Question: Favorite Series Four Baddie?
The question this week relates to the bad elements of Doctor Who series four. Which was your favorite baddie in series four? As I was making my usual list, which you will find below, I discovered an interesting fact. Humans were at least partially involved in the badness a couple of times in this series, and in one notable case, were the baddies. So, go ahead. Consult the list I’ve compiled for you and tell me which baddie you preferred from series four. (My apologies to the folks in Australia who are still watching the series. This will be spoilery.)
The Bad and the Ugly:
1. Miss Foster (and perhaps the Adipose)
2. The Pyrovile
3. The Humans from Ood Operations
4. Sontarans
5. The Soldiers from The Doctor’s Daughter (And specifically the leader of the Humans)
6. The Vespiform
7. Vashta Nerada
8. The mysterious Shadow that takes over Sky Silvestry
9. The Time Beetle
10. Davros & The Daleks
Once again this year, I’m choosing Steven Moffat’s new baddie. As if it’s not bad enough that he’s already made us afraid of statues and blinking, now he’s given us reason to look suspiciously at dust motes too. I choose the Vashta Nerada as my favorite baddies from series four. The whole concept was dead clever. I’m betting that we encounter them in some form or other in the future. Especially considering that Steven Moffat is soon to take over Head Writer duties.
Which did you choose?
Doctor Who, baddie, Vashta Nerada
August 5th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Weren’t the Vashta Nerada hinted at in “Love and Monsters”? The narrator’s mother was killed by a mysterious shadow. She wasn’t eaten down to the bones like the victims / chicken legs in this series but I figure on Earth they probably were better fed.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:23 am
While they weren’t technically ‘baddies’ I reckon the people in the train episode (forgive me for not knowing the episode name) were pretty darn good. It’s always a big scarily fascinating to see the darker side of human nature.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:25 am
Sarah, I tried to look that up for verification, but my favorite transcript site is down currently. It seems to me that Elton’s Mum was killed by a Shade from someplace in particular, though.
JM, they totally freaked me out.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I vote for the Vashta Nerada. They were terrifying in a way that is basic to all human beings. We’re all at least slightly afraid of the dark, and when the Doctor said we were right I shivered and curled up tighter with my hubby.
Very well written.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I was right there with you, Annie. *shiver* I will never look at dust motes in the same way again.