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* The Cybermen use emotional words like "Excellent". Positive emotion is supposedly absent in Cybermen. The Doctor elaborates on this when the Leader uses "fondness", but the Leader claims it is a word like any other, just like "destruction". | * The Cybermen use emotional words like "Excellent". Positive emotion is supposedly absent in Cybermen. The Doctor elaborates on this when the Leader uses "fondness", but the Leader claims it is a word like any other, just like "destruction". | ||
::As stated, they view these as being just words, without the underlying emotional connection that humans might associate with them. | ::As stated, they view these as being just words, without the underlying emotional connection that humans might associate with them. | ||
::The Cyber Leader does seem unduly proud of his emotionlessness, however, considering he clearly has a sadistic little chuckle at the thought of human beings dying in terror, and he is decidedly less than stoical in his own death scene. This is probably intentional scripted irony, though (possibly inspired by the equally hypocritical though rather less menacing Cyber Leader of "Revenge of the Cybermen"). Either the Cybermen have taken the Dalek lead that a little of the nastier emotions makes more effective killers, or their diminished power has made them sloppier at brainwashing their converts. | ::The Cyber Leader does seem unduly proud of his emotionlessness, however, considering he clearly has a sadistic little chuckle at the thought of human beings dying in terror, and he is decidedly less than stoical in his own death scene. This is probably intentional scripted irony, though (possibly inspired by the equally hypocritical though rather less menacing Cyber Leader of "Revenge of the Cybermen"). Either the Cybermen have taken the Dalek lead that a little of the nastier emotions makes more effective killers, or their diminished power has made them sloppier at brainwashing their converts. | ||
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* How had Scott never heard of the Cybermen when earth was forming an alliance to defeat them? | * How had Scott never heard of the Cybermen when earth was forming an alliance to defeat them? | ||
::He was sick that day of history class, and automatically tunes out anything remotely political. Or something a bit closer to Donna's accidental avoidance of extraterrestrial invasion. | ::He was sick that day of history class, and automatically tunes out anything remotely political. Or something a bit closer to Donna's accidental avoidance of extraterrestrial invasion. | ||
*Bearing in mind that the Cybermen seem to have ironed out gender as an unnecessary appendage among their own kind, why construct visibly female and male android guards? One would assume not for the emotional well-being of said androids, and since their modus operandi is to melt intruders on sight, it could scarcely be considered useful for liaison purposes. | |||
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