Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Survivors Of The Flux

10. What Is The Flux?

So the Flux was created by the Division to destroy the universe. All because the Doctor has been unknowingly thwarting their plans ever since she left them. With an endless multiverse to meddle in, unlike Sontarans, Daleks and Cybermen they don’t need to conquer it. Like a failed experiment it can be discarded. Tecteun sees the Doctor as a virus that has contaminated the entire universe with all her moral crusading.

Even with the Flux already destroying countless alien civilisations, the Doctor is making it difficult for the Division. With help from the Lupari she has temporarily protected the Earth making it a potential place of refuge as well as a target for alien conquest. It’s a clever way to retcon all those alien invasions, explaining why the Earth has become such a hunting ground over the years.

To ensure the universe’s destruction, the Doctor has been recalled to Division, taken out of time and space. If this universe is self-contained and the Doctor’s adventures limited within it, the Division could have just left it to its own devices. But the Doctor and those she has inspired have often found ways to travel from one universe to the next: E-Space, Pete’s World, the parallel earth in Inferno, the wormhole on the planet Tecteun first found the Doctor… The virus can still be spread unless the Doctor is taken out of the equation.