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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: What's a Doctor Who ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.005436.20022@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
- References: <1egcucINNpn1@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <1992Nov19.175030.10411@lsa.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:54:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.175030.10411@lsa.umich.edu> kausch@med.umich.edu (David Kausch) writes:
- >
- >In article <1egcucINNpn1@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich) writes:
- >|>
- >|> Greetings,
- >|>
- >|> I'm completely new to Dr. Who and have just begun to watch
- >|> it on the SciFi channel. Could anyone give me the short summary of
- >|> who/what Dr. Who is, what a 'Dalek' is, etc. so I can get my bearings
- >|> straight and appreciate the discussion threads going on ? Thanx...
- >|>
- >|> ...mike
- >
- >
- >Ah, this should be fun. Let's start with Daleks. Daleks are the most evil,
- >destructive, insensitive, war-loving race in the universe, naturally a good
- >topic for exciting episodes. They were "created" by the evil scientist Davros
- >in a lab specifically for their war-like survival instinct. Davros, being a
- >genius, wanted to create the most powerful race which would beat out all other
- >races in the universe. The puzzling thing is he put these "supreme" creatures
- >in robotic bodies that have a tendancy to fall off cliffs, down stairs, run
- >into walls, spin helplessly in circles when their single "eye-piece" is covered
- >(usually by the doctors hat) and could not possibly climb the simplest
- >stairse. Highly advanced, as you can see. Plus they have a remarkably limited
- >vocabulary of such catchy phrases as, "DO NOT MOVE," and "EXTERMINATE!"
-
- I recall a cartoon in Punch in the late 60s, showing a Dalek at the
- bottom of a flight of stairs; caption: Well, that buggers our plan for
- the conquest of the universe.
-
- This was, of course, decades prior to "Remebrance of the Daleks" in
- which it is finally revealed that they *can* go up stairs.
-
-
- Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
-