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What they’ve agreed to fix turns out to be the temple’s inhabitants themselves, or at least some kind of proxies for them. Having been accosted by yet another panicky Guardian Priest, Yaz soon joins Vinder in the repair efforts. (Savvy Den of Geek readers were quick to point out that Williamson was a real person a philanthropist who actually did excavate tunnels underneath Liverpool for unknown reasons.) It’s implied his mysterious passageways may somehow connect to the temple, though we’ll have to wait and see. Yaz likewise arrives at the temple soon after, though her first encounter is with Joseph Williamson, the second historical character in the episode, who’s wandering the halls in some distress. There’s always something unsettling when the TARDIS leaves the Doctor in the lurch like this, and it’s good to get the occasional reminder that as close as the Doctor has become to her stolen time capsule, it still doesn’t mean she knows everything about it.ĭetermined not to be left out of the ‘People Who Somehow Survived the End of the Universe’ WhatsApp group, Vinder wakes up in an alien temple where he’s soon approached by a flying, gem shaped alien who demands to know if he’s here to help repair the place. They’re something of a fusion here, returning to the lumpier, asymmetrical aesthetic of the classic serials while retaining the technology and traditions of their more recent appearances, and the older design definitely helps sell the idea that these are battle-hardened soldiers with more than a few war wounds on display.ĭespite having grown a surplus of doors last episode, the Doctor soon finds that the TARDIS has an unexpected shortage of them this week, and since she can’t get inside she’s forced to flee given that there are Sontarans on the loose.
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This is the first time since ‘ The Sontaran Stratagem’ that the series has set them up to be a credible threat. We’ve seen quite a lot of them since the show’s revival, but mostly as part of a larger alliance or, thanks to Steven Moffat’s love of Strax, comic relief. All this really serves to do is shuffle the companions off to where the story needs them to be, which is an odd structural choice given that we don’t really know how they woke up in Crimea to begin with – would the story really have suffered if everyone had woken up in isolation and the Doctor had met Mary by herself?Įither way, we soon learn that the Sontarans are behind the slaughter. “Collision between Flux and Vortex energy,” the Doctor exclaims, which is a doozy of a logical leap considering she has no idea what the Flux actually is. This clues the Doctor into their new location – the siege of Sevastopol near the end of the Crimean War.Īt this point, Plot Happens, as Dan begins to fade away like he’s one of the McFly family and Yaz isn’t far behind.
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Everyone’s seemingly fine, although they appear to have arrived in the aftermath of a particularly bloody battle, and soon get taken for corpse-robbers by none other than Mary Seacole, played here with gusto by Sara Powell. Once she wakes up, the Doctor finds herself, Dan and Yaz lying strewn around outside the TARDIS, with Yaz reasoning that they must have been ‘thrown out’. Escher’s garden shed? We don’t know just yet. Is it a metaphor for the TARDIS, effectively the Doctor’s home, being increasingly contorted? A fragment of memory from her days with the Division? M.C. It’s only a glimpse, but it’s quite a tantalising visual even so. The Doctor, her companions and the TARDIS are still in one piece, more or less, although the Doctor gets a brief and unsettling vision of a seriously twisted flying house before she comes to. No, hang on, I’ve turned over two pages at once. Davies is really going to have his work cut out retconning this one.
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It’s a shock move by Chris Chibnall that ends the series for good with a thirty-second climax that no-one saw coming. Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers.Īs was teased by last week’s cliffhanger, we begin on something of a gloomy note as the unstoppable Flux completely obliterates the Doctor, her companions and the TARDIS.