![]() She obsesses over it, which is an especially peculiar thing for Bill, supposedly the sharp one, to just now finally notice in her travels with the Doctor. One of the first things she takes note of is how the two can understand each other perfectly. At the other end of it? One of her coveted soldiers, a young man named Simon (Rohan Nedd). Running away, Bill falls down a hole (two weeks in a row) and finds herself face to face with a spear. Upon seeing the woman from the future, she screams a ferocious battle cry and goes after her. Bill stumbles across the Scottish lass Kar (Rebecca Benson) honoring dead relatives in a ceremony of smoke and fire. The argument for guarding it doesn’t even work particularly well here, given the way events have played out in recent weeks (when the Monks were invading, it barely seemed like an issue).īill goes one way to find her Roman soldiers and the Doctor and Nardole go another. Thankfully, between the end of this episode and the preview for next week’s, the vault nonsense seems over and done with. One imagines him being awakened from sleep and dragged through time, and indeed, one also wonders why he came along at all given that his primary concern once again is the vault. (Between this outing and “ Thin Ice,” mad props to season ten for the entertaining history lessons.) Beside the pair, Nardole is decked out in his Arthur Dent best - pajamas and a preposterously out of place robe. because Bill and the Doctor are bickering over who knows more about the lost Ninth Roman Legion, which famously disappeared from history without a trace. The unlikeliest TARDIS trio ever travel to Aberdeen, Scotland, circa second-century A.D. Her previous contribution was, in fact, the final classic series story, 1989’s “ Survival.” One thing I never really expected to write much about in this recap was “Survival,” because surely that 28-year-old script would have nothing in common with this new tale … and yet in some ways it does, not the least of which is its elliptical yet mythically epic style. ![]() Rona Munro, the writer of “The Eaters of Light,” holds a special distinction: She is now the first and only writer to have penned scripts for both the classic and the modern incarnations of Doctor Who. Davies and Steven Moffat get the most credit (as well as the most blame). Doctor Who is very much a writers’ show, even though the head writers like Russell T. Often in my recaps, I rely on the history of the writer while forming my thoughts and opinions of an episode.
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