I love how the Dalek goes from being a dying, broken creature, to a true killing machine. it was the reboot needed because it showed what a single Dalek was capable of.
@@tustinrocknrollfan4798 Ikr as much as people can say Daleks in Manhatten or stolen earth/journeys end was bad atleast RTD Daleks actually killed people.
@@relishjack3173 So did the Resolution one but people hated that special (though I really liked it, it had some great ideas, but I think it should have been the exit story for Ryan, it was the right time and would have closed off his story nicely).
@@jakerockznoodles The Resolution Dalek made no sense, it was torn apart with medieval weaponry, but in it's scrap metal armour it can resist modern army technology.
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When Rob Sherman's wife found out he had been commissioned to write a Dalek story she was said that Daleks were silly. He asked her to list all the reasons. She listed the sucker among several other things. So he went through the list and found a way of making each "defect" either a strength or just terrifying. Thanks, Mrs Shearman, for what I consider the best Dalek story since The Dead Planet.
Because of that fact, the plunger is my favorite Dalek weapon. A instant plug that can connect to any computer and allow the Dalek to take control, and can also literally crush a living human skull and extract information from the brain. Utterly fantastic presentation of something that’s been the butt of a joke for decades
This episode plays in 2012 so canonically by downloading the Internet this Dalek now has several thousand files with nothing but the Bee movie script in text, audio and video format. I'd also become a hateful killing machine under those circumstances
@@boooster101 Dalek: I can't wait to learn about what happened to the rest of the Daleks Computer: According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. Dalek: what the fuck
@Marksman 13 yeah, imagine being forced to watch a thousand videos of animals and insects mating simultaneously with tons of close ups .... Thoroughly disgusting
The noveliation of this episode actually addresses this: Dalek: I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE DALEKS. Doctor: Yeah, I saw. Downloading the internet. Wading through a lot of bare bodies, and petitions for the revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dalek: ALL IRRELEVANCE HAS BEEN DISPOSED OF. Doctor: And afterwards, what did you find?
1:30 "Connected material extrapolated, initIATE CELLULAR RECONSTRUCTION!" The way that it slowly regains it's characteristic high-pitched tone sends utter shivers down my back, even after so many years since I last watched this episode.
The way that the Dalek’s voice goes from weak and dying to perfectly restored as it regenerates itself. You can just tell it’s been waiting for such an opportunity to free itself and make all Hell break loose.
That Dalek used it's dying words to manipulate Rose into feeling sympathy and touching it to absorb the time energy she's passively collected from time travelling and restore some of it's power. At least that's what I think it was doing and it's honestly terrifying how clever of a trick that was if that's indeed the case. Daleks weren't just trigger happy mini tanks, they were incredibly resourceful, even when one is close to death.
Unless I'm missing something from earlier seasons, I don't know if that's the case. How could the Dalek know that Rose was a time traveler? The Dalek are geniuses, but they aren't psychic, as far as I know. More to the point, I think this assumption undercuts what should be a humanising moment for a monstrous character. The Dalek, a pure being born of hatred, is suffering physically and emotionally. It's lost its strength and pride as a soldier, it's lost its entire race. Its only solace is not only the cold embrace of death, but the cruel twist of fate that it meets an "inferior lifeform" that shows it compassion. This isn't how you write the last Dalek. This is how you write the *best* Dalek.
@@BanJoKazoowie I think that’s an easy explanation. Before the Dalek spoke, Rose told it that she’s friends with the Doctor and that he can help. That tells it two things, that she knows the Doctor and is a possible time traveller, and also she likely doesn’t know what a Dalek is given the Doctor tried to kill it in cold blood. It wouldn’t know for certain if Rose travelled with the Doctor, but now knows that there’s a chance she is, and in the state it’s in, what’s it got to lose if the trick didn’t work? It’s already dying with no other hope but a painful and lonely death. Notice how the Dalek didn’t respond until after she mentioned the Doctor. Of course, I could be wrong and it might just be a minor oversight but that’s the best explanation I can think of that fits with how it knew Rose would restore it. The Daleks still clever enough to make the connections and as I said, even if it’s wrong, it can’t get any worse for it.
@@ZoidiusPlasmaReaper Whichever motive it had, it said what it did because it was dying. But from 12 and 13's time we now know that Daleks can't be killed. The later series are even contradicting the early new Who stories with retconning.
I love how this really highlights how manipulative the Daleks can be: It plays on humans’ pity, using Rose’s compassion to fool her into touching it. Best Dalek episode ever
It always amuses me that Daleks don't feel pity, yet constantly expect it. Actually, knowing what I know about real world "Daleks", that's about right.
SOLDIER: "It can't get out, that lock's got a billion combinations" DOCTOR: "Daleks are genius, it can calculate a thousand billion combinations in one second flat!" now I'm sorry Chris, but it takes him at least 12 seconds to work it out
Dalek: *downloads whole internet* Also Dalek: *downloads hack without realising and has his credit card info stolen* Yet Also Dalek: *detonates due to overload of spam*
I love how intelligent the Dalek comes off while talking to Rose. She's a got a friend called the Doctor, thinks he can help, and expects that he will - ergo she's a time traveller, but does not know what Daleks are. Therefore it can say the right things to play on her compassion until she touches it. "Yes." I also like that it doesn't say Exterminate when it kills the torture guy. He never got it to talk, even when it dies. (Yes, Daleks are evil, but I give it a pass on killing him).
Watching this as a kid and then coming back and watching it again it really really puts it into perspective just how scary it is that thing is smart and not only is it smart it holds grudges too xD and yeah I kind of agree I give a pass on killing that asshole
@@seanpazdera6407in Journey’s End - a massive army with a huge space station (bigger and more capable than the Death Star) with a super weapon that could destroy the very fabric of reality - defeated by Donna Noble pressing a few buttons.
1:54 remember: Never be sarcastic with a Dalek. Their emotions start at unstoppable rage and increase from there. :D I love it when characters use sarcasm and regret it xD like with Cassandra. "What are you gonna do, moisturize me to death?"
Genetic Material Extrapolated Initiating Cellular RECONSTRUCTION!!! That's my favourite line in the history of Doctor Who. The music in the background probably has something to do with that though. It's so intense GOD I luv it :)
@Shamoxx "Metaltron" was the name given by Henry Van Statten to a bronze Dalek soldier (the same Dalek that you see in that clip escaping after being touched and accidentally freed by Rose Tyler) that fought in the Last Great Time War, and survived after falling through time to the Ascension Islands on Earth. Damaged, he passed through several collectors of alien technology, eventually becoming a living specimen in Van Statten's Cage in 2012. The "Metaltron" Dalek was adapted from a Dalek in the audio story Jubilee, on which the Doctor Who Series 1 episode 6 "Dalek" was based.
Except she messed up a LOT. First with the Dalek then immediately in the next ep with Adam (bringing him on board then giving him the TARDIS key) then immediately after that, it was her father. She wasn't truly sorry for any of it and kept screwing up. Once or twice is ok, but when you keep doing it and never learn then it's not.
Part of me understands why that Dalek was pissed... Beyond just being a Dalek I mean. Badly damaged, defenseless, being subjected to torture day in and day out, all while waiting for Orders that will never come. Worst of all the greatest enemy of the Daleks is the one to tell you the truth.
New who fans: Awwwww, look at the nice alien! I hope he doesn’t die Old who fans from behind the couch: how has everyone in the facility not been exterminated yet?
Nick Candy okay let's look at a dalek first thing you see is a ruthless heartless killing machine all it knows is how to kill, but this dalek was the last of its kind....it's been alone for god knows how long the humans we're torturing it for pretty much no reason after a while it became an empty shell it just shut down gave up....it wanted to die this genocide machine lives to kill but after maybe years of torture the humans broke it
Nick Candy think about it this dalek ok responsible for the deaths of billions...was depressed and alone and just wanted to die it was powerless for years....until the doctor showed up...the doctor it's sworn nemesis now I'm going to try and enter the mind of a human soldier let's call him private dalek so dalek was caught by the enemy then tortured for years after a very long while it breaks and slowly dies...it just screams and screams and screams until the guy in charge shows up let's call him captain doctor now the time lords and the daleks waged war until the doctor killed both species leaving this dalek completely alone until....they meet one another this gives the dalek a reason to exist again
Adrenaline! This is arguably one of the best Doctor Who episodes! I loved the entire Ecclestone era. He and the Daleks managed to resurrect the Dr. Who Series.
I remember watching this as a kid. I didn’t realise the Dalek was only pretending and manipulated Rose to touch it. I believed it. Then it shows just how dangerous the Daleks can be. It’s not because it has a powerful gun or a super strong shell, those certainly help. It’s clever. It’s cunning. It doesn’t have emotions, but it knows just how to trick those that do. To beat them, you learn very quickly you need to be as ruthless and heartless as they are. In fighting the Daleks, you become just like them.
The thing that I think makes the scene more terrifying is how the Dalek prior to downloading the internet and absorbing the energy to repair itself, not only shrugs off all gunfire directed at it but flat out Ignores the aggressors in favor of getting to the computer. It has no need to be in a hurry, it'll get to them and kill them when it is good and ready to. And that's what's terrifying.
Finally, after 13 years I've found the episode of Doctor Who that scared me to death. Man, I'm still afraid of the Daleks, nasty creatures. I still remember getting nightmares of a Dalek sucking me up. Man, i thnk i've got a lotta catching up to do.
2:20 I honestly realised something: They could have just cut out the power in this sector to render the electronic lock useless; the Dalek could just remain trapped there. But then all excitement in the universe would be ex... ahem! You get the idea!
How To Make Changing past impossible 1. Invent time machine. 2. Travel to 22nd century. 3. Invent probability changing machine to make probability certain that changing past is impossible forever.
This episode is kinda just like filled with ex machinas but for the dalek (because it's so overpowerd of course), and that would be fine because the purpose of this episode is to explain how strong a dalek is, but like in later dalek episodes, they seem much weaker and less remarkable. But overall, this episode is great. Very thrilling and definitely the best dalek story
It actually took longer to find the right code for the door than to download the entire internet. Bandwidth and storage are fine, but despite what The Doctor said it needs a CPU upgrade.
My bank account 1 years ago had shut down after 3 AND it asked for few random digits from password instead of it whole. Brute force attack is trivial to defend from
I work with Daleks. They can be very kind and gentle at times but if you push them too far they start getting uppity. You just have to talk to them nice like rose did. I asked one of the female Daleks at work out for a date to go to the pictures we went to see Pearl Harbour.
2:16 Does Russel T Davies have a thing against the number 1 Trllion? I noticed the same thing in Silence in the Library, where the global scans show "a million million" lifeforms on the planet.
I like to imagine the Dalek was actually chill with most of humanity (other than the guy trying to torture it) and then it downloaded the weird corner of the Internet and had a very quick and dramatic change of opinion
The Dalek charged up its power cells with the power, regenerating itself, then it downloaded the internet, saw all the degenerate porn, and went on a rampage.
