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Poll: Rate & Review The Tomb Of The Cybermen

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Question: Rate the story
5/5 - Absolutely amazing - 9 (69.2%)
4/5 - Really Good - 3 (23.1%)
3/5 - Not bad, not great - 1 (7.7%)
2/5 - Not impressed - 0 (0%)
1/5 - Shockingly bad - 0 (0%)
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« on: August 28, 2011, 10:48:29 am »


With the Doc coming back tomorrow, this will be my last addition to The Infinite Quest, but what a brilliant story to leave with. The latest is of course, Tomb Of The Cybermen.

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry, is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals himself and his business partner, Kaftan, to be planning to revive the Cybermen.

The Tomb of the Cybermen was the first story of Season 5 of Doctor Who. It was the earliest Second Doctor serial to survive in its entirety. Tomb introduced the Cyber-Controller and the Cybermats.


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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2011, 10:59:14 am »

This is all now open and ready for discussion Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2011, 12:18:18 pm »

Oh this story is excellent. I'm definately going to try and get on to discuss it this week Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2011, 01:50:45 pm »

I just watched this the other day Smiley Simply put, one of the all time greatest Doctor Who stories of all time. Everything about this is perfect - even the Black & White adds to the atmosphere! The scale of it is fabulous, Troughton was simply awesome, the Cybermen had real menace - this is absolutely wonderful stuff! A 5 all the way from me Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2011, 02:37:22 pm »

A classic Cyberman story. I'm excited for this!
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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2011, 02:47:00 pm »

Yay another one I actually own on DVD... and never watched... my £3 bargin from Morrisons once... I shall give this a watch sometime... Hopefully before I'm back at school.
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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 03:19:28 pm »

Two of the great classic series openers back to back  Afro
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2011, 02:37:08 am »

Don't even need to rewatch this to give it a 5 (although I will do anyway - any excuse to watch this again!). Probably my favourite Doctor Who story ever. Absolutely everything about this one is just perfect.
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2011, 10:58:53 am »

I imagine it is going to rate very highly. I shall be doing my rewatch later today Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 12:53:03 am »

I went with a five.  Perhaps half a mark off for the dodgy American accents and dodgier gender and racial attitudes (though they have to be taken in context of the time) but I'd rather round up than round down.  A great story.
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2011, 01:43:23 pm »

Nothing short of a 5 from me. This is one of my all time favourites and it just brilliant from start to finish. The cast, the story, just everything was pitch perfect
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2011, 09:11:55 pm »

I think I'm going to give this a 5...

Like I said before I bought this at least a year ago... Think it was after my GCSEs for £3 and I have no idea why I didn't watch it sooner! Couldn't really find any faults, and this is one of the only Classics I've managed to sit through all the way without losing track half way through or getting distracted!
Only bad points were the terrible American accents and a few mistakes, but I'm not going to let that take that many marks away! Smiley

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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2011, 11:10:29 am »

I bucked the trend slightly and went with a four. This is an excellent story, and one of the best surviving stories of the Troughton era and the Cybermen are probably at their most sinister and frightening here. The one hang up for me, enough to take a point off, is that I find the pacing unbearably slow at times
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« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2011, 11:24:16 am »

I went with full marks. I think the Cybermen are the best here that I have ever seen them. The story is great, the acting is great and there is a real feeling of menace or terror surrounding them that we don't often see in the newer series.
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« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2011, 04:01:02 pm »

4/5 from me. A brilliant story. One of the best Second Doctor stories and one of the best Cybermen stories, but a few of the themes running through I wasn't so keen on
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« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2011, 12:38:06 am »

Four from me. It was a good story and I really liked the dynamic with Two/Jamie/Victoria. They work well together and I prefer Victoria to Zoe. I've seen one story of each so I think it's fair to judge, though I do think Zoe is great too.
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« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2011, 10:30:46 am »

I went with a five. There was nothing major really to moan about that would justify marking it down. It had its moments where the pace dropped slightly or something seemingly ridiculous happened, but overall it was a well thought out and well acted script.
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« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2011, 10:45:59 am »

I went with full marks. It had it's problems but it was a solid, strong story with a great cast and the Cybermen at their best.
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« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2011, 03:27:09 pm »

Finally got around to watching this today & really enjoyed it. Troughton is excellent - but then he has been in all the stories of his I've seen. There were a couple of bits that I wasn't so keen on but they didn't ruin my overall enjoyment. Going with a 4, though it would have been 4 & a half if that was an option  Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2011, 02:12:29 pm »

This is arguably the cleverest of the Doctor Who stories and has a great, slightly ambiguous and ironic ending. What's so clever about it? To a certain extent it reverses the "brains will win the day" ethos of the show. The Doctor knows that it is an extremely bad idea to go down into the tomb, yet faced with an intellectual puzzle to open the hatch that the other logician characters are struggling with he cannot help himself but to show off his intellectual superiority by giving the solution. It is the Doctor's own act of egotism that is the catalyst for what follows. Then the logician characters think that they can control the Cybermen if they can only get hold of a gun. The Cybermen more or less ignore them, treat them with contempt. The logician characters haven't got a clue about the mentality of violence. In the end it is the near-idiot black man who saves them all through physical strength. But this is only a partial victory, because a Cybermat escapes, a creature, if you like, of pure instinct, a parasite of the efforts, whether physical, mental, or both, of others.

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