The thing about the very first time that The Doctor met the Cybermen, is that the Cybermen really did think they were here to save the humans.Time-coded Youtube Link: youtu.be/TNBtBY2XMuE?t=545They're like, You're all doomed, it's inevitable, unless you come join the collective and upgrade to the hive-mind.Honestly its not so much that resistance is futile, as that it's counter-productive to your own interests because of all the doom and pain we are saving you from.As Buddha teaches: you are suffering from emotional attachment to material things, and should ascend to the next level of version-number, to prevent the terrible horrible pain of the inevitable demise of everything you hold important and the death of everyone you love.So that's how I'd re-invent the cybermen for 2028 Doctor Who:They are cyber-monks, come to peacefully recruit everyone into detachment from the inevitable death and decay of everyone you love and everything you think important upon the destruction of our world (which is needed to provide fuel for the expansion of galactic cybernetic love and harmony).So do join us, we can live as gods! Better than watching everyone you've ever known decay and die. You'd know about that, right Doctor?@doctorwho #doctorWho #cybermen

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago

@pre @doctorwho I quite like that as a concept, they do seem very religious cult like

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    @pre @doctorwho You make them sound a bit like the Headless Monks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    @pre @doctorwho my favorite cyber man origin story is the Marc Platt story “Spare Parts”. I’d go into it but spoilers.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    The peace-Cybermen should arrive going:The swarm is coming, we are just about keeping pace as an advance-wave. There's only light-days to go! - Your atoms are going to be turned into computronioum in orbit of the star when the swarm gets here.We can save you! Join us in the mission of saving the other people in the wave across the universe of this inevitable conversion of all matter into computronium.You know, join us in the cloud, upload into the computronium cloud, and live through these robot bodies on the advance-line like the sexy ones we have in the fashionable headsets and robes.Just one cyber-injection. Before your atoms are inevitably taken anyway by processes in the swarm beyond the control of our entropy.Stand and deliver. Upgrade or your life.@doctorwho

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