Doctor Who: 10 WTF Moments From The Magician's Apprentice

5. The Axeman

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You’ve got one day left to live, and you can travel anywhere in time and space. Where do you go? Obviously the answer is Essex in 1138 (a sneaky Star Wars reference?). At least, if you’re the Doctor it is.

And, well, it makes for one hell of an entrance (say what you want about the man, but he really knows how to command attention). Cue the Doctor appearing out of a cloud of smoke, playing a guitar, riding on top of a tank, in 12th century Essex. Not a sentence I expected to write, nor a scene I expected to see, but both of those things have now happened.

The best thing is that Capaldi totally nails this moment, which in the hands of other actors may feel completely ridiculous. Ok, it still is rather ridiculous, but he pulls it off with an air of Keith Richards that makes this scene totally rock. 

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NCTJ-qualified journalist. Most definitely not a racing driver. Drink too much tea; eat too much peanut butter; watch too much TV. Sadly only the latter paying off so far. A mix of wise-old man in a young man's body with a child-like wonder about him and a great otherworldly sensibility.