Doctor Who: 10 Great Villains Who Were Badly Wasted

8. The Silence

A lot of people make a simple mistake about the Silence; those big creatures with the huge hands that look like Edvard Munch's The Scream, aren't actually the Silence. The Silence are a religion, these just happen to be creatures within that religion. We now know, after 'The Time of the Doctor', that these creatures are genetically-modified priests. All of this business with the organ grinders takes away from how brilliant the monkeys are; these creatures are terrifying, and yet most of Series 6 is dedicated to Madame Kovarian and her bonkers plan to kidnap children. We only saw what these things can really do in 'The Impossible Astronaut'/'The Day of the Moon', and even then, they were entirely overshadowed by all the other mysteries flying about the episode. Not that the episode wasn't great; it would just have been nice to see more of the Silent creatures. The Weeping Angels have had a fair crack of the whip, what about a story where some of these GM priests break away from the Silence to wreak havoc of their own?