Doctor Who utters a new horror of an old monster

A ominously empty spacecraft or space station where something terrible has happened is a classic trope of science-fiction horror-as it is the addition of a survivor of shocking projectiles discovered by the next team to come across this very bad place. Doctor who Has fun with this prerequisite in the “well” written by Russell t Davis and Sharma Angel-Wolf and directed by Amanda Brotley and further winks the fans, citing an episode of 2008, made in the same vein for scientific hostels.

Not only is it the same vein, but it is the same planet, though several hundred thousand years later. The show visited the irradiated collapsed star we see in the “well” during the fourth season of the tenth doctor, but do not worry if you have not watched the “Midnight” of 2008 lately. The “well” gives us a quick explanation (in the set of the widespread David Tennant) Formation before. It just takes a while to realize this fact, because this time things look different, and the people of the monster got into a terrible new way to play with their prey.

We open when the Doctor and Belinda (Varada Setu) – still in their fashion from the 1950s from the last century from Luxury before changing the costumes placed on Britney Spears’ toxic “to be no different except for fun? the future; As soon as they get out of Tardis, they break through their way together with a squad of no nonsense soldiers investigating a mining colony that has been without contact for 15 days.

Once they enter, they realize that the place is … ominously empty and something terrible has happened, like all either dead from laser fire, or from breaking every bone in their body. But wait! There is a survival with a shell! Alice (Rose Ayling-Ellis) is deaf, but she can read lips-plus, the doctor knows the language of signs and soldiers have equipment that allows them to design their words on a small pop-up screen. So communication is not a problem, but the understanding is that the doctor and Belinda immediately want to help and protect the horrified woman, and the anxious soldiers draw their weapons.

As an honest but bad leader of the platoon Shayilfhionn Dunne) struggles to keep order against the background of increasing paranoia, panic and jumping, it is clear that while Alice may not be the one behind the slaughter … The one behind the slaughter is literally behind herThe invisible lurks and kills anyone who moves to what would be midnight on the face of a clock in connection with her.

As the story is gathering, we learn something that invisibly appears from five miles of deep mine, giggled to itself, and then went up to host to host, as the colonists were either filmed each other or were robbed by the monster’s forces. Alice is the last survivor, so she attaches to her as a cruel parasite.

As the doctor, Belinda and Shaya are trying to keep Alice and all the soldiers calmly-and the doctor realizes that he was here before the place is called midnight and covered with diamonds-this topic has not realized his head up, as the doctor and Belinda realize that no of those distant people have been heard.

This is a disturbing wrinkle in the doctor’s desire to return Belinda home. An additional intrigue comes at the very end of the episode, when one of the soldiers called the headquarters and the boss is not another but Mrs. Flud (Anita Dobson), who is very pleased to hear that there is a “vind of action.” But the last “Gotcha” comes when, like “midnight” all these years, Doctor who leaves open anxiety that maybe at first glance the defeated monster We never really see! – He has connected a ride, which will allow instead to continue.

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