Doctor Who: 10 Huge Questions After Spyfall Part One

1. How Will The Rest Of The Series Pan Out?

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With the return of the two-part story format and the cliff-hanger we can look forward to more revelations and mysteries concerning the Master and the unknown aliens. We should find out at the very least what the aliens are defending themselves against and why they are taking over the spies of Planet Earth. We should learn the truth behind the 7% alien DNA of Daniel Barton and exactly what otherworld Yaz and the Doctor have been transported to, Stranger Things-like.

But there were some notable shifts in Spyfall from series 11 that surely set the tone for the rest of the season. Some of the shortcomings of Chibnall’s first season at the reins look to have been addressed head-on. The fourth wall was almost broken when O questioned Graham’s role in providing commentary on events, a frequent criticism of the 2018 series. The overused sonic, still the Doctor’s go-to gadget has shown its shortcomings already, replaced by a car mirror in one action scene, and made obsolete on more than one occasion by the Master.

Yaz looks to be getting much more screen-time this year, another thing that many fans were crying out for, and now that Graham and Ryan have resolved their differences we can look forward to a greater variety when it comes to which characters are paired up. Yaz and Ryan work really well together in Spyfall, but let’s hope we see more of Graham and Yaz together than the brief scenes in Demons of the Punjab.

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.