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'Doctor Who' New Year's Special Recap: "Eve Of The Daleks"

Ani Bundel

02 Jan 2022 — 4 min read

Not every episode of Doctor Who starts with killing the Doctor and all the guest stars in the first ten minutes, but after Doctor Who: Flux, one supposed clearing the decks would be a proper beginning. At least a clearing of the deck is supposedly happening when viewers rejoin the Doctor, Yaz, and Dan. The TARDIS is undergoing a complete cleanout to remove all traces of the terribleness in Season 13.

Despite the Doctor's claims she and her companions will spend the time while the TARDIS does an entire cleanout on the beaches of San Munrohvar, in reality, they are dropped in a miserable storage facility on New Year's Eve with a Dalek who murders everyone in sight.

Nick: I'm trying to figure out which is most unlikely, time loops with a robot or three people from the Council working on New Year's.

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