Despite the fact it end up leakingwell in advance , Doctor Who put a bunch into keep on the identity of its New Years Special ’s villain — a battered , sinister , and deadly “ Recon Dalek”—a secret . Part of that silence ? An improbably British code name that was used on the solidifying .
Speaking in the latest military issue of Doctor Who cartridge holder ( via theRadio Times ) , Nikesh Patel — who played Mitch , one of the archaeologists who unwittingly uncovered part of the Dalek ’s tentacled bodyin the sequence — speak of the absurd stage of security required when it came to hash out anything to do with the real baddie of “ Resolution . ” powerful down to the fact none of the scripts referred to it alfresco of a code name , manifestly :
I start out a call from my agent saying they ’d sleep with you to be in the Doctor Who Special . I asked them to send me through a hand and it was a cracking read , but also a confusing read . It was a really tense horror thriller , but this buried , ancient tentacled evil was only referred to by a codename ! As someone who ’s not a die - hard Who fan , I thought , ‘ That ’s a footfall too far , certainly ? ’
Patel did n’t reveal the name , but his co - star from the special , Charlotte Ritchie — Mitch ’s poor fellow archeologist Lin , who spent a honest chunk of the installment under the Dalek ’s bondage — took to twitter to confirm that the most terrifying and lethal being this excommunicate Earth had ever witnessed … was called Kevin .
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I do n’t care what Davros would remember of it , but my god , I kind of love Kevin the Dalek . No offense to any Kevins indication — you have a lovely name , I ’m sure your parent are very proud . But when you attach it to a hateful alien pepper pot fascist , it just becomes absurdly hilarious . Fear the dread vanguard of the Dalek fleet : Kevin , and his familiar , Bernard , Gary , and Clive ! ! !
MD Who should lean into this and just remarket the Recon Dalek as Kevin the Dalek . I ’d buy that military action figure / Funko Pop / spoken - word record album . Hail Kevin , first of his name , Dalek supreme !
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