Doctor Who showrunner is never going to reveal the answer to *that* 73 Yards mystery
May. 28, 2024Silence.
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Doctor Who’s latest horror-tinged classic,73 Yards, featured mysteries upon mysteries.
Of course, the Doctor’s disappearance after breaking a fairy circle was the episode’s original chief concern, but things soon turned altogether more sinister after a woman followed Ruby (Millie Gibson) and turned everyone she encountered against the companion with just a few words.
Now, showrunner Russell T Davies has addressed the cryptic message – by saying he has no intention at all of ever revealing what is said.
“You will never know. I’m never gonna tell you what she says. It’s kind of up to you to sit there and think, ‘Well, what could someone say that would make a mother run away from her daughter forever?'” Davies said on Doctor Who: Unleashed (H/TRadio Times) on the moments that also featured Ruby being abandoned by her mother Carla (Michelle Greenidge).
“You could look at yourself and think, ‘What would make me do that?’ And once you start to do that, you enter the real horror story. The dreadful things that are being said there, terrible things.”
Doctor Who, meanwhile, is heading from a time-loop in Wales to the big screen. This season’s finale, titled Empire of Death, isset to screen in cinemason June 21 alongside the previous week’s episode, The Legend of Ruby Sunday.
Beyond that, Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor is returning for a second season, with a Christmas special starring Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan and penned by Steven Moffat also on the way.
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