One thing I forgot to add to my Good list: the regeneration affect has either been upgraded or modified to show the original regenerations, but in any case, I like the visual change (consistent, not too drastic from the rest of nuWho) while retaining the same sound effects.
For Doctor Who as much as any sci-fi franchise, I feel like their sound design is just as important as their visuals, and so keeping the sounds of the TARDIS, the Sonic, and the nuWho regeneration have served well, even as those things change in appearance. While the look and sound of regeneration is uniquely nuWho, it's also the one constant that it's created since the Ninth Doctor to the present (and then retroactively applied to the Eighth and partly to the First).
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lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but never ever tell me the rules!!"
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She also filmed an ad for the Season 26 blu-ray box set featuring her as CEO of her charity.
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The stuff with the policeman was merely intended to be a metaphor/analog/clue to what happened to the Doctor/Timeless child.
One thing I also thought of. Remember the woman in White from End of Time? Maybe Tecteun's another candidate (Sure, Tecteun turned into a male but of course there's probably other incarnations). His/Her fate was kind of left ambiguous. (and some of "End of Time" was clearly going through Chibnall's line, as the Cybermaster's cheer was clearly intended to be similar to Rassilon's).
I also kind of have a theory that the two Time Lords that take their place at his side might've been intended to be Rassilon and Omega.
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With the tv show, Audios, Books, and Comics Dr. Who is kind of pick you're own Head Canon so going forward I'm just pretending series 12 never happened in my head Canon.
I wasn't so keen on the Master in this episode. Personal taste perhaps, but to me he felt like a B grade Joker.
If the series gets cancelled, the ending is going to remind me of the final to 'Sapphire and Steel.' Anyone remember that show?
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Thinking about Joanna Lumley, technically even "Curse of fatal Death" and "Scream of the Shalka" could technically both be canon now. (Although both involve the Master, who seems to now be much younger than the Doctor, unless he's had some memory wipes too).
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Hold up. D'you mean literally, as in The Master destroying Gallifrey and killing 'em all? If that's the case, RTD already killed the Time Lords (and had the Doc sort of do it) so the Doc could be all "Last of the Time Lords". Then Moffat came along and completely retconned what RTD did - which is either tearing down what RTD did, or building up what was there in the first place that RTD had already tore down. Depending on your point of view, I guess.
Or were you talking about the bigger picture, in terms of Gallifreyan/Time Lord history? Cos that was barely touched, outside of what had already been established.
As for quality, well that's always gonna be subjective. But it had it for me. Primarily because it wasn't all shock and awe, but somehow managed to be all big and mad and whuuuut, without changing the stuff we explicitly already knew. There's just more now, is all. And I like more.
"The rules of regeneration are known!"
"Sorry, what did you say? Did you mention the rules? Now, listen. A bit of advice: tell me the truth if you think you know it,
lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but never ever tell me the rules!!"
I can't get behind the Doctor's origin retcon. I'm done. Sorry, this is too much. I've held in until now, however. I have my limits. I was okay with the Doctor being a woman as the Doctor is an alien who can regenerate into anything (technically). The Doctor's current gender or race makes not one wit of difference to me. The Doctor being changed from a bored Time Lady/Time Lord who ran off seeking adventure to a mysterious chosen one child is, well, stupid and runs counter to everything we know about the character. I won't support this drivel.
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