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s01e04 — 73 Yards
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| Release Date: | 25.05.2024 02:00 |
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Description
Landing on the Welsh coast, the Doctor and Ruby embark on the strangest journey of their lives. In a rain-lashed pub, the locals sit in fear of ancient legends coming to life.
Discussion: Season 1, Episode 4 Join the Discussion
223I love unusual episodes, but I still want at least some explanation of what happened in general...
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.
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.
What rather happened here:
Ruby was trying to make sense of what was happening to her and the reasons.
When I saw the politician's name on TV, I accidentally remembered the Doctor's comment about him and thought: "This must be it! purpose!". And the phrase he uttered about Mad Jack in this timeline was only a manifestation of a fairy tale, as it has already happened to Ruby many times.
Ruby just decided that this is the main villain and he needs to be stopped. But there was no effect on the presence of a woman, respectively, because they are not connected in any way.
The only thing the circle led to was the Doctor's disappearance.
Ruby's only purpose in this timeline was to prevent the Doctor from stepping on the circle.
Was the whole phenomenon of a woman:
• a manifestation of her fears of being abandoned,
• or did everyone retreat and cut off ties with Ruby so as not to cause a paradox by accidentally telling her that a woman is her future
• or from the threat of non - return of the Doctor
...or all at once - it is not clear. Well, fuck it)))
The series is very complex and very strong. Finally, we can proudly say that RTD is back! Not this space babies crap...
The vibe of an empty child and the Doctor dancing is definitely felt.
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!!!😍
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.
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.😀
Is the second doctor in another universe hanging out with Rose??? Is not it so? How would she get to him?
I assumed that, despite your PRO status, you could be one of those who also missed something and gently hinted that there is a lot of interesting things between the thirteenth and "fourteenth" seasons.
I'm sorry if it sounded rude, apparently I shouldn't try to be funny anymore :-)
Girls, open the window
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. :)
I just don't really understand people who are offended by mentioning something in a fantasy series (especially in a hypothetical future). We do not yet know how this war will be included in textbooks, especially British ones, especially given the fact that history is very fond of rewriting in all countries.
I just wrote that Russia is now in the world news - the aggressor who unleashed the war and it has been discussed for 2 years, the series is not pro-Russian, but British. What is the contradiction that it was mentioned in the series in such a way, especially since it was glimpsed?
Don't answer, don't expand on the topic. I'm just grumbling like an old man under my breath, besides, it's a day off. 😅
Or do you have arguments in the spirit of: "once they mentioned Russia, they should have mentioned Israel" and " But they have! But they have! Why are we talking about us when you look at them, what do they have at all!"?
It wasn't my idea to insert this into the series, I was just a little surprised why such a mention offended the commentator.
And if we draw a parallel with the name of the Great Patriotic War, it will be very ambiguous.
Ay-ay, you can be so attracted for discrediting the Russian army, be careful :D
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.
They drove a comment to [-35] above for me, do you think I switched from old.myshows to a new design in order to block at least one of those who have offended me? No!
Protection from unfair disadvantages is possible and should exist on the site (even now this total rating of comments does not affect anything, unlike, for example, the total rating on Pikabu), but the way this issue was finally resolved is the dishonest death of democracy. Now a comment with a positive rating is no longer necessarily a comment that people agree with, it may just be a comment from a person who blocked all those who disagree with him
Or did you suddenly decide to enter into the discussion of the third series of Hawkeye, which you don't watch, saw my answer to a question about chronology from another person and decided that you didn't agree with it? 😂
I just ran through all my comments that were visible on the page, and then I blocked it
And I've never even written to you (at least in the last ~ 4 years, I didn't check further, I'm sorry). I.e. "not being able to behave" = "put a few cons on comments"
As if, please, it's all your right, but you're funny
and yes, several thousand ratings were leaked to me by several individuals... and if the first time I did not react to this in any way, then the second time, when a dozen twinkies carpet-fucked me and for several months the administration has not been able to remove these disadvantages.
So let's go with what you don't know - go far away. I just ignored you because you're an out-and-out asshole and I just don't like you. So excuse me!
What can you do if 90% of your comments on the Doctor's series are racist and insulting to other people
And specifically in this thread, I didn't rate any of your comments (you blocked me, I technically can't), and even if I did, what's the problem? Are you just throwing mud at me, and unacceptable behavior is to put a minus on unfounded accusations? That's me being rude, of course
Although of course it is quite strange if Ruby is bisexual, it was possible to show four different partners of Ruby in this episode and that they all turned out to be guys.
well, the girl said everything correctly, this is not the first such opinion in which the author shows his contempt for minorities and writes unpleasant things.
One wise man said, "Remember, hate is always stupid, and love is always wise. Always try to be good, and in no case stop doing good."
Actually, no. RTD promotes the agenda, but it does it filigreously - for him, first there is "what kind of person", and then "what orientation he is" and the idea that we are all human beings - and everyone deserves to be loved and loved. In a bad agenda, just the opposite is true - first orientation, then what kind of person you are and how much you should hate those who are against you.
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.
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.
This is hinted at by her phrase " And the third time I was here... now".
It makes you uneasy.🙂😉
You want them only in non-standard roles and cameos. As the main team, they have already tired out a lot - and they have already been shown from all sides.
But actually, we are now talking about a series in which there were ghosts, a werewolf who hunted Queen Victoria, witches who tried to sabotage Shakespeare, animated fat from people, a giant wasp, an insect that created an alternate reality, a living sun (and twice), the moon, which turned out to be an egg, monsters from eye crackers the frog is the universe and the gods that appeared in the classics, but in general it has already been officially discussed that the supernatural appears in the series for a reason and this is the arch of the season.
In general, the whole series had such a slightly depressing taste in my opinion, even despite how cool it is twisted.
On the contrary, it seemed to me that it was very vital. It's like finding a bar in a foreign country in a backwater and trying to pass for your own there - it's unlikely to work. Especially if the city is not particularly on the roads.
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.
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.
But in general, if you lead a healthy lifestyle and keep weight, then how should she look at 40? How's sharpey?))
If you Google photos of celebrities at 19 and 40 years old, small changes in the shape of the oval of the face will be noticeable (natural relaxation of facial muscles caused by aging), the appearance of the first wrinkles, the first gray hair (although it is difficult to notice this in the frame, of course).
Damn, to the question of hair - it's banal to put Millie's loose hair in any other hairstyle (especially something traditionally mature) would already be at least some noticeable effort from the makeup team. And then it turned out as if the only signs of age change were balloons with numbers for birth and the cityscape outside the window
Some people look great at 40, especially if they look after themselves. Some people just have such a "heredity" //there should be jokes about 52-year-old Jared Leto.
Jenna Coleman is also 38 years old, she is as pretty as when she played Clara, and there she looks like she is 20 with a ponytail.
Let's meet here in the comments in 20 years for fun and see what Millie Gibson looks like :D
In general, I liked that even without a Doctor, a satellite can have a fascinating plot.
Perhaps in books or audio plays they will reveal what kind of "73 yards" the Doctor had.
I like to think of it this way - the magic circle has a self-defense mechanism that, in case of a circle breakdown, sends the people who broke it into a time loop that will close after their death and return them to the moment before the circle breakdown so that they correct their mistake, while this whole timeline will be filled with the greatest fear of this person - for Ruby the greatest fear was loneliness, so there was no Doctor, mom, friends, normal relationships, and even in the case of her only constant companion, the face of this woman 73 yards away was impossible to see even by zooming in on the camera lens, which only added to the feeling of loneliness. Accordingly, it does not matter what this woman said to everyone running away, her goal was simply to bring Ruby to a state of loneliness. Maybe she didn't say anything, but just drained the special energy/waves. (In this interpretation of the story, the woman was not an aged version of Ruby all the time, it happened only after the loop closed). Of course, this means that the Doctor, who, in fact, broke this magic circle, also had his own time loop, filled with his greatest fear and closed after his death/regeneration. But for us, she remained behind the scenes.
In general, of course, this is not the only explanation for what happened, but from which side you do not approach, it will absolutely not matter what exactly the woman did to scare everyone away from Ruby.
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🤩
This can be explained by the fact that Ruby did not give birth.
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.
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?
I'll even say more - some kind of stoner got into the habit of carpeting me, creating a dozen twinkies and leaked me a thousand ratings. And the administration has not been able to return it back for months, telling how difficult it is to do it manually.
Although I am an opponent of looking out of order, but I agree here. A separate TV movie was released. A thing in itself.
But this one is also good at the intensity of creepiness)
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.
And yet, I was the only one who thought the whole episode, "Watch her hand gestures! She repeats them all the time!"
Ruby was very sorry. I've been waiting for the whole episode, well, when the doctor will already appear and bring everything back
It says in Swahili, "It's funny that it wasn't the Doctor who brought it back in the end."
In general, a great series :)
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.
RTD just resurrected this series
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).
- Yes, yes, Grandma, let's go to bed already.
the series is magnificent, deeply horrified and touched!!
but it's still better than under Chibnell! =3
I remember examples of episodes of other TV series in which, for the sake of atmosphere, there was no familiar screensaver - in "Agents of S.I.T.A.", in "Lucifer", in "Supernatural" even several times... But in general, you often can't do this, because for the absence of a familiar screensaver, the episode must be different from the rest of the episodes, and "Doctor Who" in fact has each episode unique and there is no "standard" episode. Even from 73 yards, the lack of a screensaver was essentially optional, although it looked cool
Cool, not clear and meaningful)
Ktoktor - it sounds good!
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)
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.
Related: I've watched everything except the last season with Jody. And Joking, on the one hand, after (to my taste) the Twelfth merged by the screenwriter, it feels like a breath of fresh air, on the other - for me it's still a little different. After the end of the 14th season, I reviewed the old episodes with Tennant, Smith and Capaldi at random - and realized that they make a much greater impression on me and cause more emotions.
The new Doctor, forgive me these words, is a bit "zumerian" - and the whole restart was shot in the same style. It's great that he's open and emotional, that he hangs out at the club, that he flirts - and at the same time, the ancient wisdom and endless loneliness that made his internal conflicts so interesting seem to have gone out of the character. This Doctor is a child discovering the world as if for the first time. With Smith, it also seemed so to many at first, but the scripts pulled him out one hundred percent. It's still a little weak here. Not good, not bad - in a different way.
But I would definitely advise seasoned fans to watch this particular episode of 73 Yards, since it can be watched simply as a short film in isolation from the rest of the season. Such a series dedicated to a companion and her fears is a vivid example of what exactly I love about the Doctor Who series, when he embarks on experiments in isolation from the usual formula of the monster of the week. It seems to me that it was made more for old viewers than for a new audience.
Overall, this season was quite funny and experimental, it's just a little different from the series that I watched a conditional 12-15 years ago. I fell out of his time stream and he feels a little wrong, just like some things in the classics feel outdated now. Probably, everything should change over time, but still it's a little sad. :)
The fact that this woman is Ruby was clear at the very beginning, such a move has already been used in some series, but nevertheless I would like a little more answers here. The most important of which is, where did the Doctor go?