This workweek , Doctor Who ventured into the past for another historical consequence : the segmentation of India and Pakistan in 1947 . While it might have had themes similar to this season’spowerful “ Rosa ” , it took a slightly unlike approach getting there .
Mainly because — and it is indeed about bloody time—“Demons of the Punjab ” told its historic chronicle while also finally gave some much needful focus to Yaz , who ’s unquestionably bring a backseat to the rest of squad TARDIS this season . And it was absolutely worth it : “ daemon ” would ’ve been a heady mix of educational storytelling and disaster even without Yaz ’s personal connexion to the story being assure , but with it there , we were offer a much more muscular version of Doctor Who ’s usual approach to tale about the hazard of prison term travelling across your own personal history .
There ’s some parallel of latitude to the last time Doctor Who really seek to differentiate a account like this — specifically with Rose and her sire in “ Father ’s Day ” . But while that story base play in the futility of Rose seek to change her folk ’s past ( and more traditional teras opposition , unlike the aliens in this episode ) , “ Demons ” encounter it in putting that past on a pedestal as a lesson to be learned . Not just from an educational position — something that , as we ’ve discussed before , was part of Doctor Who ’s earliest remitment — but as unforgotten reminder , and the way remembrance bring generations of people together on graduated table grand and small , just as it does Yaz and her grandma .
That in of itself is a very Doctor Who idea , even if it ’s one being presented without the show ’s common tier of corridor - running play , monster - y romps . Which is kind of exciting , honestly — and has a lot more likely to proffer thansimply ape tropesthe show has offer twists on time and prison term again .
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