Doctor Who is heading into its season 12 two-part finale this weekend, and Whovians around the world are on the edge of their seats. We have so many questions about the Timeless Child and that other Doctor who we have yet to see more of. What the heck is going on?!
And how dangerous will the return of the Cybermen be? I’m frankly terrified of them as villains. Just seeing the lone Cyberman in the most recent episode was enough for me — and to think, we have an army of them to look forward to.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Chris Chibnall spent a great deal of time hyping up the finale. What does he have to say about the Cybermen storyline?
"Episode 9, ‘Ascension of the Cybermen,’ obviously sees the return of iconic monsters. It’s the first time Jodie’s Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor, has squared off against them. We have both old and new designs of the Cybermen, there’s more than one Cyber-variant in the story. And it’s a big, space-spanning, spaceship-lasery, Cybermanny sci-fi story. Properly epic. It’s set in the aftermath of a Cyber war, and a large band of human refugees are on the run from a very determined, zealous Cyberman who’s determined to hunt down and eliminate the very last of humanity and finally win the war. Enter the Doctor and her friends."
Anyone else getting goosebumps? Cybermen? The end of humanity? New and old designs of the Cybermen? My oh my, this is going to be amazing.
And then there’s the second part of the two-part finale, “The Timeless Child.” We’ve heard quite a bit about this mysterious figure, but what the heck does it all mean?
"We’ve been playing out this mystery for a while now. Obviously the Timeless Child was first mentioned in Jodie’s second episode and then came back in force when the Master returned at the beginning of this season and told her that everything she knows is a lie. ‘The Timeless Children’ — plural! — will pay off a lot of the strands that we’ve set running both last year and this year. I’m going to do classic British understatement here: It’s a relatively seismic episode for the Doctor, and for the show. You will get some answers, but you will also be left with a whole load of new questions in true Doctor Who style."
Of course he would leave us with more questions. As if we don’t have enough already!
But what I’m most excited about, out of everything Chibnall had to say, is how the fans are going to feel once this finale airs:
"It is an emotional and narrative roller coaster — for the characters, for the audience. I think you’re going to need a very strong drink. It’s a 65-minute finale, so on BBC America that will go longer, obviously. It’s big, it’s action-packed, it’s very, very epic and very, very emotional, and there is a blistering performance from Jodie Whittaker in that final episode. People, I think, are going to feel wrung-out and possibly a little bit open-mouthed."
There’s nothing like an O-M-G Doctor Who moment during a finale. I remember feeling like that during the 50th-anniversary special, “Day of the Doctor,” when you saw a very quick glimpse of Peter Capaldi’s eyes when they were running through all the Doctors. I’m ready to have that feeling again, so bring on “Ascension of the Cybermen”!
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