Howling:Silence in the Lodger

The ship on Craig's roof looked like a Silent ship. Also the body next to the controls could have been a Silent. It's ages since I saw the episode but perhaps this was foreshadowing the series 6 arc. Any thoughts? 94.72.209.209talk to me 11:05, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

aren't we already disscussing this topic in http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=Howling:Who_is_building_Tardis_Knock-Offs%3F&t=20111222075553 ? Imamadmad talk to me 11:52, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

I certainly thought that's what we were discussing there. It's what I was discussing there, at any rate. --89.240.240.49talk to me 15:09, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

However I think The Lodger deserves another discussion entirely. For instance, the body next to the controls and Amy acting weird in the TARDIS. Watch this video and observe Amy's expression. Obviously she's noticed something in the TARDIS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2E7KiFsKz8 94.72.209.209talk to me 18:56, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

The body next to the controls is roughly the same size and shape as an adult human but could be any species that fits that description. I'm not saying it couldn't have been a Silent, only that it could equally well have been something else entirely. Amy's expression could be the result of noticing something in the TARDIS but, again, other explanations are perfectly plausible. She's alone in a misbehaving TARDIS, getting rattled around and having a none-too-comforting conversation with the Doctor. The evidence in each case (body in ship, Amy's expression) is so ambiguous that all we can say is it doesn't rule out a Silent but doesn't positively indicate one, either. --89.240.240.49talk to me 02:46, December 30, 2011 (UTC)

PS: I ought to have said that I compared the YouTube video with the same scenes on the DVD and the oddities in Amy's expression look much less odd in their proper context -- i.e., when you see what else is happening at the time. --89.240.240.49talk to me 02:54, December 30, 2011 (UTC)

I haven't seen the episode in a while but I remember watching and being puzzled at Amy's expression, but thought nothing of it until I saw Series 6.on a completely different note, however, the ship, (I think) says that it has only tried 16 people on the console. Now considering the rate that the ship went through humans, using about one or two a day, that meant that it only started trying to take off just over a fortnight ago. Why did it start then? Was something hurrying it to take off? Could it be anything to do with the crack in Craig's wall that appeared that day? I think the Ship knew about the cracks - hence the urgency to leave the safety of Craig's roof. And who knows more about the cracks than a silent does? 94.72.209.160talk to me 21:39, December 30, 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure that the Silence know anything about the cracks. They probably didn't mean for the TARDIS explosion to destroy the entire universe. Maybe the ship had only been on the roof of Craig's house for a couple of weeks. The perception filter could just have made him forget that it hadn't always been there.Icecreamdif talk to me 08:46, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

Do we even know for definite the Silence did explode the Tardis? That vice that said "silence will fall" didn't sound like a silent. 94.72.209.160talk to me 13:21, December 31, 2011 (UTC)

We don't know for sure, but apart from the voice, that theory works better than any other theory.Icecreamdif talk to me 20:40, January 1, 2012 (UTC)

That the voice wasn't (as far as we can tell) a Silent -- the Munch-Scream aliens -- doesn't mean it wasn't one of the Silence -- the organisation. We know that organisation includes more than one species. --2.96.23.109talk to me 15:45, January 2, 2012 (UTC)

It sounded like Omegaa to me. Don't know why it just did. 178.78.81.210talk to me 16:37, January 2, 2012 (UTC)

Wishful thinking, that's why. --89.242.79.21talk to me 17:02, January 2, 2012 (UTC)

He didn't really sound much like Omega to me. Besides, didn't Omega disintegrate or something in Arc of Infinity? We all know that Doctor Who enemies never come back after they have died on screen. Besides, if anything the voice sounded like Davros, but it probably isn't him either.Icecreamdif talk to me 20:51, January 2, 2012 (UTC)

So are we going to assume it was a silent, or a member of the silence who we havent met yet? 178.78.81.210talk to me 22:13, January 2, 2012 (UTC)

Why not assume we don't really know who it was? -- not yet, anyway. The voice didn't sound like a Silent. It didn't sound so obviously like any individual we know of to be conclusive: not Omega, not Davros. There are also wilder possibilities. As an example that I do not intend to be taken seriously, it conceivably could be a regenerated (hence different-sounding) Rassilon. In the circumstances, leaving the question in the "pending" file seems like the only sensible course. --89.241.74.47talk to me 01:23, January 3, 2012 (UTC)