s01e04 — 73 Yards

It was strange, fascinating and incomprehensible and not explained at all!
I love unusual episodes, but I still want at least some explanation of what happened in general...

RTD, are you fucking with us??? Teasers caught up with witchy folk horror, and the scene in the bar then gives a sobering slap in the face: "No, we have an inexplicable sur with an alternative branch."
It was certainly creepy (especially the fleeing Unit) and it was spectacular (so you're a villain, talk to grandma!) The finale with death is generally at the turn of the brick factory. Everything looped beautifully afterwards, but somehow there are too many questions about the result. 100% filler in addition.

Atmospheric. Unusual. It's creepy. Not everyone will be satisfied that RTD did not explain everything, although it seems that thematically this was intended — supernatural and inexplicable it is for that and inexplicable. Which, of course, won't stop me from trying to explain everything anyway :D

Personally, I interpreted the incident for myself in approximately the following way. At the beginning of the series, the Doctor breaks the witch's circle, and Ruby reads 2 notes triggering curses. The first one, I miss you, seems pretty obvious — at the same moment the Doctor disappears. The second "RIP, Mad Jack" can already be turned in different ways. The simplest option is a direct reading — Ruby releases an evil spirit, which becomes the prime minister and the whole world is in dust. But for some reason it seems to me that if these are 2 curses, then they should have acted on those in the circle. One for the Doctor, the other for Ruby. In this case, Mad Jack is Ruby herself, who is beginning to be driven crazy by her main fear — the fear of being abandoned. And the woman (or spirit) she begins to see is a direct manifestation of this fear. Within the framework of this fear, anyone who interacts with Ruby sooner or later abandons her, and therefore the words that the woman says and after which everyone rushes off are completely irrelevant. This is Ruby's fear. All this even sounds good, but it doesn't explain the time loop at all, and 66.7 meters with it. Maybe Ruby broke out of it with the help of her superpowers, maybe because it was written on the note "RIP" it was literally necessary to die and everything was reset to the beginning, maybe it was the fairies who got angry at the breakdown of the circle and decided to teach Ruby a lesson, and after playing with her they just fell behind. Choose what you like best.

73 YARDS OF FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
YEARS &YEARS-LIKE EPISODE IS WHAT MY HEART DESIRED
OH THAT'S GREAT
SO MANY AWESOME SETUPS FOR THE SEASON FINALE, IT'S WONDERFUL!!!!! 🤧
Finally, a really good series from RTD from the time of the second coming, in which for once I like everything without reservations?
I love how, in the absence of the Doctor, the life of the companions is already ruined by life itself....it's really very similar to Turn left and the atmosphere resembles midnight, too, everything is very confusing and unclear, but this has its own buzz!!!!!And as a fan of stories where characters have to go through all sorts of bad weather to earn their happy ending, I am in complete admiration!!!!Millie /Ruby is beautiful!!!In the end, in this series, Ruby loses the Doctor, loses a loving foster mother, even UNIT is unable to help her, by the way, I was waiting for Kate to appear, I love her very much, it's a pity!!!

And how ingeniously simple the solution to this problem turns out to be, how Ruby famously turns the trouble that has overtaken her for her own good! The message is so direct that the important thing is that in the end, despite everything, everything will end well, and no matter what happens, “Not a single nuclear missile” it will never be launched....And isn't that what Doctor Who is basically about, isn't that why we wholeheartedly love this wonderful series so much – for the hope it gives?
anyway, RTD came up with a really interesting monster that doesn't bite, but hurts in a different way (well, it seems even a very similar series was in the Adventures of Sarah Jane) and when you watch it you really think - how can this crap be defeated at all?!
In short, for me this series is even cooler than the Boom, even considering that there is almost no Doctor, it's still better, this is my personal opinion!!!😍

And damn, I also like the way Susan Twist plays every role given to her in this series... I think RTD was joking of course and her character definitely means something..but if it turned out that this was real, there were no more actors in the UK, and therefore, from time to time, the same actress is used for the roles of third-rate characters. But she exudes some kind of soulful and warm aura, and I'm sure that this is a positive character)))

a cool series.
the thing in itself is straightforward.
the old ruby did not let the young ruby go out of the way to defeat the villain, but in the end she broke the time loop and disappeared.
and what she said to people there, and they ran away screaming, reminds me of an anecdote. when all the men were thrown in horror for some unknown reason, after reading some mysterious note. and when he finally decided to read it himself, he couldn't, because time had erased all the records! :D
The stoned prime minister with nuclear weapons reminds about the RTD TV series for years.

The main question asked in the middle of the series is Is there anyone else? In the end, we get the answer - "All my life, everyone abandoned me. But, I haven't been alone for 65 years.

From the moment Ruby appeared in front of the tavern and the scene in the bar, I caught myself thinking that I was watching the 1999 League of Gentlemen. The characters are too colorful. What a surprise it was that it really ended with everyone laughing.😀

A very cool series! There are no answers to all the questions, but over the previous seasons, the Doctor has repeatedly made it clear that the universe can be inexplicable. I love trails with a lifetime spent and going back to the very beginning. Ruby has opened up interestingly! Let the series be a filler, but super mysterious, mystical and interesting! And the old woman very much resembled the ghosts (one of which eventually became the Twelfth) from the series "At the bottom of the Lake", when they also chased people and silently repeated the same words. In general, there are many vibes of old seasons, I enjoyed watching them a lot!

The concept of the series is very cool, but I need an explanatory team. Okay, the fact that grandma is Ruby herself, I guessed about it somewhere in the middle of the series, but where did the Doc suddenly go at the beginning of the series? Why did everyone panic when old Ruby talked to them? And why hadn't Ruby thought to approach her grandmother herself? I mean initially.

So far, my most favorite episode is with the 15th Doctor, the magnificent Raft Twist!!

Well, wooooo! A normal life series turned out...

It seems to me that Ruby is the most unfortunate companion of the Doctor, in each episode the doctor sometimes leaves her, then leaves her at risk, somehow more often than the rest😅

Who can help when there is no way out? Doctor. If I were Ruby, I would just go to the second doctor...

Another cool episode of this season.
I like that they gave official confirmation from UNIT that the focus has shifted towards the supernatural and all kinds of mysticism, many have written about it, but now for sure - in this world not only mavity, but also a strong emphasis on magic.
But now it turns out that Ruby won't stop the mad prime minister? So we have to hear more about him.
It's getting more and more interesting, but in the first episode I was wondering if this season should be postponed from onboarding later. :)

It's like a granny effect of some kind

It's a little creepy, of course, to hear about the great Russian war in 31m, given how RTD in Years and years predicted both a pandemic and a war.

The only normal episode of the season so far.
The ending, of course, was too disappointing.
It reminded me very much of LOST ) There were awesome riddles there too, but the answers are simple...They didn't come up with it. It's about the same here.

What an exciting series. It's like an hour-long horror movie. Thank you for confirming that Ruby is not a lesbian. I basically thought from the beginning that she would turn out to be that woman. But this does not answer the question of what she was saying to everyone that they were running away. And what kind of sorcery is this that can erase the Doctor and allow the phantom to exist? Unless Ruby is one of the Pantheon. Or the Pantheon has something to do with the druids.

A very fascinating series, it was interesting to watch Ruby get out of situations without a Doctor, from the very beginning it seemed so unusual that she returned home so decisively, lived her life, etc., accepting that the Doctor had disappeared, without desperate attempts to sit still and wait for miracles, and then tried to solve the problem on her own. I liked how she was revealed in this regard.

The situation is generally such a creep, and Ruby's emotional and mental state is well shown, and how it has changed over time, when an incomprehensible woman who caused goosebumps is already accepted as her own. It's easy to guess that a woman is Ruby, this is the most logical option and initially it looked like she wanted to warn about something, but did not want to harm. And Ruby, who lived to old age with a conviction, "everyone abandoned me, but I was never alone.".. It's so sad. 💔

It was quite possible to expect from RTD glass that it would end like this for her, but still it is immensely gratifying that Ruby managed to break this vicious circle and everything returned to normal. Ruby really hadn't been on adventures with the Doctor long enough to do this to her.

I wonder if the topics covered in this series will come back later. Saving the world from nuclear missiles in such an extraordinary way was cool, but considering that the Doctor talked about it as a fact, it may well be a fixed point. Although it has been hinted to us more than once that everything is not so simple with Ruby, plus new rules in a new supernatural universe, and the promised twist at the end. So it is difficult to predict unambiguously.

The series went so unnoticed, it was very interesting to watch. But why they put such a big emphasis on the second volunteer, I still did not understand. Just to show that not all people are bad?

It's creepy. Imagine yourself in Ruby's place, living like this all your life. It's a good thing she didn't keep those memories in the end. If she had, I would have said to the Doctor after that, "That's it, bring me home and go fuck yourself. You step in the wrong place once, and then my life turns into a creep age of loneliness."

And, of course, it was too bad that he hadn't told her about Tennant. Because otherwise Ruby should have gone straight to him. Although it is strange that the UNIT did not contact Tennant when they realized that Jokey was missing.

Four episodes have passed, and there are still no Daleks. 😟☹️🤔
It makes you uneasy.🙂😉

Am I the only one who doesn't like that science fiction has been turned into mysticism and is being passed off as the same series?

The only thing I didn't like was the bar full of passive-aggressive Welsh people at the beginning of the series. Is this their national joke? Because the joke on Ruby turned out to be very angry and unpleasant. Or so it seemed to me, because I don't like pranks.
In general, the whole series had such a slightly depressing taste in my opinion, even despite how cool it is twisted.

The brain swam a little from this series, of course. It's creepy, interesting and incomprehensible.
I got a little confused in the timeline, plus I would like to know what Grandma Ruby was telling people that they were having a panic attack.

DOCTOR WHO IS SO BACK!!!

I was worried in vain that after the Moffat "Boom" the plank would fall back - on the contrary, one of the best and most adult episodes of the entire series, and not just the RTD2 era, came out in principle.
I even got upset a couple of times - first from how healthy the horror atmosphere in the Welsh bar was, then from how forty-year-old Ruby and her boyfriend almost openly discuss sex problems in a family series.
For me, the unsolved mystery in this episode is not a minus, so the only drawback for me, in addition to the aforementioned mention of "Great Russian War", was that the makeup artists did not particularly try to grow Ruby up to 40 years old. A 19-year-old actress can look 25 just by wearing heavy makeup, and another actress was hired for the role of 80-year-old and 84-year-old Ruby, but for 40-year-old Ruby, no effort was made at all and she looked 25.

What was that???? This is a strange series ...

I wonder if in the next episodes they will reveal to us what the elderly Ruby told people that they were running away from her like a leper?
In general, I liked that even without a Doctor, a satellite can have a fascinating plot.

I noticed that this season there are sooo many thriller moments, shooting, atmosphere. This is wow 💔

I really liked the timeskip, although in my opinion, not everyone can look so good at 40!)

A great story, an interesting fairy circle, one of my favorite episodes so far this season🤩

It's just an asshole rip🔥
It's been a long time since there was such a cool series, it's been a long time since my eyes were so closely glued to the monitor for 50 minutes.
So many questions remain unanswered
This series makes Fleur mysterious. Everything in this series is fine. The series can be compared to the Judoon Fugitive in terms of increasing mystery, but the atmosphere is different there. Hopefully, RTD will provide at least some answers by the end of the season, and not create even more questions.

It was expected who that woman turned out to be, because there were no other options.
But the whole episode tormented me with the question why she hasn't Googled sign language in so many years??? For so many years, I could learn the whole language, and not just learn the meaning of just one phrase.
Although after watching one more question, what did she tell everyone?

A clueless series. The only thing I liked about halcanon was that it was Ruby's inner fear of being abandoned. No explanation, no logic.((

Starting with the Scandinavian series of the 13th doctor, excluding the 14th, the series is worthy of viewing and recommendations. Well, you know, when someone is not familiar with the Doctor and you recommend a series for acquaintance, of course the fresher the better. Well, here's a great example: without spoilers, without the additional need for knowledge of the background, but with the right atmosphere and the vibe of the Doctor. It's wonderful and cool.

Good episode) I liked it. Creepy, incomprehensible, beautiful. Of course, I prefer series where everything is explained in the end, but even so, it was also beautiful)

I watched it, and I got a theory that 73 yards is somehow related to the age at which Ruby died, at first I thought she died at 73, but 19 + 65 (the years she was not alone) is 84, not 73. Then I thought maybe it was the meters. But it also turns out a little more than necessary: 73 yards is about 66.7 meters, and Ruby said that 65 years had passed (since she was not alone, she probably meant that a woman was nearby). Of course, maybe Ruby lived for 73 years (or 66.7), let's say she didn't connect her childhood with an old woman, but then it's not clear what 65 years is. In general, the theory has not confirmed its validity, but I still continue to think that there is something in it. After all, at the end of her life, the old woman approached.

the Doctor is back, babyyy!!

The fire series! it's been a long time since we've been shown anything like this)) but I have a question, why didn't Ruby try to contact the 10-year-old doctor who stayed with Donna's family? Well, or at least they mentioned him, due to the fact that the actor cannot act, they would have come up with something with him 😅
And yet, I was the only one who thought the whole episode, "Watch her hand gestures! She repeats them all the time!"

it was pretty damn creepy... the same scary series in every season of the doctor who shows how much England can do in horror, but just doesn't really want to
Ruby was very sorry. I've been waiting for the whole episode, well, when the doctor will already appear and bring everything back

The best episode of the series at the moment

boring season, this series started well, ended badly, sad =(

Does the Doctor never look at his feet at all?) the companion is a bit not proactive... Another would have already studied about this circle and Jack..I wouldn't try the phone trick on my mom... About the great Russian war by the age of 31, he certainly keeps his finger on the pulse..
In general, a great series :)

A good self-contained episode, reminded of the atmosphere of the horror movie It follows (well, there were also subtexts besides just an incomprehensible haunting figure).
When Ruby lived for several years without a Doctor, it became clear that most likely everything would end with a reboot, although at first I thought that Ruby had fallen into this magic circle and was trapped there, and in the end it would turn out that there was no woman and this whole story with her mother and this is all a projection of fears. But when the story with the politician began to spin, it became interesting how the final would turn out. It seemed like a slightly strained ending, a kind of Looper-style. The trick with disabling the villain is not bad, but quite predictable, I didn't quite understand why she delayed it for so long, apparently to walk epically across the field).

So far this season, in my opinion, this is the most worthy episode.

The best series of all time.

The series is very fascinating, and even at some point it became creepy. But I don't understand how it got so looped, I want an explanation...

It's been a long time since I've watched a Doctor with such interest as I do now!
RTD just resurrected this series

I still didn't understand what the old one was telling people that everyone was running away from Ruby like from an infection??

The most boring episode after the restart (we don't count the second one). Either because it's not clear what the fuck, or because of the absence of a Doctor. I probably should have played suspense, but it doesn't work on me, so I couldn't figure out why Ruby was making such faces at first, and also trying to explain something to someone completely indistinctly. I almost turned it off, honestly.

The ending, of course, was slightly pleased that it brought at least some logic, but also slightly disappointed in the sense that such a serious time loop turns out to have passed without consequences for the character.

P.S. Was I the only one reading the note about "Mad Jack" who thought that this was the place where Harkness was buried? =)) I really thought for a few minutes how they could get back to the moment when it hadn't been dug up yet (and yes, if you think about it, I remember there was a forest, but... I remembered that later).

"I could summon snow once.
- Yes, yes, Grandma, let's go to bed already.

So far, the best and favorite series with the new Doctor and Ruby is Mystical, mysterious, the meaning of which we have to guess for ourselves and, it seems, thanks to the comments above, it was possible. With Crazy Jack, it looks very much like King's Dead Zone, it's sooo similar

IT'S CREEPY

it is unclear whether the payment from the psychologist was successful or not ..
the series is magnificent, deeply horrified and touched!!

The bomb episode is something on the level of the best episodes of Doctor Who, black Mirror and love-death-robots combined. So simple and so beautiful. Chic.

It is indicative of the moment when a series without a new character is most interesting... Joking is a weak doctor...

As intense, interesting and intriguing as the plot of the series is, the ending is so disappointing and predictable. Plottwist becomes clear at the very first major timescales. It's a shame, the potential was huge ...
but it's still better than under Chibnell! =3

I wish everyone at 40 to look like Ruby, and the turn worked 100%

Great, we got rid of the eternally smiling Doctor, who was also a bit of a mess in the first episodes of the season, and it got better. Which leads to sad thoughts that the chances of accepting a new Doctor are getting smaller.

The series is a complete blast!!! I will definitely review it again. Ruby was great. The screenwriters managed to torment the audience with the question "who is this old woman really?" until the very end: Ruby? Not Ruby? Some kind of mystical entity? A monster? Why 73 feet? What did she tell everyone? And, damn, the screenwriters are like true assholes))) We left half of the questions unanswered. And how beautifully Ruby, with the help of her grandmother, saved the world from a psychopathic politician. The flame is simple. Resourcefulness, quick-wittedness and no physical violence. I played it clean!)))

And for some reason it is much more curious to me that almost all people (except UNIT?), as one, after communicating with the grandmother, when asked about the reasons for their behavior, repeated "Ask her". Okay, this is the ghost of old Ruby the mystic and all that. But there seemed to be real people here, quite ambitious and not the stupidest.

Another favorite episode from the new Doctor
Cool, not clear and meaningful)

Vibes "Don't Blink" and seasons with my beloved Amy. Very unexpectedly, but this is a really great series, except that the finale is not mine, but otherwise it is a very good episode, I had no doubt that this is the Doctor, for the first time in the last eight episodes, if you take into account the special episodes, I say I believe!

I think I've deciphered the message with gestures: I do not know how — But please — Kill yourself (then you will not have to live a whole life, and I will immediately come up and loop the loop)

Now all night the money will be twinkling

What wonderful views at the beginning of the series <3
And also, it seems to me, or is it the first time in all modern seasons that the Doctor changes his outfits so much from episode to episode?
But nothing is clear in this series, I went to look for an explanatory team in the comments above)

Well... I liked the series. And even very much. I watched it with interest (the last time was at the 12th dock). But I'm fascinated by the ending.
What was that? And why?
There is no connection with the wizarding circle, nor with this minister, nor with the missing Doctor. And why was everyone running away from Ruby?🤯
Some kind of pointless filler. After all, as a result, Ruby did not even get rid of this minister in the future.

Well, the series is chic, but it's still not clear why Ruby scared everyone... I hope that the mystery will be solved. In general, considering that the Doctor's granddaughter was mentioned in the series with the Maestro - maybe Ruby is the doctor's daughter?..