Lux

Seeing the fans was a nice touch, the animation figure looks cool and classy. The Episode introduces the lives and how they disappeared, the Cinema is dark and hollow. The restaurant gives the cinema the eerie atmosphere as cries of help from a mother after loosing her son is so warm and welcoming, it adds the charm and the swiftness. The colour of the episode is also great as they make it seem bright and realistic. The ending and Mrs Flood arc raises the stakes and them coming back was fantastic.

The Episodes are slowly progressing. I wish the story would also involve our companions job more, overall a Good Episode.

I will avoid spoilers but this one got me a few times! Alan Cumming is one of my favorite Broadway performers and I really wanted to love his first appearance on the show but it just wasn't there for me. This one drew me in from the beginning (no pun intended) and was entertaining throughout. The ending is a little confusing but makes sense when you think about it. Don't miss the credits!

The mystery of Mrs. Flood continues to deepen and while Belinda is still tentative, she's starting to form a bond with The Doctor. It's actually refreshing to see a companion that doesn't just fall at the Doctor's feet. This episode featured humor, a little sadness, and of course there's always a twist at the end. A solid episode. It feels like we're building up another nice arc.

The first episode of this season, I felt, seeded a lot of plot points for the future, but at the expense of the episode itself. I have similar criticisms about this second run, though I do feel that it was better overall.

Whilst layout out equipment to help with their journey to May 24th, 2025, The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda (Varada Sethu) land in Miami, in 1952. There they discover a chained-up cinema, from which a number of people have disappeared. They learn the cinema is still operated by Mr Pye (Linus Roach), though he operates in fear of Mr Ring-a-Ding (Alan Cumming) a living cartoon that has escaped into the real world and who is behind the disappearance.

Might as well start with the episodes big talking point, a fourth wall breaking scene in which The Doctor and Belinda enter the living room of three Doctor Who fans who are watching the episode unfold. Fourth wall breaking has been quite a prevalent idea in the time of the fifteenth Doctor, mostly with Mrs Flood but he's also winked at the camera himself - I'm starting to wonder if, rather than being a quirk of the series, it's actually going to become a genuine plot point. I was initially a bit disappointed with the idea of the fan scene, there were some nice gags to it, but I felt it was a bit too self-indulgent. I did think that the reveal of how it all actually worked was very clever though and that made me appreciate the whole scene more.

Mr Ring-a-Ding's connection to the wider story of this Doctor was nice, though I'm again not sure I entirely understand the "rules" of it. I also didn't really understand exactly what his powers were, or what he could actually do. Looked amazing though. Though I'm surprised given the partnership with Disney that the BBC has for "Doctor Who" why it wasn't more closely linked to the animation they did at the time, rather than the Fleisher/Popeye/Betty Boop style that they ultimately landed on.

As I've said, his defeat (?) and the episodes story doesn't really need to be about The Doctor, in fact you could easily have argued that - given a long enough timescale, the cinema would have been demolished and exactly the same result would have occurred had he never arrived.

Fine again, but I would perhaps a bit more focus on the actual episode, rather than the future, for a while.

The first episode of this season, I felt, seeded a lot of plot points for the future, but at the expense of the episode itself. I have similar criticisms about this second run, though I do feel that it was better overall.

Whilst layout out equipment to help with their journey to May 24th, 2025, The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda (Varada Sethu) land in Miami, in 1952. There they discover a chained-up cinema, from which a number of people have disappeared. They learn the cinema is still operated by Mr Pye (Linus Roach), though he operates in fear of Mr Ring-a-Ding (Alan Cumming) a living cartoon that has escaped into the real world and who is behind the disappearance.

Might as well start with the episodes big talking point, a fourth wall breaking scene in which The Doctor and Belinda enter the living room of three Doctor Who fans who are watching the episode unfold. Fourth wall breaking has been quite a prevalent idea in the time of the fifteenth Doctor, mostly with Mrs Flood but he's also winked at the camera himself - I'm starting to wonder if, rather than being a quirk of the series, it's actually going to become a genuine plot point. I was initially a bit disappointed with the idea of the fan scene, there were some nice gags to it, but I felt it was a bit too self-indulgent. I did think that the reveal of how it all actually worked was very clever though and that made me appreciate the whole scene more.

Mr Ring-a-Ding's connection to the wider story of this Doctor was nice, though I'm again not sure I entirely understand the "rules" of it. I also didn't really understand exactly what his powers were, or what he could actually do. Looked amazing though. Though I'm surprised given the partnership with Disney that the BBC has for "Doctor Who" why it wasn't more closely linked to the animation they did at the time, rather than the Fleisher/Popeye/Betty Boop style that they ultimately landed on.

As I've said, his defeat (?) and the episodes story doesn't really need to be about The Doctor, in fact you could easily have argued that - given a long enough timescale, the cinema would have been demolished and exactly the same result would have occurred had he never arrived.

Fine again, but I would perhaps a bit more focus on the actual episode, rather than the future, for a while.

From second 1, the episode distinguishes itself. Cinematography was consistently outstanding and the effects of the titular Mr Ring-a-Ding was seamlessly done.

The humour hits just as hard as the serious moments, where in a moment of brain bending meta-ness, the Doctor and Co find themselves talking to some unlikely people. This had me out of the chair howling, point and at the screen in tearful introspection.

For the first time in a long time, I thought the ending felt perfectly fitting of the stakes set up in the narrative and had me wishing another saturday would come sooner.

Viva la Doctor Who.