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Show Notes
Episode 559 before 558? What the heck? Blame a Time loop. Blame Chibnall. Why not?
The 2022 New Year’s Day Doctor Who Special Eve of the Daleks is here and the year is off to… a start.
Simon and Eugene discuss.
Episode Synopsis
Warning: The following plot synopsis contains both editorializing and swearing.
It’s New Year’s Eve, it’s only been a few weeks since the Lupari put a shield around the Earth, and the Sontarans invaded and, pretty most of the universe was wiped out of existence, but mankind is big and dumb and life has pretty much returned to normal on Earth.
Sarah, owner of a massive (but basically empty) self-storage facility, hates working on New Year’s Eve, but she does, and once a year her one and only customer, Nick, comes in to store some stray item. He’s a weird one, our Nick, and he’s clearly got a thing for the caustic, self-interested Sarah. She, on the other hand clearly holds him in the contempt that all good business owners hold their customers in.
Meanwhile, the TARDIS, like many in the audience, really needs to get the last traces of the Flux out. This is done by a complete reset – which is different from a reboot, which was done back in Village of the Angels. The TARDIS team will have to spend some time outside the TARDIS while the magic happens. The Doctor chooses a beautiful beach planet for their destination.
You don’t have to be a genius to guess where the TARDIS lands – in the self storage facility.
A Dalek comes and kill everyone. Really. Everyone. Nick, Sarah, Dan, Yaz, and the Doctor. Dead. Real dead.
Then a time loop happens, and they get to do it all over again, only differently.
Over and over again.
While that happens, we learn just what a horrible person Sarah is, what a crazed lunatic Nick is, and how, after 4 to 6 time loops, they begin to come together in a romantic comedy which will, if you’re like me, have you shouting at the TV, “shut the f$%& up and get on with the plan before you die again!”
(Which, I suppose, in retrospect, is a small victory for Chibnall, since I wasn’t shouting for the Daleks to kill them. Mostly. Ok, actually once or twice.)
Eventually, and in the nick of time, the Doctor gets the Daleks to blow everything up and they all escape. Through a door the Daleks never bother to guard.
Sarah and Nick embark on a new life together traveling around the world where, no doubt, Nick will murder her and cut up her body and store bits of it in a self-service storage facility.