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[andrewducker]

No Daleks in new Doctor Who

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[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Why bother, then?

Shee.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

Good. If they were going to use old monsters, the Cybermen are much cooler anyway.

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

Looks like they made a deal with The Sun instead.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

They'll be in the 2nd series. Guaranteed.

I'm wary of the old monsters showing up when it's trying to establish itself again, (the Cybermen have never been in a good story and wouldn't work in the 21st C without a serious re-write), but I reckon a new Master or Rani (played straight) would be great and hard to screw up.

The first story (Xmas this year?) has the creepy and potentially good Autons. [killer mannequins].

[andrewducker]

The cybermen have great potential, especially as they're now culturally relevant, what with artificial limbs and neural implants now being science fact...

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Even just having it as simple as them being humans from the future (and allowing some freedom with individual designs) and there's a workable idea.

However the cool stuff was long buried under a mountain of useless continuity (Telos, Mondas..? Does it matter?) I'm confident that a revamped Cyber-race would be great, but using them as they are (without dumping all the crap) would be hugely disappointing and a waste of potential.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

The CybermenBorg are the only truly chilling alien race new Trek ever stolecame up with.