Doctor Who Series 10 Episode Review

Empress Of Mars - Review

Considering how utterly enjoyable Cold War was in Series 7, I had pretty high expectations for this weeks episode. Did it succeed in that regard, or did it fall flat on it's head? Let's find out!

We begin by our group of folk wandering through the underground trenches of Mars. Bill constantly references movies like Terminator and The Thing. Heck, The Doctor references Frozen! Yes, Frozen!!

Bill falls down a hole and Nardole goes back to the Tardis to get Bill back up. But The Tardis is like "Fuck You!" and puts Humpty Dumpty back at the university. His only remaining option is to ask Missy for help. Yeah, after that scene... they don't show up till the very end....*sigh*...

Listen, Mark Gattis, I wanna see Missy, more then we have. In series 8 she had tons of cameos and had a bunch of screentime, in the first two episodes of Series 9 she was fucking hilarious and once again, had a bunch of screentime. But here in Series 10..she's had only 5 minutes of screentime in the entire series!! Yes, there are still episodes, but only 3!! And John Simm is returning! You'd think since this is Gomez's last Doctor Who series she would have lots of screentime. Nope! In the mind of the highly understandable and intelligent Mark Gattis, Missy should have about 10 seconds of screentime!

Very smart, sir. Very fucking smart.

Bill and The Doctor encounter Friday and the dickhead captain, who seems strikingly similar to the guy in a blue coat in Thin Ice, yeah remember him? It turns out that Friday is kinda like a servant to the Brits, serving them tea... and empty plates? Huh??

Anyway, turns out our British friends have discovered a tomb of a old ice warrior, and guess who it is? Yes, the Empress! Who is very diplomatic and wants to make Mars an independent planet! Trouble is, that means she wants all non ice warriors killed. Again, strikingly similar... Ahh fuck it.

So after a futile persuasion from Capaldi, The Empress wages war on the British Empire and wakes up the whole platoon of ice warriors in the trenches and all out war breaks loose. That's all I'm gonna say, the rest is on IPlayer, or some pirated website which is shady as shit.

Overall, this episode was really good. Aside from Gattis's stupidity. It really impressed me. Sound and visuals were top notch. The idea of a old army filled with corruption fighting another army wanting to have peace, but do it in a way that isn't very peaceful is very interesting.

Very good. You have my approval of a golden medal I stole from the Olympics, which nobody gives a shit about anymore.

Final Verdict - 9.5/10

Honestly, I don't know what the whole concept of next week is, all I can make sense of is a bright blue wall and Romanians.

Bye!