10 Important Doctor Who Details That Are Almost Never Mentioned
7. The Moon Has Always Been An Egg
Kill the Moon has always been a hotly-debated episode for various reasons, but we're bringing it up now because of something pretty straightforward: it reveals that Earth's moon has always been (and always will be) the egg of a gigantic space dragon.
This detail is mostly there to justify the rest of the episode without much thought being given to its ramifications, because when you stop to consider what it means, it can have a massive effect on how you view pretty much every other Doctor Who episode set on Earth.
The titular weather-controlling moonbase from 1967’s The Moonbase? Actually built on top of a giant egg. When Martha Jones’ hospital gets teleported to the moon in Smith & Jones? She’s actually meeting the Doctor on the surface of a giant egg. Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, as shown in The Impossible Astronaut? That’s one small step for man… onto the surface of a giant egg!
It might not be the most narratively consequential of details, but we guarantee that once you really start to think about it, a lot of completely unrelated Doctor Who episodes become a whole lot stranger.