Technology Casserole

So, new Daleks were revealed today. Bigger, brighter, colorful. Really?

I know I’m biased. I have been watching the traditional silver, black and gold ones for 26 years. That’s longer than most of my Doctor Who friends have been alive. Daleks are supposed to be terrifying machines, not iPods. There is a tactical advantage to looking alike too – you don’t want to identify the troops on your battlefield! Maybe the new Daleks need to go play a few games of Stratego and think this through.

Even made out of fudge I can’t understate the horror they induce. Now they remind me more of my KitchenAid Stand Mixer, which isn’t remotely menacing – I mean it makes me cookie dough. Daleks of old are scary even when they are offering you tea and biscuits.

I suppose we will all get used to the revised look of our salt-and-pepper shaker monsters, but I don’t want them to start changing things just because they feel like they have to.

Daleks are the oldest Doctor Who monster dating back to the second storyline in 1963. There’s a lot of history to step on if you don’t tread carefully.