Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor (short story)
Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor was the eighth instalment of Loose Ends published in Doctor Who Magazine #609 on 10 October 2024 by Panini Magazines. It was written by Jonathan Morris and illustrated by Roger Langridge.
Plot
Scenes Unseen
- Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"] (the 1996 TV movie)
Professor Joseph Wagg clears out his desk and shelves at the Institute for Technological Advancement and Research, packing his things into boxes, considering his life's work to be over. The Eighth Doctor interrupts him, and Wagg recognises him instantly. When the Doctor asks if he is leaving, Wagg retorts that he has been fired for his atomic clock failing to start on the new millennium. Apologising, the Doctor returns the beryllium chip he stole and states that it is not too late - he popped back in time and met a monk called Dionysius Exiguus who ensured that the millennium does not officially start until 2001. As a result, Wagg has not been sacked and his clock can start in the New Year, when it is supposed to. Overjoyed, Wagg asks if there is anything he can do to thank him; the Doctor whispers that he should simply never mention his "half-human" claim to anyone ever again.
Where Are They Now?
- Cass from The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"]
Cass explains that she has been revived from certain death by Ohila of the Sisterhood of Karn, who used a little of the remaining Elixir of Life to bring her back after the Eighth Doctor's regeneration. She offered Cass a choice of returning to death, returning to the Last Great Time War, or joining them. When she asked about the Doctor, Ohila said that even though she thought she was beyond saving, he begged them to try, to prove he was still "one of the nice ones". Eventually, Cass made her mind up and joined them in the Sisterhood.
The Unexplained
Grace Holloway and Chang Lee's revivals by the Doctor's TARDIS are left vague, initially presumed to be due to travelling back in time or because they died while in temporal orbit. However, the process has since been shown to greatly resemble regeneration energy, which was able to be drained similarly from the Tenth Doctor and also used to revive someone else when River Song did so for the Eleventh Doctor.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Doctor "had a word" with Dionysius Exiguus, a monk.
- The third millennium does not begin until 2001.
Notes
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Continuity
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