![]() ![]() ![]() “The Doctor Falls” is perhaps one of the most thematically consistent episodes I’ve ever seen. So the Doctor and company have to plant on one of the faux-pastureland floors of the spaceship and defend it. And because of the march of time within the spaceship, they can’t just go back up to the top to get the TARDIS, because the Cybermen will have had thousands of years to evolve. ![]() Bill has become a Cybermen, but she still retains her inherent Bill-ness, which is unique among Cybermen for…oh, just about every reason. But the Doctor has made it so they’re looking for two-hearted individuals. We open with a bit of a sped-up reveal that the two Masters have knocked out the Doctor and have turned the entirety of the bottom floor of the 400-mile-long spaceship into a Cybermen foundry. To drive the point home, some of Murray Gold’s score has a Degüello, or a bugle call traditional in Mexican culture, and used in westerns a lot, to signify impending death. Actually, I think a better comparison would be The Wild Bunch or Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, because the Doctor’s willingness to head off to his own doom is completely unfettered by whether or not he’ll actually succeed. Like Rio Bravo or Shane, it ended up being about a small group of people, and one man at the heart of it, trying to preserve some semblance of decency in an otherwise chaotic, lawless world. “The Doctor Falls” is a decidedly downbeat title and the episode bore that out, in a satisfying way.Īt a certain point–and maybe it should have been sooner–I realized that “The Doctor Falls” was a western. Now, with the finale of Series 10, we were treated to an episode all about the march of time being completely unconcerned with what people might want. Still things turned around dramatically with “ World Enough and Time” and the cliffhanger of Bill Potts being turned into a legitimate Mondasian Cyberman was chilling. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how sort of off it began feeling following its first five enjoyably throwback-y episodes. It’s been a funny ol’ series of Doctor Who. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS TO DOCTOR WHO‘S SERIES 10 FINALE. ![]()
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