Episode 5 of 6 is here. Doctor Who Flux Episode 5: The survivors of the Flux. With a title like that, you’d assume it’s very boring. And you’d be wrong. Not wrong because it’s boring, but wrong because it doesn’t really have anything to do with the survivors of the flux. The Flux happened in episode 1, why isn’t episode 2, 3 or 4 called this?
Anyway, this’ll be a bit different to usual.
Below are my thoughts that I wrote while watching the episode. These are in order so if you’ve seen the episode they’ll make perfect sense. If you haven’t seen the episode, it may come across as a bit mad.
Let’s begin!
WHY BREAK THE DOCTOR OUT OF THE WEEPING ANGEL FORM JUST TO HAVE HER TALK! (and then put her back into it) It’s another awful cliffhanger that ultimately means nothing for the series.
It feels like the writers have no confidence in their own story so they just throw in whatever they want.
Some weird fake angels at the beginning that were badly edited in (the base of the angel doesn’t move with the camera correctly)
Yaz finds a bomb (with a simple rope timer) and instead of putting out the rope, she puts clothes on top of it. Clearly, they are trying to have it seem like the separated trio is doing this grand adventure but it comes across as a bunch of wannabe Halloween Indiana Jones.
Yaz the policewoman has no issues with throwing a dead body off the side of a ship.
I feel like I’m meant to know who some of these people are, but I have no clue.
The relationship between Yaz and The Doctor is beyond obnoxious. To make things worse, she even gave Yaz a device just to remind her of her annoying long monologues that she seems to love so much.
I hate this annoying dog. He explains stuff just like the Doctor does. Actually, it’s not just those two, everyone does it.
Everyone has to explain what they are doing. Everyone reacts to a sound by talking to themselves. It removes all mystery. It removes every thought or idea in your head as it tells you what to think.
Annoying Purple man is back to, yet again, talk. At least he’s a good actor. Definitely the best in this current series.
Doctor Who The Multiverse, coming to a cinema near you.
Damn, I knew the timeless child story ruined the entire plot of Doctor Who, but this episode just decapitates whatever could have been saved.
“How much power do you imagine I have?” The Doctor says, but sadly not to Chris Chibnall.
Perhaps the Flux would work if it was its own entity. If you remove it from the Doctor Who Universe and just create a show around this new concept, it could be slightly better. Obviously, you remove the classic Doctor Who enemies, but those had no reason to be in the story anyway, just there for cheap entertainment in hopes fans forget how bad the story is.
Why is there a TV cliche of having dumb military generals?
“I prefer to be called… Grand Serpent.” How edgy.
“Is what the Master told me true?” This could have been the moment to change it. You could have easily just said no.
This old woman who is meant to be the Doctor’s “mother” speaks as if her lines were a direct reflection of how Chris Chibnall feels towards the show.
Oh yes, Chris Chibnall has definitely recently watched Indiana Jones.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. I hate this dog.
“What is that whispering?” Asks the Doctor even though she only started hearing it 2 seconds ago for the first time in a while.
This “Joseph Williamson” fella is probably gonna be the solution to everything and I hate that.
How do these guys have enough money to travel like this? If Dan has to be a stowaway they clearly don’t have enough money for 3 people, so how can they travel so often. And why is it that this ship goes exactly where they need to go?
I guess Kate is cool. She’s actually a badass character.
And there she was gone.
The dog is back so it’s time for terrible shooting scenes.
At least these shooting scenes have people hiding behind cover.
So there was a point to having Sontarans in episode 2.
The villains are covered in terrible writing. The script has no idea what to do with them. They conveniently show up and just do whatever they want. I’ve said in every post about this series that so much of it is pointless.
So much can be cut out and reworked into 2 episodes. The villains are the biggest reason. Get rid of everything but the villains, and have a few side plots and you are perfectly fine.
This is easily the worst episode yet, and looking at the ‘next time’ shows that it’ll be surpassed because once again Chris Chibnall is hiding his awful writing behind cheap thrills from fans with returning favourites.
Anyway, thanks for reading.
I’m glad there is only 1 more episode of this left. This story has gone on for far too long. Hopefully, the 4 specials give Jodie the departure she deserves. But that probably won’t happen.
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