Susan, The Doctor and the other two visit Skaro, but the interdimensional comflobulator breaks and since the Thales haven't worked out how to invent stuff yet they have to go into the city to ask the Daleks for some Sellotape to fix it - with hilarious consequences. #ScotchTapeAMoviePlotOrPoem #HashtagGames #Daleks#DoctorWho #SellotapeAMoviePlotOrPoem
Have just driven back from a get together with friends and as we went past a city snowplow depot there were many of the tiny sidewalk plows darting about, lights blazing.
Maybe because I was watching #doctorWho lately they looked like #Daleks dispersing on Skaro their home planet.
Radio Times marked the return of the Daleks on the week of 21-27th Nov, in 1964, with this classic cover for The Dalek Invasion of Earth, assuring the Daleks place as the Doctor’s arch villains forevermore! #DoctorWho#Daleks#DoctorWho60
#DoctorWho showrunner Russell T Davies on changing the physical attributes of arch-villain #Davros, creator of the #Daleks:
"There’s a problem with the old Davros: he’s a wheelchair user who is evil. I had problems with that. A lot of us on the production team did too, associating disability with evil... So we made the choice to bring back Davros without the facial scarring and without the wheelchair."
Um, has it occurred to RTD that Every Single Dalek is also "a wheelchair user who is evil"?
@dominicgrant yeah, this is another hot take from RTD that i'm not a fan of. if he wants to go back on the 'people with disabiliteis being evil' trope, maybe have some companions with disabilities. Have some neutral people with disabilities. We should have more poeple with disabilities in doctor who (both actors and characters), not less.
"It's kind of my main thing" or
"It's kind of their main thing" or
"It's kind of your main thing" is a phrase that keeps popping up lately — both philosophically and in managing life and work. And I got it from this funny Dalek sketch parody I can highly recommend.
@alexkidman Happy to let you keep that one. I think RTD or his directors often had near-misses landing the key moments for me, when the big reveal happens — another example is when Sarah Jane stumbles on the TARDIS. It's really good, but overcooked the steak.
The alien ship over the Thames did work though — realism from the smoke & truck noises. A moment later I wish the news reporter didn't have his "kids show segment" face on though.