Ultimate Doctor Who Poll Round 2 - Matchup 18
Episode Summaries under the cut
23: The Doctor's Wife - Season 6, Episode 4: After receiving a message from another Time Lord, the Doctor takes Amy and Rory to a sentient asteroid outside the universe. When they land the TARDIS malfunctions and they are approached by some strange people that live on the asteroid. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the asteroid has lured many Time Lords there to eat their TARDIS's. He finds that one strange woman has had the TARDIS consciousness implanted inside her, so that the asteroid can feast off the remaining Artron energy. The Doctor reveals that the Time Lords are gone, as are their TARDIS's so no more will be coming.
The asteroid then transfers it's consciousness to the TARDIS shell with Amy and Rory inside, where it messes with them for it's amusement. The Doctor and the TARDIS delight in the chance to talk, but she begins to die. They try to reconstruct a TARDIS console from the bits of broken TARDIS's scattered around. They send Amy and Rory instructions to an old console room where they can lower the TARDIS shields, allowing the Doctor and TARDIS to land aboard.
The asteroid threatens to kill them, but the Doctor says that it needs them alive to tell them how to get back to their universe. He shares that the asteroid must delete 30% of TARDIS rooms to generate enough thrust. It deletes the console room they are in, but the safeguards teleport living things in deleted rooms to the main console room. Once back inside there, the TARDIS is able to escape her human body and reenter the TARDIS shell, destroying the asteroid's consciousness, and using her last moments of being able to talk to finally say "Hello" to the Doctor.
106: Twice Upon a Time - Season 10 Christmas Special: The Doctor, refusing to regenerate, is taken by the TARDIS to meet his first incarnation, who is also conflicted about regenerating. They encounter a Captain from World War I being hunted by a group called Testimony. Testimony offers to return the Doctor's deceased companion, Bill, to him in exchange for the captain. The Doctor takes her and escapes with Bill, the Captain, and his younger self.
To learn more about Testimony, the Doctor travels to a huge galactic database, run by a Dalek the Doctor had encountered before. In the database, he learns that Testimony extracts people from their timelines at the moment of their death and archive their memories. The Bill that's with them is an avatar created from her memories.
Realizing that there is no evil to fight, the Doctor returns everybody to their timelines, returning the Captain to the Christmas Armistice, allowing him to live. The First Doctor returns to his TARDIS to regenerate. The Twelfth Doctor's memories of Clara are restored and he is bid farewell by avatars of her, Nardole, and Bill before reentering his TARDIS to regenerate into the Thirteenth Doctor.
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Speed-running Doctor Who - 12th Doctor
A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.
For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era
Under the Lake/Before the Flood - S35E3&E4
The most Moffat episode to ever Moffat. All of his tropes and tricks are on display here. Some think it's stale, others believe its polished to perfection; either way it'll give you a good idea of what to expect during this era of the series.
Plot Important Episodes
Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development
Deep Breath - S34E1 (first story to feature the Twelfth Doctor and Gomez's Master, the return of the clockwork monsters, and the last story to feature the Paternoster Gang)
Into the Dalek - S34E2 (character development for the Twelfth Doctor and kicks off his "Am I a good man?" arc, Danny Pink also makes his first appearance)
Listen - S34E4 (more back story for the Doctor and we are introduced to Orson Pink... who may be Danny Pink's ancestor or a reincarnated clone of Danny himself)
The Caretaker - S34E6 (The Doctor and Danny officially meet)
Kill the Moon - S34E7 (The Doctor and Clara have a falling out)
Mummy on the Orient Express - S34E8 (resolves the argument from the last episode and features more character development for the Doctor)
Flatline - S34E9 (We're introduced to Rigsy and we get character development for Clara)
Dark Water/Death in Heaven - S34E11&E12 (the Gomez Master returns, and everyone dies... or at least Osgood, Danny Pink, and the Brigadier does)
Last Christmas - 2014 Xmas Special (Clara is still getting over Danny's death)
The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar - S35E1&E2 (character development for Gomez's Master)
The Girl Who Died - S35E5 (we meet Ashildr, kick off the hybrid arc, and get some more character development for the Doctor)
The Woman Who Lived - S35E6 (second part of the hybrid arc)
The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion - S35E7&E8 (a squeal to the 50th anniversary and we find out that Osgood still lives.. sort of)
Face the Raven - S35E10 (Rigsy and Ashildr return, the Doctor is imprisoned by the Time Lords, and Clara dies)
Heaven Sent - S35E11 (character development for the Doctor)
Hell Bent - S35E12 (Gallifrey is restored, and the Doctor saves Clara from death but loses his memories of her as a consequence. A now immortal Clara steals a tardis and travels the universe with Ashildr)
The Husbands of River Song - 2015 Xmas Special (River Song's last appearance and we meet Nardole for the first time)
The Return of Doctor Mysterio - 2016 Xmas Special (it's revealed that Nardole now travels with the Doctor)
The Pilot - S36E1 (Bill's first episode)
Smile - S36E2 (Bill's first trip in the Tardis)
Knock Knock - S36E4 (it's revealed that the Doctor and Nardole are keeping someone prisoner in a vault, but the Doctor is friendly to them)
Oxygen - S36E5 (The Doctor loses his eyesight for a time)
Extremis - S36E6 (kicks off the Monk arc and reveals that the Gomez Master is the Doctor's mysterious prisoner)
The Pyramid at the End of the World - S36E7 (second part of the Monk trilogy and the end of the Doctor is blind mini arc)
The Lie of the Land - S36E8 (the end of the Monk arc)
Empress of Mars - S36E9 and/or The Eaters of Light E36E10 (both feature character development for Gomez's Master, but each reinstates the same points so it's okay to skip one or the other)
World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls - S36E11&RE12 (The return of the Simm Master and the original Tenth Planet Cybermen; last story for Bill, Nardole, and Gomez 's Master, the Doctor is morally injured at the end and starts to reintegrate)
Twice Upon a Time - 2017 Xmas Special (fifth multi-doctor story, and the 12th Doctor reintegrates, he also regains his memories of Clara at the end,.... and the entire story may or may not be a reintegration induced hallucination)
Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories
Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa
Favorite: Robot of Sherwood - S34E3
Least Favorite: Thin Ice - S36E3
(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)
Up Next: 13th Doctor and the Fugitive Doctor
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Doctor Who Femslash February, Day 19
Prompt- Bill
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Warning; Alcohol
They meet by accident, on a planet a million miles away from Earth and probably a million years too. In a pub with both of them alone.
Bill was the one who approached her, silently offering a drink which Yaz refused until Bill drank some of it herself to prove that there wasn't anything in it. They talked and talked.
Minds clouded over by alcohol that they just kept consuming as the night went on and on. At some point the bartenders stopped giving them any and instead put some water in front of them.
But talking led to Bill beside her rather then opposite her, hands drifting and holding one another. Sleepy kisses as the both of them are exhausted, falling asleep in each others arms'.
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Been having big feelings about the end of 12's run lately, so I rewrote the ending of The Doctor Falls so everyone lives, including Clara. (Also 12 regenerates into a woman because I thought it would spice things up.)
Summary:
Left to die on the Mondasian colony ship, the Doctor reflects on his actions with Bill at his side. Nardole, Bill, and the Doctor believe this is the end. While they had given up hope, believing Missy had abandoned them, the Time lady had one last trick up her sleeve.
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