Nobby Is Not Allowed To Do, Hence Nobody Can Know What Nobby Does, And I Most Certainly Hope That Nobby

sylens, the focus isn’t the only thing that’s projecting

If I ever die and the Discworld version of Death specifically isn’t there I’m coming back

Let's get you in the box, fish. It might be a squeeze but I'm sure you can manage.

put me in the 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box coach!!! I'm all fired up, I'm ready!!!!!

This is peak 2005 Dr Who.

finally watching this stupid show

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.”

Classical war poster. I don't know what a "fuck boy" is.

I Want YOU For the Skeleton War! Cmon! Let us get hiring!

If Doctor Who was what I was looking for all the time, I'd have probably gotten bored tbh.

I don't like everything on the menu, but a world of the most wonderful pies will get boring no matter how good the pies are. Even a restaurant gives you a palette cleanser so you can fully enjoy the courses of the meal, and aren't debating whether the starter is better or worse than the main because those two were had so close to one another despite serving fundamentally different functions.

Perhaps the reason some people don't like everything Doctor Who has to offer is because it's not even what they're looking for. That's fair.

It's such a shame too, the original version was a human-like group who had to change themselves into these cybernetic monsters just to survive. They wanted to convert humans as a mercy.

I feel like there's something valuable in the Moffat era in how often they independently crop up, and in the classic era for being able to see just a little bit of the actor.

Maybe there could be some kind of transhumanist story, where people actively become cybermen in an experiment to circumvent the need to terraform a planet so they can go out and collect resources on a struggling colony. It could have been going well for a while. These cybermen could have names, like the original, and eventually people decide to undergo conversion to reduce the resources needed to get by. Or the cybermen, seeing their people continuing to suffer, decide to remove that suffering by force.

IDK, just thought it'd be an interesting story idea.

the concept of the cybermen is magnificent. it's creepy. it's disturbing. it's the terror of undeath and the horror of coming back wrong. it's the endless march of capitalism, it's the commodification of disability aids, it's the ceaseless machinations of time. it's monopolisation. it's euthanasia as a substitute for healthcare. it's a lot of things. unfortunately many cyberman appearances can be boiled down to "scary army of robots invades" and frankly if i wanted to watch fiction about a robot and not the cybermen i'd just put on, well, robot.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Daleks aren't all that different. They just happened to become mutants in dustbin-shaped tanks instead of replacing their bodies with prosthetics.

Either way, it's an otherwise incapable life form trapped inside a cold metal life support unit that suppresses every desire that might obstruct the will to dominate and expand, engineered to survive any environmental hazard and most ballistic weapons.

The Master seems to like cybermen in New Who. Genuinely, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't responsible for Mondas at this point.

New Who absolutely committed to the bit that if you leave a humanoid civilization long enough, they will eventually reinvent the cybermen

really i think the key difference between david tennant and peter capaldi as fans of the show they were in is that david tennant's childhood obsession shows through when he comes face to face with elisabeth sladen in school reunion with all the joy of someone who was in love with the show as a kid in the 70s. you know, like a normal person. (by doctor who standards.) whereas peter capaldi's childhood obsession shows through when he comes face to face with creepy mummy-like cybermen based off a partly-lost william hartnell serial which is deeply deeply disturbing on a psychological level with all the glee of someone who was disturbed on a psychological level by the show as a kid in the 60s