Geek Syndicate Issue 9 March 2014 | Page 23

Geek Syndicate If you don’t want to know what happens during the course of the Trial of a Time Lord, please look away now because this is a big spoiler. SPOILERS, SWEETIE! Through the trial The Doctor is facing off against The Valeyard (you might recognise that name) who is determined to bring The Doctor down and show the Time Lords that the renegade causes more harm than good in the universe. In the final few episodes, we discover that the Valeyard is so much more than simply the man putting The Doctor on trial but is actually a manifestation of all that is evil inside The Doctor, originating between “his twelfth and final” incarnation. If the prosecution were to succeed, then the Valeyard would receive all of the Doctor’s remaining lives for his own, potentially re-writing history. END OF SPOILERS Since Moffat became show runner we have seen The D