Okay that sounds like I hated it. I didn't, I actually enjoyed it but I didn't understand the reference at first. Well unless its based on that book then I guess I kind of get it (now that I've seen it). He looks like a magician and he has companions and what not. Now this is based off of high level observations. I'll go into more thoughts in the "Spoilers" as I don't want to give too much away. But I will say I was impressed with the Doctor, I loved Clara (again) which is happy/yay/whoohoo because as I've said before the whole last season Danny story just made me not like her and of course there is Missy who is just so much fun...crazy but fun. All in all I enjoyed the episode. I think it was mostly an overview of the entire season to come as a lot was introduced but not much explained. I don't know why people are hating on Capaldi so much. I think he's a fantastic Doctor. Some of his personality as the Time Lord is hard to deal with after 10 & 11 BUT he has that Classic, "I am a Time Lord, I know best, stupid ape (hahahaha)", attitude which is funny, well at least to me. They were all a bit rude and quite scary at times but he has a harder face. Almost like a dad who lets you know with a single look to quit your $hit or else you're in BIG trouble (Go to your room - hehehe). But he as an actor has the ability to show you that the character still cares...you can't hate him...how can you hate him?!? See below spoilers for my favorite quotes of the night.
**SPOILERS** for The Magician's Apprentice
We open with a War. Not the time war but something bad with humans...maybe. A little boy, trapped, needing help when a hero appears in a Blue Box. Then the little $hit says his name is Davros and I just about lost my mind, as did The Doctor. So there in lies the decision, leave Davros to die, changing TIME or save him because you are in fact a "Good Man". We don't know what happens because we are suddenly with Clara and the planes have stopped moving mid-flight. She was classic Clara, the Clara we meet with 11. The one who is feisty and smart and a friend to the rogue Time Lord above all else.
I love that UNIT contacts HER because they can't find the Doctor. That right there tells you how much they feel he values his companions, right?!? Our clever girl figures it out. Figures out HOW to find him. A TEXT message comes through "singing", Hey "Missy", like from the Season Finale. I snorted, good stuff. We get to see Missy again and all her shenanigans. She is still a cracked out Mary Poppins but her less crazed side is showing. She is worried about her oldest Frenemy. He has sent her his last will (WTF?!?!). Not to Clara but to her. Honestly though, she has the best one liners. Really she does. I giggle every time she is on the screen so I hope they keep her around for a bit.
They get to where the Doctor has been laying low and he rides in on a flipping TANK playing the Doctor Who theme on a freaking Electric Guitar. Seriously, how can you hate him?!? Then he spots our leading ladies and starts playing "Pretty Woman"...OMG! The little exchange with Clara was amazing as well. She's teasing him about being nice and she says "which one of us is dying, hahaha" and he hugs her...he doesn't do hugs anymore...ahhhhhh.
So creepy dude made of snakes (I feel like this creature may be evolving in my neighbors yard...with all the snakes, it is a possibility) takes him and his ladies prisoner much to the Doctor's dismay...he doesn't want them captured too! I couldn't stop laughing at Missy in the holding cell. She is so annoying to Clara but not in a mean way...its quite fun.
I did NOT expect the planet to be invisible. I get that we were trying to show Missy is still bat$hit crazy by opening the airlock. I wasn't expecting them to be walking on nothing, only to find themselves walking on the surface of Skaro (what...What...WHAT?!?). But, but Skaro was destroyed...right?!?! So the ladies are captured by Daleks, well $hit, and the T.A.R.D.I.S. is procured by the Daleks, double $hit. And The Doctor is in a room with a dying Davros, WTF?!? We watch in "horror" as Missy turns on Clara and is exterminated, which turns to Clara running and she is zapped as well. Our "fearless" hero is losing it a bit as he watches two of his friends perish. Now I don't think they are dead. I think Missy did something with the Vortex Manipulators and they are now in the T.A.R.D.I.S. But that is just my thoughts.
Davros admits he has NO control over the Daleks, they do as the please. We see flashes of a younger Doctor (Four) on Skaro trying to "fix" things. It was from "Genesis of the Daleks" an episode, I thankfully watched not long before this one aired. The line that gets you is this one, "Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and
told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless
dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that
child?" Flash to this Doctor back on an earlier Skaro pointing a "gun" at the young Davros. Roll credits.
Well, I don't believe he will kill him. He isn't that type even when so destroyed because he's lost everything, he wouldn't do THAT but we shall see next week. So I am thinking this title is about Davros. He is the apprentice. He took "power" as shown by the Doctor and created something awful, something that he admitted he has no control over. His dying "wish" is to see the Doctor admit that compassion is a failure, his failure. To take the blame for his companion's deaths and go back to the beginning and finish off young Davros so that the Daleks never exist (maybe, probably not). Except that can't happen, it would cause a major paradox. They are too entwined in history and future history to be wiped out of it. The universe will find a way to fix it and that could be 1000 times worse that what is supposed to happen. So we shall wait and see who "The Witch's Familiar" is referring to.
Favorite Quotes/Happenings:
1. Oh, don’t be disgusting, we’re Timelords, not animals. Try, nanobrain,
to rise above the reproductive frenzy of your noisy little food chain,
and contemplate friendship. ~ Missy
2. Missy "tickled" a Dalek
3. Jane Austen – amazing writer, brilliant comic observer, and strictly among ourselves, a phenomenal kisser. ~ Clara
4. (in reference to Missy) It’s the wicked stepmother! Everyone hiss! ~ The Doctor
5. Is that supposed to frighten me? Snake nest in a dress? ~The Doctor
6. Doctor: Davros is my arch-enemy. Why would I want to talk to him?
Missy: No, wait, hang on a minute! DAVROS is your arch-enemy now?
Doctor: Hush!
Missy: I’ll scratch his eye out.
7. Doctor: Why have I ever let you live?
Davros: Compassion, Doctor. It has always been your
greatest indulgence. Let this be my final victory. Let me hear you say
it, just once. “Compassion … is … wrong.”
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