NARDOLE LEAVES DOCXTOR FALLS SERIES

They walk away, but the moment, and what follows, is filled to the brim with irony.

And where I stand is where I fall.' And then, to the Masters, 'Stand with me'. But the end part, probably because Capaldi's voice breaks at just the end, completely destroyed me: 'Who I am is where I stand. And that at least has been a constant through all of his lives. Indeed, the bit where I start to blub is that amazing speech about who he is and why he does what he does. The Master is a mirror image of the Doctor, a warning. And though it's not spelled out in so many words, we've had enough moments with the 12th Doctor both regretting the evils he's done and hoping to redeem Missy, that we should be able to see him as someone deathly afraid that he's getting worse, not better. It's played out in the Masters' thread, one executing the other to prevent himself from changing and standing with the Doctor in the end.

It's what keeps Bill from succumbing to Cyber programming (and before that, to the Monk's). And third, holding on to who you are is the bloody THEME of the thing. Second, there's precedent for the Doctor staving off death, as it were, as the 5th and 10th both did. Well first, he's not the same person, so he doesn't think about it the same way. Some have already called into question the Doctor's resistance to regenerating, on the heels (if a thousand years or so can be called heels) of the 11th Doctor's beautiful speech about accepting the fact that we change over time. Now, I'm a sucker for strong thematic underpinnings, and we get that here. So this review follows some amount of procrastination, as if my soul still doesn't want to commit words to screen.

NARDOLE LEAVES DOCXTOR FALLS SERIES

While hope is a major theme, the series finale is insistently desperate and dark. REVIEW: On first viewing, I had to admit my roommate and I were so DEVASTATED at the end of The Doctor Falls that we sat speechless for a number of minutes and had to force ourselves to talk about.

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