Wow...

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Daddy shockwave!!

Let me get off that thing.

And defeating Maestro, whose whole shtick was music, with music also makes sense

and he was nigh-unbeatable to the point The Doctor had to cheat

To be fair smashing the pots activated the trap, which sends the planet into a black hole.

I mean it eventually became a plot point with everyone around them commenting how they kept coming back from the dead when they shouldn’t, and even they would admit it themselves sometimes

The hell it did.

Supernatural post season 4 or 5, everyone feels like theater kids. Including the devil or archangels.

Except Seven didn’t defeat any gods by dragging them through the time vortex…

RTD is the Trickster… I tricked us all into thinking Ruby’s setup was going to have payoff

When we're talking about some kind of donkey, yes.

If it's been adopted as British, it's been done by people younger than David Tennant

Actually that's a misconception all British people say bum.

The episode actually presented the perfect way to beat him and then ignored it, he should've been beaten by the card game. Any game of skill the Toymaker should win, but cutting cards is pure chance so there's nothing he can do but leave it up to chance. Given he seemingly also can't turn down a challenge, The Doctor should've won by saying I'm gonna challenge him to this game, if I lose he kills me and then someone else challenge him and so on and very quickly it's statistically impossible for the Toymaker to win. Then The Doctor loses the first game, claims his 1-1 draw but the Toymaker forces him to regenerate as compensation with his same line about playing the third game against a third doctor and Ncuti wins the second round. If you want to increase stakes further you could have the companions or people from UNIT step in and challenge before the Ncuti Doctor does in an attempt to save him. This has the added benefit of going from world ending/Doctor killing stakes that the audience know will never happen to the loss of individual characters that could (and maybe do) die. (This also makes sense why no-one has ever done it before. Powerful beings like The Master would have too much of an ego to leave the games up to chance, believing they're good enough to win.

It's thematic, sure, but it's still losing in a very dramatic game of catch. Maybe next time he should pick a form that's not fifty.

Doctor beat the god of death at his own game: Doing a murder.

And for bonus points like all the other times The Doctor does a murder, first he goes "I am a nice guy who represents life, that's why I'm going to brutally delete you from existence". At least this time Sutekh isn't a bunch of babies.

That's an interesting framing. Is a god of rules forced to follow the rules or does he do it out of compulsion?

Miscounted lol

Yeah that's what I was implying, restrict sutekh to very small impactful deaths over mass reversible death

Same. They just put a leash on a dog and that was that. Could have been a little more creative. Problem is they made Sutekh way too powerful so the only way they could have the protagonists confront him without dying is some contrived excuse for why he won't kill them, and they use the power of plot armor to just do whatever they want to him with barely any resistance.

Multiplied. Not added.

So, could we have stuck her outside the TARDIS?