Doctor Who: Legend Of The Sea Devils Trailer Breakdown - 13 Things You Must See

5. Curse Of The Black Spot Vibes

Doctor Who Legend of the Sea Devils trailer breakdown
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This is more of a general thing, but it's hard not to think of the Eleventh Doctor episode The Curse of the Black Spot while watching this trailer.

That's a relatively recent episode by Who standards (it aired in 2011, the third episode of Series 6), and the parallels are obvious.

The ship stranded in open water, the companions wearing pirate garb and engaging in sword fights, and even the bluish-green colour of those nodes on the Sea Devils' ship is the exact same colour as The Curse of the Black Spot's Siren.

Doctor Who The Curse of the Black Spot Siren
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With Thirteen referencing the Eleventh Doctor's era in Kerblam (the fez) and War of the Sontarans (silencing people with a "shhh!"), what are the odds that she references her previous pirate adventure in some small way?

Pretty damn high if you ask us!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.