Doctor Who: the Impossible Astronaut preview

[espanolbot]

Ah! Slender Man! And Nixon! Ahh!

For legality, two pages from the Doctor Who storyline: Nemesis of the Daleks.




...I don't like you, chainsword man.

Comments

[arbre_rieur]

I'm guessing Moffat's borrowing from his own Doctor Who short prose story, "Corner of the Eye." It involved a guy who was being followed 24/7 by a malicious alien who always stayed just out of sight, past his line of vision. The alien was described as a little gray man in a suit, IIRC.

It wouldn't be the first time Moffat cannibalized from his prose Who stories for the show. He's taken quite a bit from his two others as well, "Continuity Errors" and "What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow." Especially the latter, as one might guess.

[skalja]

Oh man, I've read Continuity Errors but either that was before the Christmas special or the parallels just escaped me because of the change in setting.

[uadlika]

So have others, the biggest one I can think of it the "Human Nature/Family of Blood" two-parter.

I suppose one of the awesome things about Doctor Who is that it has this giant collection of semi-canonical literature and radio plays that it can draw from to make spookier on the screen.

And I will admit I jumped when I saw the man/alien in the corner.

[sabra_n]

"Dalek" was based upon a radio play called "Jubilee", I believe.

[abates]

Only very very vaguely. The only thing "Dalek" and "Jubilee" have in common is they both have a single Dalek which is held prisoner by humans.

[hero_of_lallor]

Moffat stealing his own ideas to use over and over again. This is shocking!

[icon_uk]

There are also two new teasers out for the Impossible Astronaut. One on BBC1, the other on BBC2, and in a typical fan-kerfuffle-instigating touch, they are identical, apart from one tiny little difference.

It's explained here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGivQ6eVfsQ

[ex_cherrybomb869]

This feels like the crack baby between 'The Empty Child' and 'Blink'.

[icon_uk]

That;s some impressive parentage thought....

I do know a little something about the aliens in "The Impossible Astronaut" and it's a brilliantly Moffat-y concept, and should make for a great story.

[jarodrussell]

Of course there are no monsters in the Oval Office, Nixon could hardly fit his killtron body in that small a room.

[radioactivepiss]

Man that was eerie. Not in the 'ahhh!' jump-scare way, but it made me shiver a little. Definite Empty Child feel going on, which is one of my favourite stories, so that's a good thing.

[espanolbot]

According to Moffat while the last series was a rollercoster, the new one will be a ghost-train.

And from what I've seen of the other episodes, the Neil Gaiman one for example, that will probably be the case.

[radioactivepiss]

I've been expecting something like that, and it's nice to hear it confirmed. Got me wondering the moment I heard Gaiman was writing, and when things about this two-parter got released... I loved series 5, but I engage with Moff's stuff best when he's doing the look-behind-you eerie stuff, so I have high hopes.

[curlyjo1]

Oh God, just what I needed. Another Doctor Who creature that will make me jump at shadows.

[bariman]

Don't worry, they're not actually real.

Hey, where'd that statue outside go?

[curlyjo1]

You joke, but my mom has a mini stone angel in the garden. At least, I think it's still in the garden. *shudders*

[his_spiffynesss]

I always loved Abslom Daak. I've always envisioned that if he was ever portrayed on the show they would have to get Bruce Campbell for the part.

[twomasks]

They filmed in America this year so we can only hope...

[icon_uk]

I think we'd have heard of a guest star like Bruce Campbell long before now, alas.

[mcity]

What do you mean, that comic wasn't made in the 90s?

Say, does anyone remember a scary video, like that Doctor Who teaser, about a guy working late in an office whose computer tells him he's going to die soon, and how. Turns out it's fright, since the scary thing is right next to him. Similar blocking and everything. If so, can you at least link me or tell me the name?