The story relies on the Doctor’s big speech at the end to tie everything together, a scene that calls for David Tennant to bust out the ham. Pete reluctantly gets in the van. Mickey meanwhile, lowers a ladder from the Zeppelin for the Doctor and the others. As has been the case so many times before, he knows he was useless, but he swears to be better. They share an emotional farewell, and Rose tearfully returns to the TARDIS, which dematerialises before Jake's astonished eyes. The Cybermen debuted in Hartnell’s final story and became the most iconic monsters of the late ‘60s, featuring in a number of excellent Patrick Troughton serials, but they never achieved the same sort of cultural cachet. One Cyberman catches sight of its reflection and shakily touches the image, emitting heartrending gasping sounds as the human inside it realises what it has become; the Doctor can only solemnly tell it, "I'm sorry.". The Doctor and Mrs Moore will enter the factory from below, through the cooling tunnels. I quoted the exchange up top, and what makes it so powerful is that, for those lines, it’s just Mickey and Rose again. Before the TARDIS first materialized in the Powell Estate, Mickey didn’t exactly have it all, but he was happy. They grab him by the foot and electrocute him as Mickey watches in horror from the other side. They panic and flee the factory screaming in terror, the Cybermen that try to stop them being knocked aside like skittles in their panic. Despite not being filmed in HD, the Blu-Ray features an upscaled picture and fewer compression artefacts. There would then be one or two episodes, often written by Davies, that would tie up any loose ends and attempt to save as much money as possible in anticipation of the big finale. However, they do not notice a red light flashing at their passing. Rita’s decision to kick Eddie out of the house might feel a tad anachronistic, but let’s not forget what show we’re watching. The two then climb into the airship. View production, box office, & company info. Mickey goads the Cyberman into punching him, ducking out of the way at the last second so it punches through the steel plate protecting the transmitter control instead. He only joined Lumic to feed information to the Security Services but instead got the Preachers. The episode ends on a nice character moment for Tommy and Eddie, but the whole thing feels adjacent to a partially realized moment for Rose. There are occasional hints in “Rise Of The Cybermen” that this Earth is in far worse shape than our own: Don Warrington’s President of Great Britain declares it a “sick world,” while the military-enforced curfews and the floating zeppelins suggest an even unhealthier divide between the haves and the have-nots. There’s potential for something special here, but the ideas aren’t developed in sufficient detail. The scene in which Rose tells the Doctor about Mickey’s past and realizes how much they take him for granted is a much-needed moment of introspection for the characters; it’s also a good reminder that Rose is still the human to the Doctor’s alien. Under threat of execution, as the Preachers view him as a traitor due to his association with Cybus, Pete reveals that he is actually "Gemini", the source of the Preachers' inside information on Lumic. At least the Cybermen are defeated in a way that only the Cybermen could be. • Genesis! The way in which they want to help is insane, because what can a world of Cybermen possibly do next? Rose and Pete are captured and taken to Cyber Control as the Cyberman that was once Jackie fades back into the mass of identical steel creatures. Mrs Moore calls up a schematic of the factory, which shows old cooling tunnels that lead beneath it. In his second effort for Doctor Who, writer Mark Gatiss can’t match his work on “The Unquiet Dead.”. They all walk slowly towards the factory to be converted into Cybermen. Lumic may have an army, but he is forgetting about the ordinary people, and even an ordinary person — some "idiot" — can save the world. Season 10 actually began nine years after season 1 started. The Cyberman on the zeppelin comes to life in response to the silent alarm and tries to kill Mickey and Jake. The Daleks were great monsters just waiting to be brought back, whereas the Cybermen were great concepts for monsters with a history of tangled continuity and lackluster execution. A wall slides back and reveals what was once Lumic, now a specialised Cyberman with glowing eyes and a transparent braincase, seated upon a mechanical throne. Mickey also had a moment of decisive character development, discarding his clumsy, cowardly nature to become a braver, confident, and focused man of action and heroism. For that brief moment, the Doctor doesn’t matter, because the Doctor wasn’t there on the estate, growing up and dreaming of all the things they might someday do. That’s a fantastic idea for a villain, but it requires rather more development than Maureen Lipman shouting “Hungry!” over and over. The officer witnesses a lengthy domestic dispute and makes no comment whatsoever, which is particularly odd when you consider Bishop was presumably the man to whom Eddie was informing. RICKY: What the hell was that Jake wants to kill them, but Mickey makes him realise that if he does, there's no difference between him and a Cyberman. Can the series keep it up at this level? This two-parter plays up the body horror of becoming a Cyberman, even if the show’s family-friendly timeslot means all upgrades occur off-screen (and the whirring knives and lasers don’t exactly represent the show’s most convincing CGI). He did great work as the rejected, hypocritical boyfriend in “Boom Town,” and he conveyed the full impact of Mickey’s decision to help Rose get back to the Doctor in “The Parting Of The Ways.” But this two-parter asks so much more of him than any previous story, and he excels. He calls Rose and tells her to make for the roof. However, in the process of fleeing, the Cybermen catch up with Ricky while he is climbing a fence, Mickey on the other side. To add insult to injury, the Doctor never even noticed what he had done to Mickey, instead taking childish pleasure in dismissing “Ricky the idiot.”. So much of Mickey’s story in this story is built around his recognizing that he will always be surplus to requirements—a “spare part,” in a rather nice nod to the two-parter’s inspiration—as long as the Doctor and Rose have each other. When Jake and Mickey drive off at the end of the episode, ostensibly in London, a sign showing they are in Newport is clearly visible. Inside the tunnels, the hundreds of Cybermen suddenly awake and the Doctor and Mrs Moore quickly escape just in time through a hatch which the Doctor seals behind them. (DWMSE 14), Along with inspiration from Parts, writer Tom MacRae was supplied the television serials The Tenth Planet, The Tomb of the Cybermen, Earthshock, the DWM comic story The Flood and David Banks' Doctor Who: Cybermen. Even then, Lumic is so insane that he can’t truly be considered responsible for his actions; the only man brilliant enough to invent the Cybermen is so mad he can’t understand the horror of what he created. They must get inside the factory and shut it down. 13 of 19 people found this review helpful. In a reflection of just how quickly technology marches on, this portrayal already feels a bit dated. Suddenly, a Cyberman approaches them, identifying Pete. Lumic and the Cybermen are forcing the population to "upgrade" to cold, emotionless creatures like themselves. Rose and Mickey reminisce about their childhood and how they wondered what they would do with their lives, never imagining they would be travelling to the stars. I don’t want to overstate this phenomenon; after all, “Dalek” and “Father’s Day,” both classics of the first season, were broadcast in between “Aliens Of London”/“World War Three” and “The Empty Child”/“The Doctor Dances.” But consider “The Long Game,” which sit at the precise midpoint of season one, just as “The Idiot’s Lantern” does here in the second season. With David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke. But give Mickey time, and he always proves himself to be immensely resourceful. It does seem a bit of a shame that John Lumic was upgraded before he met the Doctor, which means we never get a proper face-off between, “I’m London’s Most Wanted for parking tickets.” “Great.” “Yeah, they were deliberate. Considering Rose’s own failed reunion with the parallel Pete Tyler in the preceding story, her words to Tommy should carry massive emotional weight, as though she is urging Tommy to do something that she desperately yearns to do but is forever unable to. But the very lunacy of Lumic’s motivations suggests that the Doctor is correct, that Lumic started out with corrupt but understandable intentions and just lost sight of everything. (03 Nov 2006). Ricky is just who Mickey would be if he lived in a slightly harsher world (and, perhaps, wasn’t held back by his love for Rose). He makes the most of his spare part status, coolly realizing that the Doctor is never going to chase after him when Rose is walking away in the other direction. To Pete and Rose's horror, it reveals that it was once Jackie Tyler. The Doctor and Rose’s relationship has become so intense, even codependent, that Mickey is the only reason they ever give each other any space. He’s the only Cyberman not affected by the deactivation of the emotional inhibitor, after all.

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