Spoilers The Power of the Doctor grade and discussion thread
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I liked it for including Ace and Tegan..... I didn't know baseball bats still work against Daleks
Another thought, and maybe this will become more obvious when I watch it again, but why did Yaz just walk away from the Doctor? And why did the Doctor say "I need to do this on my own." The Doctor knows she's not really dying, and given how many companions have crossed over between Doctors, even companions who were obviously in love with the Doctor, why would this be so clearly the end of the road for the Doctor and Yasmin?
Because Yaz has no agency. She always just does what the Doctor says. Graham, Ryan, and Dan all left because they chose to, but Yaz left because the Doctor said so.
I am watching old Doctor Who for the first time but many of the old returning characters I was not familiar with. I am still on season 2. I did know who Ian was. He is still aboard with the other school teacher lady(Barbara) and also the young girl who replaced the Doctor's granddaughter on the show.
One possibility: the Doctor suspects something strange might happen with this regeneration, given the whole Master takeover thing, even though that appeared to be successfully undone, and this is the first full regeneration since learning about the Timeless Child stuff. My only evidence for that is that something strange actually did happen with this regeneration, but it's not entirely implausible. Not to mention the last companion to travel with two Doctors got so weirded out by the switch from 11 to 12 that she needed a phone call from 11 to chill out. And by now the Doctor knows more than he/she sometimes lets on about humans and human emotions. Yaz is in love with a female Doctor. How does Yaz react to the Doctor in a different form, with a somewhat different personality? Any better than Clara did? Whether Chibnall thought about any of this, who knows. But it's not impossible.
Well that was a lot of fun. Lots of action, master craziness, and chock full of doctor who memberberries. It was a wild ride.
The pace was frenetic especially in the beginning. In just the first 24 minutes, we get the space train heist, Dan says goodbye, Teegan and Ace discover the missing paintings, Rasputin in 1916, the Doctor gets a message from a Dalek, the whole scene on the metal planet with the cybermasters, and the Doctor meets the master in 2022 when he is talking to the miniature seismologists!! Perhaps, they should have trimmed a few things out to slow the pace down just a tad.
The Master was as bonkers as always. His plan was way too convoluted and complicated but that is par for the course for the Master. I think the Master's plan to force regen the Doctor into him and take over the universe was enough. Not sure we also needed the Daleks and the volcanoes too. I did love the Rasputin Boney M song. It reminded me of the scene at end of Sound of the Drums when we year the "here comes the drums" song. Similar scene in both where the Master is gloating over defeating the Doctor.
I also loved the ending. Jodi's regeneration was very effective IMO. No long over dramatic speeches, just a few simple words. I loved her line "I want to see what happens next". It conveyed perfectly the emotion of how this Doctor will be gone and won't get to see what the "new" Doctor does. and I loved her line "to the doctor I will become, tag you're it". Just a really sweet way of passing the torch to the next Doctor. And of course, the big surprise, she regenerates into... David Tennant! I am actually really looking forward to the anniversary special.
I have a question about the timeline though. When we see the sparks when the Doctor touches Ace, Teegan and Yaz, we know the Doctor was giving them the nanites so they could see her hologram later. Did the Doctor do this in advance, somehow knowing that it would be needed later or did future Doctor go back and do it to close the loop?
The pace was frenetic especially in the beginning. In just the first 24 minutes, we get the space train heist, Dan says goodbye, Teegan and Ace discover the missing paintings, Rasputin in 1916, the Doctor gets a message from a Dalek, the whole scene on the metal planet with the cybermasters, and the Doctor meets the master in 2022 when he is talking to the miniature seismologists!! Perhaps, they should have trimmed a few things out to slow the pace down just a tad.
The Master was as bonkers as always. His plan was way too convoluted and complicated but that is par for the course for the Master. I think the Master's plan to force regen the Doctor into him and take over the universe was enough. Not sure we also needed the Daleks and the volcanoes too. I did love the Rasputin Boney M song. It reminded me of the scene at end of Sound of the Drums when we year the "here comes the drums" song. Similar scene in both where the Master is gloating over defeating the Doctor.
I also loved the ending. Jodi's regeneration was very effective IMO. No long over dramatic speeches, just a few simple words. I loved her line "I want to see what happens next". It conveyed perfectly the emotion of how this Doctor will be gone and won't get to see what the "new" Doctor does. and I loved her line "to the doctor I will become, tag you're it". Just a really sweet way of passing the torch to the next Doctor. And of course, the big surprise, she regenerates into... David Tennant! I am actually really looking forward to the anniversary special.
I have a question about the timeline though. When we see the sparks when the Doctor touches Ace, Teegan and Yaz, we know the Doctor was giving them the nanites so they could see her hologram later. Did the Doctor do this in advance, somehow knowing that it would be needed later or did future Doctor go back and do it to close the loop?
Is that Rasputin song well known in the UK? I don't think I've heard it which made it even harder for that joke to land.
Funny captions aside, I love Tegan's jacket. Actually both her and Ace have a nice Doctorly quality to their wardrobe here.
Ace: What's that smell? Were you having a fanwank?
Very well known - in fact a remix of it was number one a couple of years ago.
Do we think Yaz actually dropped everyone off in Croydon?
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Two things:
1) The Doctor didn't 'degenerate'
2) Ending up with a physical appearance that is identical to the Tenth Doctor after regeneration is a phenomenon that may have caught the Doctor off-guard, but has actually been telegraphed in-universe going all the way back to Romana II and, more recently and directly, with The Curator in The. Day of the Doctor
The band that originally made the song (Boney M.) is from Germany, so maybe it is less familiar to North Americans?
Then again, I'm from Canada and the song is very well-known here and played often on "oldies" music radio stations.
I suspect he's in the mind we saw in this episode just gone - his "what the hell is going on?" is like wondering why he hasn't come into existence physically. I bet some old Doctors are just out of view.
I like that idea, and obviously if they had persuaded someone like Matt to come back briefly...
I'm surprised anyone wouldn't recognize Boney M's "Rasputin," which was such a big worldwide hit in 1978. People still remember that Star Wars movie, and that came out in 1977, so it's not like we're talking about something that's really old. I mean, hell, I'm only 59. That's very young. VERY young.
Neither wanted to say goodbye so Yaz leaves before the regeneration.
Also of companions who appeared only Tegan has seen it happen. Mel saw the before and after but not the actual regeneration (plus the rani was interfering).
Please go read his IMDb page.