The Church On Ruby Road | Ncuti Gatwa Was Born For This Role Doctor Who Review, Recap, Breakdown
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- čas přidán 2. 01. 2024
- We're taking a look at the Doctor Who Christmas Special, The Church On Ruby Road, the debut episode for Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor with Ruby Sunday, his companion played by Millie Gibson as they try to rescue a baby from some very hungry goblins.
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Ncuti Gatwa’s gonna be one of my favourite doctors, and hopefully a great career. I can tell!
Plus I just saw this special and I quite enjoyed how brutal the harpooning was!
He's so wonderful!
That was so wild! I was not expecting it at all, very Leaf on the Wind
I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of Doctor Who episodes, but it did its job well as far as setting the stage and dropping the mysteries that keep me intrigued.
Yeah, the story was serviceable imo, I enjoyed myself, but it didn't blow me away, although Ncuti Gatwa certainly did!
I mean a story this sentimental you'd think I'd have cried, but it just didn't grab me the way some episodes do
@@renrants I got the point of feeling it a bit of something at the point of the changes during Ruby's disappearance, but no water works lol.
@@renrants most of the new cast worked well. I like Ruby, but I think part of her performance here will need to be recontextualized after we learn what her whole deal is. The episode was trying to do so many things... be a fresh start to the show, introduce the whole slate of he characters and be a Christmas special which tend to be fairly middle of the road (at least to me) so to pull it all off in any form is pretty good
Very true! For a Christmas special it's definitely above average and still has a ton of great stuff going for it!
Great review I am so excited for season 14 already ncuti gatwa knock it out of the park
Thank you! And I couldn't agree more, he's wonderful!
I don't need a goblin to topple my Christmas tree. I have cats for that. Those damn cats...
Amazingly my cat has shown absolutely no interest in our christmas tree, but when I lived with my parents we had to hang all the delicate ornaments out of the reach of Critter, my sweet tuxedo cat, until she got too old to menace the tree 😂🎄
@@renrants Many years ago when we had cats one of them knocked over the tree. I was soo mad. Looking back I was pretty terrible with pets.
They just wanna play 🥺
@@renrants Peanut Hamper is the worst. Seconds after setting up my tree I could tell he was just waiting for me to turn my back so he could take it down.
What is tree for if not for cats? 🥺🤣😭
I wonder if there's a deleted scene somewhere of Ncuti Gatwa choosing his outfit like Tennant did at the end of The Christmas Invasion.
Omg I wish! I'd buy all of the specials on DVD just for that 😂
And of course...he said "mavity"!
Loving the continuity on that 😂
Judging from RTDs previous work on Dr. Who the payoff for these mysteries wont me super interesting but he could always have improves from all that time ago.
We can only hope 😅
I don’t want to get lost in the speculation of Ruby’s parents…BUT!
When you’re on a time traveling show and it’s mentioned your family isn’t in any record database, you’re from the future 🤣
Oh that's an interesting point 🤔 I was thinking another planet, but the future would make sense for some wibbly wobbly timey wimey shenanigans.
It's really unfortunate that they came up with this idea of goblins stealing a baby and taking it to the Goblin King this long after David Bowie died. Their king could have used a little Jareth-ing up.
Seriously 😭 honestly wasted opportunity to get another iconic musician in the role, this would be right up Lil Nas X's alley
Not everyone can sing. Ncuti and Millie sounded great! It's funny to call the song great fun considering the lyrics but it was great fun.
Both of the songs were entertaining 🤣 I still wish the goblin song had been a shanty, but I didn't mind Ruby and Fifteen's little improvised song.
Now that some time has passed I can be negative without ruining it. It was very daft. it had some enjoyable moments but was strange. Ncuti did a great job acting and Millie was attractive as expected. She had a good debut. I'm usually like serious science fiction as in extrapolating science into the future like the old writer guys. Fantasy Goblins are now firmly part of Ruby's origins in a science fiction universe.
To be fair though, Doctor Who has always been a bit of a sci-fantasy show more than scifi show. I didn't love it because parts of it felt very rushed, but the villains were pretty normal for Doctor Who 😂 goblins that thrive on coincidences and surf time waves is a pretty typical sounding doctor who story
@@renrantsit was the show tune aspect that really really ruined it for me
every time the master decided to do his dorky songs i felt the same way. i cringed and had to hold back my throw up
I kind of think it's fun, especially in a silly universe like Doctor Who, but I can also see how it could be grating if you're not into that sort of thing
@@renrantsthat’s fair
i mean it is a fair point it’s not like who hasn’t had an abundance of ridiculous villains haha
Very true, it's got a silly streak a mile wide! 😅
Mrs. Flood: "Never seen a TARDIS before?"
Me (quite literally): "B**** WHO ARE YOU???"
Seriously 😂😂😂😂
As a debut episode I thought it was somewhat of a weak idea with weak execution. I feel it did a really bad start as a starting point for Ncuti compared to other doctor's debut episode (we still know nothing about him), I would have loved more of him trying to figure himself out, cause so far we haven't seen anything exploring who he is other than more of a outgoing dancy doctor.The other Russel T episodes had David and Catherine to still turn clunky writing into fun experience and though these actors did a good job, they couldn't quite save the episode for me. Yet I remain optimistic.
Also i found the singing bit really cringe, could just be me ^^
I didn't mind that it didn't get too heavy, we still had some pretty emotional moments like the doctor talking about being adopted, his connection with Ruby through those coincidences, etc. The scene where he cried did break my heart a little bit. Overall it was definitely a lighthearted episode, I think it makes sense in the context of the previous three specials which had a lot of big, heavy, cathartic moments that it's hard for a brand new doctor to immediately live up to.
I think we'll get to know him more as the series goes on.
I didn't find the singing cringe exactly, but I could take it or leave it, I think the Goblin Song was a bit of a missed opportunity to lean into the pirate vibes for the goblins, it shoulda been a shanty
Christmas specials are rarely my favorite episodes of Doctor Who (with the exception of Voyage of the Damned) so this one feels pretty par for the course