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Classic Who "Attack of the Cybermen" Part 2 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Andrew Vignaux

"I'm not interested in the Cryons.", "There's compassion for you.", Peri and Lytton, "Attack of the Cybermen" This was a story I was looking forward to you watching - because of the explict horror in the Cyber-conversions which resonates with your stated appreciation of the Cybermen concept. "Ah, escape. They all talk about that for the first few minutes, then they become depressed. It's the locked door and the armed guard that's the unsolvable problem.", Flast, "Attack of the Cybermen" The director had the idea of changing all the Cryons to female and adding all the hand-waving gestures and the nails. The Cryons were written in the script as a tough group of resistance fighters - and certain scripted lines in the script still show the cynicism of a resistance cell. But perhaps the scripted lines of cynicism don't match all the hand stuff. BTW: one of the other Cryons, Threst, was played by Esther Freud - and keeping it in the family, her husband would later face the Cybermen himself as "The Next Doctor". "I know that you plan to steal or destroy my time vessel. You will tell me how it is to be done.", Cyber-Controller, "Attack of the Cybermen" That torture scene is pretty brutal for its time - showing the mangled, bloody hands. And then Lytton's Cyber-conversion and the Doctor's regret - a very interesting twist from what we all assumed at the start ofthe story. "I don't think I've ever misjudged anybody quite as badly as I did Lytton.", The Doctor, "Attack of the Cybermen"

Ryan

The first half was awkward enough, and this one ups the ante with a climactic fight even more incompetently choreographed than Solow vs. the Myrka. You half-expect Yakkity Sax to start playing. I also really take issue with the Doctor berating himself, and by extension us, for "misjudging" Lytton. Every second he's onscreen until his out of nowhere redemptive final act is spent pounding in that he's a bad guy who'd happily sell out anyone, so fuck off with that. You the writer don't get to shame us for taking your own art the deliberate way you made it. One more thing I should note: the major reason Mark Strickson left the show was frustration that the half hour format didn't allow for the proper amount of development, so the switch to hour-long immediately after must have felt like a real kick in the teeth.