So here are the themes from each episode of Series 13:

Episode 1 – The Halloween Apocalypse

• The Doctor is very good at escaping seemingly impossible situations.
• The ‘Bad Guy’ (or in this case Karvanista) isn’t necessarily bad.
• That Food Banks exist in one of the richest countries of the world.
• You should notice and pay attention when the TARDIS gives you signs that something is wrong.
• That this episode was really a set up for the rest of the series and generated a lot of questions to the watcher. But did not provide many answers.

Episode 2 – War of the Sontarans

• The inspirational Nurse, Mary Seacole is introduced. Her story is partly told over the course of the episode.
• Joseph Williamson is also introduced. However his characterisation is less than kind.
• When leaders don’t listen, sometimes it can cost lives.
• It is sometimes wise to ask yourself: What Would The Doctor Do?

Episode 3 – Once, Upon Time

• The Doctor is good at weighing up situations and people fast.
• In the future/forgotten past Doctor was marvellously a black woman.
• Don’t overthink things, just move forward.
• Weeping Angels are back and about to cause problems. Remember: Don’t Blink.
• Love is a good life goal or life mission.

Episode 4 – Village of the Angels

• A Weeping Angel gains access to and control of the TARDIS.
• Weeping Angels are quantum beings that send people back into the past and feed off the energy of the people’s unlived future.
• Any image of a Weeping Angel, becomes itself an Angel.
• Weeping Angels have an odd sense of humour.

Episode 5 – Survivors of the Flux

• The Doctor has fears, including the Weeping Angels.
• No matter what happens, stay on task.
• Don’t trust people who conveniently turn up and are all to happy to help you with a problem. Ask yourself: What are their motivations and intentions?
• There is a theory of multiverses. Multiple universes, with ours just being one of a number of universes. I’m not sure on the proposed number of universes, potentially it could be infinite.
• Morality is a strength.
• The Doctor inspires and brings hope.
• The Doctor was found near a wormhole as a child. Apparently lost and abandoned.

Episode 6 – The Vanquishers

• Sontarans have a weakness for chocolate, sweets and fizzy drinks.
• The Doctor fears the destruction of life. The Doctor feels that: Life should win.
• That there is something to psychic skills.
• “Ego Klaxon” – The Doctor, she calls out people with excessive egos.
• There always seems to be a human who has to die in Doctor Who. It’s like the Doctor isn’t quite clever enough.

Eve of the Daleks

• Sometimes people let us down, but other times they do not.
• Never stay in a resetting TARDIS, as you would die.
• Daleks are mean (like we didn’t know) and their favourite past time is to: exterminate! Described by the Doctor as “the most evil thing in the universe.”
• Good hearted weirdos are the keepers.

Legend of the Sea Devils

• Madam Ching, the most famous Chinese Sea Pirate is introduced.
• Polar shifts would not be a good thing for us humans, fish and Sea Devils might like it though.
• Nothing is forever.

The Power of the Doctor

• The Doctor doesn’t like Goodbyes.
• The Master is a Hypnotist.
• The Doctor is thousands of years old.
• Forced Regeneration can be done and undone.

Blog soon,

Antony