Old Doctor Who - Part 3

[A Hat Like That]

Cyberleader: Where does a Cyberman leave his spaceship?
Cyberman: I don't know
Cyberleader: At a parking meteor
Cyberman: ho ho ho

[A Hat Like That]

I think the 1970s Cybermats were decent tho'.



Gave them teeth in the new series - nope!

[Small Man Big Horse]

I think the face is the important bit and that the 80s one is too chunky so there.

I already said hardly anyone agrees with me on this, so you don't really need to tell me.

I'm with you on this one, I never did get on with the 80's Cybermen, or the new series ones until World Enough and Time.

[pigamus]

Cyberleader: Where does a Cyberman leave his spaceship?
Cyberman: I don't know
Cyberleader: At a parking meteor
Cyberman: ho ho ho

Basically their square hat apparatus ruins the previously stark effect. It makes them almost cute. The face is still basically the same as the shit-scary ones from ten years earlier, but their headset gubbins makes them look like they're wearing lovely futuristic easter bonnets or something. Every time I see that clip of them coming down the steps of St Paul's I think,  "Ah, bless".

[purlieu]

The '80s ones have the down-at-the-corners mouth that makes them look constantly disappointed or like they're doing an impression of a blobfish.

[pigamus]

And the writers HATED them. Absolutely hated them. Robert Holmes especially. Never did quite get that.

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Basically their square hat apparatus ruins the previously stark effect. It makes them almost cute. The face is still basically the same as the shit-scary ones from ten years earlier, but their headset gubbins makes them look like they're wearing lovely futuristic easter bonnets or something. Every time I see that clip of them coming down the steps of St Paul's I think,  "Ah, bless".

The ones coming down the steps from St Paul's did so in 1968, some seven years before the Revenge of the Cybermen design that you quoted in your reply.



They have the wider heads but the tubing connecting the earpieces is a lot thinner and less stupid.

[purlieu]

Yeah, I don't mind the late '60s ones. The '70s ones with the corrugated piping around the head are worse, and the grumpy '80s ones are the worst.

Until the C3PO wearing The Wrong Trousers of the new era, that is.

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Until the C3PO wearing The Wrong Trousers of the new era, that is.

Oh god.

Annoys me so much that when we finally got Mondasian Cybermen in New Who, they turned to walk and:  STOMP STOMP STOMP just like the flipping Cybus Corporation ones.

[purlieu]

Yeah, that was the worst part of that story. Part of what made the '60s ones creepy was their litheness, the hideously insidious nature of them right down to how they'd sometimes just appear out of nowhere. The plodding, stomping reinvention in the modern era is so, so shit.

[Ambient Sheep]

Absolutely agree.  I couldn't believe it when the Mondasian ones STOMPed, I just don't understand who on earth could have signed off on that.

[Bingo Fury]

Peak Cybermen design. It was all downhill from here.

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Peak Cybermen design. It was all downhill from here.

I think that was the final time they were good, but I think they were better before their heads were widened.


Moonbase:




Tomb:




Wheel:

[Norton Canes]

I do like a bit of body stockinged Cyber-assassin action

[daf]

I think they were better before their heads were widened.

Absolutely - I think the only reason they changed them was because the masks were so close fitting, the actors were being turned into Cybermen for real - fainting and freaking out from claustrophobia.

The big side bits were added to allow them to move their head inside, and to let some air to circulate.

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Absolutely - I think the only reason they changed them was because the masks were so close fitting, the actors were being turned into Cybermen for real - fainting and freaking out from claustrophobia.

The big side bits were added to allow them to move their head inside, and to let some air to circulate.

Kryten's mask went to shit when they started thinking about Robert Llewellyn's comfort, as well.

MAKE THESE PEOPLE SUFFER NEXT TIME PLEASE

[Norton Canes]

Linx looked great in The Time Warrior and then they messed Styre's mask up in The Sontaran Experiment just because Kevin Lindsay was asphyxiating or something

[A Hat Like That]

kinda like the way they went in The Flood

[daf]

Linx looked great in The Time Warrior

Still never bettered. That actually DID look like a glistening baked potato -



The later versions just looked far too dry and rubbery.

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There are a few designs I wish they'd used in the new series instead of the ones they went with.

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And while we're here, let's remember that the Silurians in 2010 could have looked like this:

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far too dry and rubbery.

The perfect baked potato.

[Deanjam]

The perfect baked potato.

Speaking of Colin Baker, I'm looking forward to this on the season 23 bluray. Pretty much the main reason for buying it.

[Bad Ambassador]

Never mind India Fisher, get Harry Hill to dress as Egg Wallace to judge the food.

[pigamus]

I think that was the final time they were good, but I think they were better before their heads were widened.

Don't ever change, Replies.

[Norton Canes]

I didn't realise Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred shared a birthday today. Happy birthday Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, you gave us a fun couple of years to end the classic run.

[Norton Canes]

And while we're here, let's remember that the Silurians in 2010 could have looked like this:

I don't blame Moffat for wanting something a little more lightweight, flexible and expressive, though. Madame Vastra looked great and I can't imagine a mask like that would've been a viable alternative for her character.

Where they should have used it was for Eldane, the elder Silurian who shows up in Cold Blood. It's so obviously Stephen Moore under the latex, it takes you right out of the moment.

[Alternative Carpark]

I didn't realise Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred shared a birthday today. Happy birthday Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred, you gave us a fun couple of years to end the classic run.

The same day was Anthony Ainley's birthday as well.

[Deanjam]

And amazingly Survival was first broadcast on August 20th 1989!
















This is sadly untrue

[Alberon]

The same day was Anthony Ainley's birthday as well.

And all three of them were born in the same year as well.









This is also sadly untrue