Daleks? I don't think so..

[Wazzerphuk]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3859651.stm

Such a shame. By far and away the most notable enemy from any series. By far and away the most effective, scary, horrible machines you'll meet. And with the new budget being thrown at the new Dr Who stuff they could have really done a lot with Daleks in this day and age... no more cheesy electo deaths

Given our chances of seeing the best enemy, and best enemy leader are shot for a good few years still, would you want any of the old enemies back, or would you prefer Dr Who to go down an all new route?

 

[DaGaffer]

Its probably a good thing tbh - to our jaded 21st century pallets how are they not going to look irredeemably shit? You'd have to change the design so much that they wouldn't really be Daleks anymore.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Not really, the design of the daleks was way ahead of anything else in Dr. Who - they clearly made a special effort, and it clearly worked - look at the fanbase: everyone loves Daleks but not everyone likes Dr. Who!

A re-working would be called for yes, but the basic principle of the dalek is almost spot on anyway. All you need do is modify the body a little, spruce the design up so it feels a lot cleaner and less clunky and make proper high quality models (not so obviously cheap materials etc). Maybe change the basic weaponry a little.

I still think an army of heartless, cruel, seemingly floating machines to be one of the best enemies ever..

 

[Tom]

How they can complain about the brand being diluted when it has already been satirised by just about every single comedy for the last 20 years is beyond me.

 

[DaGaffer]

Not really, the design of the daleks was way ahead of anything else in Dr. Who - they clearly made a special effort, and it clearly worked - look at the fanbase: everyone loves Daleks but not everyone likes Dr. Who!

A re-working would be called for yes, but the basic principle of the dalek is almost spot on anyway. All you need do is modify the body a little, spruce the design up so it feels a lot cleaner and less clunky and make proper high quality models (not so obviously cheap materials etc). Maybe change the basic weaponry a little.

I still think an army of heartless, cruel, seemingly floating machines to be one of the best enemies ever..

Um (desperately trying not to fall off chair laughing), Daleks were great... WHEN I WAS EIGHT! After an intervening 30 years of Aliens, Terminators, Borgs, Shadows and God knows what else, Stephen Hawking in a dustbin with a sinkplunger attachment isn't going to get me behind that sofa any more...

 

[Gengi]

The Daleks never really scared me except in the series when the humans were waging the guerilla war against the Daleks and they pulled a couple of the Dalek tops off, after sticking C4 girdles on them, and the controllers looked like even more shrivelled up Davros's.
That made Daleks scary, the fact that these apparently amoral machines were actually controlled by living beings. When they were just Robots their fear factor was lower.

Later

 

[Wij]

White wee-wee.

Experminate !

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Greatest TV programme ever that - you remember the one where he phoned up the BBC asking for a radio job, only he had tourettes? They couldn't say "no" to him on the phone as it would be against the disability act and the woman on the other end of the phone was so nice but overwhelmed by the situation - putting up with him shouting at her at the most inappropriate times.

"We'll certainly consider your application with all the others, but to be honest your tourettes might cause some problems..." Classy

 

[CJRavey]

Um (desperately trying not to fall off chair laughing), Daleks were great... WHEN I WAS EIGHT! After an intervening 30 years of Aliens, Terminators, Borgs, Shadows and God knows what else, Stephen Hawking in a dustbin with a sinkplunger attachment isn't going to get me behind that sofa any more...

/waves fist at daGaffer.

Most of the audience WILL be eight, and with a redesign the Daleks could kick ass. Davros - particularly his mask - will need less designing to make them scary.

Your list of alien / robot meanies are not fit to wipe the Dalek's balls

 

[Scouse]

I think it's a major loss for the BBC. It'll cut the viewers in half I reckon because of the percieved shitness of not being able to have 'em....

...and they're GREAT and would be uber-cool with a little makeover:

Indestructible, mobile, tank-like fuckers with no concience and fucking painful weaponry, crashing through walls, floating through the biggest destructive explosions without near a scratch

 

[Wazzerphuk]

And the fact they hung around in men's public lavatories. Kinky devils.

 

[Wij]