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The Silence are a fictional religious order in the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'', represented by humanoids with alien-like physical characteristics. Executive producer Steven Moffat created the Silence, intending them to be scarier than past villains in ''Doctor Who''. Though the phrase "Silence will fall" recurred throughout the 2010 series of ''Doctor Who'', the Silence were not seen until the 2011 series' opener "The Impossible Astronaut". Their origins are eventually revealed in the 2013 special "The Time of the Doctor". In creating the Silence shown in "The Impossible Astronaut", Moffat drew inspiration from Edvard Munch's 1893 expressionist painting ''The Scream'' as well as the Men in Black. The Silence continues Moffat's trend of using simple psychological concepts to make his monsters more frightening. In this case of the Silence, their existence is a secret because anyone who sees them immediately forgets about them after looking away, but retains suggestions made to them by the Silence. This allows them to have a pervasive influence across human history while being difficult to locate or resist. ==Creation== Producer Steven Moffat created the Silence, suggesting their level of scariness would compete with other ''Doctor Who'' adversaries from previous episodes. Actor Matt Smith, who portrays the Eleventh Doctor, called these aliens "the scariest monsters in the Show's history" and Karen Gillan, who portrays the Doctor's companion Amy Pond, commented that the Silence could "rival the Weeping Angels in terms of scariness". The Silence shown in "The Impossible Astronaut" are depicted as tall humanoids with bulbous heads and mouthless, bony faces, partly inspired by Edvard Munch's ''The Scream''. Their eyes are sunken within their sockets and the skin of their cheeks stretches to the point of their narrow chins. Their large, shrivelled hands resemble a human hand except where the ring and middle fingers would be is a large flipper-like finger. They speak in low, guttural voices though they have no apparent mouths. Aliens affiliated with The Silence seen to date in the series have been dressed in black business suits with an unusual texture. According to Steven Moffat, their resemblance to Munch's ''The Scream'' is not coincidental: although humans are not consciously aware of their existence, a "subconscious awareness" of the Silence manifests in such works. They are also partly inspired by mythological figures known as "men in black" that became popular amongst UFO conspiracy theorists during the 1950s and 60s,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Silence )〕 as well as grey aliens. They also share some similarities to the "Slender Man" fictional character created in 2009. The four-fingered hands of the Silence, with one finger much longer than the other, was inspired by the aye-aye lemur.〔 Reviewers have noted that, in creating the Silence seen in "The Impossible Astronaut", Moffat again uses a psychological gimmick.〔〔 The Silence are perceived only while being viewed; they are instantly forgotten once a viewer looks away. To keep track of their encounters with the Silence, ''Doctor Who''s characters mark tallies on their bodies or use audio-recorder devices embedded in their hands to let them know if they have seen the Silence. These Silence also use an energy discharge from their hands to displace someone, leaving behind only debris. While absorbing and discharging this energy, a depression appears where one would expect a mouth to be. The Doctor believed they had humanity go to the moon simply to create a spacesuit for their needs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silence (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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