What the Hell Just Happened on ‘Doctor Who’?

Doctor Who‘s latest season has just come to an end—and with it, we just got hit with an absolute shocker of a cliffhanger. Let’s discuss, shall we? Preparing to sacrifice himself to shift time and save the young Poppy–a descendant of human and Time Lord biology–by shunting his regenerative energy into the Time Vortex, “The Reality War” climaxes as the 15th Doctor shuts himself in his TARDIS and flies away from Earth, bracing to give it all. The paradox of time itself splitting apart, however, gives him a helping hand… in the form of none other than Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor. Who doesn’t take much convincing, strewn out of her own timestream by the impending schism, to help this new Doctor say goodbye for the sake of reality. After an emotional farewell where the two of them ruminate on lives cut short–a pointed nod, perhaps–the Doctor exposes himself to the TARDIS’ console, practically ripping the regenerative energy out of his own body to blast the time machine. Everything shatt ... Read full article.