A brief overview of the Dalek Forcefield
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2024
- The Dalek forcefield, introduced in Series 1's 'Dalek', was a powerful piece of defensive technology that revolutionised the Dalek war machine and elevated the Daleks from significantly powerful to terrifyingly over-powered, in order to allow the pepperpots to fight against the Time Lords during the Time War. But what is the in-universe history of this shield, and why has it seemingly disappeared from Daleks in New Who since 2007? Let's find out!
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In the Doctor Who episode The Stolen Earth, Wilf manages to hit the Dalek's eyestalk with a paintball, getting through the forcefield, something that potential bullets struggle to do. Maybe that means that the forcefield is only able to stop conventional weapons, like metal and energy blasts. Using thaat idea, I wonder if a spud gun would be useful against a Dalek, or a BB gun that fires plastic BBs.
The Daleks in The Stolen Earth don't use shields, the UNIT personnel and Captain Jack are able to land hits on the casing with regular bullets
Legit but they just wiped the paint off there eyes also the daleks in that where able to be hit with bullets but it didn't kill them same with the sontarains until UNIT used the special bullets
@@dalekbumps Even the Supreme didn't have/use a forcefield.
@@dalekbumpsalso you can see Sarah Jane rose and jack push daleks out of the way
it wasn't active. i think in then acivated it to remove the paint
I would also add that, according to the novel _Prisoner of the Daleks,_ the Dalek force field is also vulnerable from below. One of the main characters is able to ground Dalek X by firing upwards while it hovers over their hiding spot.
Prisoner of the Daleks is an interesting read, I need to do a full video on it at some point. It seems to be working on the assumption that New Who Daleks 'overwrote' the Classic Who Daleks, as the decision to use bronze Daleks for the Second Dalek War is an odd one. Granted, New Who used bronze Daleks against Movellans in Series 10, but that can be interpreted as the Paradigm going back and resuming their old wars, whereas Prisoner of the Daleks seems to indicate that the Second Dalek War always had bronze Daleks, instead of the grey ones we see in Planet of the Daleks
@@dalekbumps I tend to gloss over character descriptions, so I didn't even realise the Daleks in _Prisoner_ were bronze until I heard you say so in a video.
Because it's said to be pre-Time War, I just assumed the author had used Classic Who designs, but the cover designer either couldn't find HD photos or was told by higher-ups _"You need to use the modern Daleks, they're more recognisable, otherwise customers won't be interested in buying it!"_
@PerovNigma Yeah, I reckon it was a stipulation given for marketing reasons. It's not just the cover, though, the text explicitly describes them as bronze too, despite also being pre-Time War.
Hearing the Transformers DS music made me very happy. Got hit with a massive nostalgia wave.
I love the Dalek Force Shield. I often visualize fighting them as enemies in 1st-person shooter games like Halo because of it. Often makes me wish for a spinoff DW game like that taking place into the far future after the initial Dalek Wars.
It would be interesting to have a Doctor Who FPS where you fight against Sontarans, Cybermen etc and have a great time, only for it to transition into a survival-horror type game when you encounter a Dalek and realise all your weapons are useless and all you can do is try to hide
@@dalekbumps I agree. It'd really ramp up the daunting realization that you're in a hopeless scenario. I like to imagine that there could be moments where the Sontarans & even the Cybermen begin to retreat or back-off from engaging entirely prior to the player's first Dalek encounter, all just to set the mood.
I made supposed concept art for such a game if you'd like to see? It goes in a different direction than your pitch, however.
Halo has Shields for elites and brutes ,jackals also have Shields but all you have to do is hit it with a heavy weapon to insta kill them .A doctor who FPS game similar to AVP for the xbox 360 with its 4 campaigns timelord being your own custom doctor ,dalek mode ,villan mode and companion mode
@@declangaming24 Dude, that is legit the concept idea that I had! I love that game! In my concept, the Daleks would have been the typical tank, they could soak up damage and are essentially the unstoppable yet slow-moving force. The Cybermen would have involved team-based placement strategies, commanding units with a coordinating Cyberleader. Humanity would have been about super-soldiers with a run-&-gun style of gameplay, as they could utilize adaptive weaponry from fallen enemies. Like a Dalek Gunstick attachment or integrating a broken Cybermen arm like an electrical bayonet or as a secondary projectile weapon. Each faction you'd play as can alternate between 1st-3rd person, each would have a different HUD style, and all of their campaigns would have convened on one planet.
Like star wars Battle front but dw
Love the use of Transformers DS Decepticons music :)
I wondered if anyone would recognise it! Loved that game as a kid, it was surprisingly good for a movie tie-in game on a handheld.
@@dalekbumps agreed 👍
I love the effort put in to explaining away different writer’s inconsistencies over the years. The shields are there or not depending on its convenient for the script. All there is to it
That's the fundamental explanation for the inconsistency, but it isn't all there is to it. The decision to depict Daleks without shields for script reasons creates avenues for speculation as to the in-universe explanation for the lack of shields
The quote in e01e06 'dalek' about someone bursting into flames after just *touching* a dalek... Its very evocative, I wish we could see it happen. I imagine it as a secondary short-range weapon, making melee combat impossible unless you have a light saber or something. Imagine three daleks moving through a forest, with foliage within 4 feet just erupting into flames. To primitive races, it would be god-like.
The bursting into flames thing is such a great detail. Lore accurate Daleks are genuinely unstoppable, they truly are the most effective fighting force I can think of. Sadly on screen Dalek strength has been fading for a long time and these cool features have never shown up again
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Thanks! Getting comments like this really brightens my day, I'm glad you enjoy the videos :)
Maybe they scan their opponents offensive capabilities before the fight and decided it isn't worth it?
I like the mix, sometimes shields sometimes no shields, though the Daleks in the series 4 2 part ending should have had shields (theywere after all, surpose to be a fully fledged Daleks empire at the height of its power), but everything in this video now makes everything about the Daleks in Doctor Who make a lot more sense, thanks for this great video summarising and putting the Daleks into context. 😊
I like the idea of Dalek arrogance causing them to turn off the shields.
The weaker/non existent shielding on the Daleks these days is another reason the Daleks and Cybermen need a rematch
Especially with the post Nightmare of Silver Cybermen having eliminated their gold weakness, being capable of flight, FTE speed and adapting to superior firepower.
I think just through standard Dalek evolution and development they have probably adapted their armour to be more resilient to weapon fire.
The melting bullet thing terrified me as a kid
Fantastically interesting as always.
i also would suggest that the shield probably prevents outgoing fire from the dalek ( but it is made up space science so having a 1 way shield is not outrageous, and I do think that possibly davros' chair make have had one version of that when the doctor took it for a spin.)
I'm convinced both sides slightly devolved technologically after the Timewar due to a lack of resources and the deaths of scientists and countless members of both races, resulting in a loss of knowledge. This is my headcannon for why the Daleks seem weaker post Series 3 and why the Master was so easily able to kill the Time lords.
That makes a lot of sense, especially for the Time Lords. Rassilon's traditionalist dogma and despotic totalitarian rule may have 'helped' Gallifrey during the Time War, but it would have been terrible for the planet in peacetime. That's why I have no doubt that there are other Time Lords scattered across the universe, like Romana, Narvin, Flavia or Susan, who were disgusted with Rassilon's reign and left the homeworld before the Master destroyed it.
As for the Daleks, I think the answer is more simple. They did away with their shields because they simply didn't need them anymore. Sort of like how modern navy vessels have fewer individual guns than historic warships - their resources are focused on other, more important technologies than just guns, guns, guns. Same with the Daleks - now that they're not fighting a Time War anymore, they don't need a super-overpowered shield in order to be the most powerful thing on the battlefield, so they don't waste resources fitting every lowly drone with one
@@dalekbumps I agree, it makes sense. I think there are different versions of the Time War era casing too featured in multiple post series 4 episodes. Based on Into The Dalek's layout of the casing, filled with corridors and an enclosed chamber for the mutant vs Series 9 onwards where the casing is hollow without an enclosed chamber for the mutant I'd say The Daleks are constantly changing their casings. My other reason for the lack of knowledge was I always wondered why The Daleks didn't just build another reality bomb post Paradigm, my head-cannon was always that they simply lost the technical knowledge to do so.
@@TheDarkWhovian Into the Dalek does present a lot of interesting questions regarding Dalek lore, as does the Series 9 opening two-parter, I need to do more videos on those. As for the Reality Bomb, I think even the Daleks came to realise what a terrible idea it was, as without the Crucible/Medusa Cascade to protect them, it would inevitably lead to their own destruction as well - as we saw during Flux
@@dalekbumps Yeah I always found the implication of the speech system in the Series 9 opener to be a bit irritating to me. I get what Moffat was trying to do and it does pose some interesting questions as to how and why The Daleks act as they do, but it just felt ah. Yeah I'd imagine the Daleks wouldn't go through the same plan twice thinking it would lead to failure, the flux did make me question their technological abilities too as I always assumed they'd be able to defend themselves against an event like that. Definitely looking forward to videos on the subject! :)
@@dalekbumps Even more evidence for this idea on the Time Lords' end is that in Hell Bent, set after the war, they've basically become impotent and trapped in their city, as evidenced by them yelling at the Doctor to come back after he stole another TARDIS rather than actually stopping him.
Ironically enough that's kind of a role reversal with the Daleks, who now dominate the universe after being initially trapped in their city on Skaro...
They stopped using the forcefields when they invented an even better technology: Explosive Squibs
Transformers Deceptions DS music! Truly an underrated game!
5:09 Dalek has a really short plunger for some reason.... (And if you pause it at the right time, you can see it looks like someone's sleeve is covering the left side of the screen)
I LOVE the fact that Nu-Who added teh Dalek Force Field... As it was something that Terry Nation himself had said Daleks did have ... And it was even addressed in one of the Short Lived DALEK ANNUALS released by Fleetway Publishing in the UK.
Unfortunately, While I can find Images and Scans on Google... I dont have the Books... And teh scans out here are just the main picture which like a "Anatomy Book" has a cutaway that lists the different parts of a Dalek... So, the actual details of their force field as written by Nation are lost to time!
Thats also where the idea comes from that the Dalek Bulbs on their domes are also, Like the Eyestalks... A Weakness! Of course in reality they are there so that the Cast and Crew could discern which Dalek was actually speaking, But Terry Nation fleshed it out more and made them "Heat Dissipaters" - The Internal Systems of a Dalek produce a lot of heat, so even Speaking can COOK a Dalek in its shell... So teh Bulbs expel that excess heat! Smash Them... Cripple or even KILL a Dalek!
But that's NATIONS CANON... Who knows if we will ever see it added to Doctor Who properly! (Dont know why not... Other than creating a few continuity errors with Classic Who, They have used many other touches that Nation added himself... Including Dalek Levitation... Dalek Hover Craft... )
I hope the next Daleks don’t actually use force fields and have a greater feeling of reality, like we really see as some Daleks have dents and scratches etc
Dude I immediately recognized that transformers DS deception theme 😭 hit me with sm nostalgia
If the crucible daleks had shields they would be even more unstoppable
The forcefield disappearing, the shoulder mid section no longer rotating, no more temporal shift, the removal of weathering from the props, the downfall of the Daleks in NuWho and honestly it's all down to laziness. Much easier to put bullet bouncing effects or sparks when Daleks get hit rather than a forcefield animation.
The forcefield effect was only shown in slow motion, as it's too quick to see otherwise, so they didn't even need to show it all the time.
Use it again!
Do a video on supreme imperial daleks please 🙏 ❤
Is that audio the og transformers game music?
Can I build your custom renegade dalek in lego? Or any other ones you like maybe
@dalekbumps can you do a video on who'd win between a fight between the Daleks and the 1953 film Martians? Both use protective blisters and energy weopens.
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Great video explaining about the dalek forcefield, do you think sometime in the future, Cybermen might finally be able to produce anti Dalekanium weapons, what do you think?
BRO! Is that Transformers DS music!?!?
What is the reason the Daleks become terrible shots in the Moffat era? The Asylum Daleks has only just woken up, but the rest should never miss.
Much prefer the forcefield from Series 1 to seeing bullets hit the casing as in Series 4. The Daleks in Series 4 are meant to be more powerful.
Is that music from transformers ds? Sweeeeet
I would prefer the shield to have the ability to deflect bullets and stuff back where they were fired, like a lightsaber.
I prefer daleks that dont use sheilds, it makes them look stronger and more fearless to their enemies
And watching hundreds of bullets bouncing off the casing is just satisfying, watch the dr who anime to see what i mean
Spoilers ahead, you have been warned! ....
I cant wait for you to hear Victory of the Doctor from Big finish. It has put paid to alot of paradigm theories you've mentioned before. With no signs of a civil war with davros, but it is the definitive ending of the paradigm, before the events of time of the doctor. Proving the regeneration energy did not destroy the paradigm. Instead the paradigm and the parliament launch an audacious scheme to conquer the entire universe. The eleventh doctor uses something called the Darinthian blight to destroy every paradigm dalek and the parliament including the prime minister. It also explains the eternals function at last. So the paradigm finally have their ending and its a doozy. Very dalek heavy and cool. There is a line hinting how the daleks survived after this though and why we only really see bronze nsds from this point (barring witches familiar) cant wait for you to do a video on it!
What about the Dalek’s from the doctor of war story are they the same as the time war in the main universe ?
How many dalek variants are there?
I watched every dalek episode and counted at least thirty daleks
There's plenty in the show alone, but if you count the comics and audios there are over a hundred
Tons thousands of daleks
Where is this funky background music from?
It's from the Transformers Decepticons DS game
@@dalekbumps oh cool I played that game when I was a kid. Didn’t recognise the music
To address some of the other comments I'm guessing the shield only works on high speed projectiles, so bullets from guns (not paintball guns) and lasers.
Do you have any evidence that later daleks after paradigm don't have a shield? They didn't seem to be affected by the bullets in Into The Dalek.
The Daleks in Stolen Earth/Journey's End definitely don't have shields, and the Daleks from Into the Dalek don't either, as the lasers fired by the Arsitotle crew hit the casing, and there's even a bit where one of the Daleks explodes after being hit by concentrated fire
@dalekbumps But didn't the metacrisis doctor blow up the daleks by increasing dalekaniun fields (dalek shields) at the climax? Meaning they did have shields? I think RTD included bullets bouncing off casings as a quicker way of showing the Daleks are bulletproof without dedicating 10 seconds to a close-up of the bullets dissolving in the air & a side character exclaiming "bullets don't work".
@@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb the metacrisis doctor says "dalekanium power feeds, blasting them back" - whatever that means!
@@xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-uf2bb as for the second point about the slow-mo - in 'Dalek' and 'Parting of the Ways' there are many scenes where characters shoot at Daleks and there isn't a slow-motion effect, but there isn't a ricochet effect either - the bullets simply disappear. I'm fairly certain that after the deaths of Daleks Thay and Jast in Evolution of the Daleks, we never see Dalek shields appear again as the Cult of Skaro were the last of the Time War Daleks. Davros' New Empire and all Daleks seen after that are post-Time War Daleks, all of whom lack shields, even the ones that use the bronze design
@dalekbumps Interesting, appreciate the discussion - imo I think I agree with your point that dalek arrogance means they don't activate shiels (unless they know its necessary). Reminds me of how Dalek guns use just enough power to kill, but not to much, so they can kill slowly & savour it.
I perfer the shield cause of its effectiveness its possible that it was removed due to time war daleks being impure so the new dalek paradime fazed it out.
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Probably less reluctant to use them in their overwhelming numbers in front of lesser life forms
I think the daleks removing the shields has once again to do with their arrogance and superiority complex. Basically showing their enemies: "hey we dont need shields because your weapons are that useless"
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