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"Nightmare in Silver"

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Episode Synopsis:

The Doctor takes Clara and the children she babysits to a rundown amusement park in space where Cybermen are hiding, and ready to invade the most precious place in the universe -- The Doctor's mind...

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Doctor Who 7x12 - Reaction Highlights [re-up]

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Robert English

Another connection to the Impossible Girl mystery. The Doctor saves the children that Clara is nannying for from a classic Doctor Who villain. Also, the male authority figure is hiding something about himself. Captain Latimer in The Snowmen denied his feelings for Clara and Porridge denied his royal lineage.

Josh

If you want to avoid spoilers for the 50th anniversary special in a few episodes be careful not to watch the title sequence of the episode😂😭

Rosie Batey(DarthYoda066)

“Nightmare in Silver” facts Sorry that I’m just posting them now been a busy week and only just watched the video so didn’t know they weren’t at the end. 🔵 Steven Moffat stated that the Cybermen were redesigned because they did so often in the classic series, and yet had been consistent in the new series. 🔵 The three Cybermen seen at the start were the Cybus Industries models from Pete's World. 🔵 Neil Gaiman was motivated to provide a "rationalisation" for the Cybermen in current Doctor Who (2005) continuity. The classic series had depicted the Cybermen as alien cyborgs, while the revived series depicted them as human cyborgs from a parallel Earth; Gaiman opined that his Cybermen stemmed from an encounter and amalgamation of these two types of Cybermen following "The Next Doctor". 🔵 During filming at Castell Coch, a copy of the readthrough script was found in a taxi in Cardiff. It was marked as being Eve De Leon Allen's copy and had the working title of "The Last Cyberman", which was subsequently changed. The script was found by Hannah Durham, who posted a picture of the script to Facebook with the caption: "found Dr Who script in the back of a taxi. Cheeky spoilers anyone?" It was then posted to Reddit by Dan Rowling with the caption: "Look what a Facebook friend found in a taxi in Cardiff on Monday". Arrangements were then made by Hannah Durham and Dan Rowling to return the script to the BBC 🔵 Neil Gaiman felt that it made sense for the Cybermen to be regularly updated, thinking in terms of how quickly modern technology, like smartphones, was evolving. He also wanted to make the Cybermen more stealthy and spooky, whereas the modern versions had been portrayed as noisy and slow-moving. Gaiman felt that the parallel-universe Cybermen would likely have merged with their counterparts from Mondas, giving him the freedom to conceive a new form of Cyberman which drew upon the best of all of their previous appearances. 🔵 Both Neil Gaiman and Matt Smith have expressed their disappointment and frustration with this story. Smith found the double acting role to be a hard role and received little support from the crew, whom Smith constantly voiced his frustrations at. Gaiman meanwhile enjoys the script as he wrote it but found that the finished product was misinterpreted by the director, leaving a lot of his intentions unclear. Gaiman revealed in 2018 that he felt like the product was being taken out of his control and being weakened without his consent, leaving him with a bitter experience. Whilst this hasn't altered his love of the show or his desire to return, it did lead him to demand full creative control over future projects based on his scripts. 🔵 The command insignia first worn by the Captain and then by Clara is actually the cap insignia for an Air Force General of the German Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). 🔵 The episode was to end with an ominous scene in the Cyberiad featuring Cybermen from throughout their televised history, including the "Oldest Cyberman" (resembling those seen in "The Tenth Planet") who would hint at a broader plot to snare the Doctor. This element would eventually be dropped, while Neil Gaiman also struggled to find a way to better involve the Doctor in the action. He finally came up with the idea of engaging the Doctor and the Cyber-Planner in a duel set inside the Time Lord's mind, affording Matt Smith the opportunity to give a very different onscreen performance. 🔵 Neil Gaiman was inspired by the story of the Turk, allegedly a man-shaped, chess-playing automaton constructed by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770 and eventually destroyed by fire in 1854. The Turk was in fact an elaborate hoax: the cabinet at which the lifelike figure sat was carefully designed to hide an operator, even though the space could be opened to reveal that it seemingly contained only the Turk's mechanisms. 🔵 Neil Gaiman also wanted to adapt two related ideas which had been introduced during the Sixties. Although never named on screen, the Cyberman Planner had debuted in "The Wheel In Space", and was an immobile entity which directed the Cybermen's activities. Now it gave rise to the Cyber-Planner, who could serve as a more personal adversary for the Doctor than the faceless, emotionless Cybermen themselves. The Cybermats, first seen in The Tomb Of The Cybermen and most recently in Closing Time, were used by the Cybermen for infiltration. Gaiman knew that the Cybermats had been inspired by silverfish, and this led him to take the concept to its next logical stage, in the form of the Cybermites. 🔵 The Doctor refers to Cybermen being vulnerable to cleaning fluid and gold. The gold weakness was introduced in Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen: Part One (1975) and reappeared in every subsequent story of the classic show. The lesser known cleaning fluid weakness is a reference to Doctor Who: The Moonbase: Episode 1 (1967) in which a cocktail of different chemicals was used to melt Cybermen chest plates. 🔵 Near the end Angie says "when someone asks you if you want to rule the universe, you say 'yes'!" This is a nod to the line