#special weapons dalek

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

#Doctor Who #Special Weapons Dalek #Big Finish #Sci-Fi

[infinite-thing]

I love them

#special weapons dalek #dalek #doctor who #classic doctor who

[xendiyatrix]

It was perfect. Down to the last minute detail.

#doctor who #remeberance of the daleks #dalek #daleks #for the emperor #doctor who dalek #opinion #daleks are supreme #daleks are ze best #SWD #special weapons dalek #Dalek supreme #imperial dalek #renegade dalek

[reachingforthevoid]

Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

I rewatched this serial, which opens Dr Who’s 25th season, on 21 May 2023. I’ve written about it before in ATB’s original Outside In, in which 160 people wrote reviews of the first 160 Dr Who stories. Out of print now, but the series is fun.

We begin with a pre-credit sequence of a space ship approaching Earth to the sound of radio voices. After the opening credits we are at Coal Hill School in London. There is a 1960’s vibe to the place, and calendars reveal that it's November. Our heroes wander on to the scene and the Doctor’s attention is grabbed by a weird van. Ace attention is on her hunger, so she heads to a cafe and meets a nice young man who turns out to be a Royal Air Force sergeant, Mike Smith (played by Dursley McLinden who died aged 30 of HIV/AIDS. RTD’s It’s a Sin pays homage to the actor’s memory and this role in Dr Who). The Doctor meets Professor Rachel Jensen, and everyone rushes to a junkyard in Totters Lane… where a faction of Daleks is causing havoc. Only of course it’s not as simple as that!

This serial was first broadcast in 1988. Margaret Thatcher continued as Prime Minister and that was the year in which the infamous Section 28 came into power in the UK. Violence from various angles bubbled away and anti-racism featured in a lot of protest songs. Dr Who decided to make sure at least one Black actor had a speaking role in each serial broadcast during 1988. This serial also featured quite a few anti-racist statements as well as an anti-fascist message. Quite a bit of it can be used now as easy reckoners on all that... maybe metaphorically hammered in with Ace's Dalek-destroying baseball bat.

#doctor who #remembrance of the daleks #special weapons dalek #hand of omega #coal hill school

[doolallymagpie]

i’ve come to think that the special weapons dalek in remembrance was unique, key world “was”

“the abomination” was the first, though with dalek history being a tangle of time corridors, you’d never know it from outside

#doctor who #classic who #seventh doctor #remembrance of the daleks #special weapons dalek

[siryl]

Terrific Dalek redesigns by Mechmaster.

#doctor who #dalek #special weapons dalek #mechmaster #alan marshall #raymond cusick

[shadowwingtronix]

BW's Daily Video> The History Of The Special Weapons Dalek

BW's Daily Video> The History Of The Special Weapons Dalek

Catch more of the Terry Nation Army at Dalek 63.88’s YouTube channel  

View On WordPress

#Dalek #Doctor Who #Special Weapons Dalek #trivia #Youtube

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Do you have any recommendations on Dr. Who books/audio format things? I haven't watched the show in a bit because Moffat wasn't my thing and I can't seem to find the old stuff. (If you have any advice on where to find that too I would be very grateful) Following your blog has been a nice reminder of why I liked the show so much. Hope you have a good day!

Aw thank you! Depending on your location, you can find classic who episodes either on BBC iPlayer or Tubi (with ads).

As for books/audios, I'll try to keep this brief as I could write an essay on this.

For books, my favorite author is Kate Orman. Orman writes wonderfully, and my personal favorite is The Year of the Intelligent Tigers. I also really liked Goth Opera, Camera Obscure, History 101, Autumn Mist, Lungbarrow, Divided Loyalties, Somewhere Never etc etc etc etc (so many more but I'm forcing myself to stop here). You can often find free versions of basically every novel (at least all I've looked for) on the internet either as pdfs or epubs or whatever. The Internet Archive is particularly useful. Some examples:

And now for the audios! I personally have sold my soul to Big Finish. I have literally hundreds of recommendations. They do have some audios for free, such as those that came from the Paul Spragg Memorial Competition. You can also find a lot of them (up until Zagreus I think) for free on Spotify. There is also almost always a killer sale going on on the website on top of that too.

As for my recommendations, it's pretty dependent on what Doctor or companion you want to listen to. They even have series centered on UNIT, Romana's Gallifrey, Benny Summerfield, and a ton of other things (including a Masterful special that just had a bunch of Masters fucking around and finding out). I'll put in some of my favorites, one for each Doctor, from what I own (which is far from everything, but I do my best).

One: The Sontarans. It was the first time the Doctor had ever encountered the Sontarans, so he was unfamiliar with them. It takes place during Dalek Master Plan, so Steven and Sara are there.

Two: Lords of the Red Planet! It's a good Ice Warrior origin story and has Jamie and Zoe in it. :)

Three: Terror of the Master. I had pre-ordered it as soon as I heard about it. Three....Delgado Master....what more do you want from an audio? It's narrated by Jon Culshaw.

Four: The Wrath of the Iceni. It was a brilliant historical with Four and Leela and Boudica. Leela gets quite a lesson in this one, first being mad at Four for not helping Boudica and then at Boudica for being cruel.

Okay now we are getting into my favorite Doctors (5-8), so these decisions are going to get difficult.

Five: The Kingmaker! Shakespeare spikes Five's drink to get him absolutely wasted to sneak on the TARDIS, the TARDIS gets hiccups as a result, leading to Peri and Erimem being separated from the Doctor. Shenanigans ensue.

Six: Doctor Who and the Pirates. Six and Evelyn have a really meaningful discussion with one of her depressed students. The third part is a musical!

Seven: The Shadow of the Scourge. Benny Ace and Seven against 8th dimensional eldritch abominations. Seven gets turned into one of these insectoids, and body horror ensues.

Eight: Oh dear I can't choose. At the moment, probably the Great War from Dark Eyes 1. Eight meets Molly and is still grieving here. He is very much doomed by the narrative.

War: The Neverwhen. Lots of the War Doctor is good if you like Time War horror, but this one has a lot of time-as-a-weapon and is well written.

Nine: Battle Scars. A nice short story about that one family Nine saved from the Titanic mentioned in the episode Rose. Has a really fantastic girl in it and a Nine dripping in PTSD.

Ten: The Time Reaver. Ten and Donna! There's this gun that basically slows down time for a single person, so that a few minutes for everyone else is centuries for them. Ten is a self sacrificing dope.

Eleven: The Geronimo boxset is the best in my opinion, but I haven't been able to listen to many of these yet.

Twelve: Another one I haven't managed to buy a lot of yet, but Dead Media is amazing. It's written to sound like a podcast with adverts and everything and is set during his time at St. Luke's. And I cried at the end.

Anyway, I'll shut up now. This was so much fun! Thank you!

#will clarify anything and everything if you want me to #doctor who #classic who #dw #dr who #new who #big finish doctor who #big finish audios #big finish #first doctor #second doctor #third doctor #fourth doctor #fifth doctor #sixth doctor #seventh doctor #eighth doctor #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #edas #vnas #pdas #target novelizations #doctor who expanded universe #dw eu #doctor who eu #the master #kate orman

[paulrobinsonshotel]

OK so I was watching "The Day of the Doctor" (you know an actual anniversary special that's worthy of the name) yesterday, and there was a bit of dialogue that fascinated me.

GENERAL: The Omega Arsenal, where all the forbidden weapons are locked away. ANDROGAR: They're not forbidden any more. We've used them all against the Daleks.

GENERAL: No. No we haven't.

(Later)

GENERAL: The Moment is gone.

So by the end of the Time War, the Time Lords had used up all of their most dangerous weapons, with the exception of the most dangerous weapon of all ("The Galaxy Eater").

And what state was Gallifrey in after being saved by the Doctor(s) at the end of the War?

GENERAL: Gallifrey is currently positioned at the extreme end of the time continuum, for its own protection. 

I think that's enough to infer that the Time Lords never built any particularly powerful weapons, since they were in no position to defend themselves and had to hide out in the far future.

Which begs the question: What happened to the Moment?

It's not possible from a story perspective that War or Ten took it, and while it's theoretically plausible that Eleven took the Moment with him after the events of DOTD, I feel like the Doctor possessing the most dangerous weapon in the universe would've been a plot point at some point during the more introspective/morally questioning stories of Twelve or Thirteen's tenures.

However, the Moment isn't in the Doctor's childhood barn by the time Twelve shows up there in Hell Bent, so we know it's gone somewhere.

The next time we see Gallifrey in Spyfall, it's been "destroyed", in the sense that it's been reduced to ruins but is still physically standing. And when you look at the Master's dialogue:

MASTER: I took a trip home, to Gallifrey, hiding in its little bubble universe. Not sure how to describe what I found. Pulverised? Burned? Nuked? All of the above. Someone destroyed it. Our home, razed to the ground. Everyone killed. Everything burned.

Obviously, it later transpires that the Master himself was responsible for all this. It's not confirmed how much time passed between Hell Bent and Spyfall, but since Ascension of the Cybermen is set in "the very far future", it implies Gallifrey was still in a weak enough state that it needed to hide there.

Now, while it's plausible that the Master went and got weapons from elsewhere to destroy Gallifrey, I think there's a more interesting proposal:

He used the Moment.

Gallifrey being wrecked but still physically intact seems a bit underpowered for what the show has implied the Moment to be capable of. But it's possible that the weapon has weaker settings. But it's the only weapon that's (presumably) on Gallifrey which has the potential to inflict that level of destruction on a whole planet.

I think there's some huge story potential there. The Master, utterly wrecked by the Timeless Child revelation, his most fundamental belief that the he and the Doctor were equals (and that being the entire reason he sought to rebuild their friendship as Missy) being completely shattered, and wanting nothing more than to make the Time Lords pay, both for what they did to the Doctor and for lying to him that he could be her equal. Considering that in later stories, the Master wants nothing more than for it to end, I wonder if the Master set off the Moment, intending to die with Gallifrey, one last twisted tribute to his friendship with the Doctor. Especially when you consider what the Moment said to the War Doctor:

MOMENT: Then that's your punishment. If you do this, if you kill them all, then that's the consequence. You live.

I think that adds so much to Dhawan!Master's characterisation. Attempting to rebuild his friendship with the Doctor as Missy, being killed by her past self, regenerating (or coming back some other way), discovering that their friendship was built on both of them being lied to and that the Doctor is more important than he'll ever be, and finally, attempting to die avenging the Doctor only to be forced to stay alive by the Moment.

I wonder which form the Moment would take for him? I think it's fair to say that the Master's previous "friends" like Lucy Saxon, Dr Chang and Seb were nowhere near important enough to him to be a conscience for him. But it couldn't have been any of the Doctor's incarnations. That would just make him angrier.

This might just be my favourite headcanon ever.

#dhawan!master #The Moment #day of the doctor #Hell Bent #spyfall #The Timeless Children

[saltv2]

In light of the recent delay between your order to engage and our receiving of the message, we have recognized that you need improved first strike capabilities. For this reason, we propose to send a task force that you yourself can commandeer along with your Dalek assistant, and that will remain near to engage instantly. Our offer is a Dozen Dalek guards, aswell as one of our brand new elite Special Weapon Daleks.

They will be sent shortly to obey your command. If you have any questions or aesthetic requests you may send them NOW.

These are PERFECT.

Thank you daleks.

[denimbex1986]

'Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies reveals that the regeneration between David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa in the 60th-anniversary special "The Giggle" was almost a much more visually chaotic and violent sequence than what would be seen on screen. The final episode brought the show's milestone celebrations to a close, as Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor battled the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) over the fate of the human race. In the final act of "The Giggle," the Fourteenth Doctor is shot by a beam of galvanic radiation, but rather than changing into his Fifteenth incarnation (Gatwa), the Doctor is divided into two beings by the fabled bi-generation, as both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors stand together.

With Doctor Who's shocking 60th-anniversary bi-generation twist taking audiences by surprise, Davies revealed more details about it with producer Phil Collinson and Tennant during BBC iPlayer's "The Giggle" commentary. He said the sequence could have almost had a more drastic visualization. When discussing the back-and-forth on how they brought the bi-generation to life, Collinson stated that the separation would have initially seen the two Doctors physically torn apart in the process, something Davies and Collinson agree would have been too violent. Check out Davies, Collinson, and Tennant's full explanation below:

Russell T Davies: "Oh my god, the fussing over this special effect was..."

David Tennant: "Was it difficult?"

Phil Collinson: "Oh, it was really difficult. Well, this particular shot, as well. It’s quite funny. It’s like a bubble, isn’t it? Like an amoeba. And there were versions where you kind of ripped apart."

Davies: "It was too violent!"

Collinson: "Some violence."

Davies: "It was too liquid sometimes. It was… It was too thin."

Collinson: "I wanted to put a popping cork on, but they wouldn’t let me."

Why A Calmer Regeneration Works Best For Doctor Who's 60th-Anniversary Storyline?

Doctor Who has seen several regeneration processes where the transformation has caused pure chaos — sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. In Tennant's final Tenth Doctor adventure, "The End of Time," the Time Lord regenerates inside the TARDIS after a farewell tour, leading to the vessel sustaining heavy damage from the regeneration energy, sending it crashing into a garden in the village of Leadworth, and requiring time to repair. Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor would weaponize this energy against a Dalek saucer in "The Time of the Doctor," and Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor would also damage the TARDIS in his regeneration, which left Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor separated from her ship.

With so many violent, destructive regenerations, the handover between Tennant and Gatwa not only marks a welcome change, but it works better for the tale "The Giggle" and prior Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials. The Fourteenth Doctor is faced with the question of why he is still running and not taking the time to come to terms with his previous travels, which bi-regeneration will allow as the Fifteenth Doctor continues the adventure. As such, the two Doctors taking a moment to work together and compartmentalize these two phases of their lives by pushing each other apart is a fitting encapsulation of what this moment means for the Doctor.

Bi-generation is a never-before-seen scenario that has raised dozens of questions about what the future of Doctor Who could be. As such, not only is a more peaceful process fitting with the 60th-anniversary specials' story but having a less violent separation between Tennant and Gatwa allowed audiences to be fully shocked by the mere implications rather than its visuals. While Gatwa's Doctor Who adventures will begin in the Christmas special, bi-generation will remain one of the show's pivotal moments.'

#Bi-generation #David Tennant #Ncuti Gatwa #Jodie Whittaker #The Giggle #Russell T. Davies #The Toymaker #Neil Patrick Harris #Phil Collinson #BBC iPlayer #Matt Smith #Peter Capaldi

[praetorianxxiv]

After a brief encounter between the Imperial & Renegade Dalek factions, the Imperial Special Weapons Dalek decided to join the Renegades in their struggle against Davros!

This was a fun little paint job, the undercoat was a bit to light a gray but som mixed paint soon sorted that out.

Renegade Dalek Supreme is very happy (if daleks can be happy) with his new recruit.

Time to take the fight to Davros!

#dalek #daleks #dr who #doctor who #imperial dalek #renegade dalek #dalek civil war

[xendiyatrix]

How can you not love him?

#doctor who #dalek #daleks #for the emperor #doctor who dalek #daleks are ze best #daleks are supreme #cool design #special weapons dalek #love him #the best

[whovianwatchingstartrek]

A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 011 - Malcolm's Birthday

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 1 Episode 12 - Silent Enemy

Between Doctor Who's the "The Invisible Enemy" and now this, soon the enemies are going to be completely and utterly undetectable to any senses. Terrifying thought.

Anyways, the enterprise have encountered a ship that doesn't seem to respond to the enterprise's communications, then zooms off into space. When we make contact later, they outright attack the Enterprise, with still no communications. And apparently, they're not a species known to the humans or the Vulcans.

Archer seems to be ordering a lot of upgrades on the Enterprise. There were a few at the start, but especially after the unknown ship attacks, the Enterprise heads back to Jupiter to fit some stronger weapons (Much to the engineering team's dismay, they think they can fit it before they even dock). Archer's urge for upgrade later gets tied into a bit of self doubt about launching the Enterprise before it was fully complete, which is great. I love that character work. The Captain isn't perfect, nor should he be.

The aliens from the unknown ship attacking in the dark unlit corridors of the Enterprise was a great sequence, and the fact that the Phase Pistols didn't even affect them was a surprise. Figuring out the motives behind these Aliens strange actions was a really compelling mystery.

Also Malcolm's dad's face kinda looked familiar, so after the episode, I google the actor's name, and apparently he is the "OUR BATTLE CRY WILL BE TOTAL EXTERMINATION OF THE THALS" guy from Genesis of the Daleks. So all things considered, I guess he could have turned out much worse. Malcolm might be a bit of a space-racist, but at least he's not a Space Nazi.

Jokes about the shows sharing a side Actor aside, I think it's nice that Archer is trying to throw a surprise birthday meal for Malcolm. It shows he really does have a bond with his crew, beyond just being co-workers.

An episode where we finally dig into Malcolm's backstory and family and how not even they know much about him. Hoshi's undercover mission to find out what foods he likes was a fun side bit, definitely the highlight of the episode. Malcolm interpreting the offer to cook as flirting was hilarious. I love this kind of down-time interaction stuff, it is really really nice seeing different members of the crew just going about their normal day without a major crisis going on

This episode was fun. The unknown silent enemies were alright. Nothing Special, but the mystery surrounding them did keep me captive. And the birthday b-plot, and just general interesting character writing pushed the episode up a lot.

#whovian watching star trek #star trek ent #star trek enterprise #star trek: enterprise #enterprise #ent #star trek

[doolallymagpie]

one of the WhoHammer Daleks' weapons is what amounts to a Genesis Ark fired as an artillery shell, linked to a pocket dimension whose sole purpose is manufacturing and distributing cannon fodder Daleks

for the sake of avoiding capture, the shell is basically a miniature fortress with Special Weapons Dalek guns, and contains a 5-gigaton shaped Cobalt-Thorium G warhead

anyone survives the massive killzone around it, the crew on the other side of the linkage disconnects the gate, sends the detonation signal, and there's about five hours until that planet becomes cut-rate starliner fuel

#five hours and it can THEORETICALLY be defused specifically because it allows you to hope. daleks are nasty like that. #there's an entire ordo xenos report on the damn thing. a mechanicus advisor said there's a way. #it's just...not remotely feasible in most circumstances. but they let the guard think it is. they even fool space marines into thinking so. #also yes i picked 'cobalt-thorium g' specifically because it feels like the kind of reference rogue trader would've made #warhammer 40000 #doctor who #whohammer #dalek imperium

[doctorwho-rewatch]

S1E12 & S1E13 - Bad Wolf & The Parting of the Ways

★★★★★ 

I want to take one star off purely for selfish reasons, because I don’t want to bid the Ninth Doctor goodbye after just one season, but this is honestly one of the best series finales in NuWho and the bittersweet heartfelt send-off the Ninth Doctor gets and it deserves every one of the five stars I have given.

Premising the plot in mid-2000s reality TV gets a few laughs - the Anne Droid in the Weakest Link, extreme cosmetic surgery in What Not To Wear and of course ‘eviction’ from the Big Brother House. There are heart stopping moments (I audibly gasped when Rose was executed because I genuinely could not remember how she was meant to come back in the next episode) and cheap jokes but when the ‘Bad Wolf’ sign glows ominously and we learn just how mighty the Dalek empire has grown in the shadows, the lightness of the episode fades away and you think oh shit...it’s getting serious now.

The Doctor shines for the last time in this regeneration. Snappy comebacks at the Daleks (”you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan--Yeah! And doesn’t that scare you to death?!”), Rose’s realisation that the Doctor has sent her and the Tardis home to save her (the hologram asking Rose to live a good life for him is gut wrenching) and the burden of deciding whether everyone dies or everyone lives as a Dalek weighs heavily on the Doctor’s shoulders. The stakes are incredibly high and Chris Eccleston brings his best in this story.

When Rose+Heart of the Tardis tells the Doctor she can see all of time, everything that was, is and will be, we realise just how alone the Doctor has been all this time. This is his existence. All the burden of the powers of a Time Lord and yet there’s no one left to truly empathise with him.

Other moments that deserve a special mention include Lynda’s last stand before she is exterminated, the Controller giving the Doctor as much as info as she can between solar flares and Jack fighting up until the last moment to buy as much time for the Doctor. Everyone in this story carried their weight and the losses felt are heavy.

And so we bid farewell to the Ninth Doctor. When he tells Rose he was going to take her to so many places, I feel as if he is speaking to us, the viewers. It’s an absolute shame we don’t get more of the Ninth Doctor because he really was a fantastic Doctor.

Vale Ninth Doctor.

QUOTE: “Rose, before I go, I just want to tell you, you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And you know what? So was I.”

#doctorwho #doctor who #Ninth Doctor #rose tyler #Dalek #captain jack harkness #Christopher Eccleston #billie piper #john barrowman #Tenth Doctor #bbc #NuWho #bad wolf #doctor who rewatch #season 1 #series 1 #9th doctor