Doctor Who Series 10 Recap: “Extremis”
Our first episode of the three-part installment at the heart of this season of Doctor Who is a bizarre fake-out.
This week is the first of three episodes which Moffat and co are informally calling “The Monks Trilogy”. Several outlets have referred to this and the next two episodes as a “loose three parter” but as far as I could judge, this episode sure wasn’t a stand alone.
Bill: I want to know what’s real and what isn’t real.
The Doctor: Don’t we all?
Let’s get the first thing out of the way. It’s Missy in the vault. No cute tricks, no sudden twists, and no fake outs, unless you could the fact that they released the clip on Friday from the prologue to make it seem as if Missy was turning up somewhere that wasn’t the Vault. (The fact that the Doctor clearly had his eyesight in the clip was confusing–until we learn this is actually a scene set “a long time ago” aka 75 years ago.)
