Heading up Jack Robertson's social media team?
It does feel like a loose end deliberately left dangling, although also his finale takes place separately from everyone else, so there's no-one directly around to, well, stop him.
Heading up Jack Robertson's social media team?
He's the new Adam.Oh no, is Barton the new Tim 'no-one asked for this guy to recur in the finale' Shaw?
Yeah, Tenth did it to Donna :c
He did it in Journey's End, one of the most watched episodes ever made. But like jedis, time lord powers are just made up as they go along.Didn't know the Doctor could erase memories 🤔
Rather enjoyed this 2 parter TBH.
Jodie <3 and All in all I like this new Master
The thing about the Doctor and Missy's relationship is that Twelve never knew he'd actually redeemed her. The Doctor gives his speech about being kind for kindness' sake to the Master and Missy. The Master basically tells him to fuck off; Missy then goes with him rather than stay with the Doctor. We all know that Missy told the Master it was finally time to stand with the Doctor, but for all the Doctor knows Missy just opted to stay evil. So when Missy regenerates into a Master who is once again evil, from the Doctor's pov there's been no regression.
For me, I remember in the Lodger where James Corden as Craig gets confused about what's going on and 11 just head butts him pychically and it fixes the problem. Series 11 also revealed if you fuck in the tardis your baby can become half time lord lol.
Let's not forget 13 disapproving of Aida's use of that machine gun-like thing, but then cracking hero lines as Aida switched to using hand grenades against the Master.
I doubt it. She also used similar disapproving language last season when Ryan used a gun against robots. Plus, as shown in last year's New Year's special, she has no problem endangering the lives of others to stop the villain of the week.I took that as more of a "watch out there are other people around" when she was firing the gun. They'd all left when the grenade came out.
Why were they brought back anyway? It seems like a very Moffat thing to do: 'Bringing things full circle' and 'Rocking the status quo' to ultimately characters reacting nothing differently and learning no new things.Getting rid of the Time Lords again seems super awkward to me from a narrative perspective. They've barely had a chance to be "back" to begin with, and I imagine a bunch casual viewers were like "wait, I thought they were all dead anyway." Like I just feel like there should've been at least like one other Gallifrey-centric storyline post-Hell Bent before doing this to make us give a shit.
Oh yeah, I loved her shift to full serious watching the Master's message and looking at the destruction. Looking forward to more and the why.Strong follow-up to the premiere. It got bogged down in exposition a few times but otherwise very fun. Also a nice surprise that the seasonal arc is about Gallifreyan Origin Lore... but hopefully it's not just discarded completely until the finale. I also enjoyed the serious tonal shift for Jodie that came with the Master's reveal about Gallifrey.
8.5/10
Haha. Since it had been a few days I wasn't even thinking about them until it happened so it was a good surprise after they'd come up in part 1 when they got the spy gear. :)Graham and his laser shoes have already made this season more than worth it.
That would still fit and I hope it's this.I enjoyed it. Dhawan is a bit too Simm-like, and Missy is a hard act to follow, but I still thought that was a great Master reveal. Also appreciate the throwback to the Master's creepy TCE antics.
Still not 100% sold on the new era, but I still really like Whittaker and the new companions. My main beef is Chibnall's style (cinematography and all) feels a little too dark and bland for how goofy the show is, so it just constantly feels "off." There's a Torchwood-esque moodiness that just doesn't mesh for me.
Warning: the following contains insanely nerdy and definitely wrong speculation, so please don't read it unless you want to waste a few seconds of your life.
My out-there theory for what was going on in that weird "other place": this is Chibnall's take on Looms. It's one of those weird things from the wilderness years that fans are persistently begging to be canonized, it would tie into both the Doctor and the Master's backstory, and some sort of creepy Time Lord birthing chamber existing in the wake of the Time War fits with the Master's whole "everything you know is a lie" thing.
Also, the silhouette of those new aliens vaguely remind me a bit of Fifth Doctor-era Omega:
Omega basically jumpstarted Time Lord civilization by pioneering the technology to manipulate stars as a power source for time travel, but got sucked into a black hole, lost his physical form, and ended up in an antimatter universe. Also, lost we saw him he was trying to create a tangible body for himself using the Doctor's biological data, which reminds me of what the new aliens were doing in the premiere.
So, my insane theory is basically that there's a race of fucked up antimatter Time Lords feeding off the biological data of people from various universes to fuel their Looms in order to "spawn" into our universe.
Granted, Chibnall said back in 2018 he hadn't ever read Lungbarrow because he'd never been able to find a copy, but who's to say he didn't find a copy in the meantime and come up with his own take on the concept??
(Sorry to anyone who read this.)
Which one? I apparently missed it, or I don't remember.
You can't turn away from Gallifrey for two seconds without someone attempting to or succeeding in blowing it up
was not sure on that master but the eiffel tower scene totally sold me on the dynamics of both of them
My main issue is still the charaterization of the doctor. But I think they could solve this by giving her a more personal side story. Like she falls in love or something.
That's what the timeless child might be, like one of her future daughters was kidnapped by the timelord founders and experimented on, as part of creating the time lord body. I don't know but I assume it has to be something even the master would get angry about.My main issue is still the charaterization of the doctor. But I think they could solve this by giving her a more personal side story. Like she falls in love or something.
On top of the Eiffel Tower.
Why were they brought back anyway? It seems like a very Moffat thing to do: 'Bringing things full circle' and 'Rocking the status quo' to ultimately characters reacting nothing differently and learning no new things.
Yeah, Tenth did it to Donna :c
Probably it goes back to Classic Who.
Also Coming Soon trailer:
Titles and writers for episodes 4-6:
4. Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, by Nina Metivier
5. Fugitive of the Judoon, by Vinay Patel
6. Praxeus, by Pete McTighe
On top of the Eiffel Tower.
"It's colder up here than it was at Jodrell Bank."
"Did I ever apologise for that?"
"No."
"Good."
Which I was taking to be a reference to Logopolis, but I may be mistaken.
I'm really starting to think that the Timeless Child was both the Doctor AND the Master and the Gallifreyans somehow split the original being up into two halves.
Warren Brown played Sam Biship in the UNIT Big Finish dramas....
Explain the TARDIS? I'm guessing the first TARDIS was how they arrived on Gallifrey and they just reverse engineered the tech?I'm really starting to think that the Timeless Child was both the Doctor AND the Master and the Gallifreyans somehow split the original being up into two halves.
Explain the TARDIS? I'm guessing the first TARDIS was how they arrived on Gallifrey and they just reverse engineered the tech?
Explain the TARDIS? I'm guessing the first TARDIS was how they arrived on Gallifrey and they just reverse engineered the tech?
Just caught up with both episodes. Was good I think. Although as usual with who, the finale was disappointing. First episode they're weird beings that don't scan as anything and can get into the tardis - both worrying the Doctor. Then at the end she just programmed this thing to send them all back to their dimension. Oh ok.
I wasn't paying close attention but I think she hijacked Barton's tech.
That'd be yet another half-human-level nonsense to be ignored very quickly in the ever changing canon of the show.I'm really starting to think that the Timeless Child was both the Doctor AND the Master and the Gallifreyans somehow split the original being up into two halves.