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Sunday 14 November 2021

Doctor Who 1.3 "Once, Upon Time"

This one will be a confusing one for many people, a lot was happening but still just snippets of things we may, or may not, get answers to.  We met Bel (Thaddea Graham) on the search for someone she's missing, coming across Daleks whilst saying they're much better than the Flux.  As well as those the flying 'swarms' wiping out more humans as she can only watch.  She travels via a ship to other planets, so they still exist and the question would have been why weren't those wiped out by the Flux, if it was destroying everything in its path.  She also comes across Cybermen and they invade her ship.  As she takes them out and has a Q&A with one of them before she shoots it.  A treatise on love could have ensued when the Cyberman says 'love isn't a mission, it's an emotion and an emotion can't be a mission.'  Obviously she was going to prove him wrong.  Also apparent she was looking for Vinder.

As the Doctor jumps into time, fragmented and broken apart, in an attempt to prevent her friends from having 'pure' time pumped into them by Swarm the Doctor takes the place of the last Mouri which sends her into various moments of her companion's lives, as well as her own.  She needs Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) in their own timelines as it's the best place for them to hide.  Yaz experiencing an encounter with a Weeping Angel who has found its way into her sister's video game.  With the Doctor appearing and reappearing, telling her not to blink and Yaz finally unplugging the game to get rid of it.  The Doctor also appears as a policewoman with Yaz who can see an angel in the car mirror.  Whilst Dan meets with Diane who asks him why he didn't turn up to their 'date.'  Vinder (Jacob Anderson) also experiences his past when he was assigned to the Grand Serpent and whistle blowed on him for his actions.  Yaz being his commander and finally he was stuck out in the observation post for his troubles.  He sends a message to his loved one, we see is Bel at the end, who also sends him one saying she's carrying their unborn child. 

In the meantime, Yaz, Vinder and Dan are Temporal Agents having the Doctor as their leader, part of Division and she is suffering from time haze.  The Doctor uses the Passenger in an attempt to fool Swarm and Azure and they use the same when they show that Diane has been a part of them too.  The Doctor promises she will get her back.  Vinder is left on his planet and his initial reaction to the TARDIS isn't the usual "bigger on the inside" bit, so he's familiar with it, in what way?  The Doctor comes across moments from her own timeline too and the Fugitive Doctor from her past again.  She's desperately looking for answers too and begs the Mouri for one more moment and one more answer.  They refuse.  She ends up with an old woman, Awsok who appears to be in charge of everything, ie the universe.  She wasn't very helpful either in that she says the Doctor is always saving everyone.

The Doctor's "the angel has the TARDIS" seemingly an allusion to "the angel has the phonebox" from the ep Blink.  

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