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- Aboard the colony ship reversing from the event horizon of a black hole, the Twelfth Doctor finds Bill has been converted into a Cyberman. The Master and Missy capture the Doctor, but he had earlier surreptitiously reprogrammed the Cybernet to target Time Lords as well, forcing them to flee.
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Jul 11, 2017 · After the touching scene where Bill says goodbye to the Doctor, the Doctor regains consciousness, leaves the TARDIS and starts to regenerate again (using the snow to halt the process). It seems clear that the Doctor is fatally injured and will regenerate on December 25th (as advertised).
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was the twelfth and final episode of series 10 of Doctor Who.
It saw the departures of both Bill and Nardole, and the events leading to the Saxon Master's regeneration into Missy, with the Master being mortally wounded by his female successor. However, he in turn kills her, bringing an apparent end of the Master's life. The episode also explained the different and conflicting origins of the Cybermen appearances, citing it to "parallel evolution".
Expanding on the Twelfth Doctor's regeneration teased in the previous episode, World Enough and Time [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017). it saw him mortally wounded in battle against the Cybermen. However, the Doctor managed to postpone the change, expressing how he was sick of "always having to be someone else", leading into the arc of the next episode, Twice Upon a Time [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2017 (BBC One, 2017).
Most notably, the final scene of the episode featured the unexpected return of the First Doctor, now portrayed by David Bradley, in a scene set during the events of The Tenth Planet [+]Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, Doctor Who season 4 (BBC1, 1966). itself, the first time an incarnation of the Doctor from the classic series had appeared in a regular episode since the series was revived in 2005 and not been played by his original actor. Bradley had previously portrayed William Hartnell in the docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time [+]Mark Gatiss, An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC Two, 2013)..
As he struggles to resist regenerating, the Twelfth Doctor prepares to make a last stand against the ever-growing army of Cybermen. However, with Bill still a Cyberman, and Missy gradually turning to her old wicked ways as the Saxon Master reminds her of who she used to be, can the Doctor convince his old friend to finally be good before he falls?
The episode opens on a group of farmers, adults and children, on Floor 0507 facing against the prototypes from Floor 1056, dubbed "scarecrows", shooting them down by night to then restrain them on wooden crosses by day. A school child named Alit is out in the field one morning when a shuttlepod blasts through the ground, crashing near her. As the smoke clears, a Cyberman emerges from the wreckage carrying an unconscious Doctor.
Sometime earlier, the Doctor awakes on top of the hospital, now restrained in a wheelchair, soon recalling how he was subdued by Missy and the Saxon Master, while Nardole fled. The Master and Missy dance and flirt, with him asking if she's his next incarnation; Missy guesses she is as she can't remember what caused her to regenerate. The Master is stunned: "I'm going to turn into a woman, and you can't remember it happening?" Missy wonders if she is a woman; the Master confirms it. Though the Master doubts it, the Doctor begins deducing what he's been up to since he vanished while blasting Rassilon with his life energy.
Upon getting back to Gallifrey, the Time Lords, grateful for the Master's help in preventing Rassilon from executing The Final Sanction, properly restored his body. With that done, the Time Lords kicked him off Gallifrey. However, the Master stole a TARDIS to go back into the universe; so he considers it a mutual being kicked out. After that, the Master landed on the colony ship, lived like a king and killed people at his leisure. However, the colonists eventually overthrew him and the Master attempted to flee. However, as his TARDIS was on the last level, too close to the event horizon, it burned out his dematerialisation circuit and left him stranded. "You never could drive could you?" the Doctor asks.
Both the Master and Missy are insulted; she asks her earlier self if he has any requests as to how to torture the Doctor. The Master suggests dropping the Doctor off the roof; Missy is against the idea, saying that they'd be "up and down the stairs all night" because she doesn't know how many regenerations the Doctor has. Missy and the Master look over the roof, seeing people march like mindless sheep into the hospital to be turned into Cybermen. They taunt their old friend by telling him of their plan of the Cybermen converting all the humans on the ship. Missy asks the Doctor if he's impressed. They mockingly call the Doctor "granddad", reminding him that Bill is now a Cyberman.
The Doctor tells them that after all this time if they still think they're winning when he's in the room, they're missing something obvious. Hearing the Cybermen advancing, Missy looks over the ledge and quakes in horror; the Cybermen are coming for them. The Master is confused, as these Cybermen are primitive and shouldn't even be attempting to convert non-humans.
The Doctor explains that when he was knocked down by Missy, he altered the signal of the Cybermen so they would convert two-hearted beings as well, hence why they are now focusing on the Time Lord's presence. The Masters panic, Missy frantically using her sonic umbrella to lock a metal door to hold back advancing Cybermen while the Master uses his laser screwdriver to destroy advancing Cybermen. The Doctor brags that he is the only one who is able to stop so many Cybermen at once. Realising this, a conflicted Missy knocks the Master out and frees the Doctor from his restraints. The Doctor starts wondering which side she is on to which she admits her indecisiveness as she is confused and her other half is unconscious.
•The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
•Bill - Pearl Mackie
•Nardole - Matt Lucas
•Missy - Michelle Gomez
•The Master - John Simm
•Hazran - Samantha Spiro
Culture
•Nardole shouts "Remember the Alamo" when getting the farmers to work. •When the Doctor hands Alit an apple, he refers to it as "tempting", a reference to Humanity's first sin according to the Bible.
Cybermen
•The expedition to Floor 0507 are used as scarecrows. •The original Mondasian Cybermen can electrocute people by hugging them tight, and shoot death rays via their head lamps on their emotional inhibitor. •Nardole tells the farmers about Operation Exodus.
Technology
•The Doctor changes the encoding in the Cybermen's system from reading one heart life forms to reading two hearts. •The Doctor says that parallel evolution is the reason for various civilisations evolving Cybermen. •Missy says Bill is doomed to live as a bio-mechanic psycho-zombie. •The Doctor mentions sewage and smartphones as inevitable. •The Doctor says the internet and cyberspace are a result of people + technology - humanity. •The Doctor says it took the Cybermen a while to update the net to track two-hearts instead of one-hearts. •The Master and Missy use their laser screwdriver and sonic umbrella, respectively. •The Doctor can use his sonic screwdriver as a microphone. •Nardole pilots a shuttle labelled SL-16. •Nardole uses a computer. •Missy carries a dematerialisation circuit because of a scolding she gave the Master. •Nardole says that under the floor of the farm there are fuel lines and fusion turbos. •The Doctor mentions the farm's cryogenic chamber.
•The final segment of the episode, where the Twelfth Doctor meets the First Doctor in the snow, was filmed only two weeks before World Enough and Time aired, as part of filming of the Christmas special. Post-production on that scene was completed in the short time left; a week before The Doctor Falls aired, Steven Moffat stated that the final version was still being worked on. The Doctor's near-regeneration outside the TARDIS had to be completed in time for World Enough and Time, a week beforehand.
•The Doctor's mention of Marinus as a planet on which the Cybermen originated (COMIC: The World Shapers) is another rare instance of the TV series directly referencing non-televised material.
•This episode removes any contradiction that had previously revolved around the various Cybermen origin stories, by having the Doctor call all instances parallel evolution.
•On original broadcast on BBC Scotland HD, a technical fault led to sound problems which rendered the dialogue inaudible for the final five minutes: from Bill leaving the TARDIS to the end credits.
•The use of the number 507 is a nod to Russell T Davies, who often invoked the number 57 in his writings, such as in TV: Death of the Doctor, when the Eleventh Doctor claimed to Clyde Langer that he could regenerate 507 times.
•This is the first season finale in the revived series and the only episode of Series 10 to feature no scenes on present-day Earth.
•The expedition to Floor 507 that "Razor" talked about during World Enough and Time are being used as scarecrows.
•The Master and Missy admit to not knowing how many regenerations the Doctor has left after his regeneration cycle was restored. Both the Doctor and Rassilon previously wondered the same thing. (TV: Kill the Moon, Hell Bent)
•The Master mocks the Doctor about leaving Bill alone with him for ten years. (TV: World Enough and Time)
•The Doctor recalls last seeing the Master heading to Gallifrey during The End of Time, deducing that the Time Lords cured his "little condition" before kicking him out.
•This is likely referring to the Master's fluctuating energy state as a result of his botched resurrection, but may also refer to the drumbeat in his head. (TV: Utopia, et al.)
•The Doctor notes the Cybermen have risen naturally from Mondas, as seen in The Tenth Planet and Spare Parts, Telos, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cybermen) Earth, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel) Planet 14 (TV: The Invasion) and Marinus. (COMIC: The World Shapers)
DVD & Blu-ray releases
•This episode was included in the Series 10, Part Two DVD and Blu-ray boxsets in region 1/A on 12 September 2017, in region 2/B on 24 July 2017 and in region 4/B on 16 August 2017. •This episode was also released as part of the Complete Tenth Series DVD and Blu-ray boxsets in region 1/A on 7 November 2017, in region 2/B on 13 November 2017 and in region 4/B on 29 November 2017.
Digital releases
•In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.
The sad thing is, The Doctor never got to see Missy's redemption. He'll always believe she abandoned him. That speech partway through, though, when The Doctor was convincing The Masters to stay.
Jul 1, 2017 · Synopsis. As he struggles to resist regenerating, the Twelfth Doctor prepares to make a last stand against the ever-growing army of Cybermen. However, with Bill still a Cyberman, and Missy gradually turning to her old wicked ways as the Saxon Master reminds her of who she used to be, can the Doctor convince his old friend to finally be good ...
Aboard the colony ship reversing from the event horizon of a black hole, the Twelfth Doctor finds Bill has been converted into a Cyberman. The Master and Missy capture the Doctor, but he had earlier surreptitiously reprogrammed the Cybernet to target Time Lords as well, forcing them to flee.
Jul 1, 2017 · Basically, the Twelfth Doctor can now be said to have gotten his main two companions killed. First Clara and now Bill, who after being consigned to life as a Cyberman “regenerates” as one of...
