Doctor Who The Legend Of Ruby Sunday +Empire Of Death Review- Doctor Who Finale
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
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I’m glad we don’t get answers for everything. I don’t feel cheated because I always assumed Mrs Flood was going to be a longer term mystery. Along with “The Boss”
I like it when arcs go over multiple seasons. Was one of the things I really liked about Moffat’s era.
I didn’t think we would have everything revealed. I was upset that the interviews painted this to be the end of arc. The danger with dragging the plots on for too long is they loose that excitement and start to feel like it was never thought through in the first place. Hopefully miss flood will be a focus next year.
The legend of Ruby Sunday - It was a good introductory episode for the last episode of the season, where the end of the episode did its job of creating excitement and tension to look forward to the next episode and gave high expectations. As someone who hasn't fully watched the classic era and not knowing about Sutekh before, I still thought his introduction was excellent and it was exciting.
The empire of death - Overall not a bad episode although I do feel there were questions and inconsistencies throughout the episode. I feel that Sutekh was not used correctly and did not show his true potential. (I don't know how he was in the past)
About the mom's revelation. I understand what the message they wanted to give, but I don't buy it ..... 😆
If RTD thinks that the mom was very important just because we fans gave her that importance, he is very wrong. They were the ones who gave it that importance as it was one of the important (if not the most important) point around that season and it wasn't just the question "Who is Ruby's mom?" but it was snowing around Ruby, the music, Maestro mentioned that there was something wrong with Ruby, Suketh came out of hiding just because there was something wrong with Ruby's mom. So they just gave us an ending with no explanations (again).
Extra comments:
- In my opinion 73 yards episode and the mom's revelation felt with the same sentiment: good development with a confusing ending with no unanswered questions.
- I am impressed that they have released the season finale at the cinema in England (I would have liked to see it in the cinema :c) but I am more impressed by the message they gave, I am given to understand that this may not be the end of the mystery about Ruby. If that's the case, I do find it a bit disappointing as this finale left a bad taste. I would even go so far as to say that they seem to be using it as a hook to keep the audience watching the next season (I hope they're not doing that). It seems that "The One Who Waits" is the audience :/
I have several comments on that season that can create discussions (which can be positive as well as negative), but overall it was a decent season...
What we gain from this ending are memes of people pointing out address names and random ads as options for naming the babies. .... The Legend of No Smoking.... my favorite 🤣
At the end of the day I love Doctor Who so my excitement for the special and the second season starts from the end of the last episode...
Great video Dan I think seeing it in the cinema was absolutely amazing experience and I’m hoping they do it next year also what’s your opinion on the tales of the tardis pyramids of mars
The cinema was great. I’ve been meaning to watch pyramids every night for two weeks and I still haven’t got round to it. Maybe tonight
What an interesting and devise finale. As a Sutekh mega fan (i let out a gigantic scream when he was revealed), i thought LORS was one of the best part 1 finale episodes, and it got me so incredibly hyped for Empire of Death (because it was going to be everything I want from a finale), I gave it a 9/10 on my personal rankings. Just a shame that it was a let down for me. I enjoyed everything up to the Doctor getting the spoon. Everything after his breakdown in the tardis was really bad. The way they beat Sutekh was a major let down, and the mystery of Ruby's mum has annoyed me beyond belief because why hype her up....to be a regular woman. I get the symbolism behind it, but it just doesn't work for me. I feel like this would have benefited majorly from a 3 parter, because then Sutekh could have been built up as this major threat for more than a combined 5 minutes. I just feel like Russell had great ideas but didn't know how to put them all together. However, this ep did make me so much more intrigued into the Mrs Flood mystery, i personally think she's going to be the God of Stories, overall I gave EoD a 5/10, which really disappoints me because i really wanted it to be great
The Ruby’s mother reveal is dangerous for the show going forward because if they might pull a similar anti climax again
The finale had lots of potential, but very rushed (that goes for the whole series, really).
I think they absolutely cheated the audience, with the build-up of the "mystery" of Ruby and her origins... and no, it wasn't "the audience" that bigged-it-up - that was absolutely RTD et al. I do think they wanted to have some big thing, but then didn't know what, or how to do it... so they bottled it.
They built it up to be bigger than they could deliver, and then blamed the audience when they couldn't deliver what they made us expect to have... and that was a very poor thing to do... and did very poor service to Ncuti and Millie... because they are going to bear the brunt of the audience dissatisfaction. It has echoes of Jodie... could have been a great Doctor, but was very let down by the programme makers. We don't need that scenario again, thank you!
Deliver what you say you are going to deliver, or don't make promises that you can't keep.
In the finale, there were holes everywhere, and things that just made no sense...
for example, why would Ruby's Mum point to a road sign, indicating that that was the name she wanted the baby to have, when there was only the Doctor there... and she barely even seemed to notice him - it wasn't the Doctor she was pointing at, it was the sign - so just who was she "telling"?.
If you think about it, the Doctor didn't tell anyone that the mother pointed at the road sign (and indeed, he hadn't remembered that himself)... so, no... it wasn't the mother who gave Ruby her name - it *was* the Social Workers (or whoever) as Ruby had originally assumed... so as a "sweet little story point", which I'm sure it was supposed to be, it just doesn't work.
Wouldn't it have made more sense to leave a note with the baby?
The idea of taking the dog for a walk (putting Sutekh on a lead and dragging him through the time vortex) was fun... but he has been attached to the Tardis for years (apparently), travelling through the vortex all that time, which served to help him evolve and grow his powers... so how that was supposed to kill him, wasn't really that well thought out
Although, thinking about it, Sutekh only died when we was "cut off" from the Tardis, and the Tardis does have a "force field" around it, which protected Capt Jack, when he clung on to it... so maybe that did make some sense, after all!?
The second Tardis turning-up in the "Time Window" which was made real *somehow* (instead of just being an image/hologram), and that became the Memory Tardis (or Memory of the Tardis), was somewhat contrived... probably just as bad an hitting the original Tardis with a hammer, causing it to create a duplicate of itself, in one of the specials.
I struggled with understanding how killing Sutekh like that, would "reset" everything that he had done... but then I thought about the "Time Vortex" part of it... so maybe, by killing Sutekh that way, it meant that all the killing, just kind of didn't happen (it rippled back through time, erasing events from the timeline, maybe)... but if that was the case, surely the "seeding" of the Susan Twist characters everywhere that the Doctor either... and yet, Susan Triad was still there, at the end!?
Also, if all that he had done was just "erased" from the timeline, then no-one would remember it... but it was indicated that they all remembered dying.
I was fine with the idea that Ruby was just an ordinary person, after all. Maybe I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't more to it, given how the "mystery" was hyped-up - but thinking ahead, I'm kind of glad that she is just an ordinary human being (as anything else might be a bit of a complication for the future).
Except... the Doctor "explained" that the reason why Ruby's Mum was a mystery and seemed "important" or "special" was because they (and we, as an audience) made her seem that way. Really?
Well, no!!! It's clearly not true.
So a god-like being (such as Sutekh was supposed to be) would not only be sucked into that way of thinking, but also not be able to see through the guff and realise that Ruby's Mum was just an ordinary person... and would be so invested in the mystery that he "waited" for the mystery to be resolved by the Doctor!?!?
Maestro commented that Ruby was special because of the magical "song" that was within her... then she was able to project her older self (ghost) back in time, to undo a whole timeline (although there was an attempt of an explanation, about the 73 yards business, being something to do with the Tardis' perception filter)... then there was the snow, and a few other things, that were all put in the stories to *suggest* that Ruby was something special, and had some kind of "power".
And... did anyone ever tell Davina McColl that they discovered who Ruby's parents were!? LOL
But... it was just a TV programme, so I enjoyed it for what it was, and probably won't worry about it too much.