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Missy tells the Doctor that dying minds are uploaded to the Nethersphere—a Time Lord hard drive—where the emotions are deleted, and the mind is downloaded into upgraded Cyberman bodies. The Doctor realises that Missy is a Time Lady. The Doctor exits 3W and finds that it is inside St Paul's Cathedral.
Doctor Who follows the adventures of the title character, a rogue Time Lord with somewhat unknown origins who goes by the name "the Doctor".The Doctor fled Gallifrey, the planet of the Time Lords, in a stolen TARDIS ("Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space"), a time machine that travels by materialising into, and dematerialising out of, the time vortex.
The Tenth Doctor also mentioned the Fall of Arcadia in "Doomsday" (2006). When the Eleventh Doctor tells Clara that the situation is "timey-wimey", and the War Doctor ridicules him for it, the Tenth Doctor remarks, "I've no idea where he picks that stuff up"; the Tenth Doctor originally used the phrase in "Blink" (2007). [22]
In a 2012 poll of over ten thousand respondents conducted by the Radio Times, the Weeping Angels were again voted the best Doctor Who monster with 49.4% of the vote. [49] In Doctor Who Magazine 's 2014 fan poll of the greatest episodes of all time, "Blink" again came in second, this time behind the 2013 episode "The Day of the Doctor". [50]
The Doctor temporarily despairs following an epiphany: the prison was made solely for him, and thus the skulls were his own and he has been in the castle for 7000 years. Revitalised by a vision of his dead companion, Clara, the Doctor punches the wall while reciting the fable. The figure mortally injures the Doctor, disabling his regeneration ...
Puny, defenceless bipeds. They've survived flood, famine and plague. They've survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They're indomitable. ” — Fourth Doctor, The Ark in Space
[16] In a review for The Daily Telegraph, Michael Hogan praised the expanded roles of Graham, Ryan and Yaz, but felt the revelation was as confusing for the Doctor as it was for audiences, writing it was "the sort of "timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly" narrative tricksiness" that former showrunner Steven Moffat had been criticised for. [17]
In Who Is the Doctor, a guide to the revived series, Graeme Burk felt that "The Unquiet Dead" was "terribly, terribly disappointing" on first viewing, as Rose and the Doctor's characterisation did not drive the plot and the story was reduced to playing it safe and being "ordinary", as it just made the aliens evil instead of discussing their ...