Talk:Silver Doctor

How did Silver Doctor look?
First off, thanks to DENCH-and-PALMER for creating the page. I'm working on this story but it's taking time because, unfortunately, nothing is easy (or what it seams) about The Silver Turk. It took me ages (and two listens) to even persuade myself that the Silver Doctor is a separate entity from the other puppet of the Doctor from the story. In the process of this persuasion, I started questioning everything.

So how do we know the Silver Doctor looks like the Eighth Doctor? We are not given any description of the Silver Doctor's appearance, just his voice. Is it safe to assume that he looks like the Doctor because he is called "Doctor" and has the Doctor's voice? It's tempting, but I now think it is a speculation.

Moreover, I have reasons to believe that it is not true. You see, why is he called "silver"? The Silver Turk was "silver" because he was made of metal, because he looked silver. Most probably, the Silver Doctor is also made of metal. (For the record, it is also a speculation, not to be put on the page itself.) Previously, Stahlbaum was not able to make new legs for the Silver Turk. There is no reason to believe that the Silver Doctor can walk: dancing is missing from the list of his skills. I find it likely, or at least as likely as other alternatives, that Stahlbaum has tried to reproduce his success with the Turk, creating something similar. The Turk was wearing a mask covering his Cyberman face. In a way, there is no reason why the Silver Doctor even has a face other than a mask.

But speculations aside, we just don't know. So I don't think this should be put into puppets of the Doctor category or lookalikes of the Doctor category, maybe soundalike of the Doctor, if such a category exists.

But, as pointed out by Skittles the hog, categories are needed. The least speculative I could come up with was Category:Individual androids. I'm not sure how developed an automaton must be to be called an android. And we have no idea how developed this one is. But it seems the safest of speculations to me.