Doctor Who • S01E08 • Empire of Death • Reaction and Review 

It’ll be a hard season to rewatch now knowing the mum mystery is a non event

So 73 yards didnt have a cutscene. What you see in the "memory" is the current timeline. What happened to Ruby was an alternate timeline. The TARDIS recognized she had met Roger, but was showing what he is in this timeline

I'm glad to see another reactor I can relate to here. The whole thing about Ruby's mum being some sorta meta commentary about whovians wanting there to be a big mystery is really dumb when nobody would've cared if RTD hadn't made it an enormous mystery. We could've just said at the start that Ruby is adopted and doesn't know her mother, and that's it. Most people wouldn't question it. Russell MADE it an enormous mystery and encouraged the fandom to go crazy over it, to purposefully disappoint people. And yeah, Sutekh's defeat was pretty rubbish unfortunately.

Yeah I agree, very anti-climatic and a sad, flimsy plot. So many questions I don't think will ever get answered too.

I was not happy with this endding at all and I am not MAGA. I am not right wing. I am just someone who was told to expect something big and it never came. Glad to see you give an honest reaction, there's far too many people shilling for this.

I thought Ruby's ending was pretty disappointing tbh. We've had this big build up since Christmas about who this woman is, why she did it etc and then it just turns out to be a Jane Doe down the street... Russell obviously did it so he could have the emotional 10 mins at the end for the episode but it just felt disappointing and a feeling that he didn't really have an idea how he was going to end her story. But good review as always Dan :)

Sutekh is still on the 14th doctor tardis when it got split

The most horrible things can be started over the most mundane things. So that does make sense.

Series ranked worst to best Space babies Empire of Death Legend of Ruby Sunday Rogue Devil's cord 73 yards Dot and Bubble Boom

15th Doctor is either extremely badly written or he will become the VALEYARD

RIP to all the believers who told us all of the plot holes would be answered before the season was through. It was bad enough for the rest of us, but do you all still believe, I wonder?

Lots of nice bits but honestly, the whole story didn't make a lick of sense. Stuff just happened for no sensible reason. And of course, Ruby's origin is completely ordinary. She just makes it snow magically because, um, everyone thinks she's Significant®, or because Memory Is Time Travel, or some such handy-wavey wibbly-wobbly silliness.

Great review. A real DOG of a finale! But I enjoyed the rest of the season.

It was a mess tbh all over the place hope it gets better next season

I get why many people are underwhelmed, but I do think that modern audiences have been too used to everything needing to be some huge revelation. And this was an answer to that feeling. We all gave meaning to the mystery, as The Doctor said. We all wanted something huge and crazy, but in the end it didn't need to be that, it was alright that it was simple. And it wasn't that Sutekh was scared of her, it was just the mystery of it and the not knowing was making him crazy I guess. That bit was a bit weak but eh. I didn't mind it. The street sign thing was a bit hokey though, but eh, it's Doctor Who. And we already knew that this fixed point was somewhat malleable, since The Doctor said they couldn't land there again. So, that's probably why the memory was able to change, when her mother perceived The Doctor, she pointed at the sign. Though I do think this episode should have been two episodes to sit in the loss for a longer period of time and then have the win in the third part. The pacing was a bit quick.

You're the first one I've heard call It season 2. Everyone, including myself calls it Siris 14. I'm not saying it's wrong. It just sounds better to me to say 14. I personally don't like what Disney did with the numbering. As far as the episode goes I think it was awesome I don't care what everybody is saying.

just a suggestion, stop reading so many things about the next season or future episodes, you just ruin your own experience of watching the show. Kate died and you were like oh well she's back next season.