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This week’s adventure through time and space was quite exciting and filled with plot twists. Warning: Spoilers ahead!
This episode follows the Doctor and her companions as a Judoon platoon lays siege to the city of Gloucester, looking for a fugitive. We meet Ruth (Jo Martin) and Lee Clayton (Neil Stuke), whom at first seem like a regular couple from a small town but their secrets are soon uncovered.
This episode brings back some familiar faces, such as the Judoon, a species the Tenth Doctor meets during one of his adventures. A great surprise of this episode is the return of the one and only Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), who we had last seen back in Series 4. Barrowman brings back this fan-favorite character, charming and lovable as always, and it seems like he never left, it’s truly wonderful to have him back. Although we have not seen him interact with the Thirteenth Doctor, it is almost certain this meeting will be pretty great.
Moreover, the episode is filled with wibbly-wobbly time-y wimey stuff (sort of) and it’s pretty confusing and fantastic nonetheless. This story is in a way mythos-altering and most certainly it changes the story we know, as The Doctor finds out that Ruth is the fugitive and her true identity is…The Doctor. Confusion ensues, as both incarnations are sure the other is not part of their past. What makes things more complicated, is that the Time Lords assigned the Judoon with the task of finding her. As viewers may remember, the last time we saw Gallifrey it was destroyed, something Ruth hasn’t yet learned about, which leads us to two different theories: she is a previous incarnation of our Doctor, sort of like the War Doctor, or she is The Doctor in a parallel universe. Parallel universes do exist in the Whovian world but traveling through them isn’t something common but not impossible.
Another great aspect of this episode was the relationship between The Doctor and her companions, as she finally opens up and tells them more about her past. It should be interesting to see these relationships further develop.
This episode is perhaps the best of Whittaker’s era, it brought back the mystery and excitement, aspects that the last series lacked. The series is shaping up nicely and if properly executed it could be groundbreaking for Who.
Score: 8/10
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