Resolution
(Although fans always call it 'Resolution Of The Daleks'!, New Year's Day Special, Dr 13 with Graham Ryan and Yaz, 1/1/2019, showrunner: Chris Chibnall, writer: Chris Chibnall, director: Wayne Yip)
Rank: 282
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
Ad never brought to mind?
Not when you're a Dalek buried in the 9th century
And your enemy is as old as time
Happy new year! Of course, what with the timey wimey nature of books I don’t actually know when you are reading this review but I hope, however through the year we are, that things are going your way. If only we had a time machine to nip back and change things now we have the benefit of hindsight of how the year turned out, eh? How are your new year’s resolutions turning out? Possibly better than the characters in ‘Resolution’, a story that’s all about making the most of your chances while you have them without putting things off for another day (because there might not be one). Which seems an odd thing to say about a story that revolves around archaeology (a profession that’s all about patience if timing if ever there was one!), but that’s what happens when the unlikely duo of Lin and Mitch dig up an old discarded Dalek buried underground in Sheffield (those metal meanies get everywhere!) It’s true though: the two lovebirds clearly fancy each other (you spend the whole episode shouting ‘get a room! Possibly a 9th century one!’) but never quite get round to asking each other out and by the time Mitch plucks up the courage his wannabe girlfriend is part Dalek. Ryan’s dad, too, comes calling round trying to patch things up with his son after years away – but it’s too late, he’s grown up (well sort of, this is Ryan we’re talking about here) and doesn’t need his dad anymore (until the inevitable finale where love saves the day). Even The Daleks have left their invasion plans just that little bit too late, waiting until Earth is unified enough to destroy the signals back to their fleet and taking a stand together. If nothing else the first Dr Who story to go out on New Year’s Day since episode one of ‘Day Of The Daleks’ in 1972 (and, weirdly enough, only the third ever after an episode of another Dalek story, episode eight of ‘The Dalek’s Masterplan’ in 1966) really makes the most of its slot, urging us to hit the ground running and do all the things we’ve been secretly wanting to do without putting off.
Why a new year’s day
slot? Well, that was a new invention by new showrunner Chris Chibnall. He found
the traditional Who Christmas Day slot hard to write for and figured that the
holidays’ second most important date would be a better one to aim for. I can
kind of see his point (it makes sense that a show all about time travel should
pick a holiday that has to do with dates and change, both very Dr Who idea) but
at the same time it felt very strange and not a little empty to be sitting down
to Christmas Day lunch that year with just The Queen’s speech on telly (and a
Queen that had pulled out of Dr Who cameos twice to boot!) They’d become an
institution since Christmas 2005 and Chibnall’s predecessor, hearing that
Chibnall wasn’t ready to start with a Christmas episode, had even stepped in to
make ‘Twice Upon A Time’ to make sure his
favourite show kept the highest profile slot of the year. It’s also far less of
an ‘occasion’ all round. Now, unlike Christmas, New Year's is only a special day
due to an accident of time, habit and quite possibly alcohol. Fittingly, then,
this special is only really 'special' due to a combination of time slot, habit
and quite possibly alcohol. Or so I've heard from fans who reckon this episode
is better drunk. New year’s day simply isn’t that special, without the gift
giving or same sense of goodwill and most people spend it hungover and/or
dreading going back to work. As a result ‘Resolution’ never feels that special:
though it runs to an hour (and honestly doesn’t really need to) it just feels
like another Dr Who episode, no better or worse than the series it just
followed, not an excuse to get the family round and have them share in your
favourite programme and have everyone
feel better about the world the way the festive episodes (usually) do.
There is at least one
thing that makes this episode different to the earlier Jodie Whittaker episodes
and that’s the return of the Daleks. They were, admittedly, a bit of a
surprise: Chibnall had himself made a resolution while running the programme
that he would never have returning monsters and would only be using ‘new’
monsters of his own making, but such had been the fan outcry and so far had the
viewing figures fallen that he changed his mind (matters came to a head when
Chibnall unwisely promised fans that they would be ‘seeing an enemy you’ve met
before’ in season finale ‘The Battle Of
Ranskoor Av Kolos’ and we all waited with baited breath to see…Tim Shaw
from the season opener ‘The Woman Who Fell To Earth’ again, a character so
memorable that we couldn’t remember the first thing about him even though it
had only been nine weeks since we’d last seen him). To his credit, though,
Chibnall listened to the outcry and the first story made after his series had
gone to air puts a few things right, starting with him turning over a new leaf
and giving us more ‘old’ monsters in the new year. Most fans call this story
‘Resolution Of The Daleks’, given the 1980s tradition for naming Dalek stories
with the letter ‘R’, but the official title is simply ‘Resolution’ in an
attempt to keep them secret (something blown out the water by the Radio Times
coverage of the story and various not very well kept secrets in fandom). The
Doctor, too, rather gives the game away by working out who the enemies are
after just one scene of a shadow and that familiar grating noise in a
realisation that could have been a heck of a lot bigger.
If you were one of the
three people who hadn’t heard the news or seen it coming, though, the Daleks
are surprisingly well handled given that the writer hadn’t shown any interest
in writing for them, with a welcome return after a four year gap since ‘The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s
Familiar’ (their longest gap since the show’s revival so far, though we’re
on target to match that next year). Chibnall always struggled to make new
monsters convincing but he will end up with a pretty decent track record with
the old ones, giving the Daleks a handful of good episodes and the Cybermen and
The Master one each (see if you can work out which ones). Though future new
year’s special ‘Eve Of The Daleks’ is better
still ‘Resolution’ is really good at giving us something The Daleks would
naturally do but which we have never seen them do before – quite a feat given
how many Daleks stories there are around.
Sensibly taking a leaf out of ‘Dalek’s
reintroduction to a new audience,
Chibnall gives us just one and makes it both vulnerable yet incredibly
scary, with even a homeless Dalek without a casing having the power to bring
planet Earth to its tentacles. We've never really spent time with the Daleks
outside their famous exterior shells beyond the odd cliffhanger and this
episode makes strong use of just how creepy a mutated blob is when its trying
to possess you. The story winds up being a bit like ‘Asylum
Of The Daleks’, with a human trapped as a Dalek, but inversely, so now a
Dalek has the power to hypnotise humanity and ride them around as their
casings. It’s a brave choice, dispensing
with the familiar casing design of most of the episode but still making them
recognisably Dalek-like. While other writers never quite ‘got’ The Daleks (for
Douglas Adams they’re a joke, for Eric Saward they’re a tank, for Steven Moffat
they’re an army and for Russell T Davies they’re something that goes boom in
series finales) Chibnall gets their raison daitre spot on: they’re a spoilt child
with the world’s biggest arsenal at their disposal, utterly ruthless and
cunning and dedicated to wiping out everything that doesn’t represent them. The
Dalek shown here is as relentless and driven as any we have ever seen and very
nearly gets away with his plan, despite being all alone. When Graham says to
the Doctor that they’re bound to win because ‘there’s seven billion of us –
plus you’ and The Doctor tells him no, that one Dalek is enough to wipe out
humanity you believe it. This Dalek is slightly different to other by the way,
even when reunited with its case: it’s the only time so far that an entire Dalek
has been remote controlled without an actor/operator inside, powered by three separate
operators for the eyestalk, gun and arm. It’s also much skinner than usual,
which makes sense given that it only had to fit in electronics not a person
(although it does seem a bit odd; not least because, following Christmas food,
people tend to be fatter by New Year’s day). There’s even an audience pleasing
mention of rels, how Daleks count time, invented by Terry Nations for the Dalek
annuals of the 1960s and only ever referred to on telly twice (in ‘The Dalek
Invasion Of Earth’ and ‘Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution Of The Daleks’). In case
you’re wondering 9376 rels works out, using Nation’s original annual sums, at
three hours, seven minutes and 31 seconds. So not long, but possibly longer
than you might be expecting given Dr Who’s penchant for doing things in the ‘nick
of time’.
I wonder, too, if Chibnall
isn’t being slightly cheeky here. If you’re not British then this next paragraph
won’t mean much to you, but if you are then there’s a single solitary word
guaranteed to make anyone alive in the past decade groan out loud, whichever
side they’re on: ‘Brexit’. As with so many things that have gone wrong in
Britain so fart this century, it was David Cameron’s fault. The coalition leader
(who seems like half of a ‘quintessential Holmesian double-act’ and had about the
same idea of ‘equal relationship’ with Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg that Glitz did
to Dibber in ‘The Mysterious Planet’
or Garron had with Unstoffe in ‘The Ribos
Operation’) was so scared by the
rise of Nigel Farrage and the far right in Britain (a rise at the last election
of, ooh, 3%, taking them zero Mps to, umm, zero MPs. Scary!) that he decided to
hash things out once and for all with a referendum on whether Britain should
stay in the European Union and show that he was ‘boss’ by getting behind the
remain campaign. He was most surprised when 52% of the population decided to
leave and 48% decided to remain, even though a) most of the people who voted to
leave that I’ve talked so did so to wipe the smug grin off Cameron’s piggy face
b) genuinely thought eh result was such an obvious vote a lot of people never
actually bothered to actually vote remain c) the referendum was spread through
lies that were allowed to go through unchecked and d) Russia fiddled with the
election results anyway in an attempt to ‘weaken’ Europe. Though the referendum
took place in 2016 this is the first real Dr Who story that goes anywhere near
it and, needless to say for a series that believes in equality amongst all
species and knows that borders can be defeated by any monster with a raygun, it
takes the side of ‘remain’. This is, after all, a peculiarly ‘English’ invasion
even by Dr Who standards. The Dalek’s plan isn’t so much an attempt to invade
so much as divide and conquer the Earth brainwash people one by one and turn them
against each other. As in the olden days (but not so much since the 1970s, when
Terry Nation stopped writing stories) this Dalek is driven by an idea of ‘racial
purity’, of closing borders and not allowing the influence of others to affect
you. This Dalek talks the big scary talk and drips evil with the rest of them,
but it’s also more vulnerable than usual, a scaredy cat without it’s tank. It
needs people to support it or it ends up being seen for what it is: just a
green ugly blobby thing plopping around on the floor. Now Chibnall doesn’t go
full on (the way that, say, Holmes or even Russell or Moffat would have done)
but it’s there if you look for it: just compare the way modern Britain is portrayed,
a community that never properly talks to one another, with the opening where 9th
century Earth only defeated the Daleks because they worked together. It’s also
not that much of a stretch that The Daleks, designed by Terry Nation to
represent right-wing Nazis, now represent right-wing Brexiteer Reformers and
UKIPpers. Just look at how they ‘take over’ and change even people we ought to
like, such as Ryan’s dad or Lyn, turning them into evil racist versions of
themselves. This is also where we first hear about UNIT being cancelled –
something that made Chibnall the antichrist in some fan circles but which I
think is meant to be more a pithy comment on Brexiteers moaning about the costs
of being in the EU (it’s specifically stated that the organisation has ‘been suspended,
pending review’ following its funding being pulled. Which sounds like an EU-Brexit
thing to me). Of course, in the end, the only thing that stops this Dalekukip
in its tracks, isn’t mirroring the hate they spew but by showing love.
Yes, love. Oh dear.
Unfortunately yet again Chibnall can’t quite stick the ending and has raised
the stakes to such an extent he can’t get out of them: to be fair both his
predecessors have this problem too, but at least they have endings that feel
like endings until you stop and think about them a bit too much. In this story
Ryan loves his Dalek-infested dad enough to make him overpower the Dalek’s
control. Famously Terry Nation used to turn down Dalek stories, even when they
were good, if they in anyway put his creations in a light that made them stupid
(give or take a few TV adverts in the 1990s when the money dried up that is).
You sense he’d have thrown the phonebook at this ending, despite Chibnall getting
the Daleks largely ‘right’. It just feels like a desperate way to tie two plots
together that don’t belong – not least because, every time the action is just
getting going, we have another scene of Ryan being mopey and his dad being
rude. The way hasn’t been paved for the dad
at all, who feels like an afterthought:
as Ryan points out, he wasn’t at Grace's funeral and having never even been
mentioned before (when did they even have time to give Grace a funeral? They've
been whizzing through time and space all series!) These scenes are amongst the
most soap opera of all of Who (they say the 5th Doctor years were a
‘soap opera’, given John Nathan-Turner’s love of the genre and the amount of
characters living together, but it’s clearly the 13th Doctor era
where everyone seems to have ‘issues’ and complex home lives) and slow the
action and drama down every time the story gets moving. It’s not just that the
ending undoes a good Dalek story either, it unravels Ryan’s own character arc.
The whole theme of this episode, of finding forgiveness before it’s too late,
is undone by everything Ryan has to say to his dad: that he’s grown up without
him, found his own two feet, surrounded himself by a ‘new’ family and doesn’t
need the old one that abandoned and betrayed and walked out on him. He’s found
a life without his dad and even though it’s Ryan we’re talking about (so the
story is re-laid in a very laidback way, as if he’s reading his phone-bill)
it’s as close as we ever see Ryan come to stand for anything. To see all of
that undone by an ending that has Ryan declare his great love for his dad and
his dad (who’s been sniping and bitching the whole episode) declare it for his
son comes out of nowhere. I’m all for characters not saying what they mean and
being too hurt to speak openly and vulnerably, but there hasn’t been one iota
of proof that these two have ever thought about each other in all the time
they’ve been out of each other’s lives. It’s a sign, both of how much Chibnall
invested in this character and how much the audience hated him, that Ryan’s dad
is never seen again and only mentioned in passing once. It’s also, I would say,
borderline what you can get away with for the younger members of the audience
to have a Dalek take over someone’s father: it’s one thing to have them take
over a companion (that’s their ‘job’), an archaeologist (you don’t meet many of
those in everyday life) or a stranger (who could be anyone) but to take over
someone you could perhaps identify with and turn them into a scary ruthless
machine is going a stage too far I’d say.
Ah yes, those
archaeologists. I’m amazed Dr Who hasn’t used the subject more: after all, it’s
the closest us mortals can ever really get to time travel and a good reminder
of just how big and vast the human experience is, of how our lives are bigger
than our own, even without other planets to visit. Archaeology, and history in
general, reminds you how fragile our species is, how easily we can be led down
the wrong paths and how nearly we have wiped ourselves out several times in
dates past: all very Dr Who ideas. I rather like Mitch and Lynn too, far more
interesting idealistic and, well, young than the archaeologists I used to hang
around with after history lectures. Admittedly that’s not always a good thing
they don’t seem like any archaeologists I’ve ever seen, being too young to be
left unsupervised for such an important dig for one thing, while we don’t ever
find out what they’re really digging Sheffield up for. They have a good line in
banter these two, though, that make them seem more like ‘real life’ people than
Chibnall’s average characters (nothing helps make a character seem more
multi-dimensional than sarcasm). One of his best lines of dialogue as
showrunner and Russell T level of sketching in two characters in a very small
amount of time is when Mitch jokingly asks if Lyn thinks they will find ‘Alfred
The Great’ where they’re digging the same way Richard III was discovered under
a Leicester council car park (I wish we could have an episode about him setting
the record straight: he was all in all one of our better Kings and what
Shakespeare wrote about him was mostly made up, especially that part about
locking princes in towers that wasn’t him; The King just had a lousy p.r. manager
compared to his enemies that’s all. And a hump that was a gift to his critics.
But I should hope by now Dr Who fans know to look beyond surface prettiness for
‘monsters’) and she replies ‘not without a change in history and geography we
won’t and Mitch laughs, admitting to never being good at those subjects. They
have a love story of their own, over the incredibly romantic setting of an
ancient dig, although at least this romance feels plausible which is one up
from a lot we've had this year. This does happen a lot lately though doesn't
it? Romantic subplots are to 2010s Who what splitting up and getting lost was
to the 1960s, possession and mind control were to the 1970s and ventilation
shafts were to the 1980s. We at least feel that we know these people though
and they seem, much like the young Amy and Rory in ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, an obvious couple
to everyone who meets them except themselves. So there Mitch is, slightly in
awe of Lyn and wishing he could get up the confidence to date her, little
knowing that Lyn’s teasing hides an obvious affection for Mitch too. As a
result you really feel it when Lyn is the first human to succumb to the powers
of the Dalek and you can understand why Mitch throws himself into harm’s way so
readily compared to a lot of the supporting characters in Chibnall scripts who,
by nature, should be running a mile in the opposite direction (and I add both
Graham and Ryan to that list by the way). The great irony of the episode is
that these two, archaeologists used to looking at the bigger picture, think they
have all the time in the universe to get it together, but it only takes one lone Dalek to come
along and disrupt their plans, just as life can be disrupted by any big
unexpected (usually non-Dalek related thankfully) event. Chibnall’s message,
don’t wait, do it now, comes over well.
However the rest of the
plot is bananas, even by Chibnall standards. It’s clearly a joke that in the
ancient past a Dalek ‘reconnaissance scout’ was defeated in the 9th
century and tidied away into three triangles of the globe: Siberia, the island
of Anuta and Sheffield. It’s a nod of the hat from the showrunner to his old
university town where nothing much ever seemed to happen that it’s now one of
the three most important points on Earth. But think about that: having The Daleks
turn up in the 9th century, even as a long-forgotten myth, is a
nonsense, both of Dalek history and our own. We don’t know which Dalek fleet
they were, but even if they turned up after meeting the Doctor and seeking
revenge on his ‘favourite’ planet it would have shaped their history in some
way we’d have seen on screen. The Doctor, too, would have known about it and
had the whole of his 3rd incarnation to look up strange facts and
figures about his newly adopted home planet. Surely a drawing of a Dalek and a
myth about metal beings that came from the skies saying ‘exterminate’ would
have got his attention? As for humanity, who were these amazing people who
defeated the Daleks without the Doctor around, something even the killer
Movellan robots who were supposed to be indestructible (in ‘Destiny Of the Daleks’) couldn’t do? Even if
they were all destroyed too there would be some record of them. Plus as much as
the 9th century seems a long time ago this wasn’t ancient history
when all our records were lost (most of them in the burning and looting of the
Library of Alexandria – the 1st Doctor’s fault, according to a Big
Finish audio), this was a time when people wrote things down and did ad
nauseum. I wouldn’t mind so much if this was your run-of-the-mill Dr Who story
(the fiction has to be interspersed somewhere with the fact after all) and we
could fudge around the idea we’re in an alternative timeline. Except these are
two archeologists who’s job it is to know all of history. If even they haven’t
heard of it before the dig (and clearly both secretly think it’s a load of
hooey) then you’ve got problems. Plus surely some straggler survivor from the 9th
century, having lived through hall that mayhem and struggle, would have put up
some sort of a sign or a monument basically saying ‘don’t dig here – here be
Daleks!’ We’ve had weirder things in the history of the Earth I know, but most
of them from ’before time’ (like the
Racnoss and Fendahl) when it can’t be contradicted. Every single bit of genuine
recorded human history says this story never happened. Maybe if Chris Chibnall
ever needs to make another resolution as a writer then it’s to stick to adding
fictional accounts in timelines where they actually fit.
One other issue, common
to many Chibnall stories: the pacing. Notably it's slower than usual, less
whizz-bang-whallop like most festive specials and more like a new year’s hangover
than a pub crawl. We’ve mentioned the way we keep cutting from the bursts of
activity from The Doctor to Ryan staring at his dad in gloomy silence, but it
really does stop this story from coming alive. The whole story feels woefully
slow and boring at times, late to get moving and too easily halted while
everyone catches their breath. There’s no real tension there, even though the Dalek’s
possession and it’s slow burn move to taking over the Earth ought by rights to
feel huge and unstoppable. In other stories it might not be that noticeable,
but in the new year’s timeslot watched while everyone is hustling and bustling
about either going somewhere or coming back from somewhere, it really stands
out. As for the ending, even before Ryan saves his dad from Dalekdom, the plot
comes to a climax in such a weird way with The Daleks finally defeated by the
bizarrest Earth object yet: a microwave. What next? A Dalek defeated
with an Earth sink plunger?
There are problems with
the cast too: Daniel Adegboyega really struggles to make anything out of Aaron
Sinclair beyond making him a sort of ‘anti-Ryan’, self-centred and closed off
(more shades, perhaps, of Chibnall’s comment on Brexit dividing Britain and how
we ought to make it up, even with racist family members. Even those easily
fooled by right-wing Daleks). The script asks a lot of him: he has to read out
that pompous voiceover (something that’s usually OTT when the Doctor or
companions are reading it out loud never mind dads of companions. Why? It just
makes a mockery of a series we’re meant to ‘overhear’ rather than be ‘told’.
Why would the dad know any of the scenes he isn’t in?), be enough like Ryan to
be convincing as ‘just a dad’ and be terrifying as a Dalek puppet. Interestingly
Daniel nails the last one (which by rights out to be the hardest) but is woeful
at the other two. Mitch is played with just the right gormless hapless charm by
Nikesh Patel, the first time really we’ve had the future Chibnall trope of the ‘beta
male’ who can’t get it together with a girl but in many ways the best. Lyn
though is a struggle, Charlotte Ritchie strong as that other future Chibnall
trope the ‘alpha female’ who thinks she can get any boy she wants but has never
quite got round to it but less certain of how to pitch it when she’s possessed by
a Dalek. As for the regulars they really struggle reduced to their caricatures,
which is a real shame given that the first story written by a showrunner who’s
had the chance to actually see his cast play his characters usually knows
exactly what to do with them and increases the character development, not delay
it. Ryan gets more lines than ever before but doesn’t grow or change and Tosin
Cole continues to play him like he’s half asleep and/or stupid, reacting with
the same shrug whether his dad is back from the dead or a Dalek is nearly making
him and his friends dead. Bradley Walsh is reduced, as he so often is, to
making quips. There’s a moment when the dad turns up and Graham gets
resentful/jealous over Ryan having his biological dad back in town but it’s
fleeting, we never fully find out what he’s feeling. Yaz, more than ever
before, is a spare part with nothing to do. And The Doctor? As per normal with
Chibnall it’s hard to say what Dr 13 actually does. She doesn’t drive the
action so much as comment on it, at speed, until confronting the baddy whereby
she stops doing anything and just looks on pathetically waiting for help to
arrive. It’s Ryan who saves the day for once, which ought to feel like a ‘punch-the-air’
moment as he proves to his dad that he’s not useless. Except he still is (just
not quite as useless as The Doctor). As for the dialogue it’s…variable. For
every joke that’s genuinely funny (‘Don’t take these with alcohol, or you’ll
grow an extra head’ says The Doctor to a confused Lyn after curing her inside
the Tardis) there’s another that misses. Badly (that line about the daleks
cutting off the power and the children moaning about having no internet or Netflix
and ‘having to talk to each other’ falls flat; once again with Chibnall it
feels like he’s laughing at us rather than with us, given that he’s the reason we’re
stuck inside watching TV on New Year’s day without going out somewhere and once
again he’s downright rude to the younger generation who are meant to be ‘his’
fans who grew up on the 13th Doctor. If the Doctor isn’t siding with
the generation of youngsters watching the first time round you’ve had it,
frankly: they should be on your side above anybody, even old-timer fans who
should instead be getting nostalgic for when The Doctor was talking about them).
The result, then, is a
mixed bag. There are times when Chibnall seems to has learned from his mistakes
and resolved to turn over a new leaf, writing for better supporting characters
and returning monsters, two of my major issues with series eleven, getting The
Daleks just right. Unfortunately we still have lots of the old problems (the
lack of character in the regulars, the plots that make no sense, the pacing)
and to top it all off we get a new one (the soap opera aspect that nobody cared
about: even Ryan, apparently, given his nonchalance). The result is, oddly
enough, a surprisingly good Dalek story dropped inside another story that’s
pretty characteristically terrible. The result is a convoluted watch that just
isn't special enough for New Year's Day and felt like a letdown at the time –
not least alongside the announcement that we wouldn’t be getting a full (and
still shortened) season for another year. A year! Even though Dr Who fans know
that time is relative, that still feels like an awfully long time and loses any
momentum this special had built up. For all that, though, it’s a sign of how
far Dr Who had fallen that ‘resolution’ still feels like a gigantic step up in
many ways, giving Dr 13 a foe that’s truly worthy of The Doctor and a hint of
something bigger going on in the present day that was always exactly the sort
of thing Dr Who was is and always will be ‘for’.
POSITIVES + I love the
opening gag that, not content with one new year’s eve, The Doctor’s taken her
fam to lots of them: apparently nineteen though we only hear about three (Sydney
in 1999-2000, 1800-01 when team Tardis travelled to a dwarf planet with
Giuseppe Piazzi and ‘the first’ in Mesopotamia, presumably in 0-1AD). As ever
with Chibnall, these little asides and hints at other adventures seem a lot
more fun and exciting than anything we actually get on screen (or indeed
anything they can actually afford to do). Still, it’s a fun and quirky idea
that helps sell the idea of time travel to anyone stumbling across the episode
that hadn’t seen it before and gives the story a ‘present day urgency’ when The
Doctor lands on the very day we’re watching (you’d be surprised how few times
in the series this happens).
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