Doctor Who Season 9: Difference between revisions

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The Doctor is lucky he doesn't get shot, barging into military installations as he does.
The Doctor is lucky he doesn't get shot, barging into military installations as he does.


So the "sea devils" name just came from one scared mumbling guy also saying things like "Monsters!" That's... a pretty poor source for a name we're still using 50 years later. The doctor says they're like the Silurians, but evolved to live underwater. So did the Silurians and "sea devils" cover the surface and underwater during the same period? These sea devils seem fine above water for at least short periods, though, which seems like a pretty big evolutionary advantage over Silurians which probably don't do as well underwater.}}
So the "sea devils" name just came from one scared mumbling guy also saying things like "Monsters!" That's... a pretty poor source for a name we're still using 50 years later. The doctor says they're like the Silurians, but evolved to live underwater. So did the Silurians and "sea devils" cover the surface and underwater during the same period? These sea devils seem fine above water for at least short periods, though, which seems like a pretty big evolutionary advantage over Silurians which probably don't do as well underwater.
 
An interesting difference from what the Master has done in the past is that at least Trenchard is not hypnotized. He's just... gullible enough to have been convinced the Master will do some good. So were they right about everyone there being mind-control-proof after all?
 
It seems a bit on the nose that the clothes the sea devils wear is basically... big fish nets.}}
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