pandasthumb said:
so Q, the fact that the child is being protected by the silence, and they organised for her a super-duper spacesuit that does everything, that they tell Amelia that she is going to help bring about the silence, is the child the big bad for the series? Why were the silence waiting for so long? (Since the time of the wheel).
The child is probably not the villain. Given that she has Time Lord abilities, she may be instead a means for the Silence to conquer time and space proper.
As for why the Silence waited for so long, if they are a parasite species, they are thus opportunists of the highest order. In other words, they would wait for the best opportunity, or the best time to make use of it.
pandasthumb said:
Who was the creepy nurse looking out of the door - when there was no hatch in the door?
Who knows? But she appears in the next episode,
The Curse of the Black Spot.
pandasthumb said:
Why are the 'aliens' in Dr Who mostly anthropoid? Does anyone remember in the TOG Star Trek the being made up of silicon? Yep, it looked like a rock.
Most aliens in
Star Trek have been anthropoid too, thank you very much. There is apparently some in-universe justification for it in
Doctor Who: according to at least one account, Rassilon seeded the universe in a way that mostly humanoid creatures would evolve. Because he was a rabid xenophobe.
Let's see, non-anthropoid aliens in
Doctor Who...
The Rills (
Galaxy 4)
The Macra (
The Macra Terror, Gridlock)
The Weed Creature (
Fury from the Deep)
The Nestenes (not Autons)
The Green Slime (
Inferno)
The Mind Parasite (
The Mind of Evil)
Axos proper (
The Claws of Axos)
Alpha Centauri and Arcturus (
The Curse of Peladon)
The 'destroyer' form of Kronos (
The Time Monster)
The Ogron eater (
Frontier in Space)
The Wirrn (
The Ark in Space)
The antimatter creature (
Planet of Evil)
The Krynoid's final form (
The Seeds of Doom)
Mandragora energy in its native form (
The Masque of Mandragora)
A Rutan in native form (
Horror of Fang Rock)
The Nucleus of the Swarm (
The Invisible Enemy)
The Fendahleen (
Image of the Fendahl)
The Shrivenzale (
The Ribos Operation)
The Ogri (
The Stones of Blood)
Kroll (
The Power of Kroll)
Erato (
The Creature from the Pit)
Meglos in his original form (
Meglos)
The Marsh-spiders (
Full Circle)
The Mara in snake form (
Kinda, Snakedance)
The Plasmatons (
Time-Flight)
The Myrka (
Warriors of the Deep)
Fifi (
The Happiness Patrol)
The Kitlings (
Survival)
The Face of Boe
The Jagrafess (
The Long Game)
The Reapers (
Father's Day)
The Isolus (
Fear Her)
The Living Sun (
42)
The Family of Blood in normal form (
Human Nature/The Family of Blood)
The Vespiform in normal form (
The Unicorn and the Wasp)
The Vashta Nerada in normal form (
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)
The Midnight Creature (
Midnight)
The Stingrays (
Planet of the Dead)
Prisoner Zero (
The Eleventh Hour)
The Star Whale (
The Beast Below)
The true form of the Saturniyans (
The Vampires of Venice)
Whew! I'll post another post shortly, to break the flow a little...
EDIT: BTW, I tried to avoid robots or Earthly creatures changed by alien stuff.
