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Here is a picture of the 'Silurians'.
Isn't that taking redesigning stuff too far! I don't mind the dalek redesign; but the "New Silurians" only have a similar head shape and colour, nothing like a Silurian.
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I thought they weren't 'Silurians'.
More like their distant cousins - like the Sea Devils. Moff keeps saying there are no 'Silurians' in his Doctor Who! But Neve Mackintosh is gorgeous without the scales - remember 'Gormenghast' or 'Hound of the Baskervilles' ? |
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Here is a picture of the 'Silurians'.
Isn't that taking redesigning stuff too far! I don't mind the dalek redesign; but the "New Silurians" only have a similar head shape and colour, nothing like a Silurian. ![]() |
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Here is a picture of the 'Silurians'.
Isn't that taking redesigning stuff too far! I don't mind the dalek redesign; but the "New Silurians" only have a similar head shape and colour, nothing like a Silurian. ![]() Quote:
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Daleks are substantially mechanical so can be redesigned to look like toasters and still be Daleks as long as they still hate other non-toasters lifeforms.
No different with Silurians. Moffat has said that these Silurians coming up are just a relation to the ones we've seen before (like the Sea Devils). If anything, these Silurians look more reptilian than the old ones, which were cool - but after 40 years looked like rubber suits and sounded like farts in a bath. ![]() They were still cool though
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They look pretty cooler with the masks on though, but where the heck is the third eye. And the main eyes are orange. Even though they are a different branch of the species, they should at least have the third eye.
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Daleks are substantially mechanical so can be redesigned to look like toasters and still be Daleks as long as they still hate other non-toasters lifeforms.
No different with Silurians. Moffat has said that these Silurians coming up are just a relation to the ones we've seen before (like the Sea Devils). If anything, these Silurians look more reptilian than the old ones, which were cool - but after 40 years looked like rubber suits and sounded like farts in a bath. ![]() They were still cool though ![]() |
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They look pretty cooler with the masks on though, but where the heck is the third eye. And the main eyes are orange. Even though they are a different branch of the species, they should at least have the third eye.
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Another Point; I was just on the Cyberman page on the Doctor who wiki, looking to find out the cybernetics company they used in the Invasion, and the New Cybermen looked a lot cooler than before I saw the new Silurians. Quote:
Pythons and cobras are both species of snakes but they don't look exactly the same so why should all branches of Silurians look exactly the same
Pythons and Cobras have basically the same shape, a large tube thingy. These new things only have a slight resemblance to the proper silurians. |
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Why not just make them primary coloured, fat hunchbacks aswell?
Thats what appeals to todays audience, surely? |
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They look like the demons in Angel
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Will we see a Myrka?
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Another Point; I was just on the Cyberman page on the Doctor who wiki, looking to find out the cybernetics company they used in the Invasion, and the New Cybermen looked a lot cooler than before I saw the new Silurians.
The Same Basic Design, Which is the thing at the top of the head which is Timelordy and the third eye. They have made the heads just green Graske things with no third eye. Pythons and Cobras have basically the same shape, a large tube thingy. These new things only have a slight resemblance to the proper silurians. |
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Pythons and cobras are both species of snakes but they don't look exactly the same so why should all branches of Silurians look exactly the same
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I thought we'd already been told several times (at least once from the actress playing the parts) that the creatures depicted so far are Silurian/Human rather than pure-blood Silurian hence the fact they resemble human form much more closely than Silurians we have seen previously.
Also, I had to smile at the concept that either the Silurians or Sea Devils in "Warriors of the Deep" looked even remotely "realistic", between the ridiculous flashing red third eye denoting Silurian speech and the mouth that stubbornly refused to move when the Sea Devil tried to talk...throw into the mix the fact that the Silurians actually refer to the Sea Devils by a name which wasn't coined until the original episode "The Sea Devils" (and then by humanity) it seems any kind of deep-rooted outrage over the evolution of these creatures is at best a little amusing. |
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I thought we'd already been told several times (at least once from the actress playing the parts) that the creatures depicted so far are Silurian/Human rather than pure-blood Silurian hence the fact they resemble human form much more closely than Silurians we have seen previously.
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While there's been lots of talk about them being a different branch of Earth Reptile I can't recall seeing anything which said they were a human/silurian hybrid.
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But the versions from the fifth Doctor still look quite realistic, and this just looks fake.
![]() Actually, from a design point of view, I'm glad they got rid of the third eye which could burn through walls! |
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![]() Actually, from a design point of view, I'm glad they got rid of the third eye which could burn through walls! Mind you...we still have only still pics to go on: who's to say the third eye isn't concealed under the prostethic? Perhaps we should reserve judgement until we've seen them before we march en masse with our "Save our Silurian" placards on Cardiff
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