The ruins became infested with Kaled mutants without their casings. ( TV: Twice Upon a Time)Įventually, the "good" Dalek Rusty came to the ruins of Villengard's weapons factories, where he set himself up inside a tower to fight off other Daleks seeking to destroy him. The Doctor's TARDIS leaves Villengard, twice. When the Eleventh Doctor set a test to verify Amy's identity so that she could unlock his message a thousand years later, one of the possible questions was 'Where are sonic blasters made?'. ( COMIC: The Whole Thing's Bananas) The Ninth Doctor used this event as a justification for why Jack Harkness should carry a banana instead of a sonic blaster. Using a molecular fruit bomb, the Doctor transformed the factories into palm trees, creating a banana grove.
In the last months of the Last Great Time War, the War Doctor enlisted the help of Dorium Maldovar to help him destroy the thirteen weapons factories of Villengard before the Dalek Fleet arrived to take control of them. ( TV: Twice Upon a Time)īoth Jack Harkness ( TV: The Doctor Dances) and River Song had weapons from Villengard. ( TV: The Doctor Dances) It had a moon in its orbit, though by the time the First and Twelfth Doctors alongside Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart and the glass avatar of Bill Potts visited, it had been partially destroyed. ( TV: Twice Upon a Time) Sonic blasters were produced there in the 51st century. Its weapons factories were known as the "Nightmare of the Seven Galaxies". At times it seems to be looking for this, but the show doesn't have the determination to go for it.Villengard was a planet located at the centre of the universe. More could have been made of the two Doctors being there - more could have been done to engage that reflective tone, and to bring it round to be a conclusion and decision to start afresh. The use of the WWI setting and famous moment is corny, the references/connections to other characters are clunky as usual, but what bothered me more was the way that themes were not delivered on as they could have been. This weakness meant the more important moments felt fake, or at very least unearned. Returns and references for many characters just felt like they were throwing things at the screen, not that the story made sense to have them all. As a story there isn't really a pace to it, and I didn't find myself held by it as it unfolded.
Bradley's Doctor isn't used particularly well at all there is a novelty of seeing him but mostly his character is not great - which is a fairly poor situation if you are going to bring the original Doctor back. Capaldi deserves a stronger bow out than this he gets his moment on screen but the episode itself doesn't build up as well as previous exits have. Any time it tries to do one, it seems overly conscious not to move too far from the other the end result is something that is very middle-of-the-road and lacks conviction in what it is doing. It knows it has to be 'important' but at the same time it also kind of knows that it should be entertaining too. The plot sees time frozen, but it is the tone that seems the most awkwardly stuck between two stools. Lots on offer, so it is frustrating that it doesn't really hit many high notes as it goes. This is one of the many positive things that this special held out a final outing for Capaldi, a final appearance for Mackie (somehow), and a regeneration into a new Doctor.
Twice upon a Time is the title of this episode, which sees a nice bit of casting by drawing David Bradley from the depiction of the actor William Hartnell, to here play the character he was most famous for (while Bradley himself is more famous for Game of Thrones now).
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