Doctor Who: Space Babies & The Devil's Chord review — with Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor the show is alive and kicking
Alright here we go... the new Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, is here at last in a big Saturday night double bill. And…the first two episodes are a decent start to Gatwa’s tenure proper.
But those of us expecting a continuation of the charisma whirlwind we saw in The Giggle - when he emerged from David Tennant Doctor in a ‘bi-generation’ – and the dense and dramatic Christmas special, The Church on Ruby Road, may be a little let down.
Nothing to do with Gatwa’s game performance, it’s the writing, which restrains as much as it unleashes, taking this new Doctor down a different path to what has come before: he is fun and dynamic, but also surprisingly scared in the face of danger, and rather self-centred, very much on his own Journey.
This is not a mistake. Russell T
