It is a journey into the history of Doctor Who. It is an attempt to build up lore to play into the larger arc of the season around it. It is an attempt to argue for the very idea of art as something with intrinsic value at a time when writer Russell T. Davies is openly lamenting...
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It's impressive that, even though this is the first time-loop plot in the show's 58-year history, showrunner Chris Chibnall has chosen not to rest on the show’s laurels and to do something different with the format that adds a ticking clock element to the ongoing loops. Hopefully, this...