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Review of The Age of Steel by t-xrdis

20 June 2025

This review contains spoilers!

(Note: this is for both parts)

I think this story is really good!

  • The horror of cybermen was shown really well here. The scene where the Doctor and Mrs Moore look inside one of the cybermen and speak to it was, for me, one of the best cyberman scenes in the show
  • However, I wish that the Doctor showed more conflict over breaking the cybermen's emotional inhibitors, I felt it wasn't portrayed like as much of a tragedy as I would have liked
  • It was nice to see Mickey finally get some proper character work in this story, though I would have liked to have seen more of this earlier on. In fact, this made me realise just how little character work he'd had previously
  • I liked the focus on the emotional journeys of Rose and Mickey in this story, in which the importance of emotions is such a key thing
  • Finally, this is not my favourite cyberman design. I am not super against it, but I do think that cybermen have a stronger emotional effect when they appear more human and less robot-y, and so I do think the emotional aspects of this story are hindered a little by the cyberman design

t-xrdis

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