Sunday marks the beginning of the end for series 12 of Doctor Who.
The season concludes with a two-part finale: “Ascension of the Cybermen” (Feb. 23) followed by “The Timeless Children” (March 1).
While the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) has already faced the Lone Cyberman of Captain Jack’s prophecy, it’s clear from the chapter titles that something bigger is coming.
“Episode nine … obviously sees the return of iconic monsters,” showrunner Chris Chibnall said in an interview with EW. “It’s the first time Jodie’s Doctor, the Thirteenth Doctor, has squared off against them.”
One of the most prolific Doctor Who villains, Cybermen have fought almost every incarnation of the titular Time Lord (with the exception of the Eighth [Paul McGann]).
Most recently, Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi met the original Mondasian Cybermen—organic humanoids that originated on Earth’s twin planet Mondas—at the end of season 10.
“We have both old and new designs of the Cybermen,” Chibnall explained. “There’s more than one Cyber-variant in the story. And it’s a big, space-spanning, spaceship-lasery, Cybermanny sci-fi story. Properly epic.”
It’s set, the exec producer revealed, in the aftermath of a Cyber war. A group of human refugees (including guest star Julie Graham) are on the run from a “zealous Cyberman” determined to hunt down and eliminate the very last of humanity.
Enter Team TARDIS.
The Doctor and fam in 1940s Punjab farmland (via BBC)
Chibnall, meanwhile, is more tight-lipped about the second half of this story.
“We’ve been playing out this mystery for a while now,” he told EW.
The Timeless Child was first mentioned in Whittaker’s second episode, then again when the Master returned at the beginning of this season.
Next month’s episode, “The Timeless Children” (plural!) “will pay off a lot of the strands that we’ve set running both last year and this year,” according to Chibnall. “I’m going to do classic British understatement here: It’s a relatively seismic episode for the Doctor, and for the show.
“You will get some answers,” he added, “but you will also be left with a whole load of new questions in true Doctor Who style.”
What can fans expect from the end to an otherwise mediocre series?
“It’s an emotional and narrative roller coaster—for the characters, for the audience. I think you’re going to need a very strong drink,” Chibnall warned.
The 65-minute finale (longer with BBC America ad breaks) is “big.”
“It’s action-packed, it’s very, very epic and very, very emotional, and there is a blistering performance from Jodie Whittaker in that final episode,” the writer said. “People, I think, are going to feel wrung out and possibly a little bit open-mouthed.”
I’d better start chilling can gin & tonics now.
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