‘Doctor Who’ season 8 spoilers: Is a Peter Capaldi – Daleks showdown inevitable?
“Doctor Who” is a show that does often like to introduce new ideas, and there are some of those that we saw near the end of season 7. However, this is also a show that does like to also stay true to its roots and to its history, and that often translates to mean doing almost whatever it can to introduce a familiar flurry of villains into the proceedings.
So is it really that big of a surprise that the Daily Star reports that there is a major desire for the show to feature at least some Daleks in the upcoming eighth season, and that comes courtesy of star Peter Capaldi himself? Calapdi grew up an enormous fan of the show, and it really comes as no surprise at all that he would want to see some of them included.
Of course, you do still have to also wonder the following: Isn’t it likely that the show was probably going to be including them anyway? You have to believe it, since Daleks were such a big part of the specials that we saw at the end of last year. While we hardly imagine they will be a part of every episode, “Doctor Who” would not be “Doctor Who” without them. That would be like taking away the Tardis, or forcing The Doctor to not have a signature costume in any way.
The new season is now currently deep in to production, and will likely premiere at some point in August or September, depending on when the producers and the people over at BBC One decide to make it so. Either way, the implication is clear that we have quite a long time to wait. Let’s hope that we are very much the patient type.
What classic villains do you want to see in the new “Doctor Who” season, or would you prefer to see a whole new crop of faces? Either way, we want to hear your thoughts below! Click here if you want to read some more talk about the new season, or here if you want to sign up and get some more great TV updates via email courtesy of our CarterMatt Newsletter.
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Wayne Lunkwitz
March 2, 2014 @ 6:06 am
Are the Daeleks ALL they can come up with? After all they have been destroyed completely under several past Doctors….let us see something we haven’t seen before….keep the show moving forward. Don’t allow it to become predictable …..as in come up with something NEW for the NEW Doctor.
Lori Taylor
February 22, 2014 @ 11:18 pm
I want to see more Riversong and that loose end of the Doctor’s daughter, Jenny, resolved! :-D
Marcus Ely
February 23, 2014 @ 12:53 am
Ditto!!! We definitely need to see the Dr.’s daughter.
Impromptu
February 19, 2014 @ 2:29 am
Interesting to consider that in seven years (the zenith of popularity in the classic era), Tom met the Daleks just twice, the Cybermen once, the Sontarans twice and the Master three times (twice as part of the concluding arc to bridge into a new phase).
Come to think of it, Pertwee was at it for five years and what was the score? Master-heavy, to be sure, but only three Dalek stories and he never faced a single Cyberman.
Of course, the classic monsters are sort of Who archetypes, and it’s easy to analyse any one-off baddie as a cocktail of them. But overusing the pure stereotypes, rather than at least combining them in different ways, weakens them. The one-offs were interesting and the return of the biggies was an event.
It used to be: “wow, they’re back!” Now it’s: “oh, it’s them again. And this time they can suck your face off, fly, turn into Power Rangers, sprout metal tentacles from their empty heads, move in bullet time, turn into wood, lactate for comic effect, etc, etc.”
Just look at how Moffat has diluted his own brilliant contribution, the Weeping Angels, by overuse and over-elaboration.
I can understand that Capaldi wants a Dalek story – you aren’t really the Doctor until you’ve had one, are you? But if his run is going to be a return to older ideas, then can we please stop having Daleks and Cybermen and Sontarans and … and … and let’s have K9 too, and Yeti and Silurians and cake and lots and lots of ice cream. In space, with nuns and Nazis and dinosaurs, and a parallel plot in Victorian bleeding London, Billie Piper yet again and Ant and Dec and One Direction and… and River Song turning up as the clown at her own fifth birthday party. All in one episode. Where the peril will be ramped up to such heights that even Murray Gold’s orchestra are doomed to never having ever even existed, only for the whole thing to be waved away at the last minute as an elaborate alternate reality cheese nightmare.