Story: World Enough and Time
Written By: Steven Moffat
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2017
Man oh man...what an episode. The Doctor wants to test Missy, see if she truly can be good, so he decides to put her into a Doctory situation, and see how she handles it. Unfortunately, it doesn't go too well. They land on a 400 mile long ship, which is attempting to back away from a Black Hole. A panicked member of the ship's crew wants the only human dead, to avoid the monsters on the ship coming up to get her, and the only human is Bill. In his panic, he shoots Bill right in the heart, and the monsters come to take her away and "fix her."
Bill wakes up with an electronic device on her chest keeping her alive, but she is at the back of the ship, and time moves much slower than at the top of the ship where the Doctor and company are. So she waits patiently for the Doctor to arrive, which takes years for them to just get to the elevator. She spends her time with her only friend down there, Mr. Razor...and has to live amongst the creepy creatures in hospital gowns and masks who seem to be forever in pain.
Of course if you have seen a trailer for this series, you know what is coming...but boy did knowing not hurt the tension of this thing for a second. I knew the creatures were going to be the original Mondassian Cybermen, the ones from their first appearance in 1966 with the creepy cloth masks...and I knew very quickly that Razor would end up being the John Simm incarnation of the Master...but where Bill's part in this was leading kept me on edge. Would she really end up converted? Would the Doctor get there in time?
And then it happens. The Master reveals him self to Missy (and then the Doctor), and then we learn the fate of Bill...she has been completely converted, telling the Doctor over and over that she "waited for him." It's a wonderful ending, just a hell of a cliffhanger, and I cannot wait to see how it plays out over the next episode...as well as the tease of the upcoming regeneration which I am certain will be not playing out in it's entirety until Christmas, making this a big of a three parter (I am assuming). Oh what fun!
NEXT TIME: A Variety of Cybermen!
Written By: Steven Moffat
Length: 45 Minutes
Year: 2017
Man oh man...what an episode. The Doctor wants to test Missy, see if she truly can be good, so he decides to put her into a Doctory situation, and see how she handles it. Unfortunately, it doesn't go too well. They land on a 400 mile long ship, which is attempting to back away from a Black Hole. A panicked member of the ship's crew wants the only human dead, to avoid the monsters on the ship coming up to get her, and the only human is Bill. In his panic, he shoots Bill right in the heart, and the monsters come to take her away and "fix her."
Of course if you have seen a trailer for this series, you know what is coming...but boy did knowing not hurt the tension of this thing for a second. I knew the creatures were going to be the original Mondassian Cybermen, the ones from their first appearance in 1966 with the creepy cloth masks...and I knew very quickly that Razor would end up being the John Simm incarnation of the Master...but where Bill's part in this was leading kept me on edge. Would she really end up converted? Would the Doctor get there in time?
And then it happens. The Master reveals him self to Missy (and then the Doctor), and then we learn the fate of Bill...she has been completely converted, telling the Doctor over and over that she "waited for him." It's a wonderful ending, just a hell of a cliffhanger, and I cannot wait to see how it plays out over the next episode...as well as the tease of the upcoming regeneration which I am certain will be not playing out in it's entirety until Christmas, making this a big of a three parter (I am assuming). Oh what fun!
NEXT TIME: A Variety of Cybermen!
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