Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Once, Upon Time
10. Can Any Of The Memories Be Trusted?
The Doctor’s risky solution to the cliff-hanger at the end
of War of the Sontarans is to jump into the time storm and hide Yaz, Dan and
Vinder in their own time stream, to relive their memories or experience their
future. That way she can keep them alive while she appeals to the Mouri to fix Atropos.
The Doctor was wrong to assume she’d found the perfect hiding place. Yaz’s memories are very different to what she is experiencing, Dan keeps being thrown from one scene to another, and the Doctor gets distracted by her quest to uncover more about her own past.
The Weeping Angels are part of the problem, certainly as far as Yaz is concerned, and the fact that the Ravagers have taken Dan’s friend Diane means that they could be toying with him through the Passenger. If time has been so drastically altered for Yaz and Dan, can we have any confidence in the Doctor and Vinder’s backstories?
Swarm knows all about Vinder, but the Doctor’s plan has run smoothly for the fighter pilot. His memories make sense of how he ended up on Outpost Rose and why he was so bitter about his employers. We can also trust all the scenes with his girlfriend Bel.
The Doctor’s past is directly connected to the Flux and to
Swarm’s takeover of Time, the logic of the entire series would collapse if we
could not rely on those memories of the Division’s capture of Swarm and Azure.