Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death (FINALE)

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

Quotes from the episodes:

LORS: The Doctor "Time Lords can regenerate their faces, like a disguise"

EOD: Mel "It's your life, Doctor. It's telling the story of your life"

[Ludders II]

[zarius]

Obviously, Disney & BBC would prefer us not to spoil this episode of Doctor Who before it airs, so we won't. After all, most viewers like to discover what happens and the answers by themselves. Instead, we'll just tell you who the Big Bad isn't. Because there are a lot of theories still out there that fans are running with even though they've been publicly debunked time and time again by Davies and many, many others…

It's Not the Master

It's Not The Rani

It's Not the Cybermen

It's Not the Daleks

The Writing Goes Full Neil Gaiman


Part one of the season finale of Doctor Who leans into solving the season-long mysteries and still has character moments where the actors shine, but the leaning into plot and series continuity makes it the least interesting episode of this season. However, it's still fun and compelling as the writing leans into Neil Gaiman territory and goes full supernatural horror by the cliffhanger ending.

bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-the-legend-of-ruby-sunday-leans-hard-on-past-storylines/

[zarius]

Looks like the Bleeding Cool article got taken down

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The Writing Goes Full Neil Gaiman

Oh dear f*cking God...

[Clayton Dickman]

Jun 11, 2024 8:09:00 GMT zarius said:

RTD's five adventures to revisit before the finale are:

Spearhead from Space
Bad Wolf / Parting of the Ways
The Bells of Saint John
A Good Man Goes to War
The Church on Ruby Road

(Source: Raido Times)

A Dalek story and one that involves Richard E Grant are among the choices. Spearhead is the only classic Who story mentioned.

Spearhead From Space - Reason picked: "UNIT are in this new finale."

Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways- Reason picked: "I love writing the biggest cliffhangers I could possibly ever have. And this one's huge. Oh my God, this is like a triple cliffhanger. It's amazing!"

The Bells of Saint John - (similar feel)

A Good Man Goes To War -  "The identity of Ruby's birth mother is powerful and changes the whole plot....How timey-wimey is this?"

The Church on Ruby Road - "You shold watch that with a protractor and ruler, and work out who's standing where, and who's pointing in which direction. Who, exactly, was where and when will all be very important - so important it's ridiculous."

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

Take with a pinch of salt, but this is the IMDB description for Empire of Death:

"The Doctor has lost, his ageless enemy reigns supreme, and a shadow is falling over creation. Nothing can stop the devastation - except, perhaps, one woman."

Isn't that the Series 3 finale?

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

Actually, isn't that most finales?

[ClockworkOcean]

The prevailing theory on Reddit seems to be that Fathead is bringing Susan back as a villain. As if the Fitzroyers haven't defecated on the memory of the Hartnell era enough already.

[burrunjor]

Jun 12, 2024 19:35:37 GMT ClockworkOcean said:

The prevailing theory on Reddit seems to be that Fathead is bringing Susan back as a villain. As if the Fitzroyers haven't defecated on the memory of the Hartnell era enough already.

Oh for f*cks sake surely not. 

[rushy]

only if Carole Ann Ford gets to go maniacal

[UncleDeadly]

Jun 12, 2024 19:27:02 GMT Cherry Pepsi Maxil said:

Take with a pinch of salt, but this is the IMDB description for Empire of Death:

"The Doctor has lost, his ageless enemy reigns supreme, and a shadow is falling over creation. Nothing can stop the devastation - except, perhaps, one woman."

Pamela Nash.

Go on, love; you owe us one...

[Cherry Pepsi Maxil]

These idiots are quite rightly getting the piss taking out of them. Clearly know f*ck all about the show.  They got rid of Christel for these muppets.

[zarius]

[ClockworkOcean]

"WHO IS RIVER?"

"WHO IS EYEPATCH LADY?"

"WHO IS CLARA?"

"WHO IS MISSY?"

"WHO IS RUBY?"

"WHO IS [INSERT LATEST MYSTERY WOMAN HERE]?"

Christ, this show really has completely run out of ideas.