#ONCE UPON TIME DOCTOR WHO MOVIE#

Vinder (Jacob Anderson) got his moment to enter the Tardis for the first time. The regular cast are lost and confused as we learn a bit more about the Division’s ancient battle with Swarm and Azure.

#ONCE UPON TIME DOCTOR WHO MOVIE#

If you were halfway through watching a movie – which I guess this is – we would be just at the point in the middle where everything seems hopeless. Photograph: James Pardon/BBC Studiosĭespite all that, it picked up in the last 10 minutes, setting up a couple of quests and more mysteries. Dan (John Bishop), the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) face danger within the Tardis. That is surely a flaw in a television episode. While you would miss out on some of the nice space visuals and the unexpected sight of Daleks floating through a forest, Once, Upon Time would work as an audiobook without much alteration. I appreciate that the series was filmed under Covid restrictions, but an awful lot of the chapter seemed to consist of one actor standing on one set giving a monologue about what was happening. (That said, it might have been more fun to see the Fugitive Doctor (Jo Martin) and Karnavista (Craige Els) let rip in those scenes rather than occasionally flickering into view.) Martin absolutely rocked it as the Doctor in Fugitive of the Judoon and has been desperately underused since. On the plus side, we began to get some answers – and a look at the Doctor’s history with the Division and a mission on the planet Time, which had been hinted at by Swarm in the previous two chapters.

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