Only Doctor Who could be silly enough to give us an episode about space babies hiding from a snot monster, and yet dark enough that we could legitimately believe that one of the babies got eaten.
Babies were eaten in the Church on Ruby Road. Lulubelle was almost eaten. Ruby was eaten and then the doctor reversed it. But it was also established that before the events of the episode the goblins went around eating babies. Schoolchildren were eaten in School Reunion.
@@chinareds54 and that is my point. In any other show we would have never even considered the idea that the snot monster really ate the baby, the idea would just seem silly. But in Doctor Who...
"Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives."
When Ruby grabbed the pole without hesitating to make noise and attract the bogeyman away from Eric, that’s when it cemented my love for her as a companion
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg So that suggests that Star Trek is real. But at the same time Rose and Ruby refer to the TV franchise of Star Trek. Does that mean Roddenberry a time traveler writing about the future?
The energy between Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson is amazing. I predict that they're going to be able to sell pretty much any story for the audience, no matter how ridiculous.
The kid who admitted he didn't know what the strings he pulled did reminded me irresistibly of my elder lad. When he was around six months old he had a well known walked which had a couple of spinning things on the corners of the tray in front of him. As he was tearing around the house, you could see him puling and pushing on the stalks the spinning things were on, and it was clear he believed they helped him steer the walker. :D
I’d prefer 14x01. It avoids confusion. But at the end of the day, it’s the 40th season of Doctor Who overall, the 14th season of the continuous run since 2005, and the 1st season that’s streaming on Disney Plus
While not my favourite of the two episodes, they both brought back (in the best way) the most insane childishness that I've missed from Doctor Who so much. I also love Ncuti and Millie's chemistry, it seems like it'll be a highlight of this season.
Much like The Church on Ruby Road, Space Babies is a fun introduction to the new series and acts as a showcase for the 15th Doctor and Ruby's relationship, which is joyous to watch.
I like how this is sort of like a first date for Ruby and the Doctor. They met and hit it off, but here they are testing if this thing really works for them and find out what kind of people they are. There is some awkwardness at the start, they laugh at one another's bad jokes, but ultimately they are both empathetic towards one another and share the same core values, so they keep it going.
Probably keep both numbers for now. All the official sites are saying season 1, but different news sites are using 14 or 1 or both, so people will be searching for both. Wikipedia still says 14 because nobody can agree on how to proceed, so they keep the status quo.
Yeah, but that's just news sites being uninformed and fans complaining and being difficult. There's no debate on how to proceed. The BBC told us this is Season 1 ages ago. Fans are just throwing a tantrum about it.
Maybe this is him getting his Slitheen-type episode out of the way before the Father's Day type episode already hinting at by totally never going to bring her to the church.
The "butterfly incident" appears to be a little reminder that something is afoot with weird coincidences/accidents this season. And am I mad, or did I hear a bit of Twelve's theme during the airlock scene? Another thought: remember how Eleven hated killing the Krafayis from "Vincent and the Doctor"? As ridiculous as a snot monster might be, it did give him a chance to save a strange creature instead of killing it.
Doctor Who hasn’t been this bat sh*t crazy since the days of talking space rhinos and little lumps of walking fat. God I’ve missed it and I absolutely love that it’s back. If there is one thing we should all know about Russell T Davies by now is if he starts of a series this fun, camp, and weird - then things are going to get damn dark and heartbreaking come the finale.
WOW!!!! This might be my first *new* SesskaSays!!! Hi, Sesska!!! Seen *many* of your Nu Who and Classic Who videos!!! Respect your passionate love for 1, 2, 11 and 12!!!! THANKS for this and looking forward to your commentary about Season 14 and 15!!!!
I like that Ncuti is a very confident Doctor. The way he just out and admits that his people were all killed is something the others would get melancholy about. He seems to have gotten over it.
Even though it was season 26, restarting the 2005 reboot numbering with season 01 made sense since the show had been off the air for a while. This new season should be season 14 since there is no gap between season 13 and this.
@@Rocket1377 I heard some wild takes about the new era but this one is quite something. As for the numbering, I think she should keep both terms, no one actually agrees on how to call it
Series 14. Having watched the first two (or three, depending on how you count them) episodes, I can see the argument for 1, because the universe/genre has changed from soft sci fi to magical and we don't know when it will change back. Or if, I suppose, but it probably will be the first thing some new showrunner of the future does if it doesn't happen under RTD. So it is kind of a reboot in that sense. But at this point we're at 40/14/1, so . . .
9:57 _Doctor: Planet Pacifico del Rio; Ruby: Oh, that's in English!_ - Well, it's Spanish, of course, but Ruby seems to believe it's in English anyway. If it _were_ in English, it would say "Peaceful *RIVER* "... and in the next episode, Maestro says that Ruby "has a *SONG* inside her". Just sayin'
I love this episode so much, as an adoptee, the adoption representation is just so heartwarming and brilliant. When the Timeless Child reveal happened, some people said they didn’t like the fact that the Doctor was no longer a real Gallifreyan, which is something adoptees hear too often, sometimes non-adoptees ask us about our “real parents” in reference to our birth parents, suggesting that our adoptive parents aren’t our real parents, but I’ve said many times, which Russell recently repeated in an interview, that the Doctor is still a Gallifreyan, depending on the experience, to be an adoptee is to become the family you’ve been adopted into, like when I was adopted into my family I became a part of them, and it’s the same with the Doctor, while they’re not native to Gallifrey, they were adopted into the planet and culture, so became a Gallifreyan, and that makes them no less of a Gallifreyan than if they were a native. Same with the 1st Doctor’s Gallifreyan family, while the Timeless Child makes them his adoptive family and not birth family, they’re still his real family, as Graham said in Resolution (2019) family isn’t just about DNA or a name, it’s about what you do. Like how all of the Doctor’s companions are their real family.
Yeah , this episode was too campy and silly for me a 5 or 6 Gatwa and Millie great though Intrigued by the mystery of Ruby definitely get the sense she’s not human given she seems to manifest snow
What a delight to have NEW episodes of Doctor Who to look forward to each week once again 🥰💙💙 I can't wait to watch all your reactions 😁 The fact that you've committed to watching Classic Who really makes your reactions extra special!
this has been weird so far. like this episode i just kept thinking how much of a nightmare it would have been filming so many babies between temperments and time restrictions etc.... but then copy right musical issues too i just imagine this seasons gonna be a nightmare
You know you're getting old when your favourite show is available on streaming at midnight and you still wait until 6:30 (GMT) in the evening to see it, because it's what you've always done. But glad I did. We've been waiting for this to drop for so long that I was starting to become pretty jaded by it all. Some parts were obviously a variation on what we've seen before (the opening was a fun riff on the beginning of 'End of the World' - and it's hard not to compare the literal Bogeyman to the sleep monster in, er, 'Sleep No More'), but this fairytale aspect RTD is gunning for gives it a different spin. Not sure what I think about our hero deliberately making the kids cry at one point, but I do like how this story inverted 9's 'Everybody dies' mentality at the start of Series 1 (or whatever they're calling that now). 15 looks like he can't bear to lose anyone. So maybe the therapy is not as complete as he likes to think.
The prior knowledge point is valid - I would also point out that there's a throwaway reference at the start that is, from your perspective, a spoiler - but the other thing the show now has to do is strike a balance between the clued-up domestic audience and the smaller but wider one outside of British territories. It is hard not to see the shutdown of community resources for parents in the UK (leaving, tellingly, an accountant in charge) as an inspiration for this story, for instance. And it's nice that this new era kicks off with a sense of looking after the next generation. The causes don't have to be translated for another country. It's the underlying point that strikes home.
I think 1x01 is ambiguous. I'm not sure it's even considered episode 1 of Season One. On Disney Plus it looks like it's being listed as episode 2. When I tried to play the season it started with The Church on Ruby Road and I had to skip it. How about D1x01? D for Disney? :p
Hello 👋🏻. Technically is series 14, but for Disney Plus purposes is season 1. Also, in the comics Star Trek and Doctor Who have crossover. Maybe we see that in series 16?
Well, I have seen it refered to as SERIES 14 or SEASON 1. Classic Who uses Seasons, NuWho uses Series, but I guess RTD thinks since it is such a new beginning, they think of it as Season 1?
Wow, that Susan Twist actress must have a fantastic agent! She was Isaac Newton's maid, that hippy woman in the pub Ruby's band played, and now the third crew member in those recordings. What do you reckon the chances are that we'll see her again? A tea lady or some other background character.... 😉
i think this episode demonstrates very well RTD's propensity to make the companions co-protagonists and co-leads with the Doctor. Ruby and this Doctor (and Millie and Ncuti) have a wonderful chemistry and dynamic together and I love these interrelated story threads of abandonment and adoption. The snot monster struck me as coming from the same idea as the Meep, but in reverse: you can't always tell from the outset who the Monster really is. (BTW, was the Nanny played by the same actress who plays Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton? Or where have I seen her?)
The time has come to once again yell “Geronimo!” and join you on another season of Doctor Who, where we watch the Doctor and companions traveling in the big blue box through all of time and all of space. I expect it will be as lovely as always, Jess.
Just a small thing, but when the Doctor described himself being the only one of his kind as a "superpower" I felt shades of the 12th Doctor in there. Little continuity nod, not confirmed, but seemly so. Loved that whole exchange.
I think Series 14 is best way to avoid confusion. Dr. Who already has Series 1 and a Season 1, and both have been reacted to on your channel. Sooooo Series 14 will avoid the most confusion.
@@somerandomguy2073 I think the controversy more came from Russell saying it was like another reboot compared to a new era, especially because there wasn't a massive gap between shows (like 1989-2005)
This was goofy, fun, nonsensical and gave a great exposition to those new to the show. I love the chemistry between Ncuti and Millie. Can't wait to see what the rest of this series has in store
Episode number wise, I'm starting to think of them as being like comic book volumes when they go back to a new #1. So I think I'll start thinking of this as 4.1.1: "Space Babies", compared to, say, 3.1.1: "Rose," or 1.19.1: "Castrovalva"
"Is the numbering controversial" *shudders in unit dating controversy* (not forgetting the fact this season can be correctly called season 40/series 14/season 1)
Seska, Wikipedia lists this season as "Series 14" and counts the Christmas story as 'episode 1 - so you're pretty close, you're cool - The Music Loving Klingon
Am I literally the ONLY ONE who noticed Mrs Flood as one of the crew???? She was on the screen!!! Ruby is human but she is definitely not from the 21st century and she definitely doesn't even know it! She is already giving MAJOR Clara Oswald impossible girl vibes and to be clear I loooooved Clara's story arc, it was the most intriguing thing in the entire revival... I feel like a lot of this season is going to tie together and it's all to do with Ruby, even from the start where they couldn't locate her birth parents!
If you go for doing it one way then 14x1 (and so on) seems like the most sensible way to do it as it makes it clear where it fits in compared to the rest. Perhaps continuing with both is a good compromise though and the most accurate.
If we're going to go with Russell's numbering system, maybe make it D1x01 since those of us in the States will be watching it on Disney+? Also, I hate that they retconned saving Gallifrey in Day of The Doctor, and we're back to "Last of the Time Lords".
Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that bit. So The Master single-handedly killed all of the Time Lords, and not one of them went off-planet after Gallifrey returned to the Universe? Yeah. Silly. And as you say, undoes the whole DotD arc.
Disney+ only has a contract to distribute Doctor Who internationally for 2 years, at which point it will be up for discussion on future agreements. I wouldn't recommend naming an entire era after a company that could very well step away after 2 years into the run (doubtful, but possible).
Liked the Gallifrey stuff and everything with Ruby. I did not enjoy the gross stuff or even the babies. But the 9th Doctor started out pretty silly too so maybe we are going somewhere with this.
As I’m sure most of your viewers would agree, you don’t need to put yourself through all the trouble of getting or being up so early to try and watch and edit your videos. We appreciate your hard work, and Will completely understand if you need to take a bit longer to get it out. Your own health is much more important than our pleasure. Welcome to the ride, this season is going to be wild. Ps in the UK, we are mostly calling it series 14. Think it’s more globally it’s going by season 1.
