The Many Flamboyant Faces of the Doctor

Doctor Who is a monolithic marvel of a television programme. It spawned with very tentatively modest origins on a relatively limited budget, and was a somewhat precarious leap forward for Sydney Newman, Verity Lambert, William Hartnell, and all of the other influential and visionary minds that would ultimately stand as a pillar hallmark template for tributary successors in the years ensuing its emergent eminence on the 23rd of November, 1963. Originally conceived as an educational show to provide erudition and enlightenment on history through the episodes set in the past of the science fiction sensation, and on science nonfiction through the techno-babbling serials based in the future-Whether the ingeniously and immaculately conceived vessel that could travel in time and space, and was a veritably esoteric physical machination, transported the initial crew of the TARDIS of four benevolent protagonists to various fantastical planets that the universe accommodated, or elsewhere on Earth.

The vicarious conduits of the audience's experience of the phenomenal transpirations were uniquely distinguished, and in plentiful supply, but the primary protagonist leading them as they voyaged into the vast depths of the unknown was the furthest of them from relatable. A crotchety, uncanny, fabulous figure of mystique, gusto and an immense degree of unfathomable intellect and gravitas that immediately provided the show with an incomprehensibly luxurious virtue of weight and intrigue the all of the events. He was the designated pilot of the vessel, and although was of human aesthetic when he appeared to Ian Chesterton and Barbra Wright in a junkyard not too far afoot from Coal Hill school(of with the enigma's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, was an attendee), it was soon revealed that he was, in fact, an extraordinary extraterrestrial, along with Susan-Rendering the fascinating peculiarity of the adolescent's intelligent, yet discordant mentality and persona more coherent to understand, but only proving to further intensify the curiosity of the impetus behind the pursuit of her to the junkyard from her two tutors.

The show, in commensurate progression with its lead character, has been the beneficiary of an exponential and astronomical evolution of just about every pertinent element comprising it; From the tonality, the progressive and innovative strides the logistics made, the ravenously adoring fanbase, and the Doctor themself has perhaps been the most astutely representative of this in the physical manifestation that has seen the literal rejuvenating transformation of the very form and fibre of their being, right down to the last cell, at multiple intermittent instances throughout the enduring legacy and tenure of the show over 50 years in the works. The entity of the character has been embodied and defined by twenty-three spectacular actors in totality, spanning across the main universal narrative arc and cinematic depictions-And these have consisted of future incarnations, alternative manifestations and a childhood version, among others. The lineage of the Doctor's life, just like the show, has been complicated, convoluted, and as it has elapsed from a non-linear, non-subjective perspective, would be most sufficiently summarised as "wibbly-wobbly" and "timey-wimey". Blurred lines have obscured clarity in the recognised brilliance of the bastion for justice and chivalrous heroism in the universe; And so this fanatical foray will act as a tributary homage of appreciative acknowledgement, and seek to briefly overview the fourteen pre-eminent pinnacle players of one of the most prestigious roles ever, in purveyance of a seminal and salient programme.

The recruitment of William Hartnell was a somewhat unconventional one in retrospect, when the fact that, preceding his casting as the channelling conduit for the conveyance of the equally unorthodox persona of the Doctor, he had become typecast as an honourable military general manifestation of a character. But also looking back, he was a perfect decision to settle on as well. Such a juxtaposition complemented the adroitness he exhibited in laying the foundational groundwork for the successors the expand and enhance upon in the continual evolution of the character. Introducing audiences that would soon become eagerly effervescent fanatics to the character through his portrayal of regular irascibility and impatience, to be offset by sporadic instances of a rekindled joviality and intrigue with the universe, the gradual balancing of the two most overt aspects of his personality provided an endearing character development for viewers-As initial antipathy toward Ian and Barbara, and even occasional insensitivity toward granddaughter Susan soon became affection and sympathy. The estranged alien who exuded the impression that he thought himself omniscient eventually learned and grew personally via the tutelage of his companions, as they educated him just as much as he did them.

The sentimental exchanges between the allies were the first of an innumerable passage of moments of magnitude, and the potency in the poignancy of Susan’s departure was so profound by the virtue of the graduation before. When the fourth “assistant” to join the TARDIS, Vicki, arrived, the Doctor precipitously allowed her to grow on him, and after only a few adventures, he had imprinted a paternal intimacy of tenderness and compassion toward her. Soon after, Ian and Barbara elected to withdraw from their escapades with the bizarre wanderer, and it was made clear that he was already growing fatigued with what would grow into a revolving door or a carousel of intermittent explorers of the universe. Though, with the perspective granted from the following representatives of tremendous time travel, Hartnell’s embodying era of the show in its inaugural phases was comparatively primitive, he set the original tone and ensured stability in the vaunted regard the programme sustained in at least its immediate future through the first profound delivery of a captivating soliloquy upon the exit of Susan, the naive wisdom he possessed in abundance, and the inclination he developed for inviting others to accompany him on his exploits-Adopting the temporary company of Steven Taylor, and Dodo Chaplet soon after, before finally allying with Polly and Ben Jackson.

He was also, of course, the first version of his physical form to encounter the dreaded Daleks and the tyrannical Cyberman, and dealt justice to the mischievous time meddler(another member of his race) on multiple occasions.
He was also subject to numerous engagements alongside his future bodies, as Hartnell returned in Jon Pertwee’s story that saw the first, second and third Doctors converge and unite, and again with his four immediate successors, when the deceased Hartnell was personified by Richard Hurndall; And he also met the thirteenth body he inhabited under his twelfth titling of his pseudonym after triumphing in his very first battle with the Cybermen, at the toll of the exhaustion that cost him his life. He was reluctant to “renew” himself, but David Bradley’s impression of the character finally saw ration when, in Twice Upon A Time, the meeting with the future incarnation in a symptomatically and symbolically identical situation of precariousness, brought him the tranquility he needed to commence the passing of the torch over to Patrick Troughton who has debuted 51 years prior in Power Of The Daleks.

Patrick Troughton was faced with potentially one of the most beleaguering, and arduous trials of his acting credentials when he was presented with the task of revitalising the show that urgently required attention. One of the most ingenious plot devices was conceived to compensate for the deteriorating health of the lead actor, and the threat of compromising the integrity of any actor vying for the opportunity to encapsulate a personality of someone several years their senior was an ominous circumstance of adversity that most would have capitulated in the face of. But Troughton was un-phased by such an onerous burden; He instead took inspiration from the fascinating magnetism that such an insurmountable set of odds presented, and completely subverted all expectation of mere emulation of the role that came before. He still retained the lack of retention of the competence in the accurate piloting of his trans-dimensional vehicle and transcended genre, culture and preference through the ebullient, whimsical nature of his Second Doctor.

Hartnell laid the foundational groundwork, but Troughton set the precedent for all that proceeded him to take cues from, in the simultaneous complementary maintenance and intervening contradiction of the character that came before. Beginning his new life as a subsequence of duelling with the Cybermen, he also had the unfavourable peril of being confronted by his most inexorable nemesis, the Daleks, as he instigated the endurance of a tenure that elapsed in four months less than that of William Hartnell’s, but still amassed as much of an iconography and a reputation of venerated ingenious. Hartnell unintentionally developed a morality complex of benevolence and aid for the entire universe, as opposed to simply visiting and witnessing all of the splendour and horror. Troughton, perhaps, had this ideology most in common with his predecessor, as he took the principal and amplified it to an entirely different extreme-Inspired in his first altercation with the Daleks in his second adventure, and fully cultivated by the time he incorporated the body of a short, comical master of magnificence.

He welcomed Jamie McCrimmon, a Piper from 18th century Scotland, alongside Ben and Polly when the events with the Daleks that reassured the initial trepidation of the pair’s attitude toward their fully transformed host who made his feelings about his previous body vague through references professed in the third person had ran their course. And the Highlander remained present for the rest of Troughton’s amazing adventures. When Ben and Polly retired from their career of endeavours in the TARDIS at the native environment of Gatwick Airport of all places, Jamie and the Doctor persevered through the heartbreak, and subsequently met Victoria Waterfield in the 19th century. Again, a very paternal rapport was constructed between the vibrant, yet grand and wise figure of the Doctor and his young assistant, and it was time for Troughton to deliver a compelling speech in his offered counsel of her when she lost her father. Unfortunately, however, the serenades of the reassuring tone of his voice proved futile, and did little to affect the fate of her decision to leave the TARDIS in her adoption in the 20th century, and the unexpected accommodation of a stowaway aboard the time and spaceship, Zoe Heriot, after she helped thwart the malevolence of the Cybermen in the 21st century within the confines of the space station, the Wheel.

The Second Doctor maintained relationships of animosity with the familiar foes of the Daleks and the Cybermen, but also encountered other phenomenally formidable adversaries, not to be reckoned with, in the Great Intelligence and the Abominable Snowman, and the Ice Warriors in particular. He instead opted to trifle with them. He also build other affectionate relationships with the stalwarts of UNIT(the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), spearheaded by Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart-The Colonel that eventually rose to the prestige of the rank of Brigadier. He came face to face with his previous and future incarnation in The Three Doctors, and again with the additional fourth and fifth embodiments in The Five Doctors, like the First Doctor; But he also made contact with the Sixth version of his persona in The Two Doctors. All of the interference with affairs that were not of his right to become concerned with contravened the antiquated laws of inert indolence from his indigenous species, finally named the Time Lords. And they decided to punish him for his defiance after his summoning of them to assist in the return of the victims of the Time Lord, the War Chief’s tyranny in his kidnapping and subjugation of humans to exploit as involuntary soldiers-In the aftermath of subjecting them to traumatic events of running the gauntlet of the war zone at the jeopardy of their lives. They imposed a change of his appearance following the rectification of the tragedies of The War Games, but his regeneration was not blatantly depicted; And fans have concluded that he was forced to undertake duties the Time Lords assigned him before an exile on Earth. The theories have been validated by The aesthetic aged appearance of the Second Doctor when he met the Sixth, among other elements of minutia.

Continuity fallacies aside, the Doctor and his accommodating television show persisted onward into the flamboyant era of colour and bedazzlement in 1970, with Jon Pertwee taking the reins of the TARDIS control panel, and elaborating on the simplistic design of Patrick Troughton’s introduced sonic screwdriver with a more ornate appearance. The “Cosmic Hobo” was restrained to Earth for an exasperating endurance of time, and the adoption of a more practically uncompounded approach and attitude was juxtaposed only by the flagrantly extravagant regalia the “Dandy” chose to adorn himself with. The vital utility of a more ground-based mode of transportation, the ever-reliable Bessie and the hovercraft vehicle, were soon implemented into the life that saw the Third Doctor intimately involved with the operations of UNIT, in the vigilant guarding of the sustained welfare of the planet, and the Brigadier became a regular fixture featuring in the defence against the whole host of alien oppression, conducted by the Autons, the Sontarans, and especially the antithetical mastermind to the Doctor’s own supreme intellect-fellow Time Lord, the Master.

The Master of malicious intent became as revered and adulated as the fearsome Daleks and Cybermen, in both the regard of the fans in their unmitigated terror at his evil machinations, and that of the Doctor himself; As, despite the arrogance of the eccentricity of his persona that matched that of the garments he wore, the genuine affection and favour he reserved for his companions Scientist Liz Shaw, Captain Mike Yates and the rest of UNIT was only rivalled for the guilty irresistibility he harboured toward his true nemesis. He took no pleasure when compelled to deploy his practice of Venusian Aikido when in physical combat with the Sea Devils, the Sontarans and the Silurians as the outstanding ornaments of the span of the only “classic” Doctor to have not engaged with the Cyberman. Fabled parables elapsed instilling a palpable transition from the tonality to phenomena of more arcane scintillation than the previous seasons, despite the majority of the sequences transpiring on Earth. He convened with his predecessors in the battle against the renegade Time Lord, Omega, in The Three Doctors after taking Jo Grant under his wing when Liz deserted his presence, and again alongside the fourth and fifth entities of his monumental personage in The Five Doctors alongside the intrepid and analytically astute Sarah Jane Smith, and suffused the iconography of the legendary legacy of the Doctor with a suave sophistication in drastic transition from the “hermit” mentality of his predecessor.

The Daleks had a five year hiatus in which they recuperated and refined the intense focus of their malignant plight of genocide and ethnic cleansing of everything not purely encapsulating hate in Day of the Daleks, but still proved no match for the whit and tactical skill of the Doctor who was most proficient in diplomacy and deception through disguise. A man of the most pristine ugly contradictions finally met his match when a travel to Metebelis Three saw the meeting with the salesman Lupton in union with the race of arachnids, the Eight-Legs, when the sacrificial remedy the Doctor attempted to implement by returning the exalted crystal to its rightful location of residence after he had removed it, and deterring the efforts of The Great One(the queen spider) eventuated in the entire vicinity of the cave in which the crystal belonged to become flooded with lethal radiation. He returned to Earth three weeks the latter in the TARDIS to grace Sarah Jane and the Brigadier with the presence of his final moments, before the true time for radically bizarre and quirky misdemeanours imminently arrived.

Tom Baker infused the most eccentric, queer and spectacular whimsy to the show of Doctor Who upon his arrival in a debut that comprised of the belligerence of the actions of Hilda Winters and her accomplice, Bellicoe, in their manipulative instruction of an experimental robot, K1, to wreak destructive havoc across England. Though initially delirious due to the necessitated recovery of the deterioration that impelled his third regeneration, an aura of almost synchronistic facetiousness and austere sentimentality permeated the tone of the Fourth incarnation, as the most similar version of the enthralling Time Lord to the Second, portrayed by Troughton. He was, of course, still entirely distinguishable from his previous self however, in the intensity in which he amplified every intricate detail of menagerie, while still being able to subconsciously convey subtle undertones of personality quirks and pertinent thoughts and feelings relevant to whatever disconcerting situation in which he found himself(exemplified appropriately in the wacky clothing selection process, in which he diligently undertook with the reluctant assistance of the Brigadier). He was, and remains to date, the most “alien” and the most “human” embodiment of the character, and that is what justifies the exorbitantly exuberant adoration that many fans exhibit when they laud him as their favourite Doctor.

As well as the coveted accolade of being the longest-serving actor to play the Doctor, Tom Baker was really beneficial to the profile of the televised paragon through the astonishing ability he had to bolster the performances of all of those around him, while arresting the attention of all participants within a given circumstance. He was estranged, and a head case at times, but remained sympathetic through his unconditional love for his companions, of which RSM Benton and Harry Sullivan was granted the permission to rise to prevalence, and his compassion for not only them, but every single sentient being in the universe-Except Jelly Babies; He had a reckless abandon in which he ruthlessly dispatched them by eating and offering them to everyone, as nothing but fodder. The catchphrase is a merit of many of the personas of the Doctor, and the practical sensibility behind the methodical application of Pertwee’s “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” was rivalled by the juvenile effervescence of the query of whether someone “Would like a Jelly Baby” purported by Baker.

Long scarves, gigantic, floppy hair, and a genuine delight in the experience of all of the pleasure and inconveniences of the universe pervaded every episode that contained this peculiar figure. He played a minor role in the events of The Five Doctors along with his four other incarnations, but one of the most defining moments or this Doctor while still accompanied by Sarah Jane and Harry was his reluctance to obliterate the Dalek’s genesis project as instigated by the deadly Davros of the planet Skaro, during the war between the Kaleds and the Thals in a period of history in which the Time Lords sent the Doctor back to-Yet another defiance of the authority of the will of the supreme state of Gallifrey. And soon after, he was summoned back to his home planet, and left Sarah Jane in Glasgow, mistaking it for Croydon. Soon he was joined by Leela, an alien warrior, and the beloved robot dog, K9, to combat his solitude, and he revived his animus with the Cybermen and the Master among other new and familiar encounters with aggressive antagonists; and the pulse of the contemporary fanatical zeitgeist was touched in a profound way. That preceded the introduction of one of the most caring, but stubborn Time Ladies in Romana(in both of her incarnations) and the second construction of a K9 unit due to the departure of the original alongside Leela after the events of the Sontaran incursion of Gallifrey in The Invasion Of Time. The narrative of the show adopted the identity of a versatility in the environments, monsters, allies and philosophical tone, as was impelled by the pursuit and evasion of the white and the black guardians in a revolution around the seizure of the six keys to time. A randomiser dictated the navigation of the avenues they traversed, but the expedient frustration with the arbitrary determination of their destinations from the Doctor lead to his ostracism of the device, and precipitated the projection of he and Romana outside of the boundaries of the known universe into a purgatory planetary bodies within the space of negative coordinates; Subsequently, the loyal and reliable companion, Adric, was introduced, and he aided the defeat of a race of giant vampires who compromised the integrity of the welfare of the universe itself, heralding from Alzerius. Romana and K9 then elected to emancipate a species of oppressed and enslaved beings that mandated their continued presence within the dimension of E-Space.

In the twilight of the Fourth version's custody of the vessel of the entity of the Doctor, he united with Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka, and shortly after the assembly of a fantastic foursome within the TARDIS, they travelled to the planet Logopolis, where the inadvertent release of Entropy through the Master’s generated stasis field in subjugation of the planet elicited the union between the pair in preventing the potential destruction of the universe, but it enabled the Master to betray his temporary ally and force him to plummet from a height great enough to invoke his death. Visions of his previous adversaries and his adoring companions emanated in his mind as his grip upon the cable that would have been his salvation were lost, and after the plunge, he uttered the phrase “It is the end….But the moment has been prepared for” as the triumvirate of his current manner of companions swarmed around him-Providing the sentimental sense of finality and emotional weight to the proceedings. Baker made his statement at a time was already at a near-pinnacle point of its prevalent vintage and prestige, but the ability to sustain the splendour at the top distinguishes the truly great and exceptional from the good that can only reach the summit ephemerally. Baker was the face of the excellence behind and in front of the scenes, and while the lead actors are the usual conventional recipients of the majority of adulation, there is a good reason. They are under the proverbial spotlight, and Baker outshone the glare of an intense catalyst for potential adoration or scrutiny in the opinion of most Whovians.

Despite the appreciative and appraised appeal of the ecstasy in experiencing Tom Baker’s tenure in a career of miscellaneous adventures of mischief, when the moment was prepared for, the instance of a refreshing rejuvenation of the show was indeed the order of the day; And Peter Davison delivered on that promise for advocates of the euphoric, vivacious disposition that he frequently exhibited while participating in various escapades of cricketing, sporting, chivalrous magnanimity. Compassion, sensitivity and nobility were veritable qualities that he possessed in droves, sometimes to a fault. And the emphatic pressure he put on himself to emerge victorious, even when in opposition with the adversity of impossibility, that often imposed a withdrawal of disappointment or melancholy sobriety was one of the most distinct points that defined his persona. The atmosphere of the show was predicated on the familiarity of the returns of series staples the Master, the Daleks, the Cybermen, Omega, the Silurians, the Sea Devils and the Black and White Guardians, but enhanced and broadened to be conveyed in an updated and refreshing fashion, alongside the appearance of new obstacles for confrontation in lord president of the Doctor’s race, Borusa, for example.

The Fifth Doctor was a product of the synthesis between his predecessor and The Watcher(yet another future manifestation of the Doctor), and the regenerative process had taken possibly the heaviest, most burdensome toll on the charismatic hero to that point in the preliminary phases of the Doctor’s acclimatisation to his new form in the trap assembled by the Master, named Castrovalva. After absconding the boundaries of the fictional machination, he resumed his duties of piloting Nyssa, Tegan and Adric through locations situated in the past and the future, and after the convincing of Tegan to remain a member of the TARDIS crew when she was sceptical of her maintained investment in their adventures, transpirations came to a climactic head, when the Cybermen had orchestrated the path of trajectory of a gigantic space freighter to collide with prehistoric Earth-Only for their scheme to fail at the tragic expense of the sacrifice of Adric’s life; A moment that remains one of the most traumatic, poignant, and impactful moments in the Doctor’s entire life. Other moments that were equally as impactful were the encounters with his previous four bodies in The Five Doctors, and the Time Crash that saw the coincidental collision of his TARDIS with the Tenth Doctor’s-Threatening to cause a paradoxical black hole the size of Belgium. Both quandaries were resolved though, and Tegan temporarily left the TARDIS to continue her employment as an air hostess. In the interlude between her presence among the crew, Omega had devised a plot to merge with the Doctor in an attempt to temporally return to the contemporary universe, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Vislor Turlough, an alien stranded on Earth, was next to appear behind the doors of the TARDIS, but it transpired that his involvement with the deeds of the Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan was a duplicitous attempted felony-Instructed to infiltrate the TARDIS and to murder the hero by the Black Guardian in an overarching narrative in which an ancillary outcome of Nyssa’s departure in efforts to cure a disease eventuated. But he eventually rescued himself from the influence of the malevolent will of the antagonist, and accompanied the Doctor and Tegan until an untimely encounter with the Master saw him utilising the robot Kamelion to act as an interloper, exploiting the obliviousness of the subjects of King John into mistakenly believing he was the monarch. Kamelion was released from the power of the terrible Time Lord after conflicts with Silurians, Sea Devils and the Daleks, Tegan decided that the gravity of the horrendous situations was too strenuous upon her mental composition, and decided to depart, Turlough returned to his home planet, Trion, and the Doctor was forced to destroy Kamelion when the Master reclaimed the subordination of the mechanical being.

He finally saw the fate of his mortality when the companion he was still becoming acquainted with, Peri Brown, and he were exposed to the lethal drug, Spectrox, on the planet of its manufacturing-Androzani Minor. The single antidote to the toxicity of the pure, volatile form of the chemical was graciously administered to Peri in the sacrifice of the Doctor’s life, and he entered a state of delirium and deterioration envisioning his companions in a swirling carousel of reminiscence, before the maniacal demand of the Master within his mind compelled him to concede and allow himself to transition into the Sixth Doctor. Blazers adorned with decorative vegetables, enigmatic, technobabble solutions to issues in the renunciation of the sonic screwdriver, the first real introduction of the coveted “clever specs” since Hartnell’s monocle, and a gratuitous volume of cricket and dashing epitomised the experience of Davison’s stint on the show. And while it was much briefer than the six years of Baker’s occupation at just over a third of the time, but it was just as revelatory of an experience to relish in for Whovians.

Colin Baker was the second of two Bakers to embody the brilliance of the majesty of such a gravitational character. The typical assets that drew the attention of adoration for the Doctor were mostly abandoned in the involuntary coping mechanism for the trauma of another unharmonious regenerative transformation; In a transition to a more contradictory confluence of the arrogance that the Doctor always had(particularly in his third body), but displayed more overtly and unapologetically, the discontent and irritation with those who were intellectually inferior beings inherent to the character in kind(especially in the case of the first manifestation of his person), and the benignity that was granted courteously even to his enemies(that all specialised in indiscriminately), but expressed in a more incomprehensible and unorthodox way, to the avail of the dubiousness surrounding a moral ambiguity-This all culminated in the most divisively contested consensus of a Doctor to date, and it was reflected in the gradually waning viewership ratings that ostensibly contributed to the brevity of the tenure of the Sixth version of the Time Lord. Proponents of Colin Baker would argue that he was not and has not been allocated his due diligence-Especially when the formulation on the basis of his credentials previously appearing as the antagonist to his predecessor on Gallifrey, as the tempestuously zealous Time Lord Commander Maxil, and in the later, “vastly improved” audio dramas as per fans of Big Finish’s productions are taken into consideration.

Cantankerous, erratic, and irritable, the assimilative period of Peri growing accustom to the challenge of the drastically altered character of her hero was a toilsome and exhaustive process, that saw her nearly strangled by him in the initial scenes of The Twin Dilemma, through his internal debates of considerations over whether to exile himself on Titan 3, and the subsequent encounters with the Master, the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Sontarans and many others, that convinced him to reinvest his enterprises in the best interest of the grand scheme of the universe. The malicious intent behind the female Time Lord, the Rani, became a pervasive thematic throughout the tenure of the Sixth Doctor’s lifespan, and she was a ubiquitous detriment to the emergence of the Doctor from the doldrums of the events of The Trial Of A Time Lord-That saw the arrival of the TARDIS on Earth, under the falsified moniker of Ravalox, found in a state of disarray and catastrophic destruction. In attempted reparation of the horrific circumstances, initial ventures of the discovery of the cause of the disaster proved futile, and the misconstrued belief that Peri had perished in experiments at a brain transplant further troubled the Doctor during his trial for the second time since the instigative events of his regeneration into his third form. It transpired that the trial was, in fact, a facade to conceal the Time Lord’s felonious transportation of Earth to another location in space in reaction to the sequestration of the race’s secrets by a species from Andromeda as they lurked in the atmosphere of the planet. The passage ignited the surface of the third rock from the sun, and the prosecutor at the trial, known as the Valeyard, was another incarnation of the Doctor’s spirit in the conglomeration of all of his evil tendencies. He was responsible for the subterfuge of the Doctor in making him believe that Peri had died, and upon realisation she had survived, the Doctor emerged perturbed by the interference with the linear progression of the Doctor’s life, as he left the scene with experienced companion Melanie Bush(Mel), whom he had not previously been acquainted with in his perspective.

The potent and reckless assault on the TARDIS by the Rani fatally injured the Doctor, and when she and her accomplice infiltrated the usually secure confines of the space and time vessel, the unconscious Mel was left in favour of the capture of the freshly revealed Seventh Doctor. The Sixth Doctor’s costume was a complete contradiction of his personality in the vibrant, iridescent technicolour explosion that extravagantly imposed itself on the screen at the decision of producer John Nathan-Turner-Despite the protest of the wonderful actor’s preferred penchant for a black leather trench coat. A red plaid frock coat, with green patchwork, and yellow and pink lapels over a white shirt with red question marks embroidered in the collar(featuring in the programme since 1980), a waistcoat and large Victorian style necktie, and yellow trousers with black stripes and a pair of green ankle boots with red spats painted a very imposing image in the visual perception of audiences that, while contradictory of the persona of the character, perfectly complemented the animated expression of it. And is just another of the under-appreciated aspects of the Sixth Doctor’s true virtue.

The wacky, slapstick, radically ridiculous and starkly solemn character of the Seventh Doctor, as embodied by Sylvester McCoy, had the most distinguishably preposterous and perilous task of regenerating the show, commensurately with his own. The wonderful Scotsman had a diminutive stature, but a depth of character that was entirely opposite to his build. He had a great deal of strength in character, intelligence, physicality and comicality in reserve, rendering his appearance that was extremely comparable to that of Patrick Troughton’s in regards of the palpable tangibility of it. But that was merely one dimension of the dynamic, manipulative, wise, austere frame composing the mental construction of a Machiavellian mastermind that would have almost assuredly have thrived and flourished given more stable resources to work with in the eyes of his greatest advocates. Off-kilter, and able to turn on a dime, from the lavish performances of bravado to the reticent or pensive contemplative melancholy that he encompassed fully.

The now quintessential precedent for post-regeneration confusion impelled some amnesia in the case of Sylvester McCoy’s interpretation overwhelmed the charming Time Lord initially, which aided the Rani to manipulate him into believing her to be Mel-But through the therapy of cultivating his natural talent for using spoons as a musical instruments and familiarising himself with the assistance of Mel once again as they navigated the labyrinth of time and space, taking their pursuits back to the more “ordinary” environments of a tower block, and a holiday camp in Wales during the 1950s. They were all ordinary, but for the encounters with the red, blue and yellow Kangs, and the Chimeron, the Navarinos and the Bannermen respectively. The endurance of the Doctor and Mel’s companionship was destined for brevity however, and he soon intuitively resorted to the company of the courageous and loyal Ace, a 16-year-old human waitress, whom he met prior to the abandonment from Mel when she joined Sabalom Glitz on the planet Svartos.

McCoy’s embodiment of the character once again resumed his paternal role in the life of his assistant, and the dynamic of “assistance” was fully explored through the conduits of their relation to one another-Ace perceiving him as a professorial figure, and orating him as such, much to his annoyance. Despite re-engaging with his more whimsical and comical side, particularly in his preliminary endeavours, the Seventh Doctor also indulged his propensity for bitterness, as emphasised in his previous incarnation; But the nuance of its subtle and sparing implementation throughout the various experiences rendered it all the more potent and affronting when he finally exhibited it. He came to the realisation that the villainous, archaic being, known as Fenric, was responsible for the teenager from 1980s Perivale being displaced in time in the distant future location in which he and her. And the pervasive elements of his personality traits and convictions throughout the narrative were informed by this-Factoring into the advantages that enabled his victories against the Daleks(with the additional aid of the Hand of Omega), the Cybermen, and the Gods of Ragnarok as the standout alums.

His Machiavellian machinations stole the spotlight most in the most affronting situations that made them a requisite, but the most offending of those instances was one that necessitated his manipulation of Ace herself to address the demons of her past, in a visit to the Victorian house in which she had committed arson within 100 years following their arrival at the building in 1883. Ensuing the final defeat of Fenric at long last, and exposing the position he held in the shaping of his companion’s lineage. He then determined the appropriate course was to return her to her correct home of habitation in space and time, but she resisted by continuing to accompany him throughout his adventure that had seen the reunion with even the Brigadier. He eventually did part ways with her under unidentified circumstances, and was allocated the obligation of transferring the remains of his longtime foe, The Master, from Skaro to Gallifrey. This was an inevitable recipe for disaster though, and even in a primitive form of a vestigial organic residue, he was able to corrupt the navigation of the TARDIS to force the reached destination of San Francisco in 1999. Upon curiously embarking out of the sanction of the ship’s doors, he became a peripheral victim of the crossfire between opposing gangs, and was rushed to hospital upon the summoning of paramedics from Chang Lee-Whom discovered him laying recumbent on the ground from his wounds. The surgeon, Grace Holloway, performed an intricate operation on just one of his two hearts, believing fibrillation to have been the cause behind his death in mistaken determination from the impression the double heartbeat gave her. The persona of the Seventh Doctor saw the revival of sonic devices, that complemented the affable buffoonery as a front he displayed over the undercurrents of mischievous orchestration of events within his mental cognitive capacity. Remedial magic tricks were the ironic parallel to the literal fantastical manipulations that were rivalled only by those of the Second Doctor, whom enormously important hints of the incentivised initiative of the character were drawn from, and combined with the unique quirks and bumbling misdemeanours that he presented made him a shameful misuse of a compelling character upon the unceremonious cancellation of the show.

Left in the hospital morgue due to a delay in the commencement of the regenerative process, he didn’t begin his transformation until hours later, and it very nearly failed-Like in the instance of his Fifth incorporation. He resiliently defied the odds though, and miraculously emerged on the other side, once again afflicted with a case of amnesia. His mental state was so beleaguered, that he had forgotten who he was, and was in a desperate state of an urgent requirement of reassurance. The basis for the construction of the rudimentary foundations of his persona was entirely impulsive, and he blundered around San Francisco with the gradually bewitched company of Dr Holloway, who began to fall prey to the infatuation of his charm. Paul McGann’s characterisation was visually symbolised in the selection of attire-A Wild Bill Hickok New Years fancy dress party costume and black leather shoes, stolen from the lockers of the hospital he emerged from, and taken from Grace’s ex-boyfriend.

The appearance somewhere between a Victorian dandy and wild west gambler was a perfect antithesis to the character traits of the inherent eccentricity, ebullience, and sincere sentimentality that he took well in his stride in the vivacious ventures he participated in throughout the universe, and predominantly through San Francisco in opposition to the tyranny that the Master inflicted on the suburban city when his entity inundated the body of an innocent man, and transformed him into a manically insane personification His conquest to return to the TARDIS and sequestrate the influence of the Eye Of Harmony, and cannibalise it to spell catastrophe for the universe and steal the Doctor’s remaining regenerations lead the hero to intervene and become involved in hazardous mishaps upon the rediscovery of his identity. Climactic chases and moments of flaring and intense emotion entailed the first controversial consummative action of the intimacy shared between the Doctor and his companion when the ecstasy felt at the sensationally precise fit of his borrowed footwear subsequent in a kiss between the temporary dynamic duo, and the deaths of Lee and Grace-Enabling the escape of the Doctor from the chains that bound him to push the Master into the opened Eye, and obliterating him while also revoking the fatalities of the Doctor’s companions. The Remainder of the life of the Eighth Doctor was marked by events transpiring primarily around the tragedies of the Last Great Time War, between the Daleks and the Time Lords-Of which the Doctor was the most unwilling participant in.

The traumatic events impelled the decision to slightly augment his costuming, in which he sported a worn and scarred dark green day coat, corresponding with his overall dishevelled and exhausted appearance, and the transition to a more dire attitude of solemnity in correspondence with the momentous gravity of the scenarios befalling him. And for all of the immensely significant events that elapsed, it was one of relative inconsequence that caused his death. He landed the TARDIS aboard a craft in distress, impending a fatal crash for the sole occupant, the pilot, who had decided not to abandon the ship to allow her crew to escape. Those were the terms of the conversation that introduced the Doctor to Cast, and the nobility of her actions caused him to deem her worthy of not only salvation, but the honour of becoming his next companion. But when she realised his race, she resented him for the role he reluctantly played within the conflict that had eventuated in the repercussions of her precarious position, and she stubbornly refused his help. The ship then collided with the surface of the planet that was home to the “elevation of Time Lord science”, and the Doctor met his fate. He was temporarily restored by the residing sisterhood, with only enough time to protest the assimilation of an elixir that would invoke his regeneration, although he finally rationalised that the essential action would be to become a warrior, and to renunciate the title of “Doctor”.

Likewise with the Seventh Doctor, Paul McGann “materialised” during a time in the property’s history that was the most unfavourable for any actor vying to impose their unique interpretation of the character onto the world, and despite the pandemic lamentation of the critical failure of the film for its ostensible “Americanisation”, the Eighth Doctor is revered as the redeeming staple of stability for it just as pervasively as the criticisms it receives from swathes of cynical fans. And the transience of his transcendent gusto is a travesty that over 70 audio dramas and the immaculate mini-sode that documented his death, The Name Of The Doctor, have sought to rectify.

“Doctor no more” is the encapsulating and epitomising declaration that has defined the ephemeral lifespan of the Doctor that was not the symbolic presence of a “Doctor” at all, by his perspective. He relinquished the attention of all of his self-imposed duties to approach another task of his own volition, in the profundity of the warning of both the Time Lords and the Daleks of the imminent atrocity of which he was intent upon committing. He had deemed that the only possible procedure to undertake for the fate of time and space itself was to commit an act of self-destructive anarchy, in the destruction of Gallifrey itself-Purging reality of Time Lords and Daleks alike, with no discrimination and no remorse. An act not out of fear, cowardice or hate, but because it was the only possibility for the salvation of the rest of the universe. On that impossible single day, he stood alone against the two aggressively oppressing factions, and attempted to use a device known as “the Moment” to become the harbinger of a more apocalyptic outcome than that of which was already besieging the planet amidst the constellation of Kasteberos.

John Hurt perfectly embodied a person devoid of personality, but for the sorrow and depression felt toward the moroseness of the actions in which they were, unfortunately, due to carry out. In nothing but the single Day Of The Doctor episode in which he starred, he fully displayed the absolute naivety of the competence to the profoundly affecting affairs that were progressing in his immediate vicinity. He was a figure of miserable consequence, and viewed everything through lenses tinted with the subjective standpoint of severe magnitude and the gravitas of an attempted emotional detachment fuelled by pure emotion. He saw nothing but futility in the resistance to a dystopian conclusion, and had “no desire to survive”. His despondent ethicality was impelled by the way in which he despised himself, and it was only through the deliverance from unmitigated evil that his friends and his future and incarnations granted him through their set example that he was able to find the enlightening determination that hope could prevail.

The minutia of the minor monumentalism of the sonic screwdriver he still relied on, and the dynamic with Clara Oswald and the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors of which he played off masterfully, despite initial disdain for the latter two, was exactly what inspired his resilient resolve ultimately, and he finally reclaimed the right to name himself the “Doctor” once more. His desolate aura and surrounding environment contradictorily made him compelling and comfortably palatable for all watching. He wasn’t the most universally galvanising character, but garnered sympathy and investment in his arc through his conscious effort to distance himself from all who wished nothing but his welfare and happiness, in that it originated from a place of compassion. The garments of clothing he emblazoned himself with were a basic leather jacket, plain trousers and boots, and a practical sash tailor-made for the onerous burden he was the only being foolishly willing to undertake. And eventually, his sought justice was consummated. Expanded universal material in a lower quantity than those of Tom Baker’s, Peter Davison’s, Colin Baker’s, Sylvester McCoy’s, Paul McGann’s, and even his future incarnation’s was still produced to as much as, if not, a higher standard of estimable proficiency that did the character himself justice.

Christopher Ecclestone is not always the most devoted actor as far as his approach in allowing his patently refined trade to consume his life, but his investment in the performance of his acting tasks is so invested and cerebral, that he frequently emits an impression that he is as close to a method actor as possible. And when confronted with the ominous duty that mirrored the fearsome eventuations that appeared in the fictional terrain, his influential impact in the full embodiment of the Doctor exacted that gruelling responsibility with a subtle flair and competence-Reviving the show that had been placed in a perturbing position of duress after the hiatus. Almost a decade after the lambasted release of the movie, a mysterious, but unpretentiously self-aware and fundamentally precise man with two hearts, very short hair, a black leather reefer coat, dark trousers and boots, and a sweater burgeoned out onto the screens of the BBC’s broadcast-And the nuanced intensity and depth of mental scarring immediately captivated audiences.

Veteran fans of the lore of Doctor Who were able to appreciate the refreshing and drastically altered tonal impression of the show as a whole, but also the peripheral acknowledgements of all of the precedents set before its conception. The TARDIS had returned, the sonic screwdriver had a slick, but simplistic casing, and there was an extravagant lack of flamboyant clothing and characteristic gravity that rendered the show both familiar and comforting, but slightly offset with a previously unvisited dark side. The Doctor had trifled with the engagements with darkness in his younger years, but the traumatic guilt of the events that have preceded the regeneration into his current form represented a man encumbered with the weight of exasperated fatigue with the monotony of the universe. He seemed to wander into situations of seminal influence upon the past with a cursory presence, that was only purposed with the par for the course force of habitude that permeated his life. He was set in his ways, and possessed a recklessness about his manner.

It was only through the coincidental and suddenly brief meeting with the minimum wage shop worker, Rose Tyler, that he was able to truly realise that he was neglecting the necessary degree of appreciation of the universe that most of his previous personas had prided themselves upon. She, in many ways, was his complete polar opposite. She may not have known it, but her mere contentedness with the tediousness of her life was the veil for the undercurrent of a deeply seated passion and urge to explore and experience the plenitude of vistas and environments, and she had admirable reserves of strength, conviction, and resistance to vulnerability in the pursuit of innocent curiosity. Although apprehensively hesitant at first, he struck up a rapport of chemistry with the 19-year-old femme fatale, and reluctantly accepted the valuable assistance she stubbornly gave him in thwarting the schemes of the Nestene Consciousness and the Autons, and soon came to the revelatory conclusion. That she would be a prudent recruit to the ranks of the TARDIS, and promptly invited her aboard. Her boyfriend, Mickey Smith, was not of the Doctor’s affinity, however, and was not given the courtesy of the honour, despite his affable calamity, but forward in time they ventured to the destruction of the Earth in its inevitable death at the hands of Solar rays from the supernova eventuality of the sun-The selection of the adventure acting as an appropriate meta recognition of his harboured depression at the resentment he felt for himself in guilt for the vague circumstances of recent trauma he had endured through.

It, of course, turned out that he had suffered through the horror of the Time War, and could not recall the vital fact that he had attempted to save Gallifrey, instead of burning it-And those events provided the propulsion for his perpetual fleeing through time and space. Never able to really abandon his contrition, he impulsively took Rose from the space station where they witness the explosion to Victorian Cardiff to meet Charles Dickens, and to a curated museum that hosted the remains of numerous extraterrestrial specimens that had perished in battles against the Doctor previously on Earth-It was in that fateful location of a Utah-based bunker, that the most harrowing revelation was realised; A single, abominable Dalek had survived through the mire of the conflict between its race and the Doctor’s and the detestably relatable dynamic between them, being the last of their kind, infuriated the Doctor to the point of homicidal rage. Only Rose was able to quench the flames from within him, and they continued after the beast’s self-destruction to travel to Satellite 9 where the single serial companion, Adam Mitchell, displayed his unsuitability for adventures in the universe and was left back at his home. They then arrived in London under the siege of the Blitz of 1941, in pursuit of a metal cylinder that careened through the time vortex, and by chance encounter as beloved new ally, Captain Jack Harkness, who aided them in averting the tenacity of the dreaded Empty Child, and eventually to the dilapidated condition of Satellite 9, a century after their previous visit. It was revealed that an entire fleet of the worst foes of the Doctor had survived the Time War, and the immense peril that they imposed caused him to send Rose back home in the TARDIS in an act of gallant heroism as he attempted to sacrifice himself to rescue the universe. Devastated, Rose absorbed the time vortex by dismantling the TARDIS’ control panel, and disintegrated the entire fleet when she returned to the future. The assimilated energy influx would have proved fatal or her, but the Doctor kissed her and allowed it to channel into him instead. That granted him the ability to save her, but at the cost of his own life, and he soon regenerated-But not before expressing his admiration of her “fantastic” performance.

David Tennant’s interpretation of the fabled character had extremely large boots to fill, following the astronomical excellence of Christopher Ecclestone’s reception, but he instead opted for converse, in contrast to the incredibly dashing brown or blue pinstripe suits and brown trench coat he sported. Rendered unconscious and bed-ridden for the majority of his first day of life within the warm embrace of Rose’s flat in the Powell Estate(due to complications with the regeneration), he was remedied by the fumes of a cup of tea, and prevented the menace of the Sycorax in The Christmas Invasion. The alteration in personality had been profoundly affected by Rose, but it took hearth duration of the domestic adventure to come to terms with the disconcerting radicalism of the change in physical and philosophical composition. But the Tenth Doctor very quickly established himself as the object of his companion’s and his fan’s fascinated amicability in his quirky jubilation, his casual compassion and his quippy humour, but also his convicted devotion to compassionate justice, and his contemplative mournfulness. His tragic past still palpably affected him throughout his escapades that were almost entirely confined to Earth, except for the travels to New New(New New New New New New New New New New New New New New) York, the SS Madame De Pompadour space vessel, a parallel Earth, and a base on a planet paradoxically in orbit of a black hole-Where he and Rose united with Queen Victoria, Sarah Jane Smith and K9 once again, Mickey Smith, (parallel) Ricky Smith, (parallel) Pete and Jackie Tyler, Jake Simmonds and the Preachers, the Ood, Madame de Pompdour, the LINDA organisation, and many others, in opposition of a werewolf, the Krillitanes, clockwork robots, the Cybermen, the dastardly Beast entity, the Abzorbaloff and the Daleks for yet another acrimonious engagement, that saw the Battle of Canary Wharf between them and the Cybermen-Subsequently leading to the propulsion of Rose toward the purgatory of the Void, before parallel Pete Tyler teleported at the final moment to rescue her at the expense of the separation of her from her beloved Doctor.

The pair had assembled such an adoring chemistry and affection for one another, that the incarceration of Rose in the world with her family brought little consolation to the devastation they both felt at the horrible tragedy of their unconsummated love for one another. The appearance of a projection of the Doctor’s image to Rose at Dårlig Ulv Stranden (translating as Bad Wolf Bay, in the culmination of the narrative that had followed them since a short time ensuing their first meeting) was jarring, and poignant, as Rose finally professed her love for him as he was in the TARDIS orbiting a supernova simply to enable communication with her. Before he could reciprocate however, the breach in the inter-universal relay amended itself, and he was left alone again. Until Donna Noble miraculously materialised within the control room. They would proceed to prevent the invasion of Earth from the ominous might of the malignant Racnoss, who had burrowed away at the core of the Earth, on the day of her wedding that also coincidentally happened to be Christmas. After the success, she left the presence of the Time Lord, and he met the rookie doctor, Martha Jones, in the hospital in which she worked, that had been transported to the moon. The adventures with a companion that he inadvertently neglected as the comfort for his heartbreak at the loss of Rose consisted of the return to New Earth, New York in the 1930s, 1913 England, the cargo ship the SS Pentallion, and one of the remaining planets desperately clinging on at the end of the universe, seeing encounters with the Judoon and a Plasmavore, Carrionites, the Daleks, the Family Of Blood, the terrifying Weeping Angels, and the recurring pest, the Master, as well as others. The Doctor battled with the conflict of his loyalty to Martha and her cantankerous mother, sister, brother and father, and his harboured emotions for Rose, who he just couldn’t get over-While Martha struggled to make him realise her true potential of contributive prowess and value in his life, and the greater interest of the entire universe.

Tennant’s second season served to completely legitimise his already vaunted reputation and adulation among spheres of fans, as his perseverance through his emotional vulnerability and the adversities that afflicted him in a transition to a more morose tone for the show. The custody of the Tenth Doctor is widely viewed as the “golden age” of Doctor Who, and it certainly came as courtesy of the impeccable wielding of the sonic screwdriver, the wearing of the clever specs and 3D glasses, the utilisation of the psychic paper, and the resilience he exhibited while being bolstered by a single exploit aboard the starship Titanic alongside Astrid Peth, Rickston Slade, Foon and Morvin Van Hoff, Mr COpper, Bannakaffalatta, Wilfred Mott, and eventually a reunion with Donna. The convention with the most stubbornly hysterical companions he had ever accommodated preceded experiences in Pompeii, the planet of the Ood, Messaline, a library in the 51st century, Midnight, and of course on contemporary Earth, and the skirmishes with Pyroviles, corrupted Ood, Luke Rattigan and the Sontarans, a Vespiform, the intimidating Vashta Nevada and the unknown creature on Midnight and the Daleks(accompanied by their creator, Davros) were only mitigated by the company of Caecilius and his family, the returning Martha after her voluntary departure after the rectification of the Master’s subjugation of Earth and UNIT, Jenny(the Doctor’s asexually reproduced daughter), River Song’s archaeological team, and finally every single companion that had travelled with the Tenth Doctor in the TARDIS during the Dalek’s theft of Earth. Donna’s exit came as a consequence of the overwhelming of her mind from the biological metacrisis in which both she and the Doctor were affected by. The Doctor spawned a duplicate human version of himself to leave with Rose at Dårlig Ulv Stranden upon her return there, in a repeated instance of “the worst day” of her life, after leaving Jack, Mickey, Sarah Jane, Martha, Luke and K9 back to their devices. The supreme intellect that the metacrisis granted Donna would have completely overridden and inundated her, so the Doctor was forced to erase her memory of him in a heartbreaking turn of events; And the loss of the companion that redeemed him from the narcissistic and merciless tendencies in the aftermath of his loss of Rose marked only the next vicissitude in a long progression of a rotating Ferris wheel of alternating companions that he was exhausting at a precipitous rate of high velocity-It proved to be the last straw he was clasping for to no avail, and he proceeded to recommence with he adventures in solitude, and with little consideration for the reckless abandon in which he again contravened the authoritative laws forbidding interference with the history of the universe.

He spent the penultimate phase of his life evading the prophesy of the four knocks that would impel his death, travelling to Victorian London to defeat the Cybermen with aid from Jackson Lake, to contemporary London to be incidentally transported to San Helios through a wormhole(preventing the catastrophe that would have been caused against two Tritovores, Lady Cristina De Souza and the other passengers of the displaced number 200 bus, the scientist, Malcolm, and all of Earth by a storming plague of flying stingray aliens), and to Bowie Base One on Mars, where he partially prevented the massacre of Captain Adelaide Brooke’s pioneering colonisation team in contumacy toward the laws of space and time. His frivolous visit to the Ood-sphere in 4226 was interrupted when Ood Sigma notified him of the disarray of time as a consequence of the latest resurrection of the Master and his tampering, as he indulged his fiendish penchant for such nightmarish machinations. And the Time Lords, led by Lord President Rassilon, emerged from the doldrums of the Time War spell doom for the universe. The highest, most beleaguering stakes had to be the overtone of the swan song of a Doctor that matched the monolithically adulated behemoth of the Fourth Doctor in his simultaneous sympathetic humanity and his esoteric alienation, and his prestigious veneration, and so they were. A high octane, heart palpitating propulsion transpired on Earth as the battleground for the scheme in which the Master imposed his sentience into almost every human being on the planet, to inadvertently enable adequate connection for the Time Lords to transport Gallifrey into the stratosphere and nearly knock Earth off of its pivotal axis; If not for the courageous efforts of the Doctor of course. During the fray of the frantic situation, the returning Wilfred had become enclosed within a critically nuclear glass radiation chamber, and the prophesied fatal four knocks came from the most harrowingly innocuous of sources. All he wanted was the Doctor’s attention to clarify the condition in which he found himself, but the Doctor took it to the pinnacle of altruistic contributions, sacrificing himself(although reluctantly, at first) as he transitioned with the man hundreds of years younger than him just as the chamber flooded with a does deadly enough to exterminate a planet. And there was a great deal of agony felt physically by the character, and emotionally for audiences infatuated with him. He didn’t want to go, but the time was constructed perfectly for his death. The universe, in all of its resplendent omnipotence, permitted him the opportunity to bid a final farewell to all of his companions before his regeneration, and he even travelled to the Powell Estate on the 1st of January, 2005 to simply see the oblivious Rose before she met the Ninth Doctor. That, along with all of the other comprehensive goodbyes provided the poignancy as the tall, slender figure, with sideburns and crazy hair entered its transformation into a similarly dashing formation. Allons-y.

Matt Smith burgeoned onto the bizarre Doctor Who scene with bravado and zealous avidity; Immediately authenticating it verbally through his exclamation of “Geronimo!” After ascertaining the retention of his limbs, facial features and his hair. He was indubitably the wackiest of the Doctor’s incarnations and, after the Tenth Doctor’s regenerative process where he was able to maintain his form through the biological metacrisis, marked the final body the entity could inhabit before permanent death. The definitive summary of his character could be described as that of a senior man trapped in a young body, with the burden of his horrific past spurring him to leap and bound jubilantly into any situation he didn’t resent for being mundane or boring-If confronted with such a situation, he would react petulantly and impatiently in keenness to promptly progress onto something more exciting, and therefore worth his time. His enthusiastic advocacy for tweed jackets, braces, bowties(all of which initially taken from a hospital in the quaint town of Leadworth during the adventure of recovery from his regeneration) fezzes and stetsons were the physical manifestations of the euphoric spirit that desperately tangled with the traumatised and mortified personality internally, as a battle of wits and duplicity transpired between the opposing elements of a bipolar, Jeckel and Hyde overall character.

His relentless pursuit for fun and leisure was, in some ways, a facade with the intent to avoid the more morose, and deceitful shades of his character, that threatened to overcast his output; And he retained the unintentional proclivity the Tenth Doctor had been most condemned with, for being the man who despises violence and weaponry, but accidentally turns his companions into weapons, willing to commit acts of self-anarchy for what they believed was the virtuous passage to traverse. After his transformation, the explosive catalyst that impelled it left the TARDIS in ruins, and he crash-landed on Earth, where he came face to face with young Amelia Pond. After a peculiar introduction, he left her alone at her house with the promise that the would return in five minutes. The state of disrepair the TARDIS was in and his dubious navigation skills culminated in the miscalculation of the time destination, and he returned to what he believed was the following morning, but was in fact twelve years later. Amelia had matured into a woman what had constructed her own mythos around the “Raggedy Doctor” who had appeared in a flash, and had vanished just as suddenly, leading to years of imposed counselling on the determination that his presence was nothing more than a hallucination. Though through no fault of his own, this dynamic permeated the life of the now designated Amy Pond and her fiancé, Rory Williams, throughout their adventures together, at the starship Britain, London during World War 2, the Byzantium ship, renaissance Venice, a drilling facility in 2020 Wales, and Stonehenge in 102 AD. They duelled with the Daleks, the Weeping Angels, Vampire creatures from Saturnyne, the Silurians, and eventually all of the Doctor’s foes on the fateful date of the opening of the Pandorica, and received assistance from Winston Churchill, the religious Clerics and Professor River Song in another of the mischievous adventures with her, Vincent Van Gogh, and a miscellaneous assortment of other, before virtually being compelled to reboot the universe.

Following those events, and the revival of Rory in his conversion into an Auton after his death in the entanglement with the Silurians, he and Amy embarked on a vital honeymoon mission that subsequently eventuated in their stranding on a crash landing space liner of 4003 occupants, and the Doctor was forced to convince the irascible Kazran Sardick to utilise his climate manipulation device to save them and all upon the planet below. He had to travel back through the entire past of the businessman to force him to see the error of his unsympathetic and selfish ways, but was successful-though at the cost of the inadvertent romance that was struck up between Kazran and one of the subjects of his monopoly of comatose stasis patients in the future, Abigail, who only had days to live. After the relief of the climactic solution, Rory and Amy returned home briefly, before the pair of them and River threw caution to the wind and travelled to Lake Silencio in Utah upon the Doctor’s summoning there-And witnessed his murder at the hands of an astronaut that emerged from the water. In a state of mourning, they were then greeted by the Doctor at an earlier juncture in his life, and then investigated the curiosity of the engineer of his imminent demise in Washington DC at the White House in the 1960s. Richard Nixon was initially hostile, but later welcomed them, and implored their exploits as they discovered the responsibility of the orchestrations of the Silence-Ominously estranged aliens, who forced the failure to recollect the sight of them the moment looked away from, and who had assembled a religion around the predetermination of the Doctor’s death. After an inconclusive resolution, they engaged in escapades sporadically at the locations of a monastery on an island in the 22nd century where they faced a legion of synthetic doppelgängers of the operative crew they encountered there, then to Demon’s Run for the emancipation of the imprisoned and pregnant Amy, where they confronted the Headless Monks, the Silence and the malignant Madame Kovarian, with the aid from the Judoon, the Silurians, Dorium Maldovar, Lorna Bucket and the Paternoster Gang(comprised of Madame Vastra, Jenny and the reformed Sontaran, Strax) whom the Doctor heralded in before the birth of daughter Melody Pond(later revealed to be the being that became known as River Song). Following that, they were held hostage by the delinquent Mel, who had befriended Amy during childhood, and in the knowledge of the fantastical feats the “raggedy” Doctor’s vessel was capable of, forced them to travel back to World War 2 Berlin to attempt to kill Hitler. After the realisation that Mel was in fact Melody, when she miraculously regenerated into River after being wounded, the triumvirate proceeded onwards to Apalapucia where Amy was accidentally abandoned for decades and detained by the located facility’s handbots. The Doctor and Rory managed to rescue Amy, both in her aged state, and the form that had only been in a derelict despair for a few hours. The doctor then experienced one of his more shameful moments as he betrayed the hard-earned trust of the older Amy, when he again abandoned her and all hope she had regained, due to the paradox of accommodating to versions of the same person within the TARDIS-Not a problem that even relentless tinkering with the deus ex machina, the sonic screwdriver, could resolve. An alien building set under the canvas of disguise as a 1980s hotel was the backdrop for their next adventure, where they were pursued by a minotaur that feasted on the location’s victim’s faith. Realising that Amy was the next impending prey after losing the, majority of the residents, he forced her to lose her faith in him in order to save her, and left her and Rory back on Earth for the sake of preserving their welfare after absconding.

Now in a bleak state of depression and the knowledge that his death was impending, the Doctor returned to visit Craig Owens, who he had previously helped with the remote assistance of Amy, and required his aid in the initially reluctant salvation of Earth from the terror of the Cybermen. This was the penultimate outing preceding his arrival at Lake Silencio. When waiting to be murdered by the astronaut that had turned out to be River incarcerated within the suit, he was shocked to find that she had violated the laws of the forecast of his death, and overdid the controls to the lethal laser; This created a paradox, where the Doctor was imprisoned by Winston Churchill as his soothsayer on the 22nd of April, 2011, in a contorted alternate world, where Amy and Rory were not married, and were disciples of the church of the Silence, and direct contact with River was the only way to fix the puncture in the universe. Though psychopathically trained to kill him, her love for the Doctor was what prevented her from killing him, and she refused the task of ensuring his death, but the Doctor heroically managed to rectify ll of the discord in the universe, and married her-The kiss impelling the laser discharge at Lake Silencio, only for the corpse of the Doctor to be nothing more than a synthetic vessel containing the miniaturised real Time Lord, protected inside(the Teselecta). He returned Amy and Rory home again, and revisited months(after a Christmas adventure in World War 2 Dorset and a mystical winter planet, where he was employed as the caretaker of Madge, Lily and Cyril Arwell) later to find them in disharmonious strife. They had separated, and it took the most perilous endeavour into the asylum of the Daleks, as they forced the trio to investigate the second largest source of their shame and fear, besides theirs truly, to fix that issue. They found that Junior Entertainment Manager, Oswin Oswald, of the crashed starship upon the surface of the planetary body that hosted the asylum had been converted into a Dalek, but only physically. Still liberated to her free will, she helped them escape, and erased the memory of the Doctor from the collective cognisance of the brutes. The reconciliation of the Doctor’s in-laws preceded the ventures on a Silurian ark containing dinosaurs, a western town in the 1870s to face the cyborg gunslinger(the creation of the doctor Jex), on contemporary Earth to avert the attempted imposition of crisis from the Shakri with the assistance of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT, and to 1930s New York, where the Weeping Angels claimed victory in immuring the loving couple in that time period. The acceptance of the fact that he would never see them again proved to be overwhelming for the Doctor’s psyche, and he exiled himself atop a cloud in Victorian London, in the vicinity of the residence of the Paternoster Gang in mourning. It took the spirit and intelligence of Clara Oswald, a governess and barmaid, to convince him the continue saving the world, and every other in existence, as they thwarted the malicious intent of the abominable snowmen, the Great Intelligence, and its conduit, Dr Simeon to subjugate the city. He unfortunately lost Clara in her admirable efforts to help him against an ice creature, but realised that her full title was Clara Oswin Oswald, and investigated her grave in the future, to find a contemporary incarnation of his latest companion galavanting through the cemetery grounds where it was located. This entailed an introduction to her equally as abstruse as that to Amelia, and the entanglement with Miss Kizlet, who was exploiting spoon headed robots and wifi to upload people’s souls to a data cloud under the commission of the Great Intelligence-All accompanied by the first drastic alteration of attire within one life of an incarnation(to a completely different teed coat and bow tie).

Despite the change of costume, he retained his trademark quirk of involuntarily pontificating at 100 miles an hour, while taking Clara to Akhaten to prevent its consumption from a parasite praised as a god, a Soviet submarine in the 1980s to negotiate terms with an Ice Warrior after a miscommunication when he was thawed out of the ice of the Arctic, the Caliburn mansion in 1974 to solve the mystery of the Witch of the Well apparition, within the TARDIS itself, to Victorian Yorkshire to battle with Mrs Gillyflower, Mr Sweet, and their plan to petrify the citizens of the town to synthesise a venom, to Hedgewick’s World of Wonders upon a moon against the sinister Cybermen, and finally at the Doctor’s predestined grave on Trenzalore to confront the orchestrator of the evil that befell the two of them, the Great Intelligence. The Great Intelligence tore open an aperture in the timeline of the Doctor’s life, entering it and exposing the Doctor to unmitigated disaster in the face of all of the previous events he had triumphed in to convert them to defeats. Clara intervened to amend the tragedies, and fulfilled her own destiny of becoming the Impossible Girl, and featuring significantly all throughout his lives. This revealed the embodiment of the Doctor present for the Time War, and instigated the events of The Day Of The Doctor, where it ultimately eventuated in the collaborative efforts of all of the Doctors to confine Gallifrey within a closed pocket of time in order to save it. The previous incarnations of the Doctor could not recall the paradoxical occurrence, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors were left oblivious as to whether they had succeeded. He then accepted the fact that he was forlorn to finally arrive at Trenzalore and to defend it against the interloping races of all of the Doctor’s adversaries, in the siege of the town called Christmas. He recruited the help of the severed Cyberman head, “Handles”, and served alongside it and Tasha Lem, Mother Superior of the church of the Papal Mainframe(with the Silence) for approximately 600 years, dismissing Clara twice to protect her. A Dalek warship surveyed the area above the church steeple the Doctor had climbed to to accept defeat. But Clara convinced the Time Lords to prevent his permanent death, and show the compassion of granting him another regeneration cycle through the crack in time that had pursued him since he found Amy, and was presumed to have closed after the exploits with the Pandorica. Revitalised, the Doctor assimilated the regeneration energy, and expelled the excess supply of it to destroy the Dalek invasion fleet, leaving the city in optimistic ruins. Clara waded through the debris and the smoke back into the TARDIS, and found him in his familiar form-the regenerative process rejuvenating his emphatically aged appearance. But a change of physical form was inevitable, and he only had the time to utter a sentimental soliloquy, bid farewell to a vision of Amy, and abruptly transition into the Twelfth Doctor.

Like most that preceded him, Peter Capaldi’s perplexing Twelfth Doctor was immensely perturbed and affected by his regeneration, and again suffered from a case of amnesia, becoming be ridden temporarily in the company of Clara, Vastra, Jenny and Strax at the residence of the Paternoster Gang in Victorian London, in the vicinity of a Tyrannosaurus rex, that had been transported there when they attempted to swallow the spiralling catastrophe of the TARDIS. But, like every adventure the Doctor became embroiled in, the innocent eminence of that issue was not the entire parabolic thread; the SS Marie Antoinette, sister ship to the SS Madame De Pompadour, had landed in London, and the inhabiting clockwork cyborgs were once again harvesting people’s organs to repair themselves, and so the Doctor immediately got to work deposing the threat, once he had regained his faculties. Throughout the preliminary phases of his adventures that took him and Clara to a spaceship that harboured a damaged Dalek in which they miniaturised themselves in order to enter and repair, the Nottingham to meet Robin Hood and to defeat the incurring robots that were attempting to reach he promised land through oppression and forced labour, throughout the lineage of Clara’s “boyfriend”, Danny Pink, at the bank of Karabraxos to rob it under instruction from the Architect while evading the Teller(a psychically inclined alien attempting to discourage their joint efforts with Psi the augmented human and Saibra the mutant human by melting their minds), to Coal Hill school where Clara was a teacher to protect it from the terror of the SKovox Blitzer, to the moon in 2049 to debate its destruction as it wreaked havoc on Earth through the magnitude of its tidal influence, to the space iteration of the Orient Express in the company of the engineer, Perkins, in a formidable exchange with the Foretold, in Bristol to meet Rigsy and battle 2-Dimensional creature attempting to encroach upon the realm of the fourth dimension, and contemporary London to battle the Cybermen and the mysterious Missy, who had sporadically cameoed throughout the preceding transpirations, and had announced herself as a female regeneration of the Master. The Doctor struggled with his identity more profoundly than ever before, and during the toilsome process of embracing his irritability, intolerance, impertinence and pomposity, the controlling tendencies of Clara’s ego clashed with his own to the point of her betrayal of his trust on multiple occasions, and her disgust with his abandonment of her with the disconcerting situation with the moon, as he didn’t have the predilection to influence the elapsing events around them-She requested to leave the TARDIS, but changed her mind during their last hurrah on the Orient Express. It still came to a head, when he impelled a trance state upon her, that disclosed her intention to commit mutiny and destroy the keys to the space and time ship.

However, it was the brutal severity of the implications of what she was going to do that provided the opportunity for the unconditional compassion and affection for her and his righteous morality to prevail-Pandering to her unrealistic demands, and eventually preventing the malevolent machinations of the Mistress, as she converted dead humans into Cybermen. His wardrobe choices of a simple shirt, sweater, trousers, Doc Martens and a velvet blazer really put the visual complement to his no-nonsense rationale and philosophy on a pedestal, and despite the inconsistency and dubious writing of the narratives that, particularly in his inaugural adventures, hindered the full exhibition of his true competence and flair, he gradually, but exponentially became a seminally beloved Doctor for Whovians, and the very redemptive feature of the show at certain intervals. The terms of the affability with which the Doctor and Clara blessed the presence of one another with were still under duress as they travelled to the North Pole to come into too intimate a contact with psychic monsters that invoked a fantasy dream state as they attempted to devour the minds of their prey. But the help of the crew of the base stationed there and Santa Claus himself provided both the literal and the symbolic support to fully reconcile the reservations they had about each other. They then proceeded to come into contact with Missy(who has convened with Clara to discuss the sensitive matter of the Doctor’s confession dial, that functioned as his eulogising will, prior to the events) again on Skaro, who actually offered some perfunctory help against the manipulations of Davros, the Supreme Dalek, and the remainder of the race of monstrosities where the Doctor was confronted with the quandary of saving Davros as a child and subsequently allow the production of the tyrants. He somehow escaped after the re-materialisation of the disintegrated TARDIS, and they ventured forth to pastures anew, to encounter the Fisher King and ghouls that haunted an underwater military base in 2119, the Mire who exacted a vicious assault on a Viking village that contained Ashildr(who would become “Me” in the wake of the tragedy that killed her, before her revival for all eternity by the Doctor), the dastardly Zygons in the aftermath of their attack on Earth in the events that transpired simultaneously with the Time War in The Day Of The Doctor(in the company of Kate Stewart, Osgood and UNIT), and to London upon the summoning of Rigsy, where Clara faced the raven and died. Ashildr was present, and reluctantly sent the Doctor into a teleporter to languish in the torture of the imprisonment of his confession dial for millions of years-Dying over and over again, only to be revived in his fleeing from an unnamed creature that resiliently pursued him with murderous intent. Constantly relying on the sagacity of his diplomacy, he was bartering with his own ethical integrity again while physically beleaguered. He managed to emerge out on the surface of Gallifrey-Scathed, but determined for vengeance on Lord President Rassilon, who was responsible for his incarceration within the figurative hell.

He had returned home “the long way round”, and advanced to overthrow the establishment and rein dominant over the planet, and sequestrated command of an extraction chamber to extract Clara from the universe the very moment before her death. This of course was a paradoxical action of desecration toward the logistics of time and space, and was inevitably doomed for failure. Even the traversal to the end of the universe in congregation with Me could not restore Clara’s absent pulse, and all of his misdemeanours inadvertently lead him to the necessitated conclusion that one of them would have to forget the other completely. An argument over who should have the tragedy chemically induced upon them preceded the equitable chance happenstance that he forgot her, and after fainting, he regained consciousness to regale a person who he felt uncannily familiar with with the oration of the tales in a grieving circumstantial conception of memories becoming stories once forgotten. It instilled a harrowing impression of unrest. In the wake of this, however, he travelled to the planet Mendorax Dellora in 5343, and came abreast with King Hydroflax, who was relying on the assistance of hand, Nardole, and his wife, the inextricably linked River Song, to restore him to health on his deathbed. Her devotion to him was a duplicitous scheme to steal a diamond from him, and his discovery invoked a fit of rage, and the quest to kill the three of them. They escaped his aggression in time to visit the singing towers of Derilium, and the Doctor disclosed the information that this was the fabled and coveted penultima meeting before her death and he gifted her with a sonic screwdriver of her own, and the divulgence that one night on the planet would equate 24 years.

From then on, the Doctor adopted the company of Nardole and took him to New York to investigate the devious deeds that a branch of the corporation “Harmony Shoal” was complicit in, transplanting alien brains into human heads. Investigative journalist Lucy Fletcher had also detected the subterfuge of the pretence they purported of being a research company, and coincidentally encountered the pair just as all of them were discovered by a worker, and they were rescued from capture by a superhero named the Ghost-The alter ego of a child the Doctor had travelled to visit several years prior, called Grant Gordon. The escapades between the fantastic foursome mimicked that of a Superman tale, with the apple of Grant's eye, Lucy, being completely unaware of the vigilant activities of the nanny for her child. And the Doctor was witness to the consummation of their affections for one another along with the revelation of his powers, when the corrupt company were defeated. He then elected to become a professor at a university in contemporary England with Nardole as his assistant. The curious, and effervescent mind of Bill Potts became enthralled with the Doctor’s tutelage and assimilated his lessons, to become inadvertently imparted with the knowledge of the arcane nature of his species and the implicit technology he was equipped with-And her fascination only intensified. She invested confidence into him when she notified him of the case of a puddle that had something slightly amiss with the reflection, and upon investigation, he deduced that it didn’t reflect their image, but was instead imitating them. Another student of Bill’s fancy, Heather, noticed this, and was assimilated by the residue of petrol from an alien aircraft that had landed there. She became transformed into a being of eternal fluid, and it took the eloquence of the Doctor to persuade Bill to convince the being to let her go to save the day. The next order of business was to take her to one of Earth's first colonised planets, Gliese 581d, and there they saw two different types of robots: swarm robots (Vardies) and slow but sentient emojibots. Upon leaving, the arrived in 1814 London at a fair on the frozen over river Thames, a Manor House under the leased contract of a mysterious landlord of which Bill and her friends were subject to. Then onward to a space station that had a tax on oxygen for the workers(in a perpetual cycle of futility) that inevitably resulted in their deaths and the loss of the Doctor’s sight, only for their suits to reanimated them as murderous zombie, then to a hub that possessed portals to various locations over the world(following the aversion of the task of Missy’s execution to instead hold her prisoner in a vault) and it boiled down to those suicides of everyone who read the Veritas. This impelled the transit to Egypt to negate the oppressive subjugation of the world as inflicted from the alien Monks with the assistance of UNIT, and when resolved, they travelled to Mars during the Victorian era to meet a battalion of British soldiers caught in a fallacious conflict with the conscious remnants of a legion of Ice Warriors, and then to Roman Scotland to encounter a beast drawn to the light that killed all those between it and the object of its desire.

They finally landed on a ship flying through a black hole. Soon after arriving with the aid of Missy, Bill was shot through the heart on an impulsive reaction of trepidation and fear from a member of the crew, and was whisked away to be operated on and fitted with a synthetic heart. She was transported to the opposite end of the ship, where time progressed at a much faster rate due to the time dilation of the black hole, and in his grief, the Doctor was spurred on to reach her with urgency. Meanwhile, Bill had returned to consciousness and was welcomed by the queer, but affable caretaker, Mr Razor. But his kindness was a facade to conceal his malignant intent of converting her into a Cyberman. The Doctor circumvented the torment of the state of emergency, and reached Bill's end of the ship, years later by Bill’s experience, but only moments for the Doctor. Razor jarringly revealed himself to Missy to be her previous incarnation, the Master, and soon after, Bill emerged in Cyberman form. The group then retreated to a lower level of the ship in anticipation of an influx of a Cyber army, and found themselves in a synthetic biome of a countryside environment and a cottage, where they made their last stand. Bill’s conscious was still human, and the Doctor promised he could restore her, but he was mistaken. As the ship travelled away from Mondas, the home planet of the Cybermen, the Master and Missy killed one another, and the Doctor was shot by the Cybermen. As he continually resisted the natural procedure of his regeneration, he destroyed the floor of which he occupied, as the former residents escaped with Nardole, and in the wreckage, Cyber Bill carried him to a place of comfort and rest, in the TARDIS. He awoke to have landed on the surface of a winter planet, and was confronted with the sight of another being attempting to resist his own regeneration-His very first body. They then met a British captain from the First World War, who had been at the odds of mortal doom with the gunpoint of a German enemy, and displaced in time and space. The three were then transported aboard a ship, where they found Bill in her human guise, much to the Twelfth Doctor’s scepticism. They escaped the negotiation terms of the conditional liberation of the return of the captain to the moment of his death, to the planet Villengard. And the Twelfth Doctor convened with the Dalek he had entered with Clara, affectionately named “Rusty” in his refuge from the assault of the rest of his kind. He granted the Doctor access to the Dalek hive mind, to realise that the glass creatures that inhabited Bill’s ship were avatars of people extracted from their moment of death, and concluding that there was nothing to defy in the face of an adversity. Therefore, the Doctors agreed to return the Captain to his rightful position to face his death, but before leaving him in the perilous state with no recollection of the adventure, her revealed that he was a member of the Brigadier’s lineage, introducing himself as Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart. As he braced for his fatality, the surrounding soldiers broke out into the chorus of “Silent Night”, as it was the Christmas Day of 1914-The armistice. The First Doctor left in acceptance of his regeneration, with only the Twelfth and Bill’s avatar remaining. Though protesting her affection toward him, she stated that the memories of her are what defined her as Bill to him, transformed into Clara, and was accompanied by an avatar of Nardole for the final farewell. Though still oblivious to the knowledge that Bill had been turned into the liquid being by Heather to live in harmony with her forever before the events the had just transpired, the Doctor finally accepted his regeneration with a sentimental monologue, and altered his form into that of a female figure.

Peter Capaldi’s interpretation of the character was an inspired one, and goes tragically underappreciated for the immaculate evolution of his personal arc, as per his greatest fans. In the span of just over three years, he advanced from a benevolent, but insensitive character that required cue cards to prompt him into compassionate speeches of reassurance, to a more genuine and whole-hearted philanthropy. And that is what endeared him to Whovians the world over.

The decision to cast Jodie Whittaker in the prestigious and unprecedented role of a female Doctor was certainly a divisive one, with small subsets of fans entirely abandoning their viewership of the show in a bigoted fit of outrage, but even those apprehensive or sceptical have concurred that she was an impeccable initiate to the highly honoured and formidable show when the announcement was made. There were concerns that it was a knee-jerk decision on part of the executives, as the casting came at a time where the gender equality movement has become a little oversaturated and has lead to a catch-22-Where they were damned if they do and damned if they don’t, because they would have fans that would be pleased about it, but conversely there is also the criticism that this it has been a long time overdue; And in that regard it is almost expected that there would be a female Doctor. Even treading the precarious ground that was a drastic revolution for the show and the character would have been cautioned, but Jodie Whittaker approached the burden with the same propulsive attitude as the Thirteenth Doctor-Courageously and resiliently unwilling to capitulate in the face of adversity. Despite the poignant terms in which the Twelfth Doctor departed custody of the channel for the entity, she emerged with enthusiasm and effervescence. As she crashed into the train that was carrying Graham and Grace O’Brien, she immediately instilled an aura of exuberance and gleeful joy, and when Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan barged into the carriage that was under conquest from a sentient orb of electrified tentacles, they only served to amplify her indelible influence. The post-regeneration delirium was on a delayed schedule, and only endured for a brief period of recuperation. The large party of five then confronted the Stenza warrior Tzim-Sha who was released from his landing pod via the curious contact from Ryan, and successfully defeated him and the converging electric orb, albeit at the cost of Ryan’s grandmother, Grace. The tragedy really placed a weight of gravity behind Ryan and Brian’s convictions, and they eventually bonded after initially tenuous relations, as they travelled to the planet Desolation to participate in the contest between pilots Angstrom and Epzoto win the Ghost Monument that ultimately turned out to be the TARDIS, then to Alabama in 1955 to inadvertently visit and witness the origins of Rosa Park’s defiant equal rights symbolic movement as she refused a white passenger a seat on a segregated bus, despite the meddling of the abhorrent criminal Krasko, to contemporary Sheffield to investigate the case of a giant spider infestation accompanied by Yasmin’s mother, Najia, and against the corruption of the corporate figurehead, Robertson, and to the Tsuranga medical spacecraft to escape the destructive impulsion of the Pting-A tiny, but tenacious energy consuming being, while in the presence of the crew and some patients that were left perturbed by the siege, but were motivated to persevere and survive by the collaborative efforts of the Doctor and head nurse Astos, whose sacrifice served to unite them.

Her decision upon a long, soft cloak, fluorescent shirt with braces, long shorts, and boots, and the construction of a new sonic screwdriver have been the accompanying physical aesthetic elements of accessory to represent the chemistry she has largely instigated between her tightly-knitted group, and has made the volume of their presence a delight thus far. And the Thirteenth Doctor, if anything, is a symbolic encapsulation of optimism and hope.