The Doctor Falls
- Episode aired Jul 1, 2017
- TV-PG
- 1h
The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.The Doctor makes a final stand against an army of Cybermen to protect a tiny band of humans from destruction.
- Martha Jones
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Jack Harkness
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Modern Cyberman
- (uncredited)
- Cyberman
- (uncredited)
- Clara
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
- Amy Pond
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAll of Peter Capaldi's season finales featured the Cybermen.
- GoofsSome of the shots in the woods (around 38 minutes) show the Cybermen walking slowly but the accompanying sounds are for them marching at a much faster pace.
- Quotes
Twelfth Doctor: [to the Masters] No! No! When I say no, you turn back around!
[catches up with them]
Twelfth Doctor: Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Breakfast: Episode dated 2 July 2017 (2017)
Told over two episodes scripted by show-runner Steven Moffat, unsurprisingly this was a deeper, timey-wimey story than usual involving an impossibly large spaceship with a multitude of differing time-zones, the return of my favourite of the Doctor's enemies, the Cybermen and a Doctor striving to avoid his inevitable regeneration.
Bill's assimilation into an early version of a Cybermen was cleverly shown as she portrayed her true self alongside her transformed self whilst her rescue by the Water-Girl from the first episode made for a neat circular finish to what has been an entertaining series, taking in as it has several excellent episodes like that involving the nano-bots, the terror under the Thames, the mystery of the lost Roman 9th Legion and the return of the Ice Warriors.
Not as light or as flashy as some of the earlier episodes, this one took more concentration than usual but repaid its greater demands on the viewer. Cryptic references abounded as to the identity of the next Time Lord, convincing me at least it will be a woman.
Anyway it seems that for the next series there'll definitely be no Capaldi, Gomez, Lucas, Simm or Bailey giving the next production team carte-balance for the next version of our favourite time traveller.
I'll miss Capaldi and would put him in my top three of previous doctors. Grouchy but funny, superior but humane, he's been very good value in the part, plus of course I'll miss his Scottish accent.
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