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Series 12 was apparently Jodie Whittaker's second season as the Doctor (and Chris Chibnall's second year as showrunner), but I only vaguely remember there being a first one. It seems so long ago now. In fact the show disappeared for exactly a year after 2019's New Year's Day special! It would've been the longest gap between episodes since the series was resurrected in 2005, but 2016's hiatus has it beat by one day, due to being a leap year.
It apparently took them bloody ages to film the last couple of seasons, possibly because they were always flying around the world to shoot on location, I don't actually know. It's worked out well for me though, as I've only got 10 episodes to cover here. Sure I still have to somehow fit everything I want to say into 1/10th of the space of one of my normal reviews, but with these episodes I don't expect that'll be a problem.
Oh by the way, I wrote the first draft of these reviews right after each episode aired, so if I sound weirdly clueless about what's going to happen next, that's because I genuinely didn't know at the time of writing. I should also inform you that there will be SPOILERS below, but I won't be spoiling anything that comes after series 12. Partly because it hasn't aired yet and nobody knows anything about it, but mostly because I don't want to.
