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Classic Who "The Tomb of the Cybermen" Parts 1&2 Full Reaction - Google Drive

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Anonymous

A hugely enjoyable reaction, thank you! I am very much looking forward to next week's, and I hope that you enjoy your well-earned break after that! I can't wait for all the forthcoming Classic Who reactions - they're always such a treat!

Steven Cooper

Loved this reaction. I knew you would get exasperated with the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria wanting to stay and not make a quick exit back to the TARDIS, and wasn't surprised you sided with Viner (the grumpy paranoid guy)... :-) Note how in Part 1 the Doctor estimates his age as about 450; the first Doctor's age had always been supposed to be about 650 (although that was never mentioned on screen), and Gerry Davis (co-writer of this story, and also of "The Tenth Planet") had always imagined some kind of "rejuvenation" process causing the Doctor to shed about 200 years during the Hartnell/Troughton changeover. The idea of "regeneration" as a complete physical change between different bodies wasn't devised until quite a way into the future from the point you've reached, and only retrospectively applied to the first Doctor's ending. Regarding "Fury from the Deep": without giving away any spoilers, unfortunately there are a couple of significant events in it which I think you would be disappointed to experience out of sequence. It's a pity, but I suspect reading the detailed summary will still be more satisfying than waiting to see the animated version, by which time it will be well out of its proper place.

Ryan

One really weird part of this is that Toberman was supposed to be deaf, but they managed to remove every single reference to it during shooting, resulting in his portrayal instead seeming to be just plain old-timey racism.