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LONDON—Graeme Harper, director of the upcoming second-season Doctor Who episodes featuring the return of the Cybermen, told SCI FI Wire that he was disappointed when the first image broke prematurely, spoiling some of surprise. The robotic Cybermen, a favorite of previous incarnations of the venerable British SF TV series, reappear in the upcoming episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel," which debut on BBC1 in the United Kingdom on May 13 and 20.
"Some of it upset me," Harper said in an interview. "Not personally, but I was trying not to give too much away early in the storytelling. This was a new breed of Cybermen, so I planned to show a bit of eyes or mouth, maybe a little bit of hand or metal, or some out of focus blurs; just a hint so you know they're coming eventually. Once you finally see them, you see them for the rest of the episode and the following episode, so I wanted to leave it as long as possible for the audience to get their first taste of Cybermen."
As it turned out, faced with a possible leak of information, the BBC was forced to leak an official publicity photo several months before the episodes were due to air. "They told me the problem with last season was that some information and photographs got out to the press, whether it was a monster or an actor or a design or whatever," Harper recalled. "And [producers] Russell [T. Davies] and Phil [Collinson] were upset that they were crappy photographs. They decided, 'Look, if they're going to be stolen and shown, at least make them good photographs, so we'll give out the best publicity shot we've got and let the audience see it, and they won't be able to top that.' So that's what they did. Now, eight or nine months later, the show is finally going out, and hopefully people will have an image in their brain, but won't remember too much detail, so I'll still be able to tell my story properly."
In "Rise of the Cybermen," the TARDIS is stranded on an alternate Earth, where the Doctor (David Tennant), Rose (Billie Piper) and Mickey (Noel Clarke) discover that a scientist (played by Roger Lloyd-Pack) is making plans to transform humanity into a race of bio-mechanical hybrids.
According to Harper, who also directed a number of Doctor Who episodes for the original series in the 1980s, one of his biggest priorities with the Cybermen two-parter was to create a sense of fear. "When I used to watch Doctor Who, I wasn't a child, but I did get worried and scared by some of what I was watching," he said. "I'm not sure I hid behind the sofa , but I wanted to get back to that idea of a family saying, 'Oh, God, what's going to happen next?' and keep everyone on the edge of their seat. So I'm hoping that's what we achieved."
The first season of the new Doctor Who currently airs Friday nights on SCI FI Channel at 9 p.m. ET/PT. —Joe Nazzaro From Scifi.com Used without Premission.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 04:35:23 EDT by terrorpup
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