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[beccaelizabeth]

I just rewatched Victory of the Daleks
and I do not have new thoughts about that right now
but
thinking about it in connection to events in the most recent Doctor Who episode

I was thinking
whenever the Doctor thinks he's finally fixed things
there they are again
Daleks.

But not for Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor.

And Doylist that's kind of angry making - when I looked up Ncuti Gatwa Daleks the first result was him telling Radio Times he'd be angry if he didn't face them.

But Watsonian?
He finally did it.
One lifetime not defined by them.



I could quite like that.

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[jesuswasbatman]

Hope this isn't too late to comment...

Thing is, I'm not sure a Dalek story would have worked in the Davies-Gatwa era, because it's so much more dominated by fantasy and outright magic-based stories. Because one thing the Daleks are absolutely not is magical or imaginative, all grey mindless thuggery.

Looking back on the two seasons, the biggest outlier episode for me is "Boom" for similar reasons - it's a very good episode but it's got too much of that mid-80s Eric Saward gritty militarism to sit comfortably in the era.

[beccaelizabeth]

All times are comments times :-)

Very true, the Daleks would be a big tonal shift. Almost like those crossovers where who wins depends on whose genre rules apply. And I see what you mean about Boom as an outlier.

I just watched 11 meet the weeping angels with bishop and clerics, the 51st century church militant, and in seasons with those other sorts of gods it do add an angle. Gods and their worshippers.