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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2022 18:05:57 GMT
Tim Bradley isn’t a fan of these Cybermen, whereas I have a soft spot for them. I suppose they don’t act like the other Cybermen with showing more emotion.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 20, 2022 18:25:00 GMT
Controversy my 2nd favorite design (behind 10th/11th Doc Era), and I'm found of David Banks performance.
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Post by Tim Bradley on Apr 20, 2022 19:43:33 GMT
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Post by grinch on Apr 20, 2022 20:19:47 GMT
I’m rather fond of them. Extremely emotional yes for beings who have them surgically removed but I do think they grown on you after a while. Probably no doubt helped by David Banks’s’ performance.
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Post by thewatcher on Apr 20, 2022 20:39:54 GMT
They are amazing.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Apr 20, 2022 21:34:53 GMT
They were ….. excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2022 23:12:31 GMT
Very bad, they shot at our heroes!  I like em. Banks added a new dimension to them and part of what is cool about them is that they do have variants, they evolve uniquely from different places. Daleks...try and alter them and we have "Victory Of..." - people like a Dalek to be a Dalek. But Cybermen are more unpredictable. Banks was able to be arch and hubristic, which Invasion Cybermen could never be with that vocoder. |
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Apr 21, 2022 2:54:22 GMT
I love the design, Banks has a great voice, and the story is good, but on the other hand, they could be substituted for any evil alien without making any thematic or narrative difference. There's no emphasis on the horror of conversion or the philosophy of the Cybermen apart from the "well-prepared meal" exchange that I think most people will agree is far from the show's strongest moral debate.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2022 22:27:19 GMT
I thought the Earthshock Cybermen were rather good...
Not only did they look cool, they also helped get rid of Adric!
So they are probably my favourite Cybermen.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Apr 21, 2022 23:02:49 GMT
I thought the Earthshock Cybermen were rather good... Not only did they look cool, they also helped get rid of Adric! So they are probably my favourite Cybermen.
Getting rid of Adric makes them the best of the Cybermen. To borrow a term from professional wrestling, this was when they became baby faces. |
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