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The Cybermen revival - Radio Times, May 2006 |
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The silver cyborgs have been redesigned, but they're no less sinister. How will they be introduced to a new generation of Doctor Who fans? Tom MacRae talks to Nick Griffiths about being entrusted with the Cyber revival.
On the essence of the Cybermen
"The Cybermen are us; they're
humans converted. They are technologically better,
and in the process they lost their
compassion. They were one of the
first sci-fi villains to do that 'How
scary is it to lose your emotions?'
thing. The problem now is that
it's become a hackneyed idea. So
you're trying to
keep what's brilliant
about them without everyone saying,
'We've seen
that before.'"
"We've gone to the root
of what's scary, which is that they
come and they take you and they
don't kill you, but they turn you
into one of them."
On the fear factor
"The Cybermen look as amazing
when you see them in the flesh, so to
speak, as they do on screen. The only
difference is that when they move
they make a plasticky noise, which on
screen they've dubbed into a more
metallic 'Shonk! Shonk!' sound.
Then they take their helmets off
and it's ten guys standing around.
Put the helmets back on and they're
Cybermen again. It's amazing."
"I don't think
you can be scared by something you've
written. Mind you, having
said that, I did have a nightmare about
[the Cybermen] just after I started [writing the
episodes], where they were coming
at me and I was going, 'You can't!
I created you!'"
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Steel yourself to meet the Cybermen in our picture gallery - or take a look at our full Doctor Who guide.
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