The Daleks work really well when the story doesn’t try to convince you they look intimidating. The 2005 episode ‘Dalek’ works so well because everyone in the episode except for the Doctor thinks they look like waste-bins with plungers, and then a single one decimates almost everyone in their entire facility. The best modern Dalek stories use them like horror movies use villainous children. They’re dangerous because they don’t seem threatening. They demand respect but don’t receive it. They have to earn it with murder. It’s great entertainment. Plus, changing the Daleks’ appearance ruins half the fun of them as characters. For a bunch of space Nazis, if they don’t have anything light about them, they’ll just be way too dark and depressing. No charm.
The 2005 episode 'Dalek' as well as the majority of that seasons finale are in my opinion the greatest episodes including Daleks in any of the modern series. Mostly because they did such a good job of setting the Daleks up as being super threatening villains in the episode 'Dalek' then we see millions of them in the finale, it's just such a great 'oh shit' moment
@@calibribody6776 parting of the ways was a fantastic final episode for that season. One of the things I do really like is that much like they did in the episode Dalek, it was shown just how hard it actually is to kill a Dalek. I mean in that whole battle on the tv station I think we only see one being killed by bullets
@@calibribody6776 That's why the scene in part 1 of that finale where the doctor and Jack work out a rough estimate of how many there are, while ignoring everyone asking what they are is such an 'oh shit we're totally fucked' moment.
that episode in question was amazing for that reason alone it comes out of nowhere to decimate a miniature army. and the forshadowing. you've seen what one dalek can do. now wait a couple episodes and see what a whole empire can do.
Someone bought a remote controlled Dalek for my son one christmas when he was about 4. This Dalek was about 2 foot high and could be voice operated. One night after my son had gone to bed, this Dalek turned itself on and burst out of his toy cupboard shouting "EXTERMINATE!". My son came running out of the bed room and wouldn't go back in until I dismantled the Dalek. He's almost 12 now, still has a phobia of Daleks... and we still have it... sat waiting up in the loft, waiting for him to bring a girl home.
Quote from wikipedia that made me chuckle: "For the final battle sequence between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks, the BBC Effects Department's pyrotechnics were so loud and the explosions so realistic that the London Fire Brigade was dispatched to the scene by local residents who feared that an IRA bomb had gone off. McCoy recalled that after the first explosions, a number of car alarms in the neighborhood went off, and the emergency services drivers were surprised when they arrived to see Daleks coming at them from out of the smoke."
In Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor says: "If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?" The way I interpreted that was earlier Dalek models could not climb stairs. But by Rememberence of the Daleks, they fitted some ant-gravity tech so they could.
Late reply but he was on about a shaft that was on a slant even with all there upgrades they can't climb through shafts on angles. Also in invasion of earth in the chase scene a dalek looks at stairs then continues approaching it, they always could hover or cover unlevel terrain.
Can people please stop trying to correct us by saying that the Daleks first flew in "Remembrance of the Daleks" without even watching the whole video. This video is about "Remembrance of the Daleks". We talk at length about that at 6:55 after our usual chatter. Anyone who has commented trying to correct us is just demonstrating that they didn't watch the video or check any of our sources. Also, just to clarify for anyone confused, I am an avid fan of Doctor Who and have been watching since the revival in 2005. Despite this, Karl knows more about the show than I do because he has watched Doctor Who in the past and done a lot of research into it. Just because he isn't currently a fan doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's talking about. Now that that's out of the way, we hope you enjoyed the video. I, for one, am very much looking forward to series 11! Just a shame we have to wait until October... -Brad
I've always thought that the daleks were designed to look like if a tank was a person. If you think about it that way, they don't look so rediculous. Also, I think a plunger is an interesting idea of a functional appendage, and the whisk looks better than a gun that's just a tube. They don't really look scary, but in the same way that a bomb doesn't look scary, you just know it's dangerous. They do look pretty silly though. Great video. Thanks.
The whisk part makes sense for a sci fi disintegration weapon. It's gonna make a lot of heat, so the extra metal stuff helps to make sure the dalek doesn't melt or blow themselves up when they shoot their gun
My 1 yr old granddaughter has discovered the Daleks and is just fascinated with them. She will stop everything to watch and listen to a Dalek. I got her a stuffed one for Christmas that talks. She's so awesome!
The Daleks were originally not designed to fly, or to even be a main villain. They just became a main villain because of how popular they got. In the first series of episodes they appeared in, their weakness was litterally that they were powered through the floor, so they would never have been able to fly because it would immediatly have turned them off.
The thing I really love about Doctor Who is that it's been going so long that there are boat loads of inconsistencies with the canon. The Doctor started off as a "person from our future" before being an alien. In the first Dalek episode the Daleks couldn't even go anywhere that there wasn't a metal track for them to travel on. In one episode set in the year 1979 we are introduced to the organization "UNIT" and a guy working there. In a later episode we learn that the same guy left UNIT in 1976. So he left UNIT three years before he started working there. It means no-one can be pretentious about what's the technically correct answer because isn't one (or there are several different ones). I guess what I'm getting at is I really love the part of the fandom that is willing to make fun of the stupid stuff in Doctor who and that part of the fandom is alive and well.
Temporal inconsistencies resulting from fluctuations and changes in the space-time continuum are to be expected when faffing about through all of space and time and breaking the occasional rule or two. That's probably how we got the recent creation of the Cybermen a second time quite differently from the first. Anything is possible, nothing is contradictory!
''The Doctor: We are not of this race. We are not of this earth. Susan and I are wanderers in the fourth dimension of space and time, cut off from our own people by distances beyond the reach of your most advanced science.'' ''The Doctor: Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you?... to be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day. One day.'' Season 1 episode 1 1963 Sorry for being pedantic, but they've always been established as 'not from earth'
Seriously... I watched the first episode... I like when people just make up crap because they established their own headcanon. the doctor has always been an alien.
And thats why i respect them despite their silly look. Its so difficult to find sci fi aliens that are not just humans but with green skin or forhead ridges.
But... it still is basically a man in a suit... I mean it really is... of course in their case more like mutated space creature that looks like Krang from Teenage mutant ninja turtles... but its still a man in a suit.
2:20 Daleks aren’t scary in the new series? I was 4 when I first saw the Dalek episode. Jesus Christ that was the first time I was genuinely scared in my life. Then doomsday happened and I was stupid enough to watch it when I was 5 and I saw Daleks turn a bloke’s head into a bloody peach. The daleks will always be nightmare fuel no matter the age of the episode. If I show my nephew Genesis of the daleks he’d shit himself
The thing about the Daleks is that they're hilarious right up until they kill your entire species, destroy your home planet, and crush your brain. The problem is that, as a commonly used villain, it's really difficult to maintain their threat level.
I watched this series from the beginning in the 60s. As a small child i loved peeking out from behind the sofa because it was so scary. It was made for children and people should not expect the Daleks to be realistic to adults.
I kinda love it when the writers try to make the cyber man cooler by forgetting the original reason as to why there were scary like in the timeless children story arc when the writers just rip-off the Orville for one scene. Lol
From what I remember, in their original appearance the Daleks were story-wise designed to require contact with the ground, as they drew their power from specially designed floors. Assuming my memory was right, that was clearly dropped when the writers decided to use the Daleks elsewhere.
Thanks, because I don't think I ever saw the next episode. With the combination of a number of episodes simply being missing, my local PBS station also tended to be a bit inconsistent about airing what they did have access to when it came to the pre-Tom Baker eras.
The original episodes in skaro had the static floors. The invasion of earth had energy beamed to satellite dishes on their backs, and after that, they'd adapted enough to be self powered
the worst part about the static floors bit is that they completely forgot about it by the end of that same story when they sent the daleks outside of their base.
Always seen it as the Daleks are ever evolving to the improve themselves through the technology they either develop or acquire. Yet they are so racist and "nationalistic", including being very devoted about the way they look. That even though they will enhance their shells, they will never completely change their shape no matter how dated they look. They will instead keep finding ways to overcome obstacle using what they have become to see as their ideal form. They may look ridiculous over time, but that is a product of their of what made them so successfully aggressive.
There are enemies scarier (Cybermen and Weeping Angels imo) but honestly having gotten to see daleks in person at certain museums they're actually quite intimidating in real life. I kept feeling like they were going to move out of their displays to attack and it was eerie. And that was with them completely silent and the eyestalk powered off. I've also seen an active one at a convention several times over the years. Though the operator was friendly for the sake of photos and interacting with con-goers it was still spooky to see it rolling down the halls occasionally shouting 'Exterminate!' whenever someone stepped in its way.
Well, in all fairness to their design they were made as a one-off monster for a single story. It just so happened that story became an iconic part of the series.
They were until they were ruined. I loved them in Blink, but when they screwed around with the mechanics to make them something that possess existing statues rather than being statues themselves, it went downhill. A weeping angel whose sole method of movement relies on not being looked at, possessing the damn statue of liberty? Dumbest idea ever.
@@narutofan10036 i thiiink it was with Ten and Donna? they were in a library I think? and the darkness had a Latin name. I don't remember it too well either
It was established on screen as early as 1974 that the daleks move via psychokinetic power. (Death to the Daleks episode 2) I always thought that was terrifying and went a way to explain what goes on behind the scenes. Daleks are super evolved beings, literally huge brains without bodies, being paraplegic they encase themselves in protective casings. But the scary thing is they don't need the casings, they are psychokinetic and move their casings with the power of their mind. If they can do that and they don't need legs to move, do they need arms and hands? If a Dalek could climb stairs with the power of its mind, it could easily hold you immobile a few inches off the ground, operate machinery, open locks, burst a blood vessel, killing with a thought etc etc. Which is likely why this has never been given much attention subsequently and it was intentionally ignored, because it's an ability that is far too useful. It's a nightmare ability.
I can totally relate to the overselling, i am a fan myself and it is stupid how people over hype their favorite shows.... I keep things simple.... Doktor Who: Timetravel Sci-Fi with a Deus Ex Machina, that is literally a futuristic Screw Driver. And a lot of quirky characters. Super Natural: If you want two damn good looking Men hunt monsters and ghosts, you are probably going to like it, if you do not.... then don't.
It's a great scene in Remembrance of the Daleks but it's not the first time we see them fly, we see one float way back in the William Hartnell era in a story called The Chase and then we see one fly in a story called Revelation of the Daleks
@@FactFiend There's also a sequence in the Pertwee-era Planet of the Daleks which has one slowly chase the Doctor up a vertical (and almost completely smooth) ventilation shaft. In fairness, the Doctor's ascent was also pretty slow, as he was using a makeshift parachute buoyed up by the hot air of the shaft.
As someone who watched all of classic Dr. Who as a family activity as a kid, and had always bought into the "Daleks can't climb stairs" theory, I can absolutely confirm that the cliffhanger of the Dalek slowly floating up a staircase was INCREDIBLY intimidating. It's absolutely hilarious and it completely worked.
I agree. Daleks and their weapons don't look scary. Neither do those boxy trucks with the large straws on top... called tanks. Tanks? Like a tub you put water in. Who's afraid of a round tube? And then there're those little balls with a switch. I mean, those are just softballs or tennis balls. They call them grenades, but they are just the ting you toss and have your dog chase after, right? And then there's those silly TV remote controls they call tasers. What are you going to do to me with that... change my channel? Make me pause or rewind? Yeah, right. And don't get me started on those lumps of modeling clay they named C4. Couldn't even give the stuff a real name. I mean the corn syrup they call nitro glycerin at least sounds scary (though, we all know it;s just sugar water), but C4 is just gray play doh.
Originally, the DALEKS could ONLY move along a statically charged metal floor, like bumper cars. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan were able to immobilize it by placing a rubberized blanket on the ground, and once the Dalek went over itm it was powerless.
Karl: For the 3 people out there watching this who dont know what a dalek is but still clicked on a video about the daleks. Sure. Me: Well then. I'm one of the three people who dont know what a dalek is. Great
I think my biggest problem with Breaking Bad is I can't invest in it due to being in the UK. Here the entire series would be: go to the hospital and the NHS will help you....
Actually, we who are old enough to have seen ALL of Doctor Who knew that the TV series was stuck with the limitations of the day. Back in the mid 1960s, a comic called TV21 had a strip about The Daleks, in which we saw them flying about and allsorts.
Supernatural had some decent seasons, and some really bad ones, and it ran for so long that major plot events became running jokes (like how many times the lead characters had died.) The show could set up some really great season-long ideas, but it would then fail to deliver on them to due unfocused writing (and just some disappointing writing.) You'd get a dramatic bit that should have shaped the months of episodes that followed, but what would actually follow were months of regular comedic episodes that at most paid a lip service to the idea, and then you'd get a quick rush of two or three episodes to quickly wrap up the dramatic storyline before the season ended.
Yeah, I've always thought they should have created another strong multi-season arc rather than hopping from one crisis to the next, but I guess that's the way these shows work. You get renewed, you make up more shit! I still enjoy each episode, but they've had some pretty weak stories in the later seasons. -Brad
i'd imagine it is kinda tricky to setup a multi season story arc if you aren't sure you will be able to do all the episodes required to finish off the narrative. Last thing you'd want to do is leave the show with a plot line unfinished.
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Supernatural is just a glorified soap opera, complete with repeat storylines and no fear of death. If you guys like that hogwash, I highly recommend Constantine (streamed for free on CW Seed). The ads are annoying, but the show is what Supernatural tries to be. The effects? Spectacular (oml the Angels are beautiful). The writing? Decent. I loved it, but it’s like a solid B for non-DC fans. The cast? Gets along really well. Felt natural. The story? Overarching story that makes it so no episode feels completely like filler, with more devoted to it than a few throwaway lines lmao ----------------- One of my favorite things (and this is a SPOILER warning ⚠️) is that one of the bad guys was actually the Serpent of Eden. While Supernatural just have every monster be a human with horrible CGI here and there, the Serpent turned from a human into this crazy creature made up of like 50 snakes constantly moving around. It was hella dope. And there’s Fallen Angels that also look hella dope.
Best way to deal with a one on one with a Dalek is not to go up stairs, but to get and stay behind it. Seriously, daleks have not means of getting you if you're behind them. Too easy.
@RightWing SoyBoy Yes but when they try to turn around, you can turn around with them. They can't really duke you 'cause they also don't turn around fast. You could also just hop on the dalek behind them so you won't have to do anything at all
@RightWing SoyBoy Well if there's more of them make sure there's something between you and the other daleks, preferably a sheet of metal to stop the lasers. Either that or use the slow turning speed and not very wide range of view to your advantage and duke them. Even if you are seen, those things are way to slow on the ground and you can use you environment to your advantage
It doesn't bother me at all that you don't like Doctor Who. Part of what makes me a Whovian is the lessons in acceptance of others. Keep up the entertaining work.
Thank you for voicing the fandom blowup that reduces enjoyment. In addition to the shows you mentioned, the hunger games was one for me. I still enjoy binging a couple episodes of doctor who or supernatural, but it's not the kind of show I'm going to spend three days watching the entire show
Yeah the BBC got sued for using the likeness. Despite that, he was a surprisingly creepy villain. He was a psychotic robot which went around boiling and drowning people in liquidised sweets.
Want to see a brief clip of him in action? Search for "Doctor Who: Kandy Noir @thecosmichobo" for a nice noir-edit of the Kandy Man. Opinion is 50/50, but I'm one of those who really liked the concept. A child-like, psychotic robot who loves nothing more than torturing victims and liquidizing them in his own confectionery concoctions, all while being covered in the sweets that nobody likes.
You should then try ‘the orville’ before you get 3 seasons behind. Just try to get the idea that Brian Griffin from Family guy isn’t the starships captain
I don't watch proper television anymore because of people like that. Just reruns of old shows from before I was born and some stuff I remember from my childhood.
Darth Vader climbing up a flight of stairs to fight luke would be deserving of a cliff hanger as it shows Darth Vader has defeated Anakin's greatest weakness: *THE HIGH GROUND*
Cybermen have a better fear factor but technologicially speaking it depends on what time which is in, future cybermen can defeat past daleks and both have methods to travel in time, so who wins is entirely based on processing, the daleks process internally via what remains of their brains while cybermen are a cybernetic hive mind. Daleks win at processing despite that though do the tech gap within the base, In a full war of all cybermen and daleks from every single time at once, even if you make the numbers more favorable for cybermen by cutting off the quadrillions of extra daleks, cybermen don't stand a ghost of a chance. TL:DR Cybermen are cool, Daleks are effective.
Aluxir Daleks are just cheaters when cybermans are just plaque. You literally need one functioning cyberman to create army when one dalek is so great danger
You know, I totally understand where youre coming from with over-inflated expectations and I can definitely say I'd have been that guy for Dr.Who who dislikes it but I got a great first episode where I fell in love with the suspense and thrill of the darker side to Dr.Who first in the episode called, "Don't Blink" nearly pissed my pants as a 14yo and loved the series ever since, especially since I loved Tennants acting
Wouldn't it be far more terrifying if they never had to "go upstairs". What if they had such powerful weapons they could glass anything in front of them and just roll forward until they encountered the next obstacle.
Yeah, the video is about the flight scene in "Remembrance of the Daleks" in 1988. We talk about it a lot after our usually chatter. Is there an earlier example you're referring to? Our research told us that was the first on screen appearance of a flying Dalek, but my pre-modern Doctor Who knowledge isn't as strong as some of the fan base. -Brad
Fact Fiend Well the closest things before Remembrance we saw was a Dalek rising from the Thames in "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth" and in "Revelation Of The Daleks" when their creator Davros, who has a life support machine that formed the basis for the Dalek casing, was seen to be floating
The most terrifying thing i remember from dr who is the angels.
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The first time the Daleks appeared, it was from their POV. So the first time people saw the Daleks, all they saw were the plunger and egg whisk 😂 I’m not kidding. I saw it, myself. It was so stupid hahaha
Bob Pickleson but in that same shot you also see a person backed up against the wall screaming. Idk about you, but if I were a) a child b) in the 1960 when cheesy B-movies like Frankenstein or Psycho were still considered scary I’d find the Daleks pretty horrifying.
Our video is literally about "Remembrance of the Daleks". We talk about it after we joke about the Dalek design. Either you're referring to something else (in which case, I apologise) or you didn't watch the video. -Brad
My dad is also like you where the hype of something impedes his enjoyment of that thing. So when ever he asks me if i like something, and if i like it I always say "I thought it was good but you would hate it". Then he gives it a fair go.
Jazzy Waffles, well someone like blackphoenix77 has a good reason not to watch the video. I mean why would he watch a video about a show that the author of the video DOESN'T EVEN WATCH? What kind of a valid opinion are they going to present? They're just gonna pluck a random piece of trivia off Google and just waffle on for 10 minutes about it, giving absolutely no new perspective or any semblance of original thought, which is exactly what happened here. As to the author of the video not watching the show because of the fans... well that's just his character weakness, being too influenced by opinions of others. A slave to the hype machine, with his little tantrum that's supposed to be a rebellion. And still too eager to profit off the hype rather than to either let the topic slide or to do the leg work.
See, that's the problem with today's world. Everyone wants to have the right to have an opinion on everything, but not willing to do the leg work and make sure their opinion actually makes sense. Look at bloody politics. If people just bothered to do some research rather than just listening to politicians' soundbites (usually only very loosely related to truth) and deciding from their gut feeling which of them they seem to like the most or dislike the least, don't you think the world would be so much better? I know a damn TV series is completely irrelevant in comparison, but the mechanism is the exact same! Also opinions are like arseholes, just because you have one doesn't mean the world needs to see it. Some opinions are more valuable than others, oh i know i'm saying a controversial "anti-democratic" thing here, and you have to put in some effort in order for it not to be a waste of everybody's time.
As you've said the comparison with political opinion to an opinion on media is pretty irrelevant, one obviously should be held to a higher regard since it doesn't talk about fiction. But you can still ignore both and that's within your right to do so. I agree people should be able to ignore or watch videos as they see fit, but why comment when you don't intend to watch? Just seems daft and counter intuitive, it makes it look like the video actually bothers you with existence and I'm referring to Blackphoenix here of course. As to opinions are like arseholes, it's a crap comparison, arseholes are illegal to bare in public and opinions for the most part are legal and far more easier to ignore than some person showing their arse in public. Though heavy censorship laws within European countries and eastern countries have kinda bogged that idea that opinions are all protected by free speech. Don't worry about coming off as anti democratic, most countries masquerade as such without obeying what it means to be a democracy, ironically through bad opinions that shouldn't have been entertained but did or through corporate investment. I do agree that a "fan" might offer more insight but sometimes people don't want someone who'll give them an 8-page manifesto about how a Dalek can fly up a flight of stairs. The idea is daft and corny and this video just plays to that very premise. I mean, it's a Dodgem tank that can fly about and scale stairs, that's hilarious.
The most terrifying thing about Daleks is they are easy to underestimate but when they attack you are caught off guard by their unstopable force. Thats why anyone who recognises them and has seen what they can do absolutely shits their pants.
The Daleks (at least one of them!) were able to fly in the last episode of the classic show that they were featured in. It's just usually forgotten in the wake of the new series.
My Mum and Auntie used to hide behind the sofa as kids when the daleks were on. They were greatly comforted by the face they could only go on metal floors and couldn't do stairs. I was first introduced to them in the new episode "Dalek" when they started flying. I had lots of nightmares and nothing to comfort me because they could go anywhere and have no mercy.
They are absolutely completely ridiculous, though I can also get into it when they're on screen, especially since those who haven't seen them before don't take them seriously until they're proven deadly or the people who saw them before are freaked out. It sells that they're feared more than if it weren't acknowledged.
In "The Happiness Patrol," the happiness patrol painted the TARDIS pink because pink is a more joyous color than blue. In the end, the Doctor has it repainted blue.
Sam Loesser exactly the fact the doctor is for the foreseeable future a woman, it doesn't mean they'll make it pink. Besides they already revealed what her tardis looks like, it's still blue.
It's mostly a joke but I'm actually expecting them to paint the Tardis Pink if just for one episode. Hilarious to see it was pink in Classic Who...I need to watch more of it xD.
A true dalek doesn't climb stairs, it levels the building.
a dalek of culture i see
Huh how did no one else think of that
EXTERMINATE!!!
It's hard to level a building when you're actually underground.
lol
The Daleks work really well when the story doesn’t try to convince you they look intimidating. The 2005 episode ‘Dalek’ works so well because everyone in the episode except for the Doctor thinks they look like waste-bins with plungers, and then a single one decimates almost everyone in their entire facility.
The best modern Dalek stories use them like horror movies use villainous children. They’re dangerous because they don’t seem threatening. They demand respect but don’t receive it. They have to earn it with murder. It’s great entertainment. Plus, changing the Daleks’ appearance ruins half the fun of them as characters. For a bunch of space Nazis, if they don’t have anything light about them, they’ll just be way too dark and depressing. No charm.
The 2005 episode 'Dalek' as well as the majority of that seasons finale are in my opinion the greatest episodes including Daleks in any of the modern series. Mostly because they did such a good job of setting the Daleks up as being super threatening villains in the episode 'Dalek' then we see millions of them in the finale, it's just such a great 'oh shit' moment
@@calibribody6776 parting of the ways was a fantastic final episode for that season. One of the things I do really like is that much like they did in the episode Dalek, it was shown just how hard it actually is to kill a Dalek. I mean in that whole battle on the tv station I think we only see one being killed by bullets
@@calibribody6776 That's why the scene in part 1 of that finale where the doctor and Jack work out a rough estimate of how many there are, while ignoring everyone asking what they are is such an 'oh shit we're totally fucked' moment.
that episode in question was amazing for that reason alone it comes out of nowhere to decimate a miniature army. and the forshadowing. you've seen what one dalek can do. now wait a couple episodes and see what a whole empire can do.
When I heard it speak in "Dalek" for the 1st time in ages, it did give me shivers though. The magic was still there.
The “egg whisk” is actually a paint roller without the foam
It was originally an egg whisk back when it was made in the 60s
@@alfiewilliams2331 I don’t think it was, it looks like one but it isn’t it is actually a paint roller.
Someone bought a remote controlled Dalek for my son one christmas when he was about 4. This Dalek was about 2 foot high and could be voice operated.
One night after my son had gone to bed, this Dalek turned itself on and burst out of his toy cupboard shouting "EXTERMINATE!". My son came running out of the bed room and wouldn't go back in until I dismantled the Dalek.
He's almost 12 now, still has a phobia of Daleks... and we still have it... sat waiting up in the loft, waiting for him to bring a girl home.
You are evil
You are evil and I love it
2021, any updates?
2022, any updates?
2023 any updates
Hilarious
Quote from wikipedia that made me chuckle:
"For the final battle sequence between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks, the BBC Effects Department's pyrotechnics were so loud and the explosions so realistic that the London Fire Brigade was dispatched to the scene by local residents who feared that an IRA bomb had gone off. McCoy recalled that after the first explosions, a number of car alarms in the neighborhood went off, and the emergency services drivers were surprised when they arrived to see Daleks coming at them from out of the smoke."
I wanna see that now
Seeing those Daleks come out of the smoke would have been an awesome sight to see. I wanna watch "Remembrance Of The Daleks" again now!
I'd just climb on top of it
LMAO I READ THAT TOO 😂
In Destiny of the Daleks, the Doctor says: "If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us?" The way I interpreted that was earlier Dalek models could not climb stairs. But by Rememberence of the Daleks, they fitted some ant-gravity tech so they could.
Late reply but he was on about a shaft that was on a slant even with all there upgrades they can't climb through shafts on angles.
Also in invasion of earth in the chase scene a dalek looks at stairs then continues approaching it, they always could hover or cover unlevel terrain.
Can people please stop trying to correct us by saying that the Daleks first flew in "Remembrance of the Daleks" without even watching the whole video. This video is about "Remembrance of the Daleks". We talk at length about that at 6:55 after our usual chatter. Anyone who has commented trying to correct us is just demonstrating that they didn't watch the video or check any of our sources.
Also, just to clarify for anyone confused, I am an avid fan of Doctor Who and have been watching since the revival in 2005. Despite this, Karl knows more about the show than I do because he has watched Doctor Who in the past and done a lot of research into it. Just because he isn't currently a fan doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Now that that's out of the way, we hope you enjoyed the video. I, for one, am very much looking forward to series 11! Just a shame we have to wait until October...
-Brad
Fact Fiend, The Daleks were first observed in flight using their hoverbouts in the original century/tv 21 comics.
Nope they first flew in "Revelation of the Daleks"...
actually check the original comics and you'll see i'm right
Comics aren’t classed as official canon you muppet
ooooh hard core whovian keyboard warrior. Get a life.
I've always thought that the daleks were designed to look like if a tank was a person. If you think about it that way, they don't look so rediculous. Also, I think a plunger is an interesting idea of a functional appendage, and the whisk looks better than a gun that's just a tube. They don't really look scary, but in the same way that a bomb doesn't look scary, you just know it's dangerous. They do look pretty silly though. Great video. Thanks.
The whisk part makes sense for a sci fi disintegration weapon. It's gonna make a lot of heat, so the extra metal stuff helps to make sure the dalek doesn't melt or blow themselves up when they shoot their gun
"Ha! The Dalek can't get up the stairs!"
* Dalek flies up the stairs. *
"Well sh_t."
"Ha! The Dalek can't get up the stairs!"
* Dalek flies up the stairs. *
"Well sh-
Ha! The Dalek can’t get up the stairs!”
* Dalek flies up the stairs. *
“Well sh_t.”
I would have thought a Dalek's greatest weakness was a patch of quick-drying cement.
Thanks for explaining the Daleks
-1 of the 3 people who didn’t know.
Miguel Angel Nah most people in America know at least the design of the Daleks.
@@malfaroangel3896I have never met a single person who doesn't know about dr who
I am the second
WELCOME TO MY DALEK POETRY READING
THIS ONE IS CALLED "DAFFODILS"
EXTERMINATE DAFFODILS
with apologies to frankie boyle
My 1 yr old granddaughter has discovered the Daleks and is just fascinated with them. She will stop everything to watch and listen to a Dalek. I got her a stuffed one for Christmas that talks. She's so awesome!
The Daleks were originally not designed to fly, or to even be a main villain. They just became a main villain because of how popular they got.
In the first series of episodes they appeared in, their weakness was litterally that they were powered through the floor, so they would never have been able to fly because it would immediatly have turned them off.
Skylos
Are you telling me that the original Daleks were bumper cars ?
Pretty much yeah
But I think they’ve updated the canon such that they no longer get their power that way.
I am well aware. I am just pointing out that the Daleks have not ALWAYS been able to fly
In the original episode they kill a dalek by tricking it into driving over a coat, separating it from the aluminum floor.
The thing I really love about Doctor Who is that it's been going so long that there are boat loads of inconsistencies with the canon. The Doctor started off as a "person from our future" before being an alien. In the first Dalek episode the Daleks couldn't even go anywhere that there wasn't a metal track for them to travel on. In one episode set in the year 1979 we are introduced to the organization "UNIT" and a guy working there. In a later episode we learn that the same guy left UNIT in 1976. So he left UNIT three years before he started working there. It means no-one can be pretentious about what's the technically correct answer because isn't one (or there are several different ones).
I guess what I'm getting at is I really love the part of the fandom that is willing to make fun of the stupid stuff in Doctor who and that part of the fandom is alive and well.
Temporal inconsistencies resulting from fluctuations and changes in the space-time continuum are to be expected when faffing about through all of space and time and breaking the occasional rule or two. That's probably how we got the recent creation of the Cybermen a second time quite differently from the first. Anything is possible, nothing is contradictory!
Timey-wimey plot holes explained by timey-wimey nonsense +1
''The Doctor: We are not of this race. We are not of this earth. Susan and I are wanderers in the fourth dimension of space and time, cut off from our own people by distances beyond the reach of your most advanced science.''
''The Doctor: Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you?... to be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day. One day.''
Season 1 episode 1 1963
Sorry for being pedantic, but they've always been established as 'not from earth'
Seriously... I watched the first episode... I like when people just make up crap because they established their own headcanon. the doctor has always been an alien.
To be fair, they did explain why the Daleks don’t need tracks anymore.
The Daleks were made because the designer wanted to make an enemy that didn’t look like a man in a suit.
And thats why i respect them despite their silly look. Its so difficult to find sci fi aliens that are not just humans but with green skin or forhead ridges.
The Observer, especially for the 60s
But... it still is basically a man in a suit... I mean it really is... of course in their case more like mutated space creature that looks like Krang from Teenage mutant ninja turtles... but its still a man in a suit.
Chaosdirge actually most Daleks have a tricycle type of Base inside them, (wheelbarrows once) and now they are sometimes remote controlled
No I mean there plotline is they are basically men in suits!
I just imagine a Dalek with a knife. Just slowllpy walking towards you going "Stab time"
"Exstabinate! Exstabinate!"
YOU WILL BE STAAABBBBEDD
Michael awdry sounds like a final fantasy Tonberry. step, step, step, step, STAB!
Stabby the Roomba has evolved into Dalek with a knife.
The one Dalek that is such a badass that he prefers to stab his victims so he can see the terror in their eyes... Damn...
2:20
Daleks aren’t scary in the new series?
I was 4 when I first saw the Dalek episode. Jesus Christ that was the first time I was genuinely scared in my life. Then doomsday happened and I was stupid enough to watch it when I was 5 and I saw Daleks turn a bloke’s head into a bloody peach.
The daleks will always be nightmare fuel no matter the age of the episode. If I show my nephew Genesis of the daleks he’d shit himself
Until Moffat made them a joke
The thing about the Daleks is that they're hilarious right up until they kill your entire species, destroy your home planet, and crush your brain.
The problem is that, as a commonly used villain, it's really difficult to maintain their threat level.
In DND my gnome alchemist made a Dalek suit with a wand of disintigrating ray as his whisk and a plunger of crushing hand.
Genius
I watched this series from the beginning in the 60s. As a small child i loved peeking out from behind the sofa because it was so scary. It was made for children and people should not expect the Daleks to be realistic to adults.
Eggs.. Eggs Eggterminate!
I remember that scene… Eggseggseggseggseggseggseggs… It also spawned this (make of it what you will): fav.me/d5dpio0
SOUFFLÉ
"If we ever need some scones, or a toilet unblocked, we will contact you."
- The Cybermen to the Daleks in 'The Bitch Fight Of Canery Wharf'
I kinda love it when the writers try to make the cyber man cooler by forgetting the original reason as to why there were scary like in the timeless children story arc when the writers just rip-off the Orville for one scene. Lol
""You can't get me on top of the stairs, Darth Vader. I have the high ground!"
"Do not underestimate the power of the Dark Side"
From what I remember, in their original appearance the Daleks were story-wise designed to require contact with the ground, as they drew their power from specially designed floors. Assuming my memory was right, that was clearly dropped when the writers decided to use the Daleks elsewhere.
In the movie with Peter Cushing, the Doctor foiled them by throwing a cloak on the floor.
Yeah, Static electricity, which was dropped in their next episode they had discs on their backs that meant they didn't need that.
Thanks, because I don't think I ever saw the next episode. With the combination of a number of episodes simply being missing, my local PBS station also tended to be a bit inconsistent about airing what they did have access to when it came to the pre-Tom Baker eras.
The original episodes in skaro had the static floors.
The invasion of earth had energy beamed to satellite dishes on their backs, and after that, they'd adapted enough to be self powered
the worst part about the static floors bit is that they completely forgot about it by the end of that same story when they sent the daleks outside of their base.
Fear the daleks, wait, thats's your plumber stealing your kitchen supplies!
"What are ya going to do? Suction me to death?" Gets suctioned to death.
EXTERMINAAAATE!!! YOU. ARE. THE. DOCTOOOOOR!!!! YOU. WILL. BE. STAAAAAABBED!!!!
Always seen it as the Daleks are ever evolving to the improve themselves through the technology they either develop or acquire.
Yet they are so racist and "nationalistic", including being very devoted about the way they look. That even though they will enhance their shells, they will never completely change their shape no matter how dated they look. They will instead keep finding ways to overcome obstacle using what they have become to see as their ideal form.
They may look ridiculous over time, but that is a product of their of what made them so successfully aggressive.
Also they are NEVER gonna realise that there eyestalk is there weakness
There are enemies scarier (Cybermen and Weeping Angels imo) but honestly having gotten to see daleks in person at certain museums they're actually quite intimidating in real life. I kept feeling like they were going to move out of their displays to attack and it was eerie. And that was with them completely silent and the eyestalk powered off.
I've also seen an active one at a convention several times over the years. Though the operator was friendly for the sake of photos and interacting with con-goers it was still spooky to see it rolling down the halls occasionally shouting 'Exterminate!' whenever someone stepped in its way.
Well, in all fairness to their design they were made as a one-off monster for a single story. It just so happened that story became an iconic part of the series.
"it's over dalek, I hold the high ground"
"You know nothing of my ELEVATE"
weeping angel is the scariest thing in dr.who
They were until they were ruined. I loved them in Blink, but when they screwed around with the mechanics to make them something that possess existing statues rather than being statues themselves, it went downhill. A weeping angel whose sole method of movement relies on not being looked at, possessing the damn statue of liberty? Dumbest idea ever.
But what about: that fucking darkness episode? That scared me to death.
@@TheJuliana0901 what was the darkness episode? its been a a while since i've seen dr.who
@@Keltix1991 yes i agree but i still hold my stance that they scare me a whole lot more than anything else in dr.who
@@narutofan10036 i thiiink it was with Ten and Donna? they were in a library I think? and the darkness had a Latin name. I don't remember it too well either
It was established on screen as early as 1974 that the daleks move via psychokinetic power. (Death to the Daleks episode 2) I always thought that was terrifying and went a way to explain what goes on behind the scenes. Daleks are super evolved beings, literally huge brains without bodies, being paraplegic they encase themselves in protective casings. But the scary thing is they don't need the casings, they are psychokinetic and move their casings with the power of their mind. If they can do that and they don't need legs to move, do they need arms and hands? If a Dalek could climb stairs with the power of its mind, it could easily hold you immobile a few inches off the ground, operate machinery, open locks, burst a blood vessel, killing with a thought etc etc. Which is likely why this has never been given much attention subsequently and it was intentionally ignored, because it's an ability that is far too useful. It's a nightmare ability.
"I have the high ground, Anakin!"
*climbs stairs*
"Don't try it!"
I can totally relate to the overselling, i am a fan myself and it is stupid how people over hype their favorite shows....
I keep things simple....
Doktor Who:
Timetravel Sci-Fi with a Deus Ex Machina, that is literally a futuristic Screw Driver. And a lot of quirky characters.
Super Natural:
If you want two damn good looking Men hunt monsters and ghosts, you are probably going to like it, if you do not.... then don't.
its a Deus Ex Machina until wood
It's a great scene in Remembrance of the Daleks but it's not the first time we see them fly, we see one float way back in the William Hartnell era in a story called The Chase and then we see one fly in a story called Revelation of the Daleks
I was not aware of that! Will take a look.
-Brad
@@FactFiend There's also a sequence in the Pertwee-era Planet of the Daleks which has one slowly chase the Doctor up a vertical (and almost completely smooth) ventilation shaft. In fairness, the Doctor's ascent was also pretty slow, as he was using a makeshift parachute buoyed up by the hot air of the shaft.
As someone who watched all of classic Dr. Who as a family activity as a kid, and had always bought into the "Daleks can't climb stairs" theory, I can absolutely confirm that the cliffhanger of the Dalek slowly floating up a staircase was INCREDIBLY intimidating. It's absolutely hilarious and it completely worked.
Gotta agree, the fanbase is pretty cancer. That's why you never listen to the people online, wait and judge things for yourself.
The Dalek voice actor must just have the funnest time
Weeping Angels are way scarier, I’ve never found the Daleks scary lul
Only thing more feared than daleks in doctor who cannon is the doctor himself.
Daleks are like my Grandad the more excited they get, the more high pitch.
I agree. Daleks and their weapons don't look scary. Neither do those boxy trucks with the large straws on top... called tanks. Tanks? Like a tub you put water in. Who's afraid of a round tube? And then there're those little balls with a switch. I mean, those are just softballs or tennis balls. They call them grenades, but they are just the ting you toss and have your dog chase after, right? And then there's those silly TV remote controls they call tasers. What are you going to do to me with that... change my channel? Make me pause or rewind? Yeah, right.
And don't get me started on those lumps of modeling clay they named C4. Couldn't even give the stuff a real name. I mean the corn syrup they call nitro glycerin at least sounds scary (though, we all know it;s just sugar water), but C4 is just gray play doh.
The guy who designed and built the first. Daleks went to my secondary school. He's our only vaguely famous alumni!
Originally, the DALEKS could ONLY move along a statically charged metal floor, like bumper cars.
The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Susan were able to immobilize it by placing a rubberized blanket on the ground, and once the Dalek went over itm it was powerless.
Being a Dr who nerd this made me laugh, good job guys!
The thing about doctor who is simultaneously the best and worst piece of television at the exact same time, and I love it.
I can grammar
Best cliffhanger the show’s ever had.
Love it.
Hey Kyle directly addressed me and 2 other people! Yay!
I am one of those 3 people who don't watch Dr Who and clicked on this. It's just fun to watch you roast stuff.
Karl: For the 3 people out there watching this who dont know what a dalek is but still clicked on a video about the daleks. Sure.
Me: Well then. I'm one of the three people who dont know what a dalek is. Great
I think my biggest problem with Breaking Bad is I can't invest in it due to being in the UK. Here the entire series would be: go to the hospital and the NHS will help you....
If Breaking Bad was set in the UK, it would have ended at the pilot.
They could have changed the plot so it it's about providing a safe future for his family.
“That plunger is gonna find your butthole, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” 😂😂😂
I apologise for my fandoms extremism
In my head cannon the daleks are able to switch Their weapons for others that are just random things You can Find around the house
Luke: "You can't get me up here, Darth Vader! I have the high ground!"
Vader: *TRIGGERED*
The 9th and 10th doctors are amazing and those seasons are absolutely incredible
Actually, we who are old enough to have seen ALL of Doctor Who knew that the TV series was stuck with the limitations of the day. Back in the mid 1960s, a comic called TV21 had a strip about The Daleks, in which we saw them flying about and allsorts.
@@malfaroangel3896 because it's funny? We also make fun of the plunger and whisk arms all the time, too.
I have just binged a few (well more than a few) episodes of you rattling on.....I love it.
Did you see when the Nerd on Robot Chicken kicked one of these things over? "Snoopy would NOT approve!"
I think the Cybermen are more terrifying than the daleks cause it’s just human nature to improve themselves
Happy New Year, Brad and Karl
And to you!
-Brad
The scrap in canary warf basically sums up the daleks appearance...
It’s beautiful.
They can defeat stairs... But can they beat wheel stoppers
Well, today we have the weeping angels and the nashta verada, which I consider the most scary race in the whoniverse.
I'm one of the 3 who doesn't know what a dalek is but still watching because I love u guys
Me too, I'm the second one, where's number 3?
But...but...the higher ground....
they look like a salt shakers.
Tbf every moment of a Dalek's life is pain if I'm remembering correctly
Supernatural had some decent seasons, and some really bad ones, and it ran for so long that major plot events became running jokes (like how many times the lead characters had died.) The show could set up some really great season-long ideas, but it would then fail to deliver on them to due unfocused writing (and just some disappointing writing.) You'd get a dramatic bit that should have shaped the months of episodes that followed, but what would actually follow were months of regular comedic episodes that at most paid a lip service to the idea, and then you'd get a quick rush of two or three episodes to quickly wrap up the dramatic storyline before the season ended.
Yeah, I've always thought they should have created another strong multi-season arc rather than hopping from one crisis to the next, but I guess that's the way these shows work. You get renewed, you make up more shit! I still enjoy each episode, but they've had some pretty weak stories in the later seasons.
-Brad
i'd imagine it is kinda tricky to setup a multi season story arc if you aren't sure you will be able to do all the episodes required to finish off the narrative. Last thing you'd want to do is leave the show with a plot line unfinished.
Supernatural is just a glorified soap opera, complete with repeat storylines and no fear of death.
If you guys like that hogwash, I highly recommend Constantine (streamed for free on CW Seed). The ads are annoying, but the show is what Supernatural tries to be. The effects? Spectacular (oml the Angels are beautiful). The writing? Decent. I loved it, but it’s like a solid B for non-DC fans. The cast? Gets along really well. Felt natural. The story? Overarching story that makes it so no episode feels completely like filler, with more devoted to it than a few throwaway lines lmao
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One of my favorite things (and this is a SPOILER warning ⚠️) is that one of the bad guys was actually the Serpent of Eden. While Supernatural just have every monster be a human with horrible CGI here and there, the Serpent turned from a human into this crazy creature made up of like 50 snakes constantly moving around. It was hella dope. And there’s Fallen Angels that also look hella dope.
ah but honestly: supernatural is an ascended meme by now.
Well I mean, how does your show retain interest after the apocalypse is averted?
Even if you don't like Dr who the weeping angels are good at getting your attention
Welcome back!
Best way to deal with a one on one with a Dalek is not to go up stairs, but to get and stay behind it. Seriously, daleks have not means of getting you if you're behind them.
Too easy.
@RightWing SoyBoy Yes but when they try to turn around, you can turn around with them. They can't really duke you 'cause they also don't turn around fast. You could also just hop on the dalek behind them so you won't have to do anything at all
@RightWing SoyBoy Well if there's more of them make sure there's something between you and the other daleks, preferably a sheet of metal to stop the lasers. Either that or use the slow turning speed and not very wide range of view to your advantage and duke them. Even if you are seen, those things are way to slow on the ground and you can use you environment to your advantage
It doesn't bother me at all that you don't like Doctor Who. Part of what makes me a Whovian is the lessons in acceptance of others. Keep up the entertaining work.
Thank you for voicing the fandom blowup that reduces enjoyment. In addition to the shows you mentioned, the hunger games was one for me. I still enjoy binging a couple episodes of doctor who or supernatural, but it's not the kind of show I'm going to spend three days watching the entire show
Wasn't Bertie Bassett a Doctor Who villain?
Yeah the BBC got sued for using the likeness. Despite that, he was a surprisingly creepy villain. He was a psychotic robot which went around boiling and drowning people in liquidised sweets.
Want to see a brief clip of him in action? Search for "Doctor Who: Kandy Noir @thecosmichobo" for a nice noir-edit of the Kandy Man. Opinion is 50/50, but I'm one of those who really liked the concept. A child-like, psychotic robot who loves nothing more than torturing victims and liquidizing them in his own confectionery concoctions, all while being covered in the sweets that nobody likes.
While I know what a Dalek is, I did not click this video. Currently about 30 videos deep into TH-cam just autoplaying this channel. F'n loving it
You should then try ‘the orville’ before you get 3 seasons behind. Just try to get the idea that Brian Griffin from Family guy isn’t the starships captain
I love you K-Money; don't be messing with the order of things. Dalek 4 Life. Makes no sense but neither does time.
I don't watch proper television anymore because of people like that. Just reruns of old shows from before I was born and some stuff I remember from my childhood.
Darth Vader climbing up a flight of stairs to fight luke would be deserving of a cliff hanger as it shows Darth Vader has defeated Anakin's greatest weakness: *THE HIGH GROUND*
what do you mean that time. it has happened many times. including one where the Doctor shot them down with his own regeneration energy.
Joshua Plotkin after that they started flying
Old Doctor Who villains: Cybermen, Weeping Angels and Daleks.
New Doctor Who villains: Racism.
The Cybermen are better than the Daleks
at dying
Lol
senormedia This is not war it's pest control.
Cybermen have a better fear factor but technologicially speaking it depends on what time which is in, future cybermen can defeat past daleks and both have methods to travel in time, so who wins is entirely based on processing, the daleks process internally via what remains of their brains while cybermen are a cybernetic hive mind. Daleks win at processing despite that though do the tech gap within the base, In a full war of all cybermen and daleks from every single time at once, even if you make the numbers more favorable for cybermen by cutting off the quadrillions of extra daleks, cybermen don't stand a ghost of a chance.
TL:DR Cybermen are cool, Daleks are effective.
Aluxir Daleks are just cheaters when cybermans are just plaque. You literally need one functioning cyberman to create army when one dalek is so great danger
You know, I totally understand where youre coming from with over-inflated expectations and I can definitely say I'd have been that guy for Dr.Who who dislikes it but I got a great first episode where I fell in love with the suspense and thrill of the darker side to Dr.Who first in the episode called, "Don't Blink" nearly pissed my pants as a 14yo and loved the series ever since, especially since I loved Tennants acting
So what do you think of Game of Thrones?
It's alright.
Wouldn't it be far more terrifying if they never had to "go upstairs".
What if they had such powerful weapons they could glass anything in front of them and just roll forward until they encountered the next obstacle.
The Daleks have been able to fly since the 80s...
Yeah, the video is about the flight scene in "Remembrance of the Daleks" in 1988. We talk about it a lot after our usually chatter. Is there an earlier example you're referring to? Our research told us that was the first on screen appearance of a flying Dalek, but my pre-modern Doctor Who knowledge isn't as strong as some of the fan base.
-Brad
Fact Fiend Well the closest things before Remembrance we saw was a Dalek rising from the Thames in "The Dalek Invasion Of Earth" and in "Revelation Of The Daleks" when their creator Davros, who has a life support machine that formed the basis for the Dalek casing, was seen to be floating
The most terrifying thing i remember from dr who is the angels.
The first time the Daleks appeared, it was from their POV. So the first time people saw the Daleks, all they saw were the plunger and egg whisk 😂 I’m not kidding. I saw it, myself. It was so stupid hahaha
Bob Pickleson but in that same shot you also see a person backed up against the wall screaming. Idk about you, but if I were
a) a child
b) in the 1960 when cheesy B-movies like Frankenstein or Psycho were still considered scary
I’d find the Daleks pretty horrifying.
I was that 12-year-old kid for whom that cliffhanger was life-changing
Btw the way Daleks could fly or hover from “Remembrance of the Daleks” onwards not from “Dalek”
Duh_Its_kuh Is_back This person is a hero.
Our video is literally about "Remembrance of the Daleks". We talk about it after we joke about the Dalek design. Either you're referring to something else (in which case, I apologise) or you didn't watch the video.
-Brad
Yeah, I may or may not have posted a comment or two about a minute into the video.
But hey, it was a great 14 minutes!
My dad is also like you where the hype of something impedes his enjoyment of that thing. So when ever he asks me if i like something, and if i like it I always say "I thought it was good but you would hate it". Then he gives it a fair go.
"I'm not a fan of Doctor Who." Right, next video.
blackphoenix77 The guy actually has a damn good reason for not being a fan, get off your high horse and watch the video.
Jazzy Waffles, well someone like blackphoenix77 has a good reason not to watch the video. I mean why would he watch a video about a show that the author of the video DOESN'T EVEN WATCH? What kind of a valid opinion are they going to present? They're just gonna pluck a random piece of trivia off Google and just waffle on for 10 minutes about it, giving absolutely no new perspective or any semblance of original thought, which is exactly what happened here.
As to the author of the video not watching the show because of the fans... well that's just his character weakness, being too influenced by opinions of others. A slave to the hype machine, with his little tantrum that's supposed to be a rebellion. And still too eager to profit off the hype rather than to either let the topic slide or to do the leg work.
One can watch the odd episode of Doctor Who and not be fan as well as have their opinions on things. You guys need to chill out.
See, that's the problem with today's world. Everyone wants to have the right to have an opinion on everything, but not willing to do the leg work and make sure their opinion actually makes sense. Look at bloody politics. If people just bothered to do some research rather than just listening to politicians' soundbites (usually only very loosely related to truth) and deciding from their gut feeling which of them they seem to like the most or dislike the least, don't you think the world would be so much better? I know a damn TV series is completely irrelevant in comparison, but the mechanism is the exact same!
Also opinions are like arseholes, just because you have one doesn't mean the world needs to see it. Some opinions are more valuable than others, oh i know i'm saying a controversial "anti-democratic" thing here, and you have to put in some effort in order for it not to be a waste of everybody's time.
As you've said the comparison with political opinion to an opinion on media is pretty irrelevant, one obviously should be held to a higher regard since it doesn't talk about fiction. But you can still ignore both and that's within your right to do so.
I agree people should be able to ignore or watch videos as they see fit, but why comment when you don't intend to watch? Just seems daft and counter intuitive, it makes it look like the video actually bothers you with existence and I'm referring to Blackphoenix here of course.
As to opinions are like arseholes, it's a crap comparison, arseholes are illegal to bare in public and opinions for the most part are legal and far more easier to ignore than some person showing their arse in public. Though heavy censorship laws within European countries and eastern countries have kinda bogged that idea that opinions are all protected by free speech. Don't worry about coming off as anti democratic, most countries masquerade as such without obeying what it means to be a democracy, ironically through bad opinions that shouldn't have been entertained but did or through corporate investment.
I do agree that a "fan" might offer more insight but sometimes people don't want someone who'll give them an 8-page manifesto about how a Dalek can fly up a flight of stairs. The idea is daft and corny and this video just plays to that very premise. I mean, it's a Dodgem tank that can fly about and scale stairs, that's hilarious.
The most terrifying thing about Daleks is they are easy to underestimate but when they attack you are caught off guard by their unstopable force. Thats why anyone who recognises them and has seen what they can do absolutely shits their pants.
But yes. Doctor Who requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. It also requires you to consistently forget canon.
The Daleks (at least one of them!) were able to fly in the last episode of the classic show that they were featured in. It's just usually forgotten in the wake of the new series.
(yeah thats what this video is about jus sayin maybe watch the video before commenting)
That’s what this video is about...maybe watch it next time lol
My Mum and Auntie used to hide behind the sofa as kids when the daleks were on. They were greatly comforted by the face they could only go on metal floors and couldn't do stairs. I was first introduced to them in the new episode "Dalek" when they started flying. I had lots of nightmares and nothing to comfort me because they could go anywhere and have no mercy.
This genuinely wasn't funny at all.
They are absolutely completely ridiculous, though I can also get into it when they're on screen, especially since those who haven't seen them before don't take them seriously until they're proven deadly or the people who saw them before are freaked out. It sells that they're feared more than if it weren't acknowledged.
Just wait until they paint the Tardis pink in series 11, the fans will go ballistic.
Can you imagine the tardis being pink "cough, cough happiness patrol cough"
In "The Happiness Patrol," the happiness patrol painted the TARDIS pink because pink is a more joyous color than blue. In the end, the Doctor has it repainted blue.
Sam Loesser exactly the fact the doctor is for the foreseeable future a woman, it doesn't mean they'll make it pink. Besides they already revealed what her tardis looks like, it's still blue.
It's mostly a joke but I'm actually expecting them to paint the Tardis Pink if just for one episode. Hilarious to see it was pink in Classic Who...I need to watch more of it xD.
I think the doctor making them scrub it off was more of him teaching the kid a lesson. This is a kids/family show afterall.