March 2020

I’ve really enjoyed this series of Doctor Who. Here is a breakdown of themes from each episode:

Episode 1 – Spyfall, Part 1

• The Doctor considers her new travel companions her ‘fam’.
• Things can get into the TARDIS. More worrying the Doctor has no idea how they managed it.
• Even the Doctor doesn’t know everything.
• The Doctor lived in the outback for 123 years.
• The Doctor is really hard to get rid of, even bullets don’t deter her.
• There are times when the Doctor doesn’t know what to do.

Episode 2 – Spyfall, Part 2

• The Doctor hates being in people’s Livers.
• Where there is risk there is hope.
• Dark times never sustain, even though at times it feels like it might.
• The Doctor’s species are telepathic.
• The Doctor loves a laminator.
• The fascists never win. As long as there are good people willing to fight against them.

Episode 3 – Orphan

• Holiday’s with the Doctor are never what people expect.
• Never mind money when someone’s life is at stake.
• Global Warming could end up in catastrophe.
• People can be smart and change.
• The future depends on billions of actions and people stepping up.

Episode 4 – Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror

• The Doctor sometimes feels out of place.
• Changing the world takes time, patience is needed.
• Tesla and Edison were competitors.
• Scorpions are bad.

Episode 5 – Fugitive of the Judoon

• The Doctor is in search of the Master. She goes home looking for him.
• Judoon are trigger-happy Police for hire.
• Captain Jack is back! Captain Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman.
• Jack’s message to the Doctor: Be ware of the lone Cyberman. Don’t give it what it wants.
• Time is swirling around the Doctor. Something is coming for her, she can feel it.
• The Doctor has lived for thousands of years.

Episode 6 – Praxeus

• The Doctor has to work out the connections between a missing submarine, a missing astronaut, birds going haywire and alien tech, but to start with she can’t see the connections. Although she has ruled out the talking cat – LOL.
• Yaz has got brave, or foolish, you decide.
• Being married to an astronaut is impressive and amazing. But it can be hard to be married to someone like that, as it can cause massive insecurity.
• It was so nice to see a gay couple kiss and express their love for one another on TV.

Episode 7 – Can You Hear Me?

• The TARDIS has a database of all living things, past, present and future.
• Everyone has fears, doubts and nightmares.
• The Doctor is good at escaping.
• Humans are magnificent.

Episode 8 – The Haunting of Villa Diodati

• Nobody should interfere with the future.
• The Doctor gets ‘vibes.’
• Words matter.

Episode 9 – Ascension of the Cybermen

• Cybermen suppress their emotions, are allergic to gold and can be held off by force fields.
• The Doctor cares.
• Doctor used to hot wire warp drives for fun.

Episode 10 – The Timeless Children

• The Master really is an insane genocidal maniac.
• The Doctor is not above asking the Master to help her friends, even though she knows he will say no.
• Paralysis-fields are a thing.
• Death particles are a thing.
• This episode gives the history of The Doctor’s race with regards to the unique regeneration ability.
• People need The Doctor.
• The is now a spare TARDIS.

If every episode had been like the last episode the series would have been fantastic. But sadly it wasn’t. There were too many eh episodes.

Blog soon,

Antony