It looks like Doctor Who won’t be facing his most famous adversary for a while as Steven Moffat confirmed to the BBC that they’re giving the Daleks a rest. He said that the Doctor has only defeated them “about 400 times”, and it was time to find less familiar and easy to defeat enemies:
“There’s a problem with the Daleks. They are the most famous of the Doctor’s adversaries and the most frequent, which means they are the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe.”
He also addressed the concerns that the most recent episodes of Matt Smith run were too scary for children:
“It is horror, but horror for children. It’s scary in the way that a fairy story can be scary.”
May 31, 2011
#1
The Daalek’s are the only bad guy (besides the one in RoboCop) who can be defeated by stairs! That being said, I think this is all a ploy and he is definitely bringing them back as a “surprise” later in the season.
May 31, 2011
#2
The Daleks have thrusters. They can make it up stairs. There is an episode with the 10th? doctor i think where they get stuck at the bottom of stairs and start hovering in the air.