The Cybermen are back! And they're more "silvery" than ever before!
This story began on the 23rd November 1988 which was exactly 25 years to the day that the series began. Hence it is the show's 25th anniversary, meaning silver anniversary, and the silver monsters are Cybermen. The thought that must have gone into that!
I'm afraid to say that I think this is my least favourite of all the Cybermen stories, even the ones that no longer exist! This is a real shame as it is the last time I will see the Cybermen in the classic series.
The plot is fairly similar to that of Remembrance Of The Daleks, with the Doctor trying to correct the mistakes of his past.
I wish I could say more about it but I'm boring myself just thinking about it again. Basically there are three groups after the "nemesis", those being the Cybermen, some Nazis and a Jacobean lady (Lady Peinforte) who has somehow managed to travel to the future...I was a bit unclear on that.
There is a pretty funny scene where Peinforte is forced to share a lift in a car with a loud but lovely American lady. As the American lady is chatting away to Peinforte's servant, Peinforte chips in with "All things will soon be mine" which just made me laugh because it comes completely out of the blue.
The Cybermens' weakness to gold is taken to ridiculous lengths here with them being hit by everything from gold dust, to gold arrows and even golden coins fired from a slingshot.
I have now seen the last of the Cybermen in the classic run of the series. Not long to go now before I will be on the new series and finally people may actually know what I'm talking about!
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