Doctor Who, season 12 episode 7 – Can you hear me?

The people from ancient times said the the gods were cruel and vengeful, at least some of them, that they were responsible for many nightmares and problems of men. Maybe it was so, maybe it is just another perspective, but this idea can be found in this episode of new Doctor Who.

When the Doctor’s companions go home, taking a break from adventures to be with their families and friends, they start to have nightmares and visions of two unknown beings. The Doctor get something from Aleppo in the year1380 and go there to investigate. She founds that almost all the man from a local hospital went missing. All of this are connected and the only Syrian left in the hospital get into TARDIS and, along Doctor’s usual companions, in a remote area of the galaxy where two planets were about to collide.

How you can talk to 2 gods that feeds with the suffering of ordinary beings and who can shift their shape very easily? The only answer is “intelligent” because you can’t use force in this situations – only the intelligence can save you. 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.

A lonely Doctor is not a happy Doctor, she need people around her. But, eventually, all the Doctor’s story (since the beginning of the show until now) was told mainly through his / her companions – we need them more than he / she does.

Directed by Emma Sullivan, written by Chris Chibnall and Charlene James.

Cast: Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor), Bradley Walsh (Graham O’Brien), Tosin Cole (Ryan Sinclair), Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan), Clare-Hope Ashitey (Rakaya), Aruhan Galieva, Nasreen Hussain, Buom Tihngang (Tibo), Bhavnisha Parmar (Sonya Khan), Sharon D. Clarke (Grace O’Brien), Ian Gelder.

Next episode, The Haunting of Villa Diodati, airs 16 February 2020 and takes place in 1816, on a night that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The plan was to spend the evening in the presence of literary greats – but the ghosts are all too real. And the Doctor is forced into an earth-shattering decision.