Doctor Who season 12

 It's the second season of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, and this has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride season for sure!

Though, the downside is that it lacked some "lighter" episodes that are often around in seasons of Doctor Who, the 10 epsiodes brimmed with dark and gloomy arcs this time.

Because we get to see Jack Harkness return, but aslo the Cybermen, a strange unknown incarnation of The Doctor and the secret of the Timeless Child.  But it all starts when the Doctor is summoned to MI6, after secret agents from various agencies have been put in a coma that is rewriting their DNA.  Their only lead is Daniel Barton, the CEO of a multimedia company, as they seek out Agent O who has been monitoring extraterrestial life.  It turns out that the cullprits are an alien race called the Kasaavin, but that Agent O is in charge of it all, being none other then a returned and regenerated Master.  

Captured in the aliens dimension, the Doctor meets Ada Lovelace, and they both go back to 1834.  Through circumstances though, they end up in Paris during world war II, where the Doctor meets with the Master who tells her Gallifrey has been destroyed.  The Master is exposed to the Kasaavin, and they take him away as the Doctor goes to see the destroyed Gallifrey for herself, and learns from a recording by the Master that their lives are based on lies.

On an uninhabital world, the Doctor and her companions come into contact with Dregs, who are out to kill all the inhabitants of a spa located there.  Even though a few people are rescued by the Doctor, this was an episode that had serious "Alien" influences, and perhaps the grimmest of the series.  They next need to ward of an alien invasion with the help of Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla, as later the Judoon arrive looking for a fugitive.  Her companions are snagged away to a spaceship, piloted by Captain Jack, who sends them back to the Doctor with the warning from the future.  As Ruth, the target of the Judoon, regains her memories, she and the Doctor unbury the Tardis near a light house, as Ruth is seemingly a reincarnation of the Doctor, but neither can remember the other, and the mystery of the two Doctors remains unexplained.

With an ecological crisis averted next, they are faced by a nightmare inducing alien that claims to be an ancient god, and who tricks them into freeing his companion.  But they manage to turn the tables on them, as they go to 1816 afterwards meeting Mary Shelly.  

 

 

There the words of Captain Jack come into being, as a lone cyberman called Ashad is looking for the Cyberium, containing all the knowledge of the destroyed empire of the Cybermen.  Arriving at the last outpost in the future of humanity, they must face and stop the reawakening Cybermen empire, and they learn of a portal carrying people to safety.  Opening it, it brings them to Gallifrey, where the Master reappears and imprisons her in the Matrix of Knowledge.  It reveals to her that she is actually an orphaned child from another dimension, and through genome extraction her finder created the race of Time-Lords.  The Master absorbs the Cyberium as Ashad and the Cybermen arrive, and converts dead Time Lords into special Cybermen, the CyberMasters.  Ruth reappears, helping the Doctor escape the Matrix, and together with the last rebellion soldier from the Cybermen war the Master is stopped.  But as they return to Earth, Judoon appear, putting a personality crisis suffering Doctor away in a prison far in space...

And so the season ends, and it was one with a lot of twists and turns for sure.  Now seperated from her companions and in prison, the Doctor not only has to figure out a way to get back, but also to figure out who or what she actually is.

Guess we get to see some answers to those in the upcoming Christmas Special then!