Was the regeneration satisfying? What’s a Doctorverse? How is the show reorienting to fantasy? Why do people feel so differently about the bigeneration? How is the Toymaker’s legacy handled? What’s different in the novelisation? What does this finale say about the show’s past and future? We discuss The Giggle in depth, while also covering the novelisation and the bevy of extras.

(00:00:00 ) Journey to France
(00:06:34 ) ‘There’s no such thing’
(00:08:03 ) Impressions & attitudes
(00:16:29 ) Goals of the episode
(00:27:51 ) UNIT, lasers, journalists
(00:32:28 ) Unleashed racism
(00:49:08 ) Music + Toymaker origins
(00:58:23 ) Giggle thematics + giving fans tools
(01:14:12 ) Music, Moffat, montage
(01:35:54 ) Social commentary
(01:44:42 ) Mel
(01:52:20 ) The Ruminant
(02:02:07 ) Ball game
(02:09:21 ) We can be celestial
(02:13:49 ) Bigeneration: qualifiers & The End of Time
(02:25:00 ) Bigeneration: time loop & Tales of the TARDIS
(02:33:09 ) Bigeneration: opinions & Oliver
(02:45:51 ) Bigeneration: inquiries & Ingiga
(02:55:28 ) Bigeneration: Doctors as different people
(03:03:52 ) Bigeneration: guilt, continuity, baggage
(03:11:14 ) Bigeneration: emotions, finality, family
(03:21:40 ) Bigeneration: retirement, cheating, two TARDISes
(03:36:54 ) Bigeneration: I stay there, he flies off
(03:46:09 ) Bigeneration: affording a house in France
(03:52:07 ) Bigeneration: spectacle, toys
(04:00:07 ) Bigeneration: costume handover across regenerations
(04:07:41 ) Doctorverse
(04:42:52 ) Novelisation: appeal, politicians, UNIT
(04:48:58 ) Novelisation: Toymaker perspective, hashtag Donna reasons
(04:57:15 ) Novelisation: choose your own adventure + Flux
(05:03:22 ) Novelisation: musical sequence
(05:11:03 ) Novelisation: bigeneration + defeat
(05:15:10 ) Novelisation: third act expansion
(05:26:57 ) Novelisation: ending
(05:51:20 ) Books, brands, the future, pop
(05:57:51 ) Addendum: bigeneration — behind the scenes
(06:06:56 ) Ncuti’s casting + TARDIS talk
(06:10:09 ) 14’s house, parallels with Mel, actor expectations
(06:17:03 ) Script details + regeneration handovers
(06:23:26 ) Outro…

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