The crack of doom: The uncanny echoes of Steven Moffat's Doctor Who

“Time Can Be Rewritten”: The Doctor, the Book, and the Database

“…Nonetheless, these episodes are also replete with moments that make the principle of electronic data storage unsettling, particularly when the Doctor and company encounter a “data ghost.” When Miss Evangelista, a member of River Song's party, is consumed by the Vashta Nerada, a digital afterimage of her mind is preserved by a neural communications relay that “can hold an impression of a living consciousness for a short time after death.” Borrowing and capitalizing upon ideas introduced in “The Deadly Assassin,” here Moffat sees the digital preservation of the mind after death for what it really is: an electronic haunted house. As Alec Charles points out, this is a familiar trope in Moffat's Doctor Who : “conversations with the dead are often mediated by electronic technologies … as though Moffat wishes to emphasize the tendencies of these media … to allow the dead to speak” (17). Charles is quite correct about this, but electronic media is not the only technology that has this tendency, and it is certainly not the first.…”

Wędrując z TARDIS przez „rozrywkowe supersystemy” albo jak niebieska budka policyjna ratuje (?) badaczy z opresji

“…G. Fleming, Wielka Brytania 1965), spin-offy (Torchwood, reż. J. Erskine et al, Wielka Brytania 2006-2011Sarah Jane Adventures, reż. J. Agnew et al, Wielka Brytania 2007-2011Class, reż.…”

“…J. Erskine et al, Wielka Brytania 2006-2011Sarah Jane Adventures, reż. J. Agnew et al, Wielka Brytania 2007-2011Class, reż. E. Bazalgette et al, Wielka Brytania 2016-), epizody internetowe (platforma BBC Red Button), webcasty -serie animowane, gry komputerowe, książki, magazyny, komiksy, audiobooki, słuchowiska radiowe i przedstawienia teatralne.…”