The Campaign for Real Daleks
Apr. 19th, 2010 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
armbFrom http://ffutures.livejournal.com/660110.html
"The Campaign for Real Daleks needs YOU!
If you have seen Doctor Who 5.3 you will know that they have rebooted Daleks in a new and somehow infinitely less frightening form. My guess is that this has been done purely for marketing purposes, so that they can sell lots of My Little Dalek models.
You are urged to take the following steps ONCE YOU HAVE SEEN THE EPISODE and experienced the full horror:
1. Write or email the BBC complaining about the new Daleks Lite and requesting that they return to Classic Daleks.
2. Add "Campaign for Real Daleks" to your Livejournal interests.
3. Boycott merchandise based on the New Daleks and refuse to buy them for your kids etc. This is the one that may actually make the BBC pay attention.
And PLEASE pass this on as widely as you can."
"The Campaign for Real Daleks needs YOU!
If you have seen Doctor Who 5.3 you will know that they have rebooted Daleks in a new and somehow infinitely less frightening form. My guess is that this has been done purely for marketing purposes, so that they can sell lots of My Little Dalek models.
You are urged to take the following steps ONCE YOU HAVE SEEN THE EPISODE and experienced the full horror:
1. Write or email the BBC complaining about the new Daleks Lite and requesting that they return to Classic Daleks.
2. Add "Campaign for Real Daleks" to your Livejournal interests.
3. Boycott merchandise based on the New Daleks and refuse to buy them for your kids etc. This is the one that may actually make the BBC pay attention.
And PLEASE pass this on as widely as you can."
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Date: 2010-04-20 04:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-20 09:50 am (UTC)It's because the new ones are too clearly artsy-designy (curvy instead of crudely machined and with a matt black plastic coating instead of raw metal) - ie luvvies who couldn't so much as engage in a hair-pulling contest for fear of damaging their glossy nail-polish paint-finish. The new "eye" in the eye-stalk was rubbish too.
The old-style ones had the far superior menace factor of looking functional - like they meant business and had already exterminated more species than you'd had hot dinners (and the distant, remote-observer effect of the old eye-stalk aided that look). *I* still thought they were cute and adorable little psychopathic pepperpots of course. But other people found them frightening.