User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4503698-20131213125059/@comment-188432-20131213201537

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4503698-20131213125059/@comment-188432-20131213201537 I put up the headline without any knowledge of the Christmas Special. I haven't seen trailers, so nothing is influencing that headline's presence other than
 * the obvious pun
 * pre-existing narratives
 * the relevance of the Silence to the Eleventh Doctor
 * the fact that the front page's layout now demands a pithy headline

That the Silents (and indeed the Silence) might be present for the final episode of this Doctor's life has been an obvious possibility since The Eleventh Hour. That episode suggested that "silence will fall", but I think most observers would agree that we haven't actually seen such a thing, despite the ubiquity of the Silents in series 6.

Without knowing a damn thing about the contents of the episode, it can easily asserted that the episode is Moffat's last chance to make the whole storyline with the Silents/Silence make some kind of sense. It's obviously the "Silents' Night" if they're in it. But it's also their night if they're not. Both eventualities would be noteworthy. The fate of the Silence story arc is most assuredly one of the things that will be in the lead of the episode's article on this wiki.

All of that is a long way of saying: it really is just a pun. And a way of avoiding the phrase you see on every DW website this season. I mostly just didn't want to use a variation of "fall of the Eleventh".

(Oh, and there is no such thing as "canon" at this wiki.)