One of my favorite sequences involved Bill telling the First Doctor that she too has experience with the fairer sex. Our Doctor is constantly trailing behind him asking him not to say things like that anymore. The First Doctor is like someone’s grandpa, filled with judgemental statements and borderline problematic phrases. In the meantime, the First Doctor slowly comes to the realization that he’s meeting his regenerated self. He joins the two Doctors on an adventure to see what is stopping time. He emerges from the crater only to be taken by strange glass people before being released in the south pole with no idea of what’s happening. We flash to 1914 Ypres, where the Captain, played by Mark Gatiss, is stuck in a crater getting ready to kill or be killed by a German soldier before time stopped for him. Something we soon see when time freezes and a British World War I Captain walks onto the scene. Both Doctors have their reasons for not regenerating but that refusal has consequences. Or we die as we are,” the Twelfth Doctor tells his counterpart. “We have a choice: either we change and go on. He, too, is on the brink of regeneration but stops it at the last moment.Īt the South Pole, these two versions of the Doctor meet. As he talks to his companions, the black and white footage morphs into color with David Bradley, who played the First Doctor in the 2013 TV movie, An Adventure in Space and Time, seamlessly taking over. The Christmas episode begins with grainy archival footage of the last episode of William Hartnell, the First Doctor. We ended season 10 with the Doctor stopping his regeneration and meeting a surprise guest in the form of the First Doctor. Instead, this episode is all about letting go. Steven Moffat didn’t give us a complicated plot filled with intricate details and an evil villain that required the Doctor to suit up one last time to defeat. It seems weird to say, but the plot of the Doctor Who Christmas special isn’t that important. There were a number of episodes, including “Heaven Sent” - an episode that focused entirely on the Doctor - that showed the strength of Capaldi’s acting abilities and the essence of his Doctor. He did care, he just showed it in a different way. This, in part, led to a rough first season eight with only a few standout episodes like “Listen.” The next season, nine, was much better. He was more alien than any of the other Doctors in the reboot. Gruff and abrasive, he was almost the complete opposite of my then favorite Doctor, Eleven. Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor grew on me slowly.
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