Howling:The Silence's war against the Doctor

The Howling → The Silence's war against the Doctor

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In A Good Man Goes to War, Madame Kovarian describes the conflict between the Doctor and the Silence as an "endless, bitter war." It's been suggested that this war could go all the way back to the Doctor's first incarnation, but due to the memory-defying abilities of the Silents, he doesn't remember it. What events that occured in the classic series could have been instigated by the Silence to get the Doctor out of the way? 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 23:19, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

When people see the Silence, they usually get some kind of memory of previous encounters with them, so the Doctor probably never directly faced the Silence in the past. However, given their powers of post-hypnotic suggestion, they could be responsible for pretty much any of the enemies in past episodes.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 23:40, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

Maybe the Doctor hasn't had these previous encounters with the Silence yet? The man's a time traveller. 94.72.208.131^{talk to me} 12:26, April 2, 2012 (UTC)

Well, I theorise that they might have influenced Queen Elizabeth I's decision to declare the Doctor an enemy, in the hopes that she would capture him and have him beheaded. Possibly even earlier, they may have prompted Marco Polo to try and give the TARDIS to Kublai Khan, as without the TARDIS, the Doctor would be stranded. Perhaps they even had something to do with the Second Doctor ending up in the Land of Fiction in The Mind Robber? 194.168.208.42^{talk to me} 13:03, April 2, 2012 (UTC)