CYBERMEN! CYBERMEN!
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thewayneDr. Who. Season 2. CYBERMEN!
I don't think this really constitutes spoilers, but I'm hiding it under a cut anyway.
From a blog post on Angry Zen Master:
As promised, one review hot off the press:
Remember when you were a kid, and your parents let you stay up to watch Dr. Who? Remember how you used to hide behind the couch when the Daleks or the Cybermen came on?
Well, you’re all grown up now, and there’s something you need to know.
You aren’t going to fit behind the couch now. Better move it out a couple feet.
These aren’t your daddy’s cybermen. And in fact, you don’t even get a good look at them until right at the end of the episode. Without giving away anything more than you learn in the first five minutes, something happens to the TARDIS in mid-flight that rips her out into a parallel world - a world where a dying industrialist has taken one step too many down the path towards mechanical immortality.
Instead of going with dreadful destruction, the episode takes its time to build the gnawing unease into an outright sense of imminent doom. The final appeareance of the cybermen is, paradoxically, almost a relief, a face put to a faceless terror. And even then - these aren’t your daddy’s cybermen. As the Doctor learns, in a cliffhanger ending with a serious twist.
It’s all about the people, in the end, as is becoming usual for the current version of Dr. Who. The stories turn on personalities, the motivations of who someone is.
All that and creeping doom too. Yep. It’s Dr. Who.
I don't think this really constitutes spoilers, but I'm hiding it under a cut anyway.
From a blog post on Angry Zen Master:
As promised, one review hot off the press:
Remember when you were a kid, and your parents let you stay up to watch Dr. Who? Remember how you used to hide behind the couch when the Daleks or the Cybermen came on?
Well, you’re all grown up now, and there’s something you need to know.
You aren’t going to fit behind the couch now. Better move it out a couple feet.
These aren’t your daddy’s cybermen. And in fact, you don’t even get a good look at them until right at the end of the episode. Without giving away anything more than you learn in the first five minutes, something happens to the TARDIS in mid-flight that rips her out into a parallel world - a world where a dying industrialist has taken one step too many down the path towards mechanical immortality.
Instead of going with dreadful destruction, the episode takes its time to build the gnawing unease into an outright sense of imminent doom. The final appeareance of the cybermen is, paradoxically, almost a relief, a face put to a faceless terror. And even then - these aren’t your daddy’s cybermen. As the Doctor learns, in a cliffhanger ending with a serious twist.
It’s all about the people, in the end, as is becoming usual for the current version of Dr. Who. The stories turn on personalities, the motivations of who someone is.
All that and creeping doom too. Yep. It’s Dr. Who.
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Date: 2006-05-14 06:20 pm (UTC)I also really like Billy Piper as a companion. In the first season she saved their necks almost as often as the doctor did. They've been treading a bit too close to damsel in distress this season, and while I like the change of outfits I hope Rose goes back to her quick thinking saving soon.
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Date: 2006-05-14 06:23 pm (UTC)That Dalek episode was great, I've heard there will be more Daleks, after all, what's the point of being a time traveller if you can't bring back the best villains.
Speaking of which, have you heard anything about The Master returning?
I was quite disappointed that the Season 1 Doctor only did the one season. He was an excellent Doctor.
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Date: 2006-05-14 06:29 pm (UTC)David Tennant is a good doctor too. I was disappointed that Christopher Eccelson only did it one season--- it seems a waste of a regeneration--- but I like the new guy as much or more than I liked him. So it works out.
There will be more Daleks in first season, I don't know about second.
I haven't heard anything about the Master returning. It would seem to go against some of what they said in the first season with the end of the time war, but it's still possible.
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Date: 2006-05-14 08:40 pm (UTC)kewl
Date: 2006-05-15 01:51 pm (UTC)cyberman
Date: 2006-05-22 10:53 pm (UTC)We have been out of town since Friday morning so we haven't the 2nd part yet. When are you coming in July as people do need warning but we are doing Comicon yeah!!!
Re: cyberman
Date: 2006-05-26 07:06 pm (UTC)