Doctor Who: 10 Creepiest Corners Of Steven Moffat’s Mind

By Chris Quicksilver /

5. On Certain Planets, Foggy Nights Are Filled With Flying Sharks...

Next up on our tour of Steven Moffat€™s universe, we come to a steampunk-themed planet in the midst of celebrating a Victorian Christmas. It sounds nice enough, doesn€™t it? After all, cosplay and Christmas is a winning combination in anyone€™s book. However, as always, deadly danger is lurking... In the 2010 Christmas special (A Christmas Carol) The Doctor has to convince the local Ebeneezer Scrooge/Grinch/Old Man Potter (delete as appropriate) to help him save the lives of Amy, Rory and a shipload of innocent people about to crash into the planet below. But that€™s not the insane part. During the course of this adventure, the Doctor discovered that the skies on this particular planet contained gravity-defying sharks, the kind of sharks that might just fly into through your open window at night and swallow you whole. These flying sharks could only be pacified by a classically trained singer with a terminal illness, who€™s dulcet tones were about the only thing that stopped the creature from making a meal out of the time lord and his young companion (who was, himself, a past version of the grumpy old git I mentioned before €“ don€™t ask). We€™re gonna need a bigger, um, dirigible?