Logline
Far in the future, on a tough, brutal planet, a devastated mining colony has only one survivor. To discover the truth, the Doctor and Belinda must face absolute terror.
Written by: Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel Walfall
Directed by: Amanda Brotchie
I haven’t finished it yet, but the YT video I just shared to the community is shedding some light on how it came about.
TL;DW, they were having trouble getting their original idea (involving actual Nigerian gods) to work, scrapped it, noticed the similarities between what they had left and “Midnight”, and leaned into it.
I don’t really have a big issue with the entity’s shifting motivation - and they did handwave it a bit by saying it was “leaning” during that first episode - but I think it’s incredibly risky to do a sequel to an episode that’s basically perfect.
Nowhere to go but down, even if you name something that’s very good.
I’m sort of expecting those to come into play in a couple of weeks, though. “The story and the engine”? But I’ll give the video a watch, see how it makes sense of the BTS reasoning 🙂