Doctor Who - Season 12, Episode 04: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
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Completing the adventures and excitement that follows the Doctor, a great and smart scientist, who travels across time, taking new and different personalities while fighting evils in the world. A new season begins with The Doctor goes in a dangerous mission to save the intelligence agents across the world from the horrible attack.
And I, for one, am extremely into it: Sure, I appreciate a good dramatic conflict with real-world stakes, but I'm also a sucker for insane interstellar scorpions who can shoot lasers from their tails and want to kidnap Nikola Tesla.
A fun story, with some great performances from the two inventors. The main villains weren't up to much, but it didn't damage the pseudo-historical that much in the long run.
The upshot is an enjoyable enough knockabout, which reaches a frustratingly by-the-numbers resolution after a compelling setup... this does rather feel a touch straightforward. But, at the very least, it's an intriguing history lesson.
Although it's not as impactful as Rosa, this is another historical outing for the Thirteenth Doctor that shows us that the show can introduce us to some truly remarkable humans, even if it doesn't always know what to do with its aliens.
The fact that it does engage, if even for a moment-building on the arc established in the premiere, iterating on this darker, less-lenient path the 13th Doctor is being pushed down-elevates it from its otherwise average finery.
With so much educational information to crowbar in to 50 minutes, the aliens barely got a look-in. When they did, they were obliged to stand around gnashing their X-shaped teeth while Jodie's pupils asked, 'How will that device work, Doctor?'
Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror is one of the best five episodes of the Chibnall era - but that says more about Doctor Who of late than it does about this episode.
