Doctor Who Hints The TARDIS Is Secretly Dying

Doctor Who Hints The TARDIS Is Secretly Dying

Doctor Who’s season 13 premiere, “The Halloween Apocalypse,” shows the Flux threatening all of creation, but is the TARDIS already at death’s door?

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Doctor Who Hints The TARDIS Is Secretly Dying

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who season 13, episode 1.

The action-packed Doctor Who: Flux premiere may be hiding a big secret: the TARDIS is dying. Season 13 is taking the show’s format in a new direction with just six episodes, all of which form a single story called Flux. It’s the last full season of Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, and the final season with showrunner Chris Chibnall at the helm.

“The Halloween Apocalypse” is the first chapter of this new story and it kicks Flux off with a parade of new threats and classic Doctor Who monsters alike. The Flux itself threatens to destroy all of existence, with a side-order of Lupari, Weeping Angels, and Sontarans to contend with in the meantime. The episode is filled with unanswered questions and mysterious clues, but is there something even more terrifying hiding in plain sight?

“The Halloween Invasion” boasts a shotgun blast of plot threads, but a dying TARDIS is hidden at the center. Throughout the episode, the TARDIS shows strange signs and is operating in unexpected ways, even by the standards of Doctor Who’s notoriously mercurial blue box. All of these little abnormalities and malfunctions are more than just a coincidence. Doctor Who: Flux is seemingly revealing to viewers that not only is the universe in grave danger, but the TARDIS itself is also dying.

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Some of the signs of the TARDIS’s ailing health are obvious. The interior of the TARDIS is shown cracking, and Yaz points out a leak of sickly-looking black goo dripping onto the console room floor. But the episode is hiding subtler warning signs as well. Cutting back from Dan’s introduction, the first image is a sparking TARDIS console. It’s not an unfamiliar sight, but The Doctor and Yaz aren’t in battle. Rather, a simple trip to Earth has the TARDIS in such dire straits that it puzzles The Doctor herself. The episode features a playful running gag where The Doctor makes a “final adjustment” to the TARDIS by striking it with a rubber mallet, but the malfunction is more concerning than David Tennant’s Doctor giving the console a good whack. The Doctor sets a destination only for the console to briefly glow red before shuddering to a stop. The solution is light-hearted but it points to a serious problem with the TARDIS. Later once Dan is aboard, Yaz quickly explains that the TARDIS is actually a living thing. This could simply be a new companion learning the ropes, but it could also be a reminder to the audience that the TARDIS in Doctor Who is alive, and its death is completely possible.

There’s been a dying TARDIS depicted in Doctor Who before. In season 7, episode 13, “The Name of the Doctor,” The Doctor visits his grave on Trenzalore. The TARDIS is there, giant and distended as the seemingly infinite interior slowly leaks out. The Doctor calls it a “size leak,” one of the final signs of a dying TARDIS. There are obvious differences; Doctor Who season 13, episode 1 doesn’t show the same kind of enormous expansion at the end of the TARDIS’s life. But could the cracks be the beginning of the same kind of physical deterioration? The enlarged TARDIS on Trenzalore is the result of a massive leak, and while so far it’s only produced a stream of black fluid, “The Halloween Apocalypse” actually shows The Doctor’s TARDIS console room starting to leak. The image is worrying enough that it clearly troubles Thirteen before she attempts to brush it off, masking her obvious concern.

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The final moments of “The Halloween Apocalypse” show The Doctor cracking open the TARDIS console and sending a blast of vortex energy at the Flux. In past seasons of Doctor Who, the heart of the TARDIS has been shown to have almost limitless power. Here, the brief burst of energy fizzles out, leaving the Flux almost entirely unscathed. While this could be due to the sheer power behind the Flux, the rest of the episode reveals a different answer. This ineffectual puff of energy may actually be the TARDIS’s last gasp.

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