I always felt Moffat was the king of providing unsatisfactory reveals to season long mystery boxes. Yet with the Ruby’s mother outcome, RTD surpassed even Hell Bent’s ‘The Hybrid’ reveal in sheer “Alan Partridge nonplussed shrug meme” factor.

I’ll be the first to say that given the show has leant way too much into cosmically significant…[Read more]

It has been a strange series for sure with it being as Doctor lite a series of Doctor Who as I can remember. This was familiar RTD penultimate episode of a series fodder though. Some happy reunions, some dangling plot threads and an existential threat of a big bad getting revealed right at the end.

The big lingering mysteries are Ruby and her…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>As for mystery boxes, we have a few to be opened down the line. The Boss and ‘the one who waits’ could be the same person or two different enemies. Assuming they are one and the same, this will probably be the season arc for the 15th. Is this going to be an attempt to create a whole new character, or simply repurpose a…[Read more]

Ncuti from here and the preview for next time looks like he is going to be an action packed leading man, a Jon Pertwee for the modern age. If he doesn’t succeed in the role then it won’t be for lack of charisma or screen presence.

I can understand the eye rolling at keeping Tennant in their back pocket. He is the definitive modern Doctor though…[Read more]

The Isaac Newton situation is an interesting one. I tend to think changing the ethnicity of a real figure from history is acceptable if you are using that change to tell a story from that new paradigm such as in the musical Hamilton for example.

Even in the flawed comparison of a white MLK, I think that if someone was looming specifically to…[Read more]

The real refreshing aspect of this is the total lack of romantic tension between Doctor and companion. After so many years of companions pining after the Doctor barring a few exceptions it has been nice to avoid all that.

These three episodes are definitely being stuffed to the brim with things that fans who remember series 4 will remember fondly. This was Midnightesque in a lot of ways and had a dash of The impossible Planet/Satan pit and maybe even a snifter of Utopia. 

That isn’t a bad thing. People aren’t expecting these Fourteenth Doctor specials to be an abs…[Read more]

An enjoyable romp I would say. As a signposting of Doctor Who to come it seems very significant that RTD has opened the fobwatch marked ‘Chibnall era’ and made clear that for better or for worse, the Flux and the Timeless Child are not going to be ignored. In fact he’s pretty much referenced the flux more times than Chibnall did in the three…[Read more]

I certainly feel like these first three episodes are a free hit for RTD to go through his greatest hits. An appearance from OG Rose seems almost inevitable even if it is via some villainous trickery.

There is added poetry to Donna having a daughter named Rose. Rose and Donna are inextricably linked when you consider that Rose is in a parallel…[Read more]

Very enjoyable. I’d forgotten what it was like to get an episode that was just fun to watch from start to finish. There was some clunky dialogue and exposition but that will I think just be a problem for this episode.

It was also funny in the right ways and in the right places. The “She’s fine, she’s not fine, she’s been fined” taxi scene was…[Read more]