Doctor Who finale recap series 38, episode ten – The Timeless Children

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Wait, what?! In a thrilling conclusion to Chris Chibnall’s second series at the reins, the identity of the Timeless Child was finally revealed – but did you guess who it was?
Way to rip up the rule book, while also respecting it more than ever! This series finale takes audacious flights, rewriting Doctor Who lore to extravagant degrees, creating an alternative backstory for the creation of Gallifrey and a completely new backstory for the Doctor, that reveals her as the fabled Timeless Child: not the last of the Timelords, but the first. Jodie Whittaker gives one of her most visceral performances, as the Doctor learns the truth about her origins – and her part in the much-storied malevolence of the Timelords. Everything changes ... and yet as is always the case with this show, nothing really changes. The Doctor is still an unknowable force of nature with a shady past. And, just when it looks like things might really get shaken up, the Doctor is once again prevented from committing genocide by kindly terrorist Ko Shamur. Continue reading...

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