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The tiny bit of dialogue between them in chapter one suggested to me that their days as comic relief may not be over, however. The redesign of the Sontarans saw them go back to their original 70s look, and caused speculation that they would once again be a mighty warrior race, rather than the butt of a lot of jokes. There wasn’t much more to his character than having weird alien stuff happen to him, and responding with sardonic comments. She was not shy about challenging the Doctor about the Time Lord keeping secrets, and confident enough with alien tech to get Dan out of his booby-trapped cage.Īs for Dan, I didn’t dislike him, but didn’t particularly warm to him either. Yasmin has clearly toughened up a bit since the end of the last episode. Seven billion dogs save planet Earth from being destroyed by the Flux, while loads of the Doctor’s old enemies knock about in the background. It felt like quite a slight story about Karvanista, interspersed with what could have been the cold openers for five or six other episodes.

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But, despite the title, the show didn’t lean into Halloween much at all.ĭid the episode work to set up the series and as a standalone story? The jury is out. I have long clamoured for a Doctor Who Halloween special that did for the imagery of Halloween what the early Christmas specials did for the festive season, with their robot Santas and killer Christmas trees. The episode was big on introducing characters and setting up a disparate set of situations – via some gorgeous CGI of outer space and planetary destruction – but didn’t have much of a story to tell. And so on to a new series and an opener, the Halloween Apocalypse, which wasted absolutely no time in introducing us to Dan (John Bishop).

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