#thirteenth doc

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Happy Birthday Mandip Gill (5 January 1988)

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I’m rewatching Dalek from series 1, honestly, I don’t think any of the Modern Doctors managed the sheer intensity of the Doctor meeting a Dalek again. (Also the quiet and sad realization that an Old School Cyberman is now just a museum piece). 

Tennant managed rage and loathing that runs cold then shouty, Smith is anger, Capaldi’s Doctor has learned to live with Daleks as a reality despite their deep hate for the Daleks but for pure intense, shock to the system hate and rage, it still goes to Eccleston’s Doctor.  

I do love the visual call back in Into the Dalek with Twelve meeting Rusty for the first time but you can see from how the Doctor doesn’t interfere with the Human-Dalek war how the Doctor’s learned to live with the fact that Daleks as a race are a thing again. They exist and are every where in a certain time period. 

Spoiler speculation behind the cut:

So, I wonder for the new year’s special, how come Thirteen is terrified of the Daleks again? I mean, they’ve always had that effect on the Doctor but as I mentioned, Twelve’s learned to live with the idea of them. 

Then again, this might be where my speculation comes in, what if this Dalek, trapped since ancient Earth times was a remnant of the Time War? 

(I hope we get to watch Thirteen’s intensity with the Dalek, also, I hope we get to watch Thirteen alone). 

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