Peacepoint - Introduction (By The Genie)
SYNOPSIS:
Robin has a request for the Doctor - one trip, for her best friend. It's not too much to ask. The Doctor agrees. That's when the Doctor asks Jess where she wants to see. The Year 3000 - a nice, round number - but, as the Doctor knows, an ever-changing future - a point of time in flux. Anything could happen: disease, poverty, corruption, even the apocalypse. And it does. |
PREVIEW:
“What was that thing?” asked Jess. “A Cyberman.” The Doctor scowled at the hospital. “It’s you.” “What do you mean?” “I mean it takes your brain and sticks it inside that metal shell. And it removes your emotions. It takes away everything that makes you who you are, and then you keep on living. Ever wanted to be immortal? Because I’d much rather die.” |
I've done all sorts of Cyberman stories now. In 2012 I started with the Haunted episode Reawakening of the Cybermen, a story about Cybermen who converted the dead. It ended up taking place in a pocket universe and featuring a battle against the Daleks. The idea was to empower the Cybermen, and to suggest that they might actually put up a fair fight in any other case than Doomsday. This was followed by, a couple of weeks later, The Dentistry of Death, an episode where Cybermen took control of a dentist's surgery and did creepy things. This ended up as an episode set on the Cyber home-world, and featured flying Cybermen and a disturbingly powerful Cyber-planner.
I didn't bring the Cybermen back until the fourth series of Haunted, in The Last Cyberman, which was the proudest I've ever been of how I've used the Cybermen. It was like Cyberwoman but without the sexualisation. Since then I wrote In Dulci Jubilo in 2014, which was okay, I guess, but not really much of a Cyber-story.
Still, I've always felt like there's been something missing with my interpretations, so this time I decided to just go in and write about what I find scary about the Cybermen. In that sense, there's a new angle here which you'll discover, and a case for why the Cybermen are possibly a greater threat than even the Daleks.
It's despairing and it's gloomy, and it's probably the darkest the series gets until the finale. But that's the point. I think stories about Cybermen are supposed to be grim. If I can't nail them here, I might as well give up.
Peacepoint will be up on Saturday 7th March at 9:00pm
I didn't bring the Cybermen back until the fourth series of Haunted, in The Last Cyberman, which was the proudest I've ever been of how I've used the Cybermen. It was like Cyberwoman but without the sexualisation. Since then I wrote In Dulci Jubilo in 2014, which was okay, I guess, but not really much of a Cyber-story.
Still, I've always felt like there's been something missing with my interpretations, so this time I decided to just go in and write about what I find scary about the Cybermen. In that sense, there's a new angle here which you'll discover, and a case for why the Cybermen are possibly a greater threat than even the Daleks.
It's despairing and it's gloomy, and it's probably the darkest the series gets until the finale. But that's the point. I think stories about Cybermen are supposed to be grim. If I can't nail them here, I might as well give up.
Peacepoint will be up on Saturday 7th March at 9:00pm