That being
said, mediocrity can often be less interesting to talk about than outright bad
episodes, so let’s look at one that toes the line a bit, their New Year’s
special, Resolution. Making the special a New Year’s special rather than a
Christmas special was a smart move, New Year’s Day doesn’t have as much
associated imagery so it allows for more creative freedom, and I think choice
of having a Dalek as the villain isn’t a bad one because it the Daleks present
a unique challenge to this particular Doctor. Jodie Whitaker’s Doctor has a
very stern attitude towards violence and particularly guns, and here we have an
enemy here who cannot be reasoned with and can only be defeated by violence, a
challenge to her ideology in theory. How
did it work out? Let’s take a look.
