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'''''The Magician's Apprentice''''' was the first episode of [[Series 9 (Doctor Who)|series 9]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | '''''The Magician's Apprentice''''' was the first episode of [[Series 9 (Doctor Who)|series 9]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. | ||
It saw the return of [[Davros]] after [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' in [[2008 (releases)|2008]], who was shown prior to his disfigurement for the first time on television. However, it was not the first story to depict Davros as a [[child]]. [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[I, Davros]]'' chronicled his rise to becoming the leader of the [[Scientific Elite]], starting in his early [[Adolescence|teenage years]]. The episode gives no explanation as to how Davros managed to survive after the events of ''Journey's End'', nor when the Doctor discovered he had done so | It saw the return of [[Davros]] after [[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' in [[2008 (releases)|2008]], who was shown prior to his disfigurement for the first time on television. However, it was not the first story to depict Davros as a [[child]]. [[Big Finish Productions]]' ''[[I, Davros]]'' chronicled his rise to becoming the leader of the [[Scientific Elite]], starting in his early [[Adolescence|teenage years]]. The episode gives no explanation as to how Davros managed to survive after the events of ''Journey's End'', nor when the Doctor discovered he had done so. | ||
The episode also placed the Twelfth Doctor in a moral dilemma that he himself had brought up many years ago in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'': ''"If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?"'', with the Doctor coming face to face not only with Davros in the present but also as a child in the past. | The episode also placed the Twelfth Doctor in a moral dilemma that he himself had brought up many years ago in his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'': ''"If someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?"'', with the Doctor coming face to face not only with Davros in the present but also as a child in the past. | ||
