daleks, what a joke!

in the sixties the daleks were good, even in the seventies too. however in the 21st century they are pretty useless as an intelligent race that wants to take over the universe. there have been so many good aliens and monsters over the last few decades that really show up how awful daleks are.

they should get a make-over. what good is that plunger except for doing plumbing work? that needs getting rid of and some kind of artificial limb put in it's place. how can a race scare all the people of the universe with a plunger?
quite simply daleks aren't believable.[even for fiction.]
they are slow and dim-witted. you can easily get behind them and spin them around, like what happened many years ago.
the final straw for me was when they started flying, that was embarrassing!

'exterminate!' how stupid is that? these are supposed to be really intelligent beings yet they have a catchphrase!
the worst thing about it is that the writers in the past thought they'd give the cybermen[my favourite] a catchphrase as well!
why would they keep yelling 'delete' over and over again?
the cybermen look scary but saying 'delete' so much when they're going to kill someone makes them comedic. its a case of 'well it works with the daleks,' maybe the cybermen should have their own word?

we've been spoilt with great aliens on tv and in films, daleks are literally useless. there is nothing scary about them, and it's obvious.
they are from a different time and have not aged well at all. they're just about the same as they always have been.

 

While I admire their goal of killing all humans, I must admit their methods are pathetic at best.

 

Err, no, they weren't. They were a joke back then too.

 

That's crap, they can hover up stairs.

 

Put them in the curry!

 

So that raygun arm transforms into some sort of vacuum cleaner attachment? Oh, hover up the stairs.

 

I won't post any links 'cos they're probably NSFW and/or some of you may find the humour offensive, but for ultimate Dalek lameness, go to YouTube and search 'Gay Daleks'.

 

Believe me, if some dimwit found the Doctor pulling out one of his grey hairs offensive (...yes, seriously), SOMEONE will find gay Daleks offensive.

 

You do know they're not real, right?

 

Everytime I hear the laughter before the joke, it renders any comedy unfunny, especially if it drowns out said joke. Canned laughter or live studio audience, it doesn't make a difference. I say this as someone who likes plenty of sitcoms. I would call it the equivalent of going to a concert and having the stranger next to you talking during your favorite song.

 

Nah, you be very squarely wrong on that one! They were at their best back then! Unless you've talking about "The Chase", in which case I agree. But other than that one blip, the 60s Daleks had it going on! Never bettered by anyone!

 

I liked when Victor Lewis Smith defended those sketches by saying "The Daleks have had their day". it was wonderfully pleasing how wrong he turned out to be. Now the Gay Daleks are almost forgotten while the originals rock on.

 

I always have a problem with the sci-fi trope of "The race that wants to exterminate/destroy all others to rule the universe".

Okay so you have destroyed all other life in the universe and are masters of it. So what do you do now?

Erm...hmmmm...we could alwa...no we killed them a century ago...got some dusting to do I guess!"

This is why I think the Daleks/Skynet etc. are all crap at their jobs because they know if they were actually good at it then boredom and irrelevance would ensue.

 

I actually owned the www.whitewee***.com domain for a few years. Why...I don't know. Seemed a good idea at the time.

 

I thought hovering was a good improvement. Flying, however, was just silly.

 

You would think that with all of their technology, the Daleks would redesign their armor so it floats all of the time instead of rolling around.

 

My biggest peeve is the voice. It's just wrong since the re-boot, with the wrong inflections.

 

....They can still hover up stairs. You missed the point.

 

One thing's for sure, Gay Daleks would be a better band name than Gay Dad.

 

I still stand by my previous comment. I can remember as a near teen kid watching the OldWho reruns and thinking how rubbish the Daleks were with their eye-stalks and toilet plunger appendages and (back then) the inability to travel over non-level polished floors (though somehow they managed to appear in various quarry pit planets). They weren't derisively called pepper-pots for nothing.

Back then, I preferred the Cybermen which seemed like more credible and capable adversaries.

I agree with you, it's a pretty nonsensical goal, if you assume a rational mind is at play. However, they need not be rational or may have an innate directive to achieve this goal, just like we have to survive. Even humans, through irrational adherence to ideology, often act against their own interests.

 

In 1968 I saw "Doctor Who and the Daleks" as the first of a double-feature. The second feature was "Night of the Living Dead."

 

Frankly, I haven't seen the show since about 1976. I had better things to do, even as a small child.

The Punch cartoon is famous and, regardless of any truth within the internal logic of the show, still funny. That was the point.

 

it they spent less time screaming and more time firing, they would've conquered the universe ages ago...

 

I am not the biggest Dr. Who fan, but you people do not get the Daleks at all. They are more of an existential threat. I find the robot voice unsettling. R2D2 and C3PO are totally lame. One is wheeling around on tiny wheels, and the other is a big gay robot who shuffles around. I am not sure R2D2 wheeling around on the sand planet makes sense at all. With modern buildings now handicapped accessible, I think the Daleks would have no trouble getting around most major government buildings and tourist attractions.