Adding the effect of the targets bones being visible during extermination was one of the best choices the effects team ever made

Robert Shearman's visceral description of the method of extermination in the novelisation of Dalek is so grim and macabre; the agonising, lulling pain it causes during death perfectly suits the way the book elaborates on how envious the Daleks are, wanting to inflict their perceived suffering on everyone else who's not sealed away in a tight, suffocating machine

Death to the Daleks is when they had to resort to more primative weaponry because their gun sticks weren't working.

The fact that they believe you should suffer in agony when you die for not being Dalek is genius and quite disturbing.

You're knowledge of Daleks is so thorough; if you ever made a 'Wars of the Daleks' timeline poster or something like that, people would definitely buy them. I know I would!

The Dalek weapon has always been a Ruby Ray blaster ever since 2007 when I read the Doctor Who Files book on Daleks

One little note is that in Dalek and Parting of the Ways, when a Dalek fires the whole screen goes negative á la early Classic Who but afterwards just the target goes negative á la Remembrance of the Daleks.

I always liked the simple design of the dalek guns. It always felt more at home seeing them. Instead of every new Dalek design is a new gun.

Daleks lowering their weapons to the lowest setting to ensure their targets die in as much pain as possible reveals two things: - why Daleks try to avoid just blowing up planets from orbit to instead launch invasions. They want everyone to suffer - Daleks don’t have “joy” really. They don’t ensure suffering for their own joy. They do it because they legitimately believe that’s what non-Daleks deserve

I've always thought of the Daleks gunstick as its "communicator" . . .

Watching their evolution, they sure did become scarier.

I had struggled to find a consistent statement as to what Dalek gunsticks fired, but I did come up with a theory based on how it behaved in the episode Dalek, an electro-laser which is a theoretical energy weapon that is being explored by those so inclined. Essentially a laser passed through the air to a target, the laser ionises the air between the target and the gun and makes it conductive, and then a powerful electrical charge is sent along the channel, basically artificial lightning. Which would explain the wet people getting electrocuted. Of course that doesn't explain how it'd work in space as it does in Parting of the Ways. And that only really explains the beam fire, not the bolt fire.

High energy radiation 'cooking your insides' basically.

The original negative visual and loud compressed air blast sound still rule. People overlook the classic blast sound.

Great video as always man. I’ve always loved reading or hearing about Dalek weaponry because expanded media makes it SOOO much darker and violent than what we see in the show.

Another great video!

we also see that the weapon can kill machines like mechanoids and Movellans. So I'm guessing the energy can also destroy robots as well. We also saw that a group of Dalek's using maximum extermination would destroy ships like the Valiant.

In "Power of the Daleks", a Dalek weapon is tested on ? 6 inch thick armour and makes holes in it like a knife through butter. I'm sure I read in the 1970's Dalek book that its a Scalar Energy Device.

I do miss the steam gun from the movies.

Got to say, I'm surprised to hear that thier weapons had that effect on organics organs while been shot at. I knew this in Rememberance when the Doctor, Group Captain 'Chunky' Gillmore was examaning thier dead soldier, with the Doctor saying "Ah, massive internal displacement. His insides were scrambled, very nasty." But I only thought it was just with Renegade Dalek weaponary. I thought that Dalek weapons simply use a very high amount of electricity to kill thier victims.

Rick and morty summed it up "what kind of death is it ?" "Instant" 😂

Personally I see imperial dalek gun beams a mix of red and orange as the beam projectiles had a redish outer glow, or blood orange. And in fan edits of 60s daleks stories with new gun fx including my own the beam is white. What with 60s daleks being in black and white and all.

Honestly, in Resurrection when we see some shots of people getting shot together especially when one Dalek shoots that chemist and Kisten, I like to imagine the beam goes right though their bodies, hence why they both die together.

I’ll be honest I wish the Dalek machine guns in Eve of the Daleks was used a bit more creativity than just “killing everyone in a group over and over again. Like imagine that was the gun stick used in the first Dalek story of Chibnal’s era in that Dalek vs military scene

I ahve noticed Dalek energy blasters just bypass any and all armour, so if you're a space marine your armour isn't going to save you as the Dalek energy beam will bypass everything.

I now reaffirm my stance that a Dalek could kill Goku

There was the special weapons dalek

I'd like it if the Daleks could be shown to switch between the different modes of firepower; eg show the gunstick twisting as it changes from singular target/modern effects to multiple targets/classic effects.

Hey how about the old Guns from the 60s? Those were not energy weapons, but concentrated shockwave blasts, that I believe exploded the internal organs of their enemies.

What follows, of course, is only my personal view. I think the original (1963 onwards) extermination effect is still the best/most evocative (if that can be the right word). It was uncontrolled, unlimited power. So much power, that it convulsed the area (and any person) it hit; turned it inside out, literally negatived it. Seen this way, increasingly detailed attempts to assimilate a Dalek blast to a laser beam ( and I think that is what underlies all “updates”) for me paradoxically limit the power/effect of Dalek weaponry. If my memory serves me right, in one of the episodes of the very first serial, the Doctor (I think it is) rubs sticks together to make fire. One character remarks along the lines of “he made fire from his fingers”. Now consider how a Dalek looks. You could say that the manipulator arm and the gun are two evolved arms. The blaster is an evolved left arm. It has withered so much, that it is now only an agent of death. The “claws” inside it which repeatedly shoot out/withdraw as the weapon itself is activated, were fingers once. When, in the second story, a Dalek disables Ian, this is the first time we see Dalek weaponry in action. As it shoots, the Dalek says, not “Exterminate”, but “Fire!”. Fire from its fingers, indeed. I think David Whitaker did a magnificent job as first story editor. He was firefighting, struggling with stories that were not ready, rearranging the running order of stories which were ready. And I think it’s down to him that we have this tightly bound complex of imagery across different episodes. I don’t think these are empty connections, either. They contribute to raising some quite deep questions. What exactly is the connection, if any, between the worlds of the first and second stories? Is the world of the first story Earth, or perhaps Skaro? Is the world of the second story Earth, but so far in the future that its original name is forgotten? Are we the Daleks? So finally, I think the first extermination effect is not “realistic”. But, in the end, what’s realistic about a Dalek anyway? That first extermination effect seems much closer to, is perhaps even an extension of, the opening graphics, and the theme “music”, in which you can sometimes hear nightmare - space and time screaming at the horrors they contain within themselves.

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You missed the part were after a target is hit it becomes dangeres to tutch sujesting the dalek gun stick is radiation based pumping a target full of leathle radiation to the point were the dead body it self is radioactive if not for a short time. This is seen in part 2 of daleks in manhaten were one person was shot and killed by a dalek gun stick and the docter had to stop Martha from tutching the body indicating that the body was rendered hazards after being shot.

One thing not discussed here; is there any canon explanation for the weird tendril like things that pulse in and out of the end of the gun as it fires in some stories?

Our weaponry is beyond your primitive understanding!

Does anyone have an explanation for how they work in the 1st & 2nd doctor era? As I recall, the end of the gun repeatedly oscillates in and out of the shroud as it's being fired, and there's no visible laser beam but still the wide dispersal and cut to negative effect are still there.

Is that Sonic Heros music?

EVEN MORE SONIC HEROES!! though the level this track is from fucking sucks 😂