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[Doctor Who] The Silence's Motive

The Kovarian Chapter of the Silence (the religion, not just the dudes in suits) have the goal of keeping the Doctor from restarting the Time War, since they foresaw that he was going to restore the Time Lords on Trenzalore. They want to preempt the destruction of the universe, an understandable motive.

So why not just, you know, talk to the Doctor?

Presumably he doesn't _want_ the universe destroyed; he kinda lives there, as do all his loved ones. If you told him that he was gonna destroy everything, he'd probably work with you to avoid that, but he's gonna try to stop whatever plans you have if you jump straight to _killing him_ and psychologically torturing his wife and friends.

The Silence are evil to the point they seem to hinder their own plans, and it's bothering me.
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> Presumably he doesn't want the universe destroyed

No, but both the Time Lords and the Daleks came close to destroying the Universe on several occasions; sometimes, thanks to wibbly-wobbly shenanigans, they did so even after The Doctor had already genocided the lot of them^* .

And now, the Doctor, a law unto himself at the best of times, looks like he's going to restore them all over again.  And - let's be honest - it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to talk the Doctor out of something he's set his mind to unless you're part of his inner circle.  Remember, someone he liked and respected had to _kill themselves_ to prevent him from fucking the timeline up on a whim.

So, with that in mind, imagine how much damage the Time Lords could do if they were restored to full power, and imagine how difficult it would be to stop the Doctor from doing restoring them if a) he wants to and b) _a whole fucking prophesy is backing him up._  It's no wonder there were factions around who were willing to take desperate measures to prevent that from happening.

\* >!or so everyone thought!<