Dalek Revamp

[kingandy]

More news on the new Doctor Who series - we have pictures of what the redesigned Daleks look like.  Personally I think this a horrific abomination, this change is completely unnecessary - they could easily have just stuck with the old designs.  Fucking travesty, raping my childhood...

SPOILERS.  Here and here.

On a related note:  I'm liking this Promo material.  Smooth.

Comments

[kingandy]

There was a Spike Milligan show (one of the "Q" series) that had a sketch with Daleks in it. Was that it?

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Nope - it was a comedy series with the 'Camp Daleks' as a semi-regular sketch on it. They had handbags on their plungers. The show was sort of similar to, I dunno, Absolutely maybe? I think it was from the early to mid-nineties. Had no look on google - camp and dalek just brings up regular Doctor Who links....

[kingandy]

Ah - Googling for "Camp Daleks", on the other hand, brings up only a few entries, in association with Victor Lewis Smith. It rings a bell, it could have been "TV Offal" or "Inside Victor Lewis-Smith" .... Ah ha! TV Offal.

Probably the most controversial of TV Offal's regular features is the Gay Daleks: "They're camp ! They exterminate ! Better watch your backs ! It's the Gay Daleks !" You either feel that the sketches are crude, tasteless and offensive, or they're a splendid parody of both the Daleks and of gay cultural stereotypes; late night Channel 4 viewers (on the whole) would interpret them as the latter which is probably just as well given the content.

I AM KING OF TEH INTARWEBS.

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Yay, go you! That's it! They shot 'white wee wee' at the end of the sketches if I remember rightly.

[kingandy]

... on an entirely unrelated note, I feel I should mention how deeply hot that icon is.

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Cheers! ;oD I think I look better in greyscale than IRL.