#Trap street doctor who series
The trap street the Doctor (Peter Capaldi), Clara (Jenna Coleman), and graffiti artist Rigsy (Joivan Wade, last seen in series eight’s “Flatline”) stumble across is particularly important, being a refugee camp for aliens living on Earth. It’s all very Neverwhere, and ushers in 45 minutes of thrilling television from the pen of debutant Doctor Who writer Sarah Dollard. Perhaps I should have stopped and taken a look around, because it turns out that trap streets aren’t trap streets at all: they are concealed spaces where aliens can dwell. It’s the cartographic equivalent of the pitfall that every high school cheat fears: copy off someone else at your leisure, but what if the teacher notices when you replicate their mistakes too? I think I actually found (or rather, didn’t find) one of these a few years ago when I was driving in America, and was thoroughly confused by a street I was using as a waypoint that my map said should exist but didn’t. You know - the non-existent byways that mapmakers insert on their maps in order to discourage would-be plagiarists from lifting and publishing their maps as their own.
Like all good Doctor Who episodes, “Face The Raven” began with the usual premise: what if phenomenon X could only be explained as alien activity? In this case, said phenomenon was the rather mundane business of trap streets.
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