I have. I felt it was one of the better McCoy stories although not up there with my favourite Pertwee or Tom Baker stories.NecronLord wrote:Have you not seen Rememberance? That's a very good one.mr friendly guy wrote:I just can't imagine how Davros could be used effectively after Genesis.
The things which worked for Rememberance include
a) Racism theme used to good effect.
It used the two dalek factions with Ace making a sarcastic comment about why they hate each other to make the point. It also worked really well when there was a scene of a sign forbidding black people from entering the building. Thank goodness McCoy prevented the director taking that part out.
It just showed the stupidity of racism by using the racist 1960s, two dalek factions fighting each other without preaching to the choir.
b) Epic and mysterious feel of it
Two dalek factions
Ancient Time Lord devices
Doctor hinting he is "more than a Time Lord"
c) Nostalgic value
It gave a sense that the show had come full circle with the Doctor returning to the era and place where it all began in "An unearthly child". It even had an in joke with one scene showing a BBC channel and announcing a new show called "Doctor...." before it was cut off.
Needless to say, all this could be accomplish without Davros. Dalek factionalism was seen in "Evil of the Daleks" and its not that big a stretch to imagine evil, genocidal, racist, ambitious daleks would turn against each other.
Davros served a purpose as the Dalek's creator with the crowning moment being they turned against their creator. It just showed his folly in creating such beings without the concept of compassion because he thought it would interfere with their survival and being the dominant race. After that, with his scientific know how, what centuries if not millenia out of date, what could he plausibly offer the Daleks if Nation didn't use writer's fiat to explain it away?
