Dalek Bumps Question Time: Series 2, Episode 8

In this episode of Dalek Bumps Question Time, we tackle various questions including which New Who episodes should be novelised next, whether the Daleks could defeat the Martian Tripods from The War of the Worlds, and how to get into Big Finish.

All footage is the property of the BBC. Music by Frank Klepacki and Jeroen Tel

[captaindreadnought]

I've always wondered if the WOTW martians were the inspiration for the Daleks, I had an idea for a DW story a while ago where the Daleks invaded victorian london and ended up directly inspiring HG Wells to write WOTW

[maxjackson]

Worth noting, the first 50 stories of BF main range are 100% free on Spotify

[nickthepick]

If Children of the Revolution could get adapted, and we're teased of a few humanized Daleks surviving, imagine how cool it would be for the main show if the audience accepted them? We can now have a separate faction of Daleks that can think for themselves.

[reeceemms]

Hey could you do a video on the trial of Davros? I’ve read up on it and I find it quite interesting with all the four outcomes

[hiimnameless]

Do you think Victory of the doctor, finally gave the paradigm daleks a story worthy to be remembered by?

[guymadgesam]

I love Jeff Waynes album probably one of the best albums/pieces of music ever recorded

[Panelmancer]

In the original daleks story, Terry nation intended for the daleks to be scientists who had their own culture, art, lives like gardening and shopping. Is there a lore reason for why the daleks became this, and then shifted back to what davros intended after the doctor first encountered them. And would you like for this original idea to be explored, like how asylum of the daleks introduced their idea of beauty.

[galaxyboy]

Does your Dalek character have a backstory and so what is it?

[Professor_Toothpaste]

The time period I would like to see the Daleks in would be the dinosaur age! I just wanna see Daleks fight dinosaurs actually.

[impracticaltesseract]

Im wondering what would happen if in the episode "Dalek", the metaltron was replaced with Post "Into the Dalek" Rusty?

[rlmccormack]

The Daleks defeating the aliens from WoTW is an obvious outcome.

[timecontroller]

Do the characters in the remembrance novelisation have detailed back stories?

[Squiddy]

Yes my wotw question finally got answered 😀

[zarrg]

It's weird that Big finish have Benny stories but also seem to overwrite her existance. Anyway, justice for virgin/BBC books.

[bennyfagor]

It honestly highly depends on what version of the Martians from WOTW the Daleks go against. The Jeff Wayne adaptation you mentioned, the Daleks would most likely win because of the Martian Technology being overall weaker than the Daleks.

However, if the Daleks are put against the much more technological advanced aliens from the 2005 movie adaptation for example, aside from the fact they eventually die to bacteria, I honestly do think that the Daleks would have lost if put in a versus. Mostly because the Tripod weaponry is extremely powerful in that adaptation. I'd also mention the shielding the Tripods have but it'd most likely only work for projectile like weapons.

[direwolfgaming]

Oh man the tism in me went schizo when I saw a Dalek and Martian Fighting Machine in the thumbnail as they're my two favourite things

[sglenny]

I would too see Darlek in The Great War an War of The Worlds

[TripodProduction]

But what if…

The martians were immune to bacteria

[MuffinDoughnut]

I would like to hear an audio where the renegade daleks appear in ancient Egypt after feeling from an imperial dalek ship and the renegade ship is completely damaged and crashed into the ground and the daleks alter history by manipulating the ancient Egyptians and viewing the daleks as gods but the seventh doctor leads the imperial dalek ship to earth and crashes into all the renegade daleks the Egyptians think this ship is evil because it destroyed the daleks so they built a giant pyramid to trap the ship and that pyramid would be known as the great pyramid of Giza. I think that would be a cool audio that needs to happen.

[beanhunter-cx]

I think the wotw tripods could kill the daleks Fairley well because of the vulnerability to heat and considering the heat ray is just a ray of pure heat. if it was on a planet with no bacteria or on mars, I think it would be a fair fight. it really depends on which adaptation of the Martians you look at, if they have shields or not and other factors that go in. As you say that the daleks have a weakness to temperature, the fight would be different to how you said it would.