Doctor Who Should Keep One Chibnall Dalek Change
Chris Chibnall is departing as showrunner of Doctor Who; here is one Dalek change the series should keep. The long-running television show on the BBC follows the time-traveling adventures of a whimsical alien wizard known as the Doctor. Joined by a revolving door of young British companions, the Doctor solves problems and fight monsters that threaten to destroy the space-time continuum each week. The Daleks are the ancient enemies of the Doctor, a race of genocidal aliens bent on exterminating every other species in the universe.
Writer Chris Chibnall (also famously responsible for the popular BBC mystery series Broadchurch) took over the series from Steven Moffat in 2018, coinciding with the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the thirteenth actor to star as the titular Doctor. The Chibnall era of Doctor Who has brought many changes to the nearly sixty-year-old show (the Doctor’s gender notwithstanding) and not all of them were appreciated by fans. As Whittaker prepares to depart the role in 2022, it appears that Chibnall will be out as well, and the series will return to the hands of Russell T. Davies, who revived the series in 2005.
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One change that Davies would be wise to keep moving forward is the redesigned Dalek, which first appeared in December 2021 in the New Year’s Eve special “Eve of the Daleks.” The famously one-eyed aliens have been historically bad marksmen. Though their laser gun arms fire reliably-lethal charges, they can only fire one shot at a time, making avoiding and defeating the Daleks a pretty easy task for the Doctor and company. Chibnall wisely gave the Daleks a fighting chance. He didn’t give them depth perception, but he did upgrade their
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