Bloodshed on a 19th-century battlefield from a historically inaccurate foe. Yaz and Vinder trapped at the Temple of Atropos on the planet…”Time”? The TARDIS’s condition deteriorating from poor to outright horrible. And all the while, we’re singin’, “Hey, Dan…take a ‘wok’ on the wild side.”

The mysterious Flux has scattered our trio just at the moment when Sontarans seem to have reappeared in Earth’s past and present timelines. The time for potato humor…is over.

We discuss the return of the clone warriors in a slightly less comedic role, the complexity of the Atropos scenes, the nature of the connection between the Flux and the Ravagers (whom we are LOVING, thank you very much), and how our pre-Series 13 predictions on the Flux conflict itself are holding up at this, the end of the “first act” of the six-chapter story.

NEWS:

• Classic DW writer and K-9 co-creator Bob Baker passes at 82
• That rickety house in the Doctor’s recent vision? Totally *NOT* the House of Lungbarrow