Post by matsee on Oct 9, 2024 14:06:24 GMT
44.7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday:
Part 1 of the finale of the first Gatwa season.
Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies.
Directed by Jamie Donoghue. Although this is the first time he has directed on the main show he has however previously directed the mini-episode Destination Skaro also written by Davies.
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Ruby to UNIT where they see Rose Noble working there.
A brief mention of Rose's uncle and that is the Fourteenth Doctor.
Also working at UNIT but people neither the Doctor nor Ruby had met before they are Harriet who is Head of the Archive and Morris Gibbons, UNIT's scientific advisor and he is 13 years old.
Morris presumably had replaced Shirley Anne Bingham who had previously appeared in The Star Beast & The Giggle.
However The Giggle is not the last we see of her as she is in the upcoming spin-off The War Between The Land and the Sea and I came across a comment that she would be in the next season of Doctor Who.
Morris is played by Lenny Rush and his casting was announced back in June 2023 and this is one sentence that came from that announcement:
"Now Lenny is about to join the team travelling time and space as he takes on his new role as Morris."
This gave the impression to me that he had become a companion travelling with 15 and Ruby. However that doesn't seem to be the case with this being the penultimate episode of the season.
The Doctor and Ruby came to UNIT because of the woman (played by Susan Twist) they keep seeing in their travels.
The Doctor showed pictures of this woman including ones we the viewer haven't seen before and among these pictures is one that has her looking suspiciously like the Borg from Star Trek!
UNIT has seen this woman and they showed her on screen and it is revealed that her name is Susan Triad.
Kate explains that Susan Triad is a IT genius who has founded her company called S Triad Technology.
Everyone present at UNIT including the Doctor has or had deduced that S Triad is an anagram of TARDIS.
Not only that but Susan is the name of the Doctor's granddaughter making the Doctor think that Susan Triad is Susan, his granddaughter.
On the subject of past companions, which Susan is one, comes the revelation that Mel had been working undercover for UNIT at S Triad Technology.
In a conversation, Triad asked Mel to called her Sue and on reflection this is a key clue to what is going on here.
Susan Triad is not the only mystery woman the Doctor came to ask UNIT to investigate as there is also Ruby's birth mother.
Ruby has the VHS tape of grainy CCTV footage of when Ruby's birth mother left Ruby on Ruby Road in 2004 back at home as they is hope that UNIT technology can sharpen the image from that night.
Not only did Ruby got the VHS to take to UNIT but also her adoptive mother Carla as well.
With Ruby and Carla going to UNIT, Carla asked Mrs Flood to look after Carla's own mother Cherry.
With Cherry and Mrs Flood now alone together, Mrs Flood makes a mysterious comment with Mrs Flood warning Cherry about a storm coming and He waits no one with the viewer not knowing at this stage who this he is.
At UNIT, the use of the VHS combined with a device called the Time Window sees that night in 2004 being recreated.
Creepy goings on as they investigate that night including Ruby's birth mother, even though this is from the VHS, pointing at the Doctor and a mysterious swirling vortex coming up.
They are no closer to finding out this woman's identity.
This leads the Doctor to ask Mel to take him to see Susan Triad.
The Doctor manage to have a brief time talking to Triad and Triad revealed that she has strange dreams, dreams that reflects the Doctor and Ruby seeing her in their travels.
Just as the cliffhanger is approaching, Kate mentioned that one of the UNIT soldiers with the surname Sullivan. Any relation to Harry?
Quite thrilling the major reveal at the end with Harriet suddenly talking strangely and the Doctor asking Kate via radio what is Harriet's surname and it is Arbinger and the first letter of Harriet's name and Arbinger together spells Harbinger!
Soon comes the major revelation and it is with the name of S Triad Technology.
Triad had earlier asked Mel to called her Sue and I figured it out just beforehand that combining Sue with Tech from Technology it is pronounced Sutekh as in the villain from Pyramids of Mars with Gabriel Woolf reprising the character that he had first played in that earlier story.
The cliffhanger has Triad now possessed and about to kill the Doctor and the way the cliffhanger was delivered was certainly thrilling.
Part 1 of the finale of the first Gatwa season.
Written by showrunner Russell T. Davies.
Directed by Jamie Donoghue. Although this is the first time he has directed on the main show he has however previously directed the mini-episode Destination Skaro also written by Davies.
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Ruby to UNIT where they see Rose Noble working there.
A brief mention of Rose's uncle and that is the Fourteenth Doctor.
Also working at UNIT but people neither the Doctor nor Ruby had met before they are Harriet who is Head of the Archive and Morris Gibbons, UNIT's scientific advisor and he is 13 years old.
Morris presumably had replaced Shirley Anne Bingham who had previously appeared in The Star Beast & The Giggle.
However The Giggle is not the last we see of her as she is in the upcoming spin-off The War Between The Land and the Sea and I came across a comment that she would be in the next season of Doctor Who.
Morris is played by Lenny Rush and his casting was announced back in June 2023 and this is one sentence that came from that announcement:
"Now Lenny is about to join the team travelling time and space as he takes on his new role as Morris."
This gave the impression to me that he had become a companion travelling with 15 and Ruby. However that doesn't seem to be the case with this being the penultimate episode of the season.
The Doctor and Ruby came to UNIT because of the woman (played by Susan Twist) they keep seeing in their travels.
The Doctor showed pictures of this woman including ones we the viewer haven't seen before and among these pictures is one that has her looking suspiciously like the Borg from Star Trek!
UNIT has seen this woman and they showed her on screen and it is revealed that her name is Susan Triad.
Kate explains that Susan Triad is a IT genius who has founded her company called S Triad Technology.
Everyone present at UNIT including the Doctor has or had deduced that S Triad is an anagram of TARDIS.
Not only that but Susan is the name of the Doctor's granddaughter making the Doctor think that Susan Triad is Susan, his granddaughter.
On the subject of past companions, which Susan is one, comes the revelation that Mel had been working undercover for UNIT at S Triad Technology.
In a conversation, Triad asked Mel to called her Sue and on reflection this is a key clue to what is going on here.
Susan Triad is not the only mystery woman the Doctor came to ask UNIT to investigate as there is also Ruby's birth mother.
Ruby has the VHS tape of grainy CCTV footage of when Ruby's birth mother left Ruby on Ruby Road in 2004 back at home as they is hope that UNIT technology can sharpen the image from that night.
Not only did Ruby got the VHS to take to UNIT but also her adoptive mother Carla as well.
With Ruby and Carla going to UNIT, Carla asked Mrs Flood to look after Carla's own mother Cherry.
With Cherry and Mrs Flood now alone together, Mrs Flood makes a mysterious comment with Mrs Flood warning Cherry about a storm coming and He waits no one with the viewer not knowing at this stage who this he is.
At UNIT, the use of the VHS combined with a device called the Time Window sees that night in 2004 being recreated.
Creepy goings on as they investigate that night including Ruby's birth mother, even though this is from the VHS, pointing at the Doctor and a mysterious swirling vortex coming up.
They are no closer to finding out this woman's identity.
This leads the Doctor to ask Mel to take him to see Susan Triad.
The Doctor manage to have a brief time talking to Triad and Triad revealed that she has strange dreams, dreams that reflects the Doctor and Ruby seeing her in their travels.
Just as the cliffhanger is approaching, Kate mentioned that one of the UNIT soldiers with the surname Sullivan. Any relation to Harry?
Quite thrilling the major reveal at the end with Harriet suddenly talking strangely and the Doctor asking Kate via radio what is Harriet's surname and it is Arbinger and the first letter of Harriet's name and Arbinger together spells Harbinger!
Soon comes the major revelation and it is with the name of S Triad Technology.
Triad had earlier asked Mel to called her Sue and I figured it out just beforehand that combining Sue with Tech from Technology it is pronounced Sutekh as in the villain from Pyramids of Mars with Gabriel Woolf reprising the character that he had first played in that earlier story.
The cliffhanger has Triad now possessed and about to kill the Doctor and the way the cliffhanger was delivered was certainly thrilling.