The second of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary specials, “Wild Blue Yonder,” was shrouded in secrecy up until its debut. The episode, which saw David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble stranded on a spaceship at the very edge of the universe, had been the subject of countless fan theories concerning surprise cameos from past Doctors or famous enemies as part of Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary celebrations. However, the truth was that the mystery surrounding “Wild Blue Yonder” was concealing something far simpler and far more terrifying. The episode saw Doctor Who capitalize on Lovecraftian cosmic horror, a genre writer Russell T Davies has notably explored once before on Doctor Who.During his first tenure as Doctor Who’s showrunner, Davies was particularly renowned for breathing fresh life into stories set on present-day Earth and for creating exciting, larger-than-life new monsters. However, every so often, Davies explored the horror aspects of Doctor Who with excursions into the unknown, featuring enemies that were unknowable. “Wild Blue Yonder” is a new example of this type of storytelling, pitting the Doctor and Donna against creatures from beyond the boundaries of existence that take shape through imitation. In many ways, the story is an amplified echo of ideas first explored in the terrifying Season 4 episode, “Midnight.”The creature in “Midnight” is never seen, acting only through possession and imitation. It takes control of one of the Doctor’s fellow passengers, Sky Silvestry, and starts copying everything the other passengers are saying. Over the course of the episode, it starts learning and hones its focus. At first, it stops copying everyone, except the Doctor. Then, the creature starts speaking at the same time as the Doctor. Finally, it starts speaking first, with the Doctor reduced to copying it. The passengers almost throw the Doctor out of the shuttle bus, believing the creature has passed into him. His life is only saved when the stewardess hears Sky say “allons-y,” a phrase she heard the Doctor use earlier. She realizes the creature has stolen his voice and sacrifices herself to kill it.
The second of Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary specials, “Wild Blue Yonder,” was shrouded in secrecy up until its debut. The episode, which saw David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate’s Donna Noble stranded on a spaceship at the very edge of the universe, had been the subject of countless fan theories concerning surprise cameos from past Doctors or famous enemies as part of Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary celebrations. However, the truth was that the mystery surrounding “Wild Blue Yonder” was concealing something far simpler and far more terrifying. The episode saw Doctor Who capitalize on Lovecraftian cosmic horror, a genre writer Russell T Davies has notably explored once before on Doctor Who.
During his first tenure as Doctor Who‘s showrunner, Davies was particularly renowned for breathing fresh life into stories set on present-day Earth and for creating exciting, larger-than-life new monsters. However, every so often, Davies explored the horror aspects of Doctor Who with excursions into the unknown, featuring enemies that were unknowable. “Wild Blue Yonder” is a new example of this type of storytelling, pitting the Doctor and Donna against creatures from beyond the boundaries of existence that take shape through imitation. In many ways, the story is an amplified echo of ideas first explored in the terrifying Season 4 episode, “Midnight.”
The creature in “Midnight” is never seen, acting only through possession and imitation. It takes control of one of the Doctor’s fellow passengers, Sky Silvestry, and starts copying everything the other passengers are saying. Over the course of the episode, it starts learning and hones its focus. At first, it stops copying everyone, except the Doctor. Then, the creature starts speaking at the same time as the Doctor. Finally, it starts speaking first, with the Doctor reduced to copying it. The passengers almost throw the Doctor out of the shuttle bus, believing the creature has passed into him. His life is only saved when the stewardess hears Sky say “allons-y,” a phrase she heard the Doctor use earlier. She realizes the creature has stolen his voice and sacrifices herself to kill it.
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