Chibnall's Best Doctor Who Episode

Chibnall's Best Doctor Who Episode

Intro Music By Doctor M1ck, visuals by Adam Walker

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Accompanied by a number of companions, the Doctor combats a variety of foes while working to save civilisations and help people in need.

The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and elsewhere it has gained a cult following. It has influenced generations of British television professionals, many of whom grew up watching the series. The programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989. There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot, in the form of a television film titled Doctor Who. The programme was relaunched in 2005, and since then has been produced in-house by BBC Wales in Cardiff. Doctor Who has also spawned numerous spin-offs, including comic books, films, novels, audio dramas, and the television series Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), K-9 (2009–2010), and Class (2016), and has been the subject of many parodies and references in popular culture.

Thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the show with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each actor's portrayal is unique, but all represent stages in the life of the same character, and together, they form a single lifetime with a single narrative. The time-travelling feature of the plot means that different incarnations of the Doctor occasionally meet. The Doctor is currently portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, who became the first woman to play the role after Peter Capaldi's exit in the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon a Time".

The twelfth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 1 January 2020 and aired through to 1 March 2020. It is the second to be led by Chris Chibnall as head writer and executive producer, alongside executive producer Matt Strevens, the twelfth to air after the programme's revival in 2005, and the thirty-eighth season overall. The twelfth series was broadcast on Sundays, except for the premiere episode, continuing on from the eleventh series, after regular episodes of the revived era have previously been broadcast on Saturdays. The series was preceded by a New Year's Day special episode in 2019, "Resolution", instead of the traditional annual Christmas special.

Jodie Whittaker returns for her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor, an incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears from the outside to be a British police box. It also stars Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill as the Doctor's travelling companions, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively. The series follows the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions as they meet a new incarnation of the Master and his destruction of Gallifrey, the return of Jack Harkness, the appearance of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor from before the Time War, the Cybermen, and the secret of the "Timeless Child".

The ten episodes were directed by Jamie Magnus Stone, Lee Haven Jones, Nida Manzoor and Emma Sullivan. Alongside Chibnall, who wrote four of the scripts and co-wrote a further three, the writers include Ed Hime, Pete McTighe and Vinay Patel, who return from writing the previous series, as well as new contributors Nina Metivier, Maxine Alderton and Charlene James.

The thirteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who is set to premiere in 2021, after being announced in November 2019. The series will be the third to be led by Chris Chibnall as head writer and executive producer. This series is set to be the thirteenth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and will be the thirty-ninth season overall. The series will consist of eight episodes.

Jodie Whittaker returns for her third series as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. Recording commenced in November 2020, and is set to run for ten months.

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[Tharries]

What do you think the best Chibnall episode is?

[kasterborous]

I think it's important to remember that one reason why Season 13 episodes 1 and 2 have been reviewed so well is because the serialised nature of this season means Chibnall hasn't stuffed the landing yet. It's all buildup and spectacle, no payoff. I am keeping everything crossed but I'm very worried for episode six.

[JEEEVANJOHN]

The soldier commander was probably pretending to be dead.

[markmangan]

“ Dan and his frying pan “ - IT’S A WOK!

[theesweatydrummer]

The Doctor didn’t spend ALL her dialogue explaining what just happened. It was great!!

[cyberemperor]

The soldier guy didn’t come back to life he just pretended to be dead 😆

[edwardreed]

My favourite line from this episode (shocking I know) is when Mary Seacole asks the Doctor “Who are you?” And the Doctor reply’s “Mary Seacoles assistant” It’s a nice change on the “I am the Doctor” line and shows how Jodie’s Doctor more sympathetic and wholesome side

[Beantbeantbeant]

Honestly made the sontarans a proper threat, I’ve always semi viewed them as silly and slightly comic relief even from the classic series. Here the scale of their invasion felt genuinely threatening and had some stakes because they finally accomplished something

[crowcoregames]

i feel like it can only get better from here hopefully, also the genral didnt die he just cowardly lay down and pretended to die so he could survive

[Potatoboii]

6:30 the way I understood it, he pretended to die so that he could survive the battle, but there's nothing that says this outright.

[JeffJolly]

The best thing Chibnall ever wrote was the letter announcing he was leaving

[leipherd]

I thought it remained a mess. Mary Seacole is utterly underused - she helps because she can "stay awake"? The TARDIS is right in the middle of the battlefield but also next to the British Hotel? Lupari are still bonded to protect, but not for those executed humans? Sontarans, military geniuses, haven't worked out you don't all have to sleep at the same time? The General was able to get enough gunpowder to blow up the entire Sontaran base in 7 minutes? I could go on....

[Myne]

I think that Temple is going to part of the explanation of the origin of the Timeless Child. I just get this feeling.

[mathieuleader]

I'm calling it now Azure and Swarm are Chibnall's take on the ancient villainess of the Who books the Timewyrm

[meseigotglambert]

I think the same, it was Chibnall's best Doctor Who episode by far. Can't wait to see the rest of the series. :)

[atomise]

It’s very surprising to me that this episode seems to be the one that has got most people on board. IMO it suffers a few issues that really distracted me. It was still definitely one of Chibnall’s stronger episodes but nothing special, it didn’t grab me at all. The Sontarans were great, Chibnall really gets them. I really wish this episode had just been about Sontarans invading the Crimea, that was by far the best part and was a killer premise. The biggest issue is we never get any time with an average soldier, there all just drones. And the lack of any comparison between the imperialist Generals forcing their understocked, starving troops in to war and the Sontarans is a real disappointment.

[siborgproductions]

I really liked this episode especially the call back to lynx it’s definitely improving I think as well

[leejones]

the lead Sontaran also played frank in the comedy Bob Servant he was funny in that aswell.

[grantmason]

The "soldier guy" as you put it was the General (I think). He didn't come back to life, he was playing dead to signify to the audience he was at heart a coward.

[blackphoenix]

That was a really good episode; I wish Chibnall had written like this all along.