{"id":159944,"date":"2015-04-09T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/09\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T13:08:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:08:55","slug":"i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/09\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know What The Midnight Entity Was&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weary-of-the-questions.tumblr.com\/post\/115820372824\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">weary-of-the-questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lesserjoke.tumblr.com\/post\/115732561354\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">lesserjoke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwecanfic.tumblr.com\/post\/115701394927\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">whatwecanfic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/23b0747ed14b6b351ff1ad4c521a449d\/tumblr_inline_nmektkClbw1sj5118_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Ok so I had an epiphany the other night and I\u2019m pretty much 100% certain I know what the mysterious creature in Midnight was. \u00a0But\u00a0first off, let\u2019s review what we know about the Midnight entity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was able to survive at least in some form on the surface of the planet where the x-tonic radiation vaporized any living thing in split seconds.<\/li>\n<li>It communicated by repeating what the people in the transport were saying, first with a lag-time, then instantaneously.<\/li>\n<li>It was able to inhabit the body of a human.<\/li>\n<li>It was able to take over the mind of the Doctor.<\/li>\n<li>There was something about the transport that it was drawn to, but it had never attacked a transport previously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that\u2019s what we know, and it\u2019s not much to go on. \u00a0But there is one significant other entity in the Doctor Who canon who exhibits all these traits. \u00a0Ready for it?<\/p>\n<p><b>The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If a Tardis were somehow to crash onto the surface of Midnight, one could assume that the x-tonic radiation would effect it in the same way as it would any other living creature, vaporizing it instantly. <i>\u00a0However<\/i>, \u00a0the interior of the ship exists on a different dimension than the exterior so we can safely assume that only the exterior would be destroyed, while the interior was preserved. \u00a0Without a physical exterior however, a Tardis would loose the ability to materialize in another location, essentially trapping it both on, and equally not on the planet.<\/li>\n<li>Aside from It\u2019s human form in\u00a0\u201cThe Doctor\u2019s Wife\u201d we never hear the Tardis speak directly. \u00a0However, this is not completely true, in another sense we nearly always are hearing the Tardis speak\u2026 through the translation matrix. \u00a0Translation, a Tardis\u2019 main form of communication, is in essence, simply listening to what someone says and repeating it after them. \u00a0Typically this is done in another language, however, if the Doctor\u2019s Tardis was already translating instantly we wouldn\u2019t hear this, instead it would just sound like an echo. \u00a0As the Midnight Entity, superseded the link of the Doctor\u2019s Tardis, we would lose the echo first of the other passengers, then of the Doctor. \u00a0Once the mental link to the Doctor is fully established the translation would become instantaneous, however since the entity is still inhabiting a physical body it would be physically voicing the words as well.<\/li>\n<li>In the Doctor\u2019s Wife, we see that it is possible for a Tardis to inhabit the body of a human. \u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We know that a Timelord has a mental link that enables him to pilot a Tardis. \u00a0However, a Tardis is an incredibly powerful entity and one would assume that were it\u2019s motivations malicious, or were it particularly desperate, the same link could be taken advantage of to enable a Tardis to essentially\u00a0\u201cpilot\u201d a Timelord. \u00a0In fact, it\u2019s hard to imagine any creature besides a Tardis, having that sort of power.<\/li>\n<li>So under the circumstances I\u2019ve described, a trapped, and damaged Tardis would need two things to escape the Midnight planet. \u00a0Firstly, it would need an external hull that could withstand the x-tonic radiation. \u00a0This it found in the transport ship itself. \u00a0However, there would have been no point in attacking any previous transports until it found the second thing it needed to escape, a Timelord to pilot it. \u00a0In this light all the creatures actions make sense. \u00a0The first thing it does is remove the driver\u2019s cabin, because it needs to sever the shuttle controls in order to replace them with itself. \u00a0Secondly, it finds a way to get it\u2019s consciousness inside the cabin, it does this by taking over Sky\u2019s body. \u00a0Next it forges a mental link with the Timelord, this process is complicated by the fact that he is already linked to another Tardis. \u00a0Once that is done, the entity would need to get the Timelord out of the transport and into it\u2019s own interior. \u00a0I believe that while the exterior of the entity Tardis was lost, there would still be a non-physical portal of some sort to the interior. \u00a0This would be the shadow the Mechanic sees on the surface of the planet. \u00a0The if the entity could convince the crew to throw the Doctor out of the transport, then it could line it\u2019s portal up with the door so that they were essentially throwing him into the ship\u2019s interior. \u00a0Once that was done, then the final step would have been to take on the outer hull of the transport and dematerialize out of there. Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t quite work out that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, so there you have it. \u00a0The Midnight Entity is a Tardis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Absolutely brilliant. Also, somebody correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but I\u2019m pretty sure Midnight is the only episode of New Who to not feature the Doctor\u2019s TARDIS at all. The Doctor frequently gets separated from his ship, but here we never even see it in the first place (or at the episode\u2019s end). The lack of the conventional narrative framing in this episode that shots of the TARDIS usually provide adds to Midnight\u2019s general eerieness \u2013 but I am completely on board with the suggestion that its place has been usurped by another more malevolent model.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OH. MY, GOD. <a href=\"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/mkAZCNCpkhc5PfMStqVplxA\" target=\"_blank\">ghjklbnm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weary-of-the-questions: lesserjoke: whatwecanfic: Ok so I had an epiphany the other night and I\u2019m pretty much 100% certain I know what the mysterious creature in Midnight was. \u00a0But\u00a0first off, let\u2019s review what we know about the Midnight entity. It was able to survive at least in some form on the surface of the planet where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/09\/i-know-what-the-midnight-entity-was\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Know What The Midnight Entity Was&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3291,13,5326,201,2207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}