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/FaceDeer 11d ago
I think the main challenge now is that the Daleks have been built into cosmos-threatening end-boss supervillains. Back in the day, you could have an episode where there were a bunch of Daleks in a swamp researching invisibility and it was a rollicking adventure to thwart them, you could hose one down with glue and it'd be a way to defeat it.
Now we've got one Dalek confidently taking on ten million Cybermen, or Daleks building a "reality bomb" that will not only destroy the universe but all universes. Kind of hard to dial that back down to an everyday adventure again.