After the first two episodes of this season flopped for me and my partner, we got really invested from episode 3 onwards, we really enjoyed the rest of the season. Lots of speculation about the Pantheon, Ruby’s mum, Ruby herself, Mrs Flood, The Doctor and his descendants…
I refuse to believe that RTD et al weren’t aware that we’d spend this whole season speculating and coming up with wild (but plausible) theories. So it strikes me me as incredibly odd that out of all the theories which could have been true, the writers chose the one conclusion we dismissed as too unbelievably boring, only to handwave at exactly how that happened, and ignore half of our remaining questions.
We were given an entire pantheon of borderline-metatextual gods to play with. We were given the possibility of part-timelords running around, we were given timey-wimey stuff. All to throw us off the course that, actually, this mystery fascinating enough that the god of death (who had been dormant for centuries) came out of hiding just because it was just super invested in the same mystery we were, would culminate in a pretty much homeopathic plot resolution much less exciting than what any of the fans came up with :/
I guess I’m not so bothered about the resolution itself, only that much cooler and more fun alternatives which actually made more sense were ignored. After all that buildup!
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On a side note, did anyone else feel like The Doctor was pretty much ghosting Ruby at the end there? “Of course I’ll come back, hon… Toodles forever!”
