The big issue of the Silence is we still don't know what their plan was. They have been doing some weird dodgy stuff we don't yet understand: 1. Puppeteering the human race for millenia 2. Killing Joy 3. Destroying Saturnyne (assuming Rosita wasn't lying) 4. Keeping a little girl in a space suit as an immune system (it is unclear if she recquired it or just gained a dependence) 5. Kidnapping Amy
The Silence who talks to Amy may have been a rogue, as it apparently kills without reason but seems to want to help Amy.
Whilst the captured Silence appears to believe that they are doing something wrong as he actually says "You should kill us all on sight", not "Leave us alone, we are not interested in Humanity".
One final point is the Doctor doesn't actually commit Genocide. A massacre, yes, but we know a) they exist on other worlds, like Saturnyne b) they are still managing to hang around Earth in the 21st Century.
The puppeteering seems to have been mutually beneficial so both them and us gained something from it
We don't know that. We are only told the Silence encouraged humans to go to the moon because they needed the technology (assuming the Doctor is even right about this). That's just one example. They could also have encouraged us to have lots of wars as wars produce new technology at an accelerated rate. The point is that humans were being controlled. If something has that kind of power over you it can use you however it likes.
Also what is scary looking is not an absolute truth. The Silence with their Munch's Scream-like face would strike most people as creepy. But the Silence have been manipulating humans for millennia, they could have just adjusted our collective consciousness to perceive these as non-threatening. After all humans can act against the Silence as long as they are looking at them.
I did wonder if they existed elsewhere, it seems logical they did. It also seems reasonable they could still exist that long (after all there's plenty of remote places and humans that don't have tv's) but the problem comes that any member of the Silence, even peaceful ones, now risk death from most humans.
Well the effect of "Neil Armstrong's foot" only seems to be short term, otherwise Amy, Rory and River would all have gone psycho earlier. So as long as they know to keep away from TV sets or check scheduling they could hang about pretty fine, or even just keep to the underground and in abandonded buildings as they were before.
I have been wondering if there are loads of Silence behind the Iron Curtain at this point. If we assume the whole space race was part of their plan then the would have been fine there for years as the footage would not have been broadcast IIRC.
I don't think it's temporary. I think it's a matter of a paradox... in a sense. Amy, River, and Rory are the CATALYSTS for the Doctor going back in time and thus finding out about the Silence and causing the altered moon footage. In fact, the Doctor insinuates it is not remotely short term, as he says that generations and generations of humans will venture amongst the stars but that they will all go back to look at that one moment. In other words, the Doctor did in fact make it utterly impossible for the humans and the Silence to ever co-exist... not that we REALLY could have anyway. I mean, you don't co-exist with someone you don't remember when you look away. You do technically but you don't KNOW you are
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1. Puppeteering the human race for millenia
2. Killing Joy
3. Destroying Saturnyne (assuming Rosita wasn't lying)
4. Keeping a little girl in a space suit as an immune system (it is unclear if she recquired it or just gained a dependence)
5. Kidnapping Amy
The Silence who talks to Amy may have been a rogue, as it apparently kills without reason but seems to want to help Amy.
Whilst the captured Silence appears to believe that they are doing something wrong as he actually says "You should kill us all on sight", not "Leave us alone, we are not interested in Humanity".
One final point is the Doctor doesn't actually commit Genocide. A massacre, yes, but we know a) they exist on other worlds, like Saturnyne b) they are still managing to hang around Earth in the 21st Century.
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We don't know that. We are only told the Silence encouraged humans to go to the moon because they needed the technology (assuming the Doctor is even right about this). That's just one example. They could also have encouraged us to have lots of wars as wars produce new technology at an accelerated rate. The point is that humans were being controlled. If something has that kind of power over you it can use you however it likes.
Also what is scary looking is not an absolute truth. The Silence with their Munch's Scream-like face would strike most people as creepy. But the Silence have been manipulating humans for millennia, they could have just adjusted our collective consciousness to perceive these as non-threatening. After all humans can act against the Silence as long as they are looking at them.
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Well the effect of "Neil Armstrong's foot" only seems to be short term, otherwise Amy, Rory and River would all have gone psycho earlier. So as long as they know to keep away from TV sets or check scheduling they could hang about pretty fine, or even just keep to the underground and in abandonded buildings as they were before.
I have been wondering if there are loads of Silence behind the Iron Curtain at this point. If we assume the whole space race was part of their plan then the would have been fine there for years as the footage would not have been broadcast IIRC.
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