The top 10 villains #4 The silence

My favorite series of doctor who in total is series 5 the first season of matt smith's run,and one of the main things that haunted you throughout it was one line that continued but was never answered.The single best example was when river in the tardis trying to figure out why it wasn't responding and an eerie crack appears in the monitor and one of the most sinister voices I've heard says one line.....

This Line just about drove every doctor who theorist insane as to what the silence meant.I still follow a theory involving the voice that After being treated as a prisoner davros created a new race to control the daleks but I'm getting ahead of myself.But in the two parter opening of series 6 the impossible astronaut and day of the moon we were given an answer.

Well it aint davros Unless he learned to walk and got uglier.....somehow

First of all the setup in brilliant and alone it deserves a spot for that.....were this a setup list.I wasn't sold at first but as things continued I started to love these guys just by the appearance.The formality of the suit and how simple and normal it looks offput by the seriously messed up face and hands of these creatures.Steve moffat said a bit of the appearance was inspired by the painting "The scream" and you can easily see it.But that was where these things started getting really cool.The concept for them is the reason they're here.Once you see them and look away you forget you ever saw them.

Oh also they shoot lightning but that's a bonus.

There is more though.They can also give subliminal messages when someone sees them because the act of memory erasure when looking away leaves a residual effect and allows them to effectively control every human on earth and think about this.As far as we know these creatures have been on earth until 1969 and for ages before so think about that.The doctor traveled before that and never once cought on to them because of their powers they may have literally influenced things in the doctor's past.I know the dalek invasion was erased from time but as far as we know that was all and I have a theory there too but that's for another time.

The silence aren't done yet in this season of doctor who starting back next week (With let's kill hitler.....I freaking love this show) so I'll give a little edit and possibly move the number of the silence after that but they had to deserve a spot just for existing and that says alot about the silence

 

EDIT: And after the wedding of river song I can do a full review on them......not that much really changed.While the actual name of the creatures is debatable being they're just members of the religious order called the silence. While I admit they were pretty sadistic to rory but really not much changed.Though they did do a nice fourth wall breakage calling rory the man who dies and dies again.

 

I am tempted to do a bit on kovarian the apparent leader of the silence but I really don't know that much other then she is one sadistic woman and with work she could become as big as the master or the daleks but not for a few seasons anyway.

 

Maybe in a few years I'll do a redo of the list to update it but for now the silence stays at number 4