By Steven Moffat
“Upload
the mind. Upgrade the body.”
The
series 8 Finale is here and part one Dark Water was the one that would reveal
who Missy is. Oh boy and did it. I’m still getting my mind around it. Even though who she ended up as was one of
the three I had guessed it would be I just didn’t think Steven Moffat would go
in that direction. But he did and now we
know who Missy is and that sets up a whole lot of speculation until we see Death
in Heaven this Saturday.
Dark
Water starts out with Clara talking to Danny on the phone and she starts to
explain things to Danny and more or less tells him that she loves him. This results in Danny Pink getting hit by a
car and killed. Yep Danny Pink is dead
and it is because he did not look when crossing the road as that revelation in
their relationship startled him into making that mistake. With Danny now dead Clara tries to blackmail
The Doctor into going back in time and to save Danny. This does not work as The Doctor tricked
Clara. He decides to forgive her and
decides to help her by trying to find Danny in the afterlife.
What
they end up finding when they arrive is much more than they expected. They find
lots of dead bodies in Dark Water which shows through non organic material to
reveal a skeleton. These end up being
Cybermen and there are tons of them all asleep in their tombs. Also in this Nethersphere is Danny Pink or so
we think as he is actually in a Matrix type device. It appears that the soul of
the dead are trapped in this device and then sent to the body of a
Cyberman. This tips The Doctor off that
Missy is in fact a Time Lord or to be precise a certain Time Lord enemy of The
Doctor. Missy turns out to be short for
Mistress and tells The Doctor that she can’t keep calling herself The Master
anymore. So the big reveal is that Missy
is in fact The Master. If you had that prediction
congratulations but I don’t believe you if you did say it as most everyone said
that she would be The Rani.
I
don’t know if I’m ok with what happened to The Master. After watching Dark Water it took me a while
to wrap my head around what just happened. There was quite a bit going on in the first
part of the finale that I had to watch it again for fear of missing
something. But the thing that sticks out
is that The Master is now female. I
guess I’m ok with it as it was a good twist and the reaction conveyed by Peter
Capaldi made it that more believable and really sold the whole reveal for
me. I guess it was pretty ballsy for
Steven Moffat to do this as he could have just made Missy The Rani or had her
be an evil Romana. Still it was mind
blowing when it happened even though I did have a slight inkling that it would
be the evil renegade Time Lord. Like I
said before it will be interesting to read the speculation to why The Master is
now Missy and Twitter will be in overload until Death in Heaven.
Dark
Water was actually as the first part of the title describes dark. This story was pretty dark and grim. It starts off with Danny getting killed and
Clara going through the denial of mourning her lost lover and then there is all
that business in the Nethersphere. It
was pretty dark and creepy especially when the skeletons started to move in
their tombs as the heads moved to watch The Doctor and Clara walk by. That was indeed spooky and pretty awesome
also. Even though you knew beforehand
that the skeletons are Cybermen it still was scary to see and was just pretty
cool to see.
This
story will also be pretty controversial.
It deals with dead people and what happens when they die and where they
go. But what will really get people
angry is the three words that was discovered that the dead souls were
saying. “Don’t cremate me” will hit hard
for some people and also creep a lot of people out. It will be hard for people who have recently
lost someone and had a funeral in which there was a cremation. I haven’t lost anyone close to me for a few
years and it creeped me out. I mean
really creeped me out. I know this is
science fiction and not real but it really started me thinking what if. It was a controversial scene and I give
Steven Moffat and the BBC for doing it as they will most likely catch some
slack.
I
really enjoyed Dark Water and I’m really excited for its conclusion Death in
Heaven. Dark Water answered some
questions like what Danny did wrong as a soldier and that was a pretty dark
reveal. It made the Cybermen scary
again, well at least for 45 minutes, and I just loved the nods to the classic
Cybermen stories of the Troughton era with the tombs and of course St. Pauls
Cathedral. I liked the evil streak in
Clara and wondered if she would really throw the keys into the lava and was
surprised when it was revealed that The Doctor had tricked her. I loved the darkness of this story and loved
the tone it sets for the finale. I’m
really intrigued by the Missy reveal and really liked the chances they have
taken this series especially with a female Master. It is still a Steven Moffat story so with all
that was right in Dark Water could be destroyed and be a major let down when
Death in Heaven airs. I just hope Steven
Moffat doesn’t blow it and gives us something exciting to talk about until
Christmas.
Grade
A
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