Daily Inspiration Quote by Sarah Sutton

Nostalgia does a lot of heavy lifting here, and Sarah Sutton knows it. Calling the Cybermen "good monsters" is deliberately plainspoken, almost childlike, but that simplicity is the point: Doctor Who has always thrived on the friction between cheap-looking rubber suits and the huge feelings they manage to trigger. Sutton frames the Cybermen less as villains and more as reliable cultural furniture - a monster you can trust to deliver a certain kind of shiver.

The specific intent reads as affectionate validation from an insider. As an actress tied to the show’s classic era, she’s not reviewing the Cybermen’s mythology; she’s licensing them emotionally. "My earliest memories" shifts the authority away from canon and toward lived experience, which is exactly how long-running franchises survive. Fans don’t just argue lore; they protect their first sensation of being scared on the couch, too young to fully get it, old enough to feel it.

The subtext is about return as reassurance. "It’s nice to have them back" isn’t only about a monster reappearing; it’s about the show reasserting continuity across decades of cast changes, budgets, and tonal reinventions. The Cybermen, famously defined by dehumanization and forced upgrade, become paradoxically human in this framing: a shared reference point, a childhood imprint, a communal before-and-after.

Contextually, it’s also a savvy bit of soft marketing. For an actor and for Doctor Who itself, bringing back an iconic adversary signals confidence: the series can still reach into its own past and pull out something that works now, not as retro cosplay, but as a promise kept.