Timeless tv show reviews11/18/2023 ![]() This is obviously going to be picked up on next season. Doctor Who has ignored revelations this big before (indeed, it’s difficult to see how “half human on my mother’s side” could possibly be true now, despite apparently being confirmed by Hell Bent, which, to be fair, it remains unclear whether Chibnall has actually seen), but that was aided by nine years off the air and a revival that spent a few years being deathly allergic to continuity. Is there a way back from this? It’s honestly tough to say. Big revelations about lore that come down to “the fan favorite bits are absolutely the most important things in the series and we promise to never actually challenge or disrupt you in any way.” Finally, we can all see what The Rise of Skywalker would have looked like on a shitty BBC budget. No other message or insight into the world. Just come back.” There’s nothing else here. I’ll bring back the block-headed Cybermen. ![]() ![]() Now we have our answer: Series 12 of Doctor Who is a lengthy missive to Ian Levine, groveling at his feet and begging him to come back. Throughout the series I’ve been asking who this is for. The only characters with motivation are the Master and the Cybermen, whose motivation consists of a tattered post-it note saying “be evil.” Macguffins are simply vomited forth out of the ruins of Gallifrey whenever called for, most trashily as the Master casually goes “oh, but I kept all the bodies around.” A key piece of information is delivered to the Doctor in the form of “handily, there’s a legend that addresses the specific thing you’re wondering about.” The specific thing she’s wondering about, incidentally, is actually called the “death particle.” You may want to head back to the mirror and tell yourself that with a straight face too. The companions have nothing to do but make tepid contributions to the tedious action sequences that fill the gaps between the equally tedious infodumps. ![]() Then, for a resolution, a character whose narrative importance after two episodes consists of “he’s played by a guy who was a minor character in Game of Thrones ” swoops in to save the day. It’ll be a good, healing experience.Īs for the episode around it… it’s tempting to just derisively laugh and say “what episode around it.” The Doctor stands around for forty-five minutes while men explain the plot to her. Repeat until you can do it with conviction, without bursting out laughing. Walk up to your bathroom mirror and look yourself in the eyes as you deliver those exact words in an even and calm tone. The Shabogans are the indigenous people of Gallifrey who became the Time Lords by stealing the secrets of regeneration from the Doctor’s DNA. It’s worth actually explaining the reveal out loud with words, so as to actually make your mind confront what happened here. It’s as if the Cartmel Masterplan fucked the Leekley Bible and then gave the illegitimate child away to Ian Levine to foster.Īstonishingly, though, none of that actually captures how bad it is. It’s not the Other but the Doctor themself that’s at the heart of Gallifreyan history now. It’s genuinely terrible-a reveal that takes the dumbest instincts of the Virgin era and strips off the brakes and hedges. The series is now committed to an endless parade of reveals about the secret history of Gallifrey, all of which the Doctor was apparently there for. Instead of being the schlubby mediocrity who ran away and stumbled through becoming a hero without ever realizing that was what they were working towards, the Doctor is now the Most Specialist Time Lord That Ever Did Time Lord, with magic powers above and beyond the other Time Lords and origins stretching back beyond even the days of Rassilon. Making the Doctor the secret origin of all of the Time Lords is absolutely appalling-the sort of “the main character must be the center of the mythology” crap that Doctor Who is historically at its best when it rebels against. I suppose there’s nowhere to begin other than the big reveal, given that it is by an outlandish margin the single worst lore reveal in the entire history of Doctor Who.
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