We celebrate the Peter Capaldi era by revisiting the 12th Doctor's adventures as we count down the days to his last adventure.
Doctor Who:
The Doctor Falls
By Steven Moffat
“No! No! When I say no, you turn back around! Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?”
“The Doctor Falls” is the final episode of Series 10 and for once it was a pretty decent episode but it wasn’t great. Like most of the big series ending stories they try to jam so much into the story. Case in point we have the Cybermen and two versions of the Master. With a cluttered cast this doesn’t really bog the story down as for the most part the Master and Missy plus the Cybermen were not really featured all that much in the story. For the most part it was a story about Bill and The Doctor getting to grips with what had happened to her. Bill had been converted into a Mondasian Cyberman and she’s not all that sure that The Doctor can change her back to human. She also lets him have it about making her wait for ten years and that it’s his fault that this happened to her. To a degree she’s right and it’s a wonder that things that happened to Bill hasn’t happened to the companion more often.
