History NightmareFuel / DoctorWhoSeries14

** Roger ap Gwilliam / Mad Jack is clearly ''eager'' to use Nuclear Weapons, seemingly for the sake of using them.

---> ''[[WordSaladHorror Bless you. Thank you so much, that's so kind of you. When you gave me that little thing, it was just so precious. How am I ever going to repay you? But we will think of something.]]''

** Mad Jack is clearly ''eager'' to use Nuclear Weapons, seemingly for the sake of using them.

** Roger ap Gwilliam asks Ruby about the other girl holding the coats. When Ruby tells him the girl's name, we see him going over to introduce himself. We next see her while everyone else is celebrating Gwilliam winning the election. She looks utterly crushed and traumatised, and murmurs to Ruby that Gwilliam is a monster. [[NothingIsScarier It is never confirmed what happened to her]], but [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil we can probably guess]].
** As revealed by ''[[WordOfSaintPaul Doctor Who Unleashed]]'' The Woman is [[BilingualBonus signing on a loop in BSL.]] The translation clarifies nothing.
---> ''[[WordSaladHorror Bless you. Thank you so much, that's so kind of you. When you gave me that little thing, it was just so precious. How am I ever going to repay you? But we will think of something.]]''

--> ''[[WordSaladHorror Bless you. Thank you so much, that's so kind of you. When you gave me that little thing, it was just so precious. How am I ever going to repay you? But we will think of something.]]''

* As revealed by ''[[WordOfSaintPaul Doctor Who Unleashed]]'' The Woman is [[BilingualBonus signing on a loop in British Sign Language.]] The translation clarifies nothing.

** The DissonantSerenity of TheReveal -- After the woman [[JumpScare pops into Ruby's hospital room from nowhere,]] coming closer and closer like a Weeping Angel, the scene flashes back through the episode until it lands on a POV shot of Old Ruby's hands underneath the tree. It pans down... and there's the TARDIS, with the Doctor, and Ruby's younger self. All the while, Old Ruby delivers a rambling monologue -- implied to be some of the unheard dialogue that she delivers throughout the episode -- as [[SoundtrackDissonance a soft electric guitar plays in the background]]. Though the episode ends somewhat happily, the feeling of relief is undercut by the fact that [[MindScrew we have no earthly clue what's happening,]] [[FridgeHorror or it could potentially happen to someone else.]]

** The DissonantSerenity of TheReveal -- After the woman [[JumpScare pops into Ruby's hospital room from nowhere,]] coming closer and closer like a Weeping Angel, the scene flashes back through the episode until it lands on a POV shot of Old Ruby's hands underneath the tree. It pans down... and there's the TARDIS, with the Doctor, and Ruby's younger self. All the while, Old Ruby delivers a rambling monologue -- implied to be some of the unheard dialogue that she delivers throughout the episode -- as [[SoundtrackDissonance a soft electric guitar plays in the background]]. Though the episode ends somewhat happily, the feeling of relief is undercut by the fact that [[MindScrew we have no earthly clue what's happening.]]

** '''''The entire episode.''''' It might as well be the companion equivalent of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]"!

** '''''The entire episode.''''' If "The Devil's Chord" felt like something out of a dark urban fantasy, then this one felt like a damn ''[[Website/SCPFoundation SCP article]]''. After seemingly landing on an unremarkable cliffside in Wales, the Doctor and Ruby accidentally damage a fairy circle... and within seconds, the Doctor is simply ''gone'', the TARDIS is locked from the inside, and Ruby is being followed around by a mysterious woman who keeps gesturing to her and [[OffscreenTeleportation always appears exactly]] [[TitleDrop 73 yards]] [[OffscreenTeleportation away from her]]. Any time someone tries to talk to the woman, or even pays attention to her in her vicinity, they ''immediately'' run away screaming and refuse any contact with Ruby ever again, including specially trained and equipped UNIT personnel. ''This continues for Ruby's '''entire life''', until she dies of old age 65 years later.'' And the worst part? We have '''absolutely no idea''' what was actually happening here; even though the ending seems to reveal that the figure was some kind of representation of Ruby's future self, it fails to explain the people's reactions, why the loop already contained the nickname "Mad Jack" twenty years before the politician with that name rose to power, or ''this'' little tidbit from Ruby's adoptive mom seconds before she cuts Ruby out of her life forever:

** '''''The entire episode.''''' If "The Devil's Chord" felt like something out of a dark urban fantasy, then this one felt like a damn ''[[Website/SCPFoundation SCP article]]''. After seemingly landing on an unremarkable cliffside in Wales, the Doctor and Ruby accidentally damage a fairy circle... and within seconds, the Doctor is simply ''gone'', the TARDIS is locked from the inside, and Ruby is being followed around by a mysterious woman who keeps gesturing to her and [[OffscreenTeleportation always appears exactly]] [[TitleDrop 73 yards]] [[OffscreenTeleportation away from her]]. Any time someone tries to talk to the woman, or even pays attention to her in her vicinity, they ''immediately'' run away screaming and refuse any contact with Ruby ever again. ''This continues for Ruby's '''entire life''', until she dies of old age 65 years later.'' And the worst part? We have '''absolutely no idea''' what was actually happening here; even though the ending seems to reveal that the figure was some kind of representation of Ruby's future self, it fails to explain the people's reactions, why the loop already contained the nickname "Mad Jack" twenty years before the politician with that name rose to power, or ''this'' little tidbit from Ruby's adoptive mom seconds before she cuts Ruby out of her life forever:

** '''''The entire episode.''''' If "The Devil's Chord" felt like something out of a dark urban fantasy, then this one felt like a da Afmn ''[[Website/SCPFoundation SCP article]]''. After seemingly landing on an unremarkable cliffside in Wales, the Doctor and Ruby accidentally damage a fairy circle... and within seconds, the Doctor is simply ''gone'', the TARDIS is locked from the inside, and Ruby is being followed around by a mysterious woman who keeps gesturing to her and [[OffscreenTeleportation always appears exactly]] [[TitleDrop 73 yards]] [[OffscreenTeleportation away from her]]. Any time someone tries to talk to the woman, or even pays attention to her in her vicinity, they ''immediately'' run away screaming and refuse any contact with Ruby ever again. ''This continues for Ruby's '''entire life''', until she dies of old age 65 years later.'' And the worst part? We have '''absolutely no idea''' what was actually happening here; even though the ending seems to reveal that the figure was some kind of representation of Ruby's future self, it fails to explain the people's reactions, why the loop already contained the nickname "Mad Jack" twenty years before the politician with that name rose to power, or ''this'' little tidbit from Ruby's adoptive mom seconds before she cuts Ruby out of her life forever:

** The Villengard Weapon Factories. They started off as the subject of a [[NoodleIncident ascended Noodle Incident]] in "The Doctor Dances", then returned as a [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nod]] in "Twice Upon A Time", but here we get a look at how cold, robotic, and utterly ''ruthless'' the company is in making a profit off of war. As mentioned above, the company's products include smart mines that contain no explosive, because they detonate the victim's DNA, and guns that can't be used against other Villengard products (unless, presumably, both sides of the conflict use Villengard weapons. No profit if the weapons don't work then). And just because the company also manufactures combat ambulances as well, don't think that makes them good. If the ambulances deem your recovery time will take too long, they will kill you and super-compress your body for efficient disposal. And they also can withhold treatment if you don't fit a certain criteria (in the Church's case, belief). Frankly, Jack and River's sonic blasters might be the ''nicest'' things these factories produced, and that's only because we've never seen them used on an enemy before (other than two Daleks "Revolution of the Daleks"). In-universe, this company ''earned'' its nickname of "Nightmare of the Seven Galaxies."

** The Villengard Weapon Factories. They started off as the subject of a [[NoodleIncident ascended Noodle Incident]] in "The Doctor Dances", then returned as a [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nod]] in "Twice Upon A Time", but here we get a look at how cold, robotic, and utterly ''ruthless'' the company is in making a profit off of war. As mentioned above, the company's products include smart mines that contain no explosive, because they detonate the victim's DNA, and guns that can't be used against other Villengard products (unless, presumably, both sides of the conflict use Villengard weapons. No profit if the weapons don't work then). And just because the company also manufactures combat ambulances as well, don't think that makes them good. If the ambulances deem your recovery time will take too long, they will kill you and super-compress your body for efficient disposal. And they also can withhold treatment if you don't fit a certain criteria (in the Church's case, belief). Frankly, Jack and River's sonic blasters might be the ''nicest'' things these factories produced, and that's only because we've never seen them used on an enemy before. In-universe, this company ''earned'' its nickname of "Nightmare of the Seven Galaxies."

** The Villengard Weapon Factories. They started off as the subject of a [[NoodleIncident ascended Noodle Incident]] in "The Empty Child", then returned as a [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nod]] in "Twice Upon A Time", but here we get a look at how cold, robotic, and utterly ''ruthless'' the company is in making a profit off of war. As mentioned above, the company's products include smart mines that contain no explosive, because they detonate the victim's DNA, and guns that can't be used against other Villengard products (unless, presumably, both sides of the conflict use Villengard weapons. No profit if the weapons don't work then). And just because the company also manufactures combat ambulances as well, don't think that makes them good. If the ambulances deem your recovery time will take too long, they will kill you and super-compress your body for efficient disposal. And they also can withhold treatment if you don't fit a certain criteria (in the Church's case, belief). Frankly, Jack and River's sonic blasters might be the ''nicest'' things these factories produced, and that's only because we've never seen them used on an enemy before. In-universe, this company ''earned'' its nickname of "Nightmare of the Seven Galaxies."

** The Villengard Weapon Factories. They started off as the subject of a [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incident]] in "The Empty Child", then returned as a [[ContinuityNod Continuity Nod]] in "Twice Upon A Time", but here we get a look at how cold, robotic, and utterly ''ruthless'' the company is in making a profit off of war. As mentioned above, the company's products include smart mines that contain no explosive, because they detonate the victim's DNA, and guns that can't be used against other Villengard products (unless, presumably, both sides of the conflict use Villengard weapons. No profit if the weapons don't work then). And just because the company also manufactures combat ambulances as well, don't think that makes them good. If the ambulances deem your recovery time will take too long, they will kill you and super-compress your body for efficient disposal. And they also can withhold treatment if you don't fit a certain criteria (in the Church's case, belief). Frankly, Jack and River's sonic blasters might be the ''nicest'' things these factories produced, and that's only because we've never seen them used on an enemy before.

** The predicament that the Doctor finds himself in throughout this episode. The episode starts with him in a situation that seems all too familiar- the TARDIS lands, he hears someone screaming, and he rushes to help- but as he's on his way, he suddenly hears an unusual noise... and realizes that ''he's standing on a landmine''. He finds himself forced to stand in place, one leg in the air, for fear that the slightest movement, the slightest change in his blood pressure, the slightest ''emotional shift'' might set off the explosive. And it turns out, it's not just any regular land mine; no, it uses some kind of quantum charge to ''detonate the DNA'' of the person who stepped on it... which, given that the Doctor is a Time Lord, means that this explosion would be big enough to rip apart '''the entire planet'''.

** Again Ruby's presence, this time her near death, somehow summons the snow of the night she was born.

** Maestro is no different from their father in their method of driving the world mad, but they do it by removing music as an outlet for humanity's frustrations, resulting in a BadFuture from a HopelessWar that reduced Earth into a nuclear wasteland. And they don't plan on stopping at Earth, either; feeding on humanity's music is just them gaining enough strength to steal the "music of the spheres", which will result in the entire universe screeching to a halt and being left just as dead and empty as the Earth of this alternate timeline.
*** Maestro describing [[TheEndofTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the sound of a nuclear winter]] as "the purest Music of all". Really helps paint them as [[BlueAndOrangeMorality warped as The Toymaker]].

*** And oh no, it gets worse! They're also capable of TimeTravel. Which means they can - and '''do''' - go back in time to feast on someone while they're still an infant. [[FridgeHorror And that just becomes more terrifying the longer you think of it.]]

** Whatever is going on with Ruby's past only gets stranger and more disturbing here. Not only are the strange circumstances surrounding her implied to be tied to the One Who Waits, but when Maestro attempts to feed on the music inside her, we're met with the same eerie rendition of "Carol of the Bells" that played on the night she was abandoned, with even ''Maestro'' being alarmed at [[HorrifyingTheHorror how the song can have so much power]].