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Review of The Legend of Baba Yaga by WhoTheoryYT

30 January 2025

This review contains spoilers!

This episode was the part that - before the release of the set - that I was most skeptical of, I just thought it seemed... Out of place compared to the hard sci-fi I was expecting in a Fugitive Doctor series. And I was completely wrong. I absolute adored this episode, very different tonally from Fast Times, but a very interesting and entertaining story nonetheless. The way the episode deals with folklore seems like a much more Doctor Whoey way of incorporating fantasy elements into the show than the latest series has been doing, with the revelation at the end of the Baba Yaga and her hut being the result of a malfunctioning TARDIS's chameleon circuit and a psychic field (in the process addressing Fugitive's TARDIS's police boxiness) being, in my opinion, a great way to incorporate the very Time Lord heavy themes of the series with more fantastical elements. I thought things like the Doctor recognising Time Lord skulls because of the regenerative scorching, and the whole idea of the Doctor going to a folklore figure for help were cool and intriguing elements, and I thought The Fugitive Doctor also, might I add, got a lot of great lines in this one ('that's why you change your password regularly,' being a personal favourite), the episode, I feel, giving more of a flavour of what a regular Fugitive doctor TV episode could be like, keeping the Fugitive element as a framing device, but being a slightly lower stakes plot for the overall lore than all her prior appearances. Overall, I thought this was a very strong episode, and I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of the series soon.


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