Timeline for Why weren't people afraid of the Cybermen in "Death in Heaven"?
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| Jan 5, 2016 at 3:31 | answer | added | confusedwhovian | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 20, 2015 at 14:12 | comment | added | Roger | @BBlake That would imply that UNIT was already aware that the Cybermen were in St. Pauls and were waiting for them. I think it's more likely that they were monitoring social media, saw people posting their Cyber-selfies, and then mobilized, particularly since the majority of the UNIT personnel were in riot gear, not casuals. | |
| Nov 20, 2015 at 12:12 | comment | added | BBlake | It was also my impression that everyone in the square was a UNIT agent. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 18:22 | comment | added | Michael Scott Shappe | The Original Series mostly ignored this sort of thing, but at one point, Ace and Seven are in 1963 at Coal Hill School and the Daleks are landing spaceships in the playground and Ace is like, "Wait...why don't I know about this?" and the Doctor says, "Your species has the most amazing talent for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself!" In short, it's integral to the conceit of the series that people can't remember what they had for dinner yesterday, let alone whether Daleks invaded in 1963. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | A significant fraction of the people taking selfies and such were actually undercover UNIT agents, as revealed in the next scene; but this does not seem to apply to everyone, since we do see a girl who looks to be a tween getting her picture taken with a Cyberman, and UNIT presumably wouldn't intentionally put kids in a situation like that, so apparently they hadn't cleared out all civilians in advance. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 17:22 | answer | added | tilley31 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | tilley31 | Remember when Amy didn't recognize the Daleks in "Victory of the Daleks"? (Series 5). It has something to do with the cracks in the Universe. Cannary Wharf never happened, but its consequences remain (which makes Rose's fate consistent). Timey-wimey. It's the best I can do. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 16:12 | history | asked | Roger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |