Well, I finally finished watching the Doctor Who dvd I had on last night — Revelation of the Daleks was the title of this series of installments, by the way, with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and some since-vanished actress as his perpetually terrified companion — and I must say that the Tinned Ones (the Daleks) stole my heart with the way they eliminated a “deejay” played by the unfunny 80s comedian Alexei Sayle. Lord knows the acting on The Young Ones was never RSC level, but Sayle’s recurring appearances on said show were always a signal for one of us to press the fast-forward button on the VCR remote. I used to long for some sort of flesh-blasting raygun to render him a silent heap of meat; the writers of this episode must have felt the same way I did. Go, Daleks!
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May 15th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
EXTERMINATE!! DESTROY!!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:44 am
The Young Ones had its benefits though. The Hippie got pummelled and discomforted as did the twat. The punk walked through walls and would have disposed of DJ Alexei Sayle expeditiously, given the chance. I bought some episodes for old times sake when my girls were about 13 and 16 – they took them and haven’t stopped playing them for ten years.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:03 am
My favorite is still the “party” episode where Rick took the tampon out of the girl’s purse and asked if it was a teabag.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I always figured that we could stymie the Daleks with a few strategically placed stairways.
Somebody once told me they eventually overcame that design flaw. Although I think a few quick lads with crowbars could have dealt with them. Probably we could recruit them from rural areas, ones where the ancient and honorable sport of cow tipping is still practiced.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Now they can levitate and fly and stuff. Then again, they seem to gain and lose abilities as required by the plot. For instance, in the recent series (with Christopher Eccleston as Dr. No. 9), one lone Dalek soldier just needed a bit of laying-on-of-hands from God — I mean Rose — to become completely formidable (it had to be convinced to kill itself to get it destroyed); then in a later episode of the same series, a whole host of them just stood around while the Doctor taunted them (supposedly the Tardis protected him — well, why couldn’t that Tardis protection mojo be somehow extended to repel them from the Earth? And then along came God — I mean Rose — who dispatched them with a wave of her hand.)
Okay, I’m going to stop now, because the inexplicable deification of the otherwise perfectly fine character of Rose is one of those things that irritates me and I can go on and on about it, and I really need to upload my resume to Careerloser — I mean -builder.com.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:21 am
I remember that episode. Wondered when Doctor Who had become an anime series. Worse: a magical girl anime series.
(Granted I like some anime, but Doctor Who isn’t. Give me the old format with the multipart half-hour or so episodes where part I they don’t reveal the main threat until the end of the episode, except it wasn’t a great mystery since the episode title had “…of the Daleks” or “…of the Cybermen” in it.) π