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Post by matthewsee on May 6, 2017 12:06:12 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on May 8, 2017 2:12:41 GMT -5
Doctor Who debut by writer Mike Bartlett.
Guest stars David Suchet as the Landlord.
Suchet is well known for playing titular detective Poirot in a TV series that spanned across from 1989 and 2013 and I am glad to finally see him on Doctor Who.
Incidentally two of the three other principal cast members in Poirot have appeared in Big Finish Doctor Who that of Hugh Fraser and Philip Jackson.
This leaves only Pauline Moran (Miss Lemon) who has yet to step into the Whoniverse in any avenue.
David Suchet was interviewed on Whovians after the airing of Knock Knock and Rove McManus asked how the Doctor and Poirot would have got along and Suchet that they would have got along very well.
The episode title no doubt give the reminder of the old Knock Knock Doctor Who joke. However not quite sure that saying Doctor Who: Knock Knock have quite the same ring to it.
At the same time I was watching Knock Knock I watched Emerald City 1.2 Prison of the Abject and the teaser coincidentally had Dorothy telling Lucas about the Knock Knock joke.
The Twelfth Doctor says that sleep is for tortoises, Voc Robot, a reference to Robots of Death and this was previously said by the Fourth Doctor in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and for a more recent reference to Who’s past the Doctor mention Harriet Jones when he ask the Landlord who the Prime Minister is.
Knock Knock is truly a chilling episode in the house owned by the Landlord that got rented by Bill and her student friends.
A truly well done debut by Mike Bartlett.
What a revelation that Eliza is not the Landlord’s daughter but his mother and the beetles weren’t certainly horrifying.
It seems that Harry is meant to be the grandson of one of the Fourth Doctor’s companion the namesake Harry Sullivan but apparently this got edited out.
In fact the Twelfth Doctor spends a considerable amount of time alone with this Harry in this episode.
The episode ends at the Vault and as we hear a classical music, the episode intriguingly ends with the Doctor going into the Vault to talk to whoever or whatever is in it.
As the Doctor brought food here, Rove McManus over at Whovians jokingly said that it was a cliffhunger.
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Post by matthewsee on May 11, 2021 1:38:52 GMT -5
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