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Can't wait for the new series of dr who . I've heard it goes out on march 26th , bbc1. Apperently they are spending �1,000,000 per episode on it. + Darleks are in it!
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I wonder if they will have episodes with older doctors visiting!?! PLEASE PLEASE Paul McGann. Tom Baker too even? Although he would have aged too much to look as he did before the 4th Doctor died. They could get the guy from 'Dead Ringers' to do it!?!
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Mabye they'll skip re-hashing the old villans and come up with new (evil) recurring races.
The Cybermen (later models at least) were pretty cool, but I could live with never seeing another dalek episode.
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quote:Originally posted by Reverend: Yes and their mortal enemy is a flight of stairs!
In 50 years, you are easily the first person to make that joke. I can't believe no-one else has ever thought of it, ever. Well done sir.
Also, you are wrong. They can hover.
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Tom Baker too even? Although he would have aged too much to look as he did before the 4th Doctor died. They could get the guy from 'Dead Ringers' to do it!?!
That wasn't really a problem though when Troughton and Pertwee reappeared. Or rather it was, but they ignored it.
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Hey, you know how to escape the daleks? Run up an flight of.....oh.
You'd think they'd just hover all the damn time. Mabye they will in their inevitable appearances in the new series.
Mabye those goofy hemispheres all over the body of the Daleks are antigrav devices or something.
A question: didn't the Doctor (5th?) kill Davros? (it's been a while sice Dr. Who was shown over here)
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Hey, you know how to escape the daleks? Run up an flight of.....oh.
You'd think they'd just hover all the damn time. Mabye they will in their inevitable appearances in the new series.
Mabye those goofy hemispheres all over the body of the Daleks are antigrav devices or something.
A question: didn't the Doctor (5th?) kill Davros? (it's been a while sice Dr. Who was shown over here)
None of the Doctors has ever killed Davros, but the 7th blew up Skaro (or more accuratly, got Davros to blow up Skaro). Skaro is in the TV movie, so I think they've had to work around that in the books (by making the planet New Skaro/altering the timeline/whatnot).
Those globes all over a Dalek are sensor domes, I believe. And as to why they don't hover all the time, well, it's not very energy efficient. Plus BBC budget and all. There's a scene in "The Chase" (a really early Hartnell Dalek story, around 1965) where they clearly imply that the Daleks can acend stairs with no problems. We first see them actually hovering in Colin Baker's Dalek story (Revelation of the Daleks, I think), around 1986. And we actually honest-to-god see them floating up a flight of stairs in the really quite good Rememberence of the Daleks (McCoy, 1988).
And I've probably got all those story names wrong, too.
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I have checked some facts on the official website and ,according to the producer, yes the daleks will will hover in the new series. www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho
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Liam got the names right. But in "Revelation", I think it was only Davros who was seen floating. But if his ancient chair / lower body could, then modern Daleks certainly could...
A Dalek's bumps are its sensor array. According to the Master, they can detect ion-charged emissions and operate as synthetic beam locators at a distance of up to twenty thousand light years. They're also extremely firm.
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I thought we saw some of the Imperial Daleks floating too in Revelation. But it's been a while since I've seen that one, so I could be wrong.
Didn't the early Daleks (early story-wise, not Genesis of the Daleks-early) not have those sensor domes?
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Is it normal if you have never seen an episode of Dr. Who in your life ever? Because I worry.
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The Daleks always had those bumps. They didn't always have the grille-like "solar panels" around the midsection, as they were originally powered by static electricity transmitted through the floor of their cities. Their second appearance (where they invaded Earth) saw this with silly dishes on their back where they recieved their power.
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