RandomGuy. Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 The first Eccelstone episode with a Dalek really made them seem like the worst thing imaginable. A single Dalek and the Doctor is "no one on this base is safe, no one on this planet". Now a whole Dalek fleet, hell a whole planet of them is brushed aside like a minor inconvenience. This, I often think you see too much of them. Episodes with them should maybe have a brief glimpse of them causing carnage then you not seeing them again until the climax. In todays world they look more laughable than scary, and the writers are surely aware of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Would be pretty hard to do, but I absolutely adored "Midnight", and would love a Dalek-esque episode like that. No idea how you'd manage it though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) They should've just let them kill Clara. I don't dislike the character, but she's leaving anyway. Letting the Daleks kill her off would've been a famously poignant moment in the show's history, and restored the menace of the Skaran Stair-Dodgers. Edited October 14, 2015 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 They should've just let them kill Clara. I don't dislike the character, but she's leaving anyway. Letting the Daleks kill her off would've been a famously poignant moment in the show's history, and restored the menace of the Skaran Stair-Dodgers. 100% this. I'd love it if there was just no great farewell, just her being zapped to f**k 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Clara should have gone in the Christmas special. Let her be the old women and left it at that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I must be the only Dr Who fan that thinks the Eccleston episode just called "Dalek" is massively overrated. The bit where the Doctor is left alone with the Dalek is excellent, gripping stuff. Probably Eccleston's finest five minutes in the role. The rest of the episode just seems a bit dull though. I've watched it three or four times, each time thinking I must be missing something, but it leaves me a bit cold. I'd say there are plenty of good two-thirds of Dalek stories in the re-vamped series. They do always seem to get beaten in about five seconds by somebody pressing a button or some other such nonsense. Still nowhere near as bad as the episode where the Cybermen were defeated by a father's love. Do f**k off. That's the closest I've ever come to giving up on the show and never watching again. I think the best Dalek story since the reboot is Asylum of the Daleks while the best Cyber-sodes are the Dark Water/Death in Heaven double bill. In each case they didn't really have too much of their headline monster in them. I enjoy the Dalek just slowly taking its time rolling about killing people, never in a rush, barely said a word. Also some cracking lines 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) The first one is part of the reason I didn't like it, I think. I didn't like the idea of the Daleks having feelings. Maybe childish on my part but still! The second one is a great line, I'll grant you. Edited October 14, 2015 by Bully Wee Villa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Peh McBridie Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 The first one is part of the reason I didn't like it, I think. I didn't like the idea of the Daleks having feelings. Maybe childish on my part but still! The second one is a great line, I'll grant you. I was faking it in order to get Rose to touch it to be fair and when it did gain "feelings" it called it sickness and killed itself. Whilst cheesy my fave Dalek line is still that put down to the Cybermen. Cyberman: Daleks be warned you have declared war on the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war. This is pest control!. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochas III Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 The first Eccelstone episode with a Dalek really made them seem like the worst thing imaginable. A single Dalek and the Doctor is "no one on this base is safe, no one on this planet". Now a whole Dalek fleet, hell a whole planet of them is brushed aside like a minor inconvenience. Like I said it's like Voyager and The Borg. In TNG, one cube decimated a fleet of 40 Starfleet ships at Worf 359. Then just over a decade later, one ship is able to survive and get the better of a whole sector and more of them 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilbowie's Finest Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I was faking it in order to get Rose to touch it to be fair and when it did gain "feelings" it called it sickness and killed itself. Whilst cheesy my fave Dalek line is still that put down to the Cybermen. Cyberman: Daleks be warned you have declared war on the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war. This is pest control!. Love the full exchange between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybermen in Doomsday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I was faking it in order to get Rose to touch it to be fair and when it did gain "feelings" it called it sickness and killed itself. Whilst cheesy my fave Dalek line is still that put down to the Cybermen. Cyberman: Daleks be warned you have declared war on the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war. This is pest control!. Love the full exchange between the Cult of Skaro and the Cybermen in Doomsday ImageUploadedByPie & Bovril1444859664.189876.jpg It's like a rework of a Mary Whitehouse Experience sketch between Newman and Baddiel, 'that's you that is' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Lanarkshire Jag Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Nice to meet our second resident from the planet Tivoli - although it took me a while to place the first! Another decent two parter. I've enjoyed all of Capaldi's run though! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinkerbelle Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Could that be Clara's replacement? or her maw? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 The maw thing might be a shout. If she gave Clara the other thing it would explain how Clara is 'The Impossible Girl'. Davros spoke of 'The Hybrid' in the first episode mind, and now we know who/what that is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 The only thing worse than Clara as the assistant would be Maisie fucking Williams 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 The impossible girl thing was already answered, It doesn't look like she ages either so not sure if it can be her maw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 She's definitely gonna be the new assistant, in my opinion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 She's definitely gonna be the new assistant, in my opinion. Don't think she has the time, Doctor who is filmed all year round 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 (edited) Wow. After the last couple of episodes we are back to utter pish again. Edited October 17, 2015 by NorthernLights 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Don't think she has the time, Doctor who is filmed all year round Was she not the favourite to take over the last time JLC said she was leaving or am I making both of those scenarios up (wouldn't surprise me)? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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