Previously: The planet was saved, but Rose and Ten!Too ended up back in the alternate universe, cut off forever. Mickey ended up back on his original Earth, and Donna lost all her memories of the Doctor, causing the Snark Ladies to sob uncontrollably.
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The Next Doctor
Kirsti: And so we enter the weird sort-of season. I honestly can’t remember the entire story behind why there was this series of specials instead of a whole season, but I think it had something to do with David Tennant being cast as Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production and it being far more successful than they’d planned??? Or something?
Whatever the reason, in 2009, there was no actual season. Instead, there was this episode, the 2008 Christmas special. Then an Easter special, then three episodes in a row – one in late December, and then two episodes a week apart, basically on Christmas 2009 and New Year’s 2010. They’re all much longer than a usual episode, so brace yourselves, kids. This is gonna be a long one.
Marines: I didn’t know that this counted as the 2009 season. I know it matters to no one, probably, but Kirsti and I actually discussed how to name and number these weird season. We almost went with season 4.5 and then with season 4 but calling them specials instead of episodes. All of that stuff messes with our current system, though, so I finally just settled on keeping all of these as season 4 and continuing the numbering from 14 on. I know it’s not the most accurate way to do it, but it’ll keep things in a nice order and I do what I want.
Thank you for reading that unnecessary explanation. I appreciate you.
K: I appreciate your consistency, even though the minute the word “consistency” appears in my brain, the line “check it again against your list ‘n’ see consistency” inevitably follows. #hamiltrash
We open on a snowy alley in Victorian London. The TARDIS vworp vworps into view, and the Doctor pops out excitedly. He wanders out of the alleyway and finds himself in the middle of a Christmas market. He grins happily and so do I when I notice that the crowd includes several black extras – including one adorable small child – and at least one Asian extra. High five, BBC.
K: Legit, girl.
The Doctor asks a nearby street urchin what day it is, and he’s informed that it’s Christmas Eve. It’s all very A Christmas Carol. He then asks what year it is, and the urchin replies “You thick or something?” LOL. The Doctor gets grumpy, and the urchin informs him that it’s 1851, which the Doctor declares to be a “bit dull“. Excuse you, sir. That was the year gold was discovered in Australia, without which we’d be a POOR racist country, rather than the rich racist country we are today.
But I digress.
He hears a woman screaming his name and excitedly runs off in that direction. He finds a young black woman standing outside a door. Something is thumping on the other side. The Doctor tells her not to worry and that he’ll take care of it, but she continues to shout “DOCTOR!!” at the top of her lungs. He’s all “Um, hi. Right here??”, to which her response is “Doctor Who?“. I don’t know why it tickles me so much when they say the thing, but it does. THEY SAID THE THING.
Mari: Every time. EVERY TIME! It’s the joke that keeps on giving.
K: Just like “it’s bigger on the inside!”
Anyway, another chap (who I know as Colonel Brandon from the 2008 BBC Sense and Sensibility) (M: YES. I really love that version) comes running up. He asks the woman – Rosita – for his sonic screwdriver, tells her to get back to the TARDIS, and informs the Doctor that he should step back because this is a job for a Time Lord. The Doctor’s all “U WOT?”, but they’re interrupted by the door bursting open. Something that looks a lot like Werewolf!Oz from Buffy but wearing a Cyberman mask pops out. The Doctor and Colonel Brandon both point their sonic screwdrivers at it and say “Allons-y!” in unison. They give each other side eye as we head into the credits.
DOO WEE OOO!
After the credits, Werewolf!Cyberman studies them both, then does a hilariously terrible insta-jump up the side of the building. The Doctor’s all “Okay, let me handle this”, but Colonel Brandon lassos Werewolf!Cyberman with a rope. He’s all “HA, SORTED!” but nope, W!C scurries higher up the building, dragging Colonel Brandon after him. The Doctor grabs onto the rope too, and is dragged up the building as well. Rosita’s all “JFC, do I have to do EVERYTHING??”.
W!C runs up the side of the building to a window on the top floor, runs through the window and across the building to the other side, dragging the Doctors behind it. It dives out the opposite window, and the Doctors start to freak that they’re going to die, but LOL NOPE, Rosita’s there with an axe to cut the rope and save them both. Hurrah. The Doctors laugh and hug. Rosita eyerolls.
Back down on the street, Colonel Brandon (look, he calls himself the Doctor, but for the sake of recapping, this is easier) (M: I used up Doctor New last recap, too. Sorry.) (K: RUDE) introduces Rosita as his companion. The Doctor grins at her and says Rosita is a great name (M: Like ROSE, but… ita.), and she’s all “Pff, whatever”. She stomps off to dismantle their Werewolf!Cyberman traps, reminding Colonel Brandon that they only have 20 minutes until the funeral.
The Doctor’s all “OMG I GET TO MEET MY FUTURE SELF THIS IS SO COOL”, but Colonel Brandon has no idea what the Doctor is talking about. He says that huge chunks of his memory have gone missing and that it’s totally to do with there being Cybermen in London. Who are from another planet. The Doctor’s all “Reeeeeally…” He tries to jolt Colonel Brandon’s memory by mentioning events from past seasons, but gets nothing in response. Colonel Brandon bids him farewell to attend the funeral, and the Doctor waits a few seconds before dashing off after him.
Elsewhere, a bunch of Cybermen review the shot of the Doctors and Rosita that Werewolf!Cyberman recorded. They declare Colonel Brandon to be the Doctor. The Cyberleader, whose faceplate is painted black and whose brain is visible (urgh), asks someone off screen if everything is in place for the attack. A Victorian lady with terrifying eyebrows tells the Cyberleader that it’s all dependent on them because she can only do her best. Cyberleader informs her that she’ll be, like, super popular in the new age when the CyberKing rules everything. NGL, CyberKing sounds like a name that Mark Zuckerberg would give himself. Terrifying Eyebrows excuses herself to attend a funeral.
Back across town, Colonel Brandon and Rosita watch as a well attended funeral cortage makes its way past. Colonel Brandon informs us that it’s “the late Reverend Fairchild” and tells Rosita to get back to the TARDIS because now that the funeral is underway, he’s going to break into the Reverend’s house. He finds the Doctor already inside, and the Doctor’s all “Wait, what? Your sonic screwdriver is a literal screwdriver and isn’t at all sonic…”
The Doctor notices that Colonel Brandon wears a pocket watch and asks to see it, thinking that we’re in a Family of Blood situation. But LOL NOPE, when he opens the pocket watch, there are no Time Lord memories. Only the guts of the pocket watch, which fall out. Awkward. (M: I like that the Soundtrack Man added spooky oohing and aahing to the background, just in case.) They go back to searching. Colonel Brandon says they’re looking for anything made of metal that doesn’t seem to belong. The Doctor sneakily sonics the room and “discovers” the not belonging metal objects.
He tells Colonel Brandon that they’re infostamps, which store a huge amount of information and can project it onto a nearby surface, like a really fast PowerPoint presentation. One contains the history of London from 1066 to the present. Colonel Brandon sinks down onto a chair, looking ill. He says he was holding one of the infostamps the night he lost his mind, and that the Cybermen made him regenerate.
He insists that the Doctor was there that night, and demands to know who he is. The Doctor says he’s a friend and he wants to help. He suggests they go back to Colonel Brandon’s TARDIS, right after he sonics the rest of the room to check if there’s anything else there. There is: a Cyberman. Cue running. More Cybermen appear, surrounding them. The Doctor fends them off with a sword, insisting that he’s the Doctor and that they should leave Colonel Brandon alone.
For some reason, it causes Colonel Brandon to have a flashback to the night he lost his memories, and how he got away from the Cybermen – by flicking open the infostamp. He does the same thing now, and it releases a blue wibbly beam of light. The Cybermen’s heads explode. The Doctor does his little excited “HA HAAAA!” thing, and says that only the Doctor would think of something like that. Colonel Brandon sad pandas that the Doctor telling the Cybermen he’s the Doctor is taking away his identity or something. Meanwhile, the Doctor is listening to Colonel Brandon’s chest with his stethoscope and looks serious. He tells Colonel Brandon they’ll figure it out together.
Mari: Colonel Brandon is pretty chill about this random guy listening to his chest.
K: RIGHT??
Cemetery. A bunch of grumpy old men with top hats and muttonchop sideburns stand around watching Reverend Fairchild be buried. Terrifying Eyebrows turns up in a bright red dress with a bright red parasol. Then grumpy old men all clasp their metaphorical pearls because ladies didn’t attend funerals and they certainly didn’t wear prostitute-red dresses. Terrifying Eyebrows sasses at them before introducing herself as Miss Hartigan, the matron of the St. Joseph’s Workhouse.
Miss Hartigan says she’s noticed them all, being benevolent to the poor but ignoring her as she slaves away. She then consults the Big Book of Villain Gloating and says that the Reverend had to die to bring them all together at his funeral. Cybermen stomp out of the fog and murder all their faces off. There’s running and screaming and Werewolf!Cybermen get in on the action.
Meanwhile, Colonel Brandon and the Doctor have made their way back to Colonel Brandon’s temporary base: an abandoned stables. Rosita is thrilled to see them. The Doctor asks where the TARDIS is, and Colonel Brandon tells him it’s in the yard. The stables is full of luggage, and when the Doctor asks about it, he’s told it’s evidence – the first victim’s possessions. The Doctor rummages through them, and asks Rosita how she met Colonel Brandon. Rosita says he saved her from a Cyberman.
The Doctor rummages some more and finds another infostamp. Colonel Brandon asks if it’s important, and the Doctor says the answer to everything is in the TARDIS. He asks if he can see it. Colonel Brandon leads him out to the yard and shows him a bigass hot air balloon. The Doctor’s all “whut”, and Colonel Brandon tells him that it’s his TARDIS – tethered aerial release developed in style.
Cut to Miss Hartigan. She’s spared four of the grumpy old men because they’re useful to her, and they’re now fitted with blinking earpods. She gives them orders, and they all stomp off into the night. Miss Hartigan climbs into a hackney cab and a Werewolf!Cyberman drives her away into the night.
Back at the stables, the Doctor tells Rosita and Colonel Brandon that far in the future, the Cybermen were defeated and thrown into the Void. But somehow, the last of them fell back through time and came out here. And a man arrived in London at the same time they did: Jackson Lake. Colonel Brandon says he’s dead, but the Doctor reminds him that a body was never found. And also, Colonel Brandon kept all of Jackson Lake’s luggage but could never bring himself to open it.
“I told you the answer was in the fob watch. Can I see?” the Doctor says. Colonel Brandon hands over his watch, and the Doctor flips it over to show that it’s engraved with the initials JL. Colonel Brandon is Jackson Lake. He’s all “Whaaaat? But I’m the Doctor!” The Doctor reveals that the infostamp Jackson found is full of information about the Doctor. He activates the infostamp, and it runs us through a PowerPoint presentation of all the Doctors. It makes me miss Nine and his stupid giant ears. (M: So giant, I miss him.)
The Doctor tells Jackson that the infostamp must have backfired, and filled his head with information about the Doctor while it was killing the Cybermen. Jackson has a slight breakdown when he sees The Doctor’s face appear in the PowerPoint. He says that his whole life has been a lie. But the Doctor insists that it’s not: the bravery, the TARDIS, (M: coming up with “developed in style” for that TARDIS acronym) the protecting London was all him.
Jackson angrily asks if there’s something else still missing, and the Doctor apologetically says that he had a lot of luggage for one person. It wasn’t all the infostamp that made him lose his memories: something happened that was too much for him to handle. A church clock tolls midnight, and Jackson remembers – the Cybermen killed his wife. He breaks down and cries, and Rosita comforts him.
Just then, the infostamp the Doctor’s holding starts beeping. He looks at it in confusion. There’s another beep, and he finds a second infostamp. More beeping from one of Jackson’s trunks. It’s full of infostamps. The Doctor’s impressed. They hear marching feet outside, and the Doctor runs out. David Tennant really is a stick insect of a human being. Good grief, sir.
One of the grumpy old pod men is marching dozens of raggedy children through the streets. The Doctor spots the pods and goes to investigate, but a Werewolf!Cyberman pops its head out of an alley and he backs off. In the stables, Jackson tells Rosita that the Doctor needs a companion, and she rushes off to help him without a second thought?? IDK, it’s kind of weird. Whatever.
Mari: Maybe it was weirder to just sit next to Colonel Brandon and watch him cry.
K: Valid point.
Anyway, a passerby says that they just saw another string of raggedy children nearby. The Doctor and Rosita rush off to investigate. Elsewhere, another group of raggedy children are marched to a halt in front of some huge double doors. The doors creak open and two Cybermen stomp out. The children freak, which, legit. But they’re herded through the doors by a pack of Werewolf!Cybermen.
Back at the stables, Jackson is wallowing in his sads. Suddenly, he jumps up and starts yelling “WHERE IS IT?” over and over. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Rosita arrive just in time to see the last of the children disappearing through the big double doors, which apparently lead to a sewage plant? Ew. They turn to go, but find themselves confronted by Miss Hartigan and two Cybermen. Miss Hartigan basically calls Rosita a whore, which I’m super not okay with. Totally unnecessary. The Doctor tries to persuade Miss Hartigan to walk away before the Cybermen kill her, but she’s all “LOL NOPE”. She asks who he is, and he tells her he’s the Doctor. The Cybermen disagree. He tosses over the infostamp, and the Cybermen are all “Holy fuck, he IS the Doctor!”
Mari: I’m not entirely clear why the Doctor would clarify that for them, but okay.
K: It’s not Doctor Who without at least one terrible decision per episode… Plus, I think David Tennant just likes doing the little “yes, it’s me” wave and smile.
The Doctor asks what they need the children for, and Miss Hartigan says they’re a workforce, to bring about something that the whole Empire will bow down to. She orders the Cybermen to delete Rosita and the Doctor, and it looks like lacy wafting curtains for them both. BUT THEN. A bolt of wibbly blue light appears and the Cybermen collapse on the ground. Jackson’s there, wearing a bandolier of infostamps. It’s pretty badass. Miss Hartigan screams for the Werewolf!Cybermen – which apparently are called CyberShades? That… sounds like a terrible name for some kind of GoogleGlass product. (M: A+) Anyway, Rosita punches her IN THE FACE and it’s awesome.
The gang run and hide. The Doctor says they need to find a way into the sewage works. Jackson says he’s remembered that he and his wife encountered the Cybermen in the basement of the house they were moving to, and the deed was in his luggage. There might be a way in there. Also, he remembers there being something else in the basement, and suggests it might be a way of destroying the Cybermen.
In the control room, the CyberLeader says that they should move up the Ascension seeing as the Doctor is around. Miss Hartigan electrocutes the grumpy old men, now that they’ve served their purpose. Then she turns to the children and orders them to get to work. Look, I’m just going to say that as someone who works with children on a daily basis? They’d make a terrible workforce. They’re untrained, they get distracted easily, they cry all the time over literally nothing, they’re really weak if you need any manual labour done, and they can run way faster than a Cyberman. Therefore, this is the worst plan of all time.
Mari: From a writing perspective, I’m not even sure what would make the writers even go there. Why children? Just because? Did anyone think about this at all?
K: Probably not. And it’s made worse by the fact that, like, THEY HAD A WHOLE YEAR TO COME UP WITH THIS PLOT.
Miss Hartigan asks to see the CyberKing, and the CyberLeader leads (ha) her away.
The gang have headed to Jackson’s house. He infostamps the Cyberman on duty in the basement, and they find a dimension vault in there. The Doctor says the Cybermen stole it from the Daleks and it’s how they managed to get out of the Void. But it’s not what Jackson remembers. They rush off deeper into the basement.
Sewage plant. The CyberLeader and Miss Hartigan stop in front of a big throne/electric chair looking thing. She oohs and aahs over it and tells the CyberLeader how fancy he’ll look sitting on it. The CyberLeader says it’s not his place to sit there, because he’s to serve the CyberKing. She asks who’s going to become the CyberKing, and the CyberLeader turns and gives her this “Um…….DUH?” look. Miss Hartigan freaks because she’s not supposed to ever be converted, they promised blah blah blah. The CyberLeader says “That was designated…a lie” and it’s oddly hilarious.
Mari: It’s the space alien version of:
K: Or this:
Sewers. The transcript I’m using notes that they are “remarkably dry and rat-free”. LOL (accurate though). Rosita asks what the Cybermen want. The Doctor tells her they want every living thing to be like them. Meanwhile, Miss Hartigan has been tied to the Electric Throne. She’s not happy about it, but the CyberLeader says that being freed from her emotions is her reward. She’s converted thanks to a faceless metal helmet thing, and her eyes turn completely black. Where are the Winchesters when you need them? (M: IDK, we quit them.) (K: And I stand by that decision for life)
The gang look down on the ineffective child labourers from a wall grate. Jackson wants to free them, but the Doctor says that if they stop the engine, Cybermen will come running. Or, like, stomping. We all know that Cybermen don’t run. But then the power level – currently at 90% – starts fluctuating. The Doctor’s intrigued because that’s not meant to happen.
Cut back to Miss CyberKing. She gushes about how she can see the entire universe and it’s super amazing OMG. The CyberLeader is grossed out by this because Miss CyberKing is meant to be above disgusting human emotions like joy. She replies that her mind is stronger than they thought and that she’s going to start a new race of Cybermen who are the perfect mix of “Logic and strength combined with fury and passion.” The CyberLeader diagnoses a system failure. Miss CyberKing blows him up.
The system jumps to 96% power. The Doctor yells that the system is out of control. Rosita asks what happens to the children when it reaches full power. The Doctor says they’ll be disposable. They run off, back towards the ineffective child labourers. Miss CyberKing declares herself to be the CyberKing and says that all Cybermen must obey her. The Cybermen salute.
The system reaches 100%. The Cybermen start yelling “DELETE!” at the children, who all look panicky. Jackson and Rosita come to the rescue with infostamps. The Doctor yells that there’s a hot pie in it for anyone who legs it, and the kids start running. (M: I’m guessing at this point they didn’t need promise of a hot pie…) Rosita leads them outside and tells them to keep running. The Doctor wonders aloud what the starter motor starts.
Jackson stares at the kids streaming past and suddenly remembers what the Cybermen took from him: his son. He looks up and sees his son standing on a high ledge, too scared to move. He screams for the Doctor, then rushes towards his son. But an explosion knocks him back. Miss CyberKing says that the CyberKing is rising. Jackson demands to know what they’re going to do. The Doctor pulls a sword out of his pants – no, seriously – and uses it to cut a rope, which conveniently slingshots him up to Jackson’s son. He piggybacks the kid to safety just in time. “Merry Christmas!” he says as he reunites them. They flee just in time.
Out in the street, a man yells that there’s something in the Thames. Rosita runs out there in time to see a giant Cyberman stand up in the middle of the river. Um. Surely it would rust. Or corrode. Or something. The Thames isn’t exactly the healthiest of environments.
The Doctor yanks a piece out of the dimension vault as they run back through the cellar, then emerges onto the street in time to see Miss CyberKing addressing London from her new giant robot toy. The Doctor says it’s basically a battleship, with a factory in its chest, ready to convert millions of people into Cybermen. The CyberKing starts stomping across London. People run and scream. Miss CyberKing sad pandas because people aren’t rejoicing. (M: Honey. Stop stepping on them.)
The Doctor tells Jackson to take his son and get to safety. Jackson points out that the Doctor needs help, and the Doctor says that Jackson has his son, and therefore a reason to live. “And you haven’t?” Jackson says. The Doctor sad pandas because nope. His Rose is in a parallel dimension, and his Donna doesn’t remember him OW MY FEELINGS WHY DID I DO THAT TO MYSELF.
Mari: If it makes you feel worse, Tumblr did a thing:
The Doctor turns and runs off into the night.
The CyberKing keeps stomping. I stop to laugh because the transcript I’m reading is getting super judgey: “With those big strides it should be in Islington by now.” I mean, you’re not wrong. The Doctor runs into the stables and bribes Jackson’s balloon repairman for help. He grabs another bandolier of infostamps and says “The TARDIS is going to fly!”
Miss CyberKing informs the people of Earth that the government will surrender, especially seeing as how she’s about to blow up big chunks of London with her CyberKing robot thing, which apparently has cannons for arms?? This episode is so fucking stupid, you guys. Especially when you’ve been recapping it for three and a half hours. (M: Definitely especially then.)
The Doctor clambers into the TARDIS-balloon’s basket with the bit of the dimension vault as the repairman unties the ropes. Out in the street, Rosita finds Jackson, who’s all “LOOK AT MY SON! PRIDE IS NOT THE WORD I’M LOOKING FOR, THERE IS SO MUCH MORE INSIDE ME NOOOOOW”. Rosita’s all “Cool story bro, maybe we should run away from the giant robot with cannon arms?”. They duck inside a doorway as things explode around them.
The TARDIS-balloon rises into the air. The Doctor throws sandbags and picnic baskets out the side. Some random guy in the street’s all “the fuck is that?”. The zoomy cameraman earns his pay cheque as he zooms in on Jackson, who says very dramatically “His name, sir, (M: DOT DOT DOT) is the Doctor.”
A Cyberman informs Miss CyberKing that there’s a proximity alert. She’s all “The fuck?”, and turns her giant robot to face the Doctor. His hair trembles dramatically in the breeze as he readies his bandolier. He offers to use the dimension vault to find her a world that’s empty, a world that can be for the Cybermen alone. She’s all “Nah, bro. This one’s full of douchey men who need to respect my power. I’m good.”
He says if she stays on Earth, he’ll have to stop her. She orders the Cybermen to destroy him. The Doctor fires the full bandolier of infostamps at her. Nothing happens, and she laughs at him. He says he wasn’t trying to kill her. He just wanted to break the cyber connection to leave her mind open so that she can see what she’s done and what she’s become. Her eyes return to normal, and she looks around her. She screams as she realises she’s still tied to the chair. The Cybermen electrocute and explode, then Miss Hartigan vanishes. The CyberKing starts to fall, and the idiots watching on the street below finally decide that they should find an elsewhere to be.
Up in the balloon basket, the dimension vault piece beeps. The Doctor uses it to vanish the CyberKing into the time vortex. Or so Jackson informs us. He then stands up on a lamp post and makes a melodramatic speech about how the Doctor always saves the world and never gets any thanks for it. BUT NOT TODAY. The crowd cheers, and the Doctor waves at them a little awkwardly as his balloon sails off over London.
Later, Jackson invites the Doctor to join him and his son and their new nursemaid, Rosita (UGH. Rosita, girl. You deserve so much better than being his fucking nursemaid), for Christmas dinner. The Doctor says he won’t. Then Jackson spots the real TARDIS in the alley. He gets all excited and asks if he can have one last adventure. The Doctor unlocks the door and ushers him inside. At first, Jackson gasps in awe, then decides that the bigger-on-the-inside thing makes his head hurt and rushes back outside.
He asks the Doctor why he’s alone now while he’s always had companions in the past. “They leave. Because they should, or I find someone else. And some of them… some of them forget me. I suppose in the end… they break my heart,” the Doctor says. OH GOD MY FEELS WHYYYYYY.
Mari: In the past, we’ve talked about how it sucks for the companion because the Doctor always moves on, but they break his heart too, you know? Perhaps all the more because they move on without him as much as he moves on too.
K: YUP. And as much as he has adventures they can never have, they can go on to have lives he can never live – settling down, having kids, growing old with someone.
Jackson insists that the Doctor join them for Christmas dinner, in honour of those they’ve lost. The Doctor thinks for a moment, then agrees. They walk off towards their dinner, wishing each other a Merry Christmas.
This episode is pretty stupid. I remember the first time I saw it being all emotionally prepared for a regeneration and then feeling really ripped off when I didn’t get one, and having to emotionally prepare myself all over again, you know? There was a healthy dose of feels there at the end, but on the whole? This one is pretty meh.
Mari: It’s half and half for me. I actually really enjoyed this idea of Jackson Lake thinking he was the Doctor and mirroring his loss of family with the Doctor’s loss of family, and the bravado that hides it all. I think the first half an hour, in which the Doctor quickly figures out what the heck is going on with this new Doctor is interesting and well done. I think the second half an hour with inexplicable canon arms and Cybermen and all the nonsense is less charming. There had to be an alien running around in the back of the story and they picked one of my least favorites in a flimsy plot.
So it goes.
Next time on Doctor Who: It’s Easter and the Doctor pays a visit to a planet made of sand in S04 E15 – Planet of the Dead.
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