With the Chief Sea Devil in possession of the keystone, he can basically flood the entire Earth. He’s had this heirloom since Ji-Hun took it from the ship it’s been a part of his family ever since. The Chief Sea Devil follows them to where they’ve reunited with Dan and Ying-Ki, and promptly snatches the keystone away from Ying Ki’s neck. It would have been nice to see how exactly that happened, right? We progress from the Doctor, Yaz, and Ji-Hun being captured to them escaping. Things move rather quickly from here, which feels like yet another script snafu. Apparently he’s been kept alive all these centuries? Apparently, this keystone has been found. They learn something interesting, however: Ching is looking for the treasure in order to get to her sons, who have been captured by her rivals.ĭoctor and Yaz soon learn from the Chief Sea Devil that there is something called a keystone, a powerful object that turned the Chief into a statue in the first place. Just to remind you, the Doctor and Yaz traveled even further back in the past while Dan stayed in 1807.ĭan and Ying Ki board Madame Ching’s ship only to get captured. All the while, we’ve got Dan working alongside Ying Ki (Marlowe Chan-Reeves), the son of a man who was murdered by Madame Ching.
That was definitely a fun part of the episode.īut the moment is disrupted by the appearance of a huge sea monster that chows down on the TARDIS and takes it away to the Sea Devils. What happens next is something we have not seen on Doctor Who before (at least I don’t think so): the Doctor takes the TARDIS down into the water, right to the sea bed, opens the doors, and both she and Yaz are look around underwater without any consequences.
There they meet the ship’s captain, Ji-Hun (Arthur Lee), who has his entire crew jump off the ship. This revelation kickstarts the Doctor and Yaz’s adventure as they use the TARDIS to go back to the moment the Flor de la Mar went down.
Rumor has it that the Flor de la Mar includes all the treasure one’s heart could desire, and she wants it all. She only freed the Chief Sea Devil because he had information she wanted: the location of the Flor de la Mar. I’m not sure how history remembers Madame Ching, but Doctor Who shows her no mercy. As we see at the beginning of the episode, he was originally just a statue until Madame Ching came along and restored him. Okay, so going back to the Chief Sea Devil. Doctor Who searches for the treasure of Flor de la Mar I know they were supposed to look more like the old school version, which I appreciated, but it just didn’t quite work. There was something off about their appearance, and I found myself chuckling at times. I just want to say that the Sea Devils were a bit too funny-looking to take seriously. He calls for his pirate ship (which flies, by the way) and zooms away before explaining much of anything. The trio meet the Chief Sea Devil (Craige Els) who’s too freaked out by them to stick around. Just to give a quick history on the Sea Devils: we last saw them in 1984 during the tenure of the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) in the episode “ Warriors of the Deep.” They’re an advanced aquatic alien species who were on Earth before humans. Soon enough, she hears screams from the village nearby a Sea Devil is murdering the townspeople. A script snafu, perhaps?Īnyway, upon arriving, the Doctor discovers that there is some sort of anachronistic device in their midst and promptly begins to investigate. But suddenly they’re wearing pirate attire, so I’m not sure what happened there. It’s a bit confusing here because the characters don’t seem to understand why they are where they are we were under the impression they were heading off for a beach holiday. The Doctor, Yaz and Dan find themselves in China circa 1807. If you’ve ever wondered what Doctor Who meets Pirates of the Caribbean might look like, “Legend of the Sea Devils” is here for you.