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With the aid of the Sisterhood of Karn, the Eighth Doctor regenerates into the War Doctor.
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Title: The Night of the Doctor (14 Nov 2013)
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| Episode complete credited cast: | |||
| Paul McGann | ... | The Doctor | |
| Emma Campbell-Jones | ... | Cass | |
| Clare Higgins | ... | Ohila | |
| John Hurt | ... | The War Doctor | |
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With the aid of the Sisterhood of Karn, the Eighth Doctor regenerates into the War Doctor.
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The Doctor: Back of the ship.
Cass: Why?
The Doctor: Because the front crashes first, think it through.
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The Bene Gesserit sisterhood from the best-selling Frank Herbert science fiction fantasy novel "Dune" is considered a major influence behind the Sisterhood of Karn. See more »Quotes
Cass: Where are we going?The Doctor: Back of the ship.
Cass: Why?
The Doctor: Because the front crashes first, think it through.
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14 November 2013 (UK) See more »Company Credits
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For the reviewer who said that the webisode would be incomprehensible to modern fans, I'm not even a fan and I found it comprehensible. All you really need to know to appreciate it is that Paul McGann was the Eighth Doctor but only appeared in a TV Movie back in 1996.
Because it's been seventeen years, he's made enough of a physical change for him to look as if he's been hardened or wisened by events. McGann gets a much better change to acquit himself and remind everybody that he's a very good actor. Far from being the chirpy boy in the TVM, the Eighth Doctor is now world weary. He's still chivalrous but his dashing charms fail to win over space fighter Cass (Emma Campbell Jones).
Seven minutes is barely enough time to establish anything and yet this is still a poignant webisode. The Doctor is known for being a good and trustworthy figure so it's a surprise when we meet someone with a reasonable distrust of him. The whole thing is much darker and whilst there is humour (McGann's opening lines being the best), it's more serious and more interesting than the main series. To use another fifty-year-old series as an analogy, McGann graduates from being a George Lazenby to Timothy Dalton.
The whole thing sent me running to the TVM and Big Finish audios. Though it might be made more for the purpose of filling in blanks and slotting Hurt's Doctor into the canon, it's a terrifically tantalising glimpse of what could have been.