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fangrrl_squees) wrote2007-10-24 09:00 am
fangrrl_squees) wrote2007-10-24 09:00 am
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EDA: War of the Daleks
Alright, so I just finished War of the Daleks, the EDA which, if I recall correctly, made the entire Internet1 melt down.
It's a clever little bit of retconning, that can't be denied.
What I don't get is what the point of it all was? Why bring Skaro back? Was there really some grand, narrative necessity for it, or was it just a bit of fan service? Judging by fan reaction, a large portion of 'em didn't appreciate it so, er, oops.
Despite the name of my online vanity plate, I could cheerfully accept the situation we're left with at the end of the old series. Skaro go boom, Davros is comprehensively fuxxored and, oh man, did the Doctor really set that up from the get-go? Harsh. Granted, the last condition remains in place...
But, srsly, I don't understand the point of going to all that trouble - an entire book's worth - to restore Skaro and (apparently) kill Davros. I say 'apparently' because, boy oh boy, does John Peel make too big a point of saying that honest, Davros is really, really dead now, for sure, guvnor. Right.
I can sympathize with the fans who had a screaming fit about the book, but I'm not that upset about it. I'm probably luckier than they are, as I'm reading the series now - after the show has returned to the telly and RTD has made it clear that he's going to cherry-pick continuity as it suits him - and, of course, I ran across all the froth-mouthed discussions of War of the Daleks back in the day, so it wasn't like the book was a surprise.
I just think it was a bit pointless, that's all. Well-written and even clever in parts - I like the notion of a Dalek civil war, and the Dalek Prime not being a moron - but pointless, because no-one has adequately explained to me why we need Skaro back.
1 - or at least the DW Usenet newsgroup, a not-insignificant part of the 'net, at the time
It's a clever little bit of retconning, that can't be denied.
What I don't get is what the point of it all was? Why bring Skaro back? Was there really some grand, narrative necessity for it, or was it just a bit of fan service? Judging by fan reaction, a large portion of 'em didn't appreciate it so, er, oops.
Despite the name of my online vanity plate, I could cheerfully accept the situation we're left with at the end of the old series. Skaro go boom, Davros is comprehensively fuxxored and, oh man, did the Doctor really set that up from the get-go? Harsh. Granted, the last condition remains in place...
But, srsly, I don't understand the point of going to all that trouble - an entire book's worth - to restore Skaro and (apparently) kill Davros. I say 'apparently' because, boy oh boy, does John Peel make too big a point of saying that honest, Davros is really, really dead now, for sure, guvnor. Right.
I can sympathize with the fans who had a screaming fit about the book, but I'm not that upset about it. I'm probably luckier than they are, as I'm reading the series now - after the show has returned to the telly and RTD has made it clear that he's going to cherry-pick continuity as it suits him - and, of course, I ran across all the froth-mouthed discussions of War of the Daleks back in the day, so it wasn't like the book was a surprise.
I just think it was a bit pointless, that's all. Well-written and even clever in parts - I like the notion of a Dalek civil war, and the Dalek Prime not being a moron - but pointless, because no-one has adequately explained to me why we need Skaro back.
1 - or at least the DW Usenet newsgroup, a not-insignificant part of the 'net, at the time
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