8. Outer Space Is Currently Being Policed By Giant Flying Eyeballs...
In Matt Smiths debut adventure, The Eleventh Hour (oh, that title still works on so many levels!), we are introduced to a race of colossal flying snowflake-eyeball hybrids called The Atraxi. Drawing slightly from a discarded Andrew Cartmel-era concept (The Metatraxi), The Atraxi are sort of like an intergalactic police force, not a million miles away from The Shadow Proclamation or The Judoon, except that they are, yknow, giant flying eyeballs. These snowflake-eyeballs apparently have the power to roast the entire f*cking planet at any moment they choose...And they are fully prepared to annihilate every living thing on earth unless the newly-regenerated Doctor can locate a giant translucent conga eel cannily disguised as a man and his dog. No, Im not making that up. So, giant flying eyeballs (with enough collective firepower to obliterate us all) apparently police a universe that, as weve already established, features murderous clockwork robots and ghostly gas-mask children. Geez, somebody slip a tranquilizer in this guys coffee or something (just make sure he goes down quietly and doesnt make a scene).