25 - he/him ✨ obsessed w/ Taylor Swift, Doctor Who, Marvel, X-Men, Scream, Alien, Eastenders, Game of Thrones, Batman, films & anything my ADHD gets stuck on 🥴
I was thinking a lot today about how I'm so happy I'm the sort of person who loves a few things a lot, and not a person who loves lots of things only a little bit. Aside from my boyfriend and family etc, I really do feel the deepest love for some very wonderful music, film etc.
With Ncuti’s era fast approaching, I thought I’d make a thread of all the costumes we’ve seen him rocking so far, and which episodes we are likely to see them in.
Lover was all daylight festivals, flower crowns, glitter and school girl crushes.
This album is midnights, sparkly club dresses, deep chats in the bathroom and kissing a boy on the dance floor.
For me it’s Lover’s older sister who’s had her heart broken.
#MidnightsTaylorSwift
I'm gonna be controversial here, but the more you guys say Rogue was just a glorified Jack, the more I realise you guys just can't use your brains to differentiate the idea of two gay characters. Jack was flirty, so was Rogue, and yes they're both from the future..thats IT.
Honestly the CCTV and the Time Window has strengthened 73 Yards for me. Ruby's curse in 73 Yards is just an amalgamation of her biggest anxieties: being abandoned by everyone, and a undistinguishable woman who she can only see from 73 Yards away - just like her Mum is on the CCTV
I’m dead certain now that Sutekh and Ruby’s birth have no connection. We only ever thought it did because Maestro said the Oldest One was there at Ruby Road, but that’s only cause the TARDIS landed there with Sutekh coiled round it.
It's always bugged me how The Paternoster Gang played such momentous roles in the Doctor's life during the Smith and beginning of Capaldi era, only to never show up again. I hope some day they return to them, similar to how they did with Kate Stewart.
I'm sorry I'm gonna say it. I kind of fucking love the theories that Roger Ap Gwilliam is Ruby Sunday's brother. The dates work out perfectly, and it's interesting they chose to name her dad William. It might go nowhere but RTD did say we had more family revelations to come.
I feel like nobody is talking about this scene enough in Wild Blue Yonder. The Doctor’s monologue about the TARDIS being the foundation of a civilisation and the witness of its destruction…
…poetry ✨🥹
I'm sorry but I just don't think it can be a coincidence that the person who suggested the CCTV/VHS tape aspect of the plot is literally the Harbinger. Maybe Sutekh needed the Time Window somehow.
There are many questions left for Empire of Death. I hope we get closure on all of these:
- Who is Ruby’s Mum and why no trace of her?
- When did Sutekh latch onto the TARDIS?
- Why the multiple Susan Twists?
- Who is Mrs Flood?
- What’s the deal with the Memory TARDIS?
I’m telling you people THIS is why the TARDIS played the Doctor a war song in Wild Blue Yonder. It was never the Not-Things, it was because of the Sutekh that had just latched itself to the TARDIS at the edge of the universe.
Anyone saying the Doctor and Rogue fell for each other too quickly has literally never met a gay person. We literally marry ourselves off in our heads the second a guy flirts even a little bit, and within 10 minutes, it's love.
No wonder the Trickster kept going after Sarah Jane - his good brother Sutekh probably tipped him off about her after she helped trap him in Pyramids of Mars 👀
It's actually really obvious when you watch this scene back that a jukebox moment with the song 'Push the Button' was cut. The Doctor starts to walk to the jukebox, then it randomly cuts to the Sonic for some reason, and he slaps a big button and they float. It's so weirdly cut.
My partner got me to watch The OA as it was one of his favourite shows, but he did pre-warn me it was cancelled before it's time. I went in expecting I wouldn't be too bothered...and now I'm raging. It's potentially one of the best things I've ever watched...and it's CANCELLED?!
I want to say I have mad respect for everyone still clinging on to the Trickster theory for dear life. It’s literally got no chance now but you guys won’t let that put you off and good for you.
It's kind of insane to me that Doctor Who has never released a game where you can choose to be any Doctor, but also that if you're killed during the game, you regenerate to the next incarnation. So much possibility with the planets, time periods etc. they could use too.
RTD in Unleashed basically confirms he wants UNIT to constantly shake its team members up (barring Kate and a few others I'd argue) BUT that he wants returning faces.
Martha Jones, Ace, Tegan and Jo Grant, get your coat. It's show time.
What if Mrs Flood IS a Harbinger herself, but one who defied her God, ran away and hid basically. She set out to live a completely normal life as a human, hiding, but maybe for some reason chose to be near Ruby? This would explain her knowledge of Sutekh, and fourth wall breaks.
All I ask of RTD is one thing. IF he brings Susan back, which I'm like dead certain he will, please don't make it canon that it's the first time they've seen each other since The Dalek Invasion of Earth. Please don't make the 8th Doctor and Susan stuff essentially non-canon.
I feel like with Millie Gibson staying for S2 as well now, the chances of Varada Sethu being a historical companion have risen slightly. Ruby Sunday already fills the 21st Century girl role, so imagine the dynamic of throwing a girl from the past (probably the 50's) into that.
Did anyone else think Mel was going to sacrifice herself in that episode? The second she started hearing Sutekhs voice and she was battling with it, I got concerned she’d essentially end her life to save the Doctor and Ruby’s, knowing she was being taken over. It was so dark.
If Martha is the lead of The War Between the Land and the Sea, and it's likely to air post-S2, then I really have higher hopes we'll see the inclusion of Martha in that series as a member of UNIT to set it up. I can't explain how good this spin-off could be if done right.
I just had a horrific thought. What if this is 15 looking over 14’s grave? The Doctor he left behind to heal was killed by something or someone we are yet to meet.
It’s very unlikely but god it’d shake us all to our core. I mean, the Doctor would be dead…but the show continues.
This entire image actually makes even more sense if Martha is the lead of TWBTLAS because you've now got the main character of all your spin-offs (minus Class), the new Doctor and the most famous Classic Doctor.
I do wish they'd not use 14 though as we need some 2005-2022 rep.
Weirdly, do you want to know my least favourite thing about the episode? I just didn't vibe with the Susan Twist appearance and The Doctor and Ruby recognising her. It felt off and rushed past...like they had to have their 'cameo' of the week for the finale plot.
The title ‘Monsters, Monsters Everywhere’ should’ve been used - I’m not even kidding. The idea that the Slugs AND the residents of Finetime are just monsters is very important.
I've now officially rewatched Empire of Death, and I feel bad because it's actually an incredible episode. Yes I still have major issues with the lack of explanation on the snow and how the memory changed/how they knew to call her Ruby, but the rest really works.
I do like the Chibnall era but god the recent hype with RTD and everything has made me realise how much the show has not been the Doctor Who I know and love for a long time - there’s exceptions to her era, but as a package, it didn’t work for me overall and I’m sad about that.
If I had a penny for every time David Bradley shows up in a regeneration story that also marks the ending of a show runner and Doctor's era, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice
If Tennant is playing 14, I just hope he refers to moments of his life since End of Time. Imagine hearing Tennant talking about Amy and Rory, or Clara, worrying about Yaz, or referencing Missy. Just make it FEEL like he's after Jodie as visually it won't always feel obvious.
WHAT IF every single Doctor had a 'subtitle' as opposed to a number, just like John Hurt and Jo Martin are the War and Fugitive Doctors. What would each Doctor be called?
If it’s possible that Millie Gibson and Varada Sethu aren’t sticking around for the third series, then for me in a dream world,I want Ncuti to travel with a younger man and an older woman (grandmother and grandson), played by…
Callum Scott Howells and Helen Mirren.
Maybe the ONLY thing that's truly thrown me from this double premiere is Space Babies featuring Ruby from Christmas 2023 just after Church of Ruby Road, and The Devil's Chord implying this is now July 2024 Ruby? Why the six month jump? We missed a lot of important time there.
Rose being in the finale feels weirdly overlooked whenever I think about it. I keep forgetting she'll probably play a vital role somehow. If the Doctor and Mel are mostly together for the episode, maybe Ruby and Rose are together elsewhere? I doubt it's a brief cameo.
Imagine if they do an Amy Pond situation with Rose, where we meet her here aged 15 with Tennant, the events of the specials happen, and then she meets Ncuti's Doctor in S14 but she's now 18, and decides to come with him, telling her Mum she's off travelling.
I think it's inevitable that the 73 Yards timeline will get mentioned again in The Legend of Ruby Sunday when Kate and Ruby meet again (for the first time?) - I could see one, or both of them having a moment of "I swear we've met." Even if it doesn't lead somewhere, I hope so.
So are we all in agreement that whatever the hell this 'Time Window' is in The Legend of Ruby Road, it's what Susan Triad has used or will use to propel herself through all these different moments in time and space we've seen her in so far?
- Why did Sutekh set up Triad?
- What was the Mum pointing at?
- Why is the memory changing?
- How can Ruby make it snow?
- Where is the Doctors granddaughter?
- Is the CCTV being 73 Yards away relevant?
- How did Sutekh escape his imprisonment?
We don't talk about this moment of The Doctor's Wife enough. It's dare I say one of the darkest moments of Doctor Who that I can think of from memory. The attention to detail makes this scene even chilling. I mean come on, that blood on the light? 😨
Something I've noticed for 73 Yards is that Ruby has a lot of outfit changes, and the orange one is worn both in Wales AND on her road in London, so she's clearly back and forth to Wales then. I do see why people think this episode will be set over a long period of time.
"It even strongly recalls a specific story from the 1960s, though to say which would again perhaps be giving the game away."
Oh, The Macra Terror, you'll always be famous.
I feel like we’d all have forgiven John Barrowman by now if he just fucking held his hands up and went “yeah that wasn’t okay to do. I’m very sorry,” but instead he’s just insistent on ‘cancel culture’ and ‘it being a different time.’
It’s really a shame.
Something clearly sets the Doctor and Ruby off on their path to UNIT to investigate Susan Triad, so do we think the episode might open with them in Roswell (as previously revealed) - they see her AGAIN and they both realise it's time to go work it out?
It's actually insane how the RTD1 era didn't have a single bad two-parter. Like every single one was by far some of the best Doctor Who we've ever gotten.
The only exception is probably the S4 Sontaran two-parter but that's still a very strong story.
Though he's playing the First Doctor as a stand in for Hartnell who has passed, I find it interesting that nobody ever really views David Bradley as a version of the Doctor. I hope he is back in the 60th and cements himself as a crucial part of the line up of many Doctors.
Like there's countless straight characters in Doctor Who that share similar qualities who we literally never compare, but you get one gay male character once in a blue moon and it's all "Oh THAT is Jack" or "he's a Jack copy and paste"
Maybe you're just dumb?
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Good writing coupled with amazing budgets is an exciting thought. My one thing is I hope it retains its Britishness, even if it expands. The Disney deal makes me worry it might become slightly Americanised.
It's funny that everyone seems to be treating 73 Yards as the big mystery episode when really we've always had a way better understanding of that episode's contents than Dot and Bubble. Now THAT one is a mystery to us.
The way RTD joked about Susan Twist recurring being just a lack of actors and I've now seen about ten people tonight genuinely quote it to other people as a genuine fact. Is humour lost on people? Should RTD maybe just avoid being a little wind up merchant? I think yes.
It's the hardest thing with Who, when certain Doctors have recurring characters who then never show up again outside of their eras. I can think of so many people Moffat brought into the fold who it just feels odd the Doctor never even mentions then anymore, let alone sees them.
Interesting (but useless fact) - The Star Beast is currently the only story of RTD2 to not name drop its title. We know Dot and Bubble is said in next weeks episode, and Rogue is a name so surely will. I can't imagine The Legend of Ruby Sunday or Empire of Death will be though.
I can't with some of you saying it's bad Chibs wrote Eve in a fortnight, or that it's bad RTD is writing for 14 already when they aren't cast. You realise these are professionals who've done this as a job for YEARS. They don't need 12yr old's on Twitter telling them how to do it.
I definitely don’t think The Devil’s Chord was meant to be later in the series as a lot of people have suggested as the Unleashed episode ON SET have called it Episode 2 several times.
People say that Jo Martin can't be the next Doctor because Ruth clearly isn't post-Jodie. Thats true. I agree she isn't. But I could see her taking on 'the face' and 'the look' to be a person she once was in her life again. A face that represents what was once taken from her.
My other reason for thinking a Martha return is deserved and should happen is because logically if you think about all the companions that were left on Earth that would still be alive in 2024, she's the only one (except maybe Ben and Polly) that we haven't seen at all lately.
One thing I'm really loving about Doctor Who the past few years is how its finally a show that doesn't feel like it can't/won't connect to the things that have happened in it's past - (obviously the returns of people like Martha and Susan aren't confirmed but seeming likely now.)
Kind of just wild to me that in just a few weeks time, we'll have gotten all these wonderful episodes in the space of seven months. It's just so nice to have 12 new episodes entered into the Whoniverse.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the first regeneration story in Who history where we've had to deal with the companions departure as well as the Doctors? Maybe that's why I'm so stressed about time for the episode, as there's lots of goodbye's to be had and very little time.
I'm loving all this 'of the' titles when it comes to our returning villains in Jodie's era 👀👀
Fugitive of the Judoon
Ascension of the Cybermen
Revolution of the Daleks
War of the Sontarans
Village of the Angels
The fact that in the space of like four weeks we've managed to create genuinely good theories for each of these four characters to be the finale villain/villains is insane to me. Watch NONE of them be right.
You know what, say what you want about the Chibnall era, one thing I do give it credit for was it's ability to give us Dalek stories where they don't play second fiddle constantly or aren't just there for the sake of forced appearances *looks at the Moffat era*
One thing thats interesting is how in this timeline Ruby lived all the way to old age in, whatever was happening with Triad and The One Who Waits obviously never happens. So the wheels of whatever sets that in motion must not have happened yet for the Doctor and Ruby.
Has anyone considered the possibility that Steven Moffat's episode (Episode 3) could actually be a Dalek episode. I keep thinking about how there doesn't seem to be any sort of rumoured Dalek appearance in S14 yet, and this episode is set on a battlefield?
It's iconic that Jodie's Doctor has already faced off against Daleks, Cybermen, The Master and Judoon, and next series will face Sontarans, Weeping Angels and MAYBE Autons. She's really been given the full palette of epic Who monsters, but with a good balance of new monsters too.
I'm convinced these are the outfits for Dot and Bubble as it's the only two outfits we've yet to see in the trailer and we haven't really seen Ruby or the Doctor in any footage for that episode yet.
It would add so many extra layers to 73 Yards and Empire of Death - and you can do so much with it. Obviously you'd probably have to cast a younger actor to play Roger in the 2020's, but it's something I'd love to see done if they can do it well.
Now the synopsis for Dot and Bubble confirms it's not an Earth story, and considering S14 is only 8 episodes long, I'm really impressed by how we're getting no more than maybe 2 modern Earth stories this series.
And even then, I swear there were whispers that 73 Yards was 2030?
I was desperate for the fob watch, the Timeless Child, Tecteun and Jo Martin’s Doctor to all be wrapped up in this episode and yet weirdly now having seen it, I’m not bothered by it. Maybe leaving them as mysteries or something to revisit in the future is better.
Maybe it's just me, but the way she says "No...it won't" gave me absolute goosebumps. This moments is the most Doctor like she's ever felt to me, and it's literally 3 words.