Doctor Who 13.4 "Village of the Angels"

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) takes care of the rogue angel in the TARDIS by twiddling together some cables and removing it.  However they arrive in a village, Medderton, which no surprises here, has weeping angels galore!  The townsfolk are searching for a missing girl, Peggy (Pauline Polivnick) and they find themselves in 1967.  They exit the TARDIS with an elderly couple attempting a call, who tell her about Peggy.  She sends Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) to help in the search as her Sonic is glowing.  Meanwhile, we see Claire (Annabel Scholey) who is undergoing psychic tests and experiments by a Professor Eustacius Jericho (Kevin McNally).  The Doctor manages to get in before the angels show up and surround the house.  She gets him to bolt all the doors and windows and sets up a rudimentary CCTV with the use of an old TV set.  In his basement she finds Claire has drawn her visions, including that of an angel.  Which she tears up but doesn't burn or anything so we know it's going to make another appearance.

Claire sees angel wings protruding from her body in the mirror and later also sees sand falling from her eyes which she brushes away.  Finally she tells the Doctor of this and how she's been turning into an angel.  She thinks there's one inside of her.  She leaves the Professor to watch the angels and he agrees as she goes inside Claire's mind.  Here the rogue angel tells her it's taken over Claire as the other angels are after it for its knowledge on The Division.  The Doctor was part of the Division too and it can tell her about her past.  But she's taken away before she can get anymore answers.  It won't release Claire until it's safe.  The Doctor destroys the angel in the picture as it forms back again with fire but then the angel becomes fiery.  Before being put out by the fire bucket.  She finds plans showing a secret tunnel they enter and try to get away.  Always blinking when they're not meant to.  Claire and the Professor escape but the Doctor doesn't.  The angels are an extraction squad for the Division. A revelation from the appearance of the Rogue Doctor when we found she was hiding from the Division. 

Yaz and Dan find themselves in 1901 and find Peggy.  Who shows them the edge of the village which is slowly disappearing into space.  The angels called it a "quantum displacement??"  They come to another part of the village where Peggy's aunt and uncle also appear but soon are crushed by the angels.  As they reach the boundary between 1901 and 1967, Peggy meets her older self.  She tells her what's been happening.  The Doctor also turns up and is surrounded by angels but she can't get out.  The rogue angel made a deal with the others and is safe now.  Peggy shows them a burial ground where the angels are trapped.  Showing how they possibly ended up on Earth.  The angels glow and the Doctor becomes one of them.  Ooh noo the Doctor a weeping angel.  Was the Doctor a weeping angel all along??  Did she really run from the Division and appears they were the ones who screwed with her memories.  Perhaps why we have the Rogue Doctor appearing just like the Rogue angel, but why doesn't she reveal more or can she not recall either.  

Bel (Thaddea Graham) lands on a planet where she sees Azure (Rochenda Sandall) taking the survivors of the Flux into the Passenger, which is a prison and disappearing with them.  She saves  Namaca (Blake Harrison) as she prevents from being taken by the Passenger and leaves a message behind for Vinder (Jacob Anderson) who later turns up to retrieve it.  So the lovers keep missing each other as the case.  Star crossed lovers indeed.

Doctor Who 1.3 "Once, Upon Time"

This one will be a confusing one for many people, a lot was happening but still just snippets of things we may, or may not, get answers to.  We met Bel (Thaddea Graham) on the search for someone she's missing, coming across Daleks whilst saying they're much better than the Flux.  As well as those the flying 'swarms' wiping out more humans as she can only watch.  She travels via a ship to other planets, so they still exist and the question would have been why weren't those wiped out by the Flux, if it was destroying everything in its path.  She also comes across Cybermen and they invade her ship.  As she takes them out and has a Q&A with one of them before she shoots it.  A treatise on love could have ensued when the Cyberman says 'love isn't a mission, it's an emotion and an emotion can't be a mission.'  Obviously she was going to prove him wrong.  Also apparent she was looking for Vinder.

As the Doctor jumps into time, fragmented and broken apart, in an attempt to prevent her friends from having 'pure' time pumped into them by Swarm the Doctor takes the place of the last Mouri which sends her into various moments of her companion's lives, as well as her own.  She needs Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) in their own timelines as it's the best place for them to hide.  Yaz experiencing an encounter with a Weeping Angel who has found its way into her sister's video game.  With the Doctor appearing and reappearing, telling her not to blink and Yaz finally unplugging the game to get rid of it.  The Doctor also appears as a policewoman with Yaz who can see an angel in the car mirror.  Whilst Dan meets with Diane who asks him why he didn't turn up to their 'date.'  Vinder (Jacob Anderson) also experiences his past when he was assigned to the Grand Serpent and whistle blowed on him for his actions.  Yaz being his commander and finally he was stuck out in the observation post for his troubles.  He sends a message to his loved one, we see is Bel at the end, who also sends him one saying she's carrying their unborn child. 

In the meantime, Yaz, Vinder and Dan are Temporal Agents having the Doctor as their leader, part of Division and she is suffering from time haze.  The Doctor uses the Passenger in an attempt to fool Swarm and Azure and they use the same when they show that Diane has been a part of them too.  The Doctor promises she will get her back.  Vinder is left on his planet and his initial reaction to the TARDIS isn't the usual "bigger on the inside" bit, so he's familiar with it, in what way?  The Doctor comes across moments from her own timeline too and the Fugitive Doctor from her past again.  She's desperately looking for answers too and begs the Mouri for one more moment and one more answer.  They refuse.  She ends up with an old woman, Awsok who appears to be in charge of everything, ie the universe.  She wasn't very helpful either in that she says the Doctor is always saving everyone.

The Doctor's "the angel has the TARDIS" seemingly an allusion to "the angel has the phonebox" from the ep Blink.  

Death Walker 1.5 "Thought Form Entity"

Conducting another investigation see if locations have changed and if they affect him differently psychologically.  

Bobby Mackey's Music World  Bobby saw something move towards the door and the back door opened.  He walked to the stage and stood there and saw something moving that resembled a lady.  He was pondering whether he should buy it or not.  Probably appealing to him to buy the place.  It's become famous and the history fascinates Nick.  Bobby doesn't want to be anywhere else.  Nick feels there's not enough time for him to unravel things.  Nick came back to face his own fears.  His experiences in the past he felt immature and didn't know what was happening.  He says you have to walk in someone's shoes to know what they're feeling.  Plenty didn't know about this location and get to the core of what's happening here.  Nick vowed not to return when he was on GA and now he has evolved into a better investigator that has made him question the paranormal differently.

1896 Pearl Brian's body was found decapitated near the road.  Murdered by her boyfriend Scott Jackson, Alonzo Walling helped him carry out the abortion.  20th March 1897, they were both executed.  Why is this the most haunted nightclub in America?  After the Civil War was known as Gallows Gap and Finchtown, Kentucky, due to the lynchings.  Several reported seeing ghosts due to the accident at the Licking Bridge.  The slaughterhouse stood nearby and a distillery where Bobby Mackey's is now.  Tunnels pumped water into the building for distilling.  One tunnel is known as Hell's Gate.  Was a casino, speakeasy and a nightclub was built in the '20's.  Named the Primrose Club when Buck Brady bought it.  The mob changed name to The Latin Quarter.  Many murders took place here. The Hardrock Cafe opened in 1970's was closed in 1977.  Bought by Bobby.  Nick recalls the ball footage he caught on Paranormal Lockdown.   He can't explain what it is, whether it was from the energy of voices or manifestation of shadow figures.  Could it take on other forms?  He doesn't know.  

He asks for the apparition to walk through the hallway.  Hears footsteps.  Nick gets goosebumps.  Feels dizzy.  Nick feels the energy's shifted and the environment's changed.  Some sort of energy manifesting from all their stories.  It's scary.  There are things they don't fully understand, how they manifest and take shape, communicate in its own way.  If they keep interjecting into this environment but it's really not it.  That's the scary part.  He can hear walking.  Matt says he was fixing the pipes and he felt something lifted him and threw him back.  People have been scratched, pushed, pulled. Footsteps upstairs.  

"Two worlds colliding and twisting."  Energy changes Nick feels nervous of being in the darkness.  His intuition tells hims something doesn't feel right.  Footsteps towards the well.  Feels an energy there.  Runs the app through the speaker with phonetic words.  "Hail??"  

"Are they gone yet??"  'just like me. 'They scare us'.  "He stays in darkness."  "Yes." 

He asks to say his name.  "Nick" is heard.  There's lots of convo.  "Existence, fills resistance. See it."

"I'll resist."  Twice.  Nick hears knocking.  "Just voices."

"Look out Nick."

"No...

"I won't say anything...it looks...say no internet..."  I'm sure I heard Internet.  

Nick asks it to show yourself.   "I'm here."  Mentions Nick's family. 

The positive or negative, can manifest into either.  Mentions ball of energy again on the static night vision camera which was recorded for 8 minutes.  Hears a growl.  He feels connected which keeps bringing him back.

Is it hiding there?  Entity goes back to the darkest places, waits, builds energy find who comes here and takes their energy to scare them.  Nick's looking for it.  Alone in the dark.  He's going to wait for the energy.  Well room.  He tells it to use his energy. entity moving in building for a long time, fear of being alone.  "With the history, energy, his mind likes to take the energy and use thoughts and project fear and feed off it."

He has an "overwhelming feeling" makes him feel uneasy cos it could be here.  Hears it moving.  The first time he came he was scared and feared what was happening but coming back, researching, he "accepts what the entity is now, manifested into its own thing here and can understand how to document further, feeding off energy, thoughts projecting back, discover something new beyond the scope of the paranormal.  To learn instead of being afraid of it."  Use the energy from his min, psyche and grows powerful becomes something else whenever he comes back.  The place keeps drawing him back.  He met Matt and Bobby and "pulling back the history of locations and learning what's happening at the core of all the weird things."  Still asking questions from 10 years ago.  "Think harder, think something beyond dying, giving hope knowing when they die energy's lingering in different place or locations can create other energy not familiar with yet."

Virginia City mine discovered.  Miners, gunslingers, writers, businessmen came to Virginia City.  Where The Washoe Club was opened, rebuilt 1976.  Two secret exits used by those not wanting to be seen.  The bodies of dead miners would be stored in the crypt at the back of the club.  1873 reported a nitro explosion that killed people behind the club.  The Saloon remains open today.  He doesn't have a definitive answer who or what tried to communicate with him from the other side.  Nick mentions his journey again.  The walls could tell them a story and "it ripple effects outwards."  Looking into deaths and darkness.  There's nowhere to say who's haunting what.  You'd make that interaction.  If it's negative then can lead to attachments.  He gets scared by a dummy.

Nick sees if the thought form entity will arise and communicate.  Try experiment.  In minds communicate to whatever is here, picture person, an entity, draw person into the room.  Picture stairs, rooms and ask in your mind to come to ballroom.  

Geoport: voice heard:  "hallway."  Something moves??  "Exist".  

Nick is trying to figure out what happens when you die.  "What do you see??"  How many people are here? Nick asks "6, 7,8."

Sure I hear resistance?? or existence?? again here as well.

At the "two locations I wanted to find answers about the other side."  He's not alone something's different now.  Decade ago he saw how locations affected him. He came back to see how people overtime change a location, same foundations, walls stories but he's changed.  He leaves with more questions.  "This is only the beginning."  

"LIfe gives you exactly what you need to awaken." - T Scott McLeod.

"People living deeply have no fear of death." - Anais Nin

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe Look in terms of energy, frequency and vibration - Nikola Tesla 

What I liked about this season 1 was how Nick started searching from ep 1, coming to thought forms, stone tape theory, other people hauntings in other times and how each location led to these different things all culminating into Bobby Mackey's and the Washoe Club where he started out.  How the energy changes from location to location, even if the two locations are in the same vicinity and how he's into researching more and not just showing the location is haunted.  Which we already know.  Wonder why the spirits don't answer when he asks about the other side: where they are, what they are??  Have they been warned off not to give anything away.  As it's one way of finding out what is on the other side, afterlife etc.  But even if answers can/would be given how do we comprehend that.  How do we know to believe them or are they toying or tricking us into believing or sharing what we want to know.  Wishful thinking.   Can people influence the haunting of a location of enough people believe and end up causing some other entity to come in and take it over.  Can they lead to a place, not previously haunted, becoming haunted by spreading stories in the same way?  No answers thus far...

Doctor Who 13.1 "The Halloween Apocalypse"

Series 13 kicks off with the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and Yaz (Mandip Gill) in trouble as they are suspended from some sort of big stick (which resembles a broomstick later on) over acid as a planet is about to be destroyed.  Leading the Doctor to get them out of there, as usual.  As they journey through the planet in search of the TARDIS, still handcuffed to the stick, as the Doctor's command of "release" isn't working.  The stick breaks into two and that's when they appear to be riding a broomstick.  Some  Hallowe'en allusion.  Though this was rather a Hallowe'en episode with the Swarm (Sam Spruell) and his sister introduced here in their garb.  Who will dress like them next Hallowe'en.  

As the Doctor has a mind recharge she is whisked away to a far off place where Swarm torments her with "trick or treat."  Just to firmly set what day it was in out minds, if we didn't already know.  The Doctor doesn't recall meeting him before but seems to have had a part in his imprisonment.  Harkback to the Doctor not having all her memories in The Timeless Child, that we didn't get a conclusion to.  Yaz mentions trick or treat later on too.

We see two women about to check the prison security where Swarm is being held before he's able to break free and zap one.  Taking in her particles.  In Antarctica a couple receive a warning but the woman smashes the device.  She doesn't want to be contacted as they were promised they wouldn't be.  Also on the observation outpost Vinder (Jacob Anderson) sees the destruction of the Flux firsthand and has to evacuate in a pod, as the Flux destroys everything in its path.  The Doctor calls it a hurricane. 

The potential new companion, meanwhile, Dan Lewis (John Bishop) is leading the tour of a Liverpool museum until he's interrupted by Diane and told he has to leave.  They arrange a date/not a date for later which we know he's going to stand her up for.  At the food bank he gives away some candy and then he rejects the offer of some soup for his hard work.  This he later regrets as he has nothing to eat at home.  One companion who wants to genuinely help people and is finding it to hard to make ends meet.  After a few Hallowe'en callers he is abducted by one, a dog, who he says has a really life-like costume.  He is a canine Karvanista (Craige Els) and he cages Dan before taking him away to his ship.  Yaz and the Doctor also arrive as they've followed the trail here.  Inside the Doctor finds a laptop which can't be Dan's and as she finds out a fleet of ships are approaching Earth, the laptop blows up.  As they escape in the nick, the house is shrunk.  Here they also meet Clare (Annabel Scholey) who says she's from the future, past, but they will meet again.  Clare is followed by a Weeping Angel and knows not to blink, however she keeps doing this until finally she is no more.

The Doctor lands the TARDIS on the ship, before Yaz can get what's troubling the Doctor out of her.  She goes after Karvanista as Yaz rescues Dan.  Not before they banter about Sheffield and Dan putting down Yorkshire.  Karvanista reveals he was rescuing Dan and protecting him as his species, the Lupari are here to rescue Earth and each one of them has a human to protect and take off the planet.  The Doctor asking what the humans have got to say about that.  He calls it a "species bonding arrangement."  Swarm contacts the Doctor again and this time he's seen to be part of the Flux as his destruction is similar.  Seems the Doctor wasn't so concerned about all the other planets being destroyed and was only interested in protecting Earth.  

The Doctor orders the Lupari ships into a formation that forms over Earth and acts as a forcefield saving it from the Flux.  Although that could be in vain as the Sontarans see it as an opportunity to take it over with maximum destruction.  The woman in the Antarctic is Swarm's sister, Azure (Rochenda Sandall) whom he's missed.  As well as tunnels being dug under Liverpool in the nineteenth century.  This is presumably where Diane (Nadia Albina) ends up, as she's forcibly 'dragged' into the building she was supposed to be meeting Dan outside.  Everything is thrown together into this one episode, with snippets of characters we will probably see throughout the six episode arc.  Hopefully it will all make sense...

Death Walker 1.4 "Masonic Mysteries"

Nick: the history and buildings have nothing to do with the energy at this location, there's something missing about the land that holds the answers.

The Octagon Hall, Kentucky.  Masons, Jeffrey says aren't a secret society and are needed to identify other masons.  The signs they use.  He can only speak of his own experiences.  Have had objects being moved, disembodied voices. Unexplained shadows.  They've gotten names from EVPs and psychics.  A little girl Abbey Winter-Smith, her father Charles, was one of the Masters of the Lodge.  There's a grave in the cemetery.  She likes to play with people.  He's heard her.  Charles is curious about the people.  Nick: "why do they bring so much energy to this location, different from other locations."  Ref erring to ley lines and the caves lie between the two locations, 90 minutes apart.  Abbey has toys from people.  'Addy' was written on the grave and she died at 16.  But they see/hear her as 6-8 years old.  Probably the time she was more comfortable at.  

"Masonic lodges have been built on ley lines, energy epicentres.  Possible many entities/impressions do this cos of the way the energy travels."   Nick has goosebumps.  He hears a man's disembodied voice before he begins investigating.  He uses the Geoport.  He asks if they know who he is.  "Yes, no, yes."  This amazes him.  He uses the Panabox again.  "Masons" is heard and "alive or alright" when he asks if it's okay to be here.  Nick asks how he finds the answers he's looking for.  He's on a journey.  How can he get to the dimensions on the other side.  "Come through" I heard.  He asks if they exist or is he talking to himself.  Something to do with the energy, environment, position of house or the tragedy of what happened here.  Nick hears old music upstairs.  Perhaps they're playing the music in their reality but he can hear it for some reason.  

He climbs into the attic and sees a shadow, some sort of mass near the chair.  A shadow figure.   He feels drained.  Nick thinks it's 'a doorway to some other place in time/era and things get in or out when that door is opened.  An energetic doorway.'  They're bumping into furniture.  "They're open with their minds when something happens we're awake to it."  Nick hears a train.  You can actually hear it and Bear talked about a ghost train they photographed and this isn't a passenger line but it had people inside and walking around.  Nick's waiting for a UFO.  Nick hears a bell, it could be the ball with the bell inside; placed where Abbey's toys are.  I hear "behind you" when Nick asks if she moved the ball.  

"Yes" comes through when he asks if Abbey is here.  "First father" when he asks if he's her father.  "Try to contact me" is heard on the Panabox.  A girl's voice comes through "precisely."  I heard that too.  "Please help," I heard.  Melting pot where things are coming here.  He's certain that "things are coming in and out of their reality.  It feels off but is also peaceful too.  Everything coexisting.  Things that we don't have all the answers for, the unexplainable, things living through this reality...something's happening here."

"Spirits travel from one location to the next and never know where it's coming through.  Like abbey and her father.  Like people crossing paths with each other.  So much history, layers, fascinating." He loves this location, energetic so many mysteries.  he gets goosebumps.  The temperature drops.  He talks respectfully about the place and he feels they thanked him. 

Morrison Lodge, Kentucky.  This location dates back to 1823 when it was chartered by The grand Lodge of Kentucky.

Deborah tells Nick about Mary Elizabeth, the owner's little girl, her dress caught on fire in the kitchen.  Took her seven days to die.  She's been seen waking around.  In 2002 work was done in the basement and they found an entrance to the tunnels.   They're still looking for the second basement.  Nick: "Cryptids, UFOs, paranormal, all different emotions of people dying here etc.  These two locations bringing about energy that are different to other locations."  Nick hears footsteps, feet being dragged.  Debra and John spoke of doorways and dimensions to the other side.  Asks if they know who he is.  I hear "a little bit."  Then something like "I died here."??  he asks if there are any Confederate soldiers hiding.  Or Union soldiers "they are?" is heard.

As this building burned down in 1913 and rebuilt, Nick feels it's the land that is haunted and not the building itself.  Which surely must have something to do with the ley lines.  The fact that both locations are on these ley lines suggests they do have an influence on the hauntings and what is going on there.  Some outside presence which is allowing the hauntings to take place, whether it be a doorway or portal.  

Nick: "So much mystery surrounding the two locations and they wont work it out in one night. Octagon hall and Morrison Lodge he can leave with a new perspective.  The spirits travelling from location to location is true since he heard his name in various locations.  But the one that significantly proves this point is when he went to Hinsdale House and then the recording he did in his basement of his own house in an episode of Paranormal Lockdown that told him to head to Pontefract.  

Doctor Who 13.2 "War of the Sontarans"

Ending up during the Crimean War where the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker)  Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) meet Mary Seacole (Sara Powell) who has opened The British Hotel (said enough times) in this episode who catches the Doctor pilfering through a dead soldier's pockets.  At least Mary thinks she is.  As they arrive at the Hotel, Dan and Yaz disappear.  Dan ends up in Liverpool being chased by Sontarans who have taken it over and the entire world.  As they are also fighting the British in the Crimean War.  Russia isn't part of the map the Lt General has, it's now known as Sontara and this includes China too.  Though he and Mary do recall Russia from somewhere before.  Mary tells the Doctor about the wounded Sontaran she nursed though he healed himself.  He's disgruntled as death was a far more fitting honour for him.  The Doctor tricks him into going back to his leader so he can parley with the Doctor.  As these Sontarans don't know the Doctor has undergone regeneration.  Thus giving her time to follow him to their base, along with Mary.

A man wakes up on another world and is taken by a Triangular Lantern asking "can you repair?"  It's the Temple of Atropos on a planet known as Time and the Mouri are in need of repair.  But he doesn't know what to do.  As Dan is chased by Sontarans into an alley since he's evaded the curfew, they're conked on the neck by his parents using a wok.  They tell him the world is being taken over and his mother adds that Liverpool was taken over first.  They have ships at the docks.  Dan infiltrates the docks and a ship and films everything for the Doctor.  Also witnessing the Sontarans brutally executing 'spies.'

The Doctor leaves Mary in their concealed base to take notes and observe as she meets for parley.  Admitting to the Sontaran leader, Skaak (Jonathan Watson) that she is the Doctor.  Who (!) was also President of Gallifrey* once. She wants them to leave and not engage in the war, however the Lt General has other plans, as he orders her removal from the scene.  Thus engaging in a bloody battle he has no chance of winning.  Realizing he can't, he asks the Doctor for help.  She explains to them who the Sontarans are and what they need to do to make them retreat.  I.e exhaust their supplies of air and food as they need to rest for 7.5 minutes as they can't remain in earth's air for so long.  That's why they wear armour.  The Doctor also steals onto one of their ships with Mary and makes contact with Dan who tells her about Liverpool and the footage.

The Sontarans plan on using the Flux chaos to make Earth a Sontaran outpost with the use of a temporal time attack.  Or as Dan asks a 'tempora' attack.  Yaz meets Vinder (Jacob Anderson) who tells her about the temple and the repair.  However, Swarm and his cronies, Azure and the Passenger also arrive at the Temple with nefarious intent and use Yaz to repair the Temple.  As the Doctor gets the TARDIS back also which takes them to the Temple.  

With the Lt General actually destroying the ships by planting gunpowder outside of them and igniting them, the Doctor once again questioning why she helps humanity and that they were retreating.  However they would only return so whatever happened was inevitable and this wouldn't have stopped them killing.  Also she herself explained that's all they've been cloned for.  Mary, for one, being thankful that the Doctor does save humanity. 

Atropos was one of the three Moirai, who were goddesses of destiny and fate.  Atropos was the eldest of the Three Fates and she was the one who selected how mortals would die.  She was the one who would cut their threads.  (Atropos as seen in the Supernatural ep My Heart Will Go On.)   But generally she is familiar as I kept annoying everyone by mentioning who she is, ha. 

*The Doctor was President in The Invasion of Time arc with Tom Baker (1978) in the episode The Deadly Assassin.  The Presidency was also alluded to in episodes with Doctors 5,6 and 7.  The Invasion of Time arc also involved the Sontarans.  So very relevant here.