Special 84 The Time of the Doctor

I remember loving this and i love it even more now. Cried when Handles died, cried my eyes out at the ending.

I liked the chemistry between 11 and Clara, and i think they would have been good for each other. It's a shame their time together has been cut short.

Here it's revealed the importance of the doctor's name, in that it's also a message for the hidden time lords on Gallifrey to home in on location/universe, his signal, his name, to then come through into the universe, through the crack in reality, and they made a truth field to also make him say his name, whether on it's own or to force the doctor to say his name as backup against the enemies that would be coming for the time lords.

The doctor is torn between wanting to save his entire people vs starting another time war.

And of course, the planet being Trenzalore, the planet the doctor defended until his death, until the timelords intervened, and now the doctor is free from that fate.

The timelords were keeping the crack open after the previous event of the tardis exploding. When that was prevented there was still scar tissue from the impact it had on reality.

The silence is also explained. The silence were so intent on stopping the doctor was because of this event. To stop him from speaking his name to let the other timelords through and starting another time war.

This is actually really good, although it feels a bit late, and the silence creatures are still not good, but i like the reveal of them as priests.

So it all does go someway to reasoning why the a sect of the silence were so intent on trying to kill the doctor in the past. And the main branch were defending him on trenzalore.

They also blew up his tardis, the sect, but how? Was that explained?

Tasha Lem and The Doctor have an unspoken history. I feel like she might be River in some way. Especially that psychopath comment and their chemistry.

Seeing the doctor so old was emotional, and we saw Clara going through various emotions in this episode, trying to stay with the doctor, being sad he left her and lied to her again and again. But once she saw how old and borderline senile he was, she understood. Clara played a big part in convincing the time lords to help.

And 11, seeing Amelia again. He really cared for her. Those scenes were really emotional. It would have been so many centuries since he last saw her. The first face he saw. He remembered her so much. He cared for Clara too, his companion, but he hadn't known her that long. He still showed his care for her though. But him hallucinating Amelia was really emotional. In all the time he had lived, more than any other doctor, he thought about and remembered Amelia Pond.

It was all extremely emotional.

His change into Capaldi was sudden. It undercut the emotion. But it's understandable why he changed so fast. 10 didn't want to go, and he clung onto himself and that power so much and made a huge explosion of time lord energy, more than any other doctor. 11 had fully accepted himself and his death. Even in his final moments you could hear his acceptance of his death, and change. He knew he was dying but that he wouldn't fully be dead, because his life, his consciousness is about change. There will always be one 11 though, and it is a form of death for him, 10 knew that too.

But 11 fully accepted it, it's why he didn't struggle when he was regenerating.

I'm going to miss 11. He was good, even though he was very manipulative and deceitful. He also had a lot of darkness within him. The thing with 10 is that if he got too dark, he wouldn't know when to stop. It would be about his supreme power to do whatever he wanted in the universe, most likely in the sense of doing anything he wanted in order to serve the greater good.

If 11 got too dark, he would use his power to serve his own ends in any kind of good, whether it's the greater good or his own individual battles to protect his friends, but he'd never go too far, because he knows what happened to 10, what he was like, and 11 didn't want to be like 10, he wanted to avoid that, and it would be on his mind. The desire to not let the darkness go too dark, to not go too far, and he had the guilt of his actions of 10 in wanting to stay, and some of that ego went along with 11.

He carried with him more darkness than 10, but he let a lot of that go and moved on after Amy and Rory left. He left a lot of that darkness and anger and deceit go.

10 was defeated, he wasn't smart enough to survive, so 10 regenerated into someone who could be smarter, who could also use his power and knowledge more deceptively in order to achieve victory. As Davros said, 10 (unknowingly) fashioned his companions into weapons, and 11 didn't do that because he wanted to take the burden of the danger more on himself, and to do that he had to be more deceitful and lie more to protect them. By doing that, it's why Amy and Rory were taken from him. He learned his lesson a bit and changed with Clara, who is a smart and capable companion.

I'm going to miss 11. The madman with a box. He also won, didn't he? In the end, while he accepted his death from old age, he won. No one defeated him, it was only his old age. It shows that through all his deceptions and godly allusions and power, he won.

This is one of the best pieces of Doctor Who content ever.