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My fangirl heart would explode if the Doctor ever encountered an Andalite.
OMFG.
He and Ax would get along so amazingly!

Srsly? I could have sworn they were called Rassilon robots. *looks it up* You're right. But apparently they're thought to have been made by Rassilon.
And also, Wikipedia says there's plans to bring them back! : D : D : D

As always, I can't do you any 'useful facts' but I can do you some 'quite interesting trivia.'

Since the Raston Warrior Robots were a last minute "Argh! We need something cheap to fill some time with!" addition to the script, the costume is just one of the android suits from Earthshock sprayed silver.

There's nothing in the episode or the novelisation that says where they're from, and (apart from the fact that 'Raston' sounds a bit like 'Rassilon' if your diction is as poor as Jon Pertwee's) there's nothing to suggest they're native to Gallifrey as opposed to being time scooped victims of the Death Zone like everyone else in the Game.

The EDA The Eight Doctors suggests the Raston Warrior Robots were relics of a mysterious and ooky Lost Civilisation of mysterious and ooky Ancients. The later EDA Alien Bodies reveals this is marketing spin put about by thier real manufacturers , the Raston Hardware Company, an operation based on Tersurus Luna who also produce the Raston Cybernetic Lap-Dancer.

@Richard - It sounded a lot like Rassilon to me. I'd watch it again, but I only had it rented from Amazon, so it's gone now. I guess I just assumed they were native guards because I heard 'Rassilon'.
I didn't know that about the Earthshock androids... those guys are cool.

@RogueModron - The cybermen are just generally ridiculous in The Five Doctors. Nothing they do does any good at all, and they get massacred at least twice.

@Travis III - It's nice to see that I'm not the only person who thinks the Daleks are being overused. I think they should put them away for a while, do something else, then bring them back in a few years in a really OMG awesome return-of-the-Daleks-just-when-you-thought-they-were-gone-forever-type story.
It worked with the cybermen in Earthshock.

But with an army of them, whatever way he found to kill them would have to be rather contrived, or seem much too easy, or both. It'd be like... you familiar with the last season of Buffy? You have the uber-vampires, and when there's just one of them, it's incredibly hard to kill because it doesn't die when you stake them. But when there's an army of them, they dust like normal vampires, and it's just silly. /Buffy references.

See what you mean. And I suppose that's the main reason I feel that the Daleks are overused. Which lead me to watching a few episodes again and make the following ramblings...er, observations.

Series 1-Rose kills the entire Dalek fleet because she looked into the heart of the TARDIS! *gasps* (what an idiotic plot device!) whereas in "Dalek", titular monster was so damn intimidating because one of them wiped out several hundred trained soldiers without breaking a sweat. It was around the former point (which actually came second) that I felt the Daleks lost their credibility as any threat to the Doctor.

Series 2- The Daleks are back! But this time, all they do is destroy the Cybermens' credibility, before getting themselves sucked into a void that the Eternals (they mean the ones from Enlightenment, don't they?) call "The Howling" for some reason. Meh.

Series 3- Unlike many I actually rather enjoyed "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks", but the Daleks are poorly utilised in this. Judging from Raynor's "Torchwood" episodes (which are good), she should probably stick to character-based stories lacking any real antagonists.

I seem to have strayed from the point a bit, haven't I? Maybe a singular Raston Warrior Robot would work better than an army in that script I will almost certainly never be asked to write. *sighs*

A single one would be good. i think that's why Dalek works so well - it's just like 'whoa, one Dalek can do that much damage?'. And that's why the Raston robot worked so well.

@Kay_Challis - Oh, I don't doubt it. But when I get something wrong, I get embarrassed and keep trying to justify it. 'Oh, well I thought that because *insert flimsy reason here*, so it's understandable, right? Right?!'

I would do something set entirely inside the TARDIS. There would be no real monsters, or aliens, or anything. It would mostly be character development. I know I would bring back Rose, because she's my favourite companion, and I think she has a lot of potential for inner discovery and development. She an Donna would make an interesting pair too. Maybe I'd even bring back Jack, because I think he must have a lot of good backstory.

It would be dialogue heavy, with maybe some flash backs, to Gallifrey, to Rose's life in the parallel universe, to adventures that the Doctor has had with both Rose and Donna, I don't know.

I also don't know why they're trapped in the TARDIS, but it would give us a chance to see the other rooms.

There may have been. I lose all of the running, don't get me wrong, but I loved that bit in The Sound of Drums Were the Doctor just sort of talked about Gallifrey and the one Torchwood episode with the collapsed building that showed how every one of the team members came to work for Torchwood.

I <3 character development and backstory.