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Doctor Who Recap: Old Dog, New Tricks
The biggest mystery of the season gets a bittersweet resolution.
Regardless of how you feel about it, I think most Doctor Who fans would agree that RTD tends to prioritize the big emotional beats he wants to hit in a finale over the logic of the plot resolution. Flood asks Cherry to tell her maker she will “come to storm down his gates of gold and seize his kingdom in my true name.” Her cryptic final words are, “I’m so sorry it ends like this. An unspecified amount of time passes, and the Doctor lands on a planet where a kind woman (played by Fleabag ’s sister, Sian Clifford) gives him a spoon when he asks for metal.
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