Outstanding episode of Who this week, even if in some respects Rusty kind of retreads “Turn Left” in this one… is that a spoiler? Possibly, but who’s reading this anyway? A good plot to retread in any case, I’ll overlook it. Actually, the most interesting thing about the episode was the way the trailer for it last week proved to be almost completely misleading… It must be said that, if nothing else, the lead casting for the new series really is stunning; Gatwa’s already well and truly proven himself, so this episode lets Millie Gibson demonstrate her ability in the lead, cos the Doctor is notable by his absence from most of the episode… Mind you, good as it is, it does very much demonstrate the problem I’ve always had with the 2005-onwards series, i.e. the way the episodes often aren’t allowed to breathe as much as they should, and if ever an episode could’ve done with another ten minutes or so (particularly to establish Roger ap Gwilliam a bit more… who IS he so determined to use nukes against and why?), this was it. Still, on the whole, super solid.
