If you enjoy the movies with pirates and that contain fights with swords you may enjoy this episode too. If you'd like to see the bottom of the sea as you are inside the TARDIS you may watch it too. The episode is fun, it has special effects (some of them are excellent), but that's about it - it does not stand with anything else.
The Doctor started the TARDIS' reset (we, the IT guys, would call it hard reset) to clear all the effects of Flux but the action has an unwanted effect: it has produced a time loop that caught the Doctor, her friends and two other people in the Manchester building where the TARDIS has landed, a self storage in which people could rent some space to put there their personal belonging for a longer period of time. The worst part is that some Daleks find out about that and try to kill the Doctor because she had previously killed some millions of Daleks not so long time ago, during the last episode of 13th series. It wasn't even her fault, the massacre was the plan of the Sontaran clones, but who care about that - the effects being the same. The result? Find out! :)
The last chapter of Flux was proven to be.. a massacre. I can't say it was not unexpected, during an event that involves the destruction of the entire Universe some victims are expected to happen. There were some good moments, too. Only some, but good - the rate of the episode was a medium one (it was not bad, but it was far from something extraordinary).
And Tecteum returns in Doctor's time briefly (only in this episode) and unexpectedly: as Division chief she is the person accountable for the appearance of the Flux and for trying (more or less successfully) to destroy the Universe. The moments the two women spend together are at least interesting (and almost shadow the rest of the action): the Timeless Child could have come from another Universe and Tecteum tries to get there after she smashed her original Universe. She has the Doctors memories and it's only a problem of time (almost a week, for us) until she is going to get them back.
It's the first time it's introduced a rogue Weeping angel, one that runs from his people and from the Time Lords' Division, and who is capable to do anything and to betray anyone in order to escape. It's the first time such angel has (or it claims it has) the entire history of this Division, and also the lost memories of the Doctor, but it's unlikely it's going to share them.
Its story was a battle for survival and brings with it floating Daleks, Weeping Angels and talkative Cybermen, all among the familiar foes in the show. This episodes is introducing a new character, Bell, Vinder's lover, and their unborn child. The lovers are trying to find each other in the Universe broken by Flux, and they will probably succeed. Probably, but that's another story that we are going to watch.
In the middle of Crimean War (the year 1855) the Doctor and her companions cross paths with Mary Seacole, considered by some to be the first nurse practitioner, an istoric figure that helps the wounded from both sides in conflict. Historical speaking, in that war the British fought the Russian in the peninsula because the Otoman empire was collapsing. Mary Seacole was supposed to be there and then, but the several space ships full with Sontaran warriors were new and out of place. Especially that they were already ruling a big territory (as Russia and China together - and I think that's not a mistake, considering the tension the two countries have been provoking lately).
The series 13 of the new Doctor Who is something special: it has only 6 episodes (shorter than other seasons because of covid-19) and tells only one story. The Halloween Apocalypse is the first part and, no matter its jam-packed action style (without many pauses), it's only an introduction: it presents us the characters and the appearance of Flux, the phenomenon that threatens to destroy the Earth. If this season continue in the same style as the first episode it might be a good one, but we have to watch it together in the following month and half.
One of the Doctor's greatest foes, the Cybermen, return in this exciting new trailer for upcoming first-person adventure game.
It was an episode with action and betrayal, with victories and loses (the departure of good friends). I can't say it's a bad episode but I've watch better episodes.
In the 2020 Christmas special of the Radio Times Doctor Who podcas the team counted down the best Doctor Who festive specials.
I admit it: the story for this episode was different than expected but it's pretty good, considering. It explains a few things (who actually is Ruth, the unknown Doctor's face) and brings a new light to the moment when Matt Smith's Doctor got the extra regenerations.
Cybermen were once humans and they lost their feelings and emotions when they became cyborgs. Time Lords were once humans (and that became more clearer in this series) that were transformed during or after they passed through a temporal vortex.
There is mystery and horror, and that's good, and time travels because some Artificial Intelligence tries to survive in the past after losing a war. There is also some science, the one that built the Cybermen, and the favorite Time Lord. I enjoyed the episode because it succeeds in combining pretty good the the mentioned elements.
The episode is pretty good but I would prefer that these creatures to be more dark and frightening than they were - they didn't make much impression with their actions comparing with what they said they can do.
I almost liked this episode of Doctor Who. Why almost? Because it started very good, with a massive dose of mystery, but the quality dropped in the second part of the episode.
It's official: the season 12 of new Doctor Who is becoming interesting. The season started with a worse episode but in the fifth episode the captain Jack Harkness is back (for a brief time) and we had (for also a brief moment) two Doctors.
The planet is saved, again, even if the spider queen could be more credible, and the rivalry between Tesla and Edison continues even after they have fought together against a common enemy.
Orphan 55, the 55th planet that has been abandoned by the humans because, from different motifs such war or natural catastrophe, it became uninhabitable. There were left behind only the people too poor to afford the evacuation or too late to go with the ships.
Surprinsingly, the second part of Spyfall is better than the first. There were, still, some issues (like the shoes with embedded lasers) but the episode was not bad at all. More: it comes close to Doctor's style. Twice I could enjoy some of the effects of time travels and that's good.
If the season 12 of new Doctor Who continues in the same style as its first episode I will not be surprised that some people will make it lost on purpose because of bad writing and bad production.
The usual Christmas Special Episode was delayed a few days, on New Year's eve, and the Doctor and her companions started to celebrate the first day of some new years…
Well, this episode has been much more interesting than the last 7. Why it had to happen this ”quality break” in order to get an almost boring series? In fact,…
It's that time of the year when the gramother's stories (the grandma number 5 in Doctor's case) become reality, and the contact between the Universe we are in and another…
Arriving in 17th Century Lancashire, the TARDIS team become embroiled in a witch trial. The Christians could not spill the blood of other humans, so, in that times the accusers…
When the Doctor gets a message asking for help she accepts to do something about it and she takes her companions (Graham, Yaz and Ryan) to investigate the warehouse moon…
The sixth episode of series 11 was better than the previous episode, it made me keeping me watching it until the end, but it seems it was missing something. It…
This episode was rather funny than serious: the Doctor and her companions were in danger, but I couldn't feel the tensions at all. The creature eating inorganic components of the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mfddueg8os Doctor's team has returned home, in Sheffield, in the town she took away from only a half of hour after they left (from the perspective of the rest of…
Sometimes, to become witness of historical events and let the history unfold itself can be pretty hard. But not that hard as correcting the deviations (when the events are influenced by another temporal travel that wants the history changed) into a manner that makes the involved persons very familiar.