Theyre Arsenal, basically.
What isNightmare in Silverif not Mehmet Ozil?
Id apologise to Arsenal fans but what are they going to do?
Throw a trophy at me?
Meanwhile, heres our list of the top ten Cybermen stories across the entirety ofDoctor Who.
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10.
It lasts less than three minutes and its the best depiction of the Cybermen since they returned in 2006.
Still, thats the power of love, a force from above.
Or horizontally, in this case, but that doesnt scan.
Part Where You Realise How Brilliant It Is:The Cybermans head scuttles away like a peeved snake.
Part Where You Realise How Brilliant It Is:Im called Kroton…
I cant remember my real name.
The TV show of the time could never realiseJunkyard Demonas successfully as the magazines comic.
WithoutThe Invasion, the Pertwee era would be radically different (or possibly not even exist at all).
The Five DoctorsSometimes you dont want to be confronted with great works of depth and meaning.
Sometimes you just want everything in a bun.
Eighties Cybermen are plausible meats.
David Banks is one of the few banks you’re able to rely on.
Here we get at least three Cyberleaders, all of them prime slabs of plausible Banks-meat.
Scott GraysThe Floodsees the Cybermen invading contemporary London and going all biblical on humanity.
Part Where You Realise How Brilliant It Is:The Cyberleader accepts humanitys supplications.
Obviously you want an excellent marriage of sight and sound (how good is the end to Part Three?
), but also you want to do the following:
Tick.
Tick, tick, tick, tick.
Because of this, I have never been disappointed byTomb of the Cybermen.
WhatTomb of the Cybermendoes better than any other TV story is create a mythology for the Cybermen.
That last one is the most important, as it captures an aspect of tragedy not always present.
Part Where You Realise How Brilliant It Is:You belong to us.
You shall be like us.
WithoutSpare Partswe dont know what Russell T. Davies and Tom MacRae would have come up with.
Spare Parts is, essentially, for Cybermen whatGenesis of the Daleksis for Daleks.
LikeGenesis,Spare Partsis set on a planet settled in for a long, dark night.
They do what they have to for survive.
Part Where You Realise How Brilliant It Is:Am I horrible?
One not to watch:The Wheel in Space its full of plot holes and padded badly.
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