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What was the point of the 73 Yards episode? ›

So no, you will never know what the woman is saying throughout '73 Yards' or why it makes people run away from Ruby - and that's a good thing. The episode's primary concern is in putting you in Ruby's shoes and making you feel as she does: confused, annoyed, upset, afraid, and alone.

A Metaphor for Ruby's Worst Fears

Foundlings have a fear of being abandoned again and unloved, that they would be alone forever and not know why. That fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for Ruby because she can't be with anyone because she knows the Ghostly Old Woman is always standing there, 73 yards away.

"73 Yards" was written by Russell T Davies, who described the episode as being "Welsh folk horror" and the antagonist to be the "strangest villain you'll ever see." He further explained that the episode showed Ruby living "a life of penitence", required to do "something good" to earn forgiveness for the Doctor's ...

The mysterious woman was Ruby all along. Events on the cliff top play out more or less as they did before, only this time Ruby spots the woman and hears her whispered warning: "Don't step." She tells the Doctor not to enter the fairy circle, and the Doctor-free timeline is instantaneously averted.

She wS telling them they had left the gas on,so they ran away at great speed to turn ot off. They were sure they turned it off before leaving that morning but old Ruby told them Young Ruby had switched it on again. Hence their animosity towards young Ruby.

Ruby instinctively knows that this distance is equivalent to 73 yards, which is the exact distance the mystery woman always kept from her. This strongly suggests there was a link between the old woman and the TARDIS, which meant she could not come within that range of Ruby.

What is the significance of 73 yards? While there has been no significance that has been attributed to this number which is 73 yards, the women stayed away this much or this much distance away. Who was the woman following Ruby and what did she do to make people run away in terror?

In the real world, the Doctor had to be absent from “73 Yards” because Ncuti Gatwa had a schedule clash. His commitment to film the final series of Netflix high school comedy-drama Sex Education fell at the same time as the first block of Doctor Who series 14 filming in December 2022 to January 2023.

They were deliberately never recorded. She wasn't just gesturing wildly or signing some kind of magical spell or signal. She was just talking. That is the mystery of why people find her terrifying.

So in doctor who unleashed, Hillary Hobson who plays the woman says that she had a little script to follow, which she had to repeat over and over again, but what if this sentence does have an actual meaning? Because they wouldn't need to give her a script since we don't see her face or ever hear what she's saying.

Who was the longest serving actor to play the Doctor? ›

Fourth Doctor: 1974-1981

Baker is the longest-running Doctor Who actor, playing the beloved character for seven years. Tall, curly-haired, wide-eyed and sporting a brightly-coloured scarf, Baker's Doctor was whimsical and intellectual, and remains an icon of the show.

In the episode Hell Bent the Doctor shot a character known as the General to create a distraction so that he and Clara could escape. The General did regenerate, but it is implied that the Doctor would have killed him if he had to, because he was angry and wanted to bring Clara back to life through Time Travel.

River, who is a professor of archaeology and carries a TARDIS-colour/pattern diary of her adventures, is able to convince the Doctor of his future trust in her by whispering his real name into his ear, which he explains he would only divulge under rare circ*mstances.

We've seen a lot of shocking things in Doctor Who, but that question, delivered directly at the camera, ranks among the most surprising. It comes at the end of this year's Christmas special, “The Church on Ruby Road,” from Mrs. Flood (Anita Dobson), the elderly neighbor of new companion Ruby Sunday.

A catchphrase devised during the Third Doctor's era was "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow".

Gone, leaving companion Ruby to work out her next moves alone. In the story, the Doctor's absence from “73 Yards” is explained by magic. He accidentally steps on and breaks a fairy circle (after Ruby's butterfly in the series opener, those two really need to start trading more carefully).

We now know that 73 yards is the range of the TARDIS perception filter, and we know that that Welsh dude required mandatory DNA testing which is how Ruby found her mother. We still don't know what he woman was saying, or why Ruby was evidently destined to stop Welsh Guy in one timeline.