#watching resurrection of the daleks

[sandymybeloved]

they remembered Sara Kingdom and Katarina, but not Leela??!! the disrespect

[whispers-of-gallifrey]

Thinking about how companions rarely take their stuff with them when they leave. Like I get it, their exits are often quick decisions or they don't get a choice but it must add an extra layer of salt in the wound to know you have nothing from that time of your life (and it'd be very annoying if you left something important)

Anyway I'm now picturing that whenever the doctor lands in a period/area they know a companion is, they have a mad scramble through the tardis so they can drop off some belongings and mementoes

[spockvarietyhour]

Bernard Cribbins

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 5th Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

Four to Doomsday - S19E2

Showcases the main tardis team and their dynamics, features a more high concept plot, and is fairly continuity lite... all you need to know going in is that Tegan really, really wants to go home... but don't worry she won't let you forget that.

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development

Castrovalva - S19E1 (Fifth Doctor's first story)

Kinda - S19E3 (Meet the Mara)

Black Orchid - S19E5 (Last pure historical and the last time Five will ever be happy)

Earthshock - S19E6 (Bye, bye Adric)

Time-Flight - S19E7 (Adric's actual final appearance on the show and Tegan briefly leaves the Tardis)

Arc of Infinity - S20E1 (Tegan's back and so is Omega)

Snakedance - S20E2 (The Mara returns, and more character development for Tegan)

Mawdryn Undead - S20E3 (The Black Guardian returns and employs the Doctor's newest companion, Turlough, to murder him. Also The Brigadier is back)

Terminus - S20E4 (Nyssa leaves)

Enlightenment - S20E5 (The end of the Black Guardian trilogy and character development for Turlough)

The King's Demons - S20E6 (Hello Kamelion)

The Five Doctors - S20E7 (multi-doctor story, first appearance of Rassilon, and 20th anniversary story)

Frontios - S21E3 (more character development for Turlough)

Resurrection of the Daleks - S21E3 (Tegan's last episode)

Planet of Fire - S21E4 (both Turlough's and Kamelion's final story and Peri comes aboard the Tardis)

The Caves of Androzani - S21E5 (Fifth Doctor final story)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite: The Visitation - S19E4

Least Favorite: Warriors of the Deep - S21E1

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)

Up Next: The Sixth Doctor

[ninbinary]

ok watching 'Resurrection of the Daleks' again and

that is to say, watching it again after @headcanonsandmore pointed out Tegan's obvious queer coding throughout the series but and and--

oh my goodness these two oh me heart :.I Could the presentation possible be more "we can't say it but we're signalling it so hard our signal caught fire and the fire is somehow burning in a way that signals even more signally"

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Doctor Who, but Chronologically: 37

It's still 1941! And still London! And we're watching Victory of the Daleks.

Funnily enough, for a truly shite episode, it really benefits from this stupid watch order and following the Empty Child. It makes it much more atmospheric, and makes you feel the world war going on outside. That's good, because there's fuck all real urgency going on. Weird episode, really. Weirdly structured.

Anyway, it's Matt Smith and Amy for this one. No Rory. Amy seems new, too - at the end of the episode they have a conversation which boils down to "So you have archnemeses? I didn't realise travelling with you would be so dangerous." It's actually a very stupid conversation because the Doctor's response is "Yes it is dangerous, is that a problem?" and Amy says "Well I'm still here, aren't I?" which might have been a meaningful line if they were back home in her house or something, but as it is, they're standing in a World War Two war room about 70-odd years away from her timeline and have only just wrapped up the adventure, so there is LITERALLY NO CONCEIVABLE WAY SHE WOULDN'T STILL BE HERE.

This is a pattern of trite lines badly delivered that is repeated through the episode.

Plot-wise: Winston Churchill is trying to use Daleks to win the war. Fleabag's dad is here, and claims to have built them. There are three! Last we saw there was only Dalek Caan. Then the Doctor yells at them in a big badly-written grandiose speech that he is the Doctor and they are the Daleks, and that means up in space their space ship can activate some sort of gene bank to resurrect lots of Daleks. The rest of the episode is six new Daleks in Power Ranger colours trying to blow up Fleabag's dad, who it emerges is a robot. The Doctor can either kill the Daleks, or stop the Earth being destroyed. Obviously he chooses the latter.

It's... okay well, there are some great bits, actually. Love all the Troughton nods - nothing has ever scared me as much as that cliffhanger in Evil of the Daleks where the Dalek is just repeating "I am your servant" over and over while the Doctor screams and begs everyone to believe him that it's going to kill everyone, and they were clearly aiming to recreate that scene. They don't entirely manage it, like, but I love the attempt. Love the quotes, too. All great. Also, here's another way this watch order actually benefits this story: we've just seen a Dalek episode where even the slightest attempt at compromise doesn't work, and they'll kill everyone first, thanks to Daleks in Manhattan. So seeing them here, with them claiming to be on our side, is genuinely shocking.

Uhhhh, the entire rest of the episode is shit, though. Fuck I hate WW2 stories. They just nosedive into nauseating jingoism every time. The fawning and sycophantic dick-sucking of Churchill is just gross, given that the man was a monster who merely happened to be on the right side of a war. I hope we one day get a Matt Smith story with Yaz where he tries this schtick with Churchill in front of her, and she's allowed to strangle him with a Union Jack. Meanwhile, this might be one of the worst attempts at a trolley problem I've ever seen? I think? Like the issue is, if the Doctor allows the Dalek ship to be shot down by the RAF and destroyed, they will activate the countdown on the robot and crack the Earth in half. If he leaves, and lets them go off to the future, they won't.

So he goes with option two, BUT immediately pegs it back to the robot, because he knows they're going to activate the countdown anyway. Which they do. So why did you bother calling off the RAF. What was the point. Just fucking shoot them. But no, the plot demanded it I guess, so here we are.

Also the Power Ranger Daleks are just terrible. The bronze ones are so cool, all steampunky and creepy, and then the Power Ranger ones legit look like they're about to break apart and form a Megazord. They don't even have a good silhouette, they sort of bulge weirdly at the back.

BUT ANYWAY let's focus on what's important - the new info!

Because we get quite a bit here. As the Doctor tries to convince Churchill that the Daleks are evil (over the course of about five separate scenes in which they have the same conversation on a loop and you start to wonder when any plot will happen) he turns to Amy.

"Amy, tell him," he says.

"Why would I know?" Amy asks fairly.

"Because you've seen Daleks!" the Doctor exclaims. "Thousands of their ships, trying to conquer your world!"

Omg what??? When???

"Omg what??? When???" says Amy

"OMG WHAT??? HOW???" says the Doctor. "YOU CAN'T JUST GO FORGETTING THAT SHIT???"

So that happened. Meanwhile, the Doctor gets a right cob on with a Dalek and starts boasting about killing them.

"I sent you all back into the void to save the universe!" he says.

Yet more plot threads. I can't believe there are so many. Almost like this is a stupid watch order etc.

Oh, and at the end of the episode, the Doctor reminds us that Amy has unnaturally forgotten the Daleks invading her planet, and we're treated to a weird crack in the wall. I wonder if that's relevant?

“She” (an unknown person) is returning (perhaps River returned as Missy. Maybe Me? Maybe Clara???!)

There is something on Donna’s back

An entire planet, Pyrovilia, just… disappeared, somehow. (Maybe because the TARDIS is exploding??? Saturnine was also lost, and that WAS because of the TARDIS exploding. The lion man’s planet was also lost but he was a bit of a knob about it if I’m honest.)

Amy is maybe dead (she’s not)

The Doctor has been cubed (he’s out, but how?)

River is possibly blown up  (unless she’s Missy. Nope: she is definitely not blown up)

The TARDIS has blown up  (It’s fine now. Except it’s sort of melting now because it’s corrupted, but it’s fine again)

The universe appears to have ended  (the universe is back again)

The Doctor has employed(?) Nardole

(And Nardole was “reassembled???” Nardole had glass nipples and invisible hair?? WHAT THE FUCK IS HE)

There’s a vault in the TARDIS and it contains Missy but we don’t know why (sometimes she knocks for the bants)

There’s an immortal Viking girl now. Her name is Me and she’s now looking after the people the Doctor abandons

Why was Rory entirely unconcerned by the entire world suddenly going silent when that is Not Normal and should have been, at the very least, extremely disconcerting?

What did the Doctor do to Queen Lizzie One?

Why is Amy seeing a one-eyed woman in a vanishing window? (She’s with the Silents, but we don’t know why Amy saw her)

Why is Amy’s pregnancy inconclusive? (Maybe because the baby had Time Lord DNA?)

Who is Sarah-Jane Smith?

How is the Doctor Bill’s teacher and why/where does he have an office?

What is going on with the Cyber War and the Cyberium???

What happened with the Other Cyber War?

What happened with the Third War that deleted the void?

Why does Rose seem particularly important?

What order do these Doctors go in? (Eccleston, Tennant, uncertain, Smith, Capaldi, Whittaker)

Which companion just… forgot the Doctor, and how?

Yaz and Vinder are about to die as Mori/Mwri/Muuri

There is a Lupari shield around Earth.

What’s a Time War?

What’s the Rift?

What’s Bad Wolf?

In which war did the Doctor become a war criminal, and how?

Who is the Master?

Why has Amy forgotten Rory? NEW INFO: how did she forget a Dalek invasion?

Is Rory plastic or not?

Why is the Doctor sulking on a cloud?

How exactly does the Doctor have a cloud?

What exactly happened with Strax to, uh, tame him?

Which friend killed Strax?

Which friend brought Strax back?

Where did this lesbian lizard and human couple come from?

What happened with Clara as Souffle Girl and the Daleks?

How does Clara actually join?

Why so many Claras?

Why is Missy apparently in robo-heaven?

Why is probably!Missy pushing Clara and the Doctor together?

What is Trensilor and what happened there?

Who is Handles?

The Doctor is about to be dissolved by a beautiful geode man

The universe is being crushed by the Flux

Will the Doctor open the fobwatch?

Sontarans are invading Earth again

Who is Kate?

Who is Osgood? Another name of Clara’s again?

The fuck is the deal with the Grand Serpent

Does Martha get to go to an ice cream planet with 12-fingered massage aliens?

How did the Doctor forget Clara?

Who is Bill’s puddle girlfriend Heather?

How did Nardole die?

When does Bill get Cyberman-ed and die?

When does the Doctor shrink and enter a Dalek called Rusty?

Whittaker is falling to her death rn

Was that ring relevant?

Does anyone know the Doctor’s name?

When did Yaz talk to Dan about fancying the Doctor?

When did Dan talk to the Doctor about fancying Yaz?

What’s happening with the bees?

What happened with Donna’s ex and a giant spider?

What war wiped out the Daleks, and is it one of the ones already mentioned?

What did the Doctor mean when he said “The (Daleks) always live, while I lose everything?”

If Dalek Caan is the last Dalek left why are there more now?

How did the rest of the Time Lords die?

How and why did Amy melt?

What’s the question that will make silence fall?

Why do the Silents… want silence to fall?

How and why are Silents at war with the Doctor when he… hasn’t even heard of them?

How does Hitler get out of the cupboard?

What’s the significance of fish fingers and custard?

Why does the Doctor feel guilt about Rose, Martha and Donna?

What happened with the space whale?

When does Rory defend Amy for 2000 years?

How does the Doctor survive River

How does he erase himself from history

Did Captain Jack lose his memories to the same people as the Doctor? What did he lose?

When did the Doctor send the Daleks into a void to save the universe?

What's with the weird crack in the wall and is it affecting memories?

[heycupcake]

Watching The Trial of a Time Lord with my friends, part 8 reawakened Earthshock and Resurrection of The Daleks flashbacks, so I decided to come here and manifest for Peri to come back on part 9

So far it's not looking promising but the Doctor would never leave his child like this, right? right?

[reddalek02]

Terry Molloy (played Davros, creator of the Daleks, opposite the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors, 1984-1988)

An outstanding memory was the first tech run of Resurrection of the Daleks, in the rehearsal rooms in Acton. I’d gone down from lunch early in order to go through my lines again before the producer and technicians came in. I walked into the room which was empty apart from three Daleks sitting in the corner. And as I walked past these Daleks the three eyepieces swivelled and watched me go. It was like a shiver up my spine, and I thought, “These are my children! I am Davros!”

[do-you-know-this-dw-story]

resurrection of the daleks (tv: 1984)

[sandymybeloved]

doctor who doesn't really scare me anymore, the one exception to this is the waters of mars, which reduces me to a nervous wreck for it's entire run time

[spockvarietyhour]

Today's movie!

[leolaroot]

watching the resurrection of thr Daleks and troi is obsessively rubbing against the phone when davros is talking i think its the modulation they did to his voice sounds like purring

[rachelbethhines]

Speed-running Doctor Who - 6th Doctor

A quick and dirty guide for those who want to get into the show, but don't want to watch everything from the beginning.

For Those Who Just Wanna Get An Idea of the Era

Revelation of the Daleks - S22E6

Grim, gritty, gory, and utterly, hilariously absurd, Revelation of the Daleks is Doctor Who's most successful black comedy. It's pitch perfectly dark, panto, and heartwarming at all the right moments, and on the surface it shouldn't work and yet it does. That's probably the Sixth Doctor's era in a nutshell.

Plot Important Episodes

Entrances, Exits, Enemies, Lore Drops, and Character Development

The Twin Dilemma - S21E7 (Meet the Sixth Doctor)

Attack of the Cybermen - S22E1 (now meet the Sixth Doctor who isn't suffering from regeneration sickness. Also this story is a sequel to The Tenth Planet, Tomb of the Cybermen, and Resurrection of the Daleks, especially wrapping up a particular plot point that was left dangling at the end of that last one)

Vengeance on Varos - S22E2 (Meet Sil)

The Mark of the Rani - S22E3 (Introduces another Time Lord rival for the Doctor to face; The Rani, a mad scientist with zero ethics)

The Two Doctors - S22E4 (the last multi-Doctor story for the classic era of the show and is the start of the S6B theory)

The Mysterious Planet - S23E1 (start of the Trial of a Timelord arc and introduces both Glitz and the Valeyard)

Mindwarp - S23E2 (the return of Sil and Peri's last story)

Terror of the Vervoids - S23E3 (Meet Mel)

The Ultimate Foe - S23E4 (the conclusion of the Trial of the Timelord arc and the Sixth Doctor's last on screen story)

Personal Favorite and Least Favorite Stories

Because one man's trash is another man's treasure and vice versa

Favorite: Timelash - S22E5

Least Favorite: The Two Doctors - S22E4

(disclaimer: no spin-offs or extended universe stuff was considered when making this list)

Up Next: The Seventh Doctor

[dividedsingularity]

Cosplaying a Dalek

How I spedran my first ever cosplay to wear it at a con, aka a sentimental writeup on the making of the costume with lots of pictures! Find it under the cut.

Ever since I first laid eyes on them, I've loved the Daleks, both as a wider entity and in their design.

Look at this thing, it's perfection! A modern design from the newer, post-2005 series, but with a more classic-feeling black colour scheme.

During my comprehensive Doctor Who watch-through, sometime around January 2020, an idea for an anthropomorphic Dalek materialised in my mind, centering around the Dalek trooper helmets from Resurrection of the Daleks. Except I thought they could have looked way cooler.

I mean look at it. It's got the spirit but it lacks the style. So my design incorporated all the parts I found important about the entirety of the Dalek form. I doubt I thought about cosplaying it while I first had the idea, but the first post I ever made about it already mentions that desire. …huh, it's been so long already??

I never did much about it since that time, though, aside from talking it over with a friend for ideas and thinking about visiting some second-hand clothes shops to look for the right sort of coat. That didn't end up happening, because by sheer luck I found two leather coats to choose from at home, just sitting there unused, and one of them had exactly the right collar!

…that was definitely way over a year ago though. The next time anything moved forward cosplay-wise was early in April this year. Once my small group of friends decided all three of us would go to this year's convention, and all of us were to show up in costume, it was on. With a time limit and a real goal of creating the costume I'd dreamed of for so long, I actually got to work.

The cosplay never left my mind since that day; I was constantly planning what I'd need and how I'd go about achieving it in the back of my mind. There were some things I had ideas for, but many more that I didn't even know how to start approaching; I spent several days in the first two weeks just visiting every art and hobby shop and some more specialised ones across (and some outside) the entire city. (I found out more about public transport here in that week than for my entire life here.)

Some harder to find items that I'd known I'd need from the beginning were a bicycle chain (for the exo-spine) and clear plastic cups (for the helmet lights). Those required dedicated trips and, in the chain's case, much additional work cleaning and breaking it to the desired length.

What gave me the MOST trouble, though, were all the balls on the costume, both helmet and coat. Nearly everyone I talked to about this project had their own (mostly unsolicited) ideas for what they could be made of, but none felt right to me. Eventually I latched onto wanting to make them from buttons - so the problem became finding large enough buttons. After much effort I got them - only coconut shell buttons were anywhere near the correct size - and spent the next few days sewing them and the bike chain onto the coat. Tip: never attempt sewing leather without a thimble.

Here's what it looked like with all the attachments + a dirt cheap belt from a second hand.

Through all the work on the coat, however, I'd been dreading the part I knew least about: the helmet. It was the most crucial element, the lynchpin of the entire thing, and I knew exactly what I wanted it to look like, but nothing about how I'd achieve it. It took me the longest time to even settle on a material to make it out of.

Everything started coming together once I remembered I have access to 3D modelling software that I *knew how to use*. I speed modelled the helmet in one evening, adjusting only the cup holes for real size and eyeballing the rest of the dimensions, praying that it'd end up being right because I had neither the time nor willpower to go through modelling-printing-cutting and gluing it all a second time.

Some wip stages looked pretty funny considering the cup shapes were perfectly to scale

Once unfolded, printed out, glued together, cut out, traced on cardboard, and cut out once more, it looked like this:

a LOT of tape and wishing I had someone to help me hold things in place later, I finally ended up with a shape that looked right and thankfully turned out to be perfectly sized for my noggin. It's incredible how many strokes of luck happened here, really. and there's still several coming up!

After connecting the visor, cups, and a safety helmet base to the cardboard structure, I had a Usable Helmet. Feeling so close to my goal, I still knew there was a long way to go, as I had barely an inkling as to how I'd make or connect the helmet's optic.

I used a small tube of thick cardboard and bent wire in the end. The lens was from an old bedstand clock.

Other than that though, what remained was mostly decoration - and I was not about to even attempt painting this thing; I had to cut the helmet's template into separate pieces, lay them out tightly on a few sheets of PVC foam, cut those and then attach them to each side of the helmet one by one. It took a good while but the result was pretty phenomenal, colour quality-wise.

The helmet also got the button treatment, though these were a different kind and not ones I went looking for - I'd actually had these lying around for years, and exactly the right number, too! Incredible how good they look, especially when in motion and catching all the light. Ended up having to reattach them with a different kind of tape, but they're holding fast now.

So my helmet was done and I had little time to spare, and even less idea how to make my Dalek gun, despite having the parts for it. A classmate unexpectedly offered to let me use a 3D printer he had access to, though, and this opened up an opportunity - so the base for attaching the gun to my forearm was 3D printed, glued, got the straps (from an old gutted backpack) sewn into it and it worked pretty great.

For the gun, I used a clear plastic tube and even more bent wire, and finally for the cable leading to the gun I could do something relaxing - a measure tape that I had to cover with isolation tape. Taped again to the base of the gun, but detachable on the other side via paperclip that I can put on and take off the collar of the coat.

I had all the elements that required crafting ready and put together just a day before the con, then. I'd picked out appropriate underdress (my Dalek shirt and colour-fitting trousers, light for the hot weather) in between working on them.

Let's summarise: it's June. Sunny weather. My cosplay consists of

gun

shirt

trousers

long leather coat

black helmet

gloves

whatever shoes fit the vibe

and I wanted to put a backpack on top of all that, too. You'd have to be insane to wear all of that on a hot summer day!*

*Disclaimer: all Daleks are clinically insane or close enough, so it all checks out.

I decided not to use the gloves and spare myself that much, at least. In the end, the day was even a little cloudy, and it was only about 25°C outside (for my Fahrenheit-using friends, that translates to "way too hot to wear all that") - so the eleven hours of walking in full Dalek cosplay dehydrated me only a little in the end. I think. Yeah that water bottle was gone fast.

The day was incredibly fun, even more fun than it was exhausting, and the number of people who complimented the cosplay or even asked to take a photo with me was absolutely staggering to a newbie like me! It was all worth it in the end; as I write this, I haven't yet had my planned photoshoot to get nice detailed photos of the cosplay, but I did find a TARDIS prop at the con to pose with, so… I guess I can bend my no photos rule and show you this one.

Censoring my face with an actual Dalek picture for accuracy.

Now here I am, a proud and happy new owner of a rather nice Dalek costume. It still needs some adjustments for better comfort of wearing, mostly to make the helmet less wobbly while walking, but I have it! I got help from my friends and colleagues both in terms of solution ideas and resources given to me nearly every step of the way and completing it so quickly wouldn't have been possible without it. Thank you, guys. And thank you, if you've read this entire thing, hope it was enjoyable B ] Questions and comments most welcome if you have any.

[rassilonwatchathon]

It's the 9 year anniversary of The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon, so this month we're sharing our older episodes!

FIFTH DOCTOR SEASON TWENTY-ONE (October 21st, 2020-February 17th, 2021) Episode 131- Warriors of the Deep (WAD feat. Sea Devil ASMR) Episode 132- The Awakening (Malus Rewatches Doctor Who) w/ @mgoldentumbls & R. Alan Siler Episode 133- Frontios (Joe Mispronounces Plantagenet) Episode 134- Resurrection of the Daleks (Smash That Cat) w/ Ashley Raburn & Layne Lexx Terminate Henderson Episode 135- Planet of Fire (Won't Someone Think of the Dads?!) PATREON EXCLUSIVE New Who Review Episode 11- Revolution of the Daleks (It's What the Lesbians Deserve) Episode 136- The Caves of Androzani (Milk Facts!) PATREON EXCLUSIVE Bonus Episode 8- Duel of the Daleks/The Gyros Injustice (A Good Egg) Fifth Doctor Special- Cricket and Celery (Joe Heath: Bully) w/ @truestoriesaboutme SIXTH DOCTOR Episode 137- The Twin Dilemma (Time Lord Piss Properties)

[i-am-become-a-name]

some day, some day in the next decade, I will watch Resurrection of the Daleks the whole way through. But for now, if I don't open the box, I will never truly know if Schrodinger's Tegan leaves.