RICKY VS MICKEY! | Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 5 "Rise of the Cybermen" Reaction! 

If you remember back to the 'Dalek' episode in season 1, you saw an old style cyberman head in Van Statten's museum.

One thing the new producers liked to do was bring back old enemies of the Doctor. Partly for nostalgic reasons (at least for older viewers), but also because they always seem to present interesting stories.

​@@ronfehr7899there's a reason they are classics.

Mandatory "Welcome to the UK we have seven actors" joke

The late, lamented, Roger Lloyd-Pack who will forever be remembered as "Trigger" from "Only Fools and Horses".

Indeed it is for that reason that the finale of Series 1 was titled Parting of the Ways, that's the title of the last chapter of Goblet of Fire.

Cybermen are more scary than daleks. Daleks kill you but cybermen take out your brain and turn you into a soldier! Great 2 parter.

​@@fayesouthall6604 cybermen have always been the most underrated villains to me, cause they never really get utilised properly but then once in a while there's a story where their absolutely horrifying concept and backstory is used perfectly, season 10 eps with bill are another favourite of mine

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The irony is, those teardrops were originally just cooling holes drilled into the existing helmets, because the actors were overheating inside. But the resulting effect/metaphor was so great, they've been brought back as a deliberate feature. =:o}

he had the biggest and best character development in all the series...

SPOILERS And we have the third one showing up next series!

As well as Vicar of Dibley

Same I do too. The second episode is really great.

Next one is awesome

And yeah, they picked Roger Lloyd-Pack to portray John Lumic. Gotta love the BBC, eh :)

Also...Oh Emme, the Cybermen are in no relation to any character from the Wizard of Oz. I'd tell you more, but...Spoilers ;)

hint...look at the eyes of a Cyberman.

To be fair it did happen at about the same time; although I have always wondered if it might have been destabilising that he kept pushing that button for so long - maybe him doing so put them in the wrong setting. The doctor should pay attention and stop flurting with Rose

@@quintuscrinis8032 I dunno . . . if a detour into an alternate reality was the only negative consequence, I think I would choose to flirt with Rose, too! 🌹😍

Pedler was a doctor who specialised in eye diseases, not a surgeon. He later got involved in parapsychology (ESP, the paranormal, ghosts etc).

Pedlar was actually hired as the show's scientific advisor. His first contribution was the basis of "The War Machines", and then he and Davis together created the Cybermen.

@@therealpbristow I don't think he was "hired" per se, as it was an unofficial position, and I've never been able to find out how many stories he was asked to advise on.

@@ftumschk Fair point; I should have said "brought in". =:o} His definite, credited contributions are "the War Machines" (where he worked with writer Pat Dunlop (father of actress Leslie), until Pat got a new gig elsewhere and Ian Stuart Black took over), and the creation of the Cybermen, as well as storylines/draught scripts for several subsequent Cybermen stories (some of which are credited solely to him - probably because Gerry Davis wasn't allowed to be credited as writer at the same time as script editor). I would guess Gerry would have discussed other ideas with him, some of which would end up in the show and some not, but there's really only a couple of other stories over that period that might have needed any input from a science advisor. "The Power of the Daleks" re-uses some established (completely wrong!) "science" about static electricity, much beloved of its writer David Whitaker, so no input needed there (the idea of a mercury swamp is more likely to have come from Whitaker's interest in the ideas/history of alchemy - where mercury plays a big role - than from Kit). "The Underwater Menace" might potentially have benefitted from some comments about hydrodynamics and/or genetic manipulation...? "The Macra Terror" plays with the idea of aliens requiring a completely different atmosphere to Earth-based life, which *might* have been something Kit raised; And then comes "The Evil of the Daleks" which (1) just re-uses David Whitaker's "magical" interpretation of what static electricity can do, plus (2) was the point where Gerry Davis was handing over the reigns of script editor, thus becoming free to *officially* co-write "The Tomb of the Cybermen" with Kit. There's no indication that any of the subsequent script editors called on Pedlar except as a source of Cyberman story outlines, and I think it was probably Terrance Dicks who later commented that on "Doctor Who" you don't really need a scientific advisor, and if anything they'd just get in the way! =:o}

@@therealpbristow Thank you so much for that interesting response :)

In the seventh Doctor episode "Battlefield" we had an invasion from a parallel universe in which the Arthurian legends were fact. The Doctor is recognised by Morgaine as Merlin.

Don’t 🤦🏻‍♂️ say stuff like this Jesus Christ

Nice spoiler, mate... Jesus.

Torchwood began with NEXT season! And if she watches the first episode of Torchwood, there is a massive spoiler for this season, so she really shouldn't watch it before this season is over.

Jesus it’s been a day, delete this comment. How can you not see anything wrong with it???

This is not a reboot.

What about the Land of Fiction or Fenric?

I think I remember reading that the US and Europe have different FPS (frames per second) when it comes to streaming, etc, so that will probably be why. I think the US is like 4 or 5% faster.

They did only in Inferno and the E-Space trilogy.

​@@mayotango1317There was also an invasion from another parallel universe in the seventh Doctor story "Battlefield". In the other universe the Arthurian legends were real history and after crossing over into our Universe Morgaine recognises the Doctor as Merlin.

it goes with the "cyber" theme besides, "exterminate" was already taken

​@y00t00b3r True. I was just thinking morally. Sometimes people use certain words, so that their actions don't sounds so bad.

As the options are to be upgraded to a machine or not, the phrase Deleted sounds much nicer than "Scrapped"

Classic era Cybermen would simply say "Kill them!" in the main. "Delete!" was almost certainly an attempt to give them a catchphrase to rival the Daleks' iconic "Exterminate", but it always felt a bit lame imho.

​@ftumschk That actually reminded me of the beginning of the episode, when John Lumic actually says "kill him." He did use the word 'kill'.

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