# Doctor Who 7x13: Nightmare In Silver **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114 "2013-05-12T00:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/61 "2013-05-15T21:26:32Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > God I miss Tennant & RTD. > I wanted to like this one but the kids had _no purpose at all_ except to be annoying. I don’t know if it was because BBC-America showed it with commercials, but it felt very disjointed and seemed like I kept missing scenes. I don’t freaking care one bit about the mystery behind Clara! Why can’t the companion just be a companion? Why does Moffet have to always make the show about finding out some big secret about the companion? Why was she suddenly this great commander who spoke all her lines like she had trained half her life in the military? > > I hate the Cybermen. > > And oh great, next week is the return of the Sontaran & Lizard woman investigation team. :rolleyes: It feels like Moffet is trying so hard to \*force \*the audience into liking something. Except for the dislike for Vastra and Strax, whom I rather like, I completely concur. Especially with the “mystery companion” stuff. First Amy, now Clara - enough already! I wonder if this is why so many of us rate Donna as our favorite companion? She wasn’t in love with the Doctor, she wasn’t intimidated by him, and she wasn’t a puzzle to be solved; she was just a smart, snarky woman who traveled with him and gave him shit when it was called for. _And_ had a badass grandfather. God, I miss her… ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/62 "2013-05-16T07:58:40Z")
Once they saw Herrick, they really should have just packed up and gotten out of there. Bad things happen when Herrick is around. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/63 "2013-05-16T10:42:27Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Once they saw Herrick, they really should have just packed up and gotten out of there. Bad things happen when Herrick is around. Glad it wasn’t just me that thought that. I’m not sure I would have been quite so creeped out by him if I hadn’t seen him in _Being Human_ first. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/64 "2013-05-16T13:06:57Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > Once they saw Herrick, they really should have just packed up and gotten out of there. Bad things happen when Herrick is around. THANK YOU! I couldn’t place him, and it was really, really bugging me. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/65 "2013-05-16T14:29:40Z")
Who is Herrick? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/66 "2013-05-16T14:38:24Z")
Herrick is the name of a character from the show Being Human played by Jason Watkins who played Webley in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/67 "2013-05-16T15:00:10Z")
And Herrick (the character) was a really nasty piece of work. As in “smile and then tear your throat out” nasty. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114/68 "2013-05-16T22:55:34Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Herrick is the name of a character from the show Being Human played by Jason Watkins who played Webley in the episode. For anyone who’s only seen the US Being Human, he’s the equivalent of the Bishop character. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-7x13-nightmare-in-silver/658114.md?page=3)