Graham (Bradley Walsh) wins a voucher for a break and puts the pieces together before the Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) warns him it will actually transport them there now and they haven't packed. Graham is disappointed that he hasn't packed his speedo, cos he's wearing it. Didn't see him sunning in any speedo, infact he wore a jumper, ha. They arrive on Tranquillity Spa and you know there were many instances of deja vu already with this episode. Not listing any but I'm sure the one with Clara and Doctor Twelve comes to mind with the smiley faced robots in Smile etc, though it wasn't really a spa etc. Then the Doctor Who ep with the bus in the desert - Planet of the Dead).
Upon arrival they all go their separate ways and the Doctor says she'll investigate. Ryan (Tosin Cole) gets infected by a Hopper virus from the vending machine which the Doctor must remove from him and leaves him to stick his thumb in his mouth and suck on it for the hallucinations. From the Hopper she posits something is wrong here and attempts to investigate further. Okay scratch the attempt, we know she'll succeed. As Hyph3n (Amy Booth-Steel) is asked why she's using high level security key for the cupboard and wants in, showing her psychic paper as she's a resort inspector. Kane (Laura Fraser) tells them they've already been inspected but she manages to get in and finds the ionic membrane is not working. Asking her to explain what's happening, since they don't use guns, as a message for a drill is heard.
Ryan in the thumb sucking position meets another fellow thumb sucker named Bella (Gia Re). She claims she's a hotel critic as Ryan says he's a doctor for pilots. Failing miserably with his pick up lines. Yaz (Mandip Gill) stumbles upon an elderly couple where Benni (Col Farrell) is about to ask Vilma (Julia Foster) to marry him. Graham meets Nevi (James Buckley) and his son, Sylas (Lewin Lloyd) at the vending machine as they're trying to repair and his son tells him what to do to effect repairs. There's a massive hole in the and the Doctor fixes the membrane showing the spa is surrounded by a dome, as Graham walks into it. Yaz turns up with the same news, late as always. The planet is a 'fakecation' since it's not real but is cheap for those wanting a getaway. The creature inside the dome (Millennium Dome anyone?) rids most of the holiday makers before it's transported out and they are known as Dregs. (Dregs of society no doubt.)
The species is meant to have survived some sort of war and as more attack, they are summoned to the linen cupboard. Ryan and Bella don't make it there and neither does Benni who goes back for Vilma's hat. They look for the others and she wants to find Benni so they get on the vehicle which is the only mode of transport as the air is toxic and oxygen is limited, using nose clips and bracelets to indicate oxygen level, the Doctor forces Kane to take them on Benni's trail. Vilma even pays Kane with her necklace to make her follow. As the vehicle is damaged they get out only to be attacked and must find other ways of leaving. Benni says goodbye to Vilma after proposing and asks her to kill him. Escaping through the hatch on the floor they run to underground tunnels and the Doctor finds the sign in Russian showing the tunnel is a Siberian underground network.
They realize this is Earth in the future and after the Doctor has explained the significance behind orphan planets where some war has been fought and after time are taken over. This one was taken over by Kane and she is Bella's mother. Bella having an agenda for wanting to burn down the spa. After a Dreg enters the tunnel, Ryan saves Bella and they are transported back to the spa were she sets about threatening Ryan with a gun and setting the timers on the bombs. Using the tunnels to return the Doctor finds the Dregs omit oxygen and breathe in carbon dioxide and this can be used to defeat them.
They transport father and son and back home and Kane and Bella remain behind to fight the Dregs as the others return to the TARDIS. The Doctor explaining she only realized this was Earth a few seconds before they did. Thus the future is bleak and a topical episode which some will have found to be so preachy in respects of scientists warning of global warming etc but humans not listening. How they can change their future with billions of voices and action. Yeah well a good start would be the BBC toning down the music so it doesn't drown out the dialogue. Thus half the episode came across as garbled, I mean how loud must the volume be to watch the bloomin' show!
Most of the characters were used as Dregs fodder and again showing how people became dregs in the future. Most of the episode was sombre and not as light hearted as the others, yes the subject matter in reality was grim, but still a little interjection of humour would've helped.
One thing I wanted to mention was how this episode followed after the Doctor finding out the revelation of how Gallifrey is no more and burns. To see Earth suffer much the same fate, at the hands of humans, whereas that was at the hands of the Master. How the 'timeless child' was mentioned and here the planet is known as "Orphan 55", another child reference.
Digital Spy mentioning Planet of the Apes as did my sister. Also I mentioned Alien, Godzilla and other freaking monsters! Digital Spy also does a good review on the political statements from past eps so I don't have to, ha and I especially like how they put forward the case of how so many people out there are just on the "leftist this and leftist that" bandwagon and critics of this. At the end of the day you have to take a side and decide what you want for the future, for your children, your legacy and humanity in general. You can't forever live like an ostrich and bury your head in the sand (radioactive) shirking responsibility and denying. You are responsible for what is happening even if you don't want to be political. As I've said a thousand times politics makes the world go round (not flat) and it affects you even if you are closed off to it! And OMG stop with the "woke" already, fed up of hearing that everywhere!
They mention Doctor Three's story The Curse of Peladon (read Pelaton into that ha!) and show that politics in the show went as far back as the early seventies. And kudos for saying how all the ranting for Doctor Thirteen and her stance is jealousy on the part of men. Women can't - but men can...!
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