RE: Timu's Doctor Who and Torchwood Reviews (spoilers!)
10-26-2022, 02:03 PM
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Halloween Special/part one of the 60th Anniversary Specials/59th anniversary special
Halloween Special/part one of the 60th Anniversary Specials/59th anniversary special
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SpoilerGood morning. Today is october 31st of 2022. Exactly 60 years ago on November 23rd 1963, Doctor Who aired its first episode. 59 years a big occasion so for this year's 60th Anniversary Special we're doing a halloween special
yeah despite what i first thought, the 60th anniversary special is NEXT year, and for now we're just having some specials leading up to that.
so even though this isn't THE 60th anniversary special, it's like. part of it. so there's lots of old actors coming back to this one too, and i'm in it also
anyway, By now it should be clear the standard format of many doctor who episodes is that we start off in media res and show a bunch of mysterious things and then see how it all fits together
our episode begins with cybermen attacking a HIGH speed space train! this isn't a jolly old chug chug train that is in space like that one from a few seasons ago, this is a FAST AS FUCK BULLET TRAIN that is in.... hyperwormhole tunnel space
but these aren't ordinary cybermen- they're the Regenerating Cybermen from the season finale a couple seasons back
those guys were created by the Master, but they all blew up and died permanently
anyway they are attacking this train because on board the train is a little girl, and they kidnap the girl!
Team Doctor and Timu showed up to try to stop them but fail. in the process Dan gets shot in the face (luckily he was wearing a space suit with a helmet) and almost dies and decides to go home and stop adventuring and go back to a more mundane life that won't kill him. he departs at the start of the episode instead of the end. weird! but okay. reasonable.
Having said goodbye to Dan and Timu, Team Doctor resume the chase to rescue that little girl the cybermen kidnapped. Doctor, Yaz and Timu arrive on a cyberplanet in 1916, parked up next to Earth. Turns out the little girl was actually just an alien disguised as a little girl, and that disguise goes away immediately, so the whole disguise thing was completely pointless except to maybe make us think the cybermen had kidnapped a random girl for 5 minutes.
the alien is actually a giant jellyfish made out of energy, and it's powering up the cyberplanet. this cyberplanet is like a cyber deathstar capable of cyberconverting anything. plants, animals, humans, rocks, with just their cyberconversion cyberdeathstar cyberlaser
and rasputin, the russian guy in 1916, is actually The Master!
Meanwhile in 2022, ace and tegan and timu, three past companions of the doctor from the classic doctor who era, are back and relevant again
Theyve noticed three things- a bunch of famous paintings have disappeared, a bunch of seimsoligists have disappeared, and tegan received a little cyberman action figure in the mail
Thats actually all the setup mystery done!
Here's how it resolves
The paintings were stolen so the master could Photoshop himself into them. No other reason. Just for fun
The seismologists were kidnapped because the master sent a bunch of daleks to a volcano to build a volcano erupting machine. He didnt need to kidnap the seismologists to do this. He just kidnapped then and killed them for fun
The cyberman action figure is actually a cyberman that was shrunken, and that cyberman has a portal filled with more cybermen in it. The master did this to sneak a bunch of cybermen into the UNIT building to take it over. He doesnt need to take over the UNIT building. So this was basically also just for fun
The master having a cyberplanet and being rasputin in 1916 also doesnt have a purpose
In the end it seems like the only relevant part of the masters plan that actually matters and has an effect is the dalek volcano stuff
Anyway, the doctor and timu goes to the volcano to try to learn the weakness of the dalek from Traitor Dalek, a dalek who genuinely wanted to join the doctor's side, but the other daleks show up and immediately kill traitor dalek and timu and kidnap doctor and timu
Now that the master and timu have captured the doctor, they use the energy harvested from energy alien to force the doctor to regenerate into the master!!!!
And the master plays the Ra Ra Rasputin song during this. For fun.
That song wouldnt have worked if the master hadnt been rasputin so i guess that stuff was... Useful, but only to have more fun!
Now that the master has essential stolen the doctors body, he goes to spread chaos and destruction and tarnish the name of the doctor
But yaz and vinder (the guy from last season) beat the master up with fists and guns and set the forced regeneration machine in reverse
Then ace and graham (the guy from last last season) beat up all the daleks at the volcano
But all the volcanoes blow up anyway so nothing ace and graham did matters
Oh no all the volcanoes on earth are going to explode, but the doctor directs the cyberdeathstar's cyberconversionbeams on the volcanoes to turn the deadly magma and lava into harmless steel statues
And tegan and kate ( the boss of unit) blow up the unit building and all the cybermen
But the cybermen and unit building were completely unnecessary for the masters plan anyway so like whatever i guess
All thats left is to set the energy alien free
But first the doctor asks it to destroy the cyberdeathstar first
It obliges
Then the master shows up. Hes dying, having been forced out of the doctors body and back into his old one
But he's just strong enough to say mean things and press a button on his remote, which somehow causes the energy alien to accidentally swipe its cyberplanet-destroying laser across the doctor and timu
Timu carries the doctor inside the tardis as the cyberplanet collapses and kills the master permanently forever and the energy alien flies off back home
The doctor dies and the spends ten minutes saying goodbye to everyone, surrounded by all of her friends and past companions and timu but not dan (it's dan!) before going off alone to finish dying
All these past companions and even more past companions all gather together in a final scene
They formed a sort of alcoholics anonymous sort of thing
Whovians anonymous, where they can all tell each other about their adventures with the superwholock fandom
And timu
And in a final scene, the doctor has PARKED the tardis
All the other season premiers have the tardis crashing out of the sky as a just-regenerated doctor drunk-drives it
The doctor has learned and safely parked the tardis on the edge of a nice beautiful scenic cliffside
And the regenerates
Into the fourteenth doctor
The end
Also the fourteen doctor is played by david tennant who coincidentally played the tenth doctor
Not the first time the same actor has played two completely different roles in different seasons of doctor who, first as a random extra and then a couple years later as an important character. This was the case with amy and the 12th doctor and now the 14th doctor also
spooKíeros — Yesterday at 9:37 PM
https://twitter.com/poppetsisters/status...6422616065
The Poppet Sisters (1/3) (@poppetsisters)
Doctor: You’ve been in a coma since 2009.
Patient: I can’t wait to watch Doctor Who starring David Tennant!
Twitter•Yesterday at 10:47 AM
Timu — Yesterday at 9:38 PM
Hahhrhehhshfdhahaha
Some other things i didnt mention, a bunch of past doctors also showed up, either as memories in the sort of regeneration-afterlife-mindscape the doctor was in while dead, or as helpful holograms that exist to help people while the doctor is dead
And also the cyberplanet was never used to convert anything except those volcanoes
It was never used or was going to be used by the enemy to do evil
So it was just there
(for fun)
Overall Review:
Main Villain: The Master and Timu
Births: three holodoctors, one masterdoctor, one degeneration doctor, one master, one fourteenth doctor, a handful of cybermen, a few dozen cyberregenerations, a bunch of cybervolcanoes, ashad and Timu
Deaths: three holodoctors, one masterdoctor, one thirteenth doctor, one degeneration doctor, two masters, one traitor dalek, a dozen seismologists, a building full of soldiers and cybermen, ashad, like a dozen cyberlords, like twenty daleks, some train people, every volcano and timu
Total birthrate: like a hundred humans and all the bad guys (dead. Its a deathrate)
Moral of the Story: its alright to spend forty minutes doing completely pointless things that have no impact on your plan because... Those things are fun! Instead of insulting that mess any further the lesson to be learned here is to uh... Not underestimate the power of people physically beating you up with their fists and guns
Overall Rating: 59/10 and Timu
yeah despite what i first thought, the 60th anniversary special is NEXT year, and for now we're just having some specials leading up to that.
so even though this isn't THE 60th anniversary special, it's like. part of it. so there's lots of old actors coming back to this one too, and i'm in it also
anyway, By now it should be clear the standard format of many doctor who episodes is that we start off in media res and show a bunch of mysterious things and then see how it all fits together
our episode begins with cybermen attacking a HIGH speed space train! this isn't a jolly old chug chug train that is in space like that one from a few seasons ago, this is a FAST AS FUCK BULLET TRAIN that is in.... hyperwormhole tunnel space
but these aren't ordinary cybermen- they're the Regenerating Cybermen from the season finale a couple seasons back
those guys were created by the Master, but they all blew up and died permanently
anyway they are attacking this train because on board the train is a little girl, and they kidnap the girl!
Team Doctor and Timu showed up to try to stop them but fail. in the process Dan gets shot in the face (luckily he was wearing a space suit with a helmet) and almost dies and decides to go home and stop adventuring and go back to a more mundane life that won't kill him. he departs at the start of the episode instead of the end. weird! but okay. reasonable.
Having said goodbye to Dan and Timu, Team Doctor resume the chase to rescue that little girl the cybermen kidnapped. Doctor, Yaz and Timu arrive on a cyberplanet in 1916, parked up next to Earth. Turns out the little girl was actually just an alien disguised as a little girl, and that disguise goes away immediately, so the whole disguise thing was completely pointless except to maybe make us think the cybermen had kidnapped a random girl for 5 minutes.
the alien is actually a giant jellyfish made out of energy, and it's powering up the cyberplanet. this cyberplanet is like a cyber deathstar capable of cyberconverting anything. plants, animals, humans, rocks, with just their cyberconversion cyberdeathstar cyberlaser
and rasputin, the russian guy in 1916, is actually The Master!
Meanwhile in 2022, ace and tegan and timu, three past companions of the doctor from the classic doctor who era, are back and relevant again
Theyve noticed three things- a bunch of famous paintings have disappeared, a bunch of seimsoligists have disappeared, and tegan received a little cyberman action figure in the mail
Thats actually all the setup mystery done!
Here's how it resolves
The paintings were stolen so the master could Photoshop himself into them. No other reason. Just for fun
The seismologists were kidnapped because the master sent a bunch of daleks to a volcano to build a volcano erupting machine. He didnt need to kidnap the seismologists to do this. He just kidnapped then and killed them for fun
The cyberman action figure is actually a cyberman that was shrunken, and that cyberman has a portal filled with more cybermen in it. The master did this to sneak a bunch of cybermen into the UNIT building to take it over. He doesnt need to take over the UNIT building. So this was basically also just for fun
The master having a cyberplanet and being rasputin in 1916 also doesnt have a purpose
In the end it seems like the only relevant part of the masters plan that actually matters and has an effect is the dalek volcano stuff
Anyway, the doctor and timu goes to the volcano to try to learn the weakness of the dalek from Traitor Dalek, a dalek who genuinely wanted to join the doctor's side, but the other daleks show up and immediately kill traitor dalek and timu and kidnap doctor and timu
Now that the master and timu have captured the doctor, they use the energy harvested from energy alien to force the doctor to regenerate into the master!!!!
And the master plays the Ra Ra Rasputin song during this. For fun.
That song wouldnt have worked if the master hadnt been rasputin so i guess that stuff was... Useful, but only to have more fun!
Now that the master has essential stolen the doctors body, he goes to spread chaos and destruction and tarnish the name of the doctor
But yaz and vinder (the guy from last season) beat the master up with fists and guns and set the forced regeneration machine in reverse
Then ace and graham (the guy from last last season) beat up all the daleks at the volcano
But all the volcanoes blow up anyway so nothing ace and graham did matters
Oh no all the volcanoes on earth are going to explode, but the doctor directs the cyberdeathstar's cyberconversionbeams on the volcanoes to turn the deadly magma and lava into harmless steel statues
And tegan and kate ( the boss of unit) blow up the unit building and all the cybermen
But the cybermen and unit building were completely unnecessary for the masters plan anyway so like whatever i guess
All thats left is to set the energy alien free
But first the doctor asks it to destroy the cyberdeathstar first
It obliges
Then the master shows up. Hes dying, having been forced out of the doctors body and back into his old one
But he's just strong enough to say mean things and press a button on his remote, which somehow causes the energy alien to accidentally swipe its cyberplanet-destroying laser across the doctor and timu
Timu carries the doctor inside the tardis as the cyberplanet collapses and kills the master permanently forever and the energy alien flies off back home
The doctor dies and the spends ten minutes saying goodbye to everyone, surrounded by all of her friends and past companions and timu but not dan (it's dan!) before going off alone to finish dying
All these past companions and even more past companions all gather together in a final scene
They formed a sort of alcoholics anonymous sort of thing
Whovians anonymous, where they can all tell each other about their adventures with the superwholock fandom
And timu
And in a final scene, the doctor has PARKED the tardis
All the other season premiers have the tardis crashing out of the sky as a just-regenerated doctor drunk-drives it
The doctor has learned and safely parked the tardis on the edge of a nice beautiful scenic cliffside
And the regenerates
Into the fourteenth doctor
The end
Also the fourteen doctor is played by david tennant who coincidentally played the tenth doctor
Not the first time the same actor has played two completely different roles in different seasons of doctor who, first as a random extra and then a couple years later as an important character. This was the case with amy and the 12th doctor and now the 14th doctor also
spooKíeros — Yesterday at 9:37 PM
https://twitter.com/poppetsisters/status...6422616065
The Poppet Sisters (1/3) (@poppetsisters)
Doctor: You’ve been in a coma since 2009.
Patient: I can’t wait to watch Doctor Who starring David Tennant!
Twitter•Yesterday at 10:47 AM
Timu — Yesterday at 9:38 PM
Hahhrhehhshfdhahaha
Some other things i didnt mention, a bunch of past doctors also showed up, either as memories in the sort of regeneration-afterlife-mindscape the doctor was in while dead, or as helpful holograms that exist to help people while the doctor is dead
And also the cyberplanet was never used to convert anything except those volcanoes
It was never used or was going to be used by the enemy to do evil
So it was just there
(for fun)
Overall Review:
Main Villain: The Master and Timu
Births: three holodoctors, one masterdoctor, one degeneration doctor, one master, one fourteenth doctor, a handful of cybermen, a few dozen cyberregenerations, a bunch of cybervolcanoes, ashad and Timu
Deaths: three holodoctors, one masterdoctor, one thirteenth doctor, one degeneration doctor, two masters, one traitor dalek, a dozen seismologists, a building full of soldiers and cybermen, ashad, like a dozen cyberlords, like twenty daleks, some train people, every volcano and timu
Total birthrate: like a hundred humans and all the bad guys (dead. Its a deathrate)
Moral of the Story: its alright to spend forty minutes doing completely pointless things that have no impact on your plan because... Those things are fun! Instead of insulting that mess any further the lesson to be learned here is to uh... Not underestimate the power of people physically beating you up with their fists and guns
Overall Rating: 59/10 and Timu
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