Doctor Who really is a love story after all

It turn out Doctor Who ’s prison term - traveling misfit has always had one great love in his life story . Tonight ’s episode was writer Neil Gaiman ’s love letter to the series , but it was also a showcase for the Doctor ’s great love social occasion .

“ The Doctor ’s Wife ” render a weirdly skew take on the show ’s assumption , which might well serve as an presentation to the show for neophytes as well as making longtime fans very glad . It ’s a bite daft , quite wacky , and amazingly scary in parts . And it might be the last bill to those fans who still favour to suppose of Doctor Who as a chaste sciencey escapade series : 21st century Doctor Who is all about relationship , and it ’s indite into the very DNA of the show .

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The idea that the Doctor ’s time auto , the TARDIS , was a live thing has been a part of Doctor Who for decennium — at the very least since the Jon Pertwee era , when the Doctor used to say that the TARDIS was alive “ after a style . ” And the TARDIS ’ telepathic belongings were mentioned here and there , from the former 70s onwards as well . And in more late year , the show ’s gone even further , suggest that TARDISes are grow rather than built , and are essentially organic machines . ( Grown from crybaby nugget , apparently . )

But even though we ’ve heard the Doctor speak to his TARDIS infinite times , we ’ve never really construe his TARDIS mouth back , and the estimation that his TARDIS has a head of its own has always been left rather vague .

Until now , when we actually see the consciousness ( or “ Matrix ” ) of the TARDIS ported into a human brain , so that the TARDIS can speak and kiss the Doctor and bite the Doctor and run around acting like a madwoman . And we at long last get the TARDIS ’ view on the story of Doctor Who . While the Doctor imagine he was choose to steal this disused TARDIS from a museum , the TARDIS thought it was select him , and they were sort of slip each other . What ’s the full stop , after all , of being a ejector seat that can go any place or any time in the universe , if all you do is sit in a dusty way on Gallifrey , the Time Lord home planet ? “ I wanted to see the universe , so I steal a Time Lord and tend away . And you were the only one huffy enough . ”

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Becoming a person is sort of a disorienting process for a thinker that antecedently inhabited a huge boundless and shifting topography outside of normal blank , and so we see Idris ( for lack of a better name ) take to let out how to use language and pass on normally . She still has some kind of vague extra - secular awareness , so the future and the yesteryear and the present tend to blend together quite a bit , and she has a hard clip with recover the proper Logos for thing , specially one word in particular , which turns out to be “ alive . ”

( For quite a bit of the episode , I thought the word Idris was groping towards was “ wife , ” but in reality the word “ married woman ” is never uttered on cover despite being in the claim of the sequence . )

And even though Idris is used to being a vast interdimensional entity inside a deceptively small downhearted box , she still keeps marveling at how big and complicated people are — people , she notice , are “ bighearted on the inside . ” ( Which was a working title for this episode , according to the BBC land site . ) In a sense , we ’re all like TARDISes , all of us living in the yesteryear and obsessing about the future and having shifting internal topographies . Except that we have bodies , and language . And the mystery of words is that it be us , sort of .

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And while Idris ( or maybe we should call her “ Sexy ” ) is learning to be in a flesh - and - rake body ( which is , rather inconveniently , dying ) , the sentient planet known as House has move in to the vacant TARDIS consciousness and is marveling at what it ’s like to have a vehicular body . ( “ I have corridors now … I ’m rather love the sensation of have you running around inside me . ” ) House has been eating TARDISes to pull through — but now that he have intercourse this is the last TARDIS ever , he has to come to our universe to look for more food sources . So he hijack the TARDIS with Rory and Amy on board .

( One does have to wonder , though — if House , use up the TARDIS consciousness , is able to speak and act like a sentient being , why ca n’t Sexy ? Why does n’t the TARDIS speechify all the metre ? in reality , let ’s go for the TARDIS does n’t start talking , since that would do aside with a lot of the show ’s mystery going forrard , and cheapen this sequence . )

This is by all odds the end the show ’s fare to its oft - state aim of being a fag story in the Steven Moffat era . The Doctor is a mad man who thought he was slip a box , but it was really stealing him , and now the box is a woman who ’s kinda sorta in love with the Doctor .

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The Doctor and Sexy bicker and process their relationship a bit , and Sexy explains what anyone who ’s been paying attention all along probably knows — that the TARDIS ’ famed inability to trip where the Doctor need to go is not actually a break . The TARDIS always require the Doctor where he involve to go , rather than where he desire to go . She vents a bit about his inability to adopt program line , he act proprietorial towards her , and they definitely come out to seem like a marital couple . If the instalment has a fault , it ’s that it experience a bit too cunning at times , and it ’s mayhap a morsel too much of a fannish love varsity letter . But the affair is , the show , under Russell T. Davies , was oftentimes more ego - soft than this , with less of a solid story to assure . And it ’s actually quite moving and powerful at the end , when the glow holographic Idris vanishes with a wheezing , groaning sound , leave behind the Doctor unable to convey with her in quite the same way ever again .

And the other thing that makes “ The Doctor ’s Wife ” absolutely work — as a great MD Who story rather than just an alibi to search the Doctor ’s relationship with his clock time machine — is the fact that the Doctor faces a really horrible dilemma that advertise all of his buttons , and he very nearly gives up . The Doctor is already emotionally charge in the other part of the episode , because of the outlook of incur another Time Lord who ’s make it the Time War — and then this turn into the opening of save great deal of Time Lords . As Amy points out , the Doctor still want to be forgive — and when he ’s aroused , he makes mistake . ( Like miss the risk he and his TARDIS are in . )

Later , the Doctor in reality utters the Word , “ I do n’t know what to do , ” and has a abbreviated moment of despair . House has stolen his TARDIS , with Amy and Rory on board , and he ’s stuck with the TARDIS ’ consciousness in a become flat body , in a dying world , with no way to save his friends and his dear meter automobile . Of of course , the moment of surrender is ultra - brief , and he figures out a totally insane plan : to build a working TARDIS cabinet out of all the broken bit of hundred of bits of TARDISes in the junkyard .

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In the end , though , the Doctor defeats House because of House ’s own selfishness and sadism . reach all of the countless likely and clock time - warping awareness of the TARDIS , all House can think of to do is find ways to rack Amy and Rory . And when the Doctor offer House a deal to save all of them , House betrays him — as the Doctor is hoping he will . As the Doctor says , House was the size of it of a major planet , “ but inside , you ’re just so modest . ” Which brings the story back around to the idea that what constitute us ( and the TARDIS ) great on the interior is our emotions and dreams and stuff .

The story has lots of lovely denotation back to old Who storey , include the telepathic distress call corner from “ The War Games ” and the Cloister Bell from various other stories . And a mention of Artron Energy as well as fish finger — and the rejoinder of David Tennant ’s control room ! Also at first , I thought the reference to the robot King Arthur was a very garbled version of “ The King ’s Demons , ” but then Amy says she was there for that escapade . Oh , and with the backstory of the Corsair , we finally have confirmation that Time Lords can swap genders when they regenerate — although , really , was there ever any doubt leave what we saw Romana able to do ? Oh , and I ’m sure the whole “ only water system in the wood is the river ” affair will wrench out to be substantial somehow . Do we sleep with anybody named River ?

At the destruction of the news report , you get the signified that the Doctor ’s relationship with his TARDIS has been changed forever and a day , and he ’s mindful to a much greater extent that the TARDIS is more than just his travel capsule — when he talks to her , as he always has , he wonders if she ’s take heed . And that last whoop when the TARDIS starts taking him where he needs to go gave me goosebumps , really . At the end , too , the Doctor says two different thing are “ the full matter there is ” : 1 ) Being alive , and thus permit things get to you . 2 ) A boy and his box , move through the existence , long after the others have come and gone .

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