Doctor Who - Parting Gifts

Well, Steven Moffat has hung up his timey-wimey detector and joined days long ago.

That's something that probably should have been said with the previous episode. Or the previous Christmas special plus one. Or the plus three. Because Moffat has been trying to get out of this show for half the time he's been in charge of it, and when you consider he considers the experience of dealing with fandom "rancid" it's not hard to see why it was so hard to find another replacement. I'm not saying "Ask what you can do for your showrunner" but why would anyone want to deal with all the shit internet trolls can carry out?

Ah, but Moffat had metaphorically shot himself in the foot a long, long time ago with a 1995 interview for the TSV fan club which is now notorious. No doubt you can google it yourself, but basically he spent the whole panel rubbishing Doctor Who as pitifully crap, unfit for broadcast and unworthy of note or obsession. It's not hard to feel a bit insulted at the spiteful abuse and many have quite understandably wanted Moffat to sod off if he thinks he's too good for the show. Hell, why did he ever want to run it if he hates it so much?

I, Claudius is brilliant. Doctor Who isn't.

When I look at Doctor Who I laugh at it. As a television professional, I think how did these guys get a paycheck every week? Dear god, it's bad! Nothing I've seen of the black and white stuff should have got out of the building. They should have been clubbing those guys to death! You've got an old guy in the lead who can't remember his lines; you've got Patrick Troughton and his companions - how did they get their Equity card? Explain that! They're unimaginably bad. If you look at other stuff from the Sixties they weren't crap - it was just Doctor Who. Once you get to the colour stuff some of it's watchable, but it's laughable especially when some drunk old lardie like Tom Baker is hogging the screen. Really hideous.

I wouldn't care to show it to my friends in television and say look, I think this is a great programme, because I think they might fling me out! It's shit!


Now, far be it from me to suggest it is possible to change your opinion over a fifteen year period, Moffat himself has distanced themselves from the comments. He insists he was jet-lagged, drunk and foolishly arrogant in his abilities - the fact his awesome career nose-dived directly after that New Zealand trip he declares cosmic justice for slagging off Robert Holmes as a hack. As for the rest, well, there's no denying that the rest of the panel weren't offended by Moffat's behavior, even when he was calling them all losers and insisting they should only print a New Adventure when he personally felt inclined to read one. His deliberate mockery and automatic contradiction of everything everyone else says certainly supports the idea he was "spicing things up" provocatively.

Yet it's strange it's much easier to find sincerity in hatred than love. If Moffat had, similarly pissed out of his mind and in a mood to start an argument, praised Doctor Who to high heavens would people instantly point to that as justification? Or would he be considered a toadying yes-man sucking up to the punters? Is honesty really being told what you don't want to hear? Certainly, fan expectations and for this episode in particular have been "it's more likely to be horrible crap than good." Every leaked detail has been damned as a poisonous insult, most particularly when Andy "I rewrote everything from episode one of Spearhead in Space onwards coz I hate Tom Baker" Frankham whined about Moffat messing with other people's intellectual property.

I mean... sheesh!

Anyway, there can be no doubt that Moffat is a fan. Because he and I were on the same opinion forums back in 2003 when it seemed the show was coming back with Richard E Grant as the Ninth Doctor. Oh, fandom wailed, what about Paul McGann? We wanted a regeneration scene! But the idea of bringing back an old Doctor for a story to kill him off was considered a bad move. And then, by osmosis, fans pieced together the perfect solution.

Wait for the Ninth Doctor's final story (surely after five years or so) and then bring back the Eighth Doctor! They'd meet each other, do the usual things, but be caught up in a deadly tale. The Eighth Doctor would be killed off and regenerate into the Ninth, and at the end of the story the Ninth would regenerate into the Tenth! Yes, we thought, that'll explain everything to the new audience, give PMG a decent finale and be a winner!

There's no way that Moffat would have missed that concept (which was heavily re-pitched in 2009, and indeed all the time until 2013). Note that we get the War Doctor perishing in such a manner in Day of the Doctor, before a more straightforward version in The Doctor Falls only with the Master and Missy. And now we have it done with the First Doctor, though the return to black and white stock footage does rather interrupt the narrative flow as we return to widescreen new material.

Of course this isn't the first attempt to mess about with the First Doctor's regeneration. Why? Because it was crap, that's why. Arguably The Tenth Planet would have been better without that last moment rewrite (which is why the central guest character Cutler is immediately forgotten about halfway through the fourth episode) but as Nigel Kneale has taught us, doing things first and doing things well is not the same thing. As an introduction to the Cybermen or a swansong to the Doctor, it sucks big time. Even the original version, where William Hartnell was playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor, was a damp squib as he undergoes a painful biological cycle with as much dignity as irritable bowel syndrome. His exit was barely on screen, let alone heroic.

Big Finish tried to "epic" it up with lots of missing bits, from the Daleks in the Time War trying to stop the TARDIS reaching Snowcap to change the Doctor's life to the First Doctor's spirit being sucked out of his body to help an aged Steven fight the Vardans. But Moffat has instead focused on the First Doctor choosing to change rather than die. It's not important why he's regenerating, just whether he goes through it.

This in turn is the key to story where the sour-faced Scots bastard in charge of the show tries to cheer things up for the first time in four years. After driving every lead character to suicidal despair, robbing the dead of dignity and hope for the future even showing us the universe ending in pointless, meaningless entropy, Moffat has to convince the Doctor twice over that there is any point going on. Many will look to Capaldi's final scene for the double-entendres and script writer addressing the audience, but the First Doctor's musing that the universe is an utterly horrible place that logically has nothing of merit to offer is closer to the mark.

This I think would be the truest challenge to Moffat. His tales have always been trying to bear with tragedies - yes, everyone may live in The Doctor Dances but that's one night in one city of a World War. Are Nancy and Jamie really going to live happily ever after? Moffat himself admitted that, had outside forces not required it, Jack would have perished in that story. Reniette dies alone, forsaken and abandoned. Sally and Larry have to live in perpetual fear of Weeping Angel reprises. All the data ghosts are trapped in a computer, unable to leave it until they finally reach closure. River Song and the Ponds, Clara and Ashildr, the Osgoods, all have been defined as people who refuse to crumble under the shitstorm of cruel twists rained down on them yet all that stubbornness is shown to come to naught and they all end up dead sooner or later after much, MUCH suffering.

Asking Moffat to tell a story of life worth living is probably the most difficult task he's faced. It's much easier for him to horrify the First Doctor with tales of his future self's blood-soaked carnage, or have the Twelfth Doctor consider his life summed up by an empty battlefield with him the only survivor. The brilliant bit where the Doctor dubs a summary of his warlike life - "They cut out all the jokes!" - rings true. It's only the gags that distract us from the endless, agonizing horror of Moffat's universe. Is it any wonder that taking away the silly jokes made the Doctor hide in his pitch-dark TARDIS wondering what the hell is the point of it all?

So we get a story without an evil plan. The glass people are the antimatter opposite of Missy in the Nethersphere, ensuring whatever torments the entire human race suffered there are duplicates existing happily in the far future, with Clara and Nardole and Bill all existing on somewhere as good as alive. When a malfunctioning Auton can be properly called a resurrected Rory, there's really no line drawn. The Doctor might be the last one standing on a battlefield, but his army live on - every poor sod from Clive to Jackdaw who's carked it has not vanished into oblivion. They are gone but not forgotten and it's not the worst thing if the Doctor can't save people.

And the Doctor gets the closure of knowing Bill is off traversing the cosmos with her time-space common law wife, of having Clara returned to his memory (after two series explaining she was absolutely the worst thing to ever happen to him and render him a non-functional psychopath) without ill-effects. Their toxic and doomed friendships are hastily redefined as wonderful, bittersweet happy endings where they went their separate ways instead of utter soul-crushing disasters.

We also get Mark Gatiss as Captain Archie Lethbridge-Stewart doing a damn fine evocation of the Brigadier and everything he stands for. Yeah, he might enjoy a sexist joke but he'll not hesitate to sacrifice himself for a coloured lesbian he's never met before. He takes no pleasure in violence or warfare, but there's no doubt he'd be damn good at it should push come to shove. I doubt anyone would have blamed him for scarpering back to his own trench, but instead puts all his faith in a vaguely-defined truce to get medical attention for his German counterpart.

Given this intense timey-wimey continuity-driven tale, he even keeps a good grasp on what's happening and proves he is not the pudding-brained retard the Doctor has repeatedly declared his entire species to be. He is worthy of saving, he deserves the second chance the Doctor gives him just as the Christmas truce is something Capaldi can't jeer about with a vaguely-affectionate "aww, you fucking morons!" It is a moment of peace and understanding that Moffat doesn't tie down as being some cosmic masterplan that renders it totally meaningless.

Although a reference to Villengard takes Moffat back to his first story (or second episode anyway), the real throwback is to Silence in the Library and River Song's future nostalgia. The future is not something to be feared but looked forward to. River's tales of Matt Smith are something to be happy about rather than dreaded with certainty (which clashes with the bit where River is horrified to meet Donna Noble). Here, the First Doctor discovers his uncouth, immature future incarnation is brave enough to alter the universe for the better, and the only downer about regeneration is that it'll be a while before he gets to be Capaldi. Whereupon he'll become a suicidal emo misery guts once again - but you can't have everything, can you?

So we are reminded that the universe can be a good place and life is worth living if you pull your bloody finger out and make it better. If the Doctor wants a reason to keep going, do it him frigging self. As we finally burn away the scary Scot to the yummy Yorkshire lass - and, between you and me, it would've been nice to see the whole change for once - it's treated not as a death scene but a birth scene. There's no weeping, no railing against the unfairness of it all, not even whining about the nature of self-consciousness.

In her first scene, Jodie's Doctor is grinning, happy, healthy and fun. She's not worried about her identity crisis or whether she's a distorted echo of William Hartnell or if she's not a good person or if her companion cannot comprehend what happened. She's not just glad to get through it in one piece, she's happy about the result and in her one line of dialogue feels more comfortable as a children's hero than her predecessor managed in four years.

But of course she's not the only new Doctor in the episode.

There's plenty of concern over the "sexism" of the First Doctor, but it really was a storm in a teacup. His references to a male nurse being odd are directed at a confused and frightened WW1 soldier. His glass woman joke is meant to be a joke. His threat of a smacked bottom to Bill after she's hurled abusive mockery at his future self is mild to what he would have done if Ian had done the same - "Write a farewell note to your testicles, Chesserman! It's on!". He's far less startled to learn Bill's gay than the Captain, and his shock is mild compared to how the Doctor and Romana got awkward around Merak when he said he was straight. The only real issue is him assuming female companions dust the TARDIS but, considering his baseline for 20th Century feminism is Barbara Wright and she kept insisting she "spring clean" the time ship, it's not exactly unreasonable.

Hell, the biggest anomaly is him referring to the TARDIS as "the Ship" when he stopped that the same time Verity Lambert left. And abandoning Ben and Polly in the Arctic night twenty years in their future might have merited some comments (indeed, we could have stood to see a little more of them all said).

Frankly, David Bradley does a fine job as the First Doctor rather than William Hartnell on set. His body language, switch between the stilted "remember the words, Bill, there's a bag of chips in it for you" to the more naturalistic "yeah this is it, more or less" feels like the Doctor constantly on guard for letting slip the wrong thing. Added to his new BF adventures, he has undoubtedly earned his DWM magazine title. His Doctor, cluelessness about his future self aside, is shown to be smart, compassionate, clever and friendly. Compare his treatment of Captain Archie to the way Capaldi dealt with Journey Blue, or even the Celts a few episodes ago. This is a man who can be nice, kind, and stand up for himself without being "a complete prick everyone hates" (copyright SFX).

Ultimately, it's only Capaldi's skill with the TARDIS and knowledge of Rusty that gives him any kind of an edge over the First Doctor who deduces all the same things with all the same ease. True, Capaldi is the one who saves Captain Archie but Bradley is the one that gives him peace as he goes to his death. In short, the First Doctor is capable of being the main character for the next series just as well as his feminine descendant.

So, bar a final complaint that Moffat reduced the Daleks from harbingers of total apocalypse to the Skaroine equivalent of Bernard Black with a telephone directory, there's little left to say. It's an epilogue to everything we've seen since Capaldi screamed about his kidneys, since Smith yelled about his legs, and further still to Hartnell wondering what two schoolteachers were doing in his junkyard. To misquote CS Lewis, the school year is over and the summer holidays have begun.

Of course, it's going to be fucking ages until we get the next episode but you know what?

It'll probably be worth the wait.

The Emperor's Xmas Rant

And now we cut to Mister Marcus Fishface Goucher the Third at Chief Mango Butilaze Cul-De-Sac for his yuletide review of the Doctor Who Christmas special.


Ok, the episode was not as comedic as I feared. It still had the silly comedy music score and some silly banter between the Doctors however Moffat was clearly trying to give it a serious undertone. It was however very poor in other ways. There was a serious sci fi idea on there somewhere regarding the creation of a database of the memories of the dead. However the stuff with the Dalek was self-indulgent and the plot was undeveloped. Where was the actual plot? Seriously that was a disjointed mess of half formed ideas. Boring and self-indulgent and a sad way to end the series as we know it.

Ben and Polly were hardly in it. Poor show. Everyone needs a sailor at Christmas.

Peter Capaldi is an excellent actor and was a good choice to play the Doctor. He just needed better stories and scripts, specifically written by me. As for Miss Wittacker (sic), it's too easy to tell however I was not impressed by what I saw. I suspect that she will both try to play it comedic and also be generically feisty. This will jar.

And her costume is absolutely terrible. Like they aren't taking it seriously.

And it certainly isn't at all sexist to hold the opinion that the Doctor is a male character and should be played by a male actor. That we are in a place where people questioning the wisdom of casting a woman on the role are described as sexist simply shows the immature level to which society is sinking, with opinions formed by internet memes and virtue signalling rather than rational thought.

The fact is a female Doctor is totally wrong, completely inappropriate and beginning of the the end of the show. A totally inappropriate choice. The Doctor has always been a male character and this will be a change too far for many viewers. Also Jodie Whittacker (sic) has worked with Chibnall before so one cannot escape the likelihood that she was cast as a familiar face whom he knows he can work with. This is just BBC PC casting coupled with desperation to generate media attention. Totally wrong, completely inappropriate and beginning of the end of the show.

I presume that they'll go for even more 'emotional' overload with the Doctor agonising over the morality of her actions etc. Not my kind of thing. I doubt she'll last more than two seasons. I predict that the ratings will initially shoot up for her first couple of episodes before declining rapidly. It is of course very bad for the character, which as always been male. I'm angry about this however the BBC won't care about fan reaction. They will however care when the casual viewers stop watching, which they will. But mark my words, the ratings will go down and there is even the danger of cancellation. Combining the appointment of Mr Chibnall, a mediocre writer whose back catalogue of scripts are worse than those of Moffat, with the casting of an inexperienced female actress in a traditionally male role (essentially a new character) and you are taking one hell of a risk. No, you have a recipe for failure!

The big question really is what the quality threshold of the general audience is like nowadays. If they'll watch any old tripe that is popular or in vogue then the casting of Miss Whittaker as a female Doctor could be a successful move as it has been a hugely effective publicity stunt. If not then it will all rest on the quality of Chibnall's scripts. Nuwho has been rather boring throughout the whole Moffat era and his Christmas specials were an absolute nadir. Combine a female Doctor and an even more boring writer and the ratings will fall further after an initial upsurge. However if Chibnall writes some cutting edge sci fi then he might pull it off, presuming Miss Whittaker is a tad more interesting in role than her interviews on youtube.

The main problem with too many of the Christmas specials over the years is their overly light, comical or fantasy nature. Serious sci fi elements are sacrificed in favour of supposedly 'family friendly' comedy, robot santas, snowmen, jokes and Harry Potter type nonsense. The most credible of the specials was probably 'The Christmas Invasion' but even that had Tennant being silly and jokes about satsumas. So hopefully this year they may get it right, given that the first Doctor is in it. The best ever Xmas special for me will always be 'K9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend' from 1981. It was taken seriously with a dark witchcraft theme, serious acting and some genuinely scary moments.

I watched it again last night.

What a festive wee chappy he is.

On the Eve of Regeneration

As Christmas Day draws near and the end of the "twelfth" Doctor is upon us, I was moved by a BBC America youtube vid where fans around the world - including a surprisingly cherubic William Shatner - all congratulated Peter Capaldi for the last four years of his life and making Doctor Who awesome.

Moved because, to be blunt, I felt none of it.

Oh, Capaldi is a great actor who has worked hard and certainly deserves his career to continue on its impressive trajectory, but nope - you won't find me saying he was "my" Doctor, or that his take on Twelve inspired me, comforted me, challenged me or to be honest even kept me coming back for more. Had it not been for my parents' love for the show, I would have possibly given up on Doctor Who altogether. It wasn't that the show had become bad, but had deliberately shed itself of absolutely everything I liked about it and become a nihilistic slasher show with two dysfunctional self-destructive leads. The most sympathetic the Twelfth Doctor got was when he was shown as a guilt-ridden would-be child-murderer psychopath, because he at least started smiling and acting like he cared about people. The first year might have been fine television, but it was joyless and depressing and the only person likely to be more of a misery guts than the viewers were the central characters.

Doctor Who became a show about how everyone is a monster, how nothing means anything in the long run because you'll either die or become corrupt. Heaven doesn't exist and the only option is hell, your friends will stab you in the back, and if you want to help, you'll only make things worse. Capaldi's Doc made some pretty speeches as he mused on the inherent pointlessness of it all - care and you get hurt. And don't expect any fancy "it's worth the pain" rhetoric because the Christmas special begins with the Doctor is so sick of life he'd rather die horribly.

So, the news that Capaldi's leaving will get Doctor Who out of the self-harming emo phase it's been stuck in since 2014 then don't let the door hit him on his arse as he leaves.

Of course there have been some great episodes and some brilliant entertainment, but let's not miss the fact that the show started this year by ditching all its "gritty adult darkness" which had driven a lot of people away and left the "true fans" whining and sickened at the changes. And though I applaud the post-Nardole era, I found it impossible to love the Doctor as I have his predecessors. "Oh, that's nice of him," I might have thought, "He was being quite polite and friendly there," but that's it.

It's the deep irony that Peter Capaldi - a lifelong fanboy finally getting his dream job - played someone who hated being the Doctor. Having outlived his allotted span, in his first full episode the Doctor notes that there is nothing left of the original Doctor except some idealized fantasy he rarely is capable of living up to. Used to unquestioning obedience and trust facing black and white over-complicated battles with uncomplicated foes, he spends his first year unable to cope with a complex universe of moral grey. He refuses to get close to anyone, and treats his only remaining ally as shit until she walks out on him - followed by the revelation he's actually turned her into a bad person. His effort to become/stay a good man is a hollow promise that has undermined his ability to even save the universe; even when he gets some closure he hurls abuse at Clara for expecting to care about people if he doesn't have to. If he isn't defined by being good or bad, he's only got self-preservation and selfishness left.

And yes he starts smiling and laughing and joking rather than being viciously cruel to everyone he meets... after he's shown breaking any standards he had of deliberately leaving a child to die in a minefield. Gripped by suicidal shame and a rising death wish, he cannot live with himself and thus, in his words, retreats to the other hims who weren't such total screw-ups. Yeah, he saved Davros. But he was going to kill a defenseless little boy by inaction and that isn't ever going to change. And his relationship from Clara decays further - they're much happier together, but his refusal to make any other connections isolates him even further.

Oh, and then he's killed off and the adventures since have been focused on a mindwiped clone but no one talks about that for some reason.

The Doctor that Bill and Nardole is a kind if reckless teacher and protector, whose hearts are in the right place if his head isn't... but I couldn't quite bring myself to trust him. He seems far more sincere and honest sneering at contempt at humans and Clara, of letting an Arctic base crew die horribly because he can't be arsed to stop it, than going on about kindness and mercy. Marc Platt, I believe, noted when they were doing the Unbound series that the one possibility they would never explore was a Doctor who didn't care; take away that desire to take part in events and try and make them better and there's nothing left. Even the evil David Collings Doctor and the Valeyard had that aspect. They could not stand around doing nothing.

As Moffat was keen to stress, Capaldi's Doctor was not the "angry one" but "the one that doesn't care".

So in The Lie of the Land, I was more convinced the Doctor was himself when he turned his back on the human species than when he was fighting to liberate them. It felt more genuine that the Doctor considers a doomed spaceship and a terrified crew learning tools for Missy than when he was determined to do anything to save Hazran and her people. His poetic spiel to Jorge (you know, the one that convinced the blue man the best thing to do was shoot Bill dead) was very well acted but utterly hollow, a routine said out of habit. It rang as insincere and unconvincing as Deep Breath where he insisted he would protect the species he has repeatedly dubbed "pudding brains" - retarded and unworthy of his respect.

Thus when the Master and Missy doubted the Doctor would stand and die for a bunch of Amish losers, there was a point, too. Capaldi's Doctor is more believable as a horrible person as a hero. His vengeance against Gallifrey was believable because he wanted to hurt and humiliate people. His attempt to save the Romans and the Celt from the shadow beasts felt like he was looking for an excuse to end the episode. Even in The Pilot, the Doctor looks far more comfortable and credible about to mind-rape Bill than sitting with her on Christmas Day.

In short, this is a Doctor you can't trust when he says he wants to help. If he acts like he's your friend, he's lying. If he makes you cry and want to end it all, it's the only time he's being honest. People don't matter to him. Places don't matter to him. He doesn't want to be here or doing this.

And that's why he'll never be my favorite Doctor, never be in my top, or the one I want to see again.

Sorry, Pete. You were an awesome lead character - but as the Doctor? No.

Change can't come quick enough.

Doctor Who Titles in Latin!

Because I am SO drunk right now...

Unus Suo
Quo Saxa Puer/Centum Milia Antequam Christus/In Tribus Autem Gum
Et Daleks/Planeta Mortuis
Intra Spatium Navis
Marcus Polo
Marinus Collatis Clavibus
Aztecorum
Et Sensorem
Regni Perturbationem
Duo Suo
Planeta Terra Gigantum Reputata
Dalek Tumultus in Terra
Ad Liberandum
Romanorum
Textus Planetae
Devexa Montis
Museum Est Locus
Dum Sequuntur Contigerint
Tempus Alienorum Appetitor
Tres Suo

Galaxy Quattuor
Missio Ad Ignotum/Dalek Repulsi Sunt
Plastae Fabulas Autem Convertentur
Dalek Ad Magistrum Consilium
Ad Caedem
Arcam
Factorem Nugas Caelestis
Gun Ad Proeliandum
In Armorum Officinas
Bellum Machinis
Quattuor Temporum

Qui Ab Urbe
Decimi Orbis
Potestas Daleks
Descensoriorum Super Excelsis
Sub Aqua Denuntiatione
Cum Basi Supra Lunam
Macram Metus
Non Facies Eorum
Id Malum Consumat Reliquias Daleks
Quinque Suo

Sepulcrum Enim A Cybermen
Class Aptent Tulit Abominationes Impietatis
Et Bellatorem Glacies
Mundi Inimica
Tela Metus
Furor Alto
Quod Spatium In Rota
Sex Suo

Qui Dominetur
Mens Praedo
Ad Tumultus
Et Krotons
Seminibus, In Mortis
In Spatio Piratis
Bellum Ludos
Septum Suo

Ferrum Hastæ Trecentas Uncias Ex Tractus
Qui Medicus et Silurians
Legati... MORTIS!!!
De Inferno Liberabis
Octo Temporum

Terrorem Autons
Mens Mali
Ungues Axos
Coloniae Spatium
Daemones
Novem Suo

Die Daleks
De Maledicto Peladon
Mare Eiciens
Mutantur In Populo
Eo Tempore Prodigium
Decem Suo

Tres Medicus
Saturnalia Agunt Aliquando Monstrorum
Fines In Spatio
De Planeta Daleks
Viride Ad Mortem
Undecim Suo
Tempus Bellator
Tumultus (Et Tonitrua Spineta Lacertos)
Daleks Usque Ad Mortem
Uultus Aequoreae Monstrum Peladon
Planeta In Aranearum
Duodecim Suo

Servus
Sustentaret Arcam Spatium
Experimentum Autem Sontaran
Genesis de Daleks
Ultionem Cybermen
Tertia Decima Suo

Formido Et Zygons
Planeta Ex Malo
Mars Pyramidum
Tumultus Exemplarium
De Cerebri Morbius
Mala Semina
MT Suo

Mandragora De Choro Habitu
Ne Manu
Mortiferum Sicarius Est
Facie Mali
Mortem Servituti
Et Unguibus Galli Oculos Verberavit De Weng-Chiang
E Quibus Quindecim Suo

Dente Metus Petram
Inimicus Invisibilis
Mortis Imago Dei
Soli Artifices
Inferis
Et Tumultus Temporis
Sedecim Suo - Key Est Ad Tempus

i) Opera Omnia In Ribos
ii) Pirata Plagiarius
iii) Lapides Est Sanguis
iv) Tara Homines In Metallum
v) Valuerit Kroll
vi) Planta Est Hermagedon
Septemdecim Suo

Fatum Est Daleks
Urbem Mortis
Et Viventem In Pit
Somnum Exterreri Solebat Eden
Cornibus Nimon
Shada
Decem Et Octo Temporum

Otium Alveo
Cactus Est Homo
Circulus Plenus
Status Interitus
Bellatorem Porta
Nuntiavit Autem Custos Traken
Rerum Orbem Terrarum
XIX Suo

Civitas Somnia
Quartum Diem Iudicii
Pius Enim
Ceteri Visitari
Nigrum Orchidaceae
Concursu Mundi
Fugam Temporis
Viginti suo

Arcum Infinitum
In Choro Per Anguis
Nawdryn Immortuos
Terminus
Illustratio
Rex Est Daemoniorum
Doctorum Libri Quinque
Viginti Unus Suo
Militibus Abyssi
Excitatio
In Finibus Orbis
Resurrectione Daleks
Tellus Ignis
Voragines Androzani
Sunt Geminae Dilemma
Viginti Duo Suo

Impetum ex Cybermen
Et Vindictam Retribuet In Varos
Ad Marcam In Rani
Duo Medici
Lasonio Pulsatum Per Tempus
Daleks In Revelatione Iesu Christi

Viginti Tres Suo - Dominus Autem Tempus Iudicii

i) Arcanum Quod Planetae
ii) Excors Animis
iii) Terrorem Vervoids
iv) Ultimum Hostem

Et Viginti Quattuor Temporum

Et In Rani
Turris Paradisum
Delta Viri Ordinata
Ignis Draco

Viginti Quinque Suo

Daleks In Meam Commemorationem
Quod Beatitudo Disputatio
Argentum Invidia
Maximum Perficientur In Via Lactea
Sex Et Viginti Suo

Campo Proelii
Lux Exspiravit
Et Maledicite Fenric
Salvos

Film et TV MCMXCVI

Hostem


Doctor Nonam
Flos Pulcherrimus
Ad Extremum Terrae
Mortui Inquieti
Londinium Alienigenarum
Mundi Bellum Tres
Dalek
A Diu Ludum
Patris Tui Dies
Ad Inanis Puer
Doctor Enim Feres Saltat
Oppidum Inrupit
Lupus Malum
In Bivio In Via

X Coetus Doctor

Iterum Nata
Class Aptent Ad Tumultus
Nova Terra
Dente Crescit et Unguibus
Occurrens In Schola
Puellae In Foco
Ortus Est Cybermen
Aetatis Suae Ferro
Lumina Stultus Est Scriptor
Planeta Potest Non Esse
Pit Et Satanas
Onocentauris Caritate
Timent Sui
Manes Autem Exercitus
Super Viros Luda
Fugientibus Receptaculum Sponsa
Smith Jones Et
Shakespeare In Codice
Eget Cincinno
Daleks In Novum Eboracum
Evolutio Daleks
Et Lazarus Experimentum
XLII
Infinito Ambitu
Natura Humana
Familia Sanguinis
Palpabunt
Et Perfectus Est
Tympanorum Sonitu
Ultimum Temporis Domini Multi
Tunc Ruina
Catalogus Plantarum Quo Affliguntur Damnati
Participes Sceleris
Cum Ignes Pompeiano
Planeta Ex Bono Praestat
In Fugam Reperit Fallacia Sontaran
Venenum In Caelum
Filia Autem Doctor
Et Unicornis Et Vespa
Silentium Sunt In Bibliothecam
Silva Mortuorum
Nocte
Ad Sinistram
In Terra Furtivus
Finem Itineris
Altera doctor
Planeta Mortuorum
Terra Somnia
Martis Aquas
Ad Consummationem Saeculi Pars Una
Ad Consummationem Saeculi Pars Duorum

Articulus Undecimus Vndecimo Doctor

Sextam Et Nonam Horam
Infra Post Bestiam
Victoria de Daleks
Tempus Angeli
Caro Et Lapis
Lamia Venetiarum
Electio Amy Est Scriptor
Esurientem Terrae
Frigidus Sanguis
Vincent Et Doctor
De Habitatore
Et Non Aperuit Pandorica
Voce Magna
Class Aptent Taciti Sociosqu Ad
Vir Qui Non Potest Esse In Spatio
Dies Lunae
Spatium/Temporis
Maledicto Labes
Doctor Autem Uxor
Et Carnes Rebellatis
Et Qui Prope
Militat Bono
Venite Occidere Hitler
Nocte Terrores
Qui Nudus Puella
Et Universa Deum
Tempus Claudendi
Carmen Nuptiale Fluminis
Medicus Et Pupillo Et Viduae Non Vestium
Ad Asylum Daleks
Per Spatium Navis In Tonitruo Spineta Lacertos
Miserere Desertum Qui Est Bethsaida
Potestate Tribus
Ut Angeli Novum Eboracum
Militum Nivis
Quod Sanctus Loannes De Campanis
Et Stringatur Rationale Akhaten
Frigidam Bello
Abscondam
Usque Ad Mediam Iter Ad Tempus Machina
Aequora Purpuream Singultibus Turbarentur
Tantibus Argento
Nomine Medicus
Quod Medicus Per Noctem
In Die Autem Medicus
Quod Medicus ex Tempus

XII Coetus Doctor

Altum Spiritus
In Dalek
Serviunt Shyrewode
Audi
Tunc Rapinam
Pausatio Procuratoris
Luna Interficere
Mater In Orientali Express
Plana Lineam
Saltus Noctis
Tenebrosa Aqua
Mors Est In Caelis
Natalis Domini Ultimum
Magi In Coniugatori Addicti
In Pythonissam Nota Est Scriptor
Sub Mari
Quae Fuit Ante Diluvium
Puella Et Mortuus Est
Qui Habitabat Mulier
Et Tumultus Zygon
De Inversione Zygon
Somnum Ultra
Faciem Vulpes Corvum
Misit Caelum
Infernum Tetendit
Virorum Cantu Fluminis
Cum De Reditu Marcus Mysterio
Gubernatori
Risus
Spicæ Tenues Glacies
Pulso-Pulso
Oxygeni
Ends
Ct Pyramis Ad Finem Mundi
Qui Situm Regionum
Mars Est Imperatrix
Lumen Eorum Qui In
Orbis Terrarum Et Satis Temporis
Medicus Cadit
Bis In Tempore

A Fan's Bookshelf

With the knowledge that new series stories are finally being novelized, it's just a matter of time...