Doctor Who: Survivors Of The Flux Review - 6 Ups & 6 Downs

Well, we asked for some answers and we got them. Was the wait worth it? Nope.

This Division plot has been strung out just a little too thin, with the audience being drip fed information over the course of multiple episodes. The issue is, we’ve been teased for so long that we’ve actually been able to piece the plot together from the various nuggets that have been dropped since Ascension of the Cybermen. We already sort of knew that The Division were a special forces group that interfered with timelines, we knew that the division wiped the Doctor’s memories, and we knew that the Flux was created by The Division as a result of The Doctor’s actions.

Working this out for ourselves is no problem, in fact, it’s been a very engaging mystery. The issue lies in how this episode handles the tying together of this mystery. Every single time The Doctor learns a piece of information that both her and the audience should already know, we get a smash-cut to Jodie’s disgusted face, an ominous bell rings in the background, and The Doctor repeats what she’s just heard as if it’s some shock reveal. It makes The Doctor look like an idiot, and treats us as if we are too.

Also, this isn’t Chibnall’s fault at all, but this Division plot is starting to feel very similar to a certain Disney+ Marvel show isn’t it? The timeline fixing agency, run by a shadowy figure; the protagonist pressed into servitude to said agency; the shock reveal of a multiverse…

Poor Chibs must be livid that someone else got to his plot first, and the real kicker is, they did it better…