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Eccelston acted the hell out of this scene.

Just started Dr Who recently. I'd always assumed Daleks were some kind of joke based on only knowing their appearance. Seeing the Doctor be downright terrified and then hateful of one was one of the most effective establishments of a threat I think I've ever seen.

"What's the nearest town?" "Salt Lake City" "Population?" "One million" "All dead." The thought that a single Dalek could kill one million people is what truly made them scary

Absolutely LOVE the Doctor saying “I had no choice” when the Dalek asks him if he really wiped them all out. The Daleks are about as close to irredeemably evil as you can get, and the Doctor, even at his darkest and most hateful, only exterminated them as an absolute last resort.

Strange isn't it? When this aired in 2005, the episode was set in the future, in 2012. Now it's in the past.

Funny how Eccleston goes to fear, then pride and anger and when the Dalek asks if it destroyed his race he has sadness. I wish he was in more seasons.

2005’s ‘Dalek’ is in my opinion the single greatest depiction of these iconic villains in Doctor Who’s entire 59 year history. Of course, they’ve had many great stories over the years, but a lone Dalek, able to cause such destruction and threaten all human life on the planet…Terrifying. An absolute masterpiece of a story! Massive pat on the back deserved for writer Robert Shearman.

"WE'RE NOT THE SAME, I'M NOT--" he was going to say "I'm not a killer" and then he stopped. and he said "No wait, you're right" because he realized...he was a killer. He is a killer. And that terrifies me, right then.

The Doctor really showed his dark side in this episode.

I loved how dark the ninth doctor became when he saw a dalek

The way Christopher is in this episode is just perfect. He still hasn't fully recovered from the war. All the hatred burning in him is something that I love about his performance. I would love to see more of this side

Such a brilliant scene, two war veterans on opposing sides who have both done terrible things and have more in common than either of them would like to admit. It gives not only Chris Eccelston a great chance to show his acting range but it also gave Nicholas Briggs the chance to deliver a great first impression as the new voice of the Daleks

"I watched it happen! I MADE IT HAPPEN!" "You destroyed us!" That sudden change from happy to sad. That's why I loved Christopher's doctor, those moments like these when a dalek could just talk to the doctor

Am I the only one finding the Dalek looking down at his gunstalk to be hilarious?

This scene is so well-done in hindsight when you realise that the Dalek was waiting for the touch of a time-traveller to revive it. It tries to provoke the Doctor and Rose both in different ways; with Rose it made her feel sorry for it, but with the Doctor it goaded him. It isn't much like a Dalek to call someone a coward, or tell them to keep back. Or to lament that it's alone. And it nearly worked, too, the Doctor walked right up to it and almost touched it before he thought better of it. The Daleks may not have emotions but they sure do know how to exploit the emotional weaknesses of their enemies when necessary.

This just proves that Eccelston had the acting chops to be capable of going for 10 seasons, but we would've all been happy with at least 1 more

Before I watched this scene, I didn't know what a Dalek was. Chris' acting here made it immediately clear to me that they were truly terrifying-- the first creatures I'd seen The Doctor run from. And then, of course, he shows us that The Doctor can be just as terrifying, too-- and not only because he's frankly intimidating when he shouts. It's because he doesn't hesitate to torture it. Not for a second. It is for showing us that guilty, blood-soaked conscience, that underlying, ancient anger, that impulsive rage at the Universe that Chris surely portrayed one of the most fascinating incarnations of The Doctor.

3:14 I wonder how many centuries the Doctor has been wanting to say "Exterminate!" back to a Dalek.

I really wish the episode wasn’t titled “Dalek,” that way it would’ve been such a surprise to see the Daleks return in this new series.

It's scenes like these that make me personally believe The Doctor had literally just regenerated in Rose. He's FRESH off the Time War, literally just ended it a couple of months ago, and to see his greatest enemy, the one he betrayed his entire code for, standing there, alive, makes him incredibly angry.

Fantastic scene, I think all will agree. Not only did Chris Ecclestone perform MAJESTICALLY, but the Dalek actually made me feel bad for it. Ha! How often can you say that about a killing machine?

Considering Daleks can't show emotion they are pretty good at making me feel sympathy for them

The Last Dalek vs The Last Timelord, such a powerful scene.

This is still by far the best Dalek episode of New-Who.

Fantastic actor... at 2:46 just as the Dalek finishes saying "so are you" you can see the Doctor's face begin to twitch as the anger and regret come pouring back.

You feel bad for him because you realize that not only does he not understand, but he is in many ways blameless. A grunt that might have never seen battle, bred to follow orders and now utterly terrified and confined to a world of agony and isolation...and when he reaches his most pathetic moment he reaches out to his mortal enemy for a fleeting second of comfort and is denied, left to continue his pain. Abandoned and forgotten over and over again...but certainly not beyond suffering.

Still a powerful scene, to this day. The modern Dalek is a soulless machine, that can only utter "exterminate." But this one, while unceasing in its mission to destroy all life, felt true and utter despair, but made the Doctor suffer with it in its anguish.

"And the coward survived." This Dalek coming back with sick burns.

"I watched it happen. I MADE IT HAPPEN!" That line, and how Eccleston said it, combined with the knowledge of the Time War from the 50th Anniversary special, make that point in this clip really intense. DarthRushy I do agree...he did seem like the last "classic" Doctor.

And THAT was why Christopher Eccleston was fantastic as Doctor Who.

2:36 The greatest killing machine is expressing sadness for the first time

Sitting at a lonely table for one, but I honestly think this is the best moment of New Who. The PTSD-ridden Doctor, faced with his worst enemy, his dark nature given full reign. Eccleston knocked this scene out of the park. Honestly, given how dark he gets with his laugh at 0:38 and his frankly terrifying retort at 3:19 , Eccleston would have made a brilliant Master as much as he made a great Doctor.

Proof right here that Season 1 is underated, just because it's not David Tennant. Christopher Eccleston is also a really good Doctor.

The TRUE War Doctor.

Eccleston was a KING. If it weren’t for his stellar performance that carried the revival of Who (along with the amazing writing from RTD), there is no guarantee we would’ve had the second series with David and so on.

The Lone Dalek in this one episode was scarier than all the Daleks in every Moffat Era Dalek story.

Man, I miss this kind of writing

2:44 Look at the right side of this mouth. His lip starts to twitch. This is what makes Christopher a fantastic Doctor! Look at all the tiny facial expressions!

The most underated doctor. He made new who possible

Tennant wasn't the only one that could go that dark. Brilliant from Ecclestone 🙌

0:38 - 0:42 The Doctor's evil laugh is truly terrifying.

0:40 The closest thing to a Dalek having an "Oh, shit" face.

I like how it recoiled in fear. The Doctor- empty handed- charged it. And it recoiled. Pulled away.

If you haven't watched this, you cannot understand the Doctor. This was one of the most important story points.

The Daleks in my opinion represented a turning point in the history of scifi villains. Before this you had bug eyed monsters that all looked alike, or all looked human. That original 1963 episode Dalek changed it all, and little did the producers of the original Doctor Who know that they had created a legacy and changed the way Scifi was produced.

One of my favoritre 9th Doctor moments. This is his darkest moment. Its debatable but the 9th Doctor is probably the darkest incarnation of the Doctor. He was more cynical, made fun of humans more, and just seemed tortured. We know why. He just came back from the time war, thinking he killed his own people. Torturing the defenseless Dalek, seemed something like The Master would do.

Ironic, isn't it? The first Dalek we see on the show, is the most human

I remember watching this when it aired. I was 9. I was enjoying the show my mum had raved about coming back. But this episode transcended that enjoyment into a full blow obsession. Cheers RTD. I’m now 26 and couldn’t be more thrilled to hear he’s back as the show runner!

The Dalek seems to have upgraded its vocabulary since Genesis of the Daleks. "PITY? I HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD! IT IS NOT REGISTERED IN MY VOCABULARY BANK!"

0:27 See? This is how you make us fear Daleks. By making the Doctor fear them.

"I demand orders!" Asserting to be a subordinate. That's honestly quite telling of the Dalek's mentality.

3:19. “HAVE PITTY!!!” 7th “I had pitty for you!!!”

"What I did, I did with no choice. I did it in the name of peace and serenity."

The torturer is actually just an electrician.

Christopher Eccleston is a very underrated Doctor, his performance in this scene is really impressive

“I am alone in the universe” That poor dalek, all alone. I mean he’s a bad guy he kind of deserved it. But that dalek my top 3 favourite doctor who villian of all time is the last robot left!

Best dalek episode in the new series. Now they just seem to be cannon fodder. That sequence when the dalek roams the base gives you a sense just how deadly a dalek is

"I watched it happen, I MADE IT HAPPEN"

My lad just successfully acted the entire emotional spectrum in one scene. Best Doctor, hands down.

This was horrifying seeing it for the first time. The Doctor's horror discovering the alien he's trying to help is in fact a Dalek. Immediately he goes for the door and tries to escape. It's not a Doctor we're used to, no ace up his sleeve, nothing, he's vulnerable and terrified. He could have been slaughtered 10 times over already as the Dalek cries Exterminate. Then he notices the Dalek's whisk is broken, it can't even kill, it's useless. The Doctor breaks into maniacal laughter and spends a few moments toying with it. He shows pride that he was responsible for the genocide of the entire Dalek race, yet sorrow he saw the genocide of his own. The Dalek then calls into question the Doctor's morality, "I am alone in the universe? So are you. We are the same." The Doctor snaps "We're not the same! I'm not a Dalek!" Yet while denying it internally the Doctor laments, "Maybe we are, because i know what should happen, i know what to do, i know what you deserve. Exterminate." The Doctor lets his hatred trump his reason and activates the electrical rig. "Have pity!" Cries the Dalek. "Why should I? You never did!" Scowls the Doctor. This was not horrifying because of the Dalek. It was because the Doctor shows a much more sinister and darker side of himself. He's flawed and broken, and much more like the Dalek himself than he would like to admit. He doesn't have all the answers, and in this scene he does make the wrong decision. It makes him so much more relatable as a character, and later in the episode it takes Rose to bring him back to his senses.

Dalek- "YOU MADE IT HAPPEN!" Ninth Doctor- "I had no choice.." I'm guessing we're going to find out if he's telling the truth in nine days- Roll on 50th anniversary!

Back when the Daleks were amazing and terrifying take note Moffat

This was my first time meeting a dalek. And I KNEW how dangerous they were with that look he had on his face

This is how terrifying Daleks used to be. Nowadays anyone with a baseball bat can just kill one apparently.

I legitimately get chills when Eccleston laughs out "Fantastic! Fantastic!" with such seething hatred and sarcasm towards the chained Dalek after realizing it can't shoot. Brilliant scene, Moffat needs to rewatch "Dalek" if he wants to make them scary again.

Best actor to play the Doctor.

christopher eccleston will forever be my doctor.

Dear Steven Moffat, THIS is how you make Daleks scary. Stop overusing them and make them dumber than a sheet of paper and give us back the ruthless killer machines they once were. With thankful regards, the fandom EDIT: r/agedlikemilk

Perhaps the best acting in the entirety of the show is here.

I always regard Dalek as Eccleston's magnum opus as the Doctor. Seeing this already-damaged man come face-to-face with one of the very things that played a huge part in arguably the most traumatic event in his long life always makes for gripping viewing. The trauma, pain, terror, rage and contempt at discovering that one had survived, that what he did to end the Time War had potentially been all for naught is compounded by his gloating if not psychotic laugh at its powerlessness and solidified by sadistically torturing it without any hesitation. Love it 😍

I love that he says 'Dalek' like it's a slur.

2:47 His upper lip twitches in rage; damn that is some good acting. You can't fake a twitch like that, that had to be felt.

Series 1 is one of the best things ever made on television. The Moffat era is a school play in comparison with it.

Eccelston absolutely nailed it, just look at the flurry of emotions, fear to rage to crazed laughter. You can truly believe the Darleks ruined his life from just 1 minute.

rewatching is so many years after i first seen it still proves that to me Ecclestone was the best Doctor. And that scene was just brilliant. Not only one of few actually deep interactions with daleks beyond typical "exterminate", but the way Doctor shows so many different feelings in such a short time was amazing. Like when his smile dissappears before dalek says "so are you", like if he thought of it himself just before dalek voiced it.

"I watched it happen. I MADE IT HAPPEN!" This is the only time the Doctor celebrates being the one to wipe out 10 million Daleks in one blow. The writer of the episode mentioned how this confrontation is akin to a Holocaust survivor confronting a Nazi prison guard. All that rage, all that terror and need for retribution and blind hate from someone deeply scarred against the very thing that scarred him.

The ninth Doctor was full of hatred and pain.

I always loved the way Eccleston said "Exterminate"

Fourteen years on and this is still my favourite Dalek story, and favourite Doctor moment, the range of Christopher Eccleston is phenomenal and why Rob Shearman never wrote for Doctor Who on TV again is a mystery.

Fast forward to Into The Dalek and the Daleks are bland, character-less drones who do nothing but screech "EXTERMINATE" while killing off characters we don't care about. Series 1 was the only Series were the Daleks were actually scary.

"I am alone in the universe." "Yep." "So are you. We are the same." I get chills every time. The entire scene's flawless. Also, I nominate that particular sequence as the permahermaphrodite motto.

Dear Chris Chibnall.. this is an example of a good writing.

The only time in entire Dalek TV history you'll feel even slightly sorry for a Dalek.

Ladies & Gentlemen your host for tonight's roasting of a Dalek, the Ninth Doctor!

A Dalek companion would've been awesome.

In my opinion the greatest Dalek story of the shows history…Eccleston made a SFX robot seem like the most evil, deadliest and unforgiving being in existence, mix that with RTD’s Writing and Murray Golds dalek theme and you have the best of the best.

This may sound strange, but in many ways, 9 is the last classic Doctor. The last one to have that much older and wiser intellect of the Doctors. 10 just had a huge IQ(despite me loving him) and 11 was senile.

Christopher Ecclestion is my favorite Doctor!

this episode pairs so well with the 50th anniversary episode because we see John Hurt regenerating into Chris at the end of that episode and episode 1 of this series Chris is checking himself out in the mirror, clearly just recently regenerated, so him encountering a dalek after just making the most difficult decision of his life maybe what, a week ago? and realising it was for nothing and the daleks are still out there. Just makes the doctor's actions and attitude in this episode so much more understandable, as far as he knows this is the LAST one and he just wants it to die

It's nuts! I'm a 54 yr old man and this... machine, still gives me goosebumps. A fabulous scene from Ecclestone's best episode imho...

I honestly admit I feel bad for that Dalek. It feels an emotion that even the Doctor believes no being should ever feel, hopelessness.

The ninth doctor is my favorite

one of my favorite doctor who scenes ever. eccleston is such an amazing actor

I love the way he say's "Exterminate" at 3:13

I really wish Christopher Ecclestone had agreed to make more than one series. He is for my money the best Actor to play the doctor so far. I want to clarify that doesn't mean he was the best ever doctor in my opinion. Some of his stories weren't as well written as either Tenant or Smith's and most of this series acted as a re-introduction to Old Dr Who villains rather than a true continuation of the series. He laid the foundations for new who in this series but I wish he'd stayed and built on them a little more. I do like David Tenant and Matt Smith's doctors but there was a gritty edge to the ninth (now tenth) doctor that they lacked.

I love that the 9th doctor is the one who really *REALLY* hates the daleks

It crazy to think how fresh the Time War is for this doctor. If you assume that in the first episode hes recently regenerated from the War doctor then the Time War was literally only over hours before. Then maybe acuple months or a year latter he stumbles onto the last surviving Dalek (to his knowledge), of course hes going to react this way. The wounds are still fresh, he hasint had the centuries to heal or at least scab over the trauma and damage from the War so it all comes out raw and violent here.

Love this doctor. The dark side to the 9th doctor gives him so much more character

"Oh FANTASTIC!"

3:09 how did they manage to make a blank, blue light express fear?