2nd Season Dr. Who - The Age of Steel - 5 star poll

"The Age of Steel"
11-3-06 Dr. Who

5 stars (Earth)

0-1 stars (Jupiter)

erilar...

Earth is 5.0? With what we're doing to it?

Ken from Chicago...

Fine, go live on Jupiter.

Anyway, this was OK, despite a lot of running away from robots (ho hum).
The ladder bit was OK, but the machinery for putting brains into tin
cans was incredibly silly(much worse than ho hum). There have been
better episodes.

Ken from Chicago...

As opposed to putting the all important button for the space station behind
a series of fans on the space station at the end of Earth's life time?

Asteroid belt: 3.0

Jaime M. de Castellvi...

3.43

The last scene with Rose and the anti-father, when the latter learns
that Rose has been ungraded from a pooch to an offspring and can't
deal, is kinda cool.

Marcovaldo...

4.2, matching part 1.

Rose and Pete's plan was ... what exactly? Just walk in, find Jackie among
the thousands of humans, then waltz out? Brilliant.

pbowles...

Never mind that - how did Jackie, walking from her house wherever it
was, beat Pete & Co. to Battersea even though they had a van? Okay,
they stopped a couple of times, but for that long? It took Jackie less
than half the episode to get there on foot, queue, and then be
cyberised.

John Schilling...

They're making it up as they go along. There's a long tradition of that
sort of thing in fiction. And in real life, for that matter, though we
try to come up with more dignified ways of describing it.

I liked the poignancy of the Cybers reacting to their appearance. Great

John Schilling...

I couldn't help reflecting on the amazing diversity of humanity. There
are going to be a few Cybermen, in a city the size of London there are
going to be *thousands* of Cybermen, who are going to "wake up" and say,
"Hey, this is pretty cool!"

Lizard...

Oooh! Ooooh! Pick me!

"Immortal, indestructible metal body...AND I keep my personality?
Woo-hoo! Time to get some cool decals and maybe some airbrushed
styling for this thing!"

Diane L...

Except, of course, that "It *hurts*".

Lizard...

Well, obviously, I'd like to be unconscious for the part with the
rotating saw blades...

Diane L...

From the Doctor's comments in "Rise of the Cybermen", the emotional
inhibitor is needed because it hurts all the time, not just when you're
having your brain cut out or when it's welded into the metal body,
but even after that. They don't put in the inhibitor for the 'cutting out
the brain' bits, they put it in afterwards to allow the Cyberman to
function.

John Schilling...

If by, "it hurts", you mean physical pain, then that's silly. First off,
there are no pain receptors in the human brain, which is apparently the
only human part the Cybermen keep. Pain comes from the body, which has
been discarded. Second, why would you want or need an *emotional*

Robert Shaw...

Ever had a migraine?

Despite its lack of pain receptors, the brain is still quite capable
of generating extreme pain.

inhibitor, to deal with *physical* pain? They aren't the same thing,
and deactivating the pain center of the brain has little effect on one's
emotions.

It was pretty clear that when the Doctor said, "It hurts!", he was
referring to *emotional*, not physical, pain. The aupposedly universal
Pure Existential Anguish of realizing that one is not and never more
will be Truly Human, causing utter despair and hopelessness and so forth.

Which isn't actually going to be universal.

Robert Shaw...

The majority of amputees experience phantom limb pain, and the cybermen
are multiple amputees. Add in the likelihood of sensory dissonance - the
signals being sent to the brain by the cyberparts will probably be well
outside the human norm - and it's not surprising that the cybermen are
all in constant pain, even those not experiencing existential angst.

Pain is too useful for Lumic to inhibit it. It is much more efficient
to inhibit the emotional response. Cybermen don't care that they
are in pain, but they will react logically if increasing pain levels
signal a potential problem.

Diane L.

One more problem for Mickey to deal with.

scene of the Doctor communicating with Mickie regarding the override code.
The final scene between Rose and Pete was kind of a let down.

Ken from Chicago...

Don't get all moony.

David B...

3.75...there was too much running around being chased by robots. By far
the best scene was Mickey saying good bye to Rose.

pbowles...

Definitely well-played, but I did cringe at the line "We never saw this
coming, did we?" Short-sighted of them, really, not to imagine that one
day Rose's affections would be stolen by a time-travelling alien and
that they'd end up being parted in a parallel dimension because Mickey
found fighting Cybermen was his calling.

Mark Nobles...

Really. I always discuss with my girlfriends early on. So far, it has
never mattered, but still, you gotta be ready for anything.

Still better than the closing scenes of the finale, though, in my
opinion.

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