5th January, 2020.
You know, Sunday night’s are a something of a traditional, for my family.
I tend — whenever possible — to have dinner at my mother’s place.
Lasagne, if you’re asking.
The evening also featured an intense discussion with my nine years old nephew, Jude.
About which player to play for his team in FIFA 20. He settled for Sergio Busquets …
Who inevitably turned into Sergio Biscuits as the evening wore on.
You really have to be a member of our family, to get that one … !
~≈†≈~
Whether you are or you aren’t is possibly beside the point.
You’re possibly guessing that one thing, though.
That I seriously wanted to get myself home.
For starters?
The copies of The Leopard from Lime Street I’d ordered were due in.
It was a little bit tight …
~≈†≈~
Episode 2 — Spyfall Pt 2 — sees a panicked Ryan, Graham and Yas (Toisin Cole, Bradley Walsh and Mandip Gill) having to get themselves out of a jumbo jet: that’s had its cockpit blown off by a bomb.
With the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), herself, trapped in a weird realm … where she’s met by the mysterious Ada: finding that Ada is haunted by beings she calls the Kasaavin, the creatures invading Earth.
In trying to escape from them?
The pair first end up in 1830s London … then in Paris, during the Nazi occupation in 1943.
Picking up Noor Inayat Khan, on route.
Having to guide the family to safety from something of a distance … ?
Is comparative child’s play.
They … ?
End up in Essex: quickly working out that Daniel Barton (Lenny Henry) is to give a very important keynote speech …
And that they want to know more about the Doctor the they already do.
That … ?
Is going to be tough …
The Kasaavin have to be dealt with, first …
~≈†≈~
Now … did I enjoy this episode?
Are there good points and bad points?
I think there’s flaws.
I’d’ve preferred seeing more of both Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and Noor Inayat Khan.
They are, arguably, just as important as Rosa Parks.
I feel we could have seen Daniel Barton’s story line tied off a bit more conclusively: but I suspect that may happen at a later date.
The writers have seen him escape, rather than be killed in the abortive Kasaavin invasion.
Which brings me to another point.
We haven’t seen the Kasaavin, yet.
I was expecting a big reveal at the climax of Spyfall Pt Two.
Again? I suspect that may be tied off in the same way we saw Tzim Sha return at the end of season eleven.
I hope so: I really want to see what they are.
Granted, there’s flaws.
But there’s upsides: the story told tonight, is sound and that romps along.
On top of that … ?
I have to give both Jodie Whittaker and Sacha Dhawan full marks for putting in some of the most riveting performances as their respective characters I’ve seen in a while.
There’s the simple fact that Gallifrey’s been destroyed by the Master, himself?
In order, he says, “to make them pay, ” for the lies they’ve told about the Timeless Child …
Spyfall Pt One was a comparatively lighthearted, Russell T. Davies-style romp.
Spyfall Pt Two, on the other hand?
Is turning dark …
I’d like some more of that …
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