'Doctor Who: Flux' Finale Recap: The Vanquishers

In the end, Doctor Who's final regular-season episode of the 13th Doctor's time in the TARDIS ended now with a bang, but with a Multiple Doctors episode. It was a slightly different take on the already-done material, splitting the 13th Doctor into three instead of guest-starring older versions. (This time, all were Time Lords, not a humanized replica when one needed to use one's extra hand.) Like Episode 2 and 4, Episode 6 was not the worst of the season — that seems reserved for the odd-numbered episodes. But like the premiere, Doctor Who: Flux tried to end multiple stories at once in a 50-minute hour. It was a feat that was never going to work, even if the season had been good.

The Doctor: Talk about not letting a good catastrophe go to waste.

With the Doctor technically trapped, a passive captive in need of rescue, at the end of Episode 5, the show did the only thing it could — it made two more so that she could rescue herself. The second Doctor went to The Williamson Tunnels to grab Yaz, Dan, Jericho, and Williamson. The third went to Karvanista's ship, met Bel, and picked up the TARDIS, and somehow they all ended up in a friendly mishmash group, with a quick pit stop back to 1967 to pick up poor Claire and up the fabulous fashion quotient. Add in Kate Stewart popping round from the vestiges of UNIT, and the gang was basically all there to do a spot of Universe saving.