Doctor Who Flux (season 13)

 Time for some more Time Lord adventures, and the final season of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor.

 

 

Numbering only 6 episodes though, it will be followed by a series of specials, more of which when I get to them of course!

 

But first, let's dive into this season, which for the first time since the 80s is one long story instead of episodic in nature, and the title screen is labelled as such as Flux, the overarching title of the season.

 

The Doctor and Yaz meet Dan Lewis, a tradesman from Liverpool who for some reason is being chased by the Lupari Karvanista.  But the Doctor is suffering from visions of the mysterious Swarm, a galaxy devouring force that claims to share a connection to her.  They also meet Claire, a woman from their future, who is tossed back to 1965 by a Weeping Angel.

 

Karvanista tells them his race are actually trying to save humanity from the Flux, a force that is destroying the universe and has Earth on it's path, and in the chaos the Sontarans decide to stage a new invasion on Earth as the Tardis is swept away in the Flux with the Doctor and her companions.  They wake up in an altered past, where the Sontarans have become the dominant species on Earth, but as they manage to destroy the Sontaran shipyard, the timeline resets.

 

 

The Swarm is about to kill Yaz and a man called Vinder, as the Doctor jumps into the Temple, the last remnant of Time, and learns of an incarnation of herself, the Fugitive Doctor, who she can't remember ever having been.  She learns this incarnation is part of The Division, a Time-lord black ops operation erased from memory, in her past.  The Doctor returns to the present, fixing the timestreams, before a Weeping Angel brings the Tardis to 1967.  Here they meet Jericho, a professor investigating the paranormal.

 

Weeping Angels besiege his house, but the Doctor discovers one of them is actually hiding inside Yaz and is the target of the attack, as they want to retrieve it.  The Doctor is captured instead, the others being send back to the village in 1901, as it has been disconnected from time to serve as a sort of prison.  The Doctor is brought before Tecteun, who is her adoptive mother that found her all those years ago on Gallifrey, and the founder of The Division, which also orchestrated the Flux in order to kill the Doctor, for interfering with their plans. 

 

 

Tecteun is disintegrated though when the Swarm arrives, and the Doctor is split into three copies due to a time distortion.  Together with her friends, she goes around fixing the timestream in all her incarnations, as she deposits her lost memories deep inside the Tardis...

 

A great overarching story, that revisits a lot of the Doctor's old enemies, as well as giving us some more knowledge of the "Child of Time" that she is.   Being also the last series of this incarnation, we are now gearing towards a series of specials, that will wrap up this tenure and bring forth the next, 14th, Doctor, so time to binge some more classic british sci-fi!