series 10 finale
can i just say- that thing, that they do in series ten, that thing where
the universe rhymes and if you really listen, you can hear its music?
thatâs some good shit
âwhat does he call you? companions? pets? SH-nacks?â god michelle gomez is just! so! good!
âtime lords are friends with each other dear, everything else is cradle-snatchingâ pfftjlkdjsfkalkds sheâs got perhaps...a point? (not really, but)
âthese are my disposables, exposition and comic reliefâ FULJSDFJSDFJ MOFFAT YOU he really went there. HE REALLY WENT THERE HALJSDKD
âweâre not functionsâ âdarling those are gendersâ
ok????? hahahahahaha
wow, doctor who meta dslafldk and then a dab
âis this the emotion that you humans call...spanking?â
âare you humanâ âoh donât be a bitchâ ljsdldsajlfjlkdf (moffat got so surprisingly woke that he knows exactly what he can have her say, damn. and michelleâs delivery what the hell so good hahaha)
oh no. no no no no. this is the moment she gets shot huh? what. no i. why do the Doctorâs companions in moffatâs era always die of being bravely stupid? (well..clara) like, not stupidly brave, but bravely stupid? i donât like that narrative
why did Bill say that???? like i donât get it.
jump in front of her??????? why. does he not stand in front of the damn gun?? why does he walk past it? why? dude?? now i understand why Thirteen keeps saying âSTAY BEHIND ME, BEHIND MEâ always catching bombs to the face and shit.
those were some great flashbacks peppered in. âshe scares meâ yeah well the Doctor was the one who fucked up here. he wasnât fast enough. he didnât reach hard enough for the right card in the pack.....but there was another time lord there - maybe she reached harder.
âassumption!â âdeduction!â âhope!â âfaith!â âidiot!â âalways!â
this is the thing. like, the Doctor just lets her get shot and lets her get taken away - itâs barely believable.
yeah the crew went down, time dilation, they procreated, somehow they grew some shitty cybermen. (why does human society keep producing them?). YUP i called it.
365000 days, a hundred thousand years. yoikes. but if they have such fast lifts why is it a problem? and why go up to get the humans (yeah cybermen always wanna make more) i think knowing moffat we wonât really get an answer to these essential plot-driving questions
ohhh thatâs chilling huh. makes you think they got some more anaesthetic but theyâre still pressing the button - it just doesnât make any noise any more.
but itâs hard to hear such pain.
and SUDDENLY, the theatre broadens - it seemed like just a part of the ship - narrow - but then we see the whole colony ship populated and a dystopia, this hospital just a building in a landscape. very cool.
How does the Doctor not realise that he hasnât got TIME for explanations??? Bill is either dead or DYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE HEâS WASTING TIME.
i do love this concept always have and it is executed well here - but look. the Doctor is written as very dumb to make it so.
âhow many more yearsâ YEARS????? oh my god. why does she close the window? interesting
fuckin bullshit. they never returned because time went slow for them. he KNOWS this, so why does he think itâs because the people were âweakâ? he knows she came from command, that itâs possible to go up, because they took her! the conversion is only controlling her. so does she buy it? (I do like this guy, but heâs probably evil)
how has Bill remained SANE? years of this. years of this??? what an exceptionally resilient person.
yeah weâre not getting an explanation for why these people uh managed to go up and take her down huh? except âevil villain lied to everybodyâ i think. oh well that can be satisfactory
wait. is he the master? is he the MASTER??? i mean i was considering it but.
he spent like 10 years living with Bill and it didnât make a dent in his psychopathy hmmm. so the explanation is that the Master has taken over and wanted to fuck over the Doctor just for laughs. lol
why scarecrow them??? xD sometimes these aesthetics make zero sense in real life. do love how they went back to : look how these settlers went up to the solar farm! living a lovely life except theyâre being attacked by cybermen.
so what im learning from moffatâs writing is - push your concept first thing you can - something incongruous - and something familiar to those familiar with the work.
woah that gloating wasnât quite long enough for teh Doctor to have a win. i thought the Masters were having him on. (fascinating though, that he attributes the emergence of cybermen not to the Masterâs presence but simply to the humans - and the Masterâs responses prove him right. do feel like he messed with it all though...)
âthereâs only ever been one way to stop that many cybermen. meâ hmmmm hmmm, i always dislike the Doctor boasting like this. just pride. though i would welcome it for thirteen, just a couple of times.
âiâm in two minds - fortunately the other oneâs unconscious.â hah
we gotta cut away from this because we donât know how this unwieldy Bill cyberman got the Doctor into the ship.
The Master constantly veers between almost killing the Doctor and then kinda deciding not to because theyâre having so much fun or caring about their complex relationship a bit too stupidly much. lotta storytelling packed into this ep, bit unwieldy.
great switch, making Bill look human again as we switch to her pov
where the FUCK did the Doctor get jelly babies
this is a beautiful scene, but also, goddamn, they made her into a cyberman and now she canât be angry any more?? i mean thatâs not very woke
they didnât allow bill the opportunity to hit the Master?? AGAIN?? Bill should have been able to hit the Doctor AND the Master this season for the cruelty they showed her!!
I do think the Master is THE character for Moffat because all of the plot bullshit can be explained as: the Master is just that dramatic. like, why wait with Billâs conversion until the pain part was developed and the Doctor would be coming down? could have converted her right there. and he only kept her around to rub it in the Doctorâs face. like all of that - somehow explained by what a particular person they are.
redirection, the cryptic, itâs one of the Doctorâs main tools for hope. the beyond, the in-between, that which we cannot yet know, may never know - thatâs flux babey, thatâs hope.
but ya canât un-call the lifts? what. they wonât have âthousandsâ of years if you run straight at the TARDIS.
so im not sure why they had time to build a weaponâs grade cyberman but not uh time to send lots and lots of them up?
AND NOW THEYâRE JUST GOING TO BURST THROUGH??? THE FUCKIN SHIP? xD ahahahaha why???
i do love how you SEE the Master use make-up while male. fuck gender roles! I do love the Mastersâ dynamics hahaha
the Doctor always makes time for fuckin - explanations. the cybermen are coming up but WHATEVER!
that Master on Master kill was honestly hella tender and i loved it.
âcanât find the wordsâ
Bill was glad that her space granddad knew she was a lesbian- ha. somehow that....how did Moffat write that? seems uniquely gay but maybe heâs just drawing on - yeah gotta make sure that this time it is NOT read as romance.
NOOOOOO!!!!!! NO!!!!! MISSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so...are they just not evacuating teh adults? like was it so hard to get them adult actors in the shot a few times too??? like wtf these kids arenât like: MY PARENTS!!! before they blow it up? before the blow up a WHOLE countryside?
he didnât get blown to pieces? fuckin bullshit lol
but BILL survived? enough to walk. I KNOW itâs for drama but itâs just lol
ok but Heather is SO CUTE HOLY FUCKIN SHIT. i don;t understand how this freak of sentient oil puddle got to create an immortal ethereal being - but WHAT EVS. (I can pilot anything, even you. what a come on lol)
where thereâs tears, thereâs hope, yes but you also gave him a tear huh, as a puddle-being, so you can track him hmmm
all the flashbacks to modern companions!!! i loved that!
i actually think the christmas special kind of ruins this real good finale!
i am gonna miss Missy, Michell Gomez did something truly incredible there. but i also liked the return of Simm!Master, and i loved their chemistry.
anyway i genuinely think this was a good finale. very complex, and very moffat. but mostly his strong writing, very little of his shitty tics.
GOOD STUFF!!
meanwhile cybermen are still coming up the colony ship converting people on every deck though, so thatâs unfortunate.













