Doctor Who series 14 (2024)
Aug 28 2024
Doctor Who gets a new regeneration (though the 14th Doctor once again played by David Tennant is still around somewhere). Doctor #15 is playd by Ncuti Gatwa who brings a whole lot of energy and life to the role. Modern day Londoner Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) joins the Doctor this season which ran 8 episodes plus the Christmas-time prequel that introduced Ruby.
14.0 (Prequel) The Church on Ruby Road. Airship goblins steal a baby because even goblins need to eat.
14.1 Space Babies. A space station where ultra-smart babies operate it and hide from the Boogey Monster.
14.2 The Devil's Chord. A 1963 after music was killed in the mid 1920's.
14.3 Boom. The Doctor steps on a futuristic land mine and needs Ruby's help to disarm it.
14.4 73 Yards. In this Doctor-light episode he disappears and Ruby is stalked by a mysterious woman who always keeps 73 yards away from her. This is a really creepy episode and reminds me of when the Weeping Angels first appeared. The ending though leaves the question of what the woman was saying to anyone who talked to her.
14.5 Dot and Bubble. In a world where everyone lives in a VR bubble that even tells them where to walk, people are disappearing because there are monsters outside which the VR system apparently does not detect.
14.6 Rogue. Georgian era England. A posh party is infested with cos-playing aliens who use human bodies as their costumes.
14.7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday. The Doctor enlists Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and UNIT's help to find out who Ruby's mother really is but instead unleashes a great evil (from the Tom Baker era) on the Universe.
14.8 Empire of Death. With everyone in the Universe dying it's up to the Doctor, Ruby, and Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford) to save life itself.
I love this Doctor. I love the episode 73 Yards. Everything else is fairly good if you accept the bonkers that is current Doctor Who (it's a show that is mostly internally consistent with itself but not with reality, even sci-fi reality).
14.0 (Prequel) The Church on Ruby Road. Airship goblins steal a baby because even goblins need to eat.
14.1 Space Babies. A space station where ultra-smart babies operate it and hide from the Boogey Monster.
14.2 The Devil's Chord. A 1963 after music was killed in the mid 1920's.
14.3 Boom. The Doctor steps on a futuristic land mine and needs Ruby's help to disarm it.
14.4 73 Yards. In this Doctor-light episode he disappears and Ruby is stalked by a mysterious woman who always keeps 73 yards away from her. This is a really creepy episode and reminds me of when the Weeping Angels first appeared. The ending though leaves the question of what the woman was saying to anyone who talked to her.
14.5 Dot and Bubble. In a world where everyone lives in a VR bubble that even tells them where to walk, people are disappearing because there are monsters outside which the VR system apparently does not detect.
14.6 Rogue. Georgian era England. A posh party is infested with cos-playing aliens who use human bodies as their costumes.
14.7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday. The Doctor enlists Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and UNIT's help to find out who Ruby's mother really is but instead unleashes a great evil (from the Tom Baker era) on the Universe.
14.8 Empire of Death. With everyone in the Universe dying it's up to the Doctor, Ruby, and Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford) to save life itself.
I love this Doctor. I love the episode 73 Yards. Everything else is fairly good if you accept the bonkers that is current Doctor Who (it's a show that is mostly internally consistent with itself but not with reality, even sci-fi reality).