Revenge of the Cybermen - Part Three
The Cybermen didn't kill the Doctor, Stevenson, and Lester. They only stunned them. The Cybermen attach bombs to the three prisoners and then transport them down to Voga, via transmat beam. They are ordered to make their way to the center of Voga. Two Cybermen are sent with them.
Sarah and Harry remain caught in the midst of the power struggle on Voga. Kellman beams down to Voga to check on something, with the permission of the Cyberleader, and similarly gets caught in the midst of the battles between the two factions.
The Doctor, Stevenson, and Lester follow the instructions they've been given and head for the center of Voga. They cannot remove the harnesses because the bombs will explode if they attempt to do so.
The Cybermen sent with the Doctor, Stevenson, and Lester quickly get separated from their prisoners. The Cybermen kill numerous Vogans.
Sarah goes back to the transmat site and beams herself back to Nerva Beacon. The Cybermen are too busy monitoring what's going on with the Doctor and the others to notice that she just beamed aboard.
The episode ends with Harry finding the Doctor, unconscious. He was knocked out by the same rockslide that killed Kellman. Harry begins to try and remove the Doctor's harness, unaware of what what might happen if he gets it loose.
Thoughts
How is it that the Cybermen can survive on Voga? They are allergic to gold. I would think that the air on Voga would cause them to break out in hives or the cyber equivalent of that.
Were the Cybermen who were sent with the Doctor, Stevenson, and Lester supposed to escort them to the center Voga? Do they know that they are dead meat no matter how things turn out? Were they sent to Voga just to create a distraction? I don't really get what their mission was.
The team on the commentary track remains the same: producer Philip Hinchcliffe, Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith), Production Designer Roger Murray Leach, and David Collings (Vorus).
I'm still not sure for whom Kellman is working. He seems to be working for both the Cybermen and Vorus the Vogan, which I guess makes him a double agent if my read of the situation is correct.
This isn't a bad episode but I don't love it. There's lots of action in this installment but the plot doesn't seem to advance very far.
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