Doctor Who

Yay!

...Also ugh, thank god it's friday.

Yay Labor Day weekend! Woo!

Which means tomorrow is Whoturday!

WHO ELSE IS EXCITED FOR MORE PETER CAPALDI? WHOOO!

I AM

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS EPISODE FOR WEEKS NOW

AND I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS TYPE OF DOCTOR... WELL FRANKLY EVER SINCE SERIES 3.

KINDA WISH WE DIDN'T DIP BACK INTO THE DALEK WELL SO EARLY THOUGH.

Oh, trust me, it's worth it.

I am excited also. Although I thought initially that "Into The Dalek" was a philosophical metaphor thing, not a literal "going inside a Dalek" thing. Eh, it's probably both, innit?

The First Doctor had a Dalek story as his second adventure.

The Second Doctor had one as his first.

Stuff for people who've read the script:

From the prerelease stuff, I assume they've literally gone into a Dalek? Can you tell me whether I'm right or wrong without spoiling anything?

I haven't read the script, just a synopsis that said stuff.

There's a "Series 8 Spoiler discussion" thread.

Yay Planet Of Giants!

I'm really getting excited.I dunno if I'll be able to watch it on time, since I'm supposed to be watching my sister's orchestra concert, but I'll definitely have seen it by sunday morning.

I'm not available for rpg, by the way. My laptop is basically dead and every other internetthing I have doesn't like irc things.

I'm extremely excited. And then when the series ends or has a break again I'll be sad.

By the way, the only official way to see it in America without BBCA is to buy it from itunes or Amazon, which only comes out sometime between midnight and 6 am the next day.

I lost my mind, but I suspect my mind knows exactly where I am.

1. One first faced the Daleks in his second televised story,
2. Two in his first,
3. Three in his tenth,
4. Four in his fourth,
5. Five in his fourteenth,
6. Six in his seventh,
7. Seven in his fifth,
8. The Daleks appeared off screen in the Eight's first televised adventure.
9. War first faced the Daleks in his first televised story
10. Nine in his fifth,
11. Ten in his eleventh,
12. Eleven in his third,
13. And Twelve in his second.

The average amount of stories it takes for a Doctor to encounter the Daleks is in their 5.077th story.

edited 29th Aug '14 1:11:27 PM by Whowho

You all seemed to have mistaken my Dalek fatigue for "How early should a doctor deal with the Daleks?"

I assure you, it's just Dalek fatigue.

I think daleks should stop happening.

Sure, Doctor Who will lose the rights to them but its not like the Nation Estate Group People will be able to make their own daleks show. Nation tried that before.

And maybe they'll shop them around.

Imagine, daleks showing up in other sci-fi.

Imagine, deleks in star trek. Fighting the Borg. Or in Assassin's Creed, working desk jobs. Daleks in Halo or Masser Effect. Daleks as a faction in Alpha Centauri.

edited 29th Aug '14 1:18:53 PM by Bocaj

The story is apparently really good, though. So maybe you'll be able to just deal with it.

I think we could go a few series without Daleks. They're a classic part of the series but they get boring.

edited 29th Aug '14 1:21:32 PM by tenebrousgaze

Sadly, we literally can't. If they do, then they lose the rights.

Asylum of the Daleks was such a good episode in 2012 that I looked back on my comments from 2010 in shame.

(Paraphrased) 'Daleks have exhausted their threat level and should be maintained only as a constant force in the back ground of the setting; making an appearance every year to appease estates, but not having an episode directly confronting their plots or nature for the next three years'

Strange thing is that Moffat seemed to have the same idea as me for Series 6, where they had a very minor appearance.

I wanna see Daleks fight the Borg!

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

ASSIM-I-LATION IS FU-TILE! YOU WILL BE EX-TERM-INATED!

That already happened. Don't you remember "Doomsday?"

If some other show gets the rights to the daleks, I want them to be the good guys. Daleks working on the enterprise. Daleks in eastenders, getting people pregnant. Daleks judging on the x factor.

The whole 'have to use the Daleks every season or they're lose the rights' thing is really weird. Like, it's not like those rights are going to go anywhere else- if the show lost them, the Nation estate would either have to just sit on them, or work out a new agreement with the BBC.

Might be worth it to just call their bluff; they were willing to let Moffat get away with just barely using them in Series 6, so a truly Dalek-free season might just allow the BBC to get a better deal once they get the Daleks back again.

Or then again, maybe that would be a bad idea. I don't pretend to know how the legal details work here.