"Go to your room! I'm very cross! Now go to your room!"


"I'm glad that worked. They would've been terrible last words."

I thought “go to your room” was just the best resolution to the cliff hanger. The show was so freaking tense up to that point, and to break the tension like that was pretty clever.  They did a great job of rebuilding the tension, too, so it didn’t grind the show to a halt.

The Doctor Dances: Just this once! Everybody lives!

Horror of Fang Rock: Just this once! Everybody dies!

Being five when 'blink' was released, I was afraid of statues for a while after

Yep, "The Empty Child" and "Waters of Mars" were quite scary. But for some reason I also felt freaked out by "The Impossible Planet" where that one guy gets possessed and he turns around and has all those ancients symbols all over his face, and keeps saying "He is awake." I don't know what it was about that . . .

I was already in my late teens when I sat down to watch Doctor Who, so I was never traumatized as a kid, but I definitely remember The Empty Child being the creepiest, most disturbing episode of the show.

The ending to The Doctor Dances is of course a delightful reversal of the terror, but it also comes across as darkly ironic - the Doctor's saved everybody, but it's the height of the Blitz, still in the early years of the Second World War, so how likely is it that all of them will make it out the other side? The Doctor can save us from alien invasions and malfunctioning time-traveling medical equipment, but he can't save us from each other.

“He’s pretty much the Doctor if he was American.”

My American self takes no offense to this.

For me, I was scared shitless by Midnight. Something about people losing their minds over the mere repeating of sentences really struck me in my core, not to mention that creature's complete anonymity as well as the Doctor being rendered totally helpless...

Anything with the concept of human conversion into cybermen terrified me. The screaming, the idea of all the surgery happening while you are wide awake, and it just all happened and you wouldn’t really remember it properly.

I got terrified by the Lazarus Experiment and the Waters of Mars

The empty children were so creepy that people forget this episode was also the debut of Captain friggin' Jack!

Honestly this is probably as good as NuWho has ever been. To have such wild tonal shifts between the creepy zombie plague, and the hormone-fuelled Doctor/Jack/Rose love triangle, without making it feel at all jarring, is a masterpiece of scriptwriting.

Maybe I’ve been in lockdown for too long, but “I’m not flat Stanley” may be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

I was extremely young when new who started, and my parents made a point of not letting me watch it, because they didnt want me to get scared, but I guess at this point of the series, my parents decided it wouldnt be too scary for 3 year old me to watch, so they let me watch the empty child, and it scared the shit out of me. what's worse is that after this they didnt let me watch The Doctor Dances, meaning i never saw the solution, or what happened in the first place. it was only a couple years ago when i fully watched the episode

Weird how Jack Harkness lived through some of WW2 twice.

"A scene that puts most horror movies to shame", I like that.

I was 8 when this was on, and while Blink and Silence in the Library scared me for a bit, The Empty Child did so for a time after the others stopped.

It's ironic that Steven Moffat's best stories are from when he's not showrunner.

I can safely say I am not your mother for three reasons:

1- I am a virgin (as far as I know)
2- I am Male
3- you bear no resemblance to me

So leave me alone please

You are scaring me

I was terrified of the empty child too, you can not show that to children

My cousin was terrified out of her wits by this story, to the point where she didn't watch Part 2. Only after we told her it had a happy ending was she convinced, if reluctantly, to give it a shot. Good times.

Even today, I know that I can say "Are you my mummy" and someone in the room will not only get the reference, but yell at me for reminding them of suppressed trauma.

For me it was the Waters of Mars. I was like 7 when that came out and it scared me so much. When I was like 4 or 5 I saw Aliens of London and World War Three, and I had this water tube thing which would make the same blue light and noise as a Slitheen removing the human skin costume which also scared me.