![]() ![]() And when he finally reaches some sort of summit of his ordeal, the Doctor realises that, every 100 years, a bird comes and pecks the diamond wall, slowly allowing him to chip through to what lies beyond. He spends eternities confessing, until losing his patience and fighting back, refusing to play ball. ![]() Photograph: Simon Ridgway/BBCĪnd so to recap the Timelords, for reasons yet unknown, recruited Ashildr/Me to ensnare the Doctor into his own hellish “confession dial”, a revolving castle where he is stalked by a monster that embodies his greatest fear. This was as exhilarating as Doctor Who gets. The good news is that, given a second viewing – and armed with the BBC’s list of instructions to journalists (eg, “you will not reveal that the skulls are the reincarnation of the Doctor”) – all the pennies suddenly dropped at once during that breathless final sequence. But the fact remains that for a large proportion of the audience is likely to be lost completely You don’t, after all, get people complaining that Game of Thrones is incomprehensible to people who only tune in on occasional weeks. Which is not to get too far back into the whole “is Doctor Who too complicated now?” debate. ![]() And I’m a professional fanboy, and so if I am flummoxed, it’s a little terrifying to contemplate what keen viewers such as, say, my mum, will have made of this. A confession: the first time I watched Heaven Sent, I barely had the faintest clue what was going on. Well, to quote some of the more mischievous contributors below the line, that was no Robot of Sherwood. ‘The Hybrid destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins is me’ Spoiler alert: this blog contains plot details for Heaven Sent, episode 11 of the 35th series of Doctor Who on BBC1 ![]()
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