‘Physician Who’ Surprises With Regeneration — [Spoiler] Is New Physician

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Doctor Who Season 2 finale “Reality War.”]

Heading into the Physician Who Season 2 finale, rumors abound a few regeneration. Often, we all know forward of time when one is coming, regardless that we don’t know the specifics (Jodie Whittaker‘s Physician regenerating into David Tennant‘s, and David Tennant’s then bigenerating to introduce Ncuti Gatwa‘s Physician, for instance). However this time, it’s a shock, and never solely does the Physician regenerate right into a very acquainted face, however he’s helped alongside the way in which by one other earlier iteration.

Within the penultimate episode, the Rani (Archie Panjabi and Anita Dobson, following a bigeneration) created the Want World — the place the Physician and companion Belinda (Varada Sethu) had been married, with a daughter, Poppy (from “House Infants”) — so the Physician would doubt and, by doing so, rip open the construction of actuality. Then, she might see beneath the place “the one who’s misplaced,” Omega (the primary Time Lord, the creator of the Time Lords, the best and most terrifying Time Lord of all), is hidden. The excellent news is thanks to assist from Anita (Steph de Whalley), it doesn’t take lengthy for the Physician and others to recollect the true world; she now works within the Time Resort and by opening doorways to it, actuality seeps by way of. (However is her boss who gave her someday to assist and stated to say howdy the Meep’s boss?)

Omega does return within the Season 2 finale, and on a regular basis he spent within the underverse has turned him right into a monstrous creature, one who desires to devour Time Lords, not create a complete new Gallifrey, just like the Rani desires. After he eats the Rani, Mrs. Flood shortly makes her escape. Ruby’s (Millie Gibson) job, in the meantime, is to get to Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King) and the child, the god of needs, and take aside this world. (She makes use of just a little one thing followers will acknowledge known as Mission Indigo, similar to Freema Agyeman‘s Martha did again in “Journey’s Finish” throughout Russell T Davies‘ first run as showrunner.) In doing so, nonetheless, likelihood is Poppy would now not exist, so that they’re put right into a Zero Room, which exists outdoors time and area, and will shield them. All of it appears to work, and all the pieces appears to be again because it ought to, solely Poppy quickly disappears because the Physician and Belinda are discussing their upcoming adventures, with, then with out her. Solely Ruby remembers her.

It takes her a little bit of convincing, however Ruby quickly will get the Physician on board with saving Poppy’s life, similar to he’d saved everybody else’s in some unspecified time in the future. With time shifted by one diploma, the one factor sturdy sufficient to vary actuality is the Physician himself. “I like this face,” he laments as soon as within the TARDIS. He was the most effective. “Male,” Jodie Whittaker’s Physician shortly corrects him. Sure, the Thirteenth Physician exhibits up — love! — as a result of trigger and impact is getting just a little out of order, she explains. He’s stunned it’s not the opposite man who’s at all times turning up, he admits. She was popped out of her timeline due to the time schism on the way in which, attributable to him. He’s going to be punching a ton of his regeneration vitality into the vortex to jolt it by one diploma. A life for a life. But when he ruptures the time vortex, it may well harm the entire of creation, she warns. She’s not going to cease him. She hugs him, then remarks that his face is totally stunning. But when he will get this improper, it may very well be the final, he says, with no likelihood of bigeneration both. (Spoilers, 13.)

“We by no means change,” she says. “All these faces, and we by no means actually change.” She advises him, “Don’t go together with worry, go together with that pretty smile.” He needs that they had longer. “We at all times want that,” she says. As she heads off to her outdated life, he tells her he loves her, and she or he says she ought to inform that to Yaz. She doesn’t, he says, however she is aware of. And with a goodbye, she’s gone.

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The Physician then does precisely as he deliberate, and it really works, solely, Poppy is Belinda’s daughter, and his companion had, on this new actuality, been telling him all alongside that she needed to get dwelling to her. The Physician spends a little bit of time with Belinda and Poppy earlier than leaving, having delay his regeneration by a bit, “I can’t have youngsters, but when I might, I want that she was precisely such as you,” he even tells Poppy. (The Physician and Rani reveal earlier that Time Lords are infertile.)

The Physician then heads into area to regenerate. “I don’t wish to do that alone,” he says, then walks to the doorways, opens them, and realizes he’s by no means alone, not with Pleasure (Nicola Coughlan‘s character was a star within the Christmas particular) shining brightly. “That’s the precisely the phrase,” he realizes. “This has been an absolute pleasure.” And with that, he regenerates into… Billie Piper?! “Oh, howdy,” she says with a smile. (Piper beforehand performed the Ninth Physician’s companion, Rose Tyler. Learn all about her right here.) Watch it beneath.

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