10 Disturbing Doctor Who Implications You Totally Missed

The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon drops a pretty huge bombshell that, like the Silents themselves, is swiftly forgotten about. And no, we're not talking about the "kill on sight" order that everyone watching the Moon landing has implanted in their brains.

Before the Eleventh Doctor initiates his controversial cleanup plan, there are a few lines that reveal that humanity has been guided by the Silence from the very beginning. The Eleventh Doctor literally says just that, and refers to the creatures as "superparasites", while one of the Silents themselves reveals that they have been in control of planet Earth "since the wheel and the fire".

Forgetting how convoluted it is that humanity goes to the moon purely because the Silence needs a spacesuit for River Song to wear, the fact that these creatures have puppeteered the whole of human history from day one to 1969 says some rather depressing things about our sense of free will.

If everything that humanity achieved in the thousands of years before the Moon landing was entirely in service of the Silence, then have we ever actually achieved anything of our own? Is human history basically just The Truman Show? Is the Silence writing these very words, right now?

Wait, hang on a second, what happened? Are these... tally marks?