THE FUTURE OF DOCTOR WHO! [SEASON 2, XMAS SPECIAL, NEW COMPANIONS, MOFFAT RETURNS] JOY TO THE WORLD! 

When your getting excited for Xmas cause of doctor who but you remember that you have to get through summer first 😭😭😭

I have been a major DW nerd/fan for many years. I cried my eyes out when Ruby met her mom.

I JUST WANT the snow and music explained

I don't think Mrs Flood is anything good because of this exchange right here: "Do you believe in the power of prayer?" "I most certainly do." "Then tell your maker I will come to storm down his gates of gold and seize his kingdom in my true name." I think her having snow like Ruby is an indication that Ruby's ancestry is more than just her immediate biological parents.

Ruby is Roger Ap Gwilliam’s long lost sister. Her dad’s name is William and “Ap William” is Son of William

I think the main problem with the season 1 finale was that it felt too much like an ending when there's clearly going to be more. Like if they in universe addressed stuff like how the snow never got explained and is still an ongoing mystery it wouldn't have felt so frustrating.

Ruby's father is Will Garnet. Garnet is a red stone. One of the birth stones, specifically. Thinking that's not an accident.

I'm a full-on Whovian and have seen the full series (from Eccleston) three times and grew up watching the old series (mostly Baker) and I LOVED the Finale and didn't find any fault in it. People have been watching this season with unrealistic and unfair expectations. The Doctor ALLLLLLLLLWAYS has an easy time in finally defeating the Big bad. Everything always eventually just fits into place or he does one simple thing and everything inexplicably works. He broke POTS TO DESTROY SATAN. He had people pray his name to defeat the master- THAT made sense?? Don't get me started on how he decided to blow up the TARDIS IN A BLOWING UP TARDIS to reset the universe and it made a perfect recreation of reality and everyone has a problem with the Doctor dragging the God of Death through the Timestream?? Maybe there could have been more in it if they had 12 episodes or more but thats not the fault of the writing. This wasnt underwhelming. It was super fun and dramaic and entertaining. Seriously people, LIGHTEN UP. it was a lot of fun and I can't wait till next season.

Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor uses an ingenious solution to reverse the damage done, potentially restoring Gallifrey and its people in the process🤗🤗🤗🤗

Makes sense for there to be more to Ruby's story. We need to know about why she makes it snow next season!

I've been watching Dr Who since the 1960's (from the USA!), and I thought the finale was fantastic. As an adopted child (at birth on Dec 27 -- close but no cigar), I especially appreciated and teared up at the way Ruby's reunion with her mother was handled. To all of us adoptees, our birth parents are "gods" until we find them. When they turn out to be ordinary people that still care for us, there is no better ending!!!! The Finale WAS GREAT!

I’ve been a fan of Who since the 70’s and have all the classic Who DVD’s, Big Finish Who, and Seen all the show since the 2005. I am a Who devotee. Being such I really enjoyed the Empire of Death and the Payoff. I don’t understand all the negative stuff, perhaps people overhyped it in their heads. Which is why I may watch sensible videos like yours, but I always approach the show with no expectation and get taken for the rollercoaster ride of a lifetime. But that maybe just me. Keep up the good work!!!!!!

We know it's called Joy to the world, if the character is also called Joy, that's so Moffaty.

This will be the first Doctor Who Christmas Special which will not be written by the showrunner.

Thank you for doing such a great job through the season! Glad to be aboard!

Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor uses an ingenious solution to reverse the damage done, potentially restoring Gallifrey and its people in the process🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

The more I think about it, the more I think RTD deliberately made the finale underwhelming with little to no explanation for Ruby’s ability to create snow, and the Maestro’s fear when finding something very wrong with her. I feel like the finale was just a stepping stone to build us up to Ruby’s real reveal in the next season. My take is Ruby is a creation from another god. Just like Susan Triad was for Sutekh. Susan still had ordinary human parents.

@The Confused Adipose Did you notice that RTD gave us a clue in Empire of Death to the Timeless Child's true Planet? Compare The baby's dress to the Timeless Child's dress. RTD did say that the Kind Woman would be important.

Ruby will be Palpatine's granddaughter.

Lifetime obsessive fan since mid-Pertwee (Jo Grant was my first companion) and thought it was dreadful. Appalling writing, not so much dialled in as unable to even get a reception. Am also adopted and found the treatment of the subject to be facile in the extreme. If RTD is going to make smug jokes about appropriation, then maybe he should lead by example and stick to issues he has a genuine insight into. Ruby's mom is the woman who bought her up, who tucked her in every night, who changed her nappies, who nursed her when she was ill and comforted her nightmares. The casual obsession she feels for a woman who could not even get past feeling a bit awkward in order to muster the courage to find her own daughter is facile, and lacks any depth of understanding or empathy for the situation it purports to address. This reunion rang so empty and fake to me I found it insulting to the feelings I have as an adopted child, and to all the adoptive parents whose role it serves only to diminish, treating them as custodians not true parents.

Return of werewolves to Doctor Who?

One thing still not resolved, when the Toy Maker lost to the two doctors, who took the Master trapped in the gold tooth. All we know is the female was wearing red nail polish, and in an episode with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, she had on red nail polish. So what if in Unit head quarters, thats not the real Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

I don’t believe we have found her parents. When the doctor was with Susan triad in the finale he was talking about a perception filter being why Susan believed her backstory and then the next scene is ruby finding her parents. It’s a perception filter! To protect from the truth because in the moment, if sutekh found out the real truth he would have gone OTT. I’m still convinced the real truth is that ruby is a good child of the tardis.

Been watching since 1978... Definitely a long-term, in-depth fan, and I adored the finale. It was a very intelligently written and executed episode. I'm not really understanding all the negativity and hesitation surrounding it.

The ending was "the twist at the end" literally.. though few things still don't make sense and a few things still unexplained 😢

Have we... always had single seasons sandwiched by Christmas specials, I guess it makes sense I've just never noticed the frequency before. They always seemed more special

My only hope Verda isn't playing yet another present day earth companion, Ruby has that archetype covered and it's such a tired part of the show that could do with experimenting.

I was feeling kinda Bad for Ruby s real parentage story ending but more Bad for the doctor sad and not having Ruby as his full time companion anymore,and maybe a secondary in series 15 /season 2 ,but who knows ,maybe season 2 /series 15 Will do better reveals and better returns than the sutekh one

I am a true whovian and absolutely love Doctor Who. I did love the finale but it lacked a bit of action in the middle. However, I was sad when Ruby found her mother and was so glad that she did. Cannot wait for the Christmas Special. I just hope Season 2 is longer.

It made £364,253 for the double-bill finale in cinemas making it (No2 on Fri) & the fourth highest of the weekend across 275 screenings

I love this time of year where everything new is coming out at the end of the year

I think we're going to find out more about Mrs Flood this Christmas. I just genuinely hope we see more of Ruby because I thought she was a fantastic companion.

Thanks for the video :). It gave me a lot of hope for next season and that some lingering threads of Ruby's story will actually be answered - like the snow and the song that sounded so similar to the Trickster's, along with UNIT finding her mother when Sutekh and Maestro couldnt figure her out :).

Even though there's unanswered questions about Ruby and her parents, it feels like her storyline was concluded. Even though I am glad she's coming back, it does make me questions why.

I think casual viewers enjoyed it more because they are happy to just let it be whatever it is, and don't over speculate because they don't care that much about it being a certain thing, whereas us Whovians tend to build up expectation too much and create bigger elaborate plot theories that are more intelligent than the show actually is these days. We should probably stop speculating and expecting, and just watch to be surprised / entertained. Sometimes delving into the archives to fish out the biggest and best theory can put the real story into a shadow of disappointment.

Looking for better episodes this time around I hope

I'm going to join your channel tomorrow!

I am mainly looking forward to finding out more about the new companion Varada Sethu! Her appearance in Boom was fantastic! It looks like one of her episode is set in the 1950s judging by the costumes.

I’m upset that the finale made me feel very unenthusiastic about the future of Doctor Who. I watched the first 13 seasons of new Who starting in November and finally caught up by the release of Dot and Bubble. I loved most of the episodes and the buildup throughout the new season. Episode 7 was my favorite but I was also very fond of 73 Yards. I liked the rest quite a bit, Space Babies was the only one I was lukewarm on… then I watched the finale. I liked the beginning, but none of the plotlines led anywhere or were explained well. I wish I could be excited for it again

I’d like Varada Sethu to just be playing Mundy Flynn again; the Doctor could easily bump into/find her again, and it would allow for a deeper dive into Villengard…

I enjoyed the Finale very much. I have seen every episode since An Unearthy Child so make of that what you will.

Do you think the meep’s boss (maybe the same person / being as rogues boss) will be the villain in the big finale of season 2 ad Russel T Davies said “the tardis trio will be fighting together because the stakes are higher than ever”, maybe it is the trickster, I really want him back

My family is the same they loved the finale but I didn’t maybe we all went in with to much expectations

I'm a fan. A tiny bit obsessive, maybe. I liked it, but I'm starting to think about the plot holes, and there are quite few, aren't there? Why did Suthek need the name of Ruby's mum so badly, if she was just an ordinary person? Didn't make sense.

It was snowing on that rooftop - I’m not sure why Mrs Flood had a parasol (and suitcase).

Calling it now the new companion will be called Brindle Dee. I really enjoyed the Empire of Death especially Mel. I had given too much thought about Ruby's Mum so was underwhelmed with the reveal. Won’t do that again. But I was ok with the ending. I’ve really enjoyed the variety this season and the creative ways they dealt with Ncuti's absence. Legend of Ruby Sunday is my favourite episode of the season but if treated as a two parter then 73 yards, Dot and Bubble and Boom go above as my favourite stories. Been a fan since the late sixties and been to many conventions. have met all the classic Doctors bar Hartnell. Not missed a first broadcast since 1974.

Bring back Scrappy Doo ....we need more laffs ....that will increase the viewings figures....by a couple❤😊😂

I re-watched Empire of Death and sadly I felt empty after watching it. I think when you watch it first time, you are more kind to it. Now I find it very boring. Ruby's story is going to continue, as RTD has said in season two it will continue. I really felt let down and disappointed in the finale, and very let down by RTD.

Final viewing figures only come out 7 days after the first screening. Wait till Saturday.

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Another thing that penny dropped after the last episode, I don't think Sutekh has to be the one who waits in Toymaker reference terms, I think that's maybe a bit of clever sleight of hand script-wise because Sutekh fits that description but so could other characters/entities thus it could be about someone/something else when The Toymaker mentioned it. Maybe also the same thing Maestro meant about the 'wrong' music (wrong to 'discordant' Maestro of course! Perspective!) hidden in Ruby. Why? Because The Toymaker saw it hiding and ran. Sutekh is in the same pantheon of discord so it might not be Sutekh that scared The Toymaker. So could it be to do with Ruby or whatever 'Mrs Flood' is and what they 'conceal'? Ruby has the hidden song, Mrs Flood is always hiding away like The Doctor hiding behind the faces of their regenerations. Of course the hidden in Ruby could just be the positive aspects of her humanity but there are these interesting places it could go where like Clara and River et al they are more extraordinary than we think.

Am I the only one that thinks this sneak peek felt kind of like the bar scene from 73 yards?

Erm... I don't think it's right to say that a drop from roughly 3m to roughly 2m is relatively consistent. It's only a million drop, but it's a 33% drop.

I believe this time line is being manipulated by Hecuba Ruby’s real mom who is about to give the Doctor a horrible choice if he tries to fix this timeline. I am a huge veteran fan, excited for this! Was a fan before it was cool! Love Bridgerton too!

There is absolutely no way there is anything more to Rubys parents. Russell said in the video commentary that he wrote her story as a response to Rise of Skywalker, in that he liked the idea that Reys parents were just nobodys and hated the retcon in tros that made her palpatines granddaughter. If its now revealed in a later episode that rubys parents actually are soneone he would literally just br doing the thing he said he was trying to criticise

THEORY: perhaps ruby's had mother had originally died and the trickster was the original person who left her for their boss (perhaps pointing to betray Sutekh to take over the pantheon), Sutekh, but now the doctor won - the trickster, now in charge, changed time by giving ruby's mum life, his gimmick, ensuring ruby and the doctor are separate because they are such a powerful duo as they killed a god.. making it easier for the weaker but more cunning trickster and it would leave ruby's mum a normal woman and why the doctors memory changed. could also explain why the point changed, originally it was the trickster giving the doctor a hint so Sutekh would loose and he can take over, then after bringing her back time changed to fit that it was now her mum, aka now the road.. This makes me feel better and would explain why it was left like this. AND it explains the cloak, but that was always the thing that made people think trickster.

I'M a long time fan classic and new and enjoyable and fun is so much better if logical sense exists with it or at least someone saying DOCTOR why the snow and tge reply I'll explain later. I'm giving RTD the benefit of the doubt hoping he will come up with it next series

Iwonder if Mrs Flood is staying in that tent on top of the mountain, she was dressed for snow

1:14-1:37 Thanks for making that absolutely clear! This is the thing that really annoys me about live broadcast figures these days, 2 & 3 million are by no means abysmal numbers but because they’re not absolutely stratospheric like used to be in the days before iPlayer & Netflix etc you still get loads of d*ckheads online look at it and drone on that the show’s dying & no of us care anymore when really we very much still do, we just have something called ‘Lives’ and might just happen to busy at 6:45 on a Saturday night

It doesn't explain the snow really or the fact that Davina and UNIT couldn't get DNA, but Roger Ap Gwilliam and his program could. 😮

I wonder if maybe Sethu might be returning as Mundy Flynn next season? The ending of Boom implied the Doctor had dropped his TARDIS key, and given that he had promised to stop back with them at some point, I think there might be something going on there.

Calling it season two is odd (I know it's not you who is) Season 2 aired in 1964-65!! Series 2 aired in 2005 to 06! Confused yet LOL (Its really SEASON 41)

I kinda think the crazy theories does kill the show a bit, for once I didn't have crazy theories and just enjoyed it and ended up enjoying it soooooo much more

This video finally gives some neckline - I feel seen after my last compliment and request haha! Yes you do great work, but this guy from Oz can't shake his crush on you sorry haha. Thank you for the chest view, keep up the great work!

Just happy to see this post. If this is your part time job, I am curious what will be your income during the break between now and Christmas.

The season two sneak peak is the closest the show will get to actually saying "fuck you" to a person in the Whoniverse, can't wait for that.

I just hear the voice of the silence ‘Joy, her name is Joy’ your name is Amelia’

They made £365k in the cinema screenings

Well, first and foremost, I would say that Mrs Flood needs to see a therapist! My new theory is that we will probably have more gods coming up next series! The filming photos of the episode where we see the new companion also shows Mrs Flood traveling in time... and more importantly a theatre spelling out a movie title: "HAR B INGER"... A god of stories (like Mrs Flood) could fit here... a movie is a story... It could also explained the alternative Britain Empire we've seen where the Doctor is living is his life as Mr Smith. What if the answer we are missing (like the snow) is in fact connected to series 2 and we will get that covered. Adding to the fact we have similarities coming up next series, Ruby's mystery with her family again, gods, Mrs Flood with a plan... what if this all leading to series 1 events but in the wrong order ... Thinking about it, it could make sense as I feel like RTD struggled a little bit, perhaps too ambitious with only 8 episodes! He also was forces to cut some scenes and dialogues! The fact that it was filmed back to back could be because series 1 and series 2 are one entire season cut in half .... the two combined would make a total of 16 episodes with 2 Christmas specials, this is close to the number of episodes RTD 1 series had!

Mrs Flood please!!

The season was great but I couldn't believe how it ended they just threw away all the build up. The one who waits should have been something great. Honestly The Toy Maker would make the best final boss with his reality warping abilities. "You don't get it Doctor. We've been playing two totally separate games. I've been playing the long game."

Consistency is a good thing with the viewing figures. I am excited for Series 15 of Doctor Who along with the Christmas Special. I'll keep using Disney+ and catch up on shows and films. The finale was good. The second part is weaker compare to the first part, but I am happy with the ending and Sutekh. I am a big fan of Doctor Who, but I am not bothered by the series itself. I basically left just as the Flux Season started and returned literally in the 60th Anniversary Specials. I just watch it for fun and for the sci-fi. I genuinely don't mind the mix-match of genres and themes. You gotta remember that there is people out there that will see this series as their first Doctor Who season they watched, and it feels good to have a refresher of the... canon.

Wouldn't it be amazing if Ruby's dad was actually The Master. Also whenever you get podcasts about DW now they're always hosted by young people. Do they not realise that people over the age of 30 watch the show too?

While they claim in the last episode that rubys dad was some teenager they also made it clear her mum was abused by her dad, and when they did a dna search they only found her mum, because her father/grandfather was dead. It fully explaims why she thinks the doctor she meets is normal.

Hope the daleks will be in season 2

Russel may be a good writer on certain things. But for Doctor who he is not compatible unless he has oversight. You never go full Russel.

Does he get his nob out for Santa

im a new canadaio fan the sesoson got better and better

I saw somewhere that millie's back for three(?) episodes. As for why, hasn't she been filming something else? Might that have been at least part of the reason fir the Ruby-light season?

Dobson confirmed in Radio times interview series 2 we find out who Mrs Flood really is. the way she worded the interview "We are on series 2 at the moment" It suggests she's back for series 3. Add this into her comments at the end have they confirmed he's a 3 series Doctor? But also I think we just saw the biggest reset ever not even knowing about it. All the planets/Characters etc lost over the years can be brough back saying it must have been the effect of Taking God Dog for a Walk in the Vortex. RTD needed a get out of Jail card and he's made one. You know that's how the Master is coming back. The Neilson figures which show the Disney plus top 10 have not had Dr Who in them. Given how Disney are trying to stop the losses dont be shocked if we find out that deal is over after series 2. I still feel a deal with Netflix or Paramount would have worked better Finally a Dr Who/Star trek crossover actually on screen. You know us nerds would combust

Even a casual viewer surely got frustrated that The Remembered TARDIS didn't have any metal on board. That was nonsense. I mean that was how they used the extra ten minutes?

Fan, but not obsessive. This season has been a bit meh for me. Lopsided (not enough) episodes, poor writing, 2 Doctor-lite episodes back to back, the big bad over in 20 minutes, plot holes galore and the overall arc of Ruby's mother - a Chekhov's gun which didn't go off. Millie will be back to 2 episodes (out of 8) by the sounds of it - perhaps she has to come back if we're to resolve Mrs Flood, or maybe her father is set up to be the big bad next season. Did they write Millie out, and when she clearly was one of the better actors in this season, thought they'd contrive to get her back? Did she jump ship cos the writing was bad, and she got a better offer? I think the Disney gamble will be over after next season and there'll be a hiatus before the next incarnation / return to BBC.

A big fan since decades and it was one of the best Who I've ever watched! Yes plot holes here and there and some could be different, but that was always the same through all seasons, that is Doctor Who, being trashy, being bit unconsistend, but that is what made me falling in love with that show. And this end! The most ordinary saves the day, was a moment direct in my heart! Thx, RTD and all the others! ❤

I am a hardcore fan. I thought the finale was mediocre. I liked what they had Mel doing. I liked the part with Ruby meeting her birth-mom. I like Ruby and The Doctor’s goodbye. Everything else was underwhelming. Mrs Flood breaking the 4th wall is starting to bother me.

The future of the show. WHAT FUTURE. ? theirs more chance thst Gawta will keep his mouth shut

Jon pertwee is the only true doctor.

What future? One season in the can then maybe one more out of spite & Its 350 thousand approx. on Disney+ (less than I-player)

Would be cool if one of Ruby's parents made a deal with the trickster maybe at a young age before Ruby was born and yh that's my thought of the day.

8 ACTORS I ENVISION PLAYING THE FUTURE FACE OF THE-DOCTOR IN (DOCTOR WHO) SHOW: The first I envision, is actor star (FREDDIE HIGHMORE). The 2nd. I envision, is actor star (ALFRED ENOCH). The 3rd. I envision, is actor (SAMUEL JOSLIN). The 4th. I envision, is actor (BEN HARDY). The 5th. I envision, is actor (RHYS MATTHEW BOND). The 6th. I envision, is actor (FRANZ DRAMEH) The 7th. I envision, is actor (MALACHI KIRBY) The 8th. I envision, is actor (LUKE PASQUALINO).

My opinion: it was a typical RTD finale. I've never been particularly impressed by them. For my money, RTD had a habit of ramping up some huge apocalyptic catastrophe that kills everyone. And then using some rather silly "magic" (magic Tardis, magic Doctor, magic Humanity) to magically solve and reverse the problem. And then hoping that slathering everything in sentimentality (usually by retiring an actor) will distract everyone from how silly it all was. The best finale ever was Capaldi's last one, where the stakes were (cosmically speaking) unimportant. (Does the universe care if a single colony ship gets taken over by Cybermen? Probably not.) Instead the drama is all small-scale and personal (about Capaldi's heroic failures) and much, MUCH better for it. So ... we're back to RTD's old tricks. And yes, a magic piece of rope manages to defeat the "God of Death" and undo the killing of everyone. And then there's an extended coda of sentimentality about Ruby finding her birth mother, to try to to distract from how weak that was. Honestly, that's par for the course with RTD. I didn't really expect anything better from him. In retrospect, this was an OK season with one spectacularly good episode (Dot and Bubble). The rest was typical RTD, with all his strengths and weaknesses. That's a big improvement on Chibnall, so Doctor Who has been "saved". Job done. Congratulations. But I dunno what else people were expecting. The "mystery of Ruby's mother" was always pretty contrived. It was quite funny that RTD decides that the twist is that she wasn't anyone important. That was quite refreshing given that every companion now has to be built up into another "chosen one". But it wasn't particularly satisfying either. So, meh!

What bugs me from the episode is that the Memory Tardis is made up of memories about all Tardis’ from all over time. And now there is definitely memory of Sutekh wrapped around the Tardis… Here’s hoping nobody manages to take it for another joy ride in the future…

did you see the latest on doctor who tv they plan on bringing matt smith back as the 16th doctor. I guess the shows ratings are so bad that they have to bring back a fan favorite. while they are at it they should find a way to bring back riversong and the ponds as the show won't recover from the last 2 doctors. Its too little to late for most fans

Ruby *has* to come back on season 2. Those tablets (tripads?) on the back row of UNIT HQ aren't going to tap themselves. Well, hopefully. This is Doctor Who, next thing we know the tablets are trying to take over the world.

I bet jou to the world will be about the krampus

Just thinking about it did doctor who kill 2 people in the last ep ??

It doesn’t bother me that she’s leaving Doctor Who. The finale part 2, that bothered me, they never explain why it was always snowing.

Wait Wait Wait handsome. Haven't we seen Varada Sethu in a episode as Mundy Flynn, so she's going to be playing someone else?

Hope this is good Moff most of his christmas sorcials are brilliant only TDTWATW and TRODM are underwhelming ....RTD sprciakd batbhis first in 2005 are naff ....so welcomd return also chibnalls festive specials were fsntastic ....everything crossed season 2 steps up

we actually dont know anything about ruby's father. thats the point, all that is to be a big reveal i think. Plus her family is now both mum's step and real. i am a good fan but i was underwelmed at the fimale. i expect a great final from the massive build up that lead to very little. we know not much more than we did at the very first episode of ruby road. why would her mother wear a full cloak in a normal snowy street on that fateful night, and how could she ponit towards the doctor when she has no idea as a 15 year old child wearing a cloak who or what he is. i dont think that was her mother in the cloak.

Well well well well about the epsiode joy to the world epsiode look nice in the 1950s hmmm SU garden