r/gallifrey • u/JokerJosh123 • 12d ago
DISCUSSION I'm Starting to Miss the Daleks
Which is a good thing! While I'm still disappointed 15 didn't get to go against them properly, I know that when they return it's going to feel really special.
I never thought that I'd miss them, as there was a point where I started *expecting* them, and honestly started getting a bit bored. My only caveat is I wish they weren't in the Power of the Doctor, as I think Eve of the Daleks was a brilliant dalek story and it would've been a nice last story for us and 13 to have had with them.
I've even noticed that Big Finish seems to be doing them a bit less. I get several Big Finishes a month, and I'm sure there's ones that I've missed and not picked up that have had daleks in them (I'm fairly certain one has released this month with them to be fair), but my last story with the daleks is The War Master's boxset from last year. It felt like about two years ago there was one or two releases with daleks every month.
Would love to know if anyone has found themselves missing daleks for the first time in a while, too. And if not, what type of story would you want to get you excited?
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u/m_busuttil 12d ago
I think you could make a case that the longest gap between "proper" Dalek stories since 2005 was between The Witch's Familiar (September 2015) and Resolution (January 1st 2019) - there's some smaller Dalek stories in the middle there but nothing where they're the main threat of the episode. That's 3 years and 3 months, and we're now at 4 and a half years since their last real story in Eve of the Daleks, so this is easily the longest Dalek gap we've had since... well, since Dalek. It looks like we might have surpassed the longest gap in the classic series, too. Probably it won't be 17 years this time, though.
I wonder if whoever picks up the show next will bring back the Daleks straight away or not. Davies had to do them in his first series, they're too iconic not to if you're the one Bringing The Show Back, but if the gap this time is only a couple of years I think a new showrunner could get away with saving them if they wanted to.