The author forgets that The Doctor who failed to stop Sutekh was in fact Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor (in the new retcon of course) and the Fifteenth Doctor really does defeat Sutekh themself, even rolling back Sutekh's previous evil victories, without help, using gadgets mentioned earlier but still their gadgets. The Doctor frequently gets "defeated" in Part 1 and then defeats the Enemy in Part 2, this being the very nature of multipart episodes. One might say that every other Doctor in a multipart episode was defeated by the Enemy, if we ignore their triumphant return in Part 2. As the author has done here.

This Doctor as er concept has very old roots in the new series. From Eccleston's Doctor in "Father's Day" to Tennant's Doctor in "Midnight," The Doctor frequently steps aside and other people have to step in and give their lives to save the day. Gatwa has a few more such episodes than the other new series Doctors, but his run isn't a new development. Even the old series has many examples, such as Adric in "Earthshock" with the Fifth Doctor, or D.84 with the Fourth Doctor in "The Robots of Death."

Davros points this detail out to The Doctor in "The Stolen Earth/Journey's End", that the Doctor frequently avoids death himself (Tennant's Doctor in "Journey's End" points out that regeneration is a kind of death for the previous incarnation) by inspiring others to give their lives to stop the current villain. Davros has lots of examples of the Doctor inspiring people to sacrifice themselves, and being the hero in place of the Doctor, and Gatwa's Doctor isn't even on Davros' list.

Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor does seem to do more inspiring than solving, certainly, but do not pretend that examples where Gatwa's Doctor literally saved the day, as they did with defeating Sutekh, in Part 2 like every other 2 parter Doctor Who episode before them, are examples of inspiring just to pad out a list.

British commercial snacks have held a place in my American heart for years. This has allowed me to spot inconsistencies in Doctor Who. For example, in the Fourth Doctor Who episode, "The Pirate Planet," part of the Key To Time series, the Doctor claims to be offering people a "Jelly Baby" when in fact it is clearly a selection from a Liquorice Allsorts. This is borne out later by the Doctor making a "trail of Jelly Babies," which is in fact a trail of Liquorice Allsorts, which are literally an assortment. I can only assume the props department thought an Allsorts trail would look better.

Red Dwarf got me onto Original Curry Pot Noodles, which despite Lister's constant derision of the quick foodstuff, are very delicious.

We've known for 45 years that Time Lords have the ability to regenerate at will. In Original Series 17 /Destiny of the Daleks/ from Sept. 1, 1979, the Mary Tamm Romana regenerates into the Lalla Ward Romana merely because she wills the regeneration to happen.This type of regeneration even allows the Time Lord in question to sort through multiple temporary appearances before settling on the final appearance. Tom Baker's Doctor regards this ability of Romana as practically mundane, showing he grew up with fellow Time Lords willing their own regenerations into happening. So it is a little strange to see the author declare surprise at the idea that Time Lords can regenerate at will, when Doctor Who canon has decreed this is so for decades previously.

In addition to any intended story arc, it should be pointed out that this is not the first time the Doctor has accidentally stepped on a landmine. In "Genesis of the Daleks," a Tom Baker Doctor show from 1975, the Doctor must be rescued from accidentally stepping on a landmine by Harry Sullivan, as Sarah Jane Smith watches. Clearly the Doctor's need to know is often stronger than their sense of self-preservation. Even otherwise sensible Doctor characters, like Tom Baker's Doctor, can act carelessly.