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Overview

First aired

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Written by

Chris Chibnall

Directed by

Azhur Saleem

Runtime

60 minutes

Story Type

Series Finale

Time Travel

Present, Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Doctor meets themself, Edge of the Universe, LGBTQA+

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Flux

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth, England, Liverpool, Temple of Atropos, The Void, Time

UK Viewers

4.64 million

Appreciation Index

76

Synopsis

Split across three realities, the Thirteenth Doctor has more than one problem to solve. The Division's base, way out in the Void, has been taken. Some unlikely allies have joined together, hoping to find victory in Earth's final hour. The Grand Serpent has been making plans, and the Doctor's oldest enemies hold the key to the Doctor's past, poised on handing her their final retribution.

Tunnels beneath the Earth lead to all kinds of places in space and time. As the final Flux event approaches, which door leads to victory? Last call before the end. It's time for contact.

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Flux: The Complete Thirteenth Series

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Flux: The Complete Thirteenth Series [Steelbook]

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Flux: The Complete Thirteenth Series

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4 reviews

In our careening into the finale we've ended up somewhere tonally adjacent to Power Rangers. I enjoyed watching it but good lord

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Review last edited on 30-04-25

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This wasn't bad for a 6 episode long story arc, I had fun with it. Not exactly entirely my thing and I just didn't care for the villains at all. Dan is a really fun character and I wish he was a companion for longer than he is!!!

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Review last edited on 22-01-25

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Overall a decent finale to a great season! Great character moments, spectacular CG, and an interesting story.

My only two nitpicks would be that 1) I did get a bit lost in the middle with all the different characters, and 2) the ending of Swarm and Azure was a bit abrupt.

I guess the biggest question left for me is, how has the universe changed since the flux? It wasn't really addressed in this episode.

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Review last edited on 17-01-25

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It stinks.  It is pay-off to all the build-up of Flux in the weakest way possible.  Once again Chibnall ends a big story by vomiting out some exposition and farting out a conclusion to the conflict in the most hand-wavy means possible.  Flux as a whole is a colossal failure.  A catastrophe of undelivered potential.  Is half the universe gone?  Have our characters changed or really been challenged at all?  It will take another show-runner to answer that and even show a hint of the Doctor grieving.  I like looking back on this now a bit more since the franchise has moved on a bit.  Flux is not much more than a bad memory now and I prefer it that way.

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Review last edited on 17-10-24

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DOCTOR: Yaz. I'm sorry. I didn't let you in to what I was doing. Going after Karvanista. What I was looking for. I shouldn't have shut you out.

YASMIN: No. You shouldn't have.

DOCTOR: I was looking for... information... about me. A life I never knew. I want to tell you everything.

YASMIN: I'd like that.

— The Vanquishers

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[Spacestation]

(Space station)

SWARM: Now you.

(The Doctor ducks out.)

DOCTOR: Ood, with me.
SWARM: She thinks running will help.

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