Yes but who modded the Doctor's dial? And was it Missy who had the dial? Why her? I just don't get their relationship. I wonder if the Master in any of their incarnations has a dial as well.
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Yes but who modded the Doctor's dial? And was it Missy who had the dial? Why her? I just don't get their relationship. I wonder if the Master in any of their incarnations has a dial as well.
The Doctor gave his Dial to Ohila from Karn to give to Missy after he (thought) he made Davros Davros by abandoning him as a child since he was too horrified to save him from the minefield (that was in one of the webisodes leading up to season 10). Since the Doctor got his Dial back from Missy after their trip to Skaro, that means either Ohila or Missy gave it to Rassilon and his gang to sabotage it as a trap for the Doctor to get him to say what he knew about the Hybrid (probably Ohila, since she was up to her ears in the Hybrid affair, while Missy wouldn’t have the patience for High Council dramatics).
After that, it’d just be a matter of getting the Doctor into a teleporter under the control of an accomplice to get him into the Dial, which ended up being Ashilder after Clara was killed at the Trap Street.
They’re Time Lords, they can wait as long as it took for the trap to spring.
Wouldn't the cyber timelords the Master created be the hybrid?
That would be the final apotheosis of that plot line if you saw it that way. The Hybrid arc was a sort of rebuke of strongly or exclusively lore-based, mystery-box storytelling, so its resolution was that the secret of the Hybrid was completely ancillary and it was important only in that it pushed the Doctor to violate all his principles to try to save Clara and how the Doctor and Clara reacted in that extreme.
It would be a brutal takedown of the self-important but dramatically inert Timeless Child resolution the Cyber-Masters facilitated (which was entirely reciting lore to solve the mystery and had no effect on the characters), if only it hadn’t preceded it by several years. Though, I guess that’s fitting for Doctor Who.
I'm in the minority here but I like the Timeless Child. But what about the Fugitive Doctor Where did she come from? Which incarnation and she has her own TARDIS, so there's another one floating around somewhere
In a conversation with Jo Martin, she said that Chibnall told her that her Doctor came immediately before Hartnell's.
OK that is actually cool.... But it's not popular with some people, and you are not the first person to mention this. I think it's neat
"Half human on my mother's side..."
"Half human on my mother's side..."
I find the movie contradictory on that point. In the scene where he says that, the Doctor says he's about to tell Grace something private and confidential for her ears only, but then a stranger interrupts and he blurts out the half-human thing. Why would he reveal something so private to a complete stranger? It implies that he's just using the half-human thing as a joke to cover up what he was really going to tell Grace. But then later on, there's that business that the Eye of Harmony needs human biometrics to unlock it, implying that the Doctor was telling the truth. Which doesn't add up. I suspect that the two scenes come from different drafts of the script and they didn't quite manage to reconcile them.
We do learn that the Slitheen exist in the Star Trek universe, because the Doctor shows Picard what will happen to them if Picard doesn't help him stop the Cybermen invasion of the Star Trek universe. Essentially, Picard should know what the Slitheen are for this scene to matter to him.
The Tipton brothers wrote twenty Doctor Who comics, between the eight issues here and the 12 issues of Prisoners of Time. Based on careful reads of all 20 comics, I harbor strong doubts that they have ever watched an episode of Doctor Who.
Seriously. There are interesting things they could have done with a crossover. Instead, they wrote a fifth season TNG bottle story.
Not particularly, no.
The art across the series was generally the strong point. IDW pulled together a good roster of artists.
The story... Well, it's basically eleven one-shots in a row, one for each Doctor, with a little connecting material/mystery between them, and then it's a giant multi-Doctor, multi-companion team-up in the twelfth. The mystery villain wasn't particularly mysterious, and the resolution is tonally wrong.
But, Frobisher is in it, so I can't completely hate on it.
