Kill The Moon took something that we know - the moon is an lifeless satellite orbiting the Earth - and turned it completely on its head. In true Doctor Who fashion, the moon was something else entirely; an egg containing a giant jellyfish-like alien creature. The spiders we saw in the trailer weren't aliens, though they did pose a deadly threat to the Doctor and his companions. They were bacteria, growing under the surface of the moon and like a nightmarish Demestos advert, were breaking out and killing everything in their path. Rather cleverly, the mystery of how the moon was still orbiting the Earth in the future was solved; the alien within laid another 'moon egg' in its place. Though you have to wonder whether it escaped the destruction of Earth in series one's The End Of The World.
A writer for Whatculture since May 2013, I also write for TheRichest.com and am the TV editor and writer for Thedigitalfix.com . I wrote two plays for the Greater Manchester Horror Fringe in 2013, the first an adaption of Simon Clark's 'Swallowing A Dirty Seed' and my own original sci-fi horror play 'Centurion', which had an 8/10* review from Starburst magazine! (http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/eventsupcoming-genre-events/6960-event-review-centurion) I also wrote an episode for online comedy series Supermarket Matters in 2012. I aim to achieve my goal for writing for television (and get my novels published) but in the meantime I'll continue to write about those TV shows I love! Follow me on Twitter @BazGreenland and like my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BazGreenlandWriter
