Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After Village Of The Angels
5. Why Is Azure Using The Passenger?
Stage-managed to look like a Messianic figure delivering a message of salvation to the masses, Azure is gathering up her victims with ease. We already know that the passengers are bigger on the inside prisons, perhaps even created with Time Lord science like those that held the Daleks in the Time War. But to what end?
When the Doctor asked Swarm what his intentions were, he simply said ‘to reign in hell’, but we are still no closer to understanding what that means for those trapped inside the Passengers. They are treated as toys, but is there any purpose to it other than the Ravagers’ twisted sense of fun?
No doubt the Passengers will be useful as bargaining tools, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the Doctor give herself up to the Ravagers in an exchange, but it’s such a huge undertaking to gather up so many victims there has to be a bigger game in play.
In Once, Upon Time we found out that Dan’s friend Di is one of the prisoners and the Doctor promised to save her, but even during quieter moments in this episode, Dan never even mentions her. It’s been conveniently put on the back burner which is something of an oversight given how underused John Bishop was here.