Please Let's Not Return to Skaro
By Danny Nicol To describe Big Finish's Return to Skaro as conventional is understatement. Briefly, using the ill-fated Fast Return Switch, the TARDIS materialises on Skaro a few generations after the last encounter. The Thals are now dominant. But in the old Dalek city lurk living Daleks... This “canon-filler” audio-adventure provides us with a Dalek leader, a traditional ugly monster resembling an “intergalactic goldfish”. We are told that this Dalek Supreme was actually pulling the strings in “The Daleks” itself and has managed to live to a ripe old age. But such retcon robs us of some of the mystique of “The Daleks”. The absence of a leader in the original serial is intriguing – particularly if, as Terry Nation intended, the Daleks represent what the Nazis might have developed into. Recent studies show that, in Britain at least, the Far Right has changed radically since the 1930s with many now te...