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Legend
horacethegrey said:Well count me as one who's glad they got rid of the gold weakness and also not mentioning it. I found it horribly cheesy, and so too would modern audiences. And honestly, if the Doctor tried something like that, wouldn't it come off as a bit daft?
DOCTOR: Haha! (throws gold paint over Cyberman)
(Cyberman merely shrugs it off, and continues advancing towards him.)
DOCTOR: (eyes widen in surprise) Oops.
ROSE: What are you doing?!
DOCTOR: Funny, it worked the last time.
ROSE: (screaming) Would you just stop mucking about?!
Sure, but you don't do it like that. What you do is in the second episode, once they've escaped the first Cybermen attack, and are deciding what to do next, is have the Doctor bring it up in the discussion meeting, "I've faced these things before. They suffocate when exposed to gold."
Then you have one of the characters try it, fully confident it'll work. It fails, the character dies, and you cut to a shot of the horrified Doctor's face.
Whether mentioning the gold weakness is goofy or effective depends entirely on how it is done. (Besides, 'gold paint' is hardly gold, is it?)
Um, the Cybermen were introduced way back in 1966, a whopping 23 years before the intro of the Borg in 1989. Add to that the many similarities that they share, and I'm afraid the case for the Borg being original isn't strong.
I never made that claim. I was pointing out that the Borg are not a recent addition to Star Trek, they're now a relatively early element. I'm well aware that the Cybermen came first, and by quite some time. Hell, I remember watching them on Doctor Who before there was a Star Trek: the Next Generation.