Twice upon a time doctor who cast movie#
It’s nice to see the show able to do things like this, and it was a stroke of luck that Gatiss had made that TV movie about William Hartnell and Doctor Who‘s beginnings starring Bradley.
Nothing to do but face the music.īradley’s portrayal of the First Doctor isn’t quite the same mix of sternness and joviality as Hartnell’s but it works well for this special. He’s effectively out of evil plans to face. The Twelfth Doctor even says when he learns the mainframe isn’t evil that he doesn’t know what to do without an evil plan. The villain isn’t the Glass Woman (Nikki Amuka-Bird) nor the mainframe of people’s memories, acting nefariously–though the episode does a good job of making us think they must be–it’s the Doctors not doing what they’re meant to do. The First Doctor defeated the Cybermen from Mondas and the Twelfth Doctor did likewise there is no “big bad” to fight this time around. Unlike previous, planet- (if not universe-) saving regeneration episodes, the Doctors here have already faced their final test. This is obviously not a great thing, cosmically speaking, and so the mysterious glass-women-robot things attempt to set things right with the timeline. The First Doctor regenerating is a fixed point in time, as it were, as, perhaps, the Twelfth’s is, so time freezes, going all out of whack, and a World War I captain (Mark Gatiss) who is about to die gets a reprieve and ends up with the Doctors in Antarctica. Moffat has always played a bit fast and loose with continuity, but he doesn’t futz with it too much, and if you watch that last installment of “The Tenth Planet,” the Doctor does go off on his own to his TARDIS before regenerating.īut he, like the Twelfth Doctor in “The Doctor Falls,” has decided not to regenerate. We see William Hartnell and the cloth-faced Cybermen and then we transition into guest star David Bradley’s turn as the First Doctor. But, fittingly and very wisely I think, Moffat eschewed the goofy absurdity and melodrama of RTD’s “ The End of Time,” and the puzzling loose-end-tie-up that was “The Time of the Doctor,” and instead gives us quiet, a small cast, a simple message, and a bit of dignity.Īs “Twice” opens, we’re treated to scenes from “The Tenth Planet,” 709 episodes ago as the on-screen text informs us.
Twice upon a time doctor who cast series#
Seeing as Moffat’s given us some of the twistiest, plottiest stories the series has ever gifted the public to unwind, and certainly taking in to account both his last multi-Doctor story (“ The Day of the Doctor“) and his last regeneration story (“ The Time of the Doctor“), one might expect a thoroughly epic, mind-bending endeavor. Things will be different going forward, and no mistake. With Peter Capaldi’s final bow, we’re also bidding farewell to Steven Moffat as head writer and showrunner, a title he’s held since 2010. Davies years and scorched the ground for the Matt Smith years. Patrick Troughton’s regeneration saw the series move to color for the first time Jon Pertwee’s end moved away from the UNIT family years and back to its universe-hopping exploits, and David Tennant’s bombastic goodbye set fire to the Russell T. “Twice Upon a Time” has the distinction that only three previous regeneration stories have – the farewell to both a Doctor and a production team. It was a fairly somber affair, but one that gave us easily the modern series’ simplest and most self-reflective Christmas specials, all about the end of things, and the beginning of things to come, aided by the once-again masterful direction of Rachel Talalay, one of the standout artists of the Moffat era.
In the case of “Twice Upon a Time,” regeneration was looming over its existence at all times. It’s part of the fabric of the series, and it fills most fans with equal parts sadness and excitement. Since the 29th of October, 1966, Doctor Who has been about change, about getting adjusted to the new and the different, generally falling in love with those circumstances, and then gearing up for the inevitable shake-up once again. Also, if you HAVE watched the special and want a bit of context about Jodie Whittaker’s first scene, click here! And now, Allons-y! We encourage you to watch the special FIRST before reading the following, or if you’d like to live dangerously, proceed but don’t blame us. The following contains ALL THE SPOILERS for Doctor Who‘s 2017 Christmas special, “Twice Upon a Time.” As it’s a regeneration story, we feel trying to review it without spoilers would be antithetical to discussion and analysis.
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