Doctor Who Series 10 Recap: The Eaters of Light
After a bad mid-season slump, Doctor Who returns to form–Classic Who form–with the delightful adventure “The Eaters of Light.”
One gets the sense these last three season that Steven Moffat, whatever he says, would really love to make the rebooted New Who into something a lot more like the Classic Who of yesteryear. He himself is not very good at this. But, just as his time with the show ends, he has hit upon how to do it–bring back Classic Who writers.
Nardole: Crows in the future are all in a huff?
The Doctor: of course they are, haven’t you noticed the noise they make? Like a mass sulk.
This week’s episode, “The Eaters of Light”, is the last standalone episode before the finale. Written by Rona Munro, who last wrote for the series in 1989 during the Seventh Doctor’s tenure, this adventure felt like something straight out of the Tom Baker era, or even the Jon Pertwee one. One of the things Doctor Who has gotten away from during their reboot years is the “historical rewrites”, trying to answer mysteries of history, with a little sci-fi thrown in.
