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owlThe theme of this series (including TCI) as it's all Ten) seems to have settled down to be "The Doctor will be clobbered by nemesis because it's hubris he's got."
Nemesis might just have been given a name: Torchwood.
We already know a few facts about it: It blew up the Sycorax ship using pirated alien technology, Jack is involved in the Cardiff branch, and it was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, to guard the British Empire against alien threats. Including the Doctor.
The Radio Times did a episode-by-episode summary of the series. The double-episode finale is to involve a Cyberman invasion of present-day Earth; the sort of scenario for which Torchwood was created. Also, the sort of scenario the Doctor walks into all the time. It can't be regeneration time again, because Tennant's signed on for the next series. I don't know if Billie has, though...
The Cybermen also appear in a mid-series double involving an alternative universe with Jackie and Pete Tyler. I'm guessing that this will tie in to the finale some way, similarly to The Long Game in the previous series. Torchwood is going to keep turning up like Bad Wolf did. Presumably the in-universe explanation is that they're looking for the Doctor (although where they've been for the previous 26 series remains unknown). We know more about Torchwood than we did about Bad Wolf at the same point in the last series—had anyone even noticed it by End of the World or Unquiet Dead? We know more about Torchwood than the Doctor. The effectiveness of Bad Wolf was the way it kept recurring without anyone knowing what it was. We didn't know any more than the characters. Who would have guessed Rose to be the Bad Wolf? Mostly she was being cast as Red Riding Hood.
The unknown is more frightening than the known, because it could be any of our worst imaginings, or something worse still. Torchwood isn't going to be able to work that the way Bad Wolf did. I wonder what the twist will be.
Nemesis might just have been given a name: Torchwood.
We already know a few facts about it: It blew up the Sycorax ship using pirated alien technology, Jack is involved in the Cardiff branch, and it was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, to guard the British Empire against alien threats. Including the Doctor.
The Radio Times did a episode-by-episode summary of the series. The double-episode finale is to involve a Cyberman invasion of present-day Earth; the sort of scenario for which Torchwood was created. Also, the sort of scenario the Doctor walks into all the time. It can't be regeneration time again, because Tennant's signed on for the next series. I don't know if Billie has, though...
The Cybermen also appear in a mid-series double involving an alternative universe with Jackie and Pete Tyler. I'm guessing that this will tie in to the finale some way, similarly to The Long Game in the previous series. Torchwood is going to keep turning up like Bad Wolf did. Presumably the in-universe explanation is that they're looking for the Doctor (although where they've been for the previous 26 series remains unknown). We know more about Torchwood than we did about Bad Wolf at the same point in the last series—had anyone even noticed it by End of the World or Unquiet Dead? We know more about Torchwood than the Doctor. The effectiveness of Bad Wolf was the way it kept recurring without anyone knowing what it was. We didn't know any more than the characters. Who would have guessed Rose to be the Bad Wolf? Mostly she was being cast as Red Riding Hood.
The unknown is more frightening than the known, because it could be any of our worst imaginings, or something worse still. Torchwood isn't going to be able to work that the way Bad Wolf did. I wonder what the twist will be.
