Good episode, maybe a little obvious where it was going. Way too much unexplained.

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    6 months ago

    RTD is such a weird writer, he talks a bunch about how dr who is such a whimsical show and writes these fun campy episodes, but then occasionally just writes some of the most existentially horrifying episodes of television, and in the bts for it he’s just like “oh I love wales, i’m so glad to film an episode set in wales!”

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    I saw a comment about how it was a character piece, not a plot piece and i think that nailed why i find it so dissatisfying- Ruby really doesn’t inveigle me as a character.

    Well that and Turn Left did it so much better

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    6 months ago
    Tap for spoiler

    That moment when Kate turned her back on her, it hit so hard…

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    Anyone able to logic this one up a bit?

    I’m thinking at the moment Ruby does this a lot but never realises because she resets her time line each time.

    She is able to live out a timeline change the outcome then slingshot back to the moment it started.

    Which would make her the person that dropped herself off at the church

    The doctor not being there and the tardis rejecting her would be because she is a walking paradox generator

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    I honestly did not peg the reveal on this one, only because it felt too obvious at the top of the episode, and made less sense as the story went on. Why was the old woman causing people to abandon Ruby? There was no hint I could figure as to why that might be happening. The ending felt almost like an “it was all a dream” twist, and didn’t feel satisfying.

    I will think about this episode a lot, it had a lot of interesting ideas, and I always love a doctor-lite episode, but it did not stick the landing.

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    Sorry what the fuck was this episode? Why did the Doctor disappear and the tardis lock? What was the resolution? Why 73 yards? What was she telling them? How did she go back? Why did the Doctor know not to read the notes in the second timeline but not the first?

    The moments of tension were really good, and as a short story even independant of Doctor Who it was very compelling, but the end was so fast and made no sense to me.

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          She read them while the Doctor was busy trying to fix the circle.

          Second try : he doesn’t step on it and can prevent her from reading the notes as he knows what he’s looking at

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    6 months ago

    Weirdly, I like episodes where the doctor is absent, it gives the other characters opportunities to build relationships and lets us know them better.

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    This was AMAZING, absolutely loved it. I normally don’t like leaving things unexplained, but it worked for me here.

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    Liked this ep a lot, my favourite of this run so far including the specials.

    Apparently it ties into Ruby’s past and the season finale which will be interesting to see but honestly just enjoyed it as a standalone creepy mystery story.