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They could of done more with the char and had fun. I feel they didn't use him.

The Daleks are getting somewhat tiring- especially since they're pretty much constantly yelling 'exterminate, exterminate!!!' But then again, the levels of cheesiness on this show are getting worse and worse, so I almost don't want to see what the next monster is. Almost. However I am still obsessed with the show, despite its over-use of the Daleks. Too bad they took out the master, though. He could've been used so much more. Oh well.

I've thought long and hard about this and (for...ooh...all of two minutes) and I guess okay, yes, the Daleks probably could use a vacation. And let's face it, with RTD leaving that's likely what they'll get.

Trouble is, this isn't the seventies. People want their aliens to be convincing, not just people in suits with some poorly stapled on antennae. Given the wildly divergent themes from episode to episode in the series new threats would take too much time and money to some up with. But then, since new Who turned up they've done away with the long-serial format too. So it's just as hard to come up with a villain and give them a decent backstory in 45 minutes as well as shoehorning a crazy time-travel adventure in there too. Hence the over-use of daleks. Their story's simple, they spent a lot of time building them and updating them, and they're harder to kill than cockroaches so there's always a way back for them. I guess it just solved a lot of problems for the production team. The fact that they are universally ADORED by the fans couldn't hurt, either.

That's not to say they can't come up with something just as good, but of the new creatures they've re-used the Slitheen were viewed as childish and the rest were on our side (Judoon, Boe, Ood etc.) But only Cassandra really provided a quality villain-and ironically that was probably because she was, essentially, a human character. Same with the Master. And Davros. AND the cyber-controller. Let's face it, the recurring baddies on the show outside the daleks are nearly ALWAYS human. Which brings me to my point.

Bring back Mr.Finch already, dammit D:

I understand it's hard to come up with a quality villian in 45 minutes but still they could try a bit harder. It doesn't have to be completely alien it could an incredibly evil human or something.

I just can't stand relying on the same plot over and over.

I was just watching the DVD of "Invasion" again recently, and there it was - that old plot device "build the aliens' master weapon into a product everyone'll buy"... Cyber-control devices in electronic gadgets, Auton-animated plastic products, the communcation networks devised by Lumic and the Master, ATMOS...