The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO 14x8 FINALE Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: June 22, 2024

SEASON 1 FINALE W/ Sutekh, Mrs. Flood, & Ruby's Mother Reveal! Doctor Who Season 1 Episode 8 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Get Yourself An "Alon-Tee" Doctor Who Shirt! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Save Money & Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions By Going To https://rocketmoney.com/rejects  Doctor Who 1x8 Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Spoiler Review, Theories, Easter Eggs, & Ending Explained! In the finale of Doctor Who Season 1, titled "Empire of Death," the Doctor and his companions face a dire threat from the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh, who has been secretly aboard the TARDIS since the Fourth Doctor era. Sutekh has been spreading his "Dust of Death" across the universe, killing everyone on Earth and other planets. The Doctor discovers that Sutekh has been using the TARDIS to create versions of Susan Triad on every planet he has ever visited, intending to wipe out all life. The Doctor finds a "Remembered TARDIS," which is made up of bits and pieces from the TARDIS' history, as seen in the Tales of the TARDIS spin-off. The Doctor and his companions manage to escape in the Remembered TARDIS, but not before Sutekh gains control of the actual TARDIS. The Doctor heads to a dying planet and learns that DNA testing was made compulsory in the future, whic37h will finally answer the question of Ruby's mother's identity. The Doctor uses an intelligent rope and a whistle to attach Sutekh to the TARDIS console, dragging him into the time vortex and reversing the effects of the Dust of Death. This brings everyone back to life, except for Sutekh and Harriet, who were killed earlier. The episode ends with the Doctor saying goodbye to Ruby Sunday after she unites with her moth, with the warning from Mrs. Flood that the Doctor's story "ends in absolute terror." 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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I was right the whole time. You were. You called the whole show. I predicted everything. You predicted the entire series. I said five episodes ago it was going to be Sutech. Yep. I said that...

Back on 73 yards, you were like, don't worry, this is all going to make sense when Sutec shows up. And then I also said that Ruby would find her mom. And she'd be 30. 35 years old. Yep, definitely. And that her dad would be out there as well. And he'd be called William.

Yeah, yeah. And that everyone would get dusted and come back. The whole dusting event would happen. And that Tseq would go into the vortex and the doctor would kill him. And the spoon, you called it the spoon would come in handy, for sure. I said all that. I'd like to credit myself. You should write for Doctor Who next.

I should write for Doctor Who next. I should write for Doctor Who. Because let's face it, they need it. They need it. They need it. They need you. They need you. Because, frankly, I am nailing this show.

Just too good. Too good at the show. It was a really good finale. It was a solid finale. Solid finale. I'm going to do something I love to do, which is piss people off. Yes. Bye.

Let's hear that nitpick. I'm giving you my nitpick first. Let's go. Usually you want to reserve a nitpick for later. Nah, let's get out of the way. Screw that. Let's get it out of my system. Let's let it overshund.

shadow everything else. Let us dominate the conversation and the comments and make it seem like Greg hates this episode. Because I have one little nitpick. I'm on the defensive. Because let's not forget the attention and significance you place on it is what makes it important. Yes, it's because you care that much that it's important. That's why this nitpick is so important. What is it, the buildup to this nitpick that I have?

Oh, man. This is going to wreck my entire enjoyment of the series. I can feel it coming. just said this in passing in one sentence and let it go, but no, we got to make a monumental occasion out of this following nitpick. I'm in suspense now,

because I'm like, what could this possibly be? I hope you guys are ready. I hope you guys are typing what you think this nitpick is going to be. Yeah, preemptively argue your counterpoint before he gets up. Greg can't just enjoy anything. He has to find problems, get it all out of

your system. You've got to put on his own writer. Get it. Go. This is what I would have to do. Oh, my God. don't you just turn your brain off and enjoy the show as a screenwriter myself and an avid fan of doctor who here's what it is i think this should have been two episodes oh my one nitpick okay because this whole thing with like end of event world and dusting the world that happens like a few minutes into said episode and then like 25 to 30 minutes later they fall they solve it you know sure for such like a big buildup and end of the world dooming gloom stakes i think even in previous doctor who seasons they would have let this be like at least two episodes in order to do it so maybe a suit texture to come in a couple episodes prior and then the final two take place and end of the world trying to solve the day and then you do another one after or make the episode an hour and a half

one of that that that's maybe an hour and a half might have done the trick to just let there be more time to get because i was like we're here to go and Well, it's just an hour long. So I found myself going, wow, this end of the world thing only lasted like a half hour in runtime. And that's my one thing. Granted, when it was going down, it was still very engaging. It was still wonderfully acted. They still managed to find a good rhythm with tone to compensate for limited runtime because I had to get a lot done.

and I just think it might have been that much more effective and the stakes might have been that much more felt versus being kind of aware like, well, the solutions just right around the corner is the final episode.

So that was the one thing. And outside of that, though, I did think this was a really interesting, it's not my favorite of this season. I actually prefer the penultimate more, but there's still some like high emotional moments here. And this, and the way the doctor

There's other episodes that might have felt like more. No, this felt like Doctor Who to me a lot. But I like how this version of Shutey felt a lot. Like the way he was problem solving the way the, like being really thrusted into a situation where he has to figure out everything on the spot and improvise. And like the classic monologuing when you're figuring it all out. And you know, the doctor's ahead of the audience on it. And then, yeah, and like the speeches of sorrow that he laments, the page. that it's being unleashed as well like this felt so much like doctor who to me and you could see the trajectory of how this doctor is shaped differently via the circumstances of suitek causing him to confront his past with susan and his whole trajectory of time throughout that he does have to make a change and then i think they clearly state that he will one day reunite with susan they made so much out of that yeah and i think he has uh changed enough where he will go there but of course like even the moments with ruby at the end i actually found that to be very

rewarding. Like that reunion scene they're gonna get out a number of ways but when they do unite I was like oh I love this like it was the way

they can just sense each other like the mom can just sense her yeah in the restaurant and it's like getting that instinctual mother's intuition or whatever the hell

that's called yeah mothers bullshit that feeling and the way the dialogue they start vomiting out of each other you know and like all that matters

is just like us right now and I'm so sorry I'm so sorry like that brought me to tears I really love that moment a lot that was a very very very strong moment and I was a surprise by how effective that was but I like how they brought up the acknowledgement prior to him even entering that whole sequence is great yeah like that like I bought that she might not go because that's a fair argument and that seems like an argument fitting of the doctor and I loved how she goes in yeah and even then you're sort of like are they going to go that way where she talks to her but doesn't let her know and like that moment felt so spontaneous when it just starts pouring out of ruby like it it really felt it's one of those so much of this is everybody every department is firing on all cylinders but like that's the example of a scene where it's just the drama it's just the emotion and the way they captured it and the way the actors played it was so natural and i got so swept up in that yeah man that's a it's really And it's a great arc for Ruby, too. Like the whole arc, this is true. You know, when you're getting to the end, it isn't like, well, Ruby's arc is done. It makes me wonder, because part of the struggle, I think, of Doctor Who fandom can be that you have companions who you like and actors who you like, but sometimes it doesn't feel like they quite know what to do after a while with them. And so while part of me is taken aback by like, damn. Jody Whitaker's season, they had four companions and they knew what to do with each one.

of them every week and they never ever got repetitive or left to the back burner. Yeah, it's one of those where you're like, we don't, we don't at least get two seasons and I am, in this moment here, I appreciate that because even though I'm sad at the thought that maybe the doctor and Ruby won't continue their adventures together, part of me wonders if A, they're going to make a shift to doing a companion per season and like switch. around and and maybe that could open up the door to like well maybe next season won't be ruby but maybe ruby could come back in a way that especially because they've done that with mel and they've done that with some others and it seems like they could even keep mel around in some capacity at unit i wonder if they're going to switch up the common complaint you know about how yeah sometimes the companions are as effectual as they could be and it is such a nicely wrapped up arc for her and it is like well for the most part well proportioned over

these eight episodes and so like i'm okay with the idea of like leaving us wanting more because it is such kind of a lovely beautiful end and i loved again how that scene played out too because she's coming in to be like hey it's cool we're just going to take care of some family stuff and more adventures and without him really even having to protest she just kind of realizes the truth of the matter which is i am having a whole new journey with my family you know my newly rediscovered family and my you know family who has raised me up till this point yeah this isn't going to work the way I probably want it to.

And so, yeah, this is such a lovely little nuances, and I agree. I'm like halfway with you, because I got really swept up in this whole episode, and I think the one thing that's stretching out the death stuff would have done is... I think if you don't fully agree of me, we're going to have a real problem.

You can't be friends anymore. I'll leave. I'll leave. I'll leave. Make a separate video. I really emphasized the nitpick, didn't I? You pick it those nits? I'm really going to... defend this. This is the part where I let it overshadow everything and I got to go on a 20 minute diet drive about why I half agree with you. But that other half is going to drive a wedge

between. Yeah, like it didn't feel rushed the way several other episodes across our doctor who experienced where we've sat there and gone, this should have been two episodes. I feel like that's another kind of hallmark of doctor who. I feel like, yeah, because the previous episode to me is part one of this. So yeah, if you've done a three-parter or, yeah, an hour. plus an hour and a half just to let the dusting. It's just like, yeah, once they go from, once like Kate gets dusted, you're like, okay,

maybe this is like really throwing down the gauntlet and then Grandma Cherry and everybody else gets dusting, you're like, okay, well, this has to be solved. Okay, well, this is a much bullshit. Well, it is that thing of like, now it's just a question of when and how they solve it. It's not like will this be a permanent. They should have solved it or should have been dead. Yes, agree.

But yeah, I get what, having a little extra time in the desolation of that. And even... Well, we don't really spend much time in the desolation. Yeah. Like, the desolation happens and then you go to. No, no, I'm really so. I'm going to get out.

Well, here's... Like, he visits one person, you know, and that's about it. That's what I think is conscientious because there have been worse offenders across the like, actually, of all the episodes that could be two episodes, this is probably the

the less that nitpick bothers me comparatively, probably. Yeah. Because... Could I just add that, now that I'm saying to nitpick and we've probably addressed like reasonably good points. There's going to be some in the comments going, you know, it's actually not nitpick. It's a genuine criticism of the show

actually. Let now you fight with other people who disagree with you in the comments. It is a nitpick. No, it's not. It's a real criticism. It's a real argument. I thought there are choices of how to handle that or conscientious because he does have that scene. I like the way that this

interspersed you had a lot of stuff going on. Obviously you have, you know, your your momentous adventure stuff but they spaced it out between these really effective scenes and so when he has the scene with the woman in the yurt or whatever that is with the chaffee and the baby like there's enough of that peripheral like strangeness and it and it lets you know what's going on but it also kind of lets you figure it out of like oh she's forgotten this baby like i thought that was at least an effective tonal spiritual thing to sell it like i want you to think like my nitpick or maybe my criticism them is like completely making me seem like I didn't enjoy those scenes. I'm saying those scenes are still good, John. I am definitely not using your nitpick to segue to talking about various other things. I'm saying those scenes are still good, John.

I want to focus on the fact that you brought this up. And I want to project my own insecurity about art onto you. Because we have to agree for art to be good. Those I'm saying those are still good. I would have just been that much gooder. You know, all the love in the world to Andrew. Gordon but I feel like sometimes when we talk nitpicks it will be that

it's sort of like no no no I don't want you to think that I hate this and I'm like no dude I get that you don't hate it and we're cool it's totally cool but you know I feel like comments do condition you to be like no no guys you don't understand I don't hate this thing and I understand why somebody might like the thing

here's just how it affected me and it wasn't 100% successful but it was like 70% success yeah yeah yeah yeah but not say it's 70% yeah yeah How do I process art? I said it still worked for me.

Yeah, this could have felt way more rushed, and I thought that, yeah, like, this might not, they're probably more well-proportioned and more graceful episodes through the season, but as a culmination of everything and something that made me think back to both moments, like, I do appreciate, like, that's, a lot of things about the season have made me excited to go back at some point and rewerex. watch it and see some of those clues come together because you do have a tight eight episodes plus the Christmas special to kick everything off. I feel like the way that they incorporated callback elements or they let you sit with like the 73 yards episode and be like, I can't, I don't quite understand even though there's so much interesting and creative stuff at work here and then to have some of that paid off further down the line. And even watching that episode, I was like, I get the sense that this might be incorporated somehow later. And then, you know, hiding in the little bits of context that we need for, you know, us more new Doctor Who fans from the past and stuff like that.

It's just like the way that they culminated both this season paid homage to the history. It's like really tight. And I think that's where doctor, something Doctor Who needed at the moment because, again, being, you know, generally, I don't know, there's good stuff about the Jody Whitaker era, but under Chibnall and everything, you know, people seem to have wanted some type of course correction. I thought this really did nicely to focus up to give us a variety of kinds of Doctor Who episodes give us... And pronouns. And pronouns. And racism.

Yeah. And the acknowledgement that old episodes may have not been as culturally aware as they should have been. Oh, my God. Just character assassination. They just went back and deleted all the old episodes because of that one episode. Because they acknowledged that maybe a show that's been around for many, many, many. any decades. Yeah, that maybe had a problematic step once in a while.

And doing mummy shit is fun, but problematic. Oh, no, I said the P word. But, yeah, I thought they culminated really nicely. And this was like a really crisp, no shade again. I get the sense that I probably maybe even, I don't know, I think we enjoyed space babies about equally. And I didn't. You didn't enjoy it at all?

I had some enjoyment from that. I think I was really trying to enjoy space. babies, and then the more I talk, the more I just made it clear to myself. You know what? I don't think I really enjoyed this episode. I got some stuff out of it. It's easily the weakest one, but

everything, to me, of the season, but everything else has felt really fun and well-rounded and inventive and inventive and spirited. Like, it feels like there's inspiration happening in front of and behind the camera, and it gives you things that, like

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want to try and get somebody into this, like show them this one episode that kind of stands and that's harkening to other bigger cosmic things that could portend to the future. And in the moment, you're like, oh man, is this going to be what the season's about? And then not exactly. But there are echoes of that. And so, like, yeah, I think even though this is some kind of soft reboot. It has felt very much in the spirit, and I love Chutigatwa and Millie Gibson, but, I mean, especially him in this episode getting those classic doctor moments, those classic monologues. It kind of reminded me of the special that gave us the War Doctor in a way when he is wandering around after the – and that's, you know, I think a good point toward your, you know, review-stopping criticism of the episode.

Is that if they had borrowed more of that tone from that special with the war doctor and all that stuff, you know, you could have made it feel that much more desolate. They've had their dooming gloom ones. What was that one where, like, Tenet, you know, like launches the Tartis and there's like, it's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, that's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, everything's like, everything's around, yeah. And no Daleks this season. Cowards. Which is cowards, which, but, but that's another kind of, I'm, I'm okay with that. No, no, no cybermen. It's gonna be so worried when they show.

Yeah, I think with Shuti Gatwa, like, in the beginning of this season with Space Babies, I wouldn't really say it was in Church of Ruby Road, but in Space Babies, it was kind of just really like the loud, fun doctor. The bubbly doctor. Yeah, and then you would get shades of the little bit more serious one. Around the third episode, the one on the Claymore Mine, or not the Claymore Mine. Yeah, the Landmine. Claymore Mine. Craymore Mine. Crabbley.

Snake. The Landmine episode. The Landmine episode. you start like you started seeing more of these more serious sides but I think like in these last couple especially you get the the one who's really this doctor's been struck with fear a lot more more emotional he's cried every single episode excluding one literally only missed one episode he didn't cry I'm pretty sure I'm right about that I think there's only one episode he didn't cry in did he cry in space babies I feel like there would have been a reason for him to cry oh yeah he was like the monster die yeah he was like the monster die yeah Yeah, because it's sympathetic to the Bougar monster. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God.

The Boker man. The Pogueyman. But every episode he cried in. But I liked how this provided a lot of variety in those more, even when he's monologing or solving the mystery with Ruby, when they're in their mind-memory tardist thingy, he's a lot of times doctors, I've noticed a little bit of a pattern is to go like, loud excited figuring out you know no but it was like he was like really just having a genuine

conversation with her in a soft spoken way as he's solving it like wait you hold it I don't it's communicating to you ruby like it's really just soft and serious yeah like they've really been here for a long time trying to work this out where a lot of times doctors are like it's communicating with you you know brilliant yeah quick keep going yeah yeah let me amplify that with the sonic yeah yeah it's just sort of like I don't know you try it yeah So I really appreciate it. And I think this is one of the, I'll say, I think it's one of the best like doctor or companion mashups because they really felt like they listened to each other.

If there was a genuine friendship versus, I think I said this in a pretty, I appreciate me at this point before. Whereas like prior it felt a little bit like doctor is larger than life and companion really looks up to doctors. Yeah. And this, they really felt like they were friends who are just connected with each other. And they share when they talk, you know. And they really share and listen. And because of the casting, they feel like people who could just be friends if they were just a couple normal people out.

Like when we see them both at that dance club at the very beginning. Like I didn't even question that they would like say goodbye to Ruby until it happened. I was like, oh, what? Yeah. And we'll see what happens in the future. And it's interesting. It's rare that I guess I'm in this position where I'm like, that's actually kind of great and beautiful. and don't mess with it, but also, like,

God damn it, I want more of them, though. They're so good together. And she has, I think, a good midpoint vibe between a Rose and a Clara, because, like, yeah, she does have some of that, you know, wide-eyedness and, in a sense, but she's also, like, super proactive and not afraid to, like, dive in and,

and she doesn't have the same, like, Donna level of, like, you're talking about, doctor? Like, we get your shit together, but she will, like, challenge when it is necessary. And, like, yeah, they always found, interesting ways of making her useful and giving her perspective frequently and never losing

her to just like, oh, you're here, go hold that or go get into peril so I can save you, you know? And I don't know, yeah, is this longer, shorter, the same length as the other seasons we've seen? Because I feel like eight episodes feels kind of short, but

at the same time, I feel like that allowed for a pretty nice proportionality of serial to episodic adventures. When we watch it usually... I feel like they're 13 or 12, right? Yeah, well, then we'll watch it where it's like, like, you know, like the Christmas specials have already come out and stuff,

so we're watching like one giant package. I feel like the seasons are typically 12 episodes and a special. Yeah, yeah, because this episode did Infinity and War and Endgame and One where I'm saying there should have been Infinity War one episode at Endgame in Xen again. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally, yeah. And so, yeah, it should have been a three chapter finale rather than a chapter one and then chapters two and three in a pamphlet yeah yeah but yeah but i still really like i liked it a lot i would say maister is still my favorite i would say my second favorite's

rogue yeah that was great and then my third is the penultimate uh legend of ruby sunday next one will be the landmine episode i forget the name of it and oh yeah what's that called it's like a really simple title yeah right i think this episode would come right after that okay 73 yards is fucking brilliant to me 73 yards has so much vibe so much tone oh my gosh 33 yards I loved oh wait a minute no I will probably rank 73 yards that would probably be after maestro actually

and then it's just not a doctor who it's not like doctor's not in it but that's kind of neat in its own way yeah so he feels his his presence in his accent 73 yards rogue mine episode Penultimate, this. Actually, I would put the penultimate above the mine episode. It starts really hard to rank like a bunch of episodes.

And then, what are we missing? Penultimate, mine episode, finale. Space baby. No, no, no, finale. And then the bubble, bottom bubble. Oh, that's right, the bubble one, yeah. And then Space Babies are the bottom. And then Space Babes way at the bottom.

Like, way, like, a separate list. Because I liked every single one of these episodes. I thought every single one of these episodes was really good to great. I thought I really enjoy the hell out of all these episodes. That is the bummers. I would re-watch every one of them. I would skip Space Babies right away. I would...

Doesn't even factor into the rest of the season. I would happily watch Space Babies if it was fitting, but I wouldn't balk at not watching it. It's weird because we have a shirt called Space Baby. Of the galaxy. But my one question is, did they explain? i missed something before we go did they miss because it seemed like they were really sent up a lot of really clear things of god what is that thing in wild blue yonder what is that what is it the section of because okay this is the void this is the vortex

the void was that the end of the world not the end of the you know that's not the end of the time it's like somewhere in between i forget exactly where i'll i'll look it up later um or you comment it and help the video out so the the the i thought it seemed like everything was factoring in from that, like something open via through that. And that's how we got Neil Patrick Harris. That's how we got Maestro. You know, it seemed like things were happening via through that. Like superstition.

But then they come here with Sutec and Sutex, like, I've been here the whole time, actually. All these centuries. It's entire time just right in this waiting for my moment to appear. Yeah. So I thought it was going to factor in with that. But apparently it has nothing to do with that. I was curious because part of me thought, myself like, oh, taking him out there

almost seems Yeah, it does beg at least to go back and look at the details, because I was like, if you were at a point, a precipice where like anything can become reality, if you, like, throwing the god of death in there almost seems like a recipe for chaos. Yeah, sure.

So, like, the choice the doctor makes to actually, like, wipe him out for reels makes sense. And I'm sure they can retcon that again. but yeah I wonder if that's the thing that they will come back to later somehow it's in a limbo state

for me because it's a tenant episode technically and I don't know where it's the shooty episodes it did it does but I also can't tell where those exist because like this is ostensibly a season one and 14 but also kind of one whereas like

the David Tennant stuff seems like it doesn't quite make that cut and watching these episodes I was going there are things here that do feel like they play into that idea of superstition. And even this is memory and the kind of thinking of things into existence in a way or the power that your focus and that your affections can create. And that is all adjacent. But yeah, it just doesn't, it's unclear to me whether they want you to be thinking of that or not, I guess.

Oh, then they have the, what's her name, the neighbor? Oh, Ms. Flood. Ms. Flood, too. There's a lot of these fourth wall breaks. I know. Doctor has never been so forth wall breaking before. Maybe she factors into it in some way.

I don't know. But guys, what did you think about this finale? Rated out of 10. Tell us in the comments what you thought. Do you have any picks to knit? Let me know. Knit a pick. Let us know.

Get yourself an all-on t-shirt. That would be amazing. And hey, thank you for being with us, Reject Nation. We'll see you for the Christmas special. That's how John and I will spend our Christmas. Here, watching Dr. Here.

Fuck all. And my new, my new Al-on-T Wolf have finally arrived by that. Cancelling my trip. So I could watch Doctor Who with you, John. I appreciate that you would do that for me. Oh, dude, this is that important to me. Because I hope that you would canceling a trip. I'm very excited for Doctor Who.

And for you to be miserable Christmas. Let's see you guys. Dealia Chamberlain. Yes. You know what celebrity. You remind us of... Adelia. You remind us so much of...

So much. Of... No. I know. Do you? What you say it? I think Adelia is like Dame Helen Mirren. I see it.

You do. Because it's obvious. It's obvious Adela... Because Adelia, think of it. Adelia... She's a hot old... A lady, I love to do. A hot, older lady.

Most people would love a shot to get with. And that's not anything to Scott back. People associate Hell of Merrill with the most. Yeah. And then they go back and they look at how she looked when she was younger. And they're like, wow, you were hot then too. And you look like two different hot people. Yeah.

You are two hot people's worth of a person. Hair yourself with poise and intelligence. You're regal. You just seem like good natured, but there's something kind of. I don't like, mischievous about you on the little smirk. Oh, the edge. You could hang if you need to. You might underestimate you, but you can hang.

You could hang a hell in mirror type. You could kill a kick with the boys. Uh-huh. Or you could be a, uh, with the leader of the royals. Yeah. You could do it all, Dealia. That's what I'm talking about. I think Adelia is younger than us, but yeah, you're the hot old lady.

You're the, you're the day. You are a distinguished lady, all right? Reject Kingdom You're talented Yes Oh we're still going Definitely talented Have we moved on

Because there's so much About a deal with liking to Helen Mirren Yeah there's tons more I mean you also have an air of fantasy Not unlike when Helen Mirren was in the film Excalibur Which is Zach Snyder's favorite film

And anybody in good faith With Zach Snyder Is in good favor with me You can drive a call like Helen Mirren did in the Fast and Furious franchise. You could stand in front of a green screen and look around, just like Helen Mirren did in Shazam 2, Fury of the Gods. See?

Yeah. You're just like Helen Mirren. You could have a good screen presence opposite Lucy Liu. Thank you, Adelia. I believe we serviced you well. Come back next month for more servicing. Thank you.