Fugitive of The Judoon By Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall
Everything is About To Change...
An Endless Stream of Thought:
Come on, I can't do this. Fugitive of The Judoon is probably the biggest episode of the revival, The titular Judoon are one of the more minor elements in what is either the biggest story since World Enough and Time, Day of The Doctor or A Good Man Goes To War.
Fugitive of The Judoon is incredibly smart in what it does, and whether you like what it does, it is intelligent about it. It feeds you breadcrumbs, slowly introducing elements deliberately designed to distract you. As of The Timeless Children, I'm not sure how much of this makes sense in continuity, but you know, fuck it. Fugitive of The Judoon is a banger of a script, that much like the rest of Series 12, takes enjoyable elements from other popular episodes, and then smashes them all together in order to make something enjoyable.
I mean come on, the central twist is a combination of the ones from Let's Kill Hitler and The Name Of The Doctor, just done, you know, better.
Jack comes from The Empty Child, Mysterious Gallifreyan stuff straight from the classic series, the Chameleon Arc Twist from Utopia, The Judoon from Smith and Jones, it's basically a hodge podge.
Until, Bam!
New Doctor.
I'm not sure I really like Chris Chibnall as a showrunner for the show, but he has balls doing stuff to the lore of the show without flinching, that Moffat or Davies wouldn't even consider.
Is it the smartest move? You know, I'm not really sure.
Ruth is without a doubt one of the cooler semi portrayals of the Doctor. We've had a lot of them,
the Valeyard, The Dream Lord, The War Doctor, The Unbound Doctors, whatever.
The point is, Ruth is cool, and I absolutely appreciate her, her whole serious demeanor with that little grin, the Hartnell vibes she gave me looking over her little spectacles, her huge greatcoat with the tie
dye orange collar...It feels inherently Doctory, in a way that I am perfectly willing to accept her as the Doctor. I've never been the continuity stickler. There are things about Continuity in the Chibnall era
that definitely bug me, though, and I think I may make a unrelated post on continuity in this era, but
Fugitive of The Judoon and later, The Timeless Children (Dang, it's hard to talk about one without mentioning the other) both do at least one thing right, and that's Ruth. Whether Ruth should exist, is a subject for debate, but she does now, and I definitely want her to have appearances outside
Series Twelve, as she's such a delicious portrayal regardless of continuity.
Onto problems with this one, and I think one of it's larger ones is that it explains nothing, and raises
a ludicrous number of questions. Who is Gat? We may know when Revolution of The Daleks comes out, but we don't know now.
And this may be a problem with the series format, but it's incredibly annoying that we didn't have these questions answered for five weeks, and a lot of them still hold up.
After seeing Fugitive of The Judoon, you won't be able to get Who off the brain.
Even if it's flawed, it's huge, and incredibly enjoyable for that, and some of the gorgeous fanservice throughout.
Overall: 8.5/10
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