Well, to use the old Krusty the Clown meme: “What the hell was that?!”. There’s a lot to digest here but so much of it was visual spectacle over any actual sense of plot or well-written dialogue and the return of Omega was absolutely awful for this long-time fan. The Rani was wasted, more heavy-handed social commentary and then we get the final 10 or so minutes and suddenly it was actually well written and interesting… until the last shot. Yes, there’s no point in hiding it, this was Ncuti Gatwa’s regeneration story, and boy that was some cliffhanger… Let’s take a look and try and make sense of it all…

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Doctor Who’s latest season continues and manages to deliver a fun episode at last, though one that wasn’t without its usual issue of being subtle as a brick about an important message, so we’re not golden here or anything. Still, some big continuity things / callbacks and The Fifteenth Doctor actually showing a range of emotions other than happy and crying lifts the episode up quite a bit! So let’s take a look…

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“The Story and The Engine” is another episode of this Doctor Who series that tells a good story, is well acted and has some positive messages at its heart but once again I find myself longing for something a bit more… Doctor Who-y. I’m happy episodes like this exist but I would prefer not to have so many of them in a row is what I’m saying, throw in a few base under siege / generic alien invasion stories here and there to break things up maybe… Well, anyway, let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who’s latest series hits a bit of a roadblock with “Lucky Day”. With only eight episodes this year taking an entire episode and using it to impart a good message but really badly and with The Doctor barely featuring in it is a choice, that’s for sure. Anyone looking for fun escapism in their Doctor Who will be sorely disappointed, I know I was, so let’s take a look so I can start to forget about it.

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It’s time to stop being quite so weird and do something a bit more traditional now as Doctor Who’s latest series gives us a good old fashioned claustrophobic space horror with a fun, if not a little visually silly, twist. It’s also a sequel to a popular original Russell T. Davies era story, but really you don’t have to be familiar with that one to watch this, it’s actually pretty damn different, but different in a good or bad way? Let’s take a look!

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The second episode of this series of Doctor Who gets weird, much like the second episode in the previous series, which ends up not being a coincidence. The big thing in the advertisements going into the episode was the whole “cartoon come to life” and that was handled brilliantly. Sadly they also stepped into the fourth wall breaking, “what if the Doctor came into our world where he’s a TV character!” trope that, as I’ve said a few times on this site, I HATE. Oh well… let’s see how these two aspects balance out, shall we?

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Doctor Who has returned to our TV screens for its latest season, Fifteenth Doctor in tow. Happily “The Robot Revolution” is much better than the previous series opener, but given that was “Space Babies” that’s not saying much, instead I will say that as a companion introduction story it’s perfect, as a story overall? Not so much. Some ropey designs and some on-the-nose political and social commentary that I would’ve preferred to have been more subtle (though I get this is aimed at all ages…) knocks it down a peg or two. Still fun though, so let’s take a deeper look!

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It’s time for a good old fashioned Russell T. Davies two-part finale, complete with world, nay universe-ending stakes and a returning foe. Strange feeling nostalgic for something that was only last done 10 or so years ago, but there you have it. Was it a good RTD finale though? Let’s find out and close out the Fifteenth Doctor’s first season.

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I normally don’t like putting reviews of two of the same thing in a row on the site, but it’s been a very busy week at work (as tends to happen in the summer, sadly…) so back-to-back new Who episodes it is! Rogue was a strange one, on the one hand I enjoyed The Doctor exploring a more romantic side to himself, but on the other hand the rest of the story was quite generic. Not bad, but felt very samey. Still, Ncuti Gatwa pulls the story up with his performance yet again! Let’s take a look…

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