NEXT STOP EVERYWHERE 316: "73 Yards" Is Up!

 
"Well, we're the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, created to investigate the extraterrestrial and, more and more, the supernatural. Things seem to be turning that way these days."
"And you worked with the Doctor?"
"With him. Despite him. Against him, sometimes. And I adore him. I can only say that now he's not here."
"Oh, no -- I won't say a word."
-- Kate Stewart and Ruby Sunday, Doctor Who: "73 Yards"

Hello again, everyone! My partner in time Jesse Jackson and I are back with a new episode of Next Stop Everywhere: The Doctor Who Podcast! This time, we discuss "73 Yards", the fourth episode of Doctor Who Series 14, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday, Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, and Siân Phillips as Enid Meadows!

In this episode, Jesse and I discuss things like the Minnesota Timberwolves ruining Jesse's team's sweep, not needing any "Doctor-lite" episodes with only 8-episode seasons, using birthday cards for the montage of years passing, the episode's folk horror vibe, the episode's main theme of abandonment, the first meeting of Ruby and Kate Stewart not counting now, Siân Phillips as Reverend Mother Gaius Mohiam in David Lynch's Dune (1984), not getting the Doctor Who theme again, the reason why Ncuti Gatwa was missing from most of this episode, the actual words Hilary Robson repeated as The Woman, the Y Pren Marw pub giving off unfriendly pub vibes from An American Werewolf in London, that awkward moment when the Doctor steps into a fairy circle, the Woman being in a 73-yard orbit around Ruby, Ruby becoming isolated from everyone who cares about her, Ruby being unable to get help from Kate Stewart and UNIT, Roger ap Gwilliam as a metaphor for Donald Trump, my getting to see Cardiff City Stadium, Ruby using The Woman as a weapon against Roger ap Gwilliam, the Woman embracing Ruby at the end of her life, Jesse's frustration for how Ruby travels back to 2024, my not being a fan of Russell T Davies abandoning scientific explanations for magic, wondering why 73 yards was chosen as the distance, Susan Twist's hiker taunting Ruby about seeing her before, our favorite quotes of the episode, my Reverse the Polarity segment, new listener feedback from Holly Mac, Christine Peruski, Dave Proctor, and Sandi from Oregon, why it's okay to get out of your comfort zone, and more!

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Be sure to come back in one week for the next episode of Next Stop Everywhere as Jesse and I discuss "Dot and Bubble", the fifth episode from Doctor Who Series 14, starring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday!