So Doctor Who Flux Episode 2 just finished, and I’m back again to give my thoughts. Unlike episode 1, I won’t be doing a funny little recap on it, and will instead be just saying my thoughts.
Before I begin, there will be spoilers for Doctor Who Flux Episode 2 and maybe 1.
If you wish to read my thoughts on episode 1, then you can find a link here:
Doctor Who Flux Episode 1: A review and many complaints
As always, this is all my opinion so please don’t take it personally.
Let’s begin.
So the doctor magically survives the flux, and it’s interesting to see the ship defence system work.
The Sontaran’s have decided to invade earth and who cares, really.
My biggest issue is so much of this is pointless. By the end of all 6 episodes, how much will really be needed for the story? This series is over 5 hours total, and there it just feels like there is no point to most of it. I can be wrong as this is episode 2, but if the Sontarans don’t return in the next episodes then you can just say that everything involving them was pointless. People are praising the story but it just throws in a bunch of fan favourites whilst actually having nothing interesting. It feels like some large filler that Doctor Who fans are forcing themselves to like because they are blinded by the fact that it is Doctor Who.
To me, it just feels so lazy, the first episode had more original ideas than this. And yet again, we have more random questions whilst not answering any that were created before.
The next issue, Dan and Yaz magically vanish. They both go to random places because the script demands it when it could just develop one idea. The most interesting idea is the whole thing with the main villains. This ‘Time’ Planet is much cooler than anything the Doctor was doing.
But, just like the prison in episode 1, we now have another place that is extremely important to everything that has ZERO security and is easily broken into.
1 minor thing, the balancing between the voices and the music is awful. Some scenes have characters barely hearable because the music is so loud.
When Dan is running away from the Sontarans, who knows how they didn’t hit him.
The strange man Yaz met in the ‘Time’ place, vanished.
We get the same explanations for things multiple times just because a new character shows up. Because they clearly need to fill the time.
Just like the Doctor, Yaz also doesn’t shut up.
The war scene was cool.
Who even knows how people get to this “Time” place, people just magically show up.
I do hope the villains meet terrible and justifiable deaths. They are too arrogant. (This isn’t a bad thing.)
The Sontaran ships are filled with these hand scanners. Any normal person would have it so they need to scan the fingerprint, not just the hand shape. This major coincidence kept the plot moving, but also more boring.
Because we get another coincidence. Dan and the Doctor talking to each other in different ships and somehow being able to get all of Dan’s phone footage.
Once again, this “Time” place has no security, the villains can waltz in and just ‘kill’ one of the people.
The Dog magically returns.
Dan gets found out and doesn’t die. The shots of them dodging bullets actually look like they were made by a student. There is no cover these people are hiding behind, the bullets are flying towards them from clear angels, yet all miss.
The Doctor does some stuff, comes up with a plan. We don’t care.
Dan and the Dog escaping the ship is pretty bad CGI, and also a coincidence that they easily found a large trash shoot to escape with.
The Sontarans are going to leave, but then the general(?), blows up their ships. The Doctor barely gets upset by it because she quickly needs to leave. Once again, the Doctor just doesn’t feel like the Doctor. Her morals seem so messed up compared to all the other Doctors.
Chibnall still “Says not shows”. The doctor keeps asking “What is this?” “Who is this?”. A simple suggestion, was right at the end when the Doctor is in the dying TARDIS, she could just not say anything, but she has to explain “It’s like it’s corrupted.” Or whatever she said. Just showing was more than enough.
Too long and it shows by how much useless filler there is.
Why do the cliffhangers if they mean nothing? If Yaz isn’t dead at the start of the next episode, then why even bother doing the cliffhanger. They should just kill her off and end with the Doctor mourning.
3/10
Anyway, that’s all for this episodes criticisms. I don’t know why people say it’s good, but then this is all nitpicking and biased.
But to defend myself, I want it to be good where all these nitpicks are obvious, that’s my biggest issue. It all feels like clear oversight like no one checked to see if things made sense
It’s good to be objective.
I’ll keep watching cause it gives me content for this blog.
Sorry if it’s a mess, once again, I’m writing this as soon as the episode ended.
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