Well, I don't know about any of you, but I thought last week's Heaven Sent was one of the strangest, and at the same time, most fascinating things I have seen in Doctor Who in quite some time indeed. A masterclass from Capaldi...and what a payoff... How on Earth are they going to top that? Well, let's find out this week in the hotly anticipated
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Gonna get back offline and read as much of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy as I can, that's how ( ... )
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I'll confess to having a bit of a "moment" when Clara said she was going the long way around as well. It must have been dusty in here or something.
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My reaction was because the Doctor was obviously so damaged from Heaven Sent, and so willing to go out of control (despite having said he wanted to FIX his mistakes), that his having to lose the memories of what Clara had meant to him was probably the only way to resolve that. It felt right that they risked the mindwipe together, with Clara having agency, and that it got the Doctor, after the vile crap of the Tenth Doctor mind-raping Donna's memories (which is one reason #10 is unredeemable to me). But if he remembers her influence, does that mean he still remembers going through eons of torture in Time Lord prison for some vague someoneI'm hoping (beyond hope, because modern DW is cruel to the Doctor) that the Twelfth Doctor might be less haunted. Capaldi has said he'll be different in S10 after all that, but in what way? Because he seemed puzzled by the memory gap, but maybe... lighter? A little freer? (Actually willing to talk companionably with someone who, to him, ( ... )
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Well, after not crying at the end of Face the Raven, I bawled at that one. Well done, Moffat.
Seriously, though, how much did I love the Time Lords pissing themselves over a Matrix prophecy about a terrible hybrid that would sit in the burning ruins of Gallifrey after seeing a billion hearts dead, to heal its own... only to find that it was the Doctor and Me, having a quiet chat at the end of the universe, debating which one of them it had actually been. I found that to be a hauntingly beautiful payoff.
Also, bonus points for the "Restaurant at the End of the Universe."
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I loved that as a resolution. How typical of the Time Lords to freak out about a prophecy that turned out to predict that quiet chat.
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Much as I love Ken Bones, I totally want more of T'Nia Miller's General. Oh yeah baby!! In fact, can she play the next companion?? (Hey, they did it with Freema!)
In short, though - mind blown!
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I noticed they referred to the Doctor as Lord President at one point, and now I'm trying to remember when he first became Lord President. I want to say it was way back in "Deadly Assassin." Has he really been Lord President ever since then? I'm kind of remembering something in "Invasion of Time" about how there could be no other legal president after the Doctor pulled that delaying tactic of declaring himself a presidential candidate in "Deadly Assassin."
I kind of like how it was such a random, throwaway line, though. In fact, I'm not even 100% sure I caught it correctly, but it is the kind of thing Moffat would do.
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(And I did love Donald Sumpter as Rassilon's most recent incarnation.)
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