“We’ve gone back in time. Dalek incoming. Two people in this building about to die unless we stop it.”
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Star Trek has done it. The X Files has done it. Person of Interest has done it. Heck, even Doctor Who has done it before (Heaven Sent). But for the non-nerds in the hungover New Year’s Day audience, Dan Lewis spelled it out in a way that pretty much everyone should know – “It’s Groundhog Day”.
Continue reading “Doctor Who: Series 14, Episode 00 – Eve of the Daleks”“Taste the victory, my soldiers!.”
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The opening “chapter” having set out the multifarious plot threads for Chris Chibnall’s magnum opus, this second ep of Doctor Who: Flux was more focused and made more of an effort to tell an actual story. Rather than dealing with every one of the characters left in jeopardy at the end of the previous week’s cliffhanger, War of the Sontarans zeroed in on just several across two plot threads – what had happened to the occupants of the TARDIS, and the unfortunate Vinder, in the wake of their encounter with the Flux.
Continue reading “Doctor Who: Series 13, Episode 2 – Flux: Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans”“The end of the universe. I always wondered what it would feel like.”
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The Doctor is back, and the universe is ending. Again. I must admit to a feeling of déjà vu about this; the universe has been at stake in stories as varied as Logopolis, Terminus and most Russell T Davies season finales, and it’s still there. Experience suggests that saving the universe is not something the Doctor will have a problem with.
Continue reading “Doctor Who: Series 13, Episode 1 – Flux: Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse”
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