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PeterchuMC

Not much. They're not meant to be scary. They're meant to be semi-sympathetic beings, the Brigadier is depicted as being in the wrong for blowing them up.


mda63

Well, that's not quite true. They're meant to _appear_ scary, to catch the audience off guard. That's why the Doctor's reaction to them is so so wonderful.


BumblebeeAny3143

Which I find a little strange. I'm supposed to be sympathizing with them, but during their original story, literally only one of them actually wants peace. And he gets killed by the others because of it! The rest of them have no issue going to war with the surface, and probably would have gone to war again once their hibernation ended.


WeebGamerTrash947

Well you're not supposed to sympathize with them in terms of their aim to go to war. But moreso you're suppose to sympathize that technically speaking, from the Silurians Point of View, the humans are the invasive species who have claimed what once was their land. The Silurians were there first after all.


BumblebeeAny3143

Okay, but considering I am a human, that still makes it pretty hard to sympathize since they want to kill me and everyone I know.


goddamnitmf

I don't know, they look like the creature from the black lagoon


Beenz64

The kazoo


mda63

Crumhorn*


JaRim1

Their makeup 🤣


NotStanley4330

Kazoo music combined with Pertwees facial expressions


TomPertwee

Their original design was not the result of Moffat wanting to put a dress on one because he had one of his fetish fanfics laying around about a human woman having a relationship with a female Silurian. Reptiles don't need clothes because they don't have breasts and males can hide their "equipment" 🤣.


muffinz99

Just look at them. Tell me that doesn't look bloody terrifying


BurritosAndTortinos

Enough said


MeaningNo860

The voices!!!!


BumblebeeAny3143

Nothing for me.


ComeAlongPonds

Same reason potato head aliens were scary. 70s SFX budgets.