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What, no thread yet? Hurry up and download it, you fools! Fantastic ep. More than made up for some of this series - er, season's low points.
So, in a nutshell, the Cybermen from the Lumicverse, facing defeat, exploited a flaw in ver fabric of space to intrude into our universe, initially as ghosts but then corporeally (although I'm a bit in the dark about how the ones lurking in among all the polythene got there). When they do, we get a black handled Cyber-Leader too!
The flaw is being caused by a Voidship. So now we know how there can be other surviving Timelords. But this particular Sphere (Michael Crichton's lawyers on line one!) contains - well, there could really only ever be one thing that was in there. . . And one of them is a Black one!
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So...these are the new "Iron Man" version Cybermen?
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Yes, from "Age of Steel/Rise of the Cybermen." They now have handy litle wrist-guns that fire silly little energy bolts, plib-plib-plib. It reminds me of the rather small unimpressive energy bolts the Hirogen BFGs produced.
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On the plus side though, I think they might have done something to the Cybermen voice effect because they're a lot easier to understand now. I thought they were very hard to make out when they first appeared. It hardly makes for a threatening villain when you can barely make out what they're saying because of the electronic effects on their voices.
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When the Troughton ep "Tomb of the Cybermen" was eventually found & broadcast, the Cybermen from that episode also had really-hard-to-understand electronic voices. By the Baker ep "Revenge of the Cybermen," they were easier to understand.
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I like the light-up mouth feature, so you can tell which Cyberman is currently talking. Saves the actors in the metal suits having to indulge in all that Shatner-esque movement past Cybermen actors had to use to indicate to the viewer which one was speaking at any particular point. That said I still want at least one drawn out "Excellent" from the Cyberleader, as a tip of the hat to Cyberleaders of years gone by.
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-------------------- Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...
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