Doctor Who Eve Of The Daleks: 10 Huge Questions After The New Year Special

3. Why Was Karl From Sheffield There?

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Karl’s unexpected appearance at the end of the episode is bizarre to say the least. Last seen in Sheffield, when the Doctor saved him from being a victim of the Stenza, Tim Shaw, he’s never been mentioned again. Now here he is, watching the fireworks coming from the destroyed warehouse, in Manchester.

We are led to believe he is alone, talking to himself as he looks either side to apparently see nobody else watching the display with him. He jokes the pyrotechnics are just for his benefit. But could this be a rouse by Chibnall, could he be talking to somebody else after all? Someone who has brought him from Sheffield to Manchester. The coincidence is too great otherwise.

But who could be with him, and why would they want him to see the show? Was he meant to be witnessing the Doctor’s death? Is it Tim Shaw, has he found a way off Ranskoor av Kolos? Perhaps it’s Graham one side of him and Ryan the other… and they are there to find the Doctor. We can’t help thinking this scene will be revisited in the final 13th Doctor story. Bringing her back to how it all started in some way.

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.