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海外TECH	Engadget	Doctor Who ‘The Well’ review: Signing makes you feel heard	https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/tv-movies/doctor-who-the-well-review-signing-makes-you-feel-heard-200528202.html?src=rss	Spoilers for The Well Sometimes in fiction you don t need to say a Very Important Thing in a Very Important Way to make a good point just ask how a thing would work if it played out in the world This week s episode of Doctor Who The Well does exactly that and brilliantly Picking up straight after Lux the Doctor and Belinda still in their s outfits are trying to get the TARDIS to work Belinda helps with the controls but the vessel still refuses to land on May which panics the nurse even more If the TARDIS isn t broken she assumes that the date or the Earth itself could be broken and frets about her parents The Doctor shares her concerns but promises that she will be reunited with her family The Doctor persists with his plan to land in a few more spots with the Vindicator the gadget he built last week to orient the TARDIS This time it s years in the future and Belinda asks if humanity even exists by now He assures her it does as humans spread to the stars and wormed themselves into every corner of the universe The pair head to the TARDIS wardrobe to get into some appropriate clothes before heading out They step out onto the gantry of a spaceship where an advance party of marines are leaping into the void With no choice but to join them they land on the planet below enabling the Doctor to take the Vindicator reading But alas the planet s heavy radiation means the ship and by extension the TARDIS has to glide down slowly over the next five hours So they tag along with the mission the Psychic Paper enabling the Doctor and Belinda to insinuate themselves with the team The planet is inhospitable occupied only by a small mining colony that has dug down into the world to extract its last remaining useful resources The colony went silent a few days before and before you can say Oh is this going to be an other Aliens riff one of the marines suggests it would have been wiser to nuke the site from orbit All of the colonists are dead half from gunfire half from injuries that look like they fell and broke every bone in their body The mirrors are all smashed and the systems are offline the records of what went on inaccessible But there is one survivor the colony s chef Aliss Bethick Rose Ayling Ellis who like the actress who portrays her is deaf Aliss has been waiting in the middle of a large cargo turntable which reads on camera as a big circle for days Aliss is isolated both physically in the staging and because of her hearing loss and while she can lipread it s still a barrier between her and the soldiers The Doctor can communicate with Aliss in sign and the soldiers all have their own captioning screens on their lapels Much of the second act is taken up with the interrogation of Aliss as the marines work through the logistics of how to communicate with her For instance getting her attention by casting to another soldier s screen in her eye line to get her to turn around Belinda enters the circle to treat Aliss injuries but keeps seeing something lurking behind her new patient It isn t long before the Doctor learns that the desolate planet they stand on was once covered in diamonds This is the planet Midnight from the series four episode of the same name when the Doctor trapped in a shuttle tries and ultimately fails to defeat a sinister entity that possessed one of the passengers Like then the Doctor s pleas for calm fail Two of the soldiers mutiny and attempt to lure the entity out and kill it They do not survive It s Belinda who works out and explains the rules If you imagine the host ーAliss ーat the center of a clock then whoever stands directly behind her is attacked by the unseen monster If you stand at six o clock then you re fine but you ll die at midnight Quite literally as whoever is in the entity s way gets thrown around like a ragdoll ーhalf the crew shooting each other to kill the entity the other half getting minced by the alien The Doctor approaches Aliss to speak to the monster but since it s time for the third act to start wrapping up he just stares for a bit before working out the solution In order to mine the diamonds the colonists would dump down mercury using a pipe which is conveniently running behind Aliss head Shooting the pipe will cause a river of mercury to cascade down creating a mirror that should be enough to banish the monster They make their escape but the Doctor can t help but wait behind to see the monster giving it a chance to latch onto Belinda The captain of the marines shoots Belinda enough that the entity thinks she s about to die and switches hosts after which point they leap into the mineshaft Belinda wakes up in the TARDIS in the Doctor s care ready for the next adventure Meanwhile the marines debrief their boss ーMrs Flood Who knows all about the Vindicator too ーbefore revealing the alien did make it on board their spaceship after all One of the threads in the episode is Belinda keeps discussing human terms and superstitions to shrugs from everyone around her It s something that s got both her and The Doctor puzzled as there seems to be something very wrong with all of reality You die at midnight James Pardon BBC Studios Disney Bad WolfShowrunner Russell T Davies was asked about bad faith criticisms that the show had somehow gone woke Someone always brings up matters of diversity and there are online warriors accusing us of diversity and wokeness and involving messaging and issues and I have no time for this he said What you might call diversity I just call an open door he added it s cold and it s bracing and there s a world in front of you There s a blue sky there s clouds and there s noise there s birdsong there s people arguing What s notable about this is that Davies open minded and open hearted approach to making the show creates storytelling possibilities For instance the last time an episode of Doctor Who featured a deaf character s Under The Lake she relied upon a colleague to interpret on her behalf And her ability to lipread wound up being part of the solution to the episode s problem ーreducing her to little more than a plot mechanism Here while Aliss deafness is a core part of the plot it doesn t feel as if she s defined by that one facet Effort has been made to flesh out her character and it s more a venue to explore how technology and communication intersect with someone with different accessibility needs Especially as co writers Sharma Angel Walfall and Russell T Davies made the effort to think through how this would work BBC Studios Disney Bad WolfWhenever I m watching an episode of n n Who in the back of my mind I m mulling what the injection of Disney money changed Midnight the episode The Well is a sequel to was produced as a double banked episode ーsplitting the leads to shoot two episodes at a time Midnight was also intended as a cheap story with the bulk of the script taking place in a single room If we re being honest The Well could have worked just as well given the bulk of the action takes place in a handful of rooms That s not to say the extra cash lavished upon this episode is wasted The Well feels almost indulgent by Doctor Who standards for the sheer breadth and depth of its sets I can t help but recall the Aliens riff Strange New Worlds produced in its first season which re used the series standing sets for the wreck of the USS Peregrine It sounds weird to say that Doctor Who is luxuriating in the fact it can afford to show a trashed bunkroom for all of a minute but it is Perhaps part of the reason it does feel indulgent is that this is an episode relatively low on incident and high on character Belinda gets a real showcase here both asserting herself on the narrative at several points but also being rebuked for doing so She tries to take charge to help the injured Aliss but the medical kit is so advanced she s not able to use it She s smart enough to work out the rules of the alien but also it gets the better of her in the end Whereas the first two episodes this season felt overstuffed and rushed the smaller story and focus on character lets everything breathe That an accessibility tool is a key focus of the plot and used as a venue for storytelling and character development is marvelous Look I m as bored saying it as you are reading it but once again I can t help but point out the influence of Steven Moffat on this season One of the inspirations for monsters like the Weeping Angels and the Silence was the idea of them being easy to turn into a schoolyard game The unnamed entity here with the mechanic that if you stand directly behind the host you will die seems perfectly in that tradition But The Well also offers instances where Davies is in conversation with the rest of this season and his earlier work In both Midnight and The Well the Doctor is at risk of losing his grip on the situation because the threat of the unknown makes people paranoid and jumpy A streak of deeply dark pessimism runs through all of this work and while it s also on show here there s a little more hope than there was before It s also interesting how Davies who has always structured his seasons in a fairly rigid manner seems to be deliberately repeating motifs and beats The parallels between this season and the last feel almost like they re trying to draw attention to themselves Space Babies and The Robot Revolution The Devil s Chord and Lux and now the Boom paired with The Well feel like episodes vying for the same space in different realities Not to mention the repetition of moments from episode to episode ーlike the TARDIS wardrobe sequence and the repeated hand injuries If next week s quot Lucky Day quot is predominantly featured on Ruby Sunday without the Doctor and revolves around physical distance and or the supernatural then perhaps we might assume that this is more than coincidence nbsp Mrs Flood CornerI ve always hated The End or is it fake outs that often undermine the drama of whatever denouement they re tacked on to Sure it can be effective if you want to cheapen the sacrifices your characters made to vanquish the villain but often it comes across as hacky Not to mention that people with poor media literacy will assume that it s actually a teaser for a cliffhanger to be resolved the following week Here eh it s essentially a way to shoehorn Mrs Flood in as the soldiers boss taking the debrief after the Doctor and Belinda depart She knows about the Doctor s use of the Vindicator and has now seen it in action thanks to the soldier s recording But there s no breaking the fourth wall which means she s operating here in the same manner as Susan Twist did last year Which is uh interesting This article originally appeared on Engadget at	2025-04-26 19:05:28