Doctor Who History: Revolution of the Daleks

Centuries ago, a recon Dalek was destroyed and it’s mutant parts scattered across the globe. However, it was able to eventually re-assemble itself due to an accidental discovery, and rebuild itself out of scrap and metal work after taking a human captive. However, the Doctor and her companions were able to defeat it.

However, while the mutant was destroyed and it’s casing was ruined, enough of the melted casing survived. It’s ambushed on route and taken away.

Later, Jack Robertson (From the Spiders story) and Leo Ragazzi show off a “defense drone” capable of crowd control with gas, sonic disrupters and other abilities to the technology secretary, Jo Patterson. It kind of looks very, very familiar. Jo wants the units mass produced immediately. Especially since she has political ambitions of her own.

Meanwhile, the Doctor is in prison after being taken into custody by the Judoon after the Cybermen/Master/Timeless Child thing, where she sort of has a daily routine. It’s possible she’s been there for decades, but still has her “Fam” of companions on her mind.

As for the “Fam”, they’re using the spare TARDIS, disguised as a house, as a sort of base to look for clues to the Doctor, although Ryan and Graham have mostly given up waiting, Yaz still has hope. They’ve got some news though. Video of the ‘defense drone’ has gone viral, and they know that Robertson + what is definitely a Dalek is bad news. (although it’s never made clear why people don’t remember the Daleks; although it might have something to do with the history-erasing cracks from Matt Smith’s seasons which erased their “Stolen Earth” invasion, but I thought those were fixed?)They confront Robertson, but are quickly chased away by his security team.

Meanwhile, the Doctor is suddenly freed from prison by Captain Jack, who has commited his own crimes and has been waiting to get close enough to the Doctor’s cell to spring her using a “breakout ball” and his vortex manipulator which he managed to smuggle in. They transport to the dormant TARDIS, which very quickly reactives and sets course for the “fam”-although ten months later (Their present time) then she intended.

After their reunion-in which the Doctor is brought up to date, things are moving ahead with the ‘defense drones’ but not in a way Robertson intended-Leo has cloned the remnants of the mutant too, creating a Dalek mutant. Worse, the mutant has been plugged onto the neural net of the company. Although Leo is told to destroy it by Robertson, the Cloned recon Dalek then gains control of Leo.

The Doctor and the companions confront Robertson together, where Robertson tries to assure her he’s just making mass produced drones with no organic component. However, she’s already detected Dalek mutant DNA in an indoor farm in Osaka, where she’s sent Yaz and Jack.

However, this is a farm for Dalek mutants, which they try to destroy. Joined by the Doctor, Robertson and the others, the Dalek controlling Leo sees the group, where it’s revealed he’s made some modifications to the defense drones-and the mutants all teleport to the mass produced drones, which are deployed around the UK at security checkpoints and at the new prime minister-Jo Patterson’s-inagural adress.

Of course, they do what Daleks do and start exterminating everyone.

The Doctor figures the only way to fight fire is with fire, so she sends a signal out to the original Daleks, who send a Death Squad (Their main difference is a ‘claw’ instead of a plunger arm). A brief civil war erupts in which the new Daleks are destroyed.

Robertson tries to barder a deal with the Daleks by letting them know the Doctor’s around while Jack and the companions plant explosives to destroy the saucer. Robertson is quickly saved as well before the ship is destroyed.

The Doctor then goads the remaining Daleks to follow her into the TARDIS. However, turns out she’s just a hologram, the TARDIS is the spare made to resemble her own, and she’s collapsed the dimensions of the ships and sending it to the void, taking care of the Death Squad Daleks.

Now with earth saved once again,it’s time for goodbyes. Jack pays a short visit to his friend Gwen from Torchwood (Well, off screen). But Ryan and Graham, having gotten a taste of normal again in the last few months, decide that they kind of liked things that way and decide to leave the Doctor and Yaz behind, although it’s strongly hinted they’ll still do some adventuring (as the Doctor loans them her psychic papers).

However, a new companion awaits….

Doctor Who History-Timeless and Unbound

The future. Humanity and the Cybermen are nearing the end of a long war, nearly wiping each other out.  The Doctor and co. arrive just in time to deal with Cybermen, led by Ashad, attacking one of the last settlements. During the battle, the group gets split into two. Yaz and Graham wind up with one group of refugees in a small, clunky carrier, while the Doctor, Ryan and another survivor wind up in a sleek cybershuttle, although both groups are pursued by Ashad and his men.

 

All ships are headed to “Ko Sharmus”, a planet which they believe has a portal that leads to a sanctuary away from the Cybermen.

Yaz and Graham’s ship, moving through a battlefield littered with Cybermen debris, eventually land in a cyber carrier. Which unfortunately also contains a ton of dormant Cyberwarriors, the first Cybermen from the current series to had the “headphone” look that the Cybermen had from 1969-1989.

Ashad boards and reactives these Cybermen, who of course make way to our heroes.

 

Meanwhile, the Doctor, Ryan and her group lands on a planet and discovers that Ko Sharmus is a ferryman, helping people cross the boundary.  However, on the other side is Gallifrey, and out pops the Master, who tells her everything is about to change.

 

Meanwhile, Brendan, a young, adopted policeman in what appears to be 20th century Ireland, survives a huge fall and miraculously survives.

Years later, after retiring, his memory is wiped by his father and his superior officer, who appear to have somehow not aged. How is this relevant to anything? Well, turns out it’s relevant to everything.

 

The Doctor follows the Master to the ruins of Gallifrey, and he captures her and connects her to the Matrix, the virtual time lord database/record-keeping/VR thing.

In it, the untold story of the origin of the Time Lords is told. A woman, named Tecteun, is one of the early Gallifreyan (Or as they were known then, “Shobogan” space pioneers.

On one  planet, Tecteun makes a discovery-an orphaned child next to a massive citadel near a portal to another universe.  She adopts this mysterious and lonely alien and takes her to Gallifrey.

However, during playing the child falls off a cliff.  But she doesn’t die. Well, not really.

She regenerates into a new form. Over the years, Tecteun studies this as it happens again (perhaps due to Tecteun unethically causing it). Eventually Tecteun is able to isolate the biology and inject it into herself.

It works, transforming her into a younger male. He decides to share this with the other Shobogans, although with a limit of twelve regenerations. With this greatly expanded lifespan, the Shobogan civilization expands, eventually discovering time travel. Result: Time Lords.

 

Meanwhile, what of the timeless child? Tecteun inducts his son/daughter into the Division, a group of time lords meant assigned to covertly interfere. After that, it’s all redacted however…

The Master then reveals the truth. The Doctor is the Timeless child. After who knows how long and how many incarnations he or she worked for the Division-including, perhaps, as the Ruth incarnation-the Doctor’s memories were then erased. Hence, the Brandon stuff-it was meant as a sort of analog/parable/metaphor: Miracle adopted child becomes police officer, then has his memory erased.

His or her body was somehow reset to a Gallifrey child, who of course eventually became the “First” Doctor, who, although his memory of past incarnations was erased, he somehow still wound up with a Police box TARDIS and a tendency to interfere, although he was totally ignorant of his origins, apart from perhaps extremely vague or buried memories.

Like these men, who were possibly Doctors who worked for the Division.

Meanwhile, while all this has been going on inside the Doctor’s head, the Cybercarrier has arrived on Gallifrey. Ashad has used the Cyberium to create a “Death particle” that can destroy all organic life, hoping to make the Cybermen completely robotic. However, the Master decides to just shrink him instead, as he has another use for the Cybermen. Using the corpses of the time lords, he cyber-converts them into “Cybermasters”, Cybermen who can regenerate themselves if they “die”, and of course, he can use as his army as he tries to conquer the universe(tm)

The Doctor escapes from the Matrix by overloading it with her memories due to advice from her “Ruth” self. Her companions have managed to escape and defeat the Cyberwarriors by hiding in their armor, and with them, the Doctor uncovers the shrunken corpse of Ashad, which still contains the Death particle.

After sending her companions and the Cyberwar survivors to the 21st century in a TARDIS, She confronts the Master and his Cybermasters with it, threatening to use it to destroy them and herself. However, Ko Sharmus steps in and decides to sacrifice himself instead, although it’s likely the Master and some Cybermasters escape (Is there really any doubt?). The Doctor escapes in another TARDIS back to Cyber-wartorn Earth, where she reunites with her proper TARDIS.

However, the Judoon arrive, presumably to finally resolve that whole Ruth case which became “cold”. Oh, and somehow the Daleks are going to get involved. As if she doesn’t have enough problems.

 

Doctor Who History: A Post-Modern Prometheus

(Note-Blog articles on Praxeus and Can You Hear Me? are on hold due to sensitive world issues at this time).

 

Seeking to cheer up her companions, the Doctor takes them to the mansion where “Frankenstein” was born on a dark stormy night, Villa Diodati. There, Mary Shelly is hanging out with John Polidari, Lord Bryon and Clair Claremont. However, things are getting weird-there are strange, ghostly apparitions, the rooms are re-arranging themselves, Mary’s fiancee Percy is missing after scribbling weird stuff on the walls etc., and also Lord Bryon’s has a skeleton he brought along that’s having it’s body pop up in the weirdest places.

 

The Doctor soon figures out that the house’s bizzare changes are part of a “perception filter” designed to protect something in it from something outside. That something eventually makes it’s appearance known. It’s a half-completed and damaged Cybermen, named Ashad, who has not gone total conversion and still posesses a degree pf emotion. The companions are alarmed by this, since they were warned by Jack to not give the “lone cybermen what it wants”. What it wants is apparently the mysterious liquid known as the Cyberium, which has all of the Cybermen’s knowledge, and was sent back in time by someone in the future. Ashad followed, coming to this place.

Turns out Percy Shelley picked up the Cyberium, which made him go a bit nuts and scribble stuff on the walls. The Doctor realises she could just have Percy and the others die and not yield the Cyberium, but that would effectively erase her companion’s timeline, replacing it with one in which Frankenstein was never a thing which could seriously change future culture (I guess). She instead decides to take the Cyberium into herself.

However, Ashad calls her bluff and threatens to destroy the planet instead, so the Doctor is forced to give him what he wants-the Cyberium. Ashad then goes back to the future, with the Doctor and co in pursuit, with the Doctor now trying to fix the mess she made (which will also lead to a far bigger mess and revelations). Mary Shelley decides of course to be inspired, and create a little novel called Frankenstein…..

 

Doctor Who History: Doctor Ruth

Ruth is a tour guide in Birmingham, living with her husband Clayton, living a fairly normal existence handing out maps and stuff.

 

Normal that is, until the Judoon decide to pay a visit, looking for a fugitive, . They quickly blockade the city and start screening for non-humans.

 

Meanwhile, the Doctor’s still trying to figure out the mystery of the Timeless child, and assume the Master has probably escaped by now. She notices the Judoon landing and her and the companions go to figure out what’s going on. Although then Graham is then ‘beamed up’ by a familiar face.

 

It’s Captain Jack, and he’s back! Although he’s being pursued by aliens he stole a spaceship from (again) and mistakenly believes Graham is the Doctor.

 

The Doctor, using psychic paper and her usual knowledge of how the Judoon operate, attempts to stall the Judoon who are closing in on on Ruth and Lee’s apartment. Lee covers their escape, telling Ruth to go to the lighthouse where she grew up and to “break the glass” via text.

 

The Judoon’s contractor, Gat, recognizes Lee, who has kept a sentimental medallion from his planet. He’s then executed by the Judoon. The Doctor and Ruth take sanctuary in a Cathedral, but are soon tracked down. However there somehow Ruth rips off the horns of a Judoon, and starts making combat moves that aren’t ordinary somehow….as almost as if it were some hidden instinct, forcing their retreat. Meanwhile, Yaz and Ryan are also accidentally beamed by Jack, who tells them to beware of a lone Cyberman before getting transported by nanomachines. Also, he’s quite looking forward to meeting the new female Doctor, and excited that she has three companions this time.

The Doctor and Ruth travel to the lighthouse.  There, the Doctor notices something peculiar about the nearby gravestones, which are supposed to hold her parents. However, it has something far more disturbing to the Doctor: Her TARDIS.

 

Inside, Ruth breaks the glass. It causes the usual Time-lordy energy to flow into her.

 

Ruth exits the lighthouse and reveals to the bewildered Doctor that she is….the Doctor. They then teleport to the TARDIS….which resembles earlier incarnations of the ship in it’s console design.

 

Turns out Ruth was a human persona created by the chameleon arch in order to hide, much like “John Smith” and “Yana” in earlier years. But there’s more of a mystery here. The current Doctor doesn’t remember ever being the Ruth Doctor, and vice versa.

 

The two Doctors beam up to the Judoon ship, where they confront Gat, who was sent from Gallifrey to retrieve the Ruth Doctor, who was also her former employee. However, the current Doctor reveals that Gallifrey is destroyed, and this causes Gat to act recklessly, shooting herself with a reversed Judoon weapon. The Doctor is somewhat surprised by Ruth’s methods, seeing them as uncharacteristic of her persona, who usually only uses weapons as a last resort.

 

Eventually the current Doctor and her companions are reunited, and the Doctor is once again left with disturbing questions about who and what she really is. The companions-who also tell her about Jack-say they’ll face whatever is coming together.

 

 

However, at that point, a new adventure beckons-Praxeus!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor Who History-Time’s Orphan

The Doctor and co. stop by the resort Tranquilty Spa for a relaxing vacation. Or so they think.

However, things (of course) turn out not to be what they seem. Ryan catches a weird parasitic virus, although a non-lethal one, from a snack machine. During his recovery he meets a young woman named Bella.

However, there’s a quick drill due to some form of perimeter breach, and the Doctor discovers a well-armed security room. The Doctor discovers there’s a shield protecting the colony….from….something. Except it’s broken, and something which quickly makes it’s presence known, killing many of the guests.  The Doctor manages to repair the shield, but soon the truth comes out. Tranquilty spa is mostly a hologram, surrounded by a barren wasteland and it’s inhabitants, the Dregs. Also, one of the guests, an elderly man named Benni, is outside in the wasteland. The gang try to rescue him in a vehicle, but unfortunately it’s too late for him and the vehicle gets trashed, forcing the gang to get back to the safe part of the resort by using the tunnels.

 

It’s in the tunnels the truth about why the shield failed is revealed-Bella is the daughter of the resort’s owner, Kane, who Kane left behind to run the spa in hopes of somehow terraforming the planet. So she sabotaged the spa. Bella transport with Ryan back to Spa to finish the job of destroying her mother’s dream.

Another disturbing truth is discovered. Orphan 55 is actually a future Earth, ruined by pollution/radiation, and the Dregs are devolved humans. The big clue is that they’re in a Russian bunker, as well as the race memory of the Dregs the Doctor unearths using her mental powers.

Eventually people make it back to the spa, where the transporter is fixed and the survivors evacuate, except for Bella and Kane who remain behind to fight the Dregs (and are presumably killed). Although the companions are disturbed by this future, the Doctor tells them it’s only a possible timeline.

 

Next, the group travel to 1903, the height of America’s “gilded age” when new technologies are being harnessed at the turn of the century, leading from the frontier times of the previous century to the more technically advanced and industrialized 20th. Among those in this age are Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Tesla’s ideas are grand but he doesn’t quite have the popular support Edison does. One night at his Niagra falls lab, he comes across a strange glowing orb.

However, somebody’s out to get it, and tries to kill Edison and his assistant.  They’re rescued by the Doctor and his companions who head to NYC onboard a train, although they are chased again by the villain, who they barely escape by detaching a car.

The bad guys, disguised as humans are also keeping an eye on Thomas Edison, and kill most of his factory workers. Edison takes refuge with the Doctor and his rival, and the two of course visit the TARDIS.

It’s soon discovered that the aliens, the Scorpion-like Skithra, want Tesla’s help as an engineer for their broken down ship-or else. They recognized Tesla’s wireless transmissions, hence why they needed his help.

Tesla is able to escape, and with his rival Thomas Edison warning people to get off the streets (Blaming the disturbance on Tesla’s “Death ray”) as the space scorpions attack, Tesla and the Doctor fire up his Wardenclyffe tower into a weapon that stuns the alien ship, causing them to leave.

With Earth-and Tesla-safe. The Doctor tells his companions that unfortunately Tesla’s fame would not be realized during his life, although many of his ideas eventually find development in the modern world.

 

Next: Fugitive of the Judoon….and maybe a big secret at long last revealed.

 

Doctor Who History: Spyfall

All around the world, spies are being killed off by strange, luminescent aliens, with their DNA being messed up as a result. So MI6 decides to call in some alien experts: The Doctor and his companions, as Torchwood and UNIT are pretty much disbanded or unavailable.

Despite a booby-trapped car trying to kill them, they eventually make it and are met by “C” who suspects that these incidents have something to do with David Barton, a billionaire tech CEO of the Vor company. After giving them some fancy gadgets such as laser shoes, computer scanners and a spy camera, C is quickly killed by a mysterious assailant.

The Doctor and crew go into two teams. The Doctor and Graham meet with former MI6 agent O, an expert in extraterrestrials who she’d met once before, in Australia, while Yaz and Ryan take on Barton, discovering some oddities such as his DNA being only 93% human.

Eventually both teams run into the Aliens, who kill O’s security crew although the Doctor is able to capture one and ward off the others with the house’s surprising defenses. However, one of the aliens attacks Yaz and transports her to a strange dimension, although she eventually winds up in Australia when the captured alien-apparently bent on crossing over and conquering our world-swaps places with her.

The Doctor, O and the companions decide to crash Barton’s birthday party, also doing a bit of gambling. The Doctor does her usual confronting of the villain and telling him that she’s going to stop him monologue.

Barton decides to quickly leave and go to his private jet, so the Doctor and co pursue them in motorcycles.

Eventually boarding the jet, the Doctor quickly notices a comment by O saying he’s not a good sprinter when his file says he was top of the class. O lets the facade drop-first by pointing out that his house is flying outside the now airborne jet-spinning in the usual hovering…of a TARDIS.

Yep, the Master is back, having taken the identity of O (It’s unclear where this is in his personal timeline, as the last time we saw him/her he was Missy and contemplating redemption, only to get fatally shot by her former “Harold Saxon” version). Not only that he shrinks people again, including the original O. He’s working with the aliens and Barton, who he’s transported away and left an explosive device in his place which soon activates. The Aliens then surround the Doctor and take her to another dimension, but not before the Master tells her everything she knows is a lie-and leave the companions to their doom.

However, due to some timey-wimey stuff later, the Doctor manages to give them a way to survive with some tools and an in-flight video. So they manage to land relatively safely in their cockpitless plane.

The Doctor gets stuck in the other dimension until he encounters a 19th century woman.  She takes the Doctor with her when one of the aliens show up, and she’s transferred to an invention convention in 1834 London. Turns out she’s actually Ada Lovelace, one of the inventors of the old computer along with Charles Babbage.

The Master however has detected this in his TARDIS and shows up with shrinking device again. Murdering several people in attendance and forcing the Doctor to kneel.

Ada, using a steam gun, manages to stun the Master enough for the Doctor and her to escape to Babbage’s house, where there’s a mysterious figurine machine similar to one Barton owns-or perhaps the very same one.

Meanwhile, in the present, Barton uses his social media abilities to make Graham, Yaz and Ryan public enemy #1, although they eventually manage to evade that by taking refuge in a under construction housing development. There, they kind of wonder what’s up with the Doctor and her enemy-Who is she anyway? Doctor Who?

 

The Doctor activates the figurine, summoning the Aliens, the Kassavin, and she uses it to try to get back to the present. She doesn’t quite make it, instead winding up in War torn World War II. Naturally, the Master follows her there too, posing as a Nazi officer. She takes refuge with another historical figure, Noor Khan, a British female spy. Using Noor’s morse device, the Doctor uses the tone of the Sound of Drums to get his attention  to meet at the Eiffel Tower and figure out what he’s really up to.

 

There the two have a chat. The Master doesn’t really have much of a stake in the Kassavin invasion-where it turns out they’ve been “spying” on our civilization in several time periods including the one’s she’s visited-he’s doing this mainly to get the Doctor’s attention. Turns out, Gallifrey’s been destroyed again, for some reason. The Doctor however, manages to escape the Master by weakening his perception filter keeping the Nazis from looking too much into them, and also faking a message to the British about he’s a spy working for them. He’s then captured while the Doctor and the two women steal his TARDIS.

Meanwhile, Graham and co. capture Barton’s car by using Graham’s laser shoes to attack his men. They’re taking to a hanger with the figurine which is serving as a gateway for the Aliens to invade through tech devices. The Master-having spent seventy years on Earth since he had no TARDIS, arrives, but then so does the Doctor, who popped back in 1834 and sabotaged the device with Charles Babagge’s help.

She also reveals that she recorded her conversation about the Master not caring much for the Kassavin-which makes them not too thrilled so they decide to keep the Master in their dimension for now.

 

She then goes and prepares the plane thing in the past so that Graham and co. are saved.

However, something’s still bothering her-what the Master said about Gallifrey.  She goes there and the Capital is in smoking ruins. So much for Gallifrey Falls no more.

 

But there’s even more shocks to come. A pre-recorded hologram from the Master shows up in the TARDIS, where he reveals that he destroyed Gallifrey-after discovering something about a mysterious “Timeless child”, something the Doctor had heard about before during the race to her TARDIS in “The Ghost Monument”. Apparently Gallifrey’s founding fathers (presumably Rassilon and Omega) had some big secret which shakes the foundation of their civilization/origins, and it drew the Master even more nuts.

 

 

Badly shaken by all this, the Doctor decides to tell her more about her background-her status as a time lord, her home planet, and her relationship with the Master….before setting up on new adventures-and eventually perhaps, discovering what these revelations will mean.

 

 

Doctor Who History-Resolution of the Dalek

 

9th century England. A large battle takes place, where some form of creature is defeated, and then cut into three pieces and buried around the world. Including Sheffeld, with guardians guarding two of the pieces throughout the century, although the English one is unfortunately killed before he can properly bury the final piece.

 

Today, archaeologists Lin and Mitch discover the skeleton of the man in the sewers, and some other kind of weird object that they put in a bag.

However, the thing in the bag awakes, and uses teloportation to re-merge with the rest of it in the sewers.

The creature’s teleportations are detected by the TARDIS and the Doctor and co investigate. Lin reports seeing a squid-like monster on the wall, which suddenly vanishes but leaves a slime trail.

 

The Doctor analyzes the slime using the TARDIS, and is dismayed to find out that an old enemy is about….it’s a Dalek, in it’s mutant form.

Worse, it’s attached itself to Lin’s back, and is controlling her mind in order to rebuild it’s casing and contact the rest of the Daleks in space. The Lin/Dalek kills two policeman, a UNIT archive guard and a farmer in order to achieve this goal.

 

Meanwhile, in the midst of all this, Ryan’s estranged father Aaron shows up, complicating things. He’s also trying to sell microwaves.

 

While Graham talks it out with Ryan’s father, the Doctor and co track the Dalek to the warehouse, where it has let Lin go but has now created a makeshift casing.

 

After the usual stare-down confrontation between the two mortal enemies, the Dalek escapes, and then attacks the military, heading to the GCHQ (Global communications headquarters) to attempt to contact it’s kin.

 

After picking up Graham and Ryan’s father, the Doctor uses Aaron’s disassembled microwave to destroy the Dalek casing.

 

 

The mutant however survives and attaches itself to Aaron, demanding to be taken to the fleet. The Doctor however decides to let it out near a supernova, whose gravitational pull sucks it-and nearly Aaron-into it. Fortunately, Ryan is able to save his father. With Aaron and Ryan on the road to reconciliation, and the archaeologists now safe (and also about to date), the Doctor heads out for further adventures in time and space.

 

Doctor Who-Witches and Dreamscapes

The Doctor and co. arrive in the early 17th century, during the height of witch panic in England. They’re unable to save a “witch” from being drowned by the cruel Becka Savage.

 

Posing as “Witchhunters” using the psychic paper, the Doctor and co. also meet King James, who is in the area (played by actor Alan Cumming)

However, the Doctor, teaming up with the “witches’s” granddaughter Willa, finds something weird about the drowned witches , a weird mud substance is possessing them and turning them into a sort of zombie.

Of course this paranormal activity causes James and Becka to assume the Doctor is a witch herself. However, due to her alien attributes and some tricks from Harry Houdini, she manages to avoid being drowned.

 

We soon learn that the mud infected Becka as well when she chopped down a tree, and the Witch trials were her attempts to be cured. The Mud is in fact alien war criminals known as the Morax, and now they want to rule the Earth by posessing King James as well. James then kills the Becka/Morax monster. King James reassures the Doctor that all knowledge of this will be erased. Graham also tells King James not to do any more trials, quoting not only the book of Ezekiel, but also Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp fiction.

 

 

The Doctor then return to present day Norway, where they discover a Blind girl all alone. Her mother has died and her father has vanished. Investigating, the Doctor and co. discover a portal.

 

The portal initially leads to the Anti-zone, a dark world with a weird “tour guide” named Ribbons and pirahnish moths, who also proceed to eventually eat Ribbons.

On the other side of the mirror, they discover a world where not only is Henne’s mother alive, but also Grace, Graham’s wife.

However, it’s all revealed that it’s just a lonely alien called the Solitract stuck in a parallel universe and who just wants some companionship, so it took the form of the dead wives. The deception is revealed especially when “Grace” shows no concern for her grandson Ryan.

After the parallel world collapses, the Doctor has a brief conversation with the Solitract-which has assumed the form of a frog-before leaving herself.

Next, the Doctor and co. follow distress signals sent from Raskoor Al Kolos, where there are a lot of damaged spaceships, including the crew of one vessel.

Turns out the murderer of Grace and the 13th Doctor’s first opponent, Tzim-Sha, or “Tim Shaw” is still alive and has enslaved an alien race, using their mental powers to shrink planets-and now he wants to shrink the Earth too.

Graham also wants revenge on Sha for Grace’s death, although the Doctor warns him that’s a bad idea. Eventually, she convinces the Ux to help her, Graham decides to just shoot Tzim Sha in the foot and with Ryan’s help, freezes him and destroys his weapons. The planets he shrunk are also restored to their proper space.

 

 

 

 

Doctor Who History-Conundrums and paradoxes

The Doctor and co. are digging for some junk when they trigger a sonic mine. They’re taken onboard a medical ship, with some other patients, including Eve, a space general with a heart problem,  and Yoss, an alien pregnant man.

Unfortunately, the ship eventually gets an extra passenger, a Pting, a monster who eats energy. If he eats the power source, the ship’s in trouble. What’s worse, if they reach a medical space station with the contamination onboard, the ship will be destroyed.

Eve manages to pilot the ship to safety while the Doctor gives the Pting an explosive device to feast on before jettisoning it into space. Unfortunately, the experience kills Eve.

 

Graham and Ryan however manage to help deliver Yoss’s son.

The Doctor and co’s next trip takes them to Yaz’s past, as she’s curious about a broken watch her grandmother has. Patching into the telepathic circuits of the TARDIS, they’re taken to the Punjab, 1947, in the time just before the Partition of India.

However, Yaz is shocked to find that her grandmother is going to get married to a man who *isn’t* her grandfather!

 

..and what’s worse, there’s weird bat-like aliens around who have appeared to have killed the wedding priest, and Prem recalls killed his brother in World War II.

 

The Doctor assumes that these aliens killed the priest and are out for Prem for some reason. However, she eventually finds out that these aliens, although once villains, are now those who watch over those who die. The real murderer of the priest was Prem’s other brother, Manish, who opposes the wedding.

The wedding does take place, but then Manish arrives with Indian Nationalists.

The Doctor is once again, forced to let history take it’s course despite the injustice being commited, as Prem is gunned down and the aliens observe. Later on, Yaz’s grandmother would marry her grandfather and moved to Sheffeld.

 

In a somewhat more light-hearted adventure, the Doctor receives a package from Kerblam, a mostly robot-operated shopping service. It’s a Fez, something commonly used by her eleventh incarnation. But it also contains a cry for help.

 

When the Doctor investigates the warehouse with her companions, it turns out the distress signal was sent by Kerblam’s AI, as somebody is messing with the robots and the packages, which have explosive bubble wrap.

 

This unfortunately kills Kira, one of the workers who the group has befriended.

Turns out the culprit is Charlie, another worker who wanted to get the robots blamed for the customer deaths as a result, as he wants Kerblam to not be replaced by automation (He didn’t mean for Kira to die though). Ultimately, the Doctor manages to have the tainted “teammate” robots all open the packaging, destroying most of them and their deadly cargo-as well as Charlie. Ironically, this helps Charlie get his wish of Kerblam having a new human workforce.

 

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!