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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. | ||
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::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. | |||
*Why did they draw attention to the [[Cyber-bomb]] on Earth by having androids kill anyone who approaches it? | *Why did they draw attention to the [[Cyber-bomb]] on Earth by having androids kill anyone who approaches it? | ||
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:where did the Cybermen get copies of Doctor Who clips from? And why do they show one from Wheel in Space, when describing the events of Tomb of the Cybermen? | :where did the Cybermen get copies of Doctor Who clips from? And why do they show one from Wheel in Space, when describing the events of Tomb of the Cybermen? | ||
:*Surely the Doctor could have used the TARDIS to materialise on the frieghter to save Adric? | |||
:*Surely the Doctor could have used the TARDIS to materialise on the frieghter to save Adric? | As he says, though, the console is damaged a the key moment. | ||
