![]() ![]() ![]() Jodie Whittaker’s first scene, complete with big cliffhanger, was great, and set things up nicely. The actual regeneration was alright, but much like Steven Moffat’s other big regeneration scene, it was a bit grandiose and near-fourth wall breaking (though at least the Twelfth Doctor had previous experience talking to himself in the TARDIS) but it wasn’t as bad as “I’ll always remember the time the Doctor was me”, and his last words were good (“Doctor, I let you go.”), even if it was along similar lines (oh and thank you for using the one actual recognisable and great bit of Twelfth Doctor era music, “Breaking the Wall”, for the scene!). It’s quite dark, but definitely interesting. If anything his acceptance to regenerate again with the line “Oh, one more lifetime can’t hurt” almost feels like a last-moment act of cowardice, right at the end he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Even for a Time Lord he’s lived too long, he’s gone past his own natural life span, and he’s starting to envy those who have managed to actually die. ![]() Towards the end of the story, he looks at the glass avatar of Bill Potts and asks why he can’t rest and have peace like everyone else, and that really hit me. That being said, it’s an epilogue that serves the Twelfth Doctor well! It allows him to be heroic a few times, but mostly it shows the character of The Doctor as vulnerable, a man who has felt the despair of immortality and wants it to stop. Twice Upon a Time is an odd story to talk about, it really feels like the action is already over and this is just an hour long epilogue. ![]() Davies far) future where the people who are just about to die are taken from the moment of their death, have their memories recorded, and then placed back into their end. The Testimony (Nikki Amuka-Bird) – A program set up in the far, far (proper Russell T. He doesn’t want to experience death now, let alone eleven more times… why can’t he just be him?Īrchibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart (Mark Gatiss) – A soldier in the first World War, who’s weird experience here will actually pale in comparison to what his later heir will one day face…īill Potts (Pearl Mackie) – Bill was whisked away at the end of the last episode, but all things do eventually end… The question is, what happens to our memories after we’re gone? The Doctor (David Bradley) – The very first incarnation of The Doctor, seen here fighting his regeneration due to nothing but the pure fear of the unknown. The Doctor is facing death once again, and he’s beginning to wonder why he hasn’t been granted the eternal rest and peace the others of his race, for the most part, are given… The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) – He may be known to some as the “Twelfth Doctor”, but really he’s on his 14 th life, a no-no for Time Lords. “How dare you talk to me?! Go put the oven on, woman!” (apparently.) It is the end of an era, but the Doctor’s journey is only just beginning… In the final chapter of the Twelfth Doctor’s adventure, he must face his past to decide his future. Two Doctors stranded in a foreboding snowscape, refusing to face regeneration. The Regeneration Marathon comes to an end, fittingly with a story that has heavy ties to the very first regeneration! Peter Capaldi’s great but possibly underused Twelfth Doctor regenerates in a story that feels more like an Epilogue to his run rather than a full-on adventure, but it at least gives his Doctor a good send off, and sets up the next era with a bang (though while simultaneously trashing a previous era…). ![]()
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