Spectacular answers
Look, I’m optimistic about the new season until proven wrong, but even I wince at that kind of hollow hyperbole. The episode previews have been promising enough that I’ll be happy if the season arc is cohesive and sticks the landing.
Unfortunately, I also know that it’s when RTD aims for “spectacular” he tends to lose sight of the basics.
It’s weird because they spent a season playing with Ruby’s mom, Susan, Sutekh trying to tell us that important character identity twists are bad, and now here’s a new important character that’ll have a big identity twist? Really?
I don’t know if the message was that identity twists are “bad,” so much as a bit of a deconstruction of what “importance” is.
And in all fairness, the Mrs. Flood mystery was very present even at that time.
WHHOOOOOOOO