Question regarding the stability of Cybermen

[dubious_gannet]

The roomie and I were watching her Tomb of the Cybermen DVD and I mentioned that I thought they looked really cool, in many ways more cybernetic and deliberate without as blatanly robotic as the 2006 versions look to be. Her rebuttal was that the new design was better because you couldn't trip the new Cybermen. Somehow this spawned an argument

Comments

[brit0martis]

That's an interesting thought, so would be sneaking up behind a Dalek and tipping it like a cow. :-P

[lordgeon]

except a cow doesn't burn you alive when you touch it

[brit0martis]

I tend to think that depends on the mood of the Dalek. After all, Rose didn't burn up when she touched the one in Dalek, but then again, she wasn't torturing it either.

[jk_ryan]

you've got a good point about the difference between robotics and cybernetics...the cybermen were never supposed to look like that at all, the idea was that they would be people with transparent, plastic bodies with inorganic organs, more grotesque. Which is why the Borg really succeed where the cybermen fail - in the connection to humanity. the scary thing about cybermen is that they USED to be human, not that they are big mean robots.

[hethatishere]

Which is why the Borg really succeed where the cybermen fail - in the connection to humanity.

That's why the first incarnation was the scariest and with each re-design became less scary, in my opinion. The first version was the most human and had the least 'mechanical' look about them. Thus as you say was the scariest. Cybermen Mk I

[nassir]

For years on Nebraska PBS they didn't show any episodes prior to Jon Pertwee. It's only been in the last 5 years or so that I finally bought Tomb of the Cybermen(which I consider the best of all the Cybermen stories).

The thing the Cybermen lost which each redesign was their motivation. The concept that here was a race so determined to survive that they were willing to sacrifice their humanity.

Nothing has been quite as chilling as the Cyberleader's mechanical voice saying, "We will survive!"

The rommate wieghs in.

[little_speaker]

Im the rommie, and I maintain they're trippable.

How are people scared of these things? Trying to remember what I was scared of as a kid, it was those things from the "Critters" movie, flesh eating skin disease, and clowns.

Do the English have an accute, primordial fear of pepper pots and men in silver hazmat-esque suits?

Re: The rommate wieghs in.

[dubious_gannet]

Oh nice, we finally get a serious and intellectually challenging discussion underway, and here comes you and your thinly-veiled contempt for plastic monsters.

Sir, I contend that Cybermen are both terrifying and reasonably-if-not-completely sound on their feet, which is more than can be said of you.

Oh SNAP!