Sucked out of quiet contemplation about the Flux conflict, we’re bounced around the collective timestreams and memories of Dan, Yaz, Vinder, and the Doctor herself…but what can we trust of what we see? The episode is chaotic even by this series’ standards, but it should be noted that such a complex and no-answers-given strategy is a double-edged sword. Deep-dive fans as we are can find lots to observe, ponder, and while the hours away discussing, but casual fans are not only lost, they’re upset…and are pushing away.

We discuss the visions of the past (and one very fugitive aspect of that past in particular), the disparity between pats of the cosmos completely disintegrated by the Flux versus those just horribly damaged, the nagging (but curious) fan theory of the “Timeless Parents”, and the very non-Chibnall, more RTD-like trope of the star-flung lovers in the midst of war and turmoil.