tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post3122526061976328388..comments2024-03-22T00:20:38.510-07:00Comments on Adam Riggio writes: That Is One Messed Up Freudian Nightmarescape, Doctor Who: Knock Knock, Reviews, 07/05/2017Adam Riggiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14606510835439580828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-32919313967680357152017-06-19T03:09:23.327-07:002017-06-19T03:09:23.327-07:00First of all, hello! I came over here from Erudito...First of all, hello! I came over here from Eruditorum Press and I love your reviews – this, along with EP, might be my favourite place to get insights into Doctor Who.<br /><br />This review is particularly valuable to me. I puzzled over the question why the Landlord’s mother doesn’t get consumed, but rather transformed and I really like your answer, as it makes perfect sense and isn’t based on plot mechanics, but rather on the more important aspect: thematic resonance.<br /><br />The whole Freudian reading also reminds me very strongly of Grant Morrison’s and Dave McKean’s “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth” – that story also creates the symbolic chain of house–womb–mother, and also depicts how retreating into the womb can turn it into a tomb by stunting the growth of the individual (much like the Landlord, despite assuming the mantle of the father, is really still a child and, in the climax of the episode, seems to revert to that state).Artur Nowrothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00276975026258085800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708273719674528189.post-17239401439401830042017-05-08T17:38:13.957-07:002017-05-08T17:38:13.957-07:00Great write-up. Another thing that fascinated me ...Great write-up. Another thing that fascinated me about this episode was its apparent connection to Ghost Light – some shots are identical, and it seems to be explicitly invoked with the word "wicked" uttered by Pavel in the beginning; beyond this, however, there seems to be little connection other than "Doctor Who gets up to Deleuzian mischief in a haunted house" (borrowing from Phil a little bit there). <br /><br />I wouldn't call myself an occultist but I have a general interest in it and specifically in tarot (largely due to a specific tarot project I've been following), and I was really struck by the fact that the centerpiece of the whole ordeal was in the tower; the corresponding tarot trump (quite simply the Tower) likely originates from an Italian Renaissance-era poem in which the Tower is purgatory. The card itself is generally associated with liberation (either positive or negative) and the union of above with below. This is all interesting to tie in with the ending, in which the tower literally consumes itself and becomes nothing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08564208515488589980noreply@blogger.com