Doctor Who often has a lighter campy energy, but Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord are definitely on the more extreme end of that spectrum. The show also goes to darker and serious places, including episodes later in this season.

Doctor Who has always been bonkers. What's important is that it delivers fun and occasional tears.

This episode ties back to the 3 specials that were aired prior to the season, November and December 2023. The reference to the Toymaker comes from those episodes.

Yes the premise of Doctor Who is meant to be all about the fun of being able to travel all of time and space, but the serious episodes are built towards slowly through the season. I’m loving your reactions so far. I’m so excited to see your reaction to episodes 4,5 and 6 😊

I love this episode. Maestro is glorious. The whole season is anomalous for reasons that have not been made entirely clear, yet, and musicals numbers are not usually a thing. I would have been happier with the song and dance number if it were a better song. I had no problem with the town celebrating the return of music, like in Footloose, celebrating the return of dancing to the town. Doctor Who has always been sort of a mix of genres. You can be in some space fantasy on a foreign planet a million years in the future or in some gothic horror story in the 19th century. Your emotions will run the entire gamut.

There's Always a Twist at the End is actually very subtle foreshadowing

So, without giving spoilers, the last time the Doctor defeated one of the Gods, the God's residual power remained for a short time after, and the right people could take advantage of that. My take on this ending is the Doctor did tap into Maestro's residual energy, and had 18 years of missing music to fast track. The song at the end is primarily twist, but it does also have hints of many other musical elements from those "musical wilderness" years. So my thoughts are the Doctor used that song to fast track music back to how it should have been in 1963.

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I wish when they said the outfits Ruby committed to the beehive. 😢

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Maestro was the best thing about this episode but yeah the musical number at the end felt a bit goofy. I guess it could be seen as all the music coming back into the world. This season definitely starts to get more serious from the next episode onwards, but yeah in general it feels lighter in tone than the 2005 version, which had its silly moments too. Btw the Doctor used to travel with his granddaughter Susan back when the show started in 1963 so that’s why she gets a mention.

My daughter is a major fan of Jinkx so obviously this was her favorite episode ... till 'that' episode came along.(can't say cause of *spoilers*) Even though I like musical numbers, this one was not my favorite. Yet I do have to say, every episode from this season so far, got better and better - for me that is - and I hope it will be the same for you. And ofcourse, after when established if this show is indeed your cup of tea, and in waiting for the next season, you might want to dive in the first series starting with 'Rose'.

I loved this episode. I assumed the final number was some sort of foreshadowing being so random and out of place. Sometimes they do things that are just weird but other times it turns out to be important.

I think rubys apart of the whole bad. A trap 😂

I agree with you I liked the episode and the Maestro right up until the Doctor broke the fourth wall and the ending really took me out of it it was unnecessary after the defeat of Maestro they should had cut it there with the Doctor and Ruby leaving the TARDIS for the next adventure and left it there.

This is the episode i have real issues with - mainly the dance number at the end for noreal reason (as said in other comment it's being taken as music flooding back into the world, i m less convinced). Maestro is a great villian and for me the high point of the episode. The song that annoyed Maestro will make morev sense if you've watched the church on ruby road - which i think you sad you have done now. Fo me the gags aren't working hthis season - they do usually get sprinkled in the show to balance the seriousness of most of the stories but the show can tackle just about anything comedy, drama, heartbreak, hortor, mythology but not until now (really) musicals.... There's a few easter eggs dotted around this episode - the old woman at the piano is June Hudson,the costume designer on the show during the 4th doctor era in the 70's... - playing the piano during the twist number is Murray Gold, the show's composer - and the 2024 scene echos a scene from a particular 4th doctor story about which il'll not comment further ... Loving the reactions and hope you did see Ruby Road and continue to start back from Rose in 2005...

Maestro was so cringe for myself and my wife. The overacting was ridiculous. Space babies was worse than this...but either way, Maestro felt very out of place for Dr. Who. I really wish they had toned the acting down a few notches and cut the music / dance routine.