409 – Doctor Who – The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Doctor Who Series 11 comes to a (book)end. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis:  Two religious zealots stand prepared to build a temple when their god appears before them.  That can’t be good. 3,407 years later, the Doc and the Gang pick up multiple distress signals coming from the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos.  A planet whose name literals means “disintegrator of the soul.”  Armed with Neural blockers to prevent their souls being disintegrated, they go to investigate.  On the planet they find the wrecks of many spacecraft and one survivor, Patraxi.  His memory has been damaged by the planet, but with the addition of a neural blocker he begins to remember, with things coming back just often enough to keep the mysteries going and reveal info as needed throughout the episode. They discover that Tim Shaw, erstwhile Stenza from the Doctor’s regeneration episode has been trapped on this planet and is manipulating the Ux – the previously mentioned religious zealots – to turn whole worlds into trophies – rendering them devoid of life in the process.  The fleets of ships were races attempting to bring Tim Shaw to justice for his atrocities.   Graham vows to kill Tim Shaw, while Tim Shaw vows to exact revenge on the Doctor by making Earth his next trophy.