10 Doctor Who Episodes That Took Risks And Failed
4. Doctor Who: The First Avenger
The Return of Doctor Mysterio, the glorious and long-awaited
entry by the franchise to the MCU was critical in understanding Thanos’s plans
for the Infinity Stones and his blueprints for the universe in the aftermath of
using the glove.
Although the above is total nonsense, this Christmas special was the painfully obvious attempt to get in on the superhero craze that has dominated cinema from roughly 2008 to 2019, which is before one even begins to consider X-Men, Batman and the Christopher Reeves Superman films. There is a wafer-thin plot that allows the show to create their own Superman/Clark Kent, which is more painful for how clearly it is the man of steel.
The idea of a human taking up the role as masked vigilante
is absolutely fine, as is attempting to bring an ever-changing franchise into
that same formula as well. However, perhaps it would have worked slightly
better had Dr Mysterio been paired up with the sarcastic Tenth Doctor or the
fumbling Eleventh. The ever-grumpy Twelfth Doctor served only to highlight how
strangely off everything was. Frankly, there was very little super about this
hero.