Doctor Who Flux: 10 Huge Questions After War Of The Sontarans
3. Who Are The Mouri?
Although this week’s episode was a little less confusing that The Halloween Apocalypse, we were still introduced to yet another alien race and at this point their relationship to the Flux is just as oblique as Swarm’s.
The almost cute floating lanterns, who sound like one of Peter Tuddenham’s Blake’s Seven creations, have no time to go into detail about the true nature of Time, the temple of Atropos and the damaged Mouri.
What we do learn is that time was once an out of control force that an unknown person or race needed to keep in check. Whoever this was, they assigned the Mouri to watch over time on their behalf. Intriguingly, the Mouri are quantum locked, which is an expression used in Doctor Who to describe the ability of the Weeping Angels to turn themselves into stone when looked upon.
It seems highly likely that the Mouri are either the original race that would go on to become the Weeping Angels, or they are slaves of the angels, with the temple defences built using their masters’ Quantum technology.
The intrigue doesn’t stop there… Could the Weeping Angels
and the Mouri both be connected to the Doctor’s home planet? If Time is a real
place, could this planet be the Doctor’s true birthplace? The answer will
almost certainly lie in whoever it was who assigned the Mouri.