I want more.
More of the universe.
More time with you.
You're like the best person I ever met.
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Rewatched Heaven Sent a couple weeks ago (I was flying back from a research conference in San Francisco, and British Airways had it available to watch, which was a pleasant surprise) and man, I've got to ramble a bit...
Something-something about how the Confession Dial is clearly pulling elements from the Doctor's childhood. This has been said before of course, but when you really pull everything together, it sure does paint a picture.
It's unclear whether this was the original intent for the soul-catching ritual (which is presumably what the dials are used for, making them a sort of Matrix data slice like Nethersphere), or something added by the Time Lords in corrupting it into a torture chamber, but it's there.
From the teleportation chamber loom...
...to the night sky being a 'burnt orange'...
...to the lilies flowers of remembrance for the lost dead...
...to sentient buildings...
...to that internal soup parallel, both alone in the dial and surrounded by their cousins at the barn...
...to the jars of dust.
And speaking of that "tall woman" in a "grey shawl", who is also oddly oversized, as if putting the Doctor in the perspective of a child,
and is explicitly a nightmare from the Doctor's childhood:
a woman who died, but seemingly passed away far quicker than anyone around her expected (and all the implications relating to that and connecting to the identity of the Hybrid)...
Finally, and this is definitely a stretch, but think back to the room numbers. The Doctor has to find room 12.
Fittingly. But if 12 corresponds to the Twelfth Doctor, then what about those other rooms...?
They must also correspond to incarnations, right? It's not like the God Complex - there was only ever one prisoner in the confession dial, after all.
Incarnations, numbering "a bit confused", in a fascimile of the Doctor's childhood home? Huh...
"Illogical house, a construction that makes no sense..."
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ANTIMATTER CAUSED THE FLUX???
WHY THE FUCK DIDNT OMEGA SHOW UP???
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH BETTER VILLAIN THAN THOSE STUPID SWARM ALIENS AND A SIX PART EPIC WOULD HAVE BEEN THE PERFECT RETURN FOR A BIG BAD FROM THE CLASSIC SERIES!!!
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, CHIBNALL???!!!
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Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 1 - Matchup 6
Episode Summaries under the cut
115: The Vanquishers - Season 13, Episode 6: The Doctor splits herself into three in order to fight the Ravagers and save her companion. One is stuck with the Ravagers, being taunted with memories stolen from her by Division. One joins Vinder and Karvanista in fighting the Grand Serpent. Another joins Yaz, Graham, and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in a secret tunnel system, where she is reunited with her TARDIS. The three Doctors and her companions work together to defeat the Grand Serpent, the Sontarans, the Ravagers, and the Flux to save the universe and time itself. A physical manifestation of time warns the Doctor that her regeneration is looming. The Doctor chooses not to restore her stolen memories, and takes off with Yaz and Dan.
142: Into the Dalek - Season 8, Episode 2: The Doctor brings Clara to a space station in the future where they are treating a "good" Dalek, who has seen the error of the Daleks ways and seeks to destroy all other Daleks. In order to treat it, the Doctor, Clara, and some soldiers must shrink down and enter the Dalek's casing, where they fight off Dalek antibodies. The Doctor and Clara are still getting used to the Doctor's newest incarnation and his lack of empathy and morality at some points. They find what is wrong with the Dalek, a radiation leak causing the Dalek's change in morality. They accidentally fix it, restoring the Dalek to it's former self and it begins to attack the crew of the space station. They manage to restore some of the Dalek's good memories and the Doctor creates a psychic link with it, giving it visions of the beauty of the universe, but also all of the Doctor's battles against the Daleks. The Dalek stops attacking the crew, and all those inside it are restored to their original size. The Dalek leaves, vowing to bring about the destruction of all Daleks.
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10: Look genocide up in a dictionary, next to it you'll see a picture of me that says OVER. MY. DEAD. BODY.
13: *uses all The Daleks, Cyberman, and Sontarans to hold back The Flux, slaughters all them as a sacrifice*
😐
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ok the vanquishers is mid but the scene where the doctor is actively being held in a torture chamber in what is clearly shown to be severe pain yet turning the tables she is the one interrogating her interrogator is done so well and so in character i love it
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Just wanted to take a moment to appreciate the look on Yaz's face the first time she's shown on camera after 13 reappears in "The Vanquishers"
(sorry for the blurriness)
There's this sense that happiness and delight just want to burst through but they're being held back by disbelief. Having spent the past four years without the person who means so much to her, hoping against hope that they'll be reunited someday in some way, but never knowing how that might come about. She sees 13 standing before her, and despite all the amazing, unbelievable things she's seen throughout the universe, her mind has to take a few moments to confirm to her that this is real.
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