1st March, 2020.
It’s a Sunday …
You know this, already.
And, if you anything like me?
On a night when there’s nothing to do, you’ll end up doing a few things.
You’ll need up trying to keep yourself yourself occupied.
What do you do, out of interest? Watch the big match? Read a book? Recreational somethings?
I’m pretty sure you can let me know.
Speaking personally?
I’d rather not spend my time with beer: I spent too many years as a barman.
I — occasionally — spend time with friends and family.
It’s my birthday, on Wednesday: so I got treated to a meal, and a session of ten pin bowling, with my sister and nephew.
Ruth won, with a total of ninety-seven points. I came in second, Jude came in last.
I don’t think Jude was happy, either!
He’s healthily competitive.
At any rate … ?
Tonight is Sunday night.
Which, over the past few months … ?
Means I’m watching just the one TV show.
There’s a possibility of a meaningful look.
~≈¥≈~
How to summarise this … ?
Episode 10 — The Timeless Children — follows on from The Ascension of The Cybermen.
The TARDIS crew — the Doctor, Graham, Yas and Ryan (Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill and Toisin Cole) along side Ravio, Ethan, Ko Sharmus and Yedlarmi (Julia Graham, Matt Carver, Ian McIlhenny and Alex Austin) — at the mouth of the Boundary, staring at Gallifrey …
As the Master (Sacha Dhawan) drags the Doctor, back home.
Just when the Cyberman arrive on at Ko Sharmus’ world.
On Gallifrey … ?
The Master does two things.
Invites the Cybermen to Gallifrey: he has a proposition for their leader, the Lone Cyberman (Patrick O’Kane).
That done … ? He manages to trap the Doctor in a force field.
And drag her into the one piece of functioning technology left on the planet.
The Matrix, itself.
He has a story to tell: about the Timeless Child …
~≈¥≈~
On the other side of the Boundary … ?
On the other side of the Boundary, Yas, Ryan and Graham are keen to rescue the Doctor: but need to get off the Cybercarrier … and then onto Gallifrey.
The only way for them to do that … ?
Is to get off the carrier disguised as Cybermen.
THEN find the Doctor, on Gallifrey: a Doctor who’s finally been told the truth of her own beginning’s … ?
Considering there’s a full on Cyber invasion … ?
Things are going to get twisty …
~≈¥≈~
Now …
What did I make of The Timeless Children?
I liked it.
There’s quite a few references to older episodes, enough mentions — of Borusa, of The Deadly Assassin — to catch the eye of an again fan, like me.
There’s answers: and hints at what we already knew.
That Brendan is a Time Lord: one heavily tested by the Division, a latter day successor to the Celestial Intervention Agency.
Not only that, he’s the Doctor: an unknown earlier incarnation, and one linked inextricably to the Timeless Child, itself.
The Child … ?
The Child, long before Rassilon and Omega, the Child was found, abandoned, at the Boundary by a Gallifreyan — a Shobogan, one of Gallifrey’s earliest peoples — called Tecteun.
A Shobogan scientist …
Who soon finds her adopted child is the only person on the planet who can regenerate … and who soon works out how to reproduce this ability …
And, in so doing … ?
Created both Time Lord civilisation …
And the Doctor, herself …
~≈¥≈~
So have I enjoyed this episode?
Yes: I have.
Granted, I felt it maybe went on ten minutes too long.
But had it been any shorter?
You and I would have missed the show’s extended mythology …
Missed a team being split up …
And on HELL of a twist in the tale* …
Here’s to The Revolution of the Daleks.
What … ?
* There’s nods in this episode’s endings. To River Song and her imprisonment. And to David Tennant’s time in the role: closing near enough every season with ‘What? What … ?’
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