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

8. Outer Space Is Currently Being Policed By Giant Flying Eyeballs...

In Matt Smith€™s 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, y€™know, 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, I€™m not making that up. So, giant flying eyeballs (with enough collective firepower to obliterate us all) apparently police a universe that, as we€™ve already established, features murderous clockwork robots and ghostly gas-mask children. Geez, somebody slip a tranquilizer in this guy€™s coffee or something (just make sure he goes down quietly and doesn€™t make a scene).