Daleks (split from the Culture thread)

[Admiral Valdemar]

They say they are doing it the "American way" by getting a big group of writers together and brainstorming. A new film may be in the works too, not like that shit Paul McGann one made by the US in '96.

I'd love to know why that's neccessery. The concept of the show is rather... unlimited in scope (Any location any time) All they need to discuss is if they plan to kill off main characters.

Wouldn't it be nice for once if they landed somewhere other than britain while on earth? An oil rig would be cool

PS I do know where ormskirk is. I live down the road in merseyside.

Lol, Planet Brittania. Well beats Planet America.

I also had the impression you were a Statesider, not a Brit. I'm nota actually anywhere near Ormskirk anymore, I'm in my second term at Lancaster Uni now, you should stop by sometime.

[Admiral Valdemar]

I personally hope that theDoctor won't try to sound terribly scientific. Resurrect Tom Baker! Bring back K9 too!
I think that the first series was hilarious with all the anachronisms. In one ep the Doctor finds himself on earth and matches wits with a Room sized AI supercomp with lots of spinning spools of mag tape, the funniest part was when, to test it's intelligence, the Doctor asked it what the square root of 2 was, and after giving a number, the Doctor said, "Yes that's just about right." It was hilarious given that I could find that square root on my wrist watch.

Heh, times change.

That reminds me of a Prisoner episode where the Village supercomputer is overloaded and burns out because Number 6 asked it the one question it could never answer; Why.

And Dr. Who has a good track record for science unlike certain other shows, ever seen the technical manual for the TARDIS the Doctor uses?

[The Yosemite Bear]

Any one want to figure the 40k stats for Daleks?

[NecronLord]

No.

[DocHorror]

Where abouts in Merseyside do you live Necronlord...

I lived in Tranmere, in Birkenhead for 18 years...

[NecronLord]

Looks quite funky.

I prefer the canon types though, fan stuff is nice but not quite usable.

Yup. Though the G/AG fields for the plunger is a good idea.

It already had a tractor beam or sucker though, didn't it? Some of the flying and assault Daleks need not have these though, they could easily have that hard point for extra weaponry.

They do indeed. I checked Destiny of the Daleks (Aren't I sad?) and one of them picks up a computer device about 40cm across with it. There is something there. There is also a neural connection in it for accessing computers. Incidentally they can pick up a ~0.5Kt mining change hold it between the two of them and limit the damage to themselves somehow.