Actually, I thought Peel put quite a lot of effort into making sure that Davros had an out, what with the teleporter thingy being possibly operated by a loyal spider-dalek.
Peel has gone on record as saying that restoring Skaro was his goal because Terry Nation had been mad about the BBC blowing it up - which is kind of odd because Nation had script approval and signed off on it. He's also said that he felt it contradicted the "Final End" of the Daleks, as supposedly seen in "Evil of the Daleks", a view held by almost no-one else.
I'm one of the minority that actually likes the book. Even though it's basically just a big pointless retcon, it's one of my favourite bits of non-taxing comfort fiction, alongside The Infinity Doctors. It's a fun, "Biggles In Space" style adventure, and the Daleks are written pretty well. The retcon itself is so convoluted and flimsy that the only conclusion a reader can seriously reach is that the Dalek Prime is lying through its shiney metal balls, and this is backed up by the fact that Peel shows us the "desert world" that the Daleks claim to have molded into their fake Skaro, and it's a water world, still perfectly intact (Peel says this is a mistake, but by this point he's exhausted my patience with his bullshit, so fuck him).
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Peel has gone on record as saying that restoring Skaro was his goal because Terry Nation had been mad about the BBC blowing it up - which is kind of odd because Nation had script approval and signed off on it. He's also said that he felt it contradicted the "Final End" of the Daleks, as supposedly seen in "Evil of the Daleks", a view held by almost no-one else.
I'm one of the minority that actually likes the book. Even though it's basically just a big pointless retcon, it's one of my favourite bits of non-taxing comfort fiction, alongside The Infinity Doctors. It's a fun, "Biggles In Space" style adventure, and the Daleks are written pretty well. The retcon itself is so convoluted and flimsy that the only conclusion a reader can seriously reach is that the Dalek Prime is lying through its shiney metal balls, and this is backed up by the fact that Peel shows us the "desert world" that the Daleks claim to have molded into their fake Skaro, and it's a water world, still perfectly intact (Peel says this is a mistake, but by this point he's exhausted my patience with his bullshit, so fuck him).