Mandip Gill’s Yasmin was clearly the most affected by the Doctor’s absence, sleeping in the abandoned Tardis, and angry when the Time Lord suddenly returned with a huge grin on her face as if nothing had happened. His voluntary exit follows up on the theme established in Can You Hear Me?, that his mates are missing him and he’s missing them. He’s had some fun moments – making shadow puppets in the lab in Arachnids in the UK, that basketball bomb slam-dunk at the Cybermen, his gun-blazing dash at the robots in The Ghost Monument – but his character development has always been slight. Ryan, you suspect though, will not be making it into the pantheon of all-time great Who companions. Bradley Walsh has been, for me, consistently one of the most watchable elements, not just his little faces and asides adding some humour, but his character seemed to carry most of the emotional heft over the last couple of years. I worry slightly about Chibnall-era Who without Graham in the Tardis. Photograph: James Pardon/BBC Life aboard the Tardis His timely deadpan of “This is why people don’t like experts” raised a genuine laugh, and the episode’s conclusion, where despite everything he managed to position himself as a saviour of the planet heading back for the political big time, seemed frustratingly familiar to the consequence-free behaviour of certain real-world politicians.Ĭhris Noth, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill face off in Sheffield. Having said that, while the pre-publicity may have focused on the return of Barrowman, for me it was Chris Noth’s business monster, Jack Robertson, who stole the show.Ĭriticised as being a too-thinly concealed Donald Trump cipher in his first appearance, here he got more depth – even if still a cynical manipulator of events happy to sell the human race out to the Daleks. Someone should give him his own series, eh? “If you’re dealing with Daleks, you are way out of your depth” John Barrowman was charming and good value as ever, with precious little explanation of what he’d been up to in the years since we last saw him, but some lovely throwback gadgets. I’m not sure anybody had “and then they zorb their way out” on their bingo card, though. I think we all expected it would be Captain Jack who rescued the Doctor from space prison. It’s becoming quite the occupational hazard if you’ve been in No 10.Īs Leo Rugazzi, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett played the latest in a long line of misguided scientists and geniuses in Doctor Who who end up duped and controlled by the alien technology they are messing with.
Harriet Walter played Prime Minister Patterson as cold and calculating, but nevertheless ended up the second British PM exterminated by the Daleks in recent years. The episode followed far more directly from Resolution than anticipated, but it was an extremely long slow burn of a setup before it got going. All of us at the Guardian were devastated to lose Dan in 2020, but we didn’t want the festive special of Doctor Who to pass without giving you a chance to pay a tribute to him, or to discuss a New Year’s Day special that was … well … uneven at best. That episode was no Robot of Sherwood, Jo Patterson was no Harriet Jones, and I’m no Dan Martin. Let’s get the Judoon in the room out of the way.
Because having met her, and then being without her, that’s worse”
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