Doctor Who 'Knock Knock' Review

Even in a series like Doctor Who where the impossible is always possible I never expected a cheesy montage of people looking for a house to live in from this series. But in a fun counter of cliches, the students are not at all weirded out by The Doctor, if anything they instantly take a liking to him, even when he's been hiding in their storage cupboard-actually that's the point where they should have been a little weirded out-but still, The Doctor's cool, students know it. It's like two different aspects of my coming together and supporting each other in their shenanigans.

Furthermore, not to sound like a broken record here but Bill is still awesome, everything they are doing when it comes to writing her. In fact, it can be summed up with one line of hers "This is the bit of my life you're not in". Yes. Thank you! Something I've always felt is an important aspect of a companion is something that grounds them, a life outside of The Doctor. The series established this in the first episode with her adoptive mother, and I would hope this crew of flatmates sticks around. We don't even need to see them really, but have Bill just mention them every so often. Especially seeing as Moffat seems to write companions differently, unlike Rose or Martha or Donna or most companions in the past who travelled with The Doctor and visited home every so often; Moffat writes companions who bounce back and forth, try having a normal life while also going on trips with The Doctor every so often.

As for flaws there are only a couple I can point to, and they're all to do with the villain. A little boy finds alien bugs, shows them to his sick mother, they turn her arm wooden and he for some reason is able to figure out this is them curing her? How? Second question: How did he keep disappearing and reappearing without anyone noticing? He wasn't an alien, he was just a normal old man, yet he kept showing up and leaving without anyone noticing him. Some might see that as a nitpick, but that's because I'm struggling to think of anything else in this episode that stood out to me positive or negative.

It was a very middle of the road episode, it was a simple premise, executed well enough, but with some minor plot holes, enjoyable enough characters, some funny lines, decent antagonist. I left the episode liking it enough, so let's say 6/10.

-Danny