2:00 I just realized that the Toymaker has many more teeth than a normal human has. That´s an uncanny smile. But beside that I love the interactions between 14th and 15th, especially the hug at the end.
Dude, Gallifreyans are ready to get to work the moment they change. But yeah, he was still in his first 15 hours of regeneration, but yeah, it doesn't keep them down long.
1:40 I think the reason the Fifteenth Doctor throws the ball too hard to the Fourteenth Doctor is because he's in his post-regeneration/post-bigeneration phase where he's still physically and mentally adjusting to his new body and testing how strong it is, which makes sense when you look at previous Doctor's in their post-regeneration stories.
You i feel like the line "you did this" either refers to the toymaker forcing him to regenerate in genral or causing the bi-regeneration to occur seeing as a being like the toymaker can basically mess with time and space with just a snap of his fingers.
The first is true, not the second because of the events in the second special of the 50th anniversary. The Doctor and Donna traveled to the Edge of Creation and the Doctor made myths into reality by believing (and acting upon a myth he heard) there. Thus, making Bigeneration into a reality.
@@jaybrian9402 It could technically be both. It was the _Fourteenth_ Doctor that invoked Best of Three, thus the Toymaker _broke the rules_ by trying to force him to regenerate, since he was obligated to play the Third Game with _that specific incarnation_ (whereas the First Game was with a previous Doctor, who won with no loose ends). To compensate, the Cosmic Forces of Play decided the regeneration would spawn Fifteen _without_ getting rid of Fourteen.
It’s later discussed in “The Devil’s Chord” where 15 discusses how facing the Toymaker “split his soul in two”, hence the bigeneration. The foundations of fare play comprise of infinite possibilities, allowing almost anything to happen.
It's *The Monkey's Paw* of *Quantum Uncertainty* -- *Unintended Consequences.* Regeneration is a roll of The Dice, it's *A Game of Chance* -- throughout all the scenes with The Toymaker, there are always many, many *embedded games;* elsewhere, The Toymaker offered the following explanation as to WHY he is so fixated on Games, when he is *Functionally Immortal,* and *older than the (current) known universe,* with the reality-warping powers of A God (within the focus of his *immediate* concentration of *attention,* only) : " *Meaningless destruction* is as appetising as meaningless *creation* and *just* as unfulfilling... Until I found *distraction* in The World of *Games,* until I could throw off the *pretence* of *Purpose and Meaning,* until I too could be a prey to *Chance and Hazard* ..." -- that's *why* he makes himself subject to the arbitrary rules of whichever game he has challenged his opponents to play. As The Doctor points out, to cheat at any of these games is the one thing that He will *never* do, but the second half of that sentence is that before he makes any challenge, he will have already set The Rules in his favour every time -- and because he won't tell you what they are (until you break any of them), and he won't even tell you what kind of game it is that you both are actually *playing,* even, he gets off on people blundering headlong into their own destruction, based off false assumption -- which means that in order for him *not* to win every time, The Universe has to get creative in thwarting him in his (unfair) intention to trap you -- Much like Ruby's Snowstorms and the VHS White Noise, it's the *unforeseen randomness* and *chaos* that he didn't expect, didn't think of and didn't account for when he set the conditions for The Test and made the challenge to his opponent, whilst trying to Control The Games....
“I want the names of all those staff” I love Kate’s line. She’ll make sure those people aren’t forgotten and didn’t die in vain. More importantly their families will know they died defending the world
Something I love. These are 3 fairly powerful and intelligent quasi-god like entities. I can only imagine the shit that must be going through their heads. The Sheer amount of calculations for mass, density, trajectory, atmosphere, wind speed, gravity, temporal constant, wibbly-ness, smeg-o-rama, feck-off-o-nomics, and spite... ALL for a game of FUCKING Catch!!!! Also.... how long has it been in the shows 60 year run has the Doctor been able to be hugged by someone who truly understood the agony he has suffered...
A better resolution to the game would have been the doctors passing the ball back and forth between themselves while taunting the Toymaker - until suddenly neither we, nor the Toymaker know which Doctor has the ball. 14 feints, the toymaker reacts, but it's 15 that has the ball tossing it so that it smashes off the toymakers face (knocking out the tooth) and falls over the edge.
Thats the 2nd bloody time The Doctor just walks away from the key to The Master coming back. I know thats not much but thats a fuck load for The Doctor of all people.
Why bother binding the chest and hiding in a vault? If the Toymaker HAS to abide by the rules, he is banished from existence FOREVER. You can’t undo that. He lost, and his rule is banishment forever.
The person who picked up the gold tooth who hade the master in it. I think it's the Maestro and the litte boy we see in the Devils Chord is the Master who is forced to work with the Maestro. Dumb theory maybe but eh who know's
@@sumthingwikked4257also, it wasn't out of bounds until the Toymaker tipped it. If anything, it's his poor choice for sticking to the side with the sheer drop and no backing wall.
@@nicholasfarrell5981 I'm just going to point out that even the 14th Doctor said "won't" in relation to the possibility of the Toymaker cheating. But yes, can't, would probably be more accurate
Cool fact about that shot is that when the tooth is picked up Russell had the audio department get all of the previous Masters from Delgado to Dhawan their laughter and edit them together
This would have ending would have the previous incarnations like the first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh war twelfth fugitive and thirteenth alongside fourteenth and fifteenth battled against the toymaker in this climax showdown
I really wanted to like the 15th, but.. honestly.. I just can't. They botched most of his episodes, the character just feels much too off.. Suppose it's a personal preference. It took me some time to like the 11th doctor, I found him much too childish, but it eventually grew on me. 15th on the other hand, I don't think I will or can like.
1 Beat the toymaker in a game of logic and trickery. Here 14 and 15 beat him in first a game of chance, then a game of skill and agility. Both times they had to catch the toymaker in an area he falters at.
In 'The Family of Blood' we saw the Doctor calculate an entire chain of speeds and angles to prevent a piano falling on a baby They want us to believe he didn't have a game of catch in the bag? Idiotically written episode
