Doctor Who: Space Babies Review - 7 Ups & 3 Downs

10. DOWN - The Info Dump

The 1996 Paul McGann movie was heavily criticised for being bogged down in exposition, but it's got nothing on Ncuti Gatwa's sprawling monologue about being the last of the Time Lords.

As the Doctor rattles off exposition about the Rani, the Timeless Child, the Master's Time Lord genocide, and Gallifrey, it feels like the uninitiated viewers at home should have a notepad and pen.

It's even stranger when you take into account that the Doctor will be repeating much of the same information to Poppy in a scene that makes far more sense in the context of the episode.

As a result of the Doctor reading out his Wikipedia page, we lose Ruby's introduction to the TARDIS under a deluge of clunky callbacks. She can't ask daft questions about how the TARDIS works because she's too busy reeling from the Doctor sharing every painful detail about his lives so far.

The show's called Doctor Who, not Doctor Too Much Information!