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Looks like they struggled with Ncuti’s availability this season more than we were necessarily anticipating - after last week’s ’Doctor-lite’ episode, this week’s was both Doctor and companion-lite.

Doctor Who Unleashed confirms this episode was filmed at the same time as last week’s, with limited Doctor/Ruby scenes mostly filmed in one studio sitting with an autocue.

We are well over halfway through this series and yet it’s become almost impossible to be familiar with Ncuti’s Doctor IMO because he simply hasn’t been on screen enough.

I’m not really sure how else they could have resolved the scheduling issues, but to have your new lead mostly absent for 2/8 episodes isn’t really ideal, especially quite early on in a short season.