Mirror
The Doctor and her companions land in present-day Norway and run into an out of this world problem. They find a house boarded up with a young girl who is blind and afraid. She hasn’t seen her father in four days and doesn’t have any idea where he is.
As with all stories, there is something amiss. As the story proceeds, it comes across as being a horror story in a way. The father’s placing a speaker outside of the house to prevent his daughter from leaving their home seems a little wrong, but it is understandable because the father is trying to protect his daughter.
The flow of the story is good and does not get bogged down or catches a snag. For some viewers, it may be a little scary but only because of the story the father uses with her daughter, but then passing through the mirror is another idea. What they find on the other side of the mirror will scare you.
The story is good and does not hit a snag. The ideas aren’t new to Doctor Who, but the alien and the creatures in the cave are. The story’s flow is good and keeps fans attention and wondering what is going to happen next.
The use of folklore or a story told to the Doctor by her grandma is a nice addition to the story. The Doctor uses them to link the slit to the Solitract. It uses the memories of both Eric and Graham to create bodies who look like Eric’s and Graham’s wives. Once the Doctor figures this out, she has to convince the men they are not real. Once she does the split begins to collapse. Everyone is trapped and must find a way out.
Well, everyone finds the only way back is through making the Solitract mad. The use of the Solitract is a good idea and makes for a good ending when they all get back to Norway. The story was good and makes for a good Doctor Who story. New aliens like Ribbons is a little scary in the beginning, but he turns out not so scary. It seems as if Chibnall made a good choice with the writer of this story.
