The climactic showdown was more complex than it appeared. <\/p>
The novelisation of Doctor Who\u2019s The Giggle<\/a> expands on the controversial defeat of Neil Patrick Harris\u2019s Toymaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n The third and final 60th anniversary special reintroduced the legacy villain, who hadn\u2019t been seen on-screen in several decades, with Harris giving a memorable performance in the role.<\/p>\n However, some viewers criticised the episode\u2019s grand finale, which saw the Fourteenth (David Tennant) and Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) win the day by defeating the Toymaker in a seemingly simple game of catch.<\/p>\n While the episode appeared to suggest that the powerful villain simply missed the ball in a moment of poor coordination, the novelisation adapted by James Goss hints there was a ruse at work by the two Doctors.<\/p> It suggests that the recently duplicated Time Lords caught out the Toymaker with a feint, miming a false throw that knocked his concentration away from where it needed to be.<\/p>\n There is also an implication that an earlier close call, in which the Fourteenth Doctor nearly fumbles a hard throw from his bi-generated successor, was merely an act they devised to stay one step ahead of their shared foe.<\/p>\n The Giggle novelisation offers an interesting revision on the climactic game of catch: