{"id":1120,"date":"2007-05-09T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2007-05-09T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:19:14","slug":"on-abslom-daak-dalek-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"On Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Todd “Scavenger” Kogutt<\/a> keeps telling me about the Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off he’d love to see: Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer, starring Bruce Campbell. The first time he told me this I must confess that I snarfed coffee on my monitor–I just didn’t see it. But after the recent Dalek two-parter Todd brought the idea up again, and I considered it.<\/p>\n

Abslom Daak. For those unfamiliar with the character and his origins, WHOniverse<\/a> offers a Discontinuity Guide<\/i>-style entry on his first appearance, the New Zealand fanzine TSV<\/i><\/a> has a detailed article on Daak’s history and appearances, and Wikipedia<\/a> has a good summary of the character:<\/p>\n

Convicted of “23 charges of murder, pillage, piracy, massacre and other crimes too horrible to bring to the public attention” in the mid-26th Century, when the galaxy was embroiled in the Dalek Wars, [Daak] was given the choice between being vapourized or entering into exile and becoming a Dalek Killer. Transported to the planet Mazam which was under attack by the Daleks, he destroyed a Dalek task force single-handedly and rescued the Princess Taiyan, with whom he fell in love. Tragically, however, she was killed by a Dalek survivor that Daak had overlooked, leaving Daak grief-stricken and vowing to exterminate every Dalek in the galaxy.<\/p>\n

Daak pursued this vendetta in subsequent installments of his comic strip, taking on a crew called the Star Tigers and slicing a destructive swathe through the Dalek armies, often armed only with an energy pistol and his personal chainsword. He remained a tough-talking ruffian, almost psychotically eager for battle. The Daleks considered him the greatest enemy they had, together with the Doctor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Todd’s idea is this. We’ve had two Doctor Who<\/i> spin-offs thus far–Torchwood<\/i> and the forthcoming Sarah Jane Adventures<\/i> (though the pilot for this has already been broadcast). But what about a Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off for a different market, co-produced by the Sci-Fi Channel? Doctor Who<\/i> has been a success for Sci-Fi, so perhaps Sci-Fi might want a Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off tailored for their viewership.<\/p>\n

A chainsaw-wielding Dalek killer would be ideal for a one-off film. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And who could play a psychotic, chainsaw-wielding Dalek killer better than Bruce Campbell?<\/p>\n

I keep thinking about this, and the more I think about it the more I like the idea. It’s a win-win on multiple levels. The Terry Nation estate would get their Doctor-less Dalek spin-off. The Sci-Fi Channel would get Doctor Who<\/i> product that might appeal to a different audience.<\/p>\n

What kind of story, though? A story of Daak’s first mission, the one where he vowed vengeance on the Daleks forevermore? Or perhaps a mission much later in Daak’s career? Perhaps Daak gets involved in events related to the Last Great Time War.<\/p>\n

Or…<\/p>\n

Six episode series. The two hour pilot could guest-star Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor (though probably without the wig–maybe later in his life the eighth Doctor kept a much trimmer haircut), and then four more episodes of solo Daak adventures. Lots of Daleks. Lots of blowing things up.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve thought about it I can see it. Completely<\/i>. Sci-Fi needs to do this, though I realize that the rights–between the BBC, the Nation estate, and the creators of Abslom Daak–would be a mess. It would be a completely different Doctor Who<\/i> spin-off. That’s not a bad thing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Todd “Scavenger” Kogutt keeps telling me about the Doctor Who spin-off he’d love to see: Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer, starring Bruce Campbell. The first time he told me this I must confess that I snarfed coffee on my monitor–I just didn’t see it. But after the recent Dalek two-parter Todd brought the ideaContinue reading “On Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[815,94,4082,302],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-abslom-daak","tag-daleks","tag-doctor-who","tag-eighth-doctor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}