HGFB wrote:Daleks are popular. They'd be stupid not to include them in some way.
Well, that's just an agreement with my sentiment that it's about merchandising cash instead of decent TV. What are we on so far, seven episodes of Daleks and only the first consistently unembarassing?
HGFB wrote:Daleks are popular. They'd be stupid not to include them in some way.
Well, that's just an agreement with my sentiment that it's about merchandising cash instead of decent TV. What are we on so far, seven episodes of Daleks and only the first consistently unembarassing?
The Daleks flying out of that sphere thing was just about the most awesome thing ever.
HGFB wrote:Daleks are popular. They'd be stupid not to include them in some way.
Well, that's just an agreement with my sentiment that it's about merchandising cash instead of decent TV. What are we on so far, seven episodes of Daleks and only the first consistently unembarassing?
It's merchandising cash *and* decent TV. They don't have to be mutually exclusive. Just because you don't like it don't assume it's not popular.
HGFB wrote:It's merchandising cash *and* decent TV. They don't have to be mutually exclusive. Just because you don't like it don't assume it's not popular.
Stupidity is when you assume a set IP asset or star/guest star is all you need to keep a good show going.
Each time you use the Daleks they get devalued, their impact next time will be reduced*.
Dr Who needs fresh storys based around slightly over the top yet fun concepts. Season3 did this well.
As much as I love serilised drama, Dr Who has proved 3 times now it cant do decent plot resolutions, so it needs to be completely eppisodic with just a few two parters.
The scriptwritters should never think...or be told.... "oh we need to something with these" . They should use whatever charecters fit the story, not whatever story they can use to fit the charecters in.
*the one exception to this is if they use the spider-dalek concept, then all will be forgiven
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