Shakespeare walks into a bar and the manager says, "Maybe it was the sign post that was the anagram." YOUR BARD !

UNIT must be ridiculously overfunded with how many people Kate offers highly-paid jobs to. I don't mind Ruby's mum being a nobody. I mind all the evidence to the contrary which now makes no sense. Of course, if they go the Star Wars route, next series will make her Davros' granddaughter. If Big Finish has any sense, they will start casting Susan Twist in random stories now.

Dramatic cloak? It's a British thing. We all have them. You wouldn't understand.

Can’t wait for the modern reactions with your dad :) Also I understand what you mean of that feeling of when you have finally watched all the episodes of Doctor who

i do like the sentiment of the ordinary being important however RTD building up ruby's mom to be important with her having that cloak and the pointing that aspect itself was a weak payoff.

A negative plus a negative cancel each other out which brings a positive. That's what that means

I imagine the cloak was to conceal herself whilst abandoning a baby

Don’t ya just love the idea that RTD watched one of the most disappointing ideas of Star Wars, that went down so badly with the fans that it had to later be retconned away, and he thought, ‘Oooh I must do this too!’

She was disguised because she didn’t want her abusive family to see her dropping off the baby I presume.

This episode could be summed up by a well known quote from Red Dwarf "Everybody's dead, Dave".

Mrs Flood is Meglos. Somehow...

Einstein was one of the geniuses from across Time & Space captured by the Rani in "Time and the Rani" (though he's never identified by name, they just gave one of the extras the hair and the 'stache).

20:13 You are correct. RTD did indeed write Ruby's story as somewhat of a response to Rey's story in Star Wars.

the christmas episode 2024 called joy to the world

RTD actually did say in an interview that yes, he did get that idea from Rey

The remembered Tardis sure feels like it would have been more appropriate as part of the 60th anniversary episodes.

I liked the season overall. This finale however felt like everything I disliked about RTD previous finales compiled into one episode

The mara stories are good

I'm headcanoning Ruby's Mum had a goth phase until the dramatic cloak is explained.

I'm hoping that Alex has seen the new segments from previous tales of the Tardis episodes which featured returning companions, as well as Clyde from the Sarah Jane adventures.

At least you can't complain about companions not just walking away anymore since that's now 5 companions in a row that have done it!

RTD can't just say something like it's called a Memory TARDIS and is like a BLACK BOX on a plane recording events for later download to the GALLIFREY matrix before later models transmitted data more directly (that is a logical explanation) no he says REMEMBERED TARDIS and time is memory. What bollocks RTD needs putting in a mental hospital or to paraphrase him WHAT THIS RTD NEEDS IS A DOCTOR

I'm sorry Alex but I totally very highly disagree with you the classics do not need to be re-edited at all ever it should be left alone as it is it's total vandalism if they can't except the show for what it is and don't like it that's their problem then don't watch it it's as simple as that what's not broken don't fix. Specially after watching that terrible Daleks in colour with that god awful music with retconning in Nick Briggs voice as the Daleks which doesn't add up and butchered out alot of good scenes they should be watched for what they are and not be given a lying version.

Honestly this is what I would have done. Replace Sutekh with angry susan, make Ruby's mom Susans daughter and they have to work together to bring her back to her senses. And Ruby is the Doctors Granddaughter. It still would have been about family, but I feel like it would have offered a reason for their closeness. Despite the doctor lite episodes and even ruby lite episodes. They don't exactly know it but they can kind of sense a connection.

Mel screamed in "Terror of the Vervoids" Mel was always a screamer until this version.

TARDIS WIKI: “Russel T. Davies revealed in an interview he got the story idea of Ruby's mother being an ordinary human rather than something special from the character Rey's story arc in Star Wars: The Last Jedi”.

What about the Doctor saying 1066 in the episode when that was the first Doctor and so before Sutekh being connected to the Tardis. Also what about the Tardis being separated in The Giggle. Is another version of Sutekh on the 14th Doctor's Tardis stuck in the Noble garden?

Will you do a reaction to the animated Celestial Toymaker?

Thanks for the reply, Alex. I deleted the question seconds before you replied. Because I thought oh nevermind. So readers, Alex prefers modern Who to classic Who, even though he thinks classic had some good stories!

OK. Mrs Flood is the Monk. The Doctor mentions 1066, the year he first met the Monk. The Monk meddles in time, "I had such plans". Mrs Flood dresses as Clara and Romana, so he knows the Doctors history and enjoys playing around....or cosplaying around, a hint dropped in 'Rogue' with the cosplaying bird aliens. The Monk gets his name while cosplaying a monk in 1066, so he likes to dress for the occassion. And, of course, Gerald Flood was Kamelion's voice actor, so Mrs Flood is also Kamelion.

Mrs. Flood could just simply be another Time Lord we don't know it doesn't have to be someone we already know but a new villain like the Master and the Rani and the Meddling Monk which would be a nice change.

Nothing really bothers me any more - go with the flow and enjoy. I’m not worried about Sutekh being a bit pants this time round… the cloak and pointing are a bit pants. Hopefully there’s more to come on that. Or not!

Night night.

Three points. 1. Sutekh died in his time corridor. He was never in the Vortex to grab on to the Tardis. 2. Not interested in Ruby, the show is about the Doctor, not her. It's just Davies and his one trick pony idea for a season. 3. Someone said Space Babies has 6 million views. Brilliant, how long did it take to reach that level? 8 weeks! That may well include people who've watched it several times. The fact is, the viewing figures are off the cliff edge, even from the specials last year. The public are having their say by switching off. It's not even gaining a million a week!

I keep thinking Mrs Flood may be another Master of the Land of Fiction from The Mind Robber as she seems to be telling a story and all these 15th Doctor adventures could be in her land of fiction

I think what has bothered me about this Doctor's stories isn't the 'woke' (which is a useless word), it's the 'woo'. Things happen more less arbitrarily for no reason (why the long scene just to get a spoon?), or because of fortune-cookie platitudes like 'Memory is a time machine' and 'she was Significant because we gave her significance'. This sort of stuff has been going on all season, but this episode suffered the worst damage because none of the story made a lick of sense. One constantly has to 'just go with it' or provide one's own rationalizations.

Tom Baker could tell a tale to K-9.

Only thing I took from this episode was the actress playing Ruby Sunday should be the next Lara Croft. The look was perfect

I keep hearing about this Trickster, who's the Trickster? I never heard or saw as i recall a villain in Dr. Who called the Trickster? Is that in a audio or comic? The only Trickster i know is a villain from "The Flash".

(- × -) = + Death × Death = Life

Are you familiar with Buffy the vampire slayer? would you ever react to it? would I ever stop recommending? *in your voice* I don't know

Suetekh is still on the 14th doctor tardis after they split in two

I'm of the opinion that none of the events are real in season one. It's all a fabrication. Dreamscapes, created by some villain to make the Doctor and Ruby believe it's all happening for some nefarious reason. Maybe to find out who the Timeless Child is? The Unit tower is obviously not real, or if it is it must be star trek cloaked. The only thing real is the Doctor, Ruby and Mrs Flood. Therefore the Doctor needs to confront Mrs Flood, the very probable villain of the piece.

All of Classic Who is good it's a timeless classic what do you mean some stories are good there is no bad story 😂. It's NuWho that's going to date bad.

A big letdown. The tiresome guessing games were for nothing, Sutekh was defeated too easily (with a rope and a spoon) and everyone was brought back to life. Ncuti Gatwa is either being jolly or crying way too much. The first time I've questioned his casting.

The Tales of the TARDIS are basically just Classic Who stories bookended by scenes of companions talking, meant as intros to Classic Who. The only editing is to merge them into movies instead of individual episodes. Other than Pyramids of Mars, they're mostly full length. And UK exclusive cause Classic Who is a streaming licence nightmare abroad. You're not missing much.

Someone sent me a message about looking like a tool over all this saying it is for KIDS. HE obviously read KZfaq about DOCTOR WHO so the person making the comment is a viewer also. I AM 58 not a kid but to correct this guy who doesn't know DOCTOR WHO has always been made by the DRAMA department even when poor writing makes it look childish.

To answer your question I do love "The Celestial Toymaker" one of the best stories of the Hartnell era unfortunately the animation was absolute crap and looks absolutely nothing like the original episodes and there was too much tinkering in the original audio just to sort modern sensibilities which is just plain ridiculous. I'm not the biggest fan of "Tales of the TARDIS" as much as it was nice to see the old Doctors and the old companions again I'm very highly against the re-edited versions of the Classic series it should be left alone and I wish they would stop tinkering with the old effects I like the old effects better as they are I don't even like the remastered versions of the CGI original enterprise from "Star Trek: The Original Series" I prefer the original model and I don't like the remastered version of the "Star Wars Trilogy" I think it's been tinkered with too much it's like vandalism on artwork to me I do not like it at all infact I hate it.

The whole thing with Ruby's backstory was just so lazily written and a big cop-out for 7 weeks there was all this big build up because people thought she might be an adopted alien or her mother was someone from the Doctor's past possibly a Time Lord which would had been interesting but no RTD couldn't help himself and took the soap opera route and she just turns out to be an ordinary girl with an ordinary mother who abandoned her when she was 15 wow Russell has forgotten how to write science fiction. The CGI Sutekh dog was terrible there's absolutely no reason they couldn't had used a real actor as Sutekh in his original costume and mask and it still would had been just as effective and the way he was defeated again lazily written one of the most powerful gods well he's actually an alien the last of the osirens and he gets defeated by a rope that was the mostly dumb. RTD is creating fanfiction and becoming a hack.

Sutekh on the TARDIS has to be retconned. Some respect for previous writers, please. It's Doctor Who not the RTD show.

17:49 Maybe I'm reading too much into the line, but I think Ruby should have used the term "biological mum" rather than "real mum". It just seems somewhat dismissive of Carla.

I don't like the ratings for the new season. Do you think the series needs a temporary break?

Non of this crap was Canon it's all egotistical fan fiction of the highest order, a showrunner drunk on power with no one to challenge or stop his ideas and this is what you end up with, convoluted, cartooney garbage, so embarrassing to watch, this whole showrunner thing has to end its just not working anymore