After the show was canceled in 1989, Davies rebooted Doctor Who in 2005, manning the ship during Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant's tenures as the time-traveling Doctor. Under Davies, Doctor Who was not only popular, but, dare I say it, kind of cool.
This is also the first season to debut on Disney+ in the United States, and since the rules governing time and space in the Whoniverse are notoriously complicated, there's a lot of world-building to do in less than two hours of TV.
The first episode, Space Babies, does much of the heavy lifting to set up the season, so that by the time The Devil's Chord rolls around, Doctor Who can do what it does best: take the audience on rip-roaring, high-voltage adventures.
It's the Doctor's job to take her, and any first-time viewers, through the basic Time Lord fact sheet: He comes from the planet Gallifrey and is the last of his species, an orphan like Ruby; he has been alive f.
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