![]() ![]() Suddenly, Team TARDIS are back outside the temple, apparently engaged in some kind of military operation to recapture the inner sanctum. To stop her friends from being dry-roasted by this, the Doctor thinks on her feet and completes the circuit, taking the place of the last missing Mouri and bringing the brunt of the work onto herself. Even as the universe crumbles, the show’s Big Bads are making last-minute land grabs to rule over the dust.Īfter the titles – and a lovely little touch this series is that while the words ‘DOCTOR WHO’ spin gracefully off-screen, the subtitle “FLUX” breaks apart instead – we’re back in the Temple of Atropos, where Swarm is about to dose Yaz, Vinder and the remaining Mouri with pure, uncut time. We see an all-too-brief glimpse of Daleks – gorgeous, coppery Daleks with flared hoods around the eyestalks that are bound to pop up again in next year’s specials – and learn via Bel that it’s not just the Sontarans making last-minute power plays. She’s a whip-smart survivor in the aftermath of the apocalypse, cadging rides from planet to planet in the ruins of a universe that, while not exactly ended by the Flux, is now a reality that many consider should be taken out behind the barn and put out of its misery. That combination of randomly flitting between different places and times of day without being fully aware that you’re doing so, reliving past occasions or encounters but with people from a different time in your life jarringly juxtaposed… Doctor Who has nibbled around the edges of dreamscapes before, but rarely for this much of the run-time.īefore all that, though, we begin with Thaddea Graham as Bel. For one thing, although a Weeping Angel gets tossed into the mix and their very nature tends to invoke a lot of jump scares, this episode isn’t particularly frightening. Then I thought, no, it’s actually more like ‘ Can You Hear Me?’, co-written by Chris Chibnall and featuring the same kind of nightmare-slash-memory scenarios for the companions, underscored by a pair of creepy immortal villains.Īfter more consideration, though, those comparisons are mostly surface-level. I’d initially intended to start this review comparing ‘Once, Upon Time’to the deliberately ambiguous ‘ Listen’, the Peter Capaldi serial that left whether the ‘monster’ even existed up to the audience. ![]() Warning: this Doctor Who: Flux review contains spoilers.
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