Anywhere and Anywhen

Eight episodes, not enough, now I want to run Doctor Who again.

The War Between The Land And The Sea

The War Between The Land And The Sea trailer. Having a whole other series goes some way to make up for only getting eight episodes this year including a Doctor-light one.

The Reality War

15.2.8 The Reality War

Anita! Yay!

Wish World

15.2.7 Wish World

After a What The beginning, the classic reality is not as it seems to torment someone. And Conrad was already a prick, but even for a fascist that really leaned on retrograde thinking for a guy in his twenties these days. Bowler hats?

Although of course his Doctor Who book looks like that.

The Interstellar Song Contest

15.2.6 The Interstellar Song Contest

As multicultural things with lots of weird costumes and effects and eccentric side bits that goes out here on BBC One, Eurovision and Doctor Who have always been a bit connected, so here we are.

But as an actual episode it’s as RTD says Eurovision meets Die Hard, and that’s fun, and it’s also a lot of surprise guests.

Belinda rightly gets the big crying moment.

I was just thinking we haven’t had any animal people this year.

Iona Anderson (Wynn) looks so much like Eve Myles I was expecting that to come up somehow.

The Story And The Engine

15.2.5 The Story And The Engine

Largely a bottle episode - I wasn’t surprised when I learned writer Inua Ellams is a playwright. (Thanks to Emmet Asher-Perrin at Reactor for linking his prologue to the episode.)

Having downplayed Ncuti Gatwa’s Blackness, an episode stemming from where the Doctor feels more accepted. Various Doctors have had places to go and feel at home, but the ones we’ve seen are usually with recurring supporting cast in the U.K.

The delayed reveal of the Barber had me expecting him to be someone familiar. I hope he will be, or this gets us more of Ariyon Bakare as wise and possibly sinister mysterious characters.

Big slow artistic spider probably not going to set off too many arachnophobes, which is nice.

Lucky Day

15.2.4 Lucky Day

Going into the back half of the season unspoiled - I’d seen clips showing Ruby organising the defence of the pub and the bit with her telling the story (which in isolation made me wonder if this was really her?) but that was it.

So I didn’t know what was coming at all.