Only Doctor Who could be silly enough to give us an episode about space babies hiding from a snot monster, and yet dark enough that we could legitimately believe that one of the babies got eaten.
Babies were eaten in the Church on Ruby Road. Lulubelle was almost eaten. Ruby was eaten and then the doctor reversed it. But it was also established that before the events of the episode the goblins went around eating babies. Schoolchildren were eaten in School Reunion.
@@chinareds54 and that is my point. In any other show we would have never even considered the idea that the snot monster really ate the baby, the idea would just seem silly. But in Doctor Who...
"Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives."
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg So that suggests that Star Trek is real. But at the same time Rose and Ruby refer to the TV franchise of Star Trek. Does that mean Roddenberry a time traveler writing about the future?
When Ruby grabbed the pole without hesitating to make noise and attract the bogeyman away from Eric, that’s when it cemented my love for her as a companion
I’d prefer 14x01. It avoids confusion. But at the end of the day, it’s the 40th season of Doctor Who overall, the 14th season of the continuous run since 2005, and the 1st season that’s streaming on Disney Plus
The energy between Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson is amazing. I predict that they're going to be able to sell pretty much any story for the audience, no matter how ridiculous.
The kid who admitted he didn't know what the strings he pulled did reminded me irresistibly of my elder lad. When he was around six months old he had a well known walked which had a couple of spinning things on the corners of the tray in front of him. As he was tearing around the house, you could see him puling and pushing on the stalks the spinning things were on, and it was clear he believed they helped him steer the walker. :D
While not my favourite of the two episodes, they both brought back (in the best way) the most insane childishness that I've missed from Doctor Who so much. I also love Ncuti and Millie's chemistry, it seems like it'll be a highlight of this season.
Much like The Church on Ruby Road, Space Babies is a fun introduction to the new series and acts as a showcase for the 15th Doctor and Ruby's relationship, which is joyous to watch.
I like how this is sort of like a first date for Ruby and the Doctor. They met and hit it off, but here they are testing if this thing really works for them and find out what kind of people they are. There is some awkwardness at the start, they laugh at one another's bad jokes, but ultimately they are both empathetic towards one another and share the same core values, so they keep it going.
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Doctor Who hasn’t been this bat sh*t crazy since the days of talking space rhinos and little lumps of walking fat. God I’ve missed it and I absolutely love that it’s back. If there is one thing we should all know about Russell T Davies by now is if he starts of a series this fun, camp, and weird - then things are going to get damn dark and heartbreaking come the finale.
The "butterfly incident" appears to be a little reminder that something is afoot with weird coincidences/accidents this season. And am I mad, or did I hear a bit of Twelve's theme during the airlock scene? Another thought: remember how Eleven hated killing the Krafayis from "Vincent and the Doctor"? As ridiculous as a snot monster might be, it did give him a chance to save a strange creature instead of killing it.
Probably keep both numbers for now. All the official sites are saying season 1, but different news sites are using 14 or 1 or both, so people will be searching for both. Wikipedia still says 14 because nobody can agree on how to proceed, so they keep the status quo.
Yeah, but that's just news sites being uninformed and fans complaining and being difficult. There's no debate on how to proceed. The BBC told us this is Season 1 ages ago. Fans are just throwing a tantrum about it.
Maybe this is him getting his Slitheen-type episode out of the way before the Father's Day type episode already hinting at by totally never going to bring her to the church.
I like that Ncuti is a very confident Doctor. The way he just out and admits that his people were all killed is something the others would get melancholy about. He seems to have gotten over it.
Series 14. Having watched the first two (or three, depending on how you count them) episodes, I can see the argument for 1, because the universe/genre has changed from soft sci fi to magical and we don't know when it will change back. Or if, I suppose, but it probably will be the first thing some new showrunner of the future does if it doesn't happen under RTD. So it is kind of a reboot in that sense. But at this point we're at 40/14/1, so . . .
I love this episode so much, as an adoptee, the adoption representation is just so heartwarming and brilliant. When the Timeless Child reveal happened, some people said they didn’t like the fact that the Doctor was no longer a real Gallifreyan, which is something adoptees hear too often, sometimes non-adoptees ask us about our “real parents” in reference to our birth parents, suggesting that our adoptive parents aren’t our real parents, but I’ve said many times, which Russell recently repeated in an interview, that the Doctor is still a Gallifreyan, depending on the experience, to be an adoptee is to become the family you’ve been adopted into, like when I was adopted into my family I became a part of them, and it’s the same with the Doctor, while they’re not native to Gallifrey, they were adopted into the planet and culture, so became a Gallifreyan, and that makes them no less of a Gallifreyan than if they were a native. Same with the 1st Doctor’s Gallifreyan family, while the Timeless Child makes them his adoptive family and not birth family, they’re still his real family, as Graham said in Resolution (2019) family isn’t just about DNA or a name, it’s about what you do. Like how all of the Doctor’s companions are their real family.
Even though it was season 26, restarting the 2005 reboot numbering with season 01 made sense since the show had been off the air for a while. This new season should be season 14 since there is no gap between season 13 and this.
@@Rocket1377 I heard some wild takes about the new era but this one is quite something. As for the numbering, I think she should keep both terms, no one actually agrees on how to call it
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9:57 _Doctor: Planet Pacifico del Rio; Ruby: Oh, that's in English!_ - Well, it's Spanish, of course, but Ruby seems to believe it's in English anyway. If it _were_ in English, it would say "Peaceful *RIVER* "... and in the next episode, Maestro says that Ruby "has a *SONG* inside her". Just sayin'
You know you're getting old when your favourite show is available on streaming at midnight and you still wait until 6:30 (GMT) in the evening to see it, because it's what you've always done. But glad I did. We've been waiting for this to drop for so long that I was starting to become pretty jaded by it all. Some parts were obviously a variation on what we've seen before (the opening was a fun riff on the beginning of 'End of the World' - and it's hard not to compare the literal Bogeyman to the sleep monster in, er, 'Sleep No More'), but this fairytale aspect RTD is gunning for gives it a different spin. Not sure what I think about our hero deliberately making the kids cry at one point, but I do like how this story inverted 9's 'Everybody dies' mentality at the start of Series 1 (or whatever they're calling that now). 15 looks like he can't bear to lose anyone. So maybe the therapy is not as complete as he likes to think.
The prior knowledge point is valid - I would also point out that there's a throwaway reference at the start that is, from your perspective, a spoiler - but the other thing the show now has to do is strike a balance between the clued-up domestic audience and the smaller but wider one outside of British territories. It is hard not to see the shutdown of community resources for parents in the UK (leaving, tellingly, an accountant in charge) as an inspiration for this story, for instance. And it's nice that this new era kicks off with a sense of looking after the next generation. The causes don't have to be translated for another country. It's the underlying point that strikes home.
Hello 👋🏻. Technically is series 14, but for Disney Plus purposes is season 1. Also, in the comics Star Trek and Doctor Who have crossover. Maybe we see that in series 16?
I think 1x01 is ambiguous. I'm not sure it's even considered episode 1 of Season One. On Disney Plus it looks like it's being listed as episode 2. When I tried to play the season it started with The Church on Ruby Road and I had to skip it. How about D1x01? D for Disney? :p
Gosh, I'm an idiot... I was like "What did they mean they grow up wrong?" And I need to remind myself that those babies are not 6 years old, like their bodies are not 6 years old! Those are like 15 months old babies size! Jezz I have a freaking 7-year-old nephew, I should have understand what he mean by "stay the same size"...
Yeah , this episode was too campy and silly for me a 5 or 6 Gatwa and Millie great though Intrigued by the mystery of Ruby definitely get the sense she’s not human given she seems to manifest snow
Well, I have seen it refered to as SERIES 14 or SEASON 1. Classic Who uses Seasons, NuWho uses Series, but I guess RTD thinks since it is such a new beginning, they think of it as Season 1?
I find it oddly pedantic that some people are insisting on it between Series 14 when all the official channels are referring to it as Season 1. Just call it what the official channels call it, I'd say. 1x01, 1x02, etc., for me.
I think Series 14 is best way to avoid confusion. Dr. Who already has Series 1 and a Season 1, and both have been reacted to on your channel. Sooooo Series 14 will avoid the most confusion.
i think this episode demonstrates very well RTD's propensity to make the companions co-protagonists and co-leads with the Doctor. Ruby and this Doctor (and Millie and Ncuti) have a wonderful chemistry and dynamic together and I love these interrelated story threads of abandonment and adoption. The snot monster struck me as coming from the same idea as the Meep, but in reverse: you can't always tell from the outset who the Monster really is. (BTW, was the Nanny played by the same actress who plays Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton? Or where have I seen her?)
this has been weird so far. like this episode i just kept thinking how much of a nightmare it would have been filming so many babies between temperments and time restrictions etc.... but then copy right musical issues too i just imagine this seasons gonna be a nightmare
The time has come to once again yell “Geronimo!” and join you on another season of Doctor Who, where we watch the Doctor and companions traveling in the big blue box through all of time and all of space. I expect it will be as lovely as always, Jess.
Just a small thing, but when the Doctor described himself being the only one of his kind as a "superpower" I felt shades of the 12th Doctor in there. Little continuity nod, not confirmed, but seemly so. Loved that whole exchange.
Wow, that Susan Twist actress must have a fantastic agent! She was Isaac Newton's maid, that hippy woman in the pub Ruby's band played, and now the third crew member in those recordings. What do you reckon the chances are that we'll see her again? A tea lady or some other background character.... 😉
This was goofy, fun, nonsensical and gave a great exposition to those new to the show. I love the chemistry between Ncuti and Millie. Can't wait to see what the rest of this series has in store
@@somerandomguy2073 I think the controversy more came from Russell saying it was like another reboot compared to a new era, especially because there wasn't a massive gap between shows (like 1989-2005)
Episode number wise, I'm starting to think of them as being like comic book volumes when they go back to a new #1. So I think I'll start thinking of this as 4.1.1: "Space Babies", compared to, say, 3.1.1: "Rose," or 1.19.1: "Castrovalva"
my first thought when i saw the space babies were they were psycho babies. the captain did say they took over, which made me think they went crazy or something. i think anyone who watched this thought the bogeyman ate eric too. i found it interesting i watched it with closed captioning & was annoyed that they kept spelling boogeyman wrong. i guess they weren't. the closed captioning knew before i did. can't wait for you to watch the next episode. i think of the two that one is my fave so far.
Liked the Gallifrey stuff and everything with Ruby. I did not enjoy the gross stuff or even the babies. But the 9th Doctor started out pretty silly too so maybe we are going somewhere with this.
A snot monster from outer space... Can’t quell this feeling that I’ve heard about something like this before… Sounds familiar...like listening to fear … IYKYK 😂
Seska, Wikipedia lists this season as "Series 14" and counts the Christmas story as 'episode 1 - so you're pretty close, you're cool - The Music Loving Klingon
If you go for doing it one way then 14x1 (and so on) seems like the most sensible way to do it as it makes it clear where it fits in compared to the rest. Perhaps continuing with both is a good compromise though and the most accurate.
As I’m sure most of your viewers would agree, you don’t need to put yourself through all the trouble of getting or being up so early to try and watch and edit your videos. We appreciate your hard work, and Will completely understand if you need to take a bit longer to get it out. Your own health is much more important than our pleasure. Welcome to the ride, this season is going to be wild. Ps in the UK, we are mostly calling it series 14. Think it’s more globally it’s going by season 1.
"Is the numbering controversial" *shudders in unit dating controversy* (not forgetting the fact this season can be correctly called season 40/series 14/season 1)
If we're going to go with Russell's numbering system, maybe make it D1x01 since those of us in the States will be watching it on Disney+? Also, I hate that they retconned saving Gallifrey in Day of The Doctor, and we're back to "Last of the Time Lords".
Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that bit. So The Master single-handedly killed all of the Time Lords, and not one of them went off-planet after Gallifrey returned to the Universe? Yeah. Silly. And as you say, undoes the whole DotD arc.
Disney+ only has a contract to distribute Doctor Who internationally for 2 years, at which point it will be up for discussion on future agreements. I wouldn't recommend naming an entire era after a company that could very well step away after 2 years into the run (doubtful, but possible).
Babies physically incapable of aging are, in effect, timeless children.
Mind blown🤯🤯
lol
Rimshot!
Only Doctor Who could be silly enough to give us an episode about space babies hiding from a snot monster, and yet dark enough that we could legitimately believe that one of the babies got eaten.
That's true.
Babies were eaten in the Church on Ruby Road. Lulubelle was almost eaten. Ruby was eaten and then the doctor reversed it. But it was also established that before the events of the episode the goblins went around eating babies.
Schoolchildren were eaten in School Reunion.
@@chinareds54 and that is my point. In any other show we would have never even considered the idea that the snot monster really ate the baby, the idea would just seem silly. But in Doctor Who...
@@talgoren2246 well I don't know about anyyy other show. A baby was eaten by dogs on Game of Thrones. :P
@@talgoren2246I'm not surprised BUT doctor who is still my favourite sci-fi show
Am I the only one who notice that this was an "Everybody Lives!" episode? All the babies, the nanny the monster even the butterfly lives in the end!
There’s going to be a lot of that now Disney are involved lol
That thought actually did occur to me.
@@edbone3035 There is a lot of that pre-disney too. People keep saying it's a Disney thing when it's just RTD being fun.
"Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives."
@@dupersuper1938 it’s also fine to have everyone living, first episode doesn’t need to be that dark and RTD wanted more camp this time round.
Snot monster and fart-powered ship, that's Doctor Who alright 😂
Always what I love about the show, the fact they’re able to do these whacky ideas yet it fits perfectly
We're definitely getting RTD, for sure. it's going to be interesting to see how the collective fanbase responds.
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg This episode seems pretty mixed from what I've seen, but the next one is a lot better received.
Very Aliens of London, yeah
"I don't know what's going on, but I am feeling things." This exact sentence is the type of experience I'd been missing from Doctor Who.
Only RTD could make us feel sorry for a snot monster.
7:10 I like that we’re all just glossing over the fact that The Doctor might have confirmed Star Trek is canon to this show.
It is, he visited the Enterprise's in his 4th and 11th Incarnations
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Was that in alternative media?
Also, is it both fact and fiction in this universe?
@@zemoxianthe comics have a crossover with Matt Smith's Doctor, the TNG Enterprise, and both Borg and Cybermen.
This one reminded me quite a bit of old Star Trek. The crew's uniforms and the baby with an older voice - very Corbomite Manoeuvre.
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg
So that suggests that Star Trek is real. But at the same time Rose and Ruby refer to the TV franchise of Star Trek.
Does that mean Roddenberry a time traveler writing about the future?
Could also label it 14x01/1x01/40x01 jejeje
Might need a /1x02 (because Disney) 😂
I was told there would be no math.
I don't know why i started ugly crying when baby girl said she'd never been hugged.
When Ruby grabbed the pole without hesitating to make noise and attract the bogeyman away from Eric, that’s when it cemented my love for her as a companion
She immediately CAME FOR THAT SNOT MONSTER 💪😂
you just liked the thought or Ruby grinding on a pole... me too!
@@WayneFawcett-v1hplease do not include me in whatever going on here
@@WayneFawcett-v1hThat's a 19 year old girl you're talking about.
@@WayneFawcett-v1h this ain’t it
Ruby saying "Don't call me Rube!" sounds like a throwback to the 60s when the 1st Doctor would say "Don't call me Doc!"
I’d prefer 14x01. It avoids confusion. But at the end of the day, it’s the 40th season of Doctor Who overall, the 14th season of the continuous run since 2005, and the 1st season that’s streaming on Disney Plus
The energy between Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson is amazing. I predict that they're going to be able to sell pretty much any story for the audience, no matter how ridiculous.
The kid who admitted he didn't know what the strings he pulled did reminded me irresistibly of my elder lad. When he was around six months old he had a well known walked which had a couple of spinning things on the corners of the tray in front of him. As he was tearing around the house, you could see him puling and pushing on the stalks the spinning things were on, and it was clear he believed they helped him steer the walker. :D
I missed the snow at the end in my initial viewing. Glad you pointed it out.
If you include in the classic series as well in the series numbering, Space Babies is technically the first episode of Season 40.
While not my favourite of the two episodes, they both brought back (in the best way) the most insane childishness that I've missed from Doctor Who so much.
I also love Ncuti and Millie's chemistry, it seems like it'll be a highlight of this season.
Much like The Church on Ruby Road, Space Babies is a fun introduction to the new series and acts as a showcase for the 15th Doctor and Ruby's relationship, which is joyous to watch.
How is "Pacifico Del Rio" in "English", exactly?
I like how this is sort of like a first date for Ruby and the Doctor. They met and hit it off, but here they are testing if this thing really works for them and find out what kind of people they are. There is some awkwardness at the start, they laugh at one another's bad jokes, but ultimately they are both empathetic towards one another and share the same core values, so they keep it going.
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I loved this episode. Especially the Doctor tormenting the babies and laughing while at it...that's new!
Doctor Who hasn’t been this bat sh*t crazy since the days of talking space rhinos and little lumps of walking fat. God I’ve missed it and I absolutely love that it’s back. If there is one thing we should all know about Russell T Davies by now is if he starts of a series this fun, camp, and weird - then things are going to get damn dark and heartbreaking come the finale.
It hasn't been like this since the 1980s.
@@quintuscrinis8032No.
Let’s hope so. Who is always so much better when dark, gloomy, scary, dangerous, horrific and heartbreaking
The "butterfly incident" appears to be a little reminder that something is afoot with weird coincidences/accidents this season.
And am I mad, or did I hear a bit of Twelve's theme during the airlock scene?
Another thought: remember how Eleven hated killing the Krafayis from "Vincent and the Doctor"? As ridiculous as a snot monster might be, it did give him a chance to save a strange creature instead of killing it.
Probably keep both numbers for now. All the official sites are saying season 1, but different news sites are using 14 or 1 or both, so people will be searching for both. Wikipedia still says 14 because nobody can agree on how to proceed, so they keep the status quo.
Yeah, but that's just news sites being uninformed and fans complaining and being difficult. There's no debate on how to proceed. The BBC told us this is Season 1 ages ago. Fans are just throwing a tantrum about it.
@@somerandomguy2073For someone who just told me that was just trivial information, you seem very passionate about it
Is it just me who watches the episode and then can't wait to watch it again with Sesskasays to see her reaction!!
Yeah that's usually what I do.
I just realised. Anyone who doesn’t seem to have enjoyed this, I don’t blame them.
Doctor: I don’t have a job.
Unit: r u kidding
The Doctor doesn't work for UNIT anymore.
They agree to disagree on that point.
I had honestly hoped that we were over fart jokes with the Slitheen.
Maybe this is him getting his Slitheen-type episode out of the way before the Father's Day type episode already hinting at by totally never going to bring her to the church.
Nothing is ever over.
I have a feeling this is going to be one of your favorite doctors. I'm already pretty enamoured by him.
I like that Ncuti is a very confident Doctor.
The way he just out and admits that his people were all killed is something the others would get melancholy about. He seems to have gotten over it.
Series 14. Having watched the first two (or three, depending on how you count them) episodes, I can see the argument for 1, because the universe/genre has changed from soft sci fi to magical and we don't know when it will change back. Or if, I suppose, but it probably will be the first thing some new showrunner of the future does if it doesn't happen under RTD. So it is kind of a reboot in that sense. But at this point we're at 40/14/1, so . . .
That music that played during the Doctor talking about Gallifrey...chills.
I love this episode so much, as an adoptee, the adoption representation is just so heartwarming and brilliant. When the Timeless Child reveal happened, some people said they didn’t like the fact that the Doctor was no longer a real Gallifreyan, which is something adoptees hear too often, sometimes non-adoptees ask us about our “real parents” in reference to our birth parents, suggesting that our adoptive parents aren’t our real parents, but I’ve said many times, which Russell recently repeated in an interview, that the Doctor is still a Gallifreyan, depending on the experience, to be an adoptee is to become the family you’ve been adopted into, like when I was adopted into my family I became a part of them, and it’s the same with the Doctor, while they’re not native to Gallifrey, they were adopted into the planet and culture, so became a Gallifreyan, and that makes them no less of a Gallifreyan than if they were a native. Same with the 1st Doctor’s Gallifreyan family, while the Timeless Child makes them his adoptive family and not birth family, they’re still his real family, as Graham said in Resolution (2019) family isn’t just about DNA or a name, it’s about what you do. Like how all of the Doctor’s companions are their real family.
Even though it was season 26, restarting the 2005 reboot numbering with season 01 made sense since the show had been off the air for a while. This new season should be season 14 since there is no gap between season 13 and this.
In my opinion this is just a spin-off show, like The Sarah Jane Adventures. The real TARDIS and the real Doctor are still on Earth with Donna.
@@Rocket1377 I heard some wild takes about the new era but this one is quite something. As for the numbering, I think she should keep both terms, no one actually agrees on how to call it
@@Rocket1377 Stop being silly.
I prefer to think of it as Season 40. The most accurate numbering.
Loving Ncuti as The Doctor. He’s really bringing it - it feels fresh. I’m getting the same feeling of freshness I got in the Eleventh Hour!
Just so very happy that the Rani got mentioned!
Wonderful reaction, as always 💜💜➕🟦
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I think referring to it as series 14 is fine, as that is what it is. It’s only called Season One because of Disney Plus distribution
Probably best if you label it Doctor Who (2023) 1X01
2024
So close to having an alien companion. So close.
I was waiting especially for your expression when you first saw those adorable space babies! #AWWWW!
Eric's look of bemusement throughout had me smiling so much lol ALSO " Let's go space babies!!!"
honest vote to label this season 40
9:57 _Doctor: Planet Pacifico del Rio; Ruby: Oh, that's in English!_ - Well, it's Spanish, of course, but Ruby seems to believe it's in English anyway. If it _were_ in English, it would say "Peaceful *RIVER* "... and in the next episode, Maestro says that Ruby "has a *SONG* inside her". Just sayin'
It’s season 14 and season 1 and season 40 . Personally it’s 14 for me because I started watching in 2005 .
You know you're getting old when your favourite show is available on streaming at midnight and you still wait until 6:30 (GMT) in the evening to see it, because it's what you've always done. But glad I did. We've been waiting for this to drop for so long that I was starting to become pretty jaded by it all. Some parts were obviously a variation on what we've seen before (the opening was a fun riff on the beginning of 'End of the World' - and it's hard not to compare the literal Bogeyman to the sleep monster in, er, 'Sleep No More'), but this fairytale aspect RTD is gunning for gives it a different spin. Not sure what I think about our hero deliberately making the kids cry at one point, but I do like how this story inverted 9's 'Everybody dies' mentality at the start of Series 1 (or whatever they're calling that now). 15 looks like he can't bear to lose anyone. So maybe the therapy is not as complete as he likes to think.
Volume 3 Season 1 episode 1
That..... actually makes sense.
How many American 'heroes' would save the monster?
The prior knowledge point is valid - I would also point out that there's a throwaway reference at the start that is, from your perspective, a spoiler - but the other thing the show now has to do is strike a balance between the clued-up domestic audience and the smaller but wider one outside of British territories. It is hard not to see the shutdown of community resources for parents in the UK (leaving, tellingly, an accountant in charge) as an inspiration for this story, for instance. And it's nice that this new era kicks off with a sense of looking after the next generation. The causes don't have to be translated for another country. It's the underlying point that strikes home.
Hello 👋🏻. Technically is series 14, but for Disney Plus purposes is season 1. Also, in the comics Star Trek and Doctor Who have crossover. Maybe we see that in series 16?
I think 1x01 is ambiguous. I'm not sure it's even considered episode 1 of Season One. On Disney Plus it looks like it's being listed as episode 2. When I tried to play the season it started with The Church on Ruby Road and I had to skip it.
How about D1x01? D for Disney? :p
I just rewatched The Church on Ruby Road and part of Space Babies. Disney Plus has TCORR as 1x01 and SB as 1x02.
Gosh, I'm an idiot... I was like "What did they mean they grow up wrong?"
And I need to remind myself that those babies are not 6 years old, like their bodies are not 6 years old! Those are like 15 months old babies size!
Jezz I have a freaking 7-year-old nephew, I should have understand what he mean by "stay the same size"...
Yeah , this episode was too campy and silly for me a 5 or 6 Gatwa and Millie great though
Intrigued by the mystery of Ruby definitely get the sense she’s not human given she seems to manifest snow
It's 14x01 and 01x02 . . . Thanks, marketing team!
I love Ncuti and his energy, he is a lot of fun.
Didn't expect to get this on a Saturday night, awesome!
The Bogeyman in the airlock scene reminded so much of the one from Alien Resurrection
Reminds me of Red Dwarf's Chicken Vindaloo monster.
Well, I have seen it refered to as SERIES 14 or SEASON 1. Classic Who uses Seasons, NuWho uses Series, but I guess RTD thinks since it is such a new beginning, they think of it as Season 1?
I find it oddly pedantic that some people are insisting on it between Series 14 when all the official channels are referring to it as Season 1. Just call it what the official channels call it, I'd say. 1x01, 1x02, etc., for me.
label it correctly 40x01 ! 🤣
Actually i m calling it season 1/14/40 just for clarity...
I think Series 14 is best way to avoid confusion. Dr. Who already has Series 1 and a Season 1, and both have been reacted to on your channel. Sooooo Series 14 will avoid the most confusion.
Absolutely loved this episode. A perfect example of RTDs wonderfully strange sense of humour. Have to say little Eric stole the show though 😁
This was a guilty pleasure episode. I loved it.
I didn't realize until watching your reaction that the Doctor knocked four times after saying he was the Last of the Time Lords. :p
i think this episode demonstrates very well RTD's propensity to make the companions co-protagonists and co-leads with the Doctor. Ruby and this Doctor (and Millie and Ncuti) have a wonderful chemistry and dynamic together and I love these interrelated story threads of abandonment and adoption. The snot monster struck me as coming from the same idea as the Meep, but in reverse: you can't always tell from the outset who the Monster really is. (BTW, was the Nanny played by the same actress who plays Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton? Or where have I seen her?)
Awwwh I am excited. And I am excited for your reaction to The Devil's Chord!
this has been weird so far. like this episode i just kept thinking how much of a nightmare it would have been filming so many babies between temperments and time restrictions etc.... but then copy right musical issues too i just imagine this seasons gonna be a nightmare
At least the third companion to ask the butterfly question.
Been watching a lot of your old reaction vids from Eccleston to the Church on Ruby road and I'm excited to watch these alongside you now!
Hey - you managed to be the first reactor I saw looking at the new episode after I watched it today!
The time has come to once again yell “Geronimo!” and join you on another season of Doctor Who, where we watch the Doctor and companions traveling in the big blue box through all of time and all of space. I expect it will be as lovely as always, Jess.
well the church of rubi road is 1x01 in the disney+ app LOL
Just a small thing, but when the Doctor described himself being the only one of his kind as a "superpower" I felt shades of the 12th Doctor in there. Little continuity nod, not confirmed, but seemly so. Loved that whole exchange.
Jess' face with the fake baby death 😂
Series 14 is going to be amazing
@@somerandomguy2073 What are you talking about ?
Wow, that Susan Twist actress must have a fantastic agent! She was Isaac Newton's maid, that hippy woman in the pub Ruby's band played, and now the third crew member in those recordings. What do you reckon the chances are that we'll see her again? A tea lady or some other background character.... 😉
Loved it! Complete Dr. Who experience!
Everybody Lives even the Butterfly.
"Is this number contreventional? In this fandom, I wouldn't suprised..." Awww, she knows us~ Anyway Series 14...
This was goofy, fun, nonsensical and gave a great exposition to those new to the show. I love the chemistry between Ncuti and Millie. Can't wait to see what the rest of this series has in store
Anything can happen in the whoniverse on doctor who
Yeah most people have accepted it as 14x01, it is controversial. Everyone's been slowly warning up to 1x01, so just do what you feel is best.
The dumbest controversy I've ever seen, and I've seen a LOT with this fan base. Why the hell does anyone care about that? Talk about trivial.
@@somerandomguy2073 I think the controversy more came from Russell saying it was like another reboot compared to a new era, especially because there wasn't a massive gap between shows (like 1989-2005)
Episode number wise, I'm starting to think of them as being like comic book volumes when they go back to a new #1. So I think I'll start thinking of this as 4.1.1: "Space Babies", compared to, say, 3.1.1: "Rose," or 1.19.1: "Castrovalva"
my first thought when i saw the space babies were they were psycho babies. the captain did say they took over, which made me think they went crazy or something. i think anyone who watched this thought the bogeyman ate eric too. i found it interesting i watched it with closed captioning & was annoyed that they kept spelling boogeyman wrong. i guess they weren't. the closed captioning knew before i did. can't wait for you to watch the next episode. i think of the two that one is my fave so far.
Hoping this the beginning of a great long run of the 15th Doctor...
I think for ease of understanding and for searchability, I'd keep the hybrid season listing.
For ease of access, Jess, please could you add your reaction to The Church on Ruby Road to your Doctor Who Season 14/Season 1 playlist? ☺️
Liked the Gallifrey stuff and everything with Ruby. I did not enjoy the gross stuff or even the babies. But the 9th Doctor started out pretty silly too so maybe we are going somewhere with this.
A snot monster from outer space... Can’t quell this feeling that I’ve heard about something like this before… Sounds familiar...like listening to fear …
IYKYK 😂
Seska, Wikipedia lists this season as "Series 14" and counts the Christmas story as 'episode 1 - so you're pretty close, you're cool - The Music Loving Klingon
Think 14x01 is my preference, but do whatever you want.
If you go for doing it one way then 14x1 (and so on) seems like the most sensible way to do it as it makes it clear where it fits in compared to the rest. Perhaps continuing with both is a good compromise though and the most accurate.
notation issue completely understandable
As I’m sure most of your viewers would agree, you don’t need to put yourself through all the trouble of getting or being up so early to try and watch and edit your videos. We appreciate your hard work, and Will completely understand if you need to take a bit longer to get it out. Your own health is much more important than our pleasure.
Welcome to the ride, this season is going to be wild.
Ps in the UK, we are mostly calling it series 14. Think it’s more globally it’s going by season 1.
Do not fret because those of us who like the best and watch the best will gladly wait for the best reactions
8:58 "This is the year 5 billion."
"Is the numbering controversial" *shudders in unit dating controversy* (not forgetting the fact this season can be correctly called season 40/series 14/season 1)
If we're going to go with Russell's numbering system, maybe make it D1x01 since those of us in the States will be watching it on Disney+? Also, I hate that they retconned saving Gallifrey in Day of The Doctor, and we're back to "Last of the Time Lords".
It does feel that RTD is repeating himself a lot eg. the phone.
Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that bit.
So The Master single-handedly killed all of the Time Lords, and not one of them went off-planet after Gallifrey returned to the Universe? Yeah. Silly.
And as you say, undoes the whole DotD arc.
@@arch1017 Right..I forgot about the CyberMasters somehow, so the Last of the Time Lords is legit. Thanks for the reminder.
Disney+ only has a contract to distribute Doctor Who internationally for 2 years, at which point it will be up for discussion on future agreements. I wouldn't recommend naming an entire era after a company that could very well step away after 2 years into the run (doubtful, but possible).
@@arch1017 Yeah that was Chibnall though, RTD is just working with what he has.
First it was monster eye sleepers and now it’s a snot creature.
Matt Smith had a similar start I think it will get more serious this is just the fun start