


The Doctor ( Jodie Whittaker) confronting her abusive adopted mother should have been a more emotionally-charged exchange about abusive parents but was just a boring exposition dump about the plot. Chibnall makes The Weeping Angels not scary by turning them into a puzzle instead of sinister monsters with powers that are made up on the fly. The Sonatarans fighting in the Crimean War was originally planned as a standalone story, and it shows because it's an adequate Doctor Who story. They embody everything bad about the whole season. They had a mildly interesting skull-faced look just in case we can't tell they're villains, but they did nothing at all other than stand around spouting exposition and then waving their hands for CGI to happen. They're so boring we can't even remember their names and can't be bothered to look them up. The season featured the worst, most boring villains the show was ever saddled with. Doctor Who: Flux Sucked the Drama Out of Its Own Storiesĭoctor Who: Flux featured one alien giant fluffy dog character representing his entire species, which fails to convince us there are millions like him out there. The BBC considered cancelling the show until after the Pandemic was over. Let's remember that Chris Chibnall managed to wrestle an entire (albeit shortened) season of Doctor Who out of the Pandemic and Lockdown under extremely difficult circumstances. It would be easy to just go on a rant about everything bad about Doctor Who: Flux.
