Doctor who season 1 episode 2 characters
#DOCTOR WHO SEASON 1 EPISODE 2 CHARACTERS SERIES#
This is the first time since ‘ The Sontaran Stratagem’ that the series has set them up to be a credible threat. We’ve seen quite a lot of them since the show’s revival, but mostly as part of a larger alliance or, thanks to Steven Moffat’s love of Strax, comic relief. All this really serves to do is shuffle the companions off to where the story needs them to be, which is an odd structural choice given that we don’t really know how they woke up in Crimea to begin with – would the story really have suffered if everyone had woken up in isolation and the Doctor had met Mary by herself?Įither way, we soon learn that the Sontarans are behind the slaughter. “Collision between Flux and Vortex energy,” the Doctor exclaims, which is a doozy of a logical leap considering she has no idea what the Flux actually is. This clues the Doctor into their new location – the siege of Sevastopol near the end of the Crimean War.Īt this point, Plot Happens, as Dan begins to fade away like he’s one of the McFly family and Yaz isn’t far behind. Everyone’s seemingly fine, although they appear to have arrived in the aftermath of a particularly bloody battle, and soon get taken for corpse-robbers by none other than Mary Seacole, played here with gusto by Sara Powell. Once she wakes up, the Doctor finds herself, Dan and Yaz lying strewn around outside the TARDIS, with Yaz reasoning that they must have been ‘thrown out’. Escher’s garden shed? We don’t know just yet. Is it a metaphor for the TARDIS, effectively the Doctor’s home, being increasingly contorted? A fragment of memory from her days with the Division? M.C. It’s only a glimpse, but it’s quite a tantalising visual even so.
The Doctor, her companions and the TARDIS are still in one piece, more or less, although the Doctor gets a brief and unsettling vision of a seriously twisted flying house before she comes to.
No, hang on, I’ve turned over two pages at once. Davies is really going to have his work cut out retconning this one. It’s a shock move by Chris Chibnall that ends the series for good with a thirty-second climax that no-one saw coming. Warning: this Doctor Who review contains spoilers.Īs was teased by last week’s cliffhanger, we begin on something of a gloomy note as the unstoppable Flux completely obliterates the Doctor, her companions and the TARDIS.