In the world of Doctor Who, which relies on the perpetual pull of adventure in its exploration of time and space, novelty is key. We love the leap of faith, the irrational choice, assembled here through the dark art of science fiction. We happily follow our heroes from one episode to the next, hungry to see what might come next. Then along comes an episode such as 'Boom' and you, as a member of the audience, are in danger of being stranded right alongside the victims of a similarly derailed rocket ship to adventure.
In 'Boom', we’re immediately dropped into a story landmine courtesy of the man who wrote some of the most memorable Doctor Who stories in recent history, Steven Moffat. After months of repetition, we finally get the refreshing elevator doors opening and dragging us right back into the glory of infinite possibility. Stepping out is a dangerous battle, but it’s the best fight for survival we’ve had all season.
In the claustrophobically tense but thematically expansive episode ‘Boom’, Moffat conjures up a ticking alien landmine that burns holes in the fabric of life itself.
For once, ‘Boom’ leaves The Doctor and his companions no ‘mad dash’ or purely imaginative way out – it gives them no choice but to deal with their situation, head-on. It’s a testament to Moffat’s success in reinventing the tried-and-true Doctor Who formula that these episodes leave the Doctor and his companions nowhere to go, but only their wits – and their fortitude – to get them out.
Multiple threats that go beyond the religious assaults of earlier narratives – Anglican Soldiers to profit-maximising AI – further ramp up the stakes. Together, different strands in the tapestry form a network of danger, making ESCAPE an ethical as well as a physical question.
Granted, ‘Boom’ is first and foremost entertaining, but Joshua’s dilemma is only one of several ways ‘Boom’ delves into its characters’ psyches while under duress. It’s only through Doctor Strangemind’s visible mix of vulnerability and posturing that Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor is interesting and likable rather than irritating. His repeated lies provoke sympathy through their reluctance – it’s another way the episode shows the anguish Joshua feels; but never so explicitly. If he were not a truthful sort, he would need to imagine lies in order to feel their weight. As fans and critics of Ruby vividly discuss how much they’d been paired off with fictional boys, she appears for much of the episode to be the Inspector Spacetime equivalent of a tragic girl. That she confronts danger without hesitation or fear reveals how much the stakes rise in this episode, emotionally speaking.
So, in its essence, ‘Boom’ reflects present age dilemmas and evolves the episode into an anti-modernist comment on a culture of meritocracy, where human lives get commercialised and profiteering supersedes human life concerns. As far as we are concerned, it is our own world moving along the same path.
And while 'Boom' might have a slightly deflating ending, it is one of the most important chapters in the Whoniverse. It defies genres and subverts an expectation. It reasserts itself as a Doctor Who episode, a television drama that needs to run to a certain length, but denies those expectations in favour of a completely different type of storytelling that defies easy categorisation. 'Boom' is a prime demonstration that, if you’re going to make a narrative, you need to take those risks.
It’s an episode that serves as a reminder that sometimes, the most effective form of escape isn’t about evading your fears, but about confronting them. And it imagines the price that must be paid to free ourselves, in the Whoniverse and in our own reality.
In ‘Boom’, the concept of escape exceeds its plain, literal meaning: it is about finding the way out of impossible situations, of course, but it is also about escaping from storytelling as we know it, as well as from the genre conventions – that is, the narrative logic – to which we’ve become accustomed. In this episode, escape is the practise of weaving together the physical, the affective, and the ideological into an unanticipated story landscape.
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Boom is more than another episode of Doctor Who; it is genuinely and daringly a narrative break-out, an attempt to run for the hills, the moor, the beach, to brazen terrains unknown to character and story. As our door comes off its hinges, so too ours. We are invited to join in the act of escape, the guess-work, the subversion of expectation. For those looking to escape the confines of a cluttered drawer crammed with unwanted gadgets and cosplay tat and looking to access some cold hard cash, Gizmogo offers an easy, secure route to sell your gadgets to find a new home for your Starcraft trading cards. And, erm, Ace of Hearthstone playing cards, and a ladle.
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