War Of The Daleks

08.10.2019

War of the Daleks, on the other hand, clearly genuinely believes itself to be a serious attempt at new Doctor Who. What this means, in other words, is that War of the Daleks marks the point where the idea of an official version of Doctor Who finally implodes. War of the Daleks (Dr. Who Series) John Peel on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force.

War Of The Daleks John Peel

War Of The Daleks John Peel

Goofs: The plot.Why exactly does the Dalek Prime feel the need to explain Dalek contin. Sorry, history, to the Doctor rather than, say, just exterminating him on the spot? It even admits that it probably will do this next time they meet.The Doctor claims that the Daleks have no art or culture, which contradicts The Also People (and demonstrates a basic misunderstanding of the word 'culture'), as well as raising the question, what does Peel think that statue in The Daleks was for? Continuity: Daleks can levitate telekinetically (see Death to the Daleks) an exaggeration, and they usually use technological means.

The Doctor claims that their guns can fire a thousand times without recharging which isn't actually very impressive. He also claims that they have no culture and no arts. They don't need survival pods, as they can survive in space on their own. Dalek ships include killcruisers. The Daleks plant a dimensionally transcendental factory ship on board the Thal ship: the Doctor uses the TARDIS to dump it in the Vortex and fling it back in time and space after which it ends up in the mercury swamps of Vulcan - see The Power of the Daleks. The War of the Daleks RetconIf the Dalek Prime is to be believed, the following is true:1) During the Dalek invasion of Earth ( The Dalek Invasion of Earth), the Daleks raided Earth's archives (specifically the Ministry of Defence in London) and discovered records of previous Dalek incursions on Earth, involving Davros and the Hand of Omega in 1963 ( Remembrance of the Daleks) and 'the Styles business' ( Day of the Daleks). This part of the story is corroborated, because we see a recording of Rachel Jenson reporting on Remembrance of the Daleks.2) The discovery from these records that (a) Davros was still alive and (b) that he destroyed Skaro with the Hand 'was a cause of some concern' to the Dalek Prime, who realised that the Daleks couldn't change history by simply travelling back in time and stopping him, because that would cause a paradox.

Instead, the Dalek Prime decided to send back a team of 'Renegade' Daleks to pretend to oppose Davros' Daleks but to actually let them win, so that Davros' plan unfolds as recorded in history. This is despite the fact that in Remembrance of the Daleks the only thing that stops the Renegade Daleks from leaving with the Hand is the Doctor. And the Dalek Prime says they didn't expect him to be involved.3) In order to satisfy history and save Skaro the Daleks sterilised the planet Antalin and made its surface radioactive to turn it into a reasonable facsimile of Skaro. They then looked for Davros on the real Skaro, found him, and moved him to a fake knock-up of the bunker that they built on Antalin (without bringing him out of suspended animation), so that when he woke up in Destiny of the Daleks he automatically assumed that he was still on Skaro.

It is, therefore, Antalin that was destroyed by the Hand of Omega.4) The Movellans were created by the Daleks and are the Dalek concept of what a humanoid is like. The Dalek-Movellan war did not happen, but was a fabrication engineered by the Dalek Prime so that Davros would believe that the Daleks needed him when they 'found' him on 'Skaro'. Following his escape from prison ( Resurrection of the Daleks) the Daleks leaked the fake news that the Movellans had won the war, hoping that this would prompt Davros to search for the ultimate weapon and thus find the Hand of Omega; instead, he started creating his own race of Daleks ( Revelation of the Daleks).5) Following the events of Remembrance of the Daleks, having thus saved Skaro, the Dalek Prime has Davros brought to Skaro to stand trial because it knows that some Daleks are loyal to Davros and some to the Dalek Prime. It engineers a civil war between the two factions so that Daleks loyal to it can exterminate those loyal to Davros, purifying the Dalek race.It is debatable how much, if any, of this is true within the fiction. The Dalek Prime claims during the trial that the fake Skaro was constructed, and the Doctor starts getting confused about whether the Daleks can move stars.

As noted in the section, it seems highly unlikely that the Seventh Doctor mistook Antalin for Skaro, and the Dalek Prime's account of what the 'Renegade' Daleks were really doing in 1963 also doesn't make sense. The new origin of the Movellans may also contradict A Device of Death.It is possible, and considerably more likely, that all of this is a massive exercise in propaganda by the Dalek Prime, who must surely be aware of the psychological impact of the Daleks on other races and who most certainly does indeed want to find out which Daleks are loyal to Davros and deal with them. Further evidence for this includes the fact that whilst the Dalek Prime admits that saving Skaro by directly trying to alter history wouldn't work, the paradoxical solution of trying to trick history with the destruction of a fake Skaro makes even less sense. Davros certainly doesn't believe the Dalek Prime, either here or in the subsequent Terror Firma.The only possible problem with this interpretation is that a small group of Thals believe that Skaro still exists and that Antalin was destroyed.

But since none of them are likely to have ever set foot on Skaro, and since Antalin and Skaro are a mere ten parsecs apart, it seems likely that the Dalek Prime's propaganda pays off. In which case the 'Skaro' seen here might actually be Antalin. The Dalek Prime's claims about the Movellans might also be an attempt by the Daleks to save face after a humiliating past defeat - a few Movellans are seen on 'Skaro' and Hesperus, working for the Daleks, but Destiny of the Daleks did rather demonstrate how easy they are to reprogram. Links: Sam recalls meeting Vampires ( Vampire Science) and recalls the HADS operating ( The Bodysnatcher). She remembers the Doctor telling her about Davros on Tractis ( Genocide). The Doctor recalls his seventh incarnation erasing all computer records of himself ( Transit) and implies that the Master damaged the TARDIS lock in San Francisco ( The TV Movie).The Doctor says that he tried appealing to the Daleks' better nature once, and it didn't work ( Genesis of the Daleks or The Evil of the Daleks?).

There are lots of references to previous Dalek stories including The Daleks, Mission to the Unknown (Marc Cory, Varga Plants, the SSS), The Daleks' Master Plan (Varga Plants, the SSS), Planet of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks (Davros, the Thals), Remembrance of the Daleks (Davros, the destruction of Skaro), The Dalek Invasion of Earth (the Slyther, the Dalek invasion), Day of the Daleks (referred to in records plundered during the invasion). The Doctor's reference to having seen the Daleks' future, but not who wins may or may not be a reference to The Evil of the Daleks. The Power of the Daleks (the Doctor dealing with the factory ship - or so he thinks). The retcon heavily affects Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, and Remembrance of the Daleks. Location: he human scavenger ship Quetzel and a planet that may or may not be Skaro 30 years after Remembrance of the Daleks. The prologue takes place on Terakis - a planet between Thal space and Dalek space in the same timezone.

The interludes happen on the water-world Antalin not that long after The Daleks' Master Plan, on the Draconian ship Hunter in a time period soon after the Draconians have introduced female officers, and the planet Hersperus nearly three hundred years after Mechanoids arrived on the planet. The Bottom Line (prosecution): ' It doesn't make sense. Astonishingly bad, with turgid prose, one-dimensional characters and occasional interludes that read like World Distributors Annuals. All of which pales in comparison next to the incredible stupidity of the main plot, which sees Peel tying himself in knots to salvage Skaro, aided by out-of-character infodumps by various Daleks.

The result is a novel that makes both Davros and the Doctor appear stupid, outwitted as they both are by the Dalek Prime, a figurehead without any sort of character and with appalling dialogue. The Bottom Line (Defence): ' It's not possible I destroyed the wrong planet.'

The plot of the book is, essentially, just an excuse to say that the destruction of Skaro seen in Remembrance of the Daleks didn't happen. There are a few bits of the book which are half-decent - whilst writing this review, I was surprised how much better it was than I'd remembered. However, there are still plenty of weak points - the very complicated story of the retcon, the way everyone (including Sam) fancies the Doctor - which is really poorly written, and the Dalek Prime's contingency plans are particularly rubbish. Without the retcon (which, let's not forget, only takes up one chapter plus a dozen throwaway lines in the rest of the novel), this book would be a forgettable action romp. With it, it's a work of infamy which most fans will want to blot out of their memory.

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