Doctor Who: The Flux

So Doctor Who's 'Flux' mini-series has finished, and my overall verdict is…entertaining nonsense. Entertaining in that I mostly enjoyed watching the series, certainly more than I enjoyed the last two seasons, nonsense in that if you pause to examine almost any element of it in any depth whatsoever, the whole thing falls apart like a house of cards in a storm.

This, of course, is nothing new for Doctor Who, and the same critique can be made of a great many other episodes and story arcs over the years. They all tend to wear their flaws a bit differently, though, from era to era and from writer to writer.

Part of me is tempted to just draw a line under the sentences above and leave it there, but another part of me wants to at least try to delve into the pros and cons of the series in more detail. Maybe I'll just ramble on a bit (okay, a lot – I'll put it all under a cut to spare your f-lists!) and see how I get on.

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