They're so cute when they're little.

[camwyn]

FLEDGLING GEEK: I'm watching that DVD. I'll have it back for you soon.
(He's referring to The Ribos Operation.)
ME: It's okay, no worries. There are five more and I just wanted to make sure you were watching it and enjoying it.
FG: This is great stuff. I don't understand why it didn't catch on in the States sooner.
ME: We are talking about a country that canceled Star Trek after three seasons and replaced it with Hee Haw.
FG: Yeah, but still- British television's caught on here before. Fawlty Towers was really funny. And Benny Hill.
ME: Well-
FG: I haven't seen those things you told me about yet, the big- the enemy things. What did they look like?
ME: Lemme use your computer. *goes to images.google.com* *types in 'Dalek'* *selects second image 'cos first one has a nekkid or seminekkid woman being way too attentive to the Dalek*
FG: . . . that's what everyone on the show's afraid of? A robot garbage can?
ME: That's the armour. The real Dalek's a sort of greenish blobby thing inside.
FG: So Independence Day ripped these guys off?
ME: For a whole generation of Brits, that's the equivalent of the flying monkeys.
FG: Wow.

Comments

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Blakes-7 deserves more kudos than it gets as well. :-)

[isustrikanda.livejournal.com]

that's so CUTE! oh, and I'm so glad he's enjoying it; it's always good to welcome a new Whovian to the fold!

[batyatoon]

It's so magical when they leave the nest.

*pets fledgling geek*

[lots42.livejournal.com]

There's a picture floating around somewhere of the Scarf Doc with his fist WAY too close to a Dalek's lower protubence.

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

The woman on the dalek is probably Katy Manning. She was Jo Grant on the old shows... and did some weird modelling choices afterwards.

[mephron]

Including one with her and a Strategically Placed Dalek Sucker. I know the picture of which Cam speaks.

[aberrantangels]

My recommended stages in giving him the full effect:
1) The four-syllable mission statement.
2) A classic-series scene of them in action. (Or out of it, like the moment in "Genesis of the Daleks" when Davros' creations turn on him:
"Have pity?"
"Pi-ty? That-word-is-not-in-my-vo-cab-u-la-ry-banks.")
3) The new-series episode "Dalek" in its entirety. Following with "Bad Wolf" & "The Parting of the Ways" is optional but very splendid and worthwhile.

[camwyn]

I've already told him that if he really wants to see it in action, he needs to sneak up behind a British Dr. Who fan (the Americans just aren't as reliable) and yell 'EX-TER-MI-NATE' in the right tone of voice. They'll jump out of their skin.

Got a couple of Dalek-heavy classic eps on DVD so will probably relay one of them to him next.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Do you have the old one where a Dalek comes up out of the Thames? That was the creepiest one when I was younger.

[aberrantangels]

Let's see, that would be... The Dalek Invasion of Earth, from the Hartnell years?

[camwyn]

Might have to check my collection. I just acquired a couple of Hartnell DVDs.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Without extensive effort to dig up my sources (in storage), I couldn't tell you. I don't have it personally, and I only saw it once, many years ago, when KERA Public Television aired all the episodes they could get their hands on.

[prodigal.livejournal.com]

For a whole generation of Brits, that's the equivalent of the flying monkeys.

I love the way you phrase things.

[bastets-place.livejournal.com]

I looked up that picture.

Body building advice? What kind of body building magazines do they HAVE in the UK?
*seriously considering moving*

[camwyn]

Haven't the slightest clue. I'm only an honourary Brit.