The potato-headed aliens caused havoc as they tried to invade every era in Earth’s history. Cue much wisdom from Mary Seacole – and a wok-bearing scouser hoping to thwart them
If you expected the season-long continuous story that is Flux to settle down into more of a regular one-story-a-week pattern after last week’s fragmented intro, you will know by now that that isn’t the case. Chris Chibnall wasted no time in splitting the Doctor, Yasmin and Dan off into three separate adventures that tied together at the end – one historical, one contemporary Earth invasion, and one future outer-space. Three flavours of Doctor Who for the price of one.
The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) was fending off a Sontaran assault on the British army during the Crimean war, encountering nurse Mary Seacole (Sara Powell). There were lessons both on the futility of war and the positivity and compassion of Seacole, who came to the aid of an ungrateful wounded Sontaran, who wished that death would “rain down on” her in return. Seacole’s line – “If we all of us waited to be sent for, we would none of us find our purpose” – resonated heavily.
