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Yeah, in terms of seasons they’re sort of in between. My point is that Ruby Road was Ncuti’s first proper episode, our introduction to Ruby, and really is the beginning of the season’s story arc (unless you want to go back to Wild blue yonder for the salt and superstition seeding).
Different strokes, I guess. To me the discomfort of the unexplained in 73 yards is the source of (mild, child friendly) horror that drives the episode, and makes the story stick with you. 🤷
Rogue was a terrific throwback to fun, slightly bizarre period romps, but apart from introducing a new love interest for the Doctor I think it sits nicely in a third place? Now, if it had had full body holograms of all past Doctors gyrating to “Can’t get you out of my head” along with 15 I’d rank it higher…
I’m curious why The church on Ruby Road wasn’t included in the poll as it so clearly was a part of this season’s storyline — and I wonder where it would have landed in the ranking.
The result of the poll is fairly similar to my own personal ratings. OTOH I’d swap 2 and 4, as well as 7 and 8 — mind you, that’s as subjective as it is going to fluctuate with rewatches.
Edited to add:
You know what, here is my ranking of the moment. I added in the christmas special and rewatched a couple of episodes I was uncertain about.
I guess it reflects my disappointment that one quarter of the season was pissed away on a story about a Bad Dog being taken for walkies during Avengers: Endgame. The more standalone episodes worked much better for me than the “arc” this year.
No, of course not. I thought the movie sharing was your primary concern, sorry if I misunderstood. Hope this solves at least part of your problem.
First I’ve heard of Virpus but thanks for the heads up. More than 50% packet loss does not sound like a working infrastructure, much less one that should be marketed to consumers.
I’ve never done this myself but if you want to keep it simple and be able to play all video formats, why not just stream from VLC?
I’m happy to be corrected on this, but it seems the simplest solution to a potentially complex problem. Everybody uses VLC, right?
Will death cancel death… on the Death Star?
You know, I’ve been rolling my eyes at people online who keep bringing Star wars nonsense into Doctor Who discourse and speculation. I guess the joke’s on me, RTD himself is using Who as a Star wars comment section.
I’m with you. 720p unless I can’t find lower than 1080 — for my setup there isn’t much point. The TRaSH guide parameters make my head ache thinking how much I’d be shelling out on bandwidth and storage for no discernible difference on my home theatre.
I think the scene in Empire of death where the Doctor and Ruby debate her reconnecting with her mum is a template for his inner dilemma re Susan.
He says straight out to Ruby that her birth mother never reached out for “7000 days” so maybe she’s not interested? That to me shows his own apprehension of not getting back in touch with Susan all those millennia (more than 7000 years in his timeline), but Ruby’s instinctive decision to go meet Louise could show him that there is still time for him, too.
I mean, that’s what I hope! And I completely agree, any reunion with Susan that doesn’t include Carole Ann Ford would just not ring true.
Can we just dwell on the subject line of “MISSING HAIR GOODS”? 🤣
That was a really fun buildup and coda. The resolutions to the conflict with Sutekh and the mystery of Ruby’ mum were underwhelming, though. If you’re going to have the big bad simply be put on a leash and dragged through the time vortex, you better have a gut punch up your other sleeve. But they didn’t.
The central conceit is fun but half-baked. Turns out after ages and ages riding the TARDIS, Sutekh had become a scoreboard fanboy like any mortal Whovian who’s been watching since 1975. Everything that happens to the Doctor has to make sense to him (maybe Ruby’s mum is the Rani?!) and he simply can’t kill off the Doctor or Ruby without learning who left her at the church, so he can continue building headcanon from there while the universe spins into entropy. This finale has really been about playing against viewer expectations but I didn’t expect it to be the basis of Sutekh’s defeat…
So now we know Ruby’s mum was a nurse in Coventry all along. That is a nice reversal, of course, and plays into the Doctor’s conviction that everyone is special (see “Space babies,” among others). Good thing Sutekh is gone though, because he would be furious at this development… There’s no complex cosmic puzzle to be solved, Ruby’s birth and abandonment dovetails perfectly with real life statistics as Kate told us last episode.
After a season of teasing Susan Foreman, I found the Doctor’s and Ruby’s talk outside the coffeeshop to be revealing. Trying to talk her out of reconnecting with her mum, he’s really talking about himself abandoning his granddaughter, and rationalising why he never went back for her. That is pretty damning if not for his admission to Kate in the last episode that he might bring disaster on Susan if he were to find her.
I liked those thematic strands and the way they set up for next season, and the general storyline if this double feature finale —but the boss fight might have needed a bit more workshopping before making it to production…
Yeah it is. Church on Ruby Road is part of the season but numbered 0. Looks like it got counted as 1 here?
Nice, I’ll see if it can replace ye olde taskbar standard for me 👍
Oh no, I’m not Wayland ready yet. I still use Openbox for crying out loud 🤣 Tried and true still works for me but I’ll give Rofi a shot!
I dunno, Odo’s morals are very much tied to his need to maintain control and appearances. Yes, that aligns perfectly with his shapeshifting ability 🙂
As a Doctor Who viewer, I thoroughly approve the “timey-wimey stuff” line. And as I’m currently rewatching Voyager I’m so glad to see the recurring crew in Prodigy ❤🖖
This kind of material feels genuinely aimed at the segment of the audience longing for dodgy CGI à la 2007 😆
Also countries that probably started out socialist but took a sharp turn into authoritarianism and under-the-hood oligarchy… You know who you are.
Having rewatched the series, I think Space babies actually stands up pretty well despite all the “for all you new viewers out there” lore dumps. The babies are adorable if slightly weird, the snot monster is … just the right amount of disgusting, and the fart joke is perfectly Doctor Who to me.
Does it have Mel, Kate or Morris Gibbons? No, but storywise I’ll rank it higher than Empire of death for now.