“You’ve given me a gift. Of myself. You think that could destroy me?"
The culmination of Chris Chibnall’s plan for Doctor Who, Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children (2020) is about breaking down the certainties of series and self to create something new. This Black Archive explores this in the contexts of the history and mythology of Ireland and of the Garda Síochána, and of Doctor Who’s own origins in an era of psychedelic self-exploration and governmental experiments in mind control.
Ryan Bradley is a freelance writer and researcher from Northern Ireland.
