![]() Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor is doing her best work. Essentially, because we don’t have time to indulge in convoluted side-stories, characters must make choices quickly to further the narrative, which ironically gives them much more agency and overall impression in the story. This energy seeps over into characterisation. Flux is one, streamlined idea, moving with energy and pace towards something, even if it doesn’t quite stick the landing. Also, with a reduced episode count due to the pandemic (cutting the series down from ten to six episodes), there’s less time to get side-tracked. Having cut his teeth on ongoing police procedurals like Law and Order: UK and Broadchurch, he’s in comfortable territory, giving one story his complete attention. However, maybe this is exactly what lead writer Chris Chibnall needed to do to find his groove. It’s a bold choice, especially since the last time the show tried something like this was with 1986’s story arc The Trial of a Time Lord, which is infamous for being a bit… meh. In the past, the show has flirted with the idea of a continuing narrative, with overarching stories and multiple-parters, but this marks the first time (certainly in the revived series) that the whole series is interconnected. This year marks an experiment for the ongoing series – serialized storytelling. As our heroes The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and newcomer Dan (John Bishop) try to simultaneously avoid and solve the disaster, they encounter new and familiar foes such as the Weeping Angels, the Sontarans and Ravangers, all of whom have their own plans for the Flux. It’s a shifting, never-ending mass that destroys all in its wake throughout both time and space. ![]() It still has some of the characteristics that have bugged previous years, but overall, this is a hit for the Chris Chibnall era of Doctor Who.įlux throws our intrepid time-traveller into her biggest crisis ever – a universe ending event, the Flux, threatens to wipe out life as we know it. The latest series, the show’s thirteenth, or as it has been subtitled, Flux, is a significant step up. ![]() There are certainly some successes, despite what some may tell you, but overall, we’ve been left with one series that meandered around until it decided to end, and another which dropped some subtle hints about where it was going, then buckled under its own weight as it decided to reveal everything all at once. With bigoted small-minded idiots taking issue with just about every aspect, it feels bad to criticise when, despite a truly stellar cast and crew, what’s been produced is two series of quite middling storytelling. What to say about this current era of Doctor Who? Well, you certainly can’t say it hasn’t attracted controversy. The engaged couple provide more un-thrilling padding out to make it to an hour, bravo, and the most irrelevant serpent that ever slithered wastes even more time.A significant step-up for the long-running sci-fi show, despite some lingering storytelling issues. There's some chit chat with mam and, for those with middle age and male characteristics, more hyperventilating and high blood pressure - stress, can't cope with change, why can't we go back to the good old days, alas they were awful that's why, those days not Doctor Who. The Angels deliver the Doctor to wherever it is they're meant to deliver her, like stone chauffeurs, doing a transfer, a bit of a blur, did she leave a tip? Don't treat your audience like kids perhaps, this is a show for grown up men. Bishop Twankey, Yaz and Professor Yaffle go on an extended vacation, I mean holiday, looking for something unknown to stimulate their imagination, passing through a number of nations, with plenty a frustration, irritation, futility and aberration, especially for the viewer of a certain persuasion (you know who you are), but generally a pointless piece of timewasting.
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