It also saw the departure of Turlough, who was in fact an exile from Trion, and since their civil war had ended, he was now free to return. Kamelion too (largely ignored in the previous several episodes due to the robot prop being glitchy) met his end<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fc01.deviantart.net\/fs70\/f\/2011\/050\/9\/f\/planet_of_fire_by_harnois75-d39weo3.jpg\")
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With the episode \u201cPlanet of Fire,\u201d Doctor Who revisits some classic tropes of religious skepticism. On a volcanic world inhabited by a people many of whom are devoutly religious, faith comes to the fore very early. But by the end of the episode, the central deity of their belief system, Logar, turns out to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,80],"tags":[1325,2765,4029,7103,7845,9218,10169],"class_list":["post-6156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who-science-fiction","category-religion","tag-born-again","tag-doctor-who","tag-gods","tag-master","tag-myth","tag-planet-of-fire","tag-religion"],"yoast_head":"\n
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With the episode<\/a> \u201cPlanet of Fire<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ealClKydcB0\/S2J_Dyiby-I\/AAAAAAAABcY\/AFl3vEId7B0\/s320\/st--6q09.jpg\")
The Master also plays a key role. Having been accidentally shrunk, he is now seeking to be \u201cborn again\u201d (that phrase is actually used in the episode) with the help of numismaton gas (which sounds like it ought to stem linguistically from pneuma<\/em>, the Greek word for spirit, associated in obvious ways with ideas of rebirth).<\/p>\n