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  • [ARTICLE] Ruby's backstory inspired by Star Wars

    From Your Name@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jul 23 09:59:32 2024


    Spoilers space, I guess, if you haven't watched all the current Doctor
    Who episodes or Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, not that this says much.

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    Ruby Sunday's Backstory In Doctor Who Was Inspired By... Star Wars
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    Showrunner, Russell T Davies, has explained the inspiration for
    Ruby Sunday's parentage in Doctor Who.

    Ruby's mother was the source of much debate during Series 14,
    but Empire of Death, the season finale, revealed that her mum is
    Louise Miller, who was 15 years old when she fell pregnant.
    Davies said Miller was "from a dangerous home, abusive home, and
    left her child on the doorstep", and went on:

    "This is kind of my reaction to - bear with me now - the
    Star Wars films. I can't remember their titles, but in
    the last trilogy, the second film [The Last Jedi] said
    that Daisy Ridley was nothing special, there was nothing
    special about her parentage. That she just got the Force.
    She was just ordinary.

    "An ordinary person with the Force - and then [in The Rise
    of Skywalker], they changed it all so that she was the
    child of the Emperor... She was, like, cosmic and had
    godlike powers. And I really loved the version where she
    wasn't special. When she's ordinary."

    As with The Last Jedi, however, Ruby's parentage wasn't typically
    met with a positive reaction; arguably, that's because the mystery
    didn't make too much sense - nothing wrong with her just being
    "ordinary", but audience's are bound to feel deflated when you
    build up such an enigma then give an unsatisfying answer, one that
    also flies in the face of some of the previous clues.

    So yep, this wasn't the big hit that Davies had hoped for. Then
    again, we don't know who Ruby's father is, so maybe if that is ever
    unpicked, more will be explained. We doubt it though.


    <https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024/07/23/ruby-sundays-backstory-in-doctor-who-was-inspired-by-star-wars/>





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