War of the Sontarans notes
Opening with the cloister bell and no visual was a strong
start
What is that house that looks like the poster for Cabin in
the woods.
The Doctor says end of the universe.
Doctor, Yaz and Dan all woke upk in the crimean with no idea
what happened when they hit the flux.
They’re assuming they bounced off the flux and got kicked
back in time. Is that really true
Mary thinks they’re battlefield scavengers
Mary: Doctor’s a mans
term
Doctor: It’s fluid
1885 Crimean war
Mary Seacole?
She doesn’t know the word Russians. The Russians have been substituted by the
Sontarans.
I don’t love the new design
A Sontaran on a horse is cute though. Did Linx ride one?
Vinder’s escape pod has ended up where…?
Are you response.
Canm you repair? The flux
impacted the inner temple. What does any
of that mean?
Priest Triangles. Interesting
The Mouri are the people in the circle and they’ve been
damaged by the flux. Probably deliberately
by Swarm
I like the Mouri costume design
The British Hotel. I
bet this is all historically accurate
Dan is asking questions we haven’t heard companions ask
before. And now he’s fading away.
This is a lazy way to split the companions up. Or is it efficient? They’re falling through space and time because
of the collision of flux energy and vortex energy
Neat gimmick that the TARDIS door is missing
Dan’s house being gone is a nice visual cue to confirm he’s
in the real world. Why doesn’t his
neighbor invite him in if he’s worried about Dan being out after curfew?
Where is Di, now she’s mentioned?
I bet if you know what that stadium is that that image is
really powerful
How did Dan’s mum and Dad find him that quick?
A universal GPS would be useful
Wait, how did Williamson get here??
Yaz uses good interrogation techniques
So Williamson ended up here not too klong after we saw him
last episode. Is this what he was
building?
Or is this before his building?
WWTDD – cute. It’s
pretty much been implied forever
Lieutenant General Logan of the Light Division
Logan: Madam, I am at work!
The Doctor: I know, I can smell the rum.
Russia is now Sontar on the map
*** War is the opposite of normal
The name Russia is ringing a bell.
If this is the first Sontaran attempt to change history how
are they already Russia on the map
The Lieutenant doesn’t know where the sontarans are coming
Logan: I have queen
and country on my side. That will be
enough.
The Doctor: She here
with you now then, the Queen?
Doctress. Sexism.
Dan Starkey! That both
helps and detracts
I like that they’re teaching us about Mary Seacole.
They nicely plant that Mrs. Seacole tracks things accurately
and the seven and a half minute rest provides the solution later.
Mrs. Seacole: Cannonball
in the back.
The Doctor: Ooh, I bet that hurt.
Sontaran: There is no
such thing as pain! A little.
The Doctor, selling info on the Doctor because it doesn’t
occur to the sontaran that The Doctor might be female.
Mary Seacole isn’t taking any shit from Logan
The SOntarans are hidden behind a camouflage shield
The Doctor asks Mary to monitor the encampment and take
notes. That’s very Doctorish
Commander Skaak.
Killing Dan Starkey does feel quite transgressive
Dan’s been gone two days.
Ah, the Krvanistra ships caused an eclipse. I thought they might
Cute exchange about whether it’s necessary to call it a
probic vent
Why did the Sontarams start in Liverpool?
Has to have something to do with whatever Williamson wasa
building, right?
I like Dan’s parents
The solomn way he gave Dan the wok!
Wait did Yaz just say she is still with the police
So when you step close to the mouri you flip from before to
after
The triangle said it’s the temple of Atropos
The Temple of Atropos on the planet Time.
Really? All time
flows through here to keep it from getting out of control. Interesting
Priest: Time is…
evil.
What’s the Doctor pulsing for? Oh, to signal them to come to parlay
Convenient that them being clones you can just have two
actors play every significant role
The Sontaran have a psychic command. Interesting.
So they just took advantage of the flux happening.
Shout out to Linx and him planting his flag
Skaak: The Crimean skirmish seems the perfect place to
start. So much conflict. So much opportunity. And also, I wanted to ride a horse.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen the Doctor called on claiming
to speak for humanity, have we?
Logan’s an idiot for being determined to have this
battle. But I suppose it’s in character
for British command at that time
The battle looks cool if a little too Lord of the Rings inspired
The Doctor knocked that kid out just to keep him alive. That’s compassionate
Dan running around wielding a wok is cute.
Nice arial show of Dan climbing the scaffolding
So is this how Swarm and Azure always travel? Just anti-fluxing?
Who’s passenger now
Atropos is where it all began and where it will all begin
again
I don’t think we’ve ever gotten to see Sontarans go full on
slaughter before
Logan is a coward pretending to be dead
Nice carryover of the hand pads from SOntaran stratagem
I like the parallel of Dan and The Doctor sneaking on
different Sontaran ships at the same time
Massive coincidence that Dan pressed the button that
connected the Sontaran ships through time
Funny that Dan thought they were talking about Japanese food
Dan’s worried about the Doctor getting access to his phone’s
photos
If the Crimea is the pilot scheme how are the maps already
changed
Doctor: What
resources do you have.
Dan: A wok.
Doctor: I’m sorry…
what?
The imperial Sontaran Time Carrier. Probably the same ship the Doctor is in
Would a Sontaran really fall for the look behind you trick
Vinder and Yaz both ended up here how? Was it a coincidence in both cases?
The Swarm has a lovely Anthony Stewart Head vibe. He’s giving this a lot more than a standard
monster role requires
So Swarm has met Yaz later in her timestream
He’s playful in a weirdly likjeable way
Who or what is passenger
They were quantum locked against Swarm and Azure after… last
time…
So this temple of Atropos hoilds time in check somehow and
Swarm wants to stop that
Dan’s pretty brave about being executed
Karvanista: I’ve
still got a human in this fight.
The Doctor: I’m going
to need a pointy stick.
All this new info about Sontaran suits doesn’t contradict
what we’ve already known about them
Tom Baker basically told us this same info
She trusts Mrs. Seacole to remember how to sabotage the gas
lines, but not the Lieutenant General
We’ve never seen a Sontaran plugged into their probic bvent
before. They’re showing us a lot of
stuff we’ve always known about nut never seen
Karvanista and Dan make a fun pair
The SOntarans got through in the second before the shield
was sealed
Kasrvanista can fly a Sontaran ship
This is very much like the end of Somtaran experiment that
suddenly becomes the end of Christmas Invasion
Ramming all the other SOntaran ships is an effective plan. Does this mean none of the time changes happen? Should the map not have changed?
What is happening to the TARDIS?
Temporal implosion… does that mean none of this happened?
The Lupari are going to stay and defend Earth
Now there’s growths and webbing in addition to black goo in
the TARDIS. What’s happeniung to it?
And the TARDIS is pulled to the temple of Atropos on the
planet Time
Spatio Temporal readings at zero should put them at the
gateway, shouldn’t it?
The temple is broken and the Mouri are failing. They’re holding time together and now it’s
falling apart.
Wow, great cliffhanger!
All of time is about to flow through Yaz and Vinder
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