181 'robots'

August 20th, 2011

Where's Wall-E?

Never mind Wall-E, they've got 790!1 And a DRD!2 And a Smash Mash robot!3

For the record, I have to lodge an objection to the inclusion of a Dalek and a Cyberman in a collection of robots. You can argue that a Cyberman qualifies because the brain is apparently just being used as a fancy CPU,4 but a Dalek is unquestionably a battle suits being driven by little mutated Kaled, so they definitely don't qualify as robots IMHO. Details like this matter, dammit!

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  1. From Lexx. ↩
  2. From Farscape. ↩
  3. From the 1970s TV adverts. ↩
  4. AFAIK Cybermen show no trace of the brain's original owner's personality. ↩

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6 Responses to “181 'robots'”

  1. Jon Says:
    August 22nd, 2011 at 11:24

    Strictly speaking, in New Who, a couple of Cybermen have displayed elements of their 'convertee' personalities, or at least memories in one case.

    And I'm a bit unsure about the inclusion of Evil Edna…

  2. Jon Says:
    August 22nd, 2011 at 12:14

    Also:

    Klank!

    And the security robots from Blake's 7!!!!!!

  3. John Says:
    August 22nd, 2011 at 23:56

    As far as I'm concerned the NuWho Cybermen are nothing but pale imitations of their cousins from Mondas, so I'm going to overlook that little lapse by Ms 'I did my duty to queen and country!'

  4. Jon Says:
    August 23rd, 2011 at 17:43

    Of course, one has to assume that the Cybermen seen in The Big Bang, A Good Man Goes To War and the upcoming Closing Time are in fact the cousins from Mondas…

  5. Jon Says:
    August 23rd, 2011 at 17:44

    Not The Big Bang. The Pandorica Opens, OBVIOUSLY, Jon.

  6. John Says:
    August 23rd, 2011 at 23:21

    Well, obviously.

    I hadn't thought about this until you raised it, but if the soldiers of the 12th Cyber Legion were from the Mondas branch of the family, why was their armour apparently designed by Cybus Industries?

    <fanwank level="medium">
    Parallel development: is the Cybus Industries armour the ultimate, most efficient and logical design possible, so that the Mondas Cybermen were bound to eventually arrive at the same design that John Lumic came up with one universe over?

    Another breakout into 'this' universe by the Lumic-designed parallel universe Cybermen?

    Or (and I do like this idea) was it that when Amy Pond dreamed as the universe reconstructed itself she 'remembered' the Cybus Industries variant – the head of one having chased her around the tomb under Stonehenge back in 102 AD, remember – and her unconscious influenced the rebooted universe such that in the current iteration of the universe all Cybermen wear Cybus variant armour, and always have done?

    Or is it all timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly stuff that we shouldn't worry about?
    </fanwank>