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"Doctor Who" Flux: Chapter Three - Once, Upon Time (TV Episode 2021) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nov 14, 2021 · Flux: Chapter Three - Once, Upon Time: Directed by Azhur Saleem. With Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Thaddea Graham. Time is beginning to run wild. On a planet that shouldn't exist, in the aftermath of apocalypse, the Doctor, Dan, Yaz, and Vinder face a battle to survive.
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- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Azhur Saleem
- 2021-11-14
The episode stars Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, alongside Mandip Gill and John Bishop as her companions, Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis, respectively. Plot. With humanity now on the verge of extinction, the Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans occupy most of the remaining planets.
Nov 4, 2021 · On a planet that shouldn’t exist, in the aftermath of apocalypse, the Doctor, Dan, Yaz and Vinder face a battle to survive. In addition to the main cast, Jodie Whittaker (the Doctor), Mandip Gill (Yasmin Khan) and John Bishop (Dan Lewis), the following actors are cast in Once, Upon Time.
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, prefixed with Chapter Three in the title sequence, was the third episode of series 13 of Doctor Who. It formed the third chapter of the six-part serial Doctor Who: Flux.
This chapter saw the Thirteenth Doctor revisiting lost memories in her own time stream. As such, it re-introduced the Fugitive Doctor, and began to piece together how she fits in with the Siege of Atropos and the origin of the Flux, long ago. It also connects the Division, and their creation of the planet Time, to the ending of the Dark Times, linking these new revelations to the expansive mythology of the existing Doctor Who universe, establishing the concept of Time as naturally chaotic and unstable.
Atropos has fallen, once again. The Doctor has thrown herself into a time storm in a desperate bid to save her friends. As Time itself comes apart, she finds much more than she bargained for.
All four are lost, together, in memories: past, present, future. So many roles they play. So many choices they have endured. And now, what happened once has come again.
Walking through the mossy ruins of a castle on a mostly empty planet, a woman named Bel narrates her story. She tells an unseen loved one that she is hiding in the Dalek Sector of the universe in the aftermath of the Flux attack, narrowly avoiding capture while trying to make sense of the corrupted time and space. However, she is unafraid of them, which she notes as she finds two people in a field being hunted down and instantly disintegrated by a swarm of bright blue floating particles. She believes they are tracking down survivors but swears that nothing will stop her from finding the one she loves.
Inside the Temple of Atropos, the Doctor thinks extremely fast as Swarm continues his threats to kill Yaz and Vinder by making them take the place of the Mouri. Noting only "one massive risk" left, she leaps out of Swarm's way, pushing Dan and herself on the remaining two pedestals. After using her sonic screwdriver, the four wake up floating in an area of rapidly fluctuating purple space, which the Doctor calls the middle of a time storm, allowing them to shelter and hide from Swarm. However, the group are sucked away one by one before she can finish, and the Doctor is the last to disappear after witnessing a vision of a Weeping Angel.
The Doctor comes to, wearing a darker coat than normal, in the middle of a dusty battleground, holding a stakeout on a nearby building alongside Yaz, Dan, and Vinder, each behaving uncharacteristically militarian and equipped with large weapons. They give the Doctor updates on aerial shelling bombardments and the status of hostages, but she quickly snaps out of her attitude and asks where she is. Yaz simply injects her to counteract the 'temporal hazing' so they can end the Siege of Atropos. The Doctor realises she is outside the temple before returning to her commander-like ways and prepares to give her friends orders.
Elsewhere, Dan materialises in Liverpool, meeting Diane and carrying a coffee for her. As they talk, however, they teleport to different areas of the city, with only Dan noticing anything strange. Although he notices the swarm of blue particles, they again teleport somewhere else, this time at night, before he can comment on them. As Dan explains about having once been jilted by his fiancée fifteen years ago, he realises he is reliving a past conversation and suddenly Diane disappears, replaced by a Passenger form. He also sees a faint vision of the Doctor, explaining she is trying to help but is busy.
Next, Yaz appears in the passenger seat of her police car, parked up during a night-time break. As Yaz listens to her supervisor chatting, she realises she has been replaced by the Doctor but quickly switches back to the correct person. Yaz is confused further upon seeing a Weeping Angel in her wing mirror and rear-view mirror, but nothing is there. The other policewoman is again replaced by the Doctor, who explains she is trying to break into their time streams but is having trouble doing so.
Vinder finds himself reliving the memory of being granted an exceptional honours award at his planet's military, except that his officer is replaced by Yaz. He briefly realises that he has been here before but is interrupted by another distant vision of the Doctor. Vinder's officer warns him about the post of his new promotion - acting as the guard of the Grand Serpent - and as the two shake hands, she briefly flickers back to being the correct man for the memory.
•The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
•Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
•Dan Lewis - John Bishop
•Bel - Thaddea Graham
•Azure - Rochenda Sandall
•Swarm - Sam Spruell
•The Doctor mentions advice John Burroughs once gave her.
•Vinder is aware of TARDISes, but thought they were a myth.
Production
•The original episode had creatures of the Ravager race known as "Masked Ravager Guards" appear in the Temple of Atropos scenes, but they were cut in the final edit.
Marketing
•Though the title sequence gives this episode as Chapter Three: Once, Upon Time, other sources have differed on the prefix, naming this episode Flux: Once, Upon Time instead.
Connections
•The credits of this episode cemented the term "Fugitive Doctor" — gained from the title of the episode where this incarnation first appeared, Fugitive of the Judoon, and widely used in Doctor Who fandom up to this point — as a DWU term. •This episode firmly establishes the Fugitive Doctor as a past incarnation, something which had been left ambiguous since her debut. Specifically, it places her near the end of the Doctor's association with the Division, adding extra weight to her decision to run away by TV: •A Weeping Angel shows up in the video game Yaz and Sonya are playing in reference to VR game The Edge of Reality, with its appearance later on Yaz's phone, from which it emerges, references the iOS game The Lonely Assassins. Both games were released earlier in 2021. •The video game Yaz and Sonya play bears a resemblance to Resident Evil.
•Yaz is seen on duty as a police officer. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
•The Doctor refers to herself as "your future" to the Fugitive Doctor, who also has not met her yet. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon)
•Bel's speech to a Cyberman about love being a mission mirrors the Doctor's conversations with leading Cybermen about emotions. (TV: Earthshock, The Age of Steel; AUDIO: Real Time; WC: Real Time)
•While traversing his timeline, Dan passes the same bay in Liverpool where he would become a fulltime companion to the Doctor. (TV: The Vanquishers)
•Azure reveals that she captured Diane, (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse) and the Passenger form is shown to be a vessel for prisoners, in which Diane is being kept as a hostage. (TV: War of the Sontarans)
•A Weeping Angel has previously succeeded in entering the TARDIS. (TV: Good as Gold)
Digital releases
•In the United Kingdom, this story is available on BBC iPlayer.
Main Index Season Index Press and Publicity Cast List Cast Roles Production Team Production Roles Statistics The Halloween Apocalypse War of The Sontarans Once, Upon Time Village of the Angels Survivors of the Flux The Vanquishers
Nov 16, 2021 · Doctor Who: Once, Upon Time – behind the scenes, cast and crew. Posted November 16, 2021 by Andrea Laford Filed under. General. News. Once Upon Time is a pivotal chapter of Doctor Who: Flux, introducing new characters and mysteries which the audience must wait to see resolved in subsequent chapters. “In terms of form, and structure ...
