‘Doctor Who’s ‘The Well’ Has Major Connection to One of Show’s Best Episodes
- The Doctor and Belinda arrive on a brutal planet in the future and discover a wiped-out mining colony.
- Galvanic radiation from a gray star flooded the planet, causing contact loss fifteen days prior.
- Only one person, Aliss Fenley, survived the incident at the base where everyone else died.
- The Doctor addresses an unseen entity behind Aliss, calling it "My old friend."
- This event connects to the 2008 episode "Midnight," revisiting questions about the entity.
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17 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Just Brought Back Its Most Terrifying Monster
BBCDoctor Who is never wanting for wildly unusual sci-fi monsters, from the B-movie camp of its iconic Daleks, to the creepy eldritch horror of the Weeping Angels. But over the course of its 62-year run, Doctor Who has discovered that the scariest monsters are the ones we can’t see. It’s not just because those are the cheapest monsters a low-budget sci-fi show can afford (though that certainly helps), it’s because there’s nothing scarier than wh…

‘Doctor Who’s ‘The Well’ Has Major Connection to One of Show’s Best Episodes
'I've been here before,' says the Doctor.
Rose Ayling-Ellis’ Doctor Who Character in The Well Wasn’t Originally Deaf
Doctor Who showrunner, Russell T Davies, has revealed that Rose Ayling-Ellis’ character, Aliss, in The Well wasn’t originally written to be deaf, but as soon as the EastEnders actress came on board, her input added a lot to the script. He said: “Aliss wasn’t written as a deaf character. But then Rose’s name came up, and she’s acted for long time on British television, and I instantly said yes. Because she’s just wonderful… It was a delight to w…
"Doctor Who" Team On That Surprise Sequel
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “DOCTOR WHO” SEASON 2, EPISODE 3 – “THE WELL” While last week’s “Lux” episode had a slightly surprising callback to prior episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s run in “Doctor Who,” this weekend’s “The Well” dropped a far bigger surprise by revealing itself to be an unexpected direct sequel to one of the show’s finest hours. “The Well” has turned out to be a follow-up to 2008’s fourth season episode “Midnight”. That Tennant-era bottl…
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