At the end, old Ruby was reaching out for the woman and when we got to daylight after the flashbacks, you saw two hands reaching out as Ruby was in bed. If you switch on subtitles, you'll hear the voice of Old Ruby. Your explanation of Mad Jack's existence or non existence are spot on as far as I'm concerned.
I dont know about the woman's hand gestures and why exactly 73 yards, but i do have other theories. Where did the doctor go: he was the one who broke the fairy circle, so maybe his disappearance was a type of punishment. And why didnt Ruby disappear? She was the one who took the scroll about Mad Jack and read it, so taking down the PM had become her mission alone, although she didnt know it yet. Why did the woman make everyone hate Ruby: I feel like it was a defence mechanism, coz nothing should hamper Ruby's mission of dethroning the PM. If Unit, for example, successfully intervened and captured the woman, Ruby would have never been able to deal with the PM. So, its like: you try to approach her or talk to her, then you are repelled by her and driven away from Ruby, so that Ruby's mission can be completed without impediments or distractions. Nobody tried to approach the woman after Ruby dealt with the PM, so we don't know if this theory holds. There is no paradox. The episode occured in an alternate timeline. And in that timeline, Ruby stopped the PM from leading the "the world to the brink of nuclear war", to quote the Doctor. So there is no actual nuclear war. When the timeline is reset in the final scene, Ruby does not live a life where she will stop the PM, so it isnt a paradox. Her original timeline is restored. In the final scene, the doctor again tells Ruby about the dangerous PM. Going by the exact words of the Doctor, the PM will indeed come to power in 2046, but clearly doesn't do any catastrophic damage. He simply acquires the weapons for symbolism. This entire episode was in an alternate timeline and trying to be all meta coz in this alternate timeline, Doctor Who does not have a title sequence.
As others have said elsewhere it's absolutely fine to have a few unanswered questions in a story. The problem with this story is that it has huge setups and huge questions but never answers any of them. We still never see the ghost at 73 yd face. There is literally no indication of what has happened to the doctor which is kind of important as it the program is about him. Is he dead in the alternative timeline is he being punished somewhere is he in limbo has he been teleported somewhere else? And more importantly why are supernatural strange fairy circle things only happening to ruby? If you watch this episode everybody else is carrying on like it is a normal superstition free world and universe
I think having big questions to answer is a good thing as long as they eventually get answered, I think it's likely for this to get addressed either before the end of the season or before Ruby leaves the show
@@grandmasterbale in the old classic days you tended to have four parters sometimes 6 and so you would come back every week to watch and find out what was going on in a story and it worked well. Modern Doctor Who is much more stand-alone episodes. I hope you are right that there is actually an arc over this storyline which will be resolved by the end of the season. Just saying something is magic rather than having a proper explanation is a cop out in my mind. It doesn't make sense for them to say this is a reboot if so much of what is happening is dependent on episodes that Disney people won't be seeing especially wild blue yonder. I get the sense though that Russell T Davies has written this episode and probably didn't even bother doing a second draft. Just feels like he wrote it as he went along but didn't go back to tie up any discrepancies. Simple things like why does she have to be 73 yards away. That needs to be explained otherwise it's just pointless and arbitrary and of course the title of the episode!
2:13 Turn Left with Donna
Glad someone said it
At the end, old Ruby was reaching out for the woman and when we got to daylight after the flashbacks, you saw two hands reaching out as Ruby was in bed. If you switch on subtitles, you'll hear the voice of Old Ruby. Your explanation of Mad Jack's existence or non existence are spot on as far as I'm concerned.
I dont know about the woman's hand gestures and why exactly 73 yards, but i do have other theories.
Where did the doctor go: he was the one who broke the fairy circle, so maybe his disappearance was a type of punishment. And why didnt Ruby disappear? She was the one who took the scroll about Mad Jack and read it, so taking down the PM had become her mission alone, although she didnt know it yet.
Why did the woman make everyone hate Ruby: I feel like it was a defence mechanism, coz nothing should hamper Ruby's mission of dethroning the PM. If Unit, for example, successfully intervened and captured the woman, Ruby would have never been able to deal with the PM. So, its like: you try to approach her or talk to her, then you are repelled by her and driven away from Ruby, so that Ruby's mission can be completed without impediments or distractions. Nobody tried to approach the woman after Ruby dealt with the PM, so we don't know if this theory holds.
There is no paradox. The episode occured in an alternate timeline. And in that timeline, Ruby stopped the PM from leading the "the world to the brink of nuclear war", to quote the Doctor. So there is no actual nuclear war. When the timeline is reset in the final scene, Ruby does not live a life where she will stop the PM, so it isnt a paradox. Her original timeline is restored. In the final scene, the doctor again tells Ruby about the dangerous PM. Going by the exact words of the Doctor, the PM will indeed come to power in 2046, but clearly doesn't do any catastrophic damage. He simply acquires the weapons for symbolism.
This entire episode was in an alternate timeline and trying to be all meta coz in this alternate timeline, Doctor Who does not have a title sequence.
The hiker was Susan Twist.
Ok but we find out the hiker is ruby so does that mean ruby is Susan twist
As others have said elsewhere it's absolutely fine to have a few unanswered questions in a story. The problem with this story is that it has huge setups and huge questions but never answers any of them.
We still never see the ghost at 73 yd face.
There is literally no indication of what has happened to the doctor which is kind of important as it the program is about him.
Is he dead in the alternative timeline is he being punished somewhere is he in limbo has he been teleported somewhere else?
And more importantly why are supernatural strange fairy circle things only happening to ruby?
If you watch this episode everybody else is carrying on like it is a normal superstition free world and universe
I think having big questions to answer is a good thing as long as they eventually get answered, I think it's likely for this to get addressed either before the end of the season or before Ruby leaves the show
@@grandmasterbale in the old classic days you tended to have four parters sometimes 6 and so you would come back every week to watch and find out what was going on in a story and it worked well.
Modern Doctor Who is much more stand-alone episodes.
I hope you are right that there is actually an arc over this storyline which will be resolved by the end of the season.
Just saying something is magic rather than having a proper explanation is a cop out in my mind.
It doesn't make sense for them to say this is a reboot if so much of what is happening is dependent on episodes that Disney people won't be seeing especially wild blue yonder.
I get the sense though that Russell T Davies has written this episode and probably didn't even bother doing a second draft.
Just feels like he wrote it as he went along but didn't go back to tie up any discrepancies.
Simple things like why does she have to be 73 yards away.
That needs to be explained otherwise it's just pointless and arbitrary and of course the title of the episode!
Love this one
Easily one of the best this season