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* [[Hell Is That Noise]]: Every word out of Sky's mouth post-[[Nothing Is Scarier|whatever it was that happened.]]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|The Hostess.}}
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Very uncharacteristic for this show, and especially this Doctor, who up until now has had a great love and admiration for humans as a species. This episode flips that all upside down, leaving the Doctor shaken and disturbed in the aftermath. It can be argued that the Tenth Doctor is never quite the same after this experience.
* [[Invisible Monsters]]: The creature that possesses Sky is never seen. A few vaguely humanoid shadows are seen from the cockpit, but not by the viewers, and that's all.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "Don't. Don't do that", is one for previous episodes.
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* [[No Name Given]]: The Hostess. [[Tear Jerker|Very pointedly]] lampshaded. Also in the credits she is just called "Hostess".
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Made all much worse because this is the ONLY enemy / creature in the show history that is never identified somehow.
** Not only that, but what makes so much worse is that we don't even know... if the creature is capable of spreading paranoia or if it was just [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|human nature]].
*** We also have no idea if it's trapped on Midnight or if it can manifest in other places. And the way that the creature describes itself, speaking of being from the "Dark and the cold", is eerily similar to creatures like Death and Abaddon from ''[[Torchwood]]'' and The Beast.
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{{quote|Taking a big spaceship with a bunch of strangers across a diamond planet called Midnight... ''what could possibly go wrong?''}}
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: The way the Sky-creature moves its head at first is just ''wrong''.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]], the show briefly jumps off the deep end of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism]], and everything the Doctor believes in is shattered to the core. Wham.
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: The Doctor gets this exact line in the teaser.
** [[Captain Obvious|Doubles as]] [[Tempting Fate]].
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