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| "I could call myself... mr. CLEVER!!" |
PLOT
The Cybermen team up with Mavic Chen's ancestor to conquer Earth whilst the TARDIS malfunctions again, forcing the Doctor to seek the help of his Yeti buddy, professor Travers.
As I said above, the story is good enough, but has the worst editing yet. Most of the early episodes are a runaround of Vaughn's facility + lots of computer trash talk(what did that poor answering machine ever do to anyone?) until suddenly lots of stuff happens in the last episodes, so much in fact that it feels whole scenes have been cut out.
We go from the Brigadier heading to destroy the radio transmitter in the middle of an army of Cybermen to him on the radio saying they won.
Show, don't tell.
The whole Russian/antimissile missile thing is also very hard to follow.
CHARACTERS
Patrick Troughton gives a terribly serious and powerful performance this time around(minus "I hate computers...") and works well with Kevin Stoney(Tobias Vaughn, Guardian Of The Apple System)
Speaking of Vaughn, I'm a bit iffy about him. He's just too repulsively sweet for me to enjoy the character fully. It's not until he's betrayed and loses his temper that I started to enjoy the clearly multifaceted performance.
I liked Packer, trying to be all macho whereas in the end, he proved out to be a scaredy cat. It's like reverse Nyder(from Genesis Of The Daleks).
Isobel was annoying and unnecessary and her(and Zoe's) treatment of Jamie calls for some kind of anti-feminism. Male-ism, if you will. Seriously, can't women not be either arrogant or weeping?
The Brigadier was brilliant. I thought the character was a touch too trusting of the Doctor, but Nicholas Courtney oozes charisma. You can't take your eyes off of him.
NOTES
*Why would the Doctor want to find Travers to help him with his TARDIS circuit? How would he know how to fix it?
*And how does the Doctor fix it anyway?
*You have to love the way Vaughn purrs when he says Packer's name.
*Vaughn's costume in the last episode really reminded me of the Twelfth Doctor's outfit.
*How did Watkins's emotion inducer machine work on the Cyber-Planner?
*No Space Adventures? Aww, it would've been perfect on the iconic scene.
*I will forever associate 1960s Who with loud blaring noises. During one episode, there's an alarm for like, five minutes.
*Why don't the Cybermen just invade the planet? What do they need Vaughn for?
*Why are the Cybermen invading 1970s Earth anyway? They're not like the Borg who just want to assimilate everything, they only worry about themselves. They could be trying to save Mondas a la Attack Of The Cybermen, but that's retconning.
*How come no one remembered the 1970s invasion during the 1986 one?
*The recorder's still kicking! The Doctor uses it as a spyglass to examine Vaughn's buildings.
*I loved that moment where the Cyberman showed up on Vaughn's camera.
*Vaughn's monitors are really tiny, aren't they?
*I see 1968 Doctor Who employed the same Skype-esque phones as 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey.
*Why did Watkins invent an emotion inducer for? And what happened to such a fantastic piece of technology?
*I like how the Cybermen sound like the Cybus Cybermen.
*What's Planet 14, I wonder...
BEST QUOTE
"I have masterminded the whole thing, from A to Z!"
CONCLUSION
A memorable invasion tale. Doesn't get close to its Dalek counterpart though. I find it overrated amongst the fandom.
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