Story: The Timeless Children
Written By: Chris Chibnall
Length: 50 Minutes
Year: 2020
While the Doctor's companions and the last humans left fight off the Cybermen, the Master brings the Doctor to the ruins of Gallifrey, and explores their history in the Matrix...and there we find many big reveals about the Time Lord's history. Most of it is inconsequential in the long run. With one element being something of a major eye roll.
So let's get into it shall we? Why waste time not spoilering it up. Anyhow, the basic idea is this, a long time ago, a Gallifreyan in primitive space travel (by TARDIS standards) ended up on a very strange world, and found a child all alone. She took the child in and raised her as her own. But the child suffered a fatal accident, and then regenerated. She spent the rest of her life trying to figure out the secrets of regeneration, and eventually she did. Regeneration was passed on into their people with the 12 regeneration limitation put in place.
Oh and it turns out that special child that is the genetic basis for all Time Lords is also the Doctor. Sure whatever. This is genuinely the kind of stuff I dislike the most. I don't want the Doctor to be that important. Not to the universe, not to her own people. I like it best when the Doctor is just bouncing around in a box with some friends having adventures, helping out where they can. When the universe would cease to exist without the Doctor I start to roll my eyes a bit. I mean, sure with how many planets the Doctor has saved it makes a sort of sense, but when they keep upping the ante it begins to suck something out of the room for me.
Now what would have really worked for me was if it turned out it wasn't the Doctor, but the Master is so obsessed with the Doctor he just believes it is. He puts together scraps from the Matrix, and just shoves his own messed up relationship with the Doctor into it. It should have turned out that it wasn't really the Doctor, but because it is the shared history of all Time Lords, it is just part of her. And it is part of the Master too...but his own obsession puts that weight on her or something. I don't know. I just like it better when the "LONELY GOD" nonsense isn't quite so present.
The episode ends with the Doctor sending her friends and the remaining humans home in a spare TARDIS, able to live out their days in 21st century UK. The Doctor plans to blow up Gallifrey and the Master (and his new Cyber Time Lord hybrids), but she can't do it...but one of the humans can. He follows the Doctor, takes the bomb, and admits that it wasn't her fault that the Cyberium was unleashed...but partly his, as he helped send it back in time hoping to save the universe. So the Doctor grabs another TARDIS, heads back to her own, and that guy blows up Gallifrey (and very likely the Master escaped).
Once back in her TARDIS, the Judoon show up and send her to jail on a cold case charge. She's trapped in a cell on an asteroid, her friends have no idea and are back home...and she is separated from the TARDIS. Cliffhanger time!
NEXT TIME: Series 12 Recap
Written By: Chris Chibnall
Length: 50 Minutes
Year: 2020
While the Doctor's companions and the last humans left fight off the Cybermen, the Master brings the Doctor to the ruins of Gallifrey, and explores their history in the Matrix...and there we find many big reveals about the Time Lord's history. Most of it is inconsequential in the long run. With one element being something of a major eye roll.
Oh and it turns out that special child that is the genetic basis for all Time Lords is also the Doctor. Sure whatever. This is genuinely the kind of stuff I dislike the most. I don't want the Doctor to be that important. Not to the universe, not to her own people. I like it best when the Doctor is just bouncing around in a box with some friends having adventures, helping out where they can. When the universe would cease to exist without the Doctor I start to roll my eyes a bit. I mean, sure with how many planets the Doctor has saved it makes a sort of sense, but when they keep upping the ante it begins to suck something out of the room for me.
Now what would have really worked for me was if it turned out it wasn't the Doctor, but the Master is so obsessed with the Doctor he just believes it is. He puts together scraps from the Matrix, and just shoves his own messed up relationship with the Doctor into it. It should have turned out that it wasn't really the Doctor, but because it is the shared history of all Time Lords, it is just part of her. And it is part of the Master too...but his own obsession puts that weight on her or something. I don't know. I just like it better when the "LONELY GOD" nonsense isn't quite so present.
The episode ends with the Doctor sending her friends and the remaining humans home in a spare TARDIS, able to live out their days in 21st century UK. The Doctor plans to blow up Gallifrey and the Master (and his new Cyber Time Lord hybrids), but she can't do it...but one of the humans can. He follows the Doctor, takes the bomb, and admits that it wasn't her fault that the Cyberium was unleashed...but partly his, as he helped send it back in time hoping to save the universe. So the Doctor grabs another TARDIS, heads back to her own, and that guy blows up Gallifrey (and very likely the Master escaped).
Once back in her TARDIS, the Judoon show up and send her to jail on a cold case charge. She's trapped in a cell on an asteroid, her friends have no idea and are back home...and she is separated from the TARDIS. Cliffhanger time!
NEXT TIME: Series 12 Recap
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