There's something tragic yet nightmarish about someone so inherently broken they consider compassion to be a sickness. Davros is a monster for what he did to his people
I think the reason Metaltron killed himself was because he started to realize how dalek life awful, like Cybermen with their emotion suppressor turned off. As the Doctor said, from birth to death in a cold metal cage, completely alone. Actually, it seems to me that's why the Daleks have no other emotions than hatred.
That's definitely part of it, but the fact that he says "I will not be like you" to Rose indicates that he is sickened by the emotions themselves, because they represent a deviation from Dalek 'purity'
@@dalekbumps according to the Doctor. I want to believe more that when the Dalek said that this is not life, this is sickness, he meant his own life before, because he already felt the warmth of the sun and all that palette of feelings that had previously been removed
There's a good chance that Metaltron was starting to experience guilt for the first time, considering it was already experiencing compassion for Rose. Imagine how sickened it must've been with itself if it could feel even a fraction of the guilt for personally killing thousands of people across its life
In a way, I feel sorry for all Daleks - their purpose is wrong, but it's not their fault, that's how they were created. This Dalek's story is particularly tragic, as it is conflicted between the emotions and the programming that made it a Dalek.
To be honest, I've always pitied the Daleks for their inability to see what they truly are and grow and change. This one makes me very sad because he could have been the start of something new, something better.
The very first episode of Doctor Who I watched as a child. Of course, I didn't understand the story too well as I was young. But the Daleks instantly become my favorite aliens after this episode. They are something I always get excited seeing over and over again.
Would highly recommend reading the novelisation as it goes more in to that Dalek's birth, its time with the collector before Van Staten and the horror of what it is actually like being a Dalek
seconded, the novelisation is a bit weird (it's a Rob Shearman book after all) but it's a great reimagining of the story that delves into the backstories of all the characters, including the Dalek. There are some changes to the story that I found a bit questionable, such as removing the Dalek's shield, but overall it's a really enjoyable read.
Any story breakdown you do on Dalek characters is great!! Thanks for this! This was the story that opened up my universe and made me love Doctor Who and the Daleks. This was the very first introduction I ever got to the Daleks, because Doctor Who wasn’t really well-known in my county let alone state, and I’d never even heard the word “Dalek” before. My first introduction to them was a story about their lone last survivor’s having everything it ever knew crash down upon it. I was 11, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried and cried LMAO
Why didn't anyone recognise it as a Dalek? I suppose given it's 2012 everyone's memories of the series 4 finale got swallowed by Amy's Crack (lol); she doesn't recognise them either for the same reason.
Why do you think? To generate interest. It worked! This is still one of the best episodes the show ever produced. They made the right choice. Besides, when introducing a show and its main "bad guys" to a new audience, you wouldn't choose a crappy story now would you?
I still after all these years wonder just what state the mutant was in before Rose touched its casing. What its wounds looked like etc. According to behind the scenes interview (might have been the commentary on the 2Entertain DVD), she was supposed to reach into the danaged grill section and touch its brain or something, but they pulled that part out because they felt it would be too grizzly for kids.
You can't unboil an egg, and you certainly can't give a boiled egg awareness that it is boiled. As in, you can turn a Kaled into a Dalek, but you can't turn a Dalek back into a Kaled. And you certainly shouldn't give a Dalek awareness like a Kaled. That would be hell. Imagine a human becoming a Dalek but remembering and longing for their life as a human.
At the end of this episode, the Dalek race is supposedly extinct, but at what point did that become the case? When it self destructs, or after it has mutated enough?
@dalekbumps I might be wrong, but I've noticed the metaltron only killed people AFTER they shot it in the episode. Perhaps it had already begun to change even before rose touched it, after decades of pain and torture. Also, in the same episode, the doctor said daleks were honest, in that they clearly state their intentions. (I also prefer thinking it really was ready to die. Makes the whole thing feel more emotional).
@@starscreamsghost148 in the episode and the novelisation (written by Rob Shearman) the Dalek manipulates Rose into touching it by pretending to be docile, exploiting her compassion to its own ends. It's a way of illustrating the Daleks' ability to strategize and use deception to achieve their goals, like we saw in Power of the Daleks
For all the good he tries to do the Doctor is just as bad as the Dalek, actually no he's worse the Dalek are just simply following their Collective instincts, their programming and unlike the Dalek the Doctor has a choice with all the bad things he's done he's worse
