Yes. Doesn't mean that they're evil. They just participated in imprisoning the Doctor, as it was the best thing for the universe.
Villains you'd prefer not to see again
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They are akin to mercenaries and have a very small brain (TARDIS wikia) so what is the best thing for the universe depends on who's paying them.
Weeping CyberAngels?
Considering we haven't had a Weeping Angel episode in six years, I'd say it's already been "a while."
I'd rather not see any Weeping Angels for quite some time, nor Cybermen (I don't think nuWho does them right), nor Sontarans (nuWho DEFINITELY does not do them right), but I wouldn't mind seeing some more good Ice Warrior episodes, and I would love to see a modern imagining of Drashigs!
Huh, that's an interesting note. For me, I really love both "Cold War" and "Empress of Mars" (especially the former), whereas I largely don't like most of the Ice Warrior serials, especially the Peladon stories (although I did like how they were used in those two stories).
Has it been so long ago? Wow...didn´t feel like that. Passage of time seems all wobbly for me where DW is involved. ;-)
Actually, there were no Weeping Angels in Day of the Doctor. I think you meant to say Time of the Doctor. However, the actual last time a Weeping Angel was seen was Hell Bent, so about three years ago. Or two and a half, it was December, after all.
However, the Angels only really had one scene each in Hell Bent and Time of the Doctor, while The Angels Take Manhattan in 2012 was the last episode actually about the Angels.
I quickly tired of RTD doing one big Dalek 2-parter every season. Moffat was at least a bit more judicious in his use of them. Many of the Dalek appearances during his run were either brief cameos ("The Wedding of River Song," "The Pilot," "Twice Upon a Time") or were cramming them into overstuffed episodes with other villains ("The Pandorica Opens," "The Big Bang," "The Day of the Doctor," "The Time of the Doctor"). However, even the few Dalek-centric episodes he did tended to not be very good:
"Victory of the Daleks"-- A few interesting ideas but a little stiff in places. And the new design was terrible.
"Asylum of the Daleks"-- Not nearly as scary as the title implies.
"Into the Dalek"-- One of the worst lets-make-Capaldi's-Doctor-a-jerk episodes from Season 8. The part at the end where he doesn't take Journey Blue with them still pisses me off!
"The Magician's Apprentice"-- The opening teaser is cool but most of the rest is filler or continuity porn. It's also inexcusable that Kate Stewart didn't have Missy killed the first time she killed one of the UNIT guards.
"The Witch's Familiar"-- Davros & Missy are both really good in this but the Daleks don't get an awful lot to do.
I can understand being a fan of the Cybermen. I think they're way more interesting than the Daleks, who tend to get exaggerated to cartoon levels.
Which was basically how it was during the latter half of the classic series from Tom Baker-Sylvester McCoy. Granted, Tom Baker got 2 Dalek stories but I think we can excuse that considering how long his run was.
Personally I can do without the Daleks for some time, but I'd love to have a return of Maxil
I think he should have been one of the Time Lords in the War Room in "The Day of the Doctor." Have him be some kind of corpulent Herman Goering type with a uniform covered in a bunch of unearned medals. (Then, when we get to the part where all of the Doctors show up, have him look at the 6th Doctor and incredulously exclaim, "What the? He stole my face!")
I thought the Zygons were actually pretty well used in "The Day of the Doctor" and "The Zygon Invasion"/"The Zygon Inversion." They did a great job of utilizing their shapeshifting abilities. I'm not sure how much gas they have left in the tank after that but they were quite well used in their 2 new series appearances.
Another idea cribbed from the excellent 7th Doctor novel "Loving the Alien." (Basically, a mad scientist's experiments with time travel create multiple parallel realities and pretty much all of them end in dystopian futures where humanity evolves into Cybermen.)
Personally, I loved Missy and I wish they'd used her better in Season 10. The bit at the beginning of "World Enough & Time" where she's pretending to be the Doctor should have been an entire episode. (Maybe it ends with her saving the day but doing it in an ambiguous, Master-ish way that the Doctor never would have thought of, so they're still not entirely sure if they can trust her.)
Weeping Angels vs. the Silence! A race that can't move unless you're not looking at them against a race that you can't remember unless you're looking at them.
Personally, I'd like to see nuWho get another crack at a proper Sontaran story. We haven't gotten one of those since "The Poison Sky." Everything else has been either brief cameos or just Strax. Maybe give us a more full scale view of their war with the Rutans. It would also give us our first look at the Rutans since "Horror of Fang Rock."
And when are they going to bring back the Ogrons or the Draconians?!?
Correct. I was thinking Time of the Doctor when I wrote that.
Yes! And while we're at it, the Nimons, too. Name checking them in "The God Complex" isn't enough. Also, the Sensorites and likewise name checking them in "Planet of the Ood" isn't good enough.
Bring back the Gravis or GTFO.
I'll also settle for the Garm.
I'll also settle for the Garm.
Mind. Descending. Into. Gutter. Must.... resissssstttt.....
Oh fuck it. I'll be in my bunk.
Only if the Doctor mercilessly vaporizes them on sight.
Now the OGRI, however... given a decent SFX budget, a mobile boulder that can suck the lifeforce out of humans could be a decent threat in the right setting (medieval, perhaps?)...
What about the giant Gastropods from The Twin Dilemma? Or the Tythonians like Erato from The Creature from the Pit?
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