Rise of the Cybermen question
Reading an online review from the rather good www.androzani.com for "Rise of the Age of Steel" and it poses a rather interesting point about that story.
Direct from the review itself:
"Why are the Cybermen necessary at all? Sure, Lumic is dying and wants to Cyberfy himself to live forever. Fair play to him. But why, why, why does he insist on everyone else Cyberfying as well? He doesn't need them to run the world, because he's already got the money and the method, via the earpods, to do that. Not only does he lose his source of income if the whole world's one giant Cyberarmy, he doesn't even need the Cybermen he creates to push the humans around, since (earpods again) he has complete control over them. We know at one point he says “I will bring peace to the world”, but he doesn’t really seem to mean it, and it doesn’t fit in with anything else he says about upgrading humans. What does that leave us with? Misery loves company? It makes as much sense as anything else (which is to say none whatsoever)."
What's your view? I will admit I hadn't really considered before why Lumic decided converting everybody into Cybermen was entirely necessary. Sure, Don Warrington didn't seem to like the idea of Lumic turning himself into a cyborg, but couldn't a nutty billionaire like Lumic have simply done it in secret, or assassinated the people who'd get in his way? Was that why he started churning out Cybermen?
Direct from the review itself:
"Why are the Cybermen necessary at all? Sure, Lumic is dying and wants to Cyberfy himself to live forever. Fair play to him. But why, why, why does he insist on everyone else Cyberfying as well? He doesn't need them to run the world, because he's already got the money and the method, via the earpods, to do that. Not only does he lose his source of income if the whole world's one giant Cyberarmy, he doesn't even need the Cybermen he creates to push the humans around, since (earpods again) he has complete control over them. We know at one point he says “I will bring peace to the world”, but he doesn’t really seem to mean it, and it doesn’t fit in with anything else he says about upgrading humans. What does that leave us with? Misery loves company? It makes as much sense as anything else (which is to say none whatsoever)."
What's your view? I will admit I hadn't really considered before why Lumic decided converting everybody into Cybermen was entirely necessary. Sure, Don Warrington didn't seem to like the idea of Lumic turning himself into a cyborg, but couldn't a nutty billionaire like Lumic have simply done it in secret, or assassinated the people who'd get in his way? Was that why he started churning out Cybermen?