S11E06: Demons of the Punjab (Spoilers)

Comment on the sixth episode of Series 11

Historicals are back and better than ever!

I would have voted "okay" but we're six episodes in and I still haven't  seen any worthy content.

There never seems be be any conflict in these episodes.

Again, nothing dramatic happened in this episode.

A couple wants to marry, aliens want to watch someone die. Random people show up at the end to shoot someone for no reason. Said person stayed behind for no reason. Grandmother says "let's book" seconds after saying this is her home, she's not leaving it.

I was really hoping that the first non-Chibnall story would be a good one...oh well...

This was the best episode of the season so far because Chibnall didn’t write it! Kudos to Vinay Patel!
The bat-headed aliens were cute.
The music during the WWII flashbacks was spooky.

The only drawback being that the aliens' M.O. is just a bit too close to the Christmas episode aliens.  How many different buggers are there now searching out folks at the end of their lives?  We've got these witnesses, the Christmas bunch interviewing everyone before they die, and the Teselecta from Let's Kill Hitler trying to execute people just before they die.

This may have worked better as a pure historical.  Not sure we even needed the aliens this week.

Oh, and just like any good woman raised in the early 20th Century, when a husband tells his wife we're abandoning the family farm and making a run for it, she dutifully obeys.  Not very PC in the early 21th century, but not impossible to swallow that Yaz's nan would flip her position so quickly if ordered by her husband.  So on this point I don't have a big quibble with how the writers kept the plot going so quickly.

Well here we are again......

Why this didn't work for me?

IT'S NOT DOCTOR WHO!!!!!!!

A Tardis and a Sonic don't make it so either.

The writing just plain sucks.

I would've loved a grand adventure in Pre Split India but this wasn't it.

The aliens looked great but they were so out of place here.

The "Doctor" was just really fumbling around as usual.

So is it just me or would this have been a great episode to introduce a new RANI!?!?! An Indian woman playing the role would have been awesome imo.

The Rani stuck on Earth creates the atmosphere for the split of the Sub Continent and the Doctor and crew attempt to stop her.Would have been a great change of pace.

RIP DOCTOR WHO 2018