Daleks: Then and Now | Doctor Who 

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You are spot on there 👏 If it wasn't for the daleks and the subsequent 'dalekmania' that followed, the show would likely have only lasted one season.

Thanks blake gamer

Remember though, that it's set on Skaro past the thousandth year of a neutronic war, so there's two points: * It's probably a long time ago in Earth history terms, as the Daleks would've had to have perfected space travel and interstellar or intergalactic exploration by the time they conquer Earth in the 2160s. * At their genesis Skaro had been in a thosand year long dirty nuclear war or attrition, so the epochs of the 2 civilisations involved (and maybe other civilisations had existed at the start and been wiped out!?!) had waxed and waned a lot. The Kaleds at this time are desperate and barely surviving and keeping their war effort going - remember the scene with the Kaled gunpowder rifle and the Thal laser rifle at the start of Genesis of the Daleks, which Moffat ripped off by having the Thal crop-duster biplane attacking Kaleds who only had bows and arrows in The Magician's Apprentice?

@@Kryojenix canonically the Daleks learned space travel due to the First Doctor visiting Skaro. (One of the televised earlier stories covered this long before NuWho) My reference was to the real life time frame, trust me when I say that voice control was merely a dream in 1975, it is sort of like when No6 uses a cordless phone in the 60s series The Prisoner and gives a surprised look, now mobile phones are everywhere.

We've still yet to perfect it. "Okay Google, call Dan!" "Here's what I found on Dams."

​​@@Ravendarkwytchcordless telephones were invented in 1956 and voice recognition in 1952 which was quite developed by the end of the 60's. The simple commands here would have been quite possible in 1975.

@@tr1p1ea considering that I was born in 1976, let me assure you that both these things were not as common then as they are now. Heck, I didn’t see my first mobile phone until 1995

Dalek species *

I think every Doctor has encountered the Daleks at least once on television, even the Eighth Doctor has a slight skirmish with them in Night of the Doctor?

​​@@RavendarkwytchNot the Fugitive Doctor.

@@adamstewart9052 ah yes, my mistake I was only thinking of the main Doctors…damn Chibnell for misunderstanding a Tom Baker scene and completely messing up the lore of the series

@@Ravendarkwytch Fair enough on the mainstream Doctors but I think she's being regarded as such on merchandise.

Same, the silver and blue design is amazing

Agreed

Well he can’t do any worse than Chibnall

​@CricketEngland don't even think Moffat did them well either. I have a soft spot for Victory of the daleks and I like Into The Dalek but I don't think he really knew how to write them properly.

@AddyParks that’s the point your supposed to be scared

@@user-hq3pd7nt4d well considering then was the best and most popular doctor who has ever been, think you'll find he did do a good job lol.

Ironically, Chibnall did a pretty good job with them aside from like one Christmas special. Resolution and Eve of the Daleks are both solid episodes that make the Daleks intimidating, especially Resolution.

I once overheard a mother telling her little boy what a Dalek was when he was looking at a model of one She said it was from Star Wars 😅

R2D2!

​@@RamschatI stand corrected

R2-D2?

No it isn't???

As far as I'm aware 'An Unearthly Child' is the first serial/episode of Dr Who. The Daleks were the second I think..granted I may be wrong.

@@CricketEngland An Unearthly Child is first, The Daleks is the second story and starts on episode five

@@andrewparkin4036they’re making a joke about an unearthly child becoming a missing episode

@@wil2209 thankfully someone gets the joke

I've only been in their presence because my friend has some including a remote control one as well and the rest are basically statues whose eye stalks, plungers and guns keep snapping off even though their worth a couple hundred dollars each NZD me on the other hand i only have a singular flimsy cardboard Dalek I put together from the back of a book

That big back hump was supposed to have let them switch out weapons, we just never saw it onscreen. A shame, because that function sounds super cool to me.

IDK why the fans chose the old design over the new. The New Paradigm design is much more scary looking (apart from the bright colors) than the old. They're tall, with big guns, and red eyes.@@Gojirawars03

Well, hello generic 13th Doctor hater #69,420.

@@philosotree5876Hello generic Chibnall shill #87

​@@philosotree5876How do you know they're not talking about the Daleks specifically?

How does that make a difference?@@adamstewart9052

⁠@@Gojirawars03​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠There’s no such thing. There are merely intelligent human beings (me, philosotree5876 and Adam) and brainless idiots (you and GreatHealer).

I never thought it made any sense. it didn’t help they gave a Dalek a Gatling gun and then had it miss so much. People were running down straight corridors and it wasn’t hitting them. It’s never good when an upgrade makes your ultimate killing machine less threatening. And I think that was the episode someone ran circles around a Dalek and it couldn’t hit them. It’s been shown in previous episodes though that Daleks can move the weapon part of their body separate to their head and lower part. So it could have just easily killed Dan (I think) who was running around it.

​@@rextitanyeah I actually find it frustrating how close that episode was to really being something special One of Chibnall's stronger pieces for sure though

I preferred the Daleks before Davros was introduced. After Davros they were just his minions, his foot soldiers.

Incorrect. 0:00-9:07.

Not clickbait at all.

Daleks have the capacity to slaughter multiple humans easily, you can't get more terrifying than that.

So never. The Doctor was confirmed gender-neutral in 1972. They never “became” a woman.

So you're a bigot?

@@LittleLozyou don’t have to be a bigot to agree she’s the worst incarnation of the Doctor.

@@johndoe35859 she isn't though lol

@@LittleLoz why not?

No, it doesn’t.

@@DrWhoFanJ yet it had the worst ratings ok dude

@@willmac623 You idiots go for the exact same “proofs”, no matter how many times we conclusively prove you wrong. It’s really boring and stupid.

​@@willmac623Ratings were average. Not the worst

@@LittleLoz lol 100% were the worst nice try

Incorrect.