help your website reach the right audience for example by using a specific domain name like dot art all this and more is available for you to check out by clicking the link in the description head over to URL_TOKEN forward slash row and j coleman and use the promo code rowan j coleman for NUMBER_TOKEN percent off your first purchase thank you again to squarespace for helping me keep the lights on over here and now back to the video as a quick recap chris chipnel's shall we say controversial additions to doctor who cannon can be basically summarized as the doctor discovering they had previous incarnations they didn't know about and for what we can glean these incarnations work for the mysterious division now let's put aside the extra paragraphs this twist added to the doctor who wiki and examine it from a story slash character perspective what purpose was this supposed to serve or rather what purpose was it meant to serve i believe what this was meant to do was call in to question the doctor's character not from a timeline point of view but more from a moral point of view the doctor often prides themselves on being morally right fighting evil defending the downtrodden simple kindness etc but this hidden past in which the doctor worked for a nefarious organization out for universal domination clashes with this it's supposed to make the doctor wonder if they are truly as good as they thought they were if they have the capacity to do the harmful acts they committed in these older incarnations and if ultimately they've done far more harm to the universe than good that's what i believe the intention was with this twist however here it already has a few problems the only incarnation we really got to know all that much was the ruth incarnation and while she's certainly a little grittier throwing down with a jejune and waving a rifle around she doesn't do anything we haven't seen john pertwee or peter capaldi do so the idea of the NUMBER_TOKENth doctor not knowing who she thought she was doesn't really land because the forgotten incarnation we see does exactly the kinds of things we expect from the doctor as i said when i originally reviewed this twist rather than a huge character-shaking revelation this twist feels like it boils down to the doctor having extra incarnations they didn't previously know about which just doesn't seem like much of a big deal coupled with this era's problem of a lack of character development for the companions and we don't get a sense of the doctor really being deeply troubled by all of this we get glimpses of it but every time it comes up it's more like oh yeah that's a thing so if doctor who flux sought to pay all of this off it's not impossible but it's certainly building a climax on some shaky ground that being said i think flux kicked things off quite well it's all set up of course in this first episode but the threat from the flux itself is crystal clear dan carvanesta and claire are all introduced well there's even some genuinely great dialogue between the doctor and jazz finally we get some proper banter between the main characters and some possible conflict yaz doesn't just stand around asking the doctor what to do she pushes back argues slightly she has
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