Doctor Who fans ‘heartbroken’ as show rewrites fate of Gallifrey as ‘pulverised, burned and nuked’ planet
DOCTOR Who fans were left mourning the home planet of their favourite Time Lord on Sunday night.
The BBC sci-fi smash returned for the second part of its Spyfall adventure and suffice to say it seriously upped the ante.
After thwarting The Master’s attempts to send her companions crashing to their death on a nose-diving plane, The Doctor pulled off a hack of planet-saving proportions.
However, while Jodie managed to prevent yet another alien invasion, she was left reeling as The Master (Sacha Dawan) dropped a bombshell about Gallifrey.
The villain revealed that the once thriving civilisation was “pulverised, burned, nuked… all of the above.”
Taking credit for the mass destruction, The Master continued: “I had to make them pay for what I discovered. They lied to us. The founding fathers of Gallifrey.
“Everything we were told is a lie. We are not who we think, you or I.
“The whole existence of our species is built on the lie of The Timeless Child. Do you see it? It’s deep in all of our memories, our identity.”
The Timeless Child was first referenced last season by clairvoyant monsters The Remnants and was brought up again in last week’s premiere.
The Remnants told The Doctor it was something “hidden, even from yourself,” buried deep in her subconscious.
Refusing to provide any more insight, The Master signed off: “I’d tell you more, but why would I make it easy for you? It wasn’t for me.”
Given The Master’s track record of deceit, it’s no surprise that The Doctor was sceptical of the explosive claims.
However, upon visiting Gallfirey at the end of the episode, she was crushed to discover that he was telling the truth.
Fans at home were equally heartbroken to see the former metropolis in ashes and took to social media with their thoughts.
“This was one of the saddest scenes I’ve seen in Doctor Who. The Doctor going back to Gallifrey and seeing it burn. It was heartbreaking to see Gallifrey like this,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
A second added: “I’m so over the master. I use to love him so much. I still can’t believe he killed all the Time Lords and destroyed Gallifrey.
“I’m heartbroken over that episode. I was so happy when the doctors (plural) saved Gallifrey. Now it’s gone.”
A third fumed: “Fight me, Chris Chibnall and Sacha Dhawan, what have you done to my favourite planet?”
While a fourth raged: “So I slept on it and nope, I’m still so angry with Doctor Who. What they’ve done regarding Gallifrey just completely s***s all over Day of the Doctor! Ughhh. Not happy.”
The furore comes after fans spotted a number of crossovers between Doctor Who and Dracula last week.
Doctor Who continued on Sunday night at 7pm.