History WMG / DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight

'''''The [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] was that thing?!'''''

The Doctor said himself -- they were the first to be in (and see optically) that specific region. The "shadow" was noticed by the mechanic, who (along with the pilot) was the first victim. The area enhances psychic fear, allowing it to manifest empathically and psychokinetically. The Doctor's uncertainty about the "shadow" caused the knocking; the increasing fear by the mechanic caused the cabin to get destroyed. The increasing fear about the knocking couldn't get "in" physically, but got in psychically. Skye's increasing panic made her the juiciest target; the Doctor's sudden jump in fear at being put under the microscope made him more vulnerable. Fear feeds on fear; fear experienced in that particular location of the planet amplifies it and gives it form, but it isn't sentient in any sense.

[[WMG: The entity was actually Skye the whole time, capable only of feeding on fear and causing fear-induced hallucinations.]]

* Skye's the first (only?) person to notice the Doctor is not what he seems (she spots him using the sonic screwdriver.) Once it realizes it's got interesting prey, it gives the pilot a hallucination to get them off course, making sure that a handful of ordinary people are going to an unusual location, one that was never explored before.

* She seems to encourage the Doctor's cheekiness, and encourages the suspicion of him later; she's even the first to speak to him when he comes back from the cockpit, adding a stressedl tone to her speech and reacting dismissively to the Doctor's assurances.

** It didn't just copy speech, a couple of times it copied them just before they happened, or kept going just beyond the copying (when the Doctor said part of the alphabet, he stopped 2 letters sooner). So it had some power to know what letters came next, or some sort of ability over time.

We never learned what species Skye was, now did we? Maybe she was, as an above WMG suggests, some kind of alien species who fed off fear. And the fear of the Midnight Entity caused a feedback, of sorts. So, she shorted out, so to speak. Then, she rebooted, mimicking other humans voices. The feedback of Skye's blackout interfered with whatever makes a time lord tick.