I have been watching Doctor Who since I was six and I've always looked at the cybermen as just being tin men who convert people into their kind. This story is no exception, The Doctor, Rose and Mickey land on an alternate Earth ( or it could even be Mondas) see Big Finish audio Spare Parts. The main baddie, villainous John Lumic is obsessed with prolonging life and in doing so brings about a new race of cybermen that we have never seen the like of before. Their only purpose is to "delete" you if you are incompatible. We also get a background on Mickeys life to a certain extent in the way that his dad did a runner and he lived with his gran. At the end of the episode the gang of heroes are surrounded by about 30 cybermen, I'm dying to find out how they get out of this little scrape......
Review of Rise of the Cybermen
