Bright Ideas about Dark Day!
The Doctor Who Team
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Dark Day when at noon in New England and parts of Canada, night-time seemed to fall. We wanted to know what you think caused this phenomenon and we absolutely loved your replies!
Jonathan told us, ‘The Doctor knew that on this day, at this time a powerful solar flare was going to hit the Earth, causing utter devastation, wiping out all life on the planet. This solar flare was caused by Davros as the Doctor left him burning so he wanted to inflict the same suffering on his beloved Earth. To prevent the flare hitting the planet the Doctor placed his TARDIS in front of the sun, thus preventing all light hitting the planet.’
Nice theory. And talking of Daleks, Jake suggested, ‘…there was a giant Dalek ship that was draining energy from the sun so they can evolve for the time war and they need back up energy so they recharged for seven hours… that’s what I think cause the Dark Day.’
Rianna also blamed the Doctor’s oldest foes, writing, ‘The sun was pulled into another galaxy by the Daleks who planned to blow it up and kill everything in the whole universe. The Doctor saved the day with an ice-cream, a garden hose, some batteries and that magnificent mind of his! And then, of course, he had to tow the sun back home with the TARDIS and some melt-proof wire. He decided to pop by Amy and Rory's after that, for a nice calming cup of tea. ‘
Well, we like a story with a happy ending but Kieren had a yuckier suggestion! ‘A group of organ harvesting aliens trap New England and Canada in a force field made of pure dark matter…’ whilst JF had an interesting take on (not so) Dark Day: ‘The sky didn't go dark. The Weeping Angels used a perception filter to make the town believe the sun had vanished in order to land unseen.’
From the mind of Molly came this explanation: ‘Many miles away, in the scorching Sahara desert, there landed a spaceship. Or should I say crashed? This raised a choking cloud of dust and sand, big enough to blot out the sun. However, due to the temporal space whatsit that had been damaged by the force of the crash, the dust did not hide the sun over the Sahara, but over those vast swathes of land in Canada. Perhaps somewhere out in the blistering Sahara are the remains of that shining space craft, or maybe they are hovering thousands of metres above the Appalachian mountains? There is bound to be a door to it somewhere…’
Steven decided the darkness was caused by a ‘migrating school of Star Whales’, Rob ingeniously felt it had something to do with ‘a Tandoca Scale device in Lower Maine’ and Joanna put forward the notion that ‘Sontarans took over the sun using it as energy to attempt to take over Earth.... except it didn't happen. The Doctor won!’
We’ll share more of your suggestions next week, but today we end on one of the strangest and sweetest theories, written by Daniel: ‘An army of peg dolls thought people would play with them if they made it dark early, but they went home to the dolls’ house when they gave up.’
We almost feel sorry for them now!
Many thanks for all your replies… we’ll be publishing more soon.
