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This article curb spoilers for Doctor Who : Wild Blue Yonder .
Summary
Doctor Whoproduction interior designer Phil Sims break that an all - new alien alphabet was developed for the unknown coinage who in the beginning pilot the " Wild Blue Yonder " ghost ship at the edge of the universe . The second 60th - anniversary special see David Tennant and Catherine Tate ’s Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble become strand on a ship far outside live space where they ’re stalk by a terrifying pair of beings . In " Wild Blue Yonder , " the mystifying ship left abandon for three years after fall through a wormhole is occupy by a slow - move automaton and a terrifying shapeshifting entity with bloodlust .
With " Wild Blue Yonder " principally being arrange within the mystifying ballistic capsule , production designer Phil Sims reveals how they approach designing the gear up ofDoctor Who ’s second sixtieth - anniversary adventureduring the in vogue episode ofDoctor Who : let loose . When it get to various displays and placard go through throughout the ship , Sims take brainchild from the design of the vessel ’s at rest horse - same pilot to craft an alien language , image how the alphabet was produce by the shapes the species could potentially create with their hooves . ascertain out Sims ' full explanation below :
Our graphic architect Stephen arrive up with all sorts of dissimilar languages and hieroglyphs . Together , we endeavor to bottom out what the alien language might be . So in this case , our pilot is sort of equine , horse - like . And we recall , what it would be like – if they had hoof , how would they have communicated , and their linguistic communication might have germinate ? So perhaps they inscribe with their hoof , maybe they clopped with their hoof . So these shapes are infer from abrasion and kind of maybe , once upon a time , in the equivalent of Sanskrit for the horse aliens . That ’s where it come from .
Doctor Who’s Alien Languages & Alphabets Help Build A Lived-In Universe
While the TARDIS may automatically translate all words and text into English when it get in at a location , there is still an incredible amount of detail placed into designing the world that any Doctor and companion may find themselves in . Before the equid - exhort alphabet and untranslated countdown in " Wild Blue Yonder , " the Time Lords of Gallifrey had an alphabet pen of circular writings . The Daleks ' writing can be see on the intent of various Time War - era Daleks through the recognition plates situate on the dome just below their eyestalks . While not as good flesh out as languages and alphabets from other sci - fi franchises likeStar Trek ’s Klingon orStar Wars ' Aurebresh rudiment , Doctor Who ’s use of language still win in sum detail that make its worlds sense inhabit in .
Furthermore , another way in whichDoctor Whohas flesh out its fictional configurations is fittingly through canonical alien measurements of time . Tracing back to flesh out media and the non - canonDaleks ' Invasion of Earth : 2150 ADmovie , a " rel " is a measure of time start from the Dalek ’s homeworld of Skaro . Viewers judge rels to be adequate to roughly 1.2 second gear on Earth and have been referred to multiple times on screen .
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Whilethe terrific tale in " Wild Blue Yonder"was primarily mark in the uncannily pristine police car whose central corridor had been create through in the first place digital force , several modules on plank consisted of practical set . As such , the dedicated work of Sims and the product team helped lend a unique aesthetic and character to a setting that could feel similar to late options . It is indecipherable whetherDoctor Whowill revisit the Equus caballus - like specie of the captain in the futurity , but there is an discernment for the work post into craft wider lore around the sequence ’s ill ghostwriter ship .
Doctor Who : Wild Blue Yonderis presently useable on Disney+ for international hearing and BBC iPlayer for UK viewing audience .
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