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[taran-wood-beast]

Rating All The Dalek Stories By How Much The Titles Have To Do With The Actual Content

"The Daleks" 10/10 Yep that's them.

"The Dalek Invasion of Earth" 8/10 Just a little marked down because the story isn't about the Invasion per se. That already happened. "The Dalek Occupation of Earth" would be more precise.

"The Chase" 9/10 It is about that but that is also a game show.

"The Daleks' Master Plan" 7/10 They're doing a bunch of stuff in this. The title implies only one plan. Need more clarification.

"Power of the Daleks" 10/10 great double meaning

"The Evil of the Daleks" 7/10 not wrong but also any Dalek story could be called this.

"Day of the Daleks" 5/10 There are at least two different days in play in this story.

"Planet of the Daleks" 3/10 That would be Skaro actually, whereas this takes place on Spiridon

"Death to the Daleks" 6/10 I like the imperative voice here but the story fails to deliver on this intention.

"Genesis of the Daleks" 10/10 That is exactly what happens.

"Destiny of the Daleks" 2/10 bears very little relation to anything going on here. Fundamentally a backward-looking story, and these sleepy ramshackle Daleks don't seem destined for much of anything, frankly.

"Resurrection of the Daleks" 2/10 Really misses the mark. There is a resurrection in this story but it's pretty unambiguously not of the Daleks. "Resurrection of Davros" would be a more accurate title. Or even better "The Resurrection of Davros by the Coward Eric Saward"

"Revelation of the Daleks" 2/10 Once again the verb in the title is fulfilled by Davros, not the Daleks! Sure hope someone got fired for that blunder!

"Remembrance of the Daleks" 4/10 Not much better I'm afraid. It is a nostalgic story so Remembrance is at least vaguely relevant, but it's not really the Daleks either being remembered or doing the remembering.

"Dalek" 10/10. Clean, simple, right on the money. That's a Dalek alright.

"Bad Wolf". 3/10 And we whiff it again. While the phrase "Bad Wolf" is indeed central to the cliffhanger reveal, it's not related to the Daleks, or to anything at all. It's a self-fulfilling tautology. The actual words are irrelevant. Could have been anything.

"The Parting of the Ways" 9/10 now this is more like it. Not only are there multiple partings of ways between multiple characters, every atom in every Dalek parts ways from every other! That's so much parting!

"Doomsday" 6/10 Again points off for vagueness. This could be about anything.

"Daleks in Manhattan" 10/10 There they are!

"Evolution of the Daleks" 8/10 doesn't succeed but that is what they're going for

"The Stolen Earth" 9/10 Yep that happens!

"Journey's End" 4/10 Come on. Literally the only person whose "Journey" Ends is Donna and that of course gets reversed. Vague and inaccurate.

"Victory of the Daleks" 5/10 sure they achieve their stayed goal in this one episode but thats pretty well undermined by the fact that nobody likes these Daleks and they get retconned out of existence within a couple years

"Asylum of the Daleks" 9/10 Straightforward. Only knocking a point off because there doesn't seem to be much mental health care going on here

"Into the Dalek" 10/10 that is what happens!

The Magician's Apprentice 4/10 We're stretching here. Name based on a one-time gag and not related to the Daleks anyway

The Witch's Familiar 6/10 this one is set up better but still isn't about Daleks

"Resolution" 7/10 A New Year's Resolution is made! But it's something the Doctor would have done anyway

"Revolution of the Daleks" 0/10 This is complete nonsense. The Daleks are cops and then the other Daleks come in to be cops to the cop Daleks. Nothing is revolutionary about this. Nothing

"Eve of the Daleks" 9/10 Yeah this one works. It's New Year's Eve and there's Daleks.

Holy shit the last Dalek story is from 2022?

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

The thing about being in audios and books land (for me) is that new who has become less ‘this is what doctor who is now’ and more ‘a thing that happens sometimes’

[gallifreyrises]

Completely agree with this. Once you start getting balls-deep into Big Finish or novels or whatever, the twittering on the internet about what RTD is or isn't doing with the new series is just hazy background noise. An off-season or an off-episode is just that. A tiny nanoparticle in the vast universe that is the Whoniverse. Definitely not worth the amount of handwringing it gets. I mean, I'd like the BBC to get their shit together, but the show will go on, one way or another.

Oooh...look...Big Finish has a shiny new Fourth Doctor one.....Squirrel!

[whoosh-whoosh-tardis-noises]

I really love the wilderness years of Doctor Who. I think from now on when shows get canceled more companies should throw their content to the wolves and watch in horror as the starved fan base go insane and write like a thousand books in five years that irreversibly ruin any semblance of canon, and also make zero sense.

[jae-writes-stuff]

Every now and then I remember what RTD did to Belinda Chandra and I just.

[jae-writes-stuff]

Like. Seriously. You have a companion who's been introduced as a strong-willed woman who is willing to call the Doctor out and challenge him on his bullshit. There's the potential of a series-long arc where she slowly learns to trust him and starts to enjoy traveling on the TARDIS.

Instead, she loses all traces of her original personality within three episodes, the showrunner doesn't even bother giving his guest writers any information about her, essentially forcing them to write her as a generic companion because they don't know who she is, and in the most staggering display of what the actual fuck, Russell, is locked in a box for a huge chunk of the finale and finally gets her entire life rewritten to revolve around a baby that didn't exist until the previous episode, and this is presented as a good thing.

[thelastlightningbug]

reading christopher eccleston interviews where he talks about wanting to be androgynous but always getting macho parts makes me understand why i keep getting butch dyke vibes off of the ninth doctor. don’t worry ms doctor i saw your leather jacket 

[sgt-cookie-2]

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

[a-wild-torterra]

The twelfth doctor posted this

[thecorpsethatwalks]

So the thing you have to understand about doctor who the movie 1996 is that it isn't good. But it is the best film ever made. It has little to no outstanding qualities as a narrative and is such a wild read of doctor who that if you replaced a few proper nouns throughout it would just be a regular bad sci-fi movie. The fact the series survived it is the reason i'm not worried about canon or the shows future in the slightest. The pitch for it consists of some of the most insane lore retcons i've ever seen in my life, and the only major one to make it into the movie is generally considered so out of left field that people refuse to acknowledge it to this day. Literally nothing matters. The master is goo and also a lizard, seven gets gunned down in the street, paul mcgann is the first doctor to canonically get bitches. There's a motorcycle chase. Bad 90s cgi. the regeneration is a frankenstein reference. its camp. eight has his dogs out. it is somehow more american than you would expect. it features by far the best rendition of the main theme in the shows history. Who fucking cares man. 11/10

[natequarter]

TOM BAKER: Are both your parents still alive, Ben?

INTERVIEWER: Yes. They live in Brighton.

BAKER: Ahh, Brighton. I love Brighton. I absolutely love it. That mixture of squalor and elegance. But the first appalling shock will be the death of your parents, if you like them or love them – a terrible shock, even though it happens to everyone.

INTERVIEWER: Russell T Davies [Doctor Who showrunner, 2005-10] told me once that the death of a parent is “huge and never-ending”, but nothing in life really prepares you for it.

BAKER: Well, that’s right. You’ve only got one set of parents, and there are accounts of people flattened by grief. But it’s very much easier to talk about misery than to talk about happiness, don’t you think? If someone says to you, ‘How are you, Ben?’ and you say, ‘I’m terribly happy,’ they say, ‘Oh, good,’ and that’s the end of it. But if you say, ‘Well, I’ve suddenly discovered I’ve got cerebral palsy,’ or ‘I’ve got about two weeks to live,’ I say, ‘Really?!’ – and I buy you a drink. Although, one of the girls in the hospice said to me, actually, ‘Not everybody who’s old and dying is easy, you know,’ but we don’t say that, do we? Everyone dies ‘peacefully’, that’s what we say, but that can’t be true, can it? Some people must die badly. Some must be raving.

But life is frequently coming to terms with a sense of loss, isn’t it? Losing one’s childhood. Being disappointed. People dying. People betraying you. Breaking up from your partner. Becoming an orphan. It’s always loss. The sense of loss that we all feel, all the time. But especially when we lose someone like Nick [Courtney]. Seeking consolation – the only consolation we have – is that we knew him, and we loved him. We were part of that. It was a fantastic privilege. We should be grateful for that, and hope that someone might say that of us – ‘He was good to be with’ – when it’s our turn to be eulogised. Nick was wonderful to be with. Absolutely wonderful. Yes, he was. Some people’s company is so precious. Nick was one of them.

i'm sorry but i can just never get over 'i love brighton ... but the first appalling shock will be the death of your parents'

[aro-judai]

Oh The God Complex I love you so much... You're so important to me... The way they shot the 'breaking Amy's faith' scene is getting to me again... The Doctor saying "I'm no hero... I really am just a madman in a box. And it's time we saw each other as we really are" and then the shot changes and he's speaking to child Amy... That's who's in front of him... The little girl who waited for him and never truly grew up until now. We're seeing her as she really is as long as she keeps her blind faith in the Raggedy Man... And then the camera switches to his face, the Doctor leans in to kiss her forehead and when we see Amy again it's her adult self in front of us, because her faith was broken. The Doctor did it. The little girl is gone. He saved her life by killing a part of her.

[dragons-are-epic]

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was not betrayed, but leader of alien race insulted Miss Grant. Unacceptable. Murdered them all.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. They realised I was the same person who murdered the lot of aliens who insulted Miss Grant. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was given chance to kill the Doctor. Realised I didn't actually want him dead. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Briefly imprisoned Miss Grant in my TARDIS. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Briefly imprisoned Miss Grant in my TARDIS. Was given chance to kill the Doctor. Had to let him live so we could work together to prevent both of our deaths. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Was betrayed.

Dear diary. Allied with alien race to conquer Earth. Imprisoned Miss Grant in my TARDIS again. I have been informed of a thing called a 'homosexual'.

Dear diary. I will no longer be imprisoning Miss Grant in my TARDIS.

[spacetimealchemist]

It’s heeeeeerrreeeeeee!! Let’s go!!!

[rachelbethhines]

Do you ever think about the fact that had the Doctor not lied about the fluid links and left Sakro when everyone else wanted to leave, then the Daleks never would have discovered the Tardis or reverse engineer their own time machine.

Meaning had the Doctor not been curious and selfish that one time, then the Time War never would have happened. He never would have lost Susan. He never would be the last of his kind; forever alone and doomed to live forever with the regret of his choices.

Do you think he even knows that it's all his own fault or does he refuse to recognize the connection for otherwise it would break him utterly?

[official-imperatrix]

The danger of being a little hee hoo ha man.

[leelarots]

watching 1 (one) episode of 7's era has convinced me I have to get to that part of classic who asap

[eldradmvstlive]

Tom Baker’s thoughts on a female Doctor from a 1983 convention panel ❤️

[maggotsandcream]

Thinking about how even though most people draw (understandable) parallels between Spock and Data, going by family dynamics Deanna Troi is a notable parallel to Spock.

-Half human/half psychic alien species

-Both's non-human parents were specifically famously effective Star Fleet diplomats

-Whether real or perceived seen as lacking in a lot of the qualities prized/specialized in by the non-human parent's culture. This is brought up untactfully by said non-human parent

-Nevertheless the field they went into heavily relies on said trait they allegedly don't have

-So much family drama

-Shenanigans related to betrothals that neither of them goes through with

Which is to say Spock deserved a moment similar to Deanna Troi where she got to storm out of a dinner where her mom was being particularly belligerent and smash a vase on the way out.

[sponge-goblin-art]

They got me Scherzoposting

(Closeup under cut)

[polarity-disturbed]

Sorry no, it is REALLY funny to me that in S1E8 of Torchwood (They Keep Killing Suzie), Jack says that Gwen taking Suzie out of the compound is “getting herself fired” like there exists literally any precedent whatsoever for consequences inside this organization

because let us review, in roughly chronological order, the absolutely staggering catalogue of behavior before this action that has apparently not resulted in termination

We are introduced to the entire cast having stolen alien artifacts from work to use in their personal lives, and even after those specific items get returned it’s revealed they ALSO just casually have other stuff. Everyone at Torchwood steals from work like they’re employees at a Spirit Halloween.

Gwen accidentally unleashed an alien organism that killed people through the power of really intense orgasms because she unsafely threw a chisel at another coworker.

Owen used alien technology to stalk and psychologically torment someone outside of work hours which, granted, the guy sucked, but from an HR perspective that sentence alone should have caused the building to implode into a legal singularity.

Ianto secretly smuggled an entire Cyberman into the base, concealed it for who knows how long, continued defending her after she tried converting both the scientist he hired AND Gwen, and somehow retained employment afterward like this was a slightly awkward misunderstanding at a team meeting.

Owen left the keys to Torchwood’s branded SUV sitting in an unlocked vehicle with all of their classified alien tech and sensitive information inside.

Tosh read everyone’s minds without consent and later attempted to sneak her alien girlfriend into the secret underground alien bunker.

and THIS is the environment where Jack suddenly decides “whoa now Gwen, this crosses a line”

my sibling in the cosmos what line.

This organization has the structural integrity of wet cardboard. There is no line. There are vague suggestions of professionalism floating somewhere in the distance like ghosts on the horizon while everyone continues committing increasingly unbelievable workplace violations on company time.

I genuinely do not believe a fireable offense exists at Torchwood unless you perhaps arrive to work on time, emotionally stable, and capable of respecting boundaries, at which point the building itself would probably eject you for not fitting the established ecosystem.