Doctor Who, S9 Ep5

Doctor Who, S9 Ep5

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, here's the review for the fifth episode in the ninth series of Doctor Who. Without any further ado, let's get started, shall we ?

The Girl Who Died

So, here are the three words I've picked for this episode :

- Battlefield : In this episode, the Doctor and Clara find themselves with Vikings, to face some aliens who already killed their warriors. Now, only the farmers,fishmen, and basically anyone who never went on a battlefield have to fight aliens in armours. But as always, the Doctor has a plan, and he manages to save the village, even if he knows the consequence of the humiliation he has inflicted on "one of the deadliest species in the entire universe". Because he's the Doctor, he WINS. That's his job, after all, to have justice served, in the end. (Also, the recording and the threat to upload it on a universal "Internet-y" platform was very funny ! The aliens were shaking in fear for losing their reputation... Ah, modern technology & black-mailing. Very efficient.)

- Face : Also, we FINALLY have the explanation for Peter Capaldi being the Doctor despite the face that he was a Roman man in series four. (I had already understood from Deep Breath, the first episode in the eight series.) It's because he has to remind himself that, as the Doctor, he has to save people, he is afraid of losing people. So, he saves the storyteller, the little girl, because that's his duty to not let people down. (P.S. : The David Tennant cameo, from an older episode, as Ten, was marvellous, I shed a tear for it.) Because, in the end, he also cares a lot about Clara. I'm a little bit afraid of seeing his reaction when she leaves the TARDIS forever...

- Ripples & Tides : After all, this is one of the rare episodes when we see the Doctor talk about the rules of timetravelling, and the consequences of changing events from the past and the effects in the future. When he saves the young girl, basically, he only realises too late that he made her immortal. (And he remembers what he did because he met her in the future since she's still alive. As he says, it's like remembering things from his past, but that are in the future from a "linear point of view".) That's why even if he wins for now, the next episode is set a couple of centuries later, when the lady is still alive and the aliens will probably come back because of the humiliation they endured during the Viking era.

Overall impression : Excellent episode, had a little existential crisis when the Doctor talked about immortality, death being "an ability", and seeing everyone else die. Also because of that scene with all she sunrises and sunsets and probably the sorrow this girl has suffered when she lost her village to old age and probably had to leave it before people realise she's not aging anymore.

Okay, that's it for today ! Anyways, I really hope you liked this post and I'll see you very soon with another one !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !