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  Msg # 31889 of 32031 on ZZUK4449, Friday 2-23-23, 4:04  
  From: THE DOCTOR  
  To: MARK BLUNDEN  
  Subj: Re: The Dalek leader?  
 XPost: rec.arts.drwho 
 From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.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 set 
 >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. 
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