ONCE UPON TIME DOCTOR WHO SERIES

Now, I don’t want to keep harping on about the CGI in this series, but the animation here is So Very Bad that it makes everything Whittaker does read like a cheesy parody, her shock at being confronted by the Weeping Angel an almost-laughable flinch. Attempting to save them, the Doctor throws them into the centre of the time storm. Suddenly, we are snatched away, picking back up where episode two ended with Yas (Mandip Gill), Dan (John Bishop) and Vinder (Jacob Anderson) in peril. The maps are changed, day becomes night with the flick of a switch, and no one is there to stop it. The world is out of kilter, the “beginning of the end”, Bel warns. Her home planet has been taken over by a Dalek army and an insect-like blue swarm that pulverises the few remaining inhabitants in its path. Newcomer Bel (Thaddea Graham) is living in the aftermath (or perhaps midst) of the Flux. But as episode three begins and the words “Bel’s Story” flash on screen, it’s clear that the story is about to get a whole lot more disorientating.

ONCE UPON TIME DOCTOR WHO SERIES

After the first two instalments of Flux introduced us to a flurry of new characters and confusing plotlines, you’d be forgiven for thinking that maybe, just maybe, the series was about to clarify some things.

“I’m sorry, I’m normally very good at keeping up with things, but you lost me quite early on,” Jodie Whittaker declares at the end of the new Doctor Who episode, “Once, Upon Time”.

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