was my childhood

[@rbadger420]

4 pop shields... that's gotta a record! 😂

[@X08-Chill]

That was enjoyable, hope you enjoy the rest of the Series stu

[@markpatrick2735]

i was traumatised by" time slip" in 1970.

[@qwertyuio404]

_“You would hate Doctor Who if I was the showrunner”_ How could anybody possibly hate episodes you made with Jay Exci like The Five Ranis?

[@doelroarpa3489]

12:45 did Stuart step on a landmine on the Scottish coast and Steven Moffat has been standing 73 Yards away from him ever since?

[@fruitchewx127]

Cant believe i missed this by an hour Anyway are you going to make a final installment of the brexit analysis given the upcoming season finale

[@camelopardalis84]

What is the real-life thing that you're referring to as the "season finale" here?

[@fruitchewx127]

@@camelopardalis84 upcoming general election

[@camelopardalis84]

@@fruitchewx127 But how does it relate to Brexit specifically? If it does at all. Thanks for answering so far!

[@fruitchewx127]

@@camelopardalis84 the Tories who got us into this mess are about to be completely wiped out of government, it's the end of an era (thank god)

[@camelopardalis84]

@@fruitchewx127 Got it, thanks. I knew about the individual things but hadn't remotely put two and two together.

[@liamdonohoedunne-uq6ub]

Hay Stu, I missed the stream, but I really wanted to ask you i just wanted to ask if you might bring back your abnormal stories podcast, I loved the verity of horror you explored, if not, cool, your tv retrospectives are great by themselves,

[@camelopardalis84]

Book recommendations: "When I Was Five I Killed Myself" by Howard Buten "The Orange Girl" by Jostein Gaarder (no need to be into Gaarder otherwise, as far as I can tell) "Maus 1" and "Maus 2" by Art Spiegelman (Comic) "Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes (Comic)

[@s.wstudioproductions5977]

Stuart, Devil with daytime, isn't that Late night with the Devil. Good film

[@jackrichardson9136]

Yeah 73 yards was special

[@s.wstudioproductions5977]

Stuart, since you mentioned A24, did you like Pearl and are you looking forward to Maxxxine

[@Aka_plays.]

Stu, are you going to watch House of the Dragon part 2?

[@LawrieHeath]

Maybe roger ap gwilliem is the valeyard

[@camelopardalis84]

"Can" lol.

[@ewanfawkes2708]

Sorry I missed this, any clues on when the next one will be?

[@Stubagful]

Take the last five words on page 74 of the da Vinci code, take the numbers of the letters of the alphabet that the words are, arrange the numbers in alphabetical order, wait for the next solar eclipse and then count to whatever number you have

[@ewanfawkes2708]

@@Stubagful Right. See you on the 8th July 2025.

[@stephenjohnson9745]

783

[@TimL-nr4hr]

Streams are boring