Poll: So, about them Daleks...

[Rebel_Raven]

I was boring, and said Hoverboard. Coz daleks can fly,and stuff.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I like to think it's like a reverse airhockey type thing.

You can see the underside of a dalek a few times (not showing off the feet and wheels) and they are flat and featureless.

Pertwee says they don't have legs, they use psychokinetic power to move around.

Doesn't it face stairs at one point and uses thrusters to fly?

Yes, in the story Remembrance of the Daleks one chases Ace up a flight of stairs. It's bottom glowed when it did which would indicate some kind of levitation-by-technobabble technology.

But these answers are much more fun.

I answered 'other' on the poll because while the various models of Daleks have changed dramatically over the years one component that has remained consistent in their design is the mysterious force known as "Writer's Whim". This bizarre and as yet unexplained force has caused Daleks to gain their motor power by everything from static electricity to psychokinesis to cosmic rays. My favorite manifestation of Writer's Whim was when it was once implied that the living creature inside the Dalek shell provided the motor force itself, either by it's feet/tentacles actually coming in to contact with the floor or by means of some sort of treadmill setup.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I like to think it's like a reverse airhockey type thing.

You can see the underside of a dalek a few times (not showing off the feet and wheels) and they are flat and featureless.

Pertwee says they don't have legs, they use psychokinetic power to move around.

Doesn't it face stairs at one point and uses thrusters to fly?

Yes, in the story Remembrance of the Daleks one chases Ace up a flight of stairs. It's bottom glowed when it did which would indicate some kind of levitation-by-technobabble technology.

Chased the Doctor. Ace had already escaped.

In previous stories, the daleks either couldn't do that, or needed to ride something (this came up in the comics a alot as well).

 

[Groxnax]

I voted tendrils.

So that when they get to Japan they can....

I'm not going to finish that one.

But I also love the tiny feet idea, no wonder those guys are so pissed off all the time.

 

[viscomica]

I see the hoverboard option is winning.
Good, good.

 

[happyninja42]

They are propelled by lameness and idiocy, because Daleks are the dumbest and most annoying enemy I've ever seen in the history of everness. Seriously, I cringe every time a Dalek plot is on Doctor Who, and wish the makers of the show would stop using them. And the cyber men. And all the other stupidly slow enemies that plague the braindead British people that populate the Who-verse.

I love the show, but damn the threats they actually put in front of them are so comically lame it's getting frustrating at this point.

 

[TheMigrantSoldier]

The power of love, of course. Love of wanton destruction.

 

[Thaluikhain]

They are propelled by lameness and idiocy, because Daleks are the dumbest and most annoying enemy I've ever seen in the history of everness. Seriously, I cringe every time a Dalek plot is on Doctor Who, and wish the makers of the show would stop using them. And the cyber men. And all the other stupidly slow enemies that plague the braindead British people that populate the Who-verse.

I love the show, but damn the threats they actually put in front of them are so comically lame it's getting frustrating at this point.

NuWho or old Who, though? Cause, very much yeah for newest NuWho.

 

[Little Woodsman]

I like to think it's like a reverse airhockey type thing.

You can see the underside of a dalek a few times (not showing off the feet and wheels) and they are flat and featureless.

Pertwee says they don't have legs, they use psychokinetic power to move around.

Doesn't it face stairs at one point and uses thrusters to fly?

Yes, in the story Remembrance of the Daleks one chases Ace up a flight of stairs. It's bottom glowed when it did which would indicate some kind of levitation-by-technobabble technology.

Chased the Doctor. Ace had already escaped.

In previous stories, the daleks either couldn't do that, or needed to ride something (this came up in the comics a alot as well).

I'd have sworn....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1J3InFpGtQ

Oh, look at that. Right you are, it was the Doctor.

Guess my memory is starting to fail, but you gotta expect that at my age. You oftentimes find yourself.... I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

 

[FalloutJack]

They are propelled by lameness and idiocy, because Daleks are the dumbest and most annoying enemy I've ever seen in the history of everness. Seriously, I cringe every time a Dalek plot is on Doctor Who, and wish the makers of the show would stop using them. And the cyber men. And all the other stupidly slow enemies that plague the braindead British people that populate the Who-verse.

I love the show, but damn the threats they actually put in front of them are so comically lame it's getting frustrating at this point.

You're gonna have to talk to the estate of Terry Nation. They have a contract.

OT: I love how many people have been voting for the Matryoshka Dalek!

 

[Lightspeaker]

I was kinda attracted by the "another, smaller, Dalek" option. And then another even smaller Dalek under that. And so on and so forth. Smaller and smaller Daleks all the way down.

 

[SweetShark]

It's ass, clearly. What a silly question.

Like the Devil in "Cow & Chicken" Cartoon.
Logical as f*ck!

 

[laggyteabag]

You know how sometimes dogs scratch their asses along the carpet?

Yeah, that. That is how a Dalek moves.

[small]"Captcha: Bottom" Gee, how topical[/small]

 

[happyninja42]

They are propelled by lameness and idiocy, because Daleks are the dumbest and most annoying enemy I've ever seen in the history of everness. Seriously, I cringe every time a Dalek plot is on Doctor Who, and wish the makers of the show would stop using them. And the cyber men. And all the other stupidly slow enemies that plague the braindead British people that populate the Who-verse.

I love the show, but damn the threats they actually put in front of them are so comically lame it's getting frustrating at this point.

NuWho or old Who, though? Cause, very much yeah for newest NuWho.

Never saw old Who, but I'm assuming they are just as slow and annoying and LOOOOOUD in the old Who too.

You're gonna have to talk to the estate of Terry Nation. They have a contract.

OT: I love how many people have been voting for the Matryoshka Dalek!

Curse you contracts!!! *shakes angry fist*

 

[Thaluikhain]

They are propelled by lameness and idiocy, because Daleks are the dumbest and most annoying enemy I've ever seen in the history of everness. Seriously, I cringe every time a Dalek plot is on Doctor Who, and wish the makers of the show would stop using them. And the cyber men. And all the other stupidly slow enemies that plague the braindead British people that populate the Who-verse.

I love the show, but damn the threats they actually put in front of them are so comically lame it's getting frustrating at this point.

NuWho or old Who, though? Cause, very much yeah for newest NuWho.

Never saw old Who, but I'm assuming they are just as slow and annoying and LOOOOOUD in the old Who too.

They were slow and loud in old Who, but much better written, IMHO. NuWho is really letting them down.

 

[happyninja42]

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Never saw old Who, but I'm assuming they are just as slow and annoying and LOOOOOUD in the old Who too.

They were slow and loud in old Who, but much better written, IMHO. NuWho is really letting them down.

Eh, I just chalk them up to Slow Who Enemy Number 23, and just sigh whenever they show up on screen. Seriously, I'm considering starting a drinking game for Doctor Who.

1. Every time a British citizen stands like a brain dead idiot and gets killed by a threat they could easily avoid, take a shot. (Seriously they're worse than those feinting goats who go stiff legged whenever they get scared)

2. Whenever the enemy moves at a pace that is slower than a senior citizen with a bad hip and a walker, take a shot.

3. When the enemy is some robot/flesh hybrid that seems to be obsessed with killing all humans for unspecified reasons other than "Because lul Reasons, now die", take a shot.

4. And with this most recent season, when the plot involves directly embracing some incredibly stupid bit of pseudo-science to explain the dumb plot they came up with, (seriously, the moon is an egg, and that's why it's mass is increasing?? Come on, that's not even how EGGS work normally), take a shot.

I expect to have liver failure before the end of an episode.