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caddyman[Poll #513077]
I suspect it *is* Davros - though if it is, he's been smoking 40 or so Havana cigars a day since last we saw him. We've heard the voice in trailers, but not seen who is speaking.
"They survive through me!" is the only phrase we have heard, and I think that is all.
It is someone the Daleks revere as a god - literally, but Davros doesn't necessarily fit that persona as they have always been ambivalent toward their creator (assuming the continuity, such as it ever was, holds).
The simple answer is usually the best. My best guess other thab Davros himself, is that it is the Dalek that the Doctor and Rose found on earth. I wasn't convinced that it destroyed itself at the time, what we saw could just as easily been a teleport. At the same time, it was mutated by incorporation of Roses's DNA, and even if it had teleported, there was nowhere for it to go, except elsewhere on earth. The Daleks have time technology, so it is not inconeivable that it undertook to manipulate the Doctor's timeline in particular by fiddling with earth's development. This would ensure both the opportunity to rebuild its race through cloning, and also make sure that the Doctor kept coming back to earth (not that he's ever needed much persuasion in that direction), over many millennia. Especially when, relatively speaking, humans are the nearest he now has to family.
We'll find out on Saturday. But as clever and entertaining as the scripting has been, there isn't a great deal to support the idea of a hidden, overarching plotline other than the Bad Wolf references themselves. Even the Bad Wolf episode itself only suggested that the Daleks as a race, as opposed to who/whatever is behind them, have been building for about 100 years, and that episode is set in 202005 (I think).
I suspect it *is* Davros - though if it is, he's been smoking 40 or so Havana cigars a day since last we saw him. We've heard the voice in trailers, but not seen who is speaking.
"They survive through me!" is the only phrase we have heard, and I think that is all.
It is someone the Daleks revere as a god - literally, but Davros doesn't necessarily fit that persona as they have always been ambivalent toward their creator (assuming the continuity, such as it ever was, holds).
The simple answer is usually the best. My best guess other thab Davros himself, is that it is the Dalek that the Doctor and Rose found on earth. I wasn't convinced that it destroyed itself at the time, what we saw could just as easily been a teleport. At the same time, it was mutated by incorporation of Roses's DNA, and even if it had teleported, there was nowhere for it to go, except elsewhere on earth. The Daleks have time technology, so it is not inconeivable that it undertook to manipulate the Doctor's timeline in particular by fiddling with earth's development. This would ensure both the opportunity to rebuild its race through cloning, and also make sure that the Doctor kept coming back to earth (not that he's ever needed much persuasion in that direction), over many millennia. Especially when, relatively speaking, humans are the nearest he now has to family.
We'll find out on Saturday. But as clever and entertaining as the scripting has been, there isn't a great deal to support the idea of a hidden, overarching plotline other than the Bad Wolf references themselves. Even the Bad Wolf episode itself only suggested that the Daleks as a race, as opposed to who/whatever is behind them, have been building for about 100 years, and that episode is set in 202005 (I think).
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Date: 2005-06-14 10:58 pm (UTC)Of course, if the Dalek fleet managed to escape the mutal destruction s Time War thing, then the writers can as easily flange back in all of Galefrey ?
Saturday - I'm expecting a large space/time disruption requiring The Doctor to regenerate m'self!
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Date: 2005-06-14 10:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-15 12:17 pm (UTC)i think
Date: 2005-06-14 11:04 pm (UTC)that would totally cheapen the events of that episode.
Re: i think
Date: 2005-06-14 11:07 pm (UTC)To be honest, I wouldn't rule anyone or anything out at this stage.
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Date: 2005-06-14 11:12 pm (UTC)Re: go vote in my totally excellent poll
Date: 2005-06-14 11:13 pm (UTC)Ockam's Razor
Date: 2005-06-15 08:29 am (UTC)If it is the rather weak washy camp liberal vegetarian Hippy Dalek with a conscience (no offence intended!Fast Show stylee..) I will groan most heartily - but as Suitandtieguy suggests RTD does seem to have had a strong arc throughout the first season - so there's a good chance that liberal Hippy dalek will be back.
I think (place your bet now ladies and gentlemen) that the Dalek leader will be Davros , but that Liberal Dalek will not have self-destructed as we previously thought, but used the disintergrater ray/transmat ray introduced in the last show (was it the same one as in Old Who with Omega and Turlough - Anoraks please advise). Liberal Dalek will return and save our Heros but the Dr might regenerate or end up laying injured on the TARDIS's floor about to regenerate …..just in time for the Christmas special.
That's how I see it so there !
Actually I might have extended myself beyond Ockam's Razor there……oops!
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Re: Ockam's Razor
Date: 2005-06-15 08:46 am (UTC)No point to make, I just like that saying.
Yes, I am a geek, since you ask.
Re: Ockam's Razor
Date: 2005-06-15 10:05 am (UTC)