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The return of the Dalek - Radio Times, May 2005 |
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Resurrecting the Doctor's most feared enemy was a daunting task. Robert Shearman tells Nick Griffiths how he rose to the challenge.
On bringing back the Dalek
"When I first wrote the Dalek episode, I wasn't sure that 'Exterminate!' wasn't a bit silly. So I put it in a couple of times, but I didn't really want him ranting it. And Russell's [executive producer Russell T Davies] notes came back saying, 'Why not? I want to have kids in the playground saying Exterminate! all the time.' Of course, he was quite right."
"People want to see the Dalek again, in all its glory, being taken seriously and killing rather brutally. I don't think it's any great spoiler to say there's an awful lot of death in my episode."
"The production team wanted to emphasise that there is something living inside the Dalek; they aren't just pepperpot robots."
"All the things people laugh about on the Dalek, I wanted to address one by one in the script and show they're not silly."
His view of the Daleks
"I always see them as evil children who don't have any morals yet, and
will connive any way they can to get what they want. In the past, as they went on, it was played up more that they were incompetent. I didn't want that. "
His reaction on seeing the Dalek on set
"I almost cried. Your immediate impulse as someone who's been writing it for a year is to give it a hug because you feel close to it. But close up, it really does unnerve you."
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