Right now it seems like a sibling dynamic, but romance isn’t off the cards – especially after Yaz’s refusal to give her amorous sister Ryan’s number. Graham seems to be getting through processing his grief for Grace, while Yaz and Ryan are growing closer. But it did rather dampen the central conceit that they have a time machine so the companions can return to the point they left as if they never went away. The catchup with the fam was fun and a handy refresher as they explained their recent absences to their nearest and dearest. Will there soon be hanky panky in the time vortex? Photograph: Various/BBC Still, there’s clearly more to come, as long as they can all get off that exploding aircraft (spoiler, they probably will).
Remember how brilliantly put together the reveal of Professor Yana was, as Derek Jacobi regenerated into John Simm? Or the intricate dance to reveal Missy’s true identity? Here, they barely had time to jump on to the speeding aircraft before the Doctor called him out for lying that he couldn’t run and the “mwahahahas” commenced. But his introduction did feel fairly rushed. It remains to be seen whether Chibnall can or will address how he got back from the end of Missy’s journey.
My heart will always belong to Michelle Gomez as the Master, but Sacha Dhawan’s Hot Camp Master looks like he will be terrific fun. ‘Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.’Īnd the twist! O is no Romford misfit but the Doctor’s evil frenemy the Master, reborn as a hot camp psychopath. O is a lovely, self-conscious chap who idolises the Doctor.
DOCTOR WHO SEASON 1 EPISODE 2 QUOTES CRACK
The Doctor and Graham take refuge with “O”, former MI6 expert, now in self-imposed tea-drinking exile in Australia and a man who could help crack the alien conspiracy. Lenny Henry as the brilliant big tech boss Daniel Barton. The usual Zuckerberk stuff.ĭream casting. But there is no denying that dream casting Lenny Henry is marvellous, emanating just the right balance of evil and charming as the company’s founder, Daniel Barton, who turns out to be just 93% human and in league with an alien race of evil nuns made from white light, hellbent on rewriting human DNA. Yaz and Ryan are drawn into the murky inner workings of VOR, the world’s largest search engine, and plenty more malevolent activities besides.Ĭhibnall is hardly subtle in his portrayal of big tech – “Look! This is what you should really be scared of!” he tubthumps. The Doctor and “fam” go international tag team. A charming cameo ensues in which Stephen Fry portrays Stephen Fry portraying “C”, the head of MI6, who recruits them to investigate the spate of killings, equips them with a Bond geek’s dream cache of gadgets, and is promptly assassinated himself. So the fabled champion of the unknown, known to security services as The Doctor, is kidnapped along with her friends by the Men in Black via an exhilarating car chase. To recap: intelligence people from around the world are being assassinated for inexplicable reasons.