Day 189: The Enemy of the World Episode 4

Around this point, your traditional 6 part story would begin to lag. Things take on a slower pace and padding takes charge, making things duller and duller by the minute. Fortunately, Whitaker has come up with the perfect way to fight this, by introducing one of the single most bonkers and beautiful twists in the history of the series. It's so amazing that I recommend that you go out now and watch the story itself, it's spectacular, and this episode has an amazing scene about halfway through that shows some incredibly powerful acting from the supporting cast. But the twist is so beautifully unpredictable that I don't want to spoil it for you, so go and seek this story out, if you don't want to be spoiled about what happens.

SPOILERS AHEAD

It turns out that Salamander, in his spare time, is a leader of a post apocalyptic colony. Whitaker has been able to introduce a completely new story running parallel to the one that we've been watching for the past while, and this new story changes everything. Suddenly Salamander's motives become more complex, and we get to see another side to this character. And the audience is now forced to sit up and pay attention, because now things have developed to a point where it is no longer as predictable as before. Previously the audience was expecting a generic near future run around with some gritty action set pieces and a 'double' plot. But now, things are completely different to how people could imagine this story playing out, meaning that the curse of a lull in a 6 part story has been beaten, by changing the story entirely, everything becomes absolutely wonderful.