Doctor Who
WARNING : Contains spoiler for Doctor Who , time of year 14 , episode 1 & 2 , " Space Babies " & " The Devil ’s Chord " !
Summary
Although billed as a refreshed startle for the serial , Doctor Whoseason 14 , episodes 1 and 2 are crammed full of Easter ballock and acknowledgment to the 60 - year chronicle of the show . In sequence 1 , " Space Babies " , the Doctor ( Ncuti Gatwa ) takes Ruby Sunday ( Millie Gibson ) on her first trip-up in the TARDIS , landing aboard a blank space place engage by a work party of babe . Then it ’s back to 1963 for an adventure ask the Beatles , and the terrific Maestro ( Jinkx Monsoon ) . yield to the year ofDoctor Who ’s birth means that the floodgates are open for a deluge of callbacks .
While " Space Babies " wo n’t go down as one of thegreatestDoctor Whostories of all time , there is a lot to enjoy , peculiarly how the Timeless tiddler revelation influence Ncuti Gatwa ’s Doctor and his interactions with both Ruby and the titular tots . Meanwhile , a return to London in 1963 inevitably leads to some big callbacks that proveDoctor Whoseason 14is far from the clean slate that fan may have anticipate . Whether these callbacks and Easter eggs are sports fan service or pivotal to the overall story of the enigmatic Ruby Sunday remain to be seen .
Doctor of the Church Who time of year 14 is Ncuti Gatwa ’s first full pleasure trip as the Doctor , and he is joined by an exciting cast of newcomer and conversant faces .
17The Rani
The Time Lords love a posh title.
The Doctor mentions " The Rani " in his expository monologue about the history of Gallifrey and the Time Lords . Played byDynasty ’s Kate O’Mara , the Rani was the renegade Time Lord geneticist who menaced the Sixth and Seventh Doctors inThe Mark of the RaniandTime and the Ranirespectively . Every time a high-pitched visibility actress is spew inDoctor Who , fans inevitably speculate that they ’ll be playing a regenerated Rani . This latest reference point will only reignite calls for the Rani ’s return later inDoctor Who .
16Gallifrey Is Gone
The Doctor mentions the Master’s Time Lord genocide.
The Doctor wastes no meter in severalize Ruby thatGallifrey no longer survive , reference the racial extermination consecrate by the Master ( Sacha Dhawan ) beforeDoctor Whoseason 12 . The Master ’s devastation of Gallifrey was n’t long after the satellite was save from destruction duringDoctor Who ’s fiftieth anniversary special , " The Day of the Doctor " . Later , inDoctor Whoseason 14 , installment 2 , " The Devil ’s Chord " , the Doctor reveals that the Master ’s genocide swept " across time and space like a bully , big cellular burst . " This means that other Time Lords who were n’t on Gallifrey at the fourth dimension of the Master ’s fire were also belt down .
15The Timeless Child
“I was adopted, and the planet that took me in, they were kind of posh.”
The story of the Timeless Child gets a few reference inDoctor Whoseason 14 , sequence 1 , " Space Babies " , as it leave the Doctor with a substance to connect with both Ruby and the abandoned intergalactic infants . Unsurprisingly , the Doctor skim over the cruel experiments lead on them by Tecteun ( Barbara Flynn ) to unlock the secrets of regeneration . It ’s a dark element of his backstory that would in all probability scare away Captain Poppy far more than the Bogeyman . However , it ’s nifty to see RTD build on Chris Chibnall ’s Revelation of Saint John the Divine about the Doctor ’s adoption to create strong character moment .
14The Butterfly Compensation Switch
“Who steps on a butterfly?”
The tantrum in which Ruby worries about the butterfly stroke effect follows in the footstep of previousDoctor Whocompanions like Martha Jones ( Freema Agyeman ) and Bill Potts ( Pearl Mackie ) . Unlike those companions , Ruby in brief fall victim to the butterfly event inDoctor Whoseason 14 , installment 1 , " Space infant " , becoming a sort of half - reptile , half - louse wight . TheDoctor saves the butterflyand gets time back on track , but crucially , he reveals another unique feature of the TARDIS . He turn over on the butterfly stroke recompense switch , which mitigates the butterfly effect , excuse how Martha and Bill avoided a similar destiny to Ruby .
Many of Doctor Who ’s normal are compromising while some are uphold through thick and slight , but one of Gatwa ’s first appearing nearly features a faux pas .
13"Two, One, Five Oh…"
2150 is not a good year in Doctor Who history.
When the Doctor take Ruby where she desire to go next , she selects the identification number two , one , five and zero.2150 is the year of the Dalek intrusion of Earth , depicted in the Graeco-Roman William Hartnell serial publication , and its movie adaption , Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 advertising . There ’s emphatically a faintly detectable trace of apprehension when the Doctor repeats the last zero , only for Ruby to hold in a final six , which direct the TARDIS to the yr 21506 , millennia after the Dalek encroachment , and lightyears away from the planet Earth .
12Ruby’s Time And Space Phone
RTD resurrects a device from his previous era.
There are moments in " Space Babies " that palpate like Russell T Davies duplicate retiring glories , and nowhere is this more obvious than the scene where the Doctor sonics Ruby ’s speech sound . The Ninth Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston ) did the same for Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ) inDoctor Whoseason 1 , installment 2 , " The End of the World " , so that she can phone her mother trillion of days in the past tense . The Fifteenth Doctor does the same affair here , allowing Ruby to call her mum in 2024 from the yr 21506 .
11The Flux
“Most of the universe is knackered babes.”
Despite what his most outspoken critics may have require , Russell T Davies was never going to eraseChris Chibnall ’s change toDoctor Who . As well as cite the Timeless Child , " Space Babies " also wryly references the aftermath of the Flux . The Flux was a major moment for Jodie Whittaker ’s Thirteenth Doctor , devastating much of the universe across multiple time zones . Or , as the Fifteenth Doctor says to Ruby ; " Most of the macrocosm is knackered , babes . "
10Susan Twist’s Cameos Explained
Who is the mysterious woman following the Doctor and Ruby?
Doctor Whoseason 14 , episodes 1 and 2 both feature of speech appearances by actress Susan Twist , playing a occult reference who is likely following the Doctor and Ruby through time and space . The Fourteenth Doctor ( David Tennant ) first fit this lineament when she was Mrs Merridew , the housekeeper of Sir Isaac Newton ( Nathaniel Curtis ) in " Wild Blue Yonder " . Since then , she ’s appear as an old rocker in " The Church on Ruby Road " , one of the place station staff in " Space Babies " , and one of the mobile canteen staff in " The Devil ’s Chord " . Whether she’sDoctor Whoseason 14 ’s big spoilt , or a harbinger of something larger , remains to be seen .
Millie Gibson ’s Doctor Who companion Ruby Sunday is very much a mystery right now . Here are all the big theories excuse who desolate her …
9"Tell Your Mother Not To Slap Me"
Companions' mothers aren’t big fans of the Doctor.
There ’s a history of mothers slapping Doctors in Russell T Davies’Doctor Who . It ’s a trend that , thus far , Ncuti Gatwa ’s Doctor has avoided . InDoctor Whoseason 1 , episode 4 , " World War Three " , Jackie Tyler ( Camille Codouri ) slap the Ninth Doctor for " kidnapping " her girl , and then in " The Lazarus Experiment " , Martha ’s mother Francine ( Adjoa Andoh ) slapped the Tenth Doctor to warn him off her daughter .
AfterDoctor Who , Adjoa Andoh went on to asterisk as Lady Agatha Danbury inBridgerton , opposite Golda Rosheuvel , who plays Nan - E in " Space Babies " .
Years later on , in the firstDoctor Who60th anniversary exceptional , Sylvia Noble ( Jacqueline King ) slapped the Fourteenth Doctor to protect Donna from date his face . However , even after wrecking considerable chunks of her unconditional , Carla Sunday ( Michelle Greenidge ) has n’t slapped the Fifteenth Doctor in the brass yet . However , given that he ’s already secretly running TARDIS scans on Ruby , he may cease up on the wrong side of Carla afterwards in the series .
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8Timothy Drake (Jeremy Limb)
The music teacher in “The Devil’s Chord” has a link to Doctor Who’s soundtrack.
Doctor Whoseason 14 , episode 2 , " The Devil ’s Chord " is all about the importance of music to the cosmos , and much of the cast meditate this . Case in point , histrion Jeremy Limb , who act the inauspicious Timothy Drake , the first victim ofJinkx Monsoon ’s Maestro . Jeremy is the boy of Roger Limb , a appendage of the BBC ’s Radiophonic Workshop , who compile multiple sexual conquest forDoctor Whoduring the eighties , including those for " The Caves of Androzani " and " Revelation of the Daleks " . Jeremy Limb ’s connection toDoctor Whomusic lends an extra attribute to Maestro hammering out the theme melody on the belated Timothy Drake ’s piano .
Dr. Who tale Scored By Roger Limb
The Keeper of Traken ( 1981 )
The Fourth Doctor ( Tom Baker )
Four to Doomsday ( 1982 )
The Fifth Doctor ( Peter Davison )
Black Orchid ( 1982 )
Time - Flight ( 1982 )
Arc of Infinity ( 1983 )
Terminus ( 1983 )
The Caves of Androzani ( 1984 )
Revelation of Saint John the Divine of the Daleks ( 1985 )
The Sixth Doctor of the Church ( Colin Baker )
