I was watching the day of the moon and it occurred to me that Moffat missed an opportunity to make both the episode and the 11th doctor so much darker.
What if instead of using the video of Neil Armstrong touching down on the moon he had used another famous video relating to the space program? Specifically the video of the space-shuttle Challenger exploding.
What if he had written it so that the scene where the Doctor is attaching Amy’s phone to the shuttle was also him sabotaging the Challenger causing it to explode. He could have implied that without the Doctor’s interference the challenger mission would have gone off without a hitch. He could have written in scenes where the Doctor is struggling with the moral dilemma of killing the astronauts to create the famous video as a way of introducing the Silents to humanity.
We have seen that the Doctor is willing to sacrifice his entire species to end the time war, is it really that far of a jump to have him killing 7 humans for the sake of alerting humans to the Silents?
I just think that had Moffat done that it would have added another level of darkness to the Doctor and the episode. I understand the reasons for not writing the episode like this because it would have been pretty offensive to the families of the 7 astronauts killed in the accident but if it had been it would have been so much darker than the actual episode
