Jodie is back for next year.

[Jayson1]

no it's the correct term and yes Jodie's accent is pretty thick

I have noticed that as well. I often half to rewind or turn up the volume and maybe even turn on subtitles but I usually see that as a last resort thing. I don't like reading when I watch tv. I feel it hurts the ability to concentrate on things like the acting.

Jason

 

[Bob The Skutter]

no it's the correct term and yes Jodie's accent is pretty thick

Jodie and Mandip both say they're toning down their accents, except when they accidentally get thicker and thicker as the day goes along cos they got gabbing to each other between scenes.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I seriously want a Dalek as a companion for the Doctor. Maybe Lyn will mutate

 

[Jayson1]

How about a Dalek spin-off instead? Imagine the money you could save by not having to hire actors!


Jason

 

[Tosk]

I seriously want a Dalek as a companion for the Doctor.

Same, ever since that time Clara was one. Or maybe Handles could be brought back? I'd dig that.

 

[Redfern]

I'm sure the notion of a Dalek companion has been discussed among some fans for literally decades, but the idea gained some moderate popularity when the "insane" Dalek Caan was revealed in "The Stolen Earth", especially when he "turned" on his own kind and helped the Doctor and friends.

 

[Starkers]

Rusty's still out there!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I seriously want a Dalek as a companion for the Doctor. Maybe Lyn will mutate

I'll note that post-"Asylum of the Daleks" it's possible that any humanoid character the Doctor encounters could be a humanoid transformed into a Dalek by nanites.

That might be the easiest route to a Dalek companion -- a human who has been exposed to the Dalek nanites and has to fight a battle between her Dalek and human natures, and occasionally the eye stalk sprouts.

 

[Spot261]

A dalek companion would make the idea of dangerous monsters of the week a bit redundant....

Vampire? Exterminate!
Judoon? Exterminate!
Sontaran? Exterminate!
The Master? Exterminate!

Could get old pretty quick, the whole premise is tat the doctor deals with violent threats without recourse to violence, a dalek would pretty much render most villains non threatening i the first place unless the dramatic tension shifts to the ethical conflicts she faces having the nuclear option available.

 

[matthunter]

Is it weird that I found Dalek-Lyn oddly sexy?

 

[matthunter]

A dalek companion would make the idea of dangerous monsters of the week a bit redundant....

Vampire? Exterminate!
Judoon? Exterminate!
Sontaran? Exterminate!
The Master? Exterminate!

They managed OK with K-9. Just have the blaster only available if the Dalek side is in the forefront, and that's something the companion is trying to avoid. Or have a Gan-style limiter.

 

[Redfern]

More bizarre, or at least creative with shots, a conventional travel machine, but covered in "psychic paper". Thus we could have scenes like those in "The Fall of the Doctor" involving "Cyber-Bill". maybe shots show "Caan" as a human doing a "Renfield" (the bug eating lunatic from "Dracula"), giggling and cackling. In other shots, we see the casing. Maybe disguised "Caan" slinks around, one eye perpetually squinted shut, hinting at the singular eye-stalk arrangement.

 

[Spot261]

They managed OK with K-9. Just have the blaster only available if the Dalek side is in the forefront, and that's something the companion is trying to avoid. Or have a Gan-style limiter.

K9 was never portrayed as being nigh on unstoppable a la daleks though, he was a tool in the kit, not a game changer which rendered actual strategy obsolete. This is why we've never really seen the doctor routinely employ advanced time lord weaponry, sticking by and large to the TARDIS and a sonic device, because a time lord dead set on using military methods would be a completely different show, not to mention how powerful those weapons would make him/her and how difficult it would be to imagine genuine threats.

 

[Jayson1]

A dalek companion would make the idea of dangerous monsters of the week a bit redundant....

Vampire? Exterminate!
Judoon? Exterminate!
Sontaran? Exterminate!
The Master? Exterminate!

Could get old pretty quick, the whole premise is tat the doctor deals with violent threats without recourse to violence, a dalek would pretty much render most villains non threatening i the first place unless the dramatic tension shifts to the ethical conflicts she faces having the nuclear option available.

Hey, saying one word over and over worked for Groot in "Guardians of the Galaxy."


Jason

 

[Spot261]

Hey, saying one word over and over worked for Groot in "Guardians of the Galaxy."


Jason

Three words!

And using them didn't result in the enemy disintegrating!

 

[matthunter]

K9 was never portrayed as being nigh on unstoppable a la daleks though, he was a tool in the kit, not a game changer which rendered actual strategy obsolete.

Funny, I keep saying the same to the folk who think the Sonic is a magic "plot-resolver". Not once, not one single episode, has it resolved the issue, only ensured the Doctor is free to do so.

Having Strax, Jenny and Vastra along doesn't solve problems either, unless those problems are "shoot or slice something". Just make the problem bigger than something you can solve by shooting at it. I'm sure the Brigadier can recount some stories to our Dalek friend.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Funny, I keep saying the same to the folk who think the Sonic is a magic "plot-resolver". Not once, not one single episode, has it resolved the issue, only ensured the Doctor is free to do so.

Having Strax, Jenny and Vastra along doesn't solve problems either, unless those problems are "shoot or slice something". Just make the problem bigger than something you can solve by shooting at it. I'm sure the Brigadier can recount some stories to our Dalek friend.

Unless the Screwdriver would effectively solve the issue, then the thing is deadlocked.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Has nobody mentioned, this is the first story involving a Dalek that has no reference to the frickin' Time War? In any way, shape or form?

 

[Spot261]

Has nobody mentioned, this is the first story involving a Dalek that has no reference to the frickin' Time War? In any way, shape or form?

To be honest I've lost track of what the current state of affairs with the daleks, I spent half the episode waiting for her to tell it it was the last remaining dalek (again)

 

[Redfern]

I look at it this way; time has been rewritten and overwritten so many times by both sides during the Time War, even the White and Black Guardians are likely unsure as to when things are, were, will be, etc. An almost infinite recursion of "wibbly, wobbly, timey wimey freeing up writers to tell the narrative they want without having to adhere to some immutable "writers' bible".