Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who

albino eatpod writes "The BBC are reporting that despite 'the very best deal possible,' a failure to agree terms between the BBC and the estate of late sci-fi writer Terry Nation has meant that we will not being seeing TV's most evil villains in the new series, starring Christopher Eccleston and Billy Piper."

Superior Beings...

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, they couldn't even climb a flight of stairs!

Stairs *and* the law then..

[IainMH]

Ho hum.

Galactic overlords or not...

[sfled]

In most circles, staring is considered impolite. ...staring Christopher Eccleston and Billy Piper.

We have created a new enemy for the Doctor

[Anonymous Coward]

In the new version, Davros puts the Dalek bioplasm into Roombas. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate all dirt in deep pile!

Re:Billy Piper?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, her. It's been known for quite a while now. What's it like living under a rock anyway?

Short Borg

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe they could get permission to use the Borg. Short ones. With wheels instead of legs. And with annoying voices. "You will be assimilated! Assimilate! Assimilate!"

Re:SUCKS!!!

[AdrainB]

James Bond has survived quite nicely without S.P.E.C.T.R.E. If it was up to me I would create an alien scurge that is so bad ass that their main claim to fame is that they completely wiped out the Daleks. This will do two things. It will create a greater challenge to Dr. Who and deny the Nation estate future revenue. It would serve them right.

I've studied the Dalek's at length...

[Call Me Black Cloud]

...at this site [compuserve.com] and I can see Dr. Who's problem. Without the Daleks, what new peril's will Dr. Who face if he's matched against a villian that could chase him up a ladder or through a narrow passage? If I ran the estate of Terry Nation I'd come to terms with the BBC before the BBC realizes "TV's most evil villians" are a cross between a shuttlecock and a salt shaker.

Pointless

[GizmoS]

A Dr. Who remake without Daleks is like a Showgirls remake without nudity. Or with acting.

Re:Daleks and Dollars

[JosKarith]

Next episode:
Dr Who vs. the Lawyers

Dr Who wants to go to far-flung places, but the evil Lawyers ground him reminding him that it's been 60 years since his TARDIS' last MOT.
Then, just as that's getting sorted out one of the lawyers points out that an old man enticing a series of (usually skimpily clad) young girls into a secluded telephone booth with promises of of wild adventures is not neccesarily the sort of role model they want to be promoting...

fair swap?

[close_wait]

So we've lost the Daleks but gained Billy Piper. I think I can live with that ....

Re:fools..

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't plan on dying quite that young.

Re:Superior Beings...

[Dachannien]

Hence, the Americans (and Daleks) with Disabilities Act.

Re:Lets be honest

[gadders]

That's not true at all. The world is much more at risk from a Dalek invasion than it ever was in the 70's, due to the various ramps and lifts installed for people in wheelchairs. It's political correctness gone mad.

Re:fair swap?

[morgdx]

Maybe they could get Chris Evans to be the new evil enemy. He scares the sh*t out of me.

Re:Daleks and Dollars

[lacrymology.com]

"I believe has been a problem with the Tolkein estate aswell."

Oh great! So we won't be able to see Dr. Who fight Hobbits either!?!?

-m

Re:Sounds great to me

[mikael]

I'd rather see more of The Brigadier, even though I know he's getting a bit on in the years.

U.N.I.T was dismantled due to government cutbacks. The battle against alien invasions has been outsourced to private contractors who charge an upfront of 50% before fighting, and the remaining 50% after successfully defeating the invasion force. The rate will double if ther is more than one invasion force. An additional danger fee will also be charged if the aliens are coming from an hyperdimensional portal, stargate, wormhole or other form of interstellar travel. Any fighting on the other side of the portal will be billed separately.

Re:Daleks and Dollars

[Anonymous Coward]

Meee'sa bomb bad exterminate yous'a now...

Re:Daleks and Dollars

[Vinnie_333]

The real George Lucas died ages ago.

If you listen to R2's beeps played backwards, they say, "I buried George".

Re:For the best?

[AndroidCat]

The cybermen but a lot more evil.

The Cybermen could be made a lot more evil. Just take their mouth slots and bend them up a bit at the edges.

There! Smiling Cybermen. How's that?

How about some 'contemporary' monsters?

[andrewbaldwin]

Daleks are so 20th century! - today's audience deserves some monsters that are truly horrifying and 'relevant' - such as.....

A giant talking paperclip which threatens to accumulate the stored knowledge of humankind and refuse access without a licence payment upon pain of a dreaded 'blue screen' death ray.

Easy...Laleks

[Analogy Man]

The open source version...Laleks

Re:For the best?

[TheTXLibra]

Having been a long-time fan of Dr. Who (God Bless Tom Baker, the REAL Doctor), I have always felt that the best villains were the more subtle varieties. A Hive-Mind species just isn't that scary because the Doctor can easily outwit Daleks with a tweed jacket draped over them, or stop the Cybermen with a clever pun and the extinction of dinosaurs.

• Obviously, The Master was among the best villains, along with The Rani. Teamed up, they made a formidable force. Heck, it took an equally brilliant mind, Adrick to break up their little duo. However, the Master is supposedly dead for certain, and I can't remember what became of The Rani... so we can't use them.
• Since The Doctor can time travel, and has a fascination with Earth, I recommend pitting him against the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Castro, and The I.R.S.
• Since computer generated graphics have become considerably cheaper, perhaps rather than limiting themselves to what monsters can be made with foil, cardboard boxes, and 200-watt light bulbs, they can now try something like having him fight a race of aliens with powers similar to the X-Men's Nightcrawler, like super-speed, teleportation, and stuff like that. Not terribly difficult to do, even on a tight budget, and makes for a very difficult to vanquish villain.
• Actually, they could even tie in to other movies as well, with a bit of a licensing deal. The Doctor could fight The Predator or The Aliens. That would be sweet. I'd actually start a betting pool on THAT episode.
• and lastly, his greatest accomplishment, going back in time and offing George Lucas before he could create Jar Jar Binks.

Re:Did anyone else notice...

[zakezuke]

He said the BBC had tried to commission a cartoon series about gay Daleks for BBC Three.

We will experiment... experiment! EXPERIMENT! We obey no one, we are the superior beings, so let's disco!

Re:stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

As I understand it The Master is a rouge TimeLord

No, that's his natural colouring.

Who knew?

[Anomalous Canard]

That it would take *lawyers* to defeat the Daleks!

Re:Lets be honest

[Java Pimp]

The daleks trundling about would look pretty pathetic to modern kids.

Eh, they'd just update them a little like they did with the Klingons. Make them a little more modern to the point they would be unwilling to discuss their heritage with outsiders.

Wait a minute

[HBPiper]

Didn't a quick hit from the sonic screwdriver diable a Dalek? How bad could they be?

Re:SUCKS!!!

[Anonymous Writer]

proof that smart, geeky guys do get to be with the cute girls sometimes!

Yes, on television where the girls are paid... actually, I suppose that does apply to real life as well.

Re:Copyright Too Long

[Andy_R]

The problem with copyright ending at death is that spouses and children need some form of income.

Would you really want to see Yoko Ono made destitute and penniless when John was killed?

Ok, maybe that was a bad example :-)

Would you really want to see Courtney L.... erm... Paula Yates... erm... someone help me out here!

Re:Easy...Laleks

[FurryFeet]

That's GNU/Laleks, you insensitive clod!

Re:Copyright Too Long

[The Lynxpro]

"Copyright should end at death, and be at most 30 years in length. 30 years seems like a reasonable amount of time to get money out of the monopoly on the expression of an idea."

No way. If that were permitted, you'd have hired goons killing the copyright owners so publishers could stop writing out royalty checks. I mean, c'mon, look at the history of the RIAA screwing living artists out of their checks, or the various motion picture companies cooking the books to wipe out percentage profits. To this day, Warner Bros. Pictures claims they haven't made a profit off 1989's Batman motion picture.

My take

[Orion Blastar]

the estate of Terry Nation is composed of Daleks. They are tired of being cast as the bad guys, so they made an insane demand of creative control of the film/tv show. They wanted the Daleks seen as the good guys and Doctor Who as the bad guy who lures scantily clad young women into his TARDIS for who knows what?

I think that there may be a substitute, let us see what evil alien or robot bad guys are not being used much anymore, shall we?

Cylons, not from that Sci Fi channel show, the original ones. The ones that could not shoot the broad side of a barn, and could not fly a Cylon Raider properly even if there are three of them in the cockpit.

The Slayers from Krull, slow moving, dim-witted, and get taken out by a super Japanese throwing star named a Glave.

The Peacekeepers from FarScape. Well FarScape fans want to see more action and are made that the series was cancled. Using these aliens means no special make-up is required, just uniforms need to be made. They speak British anyway. ;) Maybe they go after Doctor Who to learn how the TARDIS works, to use it as a weapon?

The Geldts from Red Dwarf. If I spelled it right. Doctor Who is captured with his companion, and told that he would die if he didn't marry the Geldts' leader's daughter. He marries, but grabs the Oxygen Generator his TARDIS needs to recycle air and runs. The Geldts chase him all over the galaxy.

Bring in Servalan and the Federation from Blake's Seven. New actress if you have to. It should prove interesting.

The robots from Ice Pirates, hey, enough said!

Borrow the Ferrengi from Star Trek, I haven't seen anything from them since Deep Space Nine went off the air.

Better yet, have Doctor Who run away from time travelling Lawyers who are trying to issue him a subpeona about the file sharing program he runs in his TARDIS computers. ;)

Daleks to the BBC:"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

[cmdrwhitewolf]

BBC: "Okay, have it your way - your off the show!"

Daleks (while getting shoved in the trash):"Waaaaiiiitttt a miiiinuuuute..."