Contrived
The two time-stealing villains acts like they're in a heavily scripted show, happy to snarl and threaten but not touching the Doctor or her pals to vanquish them. Real villains don't do that, they eliminate threats. If those two villains can vanquish enemies just by touching them into dust, they sure act like cardboard villains in letting the Doctor (with befuddled face as usual) do as she wishes.
Yaz's role was very confusing, she supposedly is in about four different scenarios that are unrelated, including one uncharacteristic one as military commander? Huh? Why would she want to be a military bully?
Several times the Doctor's back is shown, as she hovers and scrambles talking to unresponsive gods. Looks like desperation to me.
All in all a very convoluted episode that pretends to be clever by throwing in tons of distractions (and that's what they're intended to do -- distract from the lack of a plot).
Yaz's role was very confusing, she supposedly is in about four different scenarios that are unrelated, including one uncharacteristic one as military commander? Huh? Why would she want to be a military bully?
Several times the Doctor's back is shown, as she hovers and scrambles talking to unresponsive gods. Looks like desperation to me.
All in all a very convoluted episode that pretends to be clever by throwing in tons of distractions (and that's what they're intended to do -- distract from the lack of a plot).
- author-49568
- Nov 18, 2021