Category: Doctor Who

5×3: The Man Who Never Was: From beyond the grave, the Should’ve-Been King has set a trap for the Doctor. At last, he’s reunited with the real Sammy Lake, but this time, saving the day may cost him everything.

Tales From /lost+found 193 will be delayed until Tuesday to coincide with the holiday.

SAMMYName one thing then. One thing about humans you can’t find a million other places in the universe.

(a beat)

THE DOCTORDragee.

SAMMYWhat?

THE DOCTORDragee. Cachous. You know? Those little silver sugar balls you use to decorate cakes.

SAMMYSugar balls? I’m having an existential crisis and you’re talking about sugar balls?

THE DOCTORLook. Every race that survives long enough discovers fire. Invents the wheel. The sword. The atom bomb. Reality TV. Hyperdrive. Art. Poetry. Love. But in the entire history of the universe, you ridiculous bald apes are the only species that ever came up with the idea of making edible ball bearings and putting them on cakes. My people conquered time, but they never managed edible ball bearings.

SAMMYAre you trying to make me feel better?

THE DOCTORYou asked me to name one thing. Not the best thing or the biggest thing. Just one thing.

SAMMYWhy that thing?

THE DOCTORBecause, Sammy, there is nothing in this universe that is so small or insignificant that it can’t be special. Even an edible ball bearing.

 

What would a long-running nerdy TV series be without merch for its adoring fans to buy?

For time reasons, I’m forgoing my usual formatting for this script excerpt from “Twelfth Night”:

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THE DOCTOR
You don’t have to do this.

VASTRA
They are savages.

THE DOCTOR
And you’re not. Senseless massacre won’t bring your sisters back. It won’t avenge them. And it won’t honor them. I know of your people. Homo Reptilia is a noble race. Be noble. Be merciful.

VASTRA
Do not speak to me of mercy, mammal. Not now.

THE DOCTOR
There’s only now. There’s only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No. Wait. Is that Rent? That’s rent.
(To SAMMY)
That felt pretentious. Is that what I am now? Pretentious?
(To VASTRA)
You think he’s an animal. He thinks you’re an animal. Prove him wrong.

VASTRA lowers her sword.

POLICE and THOMAS THOMAS enter.

SUTCLIFFE
Thank God. Constables, kindly remove this
(at VASTRA, sneering)
creature.
(Indicates THE DOCTOR, SAMMY and JENNY)
And this filth as well.

THOMAS THOMAS
(indicating SUTCLIFFE)
That’s ‘im, guv’nor.

CONSTABLE
Lord Sutcliffe, you are under arrest on suspicion of treason.

SUTCLIFFE
What?

THE DOCTOR
You probably shouldn’t leave documentation of your evil plans out where any prisoner could pass it out the window to a street urchin with instructions to deliver it to Scottland Yard.

5×2: First Do No Harm: At an acid-mining factory in the 22nd century, the Doctor, Harmony and Sammy are caught in a battle for survival between humans and gangers – artificial duplicates which have developed minds of their own.

Just to get out in front of it by bending time as well as reality. I gather that the titles of the last few episodes of the real-world season haven’t been released yet. I don’t know where Chibnall is going with this season, but I do know where similar themes would be going in the next universe to the left. For that reason, I wanted to just casually drop the fact that in the lost+found, episodes 8, 9, and 10 of series 7 will be titled “Planet of the Ood”, “Rosa”, and “The Doctor Stands”.