Friday 31 August 2012

Series 7 Countdown: Series 6 Monsters

Today, I shall finally conclude my countdown posts to Series 7. I started by detailing my favourite and least favourite episodes of each series since the revival and last Sunday, I started detailing the monster and aliens that have appeared in each episode since the revival in a series by series format. So today's article is on the main aliens and monsters that appeared in Series 6.

Silence - The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon/The Wedding of River Song 

The Silence have to be the creepiest Doctor Who aliens ever! I loved Moffat's latest creation as they looked scary, they WERE scary and when they moved their arms just before they electrocuted somebody, that was very freaky! Absolutely loved these monsters and I loved how we actually had an alien that was part of the arc so appeared in many episodes of the series. 5/5

Siren - The Curse of the Black Spot 

The Siren was a great alien as it had a well thought out back story and the idea that it used reflection was clever as the setting of the episode was surrounded by water! The Siren looked good the song was creepy as it rose from the water... 4/5

House - The Doctor's Wife

Finally we had an entity that I liked! House was a great villain as it devours TARDISes, an idea which I thought was genius. Thanks to House we also managed to see more of the new TARDIS set and is definitely me favourite entity ever to feature in Doctor Who. 5/5

Flesh - The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People/A Good Man Goes To War

The Flesh story wasn't a favourite of mine but the Flesh did have some good points. The idea surrounding it was good but if you think about it, how can a solar storm make something that was never alive in the first place, alive? 2/5

Kovarian - Day of the Moon/The Curse of the Black Spot/The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People/A Good Man Goes To War/Closing Time/The Wedding of River Song 

The main villain of Series 6 was a clever idea and I loved the mystery as to why she kept on appearing before Amy, before her first proper story (A Good Man Goes To War). In the Battle of Demons Run, we were shown how evil she was as she didn't care about Amy's feelings and just took Melody from her. However, we were never told what happened to her in the current version of reality. 4/5

Teselecta - Let's Kill Hitler/The Wedding of River Song

The introduction of the Teselecta seemed a bit odd at the time of Let's Kill Hitler but I loved how they saved the Doctor from dying in The Wedding of River Song. The whole idea about them I loved just like the Doctor does, and I hope we are given another Teselecta story in the future as you could write a story with them in it surrounding any war event in the whole of time. 5/5

Peg Dolls - Night Terrors 

Don't even get me started on the worst Doctor Who monsters to ever be created. Just look at them and you will get my point! Mark Gatiss, bow your head in shame... 1/5





Handbots - The Girl Who Waited 

Despite their plain look, I quite liked the Handbots and the idea that they actually had human like hands was quite creepy but I was still reeling over the shocking monsters we had the previous week... 3/5






Minotaur - The God Complex 

The Minotaur was a pretty bad monster and this was the third week in a row we had had a fairly bad monster. The Minotaur looked weird and although the idea of The God Complex I liked, the Minotaur could have looked much better. 2/5

Cybermen - Closing Time

Although I loved Closing Time as as episode, I feel the Cybermen were pretty wasted in this episode. It wasn't like the Cybermen were on their last legs, we had been shown that there were Cyber Legions all across space earlier on in the series. That aside, I liked seeing the metal men again but I feel they were defeated in a pretty unsatisfying way. 3/5

And my favourite is...

The Silence

For all the reasons I stated above, the Silence were great monsters and more than deserve a comeback story in the future. I think we will as the legend does say that Silence will fall when the question is asked, so they must be there...

And my least favourite is...

Ped Dolls

Like I said above, don't even get me started on these monstrosities...

In Conclusion...

A series that started of excellent in the monster way of things but as of Episode 9, things went down hill so my final word has to be pretty average but had some of the most fantastic monsters I had seen in a while at the start.

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