In
Victory of the Daleks we were introduced to a newer breed of Dalek, newer and
far glossier than their predecessors. They
had thicker fenders, pretty much reminiscent of those from the 1965 movie ‘Dr
Who & The Daleks, by Amicus Productions.
These Daleks were also coloured and varied in rank.
The new
Daleks were also taller and slimmer at the sides but held a rather large rear,
which was explained as the place for the new Daleks to store further weapons,
as of yet still to be seen in an episode.
Their
eye sockets are far larger and instead of the smooth orb this new eye socket
has eight fins around the outer edges. There
are also five black disks along the stalk.
The lights on the dome are as tall as Time War Daleks and those of the
Superior Dalek of Classic Who.
The
black strips around their weapons, the waistband had returned to how they had
been in the classic era. But their
overall shape reminds me in a confectionery sort of way of a ‘Walnut Whip’.
Beneath
the dome unlike in previous versions where two bronze disks separated the
grill, this has been altered to incorporate the grills into the disks but each
disk becomes wider by the time it reaches the shoulders of the Dalek.
Despite
their apparent shape they are still manually operated (see Interview with
Barnaby Edwards) http://projecttorchwood.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/interviews-barnaby-edwards.html
These are
the Paradigm Daleks.
The
first of these was the White Supreme
Dalek which appeared in the TV story Victory
of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens and The Wedding of River Song. This Dalek was white and grey sporting all of
the above in shape and design.
The New
Dalek Paradigm was created by the Progenitor
device, which used pure Dalek DNA. The
Daleks who had been created using Davros’ cells, thus making them ‘unclean’ and
not worthy to the new empire sacrificed themselves by being exterminated by
their own kind.
‘The
original five Daleks of the New Paradigm, and the leadership class once their
new empire was created, were more powerful and much larger than any of their
predecessors.’ http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/New_Dalek_Paradigm
The Progenitor
As you
can see by the original Camouflage Dalek as how the Time War and previous Daleks
appeared, to how the Dalek looks in these episodes, there is a considerable
difference.
A nugget of fact:
The new
Paradigm Daleks were not a hit with the hardened fans, although the younger
generation, (children) loved them. Some
of our fans referred to them as ‘Power
Ranger Daleks’ or ‘big, moody,
colourful but somehow the hump doesn’t work.’
Mark
Gatiss wrote into the script ‘Victory of the Daleks’ that he wanted ‘big buggers, bigger than we’ve had before’
and they certainly were, the eyestalk with the new Daleks was level with Matt
Smith’s eyeline. These new Dalek designs
were put together from input from the writer of the episode, Mark Gatiss, the production designer, Edward Thomas, Executive Producer Steven Moffat, and Concept Artist Peter McKinstry.
In Episode 3, Series 5, Victory of the
Daleks, written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Adam Smith, produced by Steven
Moffat, broadcast on 3rd April 2010 featuring Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill and Matt
Smith. Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs,
Dalek Operators Nicholas Pegg and Barnaby Edwards
the 11th
Doctor, receives a call from Winston Churchill played by Ian McNeice during the London Blitz, and visits him. During which
time they discover Churchill has employed 'Ironsides', (camouflage Daleks
kitted out in uniform colours of a British soldier during the 2nd
World War, and capable of making a cup of tea), a scientific creation by
Professor Bracewell (Bill Patterson)
who the Doctor later realises is an
android created by the Daleks in order to destroy Earth. There is a device which is activated by the
Doctor after he names himself and the Daleks, and in order to deactivate the
device they have to convince the scientist that he is human.
Just
like their predecessors, the Paradigm Daleks had levels of rank and position:
Supreme Daleks were white.
The Eternal Dalek – yellow
Strategist Daleks – blue
Scientist Daleks – orange
Drone Daleks – red
Eggs-Stir-Min-Eight!
In Series 7, Broadcast 1 September 2012,
director Nick Hurran, writers Steven Moffat, Terry Nation (The Daleks) producer
Marcus Wilson,
Dalek 1 Barnaby Edwards, Dalek 2 Nicholas
Pegg, (uncredited Dalek operators - John Davey and Matthew Doman), Daleks
Voice, Nicholas Briggs
Asylum
of the Daleks, we were returned to the bronze Time War Daleks of old, although
they were a deeper bronze than the originals.
In this
episode the Doctor had been captured along with his companions Rory and Amy and
sent to the Asylum just as his two companions are about to divorce. The Asylum is a planet where insane Daleks
are exiled, and there aren’t just a few, there are millions. The Doctor is aided along the way by Oswin
Oswald whose ship had crashed on the planet a year earlier and had been trapped
there ever since.
The
Paradigm Daleks were classed as the ‘Officer’ rank in this episode, governing
over the bronze that were often the Drone rank.
In The Big Bang episode we were introduced to
the Stone Dalek. After imprisoning the Doctor for 1, 894 years inside the
Pandorica, the Stone Daleks were discovered alongside the large cubed prison in
Britain’s National Museum. The two
statues had been the petrified remains of two Daleks, the last of their kind. However one did come back to life and pursued
the Doctor and his companions throughout the museum, finally killed by River
Song.
As the
Daleks began to create their Empire, two Dalek Emperors were known to have
ruled the New Dalek Paradigm at some point.
See Game: City of Daleks, The
Eternity Clock http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rs69w/profiles/city-of-the-daleks
Much
later in Asylum of the Daleks a Parliament was established and the Supreme
Dalek given a lower rank and answerable to the Dalek Prime Minister.
And
Finally...
Throughout
history the Daleks have tried and failed to destroy all of mankind and all of
the universes, yet one man stands to stop them at every turn, and that one man
is The Doctor!
Hopefully
we’ll never see an end to the Doctor’s adversary, there will be more over the
years, and an abundance of colours and shapes, and sizes, but whatever and
however they look, there will be no mistaking their call to arms!
Photo
Source and Dalek information:
Thanks also to Simon Mallinson & Thumbnail Traveller
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