Doctor Who season 14

 And here we are, the first season starring the new, 15th, Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa.

 

Airing in 2024, the series counts 8 episodes, and we are off for the adventures of the newest Doctor and his fresh companion, Ruby Sunday!

 

Their adventures start off by going to a space station, where they find a crew of talking babies, genetically enhanced who where ordered to be abandoned when the colony project was cancelled.  Later on, they meet one of the Toymaker's fellow godlike being, the Maestro, after a student in 1925 summoned her.  When the Doctor and Ruby arrive to see the Beatles, they notice music is not bringing joy to anyone anymore, and in the current day this has led to Earth being a barren wasteland.  The Maestro is defeated due to a christmas carol embedded in the essence of Ruby, but she warns the Doctor of "One Who waits".

 

When landing on the wartorn planet of Kastarion 3.where they encounter the warmongering company Villengard.  They move on to Wales, where they accidentally break a fairy circle, causing the Doctor to disappear and Ruby being followed at exactly 73 yards by a strange lady, who turns out to be her elderly self going through time to warn them from breaking the circle.

 

One thing this series does, is seriously criticise the smarthphone dependant generation, and this is especially clear in the episode where aliens eat teenagers so addicted to a smart "bubble" they can't even walk anymore without the device's directions.  After encountering a group of shapeshifters in 1813 England, they dive into the Legend of Ruby Sunday, as the Doctor is trying to help out finding who is the mysterious lady seen the evening he brought baby Ruby to the church, and pointed directly at him.

 

Thinking it was her mother, the TARDIS suddenly behaves strangely.  It turns out his old enemy Sutekh has been atatched inside the TARDIS all those years, awaiting his time.  Now that he manifests, he sets out to destroy all life in the universe, sparing the Doctor and Ruby as he also can't deduct the identity of the mysterious lady.  The Doctor overcomes him, and Ruby's mom is found... a completely average 35 year old who had to abandon her child due to teenage pregnancy.  Ruby is reunited with her, and the Doctor leaves her behind, telling her to enjoy her new found luck, and that he will be back one day...

 

And as such the first season ends, with the Companion already seemingly leaving the Doctor for a happy ending.  Not the best of seasons, it weighs a bit weak against the Tennant / Smith / Capaldi era, with not really a menancing overarcing story this season in my opinion...