No. More. Daleks.

[23skidoo]

That's like asking Star Trek to drop the Klingons and Romulans. Not. Gonna. Happen.

In fact we'll probably see them more now that Victory of the Daleks did what it said on the tin and rebooted them.

In the 1960s the Doctor Who comic strip was even retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks, for reasons obvious.

Not that I expect them to appear in every episode, but they're a tradition.

It'd be interesting to hear from the original poster whether he or she came on board with Doctor Who with the revival, or is a long-timer from the classic series. It's not absolute of course - there were people sick of the Daleks in the 1960s, I'm sure - but I have tended to notice that "new" fans tend to be less tolerant of the Daleks than those who remember growing up with them, or who have extensive interest in the original series, which also at one point fell into the "Dalek story or 2 each season" pattern. I've seen enough to suggest to me that "modern" fans often don't understand what the fuss is about over them, while older fans still have "behind the couch" memories.

I'm half-way. I've never found them frightening (and I'm an old-timer whose been a fan since the early 80s), but I do find them to be cool, and while I've yet to be sold on the new color scheme (though I understand what they are trying to do with that) I am glad to see them grow their collective pair back after a number of years of rebuilding and somewhat bizarre behavior (Dalek Sec hybrids and all of that). The new Daleks need to be bastards, so hopefully the new coat of paint will piss them off enough!

Alex

 

[JRoss]

23skidoo, you're not an alumnus of Glyndwr University, are you?

 

[Starkers]

Yes but Alex, back in the day, well the 70's onwards, the Daleks weren't showing up every year. Peter, Colin and Sly only encountered them once each, Tom only twice and wasn't Pertwee just twice as well? There hasn't been a season of the new series that hasn't featured them (one even managed to turn up in the specials).

Victory of the Daleks isn't overly good, but kudos to the producers for brining the Daleks back as a force and not immediately killing them all off en masse two minutes later!

 

[Count Zero]

There are four Pertwee stories with the Daleks and until their temporary retirement in The Evil of the Daleks at the end of season 4, they had shown up every season, usually twice. But they actually got more threatening as time went on, I think. In The Daleks they couldn't even move freely but only on metal, and in The Dalek Invasion of Earth they were defeated by jumping them and pushing them to the ground in a badly choreographed fight scene. Well, at least they didn't get defeated by having nail varnish remover thrown at them like the Cybermen.
I think people are frustrated because Dalek is such a great story and probably the best Dalek story (certainly among the best) and it proved difficult to live up to that.
However, as others have pointed out, they're an essential part of Doctor Who and that's why we'll see them again. I'm certainly not sick of them, but I want them to be in better stories. Though it had an interesting premise, I found Victory of the Daleks disappointing.

 

[Timby]

Victory of the Daleks isn't overly good, but kudos to the producers for brining the Daleks back as a force and not immediately killing them all off en masse two minutes later!

Yeah, it's not great, but it's far from the worst of the season (I don't think I can ever bring myself to watch that Silurian two-parter again). It was basically a necessary episode of hand-waving to unfuck the Daleks so their future appearances don't need to waste six or seven minutes on another bullshit explanation for their return.

Yeah, the Spitfires in space was silly, and I do hope the Amazing Technicolor Dreamleks return to the more muted tones of days past (though I don't mind the redesign at all -- it's just the colors I dislike), but, eh, I can live with it. Sometimes you have to go through a bit of a rough patch before things can get better.

 

[captcalhoun]

is anyone else having visions of the Scarlet Witch saying the thread title and making them go away?

 

[Captaindemotion]

The Daleks are Dr Who's best known enemy, even more so than The Master. You can't have DW without them. It's like Gene Roddenberry's 'great idea' of not having Klingons or Romulans in TNG. Look how long that lasted. Sure, they ought not to be over-used but scrapping them entirely would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

 

[Nerys Myk]

No. If there's a good story involving the Daleks then use them.

 

[The Wormhole]

The only thing I got sick of with the Daleks was the fact that during the RTD era every encounter ended with the Daleks becoming extinct. We damn well know Daleks are always going to return, RTD himself even said so. So what the hell is actually accomplished with them going extinct every year? If there's one thing Moffat has done better than RTD, it's keeping the Daleks established as still around. Now we don't have to spin tales of "and this is how the Daleks survived their latest extinction."

That being said, I do agree that cerain Dalek episodes I could have gone without seeing, but there is still plenty of good story potential for the Daleks that I have no objection to seeing them again.

 

[Lonemagpie]

John Simm seemed the perfect mirror for David Tennant. I would say new Master for a new Doctor.

Yep, but Simm should come back to get regenerated - and he has the range to still match Smith if it came to it.

 

[starsuperion]

I wouldn't mind seeing the doctor inadvertently revive a dormant Movellan, who acquires new dalek paradigm Tech that happens to have been part of the story... which then restarts the movellans A(upgraded) as a threat, and sees the return of the war for the universe..

that way the Daleks are preoccupied again, and what would be pretty cool is seeing the doctor battling another foe in a later episode, and ending up on a spaceship with outside the window are a full on dalek/ movellan war, and yet the daleks aren't the focus of that episode..

then bring back the Ice warriors, and expand on the waters of mars episode, and give us some upgraded Ice warriors as foes! that would be sweet!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Now a Dalek companion for the Doctor would be awesome.

CLASSIC.

that would be so cool. A Dalek with a heart and a taste for adventure. Dunno what skimpy clothes they could where, maybe a more seductive version of the utility belt thing in Victory of the Daleks last year, like a man-kini design, or just put nipples on every bump with a multi cup bra.

They do have breasts...wait, I mean, Dalek bumps

 

[Cutter John]

I don't mind daleks, just weak-ass dalek stories.

 

[timelord1010]

I think the Daleks should be used sparingly. How about some of The Doctor's other adversaries like The Rani or the Zygons to name two......

 

[CommanderRaytas]

John Simm seemed the perfect mirror for David Tennant. I would say new Master for a new Doctor.

True. I just wanted to take the opportunity and drool a little.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I think the Daleks should be used sparingly. How about some of The Doctor's other adversaries like The Rani or the Zygons to name two......

The Rani would bring up the "how did another timelord escape notice?" discussions.

Not that I would mind seeing another timelord.

 

[captcalhoun]

bring back the Chumblies!

 

[Sindatur]

I think the Daleks should be used sparingly. How about some of The Doctor's other adversaries like The Rani or the Zygons to name two......

The Rani would bring up the "how did another timelord escape notice?" discussions.

Not that I would mind seeing another timelord.

What's wrong with The Rani having survived the Time War? She wouldn't go anywhere near Gallifrey, unless it was in chains. There's no reason to think she would've died in the Time War unless she was imprisoned on Gallifrey during the Time War, and nothing on TV has hinted at that (is their an Audio Drama or other media that makes you believe she was on Gallifrey during the Time War?)

 

[Morfius]

I agree that the complete destruction of the daleks that later turns out to exclude a lone ship has been done too many times. At this point it seems unfair that some many Daleks survived the Time War but only two Time Lords did.
I would like to see Susan return . . . or Rani . . . or Romana . . . or Leela

 

[Blamo]

I have no problem with the Daleks returning every year, as long as the stories they're in are good (as well as being well written for). Probably best keeping the amount of Daleks in a Dalek story to a low number, say a small task force. Dangerous but beatable without resorting to some deus ex machina.

Thankfully, Victory of the Daleks should mark the end of the "last surviving Dalek" scenario.