The First Doctor

            My guitar stayed in tune a little longer (about every other song) on Monday.

            There was a knock on my door in the afternoon from my neighbour, Benji. He said that his friend was opening a coffee shop and was short staffed and so he was going to go and work there overnight. He wanted to show me how to turn the furnace on because now that the weather is a little warmer it won’t always kick in before our apartments feel cold. He said that it’s just a matter of turning the thermostat up to 75 (24) from 73 (23 - I don’t know why it’s not in centigrade), and then it will automatically drop back to 73 and click on.

            I watched the final episode of the 10^th season of Doctor Who. Bill is a Cyberman but her mind is resisting so strongly that it still feels to her like she is her old self, unless she looks in a mirror. The Doctor still thinks there is hope to change her back because she actually cried a human tear. Missy and the Master leave the Doctor to fight the Cyberman army without them but Missy has a change of heart and stabs the Master so that he will regenerate and become her, but then he kills her with a full blast from his sonic screwdriver. She laughs as she dies. If she’s not really dead, it probably won’t be the beautiful Michelle Gomez who’ll play the part again, because she says it’s over for her.

            Nardole leads the occupants of the 644 km long ship’s solar farm to a farm on another level and it seems settles down to farmer’s life with many surrogate children and what looks like might turn into marriage with a matronly frau.

            The Doctor and Bill defeat the Cybermen but the Doctor is mortally wounded. Bill begins to weep in despair when from across the cosmos arrives Heather, the young woman that Bill fell for just before Heather turned into a time travelling water creature. She’d tracked Bill through her tears. They kiss and Bill is suddenly no longer a Cyberman but a water creature like Heather. They take the Doctor back to the Tardis and Heather tells Bill she can make her human again or she can travel the universe with her. After shedding tears on top of the Doctor’s body, Bill and Heather jump out of the Tardis together. The Doctor wakes up and begins to regenerate but he resists because he doesn’t want to change. The Tardis takes him somewhere. He leaves the Tardis and continues his struggle as he talks to himself about being the Doctor. Suddenly though he hears someone else approach and the casting or makeup is amazing because, David Bradley really does look like William Hartnell, who played the first Doctor.

            William Hartnell was my first Doctor too and I remember watching the first episodes back in the 60s. The Daleks scared the crap out of me. The Doctor was also a bit of an asshole in those days.

            I immediately downloaded the 2017 Christmas Special to find out what happens next. All I know is that the Doctor will be a woman at the end.