45,860
edits
Great Intelligence: Difference between revisions
From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
m
→Biology and appearance
(Adding categories) |
|||
| Line 123: | Line 123: | ||
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 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 | 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]]'')]] | ||
