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Doctor Who – Empire of Death

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Wrapping up the first Disney season of Doctor Who, Sutekh (Gabriel Woolf) wipes out most life across the universe. The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), and a corrupted Mel (Bonnie Langford) slowly falling under Sutekh’s control, survive to find a way to undo Sitekh’s wave of death following backwards through time everywhere the Time Lord’s T.A.R.D.I.S. has traveled. One thing keeping The Doctor and his companion alive is the mystery surrounding Ruby’s mother which even Sutekh can’t uncover and becomes obsessed with the answer.

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Doctor Who – The Legend of Ruby Sunday

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Setting up the season finale, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” tackles two mysteries as The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) return to Earth and enlist the help of U.N.I.T. The episode allows for the return of several characters including Mel (Bonnie Langford), Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), Rose Noble (Yasmin Finney), and the mysterious woman who The Doctor has seen throughout time now revealed to be entrepreneur Susan Triad (Susan Twist) on the verge of releasing her life’s work. Working as a bit of a red herring, the possibility that Susan Triad my be The Doctor’s granddaughter distracts him from the truth as does tackling two mysteries at once attempting to discern the identity of Ruby’s mother.

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Doctor Who – Pyramids of Mars

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Doctor Who - Pyramids of Mars

Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a classic adventure through space and time with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). Set in 1911, the adventure begins with the the opening of an Egyptian artifact on the spot U.N.I.T. will be constructed on decades later. Arriving after being thrown off-course by an entity powerful enough to project itself into the TARDIS, The Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) encounter a scarred butler (Michael Bilton) who soon meets his demise, an irate English physician (Peter Copley), a walking mummy, and the murderous Egyptian Ibrahim Namin (Peter Mayock) spouting about destiny and fate as he works to summon a Servant of Sutekh to Earth.

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Doctor Who – Rogue

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Doctor Who - Rogue

In an Bridgerton inspired episode (they even namedrop the show, along with “cosplay” many, many times), The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) head to a ball in 1813 only to discover they aren’t the only uninvited guests who include a family of shapeshifting cosplayers and a roguish bounty hunter named, er, Rogue (Jonathan Groff). Let’s just say this isn’t the most subtle episode of Doctor Who. The highs of the episode are some of the best of the season, although its awkward bits are extremely awkward.

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Doctor Who – Dot and Bubble

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“Dot and Bubble” is problematic. An episode that focuses more on its guest-stars rather than The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) can work, and work spectacularly in “Blink,” but it does require those guest-roles to be strong enough to carry the episode. Unfortunately the thinly-veiled sermon against overuse of social media, presented with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, centers around a twat. And the rest of her planet turn out to be no better. Thankfully the tension in the episode works, despite the odd setup, and there’s enough interesting visuals to carry us through events eventually offering a hard lesson to the new Doctor.

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