Thirty Days of Doctor Who: Day Fourteen

Day 14 – The Villain Who Scared You the Most

Easiest question to answer to far - the Krynoid. The Seeds of Doom episode four is the first Doctor Who I remember seeing as a child. Not only did I flee half way through, I was put off the show for my entire childhood. Even into my teens I would leave the room whenever I heard the theme song. (Yes, there is a certain irony there.)

It's not the fifty-foot tall monster towering over the mansion that scared me, but the seed pod and what it did to its human victims. To this day, it's one of the most frightening concepts in series history. It's the same thing that's scary about the Cybermen or the gasmask zombies, only in some ways its even worse because of the way the Kryoid co-opts the local plants and wants nothing more than to destroy all animal life, everywhere.

Because of my early exposure, not even the Weeping Angels will ever match Keeler's transformation for sheer horror as far as I'm concerned.

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