So, I heard Dr. Who was returning, and I pretty much didn’t give a shit. Season 11 was boring and preachy, 12 was better but always carried that underline wokeness.
The rating for this first episode was only 4.43 million. Not so great.
It opens with the Doctor and Yaz dangling from a gravity bar flying through space (Space as in open air space). They escape and land in the TARDIS.
We meet Dan, an instantly likeable character who plans a date with possible GF. That plan gets messed up when he is hunted and captured by a humanoid dog. Part of a fleet of billions of space crafts, first thought to be invading Earth but not.
Confronting the Doctor, the ‘Dog’ tells of The Flux. A thing that is destroying the universe. And a creature (I think death) has battled the doctor many times, but he has erased their encounters in her mind. He believes he has the upper advantage.
Not so much wokeness but actually a story there. It was a build up to the second episode. This was GOOD. I know, woke Dr. Who was really good.
And look who is back:
Not sure what they have to do with the story, or the girl the statue is chasing. I heard this short series was one story. First time, ever they said. Not true. The remember Bad Wolf, The War Doctor, and McCoy as the doc, Baker too. They mostly had four part or six part stories.
If I’m wrong, tell me in the comments.
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