Day 53: Desperate Measures

The central twist to this story is one of the greatest twists in the history of the series. The main characters have been plagued by a menace known as Koquillion, who comes around and threatens them, occasionally attempting to destroy them. In this episode, it is revealed that Koquillion was actually Bennett, one of the crewmembers aboard the crashed spaceship that forms the main setting for this story. So, that means that the monster, played by a man in a suit, is actually a man in a suit. We've talked about the fact that Doctor Who has strayed away from showing traditional aliens so far in the series, with the vast majority of them being a variation of "person in a suit", so this shouldn't come as a surprise, however the fact that it is a character that we have previously thought of as an ally, thus making the surprise unexpected and so this shows that the series is not afraid to play around with the central concepts, it is not afraid to take assumptions that are made and subvert them. This is yet another reason why this series is absolutely brilliant.