Two Classic Monsters May Return on DOCTOR WHO Season Seven

Two Classic Monsters May Return on DOCTOR WHO Season Seven

A user over at the Gallifrey Base Forum posted an interesting commentary regarding the possible return of a classic monster from the 1960s. Hit the jump for more.

By LucasMend - Jan 10, 2012 08:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Gallifrey Base Forum



The producer of the show, Marcus Wilson, recently revealed on the Doctor Who Magazine that we will see two classic monsters returning on the next season of the show. One of them may be the Daleks or the Cybermen, but we all wonder what the other monster will be. According to the user The Doctors Trainers in the Gallifrey Base Forum, one of the two monsters will be the Yeti and their controller, the Great Intelligence, which appeared in several episodes of the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, in the 1960s.

Hello everyone
Long time no post I know. Yes, River is v likely to be back next series. Pretty much a done deal. Also back is a classic series monster in the form of the Yeti.


Here's a brief description on the Yeti:

The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another dimension, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.
The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor's second incarnation, played by Patrick Troughton, in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in The Five Doctors.








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Frogman
Frogman - 1/10/2012, 9:41 AM
How about not using the Daleks or Cybermen? There are so many other villains they could update.
loganoneil
loganoneil - 1/10/2012, 10:06 AM
I realize Moffat has a hard-on for the early part of the classic series (which is probably WHY he's tailored his vision to closely resemble it - to include pandering EXCLUSIVELY to little kids and dumbing-down the plots), but I think we've had enough silliness Steven! C'mon, 'Skittles'-colored Daleks?! Plot-holes the size of Mack trucks?! If anything, I'd like to see the Draconians (they DID have an empire that rivaled humans, or so the storyline went), not pudgy robot-Wookies!
AC1
AC1 - 1/10/2012, 11:07 AM
@loganoneil aimed at kids and dumbed-down plots? Sorry, but I couldn't disagree with you more if I tried. Steven Moffat is one of the most intelligent, creative writers working for the BBC. His reinvention of Doctor Who since Russell T Davies left the series has been a brilliant, fresh and intelligent take on the show. Sure, some of it has been targeted toward children (more-so than it was from 2005-2010) but that doesn't make it any less intelligent or serious.

I really loved the Russell T Davies era, but I think Moffat really has trumped the older version with his new one. His first series was certainly better than the most recent one, there's no denying that, but both have featured some brilliant storytelling. The example that springs to mind of some of the more intelligent things Moffat's brought to the series is how he handled the series 5 finale 'The Big Bang', connecting it to all the other episodes in very clever ways. Everyone thought they were picking up plot-holes and continuity errors throughout that series, and then in the final episode we see that in fact it was all intentional, that it was all based on factors from the finale (such as the Doctor's jacket disappearing for a scene half way through the series, only for it to be revealed that it was a different Doctor who'd traveled back in time, and other similar things revealed in the same episode)

Sorry if that came across a bit strong, but I don't think that homages to the classic version can be a bad thing and I don't think it damages the integrity of the series at all. Although I do agree, there are much better villains/aliens from the classic series that could be redesigned for the current version, especially the Mondas Cybermen and the Ice Warriors!
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