![]() It’s clear those behind the scenes had immense love of the Cybermen, with references to some of their greatest stories and deepest lore. The awesome synth piece I rambled on about in my “Full Circle” review returns and is tastefully subtle… too bad they didn’t bother with the 60s Cybermen theme (you know the one) in any sort of prominent way. The music of this episode is excellent utilizing leitmotifs for many characters, especially Adric. The sheer number of female characters in prominent roles was a surprise to be sure but a welcome one. This human aspect of the Cybermen is their scariest part. Aspects like the human jaw being visible parallels the human hands of the “Tenth Planet” design. The Cybermen costumes in particular are awesome. The production value of this story is absolutely stunning, from amazing sets to gorgeous costumes. All this insanity leads to the reveal of the Cybermen and it picks up nothing but steam! The Doctor and crew are dropped in, already plagued by interpersonal conflict. We are thrown into a tense reconnaissance mission in mysterious, dinosaur bone riddled caves. While I had heard of many of the iconic moments I was really not prepared for how perfectly it was all executed. They’re just the puppets though the real shit’s going to hit the fan when their Cybermen masters step out of the shadows and unveil their plan to blow up the Earth in order to cancel a conference. We get a wholly unrelated lesson about the untimely demise of the dinosaurs, on which surely the serial title bears no relevance, when - kablammo! - Cue the killer androids, who have been waiting stage left to come and turn everyone to goop. Meanwhile in the TARDIS, Adric’s off to a great start and is successfully making everyone wish he was dead by being even more of an annoying brat than usual.ĭoc can’t take it anymore, so lands the TARDIS on Earth, in some coincidental caves of course, and has to go for a walk to calm himself down. The one survivor leads a troop of soldiers back into the caves to find out what happened and, hopefully, rescue anyone else who managed to escape being slaughtered. ![]() Earth the future soldiers caves: normally you’d only get to pick two of these to make a Doctor Who serial, but we’re being treated with all four of them right from the start! The hullabaloo this time is that a group of palaeontologists and geologists have been murder-killed while poking about underground.
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