Funny. This is the only time I've seen Warwick Davis portraying a 100% human character... and it had to be in a TV show with aliens, and space robots, and time travel :sweat_smile:
Good episode, except for the Gollum scenes and Angie being insufferable.
9/10
Superb
would have been a
10/10 but deducted a
mark because that Angie
was bloody annoying the
ungrateful little shit.
I absolutely loved The new
Cybermen and their new
design they looked so
modern and sleek, I'm
so glad they stick to this
new design right into
season 8 and 10.
Giving them super speed
was frickin awesome and
the effects were so damn
cool I loved it, you can't
do anything about that,
I just wish they kept that
as a feature throughout.
Great idea though giving
The Cybermen Borg abilities
to adapt to any weapon
or attack that was awesome
and again that feature
should have been kept,
The Borg and
The Cybermen both strive
for perfection after all.
Matt Smith knocked it
clean out the ball park
with his performances
in this, he's a Stella
actor, he absolutely put
in an outstanding
performance.
The Cyber-Planner was
a good baddie, I loved
how high the stakes were
in this episode.
I absolutely love how
The main drive is to find
out about Clara
The Impossible Girl,
she's so interesting.
And we are finally here
THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR
THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR
THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR.
(no more words needed).
Giving cybermen super speed is a terrible idea, even if it was only used once in the episode? Why? Why under-utilize it once introducing it and then waste it by never using it again?
One, it takes away any tension about their threat completely.
Two, cybermen used to be intimidating, partially because they were slow yet powerful and deadly beings. Yet the super speed takes that away completely.
Three, it's even more unrealistic because it's a huge chunk of heavy metal you've given super speed.
I don't like the new cyberman design. It's quite shiny and not at all the solid stainless steel that was the earlier design. The earlier design was better shaped too.
Why would the cybermen need children and not adults? They really couldn't do anything with adults? No, that makes no sense at all. And if they were that desperate for children they could just take two adults and make a child.
Why didn't the super speed cyberman just kill them all?
These cybermen were weak to gold? A thin wafer of gold? No.
They were originally susceptible to water even though they're encased in metal? And water being so common everywhere and a basic element they were really that susceptible to it?
Where did all those hundreds or thousands of cybermen come from?
Feels like a messy episode.
Possibly Matt Smith's worst performance.
I don't like the cyberplanner character much.
The emperor was an underdeveloped character.
I'm not a fan of children in episodes, especially with such villains as these, but it felt like they were a waste after the beginning, they could have been utilized better, or if the rest of the episode was better than i wouldn't mind them not being utilized. Also the girl was annoying. Just an annoying know-it-all who didn't react to anything going on. No fear or anything except arrogance at all the danger going on around. How hard is it not to make a child an arrogant know-it-all?
I'm also getting a bit sick of the "impossible girl" story arc.
There is no depth to this epsiode, except perhaps a little in the undercooked duel between the doctor and the cyberplanner.
Now think about the season TWO episodes that have the cybermen. In those episode it is explored how humans become cybermen, the horrifying and traumatic process of a human to be turned into one of these creatures, to be mutilated and to have your emotions stripped from you. These aspects are emphasized and showcased.
And we see what happens when a part of their humanity is returned to them in these metal bodies, the utter confusion, the turmoil, the trauma, the existential dread, the horrifying re-awakening of your existence inside such a being. We saw this in broad strokes, and we also saw it in individual moments like when the doctor cradled one of them, which turned out to be a woman, and we saw her heartbreaking confusion and sadness about once getting married, her memories confused because of the trauma she had been through. And then it gets deeper, as we see the doctor actually end her life, end her suffering.
That is depth. That is part of why i love those two season 2 episodes. Absolutely nothing in "nightmare in silver" comes close to that emotional depth.
And that's not all. I could go on and on, about how it's not just depth that were in those episodes, but we actually saw the instant threatening power of the cyberman, individually and collectively, it was awesome. Like when the cybermen invaded the party. When the guy tried to talk to it the cybermen touched and killed him instantly, setting off a screaming panic among everyone as the cybermen started killing people and hunting everyone down.
Nothing in "nightmare in silver" comes close to that kind of threat, or drama, or excitement, or well executed action.
If you actually want to contribute well and effectively to a show, and a mythos, especially when it comes to iconic, classic villains, then you need to step your game up. Either in all aspects or a specific aspect (like well executed action, or emotional depth for example). And you need to look at what past interpretations have done and analyze what they did right and what could be improved on.
Matt Smith's acting is just wonderful in this one. It makes the whole episode imo.
I'm so over Cybermen stories, even if they're written by Neil Gaiman. Too bad, since they're one out of five of the most used/recurring plot devices. haha
Shout by JimmyVIP 2BlockedParent2020-08-25T18:15:26Z
The Neil gaiman episode! My biggest problem with this episode was how annoying Angie was. Unfortunately not my favourite episode which is a shame coz Neil Gaiman is a legend.