While for the most part, flashbacks into parts of our New Fam’s lives are just interesting, some are very poignant, especially when we see the connection between Dan and Diane. As such, the monsters in this episode are briefly featured, but they work to pep up what could otherwise have been a seemingly threat-lite episode. And it also gives us a handful of creepy Weeping Angel moments, mostly via the flashes into a messed-up Yaz timeline. It gives us a couple of minutes of more close-up Cyber-action, (and the fun of them falling sideways out of the way of their marching fellows any time they’re shot). It delivers huge (albeit long-distance) Cyber-armies on the march. It gives us a pre-credit surprise Dalek sequence – very nice, if more or less tokenistic. Once, Upon Time is absolutely batfink crazy, splitting the storytelling into different timelines and lives, and explaining a lot more about everything we’ve thought we’ve known since The Timeless Children. If The Halloween Apocalypse was six or seven beginnings wrapped up in a big sausage-skin of what-the-heck, and War of the Sontarans was a relatively linear mind-melter with Sontarans on horses and temporal invasion-fronts, Once, Upon Time had all the potential to be a bit dull and cerebral and “Let’s all sit down and consider what we know so far.” Everybody clear on what’s going on? Good, that’ll save us time explaining it.
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