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Elizabeth (Betsy). Twenty-two, almost twenty-three, but perpetually seventeen. Whirls back & forth between vulgarity & delicacies like a dervish proper & has been known to disappear for months on end. Worshipper of Carroll, devotee of Lovecraft & BPAL hoarder absolute. Destined for the madhouse.
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Date: 2009-05-18 09:37 am (UTC)Oooooo. I'm tempted to race my way through The Smugglers to see the very first Cybermen, but I'll pace myself, I swear. & if they're creeping you out after all this time, then they'll most likely be giving me a few chills too - the Classic!Cybermen always do.
Yes, indeed. Because the Cybermen in The Tenth Planet come from Mondas while the ones in Tomb of the Cybermen come from Telos, I've devised a small theory of mine to explain the discrepancy: Cybermen originally came from Mondas, but eventually separated into two factions, with one of them migrating to Telos. The two factions evolved differently, which explains the different looks, and the ay they dehumanized themselves in Mondas explains why they have a certain weakness that doesn't affect the Cybermen featured from The Moonbase onwards (all of them, in my eyes, are Telosian, with only those from their first serial hailing from Mondas).
Hooray for me knowing my different models of Cybermen! :D ::has earned her badge in Cybermen studies:: Anyway, on a more useful point, though I can't say anything for the Mondasian Cybermen until I see them, nevertheless, I like your theory. I think it fits the Cybermen mindset quite well. & I think I could adopt your idea of all Cybermen from The Moonbase on as being Telosian as well - I'm actually trying NOT to come up with any theories or ideas of my own until I've seen The Tenth Planet, but since the master vault is located on Telos & as far as I know, no reference is made to Mondas again, it would seem like perhaps the Telosian faction became a bit stronger than the Mondasian faction & either destroyed the latter, or forced them into becoming more Telosian. Unless of course, I'm wrong & that there ARE references to Mondas later on & I just opened my big mouth too soon. :)
(& after that, would it be a safe assumption that the titular tenth planet is Mondas itself, then? Feel free to hit me with the clue bat for this obviously answerable question.)
They're still more inhuman than they are in Revenge of the Cybermen; I have to confess I was a bit disappointed with the way they turned out on that serial - not just because they had completely human voices, but because they had very emotional and human-like attitudes; I kept expecting the Cyberleader (played by Christopher Robbie, who played the Karkus in The Mind Robber) to put his hands on his hips and slap his tigh at times. *shakes head*
O, that's rather disappointing to hear, actually. :( I was looking forward to something like The Moonbase sort of Cybermen facing off against Four, Sarah & Harry. But I'm ALSO watching it because it's part of Harry's little travelling arc, & because as far as I know, Four never really interacted with the Cybermen after that, so I'll try not to let that deter me from really enjoying it.
& YES, the Cybus Cybermen are too bloody noisy, honestly! The Cybus ones, with all the noise they make, would be a fairly easy take-down for the Doctor if he heard them coming & had time
for Polly to whip out the nail varnish removerto get out of their way or just blow them to scraps. The Daleks have always been pretty quiet - you don't really know it's them until they start talking, or until you see them, even in the new series & that gives them a fair advantage of sneaking up on someone. The Cybermen, in my opinion, also need to be pretty stealthy, considering that they're basically metallic - if they have no stealth, then they may as well just walk down the street & kill people, not be sequestered in laboratories or vaults.(I kind of thought their 'delete' catchphrase was a bit of a giggle myself! It's so . . . I don't know, so . . . internet, I suppose, that I get a bit of a chuckle out of it. But really, I think it's just Daleks that can get away with a good catchphrase & not annoy the ears off you with it. & um, theirs scare me more anyway. EXTERMINATE! > YOU WILL BE DELETED, y/n?)