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At Halloween, all across the universe, terrifying forces are stirring. From the Arctic Circle to deep space, an ancient evil is breaking free. And in present day Liverpool, the life of Dan Lewis is about to change forever.

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Doctor Who 13x1

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Joe Cleveland

They started shooting this season during the Covid lockdown _before there was a vaccine_. That they made anything at all is amazing. As a first ep intro to a larger story, I'm not trying to understand anything; I'm just enjoying the carnival ride. They lean hard into CGI for the visuals, but I think it looks great.

Jayveemon

So mad I missed the live watch along!

Martin

I'm surprised of how critical you were, it's the first episode of a long story, why would there be answers by the end of episode one? Would any other series do that? I feel like you were a bit undeservedly harsh on this one. At the time, from what I saw anyway, the reaction was pretty good, people were excited for a big long term story, like any series it's fun learning what happens along the way! But yeah knowing it's part one of six was surprised on how much you went in on it tbh. Anyway, lol not required long message over lol I enjoyed it anyway, onto episode two!

JY

WTF is a perfect description for this episode. Too much happening and too all over the place. Even as an introduction episode to the flux series, it's just too bloated for me to fully like it. Even when this story first broadcasted, I felt the same and it hasn't really changed even when I have the full context. Very sporadic jumping of certain scenes and it just doesn't feel like there's a natural build up or follow up to it all which makes certain stuff feel very random. I think they could have done a better job with conveying the mystery of flux and other developments in a more natural way. There was also lack of time to breathe in certain scenes. Obviously this is hampered by being a covid series with constraints and whatnot but it still feels somehow both overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time. The Doctor's visions of those villains also felt like a huge pace breaker with this episode too. There are some decent moments with Yaz finally arguing back against The Doctor; the scene with Claire and the Angel; Jacob Anderson showing up; The Lupari shielding the Earth and The Doctor feeling the effects of the Flux which leads to a pretty effective cliffhanger. But god, it still feels overstuffed and all over the place. For me, the problem with this era goes beyond wk writing. I don't like the direction or a lot of the dialogue, nor do I feel strong a connection with the most of the characters. I just think there's a lot of missing ingredients to make this era fully flourish like intended. That being said, I'm looking forward to your reaction to one particular episode.