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I really liked this. It contained several characters whom I found interesting and entertaining. I guessed that either the Daleks or Cybermen had returned, as the writers kept the villain's identity a secret until the last possible moment. Cliffhanger! I don't know if they were particularly better this time around, but they were vastly more interesting than The Wheel in Space.
Only chapters one and four do not exist, so I was saved a relative amount of pain and rolling in agony. I'm not going to miss these reconstructions.
Evil Chen is BACK!!! Actually this time he is evil Vaughn. He basically plays the same role, only this time he's trying to control the Cybermen who are taking over the planet. He thinks he can command them, which of course isn't going to work very well. Like before, he has his own agenda. This time Vaughn has an evil sidekick. His name is Packer. He also does the voice of the Cybermen. Vaughn and Packer worked very well together, and it was rather entertaining watching them try to keep ahead of U.N.I.T., the Doctor, as well as the Cybermen. It's very exhausting when you have to fight a bunch of different groups, you see. Vaughn even writes the same way as before. Maybe he really doesn't know how to hold a pencil.
Vaughn redeems himself, which is more than I can say when he was Chen. The Doctor persuades him to be a nice guy for the good of humanity, and Vaughn agrees to help. I liked that, because that makes him a complicated character. He could have stayed evil, but he didn't. It was a real pity that the Cybermen killed him in the end.
The machine that Vaughn invents to destroy the Cybermen was painful. Apparently you can put human emotions in the Cybermen, and their heads will explode. Also, we got to see a half-baked Cybermen running through the sewers doing absolutely no good.
The Brigadier is BACK!!!! I am in love with this man. My expert viewer is a little offended every time I see the Brigadier and I say, "Mmmmmmm. Hot bunssssssss." Of course, I just say this to tease my viewer [HE likes Zoe], but I really do like the Brigadier and I'm not sure why. His role isn't any better than anyone else's. He's got his own sidekick named Benton. He and the Brigadier work well together.
So this episode was full of very likable characters, which helped the plot considerably. I even liked the bad guys, which I don't usually. It's great in the end, when the Cybermen change their plans to take over Earth and decide to blow it all to hell. We love violent plots for no particular reason.
Is Zoe a little full of herself? She decides to stay behind and pose for the Watkins daughter. Doesn't that seem a little odd? "Oh you go and fight the evil Cybermen. I'll stay behind and lie in provocative poses to make all the guys slobber." That darned boa she wore was also freaking annoying. It was very distracting. How did the Doctor know that Zoe was wearing a boa, when he hadn't seen her in it yet?
It's a real pity that Travers and his daughter were not in this. That would have been particularly awesome. Instead we get a beleaguered Professor Watkins, and a daughter who delights in taking pictures of dead Cybermen. Although if Travers had to be in it, yeti would probably start appearing out of nowhere. It's the Cybermen! It's the Yeti! Ye gods!
The entire Cybermen fleet is destroyed by both the Doctor and Zoe's clever mathematical computations. How do they sleep at night?
Planet 14 is known to both the Doctor and the Cybermen. What is Planet 14, and more importantly where are Planets 9 through 13?
Next Up: The Krotons
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