I don't think that's fair at all. The Silurians were a good design. They may have been limited by the budget and techniques of the time, but looked good enough that your suspension of disbelief wasn't broken. Rather than just monsters, they were sympathetic characters, and the design helped establish this.Come on now. It's not as if the Silurians looked good before. You don't want them to deviate from what's been established decades ago, fine, but the problem here is not that the new Silurians look "bloody awful". That would be consistent.Well you can't really blame someone on a DW discussion forum for complaining when they take classic villains and make them look bloody awful.
Yeah, but not only is this so far removed from the original design that it bears practically no resemblance, it's also comparatively rubbish. Yeah, the scales might looks more scaly, but the design itself is rubbish. Clearly a human face.File it under Klingons, Romulans and other shape shifted but no one noticed aliens.
Actually, mine was. I really like "Doctor Who and the Silurians", but I find that design quite silly-looking. Considering how much time I spend in the theater, you have to trust me when I tell you that I wouldn't mind if Doctor Who monsters were just portrayed by sock puppets and light effects. But I have no misplaced nostalgia for Silurians, Zygons or Alpha Centaurans.I don't think that's fair at all. The Silurians were a good design. They may have been limited by the budget and techniques of the time, but looked good enough that your suspension of disbelief wasn't broken.
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