plekhanov
11-01-2009, 21:20
Well I finally got round to watching the Dr Who Christmas special and have to say that even by the low standards set by Davies I was shocked by the idiocy of it all.
So the Cybermen need to turn a few wheels to get their very silly but rather cool steam punk giant mecha going so how do they go about this simple task?
1 - Turn the wheels themselves.
2 - Employ some casual labourers to turn the wheels.
3 - Use a steam engine (this is in the midst of the industrial revolution after all).
4 - i. Kill a man to attract a bunch of other men to his funeral,
ii. carry out a mini massacre at the funeral & capture 4 attendees who run workhouses and take over their minds.
iii. Have these mind controlled philanthropists march their collection of Christmas orphans through the streets in as conspicuous a manner as possible.
iv. force the urchins to turn your wheels in a desultory fashion which would produce next to no usable energy.
v. dress up a middle class boy in urchin chic & lots of mascara and strand him on a high platform for no particular reason.
For reasons best known to himself Davies obviously had the Cybermen go for option 4.
It's hard to think of a more unnecessarily convoluted and over elaborate plan to achieve such a simple task.
If they'd needed the children to use them as experimental subjects, 'neural processors' or some similar technobabble purpose which only children/humans would serve then the convoluted plot to kidnap the children might have made some sense and Davies would still have had the Cybermen acting cartoonishly evil & got his Christmas Orphans. But simply to turn a few wheels?
So the Cybermen need to turn a few wheels to get their very silly but rather cool steam punk giant mecha going so how do they go about this simple task?
1 - Turn the wheels themselves.
2 - Employ some casual labourers to turn the wheels.
3 - Use a steam engine (this is in the midst of the industrial revolution after all).
4 - i. Kill a man to attract a bunch of other men to his funeral,
ii. carry out a mini massacre at the funeral & capture 4 attendees who run workhouses and take over their minds.
iii. Have these mind controlled philanthropists march their collection of Christmas orphans through the streets in as conspicuous a manner as possible.
iv. force the urchins to turn your wheels in a desultory fashion which would produce next to no usable energy.
v. dress up a middle class boy in urchin chic & lots of mascara and strand him on a high platform for no particular reason.
For reasons best known to himself Davies obviously had the Cybermen go for option 4.
It's hard to think of a more unnecessarily convoluted and over elaborate plan to achieve such a simple task.
If they'd needed the children to use them as experimental subjects, 'neural processors' or some similar technobabble purpose which only children/humans would serve then the convoluted plot to kidnap the children might have made some sense and Davies would still have had the Cybermen acting cartoonishly evil & got his Christmas Orphans. But simply to turn a few wheels?