![]() ![]() Though from the trailer it looks like it was animated in Roblox, so YMMV.Īs Kate Stewart, Jemma Redgrave has now appeared in stories featuring the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and War Doctors. The 1966 story has three episodes missing from the archive, but an animated version using the original audio soundtrack will be released next year. Gough was due to reprise the role in The Nightmare Fair, a 1986 Colin Baker story, but BBC bigwigs had other ideas, put the show on hiatus, and we ended up with Trial of a Time Lord instead. There were too many callbacks to count, but the biggest was the Toymaker, who, as briefly glimpsed in colourised clips, first appeared played by Michael Gough in a 1966 story with William Hartnell. Photograph: Alistair Heap/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios Deeper into the vortex Neil Patrick Harris was a menacing delight as the Toymaker from the first second of this special. That was surely the hand of the Rani picking up the tooth after it dropped. And the Master couldn’t really be trapped for all eternity in a gold tooth? Of course not. The Meeps’s reference to its boss in the first special, and the Toymaker saying there was a thing hiding in the universe that even he was afraid to challenge, but would be somebody else’s game, seem to be setting up a big bad for Gatwa’s first full season. ![]() The scenes inside the Toymaker’s shop had a creepy dreamlike feel to them, with the dolls at times evoking horror movie vibes – albeit a horror movie you can show to eight-year-old kids on a Saturday teatime. And the Toymaker’s puppet replay of the grisly fates of Amy, Clara and Bill rammed home how life on the Tardis has become a hazardous occupation in the modern era. We got the awkward conversation that happens every time a current companion meets an earlier one – “but you’d never mentioned them”. The Toymaker returns to drive the human race to distraction with a doll, only to find they’ve gifted the Doctor a home. Photograph: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios Sum it up in one sentence? Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, as seen in the Christmas trailer broadcast after the episode. It meant a huge tonal shift for the final third, leaving the demise of the Toymaker almost an aside as the Doctors stood together, using the 60th anniversary to wave goodbye to the past and usher in the future. Gatwa’s entrance, due to the show’s first ever “bi-generation”, appears to be acting as a character cleanse for the Doctor and a potential soft timeline reset for the show as a whole. When Donna so effortlessly negotiated a future job at Unit, you feared the worst for her – that it would be another fantastic dream she would never get to have, but she ended up with her family life, and an unexpected plus one in the shape of a grounded 14th Doctor. At times tender, at times dry or sarcastic with each other – “I’m already running!” – but always friends. And Langford got to use her singing and dancing skills for plot-driven reasons too.Īt its heart, for the first 40 minutes, this was about Tennant and Catherine Tate (Donna). Photograph: Alistair Heap/Bad Wolf/BBC StudiosĪ return for former companion Mel (Bonnie Langford) meant she finally got to show that her character really had been, as described, a computer programmer, and not just an eternally-in-distress 1980s damsel. Ruth Madeley reacts to the Toymaker’s invasion of Unit HQ as Shirley Anne Bingham, with presumably a similar face to the one she pulled when she saw people complaining about her character crossing their legs while in a wheelchair.
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