Tournament of Time – The Semifinals
We’re narrowing to the finalists in our competitive brackets for both the (televised) iterations of the Master, and the (non-companion) Friends of the Doctor.
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We’re narrowing to the finalists in our competitive brackets for both the (televised) iterations of the Master, and the (non-companion) Friends of the Doctor.
Given random pairings of eight screened portrayals, we decide which Masters are more important to the full Doctor Who story, and who we’d most love to see again.
How many times have we known that we were witnessing the waning moments of the current Doctor’s term, regeneration was nigh, and that heartache was imminent, yet we were riveted to the screen? And in those moments, how much time was spent in the episode where the Doctor himself knew that time was at hand? With few exceptions, these exercises in loss (for both character and audience) have been graciously brief, relatively speaking. The quick-pull of the bandage, if you […]
This week, we release the grip on our seats long enough to reflect on the penultimate episode of Series 10, and the first of an unofficial trilogy leading up to the end of Moffat’s and Capaldi’s tenure.
It makes perfect literary sense. How do you create a villain who is legitimately threatening, an engaging and interesting match for the protagonist’s strengths, but is not over-powerful? Simple solution: You take the hero, and make them evil. If someone is so near to your intellectual and capable equal in nearly all counts, the “chess match” is all the more balanced, and victory that much harder to attain. So it makes sense that Doctor Who showrunners would nurture such a perfect foil, and […]