Doctor Who: Flux 3, Once, Upon Time

As I watched some reviews so far, some people didn’t like this episode and I am not surprised – the episode it’s not linear, it’s fragmented and it rises a lot of questions. Some even call it delirium. And a lot of people do not have the stomach for such things.

The episode is an incursion in the past and the future, in the lives of different people, because time is broken and the producers tried to show exactly this. The episode has probably alienated some Doctor Who fans but that’s kind of OKish (the showrunner is going to be changed soon anyway).

In some distant past the Doctor fought against the Ravages and she won (and I mean Doctor Ruth, the fugitive Doctor, did that, not the current female Doctor). At that time some Mouri women were frozen in quantum traps to let time run through them, and for a long time that device worked. Now a few of them are broken and the Doctor, Yaz, Dan and Vinder replaced the Mouri in order to fix the time. Finally they succeeded but I am not going to tell you how. Broken time, remember? Telling this story will broke about anything here and I don’t want that, just watch the episode yourselves.

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.

There are only 3 episodes left from season 13 and an Weeping Angel is hijacking the TARDIS. This shouldn’t be something nice, it shouldn’t be anything but strange, but the next episode is about the Village of the Angels and we’ll be watching that story unfolding itself too. Probably, if you aren’t already alienated by Chris Chibnall’s writing.

The episode was directed by Azhur Saleem, written by Chris Chibnall, based on Cybermen created by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler.

Cast: Jacob Anderson (Vinder), Nadia Albina (Diane), John Bishop (Dan Lewis), Nicholas Briggs (voice of Cybermen), Craige Els (Karvanista), Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan), Nigel Lambert (voice of Priest Triangle), Steve Oram (Joseph Williamson), Craig Parkinson (Grand Serpent), Bhavnisha Parmar (Sonya Khan), Rochenda Sandall (Azure), Sam Spruell (Swarm), Jodie Whittaker (The Doctor), Thaddea Graham (Bel).

The next time episode from Doctor Who: Flux is Chapter 4: Village of the Angels. Devon, November 1967. A little girl has gone missing, Professor Eustacius Jericho is conducting psychic experiments, and in the village graveyard, there is one gravestone too many. Why is Medderton known as the Cursed Village, and what do the Weeping Angels want?