Cybermen - Blog Posts
Remember that time Daleks and Cybermen had sass-off?
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cybermen Story
Earthshock is easily my favourite televisioned cybermen story, but i think that The Tomb of the Cybermen and Attack of the Cybermen are my other classic who favourites.
For New Who, for cybermen stories, I only like Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel, World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls and (I really, really hate the Cybermen in New Who, also I don't enjoy the Daleks in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, they stolen the focus of the Cybermen as a series finale enemy)
Doctor Who Daily Challenge
(Remember when everyone was obsessed with these like 10 years ago?xD - I'mma do this, and I implore you to do so... And tag me in it so I can be nosy? Probably reblog them too lol)
Preferably Pictured Answers :)
Day One: Favourite Classic Doctor
Day Two: Favourite New Who Doctor
Day Three: Favourite Classic Story
Day Four: Favourite New Who Episode
Day Five: Favourite Writer
Day Six: Favourite Male Companion
Day Seven: Favourite Female Companion
Day Eight: Favourite piece of music
Day Nine: Saddest Moment
Day Ten: Favourite Spin Off
Day Eleven: Favourite Dalek Story
Day Twelve: Favourite Monster (Not villian, so any monster goes)
Day Thirteen: Favourite Villain
Day Fourteen: Favourite Master
Day Fifteen: Favourite Cyberman story
Day Sixteen: Favourite Friendship
Day Seventeen: Favourite Tardis Team
Day Eighteen: Favourite One Time Character
Day Nineteen: Favourite Quote
Day Twenty: Favourite Tardis interior
Day Twenty One: Write 'Doctor Who' in your handwriting and post it
Day Twenty Two: Scariest Moment
Day Twenty Three: Two Classic companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Four: Two New Who companion outfits you love
Day Twenty Five: What is your favourite regeneration
Day Twenty Six: Favourite planet
Day Twenty Seven: Your favourite sonic screwdriver
Day Twenty Eight: Favourite Christmas episode
Day Twenty Nine: Favourite companion's family member
Day Thirty: An episode/story you don't think is spoken about enough
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It's such a shame too, the original version was a human-like group who had to change themselves into these cybernetic monsters just to survive. They wanted to convert humans as a mercy.
I feel like there's something valuable in the Moffat era in how often they independently crop up, and in the classic era for being able to see just a little bit of the actor.
Maybe there could be some kind of transhumanist story, where people actively become cybermen in an experiment to circumvent the need to terraform a planet so they can go out and collect resources on a struggling colony. It could have been going well for a while. These cybermen could have names, like the original, and eventually people decide to undergo conversion to reduce the resources needed to get by. Or the cybermen, seeing their people continuing to suffer, decide to remove that suffering by force.
IDK, just thought it'd be an interesting story idea.
the concept of the cybermen is magnificent. it's creepy. it's disturbing. it's the terror of undeath and the horror of coming back wrong. it's the endless march of capitalism, it's the commodification of disability aids, it's the ceaseless machinations of time. it's monopolisation. it's euthanasia as a substitute for healthcare. it's a lot of things. unfortunately many cyberman appearances can be boiled down to "scary army of robots invades" and frankly if i wanted to watch fiction about a robot and not the cybermen i'd just put on, well, robot.
Smeghead...
Old collage I did bc i wanted a girly cyberman and no one can stop me