You're right, it ought to be a Two story; that's the Cybermen's heyday after all, and I suppose I've always found the early Cybermen, with their weird voices and the human hands and generally creepy, ramshackle appearance, a lot more effective than the 70s, 80s and NuWho ones. I mean, if I was using it in a story, I'd obviously rewrite it to fit; it doesn't have to be that the character has never seen one before.
I think the Borg in Trek, in their first couple of appearances, were really the Cybermen "done right", although the Trekkers would never admit that, and the Borg too were subject to terrible concept erosion the longer they went on. Just because they're a hivemind doesn't mean they have to have a Queen...
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You're right, it ought to be a Two story; that's the Cybermen's heyday after all, and I suppose I've always found the early Cybermen, with their weird voices and the human hands and generally creepy, ramshackle appearance, a lot more effective than the 70s, 80s and NuWho ones. I mean, if I was using it in a story, I'd obviously rewrite it to fit; it doesn't have to be that the character has never seen one before.
I think the Borg in Trek, in their first couple of appearances, were really the Cybermen "done right", although the Trekkers would never admit that, and the Borg too were subject to terrible concept erosion the longer they went on. Just because they're a hivemind doesn't mean they have to have a Queen...