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The Second Doctor thought the best way to describe the Great Intelligence was as a "formless, shapeless thing, floating out in space like a cloud of mist, only with a mind and will." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') Both Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and the Eleventh Doctor identified it as a mind parasite, whereas the Intelligence considered itself a mass of thoughts with a single thought. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') It once reflected on whether or not it remembered what its original body was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'') | The Second Doctor thought the best way to describe the Great Intelligence was as a "formless, shapeless thing, floating out in space like a cloud of mist, only with a mind and will." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') Both Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and the Eleventh Doctor identified it as a mind parasite, whereas the Intelligence considered itself a mass of thoughts with a single thought. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') It once reflected on whether or not it remembered what its original body was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (novelisation)|Downtime]]'') | ||
In all realities, the Intelligence constantly sought physical existence to replace being a shapeless, formless cloud hanging in space, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacies (short story)|Legacies]]'') eventually adopting Walter Simeon as a recurring avatar, speaking in that guise through a large wall-mounted video screen, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') modelling the | In all realities, the Intelligence constantly sought physical existence to replace being a shapeless, formless cloud hanging in space, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacies (short story)|Legacies]]'') eventually adopting Walter Simeon as a recurring avatar, speaking in that guise through a large wall-mounted video screen, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'') modelling the Whisper Men on Simeon's appearance, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') and appearing as Simeon to James Lethbridge-Stewart and Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Forgotten Son (novel)|The Forgotten Son]]'') | ||
[[File:Downtime balls.jpg|thumb|left|The control sphere pyramid. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'')]] | [[File:Downtime balls.jpg|thumb|left|The control sphere pyramid. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'')]] | ||
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In its many attempts to achieve form, the Intelligence tried to manifest as ice people based on the [[human]] form, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') and a slime that glowed brightly with a piercing light. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'') It also manifested as a dense fog that consumed anything entering it, and a poisonous fungus which spread through the London Underground. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') A fourth invasion of Earth had it trying to perpetuate itself in every machine and being, with the whole planet cocooned in web. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'') | In its many attempts to achieve form, the Intelligence tried to manifest as ice people based on the [[human]] form, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') and a slime that glowed brightly with a piercing light. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen]]'') It also manifested as a dense fog that consumed anything entering it, and a poisonous fungus which spread through the London Underground. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') A fourth invasion of Earth had it trying to perpetuate itself in every machine and being, with the whole planet cocooned in web. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Downtime (home video)|Downtime]]'') | ||
At the end of its life, the Intelligence had never found substance, but rather used the | At the end of its life, the Intelligence had never found substance, but rather used the Whisper Men, who appeared as [[face]]less [[humanoid]]s dressed just as Walter Simeon was when he died, to manifest in empty bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') The Whisper Men told [[Clarence DeMarco]] that they were a manifestation of the Intelligence when they revealed the location of the Doctor's tomb to him. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Clarence and the Whispermen (home video)|Clarence and the Whispermen]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||