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\u201d the return of the show to its earliest roots is highlighted, not only by the Doctor\u2019s emphatic statement, \u201cThis is the real me,\u201d but also by the materialization of the TARDIS in a junkyard that looks familiar \u2013 one belonging to I. M. Foreman and located at 70 Totter\u2019s Lane. The TARDIS, and the character of the Doctor, are in some ways back where they began. The episode proceeds to focus still more attention on the show\u2019s original Doctor by harking back to the last William Hartnell episode, \u201cThe Tenth Planet.\u201d In \u201cAttack of the Cybermen\u201d in fact the plan of the Cybermen is to rewrite history so as to prevent the things that happened in that episode \u2013 earlier in the Doctor\u2019s life but still in the future from Earth\u2019s perspective. They want to prevent the destruction of their home planet of Mondas.<\/p>\nThe Doctor also tries to repair the chameleon circuit \u2013 to entertaining effect.<\/p>\n
As regards religion, two points are worth noting. One is the focus on Haley\u2019s comet \u2013 on the one hand, comets being viewed as harbingers of doom by superstitious Earthlings, on the other, the Cybermen are planning to divert it and so disrupt Earth and its history, for their own advantage.<\/p>\n
The other is the possibility that the time lords had in fact maneuvered the Doctor into these events precisely to uphold the \u201claws of time.\u201d Meddling and at times conflicting gods abound in the Doctor Who universe.<\/p>\n
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In \u201cAttack of the Cybermen<\/a>