I've thought for a while that the "spaceman" she was talking about was actually the Doctor, but I hadn't seen how that could apply to her reactions in LKH. Yeah, me either! I feel like maybe Moffat meant for us to make the connections but he was just a little too oblique about it? Holes! This season has too many holes! And I think most everybody got that her childhood was meant to be scary and scarring but pinpointed the Silence as the focus of that fear, rather than the Doctor himself.
And it's something a lot of kids experience, I think - being terrified, and not knowing why. Just feeling like SOMETHING is out there in the dark, that wants to eat you. And Moffat is always pulling from childhood stuff like that. That's a good point. And as much of a fail as it was on the show's part not to make any explicit parallels between Melody and George from "Night Terrors," the connection was pretty obvious anyway. And the point with George was that all the chaos he caused was a product of fear.
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Yeah, me either! I feel like maybe Moffat meant for us to make the connections but he was just a little too oblique about it? Holes! This season has too many holes! And I think most everybody got that her childhood was meant to be scary and scarring but pinpointed the Silence as the focus of that fear, rather than the Doctor himself.
And it's something a lot of kids experience, I think - being terrified, and not knowing why. Just feeling like SOMETHING is out there in the dark, that wants to eat you. And Moffat is always pulling from childhood stuff like that.
That's a good point. And as much of a fail as it was on the show's part not to make any explicit parallels between Melody and George from "Night Terrors," the connection was pretty obvious anyway. And the point with George was that all the chaos he caused was a product of fear.