So Capaldis first xmas special was upon us and as per usual it was a deadset beauty
Clara is awoken to find Santa (Nick Frost) on her roof arguing with his elves ( one of which is a sontaran, think about it) as she is trying to get her head around Santa actually being on the roof, The Doctor shows up and takes her off in the Tardis
At the North Pole, a group of scientists work on trying to save their fellow base personnel who have been taken over by crab-like creatures..
The Doctor realizes the creatures are Dream Crabs, alien crabs that induce a dream state while devouring a person's brain They escape when they dream that Santa is flying them home. One by one they wake up and their crabs die, until only Clara is left
. The Doctor awakens and removes the crab from Clara, only to discover that it has been 62 years for her since they last met. Santa appears and the Doctor realizes he is still dreaming. Back in reality, the Doctor finds Clara at her normal age. He asks Clara if she wants to rejoin him aboard the TARDIS; she accepts.
Certainly a soon to be Whovian Classic
The Doctor attempts to rescue a boy on a battlefield, surrounded by hand mines, but then discovers that the boy is a young Davros, Now for most of us this would invoke quite the quandary, But I guess the Doctor is a better man than moi
The rather creepy new evil sidekick, Colony Sarff, a humanoid composed of snakes, searches for the Doctor in various locations, including the planet Karn and the Shadow Proclamation headquarters .
On Earth, Clara is summoned by UNIT when all of the world's aircraft freeze in the sky, and they discover Missy is causing the phenomenon. Missy has the confession dial of the Doctor, and tells Clara that they must search for him.
They trace him to Essex in 1138, where he has spent three weeks having a party. When Clara and Missy reunite with the Doctor, Sarff arrives and explains that the elderly Davros wishes to see the Doctor, before taking the three to a hospital ship( or did he). Clara and Missy discover the ship is a building on an invisible planet, but as the landscape reappears, Missy identifies the planet as Skaro.
They are captured by the Daleks, who appear to kill them and destroy the TARDIS. The Doctor returns to the battlefield, holding a Dalek weapon, apparently preparing to kill the younger Davros.....the only question I have about the episode is ...
Missy is able to power her teleporter for her and Clara to escape. The two attempt to find the Doctor, going through the sewers/ cemetery, which are filled with dead and decaying Daleks.
They successfully kill a Dalek and empty its case to disguise Clara inside of it. Meanwhile, Davros tells the Doctor he wishes to heal him, and asks the Doctor if he is a good man. The Doctor comforts Davros, and the two begin to bond.
Feeling compassion for him, the Doctor uses a little regeneration energy to power Davros' life support, which is also connected to every Dalek.
This turns out to be a trap, and this appears to drain the Doctor of regeneration energy to regenerate Davros and the Daleks. Missy saves the Doctor, and the energy also restores the dying Daleks, who wish to destroy the functional Daleks.
While escaping, the Doctor and Missy encounter Clara's Dalek. Missy tries to trick the Doctor into killing her, but fails and escapes.
The Doctor then returns to the battlefield, where he doesn't kill Davros, but destroys the mines to free him and then helps the young Davros home....
The Doctor and Clara arrive in an underwater base in the year 2119, always a matter for concern if your a Whovian,
The military team there have discovered an alien space ship, but the leader of their crew was killed upon its discovery. Now their dead crew member and something that looks like a undertaker have come back as ghosts trying to kill them, strangely these ghosts can pick up tools (sledgehammers and such) .
The Doctor and the others attempt to capture the ghosts and understand what they want, one of the crew is hearing impared and using her lip reading skills, finds out that the ghosties are repeating coordinates.
The crew hide in the Faraday Cage at night as the spooks cant enter it, The Doctor concludes that the ghosts are being used to send a call to the location. the Doctor decides to go back to before the flood and find out the true meaning behind the signal. However, on his way through the base, he is separated from Clara.
Clara must stay in the base with military personnel Cass and Lunn as it begins flooding, while the Doctor goes to the TARDIS with O'Donnell and Bennet.
After they leave, Clara spots a new ghost in the lake, only to discover that it is the Doctor....
The Doctor explains the Bootstrap Paradox to the audience,
before landing in 1980 with Bennett and O'Donnell.
They discover that the Undertaker who ia actually a Tivolian ( the most invaded species in the universe) named Prentis, is still alive, the writing has not yet been scratched into the wall, and that the spaceship is a hearse, carrying The Fisher King.
Meanwhile, Clara, Cass and Lunn realise that The Doctor's ghost is uttering their names instead of coordinates. The Doctor contacts Clara and tries to reason with his ghost but it unlocks the Faraday cage, releasing the others.
The Fisher King awakes, killing Prentis and writing the words on the wall. O'Donnell, Bennet and The Doctor flees but they get separated and O'Donnell is killed.
The Doctor confronts the Fisher King, tricking him into leaving the church and the stasis chamber behind, and he uses the missing power cell to destroy the dam wall, flooding the base.
The stasis chamber opens in the future to reveal The Doctor inside; his "ghost" is a hologram, programmed by The Doctor.
The ghosts are sealed within the Faraday cage, and the Doctor and Clara leave. The Doctor asks Clara who thought of what to program the ghost to say, drawing a parallel with the Bootstrap paradox.
the Doctor and Clara are nabbed by vikings and brought to their village, The Warriors belive they received a message from Odin but actually find themselves under siege by the Mire,
one of the universe's most powerful warrior races, apparently because the village storyteller , a girl named Ashildr, was antagonizing them.
the Doctor and Clara begin training the villagers for war after the Mire kills all of the village's soldiers.
At first it seems hopeless, but then the Doctor concocts a plan utilizing Ashildr. The next day, the Mire invades, and the Doctor steals a helmet for Ashildr to use, she hacks into the Mire's other helmets and forces them to retreat, but she dies due to the helmet draining her life away.
The Doctor and Clara are saddened by this , but then he remembers Caecilius, a man whom he saved at the insistence of Donna ("The Fires of Pompeii"), realising he and Caecilius now share a face. The Doctor realising his face is a reminder that he doesn't have to follow the rules of time and space, and he uses Mire technology to bring Ashildr back to life....This could get interesting
While Clara is teaching one day, the Doctor travels on his own to 1600s London, where he encounters the highway robber known as "The Knightmare" who turns out to be a now immortal Ashildr, she has taken the name "Me." Due to her unending life, she has seen all of historys greatest moments ( like the 100 year war) but,
has lost many of her memories, and has isolated herself in order to avoid the pain of losing family and freinds.
She begs the Doctor to take her away from this world, but he refuses. He then discovers she has a backup plan, and has met an alien after an amulet that will open a portal to take them away from the Earth, though it requires the death of another to activate.
The creature and Me team up to take the life of local outlaw Sam Swift, and the amulet begins draining his life while opening the portal, when the creature reveals it was manipulating Me to bring his own people to conquer this world.
The Doctor and Me then use another device to make one immortal (which the Doctor gave Me on her first day of immortality) to stop the death of the outlaw, saving him and closing the portal. Claiming that the Doctor leaves too many behind, Me tells him she'll look out for those who remain in the aftermath of his adventures. When Clara comes back, the Doctor sees a picture on her phone, which has Me staring at him in the background in present day London....I must say, these last two episodes are IMHO, among the greatest Capaldi adventures since he kicked off,
The second half of the season is forthcoming seeya then
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