The new season of Doctor Who continues as we follow The Doctor and Belinda on their adventures through time and space. In the previous episode, we are introduced to Belinda, who is taken away to a distant planet named after her, where she meets The Doctor. After going through a “Robot Revolution, ” the Doctor promises to get Belinda home to Earth. The only issue, for some reason, is that they can’t seem to get back to the present. This sets up the story for the season as we follow both The Doctor and his new companion on some pretty epic-looking adventures!!
Doctor Who: Some Animated Spoilers Here
The episode called “Lux”, starts off in a movie theater in 1950 Miami, where a group of people are watching an old Mr. Ring-a-Ding cartoon, what the voice character being voiced by Alan Cumming, who previously has been on the show during the episode 13th’s Doctor’s run of the series. When the character screen comes to life, then everybody disappears from the theater, leaving only the caretaker. Cut to The Doctor and Belinda, The Doctor is trying to find a way back to 2025 to take Belinda home, and ends up coming up with a relay device to help pinpoint where exactly they need to go.
They land in 1950 in order to pinpoint where the relay needs to go. But when they discover everyone in the theater has disappeared, of course, the doctor has to step up and solve the mystery. In a diner from across the street, they end up talking to one of the victim’s mothers, who ends up telling them how long everybody’s been gone and what exactly happened.
We even get a bit of a breakdown of the old caretaker. When the doctor and Belinda finally get to the theater, they meet Mr. Ring-a-Ding, a creature made up of light who turns out to be a member of Pantheon, god like creatures whom the Doctor has run into before in his past.
The Characters Take A Trip
The doctor and Belinda are both sent into the world he created, so they do not get in the way of his plan to become real and one with the light. This sets them off on an adventure through animation and cinema, even having both The Doctor and Belinda meet their “Meta Fans”, who end up helping them in the end. Mr. Ring-a-Ding finally realizes that the doctor is a time lord in order to take his time energy to become real.
As he has his energy taken, Linda goes to find the caretaker to get matches to burn the theater down, but the caretaker decides to take matters into his own hands and does it himself. This frees up Mr. Ring-a-Ding to feed off light from the outside world after an explosion happens and take on as much light as he can from the world, becoming something more than what he ever dreamed of.
Review Through Time and Space
This episode was really fun to watch because of seeing this version of The Doctor actually become animated. We also get to see the reluctant side of Belinda sort of disappear for a bit in the episode, willing to see where this mystery takes them. Alan Cumming does such a great job of bringing this animated character to life that you kind of want him to be real.
The most stand-out part of this episode, which has always been before me, is the doctor finally getting to meet his fans. Watching him and his companion sit down with a cup of tea, asking them what their favorite episode was of their show was priceless.
Where will the Doctor and Belinda go next? Will they get home to the present? Tune into Doctor Who every Saturday on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer.
