"The Cybershades from the Christmas Special were pretty awesome though. Not scary, but awesome non-the-less."
As you said yourself, they were very much a throwback to oldschool Who - relentlessly cheap monsters, presented with absolute barefaced conviction. NuWho should have the confidence to do that sort of thing more often! :)
Yeah, b&w Cybermen=scary. I don't know how familiar anybody is with the DWM comic strips, but there was a Seven story called "The Good Soldier" that featured Cybermen, drawn to look like Two-era Cybermen, interestingly enough, and it was just as creepy and disgusting as hell, with people getting taken apart, wired into machinery etc. in all sorts of horrible ways. Disturbing stuff.
I love me some Multi-Doctor action too, but if I didn't resist I'd probably make every fic into Multi-Doc fic, and that'd just be silly... :)
I'm heavily leaning towards it being Liz, though, as much as I love Two, and as much as it would be interesting to do a Ben and Polly and Jamie fic. I've never actually written any Three fic, and I'm envisaging one of those Season 7 stories with dodgy government projects going horrifically awry and Three arguing with stupid scientists and bureaucrats, and the Brig being all hardline and Briggish... and Liz doing that thing where she pretends to argue with the Doctor, but she's sort of smiling at the same time because they both know she's going to give in and help him in whatever crazy plan he's hatching...and Cybermen...creepy, undead, half-human Cybermen... And I was thinking about this when I was supposed to be sleeping last night and have been thinking about it all morning too.
Gah, I sort of promised myself I wouldn't do this, as I still have WIPs unfinished, and I want to get some original stuff written too if I can, but those bunnies won't leave me alone...
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As you said yourself, they were very much a throwback to oldschool Who - relentlessly cheap monsters, presented with absolute barefaced conviction. NuWho should have the confidence to do that sort of thing more often! :)
Yeah, b&w Cybermen=scary. I don't know how familiar anybody is with the DWM comic strips, but there was a Seven story called "The Good Soldier" that featured Cybermen, drawn to look like Two-era Cybermen, interestingly enough, and it was just as creepy and disgusting as hell, with people getting taken apart, wired into machinery etc. in all sorts of horrible ways. Disturbing stuff.
I love me some Multi-Doctor action too, but if I didn't resist I'd probably make every fic into Multi-Doc fic, and that'd just be silly... :)
I'm heavily leaning towards it being Liz, though, as much as I love Two, and as much as it would be interesting to do a Ben and Polly and Jamie fic. I've never actually written any Three fic, and I'm envisaging one of those Season 7 stories with dodgy government projects going horrifically awry and Three arguing with stupid scientists and bureaucrats, and the Brig being all hardline and Briggish... and Liz doing that thing where she pretends to argue with the Doctor, but she's sort of smiling at the same time because they both know she's going to give in and help him in whatever crazy plan he's hatching...and Cybermen...creepy, undead, half-human Cybermen... And I was thinking about this when I was supposed to be sleeping last night and have been thinking about it all morning too.
Gah, I sort of promised myself I wouldn't do this, as I still have WIPs unfinished, and I want to get some original stuff written too if I can, but those bunnies won't leave me alone...