Doctor Who: Once, Upon Time Review - 5 Ups & 6 Downs

Chibs really doesn’t know what to do with Yaz, does he? With no backstory to tell, Yaz is dropped back into her mundane life, sitting in a police car on a stake-out, and playing video games with her sister (and yes, people do call them that, despite the script insisting people don’t). If you think this sounds boring, that’s because it is. That’s why the scriptwriters decided to drop in a Weeping Angel to spice things up. Here’s the thing, it’s still boring.

Yaz, as the character with no story to tell, is tasked with setting up next week’s episode instead, but the whole plot just ends up feeling shoehorned and random. Yes, it was nice to see that Moffat’s ‘the image of an Angel becomes itself an Angel’ rule is still a thing, but the arrival of the Angel from the video game is just too out of nowhere to have an impact, and is dealt with immediately with zero tension. This is the least threatening Weeping Angel scene we’ve seen to date, which is a shame coming off the back of their extremely tense stand-off with Claire in The Halloween Apocalypse. Fingers crossed that next week’s episode takes cues from the latter and not the former.