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Daleks Return to Dr Who
Jim Hall writes "An article on the BBC says that a Dalek will return to Dr Who, in an episode titled simply 'Dalek'. The Doctor discovers that a Dalek has been collected by an unsuspecting billionaire. Many of the perceived weaknesses of the Daleks have been addressed: Stairs have not been a problem for Daleks since 1988, when they first levitated towards Sylvester McCoy in Remembrance of the Daleks. The new Dalek can also spin its torso independently of his head, so creeping up from behind is no longer an option. Its trademark 'sink plunger' attachment also reveals a terrifying new function. 'Dalek' is on BBC-1 on Saturday, 30 April."
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Its the fear of the ugly little monster you never really see sitting inside it: Doctor Who usually does a slow reveal on its monsters to avoid showing what they really look like (usually an episode 1 cliffhanger) but for the daleks this has been forty years and still no clear look at anything but the travel machine.
Also, IMHO, there's something scary about a race that have no hands, but because they have an integrated gun they can still function as a society by intimidating other life forms.
Hopefully the next episodes will be much more welcoming. The last two episodes had a good story line, however the slapstick of the farting aliens, and hearing the Dr. actually say "fart" several times was more than pathetic, it was cring-making.
Reminds me all the times there's "Dalek" in the title but they still tried to build suspense by making the Daleks appearance a surprise at the end of Episode 1.
"The main selling point of the Daleks was not that they were scary, but that it was a lot of fun to march down the streek, one arm pointing directly in front of you, and screaming in a high-pitched voice, "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!""
REPENT! REPENT! REPENT! CONVERT! CONVERT! CONVERT!
What is it about the typical English psyche that finds the image of giant saltshakers so horrifying?
It's related to the thing in the American psyche that makes space aliens be humans with wrinkly foreheads.
"...the fact they will kill anyone who got in their way without question was pretty frightening"
Like US military patrols on the streets of Iraq.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I think it is the same thing that made the Borg scary, way back in the day. One face, one voice, no individuality. They can't be scard, they can't be talked out of what they do, therefore they are unstopable. Deeply scary is corect
We are the Borg...
The Aliens being able to launch WMD in 45 seconds was the highlight of the episode IMHO... Does this sound familiar to the Iraq WMD 45min claim!?!? Good to see the BBC being the independant media broadcasting station they are... Even after Mr Dyke was fired for this before.
The true sign of ratings weakness will be Rose losing clothing.
I can't stand the american-esque way of revealing half of the ENTIRE plot of the next episode at the end of each one! At least we don't have commercial breaks, so theres no 5 minute segment telling you EVERYTHING thats going to happen after the commercial! (okay, I know most programs arent really like that over there, but the reality ones are full of it, and it is just dire).
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a) the fact that the picture has been published without the publisher being sued into oblivion shows clearly that the woman in the picture was perfectly content to pose for, and profit from, it's publication
b) most male geeks don't get laid because we're not good looking. never forget SNL's three rules for getting dates: be handsome. be attractive. don't be unattractive. BTW a lot of female geeks don't get laid either.
c) women are superior to men in some ways, men are superior to women in others, and neither could survive without the other. anybody who tells you all of one group is always superior to all of another group, especially when dealing with groups as large as all men and all women, is either very very dangerous or selling something.
d) you have a massive male-guilt complex and I don't envy you it, assuming you're even a man, which i somehow doubt from your SCUM manifesto-ish tone
e) the people who would really disempower women (in other words, dangerous fascists like you) are the ones who would deny them the right to pose for pictures like this if they wanted to. this is america, asshole, you have no right to deny others' humor or entertainment no matter how much you disagree with it, as long as nobody's being hurt. you either have free speech or you don't. where would you draw the line? do women have no right to participate in, and profit from, the production of pornography? do they have the right to "degrade themselves" by telling off-color jokes? by wearing pants? have fun sliding down that slippery slope.
f) it's probably just photoshop anyway
g) let the PC modbombing begin, i'm not posting this anon because i'd like there to be some record that i'm not a knee-jerk leftist, karma be damned.
h) i'm thrilled to see the return of the daleks. or at least a dalek. i've always harbored a sneaking suspicion bill gates has one hidden away somewhere. now all that needs to happen is for some villain to somehow "borrow" a tardis, go back and grab davros, bring him to this one renegade dalek and have him close it, etc etc...
i) daleks still aren't as cool as cybermen, even if (and perhaps because) they did kill adric.
They will never stop until somebody makes the
Am I the only person who watched Doctor Who on the telly yesterday and saw the trail for next week's episode, which had a Dalek in it?
Am I also the only person to deduce that the Daleks might be back from the fact that the 6th episode is called "Dalek"? (The names of all the episodes except the twelth have been known for quite some time.)
Was I the only person who read in various news articles that the BBC had sucessfully concluded negotiations with Terry Nation's estate to allow them to use the Daleks?
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Based on what I've seen (used to frequent the Goth scene and go to RHPS for years) you're probably right. Hell, they might not have even gotten paid.
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let me clarify - where I'm posting from, this is America. if you're unlucky enough to live in a part of the world where people can't at least pay lip service to freedom of expression, my sympathies. regardless of location, consent is consent is consent. the minute you say a woman has no right to pose for this picture if she chooses too, you disempower her more than the picture ever would.
They will never stop until somebody makes the
That story was riddled with political allusions. Consider the central idea of the show: an aircraft hitting a major structure in a city; stage-managed by aliens to provide a photo-oppurtunity that will allow those aliens, masquarading as politicians, to further their agenda by scaring the bejezzus out of the rest of the world.
The reason the aliens crashed the spaceship was so that they could convince the world that there was (as you said) a threat from alien "weapons of mass destruction" that could be released in "45 seconds". The goal being that the Earth uses it's own military power to destroy itself, leaving the irradiated debris of the Earth available for sale as fuel, to the highest bidder.
Not exactly the material from a "kids programme".
I'll leave the real world parallels to the imagination of the reader. Needless to say, to anyone who's been paying attention for the last four years or so the allusions are obvious.
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You're forgetting something important.
The Dalek is a f*cking tank.
Who cares if he can fire once every 10 seconds. I would imagine a Bradley tank can't fire more often than that.
Now, imagine this. An American tank, made with DU armor, up against a WWII era tank - the DU ammunition would tear through the WWII era tank like tinfoil, while the WWII era tank wouldn't be able to do more than scratch the surface of the modern tank.
Okay, now replace Depleted Uranium shells with a DEATH RAY, and replace DU armor with Dalekanium. Put it into a package that has hover capabilities, 360 degree view, 0" turning radius, and put a mad monster with a nazi-like fascination for genocide of the whole human race behind the wheel.
The only hope of defeating it is a device which requires you to get relatively close to it. It is paranoid and will destroy everything that gets in it's way. The only person that knows how to use the device is a person that the Dalek vows to kill on sight...
Salt shaker, my ass. Those things are scary as hell...
Is it just me, or does this sound awfully familiar?
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The funniest thing about "horrible British food" jokes is it's always Americans, of all people, that make them.
Coming from French or the Italians it would just be standard "my country is better than yours". But from Americans? Americans! The country whose major contribution to world cuisine is the supersize portion?
Who says Americans don't appreciate irony?
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They're all things George Bush claims Saddam could do in 45 minutes?