Story: The Girl Who Died
Written By: Jamie Mathieson & Steven Moffat
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2015
The TARDIS gets out of a scrape and lands for a breather, but The Doctor and Clara end up captured by Vikings, and have to figure out a way to defend the town after all of it's warriors are taken and killed by an alien who claims to be Odin with robot slaves. It's good ol' fashioned Doctor Who fun really.
The episode has some humor, cool looking robots, and a decent villain. It also manages to switch over to drama near the end, in a powerful and consequential way. The episode's most notable element is the young girl Ashildr, who is an odd and naive young girl who ends up saving the day and dying in the process.
The Doctor is hurt by this, sick of always seeing people die even in his victories. He finally realizes why his current incarnation's face looks familiar...it is the face of one man he saved in Pompeii in his Tenth incarnation...a person he saved only because his companion begged him to. He figures it is a reminder that sometimes he can save people and break the rules a bit. So he uses a device to resurrect the dead Ashildr, but in the process essentially makes her immortal...which in the episode's final moments he admits that his passion and anger may have got the best of him, and it may have been a mistake.
The final shot is of Ashildr watching the sun rise and set for years and decades and who knows how long, and you see her face go from happy and full of wonder...to sadness...and then it looks cold and almost nasty. In my first viewing, this seemed a clear ominous image of things to come. Having now seen a few more episodes of this season, that assumption has proved to be more than correct. The Doctor made a mistake at the end of this episode, and he will someday be forced to pay for it.
NEXT TIME: Me, the Highwayman
Written By: Jamie Mathieson & Steven Moffat
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2015
The TARDIS gets out of a scrape and lands for a breather, but The Doctor and Clara end up captured by Vikings, and have to figure out a way to defend the town after all of it's warriors are taken and killed by an alien who claims to be Odin with robot slaves. It's good ol' fashioned Doctor Who fun really.
The Doctor is hurt by this, sick of always seeing people die even in his victories. He finally realizes why his current incarnation's face looks familiar...it is the face of one man he saved in Pompeii in his Tenth incarnation...a person he saved only because his companion begged him to. He figures it is a reminder that sometimes he can save people and break the rules a bit. So he uses a device to resurrect the dead Ashildr, but in the process essentially makes her immortal...which in the episode's final moments he admits that his passion and anger may have got the best of him, and it may have been a mistake.
The final shot is of Ashildr watching the sun rise and set for years and decades and who knows how long, and you see her face go from happy and full of wonder...to sadness...and then it looks cold and almost nasty. In my first viewing, this seemed a clear ominous image of things to come. Having now seen a few more episodes of this season, that assumption has proved to be more than correct. The Doctor made a mistake at the end of this episode, and he will someday be forced to pay for it.
NEXT TIME: Me, the Highwayman
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