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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
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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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