Nightmare Fuel / Doctor Who Series 10

• "Smile":
  • Twelve smiling is unnerving to say the least.
  • The Vardy are normally robots that speak emoji, but when they go into kill mode, their faces, with the skull eyes and the skeletal teeth, are scary. Especially since that face brings back to mind the Vashta Nerada...
  • The Vardy manifest as a cloud of nano-bots that literally come out of the walls to attack anyone who is not smiling, and strip humans to the bone in seconds. Then they grind up the bones to use as fertiliser. The most worrying thing about this is they honestly think they are doing humans a favour by killing them!
• "Thin Ice":
  • The villain of this episode is a rarity among Who villains. An ordinary human who does not care about how many people must be sacrificed for his own goals and is not even working with a sentient alien presence like most other human villains.
  • The final scene with Nardole at the Vault. At first he's just checking the locks as usual, muttering to himself about the Doctor breaking his "oath"...and then as he's walking away, whatever is on the other side starts knocking. Nardole realizes that whatever is inside has figured out that the Doctor is now distracted with a new companion, and it's "getting cocky". He angrily shouts at the thing that he's still not letting it out, but whatever it is, it keeps on knocking. In fact, it knocks four times. And just in case that's not enough of a subtle reference for you, there's a faint but clearly audible drumbeat in the soundtrack during the knocking.]
• "Knock Knock":
  • The mere idea of a house that eats people.
  • Whenever the Landlord taps a wall with a tuning fork, you know that whoever sees him doing it is essentially screwed, as this quickly summons the Dryads to devour their victim.
• "Oxygen":
  • The Doctor's disturbing and surprisingly accurate lecture on the effects of vacuum exposure.
  • 36 out of 40 workers on the space station have been killed by their own spacesuits, which are still mobile and carrying the corpses around with them!
  • Just imagine how scary it would be if the only thing keeping you alive could kill you at any moment. Then imagine that this can control your every move or paralyze you. Finally, imagine that it can malfunction.
    • When the Doctor first encounters one of the dead crew the audience is treated to a close-up of his glassy-eyed, pale and stiff face. The rest of the crew fare no better; some of the faces of the dead are seriously messed up.
    • Bill has it rough in this episode. First, as the crew prepare to go outside, her suit malfunctions and removes her helmet, exposing her to the vacuum of space! The scene is shot from her point of view as she passes out, and it's not pleasant. Later on her nervous system is hijacked, leaving her paralysed and forced to chase after the Doctor and Nardole to kill them. When she hugs them both at the end, you find yourself wanting to do the same.
    • After saving Bill from space without a space helmet, he goes blind. The Doctor. Is. Now. Blind.
    • It's not cured by the end. At the very end, the Doctor reveals he's STILL blind. Nardole points out how bad this is, as the prisoner in the vault might take advantage of this...
• "The Pyramid at the End of the World":
  • The reason why the Prophets of Truth look like corpses. It acts as A Form You Are Comfortable With but to them, all humans are just corpses.
  • Speaking of the Monks, they are Reality Warpers. The good news is they need consent to use those powers; the bad news is they are very good at persuading people to give it to them, and if it is given for any reason other than pure and unconditional love, they will kill you.
  • The End of the World as We Know It the Monks have foreseen is not the result of World War III, an alien invasion or something the Monks have done which they will only prevent if humans surrender. It is the result of a series of actions, all happening on the same day, leading to the creation of a deadly strain of bacteria capable of destroying all life on Earth, followed by it getting accidentally released into the environment. The worst bit is such a thing could actually happen in real life.
• "The Lie of the Land":
  • The Unsmile the Doctor makes in the intro is positively sinister.
  • Memory Police burst into a family's home and arrest someone for a thought crime. Imagine being that kid or the man and watching that happen. Nobody in the crowd except Bill cares.
  • Someone corrupting your memories sounds pretty horrific.
• "World Enough and Time":
  • Seven words:
    Cyberwoman: LOCATIIiiing: BIIIiilllll. POTtss. Iii. Aaam. BIIIiiillll. POTtssss.
  • I-iii WAITed forrrrr yoUUUUuuuuu
  • One of the partially-converted proto-Cybermen manages to activate its hospital bed's intercom, and is calling out its distress — "Pain... pain... pain... pain..." — over and over. When a nurse finally notices, she comes over and rectifies the problem ... by turning the intercom's volume control to zero.
  • When Bill realises that all the nurse had done was turn the volume down, she randommly turns up the volume of another patient, The result?
    Patient: "Kill... me... kill... me..."
    Bill turns the volume off right away.