Space Babies 👶 Discussion & Review Podcast | Doctor Who: Season 1

How is this era being differentiated from those prior? How is music telling the story? What’s new about this Doctor’s characterisation? What’s familiar, and what’s novel, about this new Disney Who?

Neo, Ingiga, and Missy discuss Space Babies, the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday’s first space adventure in the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who.

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More at https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2024...

TIMECODES:

00:00:00 General impressions
00:03:45 Self-conscious overexplaining
00:08:13 Clever rejigging of the Timeless Child
00:10:49 Lack of breathing room
00:15:39 Doctor not needing a purpose
00:18:06 Empty exposition
00:20:46 The bizarre ending & Moff callbacks
00:24:10 Snow attack
00:26:07 Time to talk about the babies
00:27:36 Baby lips vs. Rose's carnivorous bin
00:31:02 NSA-quality idea
00:34:55 Flashbacks within the same episode
00:42:41 Secretly Kill The Moon?
00:45:26 The "Disney scene" at the start
00:50:28 The Ruby Road ending recap
00:51:50 Millie elevating the material
00:56:32 Ncuti's handling of bad lines
01:03:11 Jocelyn/NAN-E and her filter
01:06:38 RTD comments on season airing & structure
01:17:09 RTD Space Babies + adoption comments
01:22:56 Music from Space Babies (chromatic descent)
01:25:31 Entering TARDIS (opening music, drums)
01:28:14 Wondrous music + chromatic descent
01:31:51 This is Gallifrey + Fifteen's theme
01:35:18 Silly TARDIS music + Ruby's theme
01:38:41 Fifteen's theme variation (TARDIS vworping)
01:39:51 Baby unveiling music + other composers
01:43:57 They Took The Baby
01:47:37 Action music (monster dying)
01:50:51 A Good Man (saving monster)

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SOURCES:

To see the unabridged source list, go to https://whocaresdw.wordpress.com/2024...

1.
00:17:35
RTD on Doctor characterisation
Davies, Russell T. “Russell T Davies on returning to Doctor Who, queer representation and 'maddest' episodes yet.” Interview with Adrian Lobb. Big Issue, 22 Nov. 2023, https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/r...

2.
00:26:37
Unleashed (section with the baby lip syncer shows it's kids delivering the lines)
“Doctor Who Unleashed: The Church on Ruby Road.” Doctor Who Unleashed, BBC iPlayer, 11 May 2024, ~4m-9m, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001...

3.
00:26:53
Unleashed Lenny Rush segment
“Doctor Who Unleashed: The Church on Ruby Road.” Doctor Who Unleashed, BBC iPlayer, 11 May 2024, ~16m, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001...

4.
00:35:28
David Simon, The Wire, flashback in pilot
Simon, David. “Exclusive David Simon Q&A.” Borderline Productions, 16 Aug. 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/201001232...

5.
00:38:04
Safdie Curse Q&A
Safdie, Benny. “Benny Safdie on The Curse | Episode 10.” YouTube, uploaded by Film at Lincoln Center, 23 Jan. 2024, ~3m,    • Benny Safdie on The Curse | Episode 10  

6.
00:46:21
Disney note for a more exciting opening
Davies, Russell T, Phil Collinson, Julie Gardner, and Jane Tranter. “From Cardiff With Love.” Interview with Benjamin Cook. Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 586, 19 Aug. 2021, p. 32.

“Behind the Scenes | Space Babies | Doctor Who.” YouTube, uploaded by Doctor Who, 12 May 2024, ~36s,    • Behind the Scenes | Space Babies | Doctor Who  

7.
01:06:38
Davies, Russell T. “Letter From the Showrunner.” Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 600, 1 Feb. 2024, p. 8.

8.
01:08:52
01:14:10
Davies, Russell T. “[Letter From the Showrunner].” Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 603, 25 April 2024, pp. 4-5.

9.
01:15:03
Noakes, Keith. “Doctor Who (1×04) 73 Yards Review.” Keith Loves Movies, 21 May 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/202405220...

10.
01:17:09
01:19:19
01:21:17
“Preview: Space Babies.” Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 603, 25 April 2024, pp. 14-15.

11.
01:50:25
Davies, Russell T. “[Letter From The Showrunner].” Doctor Who Magazine, vol. 602, 28 March 2024, p. 4.