Doctor Who The Complete Series 10 BD [Blu-ray] [2017]

This was an interesting year, Steven Moffat hadn't been expecting to stay on another year and given his excellent parting episodes with Heaven Sent and The Husbands Of River Song closing River Song's story there are some that dismiss this season unfairly. It's a wonderful epilogue to his tenure.Firstly Bill, a wonderful character who is really willing to criticise the Doctor which is a great contrast after a season where the arc was a companion who brought about their own end trying to out-Doctor the Doctor.Most of the episodes fall into the good category; all but two have scores highest than the highest rated episodes of the following season.The two *slightly* weaker episodes are Empress of Mars and the Eaters of Light. Neither is particularly weak.The standout episodes are the finale, which depending on where you look has both parts either in the top 10 of modern stories or at least the top 20. They are a wonderful send off to this often overlooked Doctor - Capaldi by the end of his tenure is absolutely on fire. It's a shame that with the BBC looking to the future they didn't give this season the promotion or stable time slots it deserved.The christmas special is The Return of Doctor Mysterio which I liked a lot more on second viewing. I think I was as burnt out as everyone on super-heroes, but the powers aren't present this is a wonderful episode with some great characters.Sadly missing the final Christmas special with Capaldi's regeneration; I suggest picking that up in 4k however if you can. It's a real treat.

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Yeah Nardole is a confusing character. Acting like he has an IQ of about twenty-five one minute, then doing advanced TARDIS physics the next. The character was great to have aorund though. I liked the Nardole - Dr chemistry, if chemistry is the right word.Secondly though, the Bill Potts - Dr chemistry was excellent. It was a shame Bill Potts only got one series, but it felt like more, because it felt so full.One for the history books.

I was very pleased with the prompt delivery of this Blu-ray boxset. Ordered at 4:30 p.m. on Monday it arrived at 9:40 a.m. the next day in pristine condition! I've been working my way through collecting all of the modern era of Doctor Who on Blu-ray in chronological order, and despite ordering the Matt Smith era boxsets thirty minutes beforehand, it was series 10 with Peter Capaldi that found its way through the spacetime continuum and into my hands hours ahead of those others. Hmm. A strange tale of a box travelling through time and space indeed.I'm telling this tale in my review, because by the time I typed this the other reviewers had picked apart every episode in minute detail, leaving me nothing to say... and I'm not about to spoil the delights of series 10 for those who haven't watched these episodes yet. Picture and Audio quality are excellent, and the set includes the usual bumper bundle of extras for fans of behind-the-scenes coverage.

After the first two Twelfth Doctor series which were very cerebral, this final Peter Capaldi - and last with Steven Moffat as show runner - series is a bit more down to earth, though it still possesses enough cleverness about it at the same time. This tenth series begins with the 2016 Christmas special - the only episode of Doctor Who to be broadcast in that year - and fortunately it is a super start and another great festive episode from Moffat. When I saw it previewed I was worried that it was going to be a gimmicky superhero episode that would not fit into the rest of Doctor Who, but it is so much more than that. Grant as a child becoming the Ghost due to swallowing the wish-granting gemstone is well handled continuing Steven Moffat's use of children at the start of episodes who you later see as adults for the rest of the duration. The "Brains" are another sinister alien threat and their plan to take over the whole Earth by implanting themselves in all the world leaders via a bomb that would force all these top figures into the Brains' Harmony Shoal company buildings is really creepy in a very entertaining way. But The Return of Doctor Mysterio is not only a brilliant romp, it is also a love story between Grant and journalist Lucy and the fact that they eventually pair off at the end when she realises that Grant and the Ghost are the same person provides the episode with some romance and festive cheer. When Nardole informs Lucy that the Doctor is sad due to the loss of his beloved River Song after the events of the previous year's Christmas special there is some pathos, but it is also uplifting at the same time when the new comical, cyborg companion reckons he will come to terms with it and is back!The first episode proper of this 2017 run is simply another classic. With the Doctor and Nardole assuming roles in a university with new identities as a professor and his assistant - and guarding a curious vault - it introduces new companion Bill Potts after she impresses the Doctor by attending all his lectures despite not being a student. She shares a mutual crush with another student - the mysterious Heather - who ends up becoming "The Pilot" after staring into a puddle of alien rocket fuel and due to her continuing desire to leave places. When Heather becomes The Pilot, and appears initially as like a fluid monster and being able to travel through all forms of water to reach her desired passenger Bill, it looks quite scary and is another thrilling romp of an episode with the Doctor transporting Bill and Nardole in the TARDIS to Sydney, another planet far into the future and even a war between the Daleks and Movellans just to escape her. The pay off with Bill politely refusing to travel with Heather is like a Russell T Davies series one - a simple but very effective resolution. The Pilot is a very exciting, accessible episode and I also really enjoyed the nostalgia in it with the pictures of the doctor's wife River Song and his granddaughter on his office desk.The second episode, Smile, is a significantly better effort from Frank Cottrell-Boyce than series 8's In the Forest of the Night was. This feels more like a proper story with Emojibots that could not recognise grief after one of the first colonists from Earth died and so slaughtered any other humans who were grieving as they wanted everyone to "smile." While I perhaps would not say it is amongst very best Doctor Who as the ending is slightly abrupt with the Doctor simply resetting the robots when the colonists start fighting them and so forcing them to make a deal between each other, it is a satisfying resolution and overall a good episode.The end of Smile leads into the next episode Thin Ice with The Doctor and Bill travelling this time back in time to London during Regency times at the time of a frost fair on the Thames. It is a really exciting setting with the frozen Thames and the Thames Ice Snake beneath it that is breaking the ice above it to consume the humans. The Doctor and Bill learn that the alien's waste is being used as more powerful replacement for coal to make the rotten Lord Sutcliffe more money. But anyway, with the Doctor and Bill escaping Sutcliffe's bomb back on the Thames that was to drown them and as many other people at the frost fair as possible to feed the creature, it is another simple but successful pay off with the enemy's power being used against them when the Doctor reconnects the bombs to the Thames Ice Snake's chains allowing it to be free. The only criticisms I would have of this episode is the fact that Sutcliffe's blue coat would not appeal to Tory viewers and the alien's "waste" being used for coal is a bit tacky. Meanwhile although the dialogue between the Doctor and Bill about whether he has ever killed people is interesting it should really be toned down a bit more and look more like the doctor will always try and offer compassion first. But overall while it is not a classic, Thin Ice is another fine romp.Knock Knock is for me one of the classic episodes of series 10 and very much in the vein of the 2005 first ever new Who series. David Suchet is sensational as the ghoulish Landlord who is inviting a new set of students into his large eerie mansion for a very low price every twenty years to feed them to the insect-like Dryads who are infesting the wood and preserving his now completely wooden mother in the tower who was terminally ill without them. The house is a captivating, spooky setting while all the student actors are interesting too and unlike weaker Doctor Who episodes, different enough from each other in character and the way they respond to the threat. The pay-off is obviously another simple but extremely effective one with Eliza having power over the Dryads because she is the mother and consuming her now elderly Landlord son as she realises she has no real life and it is their time. I know some fans criticised the fact that only the current generation of students from this episode were released from the house's walls by Eliza but really it makes sense that other generations were not as presumably they were fully consumed by the Dryads many years ago. This episode is top Doctor Who and one of the best of the entire series.Fifth episode, Oxygen, is for me one of the more cerebral episodes of this tenth series. On first watch I was not too impressed, but upon a second watch it grew on me more and I enjoyed it. The only oxygen on the space station exists in "the suits" and most of the crew was killed upon receiving an order from the technology to "deactivate organic components" except for those whose suits were disconnected. As the oxygen only exists for a price in the suits, the Doctor, Bill and Nardole must wear them and when they are forced to travel outside the spaceship and Bill's helmet malfunctions the Doctor has to give her his helmet and so sacrifices his sight. It is clever when the Doctor then appears to let Bill be killed by the other suits by their touch sending the signal to her suit only for it later to be found at the end that because it was malfunctioning it did not have enough power to be a lethal shock. The actual solution to the story with the Doctor realising that there is a capitalist conspiracy by the controlling company to send the order to kill off all the workers as they are not efficient enough and then connecting their suits life signs to the space station therefore leading to the cost of the station imploding being more than the value of the workers is both a simple and intelligent pay off all at once. The only criticism I would have of the episode is it is yet another one set on a spaceship, but it is Doctor Who after all and there are going to be numerous ones so perhaps it is not a truly valid nit-pick. Overall, while I would not say Oxygen is a very top episode, it is certainly another very good effort from Jamie Mathieson and an interesting social commentary on capitalism though perhaps it may again be a bit preachy to some.Extremis is another of the more complex episodes in series 10 and the first of the Monks trilogy. Like the episode before it is very strong and shows our three protagonists in a computer simulation of the world that is being used by the Monks to see how and when they can invade the Earth as a kind of practice. The opening scene with Bill's new love interest being deterred by the Pope suddenly appearing is really funny while the papal characters are interesting too. The fact that everyone who is simulated in this virtual world ends up committing suicide to escape the computer makes it rather dark too and it is a thought provoking sci-fi concept. The Doctor's continuing blindness from the previous episode is not tiresome and instead makes it a compelling watch too with him having to use his sonic sunglasses again to have limited vision and interaction. Although I prefer his sonic screwdriver, I have always enjoyed his sonic sunglasses too and they play the key role in another fast but powerful pay off with him using them in the simulation to send all he has recorded to his real-life sunglasses under the title Extremis to warn of an oncoming invasion by the Monks. Meanwhile, we finally find out who is in the vault under the university as throughout the episode there are flashbacks to Missy being under threat of execution until River Song sends a message to her husband The Doctor via Nardole advising him not to do it and instead he vows to imprison her and guard her for a thousand years. Although it is perhaps a bit odd that there are these flashbacks throughout the main plot of the Monks' simulation they do work really effectively, and Michelle Gomez is as energetic as ever as Missy. My only criticism of the episode is it is slightly like one of those stories that you are taught not to write in which the end is that it has all been a dream but because obviously it connects to the other two episodes in the trilogy I can look past this and it is overall a very strong Steven Moffat written one.The Pyramid at the End of the World is another very good episode. The Monks due to their simulation have found a time in the Earth's history in which the world is going to end and so offer their support if the humans consent to them, but as several of the world leaders in the episode find out to their own destruction it must be a genuine one. The Doctor and Nardole theorise that it will not be a war but instead a biological catastrophe that causes this destruction and so track down the laboratory where one drunk scientist inadvertently creates a super bacterium that wipes out any living organism it encounters. With the assistance of the other scientist, the capable Erica, the Doctor manages to find a way to blow up the lab and destroy the bacteria, but his blindness prevents him from putting in the right combination to escape and he expresses this to Bill. This is such a sublimely good way of ending the three-episode plot in series 10 of the Doctor being blind which was interesting because it forced him to face a new challenge and adapt. At this moment Bill consents to the Monks to restore the Doctor's sight and because this is out of her love for the Doctor it is taken as genuine and she is not disintegrated. Although it is obviously naive too as the Monks now take over, it is a heroic resolution to the Doctor's loss of sight and shows how caring and committed Bill Potts is. Overall, this episode is very decent but what prevents it from being a genuine classic is it is a slight case of seeing similar things before in new Who at times and I feel the Monks as an enemy do look a bit pathetic and silly.However, the final episode in the Monks trilogy, The Lie of the Land, is the only episode in series 10 that remains to me as a weak link even on second watch. The Monks have invaded the Earth, have influenced human development and are using statues around it as transmitters to control the people. The scenes in which the Doctor is testing whether Bill is under the control of the Monks are fairly compelling but the fact that she ends up shooting him - albeit with a deliberately placed blank round - does seem to take it a bit too extreme for a companion to do. The scenes with Missy are the finest in the episode and she viciously suggests the only way to defeat the Monks is for Bill to be sacrificed as she gave the consent to them initially. However, the episode comes a cropper in its pay off when the Doctor, Bill, Nardole and some soldiers invade the Monks pyramid where their signals are coming from and at first the Doctor fails to replace them with the truth. It just appears all too convenient and unfortunately a bit too primitive that Bill's memory of her mother - from pictures given to her back in The Pilot - then being transmitted when she makes her attempt, is the resolution to defeating the Monks grip on humanity. It still clearly is not the worst Doctor Who episode ever, but it is rather anticlimactic and a disappointing final part of the Monks trilogy.Empress of Mars is the first of four episodes that round off last year's run superbly and with aplomb. The Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover that there are Victorian soldiers on Mars who are being manipulated by an otherwise good Ice Warrior, Friday to reach his Empress Iraxxa using his mining equipment as they believe they are going to discover riches instead. On the red planet, a war breaks out between the humans and Ice Warriors particularly due to provocation from one of the former's soldier's firing at the Empress. Mark Gatiss' characters of the soldiers Godsacre - who survived hanging due to desertion - and Catchlove - who is the hypocritical, real coward - are so deep and not one-dimensional. The episode is yet another in the series that is very much like the first new Who series with a simple and timely ending in which Godsacre heroically convinces the Empress to become peaceful by shooting Catchlove and thus preventing his danger to her. It is an outstanding episode and also similar to early new Who as it includes plenty of action.The Eaters of Light is an excellent final adventure for the dynamic trio of The Doctor, Bill and Nardole before the finale. It includes Picts and Romans who were previously battling each other, now fleeing from a light eating locust, which was released by the leader Pict, Kar, to slay the invading Romans. They recognise their fighting is ultimately childish and futile given the threat of the Locust and unite to defeat it. The pay off in which they draw the Locust back to the portal in the cairn again exemplifies how series 10 is generally a bit less cerebral but still possesses enough sophistication about it with all the exposition about light poisoning Pict tools (as the locust lives off light) and the Doctor having a greater life span than human beings to guard the portal due to his regenerative abilities. The resolution in which the Picts and remaining Roman ninth legion enter the portal instead to protect the Earth from the locusts is both simple and clever at the same time as the high number going through causes the cairn to collapse and portal to close. The setting of the Cairn on the hill which is meant to be in 2nd century Scotland, is very pretty while the music played by the self-sacrificed Picts and Romans that can still be heard from the collapsed Cairn in the modern day at the beginning and end of the episode is both spirited and poignant. Written by Rona Munro - who first wrote for Sylvester McCoy back in 1989 - the episode and writer deserve their title on the back of the Blu-ray, "Modern Classic."World Enough and Time starts with a seismic shock at the start when Bill is shot by one of the crew members of a colony ship in distress because each time there is a human on his floor the Cybermen emerge from the lift to collect them. Bill is then pronounced dead and taken downstairs by the cybermen and she is then "repaired" with her vanished real heart - due to Jorg's erasing laser gunshot - replaced with a cyber chest. The theme of time dilation in the previous episode blatantly continues into this penultimate episode and first part of the finale as due to a nearby black hole that the ship is reversing from, time moves much faster on the lower decks that are closer to the hole. Consequently, the members of the crew that left the top deck to start the reverse thrusters on the lower decks have all populated both that floor and all the ones above with their descendants who are being converted into Cybermen because their human bodies will fail in the polluted air at the bottom. The episode ultimately ends on a cliff hanger with the Doctor, Nardole and Missy failing to reach Bill in time to prevent John Simm's Master - who is disguised as the hospital caretaker due to formerly being the infamous prime minister Harold Saxon - slyly and cruelly leading her into the conversion theatre to be fully changed into a Mondasian Cyberman.The theme and threat of unwanted surgery and murder of one of the Doctor's protagonists that occurred earlier in the Christmas special (Grant), shockingly comes true for the doctor's latest human companion. The whole episode rivals series 8's Dark Water for being so grotesquely dark and chilling with the conversion theatre, the cybermen crying out "pain" and "want to die" when their emotional inhibitors are turned off and the sadistic surgeon and nurse who perform Bill's conversion all exemplifying this. The viewer can see clearly how the events of this episode lead up to those in Dark Water as one of Missy's first actions after regenerating from The Master are to form another alliance with the Cyberman so the continuity in Doctor Who is excellent. It is such skilful, timey-wimey writing from Steven Moffat for the Doctor to encounter Missy and her earlier incarnation The Master - and their affiliation with the Cybermen - the other way around. There is a real feeling of irony that Bill remarks that it is "just a lady" in the vault in the earlier episode The Lie of the Land when it is in fact her earlier version that is responsible for her death. Ten years on from his first appearance, John Simm is simply fantastic as The Master again and you wonder how the unveiling of his disguise would have been even more of a phenomenal moment if his return had been kept secret! World Enough and Time is one of the blackest and most frightening episodes of Doctor Who ever and therefore must be considered as one of the finest.Last episode, The Doctor Falls, sees the Doctor avoiding the Master and Missy's clutches as during their battle in the hospital he has extended the Cybermen from targeting not just humans with one heart but those with two hearts too i.e. the time lords. Nardole flies them in a helicopter ship to one of the upper floors. But because it is not the top floor, they still cannot reach the TARDIS and the twelfth doctor is doomed to fall fighting the Cybermen to allow the humans to be safe on one of the levels a few places above as they cannot use the lifts to go directly to the top as the Cybermen would reach it first due to the time dilation. The Doctor's "being kind" speech has to be one of the greatest in the history of Doctor Who as it epitomises and embodies everything the doctor should be even though he can only sacrifice himself and save these humans for just a few more years before Cybermen regroup and catch up again. It shows impressive character development from Steven Moffat as the Twelfth Doctor appeared to be slightly darker and sterner initially.The Doctor Falls is simply the finest finale since series 7's The Name of the Doctor. There is yet again more great continuity when The Master explains how he survived being pulled back to Gallifrey with his body dying - during the climax of the final Russell T Davies-era episode, The End of Time Part 2 - due to a mutual agreement with the Time Lords. The scenes in which Bill's experience of being no longer human is discussed between the Doctor and her are well handled and moving. Although perhaps the tear that Heather uses to return her to Bill and then convert her out of her cyber body for them to travel off together in love was slightly predictable, it was still a sufficient surprise when it happened. Although Bill is still technically dead she is sort of alive too so at least it is a happy, feelgood end for a short lived but excellent doctor's companion.The only thing I would comment about The Doctor Falls though is although Missy is at first caught in two minds as to whether to side with her previous regeneration, The Master or The Doctor, is Missy ultimately turning somewhat good by wanting to stand with the Doctor in the climax of the episode genuinely realistic? Whether it is logical enough that The Master/Missy could ever "be kind" eventually is debateable, but ultimately I do not mind it because it is great for the storytelling as Missy and the Master dramatically end up slaying each other. Although it is sad that John Simm's Master will probably never appear again in Doctor Who it is a sensational way to bring his story full circle and the fact that he has played the main role in the fall of both the tenth and twelfth doctors show he is a particularly powerful and nasty incarnation of him/her. The episode ends with the Doctor finally regenerating and although him not wanting to become someone new is not original (e.g. the Tenth Doctor's phrase "I don't want to go" is nostalgically repeated amongst others), him resisting his change is something new and I like the cliff hanger and tease of the Christmas special at the end with him spectacularly meeting his first self in the snow who faces a similar predicament.Overall, although I initially was left unimpressed by six of the episodes on first broadcast last year, upon further viewings there is now only one series 10 episode that I still dislike so perhaps other Whovians might possibly benefit from giving it another chance. Although perhaps the episodes that have grown on me are still not the very greatest Doctor Who material ever, it is certainly for me a fairly underrated series. The ones that are especially strong take it back to Russell T Davies series 1-era with similar simple but very powerful conclusions to the stories while there is enough intelligent writing about them too to keep things interesting. The Return of Doctor Mysterio, The Pilot, Knock Knock, Empress of Mars, The Eaters of Light, World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls are all Doctor Who in peak form and although the other episodes are not as superlative as this perhaps the falling viewing figures and mixed critical response are due to people tiring of Doctor Who somewhat after the twelve years since it was revived. But for me personally this was for the most part a very decent way for Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat to bow out and I hope after two tremendous show runners, Chris Chibnall can carry the legacy on.

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