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::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. | * 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. | ||
::They do it precisely because they are 'androids'. Cybermen are humans who have transcended humanity and headed toward the machine. Androids are the reverse; machines designed to ape the form and function of humans. Humans come in two distinct types, so far as the basic frame is concerned. It's not ''reasonable'' to waste time creating both types distinctly of a variation which is functionally irrelevant to the androids actual mission- but it is ''logical'' to do so. | |||
* I take it that the three crew members that were mentioned by Ringway and Briggs to have gone missing were secretly kidnapped by the Cybermen to be converted into Cybermen themselves? | * I take it that the three crew members that were mentioned by Ringway and Briggs to have gone missing were secretly kidnapped by the Cybermen to be converted into Cybermen themselves? | ||
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