@bunface

Did you really think it that scary?   I suppose I was treating it like an exercise in field work – visiting, say, the site of an abandoned medieval village or of a monastic precinct, observing and recording all the humps and bumps marking buried remains, identifying them in terms of ditches, walls, buildings and so forth, and trying to i…[Read more]

I’ve been musing on that question of infection/possession – who was channeling a supernatural entity, at what point did that entity gain access, and to what degree were the people affected aware before the point at which the full manifestation of Sutekh himself was about to break through? The identity of these entities, other than Sutekh himself,…[Read more]

@scaryB

When did the TARDIS become infected? Let’s assume it was in Wild Blue Yonder,

That seems to me very much the most likely occasion – see my earlier post in response to @markkelly. It’s just about possible the Meep brought it earlier, depending on the identity of the ‘boss’ referred to. It might be worth re-watching that episode to check if…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

.. it might imply that Sutekh is able to manifest in the Time Window. How? Well, it has already been  established that UNIT has incorporated a dynamic system courtesy of Triad Technology…

If I am right in thinking that that the Tardis had already been possessed by Sutekh – or perhaps infected is a more appropriate term – wh…[Read more]

Today I found time to re-watch the Time window scenes more closely, pausing at frequent intervals, in order to compare, in detail, the differences between events as we saw them here and as we saw them in The Church on Ruby Road. What follows is probably going way too far into nit-picking detail, so just call me obsessive and ignore if you so wish.…[Read more]

I join @blenkinsopthebrave  and @scaryB in thanking you, @craig  for opening this thread. It has prompted me to go to iPlayer and start a re-watch – so far just the first two episodes. It must be more than a decade since I last saw it, on some obscure TV channel, and it’s good to be reminded of the details.

If I was being judgemental I would s…[Read more]

@scaryb

Ruby and Carla have already scanned that VHS tape VERY closely – but they never saw a police box materialise and the Dr come out, or the woman turn and point etc…

Maybe I’m mistaken, but I thought that the raw CCTV footage didn’t show the Tardis because the camera was facing in the wrong direction. What they did was to use the the VCR rec…[Read more]

@thane16

The head of the astronaut in Wild Blue Yonder looked somewhat equine to me, and I’ve seen enough excavated horse skeletons to know. So I don’t think we can pursue a hawk/Horus connection that far. But, just to confuse matters, in some Egyptian depictions of Set/Seth/Sutekh, the muzzle of the jackal has a distinctly raptor-beak like…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Thank you for having registered the list of the deities listed in the pantheon – and forgive me if I’m harking back to earlier points of discussion, but after staying up last night long past my bedtime I’ve spent all day playing catch up.

In ancient Egyptian art Sutekh is depicted as a man with the head of a jackal – the head of a…[Read more]

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@miapatrick  @thane16  @bunface

Early in the comments you were discussing the newly and overtly empathic and emotional face of the Doctor. For what its’s worth, I’ve been seeing this as a result of the bi-generation.  What was left of the accumulated trauma and guilt carried over from the Time War and other events and losses, together with all th…[Read more]

That was certainly satisfactorily gripping as a build up to the final episode of the series, and with more than one twist well before the end. I watched the episode this morning on I-player, on the large screen monitor linked to my computer, and I’d intended to watch again this evening when broadcast on TV – but ‘events’, as Harold Macmillan once…[Read more]

Oh, @scaryB , did you really have to remind me?!  That earworm plagued me for more than a week after the episode aired, and it was driving me up the wall.

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In truth I’m a little nervous about the two episodes to come. RTD has always had a tendency to go OTT with his Doctor Who finales, and he has been quoted several times to the effect that this will be the biggest, baddest, most spectacular and scary ever. I fear the possibilities presented by a larger budget may have gone to his head, and that the…[Read more]

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@whohar  @juniperfish et al. 

Thanks for the very helpful summary of all the questions to be answered (we hope) in the finale. I meant to comment yesterday but got side tracked. In consequence what I have to say may be irrelevant by the time it is read by those who get to watch The Legend of Ruby Sunday before those of us in the UK.

My s…[Read more]

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@janetteB  @juniperfish

On the subject of Gallifrey, it would certainly be possible for the Doctor to go back because the planet itself was not destroyed, but whether he would want to revisit a lifeless planet, let alone take anyone else there, is another matter. That is unless, as Juniperfish suggested, he chose to travel back in time to before…[Read more]

That was highly enjoyable, starting off, lightly enough, in the style of regency romance – if more Georgette Heyer than Jane Austen, or perhaps as Ruby enthused, more Bridgerton, (though I can’t speak for the latter, since I have never watched the show). Even the avian aliens would have been fun and quite appealing if it had not been for their…[Read more]