I'd quite like to see the cybermen used in a more Faustian way. They just show up to a planet dying of plague or famine and don't force or attack anyone but just offer conversions. It would kinda play out like Children of Earth.
Using the mondasian cybermen design would be nice too, they work do well cause they're so creepy. Possibly have a survivor cyberman that slowly upgrades a small village because of their worry of the plague. Have him like the lone cyberman, some of his emotions are still there and hes tricking them.
Maybe they use an ambassador; a silver-tongued devil talking people into conversion while the Doctor has to out-argue them and skirts moral greyness as without conversion thousands will die from the plague, but is death better?
@@meris8486 That could be good. I'd take it this ambassador would be a human looking character- cybermen voices might not be the best at sounding smooth talking and convincing?
Exactly. I don't know if it's ever been confirmed that that is one of the ideas that created the Cybermen, but it's definitely interesting to look in to.
@nightowl Reminds me of: "There is trouble with the trees for the maples want more sunlight and the Oaks ignore their pleas. But now the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw…" Just as cybermen make everyone equal through scalpels, bone saws and steel with an emotional inhibitor so you can act like none of it happened.
@@gavinpicard3003 Marx himself (and thus his proponents, be them Lenin, Stalin or any Marxist-Leninists or proponents of Marx's so-called Dialectic Materialism™ aka Hegelian ripoff). He was against any notion of transhumanism/eugenism, biological selection or evolutionary supremacy (although transhumanism as a concept may not strictly indicate a biological transcendence). Your reply unfortunetaly tells me that you're not aware of his writings on the theory and practice of natural sciences and his unilateral bitch fight with Darwin, Wallace and Huxley or let's say his personal crusade as he was no man of science, yet he dabbled in the fields he had no knowledge therof. There's a reason Marx and Engels opposed Darwinian evolution and Mendelian genetics and his successors, the Soviet Union made Lysenkoism the state religion by rejecting then modern genetics and biology. Holodomor was literally caused by this pseudo-scientific belief and damaged the Soviet agricultural development and hindered their exploration of the genetics. Stalin hanged or exiled many biologists who simply opposed Lysenkoism. It seems like early Doctor Who writers also lacked the skills of the philosophy and or/history of science and thus drew the simple allegory of communism = transhumanism. No, communists are against transhumanism because it simply violates their main principle: equality, both in social and biological sense.
My 2 favourite jokes about the Cybermen... The Next Doctor: Doctor: "Whoa, that's cheating sneaking up. Do you have your legs on silent?" Death in Heaven: Missy Cyberman: "Human weaponry is ineffective against Cyber technology." Kate: "I'm sorry, you left this behind on one of your previous attempts." *throws down helmet from The Invasion*
That's what gets me so upset from only TV watchers. They think a story about a race, or The Doctor, traveling & altering events throughout time & space should be straight forward & have easy answers. I feel like the best answers only give you more questions.
I just sort of handwave it. The Doctor changes history constantly, that there must be all sorts of branching timelines out there, some where the Cybermen come from Mondas, or Telos, or that other Mondas, or where they salvage parts from Pete's World Cybermen and so on.
@@DoinItforNewCommTech that is definitely what it is timelords can travel between dimensions and timelines so we know its possible though the doctor doesnt do it because its difficult. Which means every change the doctor makes does change the time line to some degree it only makes sense things begin to change and events witnessed become different over time thats what playing time does.
Terrific theoretical analysis, however, I know, because I was a BBCtv visual effects assistant in the early eighties, that the iterations in the Cyberman design had less to do with the drive for innovation than the fact that we couldn't be arsed to check the tapes from the previous series to find out what they looked like. We guessed. Same applies to the Daleks. That's probably why the Cybermens' planet changed its name slightly. Somebody just mis-remembered. Dr Who is a work of genius. When making telly there is no real space; it is all illusional, and there is no real time because broadcast is delayed. It is an adventure in the process of its own creation.
This is an amazing reason for the Cybermen to keep changing. “We forgot what they looked like so we just kinda guessed” is the most BBC thing to ever BBC.
@@TheSparrrow I get that as well, it's a weird world we live in. When there's a thought You know Johnny Lawrence in cobra kai first used Facebook and he saw his old girlfriends profile he liked ALL her photos every last one, his student migel face palmed silently
It would make for an interesting ark were a planet is dying and the cybermen have convinced the population that conversion is the only option for survival - and then the doctor shows up. Rather than the usual invasion.
This sounds good. It could slowly develop starting from a place of people just helping to keep themselves alive through technology, so it can show more of a grey area,
I'd like to see one of these for The Slitheen. They've got a great design and despite only appearing as villains for 3 episodes in 2005, I swear they were used in promotions and merch for nearly a decade. I wanna know what those good gassy lads have been up to.
Thanos: “I am inevitable.” Cyberman: “We are inevitable.” Thanos: *Gets killed by a magical rock collection* Cyberman: *Gets killed by a magic screwdrivers*
If I had brought back the Cybermen in the revival, i would've given them kind, melodic and peaceful sounding voices as a way of potentially luring people into conversion. It would make them much more unnerving and close to home what with Siri and Alexa nowadays, and would make a nice contrast to the Daleks.
My personal favourite kind of Cyberstory are the few where they actually make a convincing case for conversion. The Flood is REALLY good at this, making true on the fact that they WOULD eradicate world hunger and poverty.
A kind, melodic voice would work. And then have their voices change to the voices used in The Moonbase and Tomb of the Cybermen, which were created using an electrolarnyx.
I actually really want a Genesis of the Cybermen, set on Mondas, potentially around 1966 as the original Tenth Planet was 86. Also, an Asylum would suit them far better then the Daleks because obviously the failure of the emotional inhibitor would lead to insanity, that the Cybermen would obviously incarcerate one for, perhaps for further assimilation.
They should've made the starter episode of Series 7 "The Asylum of the Cybermen". The Doctor and his companions are kidnapped by The Parliament of the Cybermen to traverse the Asylum finding horrible disfigured Mondasion, Earthshock, Tomb and Cybus Cybermen. Oswin Oswald is actually a half converted Mondasian Cyberman.
nightowl That’s reality of why Doctor Who (and why there’s always a sizeable subset of casual viewers permanently hating on the show)- the reason it’s so awesome is the wiiiiiide potential. It was Hinchcliffe Who pointed out they could do *anything*.
@@MrLtia1234 There's a sizable amount of people hating on the show because Chibnill used the season 12 finale to take a fat hot steaming shit over 60 *YEARS* of established Doctor Who lore! Let us be a little mad about it!! (or was your comment from before that duce dropped?)
@@jacobredfield1386 It actually doesn't break Who-lore at all. What is actually did was fix a few old holes (believe me, there are plenty). It was also pretty terrible, but those two facts aren't related, sorry.
They should do a story set in ancient Greece with cybermen but the cybermen look kinda like Spartan warriors or something because those are the materials and armour they have to convert people.
Yes the "Colchester" episode. As a Colchester resident it really annoyed me, that seeing as most of the episode could be filmed in doors why the BBC didn't just chuck a few guys with a camera in a van and send them to Colchester to get some proper external establishing shots!!!
Y’know the fact that they didn’t actually film it in Colchester doesn’t bother me half as much as the fact that the entire episode is based around a big indoor shopping centre, despite Colchester not having a big indoor shopping centre.
The Cybermen always appear as a final act of desperation against human extinction. I feel like the toclofane were a type of Cyberman lineage. They are the last of humanity suffering the heat death of the universe and instead of removing emotions, they hard code themselves with a childlike personality, which becomes horrifying when they demonstrate their eagerness to kill with no consequence.
one of my favourite cyberman moments is when yvonne hartman gets converted and straight up blows up those cybermen while saying “i did my duty for queen and country” and cries an oil tear. shit hit me right in the feels
What bugs me is how cavalier they are with killing people, they should have tasers or anti-riot gear to incapacitate targets, their big guns should be reserved for warfare not skirmishes.
15 minute presentation. Ended by the "clown show" dancing with the stars. All i remember are the 2 dancers at the end of the video. Like for the research
Me (Before watching dr who last night): *I’m actually excited for Dr Who tonight! Excited for the Cybermen! All I want is a Cyberman army, I’ll be happy if there is a Cyberman army!* Me (watching dr who last night): *Are those... Cyberman heads flying around?* My brother: *Yep*
They're my favourite villains of all time. I wrote one story called 'Like a Doll's Eyes.' An alien doll-maker loses his daughter and then loses his mind, and - obsessed with preserving the next generation - converts hospital kids into Cyberdolls. Such creepy imagery. No other villain is so broad, yet so defined. Brilliant concept!
I, too, have always wanted to a converted Adric story. Like, survived the crash by partially converting himself? He decides to live in the shadows and get his vengeance on the Doctor. It could work really well fer Big Finish . . . Dunno if they could pull it off live action.
I'd play it more as that crazed Cyberman is their way in, leading to the sad reveal that the nearby organic matter / available mind was used. Either way, its wanky as hell- but would drive some much-needed closure out of Tegan Nyssa and 5.
Apparently Star Wars has the possibility of Cybermen with the latest SWTOR expansion which mentions a species that relies on cybernetics and at some point they'd eventually get to the point of Cybermen... well it would be a possibility if Disney didn't nuke Star Wars: Legends.
Some idiot? You mean Moffat or the costume designer? Also cyberwoman is clearly the best cyberman story. EDIT: Holy hell, that thing at the end I will never again bash cyberwoman or Death in Heaven.
The New series has been fuckin with the Cybermen ever since Nightmare in Silver. Nightmare in Silver is a *wonderful* story, but it's a terrible *Cybermen* story.
I’ve been trying to make as much sense of this as possible this past week and just gave up, not even the writers could explain where their cybermen fit
Has it ever been explained why the cybermen design always stays the same in New Who? It's always either the 2006 or 2013 design, e. g. episodes like The Doctor Falls, Nightmare in Silver, Dark Water and Rise of the Cybermen have nothing to do with each other
Okay, I had to pause the video for a moment when that picture of the Cyberman taking a smoke break flashed up. I've never seen that image before, and it's fucking brilliant!
To be fair, the Cybermen showing up in Victorian England in 'The Next Doctor' was apparently the result of the barriers breaking down because of the Daleks. The same plot device that lets 10, Donna, Rose & Meta-Crisis Doctor to go to Pete's World
It's my personal belief that all the cybermen from telos and planet 14 were from ships sent from Mondas, send out into the universe to take over planets and find a new home world but that's my own head cannon.
Honestly, I’d love a story of a Cyberman who somehow escaped conversion early, still in Cyberman body, but their mind is their own, still with their emotions, but still connected to the hive mind network of the cyberiad and they have to try to keep their mind from being taken back into the hive and become a mindless, emotionless drone. Have the doctor end up trying to help them somehow
9:19 that's awesome tho! Heaven on Mondas is another short script I've done. Basically all my ideas revolve around the Cybermen tbh. I'll never stop having ideas, they're such a good concept.
Love your work, Sam. You're a genuine original. Hope you're getting paid for some of it these days. Oh and don't worry about doing more conventional content. Well, OK, worry about it if it helps monetise your channel. Otherwise, keep on being Sam.
Earth is Mondas. The Tenth Planet is Mondas. Planet 14 is Marinus which is Mondas. I'm banking on it that Telos is gonna someday revealed to be Mondas.
@@provisionalhypothesis I'm glad somebody got the drill! I hope I don't have to preface every video with my dissertation on the misunderstandings of canon haha
The 1966 Cybes were Not "technophobia" they reflected the worries of an era where heart replacements were being pioneered along with other potential often technology based "fixes" to medical problems, and those working on these such as Dr Kit Pedlar (the creator of the Cybermen who worked with using cameras to help the blind see) the philosophical conundrum that worried them was, how much of a human being can you replace and still be human, if you replace too much do you lose your humanity? That's the Cybermen.
I have a book about Cybermen written by David Banks who played Cybermen in Dr Who through out the 80's, at the back there is a short story that was written by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedlar called Genesis of the Cybermen it was a story of the origins of the Cybermen. It was written for a story within the series but sadly never got made, the story ends when refugees escape Mondas and flee to Earth, obviously suggesting these are the people the humans descended from.
Here’s what I don’t get. How did the Mondasian Cybermen become the modern Cybermen when they’re trapped on that spaceship. I know they upgraded but what are the odds that they’d look exactly the same?
I don't think I'll ever forget when I was a little kid and saw The Five Doctors for the first time. In it, there was one shot where you could very clearly see the actor's mouth under the helmet (when they and the Master were coming to an agreement on the hill), and that absolutely terrified me. I'd already seen quite a few Cybermen episodes at that point, so I knew what they were about, but that mistake was what really made the fact that they were human underneath sink in, and that shook me to the core. I mean, I was a little kid (like maybe four or five), as far as I was concerned, that shit was real.
I have a new take for the Cybermen to be reintroduced to modern audiences. It would be amazing for the Cybermen revert back to Mondasian Cyberman. So rather than being killer robots, depression has become so prevalent that humans decidedly to give up their emotions and became drones. Devoid of all emotions, just working for the elites. All robotic slaves, willingly to give up their emotions, just not to feel the pain anymore.
As someone who's favorite Doctor Who villains are the Cybermen, this is the first video I saw on this channel and you got an instant subscribe the second I heard "These are the saddest bois around and they don't even know it" because YES
DAVIS I do too, I grew up there and I remember how excited I got when I watched The Lodger and Closing time. Even though neither of those episodes are actually filmed in Colchester😅
I don't particularly like the Chibnall era, however, Ascension of the Cybermen was freaking awesome. My ONLY criticism with the episode is that the Master is back, which was honestly a real letdown at the end for me. I really, really wish that the Master would f@ck right off out of every and any Cybermen appearances. Unfortunately, it seems his presence in this episode and the next works and is essential and kind of promotes that the Master and Cybermen are entwined. The Daleks, Jackson Lake, Miss Hartigan, Craig Owens, and the Master/Missy have taken the Cybermen's spotlight for far too long and the Cybermen seriously deserve their own story, but, for some reason, they're the only villain that doesn't, having to share their stories because they're usually finales. :( This episode sticks to the show's lore and builds on it, it was pretty amazing! I felt like a little kid while watching it which says a lot considering I'm someone who doesn't like the current state of Doctor Who. Interestingly, the Nightmare in Silver Cybermen are also survivors of the Cyberwars, so we have different 'colonies' now it seems. However, the Nightmare in Silver and Neil Gaiman have implied that the Cybus Cybermen of the parallel universe and our universe Cybermen met and integrated into one another's populations.
@@JackWProductions the Cybermen have been used as runts for the Master to command too many times and should never be mercenaries for anyone because it makes them look bad. Yes, I liked the how in Frontier in Space the Master and the Daleks teamed up, I thought that was really cool because they are both equals and the most powerful villains in the show. I think they need to do that again and bring back the Ogrons which would be just like the Orcs from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
@@thestigmister I totally agree, that was the last great Cyberman story. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, The Next Doctor, Closing Time, Nightmare in Silver, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls and all their miner appearances in other stories are all pretty decent stories, however, they all crap on the Cybermen in one way or another. I can't believe I'm actually saying this about Chris Chibnall, but, I think this finale could potentially be another great Cyberman story.
I always thought the cybermen would make a great metaphor for religious extremists. As in, 'We have found the secret to immortality, and we will share that with you, for your own good. All you must do, is remove/suppress any factors that make you distinct from our ideals. Behave as we do. Convert others. If you resist, or are too incompatible, you are only worthy of destruction.' I honestly thought this might be where the half-converted cyberman in season 12 was going.
Revenge of the Cybermen was my first Doctor Who serial. In the US, they would run an entire serial on Saturday nights on the Public Broadcast System, and young me was trying to find a reason to stay up late. My mom knew how much I loved sci-fi, so I was like: "Look, there are robots! I have to see this!" Even though it's pretty cheap looking, just this weird idea of a dude traveling through time foiling the plans of evil doers, including rolling trash cans with plungers and guys wrapped up in tin foil with flashlights on their heads, totally enchanted eleven year old me. And as I continued to watch, I got past the crappy special effects and learned the love the awesome stories. When the actors give it their all, you just kind of don't notice the f/x so much. Now, one of my favorite shows! And it's nice to know that the Daleks are out there to shut down the Cybermen when they get out of hand.
Honestly,I Would Love An Open World Doctor Who Game.Like Breath Of The Wild But In The Doctor Who World With A TARDIS. You Play As The Doctor,Your Own Version Of Them. You Spawn In London And Get A Mini Tutorial On How To Do Things Then You Are Just Left To Your Own Devices You Can Go To Different Planets,Fight Invasions And Even Pick Up Companions. Maybe,The Companions Can Even Decide To Leave And Even Die In Adventures It All Affects Your Doctor And Later Adventures. It Would Be Like The Lego Dimensions Doctor Who World,But x1000!!!
The Mondasian, Telos, Earthshock and Silver Nemesis designs do not have tear ducts the first Cybermen design to have tear ducts was the Wheel in Space design back in 1968 then was used in the invasion, revenge of the Cybermen, Cybus, Nightmare in Silver and Chibnalls designs.
But wasn't Telos made the new home-world of the Cybermen after Mondas was destroyed (the cyber-controller explicitly states this in Tomb of the Cybermen), so the Mondas Cybermen and the Telos Cybermen are the exact same thing.
I suspect we will need to do a Dallas... "Wow! Bobby! You are alive! What a crazy dream those last two years were!"... to fix this. The next show runner is going to have massive work to do to repair and the fans are just going to have to... buy it and move on...
OMG what was that at the end. Never mind, I don't think I want to know. All of Dr. Who timeline is jacked up. But hey, who cares. If it's a good story I am in.
My favorite design is the Cybus/Cyber Legion Design. The one introduced with 10, and I just hate the newer ones that came after that during 11's time because they look too much like Iron Man (especially cuz of the glowing chest and faster non-robotic movements). It really takes away from it all, I prefer a retro-futuristic style like the Cybus/Cyber Legion ones instead of generic modern sci-fi robots that you'd shoot in some video game.
It would be wired if one version of cyber men were die-hard protectors of a future human space colony, imagine if there was a old cybermen facility on the planet discovered while the coloniests were mineing and the cybermen are like "Greetings I'm (colony name) protection unit number 666 at your service." In a robotic voice yet human voice ones they have been reperposed.
I'd quite like to see the cybermen used in a more Faustian way. They just show up to a planet dying of plague or famine and don't force or attack anyone but just offer conversions. It would kinda play out like Children of Earth.
Or show it as 'the lesser of 2 evils' as the only way to survive and assault from another species or something.
Using the mondasian cybermen design would be nice too, they work do well cause they're so creepy. Possibly have a survivor cyberman that slowly upgrades a small village because of their worry of the plague. Have him like the lone cyberman, some of his emotions are still there and hes tricking them.
@@cybrmaTS genuinely would make them scary and interesting again.
Maybe they use an ambassador; a silver-tongued devil talking people into conversion while the Doctor has to out-argue them and skirts moral greyness as without conversion thousands will die from the plague, but is death better?
@@meris8486 That could be good. I'd take it this ambassador would be a human looking character- cybermen voices might not be the best at sounding smooth talking and convincing?
*You forgot about the Communism!* There's a reason why we've always asked for Daleks vs. Cybermen. It's a battle of ideology.
Exactly. I don't know if it's ever been confirmed that that is one of the ideas that created the Cybermen, but it's definitely interesting to look in to.
@nightowl
Reminds me of: "There is trouble with the trees for the maples want more sunlight and the Oaks ignore their pleas. But now the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw…" Just as cybermen make everyone equal through scalpels, bone saws and steel with an emotional inhibitor so you can act like none of it happened.
Communism minus transhumanism. Cybermen are transhumanists and communism is against transhumanism.
John Smith Who says communism is against transhumanism?
@@gavinpicard3003 Marx himself (and thus his proponents, be them Lenin, Stalin or any Marxist-Leninists or proponents of Marx's so-called Dialectic Materialism™ aka Hegelian ripoff). He was against any notion of transhumanism/eugenism, biological selection or evolutionary supremacy (although transhumanism as a concept may not strictly indicate a biological transcendence).
Your reply unfortunetaly tells me that you're not aware of his writings on the theory and practice of natural sciences and his unilateral bitch fight with Darwin, Wallace and Huxley or let's say his personal crusade as he was no man of science, yet he dabbled in the fields he had no knowledge therof.
There's a reason Marx and Engels opposed Darwinian evolution and Mendelian genetics and his successors, the Soviet Union made Lysenkoism the state religion by rejecting then modern genetics and biology. Holodomor was literally caused by this pseudo-scientific belief and damaged the Soviet agricultural development and hindered their exploration of the genetics. Stalin hanged or exiled many biologists who simply opposed Lysenkoism.
It seems like early Doctor Who writers also lacked the skills of the philosophy and or/history of science and thus drew the simple allegory of communism = transhumanism. No, communists are against transhumanism because it simply violates their main principle: equality, both in social and biological sense.
I think Cybermen are at their best when they play up the body horror and make it clear there are corpses in there and they're not just robots.
Do sontarans and rutans in 1 vid
My 2 favourite jokes about the Cybermen...
The Next Doctor:
Doctor: "Whoa, that's cheating sneaking up. Do you have your legs on silent?"
Death in Heaven:
Missy Cyberman: "Human weaponry is ineffective against Cyber technology."
Kate: "I'm sorry, you left this behind on one of your previous attempts." *throws down helmet from The Invasion*
Mine has to be from Doomsday
Dalek Thay: Cybermen are superior in only one respect
Cyberman: what is that?
Dalek Thay: you are better at dying
@@fear_cheetah2079 I'm pretty sure that it's Sec that says that. Also that reminds me of Bitch Fight in Canary Wharf...
@CheetaH I loved that episode, hilarious
TBH The 14 Cybermen were pussies when compared to the Mondas or Telos Cybermen.
@@Jedi_Spartan This is not war, this is Cyber Bullying
Making sense of Doctor Who timeline... Not even time lords can do that.
That's what gets me so upset from only TV watchers.
They think a story about a race, or The Doctor, traveling & altering events throughout time & space should be straight forward & have easy answers.
I feel like the best answers only give you more questions.
A lot of inconsistencies but very interesting
I just sort of handwave it. The Doctor changes history constantly, that there must be all sorts of branching timelines out there, some where the Cybermen come from Mondas, or Telos, or that other Mondas, or where they salvage parts from Pete's World Cybermen and so on.
@@DoinItforNewCommTech that is definitely what it is timelords can travel between dimensions and timelines so we know its possible though the doctor doesnt do it because its difficult.
Which means every change the doctor makes does change the time line to some degree it only makes sense things begin to change and events witnessed become different over time thats what playing time does.
They arnt evwn time lords anymore. There just fucking average aliens with doctor DNA spliced into them, bullllshit
Terrific theoretical analysis, however, I know, because I was a BBCtv visual effects assistant in the early eighties, that the iterations in the Cyberman design had less to do with the drive for innovation than the fact that we couldn't be arsed to check the tapes from the previous series to find out what they looked like. We guessed. Same applies to the Daleks. That's probably why the Cybermens' planet changed its name slightly. Somebody just mis-remembered. Dr Who is a work of genius. When making telly there is no real space; it is all illusional, and there is no real time because broadcast is delayed. It is an adventure in the process of its own creation.
Could not agree more.
This is an amazing reason for the Cybermen to keep changing.
“We forgot what they looked like so we just kinda guessed” is the most BBC thing to ever BBC.
The best Cyberman moment was the argument between them and The Daleks in “doomsday”
Rob Agreed
Best? No. Funniest? Certainly.
Guys just watch the youtube video " Bitch fight at the canary warfh "
Matthew Ford BUGGAR you took the words right out of my mouth
@@thecoloradokid5418 because of that joe vevers video I will ALWAYS refer to the battle of the canary wharf as the bitch fight of canary wharf
I miss Murray Gold. His Cyberman theme is just mwah 😘👌
@Bilbous Bagoda Greatest cybermen music was ending of "World Enough and Time".
I prefer the creepiness of Martin Slavin's "Space Adventure Parts 1-3"; but Murray Gold's music works for the Cybermen too.
I found it too repetitive and it was super played out, we needed a different tune
@@theentity5201 My Entity in Christ, I said that two years ago.
@@TheSparrrow I get that as well, it's a weird world we live in. When there's a thought
You know Johnny Lawrence in cobra kai first used Facebook and he saw his old girlfriends profile he liked ALL her photos every last one, his student migel face palmed silently
James corden wasn’t converted as they didn’t have a suit to fit him
Even the Cybermen can't reprogram Corden's massive ego
😳
Even if they just shoved his head in the helmet and blocked up the air holes.
Thomas Moir I thought they were gonna use that obese one that fought the sixth doctor
It would make for an interesting ark were a planet is dying and the cybermen have convinced the population that conversion is the only option for survival - and then the doctor shows up. Rather than the usual invasion.
Irrelevant12 ??? This would be a great concept!
Arc. But, y’know?
This sounds good. It could slowly develop starting from a place of people just helping to keep themselves alive through technology, so it can show more of a grey area,
I'd like to see one of these for The Slitheen. They've got a great design and despite only appearing as villains for 3 episodes in 2005, I swear they were used in promotions and merch for nearly a decade. I wanna know what those good gassy lads have been up to.
I'll make sure they're next on the pile! very biased towards my blathereen bitches
The sarah jane adventures kept using them too which was great. But yes i agree. They've always stuck in my head since i was 8 years old.
Daniel Pullella It was nice that they managed to get so many stories from the Slitheen and Blathereen.
Thanos: “I am inevitable.”
Cyberman: “We are inevitable.”
Thanos: *Gets killed by a magical rock collection*
Cyberman: *Gets killed by a magic screwdrivers*
Kieba How shiny gems, glowy screwdriver lol.
And gold. Ordinary, nonmagical, but shiny gold.
If I had brought back the Cybermen in the revival, i would've given them kind, melodic and peaceful sounding voices as a way of potentially luring people into conversion. It would make them much more unnerving and close to home what with Siri and Alexa nowadays, and would make a nice contrast to the Daleks.
Castellan of Gundabad that’s such a good idea
My personal favourite kind of Cyberstory are the few where they actually make a convincing case for conversion. The Flood is REALLY good at this, making true on the fact that they WOULD eradicate world hunger and poverty.
you know alexa listens to your conversations, so I think that is a great idea!!
A kind, melodic voice would work. And then have their voices change to the voices used in The Moonbase and Tomb of the Cybermen, which were created using an electrolarnyx.
@Atahualpa Inca or, cybermen made from timelords!
Oh, wait 😬
I actually really want a Genesis of the Cybermen, set on Mondas, potentially around 1966 as the original Tenth Planet was 86. Also, an Asylum would suit them far better then the Daleks because obviously the failure of the emotional inhibitor would lead to insanity, that the Cybermen would obviously incarcerate one for, perhaps for further assimilation.
They should've made the starter episode of Series 7 "The Asylum of the Cybermen". The Doctor and his companions are kidnapped by The Parliament of the Cybermen to traverse the Asylum finding horrible disfigured Mondasion, Earthshock, Tomb and Cybus Cybermen. Oswin Oswald is actually a half converted Mondasian Cyberman.
holy shit, this would've made x10 more sense!
And it’s only going to get more complicated with the series 12 finale
We need Cyber wars in the canon. Trust me, the potential is infinite.
nightowl That’s reality of why Doctor Who (and why there’s always a sizeable subset of casual viewers permanently hating on the show)- the reason it’s so awesome is the wiiiiiide potential. It was Hinchcliffe Who pointed out they could do *anything*.
Nah episodes were shit
@@MrLtia1234 There's a sizable amount of people hating on the show because Chibnill used the season 12 finale to take a fat hot steaming shit over 60 *YEARS* of established Doctor Who lore! Let us be a little mad about it!! (or was your comment from before that duce dropped?)
@@jacobredfield1386 It actually doesn't break Who-lore at all. What is actually did was fix a few old holes (believe me, there are plenty).
It was also pretty terrible, but those two facts aren't related, sorry.
They should do a story set in ancient Greece with cybermen but the cybermen look kinda like Spartan warriors or something because those are the materials and armour they have to convert people.
“This ones sassy” that line made me subscribe bc it came out of nowhere. 10/10. Actually Lol’d
Yes the "Colchester" episode. As a Colchester resident it really annoyed me, that seeing as most of the episode could be filmed in doors why the BBC didn't just chuck a few guys with a camera in a van and send them to Colchester to get some proper external establishing shots!!!
Y’know the fact that they didn’t actually film it in Colchester doesn’t bother me half as much as the fact that the entire episode is based around a big indoor shopping centre, despite Colchester not having a big indoor shopping centre.
That clip at the end will haunt me forever
The context of Jack's warning is worse than we all feared.
@@nightowl8477 Fucking hell, what DOES it want? I don't wanna know, actually...
@Rory Goodchild I did, it wants that sweet, sweet Cyberium.
The Cybermen always appear as a final act of desperation against human extinction. I feel like the toclofane were a type of Cyberman lineage. They are the last of humanity suffering the heat death of the universe and instead of removing emotions, they hard code themselves with a childlike personality, which becomes horrifying when they demonstrate their eagerness to kill with no consequence.
one of my favourite cyberman moments is when yvonne hartman gets converted and straight up blows up those cybermen while saying “i did my duty for queen and country” and cries an oil tear. shit hit me right in the feels
That one and the one with Bill "I waited, I waited, I waited for you". Both of these scenes bring me to tears every time.
The cyberman are such an amazing concept with such untapped potential
What bugs me is how cavalier they are with killing people, they should have tasers or anti-riot gear to incapacitate targets, their big guns should be reserved for warfare not skirmishes.
The worst thing you've ever seen is now the worst thing I've ever seen.
Thanks for that.
I'm not sure it's worth keeping track of timelines in Doctor Who, each show runner does their own thing.
Loving the Whitaker variants, very 70s.
It's definitely futile and takes the fun out, this is just a bit of fun parody of the idea that everything has to go on a consistent timeline
15 minute presentation. Ended by the "clown show" dancing with the stars. All i remember are the 2 dancers at the end of the video. Like for the research
Me (Before watching dr who last night): *I’m actually excited for Dr Who tonight! Excited for the Cybermen! All I want is a Cyberman army, I’ll be happy if there is a Cyberman army!*
Me (watching dr who last night): *Are those... Cyberman heads flying around?*
My brother: *Yep*
"We need a design for these Cyberdrones, can you come up with something?"
"Sure, how much time do we have?"
"About 3 minutes"
They're basically the kids from The Utopia/Last of the Timelords.
They're my favourite villains of all time. I wrote one story called 'Like a Doll's Eyes.' An alien doll-maker loses his daughter and then loses his mind, and - obsessed with preserving the next generation - converts hospital kids into Cyberdolls.
Such creepy imagery. No other villain is so broad, yet so defined. Brilliant concept!
Sounds phenomenal.
Sounds wonderfully disturbing, if the angels can make cherubs creepy then cybermen could make Dolls even creepier
Gawd! Please let me read that! Is it a Doctor Who story?
That actually sounds brilliant
That last episode was very fan wanky and I loved it. 80s Cybermen, Gallifrey and the Master. Perfect
80s cybermen? Where?
Daniel Pullella the Earthshock design.
@Bilbous Bagoda
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Considering they travel through time, I'm suddenly wondering why we don't have caveman cybermen.
Can't deplete the original stock!
I, too, have always wanted to a converted Adric story. Like, survived the crash by partially converting himself?
He decides to live in the shadows and get his vengeance on the Doctor.
It could work really well fer Big Finish . . .
Dunno if they could pull it off live action.
I'd play it more as that crazed Cyberman is their way in, leading to the sad reveal that the nearby organic matter / available mind was used. Either way, its wanky as hell- but would drive some much-needed closure out of Tegan Nyssa and 5.
14:57 I’ve never cringed so hard!!
Airwolf 276 my cheeks hurt from cringing
El Gweedy same
Ewwww that made me cringe
Tech10K me making that video?! Far from it!
I haven’t cringed that hard since Doctor in Distress
Never have I felt such disgust writhe across my face. That end clip is a sin and you have sinned for using it, DAVIS.
Still better than last season.
Apparently Star Wars has the possibility of Cybermen with the latest SWTOR expansion which mentions a species that relies on cybernetics and at some point they'd eventually get to the point of Cybermen... well it would be a possibility if Disney didn't nuke Star Wars: Legends.
Star wars + Doctor who..... Epic.
@@jeckjeck3119 Dumb.
@@provisionalhypothesis also said warp looks like hyperspace from Star Wars.
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And Jojo in Doctor Who. Now I want to see that. Bad Wolf will be Doctor's stand.
Doctor Who canon has always been an oxymoron.
Some idiot? You mean Moffat or the costume designer?
Also cyberwoman is clearly the best cyberman story.
EDIT: Holy hell, that thing at the end I will never again bash cyberwoman or Death in Heaven.
And written by the current showrunner.
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Sex gass too, lol.
@@jeckjeck3119 at least he didn't write the one where bad CGI fairies kill paedophiles. Torchwood S1 is amazing
The New series has been fuckin with the Cybermen ever since Nightmare in Silver.
Nightmare in Silver is a *wonderful* story, but it's a terrible *Cybermen* story.
I’ve been trying to make as much sense of this as possible this past week and just gave up, not even the writers could explain where their cybermen fit
I didn't know that I died and went to a hellish existence in where this monstrosity exists: 14:55
that hell is called prime-time british television
DAVIS: "When are we getting a converted Adric story, Big Finish?"
EVERYONE ELSE: "Never!"
Adric would make a good 80s cyber lieutenant because he’s a math nerd.
Has it ever been explained why the cybermen design always stays the same in New Who? It's always either the 2006 or 2013 design, e. g. episodes like The Doctor Falls, Nightmare in Silver, Dark Water and Rise of the Cybermen have nothing to do with each other
I just have to say, that bit at the end WTF?!
Beware the lone cybernan. He's gonna rock the dancefloor 🤣🤣🤣
2:26 This is accurate and as an American I REALLY hate that it is.
The Cybermen are this inexplicable mixture of terrifyingly efficient and also *incredibly* unlucky
I like this "broke cannon" series/format/thing
This was like a nice warm continuity hug to my canon frustrated brain
Woah woah woah..... You seemed to gloss over the Cyber Slitheen.
I NEED SLITHEEEEEÈEN!!!!!
Cyber Judoon too!!
Okay, I had to pause the video for a moment when that picture of the Cyberman taking a smoke break flashed up. I've never seen that image before, and it's fucking brilliant!
Humanity might be upgrading but old habits die hard even in circuitry.
Me 2017: Nothing can ever be worse than Moffat....
*Time passes*
Me 2020: *Incoherent screaming*
:)
What is it with superior alien species not being able to steer their own craft
Robocop is a cyberman.
Oh “The World Shapers”, your nonsensical attempt at canon fixing leading to more canon problems never ceases to amaze me!
Watching this video, I realize that the Cybermen are kind of incompent.
They just fuck up over and over, in a very distinctly human way.
Big Finish already did a sequel to Earthshock showing what happened to Adric, he became king of a group of scorpions in dinosaur times
To be fair, the Cybermen showing up in Victorian England in 'The Next Doctor' was apparently the result of the barriers breaking down because of the Daleks. The same plot device that lets 10, Donna, Rose & Meta-Crisis Doctor to go to Pete's World
If you can replace the cybermen with darleks it's a bad cybermen story
It's my personal belief that all the cybermen from telos and planet 14 were from ships sent from Mondas, send out into the universe to take over planets and find a new home world but that's my own head cannon.
Love, love, love your stuff!
I learn things I've never heard, & probably would never had due to so much extra content in PROSE/Audio.
Fun fact in age of steel the cyber man that was going to get married was originally supposed to be a 11 year old boy
Honestly, I’d love a story of a Cyberman who somehow escaped conversion early, still in Cyberman body, but their mind is their own, still with their emotions, but still connected to the hive mind network of the cyberiad and they have to try to keep their mind from being taken back into the hive and become a mindless, emotionless drone. Have the doctor end up trying to help them somehow
Girl in the fireplace could have been a perfect revival Cyberman origin.
Cole's cybermen who fought in the Last Great Time War are also worth mentioning.
9:19 that's awesome tho! Heaven on Mondas is another short script I've done. Basically all my ideas revolve around the Cybermen tbh. I'll never stop having ideas, they're such a good concept.
Love your work, Sam. You're a genuine original. Hope you're getting paid for some of it these days. Oh and don't worry about doing more conventional content. Well, OK, worry about it if it helps monetise your channel. Otherwise, keep on being Sam.
You forgot to mention the cyber gang war on r/daleksaresupreme there is a lot of lore there
James Corden is doctor who's scariest returning villain
I had a vision that we will see Matt Smith. CAN YOU SEE HIM NOOOOOOOO
Doctor 12 you’re favourite? He’s mine. Sorry that was random lol
yep
oh how unlucky you Now there's a new breed HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
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Earth is Mondas. The Tenth Planet is Mondas. Planet 14 is Marinus which is Mondas. I'm banking on it that Telos is gonna someday revealed to be Mondas.
well that was cyber bollocks , but they probly had them removed , oh well !
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Why oh why do people take Doctor Who cannon seriously? You are ruining the show for yourselves.
This is my exact opinion and this series is pointing fun at this fact.
@@provisionalhypothesis I'm glad somebody got the drill! I hope I don't have to preface every video with my dissertation on the misunderstandings of canon haha
The 1966 Cybes were Not "technophobia" they reflected the worries of an era where heart replacements were being pioneered along with other potential often technology based "fixes" to medical problems, and those working on these such as Dr Kit Pedlar (the creator of the Cybermen who worked with using cameras to help the blind see) the philosophical conundrum that worried them was, how much of a human being can you replace and still be human, if you replace too much do you lose your humanity? That's the Cybermen.
So...part of technophobia? You know you can start a point without derailing another.
I have a book about Cybermen written by David Banks who played Cybermen in Dr Who through out the 80's, at the back there is a short story that was written by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedlar called Genesis of the Cybermen it was a story of the origins of the Cybermen. It was written for a story within the series but sadly never got made, the story ends when refugees escape Mondas and flee to Earth, obviously suggesting these are the people the humans descended from.
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Here’s what I don’t get. How did the Mondasian Cybermen become the modern Cybermen when they’re trapped on that spaceship. I know they upgraded but what are the odds that they’d look exactly the same?
You have to overlook visual design or you'll be cursing yourself until the end of time
I don't think I'll ever forget when I was a little kid and saw The Five Doctors for the first time. In it, there was one shot where you could very clearly see the actor's mouth under the helmet (when they and the Master were coming to an agreement on the hill), and that absolutely terrified me. I'd already seen quite a few Cybermen episodes at that point, so I knew what they were about, but that mistake was what really made the fact that they were human underneath sink in, and that shook me to the core. I mean, I was a little kid (like maybe four or five), as far as I was concerned, that shit was real.
The 80's versions are probably my favorite, mostly from David Banks emoting more than a Cyberman probably should in his performances.
Holy shit I remember those doctor who flash games that used to be on the bbc website!
they were objectively good
Wasn't there at some point ape-like cybermen or is that my memory from however long ago it was I watched Dr Who playing up?
Pretty sure that's the Cybershades? From The Next Doctor with David Tennant
I effing loved that Cyber-risk flash game. Is it still up somewhere?
I believe it is all lost media :(
I have a new take for the Cybermen to be reintroduced to modern audiences. It would be amazing for the Cybermen revert back to Mondasian Cyberman. So rather than being killer robots, depression has become so prevalent that humans decidedly to give up their emotions and became drones. Devoid of all emotions, just working for the elites. All robotic slaves, willingly to give up their emotions, just not to feel the pain anymore.
That's sounds a bit like Cybermen's strategy from graphic novel "The Flood"
thank you for pointing out that it is not actually colchester. That has always annoyed me
does colchester even have a single shopping centre lol
@@SamyulDavis not really. Tbh there's not really anything in Colchester
@@joelong7273 it's where i want to live!
Yeah..the history starts at 5:05
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As someone who's favorite Doctor Who villains are the Cybermen, this is the first video I saw on this channel and you got an instant subscribe the second I heard "These are the saddest bois around and they don't even know it" because YES
I’m so glad you know that’s not Colchester.
Colchester is no where near that nice and that’s probably why they chose not to film there lmao.
I love Colchester :'((((
DAVIS I do too, I grew up there and I remember how excited I got when I watched The Lodger and Closing time.
Even though neither of those episodes are actually filmed in Colchester😅
I don't particularly like the Chibnall era, however, Ascension of the Cybermen was freaking awesome. My ONLY criticism with the episode is that the Master is back, which was honestly a real letdown at the end for me. I really, really wish that the Master would f@ck right off out of every and any Cybermen appearances. Unfortunately, it seems his presence in this episode and the next works and is essential and kind of promotes that the Master and Cybermen are entwined. The Daleks, Jackson Lake, Miss Hartigan, Craig Owens, and the Master/Missy have taken the Cybermen's spotlight for far too long and the Cybermen seriously deserve their own story, but, for some reason, they're the only villain that doesn't, having to share their stories because they're usually finales. :( This episode sticks to the show's lore and builds on it, it was pretty amazing! I felt like a little kid while watching it which says a lot considering I'm someone who doesn't like the current state of Doctor Who. Interestingly, the Nightmare in Silver Cybermen are also survivors of the Cyberwars, so we have different 'colonies' now it seems. However, the Nightmare in Silver and Neil Gaiman have implied that the Cybus Cybermen of the parallel universe and our universe Cybermen met and integrated into one another's populations.
@@JackWProductions the Cybermen have been used as runts for the Master to command too many times and should never be mercenaries for anyone because it makes them look bad. Yes, I liked the how in Frontier in Space the Master and the Daleks teamed up, I thought that was really cool because they are both equals and the most powerful villains in the show. I think they need to do that again and bring back the Ogrons which would be just like the Orcs from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit
At least we have the Age of Steel from series 2. That was pure cybermen.
@@thestigmister I totally agree, that was the last great Cyberman story. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, The Next Doctor, Closing Time, Nightmare in Silver, Dark Water/Death in Heaven, World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls and all their miner appearances in other stories are all pretty decent stories, however, they all crap on the Cybermen in one way or another. I can't believe I'm actually saying this about Chris Chibnall, but, I think this finale could potentially be another great Cyberman story.
I always thought the cybermen would make a great metaphor for religious extremists. As in, 'We have found the secret to immortality, and we will share that with you, for your own good. All you must do, is remove/suppress any factors that make you distinct from our ideals. Behave as we do. Convert others. If you resist, or are too incompatible, you are only worthy of destruction.' I honestly thought this might be where the half-converted cyberman in season 12 was going.
The original borg.
Revenge of the Cybermen was my first Doctor Who serial. In the US, they would run an entire serial on Saturday nights on the Public Broadcast System, and young me was trying to find a reason to stay up late. My mom knew how much I loved sci-fi, so I was like: "Look, there are robots! I have to see this!" Even though it's pretty cheap looking, just this weird idea of a dude traveling through time foiling the plans of evil doers, including rolling trash cans with plungers and guys wrapped up in tin foil with flashlights on their heads, totally enchanted eleven year old me. And as I continued to watch, I got past the crappy special effects and learned the love the awesome stories. When the actors give it their all, you just kind of don't notice the f/x so much. Now, one of my favorite shows! And it's nice to know that the Daleks are out there to shut down the Cybermen when they get out of hand.
4:57 What comic is that?
Also, I laughed pretty hard.
Please do a Broke Canon for the Autons next
Honestly,I Would Love An Open World Doctor Who Game.Like Breath Of The Wild But In The Doctor Who World With A TARDIS.
You Play As The Doctor,Your Own Version Of Them.
You Spawn In London And Get A Mini Tutorial On How To Do Things
Then You Are Just Left To Your Own Devices
You Can Go To Different Planets,Fight Invasions And Even Pick Up Companions.
Maybe,The Companions Can Even Decide To Leave And Even Die In Adventures
It All Affects Your Doctor And Later Adventures.
It Would Be Like The Lego Dimensions Doctor Who World,But x1000!!!
The Mondasian, Telos, Earthshock and Silver Nemesis designs do not have tear ducts the first Cybermen design to have tear ducts was the Wheel in Space design back in 1968 then was used in the invasion, revenge of the Cybermen, Cybus, Nightmare in Silver and Chibnalls designs.
But wasn't Telos made the new home-world of the Cybermen after Mondas was destroyed (the cyber-controller explicitly states this in Tomb of the Cybermen), so the Mondas Cybermen and the Telos Cybermen are the exact same thing.
I thought I'd repressed the Pterodactyl punch until now.
I suspect we will need to do a Dallas... "Wow! Bobby! You are alive! What a crazy dream those last two years were!"... to fix this. The next show runner is going to have massive work to do to repair and the fans are just going to have to... buy it and move on...
One way to look at Cybermen and Daleks, Cybermen=Evolutionists - Daleks=Creationists.
OMG what was that at the end. Never mind, I don't think I want to know.
All of Dr. Who timeline is jacked up. But hey, who cares. If it's a good story I am in.
My favorite design is the Cybus/Cyber Legion Design. The one introduced with 10, and I just hate the newer ones that came after that during 11's time because they look too much like Iron Man (especially cuz of the glowing chest and faster non-robotic movements). It really takes away from it all, I prefer a retro-futuristic style like the Cybus/Cyber Legion ones instead of generic modern sci-fi robots that you'd shoot in some video game.
It would be wired if one version of cyber men were die-hard protectors of a future human space colony, imagine if there was a old cybermen facility on the planet discovered while the coloniests were mineing and the cybermen are like "Greetings I'm (colony name) protection unit number 666 at your service." In a robotic voice yet human voice ones they have been reperposed.