![]() ![]() Tying the new villains to this story arc is a great way to set up Swarm and Azure as serious threats – new to us and to Whittaker’s Doctor, but with a considerable past rivalry to be discovered by both. This trip into the Doctor’s hidden history sheds some light on her work for the Division, as set up in Series 12. (At least, we were misled like this if you sussed it was her past from the start, then well done, give yourself a biscuit.) A particularly nice detail is that blue coat she’s wearing – not a new costume she picks up during this adventure, but a hint that she’s in the memories of Jo Martin’s ‘Fugitive’ Doctor. ![]() Chibnall plays a clever twist here, as what initially seems to be the Doctor’s near future, with her and her companions taking the Temple of Atropos back from the villains who captured it in the previous episode, is in fact far back in her past. The most important of these four strands – and the best – is the Doctor’s. Opening with the Doctor saving Yaz and Vinder from the deadly time storm by – what else? – pushing herself and Dan into it too, the episode then splits off into four main strands, as each of these lead characters is thrown into another point in their own lifetime. While it delves into the vaster, more mythic elements of Chris Chibnall’s additions to the Doctor Who canon, this third chapter uses a convoluted, timey-wimey narrative structure perhaps inspired by Chibnall’s predecessor Steven Moffat. If War of the Sontarans was the most ‘traditional Who’ instalment of Flux, then Once, Upon Time is its opposite.
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