"You can't keep putting Space in front of everything" Twelfth Doctor.

"I can't believe I'm running away from a bio-synthetic Bogeyman!" [/Red Dwarf]

DINOSAURS.. ON A SPACESH- No wait.. BABIES, ON A SPACESHIP!

That message from The Doctor to Poppy was definitely meant for all the children watching.

The Bogeyman gave me major Vindaloo Beast vibes (and since you've watched Red Dwarf you can now appreciate that reference!)

The Star Trek joke is a reference to a comic in which the Doctor does, in fact, crossover with Star Trek 😂

Remember when 10,11 and 13 were each very briefly happy and angst-free? 😂

I didn't get the impression that they were "baby geniuses." Despite being able to talk, they still behaved pretty much like babies, except with the mentality of six year old's.

Its funny that you mention it’s own Bad Wolf of something in every episode, because there’s definitely something in every episode that’s been picked up on 👀

For a second I thought the snowing onboard that space station was a reference to Big Finish. As in the Stranded Boxset, the Doctor said snow is caused by the presence of a sad time traveller.

"everything is connected; nothing is also connected." Dirk gently

It would have been obvious, but I still wanted one of the babies to say "are you my mummy?" Had so much fun with it, had to postpone episode 2 because we were running behind and Eurovision was about to start.

First rule of space babies. We do not talk about the bogeyman!

First Doctor: "Sheer poetry, my boy! Sheer . . . It's made of what? Sniff, hmmph! Don't be ridiculous!"

I also thought of Baby Geniuses when watching this episode! I'm glad you mentioned it.

"It's booger on the inside!" I love this episode: yeah, refreshing is the word! And there are so many reflections of past episodes, most clearly _The_ _End_ _of_ _the_ _World,_ _The_ _Beast_ _Below,_ and _DNA_ (oh, wait, wrong show). Loving the Doctor/Ruby dynamic, and the "don't care" attitude. Eager for more...

2:19.... Yeah, there's apparently a finite number of ideas. Also, fully expected Nan-e to be a replicant as another nod to Ray Bradbury ("I sing the body elctric"), like "Sound of thunder" (Dinosaurs, squashed butterfly, time ripple).

There was a crossover with Star Trek: The Next Generation in the comics. It had Matt Smith's Doctor and Picard's crew facing off against Borg and Cybermen.

Above and beyond anything else, this does feel like an odd place to start their rebranded 'Season 1'. The first half felt like it was rushing to get through all the usual exposition beats, rather than letting it happen organically. If this was being launched as "Series 14", I'd get it - but as the supposed first episode? 2005's S1E1 "Rose" isn't perfect, but it's a much better tonal snapshot of what the show would go on to be. In this episode we have some of the most tonally strange Doctor Who I've seen in a long time. Doctor Who is often pretty camp, but this felt outright silly quite a lot of the time, and not in a fun way. I don't expect to resonate with every single episode, but I'm worried a lot of new viewers will not stick with it after this episode.

You two gave each other the same look I gave my screen when The Doctor brought up "visiting" Trek. Mind you, I shouted "EY???" at the TV when I did :P

In the extended who universe the 11th Doctor Rory and Amy actually met the Next Generation crew so Star Trek is real.

That was such a crazy episode that I was debating about what I thought of it. It was ridiculous and stupid and fun and brilliant and poignant and political… but then I realised: I’m completely sold on Ruby and 15.

Kat secretly saw it 3 months ago and is just a great actor

Well, I will say this, I enjoyed your reaction as always, and I WISH I liked this episode. But my reaction to the space babies was the same as Paula's, and for me sadly, it didn't get better. We knew the space babies would be in an episode from the trailer, but I didn't think a whole episode would be about them. I have to be honest, I HATED this. So much of it was just The Doctor & Ruby having conversations with babies!! It just didn't work for me, and then the bogey monster, and them getting to the planet via 'gas release', and I was like 'Okay, next episode'.

It's important to remember that, for a British audience, Millie was part of a very grounded northern soap opera, where realism was and is key. This is a dynamic shift for her. And it actually shows off her skill in a more expansive expression.

"Are you my mummy? " Where's my gasmask?

"Three episodes in she's going to go 'oh this isn't just fun and games!" Yep. Third episode is the Stephen Moffat one! 😏

They never sorted out the whole 6 year old 1 year old thing.

Y'all, am I insane, or was the old neighbor lady from the christmas special one of the people who used to work on that station? The camera lingered on that last person's video message for a weirdly long time and it was an older lady, but I couldn't tell for sure if it was actually the same person.

23:11 Nobody credible actually said she was fired. A bunch of KZfaq Whovians wrote that in their titles because clickbait. If you read the original source that all of these people were reading, it only said that she’d be done after one season and then would depart, only appearing in part of season 2. Basically… a Martha Jones situation.

Re the disgust'ometer, there is a superb episode where the Doctor and his then companion get swallowed by a huge creature, so he makes it ralph so they can escape, and they end up covered in sick. Worse than bogeys in my book.

"does this mean in the who universe star Trek's real." According to the Assimilation² comic with Eleven/Picard and Four/Kirk, Yes.

2:10 yeah about that… 3:27 I agree. This was well done for a new audience The baby thing was a bit much for me. Still enjoyed the episode overall but hope the season doesn’t have too many whimsy episodes.

This one wasn't really for me, but the next... Hell, yes.

Since you mentioned it, there is something that seems to be showing up in each episode, including some of the previous specials. I'm not going to spoil what it is though.

Of course the Doctor saved the Bogeyman. After all, he's snot so bad once you get to know him. 🤭

THANKS for this!!! Great to be back!!!! Oh, wow, and you two are physically together! YAY!!

There’s an 11th Dr comic book where 11 and Amy land on the TNG enterprise. The cyber men and the borg team up. The art is very nice too, looks painted.

The mother is pointing at the Doctor, maybe to say, "You are her father." That would be something.

The modern government of Britain cancelled a thing called 'Surestart' that benefited couples with children (I know, it's incredible) and it is telling that this episode leaves an accountant in charge of their welfare. Isn't it? Because behind the bogeys, Russell is always working on another level. That, of course, is a Dr Who tradition. The other great joy is the gelling of the regular cast. Ncuti is the first Doctor in probably 50 years to personify both morality and the idea of the 'self'. And that's actually very important in the context of not merely modern Britain but, I think, the wider world.

I really enjoyed this, but liked the next episode more. There are a few people complaining about the new feel of the show, but for Doctor Who to survive it has to change, to evolve for a new audience. My 9 year old loved both episodes so maybe RTD is getting this exactly right... Oh and you are gonna love Jinx in the next episode!

Your opinions of the episode basically mirrored mine, I was really worried this episode was gonna be bad, but I was generally rather impressed, and I teared up when The Doctor said his speech about "no one grows up wrong". I couldn't help but think of Red Dwarf around the Boogeyman, it reminded me of the Vindaloo beast from DNA 😂 Except this time it survived!

They've discussed a Star Trek crossover for a while, I hear it almost happened in the Matt Smith era. What I would like to see is them showing up on the Set of a Star Trek series (maybe TNG or VOY) and getting mixed up with the making of the show...

I saw someone mentioned them already, but if you're a comic fan the Star Trek/Dr. Who crossovers are actually a ton of fun..lol, I'm pretty sure there were two separate ones, and I enjoyed both of them quite a bit.

Alright just watched it. 3:12 Absolutely. This is how you do exposition. You don't need to stretch it out, drip... drip... through the first episode, or even two. 75% of the audience is already up to speed and everybody else watching doesn't want it stretched out. Solid, tight, 2 minutes. 5:25 Monster looks great. 7:20 Yep... we're doin this... Thanks, Russell... Glad to see no one ever grew a spine enough to tell you the words "bad idea"... welcome back, dude. 8:19 Emotional, without being overly sappy. Great. 10:32 Debatable. I'm pretty sure there have been realized reality memory leaks and indoor snow... probably not at the same time... I'm gonna give that one a pass. 14:36 I feel like this was a missed opportunity to slip in a cyberman reference. I can't have it all. 16:23 Yeah, it's just a dog now, because whatever. It definitely didn't kill all of them the second this episode ended. There is precedent for that. All in all. Pretty good. However, I think you guys are being overly generous with saying all of the things worked at the same time. I think it was really all over the place, tonally. It wouldn't be that unusual for a regeneration episode... this reminds me of "The End of the World", actually. As I was typing this, I just remembered the phone thing... That was also The End of the World... huh. Great reaction.

The episode had its moments but overall not what I would started a new season with, especially when you also are trying to bring in new fans through Disney+. This episode would have been better placed as the 3rd or 4th episode of the season.

Paula going off saying she would hate it if "Space Babies" is the Doctor Who version of "Baby Geniuses"... Meanwhile years ago, "Snakes on a Plane" came out and Doctor Who said, "Hold my beer." lol "There's going to be something that we're going to look back and that was in every episode" ... I love the fact that they have remained out of the fandom stuff enough to not know it yet. As for why the memory is seeping through, I suspect it has to with the most powerful of the ones who were let in by the salt... still hate that fact, but anyway... of what-have-you. And while I don't like the idea, I now suspect "the one who waits" is Susan.

You didnt think youd feel bad for snot, remember that time we waved at fat?

was it just me getting serious Alien vibes from the Bogeyman ?

Much has been made about Russell's adherence to 'The Timeless Child' idea, but this episode alone feeds off many former episodes - by wildly different show-runners, which continues with the next episode - and can potentially appear new because it now going out there to a new audience. This is no different to any of us who had to experience and learn about the past of this show from scratch. By the time I saw my first instalment (as a small child) it had already been running on the BBC for 15 years. My brother is 11 years older and still can't remember a time before it.

Hello ladies. That would be the perfect crossover, Who and Trek. But, will it be Discovery?

Yay. The Gals are back!!!

There have been Doctor Who / Star Trek comics in the past...

Susan Twist...

I loved this episode sooo much! Not everything about it was for me (I literally cringed at the boogie-man reveal) but I was so disappointed with Christ Chibnal's writing that it was just so much fun to see an episode that _felt_ like Doctor Who again..

George Clooney was on Baby Talk, the tv adaptation of the movie Look Who's Talking very early in his career. Cancelled after like a season and a half.

Here's some little kids, it's important to make stories for them. I get it, Russell. Now bring back the killer wheelie bin.

The cursing filter 😂😂😂😂

I'm amazed how well actualized Ruby is in such a short amount of time. She's like other companions, and yet not, and yet totally her own self.

never knew about that weird intro during the matt smith era. was that a north america only thing? doctor who was weird during that period. it's like they only realised they were going for a big international push AFTER they had already filmed all of s5 lol

Says a lot about this show that for a moment I had to legitimately question if they would actually kill off a baby… and I couldn’t one hundred percent say no.

Doctor Who hasn’t been this bat sh*t crazy since the days of talking space rhinos and little lumps of walking fat. God I’ve missed it and I absolutely love that it’s back. If there is one thing we should all know about Russell T Davies by now is if he starts of a series this fun, camp, and weird - then things are going to get damn dark and heartbreaking come the finale.

A friend of mine calls it Series 14/Season 1

this season is most certainly about myths.....Starbeast, a cute little creature falls from the starts, the Human-Timeloard Criss that cannot exist is solved.....Wild Blue Yonder, the NOT THINGS and the blatent Myths the Doctor invokes beyond the edge of the universe....The Giggle, the Celestial Toymaker triggers a BI-Generation that has never happened.....The Church on Ruby Road, Gobins....Space Babies, the Bogeyman......The Devil's Cord, a lost cord of music that summon Maestro, the god of music

YAY! THERE YOU ARE! I am so excited to see your reaction to Devil's Chord.

I did think that the monster was made of poop.

I don’t think it’s the WORST thing that can happen to anyone. I think hitting the eject button while standing on a giant tongue of a star beast and screaming is worse.

Star Trek.... Read the book, My Enemy, My Ally

I had the same reaction to the babies. My heart ask and said why. Then the story convinced me. The concept of the babies and the fart moving them knocked several points off of it. Can deal with the bogeyman being mad of bogeys. It had a lot of the bad in RTD. Was saved by Gatwa and Gibson. Ruby was given me character and Gatwa's Doctor shines. Happy he still had his trauma it isn't all erased. I love his energy. I'd give it a low 7/10

My only concern with the episode was that was a whole hell of a lot of money to throw at what was essentially a throwaway scene with the dinosaurs, and the BBC has no money thanks to the stupidity of Brexit. So I just hope that it has many more seasons to go. I thought the whole episode was excellent, though I would have picked the boogeyman over a room full of talking babies. They're way scarier. But you can tell those two are just having a blast, and that smacks you through the screen so you have fun too. Just a good thing we don't have governments telling people to produce more babies without funding them at all. /s

Ruby reminds me of Zoey from the show Eureka (Jordan Danger? , her last names changed once or twice)

Loving the dynamic between the two of them

1) it’s awesome to have you two reacting to new Dr Who again 😀 2) I ask with love for the show, but why did they start with a mid season filler episode? 😁

I'm glad you put this out tonight gals and managed to point out some positives in this one . Here in the UK on the BBC it was a big night , the first two episodes of Dr Who followed by the 3 hour + lunacy of the Eurovision song contest - if you think this show is crazy you haven't seen anything - with a rare chance of seeing the actual Northern lights this far South after . Since you are only doing Space babies I liked the references back to Rose at the beginning and the story made some sense in the end , but I thought some of the promise in the Christmas special just didn't materialise in the Tardis this time .

Did you spot actress Susan Twist? She's been in a few of the recent episodes.

Who took a shot everytime the Doctor said "SPACE BABIES"?

I said to myself, the morning after I saw this episode, "What are Kat & Paula going to make of this?" I'm having a ball with the new Doctor. ❤U both.

Not only is my favorite show back, my favorite reactors to my favorite show are back reacting to my favorite show.

I stopped Dr who after the David Tenant seasons , however that's what made me discover "Torchwood" . have ou ever watched this show ? if not you should react to it 💁‍♀

When Ncuti pressed the button to save the bogeyman all I heard was Christopher Eccleston saying "nobody dies today! EVERYBODY LIVES!".

I dont think this was for me but i see the value in bringing in a new audience so that they can look back to their childhood with fondness about watching doctor who. this was just toooooooo cheesy and childish for me personally

The weird exposition intro for Matt Smith’s first season wasn’t on the UK version. How long did they do that for?

the 11th doctor showing off to Picard was great, they were fighting the borg/cybermen, can't find that comic again though but maybe that is enough for you to find it

Ncuti & Millie have such sensational chemistry, like best friends but somehow in a fresh new way. I never saw the whole "forced babies" angle coming, RTD is the best at sneaking that stuff in and really isn't pulling any punches anymore.

I didn't watch it at midnight Friday. Not because I wasn't up at midnight but because I was busy prepping a TTRPG session for today and an update on my main writing project for midnight (Meaning I watched at around 2am. Then the next one. Then finished prepping the TTRPG session. Then went to bed and woke up three hours before the session.) Enjoyed it. If I were to rate it out of 10 it would be an 8.5 for me - I'm a sucker for campy fun which this episode had in spades, and I also enjoy a pun being baked into a premise, as per 'a bogeyman made of bogeys' - That's something I kind of wish I'd have thought of, honestly - And when Doctor Who is working on those cylinders this is kind of exactly what I'm looking for there. The space babies were voiced by child actors, who had their facial (not just mouth) movements modelled in CGI and that movement translated to CGI models of the babies faces, since you seemed surprised by how well that effect worked.

😆 how don't people realise the new intro

One of the things that should be remembered is that this show was SUCH a busted-flush in Britain before 2005 that they almost didn't want to introduce the past unless they really had to. The UK audience was then divided between kids who had never experienced it in their society and their parents who had, but who had not absorbed the 'fannish' details of it. I suspect if it goes away again, for the period it did back then, it would have to approach that history just as tentatively

Not sure if you caught this, but it was "snowing" in the Tardis at the end.

SPACE. BABIES.

I like that they're committing to this being a more open and communicative Doctor. I hope it lasts.

I have to say, this was NOT for me. I liked the characters,15 and Ruby are off and running. It was the story; bogeyman made of snot, dirty diapers used as a propelling force for a space station, the fake out of making you worry that a baby was killed when you KNOW no babies are ever going to be eaten by monsters on Disney+! I'm glad they released the 2nd episode with this, because if this my first Dr. Who ever, I might be out. For Kat and Paula, do you have any concern about Ruby being RTD's Clara/Mystery Girl?

Don't forget about the stepping on a butterfly superstition like bit. Superstitions are coming to life and I can't wait to see The Doctor discover new things. Maybe it will tie in with the memories leaking thing

Is it just me or did nobody notice the enormous spoilers in the first episode a Mastro= Master/Mistress and the off the cuff reference to the Rani? Could these be new season Easter eggs?

You gals don't have to be polite you can tell us you thought this episode was crap 😂.

Unorthodox, goofy and yet endearing. Lotta spheres for RTD to keep in the air. Didn't hate it, not the greatest start though.

Nice to have a light, almost cartoony episode to kick things off before we get to the inevitable war crimes ;)

I thought it was a decent episode, and the babies were phenomenally cute, but I preferred the second episode a lot more.

I liked the political commentary just dropped in there.

Nappies on a Spaceship. Ha!Ha!

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