The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO 14x2 Breakdown & Review!!!!

Episode Date: May 11, 2024

Doctor Who Series 1 / Series 14 Episode 2 "The Devil's Chord" Full-Length Episode Full Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects After Getting to Speak with Ncuti Gatwa & Millie Gibson at the Blue Carpet Premiere, we're back in the studio for some Inventive Musical Mayhem as Episode 2 introduces us to The Maestro played by Jinkx Monsoon as well as The Beatles in 1963, just across the city from the Doctor's long-lost Companion, Susan. The episode features Chris Mason as John Lennon, George Caple as Paul McCartney, Philip Davies as George Harrison, & James Hoyles as Ringo Starr. What is the secret of Ruby Sunday & what do the Toymaker's ilk have in-store for the rest of the season?! Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Citizens of the Reject Nation, we are back for Doctor Who. Let's do it, guys. Well, I loved it. Well, I know you hated it. I hate music. I loved it so much. And this cynical guy over here. Clearly not feeling it. Tisk.

Tis. Clearly not feeling it. Did the strike a chord with me, G. No, in fact, you were just bored. That's called a rep. Bars, those were bars. Well, I am not going to pretend to be someone who is great at speaking the technicalities of music as yourself, John. Now, a lot of you guys might not know this.

John is a very successful music producer. John is a massive, massive. massive fan of the musical arts and it is arguably his biggest passion and I speak for him I don't want him to say it I will just say it for him is a he's a fantastic guitarist as well and so something that is very musically inclined heavy episode word is about the power and the affect of music I'm curious to hear your thoughts on just that John I love that that's what this became about I'm so many you could play and well fortunately don't make me sing yeah what a guitar right here who knew uh yeah i really enjoy the see the prompt of this episode is something that i already i feel like any doctor who viewer who's seen a handful can probably start to suss out what kinds of episodes and approaches they like the most and oftentimes i really enjoy let's go back in time let's find a historical figure let's do something along those lines and what i loved about this

was that it teases you with that, and you think, like, oh, this is going to be like a Beatles episode, and we're going to do a bunch with the Beatles. And I thought they... The full Beatles, the full Beatles. And the thing is, when I caught that prompt, I was like, oh, I'm going to be thinking about Walk Hard

throughout this just because that's where my brain goes. You know, not for any fault of the shows. But I like that, you know, for their presence, I was almost never thinking of that. And it was never that kind of like, the Beatles, stop fighting here at EMI. recording studios or whatever. I really like what they related to

and the fact that, yeah, this became a greater sort of rumination in Doctor Who fashion on, yeah, just the role of music plays in life, music's ability to communicate where words, simple words, cannot. And just the personification.

Like, I'm excited, and I know that there are people who have seen, like, the older episodes who have a great, you know, amount of knowledge for, like, if this is not as new as it feels to me, But I like this idea that, like, the toy maker bringing him back from, you know, the classics now hails what feels like kind of a new wave of villains and personalities that we get to interact with. And I loved Maestro so much here. Like, just the amount of presents they had and the, again, personification of music and all that stuff and the ways that the episode even got cheeky.

Like, that one bit where he says, like, I thought that was diagetic or non-diac. I thought that was non-diagetic or whatever when the music's playing. What does that mean? Diagetic sound is sound that is happening on screen motivated by a source. And the non-diagetic sound is like score music that the characters don't interact with. It's not part of the scene. It's like if music is playing on a jukebox or there's an orchestra playing, it's diagetic sound. Okay.

And then non-diagetic is, yeah, just like your score elements or a needle drop or whatever. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So, like, the fact that we have this music in the background and you were like, who's the music playing? then for a moment you're thinking of like, oh, it must be score elements or something. And then they used that as a meta joke was like the perfect thing. We didn't need to go to the composer and like take their music or whatever. But yeah, like the fact that episodes will have music and there's an episode all about that.

I thought that was like a beautiful detail to draw in. And that kind of encapsulates so much of what was fun about this. And then me, again, just as a person who enjoys the tradition of musicals and seeing people embrace, especially in modern musicals, They shouldn't want her stuff up close. And so, like, to see some wides on some real ensembles, really getting down with some dance. And the feeling, the joy of that, I just loved all of that. Yeah. What did you think?

What did you think? It sounded good, man. It was a good song. You know? I don't know what I said. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how to talk about it.

The beat was good. And you sounded pleasant. I guess I enjoyed. The production of the sound of this episode. Yeah. No. Yeah. seems like a lot of it is about

communicating via through music. The impression that I've been getting from, started from the Christmas special to now, has been about so much about artistic expression and its finest form. I'm going to pull a John here. Do it. I don't rarely,

I rarely, I'm like, I got to know. I got to know. Who plays the maestro? Because I believe this actor deserves. I pulled it up. It's a John already did it. Jake's Monsoon. Chicks Monsu.

Oh, my God. Yeah, they got a huge musical background here. Writer, comedian, musician, and actor, and RuPaul's drag race winner, apparently. Back in, like, 10 years ago. I had an interesting thought here. I hope this doesn't offend anyone here whatsoever. Let's give it a shot. Let's go.

Let's give a shot. I'm just going to go for it. Here goes nothing. You ready? Oh-oh. They identify as they. And to not make it specifically gender male or gender female, for some reason, actually, I thought, made the character a little scarier because of a level of ambiguity that wasn't like, wasn't like, oh, my God, transgender. And I was like, drag? What's going on?

Not scary in that sense. Music is genderless. It's fluid. Yeah, yeah. So I thought that the character themselves actually added an element of fear. and maybe it helps that we don't have familiarity with who this actor is at the same time when coming off of Neil Patrick Harris I enjoyed Neil Patrick Harris I never once stopped recognizing that was Neil Patrick Harris you know the entire time as fun as Neil Patrick Harris is this character what was really neat about what I thought Maestro brought was it constantly felt like Meistro was going to morph into something like large gargantuan you know yeah it's going to devour a they're an elder god form yeah exactly something that was like with the wild blue yonder episode

something that was a little bit more um uh toy maker toy maker ask you know but they never did that it was all about performance you know and it wasn't annoying it was still loud and scary and charismatic i i was so impressed with it and i felt like they really brought that as well with a shootyawa as the doctor you know to have these two episodes they premiere with i think it's smart because they're two very different flavors yeah of doctor who and this is more of the kind of wild wacky whimsical that i can get on board with because it's still very tense heavy to boating oh yeah no it was it was at times like scary You know, and when you have the doctor who is scared of a new threat level of whatever has been open after Wild Blue Yonder creates an element of stakes, you know, and him figuring it out of how to defeat Maestro, I thought was actually smart because usually there's a, I'm so used to the doctor eventually be like, oh, I got figured out.

I have an aha moment. Now I'm expositioning my aha moment. And I'm like, uh, uh-huh, I don't really know what you're saying. Okay, they've solved the day. It's a greatly delivered monologue there, Doc. But even in the aha moment of like trying to, like, it's still, it's still tense and figuring out. There's something about Shuti Gatwa that feels like larger than life, yet still has this relatability. Like, just feels like a person.

And I kind of feel, you know what it is? I think about this companion, I think about this companion, Dr. casting that I think is really unique, is usually the, and I feel like a lot of, you guys might agree with me on this is usually the doctor feels so much like this larger figure that almost a companion sort of it's not worships is not the right word john be smart it's like beholden to the yeah it's they feel like the when they when they're interacting there's a sincerity and the way they are feeding off of it like it feels like it feels like it feels very empathetic in the way they interact about things you know there's never never like he never plays it like he is smarter than her or he is teaching her you know if

anything it's like he's sharing with her that's that that's how I would say their communication sounds like they are sharing with each other and that plays into the whole like I'm not a genius are you a genius are you musical genius to come up with the right chord no I'm not yeah and previous doctors in in a good way have felt like geniuses but yeah I agree there feels like they're both in some respects figuring out things together yes and for an episode that was so much about music I I appreciated the intricacies of the of the amount of sound design you know and it does get you to reflect because i don't think you need to be as you know musically dialogue inclined as the way as

like how john can participate more in a conversation like that better than i can because that's the kind of the point of this is it can make you go you know it's something we kind of take for granted is the the sort of universal language of how songs can unite and just the like you can listen to a song like a billion times you know more than you can't watch a movie at the same time or an episode of television it can you can associate it with memories if if you can do it in a version of you're like oh i need to go to the gym and you listen to a certain kind of song i'm looking for this kind of song you can use it as a version to identify if you don't know how to put a words if you're feeling sad or going through a breakup just celebrate there's so many versions that you could use it with that it is a language you know there's there's there's utility and function too because that's how we've passed down stories over generations there's a big element of music in dissent and in you know protest yeah in like messages being transferred under you know situations of oppression like there's so much that music is and i think back to like you know you see these the world all gray and desolate and on the one hand you're like that's

maybe a little bit much but then you think like man think about those stories of soldiers on a battlefield coming together over song or something like that those little human moments and like that's something that can bridge a gap in a way that I think is easy to take for granted when you are like and it's beautiful just to throw on a CD and vibe but music is like so much more than that across human history in terms of utility and function well it's a flow state if you master it it's uh it's almost elemental you know and the way of expression and to to it is something that is from within you know and it's innate so i i do i actually don't find it at far fetch by the time you like get to that desolate 24 I'm like, no, I actually kind of sense that wouldn't happen.

A world without music would be a very different world. Yes, and they, I thought this balanced, you know, the science fiction of it all really well. When you have like a showdown with the, with the music battle, it never got to. Yeah, and it just felt like they were really performing, you know. I never got the sense that I never once got out of my own, you know, self and thought, is shooty got to a really? I didn't think about it till right now. And it was like, was shooty God actually playing the guitar?

I mean, the piano, you know, I never thought that. Yeah, that's usually stuff that, that, you know, the more you know about music, the more that'll stand out to you. And, yeah, I was barely thinking about that throughout, but I think they made really nice. Because it is just, you know, the maestro's just playing that fiddle and the two of them at the piano like they had to do a lot with just how they shot and cut that and yeah i didn't really think about it much beautiful camera work throughout it's like on a cinematography level when you know about the disney plus getting a bit of a bump in budget here it shows more in this episode for me

than it doesn't space babies like this felt real when the time travel you know and i was like the production design on costumes that's kind of been kind of a consistent flavor of doctor who but just looking at the world of when you have to do it in a way that's not science fiction made up fantasy world and you're doing it in grounded earth yeah that can sometimes be harder to pull off and it was beautiful like to behold it really was beautiful and using like an instrumental moment with ruby playing the piano and just letting that like you said during it like letting it breathe yeah it was a touching episode and it was a touching episode and it was surprising and at times scary. I thought this was such a great episode with wonderful visuals and amazing editing too. And that whole like silence moments with all the sound goes away and you just have that like hum underneath the sound of silence. Enjoy the silence. Like even that like and that oh I forget what the name was but they talk about that

music made without humans the sound of the wind whipping through a tree branch or just the nuclear holocaust Yeah, I'll A, something with an A, I'll lay them I'll Google that really quick. Sounds made without hewis. What is that called?

Al-a-a-a-wa-a-wa-a-waska. Yes. A-sophonic sound or something. It's something like that. Something like that. I don't know. John, I can find it really quick. Okay, do it.

Oh, wait, no, it's not on here, is it? No, don't worry. They know what we're talking about. Yeah. We'll find it. I want to learn that. Comment it below. Yeah.

Comment it below. He's so phonic or whatever it was. I thought it was, yeah, I thought this was a great episode all around. I love this one. But I think, I think even if you put it with the specials, I think this is probably my favorite one. Yeah, absolutely. Like on all counts. I put this and then wild blue yonder.

I keep ranking it within the specials for some reason. Sure. It's like the return of Russell T. TV. This is what I think you putting it under the umbrella. But no, I think between the three of Achutis lead episodes, this is easily my favorite. Sure. Because I genuinely loved it. And it just keeps further enhancing the journey with, I'm really just, I was so glad that they just gave us a completely different version that was more.

reserved and more body language, you know? And the time's really funny. It was like, funny. Yeah. Well, and that's really in fitting with, like, I loved what they did with the maestro as a character. Sure. Because there's elements of dragon there.

It made me think of divine. It made me think of Ursula from the Little Mermaid. You and I both at different times called out the, you and I at different points, both called out Winiford Sanderson from Hocus Pocus, who's Bet Midler, who's like, you know, a beloved singer in her own right. Like, there's so much. much kind there's so many layers kind of at work there in terms of musical tradition and yeah we spend a lot of time in the 60s and that end dance and music montage is very 60s centric but uh it just it encapsulated that joy and it felt well rounded like it didn't feel like it needed a bunch more time to get its point across sure feel like it was rushing anything you know or it was like it stretched out beyond its means or whatever like this was super lovely and and yeah it was like that perfect balance of zany but also kind of like whoa like what is this spell for the future well for the future i would say for

ruby sunday they keep giving these hints now we're not going to pretend like we're these classic who lore experts but we we just happen to sometimes i i love the channel who culture i've seen so many of their videos and i've learned so much about the expansion of doctor who about the lore of Dr. Who, you know, and I love hearing the theories and all these things. And at first, you know, like there was the theory of, oh, maybe Ruby Sunday is a time lord. But then when Maestro said the last human heart, I was like, oh, okay, that throws that theory out the window. But they brought up Susan. And I think we both had the memory from Who culture, because they ever, they're one of the videos that we had watched like that. Seriously, if you guys haven't

seen Who culture, if you're Dr. Who fan, they're probably the best channel regarding Doctor. I've seen countless videos of theirs and they they were telling us about William Hartnell dropping off the granddaughter Susan but never reunited with Susan and we were both like oh wow they've never done that and after all this time they never paid that off and then they had just happened to bring that up after we were just reminded of this fact like yesterday and and and then it just got me thinking like oh maybe she is like a granddaughter of her either a descendant of some kind or or because if you're sorry to clarify like the what they what they say what they told us was that uh william hartnell's daughter uh the first doctor dropped off the

daughter to stay with no no no it was a companion yeah it's a companion who was also a time daughter his daughter his granddaughter yeah that was what they said it's the first companion was the granddaughter or his daughter something like that yeah yeah so uh to stay with a human on earth yeah and we don't know what happened to them yeah and he was like one day i'll come back i never did And that was the first time in our modern hoop time, I think, where they straight up acknowledged it. And then it just, it doesn't, it seems, and then they bring up, my store brings up, you know, they couldn't have been there during the time, you know, in the 60s and stuff. Yeah. Or 20s.

I don't know what the fuck they said. It certainly seems like a possible hint towards some kind of connection there either. What year was Susan dropped off in Doctor Who? 1963 oh oh look out that was the year took place look out all right wait wait yes yeah

yeah right there all right what year did the doctor leave 1964 the doctor locked Susan Foreman out of the TARD in the final moments of the episode realizes Susan followed in love so he dropped her off in 1964

this says because I guess she had a TARDIS that she said back. A dog dupliculina who had duped her to traveling back to 1963. No, because they have to say a show more on this. I don't know.

But either way. It lines up closely. They brought up Susan. It can't just be coincidence. Either Ruby is related or at least that's a thread that will also be extrapolated on this. Gotta have enough human in her,

but maybe a little time more juice. Maybe she's got what Rose Noble has a little bit of. You know, she's got some residual time-water energy. Yeah, there's clearly something very special about her, all right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to find out. And what do you guys think? What's your theories?

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We had a thing going. Where you give your massive contributions in the live streams. Yeah. Those $250 to $500. Making it rain on Koi and I. When he's not around and then suddenly I'm not in a stream and then you give it. We're like this now. You get you two time in here?

Why, you think you could just go behind my back? You think I'm not going to notice when that happens? Chris Whamoff? More like dollar off. Dude, I'm all forgiving, but I am not a forgiving person. Whoa, bars, dude. They call that an entendre. Bars, that was a C note.

He's saying it to see. Yeah, it's at least one level of ontondri. Can you get to double entendre or triple or quadruple? How many entendras can you get? You know what I'm trying to say? Yeah, we get it. That was a little clever. This is good.

Come on, think about it, Chris. The musical and the money puns. I'm all forgiving, but I'm not forgiving. That's just good wordplay. That's solid wordplay. I just thought of that right now. That's genius, man. That's for you.

You were there. You are the producer of the track that's about to come out of this because you were here for this moment. that was smart that was that was worth a patron of the day shadow honestly for you to get it at chris is always given even when he's not in the room yeah it really is and uh but no man i keep giving coy and john thousands of dollars would you yeah we we need it for us to run your bank account you're rye where do you get all this money what you're the most like for as good of a person as you are it seems like you're in a lucrative position as well which is like the

The combo dream. Like usually seems like being as good of a person you are comes at a cost of not having that much money. Yeah. You know, it seems to have so much money. Do you have an inheritance? Are you an entrepreneur of some kind? Do you like build wells? We're not complaining because we know he was giving elsewhere.

That shows up. What does this man do for other? Yeah. You know. I'm always thinking he's just out there protesting. He is. He and Eric, of course, I was what broke people do. Yeah. They just get out in the streets and fight for worthy comments.

That's what they do and they broke. He's got money. Got nothing else to do. Get out in the streets. Cause some good trouble. No, I'm just joking. Thank you, dude. Thank you for everything.

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