Too many Dalek Stories

[jeregenest]

• Army of Ghosts (10th Doctor)
  
• Bad Wolf (9th Doctor)
  
• The Chase (1st Doctor)
  
• Dalek (9th Doctor)
  
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1st Doctor)
  
• Daleks in Manhattan (10th Doctor)
  
• The Daleks' Master Plan (1st Doctor)
  
• The Daleks (1st Doctor)
  
• Day of the Daleks (3rd Doctor)
  
• Death to the Daleks (3rd Doctor)
  
• Destiny of the Daleks (4th Doctor)
  
• Doomsday (10th Doctor)
  
• The Evil of the Daleks (2nd Doctor)
  
• Evolution of the Daleks (10th Doctor)
  
• Frontier in Space (3rd Doctor)
  
• Genesis of the Daleks (4th Doctor)
  
• Journey's End (10th Doctor)
  
• Mission to the Unknown (kind of first, maybe, sort of)
  
• The Parting of the Ways (9th Doctor)
  
• Planet of the Daleks (3rd Doctor)
  
• The Power of the Daleks (2nd Doctor)
  
• Remembrance of the Daleks (7th Doctor)
  
• Resurrection of the Daleks (5th Doctor)
  
• Revelation of the Daleks (6th Doctor)
  
• The Stolen Earth (10th Doctor)
  
  So we have: 4 for the 1st Doctor (3 years), 2 for the 2nd (3 years), 4 for the 3rd (4 years), 2 for 4th (7 years), 1 for the 5th (3 years), 1 for the 6th (2 years), 1 for the 7th (2 years), 0 for the 8th (big surprise he doesn't count), 3 for the 9th (1 year), 6 for the 10th (3 years), and 1 thats an odd ball.
  
  So yeah, thats way way too many Daleks. In 4 years we've had twice what the 3rd doctor had in 4 years and almost 5 times as many as the 4th doctor had in 7 years.
  
  I hope I never see another Dalek again in my life, they are worse than Skrulls.

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, the previews for next season..or the Christmas special or whatever the next episode is, indicate they're not going to the *cough* Dalek well again. No no, something very different this time. Yeah.. *cough*

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Oh look, Cybermen.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Deceptive math!



* Counting the Five Doctors as a Fifth Doctor/Dalek episode.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

The 10th Doctor has had one Dalek story each year. They could take a couple of years off, though.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I'm arguing with you when I barely enjoyed this season of the show and I'd love to see NO DALEKS for a while. I'm just in a contrary mood I guess.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I think your serial count is wrong, which is why I went with mean episodes.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

It's possible. I used Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_serials) but could easily have miscounted. My point (to the extent I have one) is that if you count two-part contemporary stories the same as six- and four-part past stories, instead of each modern episode separately, the mean number of Daleks per Doctor hasn't shot too drastically up with 10.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but I wonder if I do it by author what the numbers will look like.

And I saw all the old stuff as complete episodes (nothing like 2.5 hours of Dr Who on a Sunday).

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

6 for the 10th, which is 19% which makes the 10th the bloody worse Dalek season ever.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

I'm counting two-parters as one serial, which I think is only fair.

[shiffer.livejournal.com]

I feel that now that I've finally heard the Daleks yell "Exterminate!" in German their role is complete, and they can stop with the Daleks now.

Alternative phrasing: Yelling in German is the Dalek equivalent of jumping the shark.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

That was a poorly done in a poorly done episode(s). Yes we understand that Daleks and Cybermen and what have you were British fascist fears in SF blah blah. They didn't have to have a German screaming Dalek.

[foxtown.livejournal.com]

What about Dalek Does Dallas?

[bluegargantua]

EXTERMINATE Y'ALL! EXTERMINATE Y'ALL!

heh
Tom

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

FORNICATE! FORNICATE!

[foxtown.livejournal.com]

ROFL

[truthspeaker.livejournal.com]

Daleks are their easy stock villain, and the viewers will recognize them.

Yes, the writers are lazy, and I think there is a dartboard with various stock villains and plots that the writers fall back on too often.