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 From: sr.wilson@ntlworld.com 
  
 "The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 news:d96it8$bar$19@gallifrey.nk.ca... 
 > In article <3hnqf7Fi030qU1@individual.net>, 
 > Mark Blunden  wrote: 
 >>Yousuf Khan wrote: 
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 >>> So how come he turned out to be the "Dalek Emperor" rather than 
 >>> Davros? Do they still have some copyright issues with Terry Nation's 
 >>> estate? 
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 >>Well, they wouldn't use Davros specifically, as the name would mean 
 >>nothing 
 >>to the majority of viewers. But consider the fact the Davros, when last 
 >>seen, had lost most of his remaining body, installed himself in a modified 
 >>Dalek travel machine, and was calling himself the Emperor Dalek. I think 
 >>it'd be only the tiniest stretch to imagine that he subsequently completed 
 >>his mutation to (augmented) Dalek form, and got himself a bigger, better 
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 >>of Emperor Dalek's new clothes. 
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 >>Also, the Emperor Dalek's insistence on the Doctor activating the Delta 
 >>Wave 
 >>and destroying all life is so very similar to Davros' response when the 
 >>Doctor presents him with a similar choice as a philosophical exercise back 
 >>in Genesis of the Daleks. 
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 > Evil of the Daleks might help. 
  
 Might help what? 
  
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