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The latest episode of Doctor Who: Flux, “Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans,” introduces a new planet that could change everything the Doctor knows.
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the latest episode of Doctor Who: Flux, “Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans,” which aired Sunday on BBC.
The second episode of Doctor Who: Flux picks up right where the Season 13 premiere left off: the unstoppable cosmic swarm that is the Flux attacked the TARDIS and the Doctor prepared to face the end of the universe. However, the TARDIS isn’t destroyed — it actually keeps the Doctor and her companions safe by going back in time. And in “Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans,” the Doctor is now in the year 1855 in the midst of the Crimean War, which has been hijacked by an invading fleet of Sontaran soldiers.
However, it turns out this isn’t even the Doctor’s biggest worry. Elsewhere in the episode, Yaz gets transported to another planet — a planet that not only provides an answer to what’s going wrong with the TARDIS but that may also change everything the Doctor thought she knew about time itself.
In “Chapter Two: War of the Sontarans,” while the Doctor deals with the Sontarans during the Crimean War, Yaz gets mysteriously transported to an unknown planet. There, she is greeted by a flying, triangular orb that asks if she can help provide reparations. She follows the orb to the Temple of Atropos, where she finds series newcomer Vinder, as well as a handful of oracles standing on pillars in a circle at the center of the temple. These oracles are the Moirai, and two of them are damaged.
As confusing as all of this is, it only gets more complicated once the new brother-and-sister villain duo of Swarm and Azure also arrive in the Temple of Atropos. They indicate that not only have they visited this place before, but they are also quite familiar with it. Swarm and Azure know what’s wrong with the Temple, and they know how to fix it — temporarily, at least.
And it’s only when the Doctor tracks Yaz to the Temple of Atropos that fans learn what this place really is. As the Doctor faces Swarm in the Temple, her foe reveals to her that they are on the planet Time. The Doctor says that there is no such planet, but Swarm insists that it exists. As for the oracles, their defectiveness is what is affecting the TARDIS, and causing it to be corrupted. Time itself is beginning to run wild, and it’s seemingly because of the temple of the planet Time.
This seemingly indicates that this temple is the heart of time itself, its very foundation. If that is truly the case, then it changes everything the Doctor knows about time. After all, she has no idea that there is a planet called Time, let alone what its function is. As far as she knew, the Time Lords were the masters of time. But perhaps there were things even they didn’t know — or rather, more things they kept secret from her. After all, the Doctor recently learned that the Time Lords had kept most of her life a secret, previous regenerations erased from her memory by the Division.
This season has swept the rug from under the Doctor’s feet: she knows nothing about the cataclysmic force that is the Flux, doesn’t know what is wrong with the TARDIS and has no idea who her latest enemy is. And this comes at a time when she isn’t certain who she is and the universe is dying. This is the Doctor at her most confused and vulnerable yet, with nothing being set in stone anymore.
To witness Planet Time, new episodes of Doctor Who: Flux air Sundays on BBC.
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