OK, to be fair, that's a dual picture of their first appearance in the First Doctor story "The Tenth Planet" (when Cybermen were from Mondas, the "tenth" planet that's been speculated to be around for ages now. ALF fans know it as "Dave". Whackjobs call it "Niburu" or "Nemesis".) And the other is the most recent - for better or for worse - iteration of them. They've changed many times over the course of the years, but they just didn't include all the in-betweens.
What really changed was their voices. The og CM seen in the top pic had weirdly modulated sing-songy voices, while the Third (Fourth?) Doctor version had them sounding like a VIC-20 (hard to understand and horrible to hear.)
OK, to be fair, that's a dual picture of their first appearance in the First Doctor story "The Tenth Planet"
No it isn't. It's a still from the 2017 story The Doctor Falls. Other than recognising the shot and the slight differences in the cyberman designs, you can tell because The Tenth Planet wasn't recorded in colour.
I lived through the debacle of Turner Colourization, and have no idea what's in colour and what's not any more, no matter how I remember them or what the original supposedly was. I still swear that the original Blob was b&w, but Turner colourized it and destroyed the original original (in the same way the ORIGINAL Star Wars is probably next to impossible to get outside of piracy or used VHS bins.
OK, been a long time since I saw any of it, and the last time I saw the original run was in a huge download that included the missing episodes as stills and sometimes cartoons. I just saw those shitty face masks, when I was expecting JUST ONE IMAGE of modern nuWho cybercommies.
OK, to be fair, that's a dual picture of their first appearance in the First Doctor story "The Tenth Planet" (when Cybermen were from Mondas, the "tenth" planet that's been speculated to be around for ages now. ALF fans know it as "Dave". Whackjobs call it "Niburu" or "Nemesis".) And the other is the most recent - for better or for worse - iteration of them. They've changed many times over the course of the years, but they just didn't include all the in-betweens.
What really changed was their voices. The og CM seen in the top pic had weirdly modulated sing-songy voices, while the Third (Fourth?) Doctor version had them sounding like a VIC-20 (hard to understand and horrible to hear.)
No it isn't. It's a still from the 2017 story The Doctor Falls. Other than recognising the shot and the slight differences in the cyberman designs, you can tell because The Tenth Planet wasn't recorded in colour.
Oh, that's what you're getting at.
I lived through the debacle of Turner Colourization, and have no idea what's in colour and what's not any more, no matter how I remember them or what the original supposedly was. I still swear that the original Blob was b&w, but Turner colourized it and destroyed the original original (in the same way the ORIGINAL Star Wars is probably next to impossible to get outside of piracy or used VHS bins.
Except it's not just a monochrome/color debate. The image is very obviously from The Doctor Falls.
OK, been a long time since I saw any of it, and the last time I saw the original run was in a huge download that included the missing episodes as stills and sometimes cartoons. I just saw those shitty face masks, when I was expecting JUST ONE IMAGE of modern nuWho cybercommies.