In WBY the 14th Doctor talks about the TARDIS parking on an outcrop and slowly withering away and people leave flowers. That's exactly what happens in this episode

"You know what I miss?, I miss Nardole" We all do...

Props to Millie for this one. This was her first day on the job and straight into a new character with little support (This was the first episode of this series filmed in Dec 22 whilst Ncuti was elsewhere)

10:12 (and repeated elsewhere) For future ref, Albion is pronounced AL-bee-on, not al-BYE-on

If you look at the birthday cards. There are less and less each year, showing again how she has been abandoned her whole life.

In the next episode, I hope Ruby yells "watch where you're stepping", cuz I mean come on now...

Actually, Doctor's outfit immediately reminded me of Paddington. And then when Ruby was on the train, Paddington station was announced. I was surprised this wasn't referenced later in the episode.

Did anyone notice Ruby got significantly fewer cards, the older she got?

Don’t forget what Ms. Flood said in this episode, “this doesn’t involve me.” She then just turned and went down the stairs. What did she mean that “it doesn’t involve her” in that moment/episode.

I am probably super late to the game and everyone else has already said this but I'm old so, bear with me. I know it's not an Easter Egg for this episode but I was thinking about the fact that the song at the end of the Devil's Chord is "There's Always a Twist at the End," and wondering if that's a little hint that Susan Twist's characters could be the twist at the end of this season. Also in the Devil's Chord Maestro tells The Doctor that "There's something wrong with this creature" or something to that effect when referring to Ruby which could be that in 73 Yards people are suddenly seeing her for who she really is, probably unbeknownst to Ruby herself, which may be The One Who Waits.

When older Ruby visits the inert TARDIS again, she says that it hasn't snowed since the first time she was there. In the next death-bed scene, she comments on how she used to be able to make it snow.

My first thought when i saw the comments about Albion : "Give him a break, he mispronounce it. It's not a big deal." 5 Minutes later: "yeah, i get why there are so many comments."

What is with the doctor and his companion at the moment stepping on things???? Butterfly, bomb, and the fairy ring come on

Not sure this is an Easter egg, but in the Devil's Cord, Ruby asks The Doctor: "Did you break it?" When the TARDIS groans after arriving back in 1963. In 73 Yards, the lady in the red beret asks Ruby: "Did you break it?" Referring to the cotton circle on the cliff top. I also think the cotton circle may have been a representation of the TARDIS console

I got the image of Ellie stalking Sean from 73 yards stuck in my brain now.

Not going to lie, this episode made me give in a little more to the idea that Ruby is connected to the trickster.

There's always a Susan Twist at the end.

Kate’s red nail paint 👀

and all I really wanted to know was "What did that woman say that could and would scare Kate Lethbridge-Stewart?" cus that woman is as dauntless as her father.

Surprised no one mentioned but ,this episode actually reminded me so much of that one sarah jane episode in which clyde was cursed and everyone that said his name began to hate him.

How about ehen being interviewed Roger Ap Gwillian said more than once "No more". Now where have I heard that before???

Ah the Cat's Cradle story. I read that so long ago all I remember really is Tir Na Nog. Another detail often missed is how her birthday cards at 30 are more plentiful than at 40. Could be a statement on isolationism, but it is true to life as I'm now 48 and the people you stay close to dwindles more and more just naturally.

The opening scene with the pub in Wales reminded me of the Slaughtered Lamb scene from An American Werewolf in London.

Pretty sure the season twist is gonna be that she ends up being one of the kids of the Toy maker and the Susan Twist chick is the one who "hid" her and has been keeping tabs on her

So from what I can gather, she was in a pardox timeloop cause she found out about the Welsh prime master, and by the end of the episode cause she didn't learn about him she broke the cycle as history could flow naturally instead of been put on a set path.

I wonder if Susan Twist is actually the recast of Susan Foreman? The reason she doesn't always recognize Ruby is because she got ahold of a Tardis of her own, and her appearances outside her home street are her past self encounters.

Maybe Susan Twist is 'the one who waits'?

My theory is that Ruby herself has a perception filter and doesn't know it. She's not actually human. Interacting with the 73 yards woman somehow deactivates the perception filter. That's why everyone stops, looks back at Ruby and only _then_ do they freak out.

Did anyone else notice that Mrs Flood's door was very TARDIS blue?

What did "old Ruby" say that frightened the people who approached?

I wouldnt call it a reference or an easter egg but i havent seen ANYONE talk about the paralells between the 'stalker' from 73 yards and the Watcher from Logopolis (4th Doctor finale)

One little Easter egg that I know of is when Ruby said to the woman who is following her "come on, we've got work to do" got me thinking of the 7th Doctor saying that to Ace in Survival and then it was Ace who said it the 7th Doctor in Tales of the TARDIS. Also another Easter egg would be when Kate, Ruby's Mum and some other people ran off after seeing this woman, it did give me the curse of Clyde Langer when Clyde friends and family turned against him

what does anyone think about the repetition of the number 65, the room cost £65, roger ap Gwilliam was going to spend £65 billion, and the woman was with ruby for 65 years

Thank you for he translation of the gestures being made by Old Ruby. While I believed it was a form of sign language, i wasn't certain, and the lack of knowing was beginning to drive me a little bit further up the proverbial wall. :D

Actually really liked it loved the creepy vibe & thought it was really well written & great acting by Millie. I need to watch it again though because lots was shot in my hometown & it takes me out of the episodes❤

Kate has red nail paint, like the ominous hand that grabs the golden tooth of the toywaker that is supposed to emprison the master (in the toymaker episode), you know with all the laughs and everything (She always wears red nail paint except for 1 weird shot where she drops the ipad in the toymaker episode)

im so glad someone made the reference to nardal! i couldnt get it out of my head and no one else i watched noticed or mentioned it.

One thing ive noticed about season 1 so far is every episode title is mentioned in the episodes

The woman in the red hat in the pub was played by Dame Sian Phillips. She's previously appeared in several Doctor Who audio dramas. I'll list the year, title, and character names below: 2018: Ravenous (Pilgrim) 2019: Torchwood: Monthly Range (Megwyn Jones) 2020: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield (The Inquisitor) 2021: The Fourth Doctor Adventures (The Director) 2018-2021: Jenny - The Doctor's Daughter (COLT-5000) 2023: The War Master (Mendrix) I think that's all of them, but if I've missed any, please let me know!

Morning fellow Doctor who fans.

I'm still hung up on what the old lady is saying to the people who approach her! One idea I came up with is maybe when they approach her she looks to them like regular young Ruby and when they look back they now see old Ruby where the young was so this scares the crap out of them and they run. As for her mother maybe she starts to think the original one is an imposter and doesn't want her around at all.

Also comes to mind for UltraCon slogans is Torquemada from "Nemesis the Warlock" with "Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave". Saw other person point out that when people approached the figure 73 yards away, they don't run off until after they look back at Ruby; what was it they perceived when they looked back?

You guys missed Dame Siân Phillips who was married to Robin Sachs (Torchwood) & daughter-in-law of Leonard Sachs (1st Doctor: The Massacre & 5th Doctor: Arc of Infinity) + several voice credits on Big Finnish serials.

Either Ms. Flood is the one who waits or Ms. Twist is. Like, if this entity is so powerful, who’s to say they aren’t just hanging back and watching The Doctor take on all these other beings?? Watching to see what they are truly capable of. Just a theory though…

In Number 9, I also sort of picked up on another Easter egg. Kate says one potential theory was the TARDIS perception filter interacting with the fairy circle because it’s landed close to it. In “Torchwood”, Captain Jack explains that spot in front of the fountain in Cardiff Bay (above Torchwood’s base) which makes people ignore you. He basically says exactly what Kate says here, because that’s where the TARDIS parks several times.

She didn't need to say anything, she was a banshee; and that is terrifying. But she was saying: 'I'm sorry I took so long', she repeated that phrase many times in the show. I don't know who Susan Twist is supposed to be, but I'm still rooting for Mrs. Flood to be a Fairy Godmother, it would explain her running away from the banshee so fast; she recognized it.

I'm a little bit disappointed that you guys didn't even mention the Torchwood episode Small Worlds since that episode actually had fairies in it.

Surely Ruby knows about the Sontarans from when they invaded the earth in flux, I dont think time was reversed at the end of the episode

This episode is definitely on the same level as 'Blink'. When I look on my favorite NuWho season list, the Ncuti Gatwa era has the potential to get on the same level as the David Tennant era. The storytelling and writing especially of this episode are top-notch. Doctor Who at his best, nothing more, nothing less ❤

Ooof. It's actually quite impressive he's gone his whole life never once hearing the word 'Albion'

There is no mystery! Everyone just really loves having Susan Twist on the set, so they keep insisting that she be cast in every episode!

Awesome. So many details, how do you keep everything on your head?

Amol Rajan: You're going to launch those nuclear warheads? Roger Ap Gwilliam: Yes. Amol Rajan: I can't accept nuclear warheads. We need Jungle, I'm afraid.

So glad for the Alan Garner reference - such an under-rated author who wrote some seriously subtle yet trippy books (The Owl Service, Red Shift) as well as the kids fantasy (Wierdstone of Brisingham etc)

You're missing the obvious Logopolis tie-in with what I like to refer to as the Reverse Watcher. This is a Watcher for the companion, which is different than The Doctor's Watcher in Logopolis.

I can't believe you didn't talk about the similarity between this episode and The curse of Clyde Langer! (My fav episode of SJA) 🙈💗 Fantastic video otherwise tho! ^^ Edit: Also the pronunciation error, but that happens to everyone ✨

Seán, we need ya for more videos. You are so good at this. 😂🇮🇪

Okay so I've watched all the easter egg videos for this episode and here's my theory about what happened: The cotton string had some sort of mystical power that makes anyone who breaks it die at a young age - since the doctor is very old, it made him die at an earlier point in his timeline and hence disappear. It also curses whoever reads the letters placed inside it. The curse involves being forever followed a mythical being who is not seen unless looked for and mutters a curse that makes the person afraid of the cursed individual and compels them to abandon whatever they love - the person at the bar from going to the bar, Ruby's mother from seeing Ruby and Gwilliam from being Prime Minister without being able to understand why they want to abandon them leaving them only able to say "ask her". In the original timeline, I think Gwilliam existed and the doctor stopped him from starting a nuclear war so without the doctor being there, Ruby was left to do it. Mad max could've also inhabited the body of Gwilliam but I don't think it was necessarily the case. At the end when Ruby was dying, she welcomed the spirit that had been tormenting her pretty much her whole life as though it was an old friend. Because of this and perhaps the fact that she defeated "mad max", the spirit granted her the power in her final moments to go back in the body of the spirit and convey a message to her young self to stop the course of events from happening.

I can't get the image out of my head of Ellie threatening Sean with a knife for not mentioning River Song 😂💙💙 Also, if she doesn't know, Big Finish dropped a box set today with the Ninth Doctor and River, and it left me feeling all the emotions. I can only imagine how Ellie would react to the story points.

Is number 20 a mistake? You said 2046 linked the two, but the clip from Water of Mars showed 2042.

Someone pointed out to me that the Doctor's outfit is reminiscent of Amy Pond's outfit from the Angels Take Manhattan. A coat with a white shirt and thin black stripes.

I hope Miss Ellie is recovering as she seemed quite sick so I am very happy you are doing this video.

I loved this intro. 🤣 The question I have is how does this episode even work? How does the woman have a lerseltion filter and how did she go back in time? Also who was the woman at the end of the episode that showed up in old Rubys room? If it was Ruby, how?? Did she some how manage to send herself back in time to try and help Ruby? And then go to her Hospital room and send her present day self back in time? How did she keep popping up wherever Ruby went and why always 73 yards? Why did everyone run away from the woman and why couldn't we get a proper picture of her face?? Lastly, where did The Doctor even go?? He just disappeared and never came back until the end of the episode. Did he go to another dimention? He wasn't deleted because if that were the case the Tardis would have disapeared also. I would say this may come up in a later episode but this timeline was pretty much deleted when Ruby realised that The Doctor was going to step on the structure on the floor.

The Coke drink costing £5 is a reference to the £5 lemonade in Battlefield, isn't it?

I hate that there’s only gonna be eight episodes

when will the new seasons be on itunes

Was Ruby's window the same window clara had when she was talking to the 11th doctor who was on the street?

Does the albion symbol really have a striking resemblance to the saxon party? Theyre both white red and blue (how original...) but Saxon's party is a sideways 7/upside down V/uncrossed A over the pepsi logo, albion is clearly an A on a blue background with a white and red circle around it. As far as logos go, these two match in shape and color, but nothing else. Considering how simple logos have become in recent years, I struggle to see a connection there.

Love the lil Ellie graphic as the woman near the pub!

Why has there been NO mention of the pub scene being VERY close to An American Werrewolf in London?

Ok so two things about the whispering 1 the sound effect they used is from a game back in 2002 called vampire the masquerade bloodlines and 2 every crew member had a different interpretation of what the whispers were

The old woman in the pub said some pretty significant things, even though they ended up trying to scare her. She said, "The cliff tops are a boundary between the land and the sea a liminal space neither here, nor there where rules are suspended." Then later on she says, "This land is a powerful place. It is said that he walks through the gaps, the Spiteful One." I also noticed that the PMs name is "Roger Ap Gwilliam"... If you just move the letter G, it becomes "Roger GAP William". Hinting the Spiteful One (could this be the old one or the one who waits that the toymaker never dared play) travelled between the gaps. Also adding the fact that it has been mentioned so many times by know how creatures like the toymaker and the maestro slipping into our world through gaps (created by the salt the doctor spread).

I adored this episode. Best one in a very long time. Probably the best episode since Heaven Sent. The best Doctor-lite episode at least since Turn Left, if not Blink. While the unanswered questions are frustrating, some may get answers eventually, while others like "what did Phantom Ruby say that scared people so much!?!" ultimately don't matter as much as the effect it had on the vibe of the story. I just loved this one, and it's easily one of my favorite RTD-written episodes. And every kudo imaginable to Millie Gibson for pulling off this spectacular performance straight out of the gate! Also, FUCK TRUMP. I pray that my fellow Americans wake the hell up and keep that human disaster out of office.

Does snyone kniw where the cliff was and what village was in the dustsnce? I wonder if it was Pembrokeshire.

In my review I used pretty much the same examples as Council Of Geeks (Inception) and Harbo (Midnight) and while CoG loved the episode Harbo didn't love it. This pretty much sums up where I was: I really liked it with some caveats, and then made a second video pretty much immediately because it collapsed as I thought about it. This review is spot on, beat for beat, what I'd end up saying if I'd continued with my full breakdowns. (every episode since WBY has had a contrived ending for me so it didn't feel worth a full analysis with the same problem every week) It's the perfect example episode of good vibes bad structure, where people will make all sorts of 'what if this meant this' but each clear setting/act (pub, politics, old lady) each ends with a "but anyway that wasn't the point" and it breaks any cohesion this episode is trying to go with. And I whole heartedly agree with Harbo, Midnight had a mysterious entity but a clear plot. This has a mysterious entity and an unclear plot where the entity seemingly gets explained but the plot makes it unclear not the monster. Without Ruby having some kind of "oh my God I made it back" moment, it doesn't feel like a triumph nor a tragedy, it just feels empty and contrived. And without that clear impact on her (she seems to remember it but even that is ambiguous) we have our 'spinning top: did it fall or not?' moment but WITHOUT the real focus of 'but he got his kids back whether they're real or not and so he and us feel satisfied enough' moment.

Is no one going to mention the paradox that was created at the end of the episode? Ruby stops the doctor from stepping on the circle because she saw herself. But if she stopped the doctor from stepping on the circle she never would’ve gotten old to have stopped herself.

Glad to see you on here Sean it good when you are on this too

Wish you’d do more videos Sean!

When Ruby walked into the pub it reminded me of the scene in American Werewolf in London when the American hikers walk into the pub and everyone stops speaking and stares at them.

It was like a black mirror doctor who themed episode, which I actually enjoyed quite a bit.

Thought it was a bit early on in a new Doctor's run to have a Doctor lite episode. I'm more behind the character of Ruby now, a great performance!

I wonder if Sean was watching the football a few weeks ago between Southampton and West Bromwich AL-BUY-ON? 😁

I'm glad someone addressed 13:51 and kept it in the edit. I don't think he did anything particularly wrong, he's just not that good. She could've said something before though, so they could both enjoy it. Otherwise, what's the point.

I have always heard it as Al-bee-on (albion)

Also with the whole alternate timeline thing, Ruby won't have been face-to-face with this instance of Susan Twist. Still something happening, but we've lost one step of them catching this repetition.

It was wonderful to see Sian Phillips in this episode. Such a great actor!

one of my favorites of late. Millie was great plot was scary and still a mystery in a weird and satisfying way.

13:14 A little something that I’d like to point out as both a smart detail and as analysis for the episode: Ruby receives less and less birthday cards as she ages. It’s pretty clear in retrospect that Ruby’s stalker represents her fears and insecurities of being abandoned, being unloved, and being the force that drives other people (and machines, in the TARDIS’ case) away from her. As we see in the date scenes in particular, these fears become a reality within this alternate version of Ruby’s future: the woman - Ruby’s insecurities - takes over her life, ruins her relationships, and makes her most trusted loved ones despise her. With this interpretation, I think that I can safely assume this slow decline in birthday cards to symbolize that as Ruby grows older, she starts to self isolate herself as her fears of abandonment quite literally haunt her, a self fulfilling prophecy that this version of her falls victim to. Anyway, I just thought it was a smart detail that clearly shows the path this version of Ruby symbolically takes in her life, and wanted to share

on 23 he [ Pat Troughton ] also wore a hat like that in fury from the deep

To this day "are you my mommy?" still gives me the crates 😖😅

Seán saying he’s Ellie threw me off more then it should have 😂😂 Nice little mix up there 🤌🏼

I could listen to Sean talk all day...

THANKS for this, Sean!!! Maybe we *have* missed some adventures, since The Doctor returns Ruby to *July* in "Chord," when she was seen at Christmas at the end of "Space Babies." And somehow, in this six/seven months, she must not have been to a planet yet, since The Doctor reminds himself she had never been to a planet in "Boom." Huh? Do I have this right, WhoCulture and Whovians? Wibbly-wobbly....

"She's in one country. I'm in another country." Isn't that the usual state of affairs for you and Ellie?

13:51 wasn't that comment about things "being semi-distant in the bedroom"? I meam you do you but not sure that's really a story for a TV sequel!

I firmly now believe Susan Twist is Susan Foreman. In the latest issue of DWM we have a short interview with Twist and she says that she constantly asks Russell that and I quote “the only reason you cast me is because of my name, really!” This implies that her name has some significance.

We love Nardole

you missed one, Roger ap Gwilliam, has a No more speech and is then seeks out a WMD this is a copy of the war doctor in day of the doctor where the doctor writes no more and then seeks out his own wmd, in fact you could say ruby takes the place of Bad wolf by standing in judgement of Roger and stoping him form using the WMD. can't believe ou missed that one

"Perfidious Albumen" is when you can't trust egg whites... ;-P

The picture you put up says 2042 not 2046