'Doctor Who: Flux' Episode 2 Recap: War of the Sontarans
Last week's Doctor Who ended with the end of the universe as the Flux entered the TARDIS from every door. (There were a lot of extra doors.) The week opens with the Doctor waking up from a black and white dream with a giant haunted house to a snowy place she declares to be the end of the universe. At least Yaz is here and Dan too, for whatever that's worth. Also, there's a dead soldier with a Union Jack and a red coat looking like a Poldark extra that wandered in from across the BBC lot.
Mary Seacole: You think the army takes advice from a Doctoress?
Mary Seacole (Sara Powell) finds them there and naturally mistakes them for Thénardier-like scavengers. Hearing the Doctor declare herself, she seems surprised Florence Nightingale's workers are so close to the front. The timing, the dress, and the dead are enough for the Doctor to add up the clues. It is 1855, and this is the Crimean War. Correction: it would be the Crimean War, except the British troops are fighting Sontarans, not Russians. Clearly, there have been a few changes since we were last in the 1850s. But Dan and Yaz aren't there long; the collision between the Flux and Vortex energy send them on their way, sans Doctor. She can't follow, as the TARDIS has lost all its doors.
