In which I muse on What I Find Horrifying.

So there was a fandom_secrets thread about people being terrified of Doctor Who episodes that didn't scare anyone else they know, and then I babbled at lots of people over IM about how good Paul Cornell is at disturbing me. In a good way! Sort of.

See, Steven Moffat is really good at scaring me in the way I like to be scared. Jumping at shadows, side-eyeing perfectly harmless objects, then laughing about it afterwards. Scary-movie scared. Cornell? Cornell is batting two for two when it comes to reaching deep down into my subconscious, grabbing a handful of existential terrors, and yanking on them.

Then I thought about it, and looked at a list of Who episodes, and realized the only ones I'd found truly viscerally disturbing were Father's Day, Turn Left, A Christmas Carol, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Human Nature/Family of Blood.

( Explanation under the cut )

In which I muse on What I Find Horrifying.

So there was a fandom_secrets thread about people being terrified of Doctor Who episodes that didn't scare anyone else they know, and then I babbled at lots of people over IM about how good Paul Cornell is at disturbing me. In a good way! Sort of.

See, Steven Moffat is really good at scaring me in the way I like to be scared. Jumping at shadows, side-eyeing perfectly harmless objects, then laughing about it afterwards. Scary-movie scared. Cornell? Cornell is batting two for two when it comes to reaching deep down into my subconscious, grabbing a handful of existential terrors, and yanking on them.

Then I thought about it, and looked at a list of Who episodes, and realized the only ones I'd found truly viscerally disturbing were Father's Day, Turn Left, A Christmas Carol, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Human Nature/Family of Blood.

( Explanation under the cut )