10 Traumatic Doctor Who Facts You'll Wish You Hadn't Heard
2. Sky Was Planning To Take Her Life
I doubt that there was anybody watching Doctor Who in 2008 who isn’t still a little traumatised by the events of Midnight, which sits alongside Blink and Turn Left as one of the scariest, most disturbing episodes of the Tenth Doctor’s era.
It’s impressive then that there are still additional layers in the behind-the-scenes that can make the episode even more traumatising.
In the episode’s DVD commentary, writer Russell T Davies reveals that Sky Silvestry – the unfortunate woman who is possessed by the mysterious entity and later killed – was planning to take her own life once the tour shuttle reached the planet’s waterfall destination. This undoubtedly was related to her recent breakup, which is mentioned in the episode itself. But the exact reason she's on that shuttle is never disclosed.
As Russell explains:
"She’s on her way to a waterfall palace, but she says ‘I’m on a schedule’, which is like, what for? What on earth are you going to a waterfall on a schedule for?"
From this we can infer that the Midnight Entity didn’t just choose Sky at random. It was specifically taking advantage of somebody at their absolute emotional lowest, and using them to hurt others.
To make matters even worse, she was lucky enough to be on the shuttle with the Doctor. In any other scenario, he would have attempted to stop Sky from going through with it, but instead all he could do was watch her die.