Dr. Who Reaction 14x4 - 73 Yards
Added 2025-07-12 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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"You're standing in the street on the phone to your own mother?", "Yeah.", "Nothing to do with me.", Mrs Flood and Ruby, "73 Yards" An interesting story that keeps you wondering what's happening and later cheering for Ruby as she takes Roger ap Gwilliam down. It's a Doctor-lite story - for full information watch the "Unleashed". I suppose it has slight similarities with another RTD Doctor-lite story, "Turn Left", where the companion lives her life without the Doctor in an alternate timeline. "I can't think of a synonym for keeping your distance. I suppose, to coin a new word, in Latin, it would be 'semper distans'. Always distant.", Enid Meadows, "73 Yards" In the creepy pub (and why would you do that to a visitor?), Enid Meadows is played by Siân Phillips. She had a big role in the celebrated BBC 1976 miniseries about the Roman emperors: "I, Claudius". With Siân taking here role here, she joins a large group of actors who had a part in "I, Claudius" and also the Whoniverse. For example in New Who we have had Derek Jacobi (Professor Yana/The Master) and John Hurt (The War Doctor). But other cast members of "I, Claudius", like Brian Blessed, George Baker, Patricia Quinn, Fiona Walker, Kevin McNally, John Cater, Frances White, Stratford Johns, John Bennett, Bruce Purchase, James Bree, John Bennett, George Pravda etc., all great actors, were all in various Classic Who stories and others have done Big Finish Who audio stories or "The Sarah Jane Adventures". "And you worked with the Doctor?", "With him. Despite him. Against him, sometimes. And I adore him. I can only say that now he's not here.", Ruby and Kate Stewart, "73 Yards" It's always nice to see Kate again. But it's a shame that she could't help. "Excuse me. Hey. Could you get off the grass?", Security Officer, "73 Yards" One issue I have with the walking on the football pitch was that Ruby didn't need to use her phone to measure her distance from Roger ap Gwilliam - couldn't she just keep walking backwards until the mysterious woman is standing right next to him? But it makes good TV because the viewer can work out what she is doing. [And what would she have done if the woman had appeared at the other end of the pitch?] "I'm going to save the world.", Ruby, "73 Yards" That's exactly what we want and expect our companions to do!
Andrew Vignaux
2025-07-16 09:34:30 +0000 UTCTo add, the Woman being at a distance from Ruby where she can't see her face and zoomed in photos of her face are blurry, I think was the fairy circle using Ruby's reality as a foundling, because for Ruby growing up, her birth parents identities being unknown means that their existence to Ruby are faceless unknown figures.
The Gallifreyan Rebel
2025-07-13 12:41:51 +0000 UTCHaving been left at a Church as a baby by her birth mother and adopted, Ruby will naturally have abandonment trauma as a result. And so when the Doctor and Ruby broke the fairy circle, it punished Ruby by bringing her greatest fear to life; being abandoned. I don’t think the Woman was actually saying anything to people about Ruby, it was a curse to make them abandon her. Like the fact that her own mum said “even your real mother didn’t want you” which is a really hurtful term for both adoptees (like me) and adoptive parents, shows that it was a supernatural force that had messed with Carla’s and everyone’s minds.
The Gallifreyan Rebel
2025-07-13 01:05:39 +0000 UTC
