The first silly questions post of the year!

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

1. Which kind of Daleks would you be most terrified of should you happen to bump into them, say, in the post office or at the hairdressers?

2. In a four-way fight between a Dalek, a Cyberman, a Weeping Angel and one of those Silence aliens, who wins?

3. Seriously, though.... is it just me, or is the text on the front page of this community ridiculously small? Anyone else feel the design needs changing?

4. There are 6 episodes due to be shown before Christmas, which leaves about 28 weeks until the new season starts. Coincidentally, there are 28 episodes to date in the Eleventh Doctor era. Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

Comments

[welshgirl15.livejournal.com]

1) The ones that can hover, I can't escape upstairs!
2) The Silence hands down. Cybermen don't blink so they'll take out the Weeping Angels!
3) Seems fine to me :)
4) Yay!! BBC Three are rerunning all series so hopefully they'll include Eleven episodes :D

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't think about Cybermen not blinking. You think they'd go and pick a fight with the Weeping Angels, that would cheer them up after all their humiliating defeats.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

Not actually an answer, but your #2 makes me think about how the Silence and the Weeping Angels are both kind of the same (in that you have to keep them in sight) and complete opposites (in that the Silence are really only a direct danger to you when you can see them; the Silence are defined by their absence, the sudden appearance of black tick marks, while the Weeping Angels are defined by their presence in these statues you dare not look away from. You can never *really* know when you're out of the presence of the Silence, but you can pretty much let your guard down when there are no weeping angels around.)

And then that led me to think about how they're the opposite of Medusa/Gorgons or the basilisk, from which you have to look away--and what this says about the difference between 21st Century UK and Ancient Greece. I don't really know about Ancient Greece, but the obvious thing that comes to mind about the Weeping Angels and the Silence is the surveillance society and counter-terrorism which drill into our heads the necessity of watchfulness, of constant vigilance.

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

Haven't really thought this through 100% so apologies if it doesn't make sense, but the way I see it, a lot of those Greek myths were about people being put in danger by their moral failings. The themes are along the lines of "be a bit more humble" or "do what you're told." Thinking specifically here about Medusa (don't look, oops too late) and the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (don't look back, oh now look what you've done). The message is "your moral weakness will get you in trouble."

What Doctor Who does at its best is putting people in danger not because of moral failings but because of human failings. You can't realistically spend the rest of your life not blinking, you can't do anything about the fact that human memory is an elusive thing, you can't tell the difference between an auton and a human... the message is less judgemental than that of Greek myths (it doesn't matter how good you are, because they'll get you anway) and more bleak (moral fortitude won't save you).

I think that's why the Weeping Angels scare me and the others don't. You can't not blink. Especially if someone tells you not to.

[rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com]

I think that's why the Weeping Angels scare me and the others don't. You can't not blink. Especially if someone tells you not to.

As soon as I read the word "blink" in this paragraph, what do you think I did? lol

I think blinking and memory loss are better than things you can't help/do anything about. They're things you have incomplete control over. You can *try really hard* and affect the outcome, but ultimately you can't do it completely. They feel like failings in a way that, say "stop your fingernails from growing" doesn't.

[goldvermilion87.livejournal.com]

1. Not good enough with older Doctor Who... but despite the horrendousness of the episode, I thought the Daleks in "Daleks in Manhattan" were pretty creepy.

2. Weeping Angel. Do you need to ask?

3. Rubbish with html. Sorry.

4. I WOULD WATCHALONG!

[randomgirl666.livejournal.com]

2. Weeping Angel. Do you need to ask?

But do Daleks and Cybermen blink?

3. Rubbish with html. Sorry.

Me too. I won't be doing any html, I'll just be swapping this skin for another (Myspace-stylee) if people think it's not easy to read.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

But do Daleks and Cybermen blink?

I'd imagine the mutant inside of the Dalek would blink. IIRC, the eye blinked when we saw the mutant in "Dalek". Someone above mentioned that Cybermen don't blink. With the Silence having the advantage of being forgotten so quickly, they'd definitely be the winner.