The Reel Rejects - DOCTOR WHO 1x4 Breakdown & Review!!!

Episode Date: May 26, 2024

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That was awesome. I have questions immediately about the end, though, that I have to address. Is it okay, John, if I proceed? I don't know if I can handle anything other than incredible praise and or incredible derision, depending on which half of the audience I'm a part of. Well, okay.

She goes to this whole journey. Finds his purpose with this. It is her? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, she literally like assumed her perspective. Yeah. Yeah.

And goes to this whole journey and prevents something terrible from going down. And then she goes back in time. Yeah. And then I don't know those terrible things going to happen. like what was the purpose of all that it's kind of like my question you know because then like i will still become prime minister no he won't anymore why because she never set him free i am a little confused of the mechanic of he mentions this guy and us unless breaking the fairy circle doesn't stop mad jack from whatever happened to make him dead like there's that whole thing rest in peace

Mad Jack so like I don't know if that but he but he says what the doctor says in 2024 like what year are you again and he goes 24 so doesn't mat 40 something 20 46 because it's like 20 years later when she's 40 and she's like 21 here in the show right yeah so by the time it's going to um I feel like you okay there's one thing I have to check I have to see when that line of dialogue was brought up hold on a second guys everyone shut up I've feel in the silence here as I am absorbing the lines here. When does he say it? Does he say it before or does he say it after?

Oh, he says, I've been to Wales twice here. This is what she's saying? And one was the third time is what, at the end she says one's the third time. But at the beginning, it's into it. Okay. He's saying that to her. before they step on the circle though so those events would have happened or is the show implying that he came into existence because of stepping on the circle i guess i suppose then

it would just be that he is inevitably going to assume this position maybe the rest in peace mad jack is a bit of a red herring i suppose i don't know i mean because we we only get to see this version of the future and I mean it certainly felt like there was some kind of weird dimensional bleed happening but I couldn't quite tell

like I feel like there's a weirdo branchy timeline thing happening with this episode that I'm not 100% sure how to click into the rest of it just because you know once they step on the fairy circle the doctor's completely gone and all this stuff that seems

pretty hard to just like reverse happens and this version of her completes this circle, but she's also happening simultaneously. So it is like very timely, whimy, whimy in one sense, but yes, I'm also a bit, I'm also a bit, yeah, confused about whether this was inevitable or if it's actually some kind of, I mean, something supernatural is happening here, because clearly if they never broke the fairy circle, then nothing would have happened.

But did she prevent all that stuff from going down? I think they're walking into a newer timeline where that stuff doesn't go down. And I don't know. Even though the doctor is saying 20 years from now before they broke the line. That is the only line of, that's kind of the one line in the episode that makes me question how everything works because it certainly seems as though in not treading on the circle they're able to proceed onto at least a timeline where everything is right or at least as it should. should be. So, yeah, I don't know if it's because of the fact that they bring up that thing about, like, oh, what if you land a perception filter on top of some kind of magically charged juju thing? You know, is there bleed? What happens there? And maybe due to that, like, Ruby living through

this alternate timeline where there is no doctor anymore and this guy comes to power, maybe her simple presence, you know, there is kind of what creates that. But then, And also, they need to step on the thing in order to, if my theory is, if my interpretation slash theory is correct, then they would need to step on the thing before that timeline opens up. So I'm, I'm not certain that. All right. I feel like this is definitely excited for the Who Culture video and to see what people have to say about the mechanics of that. Yeah, you guys leave down everything below. All they know was it came full circle.

It did like the circle. Isn't that neat? like NATO. Yeah, you reference Flanagan early on and it does seem like in comparison like Haunting a Hellhouse and Haunting a Bly Manor, the fifth episode of both of those focuses

on a female character where you kind of watch them through some version of time. It's like a solo-focused episode going spanning like many different events watching this crazy journey with a plot twist at the end. And that I do wonder if Russell T. Davies did take a page straight out of that, considering the similarities in that aspect.

And, you know, just like tonal-wise and certain mood elements and certain ways that shot did feel a little shaman and flanning in. I really enjoyed it. I thought like the handling of the time span was great. And I didn't find myself missing the doctor. I was really invested in Ruby's journey the whole time. the WTF of the entire situation had me really wrapped up in it. Yeah, spooky stuff, Johnny.

Truly. Spooky stuff, man. Eerie. And Millie Gibson did an amazing job here. Yeah, this had a lot of really fun flavors. And, you know, I think... Bit of an It follows thing, too. Definitely.

Yeah, they're borrowing from a few horror-centric things. Probably being in reference, it follows once the entire time when it is so... is so much that out of anything to reference it's it false yeah and the way she ultimately like gets it to him is sort of like yeah how do I learn the rules of this thing and then use it to my advantage yeah yeah I mean that's definitely an interesting touchstone and and in spirit of that kind of movie where it is like some kind of thing that's intrinsically tied to you whatever this creeping lurking always proceeding presence is uh it's it's interesting yeah because

there are a lot of fun stylistic horror traditions across this episode and like you know when they're on the cliffs you know it has one sort of aesthetic like they're all very unified but yeah when you're on the cliffs it feels like one kind of you know more countryside sort of horror movie than you go into the pub and it feels like one of those like a bunch of strangers trapped in a you know rainy something something you know intrigue and paranoia blah blah blah then we go to the city all that stuff like yeah there's a lot of lovely styles and those stories they're barring from are always using the supernatural as the personification of some type of either trauma and or you know misdoing you know and uh i think that that's like the big thing i keep wondering about because i love the way this episode like laid itself out and proceeded the way it was paced the way it was realized uh i think shimon and flanagan both have a lot of that love for classic again like big old spooky house movies where it is like yeah how do we just use the room to our advantage and show people's faces in ways that are especially as expressive camera-wise.

I mean, it's weird. It's like I loved most of this. And I think it's really cool when the absence of somebody is its own type of presence in the doctor. Because that's just a constant mystery in itself. I just, this is one where I would definitely feel like I want to watch this again and note how it all works together. because I feel like there could be something in there that would explain this

because there's still also that element of there were certain times because they would do a lot of... Well, Kate Stewart said something about timelines. Yeah, and I'm wondering because they were also doing that visual thing where a lot of times they were shooting Millie Gibson head-on but there were a few times where they would choose an especially long lens with an especially blurred-out background

and then people would, it would be the transition point between like everyone in the pub is really paranoid and then all of a sudden, oh, it's a guy, the door and it's a joke and everyone's laughing and they're like it's racist to assume that this is witchcraft it's just a tradition and those things didn't feel so much like it played into the trope of of like oh we're dialing up some tension and then relieving it with the fact that everyone's just kidding but i didn't actually believe everyone's just kidding i felt like we were dipping onto another piece of time so like in that sense it almost feels like we saw snippets

of like the normal trip to card if they were supposed to have what probably happens toward the end or what's going to happen after the events of them walking off at the end are probably the more pleasant aspects of what we saw in her journey here. But also, yeah, I'm still kind of working out how that switchover works and why it works. Yeah. Because, yeah, it seems like there's at least another timeline bleeding over. And maybe it's just because maybe, maybe this is where Mad Jack was buried or something like that. Maybe it begs the greater question, I guess, about multiverses and butterfly effects. And are multiple timelines just always there, always happening, fixed?

And it's not like, oh, you're creating a branch that maybe doesn't get created. It's just like all the branches are there. And it's whether or not you trip onto one versus, you know, it begs more questions about how time works, which in some ways is part of the fun. It is in a show like this or fiction like this. I'll allow a certain margin of opacity for like, maybe I don't get it, but I kind of like that because I can wonder about it. But there's a fine line between that and like, this doesn't work and is a device to get to certain kinds of moments or whatever. And I'm still not sure which one it is with this episode.

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that's kind of a bummer that she goes through this crazy experience and yet she's not going to have any of the memories they hint that like kind of lingers in there like a feeling lingers in there when she says, that was my third time which is the one change in dialogue when the doctor asks like

when it's her third time because at the beginning she says I've only been to Wales twice and when you go through all that and you don't remember any of that but part of it is like oh but it doesn't matter about the ending it's about the journey so I kind of feel like that was the point just to go on this

random journey with her and the journey was really cool what did happen to the doctor though for the entire time that is a good question there are questions here there are ponderous questions I also wonder if any of the things that are harder to decipher in this episode

have anything to do with the long game regarding Ruby because maybe I don't know I mean I feel like it's not that wild of a theory to be like she's got time lord something or other so like maybe that plays into it too yeah I mean and I was right and Miss Flood you were right

I was right called it you got this I bet I'm the only one who called it you probably maybe maybe you're the only one who called it authentically like puts you know there's a difference between calling thing and just throwing out every possible theory and claiming the one that's right.

And you called that. I called that one. So, you know, sound. Yeah, you might be the only one who actually called. The one's doctor was gone. It was like plot twist. Oh, here we go. Here we go.

Coming in. And then the next episode, we'll see what the doctor was doing this whole time. He was in the TARDIS. He was just making pottery in the TARDIS. It's in his shed. Yeah. But, no, I loved it.

I thought that was still great. That was a really cool episode. I like that they, For the last three episodes, they've done some really experimental elements and a lot of horror, too. Which is tickles my fancy. As you guys say. Or in London, they go, tickle my bum. That's right.

Tickle my knickers. Right. They say in London. That's how you guys talk our UK audience. Yeah. Yeah. Up the peaches and pears. Yeah.

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say aluminum Because what What's another Extra I Right Ah yeah honoring our UK audience in a

respectful manner We love all of you Anyway We do though Thank you for putting up With us Yeah there's some puzzling questions

though Puzzling questions Can't wait to see the rest of this unfolds that ruby mystery it feels like it's way more like a ruby season than it is a doctor season in a lot of ways it feels like it's a real equal part if anything actually now that i think about it they really do feel like co leads i feel like this might shape up to be one of the best companion doctor relationships that i've ever existed just due to the due to because because you know like one of the best episodes of all time is blink which is sort of reminded me of in terms of

focusing on a blonde woman with a horrible haunting and but that wasn't a companion you know that was terry mulligan playing herself is just a lady and and this episode was focused on the companion going through that journey and so i do think this might be that's actually that's pretty smart yeah to avoid the whole like they're just along for the ride you make part of or a big part of the mystery of the season them who are you what are you and why i mean we we've done that we've done that way yeah but this this seems to be like really about that yeah yeah this seems to be heavily like focused on that true that which i appreciate but guys what did you think about the episode did you hate it did you love it are they ruining dr who

your thoughts down below i really enjoyed it me too subscribe leave a like pick yourself up an all on t-shirt you got to call them all on tell them to rename it in honor of John. And hey, let's, uh, let's do a patron of the day, shout out. London Miller. Oh, London. You sound like you're from London. Ah, Miller. It's a classic name. That's what you got at this show, mate. That's right. What are you doing? You're having a spot of tea.

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Thank you for sending me photos of yourself. My wife thought I was cheating. And I said, no, it's just photos. I got this whole debate about whether or not that's actually cheating. if I'm not physically touching you. I'm not physically interacting. She said it's like an emotional affair.

Still like online cyber cheating. And I was like, okay, fine. You win. So I had to delete the photos. Ian McKellen. I'm sorry. But regardless, I appreciate it. I stored them in a hard drive, though.

She doesn't know anything about this. Stern a hard drive. Drove up to the top of the mountain with shovel. Jason stayed up. Barretted the hard drive. And sand pile next to this dead body that I buried a long time ago. And that's where your photos reside. Naomi Harris.

In 20 years, there's a plant growing over it. 20 years, I will go visit it. And then I will retrieve the hard drive knowing on the love that I really missed out on. Orlando Bloom. Stuck by my wife. Anyway, I love you. Love ya. John, you're supposed to end on another final celebrity name.

That was a perfect punchline set up. What is it wrong with you? All right, all right. Jesus Christ. Give me a minute. Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart. there's well kind of ends there

I think you didn't send them all yep we did it