The Original Cybermen Were Scarier

            On Friday morning I heard workers downstairs before 6:00 but there were just a few noises of metal being tossed with long silences in between. There was a dump truck parked across the street and so I assumed they were going to load it with scrap metal from all the old wiring they’d pulled out but I didn’t hear anything like that happen. The truck pulled away after an hour or so.

I worked out most of the chords for “Est-ce est-ce si bon" by Serge Gainsbourg.

I typed in my journal.

The frozen patties that I’d gotten from the food bank that Angie had said were sausages and that I’d thought smelled like vegeburgers turned out to be sausages after all. I had grilled eight of them by the time I found out. I had two for lunch and will eat the rest even though I’m officially off meat right now. There are eight more frozen patties in the freezer and now that I know what they are I’ll save those until after Easter.

            I did some more research for my Indigenous Studies media reflection paper.

            I had a potato, three pork patties and some gravy for dinner while watching the latest episode of Doctor Who.

Spoiler alert!

In this story the Doctor and her team arrive on a planet in the future where one of the last groups of humans are trying to avoid being killed by the last of the Cybermen, led now by the lone, not fully transformed Cyberman that the Doctor encountered in the 19^th Century when he acquired the Cyberium. The Doctor comes with a lot of equipment designed to Cybermen but they are attacked by drones that are flying Cybermen heads and the blasts destroy all of the equipment and kill some of the refugees. The Doctor orders her team to escape with the refugees while she holds the Cybermen off. Yasmin and Graham take off with the refugees in their barely space worthy ship but Ryan becomes separated in the chaos of the attack and ends up back with the Doctor along with another refugee named Ethan. They steal a Cybership, which Ethan knows how to fly since he’s been stealing Cyberships since he was a four. Both the refugee ship and the stolen Cybership have the same destination of Ko Sharmas where supposedly there is a portal to a part of the galaxy not accessible to the Cybermen. But the refugee ship is low on power and life support and their chances of survival are miniscule. They find themselves in a debris field of dead Cybermen and broken Cyberships. In the middle is a gigantic abandoned Cybership that might have air. On Yasmine and Graham’s urging they use the last of their life support power to propel them to the Cybertroop carrier where they are able to breathe and even start the ship moving towards Ko Sharmas. But the Cyber leader and his few soldiers board the ship and begin awakening and altering the hundreds of Cybermen that had been in suspended animation on the ship and so a Cyber army is also being carried to Ko Sharmas. Meanwhile, since the stolen Cybership has warp drive the Doctor, Ryan and Ethan make it to Ko Sharmas where they find out that it’s not the name of the planet but of the old man who keeps the gateway. He leads them to the gateway floating above the ocean just off shore but suddenly a ruined city appears in the portal, which the Doctor recognizes as her home planet of Galifrey. Suddenly the Master leaps out of the portal and tells the Doctor to be very afraid because everything is about to change forever.