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One should never want to get to the end of aDoctor Whoepisode.
How about that fabulous psychedelic title sequence and the unnerving rearrangement of the theme tune?
As the current TARDIS team echoes that of 1963, so does this title sequence and theme tune.
Some may miss the Doctors visage, but I think this particular sequence works better without it.
Segun Akinola is killing it.
All parties and ships are headed for a planet called Desolation.
This isnt to say its style-over-substance.
The relationship between Graham and Ryan continues to develop, or not, as the case seems to be.
Graces death quite rightly still weighs heavily on their minds, factoring into their inability to connect.
A scene in which Graham wonders if Ryan will ever call him Granddad is loaded with importance.
More power to it, as its an excellent catchphrase, akin to Tennants Allons-y!
It speaks of the timeless child … the outcast, abandoned and unknown.
Its not a particularly good story probably the weakest in an otherwise strong season.
Maybe Chibnall felt it needed an update of sorts.
One befuddling aspect was that from the start it was revealed that the TARDIS was the titular Ghost Monument.
Yet the race is declared over and ended when they reached the holographic tent once again.
Those giant walls with roundels of a sort the series has never seen before.
They almost look like theyre meant to be climbed.
Theres an hourglass and, perhaps most improbably, a tiny spinning crystal version of the police box itself.
And the final, glorious touch?
The new console provides a presumably endless supply of biscuits.
The crew will have to run laps around that vast interior.
I cannot convey how excited I am to meet Rosa Parks next week.
