The thing about the very first time that The Doctor met the Cybermen, is that the Cybermen really did think they were here to save the humans.
Time-coded Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/TNBtBY2XMuE?t=545
They're like,
You're all doomed, it's inevitable, unless you come join the collective and upgrade to the hive-mind.
Honestly its not so much that resistance is futile, as that it's counter-productive to your own interests because of all the doom and pain we are saving you from.
As Buddha teaches: you are suffering from emotional attachment to material things, and should ascend to the next level of version-number, to prevent the terrible horrible pain of the inevitable demise of everything you hold important and the death of everyone you love.
So that's how I'd re-invent the cybermen for 2028 Doctor Who:
They are cyber-monks, come to peacefully recruit everyone into detachment from the inevitable death and decay of everyone you love and everything you think important upon the destruction of our world (which is needed to provide fuel for the expansion of galactic cybernetic love and harmony).
So do join us, we can live as gods! Better than watching everyone you've ever known decay and die. You'd know about that, right Doctor?
https://youtu.be/TNBtBY2XMuE?t=545
Adam Dalliance :palestinepoppy:
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