Doctor Who Flux Just Sneakily Made A Classic Dalek Twist Official Canon

Doctor Who: Flux Just Sneakily Made A Classic Dalek Twist Official Canon

Doctor Who: Flux episode 5 contained a secret Easter egg that made a classic Dalek-based short story an official part of the show’s canon.

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Doctor Who Flux Just Sneakily Made A Classic Dalek Twist Official Canon

Doctor Who: Flux has secretly made a short story published in Doctor Who Magazine involving a classic Dalek twist canon. Doctor Who has never really cared about continuity: “It is impossible for a show about a dimension-hopping time traveler to have a canon,” then-writer (and future showrunner) Steven Moffat told audiences at San Diego Comic-Con 2008. That allows for an infinitely flexible format, one that involves everything from TV episodes to audio dramas, from novels to comics. Still, current showrunner Chris Chibnall grew up loving the wider media, and in Doctor Who: Flux episode 5, he’s subtly incorporated one short story from Doctor Who Magazine into his main arc.

Doctor Who: Flux episode 5 gave viewers a whistle-stop tour of UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, a covert organization dedicated to protecting the Earth from extraterrestrial threats and one of the Doctor’s key allies in Earth-bound adventures. The Doctor Who episode retconned UNIT’s history, revealing the United Nations began the process of forming UNIT all the way back in 1958. It took almost a decade for the organization’s original leader, General Farquhar, to get the British branch of UNIT in working order. Still, by 1967 UNIT was fully-formed, and the episode even briefly showed off Farquhar’s office in their first headquarters.

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As noted by James Johnson on Twitter, the production team put a lot of effort into the set design, with papers pinned up all over the walls. These include some deep cuts into Doctor Who continuity, with references to Torchwood: Children of Earth and the classic story “Remembrance of the Daleks.” The latter explicitly mentioned the Doctor, as well as a young girl named Judith Winters, who was psychically linked to a Dalek battle computer in the main story. The girl wasn’t actually named in “Remembrance of the Daleks,” though; the name actually comes from a short story published in Doctor Who Magazine #195 in 1992, in which one of the Doctor’s companions visited her in a mental institution. It seems Doctor Who: Flux has just made this short story, called “In the Community,” part of the main timeline.

This is a delightful little detail, a continuity reference that’s an impressively deep cut into Doctor Who lore. It seems so appropriate for the Chibnall era, given Doctor Who was canceled in 1989 and was kept alive for over a decade in other mediums – including in short stories in Doctor Who Magazine. Chibnall was himself a Doctor Who fan through the dark times between 1989 and 2005, in which Doctor Who was off the air, and he certainly followed the magazine. When Russell T. Davies relaunched Doctor Who in 2005, he honored this by working closely with the staff of Doctor Who Magazine, giving them advance copies of scripts and even offering a chance for their team to tell Paul McGann’s regeneration story, setting up Christopher Eccleston’s debut. Still, the set design in Doctor Who: Flux goes one step further, acknowledging Doctor Who Magazine in quite a subtle way.

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What makes this particularly impressive, of course, is the subtlety with which it’s been conducted. The Chibnall era has often honored classic Doctor Who above the relaunch, and there have been times continuity has felt like a sledgehammer. This, however, is a much more subtle and nuanced approach, an entertaining Easter egg that adds further depth to the story without being intrusive. Hopefully, this kind of continuity will become the norm once Doctor Who: Flux has wrapped up.

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