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Sometimes in fiction, you don’t have to say a very important thing in a very important way to do a good moment, just ask how something would work if it plays in the world. This week’s episode of Doctor whoThe “well” does just that and brilliantly.
Lifting immediately after “Lux“The doctor and Belinda, still in their outfits from the 50s, are trying to get Tardis to work. Belinda helps the controls, but the ship still refuses to land on May 24, 2025, which falls into the nurse of the nurse even more.
The doctor persisted with his plan to land in a few more places with the vindicator (the widget he built last week) to guide Tardis. This time in the future there are 500,000 years and Belinda asks if humanity even exists so far. He assures her that this does it as people spread into the stars and flow into every corner of the universe. The couple heads to Tardis’s wardrobe to get into some appropriate clothes before leaving.
They go out to the gate of a spacecraft, where the Marines’ advance party is jumping into the void. Without any choice, except to join them, they land on the planet below, allowing the doctor to take the reader’s reading. But, alas, the heavy radiation on the planet means that the ship (and for tardis) must slide slowly over the next five hours. Thus, they mark along with the mission, the mental paper that allows the doctor and Belinda to intervene in the team.
The planet is inhospitable, occupied only by a small mining colony that has dug in the world to extract its last remaining useful resources. The colony paused a few days before and before you could say “Oh, it will become An (others)) Aliens Reef? “One of the Marines suggests that it would be more intelligent to” invade the site from orbit. “
All colonists are dead, half a firing half of injuries that look like fallen and broke every bone in their body. All mirrors are broken and the systems are offline, the records of what happened inaccessible. But there is one survivor, the chef of the colony, Alice Betic (Rose Eiling-Elis) who, Like the actress who presents her is deafS Alice is waiting in the middle of a large cargo gramophone (which is read on the camera as a big circle) for days.
Alice is isolated, both physically in the play and because of her hearing loss, and although she can read, this is still an obstacle between her and the soldiers. The doctor can communicate with Alice as a sign, and all the soldiers have their own screens for their lapel inscriptions. Much of the second act is taken over with Alice’s interrogation, while Marines work through logistics how to communicate with it. For example, by attracting her attention by throwing on the screen of another soldier in the line of her eyes to make her turn. Belinda enters the circle to cure Alice’s injuries, but continues to see something behind her new patient.
Not long after, the doctor learned that the empty planet they were on was once covered with diamonds. This is midnight on the planet of the four -episode series of the same name when the doctor caught in a shuttle tries and ultimately fails to defeat a sinister entity that has one of the passengers. As then, the request of the doctor for calm fail. Two of the soldiers are attacked and try to lure the subject and kill him. They do not survive.
It is Belinda that works and explains the rules: if you imagine the host – Alice – in the center of the clock, then anyone who stands directly behind her is attacked by the unprecedented monster. If you stand at six o’clock, then you are fine, but “you will die at midnight.” Quite literally, since the one who is on the path of the subject is thrown around like Ragdol – half the crew that seeks to kill the formation, the other half is the mince from the alien.
The doctor approaches Alice to talk to the monster, but since it’s time for the third act to begin to finish, he just stares for a while before making the solution. To dig diamonds, the colonists would throw away mercury using a pipe that comfortably moves behind Alice’s head. Shooting the pipe will lead to a cascade of a Mercury river, creating a mirror that must be enough to chase away the monster.
They avoid, but the doctor can’t help but wait in the back to see the monster, giving him a chance to stick to Belinda. The Marine Captain shoots Belinda enough that the formation thinks he is about to die and switch hosts, after which they jump into the mining shaft. Belinda wakes up at Tardis in the doctor’s care, ready for the next adventure. Meanwhile, the Marines are thinking their boss – Mrs. Flud! Who knows everything about the Vinderist – before revealing that the foreign eventually made him aboard his spacecraft.
One of the threads in the episode is that Belinda continues to discuss human terms and superstition to shrink from everyone around her. This is something that she has and the doctor puzzled as there seems to be something very wrong With the whole reality.
You die at midnight …
Showrunner Russell T. Davis was asked about criticism of the bad faith that the show was somehow disappearedS “Someone always brings questions to diversity and has online warriors that accuse us of diversity and excitement and inclusion of messages and problems and I don’t have time for it,” he saidS “What you can call” variety “, I just call an open door, he added,” it’s cold and it is a reinforcement and there is a world in front of you! There is a blue sky, there are clouds and there is noise, there are bird songs, there are people who argue. “
The claim is that Davis’s open (and open) approach to creating stories. For example, the last time episode of Doctor WhO included a deaf hero (2015 “Under the Lake”), she relied on a colleague to interpret on her behalf. And her ability to attach herself, as part of the solution to the problem of the episode – reducing it to a little more than a story mechanism.
Here, while Alice’s deafness is an essential part of the plot, it does not feel as if it was determined by this veneer. There is an effort to unleash its character and it is more recently to explore how technology and communication intersect with someone with different accessibility needs. Especially as (co-authors) Sharma Angel-Wolfal and Russell T. Davis made an effort to think about how it would work.
Every time I look at an episode of Nü-Nü-Who, in the back of my mind, I am considering what has changed injecting Disney’s money. ‘Midnight’, the episode ‘well’ is a continuation of, has been produced as “Dual bank“Episode – Separation of presenters to capture two episodes at a time.
That doesn’t mean, Doctor who Standards for the clean width and depth of its kits. I can’t help but remember Aliens reef Strange new worlds produced in its first seasonwho uses the re -standing series for the remains of the USS Peregrine. Sounds weird to say it Doctor who worsen in the fact that it can afford to show a destroyed two -storey room for all minute but it’sS
Perhaps part of the reason for feeling condescending is that this is an episode relatively low in an incident and high character. Belinda receives a real showcase here, both of which stand up to the story at several points, but also rebuked for it. She tries to take responsibility to help the injured Alice, but the medical kit is so advanced that he is unable to use it. She is smart enough to develop the rules of the alien, but also eventually becomes better than her.
While the first two episodes this season felt overflowing and hasty, smaller history and focusing on the character allows everything to breathe. The fact that the accessibility tool is a key focus of the story and is used as a place to tell stories and character development is great.
Look, I’m so bored to say it as you read it, but once again I can’t help but mention Stephen Mofat’s influence this season. One of the inspirations for monsters such as crying angels and silence was the idea that they were easy to turn into a school yard. The unnamed entity here, with a mechanics, that if you stand directly behind the host, you will die, it looks completely in this tradition.
But the “well” also offers cases where Davis is in conversation with the rest of this season and his worse work. Both at midnight and in the “well”, the doctor is at risk of losing his grip on the situation because the threat of the unknown makes people paranoid and jumping. A series of deeply dark pessimism goes through all this work, and although it is here, there is a little more hope here than before.
It is also interesting how Davis, who has always structured his seasons in a very strict way, seems deliberately repeating motives and strokes. The parallels between this season and the latter feel almost trying to draw attention to themselves. “Cosmic babies“And the” revolution of the robot “,”Devil’s chord“And” luxury “and now”Boom“In combination with the” well, “it feels like episodes that fight the same space in different realities. Not to mention the repetition of moments from episode to episode – such as the sequence of Tardis’s wardrobe and recurring injuries to the hands. If next week is next week "Lucky day" is presented primarily on Ruby Sunday without the doctor and rotates around physical distance and / or supernatural, Then we can assume that this is more than a coincidence.
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I always hated “the end … or is it?” False, which often undermines the drama of any excitement they are applied to. Of course, can Be effective if you want Take the victims your characters made to defeat the villain, but often meet as Haki. Not to mention that people with bad media literacy will assume that it is actually a rock for a rock that will be resolved next week.
Here aIn essence, this is a way to wear d -jam Flud as the boss of the soldiers, who is considered after the doctor and Belinda leave. She knows about the use of the vinder doctor and has now seen it in action thanks to the soldier’s record. But there is no breakage of the fourth wall, which means that it works here in the same way as Susan Twist did last year. What is, uh, interesting.
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