Judge a Doctor by the lifeforms he meets.
2 choices.

There are a lot of Doctor Who villains that are great. Some are simply awesome concepts, like the "Vashta Narada"---who are never seen but live in all shadows and on some planets, are so aggressive that they can devour the flesh off a human in a nanosecond. Kind of like shadow piranhas. Also the Silence and the Weeping Angels are just fantastic concepts as well, thanks to the Moff.

Then you've monsters who are just so well designed that it's a treat just to see them in action. Zygons, Draconians, Judoon, the list goes on.

And then you've got those magnificent alien species whose main plan is to conquer the universe in their own particular style, like the Cybermen, The Ice Warriors, Sontarans, etc.

I voted for the Daleks because they kind of touch on all these bases.

Never looked at the sea the same way after the Sea Devils

The Daleks, followed in a close second by The Weeping Angels(a classic monster followed by a modern monster, hmmm......)

Don't blink.

I like Lala Ward's answer to this question.

Tom Baker.

I was going to start a new thread, but maybe I'd better post it here. My sister and brother-in-law left a Christmas angel decoration downstairs. It's just sitting in the TV room, not far from my bedroom. Anyway, I noticed the other day that it had moved somewhat and there was a note next to it:



So I decided to get a little closer...



Still couldn't quite read the note.



NOW I can read it!



Wait a second. The angel is now out of view of the camera. Where did it go?

Only people here at IMWAN would get the joke. I don't think my hamily has even noticed the note, much more the angel.

Well they need to pay attention, those angels are dangerous!

BTW, I'm watching the epidodes on DVR with "The Silence" villains, and there's a big continuity mistake at the beginning of "Day of the Moon". Rory Williams is captured on top of Hoover Dam by FBI agents. It's 1969. So how the hell could THIS bridge be seen in plain sight from the dam?



I can understand the desire not to digitally erase such a gorgeous bridge and an engineering marvel, but it shouldn't have existed when Rory was captured.

"So analytical. Sometimes you have to let art... flow over you."

Alernate Earth.

Well, in our timeline Wikipedia explains that federal officials talked about the need for a new bridge in the 1960's, but it kept getting kicked down the road with study after study (neither Nevada nor Arizona were keen on paying for it) until 9/11 finally forced vehicular traffic off the Hoover Dam and they finally started work on building a bridge.

It could be that in the timeline the Doctor visited, they actually built that bridge in 1967 or 1968 instead of 2010.

Never mind what I said about that bridge. They could have showed Nationals Park and this is still a brilliant episode...and I haven't finished watching it yet!

It's a brilliant touch that...

For some reason the Sontarans always appealed to me.
Still don't know why they don't build in a 90-degree turn vent in their battlesuits.

I don't think their *heads* are able to turn that way! They're just one, big muscle....

If they can build a spaceship, they can make a 90-degree bend in a small air pipe.

Actually, it turns out that the producers of Dr. Who had an easier way of explaining the existance of a bridge forty some years ago in the past. Rory wasn't captured at the Hoover Dam but the fictional "Glen Canyon Dam."

+1. I love the Judoon. And Moffatt is very good at inventing high-concept evil aliens.

Zygons.

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