Cybermen Heading Home After Filming "The Moonbase" At Ealing Studios, January 1967
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Doctor Who: World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls
I rewatched this serial on 25 September 2023.
We begin with the TARDIS arriving in a snowstorm. The Doctor’s regenerating and not wanting to. We crash into the opening credits and reverse a bit. Time travel, eh. There’s a lot of stuff about temporal differences, used to a good effect.
We really begin on a giant spaceship. The Doctor, Nardole and Bill, plus Missy, are responding to a distress call. There’s a ginormous black hole that the ship is trying to escape from.
Heh. I love Missy, and she works well with Bill as they discuss the Doctor’s real name.
Then a man in blue arrives and in a panic hunts for the human. It’s Bill. The man in blue shoots her…
We really begin back at the university with the Doctor and Bill discussing the Doctor’s attempt to rehabilitate the Master/Missy. They discuss Time Lord gender… about time, too. Bill confesses her fear of Missy. A well-placed fear. And then we get two Masters…
On board the ship, strange people take Bill’s body away. They sound familiar…Bill wakes up in a weirdly old-fashioned hospital. She’s got something in her chest. World Enough and Time makes Cybermen truly horrific for the first time in the show’s history. There are a few near misses in the past, but this story distils it all into true horror. It’s because at their heart are humans, in this case Bill Potts.
Smutty ending for Bill with Heather the Pilot saying she can fly anything, even a differently living Bill Potts. That little kiss is rather lovely, though. Be still my lesbian heart…
Observation: there are cycles of repetition in the seasons from 2006, like the two show runners up to this point try out ideas, and redo them to better effect, and redo them to better effect. Like what happened to Danny Pink, cyber-soldier, happens again to Bill Potts… (Why are they the Black characters, though?) What happens to Clara living such a long, long time with Ashildr in the moment before she dies and Bill getting a second chance with Heather… Yeah, I'd probably watch that series, too.
Cue the longest regeneration story to date as we loop back to the beginning of World Enough and Time… and the Doctor quotes himself quoting himself as the first Doctor stumbles across the twelfth… What's a bit of recursion between friends?
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The intrigue. The Doctor not only knew about a twin earth but that it existed millions of years ago. Love that he just knows about this history.
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Doctor Who: Cybermat
Favourite Episode: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Home Planet: Mondas
Scary Factor: 0/10
My Personal Rating: 8/10 They're so goofy looking, I love them, the earlier they're shown in the series the more I love them.
(Please don't take these too seriously, it's just a bit of fun)
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The Cybermen: Then and Now | Doctor Who
Humans converted into emotionless metal monsters - upgraded constantly to handle anything the Doctor throws at them!
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‘This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin.’
‘A bit thin?’ asked Polly anxiously. ‘Yes,’ replied the Doctor. ‘It’s nearly time for a change …’
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet
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