Doctor Who History-Rosa and back to Sheffield

Attempting to bring Graham, Ryan, and Yaz back to 21st century Sheffeld, the TARDIS instead arrives in Montgomery Alabama, at the beginning of a pivotal moment in civil rights history. The day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. Although pleased to meet her, the Doctor has evidence that somebody is trying to interfere with the pivotal event, judging by the Atron (Time Travel) energy in the area.

 

She’s right. The group eventually encounters a man named Krasko, who is from the same basic time as Captain Jack and River Song, where humans have developed cheap time travel devices called vortex manipulators (He’s also a criminal from River’s own prison, Stormcage). He wants to change this moment in history.

 

The group are able to eventually stop him with his own vortex manipulator, and also stick around with Rosa to make sure events go the same way.

The group then returns to Sheffeld, presumably so the companions can return to their normal lives. Yaz also invites the Doctor and Graham to meet her family, but all is not well. Yaz’s neighbor has been killed by a giant spider, and one showed up at Graham’s house as well. They team up with a local scientist-a colleague of the dead neighbor-who discovers there’s weird spider activity going on in Sheffeld.

It all centers on a new hotel, one that Yaz’s mother used to work at, and one run by Real estate tycoon Mr. Robertson (Played by Chris Noth of Law & Order and Sex and The City fame). Turns out, the Spiders have mutated due to giant size due to a mix of toxic waste and genetic experimentation.

 

Eventually the Doctor and group are able to lure the Spiders to a panic room by playing dubstep .

….except for the mother Spider, which is having respiratory problems due to getting too big. Robertson decides to just kill the thing with his gun, something that really angers the Doctor.

Eventually, although they are now free to return to their own lives, the group decide that they want to travel with the Doctor instead. Cue the hands!

 

 

Doctor Who History-Something old, something new, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

The Doctor and her companions are stuck in space after the Doctor’s attempt to teleport to the TARDIS, but thankfully, are rescued in the nick of time before they freeze to death, they are both separately teleported above two ships: Graham and Ryan wind up on the ship of Anstrom, a woman; while the Doctor and Yaz wind up with a guy, Epzo.

They’re both making their way to the planet Desolation, and are the last remaining members of a space race, the Rally of the 12 galaxies. The final step, given to them on the planet, is to find the Ghost Monument at the end of the race, a mysterious object. The winner gets cash and a way off planet, the loser gets stuck.

Of course, this mysterious object, the Doctor notices, is in fact, her TARDIS, which is still rebuilding itself after her regeneration. So naturally, the Doctor and co. are keen to get there too.

 

 

There’s a bit of a boat ride in which we learn about Epzo and Angstrom’s pasts, and Graham and Ryan continue to face their grief about Grace’s death.

Along the way, they discover the reason for the planet being desolate-the Stenza-represented by Tim Shaw in the last story-destroyed it, although they left behind a few things.

First, their sniperbots, which the Doctor and co. have to fight off….

and second, the scientists themselves left behind the deadly “remnants”, sentient cloth, who taunt the Doctor, referring to the mysterious “Timeless child”. However, the Doctor is able to torch them with the help of Epzo’s cigar.

 

Reaching the end, Epzo and Angstrom agree it’s a tie and are teleported off world. However, the TARDIS is nowhere to be found. However, the Doctor hears the brief groan of the engines, and uses her sonic screwdriver to stabilize the TARDIS, which is in another new configuration.

 

With minor changes to the outside. The lantern and signs have been slightly reworked…

But inside, the console room now has a heavily crystalline structure, especially the time rotor.

It now, in addition to travelling through all of space and time, also dispenses custard cookies.