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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Twelfth Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads first as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy. Moreover, it was as part of this arc that he finally realized the "message" his face was sending him. His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "The Doctor Falls", his penultimate episode.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which Out" was one of the very first Twelfth Doctor comes expanded universe stories, and has a lot of this going for it, especially given that Holly Black couldn't have known from the four scripts she was given to work from ("Deep Breath" through "Listen") where his MythArc would go.
** The Twelfth Doctor coming to the aid of a hybridhumanoid, humanoid now reads first as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy. Moreover, it was as part of this arc that he finally realized the "message" his face was sending him.
** His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "The Doctor Falls", his penultimateepisode.episode.
** The audiobook version of this story is read by Samuel Anderson, who played Danny Pink in Series 8. Because the story was released October 23, 2014, it arrived just days before the season's final episodes began to air -- in which [[spoiler: Pink was killed and revived as a Cyberman -- then died again in a heroic sacrifice, just like poor "Fifty-One", and much to the guilt of the Doctor]].
** The Twelfth Doctor coming to the aid of a hybrid
** His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "The Doctor Falls", his penultimate
** The audiobook version of this story is read by Samuel Anderson, who played Danny Pink in Series 8. Because the story was released October 23, 2014, it arrived just days before the season's final episodes began to air -- in which [[spoiler: Pink was killed and revived as a Cyberman -- then died again in a heroic sacrifice, just like poor "Fifty-One", and much to the guilt of the Doctor]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Twelfth Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads first as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy. Moreover, it was as part of this arc that he finally realized the "message" his face was sending him. His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "World Enough and Time", his penultimate episode.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Twelfth Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads first as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy. Moreover, it was as part of this arc that he finally realized the "message" his face was sending him. His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "World Enough and Time", "The Doctor Falls", his penultimate episode.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Twelfth Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads first as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy.prophecy. Moreover, it was as part of this arc that he finally realized the "message" his face was sending him. His compassionate treatment of "Fifty-One" also presages his similar behavior regarding [[spoiler: the Cyber-converted Bill Potts, his final companion]] in Series 10's "World Enough and Time", his penultimate episode.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The First Doctor's portrayal in "A Big Hand for the Doctor" is pretty different from his canonical portrayal on the show (his personality, ability to fight, etc.). WordOfGod states that Eoin Colfer decided to portray this Doctor as he had imagined the character to be -- as a child he was familiar only with the Target novelizations and had never seen any of the actual television stories!
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The First Doctor's portrayal in "A Big Hand for the Doctor" is pretty different from his canonical portrayal on the show (his personality, ability to fight, etc.). WordOfGod states that Eoin Colfer decided to portray this Doctor as he had imagined the character to be -- as a child he was familiar only with the Target novelizations and had never seen any of the actual television stories!stories!
* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy.
* HarsherInHindsight: "Lights Out", in which the Doctor comes to the aid of a hybrid humanoid, now reads as a sort of prelude to the Series 9 StoryArc in which he kept encountering, being reminded of, or even creating hybrid beings on the way to being challenged with the question of the identity of a two-race hybrid of Gallifreyan prophecy.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The First Doctor's portrayal in "A Big Hand for the Doctor" is pretty different from his canonical portrayal on the show (his personality, ability to fight, etc.). WordOfGod states that Eoin Colfer decided to portray this Doctor as he had imagined the character to be -- as a child he was familiar only with the Target novelizations and had never seen any of the actual television stories!
