Spoilers for “The Well.”
Sometimes in fiction, you don’t have to say something very important in a very important way to make good points. This week’s episode Doctor Who“Yeah,” do exactly that and do it brilliantly.
Still wearing the 50s costume and a doctor and picking up immediately after Belinda’s “Lux” is about to get Tardis to work. Belinda is helping with control, but the ship still refuses to land on May 24, 2025. If TARDIS is not broken, she might have broken the date or the Earth itself and worry about her parents. The doctor shares her concerns, but promises that she will be reunited with her family.
The doctor has plans to land in several more spots along with Vindicator (a gadget he built last week) to direct Tardis. This time it’s half a million years in the future, and Belinda asks if there is humanity in the past. He assures that humans do so as they spread across the stars and are encased in every corner of the universe. The pair heads to Taldis’s wardrobe to ride in the proper clothes before they leave.
They step into the gantry of a spaceship where the Marines’ advance party is jumping into the blank. They have no choice but to join them, but they land on the planet below, allowing the doctor to take a reading of the vindicator. But, alas, the heavy radiation of the planet means that the ship (and, by extension, Tardis) will have to slowly slip in the next five hours. So they tagged along with the mission. This is a psychic paper that allows doctors and Belinda to hint at the team.
The planet is kept at bay and is only occupied by small mining colonies that have delved into the world to extract the last remaining useful resources. The colony was silent a few days ago and said, “Oh, this is Another)) alien Rif? “One of the Marines suggested that it was wise to “nuclear the site from orbit.”
All settlers are dead, half of the shooting, half of the injuries, appearing to have broken all the bones inside the body. All mirrors are destroyed, the system is offline and a record of what is inaccessible. But there is a survivor, a colony chef, Alice Besick (Rose Eyring Ellis). I can’t hear, like an actress who portrays her. Alice waited in the middle of a large cargo turntable (read as a big circle by the camera) for several days.
Alice is physically isolated due to staging and her hearing loss, and although she can read her lips, it is still a barrier between her and the soldier. The doctor can communicate with Alice through the sign, and the soldiers all have their own caption screens in Lapel. Many of the second acts are featured along with Alice’s interrogation as the Marines work through the logistics of how they communicate with her. For example, you can get her attention by turning her into a screen of another soldier by turning her into a screen. Belinda enters the circle to treat Alice’s injuries, but continues to see something lurking behind her new patient.
It’s not long before a doctor knows that the desolate planet they stand on was once covered in diamonds. This is midnight on a planet from a series 4 episode of the same name, when the Doctor is trapped in a shuttle and does not try to defeat the ominous beings who own one of the passengers, the Doctor is trapped and ultimately fails. As at that time, the gentle doctor’s plea fails. Two soldiers rebelled and attempt to lure out existence and kill them. They will not survive.
It’s Belinda who works and explains the rules. Host – If you imagine Alice being in the center of the clock, then anyone standing right behind her will be attacked by an invisible monster. If you stand at 6 o’clock, you are fine, but “You will die in the middle of the night.” Literally, anyone in the organizational way is thrown into it like a ragdoll.
The doctor approaches Alice and talks to the monster, but it’s time for the third act to begin to close, so he stares out a little before he can solve the solution. To mine the diamonds, the settlers use pipes that run conveniently behind Alice’s head to throw away the mercury. Shooting the pipe will cascade down the mercury river, creating enough mirrors to exile monsters.
They escape, but the doctor has no choice but to wait behind to see the monster, and does not give Belinda the chance to latch. The Marine Captain shoots Belinda enough when the entity thinks she’s going to die and switches hosts. Belinda wakes up in Taldis with doctor’s care and is ready for her next adventure. Meanwhile, Marines are their boss – Mrs. Flood! Who knows everything about Vindicator – before revealing that the aliens have put it on a spaceship.
One thread for the episode is that Belinda continues to discuss human terminology and superstitions by shrugging from everyone around her. That’s what both her and the doctor are confused. Very wrong In all reality.
You die in the middle of the night…
Showrunner Russell T. Davis was asked about the malicious criticism that the show had managed to do something woke up. “There are online warriors who constantly bring about diversity issues and blame us for having diversity and meanness, and messaging and problems, and I don’t have time for this.” He said. “What I might call ‘diversity’ is I just call an open door,” he added.
What’s noteworthy about this is that Davies’ open-minded (and open) approach to creating shows creates storytelling possibilities. For example, the last episode Doctor WHoFounding a hearing impaired character (2015’s “Under the Lake”) and relied on her colleagues to interpret it on her behalf. And her ability to lead lip leads became part of the solution to the episode’s problems.
Here, Alice’s hearing loss is the core part of the plot, but it doesn’t feel like she is defined by that one facet. Efforts are being made to embody her character, and it is a place to explore how technology and communication intersect with people with different accessibility needs. In particular (co-workers) Sharma Angel Walfort and Russell T. Davis made an effort to figure out how this would work.
Whenever I watch episodes of Nyunuuu, deep inside my mind, I contemplate the unusual Disney money injections. The episode “The Well” is a sequel, “Midnight,” which was produced as a “Double Bank” episode. I split the lead to film two episodes at once. “Midnight” was also intended as a cheap story, with most of the script taking place in a single room. Honestly, “wells” may have worked similarly given that the majority of the action takes place in a small number of rooms.
That’s not to say that the extra cash that you’ve lost laved in this episode is wasted: “wells” feel almost generous Doctor Who The standard for the width and depth of the set. I can’t help but remember alien Rif A strange new world Produced in the first season, the series’ standing set was reused for the USS Peregrine shipwreck. It sounds strange to say that Doctor Who It’s luxurious to see the clumps of trash cans for a minute, but that’s right.
Perhaps part of the reason why it feels luxurious is that it is because it is a relatively low incident and high character episode. Belinda gets a real showcase here, and not only is she claiming herself to the story at some points, but is also blamed for doing so. She tries to take charge to help the injured Alice, but the medical kit is so advanced that she can’t use it. She’s smart enough to solve the rules of alien, but in the end she gets better.
The first two episodes of this season felt crammed and rushed over, but with a focus on the smaller story and characters, it all breathes. It’s great that accessibility tools are an important focus of the plot and are used as venues for storytelling and character development.
Look, I’m bored saying it as much as you’re reading it, but once again I have to point out the effects of Stephen Moffat this season. One of the inspirations for monsters like crying angels and silence was the idea that they could easily be turned into a schoolyard game. The unknown entity here seems totally to that tradition, along with the mechanic that if you stand right behind the host, you’ll die.
But “The Well” also offers Davies if they’re talking to the rest of this season and his previous work. In both “midnight” and “wells,” doctors risk grasping the situation as unknown threats make people paranoid and tremble. A deep, dark series of pessimism flows through everything in this work, and is also on display here, but there is a little more hope than before.
It’s also interesting to see Davis, who has always structured the season in a rather strict way, appears to be intentionally repeating motifs and beats. The similarities between this season and the last sense make it feel like they are drawing attention to themselves. It feels like episodes combined with “Baby of Space” and “Robot Revolution”, “Devil Chords” and “Lux”, and now “Boom” and “Well” are competing for the same space in different realities. Not to mention the repetition of moments from episode to episode – like a TARDIS wardrobe sequence or a repetitive hand injury. If next week "A lucky day" It is mostly featured on Ruby Sunday without a doctor and revolves around physical distancing and the supernatural, so perhaps we might assume this is more than just a coincidence.
Mrs. Flood Corner
I’m always “End…or is it?” a lie that often ruins the drama of what they’re working on. Certainly, that can That you are effective I want to Cheap the sacrifices your character was made to beat the villain, but it often comes across as a hacky. Needless to say, those with low media literacy assume that in reality the cliffhanger is a teaser for being resolved the following week.
here, Yeahit is essentially a way to horn the Flood Lady’s shoes, so that the soldier’s boss will take a report after the doctor and Belinda leave. She knows about the use of a doctor’s vindicator, and now sees it actually works thanks to the soldier’s recordings. But it doesn’t break the fourth wall. So she’s manipulating here the same way she did last year’s Susan Twist. That’s, um, interesting.
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