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Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 3 : " The Well " returns to classic Sci - Fi horror with clear court to genre movies such as Alien that prompt it .
The third sequence of this season’sDoctor Who , " The Well " continues this time of year ’s stronger and more confident streak of stories with a return to gothic Science Fiction Horror that the serial publication was well known for during its peak period in the 1970s thatRussell T. DaviesandSteven Moffatcontinues during the 2005 advanced earned run average whenever they could . Creepy time !
start out right after last week ’s instalment , The Doctor ( Ncuti Gatwa ) and Belinda ( Varada Sethu ) are still trying to apply his gimmick to hook and slingshot the TARDIS back to May 24th , 2025 , never stopping to call for why they ca n’t get there . They end up in a far - flung future on a military spaceship . While taste to mix in , they end up with a squad of soldiers inquire a excavation colony where everyone is dead except for one subsister ( Rose Ayling - Ellis ) . Paranoia grows as the soldier become more and more induction - happy , and The Doctor and Belinda have to prove she ’s innocent before they kill her . What emerges is a monster that nobody can see that turn out to be one that The Doctor had encounter before and could n’t overcome .
" The Well " is an use in psychological repulsion where the monster is virtually unseen . The obscure is frequently more dreadful than an unlimited " grrr - argh " monster . " The Well " is an examination of favouritism , preconception , paranoia , distrust , and , in the end , sacrifice . Many of the commonDoctor Whotropes of old are here : distrust , inflexible and trigger - well-chosen military officers , The Doctor as the voice of cause having to talk everyone from open fire their guns at the drop of a hat , members of the company getting pick off one by one as all hell breaks loose , but update to including more innovative technology and a better budget and FX , of trend . Belinda continues to base herself as one of the best desperate companions , holding her own as a competent , professional adult on par with The Doctor , her nursemaid training boot in to keep everyone unagitated for as long as possible .
Thistype ofDoctor Whomade the show a classic to its longest - run fans who grew up terrified by the shuddery episodes in its 1970s mediaeval repugnance era . Those stories followed the structure of slasher moving picture before they amount along , with a Science Fiction twist . " The Well " hark back stories from the seventies like " The Ark in Space " and " Horror of Fang Rock , " along with the classical Agatha Christie story " And Then There Were None , " which set the template for the slasher movie . Specifically , the episode is heavily work by the 1965 Mario Bava space repugnance filmPlanet of the Vampires . The sleek , skintight space suits in the episode are a lineal court to those in that film , which straight influenced the firstAlienfilm directed byRidley Scott . The episode plays the revulsion and suspense completely straight , turn out to be a sequel to one of Humphrey Davy ' own revival earned run average episodes that lover have already image out , and has a poignancy about it every prison term the Doctor witness a high organic structure count . This episode is a slick repugnance installment that wants to show thatDoctor Whocan still do that .
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