Doctor Who Season 10 Recap: “The Empress of Mars”
An odd notherburger of an episode after last week’s failure of a three-parter leaves this season of Doctor Who in a depressing slump.
Last season’s Gatiss penned episode “Sleep No More” was the only stand alone episode of the season. At the time I joked that was because none of the others wanted to be seen with such a terrible episode. Thankfully, Gatiss’ outing this year–in the same episode 9 slot–is not nearly as bad as all that. But it’s not very good either. In fact, it’s not really much of anything.
The Doctor: Sorry, I could never resist a countdown
There was promise in the episode. For instance, this was the first time in many moons that an episode started in present day, only to launch Team TARDIS off on the monster of the week adventure. In this case The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole to NASA to see the reveal of the latest pictures beamed back from Mars….only to discover a message in the planet’s North Pole: “God Save The Queen.” How did it get there? TO THE TARDIS!
