Howling:The cybermen debate

just transphering the latter part of this conversation from the panopticon to here, as this is more the place for this sort of debate http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:The_Unspecified_Cyberman_Debate&t=20111221075156. Imamadmad talk to me 11:53, December 21, 2011 (UTC)

I genuinely think the origin of any Cyberman that isn't explicitly shown should be left intentionally vague. The Cybus Cybermen was meant to be a reboot of the Cybermen just like the new Silurian. In the end, I think they are just considered Cybermen by some of the writiers. The Cybermen with ambiguous origin does not have to be Mondasian or Cybus; there could be other Cybermen. Of course, the information from the Brilliant Book should be noted, but the other ones should probably be just considered generic Cybermen in general.

The fact that Mondasian Cybermen looking similar to Cybus Cybermen already suggests that certain adoption of each other's technology has occured. The clean division between the two races may not even exist anymore.

The Silurian would be much more worthy of debate, considering that the new series Silurian have removable mask and a humanoid face, which may suggest all other Silurians and Sea Devils actually might have been wearin masks the whole time... --222.166.181.197 15:31, December 21, 2011 (UTC)

The Silurians are a completely different case. The original Silurians would have looked very stupid in the modern show. Some races, like the Sontarans, can return to the modern show and still look good with few major changes to their appearance, but the Silurians just looked like people in cheap costumes back in the 70s. The Cybermen also looked like people in cheap costumes back in the classic show, but their appearance was constantly changing even in the classic show. The Silurians, however, are a fully biological species, and some kind of explanation was needed to change their appearance. The fact that Mondasian Cybermen look similar to Cybusmen really proves nothing at all except that they didn't have the budget to redesign them. There is also no reason to believe that there are more than the two forms of Cybermen. Just the fact that Lumic randomly came up with a similar design and name to a species that existed in another universe is unlikely enough, but anymore variants of the Cybermen existing is next to impossible. Any Cyberman we see must be either from Mondas or from the Earth of Pete's World. If you genuinely think that the origin of any Cybermen that isn't explicitly shown should bhe left intentionally vague, then you must think that Cybermen in any Classic episode that doesn't mention Mondas should also be left vague. As I mentioned in the Panoppticon conversation, a group of Cybusmen could have crossed into our universe, travelled back in time, gone through a redesign, and then been scooped up and taken to the death zone, or captured by Vorg and stuffed in his miniscope, or gone after Nemesis. We shouldn't automatically assume that the Cybermen we see in new episodes is from Pete's World, anymore than we should assume that any other character we see is from Pete's World. The walls of the universe have been closed. Nothing can get across through the void. Therefore, the Cybusmen couldn't possibly have been behind Closing Time. If you want an in-universe reason as to why they weren't redesigned, then apart from Rose, every character who appeared in Pete's World was identical to their "real"-world counterpart. Why should something like the Cybermen be any different?Icecreamdif talk to me 22:12, December 21, 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and the idea of Classic Silurians wearing masks the whole time could actually make sense. It would explain why their third eye could be used as a weapon, for example. Maybe it would have been cool if the Silurians initially looked like their classic counterparts in The Hungry Earth, and then revealed that they were just wearing masks. Anyway, that is another debate entirely.Icecreamdif talk to me 22:14, December 21, 2011 (UTC)