Flux , thecurrent time of year of Doctor Who , has seen the serial accommodate to the weird times of pandemic - induced sequence cuts with an observational hail Virgin Mary : a remarkable story told over six chapter . Two chapters in , it ’s … hard to say just how well hailed that Madonna has been , if you will . Butshowrunner Chris Chibnallsays that rooter should be looking to this week ’s halfway point to get an actual clear picture show of what ’s going on .
Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine ( viaRadio Times ) about “ Once , Upon Time,”—the third episode of Doctor Who : Flux — Chibnall touched upon something that ’s made the first two sequence feel a picayune less tenacious than they arguably should ’ve been if this was a typical season of Doctor Who . fundamentally , they ’re picking up a lot of stuff , and have yet to actually put most of them down , leading toa confusing emesis of plot threadsthat are left to drop in the ethyl ether while we occasionallystare at a Sontaran on a horse . There’sbeen new villains , shrunken houses , dog aliens point up to salvage Earth , the titulary universe - eating Flux itself , Weeping Angels , a askew TARDIS , and that ’s barely strike the surface of it all . But Chibnall says that for at least some of those things , plans should come into focus very soon .
“ In footing of form , and construction , especially in Chapter Three–[it ] really does take the show in a Modern direction , ” Chibnall state the magazine . “ It ’s very ambitious , and it credits the consultation with worldliness and intelligence agency . Which is something we always do , of track , but with this , it ’s very much expect you to trust the show and go on a ride . Not everything is give to you in the moment . As with a lot of boob tube now , it credit the interview with a degree of patience – that they ’re not going to know quite what ’s going on . ”
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The showrunner hope that the next sequence , set to focus more on those aforementioned new villains , The Swarm and Azure — who seem to have an unknown beef with the Doctor , and lie with much more about them than they do these murderous foreign siblings — will remind fans of another behemoth in the artistry of throwing down a lot of story thread for future pickup : Marvel Studio ’s never - ending yearning to always encrust up what ’s next . “ For me , it was remindful of some of the shows that I love – of the way that Marvel Studios are telling stories ; the way they ’ll parcel out the information , and things can seem incredibly random and abstract , but they ’re not in the end , ” Chibnall supply . “ They ’re part of a very cohesive whole , but you do n’t get answer straight away . ”
We ’ve receive four more episode to see if Chibnall can follow in the footsteps of one of pop culture ’s most successful teasers around . Doctor Who : Flux go on on BBC One and BBC America this Sunday , November 14 .
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