Graham agrees, and they confirm that Ashad has activated the dormant soldiers.Ashad tells his soldiers to awaken and the ascension shall begin. What terrors lie hiding in the depths of space, and what is Ko Sharmus? Running parallel to the main plot of the Cybermen’s ascension was the seemingly disconnected story strands that featured the life of an Irish Garda named Brendan. “We never give up.” The pluck is tangible next to the fatalism that surrounds them. Chris Chibnall pulled out all the stops this week and gave us a gripping, scary and electrifying Cyberman story entwined with the tale of a mysterious man who cannot die. From there on, it is, for the most part, a fun, classic Doctor Who, with doomed spaceships and advancing Cybermen abounding. They find dormant Cyberman and Ravio realizes that the carrier was bringing Cybermen soldiers to the front. Will they make it out alive? The Cybermen and their drones continue firing, and Ravio orders Graham and Yasmin inside for expedited takeoff. Graham monitors the pods and warns that Ashad has awakened the soldiers. Because we had almost forgotten about her with everything else going on, will we be meeting Doctor Ruth again? Fingers crossed for a smooth landing…. The newly pimped-up Cybermen are a rowdier bunch than we have seen before.

Lies are exposed, truths are revealed, battles are fought, and for the Doctor — trapped and alone — nothing will ever be the same again.

Part of me was expecting a Dalek reveal at the end of the episode in the same vein as “Army of Ghosts” / “Doomsday”, although the Master’s reappearance was far more satisfying as it brought with it the promise of answers. This guy was never “finished”, from his face to his emotional suppression.

The Doctor wonders what he means by "beyond", and Ashad says that their death of everything is within him. Ko Shamus says that he's never seen it before through the Boundary.The Cybermen break through the doors.The Master comes through the Boundary and tells the Doctor to be afraid because everything is going to change.

They thank him for his service and say that Brendan won't remember, and activate the device. Hot on the heels of the Lone Cyberman, the Doctor and her friends find themselves in the far-future amongst the ashes of the Great CyberWar, where the last remnants of humanity and the Cybermen continue to battle towards extinction. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. After his stunning debut as Ashad the Lone Cyberman in “The Haunting of Villa Diodati”, Patrick O’ Kane continued to radiate evil and menace as he stomped his way across every scene he was in.

The moment where he faced off against the Doctor in hologram form was brilliant and I would love it if he became the ‘Davros’ of the Cybermen.

But in the face of such a relentless enemy, has she put her best friends at risk? Where to begin? Ravio launches the Gravraft departs.The Doctor sees the Gravraft fly off. Yasmin assures him that they'll find him, while Ravio argues with Yedlarmi that they make it to Ko Sharmus and the Boundary if they don't push the engines. And the desperation of the survivors is horribly palpable. The Doctor used to carry Jelly Babies.

He then aims his wrist gun at Ethan and wonders if he should let him live to speak of his power and the deaths of his comrades. Yasmin figures that there must be something they can do, and Ravio says that they have to conserve power. Despite knowing of Jack's previous warning of the lone Cyberman, the Doctor extracts the Cyberium from Percy and under threat gives it to Ashad, who returns to the future. It has been about two seasons since we had the Doctor in a desperate battle to defend humans from Cybermen. Or as humans. Change ). He asks why Brendan wants to be a guard, and Brendan says that he wants to make a difference. Synopsis: The aftermath of the Great CyberWar. A drone chases him and the Doctor yells at him not to run but he does anyway. The Doctor reminds Ashad that he used to be human once, and Ashad says that when the Cyber Empire arrived he was a willing recruit. Will Ryan and Yaz ever get it on? He was ginger, which has been a long-term ambition of the Doctor. More drones open fire killing Fusskle and a woman that goes to rescue him.Feekat stares at the dead Fusskle, and the Doctor tells the humans to run. Spaceships! The supporting cast were top-notch, as always, particularly Julie Graham who did a great job at portraying one of the last women left alive. Ko Sharmus has the Doctor step forward, saying that the Boundary is activated by proximity. Yasmin has him open a control channel to Graham and Ravio, telling them to head back to the control deck. The Cybermen have wiped out the majority of the human race, She sonics the area and confirms that there are seven humans in the settlement below.In the settlement, Ravio tells Feekat that it will several days to make repairs. ( Log Out /  The thief draws a gun and orders him to go the edge of the cliff. Me admires his photo in the paper, and she and Patrick both stare at their adopted son.Grahm discovers that they're still alive but the ship is in critical condition. The group reach the control deck and Yedlarmi confirms that it has enough power that they can use it as a settlement ship. ... Ryan (Tosin Cole). But, annoyingly, it looks as if we may be in for another significant gap. There is advanced equipment there, and the two men handcuff him to a chair and attach electrodes to his head. Yasmin points out that they don't have any other options, and insists that they're going to keep the humans safe, find the Doctor, and take the Cybermen down. Doctor Who: episode-by-episode Doctor Who Doctor Who recap: series 38, episode nine – Ascension of the Cybermen From spaceships to Cybermen, there’s plenty of … Story. Gone are the slow, raspy advances, in favour of a fast-moving, laser-happy battle force. (There’s no sign of her in the trailer for next week’s episode.) And when the Doctor chides him about “hating his own existence”, his anger and hatred being human emotions, it barely touches a (modified) nerve. With that, the hologram disappears.Brendan chases a thief to a cliff edge and advises him to surrender. The Doctor tells him that he's mistaken and lands the ship nearby.Graham and the others explore the dormant ship, and Graham keeps pointing out that they're alive because of them. Doctor Who review, Ascension of the Cybermen: An expansive, ambitious and absurd episode.
2) - "Hidden Human History". They raise their son, watching as he goes to school, and when he's sick Meg says that she'll call the Doctor.The Doctor and her companions reach the coordinates that Shelley gave them, and the Doctor warns them that they're in the future in the aftermath of the Cyberwars. But is he also the Timeless Child? Cockneywatch: Graham actually calls someone “cockle”. Graham spots a docking bay, and Ravio warns that they don't have enough power. He was captured and sent for upgrade, and managed to get away. Which, more than likely, is the point. It’s big finale time, in the feature-length special The Timeless Children. The Doctor tells them to get everyone to hide and not run.Graham sets up the Doctor's neural inhibitors and tells Ethan that they hope to activate the Cybermen's sensors so that they sense what's been done to them. Starting off rather innocuously, the plot soon saw Brendan revealed as immortal (yet aging) before a truly brain-scrambling moment where his father and mentor (both un-aged) stuck him in some machine to wipe his memories. The Doctor tells him that there is no glory in being a Cyberman, and Ashad hates himself because of the emotions that drive him.Ashad admits that the Doctor is correct, and says that the Cyberium has distilled his purpose. Brendan screams in pain.The carrier ship emerges from the warp vortex, and Yasmin and Bescot try to signal the others.

He was denied ascension and hid in the shadows, ashamed. We are in a long game. Others rise anew. Cinematic in scope and tone, “Ascension of the Cybermen” was filled with tension and suspense throughout whilst the season’s central mysteries bubbled beneath the surface.
( Log Out /  Ravio says that their escape craft crashed and she's unable to repair. Ashad sees the companions and the Cybermen open fire on them. Although expecting this episode to match up to those episodes would be kind of unfair. The episode set the scene for the finale perfectly, creating a genuine sense of unease for both the Doctor and her companions as it feels like the safety net has been pulled away and anything could happen in the next episode.

Team Tardis are punching at the top of their game ... Ethan (Matt Carver) and Graham (Bradley Walsh). In fact, all of Team Tardis are at the top of their game right now – even Ryan seems momentarily over his wobble about the space-time lifestyle.

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