Classic Doctor Who 13x05 "The Brain of Morbius" eps 3-4 full reaction
Added 2023-06-30 22:03:18 +0000 UTCSo sorry for all the cat interruptions! 🤣
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Re. Faces at the end. Until the timeless child arc in S12, I and a lot of other people just thought those other faces we saw were Morbius' previous incarnations. That's the good thing about that sequence, there's an implication of there being more to the Doctor than we know but it's left unclear and the fans are allowed to make up their own minds about what it all really meant. It just added to the inherent mystery that is a part of the Doctor's character and the feeling that we'll never truly know who he really is. What Chibnall did is the antithesis of this approach and added a lot of unnecessary backstory and robbed the Doctor of their mystery. We know too much about the Doctor now and the issue is, it's done nothing to impact the character or the show. It's just a load of empty and hollow additions to the lore.
Azmat Mahmood
2023-07-01 12:20:07 +0000 UTCSo yeah those faces. In real life they are actually the faces of people of the production team, within Doctor Who, at the time, they were intended to be previous incarnations of the Doctor before Hartnell. Without going into spoilers this was kind of retconned and a fan theory came about that they were the faces of Morbius. During the 90's when Who was off air there was a series of novels meant as a continuation of the show and, without going into too much detail, they put the faces as the doctor again (sort of) And then we got to Jodie's era and the Cyberman story where we again find out they do seem to be the faces of unknown incarnations of the Doctor. In fact the faces are briefly seen again during the montage that plays when 13 is trapped in the matrix and remembering her past incarnations.
Jade Ellis
2023-07-01 12:12:39 +0000 UTC
