‘Doctor Who’ Plays a Weird Waiting Game for the Beginning of Its End

There are a lot of parallels between “Wish World” and last year’s “The Legend of Ruby Sunday.” They are both, of course, penultimate episodes of their respective seasons of Doctor Who. They are also both built around the return of a classic Doctor Who villain, and paying off a mystery that had played out throughout their respective seasons. Unfortunately they also both share a pretty fatal parallel: they’re both aimless waiting games that have little meat on their bones as they count down to a last minute cliffhanger reveal. “Wish World” has even more of a problem than “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” however. That latter episode could at least hinge some tension and atmosphere on the fact that we didn’t already know that the last moments were building up to the reveal of Sutekh’s return (unless you read the rumors, that is). “Wish World,” for the most part (more on that later), is building up to a dramatic moment its audience already knows while its main character doesn’t: for the Doctor ... Read full article.