After watching Doctor Who: Flux Episode 3, I’m sure you thought of the quote about time being “more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.”
For those of you who would like to understand the episode from a more unilinear perspective, here are the events in chronological order:
The story continues from Episode 2, where the Doctor and her companions discovered the Temple of Atropos on Planet Time, which controlled the flow of time across the entire universe. The episode’s baddies Azure and Swarm break out of their prison on Atropos and trap Yaz and Vindor in the heart of the temple.
This causes a time storm!
The Doctor figures out that the Mouri were the original keepers of the Temple of Atropos. Finding no immediate solution, she places Dan and herself onto two vacant Mouri platforms, causing the storm to get to them as well.
But given that the Doctor is a “Timeless Child,” she has a few tricks up her sleeve that she uses to manipulate the time vortex—The Doctor hides her companions in their own timelines so that the time storm does not eat them up.
Yaz starts her own trip down memory lane with relatively harmless events. But in the periphery, a sinister enemy prowls on Yaz: a weeping angel. The weeping angel tries to get inside Yaz’s phone so that it can completely block off her connection from the Doctor.
In Dan’s encounters, he starts off with spending time with his beau Diane. But what’s interesting is that Dan also enters events that are in store for his future—like meeting philanthropist Joseph Williamson in the 1820s.
As newcomer Vindor’s past has been under wraps till now, we benefit the most from seeing him explore his own timeline. Windsor is an officer from the future who was promoted to protecting Grand Serpent, a political figure.
Upon figuring out Grand Serpent’s corrupt ways, Vindor tries to expose him but is instead reprimanded by being reassigned/banished to an observatory far, far away from his home planet. If this last bit sounds familiar… it’s because that’s where the Doctor meets him in Flux’s Episode 1.
Another component of Vindor’s story is that of his long-lost lover Bel. Although Bel’s scenes are not tied to the time storm, it depicts her life after the Flux, in a universe where Dalek, Sontarans, and Cybermen have grown in power.
The Doctor too, enters her own timeline, a little closer to the root of the problem. Through Jo Martin’s Forgotten Doctor, she finds out that the planet Time was created by the Time Lord organization “Division” in order to bind time and space together and maintain order.
Azure and Swarm, who were against this, destroyed the Temple of Atropos. But the Forgotten Doctor employs the Mouri to help and control the flow of time, trapping Azure and Swarm in the process.
Whittaker’s Doctor decides to do the same when she encounters three representatives of the Mouri. While the Mouri yet remain mysterious, they choose the Doctor once again.
Before the time storm ends, the Doctor has one last vision: meeting a woman who claims to be responsible for the Flux.
The Flux, as we know, is a universe-ending anomaly. The Doctor is determined to find its cause and end it. But it’s too late for Vindor, who tries to return home after the time storm—only to find that the Flux has already destroyed his planet.
About Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British sci-fi TV program produced by the BBC since 1963. The series aired from 1963-89 and was then again revived in 2005.
The program depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called “The Doctor,” an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-traveling spaceship called the TARDIS. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, saves civilizations, and helps people in need.
Over the years, many actors like Jodie Whittaker, William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and Peter Davidson have played the Doctor. Hartnell was the first actor to be cast as Doctor Who.
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